Kazan.

On the field in early winter.

"There are all kinds of people in this place, like demons and monsters."

In the midst of a noisy barking of dogs, Qiu Fu looked at the dense crowd in front of him.

Indeed, there are all kinds of people who seem to him to be demons and monsters......

Physically, all kinds of colors.

Mongols, Turks, Russians he has already seen, but this Russia is not actually the name of Russia, to be precise, it is Rus, but the Mongolian pronunciation problem has become Russian, and there are many messes that he has not seen, there are black hair but the complexion is similar to that of the Russians, there are white complexions like dead people, but the head is red-haired, in short, the whole city is completely like a hodgepodge.

But without exception, they were all dirty, and they were all wearing tattered leather robes, even if they were supposed to be the leaders, only the leather robes were better.

It's the same with women.

In fact, in his opinion, the women here are just like the men, except that they have no beards.

But they're all strong.

Like a pack of real beasts.

Also as filthy as a real beast.

However, what is surprising is that this is not mainly nomadic, because the city is surrounded by farmland, although it has been harvested, but the residual ears of wheat can prove that oats are planted here, which are mainly used as fodder for horses in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the lowest dry land in the north.

But for him, who has eaten enough meat along the way, it is gratifying to see the farmland.

And it's not just a city, there are a lot of villages around, after all, where there is a city, there must be a village.

"As long as it's still flesh and blood, as long as it's not like Yang Feng who can recover the next day after being bulleted, it's the same for us.

Strong? ”

Zhu Neng beside him sneered, then pulled out the short gun and pulled the trigger on a barking dog next to him.

With the sudden sound of gunshots, the dog fell down instantly, and then convulsed.

A guy in the crowd in front of him immediately roared out, and raised his axe to point at him, Zhu Neng calmly pulled out his other short gun, and shot it again very simply, this guy who was as strong as a bear, with a frozen consternation on his face, fell straight back like a piece of rotten wood, and blood gushed out from his head. The next moment there was silence in front of them, and the chaotic people looked at them in amazement, followed by a roar of rage, and then the chaotic creatures moved forward like a moving garbage heap.

But then it stopped.

Because of Zhu Neng's side, all the guards raised their short guns in their hands.

One short shot after another was aimed, and these guys who looked savage and tough all looked at them in embarrassment.

At this time, Tokhtamysh hurriedly walked out from behind the crowd with a few leaders, he looked at the dead corpses on the ground unexpectedly, but he didn't take it seriously at all, this kind of thing was not worth mentioning to the countless Great Khans who slaughtered the city, and he immediately walked to Zhu Dima......

"King Khan, this is all up to the city, they are willing to provide us with food, but we want us to give them an exchange, horses, armor, weapons, but they are not willing to send troops."

He said.

"Didn't you say they surrendered to you?"

Zhu Di said.

"My lord, surrendering here is just lip service, and the cities and tribes have the final say, and unless we can make them fearful, we can't order them to do anything, not only me, but also the Golden Horde in the past. The Golden Horde before the month of the Bee Khan could indeed make these vassals honest and obedient, but after that, the civil strife continued, and the Great Khan changed it every year, and if he wanted to make the cities of his vassals obedient, he could only lead troops to force them. The big vassals didn't even bother with the Golden Horde and annexed the other vassals themselves, which had just been attacked by the Russians in Moscow not long ago. ”

Tokhtamysh said somewhat awkwardly.

"So, whoever is strong can command them, so am I not strong enough?

Tell them.

Now I command them to give at once enough food and livestock for us to feed us for a month, and to gather ten thousand soldiers to follow us south, this is my command, and they must obey, or I will kill them. ”

Zhu Di said.

Tokhtamysh immediately translated to the elders.

The city used to be considered the Principality of Kazan, similar to the Muscovy, subject to the Golden Horde, but dominated by the Bolgars, the Chuvash and Kazan Tatars of modern Russia, but it was occupied by bandits ten years ago, and the old principality was de facto destroyed, and then reconquered when Tokhtamysh was still the Golden Horde. This guy was actually very strong before Timur's bloodbath, and he even captured Moscow and forced the Grand Duke of Moscow, who had not paid taxes for a long time, to pay taxes to the Golden Horde again. In addition, he also went south to Persia, captured Tabriz, and sacked Armenia, so it is no wonder that Timur couldn't stand it, and the dogs he raised robbed him of the territory he coveted......

