open sea

Chapter 1458 Unexpected visitor
The Cossacks coming across the Kama River reminded Baibai of himself when he was young and criss-crossing the grasslands.

This year, Qi Bai was 58 years old. Since he surrendered to Ming Dynasty, he has participated in the crusade against northern Mongolia on the border of Ming Dynasty many times, resisting some and destroying nests.

After 20 years of conquest, he gained the status of a guerrilla general, ruled over a place, and enjoyed supreme glory.

In fact, the official position is not important to worship, the important thing is that there are no immediate bosses who are extremely defensive inside and outside, Qi Jiguang is a good boss, at least for his subordinates, he is the commander in chief, and he can do what the commander should do.

Xiaobai's troops are facing a strong enemy right now, and all the materials needed for the war, as long as they report to the Chinese army with a letter, the Chinese army can prepare them in the fastest time.

Apart from these, what else do you want for the general?

Now that he has devoted himself to the Western Expedition for two years, he has served as a commander and deputy commander-in-chief as a meritorious officer. Furious, but still impulsive.

For four full days, more than a thousand elite cavalry and stragglers of the headquarters stayed in the camp and did not move. Only 36 units of hundreds of herdsmen were sent to cut and transport wood in the forest. Xu Shan's [-] soldiers of the water-based army measured the depth in Hanoi.

The shallowest part is [-] Zhang [-] Chi, and the deepest is [-] Zhang [-] Chi. Therefore, Qi Bai buried hidden piles in the shallow water around the ruins of the water village to protect the water village.

However, shipbuilding in the water village belongs to shipbuilding, and Qiao Bai didn't plan to wait for the water village to build a suitable pontoon before fighting back.

On the evening of the fifth day when the shipbuilding camp was burned, sons Chengen and Chengchong recruited from the Chinese army, adopted sons Yunyun, Hongda, and Wenxiu Tu Wenxiu, etc., who were recruited from the Chinese army, divided the troops into command. matter.

At nightfall on May 170th, Kuibai supervised the ferry with Tu Wenxiu, and supervised the [-]-step archer crossing the river with his adopted son Guyun.

The next night, Qian Hongda and Qian Chengen divided two armies to cross the river for more than 22 people. In the early morning of May [-], Qian Bai left behind his second son, Qian Chengchong, the governor, and he himself crossed to the other side of the river with his helmet on.

By May 25th, there were more than a thousand troops crossing the river successively, including the Cangtou Army of Qibai, and armored cavalry under the command of Chechen Khan of the Jin Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

They gathered the three hundred households who had investigated the situation in advance, and divided their troops into three groups to attack the countless Cossack Secchi in the north.

Galloping horseshoes crushed countless Cossack camps, and when they lived on plunder, they were no different from the lonely ghosts who had died under their hands when they encountered unexpected surprise attacks.

The same panic, the same fear.

In just two days, the three armies of the Qibai army assaulted more than a hundred miles.

Qi Hongda and Qi Chengen led their troops to raid from left to right and went northward, while Qi Yun led their troops across the front line and went straight into the hinterland to build checkpoints to collect the fleeing soldiers and prevent them from reporting the military situation to the north.

During this operation, Xiao Yun tortured the captives and learned that there were [-] regular troops of the Rakshasa Kingdom stationed in the northern Soli Kam.

The war escalated.

In fact, there is a very ridiculous thing. In this era, in general, the colonial caravans and armies of various countries surpass their regular troops in terms of military skills.

These professional soldiers, mainly mercenaries, maintain individual skills training similar to masters and apprentices, and they have enough courage and resilience to colonize the field of life and death all year round.

Although they lack a sense of honor and only work for money, loyalty is not a problem at all in unfamiliar regions such as the New World and Siberia.

However, most of the regular armies at the time could not afford the task of colonization unless they lost their restraint.

For example, in Solikam now, the [-] regular army under the command of Grand Duke Beliski is losing the restraint from the army.

While Qibai was busy attacking the Cossack Secchi south of Solikam, the subordinates of Grand Duke Belsky were busy doing the same thing.

It's just that the direction is different. The Xibai attacked the south of Soli Kam, and they were busy looting the north of Soli Kam.

Nominally, this is the land of the tsar, but the people living here are all serfs who escaped from the west. The lowly serfs who came here turned into so-called free people.

What a joke, how can there be free people under the rule of the tsar and the nobility?
It was Kaye of the Stroganov family who persuaded them with good words, saying that the free people in the south were still useful in the war, which saved half of them, but the free people in the north were useless to them, even if the Tatars had 30, and it is impossible to come from the cold north, then they are useless.

The useless free folk hold furs that can be exchanged for any gold and silver treasures in Moscow. How can they save their lives under the hands of envious young noblemen.

Although this seems ridiculous, in the eyes of Grand Duke Belsky, his troops are completing the transformation to a qualified colonial army, and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

When they got rid of these free peoples, the Conquest of the East was no longer an empty phrase related to the glory of the Tsar... but the glory of the Tsar and the interests of nobles and soldiers.

There is no honor in Tsarist Russia. If there was honor, he, the regent, would not have been expelled to Siberia by his colleagues a month after the death of the old tsar.

Only profit can drive these nobles and their levies to continue fighting eastward. When hundreds of thousands of enemies appeared on the other side of a river, they were still busy mopping up the free people, which was a good indication of the problem.

The nobles considered the free folk in the north easier to deal with than the enemies in the east.

In fact, Belsky was not idle during this period. He recruited a lot of large ships to send the troops returning from the north to the east bank with full load.

At first he wanted to use another plan, because the morale of the troops was low, he temporarily retreated to Kazan, and dealt with the Tatar army that might be dozens of times larger than himself based on the Mongol civilized city wall and the reinforcements sent from Moscow.

However, such a strategy is not complete. He is very worried that Moscow's political struggle will eventually leave him without reinforcements, and there is a high possibility that he will be killed by the regent of the abolitionist faction under the pretext of retreating.

Now the morale of the army that has looted the north is high, so he plans to cross the river and take the initiative to meet the Tatars. At least judging from the fighting situation of the Cossacks who crossed the river, the Tatars on the other side are weaker than those Cossack robbers. his courage.

Make him want to personally test the strength of the enemy in the war.

Thousands of vanguard troops arrived on the other side and sent back news that the environment was good, there were no enemies, and there were primitive dense forests everywhere, and then boats carrying supplies and soldiers were transported back and forth on the Kama River until the last team left Soso by boat. Rickham.

It was May 24th. At this time, Solikam had businessmen from the Stroganov family, furs and wealth that the northern plundering troops asked them to send back to Moscow, and a large amount of supplies and money accompanying the caravan.

And huge wooden fortifications, wooden walls and wooden forts, and... and old and strong, angry worship.

Kuipai and his troops.

(End of this chapter)