Indeed, at this time, Zhu Di was already being beaten.

Belgosale.

"What are they trying to do?"

Tokhtamysh stood on the tower of the onion-headed palace of the Golden Horde, using the binoculars given to him by Zhu Di, watching the attacking enemy army.

It's still full of snow and ice.

However, compared to the severe cold of winter, it is actually considered a good weather, and the grass in those places where the ice and snow have melted has even been exposed, and the next Eastern European Plain is about to enter the pulping period, which is undoubtedly a happy time for livestock, so the horses and camels that have been trapped in the ice and snow for a winter are now scattered in the swampy area south of the city to graze......

The location of the city is good, basically surrounded by swamps.

But to the north is the edge of the swamp, which is narrow in width and has a road in the middle to pass.

To the south is a swamp dozens of miles wide formed by the flooding of the Volga, with numerous bifurcated tributaries forming a dense network of water, and to the south of the swamp is the main channel of the Volga.

Therefore, the enemy could not attack from the south, because it was necessary to cross the Volga River, and then cross a swamp water network for dozens of miles, so that it could only attack from the north, and the vast swamp water network in the south stretched along the Volga River to the Caspian Sea, and this terrain was the most abundant pasture, so their hundreds of thousands of horses and camels grazing in it. However, as the weather warmed up, the Golden Horde cavalry, who had retreated before, reappeared, and they were like crazy, constantly driving those cannon fodder to attack the city, completely regardless of the cost, not even caring whether they succeeded or not, just to keep attacking these unlucky guys.

Even if their blood stains the Volga red.

"Drain our ammo!"

Zhu Di sneered.

He was also enjoying the battle scenes.

A large number of cannon fodder, obviously with a relatively white complexion, carried ladders through the small swamp to the north as the Golden Horde cavalry drove them towards the improvised city wall that had begun to melt because of the warmer weather.

It has even crossed the walls in large numbers.

However, this city wall has long been abandoned, and it was originally formed by the accumulation and freezing of soil by the severe cold, without any tamping process, and now that the ice has begun to melt, it will naturally become a lump of mud.

Now its function is only to limit the cavalry to break through, this kind of mud, not to mention the war horses, even those attacking cannon fodder infantry have to rely on the planks to trample on, and some unlucky ones have even been trapped in it and struggling.

As for the defenders, they have retreated to the built-up area of Belgosale.

Behind the walls was an open area left by the demolition of houses when the walls were built, so the cannon fodder who rushed through the walls was falling down in the precise shooting of the archers on the buildings, and they could only howl madly and run forward with their shields. Fortunately, the bow and arrow could not really stop them after all, and then rushed through the cannon fodder intercepted by the bow and arrow, and continued to rush towards the streets and alleys between the buildings.

All of them were heavily armored knives, like steel monsters, slashing at the enemy as they tried to enter in the narrow alleys.

The cramped environment makes it impossible for cannon fodder to get in too much.

They could only rush forward in small groups, and then poke the monsters with their spears in vain, only to see the spears cut through the forged steel and polished armor with broken lines.

And the chain mail and poor armor on their bodies could not stop any slash from the giant long knife.

The cannon fodder who crowded the buildings could only watch as the cold light fell in the air, and then their bodies were cut off. However, they were not entirely in vain, and by constantly exchanging their heads for the physical strength of their opponents, they were still able to move forward in some of the streets, but each step required more blood, as the musketeers on both sides of the high ground continued to shoot them. The cannon fodder crowded the streets were the favorites of rapid-fire guns, and the small shotguns that were sprayed dozens of meters away could kill one piece with a single shot, and almost all the streets and alleys of fierce fighting were filled with the dead bodies of the attackers.

Zhu Di showed his strength as a military genius very well.

In particular, he also exercised his defensive skills in the Battle of Kaifeng, he took advantage of the fact that the city was basically rammed earth buildings, and as a capital, the urban area had a high density of buildings, and there was basically no planning that led to a chaotic layout, and countless alleys were like a maze......

The old cities of the Middle East and West Asia are basically like this.

Rammed earth construction.

I also like to build buildings.

Then there is no planning, no matter how you build, resulting in alleys full of twists and turns and even different widths.

