Kutuzov's face is not good-looking, after all, it was a plan made by him personally, but at this time there was a leak, and most of the responsibility will fall on his head, if Zakhrev wants to shirk the responsibility, it will have a great impact on his future.

He looked at it for a while and sighed: "It seems that we have to shorten the time to fifteen minutes, and the evaluation of the combat effectiveness of those Jurchens needs to be taken to a higher level." ”

Fortunately, Zakhrev is not such a shallow person, knowing that this is not Kutuzov's fault, it is really due to insufficient intelligence, and this is also what he is willing to do, if he is angry at this time, he is undoubtedly slapping himself in the face. He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "What worries me more is that Pushkin is gone. ”

At this time, Bukharin strode over and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, I did not see the body of His Excellency Pushkin, and the Cossacks who fled said that they were taken away by the Jurchens. ”

"Taken away?" Zakhrev and Kutuzov looked at each other, and both breathed a long sigh of relief. After all, if Pushkin dies here, it means that they have offended His Excellency the Minister of War! And now, although His Excellency Pushkin was captured by the Jurchens, presumably those Jurchens could also see his value and would not kill him casually.

Zakhrev glanced at it, and suddenly ordered: "Hang all those Cossacks who fled, and if they are defeated and flee, they should all be sent to the gallows!" ”

A flash of understanding flashed in Kutuzov's eyes, this defeat. A scapegoat is needed, and the best option now is to act as if it wasn't a trap, just an accident.

In this way, only those Cossacks who escaped could be sacrificed.

Soon, the Cossack cavalry was escorted back, where their robes were strewn with corpses. The soldiers quickly nailed out of the gallows with trees, and then the poor fellows' heads were put in the nooses. They struggled and cursed loudly. They never imagined that they did not die at the hands of that terrible devil, but died on their own gallows.

Resistance is powerless after all. As the rope tightened, the angry scolding of several guys gradually disappeared.

Bukharin cautiously observed Zakhrev's face and asked, "Your Excellency the Governor, do you want to send someone to chase after you?" ”

Zakhrev blushed and did not speak, since the southern expedition, what had happened was completely inconsistent with what he had envisioned, and after coming here, he had a very strong feeling of being constrained, as if he could not do anything. I can't do anything, I can't use it at all.

This feeling annoyed him exceedingly.

Kutuzov on the side saw that Bukhalin was a little embarrassed, so he relieved the siege and said: "Send a thousand Cossacks to chase after you!" ”

Bukharin glanced at Zakhrev and, seeing that he did not object, excitedly ordered a thousand Cossack cavalry. Personally led the team. It is also human nature that young people are very vigorous in their achievements, and as for these bloody corpses everywhere, it did not make him feel much jealousy, and in the eyes of the young and confident Bukharin, the reason why these people will be defeated. It's just a surprise.

Kutuzov smiled and looked at Bukharin's flamboyant back, and suddenly a trace of emotion rose in his heart.

Wasn't he so confident and reckless back then, so he lost an eye in Shuma Village?

As he expected, in less than an hour Bukharan returned with a bunch of Cossacks dejected. After crossing three rivers, climbing over a low hill and bypassing a few vast black pine forests, they were completely lost from the enemy.

It would be foolish to compete with the natives of this land to learn about this place. …,

One hundred and thirty miles southeast of the present Russian army, the middle of the river is a gentle and wide river, and on both sides of the river is a large area of dense forest. A tributary flows from northwest to southeast into the Xiangduhan River, forming a large area of the bay, but on both sides of the bay is a fairly large area of grassland.

On the west bank of this tributary, hundreds of tents stand like mushrooms.

This is the station of the army led by Wanyan Yeping.

The surrounding dense forest provides natural protection, if you are not familiar with this place, even if you are close to it, you will not be able to see this camp through the dense Black Forest, for the Russians the dense forest is an impassable moat, but for the Jurchens who are familiar with this place like their own backyard, they know many secret passages in the Black Forest.

The sound of horses' hooves came, and Wanyan Yeping led the kidnapping horses to walk in the front, followed by a large number of light cavalry, slowly appearing on the edge of the grass through the secret passage.

