Chapter 474: Imitation Army

In any case, the peoples of the steppe are much more familiar with migration, this is what is in their bones, under the drive of the expeditionary pioneers, the corpses killed in battle are quickly buried, everything that can be moved is knocked into the cart, and the useless things are burned.

Quickly embarked on the road to the west, the so-called Liu 13 was not satisfied with the seizures, because there were too few weapons that could provide rotation, and the Lost Bil Khanate also had its own iron-smelting technology, swords and bows and arrows could be produced by themselves, but the quality was too crude to be worth rotating at all.

And Liu Shisan's hope to see the grain storage is also very little, all the way on the grassland, meat is the main force, for the Han people, this is too greasy, more or less uncomfortable physically, along the way to the villages and tribes along the way to trade, mainly vegetables and grain.

However, for the nomadic tribes, even the so-called tribes directly under the Khan, it is still too extravagant to ask for these things, in such a vast and sparsely populated place, even if a large amount of gold and silver is seized, what is the use, it just costs a few more carts.

Liu Shisan's subordinates were a little incomprehensible to him taking so many prisoners on the road together, these people were very difficult to control, and they consumed food and grass, but Liu Shisan's was the supreme leader here after all, since he had already decided, it was not easy for others to insist on anything.

The march of the brigade was not much slower than that of the expeditionary pioneer team on the grassland that day, there was no essential difference between the 5,000 men and the 20,000 men, among these captives, there were too many people who were familiar with the terrain, although some of them were arrogant, but there were also some people who were trying to survive to lead the way for the expeditionary pioneer team or engage in other work, and in return, they and their families were treated much better.

According to the information of the former spies of the Obir Khanate, there were two small gathering points of Cossacks six days away from this Golden Horde, and if we continued westward, about twelve days away, there was a large fortress of 1,500 people, containing more than 800 Cossacks and 600 Russians.

These are all obstacles on the way, and if there is really any movement, the Russian Roganov family can send reinforcements of about a thousand people in fifteen days.

Now these spies also know that these Ming and Cossacks are not the same thing at all, and vaguely guess that the two sides have nothing to do with each other, to tell the truth, although these people are serving the expeditionary pioneer team, but there is a vague hope in their hearts that the Ming and the Russians will lose.

After all, both sides are aggressors, both are demons who kill their compatriots, so they are more active in their service and meticulous in their work.

The six-day journey on the Great Plains is not worth talking about, it was still so uneventful, and soon it was to two small stockades of the Cossacks. The Cossacks were in the stockade at most about 200 people, and many of them were women and children.

That is, a hundred warriors who could fight, seeing tens of thousands of people coming in the dark, they couldn't help but not be nervous, around the stockade were fences made of thick trees, and from a distance, you could see Cossack men with arquebuses climbing in the gaps of the wooden fences.

Liu Shisan couldn't help but sigh with the people around him:

"These ghosts are really brave, and when they see so many of us coming, they are not afraid."

didn't wait for Liu Shisan to react here, but he heard the loud noise in this small village, and the language was not clear, but the arrogant laughter and scolding in it made the meaning clear, and it made Liu Shisan and the people behind him sigh, thinking that even the soldiers of Huazhou might not have this kind of courage, and these civilian armed forces could actually look like this.

However, the Mongolian guards on the side felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly sent a regiment to bring a few officers of the Khanate for questioning, and came to the conclusion that it was ridiculous that as long as these small villages were settled, the warriors of the Lost Bil Khanate had never successfully attacked.

The Cossacks were not afraid to meet several times their manpower, they could directly get on their horses and come out of hand-to-hand combat, their ferocity far exceeded that of the knights of the Khanate, often when they did not use firearms, they were killed by the opponent's sabers and spears, if it was a siege, the Cossacks were not afraid, they were directly on the fence with muskets to guard, the range of muskets was farther than that of bows and arrows, and the cavalry often had no effect, and they were knocked off their horses by firearms.

The Mongols have long lost the bravery of Genghis Khan, often with dozens of casualties, morale and troops just can't be maintained, and the siege is fruitless.

This situation has been verified by the side of the expeditionary pioneer team, that night of field battle, the final inspection of the corpses, the number of dead and wounded is not much, and many of the fatal wounds are in the back, all of them were killed after the rout was caught up by Liu Shisan's men, which is enough to show the combat effectiveness of the so-called 'grassland warriors'.

