This encounter that broke out on the banks of the Ural River directly made the generals on both sides more vigilant and put away their contempt.

Whether it is Lu Dazhu leading the elite army all the way north, I don't know how many tribes and how many small countries have been destroyed, but the opponents they have encountered are actually very limited in combat effectiveness, at least few enemies can make the elite army under his command pay too much price.

In the same way, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which was at the peak of its foreign expansion, was absolutely combat-effective during this period, and the huge territory of later generations was almost slowly laid in this period.

When it comes to land combat power, looking at the Western world, there are almost no rivals to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and in the same Eastern world, the Ming Dynasty is absolutely invincible.

A great battle broke out in a chance encounter between the two armies on the banks of the Ural River, in which both sides did not know at the beginning what the origin of their opponents was, anyway, under the principle that they were all enemies except me, but whenever they encountered an enemy, no matter what the origin of the other party, they would kill them directly.

It is conceivable that in this case, when two elite armies collide together, a tragic battle will be staged like this.

The army sent by the Grand Duchy of Moscow was a legion, that is, 20,000 men, and the number of such a force was not much, but it was not too much.

The army led by Lu Dazhu was full of 50,000 people when he set out on the expedition, but in addition to the battles again and again, there were almost thousands of wounded soldiers along the way, plus some soldiers could not adapt to the environment of a foreign country and had to leave the team, and now there are about 47,000 people left.

So when it comes to numbers, in fact, the Ming side has an advantage in numbers, 20,000 against 47,000, which can almost be said to be a crushing advantage.

At the beginning, the two sides only encountered each other, and there was no psychological preparation at all, so the vanguard armies of the two sides collided together.

In this case, just a fight, both sides feel the opponent's prickly and difficult degree, but the more so, the more the two sides attach great importance to it, and the direct response is to invest more people, preferably to destroy the other party in one wave.

It's just that the two sides threw their armies in, and the final result was a tragic battle, not only Lu Dazhu was distressed to death when he watched the soaring speed of battle damage, but as the commander of the Third Army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Andrei almost fainted with heartache.

The death of any soldier would be a great loss for Andre and Lu Dazhu.

Seeing that if he continued to fight, Andre, who was really going to break his muscles, did not withdraw his troops, but instead broke out the belligerent nature of his nation, and led the only soldiers and horses under his command to take the lead in killing.

It is worthy of being a nation known as a fighting nation, and its outbreak of combat power was stunned to suppress the Ming side for a while, and stabilized the crumbling situation.

Lu Dazhu, who was sitting in the rear and looking at the overall situation, obviously noticed the change in the enemy's morale, and soon Lu Dazhu found that on the battlefield, everywhere he went was Andre who led the morale of those alien armies to rise.

With a squint of his eyes, Lu Dazhu slapped his horse directly and rushed straight towards Andre.

Andre held a broadsword in his hand, and the broadsword was extremely easy to dance in his hand, and every sword went down with a great Ming soldier to suffer heavy losses.

Just as Andre slapped a Ming army commander away, he suddenly had a sense of crisis in his heart, and subconsciously looked up and saw a general in armor on the opposite side coming towards him.

Lu Dazhu, as a rare general in the Ming army, is naturally very amazing in his armed forces.

The spear was in the air, hitting Andre directly, if such a shot was stabbed in the body, I was afraid that he would be crippled if he didn't die on the spot.

A good Andre, in the face of the imposing Lu Dazhu, he didn't dodge or dodge, he jumped up suddenly, and took advantage of the horse's body to jump up and slash down towards Lu Dazhu from the air.

I have to say that Andre's blow can be described as exquisite, not only avoiding Lu Dazhu's blow, but turning passive into active, and suddenly grasping the initiative in his hands.

However, Andre is not ordinary, Lu Dazhu is not weak, seeing that Andre avoided his own blow and fought back towards him, a touch of disdain flashed in Lu Dazhu's eyes.

I saw Lu Dazhu slamming his fist towards the broadsword that Andre had chopped down.

With a buzz, I saw Lu Dazhu's palm smash on the blade of the broadsword, and he pressed Andre's blow alive.

It's just that as soon as he fought, Lu Dazhu grasped Andrei's strength, in fact, Andrei's strength was worse than Lu Dazhu's, but the two sides were not a system, and it was impossible to make an effective comparison of the force.

