Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2024 Preliminary Results

Half a year has passed in a flash, and the shocking waves caused by the defeat of the 15 troops of the Russian Empire at the city of Azov have gradually subsided. Although the war between the two sides has not yet officially ceased, the large-scale fighting has ended, and what is going on now is A tug of war on the scale of a lieutenant colonel.

On the crucial Ukrainian side, the Crimean Tatar cavalry was in full swing at the beginning, chasing the fleeing Golitsyn Group.They took advantage of the grassland light cavalry and continued to annihilate the Russian troops that fell behind one after another by outflanking, cutting and besieging, until the nominal master of Eastern Ukraine, the Cossack Hetman Samoilovich, assembled Tens of thousands of Cossacks who stayed behind came to rescue, which slightly curbed the fierce offensive of the Tatars.

When Golitsyn, the most beautiful man in Moscow, checked the gathered troops, he found that there were only about 3 troops. It is said that he was so sad that he "wailed loudly".Fortunately, the left and right hurriedly comforted them, saying that the Tatars were chasing too quickly, and the remaining one hundred thousand troops might not all be wiped out or captured by the other side. There must be many scattered troops outside. Ertava assembled and moved forward with a picture.Golitsyn accepted his suggestion, and immediately sent a number of noble officers with "a sense of honor and shame" to the Ukrainian steppes to gather the rout troops, lest they all be captured by the Tatars.

In addition, some cronies pointed out to Golitsyn that when he failed at the city of Azov, the 15 army fell apart, and many troops did not follow Golitsyn back to Eastern Ukraine, but fled upstream along the Don River.Although the Tatars also pursued in that direction, they may not be completely wiped out. There should be quite a few troops and their formations are relatively intact, so they should not be too pessimistic.After hearing this, Golitsyn calmed down a little, and took out a pen and paper to write letters to the officers of the troops withdrawing in the direction of the Don River, asking them to obtain supplies locally, defend there, and wait for the next order.

After finishing the above, Golitsyn brewed his emotions again and wrote a sincere letter to Princess Sophia who was far away in Moscow, intending to find some excuses for this fiasco and cover it up.Of course, it is more crucial to discuss with Princess Sofia how to downplay the matter.You know, the war in Ukraine may be over, but the "war" in Moscow has just begun.Even with the monstrous power of Princess Sophia, when faced with such a disastrous defeat, she was still terrified in her heart.The Russian nation has never been a tolerant nation. They are as cruel to their enemies as they are to their own people!

According to some unconfirmed news from Moscow, Princess Sophia originally wanted her concubine Golitsyn to be crowned empress after her victory in the Crimea expedition, so as to replace her incompetent Her younger brother, Tsar Ivan V who was also her puppet.Sophia thought that Ivan V was still not obedient enough and often contradicted herself, so after being instigated by her cronies, she felt that it was more reliable to ascend the throne and become the female czar.

And being a female tsar naturally requires capital.Although the current commander-in-chief of the shooting army, Fyodor Shakrovit, is his loyal eagle dog, but to be honest, he was born as a farmer and did not fully control the shooting army. A lot of noble officers in it have opinions on him. If there is a trouble, it is not certain who the shooting army will support. The Russians are not very accepting of women as tsars!And this seems to be the main reason why Princess Sophia has not dared to go beyond the thunder pool all these years, and abolished Ivan V to directly ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

So, you now understand what kind of pressure Princess Sofia will face when the news of Golitsyn's expedition failure is transmitted back to Moscow. It can be said that Golitsyn has made her miserable this time!But who can blame this?It was Sophia who was worried about other people, so she transferred Duke Romodanovsky, an experienced general who had guarded Ukraine for many years, back to Moscow, and let Golitsyn, a bastard who didn't understand, be the commander-in-chief, commanding an army of 15. Isn't that Only nonsense is a ghost!

Golitsyn finally suggested, give him another chance, organize an expedition.This time he will definitely not underestimate the enemy, and he will humbly listen to the opinions of the veteran officers and generals who are experienced in the battle, and will no longer command indiscriminately by himself.As long as he is allocated another 10 people and sufficient supplies, this time he will definitely find a way to reverse the situation, drink horses for the Russian Empire, and help Princess Sophia become emperor!He believed that Princess Sophia would definitely try harder for her own future.

