From the signal sent from the front, the signal that the Ottoman coalition army occupied the core position was finally seen, and Governor Ashhard and Grei III immediately became excited, it seemed that no matter how strong the position was, it could not withstand a long attack, and the Ming army may not be invincible. Excited, Ashard ordered the troops to occupy the entire position at once, and carefully observed how the Ming army's position was set up, and why it could cost tens of thousands of people.

When Governor Aishad was extremely excited, Li Hongji and his comrades-in-arms were also secretly happy, it seemed that the plan had been successful, and most of the nearly 70,000 Ottoman coalition troops had entered the core position, and it seemed that it was time to teach them a lesson, so that they could understand what a trap is and what modern warfare is.

Li Hongji waved his hand, and Li Guo next to him gave an order, and the demolition soldiers on the mortar position of the Ming army on the north side of the core position immediately lit the fuse, and several sparkling fuses immediately extended forward like a fire dragon, and after a quarter of an hour, an earth-shattering explosion occurred in the entire position, and most of the Ottoman coalition soldiers were drowned in the smoke, and then more than a hundred mortars and infantry guns began to cover the defensive position, The soldiers, who were not killed, again entered the sea of fire.

Li Hongji knew that the number of soldiers of the Ottoman Coalition Army was too much, and he was reluctant to let the soldiers fight with them, in order to reduce the number of casualties among the soldiers as much as possible. Li Hongji and the General Staff formulated this desperate plan, and before the battle began, they had already buried the entire position*, and after dealing a heavy blow to the Ottoman coalition soldiers, they were introduced into the position, and then used a large number of * to deal a fatal blow to them, and finally almost the entire army was annihilated.

Seeing the smoke and dust in the sky and hearing the earth-shattering explosions, Governor Elhad knew that he had been completely fooled. In the thick of the smoke, the soldiers not only had to bear the threat of explosion, but also the suffocation caused by the burning of oxygen, the soldiers in the center died, the soldiers in the periphery were already frightened, and the less than 10,000 disabled soldiers were swarmed and defeated.

The loud military horn sounded, and Li Hongji and Li Guo each led nearly 3,000 cavalry from both sides of the position to attack at the same time, launching a counterattack against the defeated Ottoman coalition army, like a pair of scissors twisted towards the defeated enemy.

Having failed completely, Governor Echad had already mounted his war horse and ran at the forefront of the defeated soldiers under the protection of the guards, but fortunately there were nearly 10,000 soldiers on the other side of the Mius River to meet them, and the remnants of the defeated army finally crossed the Mius River. Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, Li Hongji's cavalry troops behind had already pursued them, and Ming troops began to appear on both sides. Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang each had been in ambush on both sides with 10,000 cavalry for a long time, and they also killed from both sides at this time.

Li Hongji adopted the tactics of encircling three and missing one, leaving a gap for the Ottoman coalition soldiers to escape, not that they could not be annihilated, Li Hongji meant not to let them do the battle of trapped beasts, and another purpose was to chase these remnants of the defeated generals so that they could lead the way, find more troops to meet them, and even cause them greater panic, and finally form a shock to the entire region.

After the battle, Li Hongji left half of his men and horses to bring back to his territory for war defense, and the Tsarist Russian Empire in the north was still staring at him, and he could not help but be ready to counterattack. The remaining 15,000 or so soldiers continued to pursue the remnants of Aishad. These remnants have been completely beaten cold, on the way to escape are all soldiers, except for eating and sleeping is constantly fleeing south, the powerful Ming army has become a nightmare, there is no idea of resistance at all.

With hundreds of miles of pursuit, fast horses, and fierce soldiers, Governor Ashhard was almost cornered, and had no choice but to let the surrounding troops hurry up and help him escape from the death pursuit of the Ming army.

Governor Aishad, who fled all the way to the west, continued to mobilize the army from the north to respond, and finally gained a foothold on the left bank of the Molochnaya River, after all, the Ming army only had more than 10,000 people, and it was a little tired to pursue it all the way, and the two sides began to confront each other here.

When the Ming army was fighting against the Ottoman Empire, Li Hongji also strengthened the defense of his Shunhe City, which was not too far from the power of the Tsarist Empire, and Tian Jianxiu was in charge of 3,000 soldiers who remained in Shunhe City. In order to ensure absolute security, Tian Jianxiu released the intelligence officers three hundred miles away, ready to stop the attack of the Russian Imperial Army, which was the base camp of Li Hongji's department, and there could be no mistakes.