Persia was his target.

This belongs to the evil slave and the master.

But there was no Grand Duke in Kazan since then, and it was only after a few decades in history that a branch of the Golden Family arrived in Kazan after the complete collapse of the Golden Horde, and established the Kazan Khanate in Kazan, and even captured Vasily II, the Grand Duke of Moscow.

As for the fact that there is really no city lord now, anyway, these cities in Eastern Europe are just an alliance of nobles, and the heads of big families and temple elders get together to discuss, and they don't have to ask for a grand duke.

"King Khan, they still refuse."

Tokhtamysh said quickly.

"Let them go there!"

Zhu Di pointed to an open space not far away.

Tokhtamysh lost the translation, and then the heads of the big families and the temple elders walked over with some confusion, they were not worried about anything, after all, behind them was the protection of the real city wall, Kazan City is a very old city, when the Mongols conquered the west, the Bolgar Khanate fought against the Mongols, and even won the war. Zhu Di and the others traveled a long distance from Chengjitula, and in their opinion, it was impossible to attack the city, and they either did not agree to provide food and other supplies, or asked Zhu Di to buy them.

On the contrary, if there is a real fight, Zhu Di will not be able to break through Kazan City in a short time, it will be suicide.

An army without supplies would run out of supplies in the ongoing siege, while the southern side would quickly gather an army and head north.

So they have no fear, they think that Zhu Di will inevitably give in.

These guys just stood there with confidence, looking at the Ming army half a mile in front of them.

The camels of the latter are already lying down, so there is no danger at this distance.

For these aristocrats of Kazan, so to speak, everything about this army was coveted, countless camels and horses, the best armor and weapons, although they did not know much about artillery, but they could see at a glance the quality of those cold weapons.

Kazan is a trading city.

The trade route from the East through the Silk Road to Siberia and then through Tyumen to Northern Europe passed through here, and they also had a small amount of armor and weapons from the East, and if they could use this opportunity to force these people to exchange some of them, they could then run rampant in this area, and even attack Moscow, which they had just attacked by the Grand Duke of Moscow, Vasily I.

The latter has now annexed Novgorod to the west.

Zhu Di looked at them calmly, and then waved his hand forward.

The next moment, on the camel opposite them, flames erupted......

"They have no right to refuse, obey or die."

Zhu Di said.

The Kazanites across from him looked in amazement at their leaders and elders, who had been shattered by the impact of the shells, and a few who had escaped were running wildly because of the limited accuracy, only to receive more shells. One of the elders was hit by a field cannon shell, and the entire middle part was completely gone, turning into splatters of flesh, and finally only a head and two legs remained, and the former rolled on the ground.

"Who of you can speak Mongolian?"

Zhu Di shouted in Mongolian to these stupid Kazanists.

Immediately many people looked at him tremblingly, and it was clear that there were not many people in this place who knew Mongolian.

"Although I know that you cannot understand my official position in the Ming Dynasty, you can call me the Great Khan, and the Yue is the others, the Warats, and the Mongols all call me that, and now the lands of the White Horde, the Green Horde, and the Chagatai Khan are under my rule. I know that most of you are actually slaves, you are their serfs, so now I tell you, as long as you obey my orders, your land will be yours, you will no longer be serfs but free people, you will all have your own land, your own house, your own property. If you are willing to follow me further south against Belgosala, you will get more, the gold and silver there, the cattle there, and even the women there, all yours.

I've got the final say.

Even the Golden Horde will listen to me. ”

Zhu Di said.

Those who knew Mongolian looked at him in disbelief.

"Great, Great Khan, can you open Beergosale?"

One of them stepped forward and said cautiously.

"Let him see what a mortar is."

Zhu Di said.

Immediately afterward, the signal man beside him waved his flag.

The next moment in the camel city, gunpowder smoke rose one after another, and then one after another flowering bombs fell from the sky, exploding between those stumps and broken arms.

