Kulakov and Platonovich didn't know that the Zhongyu Zwari Khan behind them and the Mongolian Alxa leader Wangqin Bambal had already secretly made up their minds in their hearts that if they couldn't catch up with the Cossacks, they would seize the opportunity to harm the Russian civilians, and they would take a hard bite on the fat of the 'Guryev Fortress'.

So they not only chased across the Barn, but also kept looking at Guriev.

It's just that the overall quality of the cavalry team they led was far from being able to match the firm determination of the two of them.

When the team crossed the Barn River, the noise in the team was still faint, and many leaders and leaders were blinded by the grand ambition of 'catching old hairs for money and spending', but in the days when Kulakov was in contact with the Guryev fortress, in the following days, as the team approached the Guryev fortress, the strange voices in the team rose again.

This is the result of the intimidation that the Russians have accumulated in their minds for a long time.

When people have the opportunity to take revenge on the oppressor above their heads, they are ruthless in their hearts, and they dare to enter with white knives and go out with red knives when they seize the opportunity; But if you can't seize the opportunity, just have this thought in your heart, after a long time, the anger and courage in many people's hearts will dissipate. For example, in the current coalition.

The Cossacks always avoided fighting and did not give them a chance to win a single insignificant victory, which was very demoralizing. Although it seems that they are chasing the enemy to the north, they are very proud and arrogant. But it's all false!

Once you can't get enough of it, the morale will quickly dissipate like a white mist of sunshine.

For example, now, the team chased across the Bahn River, and still failed to engage the Kazakhs, but the Kazakh cavalry was always in front, and the traces were clearly visible. This made many people in the team 'heart' start to mess up.

Wari Khan and Wangchen Bambal were also wary of this, neither of them were fledgling young men, and of course they felt strange about the Cossacks doing this. It feels like you're being 'fished'!

So they simply slowed down and took the opportunity to recover. At this time, they were already less than a hundred miles away from Guryev.

The man on horseback, tired, tied himself to the horse, can still run, and it is not impossible to do it without getting off the saddle for two or three days. But even though men are made of iron, the horses under their crotches are not made of steel.

Moreover, they were still marching in the snow, and their horsepower must be maintained, and the necessary rest must not be saved, and if they really ran the horses to death, they would be finished.

Kulakov and Platonovich were also veterans, and as soon as the pursuers behind them slowed down, they sensed something. If they choose to strike reflexively at this time, maybe they can really release a big satellite, because this is the time when the Mongolian and Kazakh coalition forces are most mixed. But they didn't dare to take risks easily, because the support forces behind them were already arriving.

It's just that when Russia's preparations are made, their enemy side also unifies its minds.

Wari Khan and Wangqin Bambal repeatedly told about the 'good' future, and finally suppressed the distracted thoughts in the team, only eating meat and not gnawing bones, and when they hit hard stubble, it was a big deal to run away, how much loss could they have? They were all cavalry.

A lot of people were convinced.

Yes, neither the Mongol cavalry nor the Kazakh cavalry, in all fairness, were opponents of the Cossacks. But the civilians used to rob Russia are not yet opponents? It's not that they have to fight the Russians.

On the shore of the Caspian Sea in early December of the 14th year of Chen Han Chengtian, as night fell, war clouds rolled on the snowfields in the northeast of the Caspian Sea, and under the cover of night, tens of thousands of Kazakh and Mongolian cavalrymen, with the rank of man and the horse picking the bell, quietly touched the camp of the Russian army like a ghost and ghost.

They didn't know the exact distance, only that it was thirty or forty miles from Guriev, and that there were still traces of Russian life there, but now they had fled.

The Cossacks should have been in this place, and after tens of thousands of elite allied troops had galloped for more than ten miles on horseback, they all dismounted, and the scouts in front quietly advanced, and the large troops behind also quietly followed.

At the same time, Russia was also ready to fight, but the day they chose to start the war was tomorrow, and the two sides were wrong for one night.

The Russian soldiers who have been ordered are enjoying a sweet sleep, and it is likely that this will be the last good sleep of their lives. Others are silently sipping vodka, and tonight may be their last night.

However, these silent Russian soldiers also have different attitudes, some of them do not care, some are elated, some are suffering from gains and losses, and some are worried. But no matter who it is, in this big era, they are just a little ant involved in the torrent, and they can't get out at all.

Kulakov was also drinking, and his demeanor was elated. Eight or nine thousand men arrived at the Guriev fortress, including two regiments of regular troops, which, together with the Cossack cavalry, felt that tomorrow's war would be foolproof.

Platonovich didn't care, for a Cossack general, fighting a war was as simple and ordinary as drinking cold water, since he first entered the army, how many days in these years has he spent peace?

