Tobolsk, Tyuchenhan, Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk......

This is a key development area in Russia with a high density of cities and populations, and after Rumyantsev and his entourage crossed the Ob River and entered the west bank of the Tobol River, a tributary of the Irtysh River, such a blessed land appeared in front of the crowd who had fled for a month.

Rumyantsev was really capable, he led a few thousand civilians and an army of less than 2,000 people, and it took about a month to successfully 'turn' into the small 3,000-mile land through the waterway - the Ob River. Although the number of people who arrived in Tobolsk is compared to the total number of Russians who fled from Tomsk with Rumyantsev, the size of the team is now only half of the original size, and a large number of people have died, fallen behind, and left the ranks on their own.

Either way, it's no small miracle. When the team came to Tobolsk with great difficulty, it was considered home.

When the long boat ride brought the elderly Rumyantsev down to land, his legs and feet did not obey the call. But looking at the thousands of Russians he had worked tirelessly to pull out from the east bank of the Ob River, Rumyantsev felt that all the hard work was worth it.

Winter has come, and the wind and snow have come. In the following days, even if the Chinese swept the east bank of the Ob River, it was impossible to immediately launch an attack on the west bank. That is not only because they have not taken Omsk in the rear, which will make the water transportation of the Irtysh River difficult, seriously affecting the military transfer of the Chinese; It is also because there are still many Russians who have escaped into the wilderness on the vast land on the east bank of the Ob River and have not completely flattened the rear, how could Chen Han desperately cross the distance of two or three thousand miles and attack the west bank of the Ob River on a large scale in the season of wind and snow?

Therefore, Rumyantsev still has time to regroup here, and wait here for reinforcements and supplies from St. Petersburg.

When the war resumes in the coming year, he will build a series of fortressed cities in the western part of Western Siberia, including Tobolsk, Tyumen, Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk, into a real iron wall. The only pity is that these fortress cities were built for a long time, and the target of the fortress was the Tatar natives who originally lived here, these people were barbaric and ignorant, and did not even have the most primitive muskets, but they were not Chinese with strong armament and force.

With the exception of the three fortresses of Tobolsk, Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, which are made of stone, the rest of the fortresses are made of wood.

Under the rocket, it will become vulnerable.

So you can defend it, but you can't hold it out.

Rumyantsev is only spending time in China here, and he wants to give the Ural front line time to rebuild the defense line - the Ural River will not need to. With the Orenburg and Guriev fortresses in hand, even if the Chinese were able to cross the Ural River and enter the western bank, it would be difficult for them to gain a foothold.

Rumyantsev had to deal with Western Siberia and did not need to pay extra attention to the Kazakh steppe. When things came to a critical moment, he would continue to retreat westward, withdraw his troops to Orenburg and the Ural Mountains on the other, stretch the logistics supply lines of the Chinese, and then he would make a request to St. Petersburg to continue to send large-scale Cossack cavalry to the eastern front, disrupt the enemy's logistical supplies, cut off their transportation lines, and finally achieve the effect of stabilizing the front.

And after that, although Rumyantsev was a very good commander, he could not continue to anticipate the next step.

That can only depend on how Potemkin and Suvorov fought on the Ottoman battlefield. Perhaps, Russia also needs to involve Denmark in the war to deal with Sweden, the enemy of the Russians on the Western Front.

But in any case, Rumyantsev's 'strategy' has already been finalized early. That is, to fight and withdraw at the same time, lengthen the offensive line and supply line of the Chinese offensive forces, so that they will become more and more tired and unable to fight the more they fight, and finally form a stalemate.

If his abacus was all displayed in front of Chen Ming's eyes at this moment, Chen Ming would definitely give him a nice name - exchanging space for time. It's like the eight-year anti-Japanese war in the original time and space, or in terms of Lao Maozi's own history, just more than twenty years later, the 1812 Patriotic War. Isn't that the most typical exchange of space for time?

Historically, Kutuzov did a perfect job, evacuating all the Russians and burning everything that could be used by Napoleon.

Going back 2,000 years, these four words have appeared in the history of the East and the West.

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The Kazakh steppes in October are already covered with a thick layer of snow.

This year's cold winter seems to have come a little earlier, the Ural River was frozen in late September, and in early October, the 200,000 Turkut women and children stranded on the west bank of the river, old and weak, drove their flocks of sheep, cattle and horses, and successfully crossed the Ural River.