In this kind of terrain, you can occupy a high place to establish a firing point, and you can constantly shoot targets below.

Find a random tulou window on the street, set up a rapid-fire cannon, and if the shells are not fired, basically no one can rush through with cold weapons.

In the same tortuous and narrow streets, as long as a few heavy-armored long knife hands can form a result of being a man and a man.

As for the palace in the center of the city, this is actually a castle with a well-developed defense system.

In fact, Zhu Di did not think that the enemy had the ability to hit this castle at all, and his tactic was to use these houses on the periphery as huge traps, and then lure the attackers to fill in a steady stream, killing and wounding a large number of people through street fighting, until the enemy's morale collapsed because of too many casualties.

At the end of the day, there is a limit to the army's ability to sustain casualties.

In the current turbulent situation in the Golden Horde, I am afraid that even a tenth of the casualties cannot be sustained.

When the casualties are beyond the capacity of the army, and there is no need for him to counterattack, a small accident can lead to the collapse of the entire army.

He was waiting for this moment.

In this way, Beergosale, like Stalingrad more than 500 years later, has become a life-devouring beast, constantly devouring the lives of its attackers.

"Who are these?"

Zhu Di said.

The real purpose of these cannon fodder is to consume his ammunition, and it is clear that Decai is not stupid, he has no intention of taking Belgosale.

His real purpose was field warfare.

In the final analysis, he thinks that Zhu Di will have to return to the east after the beginning of spring, as long as he gathers troops to solve it in the field at that time, but the problem is that the Ming army's camel city tactics make him unable to defeat at all, so before that, he must use continuous attacks to consume the ammunition of the Ming army, as long as there are no firearms, simply cold weapons, they will have enough self-confidence.

But......

"This cannon fodder costs a bit too much!"

He then sighed.

This tactic is correct, but it just needs a bit more cannon fodder.

Those attacking cannon fodder, who are constantly being shot by bows and arrows, being slashed by heavily armored long knife hands, and even some that are too dense, will also be bombarded by shotguns, and occasionally flowering shells fall in the middle of them, but they are not fired with mortar cannons, this kind of battlefield mortar flowering shells weighing several pounds can be thrown as large grenades, and the power is at least no worse than a real grenade, the corpses of the attackers are piled up everywhere, and those who try to flee without a fight are shot by the warlords behind.

Their only value is really to consume the ammunition of the Ming army.

"Like Georgians, yes, Georgians, and Armenians.

Timur finally got his hands dirty.

Both of these places belonged to Timur, and I robbed them last time I went south, but then I was defeated by Timur, and I could not control these places, and they were all taught by Xinyeli Kewen, and whether I or Timur, I would kill them again. But now Dicai is not able to recruit troops from them, unless Timur is helping him, Timur gave him to forcibly capture strong men in these places and send them to him as cannon fodder, the king of Khan is right, they are consuming our ammunition, and Dicai and Timur don't care how many of these people we kill.

And they are not like the Russians, their families are definitely in the hands of Timur.

They didn't dare to run either. ”

Tokhtamysh said with a frown.

The main cannon fodder recruited by Dida before was the Russians, of course, not the Russians in the modern sense, in fact, the Russians are now a bunch of city-states that submitted to the Golden Horde.

Kyiv was before too.

But now Kiev is occupied by Lithuania.

Although it is true that the Grand Duke of Moscow has begun to take the wild boar skin route, there are still many other city-states who honestly serve as dogs in the Golden Horde, pay them taxes, and send troops to them as cannon fodder, but these people are not very useful now, after all, they can escape. In fact, even if they were under the hands of their own Grand Dukes, they often fled, not only them, but also the herdsmen under the Mongol princes of the Golden Horde, in fact, they often fled, and in the end, the Mongol princes and the serf owners of the city-states of Rus' were all creatures in dealing with their subjects.

And it's the same with those at the bottom.

These fugitive serfs, herdsmen and even outcasts eventually converged into a special name.

Cossack.

Of course, it's not really taking shape yet.

But there were already many such fugitives along the Don and Dnieper, and it was in this century that Cossack groups were formed.

After all, it is a battlefield where various forces are fighting.

