In the early hours of the morning, the sound of wheels broke the silence of the night, and two horses drove into the city with a four-wheeled carriage to the gate of the Znamensky Cathedral in the Central District, where the soldiers in the car stopped the car, looked at the sleeping or restless refugees gathered on both sides of the street, and knocked on the gate with raised hands.

Dongdong!

Squeak...

A dark face peeked out from the door of the church, and the butler Lissell stood at the door with a kerosene lamp, looked at the soldiers who knocked on the door, and asked in a low voice, "What is the matter with you?" ”

"I am on the orders of Her Highness Katerina to take Father Mavi out of the city." The soldier replied.

"Wait a minute."

Closing the door, the butler Listed walked past the refugees who were resting in the church, walked briskly upstairs, and knocked on the bedroom door.

Znamensky Cathedral was a ruin before, but the housekeeper Listed found someone to clean it thoroughly, so there was no dust, and a few sets of tables and chairs could be used, and as for the mattress, Mavi was not picky, as long as there was a bed quilt to cover the cold of the night.

He slept on the hard bed.

The knock on the door woke up the sleeping Mavi, he sat up, rubbed his swollen temples, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and found that it was already after 4 o'clock in the morning, immediately changed his clothes, went to the next door to pick up the sleeping Yunia, took a carriage, and rushed towards the camp outside the city.

Edward followed, it didn't seem to need to sleep, hung upside down on the ceiling and closed its eyes, heard movement in the hallway, and immediately opened its eyes.

"Don't call the communication?" Edward glanced at Yunia, who was sleeping in Mavi's arms, and asked, "If he's here, he can also have an extra layer of protection." ”

"It's enough to have the Siren's Tears, Fat Orange and Little Black haven't come back yet, and the church must keep people."

Mavi yawned, some of which did not wake up, and he only rested for less than four hours, during which he had a dream. It was dark in his dreams, he saw nothing, he couldn't hear anything, he couldn't even move, as if he was bound by something.

The dream caused him to wake up with soreness and stiffness...... I guess it has something to do with sleeping on a hard bed, Ma Wei thought.

As dawn approached, the night reached its darkest hour, and it was pitch black outside the city, except for the flickering lights of the camp in the distance.

The 15th and 19th Cavalry Regiments had been assembled, and the brave Cossacks wore heavy green overcoats, black cloaks, cavalry knives and revolvers at their waists, and a front-loading rifle on their backs.

As one of the most elite cavalry on the continent, they have experienced the baptism of battle, their eyes are sharp, and the traces of liquor remain under their heroic beards. Commanders Onufri and Raffl followed Katerina out of the command post, turned on their horses, and quietly waited for orders.

"Father Mavi, we are going to start from the western path, bypass the frozen river, and sneak up on the command post of the 2nd Front Army stationed in the village from the flank, this time the main task is to harass, create chaos, and lure the snake out of the hole." Katerina asked a few horses to be brought in and briefly described the battle plan: "When the First Front Army begins to send reinforcements, then storm the First Front Army garrison as quickly as possible, blow up the railroad there, so that the First Front Army cannot reach Tyumen City in its entirety." ”

"Blowing up the railroad is the main task, right? Everything else is sheep attack. ”

"That's right."

Ma Wei nodded, indicating that he understood, and looked at Katerina, who was wearing a military uniform and turned over on the horse, and couldn't help frowning: "You also want to participate in the attack?" ”

Katerina put on her military cap, took the long knife handed by the personal maid and inserted it into her waist, took out the magazine of the revolver and checked it, and said with a blank face: "I am with the soldiers." ”

Under Mavi's slightly surprised gaze, she commanded two cavalry regiments totaling nearly 15,000 men to begin the march. The dense and dull sound of horses' hooves woke Yunia, who was sleeping soundly in Mavi's arms, and she rubbed her sleepy eyes, poked her head timidly, looked at the solemn soldiers around her, and shrunk her neck in the cold wind.

"Daddy," she whispered, "is this going to war?" ”

"Well, it's just pre-war harassment, not a general offensive yet."

Mavi flicked the reins, passed the marching soldiers, and came to Katerina's side at the front, "Our mission today is to assist Her Highness Katerina in destroying the troop transport railway. ”

No anti-theft

Yunia was not scared at all, she just felt a little cold, a great cold wave was coming towards Tyumen, which was about to enter a snowy winter, and the temperature was dropping again and again.

At 5:30 a.m., the cavalry regiment climbed a hillside and saw the village lit up in the distance.

There, at the moment there were no villagers, occupied by the Second Army, the terrain was flat, located on the upper banks of the Tobol River, with plenty of water, and it was a good place to be stationed.

The commander of the Second Army, Marquis James, a professionally trained general, dispersed 50 corps in batches and stationed around the banks of the Tobol River, completely covering the western side of Tyumen City, allowing the other corps to quickly support any situation.

But....

Although he had undergone professional military training, he made a common-sense mistake in the face of the cold winter of the Romanov Kingdom.

Marquis James didn't seem to know how cold the Romanov Kingdom was in winter, and he subconsciously thought that the river could be used as a line of defense to block the enemy's cavalry charge, but in fact, the thick ice on the river surface in the Romanov Kingdom in winter could fully support the weight of the cavalry regiment.

At the end of December, a great cold wave came, and the river was completely frozen, and even a hoe could not cut through the hard ice.

This is Katerina's chosen fighter.

She took advantage of the darkness to bypass the blockade of the other legions, and crept along the ice to the flank of the village, which...

It was precisely where the command post of the Second Army was located.

Katerina stepped forward, her cold gaze swept over the Cossack cavalry waiting in the night, and said in a loud voice: "Everyone, we have been waiting for this battle for a whole month!" The soldiers of the Kingdom of Windsor have relied on their advanced weapons to invade our homeland, trample our farmland, and humiliate our people! Now that I'm back, it's time for revenge! You are not fighting for me, you are fighting for the Romanov kingdom, for your families, for your wives and sons who are waiting for your return on the banks of the Don River! Whoever wants to take away our land and our happiness must step on our corpses! ”

She drew her long knife and pointed her head at the sky: "Follow me and defeat the invading enemy!" Ulla! ”

"Ulla!

！ ”

The horse's hooves shook the ground, the capes fluttered behind them, the flag of the Romanov kingdom fluttered in the wind, and the army, like a black torrent, rushed down the hillside, crossed the frozen river, and charged the Second Army stationed in the village with an indomitable momentum.