At this moment, Patriarch Filaret could not take care of the rear, and all his energy had to be concentrated to deal with the Ming army that had appeared.

I have to say that the Ming army is menacing and very powerful. The eastern side of the Ural Mountains, dozens of miles wide, was full of Ming troops who did not collect at night. They roared and plundered the Tsars in the east, their flocks, etc., and drove them into the west of the Ural Mountains and flocked to the Samara Fort.

The panicked crowd, bringing the news of the panic, intensified the panic in the Samara Fort area. Patriarch Filaret was not only worried about these fears, but also about the food and grass needed by so many people.

At this time, Tsarist Russia was very poor, and even if Patriarch Filaret had mobilized the nobles in the country and let them go all out to participate in the war, the materials were limited after all. In the face of a huge threat from the east, no one can be sure when this war will end. Therefore, supplies are too valuable to be abused.

As a consequence, Patriarch Filaret also expelled the fleeing Russians and left them to either go south or west to find something to eat. As for whether they can survive or not, it depends on their own luck.

Although this can ensure the supply of the army, it also damages the morale of the army. On the Samararaburg side, the 40,000 troops deployed by Tsarist Russia were basically very nervous, mixed with fear, and the Patriarch Filaret naturally wanted to boost morale, especially mentioning the materials plundered from the Oirat Mongols in the past few years, and boasting about the war to prove that the Ming army was not really strong, so as to boost the morale of the army.

It was against this background that the Tsarist Russian army, with anxiety about the future, officially began to contact the Ming army.

What made the Tsarist army a little desperate was that the Ming army coming from afar, like a pack of wolves, stared at the Tsarist army, and would pounce on it and bite it as soon as there was an opportunity; If you don't have a chance, then wander around, looking for an opportunity, waiting for it to appear.

This style of the Ming army easily reminded the Tsarist Russians of the horrors of the previous Genghis Khan era. At the beginning, the Mongols in Genghis Khan's era were also light horses, giving full play to the mobility of the cavalry and strong combat ability, which caused unforgettable nightmares for generations of Westerners.

And now, these Ming troops do not collect at night, and they are also ridden by one person, but they are more well-equipped than the previous Mongols. They are no longer dressed only in herdsmen's clothes like the Mongols in the past, but unified military uniforms, bows, arrows, firearms and other long-range weapons are their sharp teeth and fangs, which makes people desperate to look at.

The cavalry of the Tsarist Russian army totaled about 5,000 people. There are only a limited number of scouts drawn from it. Therefore, as soon as the Russian scouts and the Ming army did not collect at night, the Tsarist side suffered a big loss.

Patriarch Filaret found that to deal with the Ming army's night retreat, unless more than twice the number of troops, can stop the Ming army's arrogance of not collecting at night. However, just like this, he could still feel through the news from the front that this was still a situation where the Ming army did not collect at night and did not want to have casualties, otherwise, twice the strength would not be able to stop the invasion of the Ming army at night. This realization made him feel a lot of pressure.

Of course, what made him most nervous was that the main force of the Ming army was slowly approaching, not fast, but it could make him feel the pressure like a mountain, and he was pressing over little by little. According to the scouts who came back from the rear to inquire about the news, the endless grassland was full of Ming cavalry, and the red pressed the ground, even overshadowing the green grassland.

In this regard, Patriarch Filaret really can't sit still, there are more than 100,000 cavalry, who can stop it?

He immediately sent people, 100,000 to the rear in a hurry, urging several other countries to send reinforcements as soon as possible. Otherwise, if Tsarist Russia can't stop it, other countries will also suffer. As for any conditions, you might as well agree to it first.

He had to do it because he knew the countries on the side of Tsarist Russia too well. Especially in Poland, he can think of the speed of grinding and chirping with his toes. When the Polish king had just died, he saw this, and thought that before Poland reacted, he would recapture Smolensk, which had been robbed by Poland. However, although Poland was slow to react, the war was eventually won.