Although this is only a light mortar for field use, it is enough for these people.

With shocked eyes, they watched the flames explode into clusters, which soon caused wildfires because of the dead grass all around.

"I am from Chengkitura, do you think that I will take this risk with an army of 100,000 without the preparation for victory?"

Zhu Di said.

At this time, those who knew Mongolian were already translating to others.

Zhu Di had long known from Yang Feng that at this time, it was all serfdom here, and since serfdom was easy to do.

Divide the land!

Yang Feng has long proved with his actions that any place where serfdom or landlords and tenants are invincible as long as you divide the land.

Anyway, it's generous to others.

And the situation here obviously cannot afford to raise an army of 30,000.

Although it belongs to the agricultural area, but at the agricultural level of their oats, it is estimated that there is not much surplus grain to use, even if it is enough to choke with livestock, in this case, a batch will inevitably be killed, so that the remaining grain and livestock are enough, which belongs to the reduction of ding. Therefore, the best way is to encourage these serfs to rebel, and then he will lead the serfs to kill a wave first, kill all the nobles who occupy the most resources, take out the grain and livestock they occupy as the next military rations, and take this expeditionary force south.

At this time, as those people relayed, those serfs were all agitated, and a few who were obviously nobles immediately saw that something was wrong.

One of them did not hesitate to run to the city gates.

At this time, the city gate was already closed, and it was obvious that the nobles and elders in the city had realized that something was wrong, and this guy quickly arrived at the city gate.

And then......

The whistling of shells sounded.

The shell of the field artillery accurately hit his body, and while beating him to minced meat, the shell also crashed into the city gate, and the soldiers who were closing the gate were directly knocked away.

The city of Kazan does not have an urn city, the city is a circle of stone walls, and even the moat around it has been flattened because of age, but it is built on a slightly raised mound, and its name originally means cauldron, because this shape looks like an inverted pot, so it was named the cauldron during the Mongol expedition to the west. Although this kind of city wall is indeed considered to be a good level of defense in Eastern Europe, the defect that the city gate does not have an urn city makes it finally embarrassing at the moment.

The artillery of the Ming army was aimed directly at the city gates, and then continued to bombard.

Even if it is not a field gun, rapid-fire guns alone are sufficient, after all, bows and arrows on the city walls cannot get these rapid-fire guns.

At a distance of less than 200 meters, Zhu Di's guards, who have been playing with artillery for eight years, have enough ability to shoot cannonballs into the city gate, and they don't need to shoot together, a group of three rapid-fire cannons, and replace the next group after fighting, as long as the defenders do not have the ability to close the city gate, one shell hit one by one, and all the soldiers who tried to close the city gate were splashed with flesh and blood......

"What else do you see, rush in, the money of your masters, the livestock, the grain, even their women are yours, and their land is yours, and if you don't believe me, then the Golden Horde is here, don't you believe the Golden Horde?"

Zhu Di said.

The serfs looked at each other.

Suddenly, I don't know which one roared excitedly, and then rushed to the city gate without hesitation.

Then all the serfs went crazy and rushed towards the city gate, and at the same time the mortars behind the Ming army opened fire again, and one after another flowering bullets with small tails fell towards the city, and soon black smoke rose from inside......

"King Khan, in this case, I'm afraid that the other cities will not support us, we are indeed nomadic, but the cities around Belgosare in the south are all farming, the cities of Russia are the same, and so are Lithuania, if we do this, those city lords will regard us as enemies."

Tokhtamysh said.

He understands.

He was indeed nomadic, but Eastern Europe, the core of the Golden Horde, was serfdom, and if he wanted to be the Golden Horde to get the support of the nobles of those cities, no one would support him.

"You haven't regained the throne of the Golden Horde, is this a thing to consider? You want to win, and that will allow you to win, attack! ”

Zhu Di shouted.

Muli and the others, who had been impatient for a long time, howled and rushed straight to Kazan City.

As for Tokhtamysh's worries......

It's their business!

They are here to burn and loot, do they still have to collect the corpses?

(End of chapter)