Chapter 304: The Marquis of Dashun (5)

The South Bug River is still flowing quietly, and the weather in early winter is exceptionally crisp, and it is on the edge of a Mediterranean climate, and the humid air makes people feel even colder. In the small town by the river, in the military camp of the Ottoman Empire, there was a lot of mourning, one by one the officers hurriedly strung around, their faces were full of exhaustion, helplessness, and despair, the ultimatum of the Tsarist Empire ordering surrender was handed over last night, and the senior officers saw the ultimatum, and the mood of defeat spread to the barracks, maybe without the army of the Tsarist Empire to attack, by tomorrow morning, the army will be defeated.

Defeat is not terrible, as long as these senior officers do not resist to the end, they will not have to worry about their lives, this is the rule of war, but even if the status is over in the future, who will respect a failed officer? The dejected officers began to eat breakfast listlessly.

The Ottoman officers, who were eating in a state of disappointment, suddenly heard explosions in the distance, and the continuous sound was like an explosion in an arsenal. But the strange thing is that they didn't see the shells flying overhead, could it be that the arsenal of the Russian Imperial Army exploded?

Liu Zongmin's army was the best-equipped, with a miniature mortar cavalry unit of 3,000 men, and after breakfast in the early hours of the morning, it approached the general headquarters of the Tsarist Empire as quickly as possible, which was a small town in the middle of a small town, a luxurious courtyard. Three thousand cavalry troops surrounded the town, and three thousand miniature mortars opened fire at the same time, and the whole town became a hell on earth in an instant. Even if it is a miniature *, it is not very powerful, but it cannot withstand the staggering number of high-ranking officers and guards of the Tsarist Empire who are panicked in the small town covered by artillery fire. Signal soldiers scurried around, trying to dodge the cannonballs in the sky.

The miserable Admiral Zyuganov was still in his dream, a small * smashed into the roof fell in, and Admiral Zyuganov, who was still asleep, saw his God without pain, I don't know if he was lucky or not, anyway, in the first round of shelling, Admiral Zyuganov was unlucky to be blown up, and Li Hongji's beheading operation was successful.

The iron hooves of the big horses stepped into the town, and the chaotic town did not organize any effective defenses, mainly because the artillery cover was too fierce this time, and the soldiers of the Tsarist Empire were swayed by the imminent victory and relaxed their vigilance. The soldiers and officers of the Tsarist Empire, who were unprepared for defense, suffered heavy losses under the heavy artillery fire, and they were too late to flee for their lives, and the town soon fell into the hands of Liu Zongmin.

Then Li Hongji's men and horses also rushed to the town, and there was no need to garrison here, and the 30,000 troops were divided into two parts again, Li Hongji and Liu Zongmin each led 1,500 miniature mortar cavalry and ordinary cavalry to divide their troops into two routes, and began to attack along the encirclement of the Tsarist Russian Empire.

In the case of a small mortar opening the way, the soldiers of the Tsarist Empire who did not have this kind of combat experience panicked, even if they resisted under the supervision of the officers, under the sharp attack of the elite cavalry of the Ming army, there was no position to block. Li Hongji's troops, with one man, two horses, and three horses, did not rest on their horses, and it took less than a morning to sweep the encirclement of the Tsarist Russian Empire and completely shatter the encirclement.

After all, Li Hongji's troops were not many, and although the sharp attack broke through the encirclement of the Tsarist Empire and knocked out the campaign headquarters of the Tsarist Empire, the real casualties caused were not too serious, but the chaos caused made people feel too frightened, which made the morale of the Tsarist Empire's army low. On the other hand, the Ottoman army, when they found that their army had come to the rescue in a desperate moment, both officers and soldiers, immediately became excited and quickly began to counterattack.

The Polish-Lithuanian army that received from the west had already planned to withdraw, and the Ottoman army had fallen into the trap, and the army they dispatched naturally could not be planted in it, and Mikhail Romanov gave them a terrible impression, but the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed, and the army of the Tsarist Empire was suddenly scattered, which gave them hope, turned around again, and rushed to the battlefield again.

