Chapter 150: Locust-like Sweep!
On April 12, Turov resolutely resisted, broke the city, and slaughtered it.
On April 13, Pinsk was broken and slaughtered.
On April 13, Minsk was broken and slaughtered.
On April 13, Chernihiv surrendered.
On April 14, Cherkasy surrendered.
On 14 April, the remaining Cossacks formally surrendered to the governor of Jincheng County, Chen Zixuan.
On April 15, the city of Brest was destroyed, and there was no grass left.
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The horrific news of westward expansion spread from southern Lithuania to Poland and the Holy Roman Empire like a virus.
Pope Nicholas V had already found the actions of the northern Italian city-states to be very strange. After receiving the news, I was so angry that I almost vomited three liters of blood! , what about the weak chickens that are said to be good? What about the newcomers? Why the hell are hundreds of thousands of Tatars attacking Western Europe again? Am I two years behind yours?
This news also rightfully swept the entire noble circle of the HRE and the Balkans.
Especially in Poland and Lithuania in Eastern Europe and Hungary in the south. These countries are all places where the Mongols have fought to a rotten level, and they have not forgotten this demon-like group.
So before Kachimilz IV got up, the palace gate was crowded with petitioning nobles, and the Hungarian nobles bypassed their little king Lalos V, who was not much better than a mascot (I was mistaken, thinking that there was no king in Hungary at the moment, but in fact there was). But what can you expect a child to do? He approached the Hungarian regent and general, the governor of the Duchy of Transylvania, Janos Hunyadi, and asked him to go and negotiate peace with the Mongols immediately, immediately.
Now the latest rumor is that the Mongols were in fact prepared for a long time. It was not the exiles from the East at all, but the armies of the Cyrias or the Mongols who had been preparing for the expedition to the west.
The news came that the entire Volga and Don rivers, as well as the Kazan Khanate upstream, had large groups of tribes joining the expedition to the west. The Venetians, on the other hand, learned through the Timurid that the Mongol diaspora had been divided, and a group of them fled westward. (also the first death, of course, the time is not right)
True and false news are constantly converging in Italy, and then new rumors are constantly colliding.
The Pope became the object of the Thousand Husbands. Kachimilz IV even declared that it was not that he couldn't stop it, but that the Pope made all kinds of wrong decisions that made him have no time to react!
Kachimirz IV, who was trying to mobilize Polish nobles to garrison Krakow, was about to explode! The army that suddenly appeared out of nowhere clearly hit him in the soft underbelly! Now that the Lithuanian army is slowly degrading after losing its forward momentum, how many troops can three million Poles pull out? Kachimilz IV did not dare to think about it at all!
You know, the Tatars have not moved west for decades. Even the Lithuanians did not react when they captured Kyiv! Who knows how the Tatars have gone crazy this year?
"Peryaslav, Kiev, Pinsk, Turov, Rone......." Kachimilz IV constantly studied the map.
His fingers ran in an arc, and it was clearly Galic next. He continued to draw an arc, which rushed through Lviv, Przemyśl and finally straight to Krakow!
It's an arc that's completely aimed at him!
No, it's not right.
He continued to look at the map and extended the arc again, crossing the southern part of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which led smoothly to Vienna. If they are willing to take the Balkans home, then this is a perfect oval. A march route along the Carpathian Mountains.
With a hint of cold in his heart, Kachimilz IV decided to strengthen the walls of Krakow with stones in advance, and then ordered the army of the Polish nobility to assemble in Krakow. By the way, let the Lithuanian nobles go south to sneak up on the enemy's rear route.
Obviously, the Lithuanian nobility would never go south. The parliament in Vilnius even declared that this was the king's own problem, and they refused to be cannon fodder to stop the enemy.
Then another big piece of news spread.
In Kiev, in the Cathedral of Sophia. Under the watchful eye of the Ukrainian nobles in Kiev, Qin Cang was personally crowned King of Ruthenia in Kiev, demanding that all Ruthenians swear allegiance to him and that all Ruthenian cities stop resisting.
This includes Lviv, Przemyśl, the main cities of the former Galician-Volhynia kingdom.
However, it is obvious that this is just Qin Cang's personal behavior, and the Slavs will not accept a non-Orthodox and alien king as a king.
April 21.
A large contingent of Tatar cavalry passed through the area controlled by the Zaporozhye Cossacks, and then soon converged under the city of Trepolia.
Tropolia was on the southern side of Ternopil in present-day Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It was the main gathering place at that time.
It is important to note that this is a commercial town, not a fortress. Trepolia's elevation to a fortress to defend against enemies had to wait until 1540. Its main task was the suppression of the Cossacks.
"Demonic fireworks!"
"It's an explosion!"
Under the awe-struck gaze of all the Tatars, the roar of artillery blasted through the city of Trepolia. And further down, naturally, is the usual slaughter. Qin Cang has been elevated to the rank of King of Ruthenia, and although no one recognizes him, he has de jure authority to dispose of the rebellion of the entire city.
"These people are shameless rebels! Annihilation! ”
Qin Cang waved his hand suddenly, and the army roared up! Under the accumulation of countless victories at this moment, Qin Cang's prestige increased sharply!
The Weiyuan army, as well as a large number of dismounted Tatars, and the Slavs who took refuge rushed into Trepolia like locusts!
Indeed, now Qin Cang's army is sweeping through the Eastern European steppes like locusts! Qin Cang's army is too huge! How long is 100,000 stone of food enough to eat? Less than twenty days! For this reason, of course, Qin Cang didn't need to be merciful.
Wouldn't killing all the Ruthenians just give the Han people more places to plow?
In the early morning of April 22, Trepolia was destroyed, and the city was abandoned, leaving no one behind.
Swept across Eastern Galicia, the city of Lviv was the last to block. Once you cross here, and then smash the gate of Krakow, Przemyśl, Krakow, a city that has not yet achieved stone walls, will be completely blinded!
Therefore, Kachimilz IV ordered to be guarded to the death, and the Tatars were never allowed to cross here!
However, Kachimilz IV actually did not know at all how much territory he had left now!
And in the afternoon, a funny news reached Krakow, and the Pope was slapped hard.
Srinitsky, who went south with the crusaders who followed him, fearing the double retribution of the Pope and Qin Cang, went south to join the Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II.