A rush of assembly calls sounded again, and Zhao Lianhe, who was sorting out equipment next to several war horses, hurriedly jumped on a war horse and assembled the whole team with the company to the designated area.

The war horse he is riding now is a newly replenished war horse, and the officers and soldiers of the new cavalry division are each equipped with five war horses, and his two war horses have been running all the way for more than ten days, and the loss of horsepower is too large, so he has also supplemented two war horses with sufficient physical strength to cope with the next thousands of miles interspersed.

The engineering units of the Siberian Corps, which have already built five pontoon bridges over the Volga. A large number of Far Eastern horsemen were crossing the river in an orderly manner, and countless war horses rushed across the Volga River with a roar, rolling in the direction of Moscow.

"Didi...... Tick ......"

A whistle sounded, and Zhao Lianhe also urged the war horse to run in the direction of the pontoon bridge with the troops. A pontoon bridge made of wooden boats crossed the surface of the Volga River side by side, and Zhao Lianhe rushed onto the pontoon bridge with a large group of men and horses, trotting towards the opposite side of the river.

In order to ensure the speed of the march of the Siberian Corps, the Military Council also made strong support. After the eight divisions of the main force crossed the Volga, a large number of airships of the airboat unit carried engineering units and hoisted various pontoon equipment, and took the lead in flying to the banks of the Sura River, the Oka River and other rivers.

A pontoon bridge to cross the river was built in advance in advance to ensure the smooth crossing of the river by the main force. Fortunately, the river surface of these rivers is not wide, and the Far Eastern engineering units can easily build pontoon bridges in these rivers with modular bridge-building equipment.

The eight main divisions of the Siberian Corps can be said to be advancing lightly at present, and each unit only carries the field food, ammunition, and horse material for the rapid march, while the rest of the heavy artillery equipment and ammunition, as well as the artillery officers and men who operate the equipment, are carried and hoisted to the front line by airboat units.

To meet this need. The Military Commission has almost completely withdrawn its aircraft units from other regions. Even in Liaodong and Nanyang places, there is not a single airship in the air anymore.

Moreover, the route of the troops' advance was also explored with the efforts of the Intelligence Department and the airboat unit long before the campaign was launched, and the airships were responsible for guiding the whole process of the main force's march.

So the main forces of the Siberian Corps almost didn't have to do anything, just run with their heads down. Even the Russian villages and towns along the way. The troops also tried to bypass as much as possible, and all of them were handed over to the reserve cavalry brigade that arrived later to clean up.

Even so, the officers and men of the eight main cavalry divisions still had to march nearly 100 kilometers every day, and this was definitely a severe test for the officers and men of the main force divisions.

The officers and men of the main cavalry division ate and slept on their horses, and even urinated and urinated on them. This is nothing for the officers and men of the Outer Northeast Indigenous Cavalry Division, but for the four newly built cavalry divisions, it is somewhat difficult.

Fortunately, the officers and men of the newly built cavalry division have also undergone more than a year of arduous training, and long-distance marching training has always been the main assessment item of the troops. Therefore, despite all the difficulties, the officers and men of the four newly built cavalry divisions finally withstood the test.

Mikhail. The Romanov was the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty in the Russian Empire, which had been worshiped for more than 300 years. He was the Tsar elected by the All-Russian Congress of Gentry. If calculated according to the genealogy, Mikhail can also be regarded as a relative of the imperial family, and has some connections with the Rurik dynasty. He was the first wife of Ivan the Terrible and the grandnephew of Empress Anastasia.

On February 21, 1613, the All-Russian Conference of the Gentry. Election Mikhail. Romanov as tsar.

After the election of a new tsar, Russia officially ended its three-year state of ownership. It also marked the end of a phase of the "interregnum" in Russia.

Shortly after the Siberian corps of the Far Eastern Army crossed the Volga, Moscow received news that the Tatars had crossed the Urals. But the news of the total annihilation of the Siberian Expeditionary Force did not reach Moscow.

Including the Tsar, as well as many Russian nobles and merchants, believed that the Tatars entered Russia because the Siberian expeditionary force was launching an attack on the Tatars in the area east of the Ural Mountains.

The arrival of the Tatar cavalry. It was supposed to cut off the supply lines of the expeditionary force. After all, the Tatars had many cavalry and were very mobile, just like the Mongols went west to Europe, and the Tatars bypassed the Russian expeditionary force and entered the territory of Russia to harass. In order to alleviate the unfavorable situation of the Tatars in Siberia.

Anyway, they simply did not believe that the 100,000 expeditionary force going to Siberia would be defeated by the Tatars with backward weapons and equipment in such a short time, let alone that the Russian army was now completely annihilated.

But a large number of Tatars had already been killed on the banks of the Volga, and Tsar Mikhail . The Romanovs and many of the great Russian aristocrats were anxious.

After all, the current military forces in Russia have all followed the expeditionary force across the Ural Mountains, and the only elite in Russia at present is the thousands of regular troops of the Moscow Royal Army, and the Russian defenders defending against Poland on the western border.

The only remaining army in Russia was the private army of the local aristocracy. In the face of the Tatar iron cavalry coming and going, Russia could only rely on the strong city defenses of various cities and towns to deal with the Tatar iron cavalry.

In the eyes of Tsar Mikhail Romanov and many of the Russian nobility, these Tatars were merely plagued by scabies, and their purpose was only to harass the Russian territory, and the main battlefield was still east of the Ural Mountains.

They were not worried that the Tatars would invade Moscow, after all, Samara was very far from Moscow, and there were many rivers in the Eastern European Plain, and the Tatars wanted to rush under the city of Moscow, and these rivers alone would delay them for a long time.

Even if the Tatar iron cavalry is well mobile, it is impossible to kill the city of Moscow without a month or two.

Can Tsar Mikhail. Still, the Romanovs carried out a large-scale mobilization of the surrounding areas, requisitioning a large number of private troops of the nearby nobles and forming an army of more than a dozen battalions. A group of Cossacks were recruited and formed into a cavalry unit, which was jointly responsible for the defense of Moscow.

The rich and powerful strata such as aristocrats, merchants, and estate landlords in the surrounding areas of Moscow packed up their bags and took refuge in Moscow under the protection of private troops.

The news that the Tatar horsemen had arrived on the Volga quickly spread throughout the area west of the Volga. The Russian people are still haunted by the atrocities committed by the Tatars east of the Kara River last year, so the people in the areas west of the Volga River have fled westward with their families, and a large number of refugees have entered Moscow and nearby cities. (To be continued.) )

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