Hearing the movement, the originally quiet camp immediately boiled, and thousands of Jurchen soldiers poured out of the tents, many of them were seriously wounded and disabled on crutches. Wan Yan Yeping saw them, a heartfelt smile appeared on her face, she took off her hood, and raised the double hammer in her hand high.

When they saw Yan Yeping's iconic weapon, the worries in the hearts of the Jurchen soldiers disappeared, and they all cheered loudly.

In their opinion, where there is a great general, there is victory.

Their state of mind was not like this, but when the Beishan defense line was broken, Wanyan Yeping not only did not retreat all the way, but continued to launch counterattacks, using successive victories to regain their confidence - in the era of cold weapons, the combat effectiveness of an army is at least forty percent of the morale.

At this time, the morale of the Jurchens was obviously very high.

The soldiers who accompanied Yan Yeping on the expedition also showed a heartfelt smile, a relaxed face, and accepted the heroic cheers of the soldiers in the camp.

Surrounded by everyone and walked into the camp, looking at the cheering soldiers, Wan Yan Yeping's eyes flashed an imperceptible gloom, and she was soon covered up again.

He got off his horse and entered the big tent. After asking a few officers who stayed behind, Wan Yan Yeping was still disappointed - there was no movement on the side of Tuluting Mountain, and those messengers asking for help were like stones sinking into the sea. This news also made Wan Yan Yeping's originally good mood immediately worse, she ordered the casualties to be counted, and then escorted Pushkin's master and servant down, and then entered the back account herself.

As soon as he entered the back tent, the smile on Yan Yeping's face disappeared. She sighed, a deep tiredness in her eyes.

The battle just now is not small. The annihilation of a whole cavalry regiment of Cossacks, and the fact that only a few of them ran away, was a great victory in the out-and-out - you know. The Cossacks are the most elite of the Russian army, and they can kill and run, so it is not easy to annihilate them all. But Wanyan Yeping couldn't be happy.

There was tea on the table, but it was already cold. She didn't care so much, she drank in one gulp, grew a breath of air, and didn't care about the armor on her body, sat down with her ass, leaned on the small table, and spread her two slender and straight thighs. Close your eyes in a very unsightly posture.

It has been more than 20 days since the Beishan defense line was breached. Originally, the volley was going well, but from the sixth day of September, the Russians changed their strategy. It has become the pattern of such a march now. This change made Wan Yan Yeping, who was cautious by nature, very careful, and she observed for several days, until she saw this formation inside and out clearly, and then launched a fierce blow today! …,

Although the results are high, they can be imagined. In the future, when the Russians learn their lesson, this method of sneak attack will also lose its effect.

What's more, there is a shortage of personnel under her staff.

At that time, the number was still about 11,000, of which 1,000 of the most elite kidnappers and horses did not suffer much loss, although they could not be compared with the behemoth Russian army, but the victory was all cavalry, with strong mobility, and Wanyan Yeping was also quite a good card in his hand.

But now, after these days of brutal sniper battles, although the Russian army has suffered heavy losses, demoralization, and more importantly, greatly slowed down the pace of advance, but Wanyan Yeping is not without a price. At a glance, there are still about 6,000 soldiers left, and among them, the number of wounded about 1,000 will be cut out, and these wounded will have no combat effectiveness in a short time, but will become a drag on the army.

What worries him even more is that the loss of the kidnapping horses, now the number of kidnapping horses is less than 700!

You must know that the entire Jurchen Kingdom is only a mere 3,000 kidnappers.

"My father hurts me, when I went out to the north, I gave me a thousand crutches and horses, which already caused those old guys to be quite dissatisfied, and I have lost so much at this time, and I don't know what waves will arise. It's been so long since the letter asking for help was sent, why hasn't there been a reply yet? ”

Wan Yan Yeping murmured secretly in her heart, her eyes couldn't help but look in the direction of Tuluting Mountain in the southwest, and her face showed a rare weakness.

If reinforcements don't arrive, she's really going to be unable to hold on.

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Tuluting Mountain, the seat of the Jurchen Khan's court.

Tulu Pavilion, in the very ancient Jurchen language, has the meaning of a giant eagle, and as its name suggests, Tulu Pavilion Mountain is like a proud eagle, standing proudly in the Jurchen hinterland, looking down on the land where the three surnames of the Jurchen breed.

