Chapter 348: Red and White

Tokhtamysh......

What else could he do?

Just like Zhu Di said, he hasn't even recaptured the throne of the Golden Horde, so what else does he do?

Just as these serf owners in Kazan contributed to him.

With the support of the Ming army's artillery fire, the carnival-like serfs quickly rushed into the city of Kazan with 30,000 invaders, including Tokhtamysh's subordinates, and then began to bloodied the serf owners, the latter's stubborn resistance was useless, and even their soldiers joined the carnival, but Zhu Di's guards still maintained discipline, mainly because the city really had nothing of value......

"Women, young women, my subordinates only need young women."

Zhu Di said.

Well, women still can.

"Pass the order, and give all the young women caught to the Khan."

Tokhtamysh shouted.

This distribution makes sense.

The serfs wanted the land, he and the Muli wanted goods and livestock, and the heavenly soldiers wanted women.

To each his own!

In this way, Kazan was quickly captured.

Immediately after that, the local soldiers and serfs gathered together more than 5,000 cavalry and followed the Golden Horde south.

And the five thousand guards under Zhu Di actually did not have any casualties, after all, they did not really participate in any fighting, that is, they used cannons and muskets to provide some support in the distance, and their harvest was more than 2,000 young women and girls, although it is difficult to have a good impression of these women with white skin and strong smell like grass in their aesthetics, but at this time, they really can't pick and choose.

Make do with it!

Zhu Di did not delay in the slightest.

He used the surplus food created by more than 5,000 people in Kazan to complete the supply, and then led the expeditionary army south along the Volga River at full speed.

In fact, there are a few small cities along the way, but in the face of the former Golden Horde and this huge army, the vast majority did not hesitate to choose to defect, offering supplies and even troops for them, the south of Kazan is dominated by Mordovans, and it is also agricultural, this is not Moldova, Moldova is Romanian, this is the nation of an autonomous republic in modern Russia. In the final analysis, for these chaotic peoples of the Golden Horde, they are not interested in caring who the Golden Horde is, on the contrary, the more chaotic the Golden Horde, the more cannibalism and killing the better.

Everyone is ruled by these alien colonists, and who doesn't want them to die as much as possible!

As for the few brain smokers, they were quickly slaughtered.

And Zhu Di still wants as long as the young women don't want those belongings, which makes him win the unanimous support of these messy forces, after all, women are the least valuable to these guys, it's not that they don't know the importance of women, but for them, women are easy to supplement, they can also go out and rob them, even if Zhu Di takes all the captured young women and girls away, it doesn't matter, everyone will go back and grab it!

The woman who robbed the Ross.

Rob Polish woman.

……

The ancestral craft of the Golden Horde!

But those valuable belongings, this is really not easy to grab!

After all, in this era, whether it is the Rus, the Poles, or even the Balkans, the Caucasus, as long as they are not lords, they are all extremely poor, and there is indeed a robbery of their wives and daughters.

Grab their gold and silver?

Damn, this one really doesn't!

In this way, the Scourge army swelled rapidly along the Volga River to the south.

By the time their target finally reacted, there were already 40,000 cavalry, but it was not also Di Gai who reacted, he took a large number of elites to the east......

He went after Tokhtamysh.

He didn't even think that Tokhtamysh, who was already a lost dog, would dare to come back, because Hughroot had just died, and he made Hughroot's younger brother Shadi the new Golden Horde, and in order to ensure his authority in the Golden Horde, he should of course continue to hunt down his former friend Tokhtamysh. If he can bring back Tokhtamysh's head from Siberia, then no one in the Golden Horde will dare to oppose him in the short term, and even Shadibel will be an honest puppet.

After all, he is not a golden family, and even if he wants to be a powerful minister, he has the problem of too low status.

Several famous ministers of the Golden Horde in the past, such as Nahai, were also legitimate descendants of Jochi, while Mamai claimed to be a descendant of Nahai.

But he's not!

He was clearly the chief of the Mangit Ministry.

This status is indeed high enough in his own tribe, but it is much worse in the Golden Horde, which only recognizes the Golden Family, and if he wants to be the actual controller of the Golden Horde, he must continue to win.

Hunt down Tokhtamysh!

Originally, in history, he continued to conquer and even besiege Moscow, but he failed to capture Moscow, and after he couldn't fight, he only extorted 3,000 gold coins to pull him down.

