Chapter 654: The Great Enemy's Rival [1 Update]

Seeing Cheng Yu standing in the tent, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and at a glance, he had obtained the true biography of Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu laughed with admiration: "You don't have to be polite, don't be polite, hurry up and talk to everyone, where is your father now?" ”

Seeing Cheng Yu, everyone knew that the reinforcements sent by the imperial court had arrived, but they had not received the news, so they were naturally curious about where the reinforcements led by Cheng Xiangwu had arrived now.

After all, the reinforcements on the side of the Grand Duchy of Moscow have converged with Andrei's remnants, according to the news from the Tanma, looking at the opponent's posture, within three days at most, the other party will raise troops to attack, if Cheng Xiangwu is too far away, it is very likely to miss this battle.

Cheng Yu straightened his face, first clasped his fists and saluted the generals, looking polite and polite, and then slowly spoke: "The army commanded by my father is still about a hundred miles away from here, if there is no accident, it can be reached in three days at most." ”

In this era, it is almost impossible for a large army to travel 100 miles a day, unless it is lightly armed.

It can be said that it is not easy for Cheng Xiangwu to lead a large army to travel dozens of miles a day, you must know that in this era, there is no road feasible in this wild land, all the way through, you need a vanguard army to open the road, and you need to build a bridge when you encounter a river.

Of course, this is also one of the characteristics of the march in this era, the most important thing is the grain and straw needed by the army, and for any army, the most important thing is the problem of grain and grass.

Part of the grain and grass under Lu Dazhu's department relied on the difficult transportation of batches by the Ming Dynasty, and a considerable part relied on snatching it from the enemy.

It's just that in this vast wilderness, there is no human figure for dozens of miles, even if you want to eat the enemy, it is a luxury.

If it weren't for the fact that the army defeated the Third Army led by Andrei not long ago and intercepted a batch of grain and grass, it would be impossible to say that the army would have had a grain and grass crisis.

This time Cheng Xiangwu led by the elite of the Ming Dynasty, after the reform of the military system, if it is not the elite, it is generally difficult for the soldiers to stay in the army.

Compared with the general army march, the elite troops are naturally much faster, but unfortunately because of the problem of food and grass, even if Cheng Xiangwu is in charge, it is difficult to improve the speed of the army.

Whether it was Lu Dazhu or the generals present who had come all the way like this, they naturally knew very well the speed of the army's march in this wild place, so they learned that Cheng Xiangwu still had more than 100 miles to go, but he didn't feel that what Cheng Yu said was a long time.

Lu Dazhu obviously knew about this a long time ago, and the reason why Cheng Yu was allowed to meet with the generals at this time was to boost morale.

After all, in the case of reinforcements, everyone is naturally full of confidence, even if the soldiers and horses of the Grand Duchy of Moscow arrive in advance, everyone has enough confidence to fight with it.

As long as the morale is not discharged, it is nothing more than heavy casualties, although it is said that Lu Dazhu and other generals love soldiers like sons, but as generals, Ci is not in charge of the army, as long as it is necessary to sacrifice, Lu Dazhu They will not have the slightest ambiguity.

Dozens of miles away, next to a large lake, a black oppressive area, is a camp.

Needless to say, this camp was a reinforcement from Moscow, and Vasily, as the king of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, had no small ambitions at all.

Without mentioning the status of the Third Legion in his mind, the appearance of the Ming Dynasty's soldiers and horses in Siberia was enough to arouse the vigilance of Vasily III.

For the Ming Dynasty, with the high development of Ming commerce, even the Grand Duchy of Moscow also has an understanding of the Ming Dynasty through trade channels.

In the Western world, the Ming Dynasty is rumored to be a golden country, incomparably powerful, incomparably rich, whether it is the gorgeous silk or exquisite porcelain or tea, everything is the existence of the aristocratic lords of the Western world obsessed.

The two countries are thousands of miles apart, and in Vasily's consciousness, the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ming Dynasty have no conflict of interests at all, and there will be no conflict, so they have always attached great importance to the merchants who came from the Ming Dynasty.

If he could, Vasily would have liked to rob them all, but if he did, no more merchants would dare to do business with them.

The nobles and ladies who have been accustomed to the silk, porcelain, and tea of the Ming Dynasty are not crazy.

