The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Seven days after Cheerchen returned to Azov in light outfit, an army of five thousand cavalry and nearly two thousand infantry departed from Azov. Their target was Cherke, which was occupied by the Kalmyks. Sk.

If it could, Cheer Chen wanted to delay for a while before sending troops. Because of the information collected from Prigit, the Kalmyk Khanate is a great Khanate with more than 100,000 people, and its ultimate mobilization capacity exceeds 30,000, even for an expedition like Cherkessk. Kalmyks can also come up with more than 10,000 troops.

Ten thousand cavalry, in order to deal with such an adversary, Cheechen originally wanted to send envoys by sea to seconded the Sultan of Kemal to Mahmed Pasha in order to strengthen his own strength. But Chechen wanted to wait, but Ayuqi didn't give him a chance. Almost at the same time Chechen returned to Azov, countless teams of Kalmyks sneaked across the Kuban River, and they burned, killed, and looted the Tatar villages on the other side of the river. Ayuqi responded to Cheerchen's challenge with practical actions.

This made Cheerchen extremely passive, because after knowing that his territory had been attacked, Saijie Tebei came to Cheerchen several times a day and asked him to send troops as soon as possible. For the last time, Saijtebeyi even brought representatives of more than 30 tribes. These tribe chiefs swear in the name of God that as long as Chechen sends troops, the tribes will do their best to provide the troops and resources needed by the army. supply.

For this reason, Cheerchen had no reason to refuse. In the presence of Segetbey, Karazimirza and all the clan chiefs present, he announced the crusade order against the Kalmyks gathered in Cherkessk.

And the patriarchs of the tribes did not break their promises. They sent tribal cavalry to join the crusade army by one hundred or three hundred. Of the 6,000 cavalrymen, more than 4,000 were provided by them. And Segetbey was also recruited from far away Socasia and Socasia cavalry.

The Soccasian Cavalry is a well-equipped medium-sized archer. They are good at melee and shooting, equipped with mail armor, swords, and bows. Although there are only two hundred men, the combination of these weapons is better than most Tatar cavalry. It can be said that Cheechen commanded a huge army from the Sea of ​​Azov in the east and the Don River in the west.

The two Crimean nobles, Karazimirzan and Segetbey, also went on the march with Chechen, and they followed him closely.

However, the person closest to Cheerchen is Fatima. After Cheerchen accepted Fatima's love, Fatima became like a little woman, clinging to Cheerchen's side all day long, staying at her side. This makes Piedro who is still in the dark because he doesn't know the truth very strangely. Once, Pidro said to his nephew half-jokingly: "Cheerchen, Fatima seems to like you!"

And Cheerchen wanted to take advantage of Pidro's unintentional words and his uncle to clarify the relationship between him and Fatima, and tell Pidro that Fatima had a child of her own. Cheerchen was stopped by Fatima without exiting.

When Cheerchen asked Fatima why she didn't let herself tell the truth to her uncle, Fatima only said that she wanted to wait until the battle was over.

However, apart from Pedro, the changes in the relationship between Cheorchen and Fatima were seen by almost everyone. Everyone is a comrade-in-arms who is in distress together, and is sincerely happy that Cheerchen can accept Fatima. Even a Catholic priest like Spasokukotsky also expressed his blessings to Fatima. The only one who was slightly disappointed was Yelishei. However, the emotions of this young Russian guy came and went quickly. After forcing himself to drink a few glasses of beer, Yelischey forgot his sadness and flirted with Ingrid instead.

Because of the precedent of being ambushed by Kalmyks in the forest for the first time, Cheechen's march was a lot more cautious this time. He sent more scouts to carefully search the bushes and woods on the marching road. This undoubtedly caused the troops to move extremely slowly, and also kept the soldiers in high mental stress at all times. Later, Cheerchen also realized that he was a little too careful. Therefore, he recruited falconers from various tribes and asked them to release the falcons from time to time, and judged whether there was an ambush based on the falcon's reaction in the bushes and woods. This method was told to Cheerchen by Patriarch Isaac, and it was more useful and time-saving than relying on manpower alone.