Oh, well, it seems that before the second expedition to Crimea, Golitsyn still needs to clean up the mess on the Ukrainian side, and this will undoubtedly fall on Samoilovich.This Eastern Ukrainian Cossack leader who had sworn allegiance to the Tsar was undoubtedly a man of great skill.He not only fought bravely, but also had a high level of tactical literacy. He managed Eastern Ukraine brilliantly. He once had the ambition to annex Western Ukraine and re-establish the Ukrainian Cossack Emirate.

However, Ukraine is in the field of the Fourth World War, with the Crimean Khanate and Ottomans in the south, the Russian Empire in the north, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the west.Each of these countries has the idea of ​​​​occupying this treasured land in Ukraine, so the Cossacks in Ukraine have been struggling, but in the end they just did nothing.Since the death of Khmelnytsky, the Cossack Emirate was divided into two halves and could no longer be unified.

Samoilovich is actually not without a chance.At that time, he was nominally attached to the Russian tsar, and he once beat the Cossacks in Western Ukraine to flee, and the people defected, and his old opponent Doroshenko conceded.It’s just that the window period given to Samoilovich was too short. He didn’t seize the opportunity to unify Ukraine, so he met the Ottomans. In the end, he had no choice but to rely on the Russians. The great cause of the unification of Ukraine was here shattered.

This time Golitsyn led an army to besiege the Azov Fortress of 15 troops, including [-] Cossacks from Eastern Ukraine.It was originally commanded by Samoilovich himself, but after all, he was a little unwilling in his heart, and finally decided to let his confidants lead the troops to march south with the Russian army, but suffered the largest disastrous defeat in history.Fortunately, these Cossacks were smart enough and ran fast enough to leave the Russian infantry far behind, and ran back to Eastern Ukraine first, so the loss was not serious.

After the defeat in Azov, a large number of Crimean Tatar cavalry broke into Ukraine.They did not attack cities and territories, but only focused on capturing prisoners and plundering the countryside. Therefore, Samoilovich seized the opportunity to regroup his troops and withstood the most ferocious first few waves of Tatar offensives.But even so, a large piece of land in southern Eastern Ukraine was still occupied, and the people became subjugated slaves, allowing the Tatars to bully them.Samoilovich's only plan now is to rely on the advantage of fighting inside, with the support of some remnants of the Russian army, to defeat the already plundered Tatars, hold a few key nodes, and wait for changes.

The Crimean Tatars have never had any concept of logistics in war.It's okay if the time is short, but if the time is prolonged, the logistics may not be able to supply it.This time, if counting from the beginning of the war, they have been fighting outside for almost a year, and there are still a large number of infantry who are very logistics-hungry. They can persist until now, and the logistics system has been improved.Now that the blades of the Tatar cavalry are blunt, Samoilovich is still very confident that he can defend and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. They have been accustomed to this way of fighting for decades.

Just when the Crimean Tatars were plundering in all directions in Ukraine, the people from the east bank who had gone to the Don River Basin to look for the Mongols of the Turghut tribe had also returned to the Azov Fortress one after another.

Those who came back with Lieutenant Colonel Mao Jun and others were some Mongolian shepherds from Duerbert's department, probably more than a thousand.After repeated persuasion by the people on the east bank, Ayuqi Khan finally felt a little moved. He felt that this seemed to be a good opportunity to get rid of the coercion of the tsar, so he asked Durbert to send some shepherds to go west with the people on the east bank. See how it goes.

On the way westward, they encountered obstruction and interception by the Cossacks who were monitoring them. As a result, the people on the east coast stepped forward and used skilled tactics to repel a few Cossack cavalry, which gave Duerbert's troops a great blow. shocked.They didn't know that there were muskets with such a long range and such precision in the world, that the soldiers were able to remain calm in the face of cavalry attacks, shoot calmly, and finally defeated the Cossacks who they thought were difficult to deal with.

These performances of the people on the east coast have undoubtedly greatly enhanced their status in the eyes of the Mongols.After all, on the Great Plains of Southern Russia, everything is still about fists. If you have a hard fist, you can get more pastures and breed more cattle and sheep.If the fist is not hard enough, then you can only let others bully you.The Oirat Mongols who moved westward were able to nomad the Volga River for three generations, relying on their strong strength of more than 7 accounts.Otherwise, do you think the tsar didn't want to rule them directly, but just sent Cossacks to watch from the periphery?Russians are not good men and women!In the past 100 years, have there been fewer Tatar tribes who have been Turkified by the Tsarist government in the Volga River and the Caspian Sea?