Then when he went to steal his former best friend's house, his former best friend also came to steal his house.

On the banks of the Volga.

"King Khan!"

Tokhtamysh saluted Zhu Di with irrepressible excitement.

At this time, on the Eastern European Plain, where heavy snow had just fallen, a decisive battle was about to begin.

Because of the absence of Yedegai, Shadibe Khan, who was also eager to establish authority and get rid of his control, faced with the sudden appearance of Tokhtamysh, chose to gather all the forces he could put together to face it, if he won, then his authority will overwhelm Yedigai, and then he will become the real Great Khan instead of a puppet. In the end, he gathered 70,000 troops to meet the battle in Belgosary and the lower reaches of the Volga, including the North Caucasus and the lower Don River. The area around Belgosare was indeed the core of the Golden Horde in the past, with many densely populated cities, but the last time it was slaughtered by Timur, it has only been less than ten years now, and it is not only Belgosala, Batu Sarai, Ha only. Tar Khan, that is, Astrakhan, these major cities were slaughtered.

After the sharp decline in population, it was a war that continued to the present, and even a powerful empire that once suppressed Europe was now like five generations and ten kingdoms.

In the end, the unlucky Shadi Behan only cobbled together 70,000 people to face Zhu Di.

"Come as planned!"

Zhu Di said.

Tokhtamysh nodded, and immediately turned his horse's head and headed straight ahead.

In front of him was the army of 70,000 men of Shadibe Khan.

There are both foot rides.

Both sides were actually lined up on one side against the Volga River, so as to avoid cavalry attacks on both sides, and although it was already snowing at this time, it was only early winter, and the river had not yet completely frozen.

And Zhu Di's side is full of cavalry, although they actually have a bunch of chaos to follow, but there are a total of about 40,000 war horses, as for the front, of course, it is Tokhtamy's subordinates, this kind of thing is to make him rush to the front. The miscellaneous cards of the Ming system led by Muli were on the left flank, and the Ming army was behind Tokhtamysh, which was actually protected by two groups and the Volga River.

Tokhtamysh reached the front and immediately ordered the new annex to attack.

I understand this kind of thing.

The new annex is to rush into the front.

More than 10,000 cavalry from Kazan and other cities along the way immediately rushed to the opposing infantry.

They are bows and arrows.

On the banks of the Volga River, a group of cavalry of a chaotic people, howling on horseback, rushed to the opposite side with bows and arrows, and then kept shooting arrows in the turn cross-cutting, while they were also cannon fodder hiding behind vehicles and shields, withstanding their attacks while returning fire with bows and arrows.

Cannon fodder and cannon fodder cherish each other, fighting like rookies pecking each other.

The elite in the back is waiting for you.

are waiting.

Wait for the opponent's cannon fodder to hold it first.

Soon, the lost cannon fodder couldn't hold on first.

These motley cavalry could not shoot at the opposite side, but were shot down by the opposite side, and they began to retreat backwards, and the real elite of the Golden Horde on the opposite side began to attack, and the heavily armored cavalry charged straight at the overwhelmed opponent with spears. But at the same time, the main force of Tokhtamysh's men also began to attack, and their target was Shadi Behan's Chinese army, and the elite around the latter also attacked. Tens of thousands of cavalry began to scuffle on the vast battlefield, some of the Golden Horde cavalry tried to attack Muli and other troops on Tokhtamysh's flank, and some of the defeated own miscellaneous players also began to rush at them, and they looked chaotic and blocked.

Because the whole battlefield is too big, it is actually difficult to see each other, especially this kind of cavalry melee, and it is also a melee dominated by nomadic cavalry, and the battlefield is even more chaotic.

The vast snowfield was full of cavalry fighting each other, and it was normal for a small squad to mix together, or even accidentally injure each other.

This is the case with large-scale battlefields.

But only half an hour later, Muli and other troops began to flee.

The Golden Horde cavalry on the opposite side summoned reinforcements in surprise.

So more Golden Horde cavalry pressed over, and even Shadi Behan personally commanded, and after seeing his presence on behalf of the Golden Horde, Muli and other troops were immediately defeated.

Of course, the Golden Horde cavalry had no interest in chasing them, they were protecting the rear of Tokhtamysh's flank, and after their defeat, as long as they rushed straight forward, it was equivalent to trapping Tokhtamysh in the midst of a bitter battle, and Shadibekhan, who was in front of him, did not hesitate to give the order to pounce directly on Tokhtamysh's rear.

