Caucasus, a certain city and a certain place in the Principality of Baku.

At this moment, it is noon, and in this ordinary small village, the roofs of every household are smoking. Although there is news that the Cossacks have been killed, the people in the village think to themselves, our place is thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and the Cossacks can't fly even if they all have wings.

Outside the village, several children of eight or nine years old are chasing and playing with each other, and a young mother stands at the head of the village calling for her children to eat. But the children were all playful and deaf, and the mother was anxious and scolded loudly, and at the same time stepped forward and grabbed the ears of a seven or eight-year-old child and dragged them home. Suddenly, she heard the sound of horses' hooves behind her, and when she looked back, she saw a group of horsemen galloping towards her, dressed in black, as if they were a black cloud.

The mother did not know where the army was, but out of fear of the army, she hurriedly grabbed her son and went to the village. But after a few steps, a crisp gunshot was heard in everyone's ears. Both mother and son were startled, and when they looked back, they were so shocked that their legs and feet were weak, because they saw the dead man.

Ilham Ilham, who was still smiling and playing with his son just now, was already lying motionless on the ground, his skull was blown away, and the blood stained the ground under him red like a stream of water, and the mother and son both looked like ashes! The children who were still playing were frightened stupid by the sudden change and stood motionless!

"Run! Run! ”

It was the mother who reacted quickly, she shouted in a hurry, and at the same time grabbed her son's hand and ran into the field with all her might.

She was terrified, she was looking for a place to hide, and the subconscious fear and fear made her rush to the fields below the road without thinking, instead of continuing to flee down the road to the village.

There was another crisp gunshot behind him, and his son's legs went limp, and he fell to the ground. The mother's frightened soul flew away, thinking that her son had been shot, but then she found out that her son was frightened.

The mother pulled her son up, looked back at the cavalry, and turned her head with a pained expression on her face. Because another child was shot in the back, the whole person fell to the ground, but it was obvious that the person was not immediately dead, he was still convulsing, and the blood quickly stained a large area red under his body.

The mother grabbed her son and burrowed into the cornfield at the head of the village, she was not smart enough to know that she would not escape the doom when she returned to the village, but she was completely frightened by the fire of the cavalry, and only thought about finding a place to hide.

The cornfield in June of the Western calendar can obviously hide the mother and son, although the area of the cornfield is not very large, but this group of killed cavalry should not have extra time to deal with them.

Mother and son were relieved when they hid in the cornfield, and their luck was that the cavalry did not shoot at them from beginning to end. A little calmer, reason returned to the mother's brain, the mother and son looked out through the gap in the cornfield, the two of them suddenly screamed, and the mother hurriedly covered the child's eyes!

It's a bunch of demons!

These damned cavalrymen stepped straight over the kid who had been shot in the back and didn't die immediately.

O blood splattered under the horses' hooves......

"Gambar ......" the son called his friend's name, his eyes were still tightly covered by his mother, and his whole head was buried in his mother's arms.

Crashed over!

The galloping horse mercilessly bumped into two children who only knew how to run along the road to the village and home, and the two poor children were hit by the galloping war horses and flew straight out, without even screaming! The mother was terrified, and if she hadn't dragged her son into the cornfield, the fate that awaited them would have been death.

The Cossack cavalry didn't even glance at the cornfield, they didn't see anyone fleeing into it, but now was clearly not the time to take care of it, they needed to 'rule' the whole village as quickly as possible.

Although the population of the Caucasus is small, the people here are very strong, and every village has a shotgun, but the men of this village cannot be organized, so they do not have time to delay in the cornfields.

When the cavalry marched through the cornfield, the mother sat on the ground with her frightened legs limp, hugged the child tightly, and silently prayed in her heart for the blessing of God.

Thankfully, the demons who should have gone to Hell did not find them.

But by this time, the village was already in chaos, and the gunfire that burst in from outside the village made many people realize that something was wrong.

"The Russians are coming, the Cossacks are coming!" Shouts erupted in the village, the doors of every house opened, and panicked men, women, and children rushed out. But what awaits them is either a one-hit bullet or a whistling saber.

One of the cavalrymen, armed with a Cossack saber, shouted loudly.

He looked at the men, women, and children in the village, and it was not like looking at his own kind, but at a flock of lambs to the slaughter.

With his shout, the Cossack cavalry began to divide into two routes, one was to chase the villagers outside, and the other was to break into the peasant houses in groups of three or five armed with knives and guns.

In order to create the greatest influence, the Cossacks had to kill the hardest, the most desperate, and the most poisonous.

In this way, their great intimidation power will scare more Caucasians into fleeing south.

……

The soil had long since turned reddish-brown, blood could not coagulate, the haze above could not be dispersed, and the occasional broken branch hung with long-unrecognizable limb parts. The sounds of fighting, shouting, and gunfire that filled the area not long ago were gone, but the silence seemed extremely hideous. Everything is gone, everything is alive.