However, the eastern bank of the Ural River is not a place of tranquility, and it is not far from Orenburg. If it weren't for the outbreak of the Russian-Turkish War and the Sino-Russian War, the main forces of Orenburg would have been evacuated, and the Russian army sent there might have slaughtered the Turks.

20,000 Turgot cavalry fought on Western Siberia, and only about 10,000 warriors could be gathered in the tribe, both old and young. The older ones had gray hair and beards, and the younger ones were not much taller than horsebacks.

These 10,000 Turkut cavalry with uneven combat effectiveness escorted the tribe through the most difficult period, and then Chen Han's cavalry and a thousand Turkut cavalry who 'died' in Irkutsk that year, plus the subsequent arrival of the Xiaoyuz cavalry, not only pinned down the Orenburg and Guryev fortresses, but also wantonly destroyed the Cossack villages and Russian farms in the Ural River Valley, drove refugees, plundered livestock, cattle and sheep property, and the greater task was after the winter, after the Ural River froze and froze, Escorting the women, children, old and children, and all the cattle and sheep of the Turghut tribe, they returned to the east and left the war zone.

Before the start of the war, Chen Ming had asked the Ottomans to make every effort to stumble the Russian Cossack cavalry on the Caucasian battlefield in the first year of the war, because he was afraid that the Russians would learn of the 'betrayal' of the Turks, and St. Petersburg immediately dispatched the Cossacks to take revenge.

You know, the war in the Caucasus was not so far from the shores of the Caspian Sea.

Chen Ming was still feeling a little worried, so he asked the cavalry troops and Xiao Yuzi to do their best. The Turks have helped a lot in this war, so they can't let their wives and children stay in their hometown be bloodbathed, right?

But it turned out that the Ottomans carried out that request of China perfectly. Although this has a lot to do with the fact that the Cossack military armed group of the Russians has not yet developed to the peak of history. At its peak, the Cossacks had as many as eleven sub-groups, controlled 57.8 million hectares of land, millions of Cossack soldiers, and a total population of more than 10 million people. By the time the Russians had finally drawn enough Cossack cavalry from the main battlefields of the Caucasus and beyond, the Turks had crossed the Ural River in the snowstorm.

The weather in the Kazakh steppes is a bit like that of Western Siberia, because they are all endless steppes, and it is surprisingly cold in the morning and evening. The Turks and Xiaoyuzi people all wore thick leather robes, and the soldiers of the Chen Han Dynasty, who were relatively weaker in cold resistance, were all wearing thick cotton coats under the military coats with cow and sheep skins on the outside of wool and sheep skins on the inside, and everyone was like a fat bear. But this is the only way to resist the cold snap here.

The migration speed of the entire Turghut tribe is very slow, even if everyone knows that it is not a safe place now, but compared to the mood of the Turghut tribe when they returned to the east in the original time and space, it is completely different.

Achuwak Khan of Xiaoyuz personally went out and commanded the tens of thousands of Kazakh cavalry he led [including a small number of Zhongyuzi people], divided into three teams, front, middle and back, and guarded the entire migration team, which can be said to be dedicated.

The tens of thousands of gathered Turghut cavalry were now only 8,000 men, and when the large army of the Turghut tribe joined forces with the army led by Achuvak Khan, the 8,000-strong army became only 3,000, and the rest were all returned to their respective homes.

They didn't know when the threat would arrive, or how many of the hateful and terrible Cossacks would come, so the 5,000 men who had returned from the Turkut were ready to return to battle again.

There is no way, the Kazakhs and the Turks have been brilliant, and they have all tasted the power of the Cossacks, and even Vobassy will not say that the combat effectiveness of the Turkut cavalry will definitely be comparable to that of the Cossacks.

These traditional nomadic cavalry compared to the Cossack cavalry who were born in the war, both in terms of organization and discipline, are a little different, and the final result is naturally a difference in combat effectiveness. Don't look at the Russian Cossacks who were often killed when they fought against elite units such as modern cavalry or Polish hussars.

Commanding the Cossack cavalry towards the Ural was Lieutenant General Niklay Kulakov, who was also the Ural Cossack Adman, that is, the chieftain.

The Ural Cossacks had fifty hundred-man formations, but they were all standing field armies, as well as internal guard units that were not recorded. The previous war had drained them.

