At that time, when the army led by Ostrov was in the area west of the Ural Mountains, there were more than 5,000 people, more than 3,000 horses of various types, and more than 1,000 carriages.

But at this time, there were only more than 2,000 people left in the whole team, whether it was the musketeers of the regular Russian army or the brave and fierce Cossacks, almost all of them were wounded, more than 1,000 carriages were gone, and only a few hundred horses remained, all of them unkempt and glazed eyes, as if they had walked out of hell.

Ostrov and the others could not see the Russians on the other side, and the surviving Russian soldiers, fur merchants and Cossacks in the ranks were all spread out on the ground, kissing the cold earth.

One of the Russian soldiers suddenly burst out crying quietly, and began to cry and cry.

The rest of the team was also affected by the Russian soldier and began to cry, and finally the whole team cried loudly. Even the most heroic Cossacks, at this time, abandoned their dignity, beat their chests and stood, and cried loudly without scruples.

It's been a nightmare experience for Tinima, and it's finally coming back.

These damned Tatars did not confront them head-on at all, and almost tortured them to death by adopting the tactics of the enemy advancing and retreating, the enemy retreating and chasing me, the enemy stationed and disturbing us, and the enemy tired and fighting.

They only slept for two or three hours a day, but they were still awakened by the sudden sneak attack, and the supplies and everything, except for food and ammunition, had long been abandoned, and they hardly dared to stop for a moment along the way, only the mechanical movement of their legs, constantly moving west and west.

It wasn't until they crossed the Ural Mountains that these hairs could be regarded as breathing, but the nerves that had been tense for many days suddenly relaxed, desperately venting their depressed mood.

This battle was too embarrassing. Although the Russians had strong arquebuses and artillery, and had more than a thousand well-trained Russian musketeers, as well as thousands of experienced and brave Cossacks.

But these Tatars are very cunning, you can't catch up with them, and you can't catch up with them. Follow them like wolves all the way, as long as you dare to nap, they will inevitably pounce on them from all directions like hungry wolves smelling blood.

Once the Russian army organizes an effective defense and uses firearms to counterattack, but these damned Tatars will disperse in an instant, and the originally powerful firearms will not be able to play at all, and they can only watch the enemy leave in style.

Ostrov also organized all the Cossack cavalry to make a pursuit, but all the more than 1,000 Cossacks had just chased out a short distance. It fell into the encirclement of more than 10,000 Tatar cavalry, and although it finally broke through desperately, it also lost more than 300 people.

In order to report the information about Siberia to the Moscow tsar as soon as possible, Ostrov returned to Moscow by boat, despite his fatigue, before the river froze.

When Ostrov returned to Moscow, news of the Russian army's crushing defeat in Siberia spread throughout Russia. The whole of Moscow was shaken by the news of the fiasco.

Despite the fact that Tsar Mikhail. Manov's health was already extremely weak, but he nevertheless summoned an emergency meeting of all the important ministers and nobles of Russia. Discuss the solution to the Siberian problem.

Thirty years have passed since the era of chaos in Russia, and the political situation has stabilized. But Russia's economy was on the verge of collapse due to years of chaos, and at this critical time, the vast expanse of Siberia created a great deal of wealth for Russia, and Russian merchants made huge profits from exporting expensive furs and timber to Europe, and the Russian treasury gradually became full.

Siberia is of great strategic importance for Russia. Moreover, there is also a huge chain of interests, which involves the tsarist royal family, the big nobles, the big businessmen and the Russian military.

So Siberia must not be lost, Tsar Mikhail . Romanov, along with all the Russian ministers and nobles who attended the conference, were full of emotion. The attitude towards Siberia was also resolute that it was necessary to retake Siberia and drive the damned Tatars out of Siberia.

While the Russians were discussing the Siberian question, they received alarming news from the region west of the Ural Mountains. Countless Tatar horsemen crossed the Ural Mountains and burned and plundered in Russia.

At present, the Tatar cavalry, the advance has reached the area on the east bank of the Kama River, and the whole area west of the Ural Mountains is full of smoke. A large number of Russian towns and cities were destroyed by the Tatar iron cavalry, and the towns and villages were in flames, and corpses were strewn everywhere, and even the old and weak women and children were slaughtered by the brutal Tatars.

The Russian nation has a tradition of advocating force, which stems from the fact that Russia was oppressed and enslaved by the Mongols for hundreds of years, when the Mongols ruled the Russians very cruelly, and adopted the "three-light policy" against the Rus' people.

The bloody rule of the Mongols stimulated the Russian national character, and the Russian nation was finally formed. The unbearable history of blood and tears tells the Russians that they must resist foreign aggression by constantly attacking.

The loss of Siberia may only mean a temporary loss of wealth, but if the vast area east of the Ural Mountains is under the Tatar army, Russia may even face the danger of extinction given the geopolitical situation in which Russia finds itself.

The atrocities of the Tatars also stimulated the blood of the fighting nation in the bones of the Russians, and Russia began to mobilize the whole country, the army began to assemble on a large scale, and countless young men were drafted. The big nobles and big merchants also began to pay for the hiring of Cossacks, forming a huge army that was ready to go to the region west of the Ural Mountains.

During the mobilization of the Russian nation, a large number of Far Eastern troops disguised as Tatar cavalry were galloping across the vast area west of the Ural Mountains and east of the Kama River, burning and looting along the way, turning this place into a hell on earth.

Song Tao gave an order to all the troops who crossed the Ural Mountains, not to consider battlefield discipline, to stimulate the nerves of the Russians by any means, and to arouse the anger of the Russians to the greatest extent.

Large numbers of Russian refugees fled the area with their families, and countless boats loaded with refugees and supplies on the rivers headed west. The homes behind them were already devastated in the sky.

Houses in towns and villages were burned down, countless grain and livestock were plundered, large numbers of women were raped, and even the elderly, weak, women and children were slaughtered in large numbers.

There are sharpened wooden stakes buried on the roadside, on which are dressed in dying Russians, the river is littered with layers of corpses, and the well is covered with piles of excrement. (To be continued.) )

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