Meng Xianglin and Wan Yanli didn't expect that there would be so many barbarian cavalry on the opposite side.

If it is a few thousand or even one or two thousand barbarian cavalry, Meng Xianglin and Wan Yanli will not worry, although there are only about 3,000 people on their side, but one person and two horsemen plus the configuration of various advanced weapons, facing an enemy of one or two hundred thousand is not at all worthy.

Holding on to death is just a close scene, don't panic.

But when the scale of the barbarian cavalry on the opposite side reached more than 50,000, Meng Xianglin and Wan Yanli found that they couldn't afford to provoke them at all-people could pile themselves to death just by relying on the number of people, how could they fight?

Then Meng Xianglin and Wan Yanli ran away with their horses and the laborers they caught, giving up the frontal battlefield to Amin.

After listening to Meng Xianglin and Wan Yanli's descriptions, Amin sneered: "Fifty or sixty thousand barbarian cavalry, there are indeed a lot, I haven't seen so many barbarian cavalry in these years." ”

Listening to the disdain in Amin's words, after glancing at Wan Yanli, Meng Xianglin spoke: "Look at the outfits of those barbarian cavalrymen, they are exactly the same as those we met before, it should be what the barbarians said about Cossack cavalry."

Although this group of people is not very good in tactics, when it comes to daring to fight, they may not be bad? ”

Amin sneered: "Let them fight, let them fight, if you don't have that guts, it won't be easy to do." ”

After Seryosha and the others surrendered, although Amin did not directly participate in their interrogation, it was easy to see the confessions of these people.

What these people said about the Cossacks who shocked Europe would ransom them back and so on, it was natural that Meng Xianglin and Amin and others regarded them as farts.

Redeem? How much money is there in my Ming Empire?

Especially in those broken places where Dogansi and Wu Si hid, I don't know how many lives will be needed to fill in the railroad every mile of construction, so let you go back? Do you want Lao Tzu to build the railway himself?

As for what they said about 100,000 cavalry and the like, it would be very happy.

Even if 100,000 cavalry die or run away, there will always be 10,000 or 20,000 captured, right?

10,000 or 20,000 laborers, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, not to mention the military exploits alone, are already heartwarming, and 10,000 people are placed in Duogansi to build the railway, which is enough to die for a while......

After glancing at each other again, Meng Xianglin bowed down and said: "Although the villains are not as good as the elite in the army, they are also dedicated to serving the country, and now these barbarians are trampling on my Ming land, and we can't immediately expel the barbarians and repay the country with death!"

If the commander is useful to the villain, once he has an order, he will not dare to obey! ”

Amin squinted at Meng Xianglin and Wan Yanli with slanted eyes, and said with a smile: "The frontal battlefield will be handed over to this commander, and the remaining corners will naturally belong to you."

We are now a pot of stirring horses, and the benefits that should be given to you will not be too stingy, although rest assured. ”

Amin is arrogant, but it depends on when.

This time, although the two flags with the blue flag and the blue flag are high enough, the number of people is really there, the number of cavalry is only 15,000, and the rest are auxiliary troops.

On the frontal battlefield, it is naturally easy to say, after the artillery washes the floor, the musketeers and archers cover the shooting, and then the cavalry can attack head-on, and the side is not easy to say.

It's not that the so-called Cossack cavalry can attack both flanks, even if they are the best at raiding both flanks and then rushing straight into the center.

Amin was worried that the Cossack cavalry would run away......

After all, the artillery goods don't care whether the Cossack horses are used to the sound of cannons, and they don't care whether the Cossack cavalry will suddenly run away in fright.

If you don't kill a few people and let a large number of Cossack cavalry run away, that's the real fun.

……

Alkimir ran back with a few of his cronies.

For Alkimir and his cronies, what happened that night was like a nightmare, a nightmare from which they would never wake up.

Every night when I fall asleep, there will always be a sky-high fire in my dreams, as well as the continuous sound of explosions, as well as those overturned war horses, those companions who have been blown up into the sky.

It seemed that they stood in front of the bed covered in blood, telling of the pain of being covered with scars, unwillingness, remorse, as if they wanted to tell Alkimir never to come again.

Every day when he wakes up in a dream and opens his eyes, Alkimir finds that his pillow is wet.

Alkimir knew that they were his own tears, and there were remorse, cowardice, and worry and concern for his companions.

Alkimir knew better that the cronies he had brought with him were also in ruins, and that those who had fled back seemed to have broken bones and had been drained of their tendons—none of them wanted to think back to the events of that day, let alone say that they would go back for revenge.

It seems that everyone is looking forward to getting away from that killing, away from that damned land and those damned Tatars.

Scrapped, all scrapped, these people, including themselves, will no longer be able to straighten their chests and say that they are a proud, murderous Cossack cavalryman.

Fleeing all the way to the west, until they met the Cossack cavalry regiment led by Khmelnitsky, who was advancing eastward.

The large cavalry regiment finally gave Alkimir some security.

Khmelnitsky's expression was not very good-looking: "You mean that just a few hundred Tatar cavalry will cause heavy losses to the cavalry of your four thousand troops?" ”

Licking his lips, Alkimir laughed miserably: "Or should I say that the whole army is annihilated."

As you can see, the entire team of four thousand, the last to come back alive is only us, together there are less than ten, and the rest have already remained in that land, including Prokofi and Seryosha. ”

Khmelnitsky nodded and said, "What about their equipment?" How many war horses did they have alone? How are their tactics? Will they be able to adapt to the environment? ”

"Yes, they were able to adapt to the environment here, and it seems that the cold here does not pose much of a threat to them.

They had two horses, like the legendary Mongol cavalry, each riding a war horse and a war horse following them.