Seriously studyed, Tuluting Mountain should be a branch of the huge mountain range that was later called the Outer Xing'an Mountains, the height is not very high, only three or four hundred zhang meaning, but just as Mount Tai overlooks the land of Qilu, rising in a flat northeast plain, the absolute height of Tuluting Mountain is extremely high, and it can be seen from a distance, and there is no doubt that it is a majestic giant mountain.

Therefore, in the history of the Jurchens, Tuluting Mountain has a very high status, and after the monk Wanyan Chen unified the Jurchens and successfully separated from the Ming Dynasty, he set the Khan court at the eastern foot of Tuluting Mountain.

Choosing this place also has great practical significance.

The three surnames of the Jurchens, the Haixi Jurchen are the southern, facing the Ming Dynasty, the Beishan Jurchen is the northernmost and looking up to Russia, and only the Jianzhou Jurchen is in the middle, and the north and the south are worry-free, but the West is a tribe with a large number of Mongolian tribes and other ethnic groups, these tribes have been under the rule of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years after the rise of the Jurchen, and they have continued to use the Ming Dynasty to fight a few battles with the Jurchens from time to time, so they have also brought great distress to the Jianzhou Jurchens.

And relying on the steep Tuluting Mountain, those tribes were blocked from the Jurchens. Therefore, it will not be a big problem.

Moreover, the eastern foothills of Tuluting Mountain further east to Gelinwei, hundreds of miles away, are a huge and vast plain, this plain is fertile, lush vegetation, dense river network, even in the northeast, it is also a rare rich land.

The Jianzhou Jurchens graze on this land.

And the Hercynian Jurchen has gradually transformed into semi-fishing and hunting. Compared with semi-farming, the Jianzhou Jurchens were less influenced by the Han Chinese and maintained more of the way of life of their ancestors. Their way of life is somewhat similar to that of the Mongols, but it is not the same. It can be said that it is half herding, half fishing and hunting. And this large grassland under Tuluting Mountain has naturally become a treasure of feng shui given to them by God. …,

After decades of multiplication, the number of Jianzhou Jurchens has grown to about 600,000, and they are divided into their own grasslands in the form of tribes and scattered on the vast grasslands from Tuluting Mountain to Gelinwei.

And the Jurchen Khan's court is at the foot of Tuluting Mountain.

This is different from other Jurchen tribes, the Jurchen Khan Court is a small but majestic city!

The reason why it is said to be small is that the area of this city is really small. The length from east to west is only four miles, and the width from north to south is only about three miles, not to mention that compared with large ports such as Beijing and Nanjing, it is a small county town in Daming Pass. The area is also much larger.

And the reason why it is said to be very majestic, because although this city is small, but the buildings inside are all extremely majestic and magnificent, the city wall of the Jurchen Khan's court is dozens of meters high, very high and thick, are built by the stones mined from the Tuluting Mountain. Of course, it also has a hardness that matches the material.

Within the city wall, there are mansions next to each other, and the rows of pavilions and pavilions stretch far away, I don't know how many. The streets inside are paved with large bluestone, clean and tidy, with few pedestrians on them, but richly decorated horse-drawn carriages often pass by. The streets here are obviously very well guarded, and many cavalry patrols in teams.

There are no low, dirty, shabby existences, there are just glossy, as if they were a huge palace complex.

The reason is also very simple, there are no civilians living in the city of the Jurchen Khan, not even low-level officials, and those who are qualified to have a place in it are all the powerful people among the Jurchen tribes - not only limited to the Jurchen Ministry of Jianzhou, for example, Gangyi has a luxurious residence here, and he spends half a year here.

So the mansions of the powerful are everywhere, and apart from the mansions of the powerful, there is no other building here.

In the four corners of the city, there is a barracks each, and the four barracks are stationed in the abduction horses, Tiefutu, 30,000 elite armored cavalry, and 30,000 elite armored infantry. It is said that it is a military camp, but in fact, it is four small fortresses, each with a radius of about one mile, like the stars and the moon, guarding the Jurchen Khan's court in it. These elite armies aside, these fortresses alone are enough to deter enemies who try to storm the city.