A history of the Cossacks is a history of war. From the initial group of Cossacks, fighting and plundering homes to the later conquest in the east and west, and the war in the south and the north, in its four or five hundred years of history, the war has hardly stopped. Just like the Astrakhan Cossack where Platonovich was, from his birth to the present, he has experienced the second half of the Fourth Russo-Turkish War, to the War of the Austrian Succession composed of two Silesian Wars, the huge Seven Years' War, the Fifth Russian-Turkish War, and then the Russian invasion of Poland and the Astrakhan Cossacks, which also called part of the Astrakhan Cossacks, and then the present.

Platonovich didn't know what peace was, war was like life for him, he was used to it.

However, just as Platonovich turned to leave the Kulakov military tent, a crisp gunfire came from the northeast of the Russian camp, followed by several more gunshots, which were the Cossack cavalry on guard duty and the enemy exchanging fire.

"Quick, take Sergey! Let's go. A Cossack on horseback shouted and threw away the handcuff in his hand, drew another short gun from the horse, and immediately pulled the trigger on the figure in front of him.

Another shot rang out, and sparks erupted from the muzzle, revealing the position of fifty men long, and a Mongolian shooter armed with a rifled gun sat upright on horseback, aiming and firing. Then he quickly threw away the rifled gun, drew his saber, and struck the horse and slashed it.

In this dark night, the musket is disposable.

The teams on both sides met in the darkness of the night, and God was too unfriendly to them.

The gunfire caused many people to fall on both sides at first, and then there were more people than others.

The fifty Cossack commanders fell from their horses. But the Cossacks beside him looked back at him and knew that the man was hopeless, and he was carrying a wounded man who had been stabbed in the chest.

A group of Kazakh cavalrymen who heard the gunfire shouted loudly and chased for a while, but seeing that they could not catch up, they could only rush back. By this time, the Mongols had already eliminated all the Cossacks they had surrounded.

But the leaders of both teams did not look good, because they were discovered.

Looking at the Cossack cavalry that disappeared into the night, the two sighed softly. Even the human title and the horse picking the bell did not escape the eyes of the Cossack scouts, and the plan for a surprise attack had already been lost.

When the news reached the ears of Wari Khan and Wangchen Bambal, they did not feel anything to be disappointed with. This sneak attack, it was originally a fluke, the Cossacks are veterans of a hundred battles, and there can be no big loopholes in the defense, but tonight's march is just asking for a surprise. In the end, it still relied on the strength of the crowd, and now it is still a strong attack when it is discovered.

"Light the torches. The whole army is moving fast. ”

At the sound of an order, in the night, countless torches were suddenly lit, forming a long queue on the snowfield, and rushing towards the Russian camp.

However, at this time, the Russians had already prepared, and in advance there was a regiment of regular Russian troops, with companies as units, covered in white cloth and hidden on the spot in the snow inside and outside the camp. The rockets from the Guryev fortress were also prepared, and the main infantry remained behind before the large groups of Mongol and Kazakh cavalry had rushed into the camp or had not merged with the Cossack cavalry.

Now the Russians expect that the Mongol cavalry and the Kazakh cavalry will not have too many rockets in their hands, and the two sides will fire a few shots, which is a meaning, and then rely on real troops to start fighting.

Because rockets are too sharp, if anyone's main force is set on fire by hundreds of rockets, it will be impossible to find a place to cry.

Wari Khan was also hard enough, he personally led the troops to the front line, looking at the camp of the Russian army that was still burning with sporadic bonfires, there was no sound, quietly, he swallowed nervously and spitted.

The Kazakh cavalry behind him is the old capital of his subordinates, and they belong directly to the Khan's court. And now like this, who still believes that the Russians are still sleeping in the camp? Did his head get caught in the door panel?

"The Russians are definitely prepared. But the camp was originally a humble hamlet, and in a hurry they had no choice but to set up a strong position. We still have a chance. ”

"First use rockets, and then find the number to the Mongols, let's attack in two ways, and rush in together."

"You have all listened to Ben Khan, and you are not allowed to be greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise even if you get off the battlefield alive, the knife in Ben Khan's hand is still waiting for you. Give Ben Khan an order. The first person to storm the camp of the Russian army will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan, and the beheading level will be rewarded with 1,000 yuan! ”

After the battle was deployed, Wari Khan also let go of his harsh words. Although he was the Khan of Zhongyuz, he was not the Khan of the Kazakh Khanate. When his father was alive and the Chinese did not appear in the salary frontier, the Khan King of Zhongyuz may be called the Khan King of the Kazakh Khanate, but now his father Abuben has died of illness, and he does not have the ability, skill and prestige of his father, and now he does not dare to say that he is the Khan King of the Kazakh Khanate.

Now the Chinese want to subdue them as vassal forces, and the treatment they give is much stronger than following Russia. The Chinese promised to support him in establishing his own little khanate. Maybe by then, he won't be able to use the word Kazakh, but what's the big deal about changing his name to become a Khan king who founded the country?

So, Wari Khan also needs to make a contribution now. Even if his current capital is relatively strong, the Chinese will definitely not force themselves to the Russians in order to stabilize their western front. Kwari Khan also wanted to have a larger territory and fertile pastures.