In fact, Poland at this time, whose full name was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was the end of Poland's most glorious "golden age". In the years before, Poland's hussars were famous, often winning more with less, creating brilliant battles again and again, and making Poland one of the great powers in Europe. In practice, however, the country's domestic system has constrained Poland's development, and Poland has stopped there.

Speaking of which, Poland at this time was very similar to the original Ming Dynasty, all of which were central and had no money.

At this time, Poland was still a country with a federal system of serfdom, and the decline of its royal power directly affected the prestige of the king. The excessive decentralization of power led to the control of the population and wealth by the local Symch councils and the Schlakhta, and Schlakhta and the great nobles categorically did not hand over sufficient taxes and troops to the king unless there was a threat to vital interests. The state financial system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had almost no savings, and it was often in the event of a war that military expenditures were raised by holding meetings, submitting draft taxes, and passing war taxes, which greatly restricted the efficiency and ceiling of military expenditures.

To sum it up in one sentence, the Polish king wants to have money, but the local government does not agree, he will not pay if he can not pay money, and he will pull more skin if he can, Poland is such a country. After a great victory on the front, it is often impossible to expand the gains and get no real benefits, so the army has no money to support the rest of the war.

Take the battle of Smolensk that Poland and Tsarist Russia just ended, the two sides finally signed a peace agreement, and Tsarist Russia had to pay a huge war reparation (that is, 20,000 gold rubles), but at the same time, Poland had to give up the Russian throne and return the symbol of imperial power to Moscow.

The end result of this agreement was that Tsarist Russia stabilized the interior, unified the imperial power, and laid the political foundation for its later rise. It can be said that although Tsarist Russia did not win militarily, politically, it gained very much.

As for Sweden, at this stage it is an ally of Tsarist Russia, and the two countries often unite against Poland. As for the previous battle of Smolensk, it was originally the king of Sweden who invited the surrounding countries to deal with Poland first, but Patriarch Filaret was too anxious, so he was afraid that Poland would react, so he took the lead.

But no matter what, if Sweden wants to follow and send troops, Tsarist Russia will still have to pay the price. And the Swedish build-up of troops is not going there soon. Even Patriarch Filaret can be sure in his heart that other countries may be deliberately slow, and it is better to let Tsarist Russia consume the strength of the Ming army, and finally they will come forward to clean up the mess!

Therefore, when the Patriarch Filaret explained to the person who went to report the news, he also deliberately emphasized that it must be fully explained that the Ming army was powerful and cruel, and it was even more powerful than the Mongol army in the era of Genghis Khan! If necessary, it can be exaggerated.

What he didn't expect was that he thought it was an exaggeration, but when the 30,000 main forwards led by Man Gui began to cross the Ural Mountains, but he was really shocked when he saw the sea of red all over the mountains with his own eyes.

For a long time, when Tsarist Russia fought wars with Poland, Sweden, the Crimean Khanate and other neighboring countries, in a battle, the two sides dispatched 10,000 horses, and the top of the sky was only about 20,000 horses, such as the previous battle of Smolensk. At this point, there may be quite a few mercenaries.

But what I saw in front of me was a sea of red. For the cavalry, tens of thousands of cavalry troops are boundless, not to mention 30,000 cavalry! And this is only the vanguard of the Ming army, and it is said that there are larger cavalry units behind.

The news that the endless pressure, especially the scattered army, was easily eaten by the Ming army made Patriarch Filaret realize that there was a problem with his previous layers of fortification. Therefore, he immediately ordered all the troops to be concentrated, and Samara Castle could not be contained, so he formed a circle around the perimeter and concentrated all his forces to resist the Ming army.

Before being surrounded by the Ming army, Patriarch Filaret sent three waves of messengers in a row to urge reinforcements. He looked forward to the day when he could use Samara Castle to deplete the morale of the Ming army, and finally the reinforcements arrived, and the inside and outside should join forces to defeat this powerful enemy in the east!

"Everyone rest assured, the Ming army will definitely not be able to come from afar for a long time, we have firearms, artillery, a strong Samara castle, and reinforcements from Poland, Sweden and other countries, winter is coming, as long as we persist, this war must belong to us!" Patriarch Filaret said this to his nobles, and instructed them to convey this meaning below, to boost their morale and persevere to the end.