Six to 7000 people from both sides drove a large herd of cattle, sheep and horses, and it took two months to arrive at the seaside of Marmara slowly.Here, Duerbert left some people behind to see how the North Caucasus region, which was hyped up by the people on the east coast, was like and whether it was suitable for their grazing life.The result is quite satisfactory!The Mongols found that the precipitation here is quite abundant, probably because it is close to the sea, which is much better than the lower reaches of the Volga River where they stayed.Ayuqi Khan has been worried about the continuous drought in the nomadic land for the past two years, and has long planned to find a new backup pasture with rich water and grass, but their original plan was to go east, to the east of the Caspian Sea, but there are brave The Uzbeks and Kazakhs may be intercepted by Cossacks along the way, which is not easy.This time, the people from the east bank came to the door on their own initiative, and presented a lot of gold, silver and property (all belonged to the Russians who robbed on the road). To be honest, Ayuqi Khan was quite satisfied in his heart, so he bargained with the people from the east bank several times. , After winning a lot of favorable conditions, he finally sent more than a thousand tents from Duerbert's department to follow Mao Jun's Black Sea detachment westward, to step over there to see how the situation is.

Their only worry is whether the Russians will make a comeback after the failure of the Russian Southern Expedition and the chaos of Eastern Ukraine and the Don River Basin.They are not afraid of the Russians, Tatars and other ethnic groups scattered in the North Caucasus. They have more than 7 tents. When they are desperate, all adult males go into battle and can pull out [-] cavalry.Such an overwhelming force, who can resist in the North Caucasus?

After Mao Jun learned of this, he took the initiative to comfort them, saying that everything was fine.He believes that after Russia's defeat this time, the entire southern Russia was shaken, local control was greatly reduced, and various forces began to move after hearing the news, intending to get rid of the shackles imposed on them by the Russian Empire and obtain a more free living space However, it is actually difficult for the Czar to completely calm down the situation here in the short term.Not to mention, the Crimean Khanate has spread its influence so deeply that in the future, even if the main force of the Russian army goes south again, it will be the first to encounter the full resistance of the Crimean Tatars.

"In the North Caucasus and the Don River Basin, the Russians' rule was not secure. Now we have come and completely disrupted the order here. How can the Tsar remedy it? Look at those Cossacks. After learning that Golitsyn's 15 army was defeated , and began to plunder places in private, making the Russian towns in the Don River Basin run wild. Just such a group of chickens and dogs, what are you afraid of?" The above are the original words of Lieutenant Colonel Mao Jun when he comforted the Oirat Mongols.

He also took the Crimean Khanate as an example, saying that these descendants of Batu have maintained a fairly strong level for 100 years, and the country's population has also expanded from a mere few hundred thousand people to more than one million now, and its land area is also large. It is very vast, and it is already an armed force that no one can ignore along the northern shore of the Black Sea.And if the Tatars can do it, the Oirat Mongols can do it too!They have more than 10 accounts and a population of several 100. If they establish a country in the North Caucasus, as long as the people on the east coast regularly provide supplies and weapons, they may not be able to create another Crimean Khanate!

I have to say that Mao Jun's words are still very tempting.Although the people of Ayuchi Khan are still an independent force in the Volga River Basin, a large number of Russians have immigrated to the surrounding area for decades, and at the same time, the number of Cossacks is also increasing day by day. The overall living environment is actually deteriorating. .Once there are changes in the country in the future, it will only be a matter of time before the Russians are controlled due to their relatively strong national strength, which cannot be ignored.

The accompanying Duerberts seemed to have been brainwashed by Mr. Mao's theories, subconsciously thinking that it made sense.And it just so happens that the environment in the North Caucasus is also good, relying on the ocean, the climate is warm and humid, and the local tribes are also useless, so it is not difficult to conquer.The most important thing is that the people on the east bank promised to give them a large amount of weapons and armor (mostly captured Russian military equipment) to help them strengthen their strength. This is even more sincerity, so they began to slowly move to this side. up.

After nearly a year of hard work, Mao Jun and others seem to have finally achieved some preliminary results, which is gratifying.

(End of this chapter)