The Poles, Russians, and Ottomans are constantly tug-of-war there, and since it is a tug-of-war between all sides, it means that it is difficult for anyone to rule effectively, just like the banks of the Huai River during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which is naturally convenient for these wanderers who are trying to survive.

But now these Georgians are not the same as Armenians.

If they dared to escape, Timur would kill their entire family.

As for Timur's secret help to Decai, this has long been expected by Zhu Di and Tokhtamysh, in the final analysis, Decai was originally Timur's person, and it is inevitable that he will find Timur in difficult times, and Zhu Di and Tokhtamysh lose control of the Kipchak steppe, posing a serious threat to Timur, and it is strange that he does not help Timur.

But......

"They want to laugh at us, and I want to consume them!"

Zhu Di looked at the cannon fodder who were already routing outside and said.

The latter has finally reached the limit of its endurance, and after all, when the attack is also certain to die, it is better to turn back and rush to the team!

At least the success rate of the Governor team was higher, and these were indeed the cannon fodder that Timur had forcibly conscripted in Georgia and Armenia, desperately running backwards, away from this terrible battlefield with the sharp arrows fired by the Kipchak cavalry behind them. Soon they rushed into the Kipchak cavalry, who kept stabbing them with spears and trying to force them back, but the cannon fodder, who also had weapons in their hands, did not hesitate to fight back, and the two sides immediately began a scuffle.

However, he also knew the measure, so he immediately issued the order to retreat.

Then the cannon fodder and the Kipchak cavalry fled together......

Of course, they only need to withdraw through the swamp area, after all, they have gathered more than 100,000 troops to attack this time, and the battle will continue.

And right now.

Caspian coast.

"King Gaoyang, in front of him is Saleguk, the current prime minister of the Golden Horde besieging the king is also the lair of Digai, he is the lord of the Nogai steppe, Saleguk means small palace, it is the most important city on the Nogai steppe, but according to the inquiries of those Armenian merchants, there are not many soldiers and horses in it, and its elite should have gone to Belgosale."

Zhang Fu reported to Zhu Gaoxu.

At this time, the king of Gaoyang County was wrapped in the real sense of the whole body plate armor, riding a sweaty horse that was enough to bear his weight, the whole person was like a steel demon god, and because he was young and liked to show off, his huge set of customized plate armor was even painted with a large number of patterns, all of which were in some legendary beasts, such as the raccoon caraver, the eyelid, and the like, and even the helmet had a red dragon coiled on it. He is the king of the county, and it is not a violation, in fact, his regular clothes are also dragon robes, and besides, this is the Western Regions, who cares about these, in short, the whole person looks really shocking.

He had also now learned to raise a private army, and behind him were five hundred equally heavily armored cavalrymen with full plate armor, but not as many of his lacquered paintings.

This is his guard.

Five hundred guards.

"Slaughtered!"

He said very simply.

"King Gaoyang, in this case, I'm afraid that the Nogai people along the way will resist desperately."

Zhang Fu reminded him.

Behind them, 20,000 camel cavalry were converging.

They set off from Beipingzhou, along the Chu River to the Aral Sea, and then spent ten days through thousands of miles of uninhabited wasteland to reach here, and the 20,000 camel cavalry is almost half of the elite of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions, Yan Wang Guard, Anxi, Beiting two divisions, Gansu garrison Anxi Army, the four are patchworked, although the commander is Zhu Gaoxu, but the actual Zhang Fu command, after all, he is the most familiar with this tactic.

"If you dare to resist, you will continue to kill, and if you kill them all, no one will resist, pass on my orders, except for women and children, leave nothing to the soldiers, and all the soldiers will follow me thousands of miles to save my father, and I can't do without a reward."

Zhu Gaoxu sneered.

Then he raised his favorite mace......

"Kill!"

Then he let out an exuberant roar.

The guards behind him immediately let out the same roar.

Zhang Fu looked helplessly into the distance, and at the same time, Zhu Gaoxu had already rushed towards Salechuk, or Atyrau at the mouth of the modern Ural River with his personal guards, and behind him, the elite of the 20,000 Ming army rushed straight to the first city that he had seen after walking thousands of miles......