Also, they seem to have a firearm that can be thrown out and exploded, or buried in the ground and waiting for him to explode, and it is not clear how to do it, Seryosha also thought about getting some of their firearms and then imitating them.

As for their tactics, it's even less so. ”

As if remembering something bad, after shuddering, Alkimir continued: "In just one day, we have seen at least a dozen tactics from them.

Including the legendary Mangu tactics, infantry forward tactics, flank outflank tactics, and the Chinese army's direct advance tactics, their difficulties are far above the legendary Mongol army. ”

After waiting for Alkimir to finish all the information he knew, Khmelnitsky suddenly sneered: "Shame on the Cossack cavalry!

How did you get the face to come back alive? Prokofi and Seryosha were all killed in battle, what are you doing with these people? Is it just to provide this information? ”

Alkimir was not at all surprised by Khmelnitsky's sudden turn of face.

Alkimir and the other Cossack cavalrymen were all too familiar with the ruthlessness and moodiness of the great leader Khmelnitsky.

Almost all Cossacks were of this character, changeable, impermanent, cruel, ruthless, and it is not surprising that they would be like this in their own way.

Including this return to Khmelnitsky's army, Alkimir has long been mentally prepared, and now what he was worried about has become a reality, and there is nothing surprising.

After sighing, Alkimir said, "Yes, just to bring this information back." We, as the vanguard troops, have already suffered a lot from the Tatars, and the reason why Seryosha let us come back is probably because of this.

In conclusion, I would like to say that neither Prokofi, nor Seryosha, nor any of our companions, nor any of them disgraced the Cossacks, and no one chose to run away, except for us cowards.

Now, I have brought back the information that should be brought back, and I have finished saying what I should say, and we will accept what you want to do with us, and there will be no complaints. ”

Khmelnitsky narrowed his eyes and said, "So, now that you are asked to fight with those cavalry of the Ming Empire, do you dare to go?" ”

Alkimir shook his head and said, "I dare, but the rest of them may not have the courage to go, they are already frightened."

In fact, it was only after I persuaded them countless times that they agreed to come with me, otherwise they would have run away far away by this time, and would have gone straight to Europe and never returned. ”

After Khmelnitsky sneered, he suddenly opened his mouth and ordered: "Go and drag those cowards to death on war horses, and all their families will be made into slaves, and they will be bought and bullied!" ”

After the soldiers bowed down, Khmelnitsky turned his gaze to Alkimir again: "I don't blame you for this incident, I also know the purpose of Seryosha for letting you come back, so I can give you another chance." ”

After a long period of silence, Khmelnitsky spoke: "I will transfer you another thousand-man team." Because you have fought against those cavalry of the Ming Empire before, you have to act as a vanguard to explore the way.

Remember, once you find them, don't have too much contact with them, just bite them, and wait until the army surrounds them to get rid of them, do you hear clearly? ”

Alkimir hesitated: "Send a large army to encircle and suppress the Ming cavalry that is less than a thousand hundreds?" Will? ”

Khmelnitsky said: "Could it be anything? In this world, everything is decided by the winner, and the loser only dies, and is not qualified to speak. Or are you confident that you can use a thousand-man team to deal with those hundreds of Ming cavalry? ”

After another sneer, Khmelnitsky looked at Alkimir and said: "If you had that ability, now you would not stand in front of me like a child who has been beaten and cried, but show off with your booty!" ”

Alkimir's face turned red, but he couldn't think of a word to refute Khmelnitsky.

In any case, Khmelnitsky was right, he and Prokofi, as well as Seryosha, all lost, lost cleanly, lost nothing, and there was not even the last pride left.

And he didn't have the confidence to rely on a thousand-man team to solve the hundreds of Ming cavalry.

On the battlefield, numbers are a very important factor, but they are never the decisive factor.

In terms of numbers, the Cossack cavalry was many times smaller than the Polish border army, but it only took a few tens of thousands of Cossacks to cross the Polish border, and the Cossacks were never worried unless the Polish army was dispatched.

In the current confrontation with the Ming Dynasty, the Cossacks have become the side with the largest number of people, and the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty has become the side with fewer people but no need to worry at all.

Especially those hundreds of Ming cavalry, before Prokofi and Seryosha led a full team of four thousand people and failed to leave them behind, now they are replaced by themselves, only relying on a team of thousands of people, where does they have the confidence to say that they can be eliminated?

The world is unpredictable, nothing more than that.

Khmelnitsky repeated again: "You listen to me, find them, follow them, and then the army will deal with them!" ”

To the surprise of Khmelnitsky and Alkimir, after searching for several days, they did not find any shadow of the Ming cavalry, as if those Ming cavalry had completely disappeared.

Khmelnitsky was not worried that Alkimir was deceiving himself by talking nonsense, after all, the news of the Ming invasion of Tsarist Russia came from the Kremlin, and the order to mobilize the Cossacks to the Far East was also issued by the Kremlin, so there should be no falsehood.

The only thing that gave Khmelnitsky a headache was that he couldn't find the shadow of the Ming army at all - if he couldn't find the Ming army, it meant that there was no way to attack them.

It's like a strong man clenching his fists, but the other side can't find a target at all.

If you relax, you may face a sudden attack, and if you don't relax, you have to keep accumulating strength, and in the end, it may be that your own side is very exhausted.

Khmelnitsky was not stupid, and he also knew that the Ming army might be deliberately playing with itself, so that his side could relax first, and then launch a fatal blow to himself.

Alkimir said tentatively: "Otherwise, let's go directly to the Ming side?" If you can't, just attack them and force them to show up? ”

Khmelnitsky shook his head and said: "If we go straight to the Ming Dynasty, it will be that they are fighting with their backs to the country, and all the advantages will be taken away from them, and we will suffer." ”