Beyond the fortresses, on the vast open space on the west bank of the Youman River, there were patches of low-slung houses, which were inhabited by Han merchants, Jurchen herdsmen, peasants and their vast tracts of farmland, as well as many military families and families of wealthy slaves. In short, the meaning of their existence is to serve the big men in the city, after all, the rich have to consume more resources than ordinary people.

The Jurchen Khan's court sits in the north and faces south, taking the meaning of the south, a large avenue runs through the north gate of the south gate, in the center of this avenue, behind a wide square, there stands a huge and majestic building.

Here, it is the palace of the Jurchen Great Khan Wanyan Chen.

Although it is only a country that has been established for just over 30 years and can be defined as a regional regime according to the area under its jurisdiction, this does not prevent the top rulers from mobilizing the already scarce resources of the state to their own service - this palatial palace is proof of this. The whole palace occupies a quarter of the area of the city, carved beams and painted buildings, towering, speaking of delicate and graceful is naturally inferior to the Han palace, but only compared to the scale and majesty, it is not inferior at all.

At least half of the hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese who were captured and enslaved after the rise of the Jurchens died on the construction site of the palace. …,

The center of the palace is the Qinzheng Palace, which is modeled after the Fengtian Temple of the Forbidden City, and the scale is not inferior to the Taihe Palace. And the height of the appearance of the palace has been increased to five floors - which makes it look a bit like the Qin and Han dynasties.

At this time, in the palace of diligence, it is no longer solemn and solemn in the past, but it is like a vegetable market, noisy and noisy.

The structure of the main hall is similar to that of the Fengtian main hall, with four thick pillars wrapped in gold leaf and enough for two people to hug each other, and in the middle is a five-story imperial platform, on which a large, hard and cold dragon chair is placed. And a slight difference. On the left and right hands under the imperial platform, there are a lot of chairs placed face to face.

At this time, more than a dozen Jurchen magnates were sitting on chairs. They wore luxurious traditional Jurchen clothes, and they were arguing with each other.

They argued loudly, some of them in a hurry. is even more blushing and thick, and the green tendons on his forehead are all raised one by one. And they are not meaningless arguments, from their faces, you can see anger, fear, panic that cannot be concealed, and even some people's eyes have a madness like despair.

Although it was not stagnant, the atmosphere in the hall was inexplicable, and the people in it rushed to a burst of fear, panic and despair.

It seems to be like a court before the end comes.

It is impossible for them not to panic or fear, these Jurchen magnates who hold great power in their hands could not have dreamed that they would be so fast five days ago. The Jurchens are about to fall into an embattled situation!

Five days ago, Wanyan Yeping, the general of Zhaowu Yunlu who was guarding the northern land, sent an urgent military report, saying that the 200,000 Russian army had broken through the Beishan defense line, and then conquered the Beishan Jurchen Mansion and plundered it. Now it is heading towards Tuluting Mountain, and it seems that it is coming directly to the Jurchen Khan's court.

This news shocked all the Jurchen magnates.

The confrontation between the Jurchens and Russia has been going on for several years, and the small-scale friction on the border between the two sides has never been broken, but the Jurchen nobles, who have been leveling down for a long time, did not expect it. War is coming so soon.

After a short period of panic, it was naturally discussed, but until now, five full days have passed, and no reason has been discussed.

All these Jurchen magnates did during these five days was quarrels, quarrels, quarrels!

The reason for this situation is inseparable from the power structure of the Jurchens, for a regime that has not evolved from tribal civilization to feudal civilization for a long time, its internal power veins are very messy and complex, and it can be said to be criss-crossed. These Jurchen magnates were the elders, leaders and even chiefs and other powerful figures in the tribe at the beginning, and now after the Jurchen founded, they are also in high positions and hold military power in their hands. It can be said that the Jurchen army is not only owned by the monk Wanyan Chen, but a considerable part of it is the private army of these powerful people.

Since the front line is tight, it is necessary to transfer troops, but how many troops will be transferred? Whose soldiers are transferred? Who will be in charge? Who's for the benefits? Who will compensate me for the loss of strength of the dead person?

