, Novotov returned to his former calm. Due to the blockade of the port some time ago, many originally scheduled goods could not leave the port, and the reputation of the merchants suffered a great blow, so as soon as the fleet of the Ming army left, all kinds of merchant ships were busy, and they had been delayed long enough, and now if they do not try their best to recover, I am afraid that this business will not be able to continue.

For the armistice and the Ming Dynasty peace talks, perhaps many people in Moscow are dissatisfied, but for Mrs. Rostow, they are strongly supportive, they do not want the war to continue, the war means that the business is gone, and the loss of business will naturally lead to many people losing their jobs, everyone has to support their families, and it is impossible to not even eat for the sake of the war.

In the city of Rostov-on-Don, it has gradually returned to its former calm, the street market has gradually prospered, in everyone's hearts, everything is over, the nightmare has woken up, and now what we have to do is to reimagine life, it is said that in order to increase the labor force, His Majesty the Tsar has let some of the soldiers on the front line put down their arms and return to their hometowns, in addition, in order to recuperate, Peter Tsar also took a variety of various war taxes, so that The whole of Rostov and even Russia felt that the war was getting farther and farther away from them, especially some veterans of the garrison on the frontier gradually began to return to their stations, and some temporarily conscripted soldiers were also dismissed, which made many people see the dawn of peace.

Major Odevsky, who was guarding the port of Rostov-on-Don, sat at a post near the port and secretly drank vodka, drunk and half-lying on his chair, both by duty and legally. Vodka is not allowed to be consumed.

Vodka was originally a disinfectant brewed by Orthodox people, but one day, a monk secretly drank the "disinfectant" and made it widely spread in Russia and became vodka. But soon the Orthodox Church declared vodka the devil and destroyed the documents related to it. And it was forbidden for Russians to drink, Russians were naturally good wine, and where it was forbidden to live, although there was supervision by the church, but up to the court, down to the poorest serfs, did not withstand the temptation, and in the end, the Orthodox Church could only turn a blind eye.

After the bottle bottomed out, the drunken Major Odevsky put on his coat, put on his military cap crookedly, and led a few soldiers to the port to inspect the sentry, out of the outpost, a cold wind poured in, Colonel Odevsky did not feel cold Now his body was hot, under the influence of alcohol, like a furnace, so that he unscrewed a button, and staggered to the port.

"Hey," Major Çechzhiodevsky walked into the post near the port and asked one of the officers on duty here: "How is it?" Is there anything abnormal? ”

The officer immediately saluted: "Major, everything is normal." ”

That's fine, Major Odevsky laughed: "Man, there is no war now, enjoy the wine and peace to your heart's content." ”

The officer nodded with a strange face, at this time, the harbor suddenly became chaotic, Major Odevsky struck a clever blow, climbed the tower, and then, what he saw was the endless sails raised, on the sea, one after another battleships blocked the entire harbor, the sail was clearly a sign of the Ming Dynasty, and then, boom, a battleship began to attack the merchant ships that had just left the port with artillery fire, Major Odevsky couldn't help but scold: "It's the Han again, these brutes."

His wine had already been woken up from fright, and he yelled: "Prepare for war." ”

Soon, however, he gave another order: "Retreat, all retreat, to the city of Rostov-on-Don." ”

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The port of Rostov fell quickly, after a burst of artillery bombardment, countless infantry landed on the shore, the crowd was surging, densely packed everywhere, after the assembly, immediately towards Rostov-on-Don, countless soldiers marched on the snowy field like waves, 50,000 dragoon regiments, plus 20,000 marines of the Western Naval Division, the winding paths were clear, and the air was filled with heavy slaughter.

Liu Chengzhi is a native of Jiangxi, he is different from other officers, in the Ming Dynasty, many of the regiments are from the martial arts hall, at this time the banquet family martial arts hall can be said to be the largest military academy in the Ming Dynasty, there are more than 2,000 students recruited every year, but it is a pity that the screening is extremely harsh at this time, not only requires literacy, but also sets restrictions in terms of age and physical fitness.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Chengzhi was screened out because he was illiterate, and he could only choose to start as an ordinary soldier.