Now the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty have appeared in the land of Siberia, although it is still a considerable distance from Moscow, but this makes Vasily feel a great threat.

News came from further west that Portugal, England and even Prussia were involved in the Great War with the Ming Dynasty.

Because Vasily's Grand Duchy of Moscow had not yet expanded to the Mediterranean coast, it did not feel threatened by the Ming Dynasty.

However, the sea did not feel the threat from the Ming Dynasty, but he never thought that the Ming Dynasty would come by land, and even went deep into the land of Siberia, crossed the Ural Mountains, and entered the heart of Europe.

In Vasily's eyes, the vast land on both sides of the Ural Mountains belonged to the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and now that other armies had broken into his own territory, especially since a big war broke out between the two sides, Vasily did not hesitate at all.

From the information he had, Vasily felt the crazy ambition of the Ming Dynasty to expand the world, and naturally felt a great crisis.

Vasily, who had just finished the war with the Kazan Khanate, did not hesitate to send the country's elite 2nd and 6th Army Corps to attack.

The Second and Sixth Legions were among the two most powerful of Vasily's eight legions.

If the First Army held Moscow for a long time, then the Second and Sixth Army Corps fought everywhere with the expansion of the Grand Duchy all the year round, and the soldiers were extremely brave and brave.

Compared with the Third Army, the combat effectiveness of the Second and Sixth Army Corps is not inferior at all, and even the combat power of the Second Army is even stronger than that of the Third Army.

The commander of the 2nd Army, Alyosha was Vasily's confidant, decisive and cunning, like a fox, and he did not know how many generals of small countries annexed by the Grand Duchy of Moscow were defeated under his men.

At this time in the barracks, Alyosha was dressed in a gorgeous suit, it was silk from the Ming Dynasty, holding a delicate teacup in his hand, tasting tea leaves from the Ming Dynasty, his long beard covered his chin, and a pair of gloomy eyes said to the noble Andrei with a bit of mockery: "Andrey, you really lost the face of my Grand Duchy of Moscow, more than 20,000 elite troops, but less than 4,000 people......"

Andrei's relationship with Alyosha was very unharmonious, which involved the battle for positions between the second and third corps, so seeing that Alyosha was targeting Andrei, the commander of the sixth corps, Schertle, who was sitting on the side, sat there with his eyes squinted and did not say a word.

Andrei glanced at Alyosha lightly and said, "Alyosha, when you fight with the army of the Ming Empire, you can talk about this again." ”

With a wave of his sleeves, Alyosha's eyes flashed, and he sneered: "Since the commander of this army is here, then those Ming people don't want to leave." ”

It can be seen that Alyosha is full of confidence, and there is a strong confidence between his words, which is the belief of a hundred battle generals.

Ignoring Andrei no more, Alyosha looked at Shetl on the side and said, "Shetel, dare to go with me to meet the Ming army for a while." ”

Shetl is as calm as a mountain, among several major armies, if the second army led by Alyosha is as cunning as a fox and aggressive as the wind under its influence, then the sixth army is naturally influenced by Shetel, the army is as calm as a mountain, and the defensive ability is amazing.

The Second Legion has a strong attack and the Sixth Legion has a strong defensive ability, and it can be seen from this alone that Vasily III did not send reinforcements casually.

Shetl nodded slightly, not fighting or grabbing, looking willing to cooperate with Alyosha.

Don't look at Shetel who is not in a hurry or impatient, but whether it is Alyosha or Andrei, no one dares to underestimate Sheter.

Tens of thousands of troops are marching out, and the movement is naturally not small, and the second and sixth legions are obviously very adaptable to this kind of wild environment and climate, after all, they have seen too much of this kind of environment in many years of foreign expansion.

In contrast, the 2nd and 6th legions marched much faster than the large army led by Cheng Xiangwu.

The distance of forty or fifty miles was only a day's march for the Second and Sixth Legions, while the Ming Dynasty needed at least one and a half days, which was half the difference.

This is not surprising, who let the Ming Dynasty build many official roads, even in the war there are roads to follow, He Zeng to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the second and sixth armies in the general expansion of the outside world, the places they walk are all wild lands, there is no road to find.

The two different environments naturally produced different armies, and it was clear that in this environment, the armies of the Grand Duchy of Moscow were superior in terms of marching alone.

