Hoofs fluttered and pounded on the ground, and a force of eight hundred men dressed in the uniforms of the Russian mercenary regiment headed toward a valley, shouting and arguing, followed by a group of Russian horsemen in bearskin hats with spears, dressed in knee-length coats, carrying a Type 1705 Chinese Imperial rifle with a short musket pinned to their waists, and a backpack and a roll on their backs.

Dozens of carts pulled artillery and supplies, and Russian officers or coachmen, or soldiers sat on the carriages, followed by soldiers of the Russian infantry regiment marching in long columns, and then followed by artillery wagons, artillery, and artillery baggage troops, the whole team was afraid of no less than 2,500 soldiers and horses, and five or six miles behind them was the small town of Ladia where Li Ya and Wen Ruxin had left.

The town of Ladia, originally had only 50 households, about 200 people, and later fled some Romanians and Hungarians who were persecuted by Russia, and even some Russian merchants, some Polish nobles, so that the population reached 300 households, 2,000 people, the town is divided into three parts, leaning on the side of the mountain are some original residents and Russian merchants, as well as Romanians composed of inns, shops, taverns and other low-level areas.

The place near the river was originally the place where most of the residents lived, but later there were down-and-out nobles, as well as Russian merchants, Hungarian merchants, and merchants from other places, it became a rich and prosperous area, and there were some hunters from the Romanian mountains who often lived in the mountains, on the other side of the river, most of them were mountain and wooded houses against the hills, and later there were more Hungarian fleeing nobles here, this is a real aristocracy, there are not many households, but with a large group of people, they directly occupy those wooden houses, And then where the manor and stables were built, the dwellings of the servants and retinues, became their paradise.

For the sake of safety, the Chinese Empire warned all merchants who came to Russia to do business that they were not allowed to enter the newly conquered areas of Russia to do business, and that they could only transfer goods to Russian merchants or merchants from other countries, and that they were not allowed to earn dangerously high profits, otherwise Russia would not care whether they lived or died, and would give them permission to go and revoke their household registration and business licenses of the people of the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, on this side, Russia was arrogant, but it was not recognized by the Chinese Empire, and they robbed, occupied, and promoted their occupation ideas here with their own strength.

In fact, Russia did not know how to occupy it, and simple killings could not offset the revolt that was in full swing here, and Romania or a series of other small Eastern European countries occupied by Russia had their own resistance forces.

The current situation is like the situation of Saudi Arabia in Yemen supported by the United States in the future, Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen at the instigation of the United States, and Yemen has countless forces to resist the Saudi invasion, and now the Chinese Empire is supporting Russia in the back, and Russia is expanding westward, from east to west, to occupy those countries in Western Europe, but now the occupied territory where they are located does not completely belong to them, so a large number of troops are stationed.

Some of these troops are mercenaries composed of criminals and outcasts of the Chinese Empire, as well as people who open up wasteland, some are puppet armies organized by the Russians in the occupied territories, and some are puppet armies from other places that Russia has transported from other occupied territories, but they are not called puppet armies here, but servant armies and mercenaries.

When about 2,600 mercenaries and Russian troops crossed the river and entered the Romanian mountains, they managed to catch the tail of the mercenary group, several transport wagons with large carts and loaded with supplies, and cavalry escorts around the transport wagons.

Seeing this, the Russian mercenary group began to speed up its pace, and at the same time notified the rear, the mercenaries in front also fled quickly, chasing and fleeing, the two sides ran out of seventeen or eighteen miles, the mercenaries were out of breath, but they finally caught up with the enemy, the enemy just entered a valley, and the axles of two carriages were damaged, and they had to abandon the carriages and flee on foot.

In order to cover these people on foot, several cavalrymen dismounted, relying on the damaged carriage, and shot at the Russian mercenaries who caught up, the head was very accurate, and several cavalry of the mercenaries fell off their horses, and the Russian mercenaries had to dismount and fight, and the people who caught up behind also spread out their formations, wanting to outflank these cavalry, ten minutes later, just when they thought they had suppressed a few cavalry, the Russian cavalry and the mercenary cavalry in the vanguard rushed over together, at this time the enemy's cavalry turned over and got on their horses, between a few ups and downs, and fled into the valley.

The Russian cavalry chased in, the cavalry of the mercenary regiment also chased in, the mercenary infantry also chased in, and the mercenary regiment also arrived, a battalion of about 800 people, quickly burrowed into the valley, chasing along the valley and the ridge.

When the baggage of the mercenary group came over, the mercenary group and the Russian cavalry had already entered the valley to pursue, and the baggage wagons of the Russian cavalry came over, and they had to clear the carriages at the mouth of the valley first, otherwise the baggage would not be able to enter, and the Russian infantry and another Russian mercenary group behind would not be able to enter.

Just when the baggage troops stopped to clean the valley mouth, countless mercenaries suddenly came out from the slopes of the valley mouth on both sides, they were also wearing the military uniforms of Russian mercenaries, but the emblem they wore was not the symbol of the Russian mercenary group in Romania, just when the people who found them were still hesitating, under the intensive flintlock fire, the baggage soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and then the attackers continued to rush forward, after a round of short firearm shooting, they threw out the package in their hands to explode, and suddenly the baggage convoy and Russian soldiers, and the mercenaries fell to the ground, and the horses fled in all directions, making Taniguchi even more chaotic.

After the attack, the attackers rushed in, took some Russian soldiers' guns and bullets, explosives, horses, and then covered each other to shoot, and even took away their corpses.

An hour and a half later, the attackers had already made a detour to another valley mouth, where thirty lightly and seriously wounded were hiding in the woods, behind the rocks, firing cold guns and cold guns at the mercenary group of nearly 1,000 people and Russian cavalry in the valley mouth, and in the second half of them, more than a dozen mercenaries with strong bodies blocked 500 Russian infantry here, a few carriages, a few rocks, and a few people, also flickering east and west, making the Russian infantry anxious.

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