"Report to the general, a large number of Cossack fighters appeared in the southwest direction of our army, and they launched an attack on the scouts and alert units of our army, and put up an offensive formation!"

Before the noble generals summoned by General Menderov arrived, another piece of bad news came.

"Cossacks? How many troops do they have? General Menderov was stunned for a moment, and then reacted with an unkind expression.

"According to the surviving scouts, there are at least 5,000 of them, and this is a large army gathered by the Cossack tribes, most likely from the lower reaches of the Dnieper, by Sari. The main forces of the Cossacks led by Assman. ”

Peng's bang, General Menderov slammed his fist on the marching sand table: "Damn, that treacherous Cossack barbarian, shameless man who fell into the well, what benefit did Hong Tiancheng give him, saying that he came to fight with us?!" ”

Hear from Surrey. Asman's name, General Menderov knew everything in an instant, and the only force willing to help the Taiping Army at this time was Surrey. Assman is such a Cossack getman from the bottom who has a wavering political position.

Surrey. It is not uncommon for the Russian Imperial intelligence agencies to find out the origin of the Asman, the Cossacks were the poor and hunters of different nationalities who fled to escape the heavy taxes, and the Cossack tribes have never been willing to be regulated, I don't know how many Cossacks have become marauders and have no place to live, and no one will delve into the origin of a Cossack barbarian.

Until Surrey. Assman appeared in the lower Dnieper with a thousand fierce men armed with muskets, and in a short time he unified all the loose Cossack tribes of the lower Dnieper, and became the chief of the Cossacks, and only after he officially entered the field of vision of the intelligence agencies of the Russian Empire.

It's just that the big leaders of the Cossack tribes with a population of tens of thousands are not enough to attract the attention of the Russian Empire. After Assman's defeat, the reason for his indifferent attitude.

Unexpectedly, such a group of armed bandits with poor strength and even less potential would have the courage to run over and stab the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force!

What annoyed General Menderov the most was that with the strength of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force, which had lost a lot at this time, he had to pay attention to this force of Surrey. Thousands of Cossack troops led by Assman.

If there was no Taiping army chasing after him, General Menderov would naturally have fearlessly set up a position with Sarri. Assman fought a battle, but now his time was running out, and behind him were more than 10,000 troops of the main elite division of the Taiping Army.

The elite of the Taiping Army led by Xiang Dongqiang has made General Menderov clearly aware of the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army, and with the strength of more than 10,000 elite Taiping troops under Hong Tiancheng, he only needs to set up a charge to defeat the current Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force!

"How long will it take for the main force of the Taiping Army to catch up with us?" General Menderov asked, turning his head to another aristocratic officer.

"With the position and marching speed of the Taiping army at this time, it will be possible to reach here in about three days, and if the Taiping army marches in a hurry, the speed will be shortened by at least one day and one night!"

General Menderov couldn't help but fall into deep thought after hearing this.

In the current state of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force, it will take at least more than a day to put the main forces out of the way to meet the main Cossack forces that suddenly appear to intercept and prepare for battle, that is, it is conservatively estimated that the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force must defeat Surrey in one day and one night. Assman, in order to leave this place before the main force of the Taiping army catches up.

Surrey. The Cossacks led by Assman are all fresh troops that have not been consumed by the war, but the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force is a tired army, and only the Russian noble cavalry has been well preserved, but the number has also been consumed a lot in previous battles, which is the capital of General Menderov's turnover, and it is impossible to invest in a decisive battle with unknown victory.

Rely on the infantry militia and mercenaries to defeat Surrey in one day. Assman, no matter how you look at it, is unreliable......

General Menderov scanned the people in the camp and dismissed all the guards and attendants, leaving only the noble generals and high-ranking officers of high rank.

"As you can see, with the current situation, it is difficult for us to get out of the situation, and if we want to survive, we must make some sacrifices."

General Menderov paused, raised his eyes to look at the expressions of the others, and continued: "Leaving those infantry, we will only lead the noble cavalry unit with all the cavalry and the supplies we carry with us to leave, and destroy all the artillery to ensure that it will not fall into the hands of the Taiping army.

In this way, we will not only be able to completely shake off the pursuit of the Taiping army, but will also gain greater strategic motivation to get out of this crisis. ”

"General Menderov, if we only take the cavalry, we can only carry the rations of the troops for a few days, and once they are exhausted, what will we eat?"

General Menderov smiled slightly after hearing this: "Hehe, don't forget, we are fighting in a foreign country, there are Poles and Lithuanian villages in front, we avoid the big cities and just loot the villages, we can always grab some food, not to mention, we don't have to go deep into the hinterland of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and jump out of Surrey. After the encirclement of Assman, it was enough to go directly into the territory of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania to seek political asylum.

The Polish government will not embarrass us because of the 'supply' of a few civilian villages, after all, if the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom wants to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it cannot do without the help of the Russian Empire.

We have thousands of elite noble cavalry in our hands, and when the decisive battle between the main Taiping army and Moscow is decided, our previous plan can still be carried out.

The foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is too weak to withstand a decisive defeat! ”

"What if the Taiping army wins?" A noble general said coldly, and the relaxed atmosphere of the entire camp once again fell to the freezing point.

General Menderov glanced at the other party expressionlessly: "If the Taiping Army can really defeat Moscow, Hong Tiancheng's enemies will only become more!" ”

Everyone looked at each other and smiled: "General Menderov gives the order, what we should do next, we have no opinion." ”

"Can't let Sarri before leaving. Assman is better, let's play a play together, we also need those infantry mud legs to die, and the artillery can be destroyed in the name of not affecting the march with shells.

Tomorrow we will arrange to take the initiative to launch a full-scale attack on the Cossacks, just enough to cover us to lead the noble cavalry out of here, and there are more than 10,000 infantry in the expeditionary force with combat effectiveness, which is enough for those hateful Cossacks to have a good time! ”