The day after Cheng Yu arrived at Lu Dazhu's camp, a fast horse galloped over, and it was Lu Dazhu's sentry out.

The sentry went straight to the tent, alarming many generals.

In the big tent, Lu Dazhu looked at the sentry with a little surprise on his face, and said in great surprise: "What, you said that the enemy has appeared ten miles away?" ”

No wonder Lu Dazhu was so surprised, although he said that he had spread the sentry out for dozens of miles, and there were even traces of Ming army sentry around Alyosha's camp.

But Alyosha deserved to be the famous general of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the first thing to do before the army was to block the news and kill the enemy sentinels.

Therefore, all the sentinels sent by Lu Dazhu were poisoned, and they were not even able to spread the news.

By the time the army approached the camp of the Ming army, the number of sentinels naturally increased, even if Alyosha sent a large number of sentinels, but they could no longer block the news.

Therefore, when the whereabouts of the army were exposed, Lu Dazhu was naturally surprised.

Even though he vaguely sensed that these barbarian armies were faintly superior to them in terms of marching speed during the battle with the Third Legion, Lu Dazhu didn't care too much, and only regarded it as the potential of the other party's escape.

But now the enemy was able to sneak in so short a short time that he was less than ten miles away from the camp.

If this is a flat land, under the high-speed charge of the cavalry, I am afraid that it will be half an hour before the horse will step on the joint camp.

The sound of horns sounded in the wide camp, and soon the ranks were quickly formed into formations and gathered together under the leadership of their respective generals.

In less than a cup of tea, tens of thousands of troops lined up in a neat phalanx and marched out of the camp and set up a formation.

It was only about half an hour, and I saw the smoke and dust billowing from the sky on the horizon in front of me, and the earth shook faintly, and a black army swept in like a torrent.

The vast smoke and dust obscured the sky, and the first thing that caught the eye was the astonishing cavalry team.

The vast land of Siberia, although there are no roads to speak of, is relatively suitable for cavalry charges.

A quarter of the men and horses of the Second Army are cavalry, and as the blade of the Second Army, the cavalry battalion is definitely the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Second Army.

Squinting his eyes, Lu Dazhu stood on top of the high watchtower, and with the help of the clairvoyant mirror, he could clearly see the rolling army.

What is the appearance of an army, just by looking at its march, you can see one or two, Lu Dazhu is a qualified general, not to mention anything else, at least he still has eyesight, and he can see at a glance that this army is an elite.

Needless to say, the elite is not to mention that several large armies are in the period of external expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and they are not at all comparable to those armies that have not experienced war for hundreds of years.

The comparison between the two is like a wild wolf than a house dog, which of the two has stronger attack power, it can be seen at a glance.

The distance between the two armies is only more than 100 zhang, and in the eyes of Lu Dazhu and others, this barbarian army on the opposite side is really the elite they have seen, and it is only in the heyday of Tatar, and its Great Khan's personal guard can be compared with it.

I thought that the Third Army was already the strongest army in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, but I didn't expect that it would not be long before such two strong legions came.

As a soldier, the stronger the opponent, the higher the fighting spirit, Lu Dazhu has his own pride, and behind him stands the Ming Empire, representing the face of the Ming Dynasty.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Dazhu walked down the watchtower, rode the good horse under him, and slowly approached the army on the opposite side surrounded by the personal guards.

Alyosha put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, with a bit of solemnity in his eyes, the Ming army was tightly arrayed, and it was by no means comparable to those armies he had seen before, plus there was a precedent of the Third Army in front of him, which made Alyosha a little solemn and cautious.

But there was a clear flash of excitement in Alyosha's eyes, and it could be seen that Alyosha was very excited, patted the war horse under him, and went straight to Lu Dazhu.

The commanders of the two armies stopped at a distance of more than ten zhang in front of the two armies, and their eyes were intertwined, as if there was a flash of fire.

"Da Ming, Lu Dazhu, the governor of the expeditionary force!"

"Grand Duchy of Moscow, Commander of the 2nd Army, Alyosha"

The momentum of the two converged, no matter who it was, they were all not left behind, and after glancing at each other, Lu Dazhu and Alyosha turned around and rode away.

The generals on both sides were stunned and puzzled when they saw this scene, but just when they were surprised in their hearts, they heard Lu Dazhu and Alyosha turn around and shout in unison: "The army charges, kill with me!" ”

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