Tian Jianxiu's caution still played a great role, just when Li Hongji began to contact with the Ottoman coalition forces on the bank of the Mius River, Tian Jianxiu finally got a secret report that 30,000 cavalry of the Tsarist Russian Empire were dispatched, in addition to reporting the news to Li Hongji, Tian Jianxiu immediately arranged soldiers for defense, and strived to delay the advance of the Tsarist Russian Imperial army, at least until Li Hongji and they eased up, this is a difficult task, Tian Jianxiu must also complete.

Tian Jianxiu judged that the purpose of the cavalry of the Tsarist Empire this time was to make a surprise attack, and after succeeding, they would destroy Shunhe City, the base camp of the Ming army, so that the Ming army would lose the basis for survival here, causing the army's morale to be unstable. Otherwise, a large number of infantry will be sent to follow and launch a large-scale attack, so that if a war breaks out, it may be a protracted battle. Now that the Tsarist Empire has tempted the Ottoman Empire to wage war against Li Hongji's troops, it will inevitably try to be bigger, and it is impossible to have a long-term war with the Ming army, because the interests in the west are greater. Therefore, Tamihide's idea was to delay the advance of the Tsarist Imperial army as quickly as possible, so that they would retreat in the face of difficulties.

The first thing Tamihide did was to mobilize the whole people, clear the settlements on the left bank of the Don River, and then organize a large number of young and middle-aged people, and tell them that the army of the Tsarist Empire was coming to invade, to occupy their homeland, to massacre their brothers and sisters, to kidnap them to become serfs, and to make them lose their present happy life.

I have to say that Tian Jianxiu's ideological work has been done very well, and then these newly established settlements are a bit semi-militarized, and the mobilization work has been done very smoothly, in less than a day, Tian Jianxiu has successfully gathered more than 10,000 militiamen, and Tian Jianxiu does not intend to let them participate in the battle, but just wants to create an atmosphere in which the whole people participate in the war, and then to confuse the Tsarist Imperial Army, so that they cannot understand the reality of their own army, and the real combat effectiveness is the more than 1,000 soldiers led by themselves. The remaining more than 2,000 soldiers stayed in Shunhe City, in case the front could not be stopped, and finally fought to the death.

There is no way to dig traps or the like on the grassland, and it is not easy to set up any ambushes, Tian Jianxiu does not have the advantage of troops to fight, the only thing that can be used is long-range harassment, and there is not much else, Tian Jianxiu's weapons are still very sufficient, this is the biggest advantage, and the range is much farther than that of the cavalry of the Tsarist Empire.

In addition to leading 1,000 soldiers as the main combat force, Tian Jianxiu also had more than 10,000 militiamen as suspicious soldiers and transport brigades, and then mobilized a large number of personnel to dig trenches on the possible marching roads on the prairie, and they did not need to be too wide, each trench was about one zhang wide and two feet deep, and the excavated soil was placed behind, so that the earthen wall was about three feet high, just enough to make it difficult for the horses of the cavalry brigade to pass through, slowing down their impact.

Tian Jianxiu led a large group of men and horses to meet the direction of the cavalry of the Tsarist Empire, and encountered more than 1,000 people in the vanguard of the cavalry a hundred miles away. This is an open grassland, and there is no terrain to hide, and they all saw each other several miles away, and no one was polite, urging the war horses to rush towards the enemy.

Slightly different from the cavalry of the Tsarist Russian Empire, the cavalry of Tian Jianxiu's previous cavalry was slightly slower, the soldiers in the front row rushed forward with their swords raised, and the cavalry in the back was under the cover of the front row, setting up miniature mortars on the horses, when the two sides were one mile apart, the soldiers in the back row suddenly opened fire, and the dense * disrupted the cavalry formation of the Tsarist Empire, killing and wounding many soldiers and war horses, directly disrupting their offensive rhythm.

At a distance of one mile, the galloping horses of the two sides met in the blink of an eye, and the fierce battle began, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Tsarist Russian Empire, which was disrupted in formation, instantly decreased a lot, on the other hand, the soldiers of the Ming army, neat formation, good coordination, and very great lethality. After the two sides broke through the formation, it was seen that most of the soldiers left behind were soldiers of the Tsarist Empire, and there were very few soldiers of the Ming army. When the Ming army turned around and charged again, they found that the cavalry of the Tsarist Russian Empire did not turn around at all, and directly withdrew from the battlefield in an arc formation, without even giving the Ming army a chance to pursue.

Tian Jianxiu is also helpless about this, the cavalry of the Tsarist Russian Empire is too cowardly, compared to those fierce Cossack cavalry, these regular armies are weaker, and I don't know how the tsar is trained. Since he escaped, then forget it, Tian Jianxiu did not dare to pursue from behind, in case he ran into the enemy's main force, these more than a thousand soldiers were not enough to see at all, no matter how fierce they were, the difference in numbers was too great.