The battle on the east bank of the South Bug River was over, most of the main army of the Tsarist Empire was annihilated, and the remaining army quickly fled north, no longer posing a threat, but the Ottoman army had been crippled and had no combat strength to continue the pursuit, and the 50,000 Cossack cavalry in their rear had mixed up their logistics in a mess, and there was a shortage of food and ammunition, so they had no choice but to turn around and encircle and annihilate these cavalry.

On the contrary were the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom, which entered the campaign for the shortest time and suffered the fewest losses. So their army killed it in one go, and directly regained the land lost in the last war, and became a big winner in this war.

Li Hongji's army did not wait for the battlefield to be cleaned up, and directly led the remaining less than 30,000 troops to leave, and went south by boat on the Dnieper River, joined Liu Fangliang's troops, and successfully took the Crimean Peninsula into their own hands, completing the predetermined goal of this war.

Far to the north, the army of the Kingdom of Sweden was more disappointed, they did not expect that the war would end so quickly, they had not had time to exert their combat effectiveness, the war was over, so their results were limited, and they had to maintain a state of confrontation, hoping to gain more benefits in the negotiations, but they did not know whether the Tsarist Empire would be relented.

The Tsarist Russian Empire, which had lost 500,000 troops, had continued to fight by force, although their war potential was great, but the cold weather made them also in a shortage of materials, and the war was not too well prepared, the goal was to quickly defeat the Ottoman Empire, but because of the sudden strength of the Marquis of Dashun, their plan completely failed, and they had to consider starting negotiations.

The negotiations were unexpectedly smooth, and the smooth made the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom feel unexpected, the Tsarist Empire not only gave up part of the Ottoman lands occupied by this war, but also gave up a large part of the benefits obtained in the last war, except that the Marquis of Dashun had already satisfied its own intentions, occupied the predetermined place, and gave up other interests, which was a last resort, the population was too small, and eating too much would cause indigestion. The Ottomans gained more benefits by acquiring part of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom that the Russian Empire had last occupied, including a large area of land on the east bank of the Dnieper, cutting off the contact between the Dashun and the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom. The Polish-Lithuanian kingdom only recovered part of the land, and even the empty space left after the pursuit of its own army also allowed the Russian Empire to cede to the Ottoman Empire as compensation for its defeat. The Kingdom of Sweden, on the other hand, did not get cheap, and the Tsarist Empire rejected their demands with a tough position, while the Ottoman Empire, which got the cheap, did not fight for their interests and acquiesced in the hardline attitude of the Tsarist Empire.

The Marquis of Dashun did not participate in this negotiation at all, his goal had been achieved, and there was no need to rob anything, but when the results of the negotiation came, Li Hongji judged that there would be a larger war in the near future, and the unlucky one must be the Ottoman Empire, their appearance was too ugly, even if they had to guard against it.

Although the Tsarist Empire was defeated, Mikhail Romanov laid out a conspiracy this time, except for the Marquis of Dashun, the Ottoman Empire, which performed the worst in the war, gained the greatest benefits, and the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, which performed well, did not get the biggest dividend of victory, and the Kingdom of Sweden, which participated in the war in the nature of help, suffered a loss, such an outcome is very inexplicable, but the Ottoman Empire accepted this result, and the alliance broke down instantly.

Li Hongji, who was in the Marquis of Dashun, no longer cared about the outcome of this war, he knew that the result of a disastrous victory was the beginning of the next defeat, if the Ottoman Empire was a little smarter and ceded part of its interests to the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, maybe they still had the possibility of forming an alliance next time, but would the Ottoman Empire do this? Murad IV was not a man of great fortune, and the seemingly mighty Ottoman Empire, which spanned three continents, had already begun to decline, and their arrogance and arrogance would be the beginning of degeneration.

Zhu Youxiao's plan is to make the Ottoman Empire the main force to resist the eastward advance of European forces, that is, no matter how greedy and shameless they are, they have to let them maintain, but the next war may be a protracted war of attrition, whether it is the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, or the Tsarist Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Austria, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Kingdom of Hungary, the Marquis of Dashun will make their largest supplier of weapons, suck their flesh and blood, strengthen the power of the Marquis of Dashun, and become a nail for the Ming here.