As for how many people below believe this statement, he doesn't know. In fact, he himself didn't have much confidence to see how long he could hold out. Especially when he saw that the rear of the Ming army was followed by countless flocks of sheep, he was even more worried.

Meanwhile, in the Kazakh steppe, south of Samara Castle, two teams of men and horses are fighting. One side was about 500 people, and the other team had about 1,000 people. The few were the Cossacks, and the more numerous were the cavalry of the Crimean Khanate.

This kind of war, almost every year, is often the case. Either the Mongols of the Crimean Khanate invaded the Cossacks and robbed the Cossacks of their property, or the Cossacks invaded the Crimean Khanate and robbed the Mongols of their property. One of them belonged to the Polish alliance camp and the other belonged to the Ottoman camp, and they were originally hostile to each other, and because of the problem of survival resources, they basically fought and killed each other every year.

At this time, the hungry Cossacks were basically still an ethnic group, a small part of them were attached to Tsarist Russia, most of them were in Poland, but if they were developed according to the original history, under the oppression of the Polish aristocracy, the Cossacks finally rebelled against oppression, which was the famous Khmelnitsky uprising, which eventually prompted the Cossacks to fall to Tsarist Russia in an all-round way.

In this skirmish at hand, in terms of combat power, the Cossacks were strong in number, although they were small, so even if they were smaller than the Mongols in the Crimean Khanate, they had the upper hand and were fighting against the Mongols.

But the two sides were fighting, and suddenly both sides stopped and looked east. Because they are all from the grassland, they are very familiar with the sound of horses' hooves on the grassland, although the sound is still far away, they feel the shock.

I saw a red line rolling in the distance to the east, which seemed to have a sense of endlessness. In this regard, both sides immediately came to the conclusion that a very large cavalry army had come.

They don't know where the cavalry will be in this steppe, in that direction?

Coincidentally, the two sides broke away again, keeping each other on guard while staring at the red line rolling in the east.

Closer, closer, closer. The Cossacks saw it, and they were so frightened that they could no longer calm down, and they saw that it seemed that the Mongols had come.

However, when the Mongols of the Crimean Khanate saw it, they were also frightened, because they also recognized it from the uniform of the cavalry army and the words on the banner, it was the Ming army in the east!

Coincidentally, both the Cossacks and the Mongols of the Crimean Khanate, like frightened rabbits, hurriedly avoided the path of the Ming army's advance, and quickly left the place together, regardless of whether they were enemies or not. It was as if two goats were fighting, and suddenly they saw a leopard passing by, and they immediately forgot about the fight and ran away.

The rolling Ming army was the 10,000 cavalry army led by Li Dingguo. Through the chat group, he knew that Mangui's side had attracted the attention of Tsarist Russia, so his detachment made a detour to speed up and attacked Moscow for thousands of miles.

Therefore, for the more than 1,000 people who fled in front, Li Dingguo didn't care at all, but just swept across the Kazakh steppe with the army and continued to roll westward.

Seeing this cavalry army of tens of thousands of people go away, the Kazakh leader came back to his senses, looked at the red that was about to disappear in the distance, and sighed: "This army is really elite, I'm afraid only the hussars can compete, right?" ”

"That makes sense, but there aren't that many hussars!" The people beside him, too, looked at the red that was about to disappear in the distance, and nodded in response.

As soon as the two sides finished speaking, they suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly turned their heads to look. The Kazakh leader found that the person next to him turned out to be the leader of the Mongols. Suddenly, both of them immediately subconsciously distanced themselves.

Not only them, but also their subordinates, suddenly found that they were surrounded by the same enemies who had just been killed. All of a sudden, it was chaos again.

However, no matter what, the two sides did not fight again. The sudden appearance of this army made them fight each other again. They looked at each other, left a few cruel words to each other, and then each took someone with them, and hurried back to tell the news they had seen.

The Ming Kingdom in the Far East sent an elite cavalry army through the Kazakh steppe to Tsarist Russia or Poland!

Europe, something big is coming!