All kinds of complicated things, the confrontation of power, and the exchange of interests in the dark box, in just five days, there is absolutely no way to carry it clearly.

In fact, if she had a little more experience in politics, she should know how much these people are counting on.

The Jurchen is no longer the Jurchen who worked together thirty years ago and was almost the crazy Jurchen of the whole clan who was instigated by the bright prospects depicted by the monk Wanyan Chen, and thirty years is enough to change a lot. Thirty years of luxury have long made these Jurchen magnates lose their enterprising spirit, and all they care about now is their own power. …,

It's not that they don't know that the front line is tight, and the reason why they can still be unscrupulous in this situation is because of their self-confidence - although there are 200,000 Russian troops who have fought over, our Jurchen is not weak! Not to mention anything else, the Khan's court has an army of 60,000, not counting the abducted horses and the Iron Floating Massacre, which is worth 100,000 people! There are still 50,000 troops stationed in the Jurchen hinterland of Jianzhou on the periphery, not to mention, as long as the Great Khan gives an order, he can immediately pull up at least 50,000 troops, Jurchen Erlang was born on horseback, that is a natural warrior!

Between the Tuluting Mountains and the Russian army, there were hundreds of Jurchen tribes, and after receiving orders from the Khan, these tribes immediately became brave warriors!

And if you take 10,000 steps back, what's really wrong, isn't there still an army of 100,000 on the Haixi Jurchen side? I heard that Gangyi took the army to Daming to fight the autumn wind again a while ago, and it is almost time to come back! Wouldn't it be enough to summon him back?

All in all, these Jurchen magnates felt that they had enough hole cards in their hands, so they could sit quietly and sit firmly on the Diaoyutai platform.

But the news that came this morning made all of them unable to sit still, and after hearing the news, they could even feel the despair in their hearts!

From their mouths, these late aware Jurchen magnates knew that they didn't know when, the Ming Dynasty in the south had risen a strong army, and this strong army called the Wuyi Army actually besieged them with fortitude, I don't know what method was used, and it entered the hinterland of the Haixi Jurchens.

Many of them had heard of Wu Yijun, but they had never taken it seriously! Unexpectedly, it has now grown into a big problem.

And when they received the news, the hinterland of the Haixi Jurchens had already been swept away, and I don't know how many girls were killed, and even Yehe City was conquered.

A few people who were older, and the powerful people who were born in Haixi Jurchen fainted immediately.

The Jurchen magnates who were still arguing before were almost stupid.

They are all human elves, and they all clearly understand what this news represents-if the news is true, and obviously it cannot be false, because the number of Haixi Jurchens who have poured into the Khan's court has reached hundreds, and many of them have escaped the catastrophe, and their words still carry a lot of weight.

The Haixi Jurchens were flattened, and the resolute army still didn't know where it was, and the situation would not be much better, which meant that not only did the entire Jurchen lose a solid rear and lose 100,000 troops, but they would even be attacked by the Wu Yi army. And looking at Wu Yijun's posture, this situation is very likely to occur!

How many people are there in Wu Yijun? can sweep the Haixi Jurchens, there are tens of thousands of people, right?

At this moment, the situation was immediately reversed, from attacking and retreating to defending, to having wolves in front and tigers in the back.

Some of the more far-reaching ones have already thought about it, could it be that Wu Yijun and the Russians colluded?

In fact, the time when the Jurchen Khan court got the news was a little later than Lian Zining expected, the reason was that after Yang Husheng and the others arrived at Baiying Gorge, in order to buy more time for themselves, they constantly sent rangers to intercept and kill the Jurchens who went north, until they felt that it was almost over, and then released a large number of them.

This is invisibly doing the Russians a great favor.

Yang Husheng's unintentional behavior directly led to the delay of the army sent by the Jurchen magnates to the northern defense line, and the Russian army was only stubbornly sniped by Wan Yan Yeping alone.

Not long after receiving the news, these magnates were summoned to the palace by the Great Khan.

Monk Wanyan Chen stood high on the throne, looking at these quarrelsome magnates with an expressionless face.

He was tall, broad-shouldered, burly and powerful, but if he were to be described as strong, it was when he was young and not now—and now he is more realistically fat.