The Cossacks once wrote a letter with the Ottoman Sultan. The letter from the Sultan was very elegant, but the Cossack reply was like a village bandit talking to a man. (If you are interested, you can search for it, it is very funny)

Speaking of which, although the Cossacks are famous, in Europe, the Cossacks are only a second-in-command and third-rate goods. Poles, Hungarians, and Tatars can be beaten by any one of them.

On many occasions, the Cossacks charged or withdrew from the battle without regard for the situation of the battle.

To put it bluntly, the Cossacks are the remnants of the cavalry of the old era, and the new era, that is, the modern cavalry, whether it is the Polish cavalry, or the Hungarian riders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they are all serious goods, big-headed soldiers, and the Cossacks are like waiters outside the door compared to them. Occasional gains, but basic losses.

Even the tsar used them for colonization! To put it bluntly, that's cannon fodder! The problem is that without the support of the muskets and artillery of countless 'gray cattle' in front of the Tsar, the Cossacks in the Caucasus, in Siberia, and in Buryatia north of Mongolia, I don't know how many times, always went to be the captain of the grain delivery brigade.

So the strength of the Cossacks is really worrying. It's just that they are like flies in the toilet, they can't beat them away, and they come back again. Countless times professed to pursue freedom, and then bravely embarked on the road of rebellion and being killed. The Great Rebellions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in Russia were basically started and then suppressed by them.

Typical fame is greater than strength.

At the end of the Rurik dynasty in Russia, the Polish hussars beat the Cossack cavalry countless times in the steppes.

Compared with horseback riding skills, more than horses, the Cossacks are not as good as the Tatars; Compared with cooperation, compared with collective combat effectiveness, the Cossacks could not do the knights of the Polish nobility; Compared with the quantity, he can't compare to anyone. So what's the matter, I have to compare who is dead enough.

Qin Cang didn't take Chen Hanlin because Chen Hanlin went to the east to assist Luo Shengzhi. Of course, the Emirate of Circassia was unwilling to lose Temutarakan, so Mulutu contacted Luo Shengzhi very excitedly, and asked the cabinet to send Chen Hanlin, which seemed to be immortal Circassia and would not give up.

But let him go. Qin Cang's interest in the North Caucasus now ended there. Without the deprivation of Astrakhan, as well as control of the lower reaches of the Volga, the lands of the North Caucasus are not really controlled. The strength of the Golden Horde is still there, and Qin Cang doesn't want to make more trouble.

Two teams of 10,000 soldiers and horses, the black flag and the red flag, were watching the performance of the four-pounder cannon and two-pounder cannon fire clusters on the grassland at this moment.

Loud and small roars burst out of the cannon! For a time, the whole steppe was full of neighing horses and the sound of fear!

"That's how it should be! It is to get your horses accustomed to the sound of cannons, so that we can go to the other side to clean up those Cossacks. Qin Cang said confidently. This is common sense. There are also many people who simply blindfold their horses and pierce their eardrums in order to quickly adapt them to the battlefield.

After two or three days of drills, Qin Cang led the horse team through swamps and lakes to the banks of Dnipropetrovsk in later generations. This is the turning point of the Dnieper River from the southeast to the southwest. That's why this place is so important.

Five thousand reclamation regiments have already appeared here with grain and livestock. Qin Cang named this place Jincheng, not only because of the good place, but also because it was close to Aleksandrov, and sixty miles to the southwest across the river was the Kafbas iron mine. The Kavbas iron mine is a super mine in Ukraine on a par with the Donetsk coal mine! It is also the inland strategic center of gravity that Qin Cang dreams of.

However, this center of gravity was controlled by the Zaporozhye Cossacks! How can this work?

Chen Zixuan was helpless after being pitted by Meng Zhuoyan to Jincheng County, so he had to continue to work in this lukewarm place. When the army arrived, he sent all the big sand boats to transport the horses and boats across the river.

The Zaporozhye Cossacks were very alert.

When the Tatars appeared carrying the flags all over the sky, the Cossack villages and communities were already very vigilant and sounded the alarm bells!

The Cossacks had a decent sense of community, and in addition to one leader, centurion, captain was also their common rank. It should be noted that the Cossacks were also divided into two types.

One was a canonized Cossack, and the other was a free Cossack. As stated in the former's canonography, these Cossacks belonged to the upper and middle ranks of the Cossacks and were an important guarantee of Polish control over the southern Ruthenian region (almost Ukraine, etc.), while the free Cossacks were in fact wild Cossacks, who were responsible to the upper echelons of the Cossacks but opposed the central rule of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom.

Srinitsky did not expect the revenge to come so quickly!

In the long history of the Cossacks in their deaths, there are no less, but not many. Because the battle of words and tongues is generally not necessary to get a knife. It's just that Qin Cang is a heretic, so he received 'special treatment' from the Cossacks.

It was this special treatment that made Qin Cang very angry, and also made the Tatars look gloomy.

"Get organized! Let the women step back with their children! Leave our village and go to safety! Cossack! Follow me! "Srinitsky does not lack the courage to fight.

Surviving in a treacherous swamp is more than just harpooning fish and shooting birds with bows and arrows!

The Zaporozhye region encompassed present-day Kirovgrad Oblast, western Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and northern part of present-day Mykolaiv Oblast. When Srinitsky summoned Cossacks from all over the country, Qin Cang had already broken through three villages in a row.

As soon as the cannon rang out, 10,000 taels of prisoners were captured.

This is how Qin Cang feels now.

The Cossacks had to live in a village, and to survive alone was to seek death, so the artillery blasted through their wooden walls, and Qin Cang captured more than 2,000 prisoners with almost no effort.

"Keep going! Find them one by one! Our goal is to catch all the Cossacks! ”

With Qin Cang's shouting, each color flag team pulled artillery and went to bombard the Cossack villages everywhere.

Their little village of timber is not worthy of being called a town. The process after the blast of the gate is almost formulaic. The brave Cossacks died first, the Cossacks who resisted died, and the women who did not resist snapped and then grabbed as prisoners.

Okay, you can't expect Qin Cang to chase after the various teams and say that you don't want those women, don't cut people indiscriminately, and treat the captives as friendly as spring?

It's not realistic.

But after being caught for half a month, Qin Cang scratched his head.

Where did this **** Srinitsky go? (Once Literature Network,)