In the more than two months since the Ming army launched its offensive, news that a large number of autonomous regions and principalities had been captured by the Ming army flew like snowflakes across the Ural Mountains to Moscow.

The tsar was furious.

Soon after the news of the defeat of the 240,000 men he sent to attack the Ming Dynasty arrived, the news of the Ming army's active invasion immediately came, and one principality after another was shattered, until the Ming army severed its connection with Siberia along the Ural Mountains.

There is no doubt that Siberia must have been completely occupied by the Ming army.

Such a vast piece of land, his ancestors opened up for more than a hundred years before it could be occupied, but it was all taken away by the Ming Dynasty in just over two months, how can this not make people angry.

"No, this is completely unacceptable, troops must be sent again to take it back!" The tsar roared angrily.

"Your Majesty, you can't do that!" An old prince of the royal family said to the tsar in shock: "The last time the 240,000 troops sent by the empire were defeated, which has already hurt the vitality of the empire, and we don't know the situation of the Ming Dynasty at all, and we don't know how many troops we have to send to defeat the Ming Dynasty!" ”、

The last 240,000 Tsarist Russian army, because it was defeated in the Gobi steppe with a wide field of vision, was unable to escape in the face of the pursuit of the Ming cavalry and Cossack cavalry, and finally ended with the surrender of 140,000 people.

Because none of the Tsarist Russian soldiers were able to escape back to Tsarist Russia, although the Tsar and a group of Tsarist officials received the news of the defeat of the army, they did not know how the defeat was, and even did not know what the war process was, and they also did not know how much the Ming army had lost to defeat their 240,000 troops. Because they couldn't estimate the specific strength of the Ming Dynasty, they didn't know how many troops they would have to send to defeat the Ming Dynasty.

Although the European part of the Tsarist Empire has a population of no less than 12 million, and the Tsarist Empire is a military system for all the people, men must join the army when they reach the age, so that the Tsarist Empire can easily stop hundreds of thousands, or even millions of troops, but it has lost 240,000 troops at one time, and it has also greatly damaged the vitality of the Tsarist Empire, theoretically for at least a few years, the Tsarist Empire will not be able to start a large-scale war again, if it forcibly organizes hundreds of thousands of troops to participate in the war, once it fails, the Tsarist Empire will lose its youth and strength, Even the basic production of the empire is difficult to maintain, and the empire may collapse directly, and the old prince saw this and spoke to stop it.

However, the tsar was not as rational as the old prince, and the vast Siberia west of the Ural Mountains was too large, more than ten times the size of the European part of the Russian Empire.

You know, not to mention such a large piece of land in Siberia, even with Poland and the Holy Roman Empire, or a few small cities of the Ottoman Empire, Tsarist Russia can persevere in continuous wars, how can it give up such a large Siberia.

"Nope! The territory that the empire has carved out for hundreds of years cannot be lost like this! The Tsar roared.

In the end, the tsar did not listen to the old prince's advice and insisted on starting a war with the Ming again for the sake of Siberia.

In about half a month, the tsar hurriedly gathered 150,000 troops, almost all of which were composed of newly recruited ordinary young and strong Tsarist Russian people, such an army was more than a little worse than the 240,000 troops that were wiped out last time I didn't know how, but the tsar didn't care about the 150,000 newly formed army and started the war with the Ming again, which also shows how crazy the tsar has become for Siberia.

The Ural River, originally on the east bank was also the territory of Tsarist Russia, but it was occupied by the Ming army in the Battle of Siberia.

When the 120,000 Russian army arrived at the Urals, they wanted to cross the river from some shallow and narrow places.

However, when the Russian army was crossing the river, a team of Ming iron cavalry suddenly rushed out.

"Bang bang bang" Ming soldiers on war horses fired at the Russian soldiers crossing the river.

The river was splashed, bullets pierced the bodies of the Russian soldiers, and the blood that burst from their bodies stained the river red.

There were also many Ming soldiers who dismounted their horses, and machine gunners set up machine guns on the river bank, and also fired at the Russian soldiers crossing the river. Some soldiers of the Ming artillery battalion also began to quickly erect artillery.