He originally belonged to the Tianjin patrol fleet, when the Ming Dynasty occupied Tianjin, with Shi Lang as a guerrilla, led hundreds of ships to harass the entire Jiangbei coast, constantly from the sea suddenly landed, attacked those towns near the sea, Liu Chengzhi killed two Manchu in a battle, so he was promoted to the captain, after that, he led a team of men and horses to complete a difficult espionage mission, in one fell swoop in the hinterland of Shandong pulled out a full of early warning outposts, and won the Order of the Viper, and then, in a battle again and again, He finally became an officer, although his rank was not high, he was only the head of a hundred households of a small squad of artillerymen, but for this young man from a tenant background, it was enough.

world" action. The Western Naval Division Marines removed the guns from the ship. Kawa's task was to lead his small artillery team, together with other artillery teams, to bombard the walls of Rostov and cover the infantry siege.

After the soldiers had finished the artillery, Liu Chengzhi carefully inspected it, and immediately sent someone to report to the battalion, and after a while, the direction of the guerrilla general of the artillery battalion issued an order, and one after another small flags were drawn, and Liu Chengzhi shouted without hesitation: "Open the cannon"

The voices of the heralds and officers of each team came out one after another.

"Boom. For a while, the cannon roared, the smoke was filled, and the artillery shells rained towards the city of Rostov-on-Don, and then fell into the city of Rostov-on-Don.

"That's it?" Liu Chengzhi felt a little incredible, he had also been ordered to bomb the city wall, but it often took a lot of effort, but the Russian city wall was really weak, he pouted and made a disdainful expression towards Rostov.

Immediately after that, the shouts of killing came out, and under one command after another, countless infantry began to charge towards the collapsed gap like a flood. The artillery of the rear team, naturally, was idle.

Liu Chengzhi felt a little regretful, originally thought that this siege battle was an artillery performance, but who knows, before a few rounds were shown, it was completely forgotten by the battlefield of fighting.

The next thing was to watch the battle, and the artillerymen crowded into the jutting hill and looked towards the city, but soon they lost their interest, for there was nothing to see in this battle. There were not many Russian troops in the city, and after losing the protection of the city walls, under the impact of a well-trained and well-equipped Ming army, they constantly shrank back the defensive line, and finally turned into street fighting, and the entire city of Rostov completely fell after an hour, except for some stubborn Russian soldiers who were still resisting at various street corners and had not yet been cleared, all important positions had been controlled.

"Duke of Rostov? We meet again? Bai Cheng looked at the frightened Duke of Rostov with some comfort.

Duke Rostov looked bitter, he was unlucky enough, the first time the dragoons attacked Rostov-on-Don, he became a prisoner, under the supervision of the Ming army for a period of time, that period of time, naturally unbearable, how uncomfortable and uncomfortable, a dignified duke, good blessings, but confined in a small house, the family has already been moved, finally waited until the Ming and the new tsar signed a peace treaty, the dragoons gave him better treatment, and told him, They were going to leave in a few days, when he was still his duke, the then Duke of Rostov was so overjoyed that he even wanted to kiss Bai Cheng's toes, and then, the Ming army really left, he prayed silently in his heart, hoping that they would never come back, but the good days had not passed for a few days, and the nightmare began again.

The Duke of Rostov-on-Don was considered the second to enter the palace, and immediately understood what kind of attitude he should put on as a prisoner, although his teeth were chattering with hatred, but his face was flattering: "Your Excellency, you are back again, um", I am so happy"

Bai Cheng sneered and said to the guards beside him: "Come on, tie him up, load him on the boat, and escort him back to Daming at that time." ”，，

Although he was only fourteen years old, Peter was much more precocious than his peers, especially after mastering the power, he was still a little "wooden, but he suddenly became energetic, he was full of energy, and after signing the peace treaty with the Ming Dynasty, he immediately issued many orders for recuperation, these orders had been thought about countless times as early as when he was still the second tsar, so that he did not seem too flustered when he first took power.

He deposed some of the officials of the big family who were on the table and promoted a lot of fresh blood to the core of the power, and these young officials immediately took action in response to the current predicament, some veterans were ordered to disband, in order to increase the working population, taxes began to be slowly lowered, the militant faction who was still dissatisfied with Peter's truce gradually increased a lot of favor towards the spirited new tsar, there were fewer alcoholics in the city of Moscow, people began to get busy, and everyone understood that the time for recovery had come, The Empire must lick its wounds in order to accumulate the strength that has been lost in years of war.