The Cossack hundred-man corps was a company, and there were battalions and regiments on it, but no matter how high it was, there was no more. At the moment, the Western calendar is less than 1800, not 1900. Niklakov Kulakov was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general because he had fought in the Fifth Russo-Turkish War, the Seven Years' War and the earlier War for the Austrian Throne.

He led the entire Cossack corps in the Urals, not a single Cossack regiment.

Standing beside him was Platonovich, one of the leaders of the Astrakhan Cossacks, with the rank of major general, two Cossack cavalry and a small part of the Tatar cavalry, enough for 10,000 men.

Such a force is not a match for the Turgot Guards, whose combat effectiveness is inferior, but the total number of troops is as high as 20,000. But when the Cossacks were mobilized to this point, Kulakov and Platonovich felt that their forces were sufficient. There was no need for St. Petersburg to draw Don Cossacks from the main battlefield of tension.

Now Platonovich commanded the vanguard, the Cossacks of about 2,000 men, divided into three lines, tasked with the task of guarding and searching for traces of the Turks. This was not an easy task, for Platonovich had to control two or three hundred miles of front, and he could not dismantle his army too far apart, lest it be eaten by a large number of Kazakhs.

There were only six or seven hundred Cossacks on each of the three routes, which was the strength of a Cossack regiment. The Kazakhs, on the other hand, have tens of thousands of people, and even if there is a gap in combat effectiveness, such a large military advantage is enough. Platonovich acted cautiously and demanded that the three teams focus on tracking the trail, and that there was no disturbance in their mission. Although this worked hard for the scout cavalry, it also ensured their safety.

Neither Kulakov nor Platonovich thought they would fail to catch up with the target. The latter is a complete migration, what a goal that is, and what a slow speed it should be.

Not just the population, but also the cattle, sheep and livestock. Are the Turks still armed in the midst of tribal migration? If it weren't for the Kazakhs protecting them, Platonovich would have dared to pounce on them with only 2,000 men.

The Cossack cavalry fought with the nomads with the confidence that the Chinese cavalry could make them deflated if they were well prepared. And if it's not enough, or it's just an encounter, it's impossible to say who will win and who will lose.

Compared with horsemanship, compared with swordsmanship, the Chinese Han cavalry was definitely no match for the Cossacks. But they have a good cooperation with each other, and they are stronger in terms of equipment. Therefore, the Cossacks were generally inferior to the regular cavalry of China.

Of course, the 'value ratio' of the Chinese cavalry was much inferior to that of the Cossacks. Although a large number of Han cavalry was inevitable, the few fist troops in the cavalry team were filled with a lot of young people. Those Mongolians, Tibetans, Kazakhs and other horseback nationalities recruited by the military are really not weak in combat effectiveness after rigorous training. At the same time, these people are becoming more and more similar to Kazakhstan.

The number of Western-style modern cavalry in the traditional sense in China's starting ranks is getting smaller and smaller.

Large groups of Cossacks crossed the Ural River, followed in the footsteps of the Turks, and continued eastward.

The cold wind blew, mixed with cold, biting snowflakes and kept hitting people's faces. The whole field seemed to have been turned into a large cold storage, and the exposed nose and cheeks were frozen to the point of stiffness. The cold air poured into their black coats frequently, even though they had wrapped them tightly around their bodies.

Platonovich looked at the trails left on the snowfield in the distance, and there was no sign of complete snow cover - a wide trail on the snowfield, the thickness of the snow was noticeably lower than that on both sides. He ordered the snow to be lifted from the thin layers of snow, and the traces of the burning of the campfire were clearly visible.

The Cossacks all laughed happily. They knew their mission was accomplished, and they had found the Turks.

At this moment, the Turgot Department and the combined cavalry guards around them did not know that a hungry wolf had appeared behind them. More than 200,000 women, children, old and weak of the army and the entire tribe marched silently in the wind and snow, and the heavy snow, which had only stopped a few days ago, began to fall again yesterday.

Although many people know that it is good to have heavy snow at this time to cover up the traces they have left behind, the wind and snow also cause a lot of trouble for their movements, and the weather has become colder. From time to time, cattle, sheep and livestock died, and horses also died a lot.

The good thing is that everyone is not short of meat to eat.

Water is also much more convenient for livestock and people, and clean snow is at hand, so they don't have to go to rivers and water moorings that have frozen into large ice, and dig ice to get water.

This is the winter in Kazakhstan, a world of ice and snow.