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It is as fast as the wind, as slow as a forest, as encroaching as fire, as immobile as a mountain, as difficult as a cloud, and as moving as a thunderstorm.

It is not difficult to see from this passage that in the Art of War, speed is very important.

After taking the Tsaritsyn fortress and opening the southern gate of Tsarist Russia, Li Ding fully applied the essence of this Sun Tzu's Art of War to the extreme.

He left 2,000 men and horses to garrison in Tsarizin Lise, and then divided the army into seven routes, except for the middle road, after his headquarters had 10,000 men and horses, the other six routes of army were only about 5,000. Seventy or eighty miles apart, each troop entered the Don Plain to the north.

Among the soldiers and horses of the left and right six routes, there are ten hundred-person squads each, and on the vast Don River plain, countless iron horsemen are as fast as the wind, invade like fire, countless war horses are roaring and galloping, and everywhere they pass, they are looted, the flames are everywhere, and the men regardless of age are almost killed.

Several people meet at the same time, it is difficult to know like yin, and it moves like thunder. Thousands of troops and horses rushed the war clouds and rushed straight towards the capital of Tsarist Russia.

Li Ding received an order from the emperor before the expedition, not to occupy this land, but to completely knock Tsarist Russia to the ground, and then step on a few more kicks, so that he could never turn over.

In line with this idea of warfare, Li Ding did not have any woman's kindness, and the cruelty of war was fully reflected in the Don Plain, and almost nothing was left except young and beautiful women wherever the roaring iron horses passed.

Tsarist Russia was caught off guard, and the speed of the Qin army was too fast, and many towns were still at a loss until they saw the roaring iron horsemen. In a dumbfounded. Countless iron hooves swept in like fire, turning towns into ruins.

The Qin army didn't have to worry about supplies at all, and he didn't even have to worry about the war horses being too tired. On the rich plains of the Don River, there are some food, some are war horses, as long as you are fast enough, all this is yours.

In World War II, Hitler launched a rapid attack with tanks, and the Soviet Union was crushed. It's called a blitzkrieg.

But in fact, it took the Germans 3 weeks at that time. The depth of advance in the Soviet Union is 400~600 kilometers, and the average speed is about two or three kilometers a day.

Li Ding and them had one man and three horses, constantly rotated, and the speed of advance was more than five times that of the German army in later generations. On average, 200 miles a day, including the time spent killing people and setting fires along the way.

Suffice it to say, this is the real blitzkrieg!

On the third day, Li Ding's army, caught off guard by the Slavs, attacked the cities of Saratov and the cities of Ronez, and the two cities were burned.

On the fourth day, the army broke through the city of Tambov, and the defenders of Lipetsk, west of Tambov, were so frightened that they collapsed without a fight, and the two cities were reduced to ruins. More than 40,000 men were killed, and the blood rushed to the sky.

Only then did Moscow receive the message. It can be said that the whole city is shocked! The young Tsar Alexei was shocked and angry!

In recent years, Nikon, the Patriarch of the All-Russian Orthodox Church, whom he most respected, painted a grand blueprint for Russia.

Nikon proposed that the Russian Tsar should be the ruler of the entire Orthodox world, and that the capital of Russia should be Constantinople (the official name of the Orthodox Church is "Greek Orthodoxy", which mainly refers to the church that follows the Christian tradition handed down from the Eastern Roman Empire). Therefore, Constantinople, the former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, was of great significance to the Orthodox Church. ）。

The Patriarch of the Moscow and All Russian Orthodox Churches should accordingly become the spiritual leader of the entire Orthodox world.

This idea of Nikon greatly encouraged Alexei. And put a lot of effort into it.

But now, the people of the Qin State are about to fight in Moscow!

If even Moscow can't be saved. And what about the rulers of the entire Orthodox world, and about the seizure of Constantinople, which was occupied by the Ottomans?

It's tolerable, it's unbearable!

The ambitious Tsar Alexei, with the support of Patriarch Nikon, decided to go on a personal expedition.

This frightened the minister Morozov, who was also his teacher, as well as the Duma clerk Pastor, the imperial chamberlain Dkseev and many other ministers, and everyone was shocked when they learned that the tsar was going to take the imperial expedition in person, and they all persuaded Yin.