In the Kremlin, Peter and several ministers are discussing the withdrawal of the Russian army from the Ottoman territory, while making peace with the Ming Dynasty, the peace talks with the Ottomans are also in full swing, the attitude of the Ottomans is very simple, everything is based on the Ming Dynasty, speaking of which, the Ottomans have long been tired of fighting on both sides, for Russia, they do not have much ambition for the time being, the Ottomans live in the hot desert edge area all year round, and have long been accustomed to the heat, If you let them go, the ghost heart that is so cold that even snot can be frozen into ice cubes in an instant, "I'm afraid they won't be interested." For the Ottomans, their "first mark was still Austria, as long as this pillbox into Western Europe was opened, then the whole catty." The door of Western Europe can be opened for the Ottomans at any time, which can be regarded as the long-cherished wish of the Ottoman sultans, and when the news of the alliance between the Ming and Russia came, the Ottomans also immediately negotiated with the Russians, and the final result was that the Russians ceded a piece of land close to the Black Sea as compensation, and the two countries understood each other and made peace.

Peter agreed to the Ottomans' demands almost without even thinking about it, not because he was weak, but because he knew better than anyone else that the territory would be constantly changing, and that the land that was lost now would be regained tenfold or hundredfold when Russia recovered.

Several ministers agreed with Peter, now the Russian army has reached 500,000 people, most of them are on the western Ottoman front, this bloated army is simply not what the current Russia can feed, and due to the perennial frenzied recruitment of the husband army, which has led to the continuous decline of the entire Russian working population, if this continues, Russia will no longer even have food to provide to the army, as for military salaries, then basically don't even think about it.

However, on the question of how many soldiers to be abolished, the ministers conflicted with Peter's opinion, Peter's idea was to dismiss half of the men, which is about 170,000 of the nearly 350,000 troops on the front line, and the ministers believed that since the war was not started, Russia's two powerful neighbors had been reconciled, and more should be eliminated, especially the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the young Chancellor of the Exchequer was newly promoted by Peter, and when he went to office, he couldn't help but be startled when he saw the accounts in the treasury. He knew that his finances had deteriorated to the brink of collapse, but the real numbers still struck him as shocking, and if possible, he would even suggest that all the armies be abolished, since there was really not a single gold coin left in the entire empire.

Although Peter was an advocate of disarmament, he still wanted to keep most of the army, after all, there are wars everywhere now, and if you can't be prepared, you may be taken advantage of, especially the Poles, as early as twenty years ago, Tsarist Russia declared war on Poland and annexed the Ukrainian region east of the Dnieper River, and the once prominent Teutonic Knights fell and were forced to become a Russian vassal.

But when the Russians fell into the Ottoman War in the past few years, the Poles suddenly became restless, they began to collude with the Ottomans, and carried out a large-scale expansion of the army, and then continued to provoke the Russian troops stationed in the Ukrainian region, and even arrogant to the point of direct attack from town to town, but when the Russians were ready to counterattack, they sent messengers to ask for forgiveness, and returned part of the town, at that time Russia was in a big war, and there was no time to teach this small neighbor, The incident could only be suppressed, but the Poles saw that Russia had retreated, and they became arrogant again, and they joined forces with Lithuania to invade the Russian border many times, attacked the Russian soldiers guarding the border, and even for a certain period of time, at the instigation of the Ottomans, demanded that Russia cede a piece of land, otherwise they threatened to declare war.

Russian cattle, the Poles are even better, and in the end, Russia forcefully ignored it, and the matter was over, but this incident made the princes of the upper echelons of the Rus' extremely disgusted with the Poles, and even some people at that time proposed that they would rather withdraw from the war with the Ottomans than let the Poles taste the powerful opinions.

And now, Russia has asked the Ottomans and the Ming to cease the war, and the Polish envoys have also intervened, and their demand is that Russia must also cede a part of the land for the Poles to share, otherwise, Poland will use its own sword to demand what they want.

The main reason why Peter was reluctant to cut off most of the army was Poland, and he even wanted to deal a heavy blow to the Poles after the empire recovered slightly, which could be regarded as a stepping stone to the rise of the empire.

"Your Majesty," the Minister of the Inner Court hurried over, interrupting the conversation between Peter and the Minister of the Pounds.

"How to return to loose" Peter was a little upset.

"News came from Rostov-on-Don that the Han Chinese had attacked the port of Rostov-on-Don again, and at the same time, several towns close to the Ural Mountains were attacked by the Ming army of the Siberian side, and in addition, the Ottomans carried out an operation,

A friend suggested that Russia was dying, and there was no need to treacherously yin them and slowly play them to death, well, I thought the same way, but I remembered that Russia, which had experienced the smoke of World War I and World War II, was beaten to ruins in just a few years, and it only took a few years to leap from a serf country with basically no industrial base to one of the top two powers, and fought against almost all the old empires with one person for half a century. What Hitler didn't do, we, this big guy may not be strong, but he is indeed tough.

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