But these were useless in the end, because until they arrived in Cherkessk, the sudden attack by the Kalmyk cavalry that Chechen was worried about never appeared.

During the previous disguised reconnaissance, Cheerchen and his party had never been to Cherkessk. But this time, when Chechen and the others arrived at the place of the former city of Cherkessk, he and Karazimir and others couldn't believe their eyes at all. Because the former city of Cherkessk has disappeared, except for a huge tomb, not even a building or a trench is left.

"God, am I dazzled!" The elderly Patriarch Isaac rubbed his eyes vigorously. But no matter how he rubbed it, the things that had disappeared would not appear in front of his eyes.

"My nephew, is this what you mean by Cherkessk?" Piedro asked Chechen.

At this moment, Cheor Chen was also pale. He didn't expect Ayuqi to demolish the entire Circassian city. When he thought about it, such an act was simply incredible. It was an atrocities committed by talents like Nero, the tyrant of ancient Rome, and A Yuqi did not look like such an unreasonable and unreasonable person.

Chechen, who was born in a settled civilization, couldn't understand in any case. For nomads, towns are not important to them. They care about grasslands, pastures and water.

Just like Genghis Khan who established the Mongol Empire. As nomads living in the grasslands, the Mongols are inherently aggressive. Genghis Khan believed that it was the prairie that brought vitality to the entire nation. Because the grassland is rich in aquatic plants and many animals. Moreover, with the grassland, the Mongols do not need to bring more marching food by themselves when fighting.

Based on this idea, Genghis Khan had such a subconscious mind. After conquering a piece of land, he turned it into a prairie and killed all the indigenous people there.

And when Genghis Khan died, his successor Wo Kuotai's close attendant, Bie Di and others even argued in the far east: "The Han people have nothing to do with the country, but they are empty, they think of pastoral land." It means that the Central Plains The people of the Han people are weak in human health, which is of no use to the Meng Yuan’s conquest of the world. It is better to drive them all out of the residential area and grow grass and horses here.

Although such a terrifying policy was finally not implemented under Yelv Chucai's vigorous struggle and inducement, it can also be seen from this that the Mongols' attitude towards the city can be seen.

After a while, Cheerchen, who had recovered from the shock, spoke to Saijet Bey: "Bey, why do you think those Kalmykians dismantled Cherkessk~www.readwn.com~ They are afraid Our might or do we stand firm and clear the country?"

Chechen believes that the Tatars in the Azov region are still mainly nomads, so their thinking should be close to the Kalmykians. From them, he might get answers similar to those of Ayuqi.

Segetbey thought for a while, and he said to Chechenbey, "Chechenbey, I think these Kalmykians are not afraid of us, nor are they standing on the wall, but that Cherkessk is useless to them. The things that you keep will make your enemies cheaper, so they demolished the city."

"How is it possible?!" Pidro showed an unbelievable expression when Sagetebe said that a city is useless.

Sagetebey spread his hands and said, "This is the truth. You are from Crimea, so I don’t know that the people here are living in leather tents. They eat cattle and sheep, and they only need salt and other daily necessities brought by a caravan to satisfy their lives."

After listening to Segetbey's explanation, Pidro was silent. For this expedition, the mercenary regiment prepared two thousand infantrymen for the purpose of attacking Cherkessk, but now, this unit is completely useless.

Then, Sejtbey said: "The Kalmyks are as good at riding and archery as our Tatars. I think they did not want to tie up their hands and feet when they demolished Cherkessk. After all, defending the city is for them. It's a strange thing."

Like Pidro, Cheerchen was also disappointed that his most combative infantry could not be effective. But he quickly replied from disappointment. Cheerchen continued to ask Segetbey for advice: "Then Segetbey, where do you think the Kalmyk people will be now?"