"Da Da Da"

"Poof! Burst! Poof"

The Ming army's rifles and machine guns had an extremely long range, and even crossed the river and hit directly on the other side of the river, killing and injuring the Russian soldiers on the other side of the river who had not yet begun to cross the river, and suddenly causing heavy casualties to the Russian soldiers.

A large number of corpses were washed away with the river, and the river seemed to be dyed red, and these Tsarist soldiers were originally temporarily recruited, and in the face of such a fierce blow from the Ming army, as if they had been slaughtered, they quickly screamed and fled back.

After a while, more than a dozen cannons erected by the Ming army also fired at the group of Tsarist soldiers on the other side of the river.

The shells blew up the Russian soldiers on their backs, killing and wounding them heavily.

At this time, the Tsarist army did not even dare to stay close to the river bank, and continued to rout backwards.

Before they could cross the river, they began to rout, and the generals of the Tsarist army could not imagine how they could defeat the Ming army.

Seeing with his own eyes the power of the weapons of the Ming army, the face of the Russian general who commanded the 150,000 Tsarist Russian army was extremely ugly. Although this commander of Tsarist Russia really wants to make military achievements and honors for the empire, it does not mean that he is stupid, if it were not for the order of the tsar, he would not even want to be this commander.

The last time the 240,000 regular troops were all wiped out in the Cossacks, they didn't even know how they were destroyed, plus the Ming Dynasty captured the vast Siberia of the empire with a thunderous attack in more than two months, it is conceivable that the strength of the Ming must be very strong, he really doesn't know how to defeat the Ming with the 150,000 temporarily formed army under his hands.

If the commander of Tsarist Russia knew that let alone defeat the entire Ming Dynasty, even if he allowed his 150,000 Tsarist Russian army to walk from the Ural River to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it would take him more than half a year, maybe he would really collapse directly.

In fact, not only the commander of Tsarist Russia, if the tsar knew how big the Ming was, he might not be so crazy.

In any case, in the face of the Tsar's Ming army, the commander of the Tsarist Russian army still had to continue to try to attack the Ming.

For two whole days, the 150,000 Tsarist Russian army tried to force the river many times, but unfortunately, in addition to leaving a large number of corpses and paying a large number of casualties, none of them were able to successfully cross the river under the dense fire of the Ming army.

"So there have been more than 10,000 dead and wounded?" The commander of the Tsarist army had a blue face and a strong sense of powerlessness.

This is not to attack Da Ming at all, but to send soldiers to death, and he can't continue to do this.

Eventually, the Russian commander collapsed and no longer tried to cross the river to attack the Ming Dynasty, but returned to Moscow with the rest of the Russian army.

When the Tsar heard the commander's explanation, he almost lost his temper.

However, when the tsar heard the whole battle, he was also speechless with horror, and the Ming Dynasty was able to prevent his hundreds of thousands of troops from crossing the river by deploying only 1,000 men on the other side of the river, and also killed and wounded tens of thousands of his soldiers.

The muskets of the Ming Dynasty were able to hit directly to the other side of the river, and the cannons of the Ming Dynasty were very advanced and powerful.

This is a massacre!

"Is the Ming army really that strong? Could it be that the territory of the empire was just allowed to be occupied by the Ming Dynasty? The tsar said with great reluctance.

However, in addition to being unwilling, the tsar also had no confidence in defeating the Ming Dynasty and retaking Siberia.

After all, there aren't enough troops.

Forbear!

In the end, the Tsar chose forbearance, and he decided that at least when the empire was restored, and when enough troops were gathered, he would definitely take revenge.

It is foreseeable that in the next few years, once the Tsarist Russian Empire recovers, it will definitely have a fierce large-scale war with the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming side did not care about the Tsar's forbearance and thoughts, all in all, the attack of the 150,000 troops of Tsarist Russia did not bring the slightest pressure to the Ming army, and the defeat of the Tsarist army did not bring much joy to the Ming army, and the Ming army was as calm as ever.

However, Tsarist Russia no longer harassed but also allowed the Ming Dynasty's rule over Siberia to slowly stabilize, and there was no war around the Ming Dynasty for a while, and there was a calm.