Because of the Russian feud, the Polish Empire and the Kingdom of Lithuania occupied a series of important towns led by Smolensk, threatening Moscow at all times; As a result, most of the Russian armies were pressed on the Western Front to defend against these two old enemies.

The Qin people came too quickly, the army on the Western Front did not have time to return to defense, and the remaining troops in Moscow were less than 20,000, so let the tsar take this little force to conquer in person?

Are you kidding! Not to mention whether the 20,000 troops are the opponent of the Qin people, what if the Qin people suddenly come around and attack the empty city of Moscow?

But Alexei was a very stubborn young man, and insisted on taking it personally, and Morozov and almost all the ministers knelt before him and begged for a long time before him, and finally dispelled this idea.

Half a day passed in the dispute between pro-conquest and non-pro-conscription.

And for Li Ding, who was racing against time, half a day was enough for the army to advance more than 100 miles.

By the time Moscow finally decided to urgently send two generals, Levkov and Petukhov, with 5,000 men and horses each, to reinforce the last two cities south of Moscow, Tula, Ryazan, Li Ding's army had already completed the siege of Tula and Ryazan.

After the detectives learned that Berekov and Petukhov were leading troops to help, Li Ding immediately decided to besiege the city and send reinforcements.

The defenders of Tula and Ryazan were only more than 1,000 people, and Li Ding each drew 5,000 troops to surround the two cities, and then sent 5,000 men and horses to drag Petukhov, and finally concentrated 25,000 troops to storm Berekov.

The 5,000 men and horses led by Berekov were the elite division of the Russian army, and Li Ding fought a bloody battle for an afternoon with five times the number of troops, and even used rockets and Type 68 rifles to annihilate the 5,000 Russian troops.

Berekov was defeated, so frightened that Petukhov hurriedly withdrew his troops and fled back to Moscow.

Li Dingyi gritted his teeth and made a bold decision, he still only left 5,000 troops to attack Tula and Ryazan, and 30,000 troops rushed after Petukhov, biting and biting, chasing and beating all the way, so that when Petukhov fled back to Moscow, there were less than 2,000 people left in the 5,000-strong army, which can be said to be full of corpses.

Moscow, right in front of you!

There are only more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and Li Ding's 30,000 troops are rolling in, the smoke and dust cover the sun, and the black-clothed Xuanjia is cold and mysterious, which makes the people in the city frightened, yellow peril! The Yellow Peril is here again!

Tsar Alexei, with his ministers and generals, personally ascended to the top of the city to observe Li Ding's army.

Li Ding was also observing the city, and from outside the city he could see the high spire of the Kremlin.

The Mongolian word for Kremlin is 'fortress'. Located in the center of the city, on the Borovitsky hill, south of the Moskva River;

One of the most spectacular is the Palazzo Dorman, whose façade of the second-floor hall is made of white stone, hence the name, and was once the place where royal weddings were held and the tsar received foreign envoys.

The tallest building is the Ivan the Great bell tower with a white gold roof, built in 1505-1508, 81 meters high, and contains more than 50 bronze bells. Outside the bell tower, there is one of the largest bells, 6.14 meters high, 6.6 meters in diameter, weighing more than 200 tons, carved with reliefs, portraits and inscriptions on the surface, the sound is transmitted for 50 kilometers, and it is the "bell king" of the world.

Accompanied by the King of Bells is a 5.34-meter-long, 0.89-meter-long, 40-ton "Cannon King".

This ancient bronze cannon was built from 1540 to 1586, with eight tsars in the middle, which had not yet been used, and two or three people could climb in the huge muzzle at the same time.

This time, this "Cannon King" can probably come in handy. With a caliber of nearly one meter and a weight of 40 tons, how amazing is the power of the cannon when fired?

Li Ding knew very well that it would not be easy to capture Moscow, and he did not have much time, and the army of the Western Front of Tsarist Russia would be able to return to Moscow within a few days, that is, there was not much time left for him.

Once the Russian forces on the Western Front withdraw, it is almost certain that there will be no chance of taking the city again.

And this city is the purpose of his westward expedition, and the words of Emperor Daqin are still echoing in his ears: Flatten Moscow, and fight Tsarist Russia forever!

Time, the key is time, which will determine the final victory or defeat of this Western Expedition!

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(To be continued)

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