Originally, for such a small village, Liu Shisan was ready to ignore it at all, but the noise and ridicule on the side became louder and louder, and he was really irritable to listen to, he opened his mouth to greet the people who came over to operate the cannon, and said:

"Blow the door open with a cannon, let those prisoners go in and fight, it is estimated that the gunpowder inside is enough for us to replenish the cannon!"

The guards, who had long been stimulated by the Cossacks, hurriedly agreed, went back and began to shout at their subordinates to do their work.

In the village, the Cossacks had a good eye to look at these horses outside, and they didn't see any difference, for example, they were mixed with Han Chinese, first, the Russians had never had any dealings with the Ming Dynasty, and second, the expeditionary pioneers were wearing leather robes, and they couldn't see any difference.

The results of the Obir Khanate made these Cossacks not have the slightest fear, thinking that this was just a migration of the other party, laughing at it, and also lowering the morale of the other party.

The other side seemed to be unable to stand the stimulation, the ranks stagnated, and the Cossacks in the village were ready to fight, with full confidence in defeating the other side, at least they could protect themselves, no one thought of it, and the opposite side was not in a hurry to charge, always standing outside the range of the musket.

Suddenly, the crowd parted, and the three guns were pushed out, and now there was no confidence or bravery at all, and a dozen Cossacks who were facing the muzzles of the guns hurriedly ran under the fence, but the guns were only withdrawn after they had been loaded with ammunition, and they were lit with torches.

There were three loud bangs, and the wooden fence in front of him collapsed, and some of the guards shouted to the elected Mongols:

"If you cut off a ghost's head, you can be reunited with your family for a day, and you don't have to do hard labor!"

In the past, the warriors of the Khanate would not have given their lives for such a reward, but now they are captives, and no one knows whether their fate will be to become slaves or fertilizer for the steppes tomorrow, so they must cherish every opportunity.

Each of them was given only an iron sword, which was the storage of the Obir Khanate, and their relatives were selected and left far away from the battlefield, to be watched by the expeditionary pioneers, and these chosen warriors knew that if they were victorious, they might have a happy day.

If they fail, I am afraid that what awaits them is a miserable result, three cannons bombarded the gate of the village, and the four hundred dead soldiers of the khanate, with a terrible cry from their mouths, rushed towards the village, they had no horses, only the knife in their hands.

There were two rounds of shelling, the first round opened the wooden gate, the second round was to resist the soldiers behind the wooden gate, and the second round of bombardment made the Cossacks farther away from the wooden fence, and they didn't know if there was a third round of shelling, so they had to find a place to hide, but after this time, four hundred dead soldiers of the Khanate had already rushed into the village.

The Cossacks were really caught off guard, although the arquebuses in their hands were already loaded with ammunition, but there were not many of them at all, and in the chaos of the battle, they were afraid that they would accidentally injure their comrades, and these Cossacks knew that they would die, and each of them took out their waist knives and rushed forward.

Even the women, old and weak, took up all the weapons they could use to fight these dead soldiers, but after all, the disparity was too great, and the fury of the dead soldiers inspired by death was better than that of the Cossacks, and now their situation made these people not necessarily afraid of death.

Although it was a battle of hundreds of people, the sound of shouting and slashing was even more intense than the siege a few days ago, and the faces of the captives who stayed in place showed unbearable looks, and those who were encircled in the distance were even more crying, Liu Shisan observed the expressions of the captives intently, and the men and horses of the expedition pioneer team were still watching with full vigilance except for some people staring at the wooden village.

The shouting and killing over there gradually stopped, and suddenly someone rushed out of the wooden village desperately on a horse, and the guards who had been prepared for a long time whistled, and the horses came out of the column, and they had already bent their bows and arrows on the horse, and shot down the person who either reported the news or ran away with an arrow, and when they reached the place where the person fell to the ground, they dismounted and made up for it.

Liu Shisan didn't pay attention to these, he still looked at the expressions of the thousands of captives, none of the captives moved, Liu Shisan smiled and said to the guards beside him:

"These people are no longer wolves on the steppe, they have become sheep!" (