As a result, there was no suspense, and this forward regiment consisting of more than 300 Cossack cavalry was completely annihilated by the Ming army scouts, and not even a single one of them ran away.

No matter how good the equestrian skills are, no matter how fast the war horse runs, it can't be faster than a bullet. The improved new sniper rifle has an effective range of more than 800 meters, and a special shooter like Zhu Cijiong can even hit a target a thousand meters away.

The military technology of the Ming Empire was evolving at an astonishing rate. Due to the lack of early warning from the forward cavalry, the 60,000 Cossack cavalry, as the vanguard of the entire Northern Route Army, encountered the two cavalry divisions of the 1st Cavalry Army led by Zhu Cijiong on the edge of the Kazakh steppe, and a fierce battle broke out between the two armies.

At the beginning, the Cossack cavalry actually relied on the superiority of troops to outflank and try to complete the encirclement of the Ming army.

And the Ming army did not disappoint the Cossack cavalry, and actually dismounted and formed a formation, waiting for the Cossack cavalry to surround it.

After the Cossack cavalry completed the encirclement of the Ming army on all sides, they immediately launched a large-scale attack on the defensive position of the Ming army, and it was a large-scale attack of the whole regiment.

But the result turned out to be completely unexpected by the Cossack cavalry. In the face of the dense artillery and rifle fire of the Ming army, the Cossack cavalry could not get close to within a hundred meters, so not to mention sabers and spears, not even muskets.

In the end, the Cossack cavalry threw heavily into the front and launched a general offensive at any cost. This time, a considerable number of Cossack cavalry finally broke through to the Ming defensive formation.

However, just when the Cossack cavalry couldn't wait to suppress the spears in their hands, draw their sabers, and prepare to break into the Ming army's defensive array and kill, the Ming army's defensive array suddenly burst into flames.

These tongues of fire were like flaming whips in the hands of the Grim Reaper, and wherever they passed, the Cossack cavalry fell off their horses and died on the spot.

Needless to say, these tongues of fire are the masterpieces of heavy machine guns for cavalry, heavy machine guns have now become the standard equipment of the Ming army, and Zhu Cijiong's cavalry corps as the only mobile combat corps in the Ming Dynasty, the equipment rate of heavy machine guns is even higher, each cavalry regiment has a heavy machine gun company, with 9 heavy machine guns.

According to this ratio, a cavalry division has 9 heavy machine gun companies, a full 81 heavy machine guns. Two cavalry divisions are 162 heavy machine guns, and the intensity of their firepower can be imagined.

Anyway, the Cossack cavalry rushed forward wave after wave like a sea of waves, but under the heavy machine-gun fire of the Ming army, wave after wave fell, and flesh and blood flew sideways.

Oh my God, this is a 13.2mm large-caliber heavy machine gun. Don't talk about people, even war horses will be torn to pieces directly for you.

That scene, there is really no way to describe it in words, it is miserable. After this massive charge, the remaining Cossack cavalry was directly frightened.

Yes, that's right, the Cossack cavalry, which has always been known for its bravery and good at fighting, and has been rampaging through the steppes of Eastern Europe for hundreds of years, was directly frightened by the heavy machine guns of the Ming army this time, turned around and ran.

Unfortunately, the Cossack cavalry already had no chance of escaping. Zhu Cijiong's military talent was originally quite good, and so many years of crusades and crusades in the west have provided him with extremely rich practical combat experience, and it is no exaggeration to say that Zhu Cijiong is definitely one of the world's famous generals now.

As a famous general, how could Zhu Cijiong leave a way for the Cossack cavalry to live? At the time of the battle between the two cavalry divisions and the Cossack cavalry, the other two cavalry divisions had already been outflanked and directly cut off the retreat of the Cossack cavalry.

In the end, 60,000 Cossack cavalry were completely annihilated by the Ming army. The sand breath was transmitted back to the Kyrgyz steppe, and the commander of the Northern Route Army, Prince Karl of Sweden, and the deputy commander Molozov were directly rectified, this is the Cossack cavalry, 60,000 Cossack cavalry, and it is gone?

Frightened by the news, Morozov immediately said that he would withdraw his troops back to Moscow. At this time, the national strength of Tsarist Russia was still very weak, and the aristocracy was in power, the imperial power was weak, and the whole country was loose and weak, so Molotov cared more about the interests of his family.

Before sending troops, Molotzov thought that he could take this opportunity to brush up on the prestige of his family. One hundred and ten years later, his own family may have the opportunity to replace the Romanovs as tsars.

But as soon as the battle began, Molozov found that the ferocity of the Ming army was beyond his imagination, not to mention the prestige, he would die on the battlefield, and the Boris family would also be wiped out.

So Morozov quit and immediately said that he would lead the army to retreat. In the end, it was Prince Karl who tried his best to persuade and save him to dispel his thoughts.

Prince Karl's thoughts were still not quite the same as Morozov's. To put it bluntly, Morozov is a politician, and this time he sent troops only to take the opportunity to gain prestige, or to take this opportunity to let the Boris family actually control the military power of Tsarist Russia and prepare for the usurpation of power.