The grim reapers, cloaked in black cloaks, left the town covered in blood, and the air exuded a strong smell of blood, and the wind could not blow it away.

The Cossacks had already started their own bloody slaughter, and the shadow of death completely hung over the entire Caucasus.

Two months ago, Chen Han also used killing and deterrence to intimidate hundreds of thousands of Russians, and fled his homeland in a hurry. And now the Russians, who are also using killing and intimidation, are scaring the whole Caucasus into panic.

In a very short period of time, tens of thousands of refugees entered Persia. As for the small Caucasian states such as Baku, Khachmas, and Nakhichevan, their respective capitals and a limited number of important towns can be said to be overcrowded.

In June of the Western calendar, it is already the gathering of the summer harvest. In addition to killing people and setting fires, the Cossacks also destroyed cities and towns on a large scale, burning grain crops in the fields, and it can be said that Platov used less than 5,000 Cossack troops to form a blood feud between Russia and small Caucasian countries such as Baku, Khachmas, and Nakhichevan at the same time, it also really delayed the army of Deng Yunbu outside the Vladikavkaz fortress.

Platov turned the whole Caucasus into a mess, and the real strength of the five thousand Cossack cavalry may only be worth a small country, but the destructive power they produced after they aimed the spearhead at the people was unparalleled.

In just half a month, a total of 267 cities and towns in the Caucasus were destroyed, hundreds of villages were destroyed, and the population of the countries killed was 780,000, if not 100,000. plus hundreds of thousands of acres and millions of acres of wheat were burned by a fire......

Whether it is people's livelihood or social order, they have produced unparalleled destructive power.

Even the Kingdom of Persia could not send troops to the north, and the first thing to do was to drive out and curb the rampant activities of the Cossacks, restore and rebuild the social order of the subject countries, give relief to the refugees, and restore their livelihoods.

Platov's actions shook Alexander I, and the brutality of the Cossacks against civilians made the image of Russian 'barbaric' almost fixed in the hearts of people all over the world.

But Platov has a good reason: if Russia can't keep the northern Caucasus, then it will be the Chinese's lackeys who will occupy the region, and even some places will become Chinese enclaves - such as the West Sea.

Perhaps the Mongols will occupy more, or the Kazakhs will come and get a piece of the pie, but the benefits will definitely not be enjoyed by the small states of Baku and Hachmas, and Persia, and even they will quickly turn from friends to enemies.

In Platov's mind, no one would resist the fat on his lips.

The weakness of the Persian kingdom and the strength of the Chinese are the difference between rabbits and elephants, and elephants will not stop because of the will of rabbits.

So what does it matter if you destroy the small principalities of the Caucasus by yourself? There is no guarantee that Russia will become their friendly country in the future.

And if the final victory in this war belonged to Russia, these small principalities of the Caucasus would not be even more fartty. These small principalities, independent or semi-independent, are the next objects of annexation by Russia.

If it were not for the support of the Chinese in Persia, who traded a lot of modern guns to Persia, at the end of the last century, the Russian will would have crossed the Caucasus.

……

The Russian army's raids on Baku, Hachmas and other principalities shocked the entire Caucasus, and also affected the supply of military supplies to the Han army in the Caucasus to a certain extent. But Platov knew better that his desperate blow could only briefly disrupt the transportation lines of Chen Han's army. When a large number of Persian troops entered the Caucasus, the good days of the Cossacks would come to an end.

So he had to fundamentally change all that.

He wanted to create more trouble for the Persians, so that they would not have time to take care of Russia. What did Platov finally come up with? It's simple, burn and loot!

Now, Platov has done what he wanted to do.

……

"Order Wang Shan, do a good job in the defense of Sheki, and be sure to guard the Samur River and the Bazardi Jushan. No orders, no retreats. ”

If the Cossacks break into that place again, Baku will have to cry again.

When the staff officers had not yet formed a unified opinion, Deng Yunqian was arbitrary and directly issued a military order. A reorganized regiment was ordered to quickly reinforce Baku, and at the same time a cavalry regiment under his command was ordered to join the Kazakh cavalry and strangle the Cossack cavalry with all its might.

The total number of Platov's Cossacks was only 8,000, and even with some Russian militias, it was at most 10,000. Now it is still in a scattered state, as long as your own cavalry can catch up, bold attack, you may not be able to win a good start!

But it was up to his cavalry to catch up first.

While pursuing, Deng Yun also had to disperse his forces to the key points of the principalities to assist them in defense, and the number of Chen Han's army under the fortress of Vladikavkaz was only 10,000 or 2,000 people, which can be said to be quite weak.

If it weren't for the Ottomans who managed to contain a large number of Russian militias in the Sea of Azov, Deng Yun would not have dared to do this.