A look of horror flashed in Andre's eyes, obviously he felt the strength of Lu Dazhu as soon as he fought.

"Hahaha, good, good, it's rare to meet an opponent, Lu wants to learn it."

Lu Dazhu, who was laughing profusely, was shocked, but looked at Andre with a solemn face excitedly.

Lu Dazhu set his eyes on Andre, and the commanders of the two armies were stunned to fight together, which is quite rare, after all, as the commander of an army, if it is not necessary, as the head of an army, it is more to control the overall situation, rather than to be brave and easily fight in the chaos.

Without the control of the two commanders, the soldiers on both sides who were already fighting together were even more immersed in fighting, both armies were elite, and their perseverance was extraordinary.

However, these two teams cannot be compared with ordinary teams, which can be called the strongest in the world, and the two most elite teams are engaged in a fight at this time, and they have not been affected by the battle damage at all.

With a muffled snort, he saw Andre's figure flying out upside down, and the moment he landed, he stepped back a few steps, leaving a few deep footprints on the ground and knocking several soldiers away.

Compared to Andre completely unloading the strength that invaded his body, the soldiers who were knocked out by Andre were really wronged.

His face flushed a little red, Andre forcibly swallowed the blood that poured up his throat, his body shook slightly, and he stared at Lu Dazhu, who was standing in front of him with a spear in his hand.

Compared with the embarrassed Andre, Lu Dazhu's situation is obviously a little better, after all, Lu Dazhu's strength is much stronger than Andrey, if it weren't for Andre's hard work, maybe Andre would have been stabbed to death by Lu Dazhu at this time.

"Withdraw!"

Andrei is worthy of being the master of a legion, and his ability to control the battle situation is still quite strong.

The low and deep sound of the horn sounded, and the soldiers on both sides who were immersed in the fight were stunned, and the soldiers on the side of the Grand Duchy of Moscow could naturally hear that the horn sound was actually ordering them to withdraw their troops.

How long has it been since they had heard the horn of withdrawal, at least in the process of their external expansion, the horn of withdrawal had hardly sounded, but they never thought that it would sound at this time.

For a moment, many soldiers showed doubts, subconsciously thinking that they had heard it wrong, but if they carefully distinguished, it was indeed the sound of a horn for retreat.

Suddenly the army was in chaos, but it was rare that it did not collapse, while resisting and retreating, after leaving a mess of corpses, it was finally a strong man who broke his wrist and abandoned some of his soldiers, and successfully got rid of the entanglement with the Ming army.

Lu Dazhu was not in a hurry to catch up with Andre and the others, not that Lu Dazhu didn't want to catch up, but this battle was quite shocking for the Ming soldiers, plus there were many casualties in the battle, even Lu Dazhu didn't dare to catch up easily.

It was just a short battle of about an hour, and the number of dead and wounded reached as many as 2,000, you must know that along the way, there have been dozens of large and small battles, and there are only thousands of dead and wounded, but this battle has fallen by about 2,000 people.

Several generals looked at the casualty figures that had taken more than an hour to count, looked at Lu Dazhu with solemn expressions and said: "Marshal, what is the origin of these people, they are so fierce, they are even more fierce than the Tatars, and it can be said that they are the most difficult army we have encountered along the way." ”

Lu Dazhu glanced at the generals around him, and snorted coldly: "Let you send a sentry to find out the news, you can do it well, one by one, how about it, I met an opponent this time, I don't even know who I suffered." ”

What Lu Dazhu's temperament is, these generals under his command know very well, just listening to Lu Dazhu say this, everyone knows that Lu Dazhu is not angry.

A general said to Lu Dazhu with a somewhat embarrassed smile: "Marshal, if you say that, you must know what these enemies are!" ”

In fact, when they first fought, Lu Dazhu was really a little confused, because he didn't know what these people were about.

However, as the head of an army, Lu Dazhu obviously has a lot more information than those generals, after all, the news from the outposts that were scattered was first summarized by the people of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and then the important news was selected and presented to Lu Dazhu for a look.

Lu Dazhu learned about the news about the Grand Duchy of Moscow in this way, but when he was fighting just now, Lu Dazhu's attention was all focused on the fight, but he didn't think about what the opponent was.

But after calming down at this moment, Lu Dazhu already understood the origin of the enemy he encountered not long ago.