But Prince Karl was an aspirant, because he studied under the famous general Thorstensen. Prince Karl not only wanted to take advantage of this crusade to make brilliant achievements, so that after returning to China, he could naturally take over the throne from his cousin with this military exploit, and then, Prince Karl also led the Swedish army that had triumphed eastward to the south again to continue the unfinished business of Gustav II.

What is the great cause? A united Europe, of course! Because of this, Prince Karl did not want to withdraw his troops in disgrace.

Because of such a disgraced withdrawal of troops back home, not to mention the continuation of Gustav II's great cause, even his cousin Christina may not be willing to return the throne to him.

Then again, this Prince Karl does have two brushes as well. After the 60,000 Cossack cavalry as the forward corps was completely annihilated, Prince Karl immediately realized that the level of firepower of the coalition army could not be compared with the Ming army at all, whether it was artillery or muskets, they were completely crushed by the Ming army, so to engage in large-scale field battles with the Ming army was to seek death.

Realizing this, Prince Karl changed his tactics and began to build a large number of bastions. In just half a year, the coalition forces built a defense line of thousands of miles from the city of Ufa at the southwestern foot of the Ural Mountains in the north to the city of Astrakhan on the northwest shore of the Caspian Sea in the south, and this defense line consisted of more than 3,000 fortresses, large and small.

There was a lot of space between the forts, and the Ming cavalry could come and go freely without hindrance. However, the logistical baggage of the Ming army wanted to pass through this line of defense, which was wishful thinking.

The servant tribes such as the Dzungar Department and the Turghut Department, as well as cattle and sheep carried by the Ming army, could not get through. In other words, you can go over the Ming army, but don't think about the logistics and cattle, sheep and livestock.

The herdsmen of the servant tribes, as well as the cattle, sheep and livestock, had to go over, or they had to clear the fortress first, or at least a gap hundreds of miles long in the thousand-mile-long defense line of the coalition army.

This time Zhu Cijiong made a difficulty, a bit like a lion biting a hedgehog. Because the fortress is really hard to fight, it is a waste of shells to wash the ground with artillery fire.

A small bastion with a diameter of less than a hundred meters and a garrison of only 100 people will consume thousands of shells, and according to this ammunition consumption, the ammunition of the ten bases of the cavalry corps will not last long.

Directly let the cavalry dismount and attack, with the advantage of firepower, it is not impossible to take it. But the casualties of the Ming army will definitely not be small, how many soldiers will be sacrificed for more than 3,000 forts?

Therefore, for a while, Zhu Cijiong couldn't think of a good way to crack it, so he could only consume it temporarily, so the battlefield on the northern front fell into a stalemate.

…… Just when the northern front was in a stalemate, Li Yan also arrived at Samarkand with the 5th Cavalry Division and the 6th Cavalry Division of the 2nd Cavalry Army, and joined the 7th Cavalry Division and the 8th Cavalry Division stationed there.

At the same time, an alarming news reached the city of Samarkand. Abbas II, the emperor of the Sawifa Empire on the Persian plateau, did not wait for the arrival of the army led by Murad, the seventeenth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and rushed east into the Pamirs.

Looking at this posture, Abbas II's goal is clearly the Indian peninsula. At this time, Li Yan was also in a dilemma, did he return to India to face the Persian army?

Or stay in Samarkand and wait for Muradra to arrive with the Ottoman army? Or did the soldiers split into two routes, one way back to India, and the other to stay in Samarkand?

Li Yan, who felt at a loss, could only send a telegram to Yuanzai

Chongzhen of "Cape City". Chongzhen quickly replied, telling Li Yan to ignore the Persian army that had already killed India, and stationed in Samarkand to wait for the arrival of the Ottoman army and the European Crusader expeditionary force.

The reason is also very simple, Samarkand is already the limit of Daming's logistical support. Further west, the logistics of the 2nd Cavalry Army led by Li Yan could not be guaranteed.

Without logistics, no matter how well-equipped and brave an army is, it has no chance of winning. Chongzhen even specially told Li Yan that he didn't have to care about the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and once the Ottoman army or the European Cross Expeditionary Force attacked too strongly, he could also abandon Samarkand and even the entire Central Asian region and retreat directly to Yinli.

When it arrives at Yinli, the logistical support distance of the Ming army will be greatly shortened, and the situation will be completely reversed. After receiving Chongzhen's reply, Li Yan completely relieved his mind and stepped up his war preparations in Samarkand.

However, to Li Yan's surprise, not to mention the European Crusader Expeditionary Force, even Murad's Ottoman army was not killed for a long time, and from the middle of Chongzhen's 27th year to the end of 27th year, no enemy army arrived.

Well, reality is often more exciting than jokes, and the situation has changed unexpectedly. When Abba II went on an expedition with the army of the Vifavian Empire, the entire Persian plateau was empty.

Instead of spending a huge amount of money to fight an unpredictable war with a country that he had never met, it was better to take advantage of the situation to destroy the Sawifa Empire and incorporate the entire Persian Plateau into the territory of the Ottoman Empire, which was a great feat that the first sixteen generations of Ottoman Sultans failed to complete.