However......

"It's coming!"

In the white snow, Qiu Fu held a telescope and looked into the distance.

There, a cavalryman was waving a signal flag.

"Quick, ignition!"

He then turned to shout.

Beside him, an officer immediately lit the fire of the hot air balloon, and the soldiers around him propped up the hot air balloon, allowing the hot air to pour in quickly, and at the same time as the balloon gradually puffed up, all the guards calmly prepared their weapons beside the camels lying quietly in the snow around them. Wooden boxes full of ammunition were placed beside them, and in the open wooden boxes were fixed ammunition, including rapid-fire guns and field guns, after all, these were light artillery, even if the shells of field guns were only two catties.

In the packets of oil-soaked paper packages, there are silk medicine bags, what distance from the enemy, what kind of bullet to choose what kind of medicine bag, open the oil paper and take it out and stuff it, and then use an awl to pierce it through the fuse hole and then insert a fuse.

Rapid-fire guns are simpler.

Pack a few spare cartridges in advance and replace them directly when you use them.

This thing has always been the favorite of the Ming army, and so far better field artillery and magic guns have not been able to replace their positions, the key is that the rate of fire is too fast, especially these elites who have been used for many years, they can even play three rounds a minute, but because this is too fast to effectively cool down, so normal combat is limited to three rounds in two minutes.

But it also depends.

In a cold place like this, the first wave of three rounds a minute will do.

The ammunition of the magic machine gun and those flintlock short guns is completely customized, that is, a paper bag with bullets and gunpowder in it, bite it open, first pour it into the medicine pool to ignite, and then pour the rest into the barrel, and finally stuff it with the paper bag and bullets.

"In less than ten years, we've become what we never thought we would have been."

Qiu Fu looked at this scene and sighed.

This scene really made these generals who relied on cold weapons a little disappointed.

As they did when they were younger, it was less and less common to charge with spears on horseback, and even the cavalry that rushed out was only to clear the battlefield, as if they were for these firearms men.

"At least the brothers are suffering fewer and fewer casualties."

The lieutenant general beside him said.

Indeed, the casualties are getting smaller and smaller, and since the beginning of this expedition, there have not been many deaths from the disease.

As they spoke, countless cavalry appeared in their field of vision......

"Brothers, look at the descendants of Batu, what is the color now, let's arrest the Mongolian Great Khan to the capital to sing and dance, turn Chagatai Khan into a vassal who kneels at his feet, and turn the descendants of Ali Buge into the same vassal, now it's time to see if the descendants of Batu still have the ability of their ancestors."

Qiu Fu said.

The soldiers in front of him burst into laughter.

At the same time, the hot air balloon behind him finally puffed up and began to rise, and the red balloon rose so strangely on the white snowfield.

The Golden Horde cavalry who were running wildly opposite them all looked at this strange thing that seemed to appear out of thin air in amazement, but soon as the distance got closer, they also saw the inconspicuous Fang City in the snow, but they did not slow down, in fact, they did not regard this Fang City as a real opponent. This kind of camel city is not uncommon, whether it is a camel caravan, or a marching camel caravan, in the eyes of these Golden Horde cavalry, this is a small logistics camp, in front of the lost army, and some such logistics camps are normal.

And what they like to attack the most is such a logistics camp, after all, once it is breached, the gain is huge.

They ignored the strange red thing, and all roared excitedly, and rushed straight into the camel city like a pack of wild beasts, while in front of another group of Golden Horde cavalry not far from them, an identical red thing also rose in white, and then two more of the same thing rose in the distance......

"It's another group of people who are sent to death, don't they want to think that there is really no danger in such an obvious and strange thing?"

Qiu Fu watched as suicidal as he crashed into the Golden Horde with countless rapid-fire cannons, field guns, magic guns, and flintlock guns.

"The ignorant are fearless."

The adjutant said with a smile.

"Then let them know!"

Qiu Fu said.

The adjutant immediately raised his short gun and opened fire on the torrent of cavalry that was a hundred meters away from him, although he did not aim at all, but because there were too many cavalry, one of the Golden Horde cavalry fell off his horse.

And then there was a salvo of countless guns.

(End of chapter)