From the Kazakh steppe to the Urals, from Western Siberia to Afghanistan, this is a very vast land, but no matter how vast the land is, if there are many participants, then there will be competition.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Almost at the same time as the coalition forces released rockets, a volley of rockets was fired from the positions of the Russian troops.

The moment the rockets exploded, the light emitted made the entire snowfield seem to return to daylight.

Both sides seemed to be about to launch all the rockets in their hands, and the rumbling sound and the afterglow of the explosion revealed all the infantry in ambush inside and outside the Russian battalion.

After running out of all the rockets in their hands, Wari Khan and Wangqin Bambal gave the order to charge, and they didn't care how many rockets were left in the hands of the Russians, they just came to give it a try.

They really can't beat it, they just pull their legs and run.

Of course, the Russian army has more rockets in their hands than the coalition forces, and they are only twenty or thirty miles away from the Guryev fortress, and in addition to the rapid delivery of grain and fodder here, a lot of rockets have also been brought in.

The total number is a piece of cake compared to the big war between China and Russia. But compared to the coalition forces in front of them, it is a lot more.

But the disadvantage of the Russian army is also very obvious, they are limited by the previous camp.

Even if the number of rockets in the hands of the coalition forces is much less than that in the hands of the Russian army, the rockets of both sides will bombard each other, and the losses of the Russian army will be much greater than that of the coalition forces.

"Rush! Rush up and trample them to death with the hooves of the horses, rush, rush ......"

Wari Khan and Wangchen Bambar each drove their cavalry forward. The Russian rockets continued to be fired, and the charging cavalry was immediately attacked, even if they spread out the distance between each other, each rocket explosion could injure many people and horses, and more importantly, the previous explosions frightened the coalition horses very much.

Of course, the Kazakh horses are no better than to take. The sound of gunfire and the explosion of heavy rockets is too incomparable.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Rockets exploded on the snowfield, huge fireballs rose one after another, shrapnel shot everywhere, like bursts of rain swept over the charging cavalry, and suddenly a terrible neighing of men and horses sounded, and at least hundreds of horsemen fell to the ground.

Such casualties caused the cavalry behind them to see this scene, and immediately lost the courage to charge forward, and they turned their horses and retreated.

"Rush again." Wari Khan and Wangqin Bambal shouted loudly. The casualties of more than 100 people are heavy losses for a battalion-level team, and it is also a bit painful for a regiment, but for the coalition army with a total strength of more than 30,000 people, it is a piece of cake.

"King Khan, withdraw. The Russians still have rockets in their hands, and we can't rush over. ”

The people around Wari Khan persuaded him. Why bother not to eat the fat around Guriev and come here to gnaw the hard bones of the Cossacks. That wasn't what I said before.

"Just once, just again. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, rush again! Grab as many captives as you can! ”

Wari Khan insisted on his opinion, but also gave a decision. It's a big deal!

"Sons and grandsons of Genghis Khan, let the Russians taste our swords!" Like Wari Khan, Wangqin Bambal drew his sabre and shouted loudly, "For the sake of Mongolia, for yourselves, rush!" ……”

Defeat after one rush was unacceptable to both Wari Khan and Wangchen Bambar, who instead launched a second attack.

"Rush, ......"

The allied charge again hit the rockets of the Russians, "boom boom boom ......"

The expected screams rang out, and the shrapnel that exploded and flew like a life-harvesting scythe knocked out hundreds or more of the coalition cavalry in an instant. However, the torrent of this charge was not stopped, but became faster and faster.

Rockets from the Russians are flying again.

Kulakov now admires this exploding flame, this is the real flower of death. Even if it exists for a short time, it will leave a deep imprint.

In the past, why didn't he find out?

He also felt that this weapon was so hateful that he tied a heavy iron lump to the hooves of the Cossack charging horses.

But now when this weapon is in their own hands, when they harvest the lives of their enemies with this weapon, it really couldn't be more perfect.

"Retreat! Fall back! ”

Shouts rang out from the ranks of the coalition forces, and neither Wari Khan nor Wangqin Bambal at this time went to stop them.

A rocket bombardment, the coalition forces withstanded; The second rocket bombardment, the coalition forces almost blew up.

The retreat of the nomadic cavalry was very quick and unobtrusive. On the battlefield, the neighing of war horses, shouts of killing, shouting and scolding, the sound of guns and cannons, and the screams did not have any impact on the retreating coalition forces. Even the Cossacks did not have time to chase them, and the national horsemanship on horseback was really extraordinary. In between, there was only a slight confusion in their ranks, and they had already turned their heads and quickly broke away from the Russian positions......

"They,...... Ran away? ”

On the other side of the battlefield, watching the allied forces charging and then fleeing like a swift wind, Kulakov suddenly felt very heartbroken, he should be ready for a quick pursuit, how could he be frightened by their forces.