When Lu Dazhu and others were talking about Andre and his party, when they rushed all the way to open a distance of more than ten miles with the Ming army, Andre spurted out a mouthful of blood, and the whole person fell from the horse.

As the commander of the first army, Andrei suddenly fell from his horse, which naturally frightened the army. Several generals immediately stabilized the army and helped Andrei up.

Andre, whose face was pale, slowly woke up, looked at several generals around him with a bit of solemnity in his eyes, and finally landed on Anthony, who was covered in blood.

"Anthony!"

Anthony hurriedly said to Andrei: "General, how are you, that man actually injured you so badly!" ”

Andrei took a long breath, perked up, stared at Anthony and said: "Anthony, I order you to go to Moscow as quickly as possible, and tell Your Majesty that we have encountered the Ming army in the Ural Mountains, and I hope that Your Majesty can send a large army to come, otherwise the Ming army will drive straight into the city of Moscow!" ”

Anthony and several generals on the side couldn't help but change their expressions one by one when they heard this, and they heard Anthony exclaim: "What, these people turned out to be Mingren, they ...... Aren't they at war with the Portuguese and the Dutch? ”

After all, the Grand Duchy of Moscow is now expanding everywhere, and it can be said that it is a major power in the West, and it is impossible not to know the news of the war between Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands against the Ming Dynasty.

But because of their identity, only a very small number of people in the upper echelons of the Grand Duchy of Moscow really know.

As the leader of the legion, Andre is certainly qualified to know this, and he even saw the flag pattern of the Great Tomorrow Moon Banner in the news.

If that were not the case, Andrei would not have been able to recognize the identity of the army they were fighting against.

It is precisely because he is aware of Lu Dazhu's identity that Andrei is so solemn, because behind the Ming Dynasty stands an extremely powerful country, if the Grand Duchy of Moscow does not show the strongest posture, I am afraid that it will not be able to stop the Ming Dynasty's troops.

Andrei endured his injuries and chose a mountain pass to set up camp, and even wanted to stay to stop Lu Dazhu and his party to buy time for Moscow to send reinforcements.

Lu Dazhu's speed of action was not slow, but in one day, tens of thousands of troops reappeared in the sight of Andre and others.

This time, Lu Dazhu was obviously prepared, not only sending people to arrest local people within a radius of dozens of miles, but also thoroughly understanding Andrei and the Grand Duchy of Moscow from these people.

The more he learned, the more Lu Dazhu became interested in such a country that had expanded from a small kingdom to the outside world step by step and occupied a vast territory.

Relying on the intuition of a soldier, Lu Dazhu realized that such a country with strong combat effectiveness and a military strength that is not weaker than that of the Ming Dynasty is left unchecked, I am afraid that it will become a big problem for the Ming Dynasty in a few years.

Just as Lu Dazhu gave the order to storm the defensive positions of the Third Army, a group of messengers was hurrying towards the Beijing Division.

The summer of the nineteenth year of Ming Zhengde

In the Forbidden City, in the imperial study, Zhu Houzhao sat upright, and several cabinet elders looked at an urgent report with a solemn expression.

Zhu Hou, who had a ruddy complexion, looked at several cabinet elders, and the corners of his mouth turned slightly towards Yang Yiqing and said, "Yang Aiqing, I don't know what you think of the military report sent by Lu Aiqing?" ”

Brushing his beard, Yang Yiqing first glanced at Wang Yangming and several other pavilion elders, and then saw Yang Yiqing take a step forward and saluted the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this battle should be avoided and avoided, thousands of miles away, throw 100,000 troops in a foreign country thousands of miles away, victory is useless, once defeated, it will damage the prestige of Your Majesty's holy king......"

Zhu Houzhao bowed slightly, stared at Wang Yangming and said, "Wang Aiqing, I don't know what your opinion is?" ”

Suddenly, several pavilion elders all looked at Wang Yangming, and in the face of the gaze of several pavilion elders, Wang Yangming was not affected at all, but looked at Zhu Houzhao with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, the minister believes in General Lu's judgment, this battle must be fought, if the 100,000 army is not enough, then we will dispatch 200,000, otherwise raising tigers will be troubled, and he will have endless disasters in the future......

Yang Yiqing couldn't help frowning and said: "Lord Wang, that's a hundred thousand troops, the most important thing is that they are thousands of miles apart, have you considered how much it will cost to put 100,000 troops thousands of miles away?" ”