"Hurry up, you must get to Moscow as soon as possible!" Carp

Two hundred miles east of Moscow, on the paved avenue, the Russian army was marching urgently, the tsar's Western-style regimental commander Boris Khossovsky led the front line non-stop, the capital was under siege, and everyone was very anxious.

Although they know that Moscow City will not be conquered in a short time, they are concerned about it, you know, their wives and children are concentrated in Moscow City!

Boris Khosovsky rode his horse at the head of the procession, and behind him, the soldiers of the Western-style regiment directly under him, with arquebuses on their shoulders, strode forward, while the Cossack cavalry assigned to him by the tsar was deployed on the perimeter as a guard, and in the event of an attack, they were quick to react.

However, Boris Khossovsky did not think that the Xia army would ambush them on the road in advance, because the fortified city of Moscow was so large that it would not be possible to surround her without 100,000 men, and if the Xia army divided its troops, it would not be able to completely encircle Moscow.

Moreover, even if the troops are divided, there is no way to cause them too much loss if the troops are too small, not to mention, they will be eaten by them who reacted quickly, and it is based on this thinking that Boris insists that he will not think that the Xia army will ambush them in front.

Although he thought so, to be on the safe side, he sent scouts to the front to take a cursory look to make sure that it was really okay before moving on.

What Boris Khosovsky doesn't know is that it is with this carelessness of his that most of the soldiers of the main forces of the Russian army behind him will be dragged into the endless abyss! Carp

Under the leadership of Boris, the Western-style regiment soon entered the ambush circle of the Xia army, seeing that these Russian troops carrying arquebuses tried to pass quickly, the Xia soldiers who were ambushed in the dense forest all subconsciously clenched their rifles, and between the line infantry, dozens of infantry cannons and the eight Pakel machine guns were also mixed.

Daniel Zhang tried to lower his body as much as possible, he saw that most of the Russian army entered the ambush circle, but did not order an attack.

The Russian striker is just an appetizer, there is no need to expose their plans in advance for them, the real main dish is the main force of the Russian army behind - that is the main position where the tsar is located.

The Russian forwards did not notice the slightest abnormality in the dense forest, and their attention was all on the besieged city of Moscow, so the Russian army quickly passed through the ambush circle, and behind them, the huge military formation holding high the tsarist banner gradually entered the field of vision of the Xia army.

"Pass the order and get ready for battle!"

Seeing the Tsar's banner coming, Daniel Zhang immediately ordered to enter the battle preparations, and the Xia soldiers in the dense forest immediately checked the rifles in their hands, and after they finished checking themselves, they pressed their bodies as low as possible to keep themselves from being exposed to the enemy's field of vision.

"Your Majesty, General Boris has not been attacked by the Xia army all the way, and I don't think the Xia army will divide its forces to set up an ambush on the way to our reinforcements." Carp

In the Russian army, the Tsar's former father-in-law, Grand Duke Miroslavsky, looked at the quiet road ahead and said to the Tsar.

The Tsar pursed his lips and did not speak, he did not think that the Xia army would risk dividing his troops to attack him, if the attack failed, the ambushed army would all be lost here, which would be very fatal to the Xia army.

"Perhaps." After a while, he said, "However, for the sake of safety, let the soldiers be ready for battle, the Xia people are scheming, insidious and cunning, and we have to be prepared for anything to happen."

Grand Duke Miroslavsky was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then hurriedly agreed, and ordered someone to announce the Tsar's order.

However, before the news could spread throughout the army, the Tsar's army had already entered the ambush circle of the Xia army, and the soldiers of the Xia army looked at the Russian emperor riding a horse under the tsar's banner, and everyone's hearts were eager to try, wanting to use the Tsar's head as a stepping stone for themselves to climb up.

At this time, the tsar did not know that he was about to enter the abyss of death, he was still talking with his favorite generals, as more and more Russian troops went deeper into the ambush circle, Daniel Zhang's right hand holding the knife was slowly raised, and now he was more nervous than ever, for fear that because of his orders, the whole army would be trapped

into a situation from which there is no return.

Finally, seeing that the tsar's banner was about to pass, Daniel Zhang gritted his teeth fiercely, and finally made a decision, he swung his knife forward, shouted and shot, and when his words fell, he only heard a gunshot streak through the silence of this dense forest, and then, the fire was everywhere, and countless barrages shot at the marching Russian army with overwhelming momentum! Carp

"Enemy attack—"

At the moment when the gunshot rang out, the tsar realized that he had been ambushed, he looked desperately at the dense forests on both sides of the road, and saw a flash of fire, dense projectiles flying towards him, the guards around the tsar screamed and subconsciously wanted to step forward and knock him down, but before the guards pounced, the tsar felt a tingling pain in his chest, his mouth opened wide, his body instantly lost his balance, his hands grabbed forward, but he still fell backwards on his back!

The sudden volley caused the cavalry walking on the periphery of the infantry formation to be severely damaged in an instant, and the cavalry fell one after another in the sound of gunfire like dumplings, and the frightened and out-of-control war horses raised their front hooves, neighed and scattered in all directions.

The infantry in the middle looked frightened, they hurriedly looked around, but then they saw the dazzling fire exploding in the dense forest again, followed by the deafening cannon sound, countless shotguns overwhelmingly attacked the Russian infantry, and the flying shrapnel barrage immediately shot a large number of Russian soldiers.

At the same time as the infantry artillery opened fire, the eight scattered Pakel machine guns also followed into battle, and they fired lethal projectiles at the Russian army under the operation of the soldiers, indiscriminately shooting the Russian troops in chaos.

"Steady! Array! Array! Don't panic!"

The commander of the shooting corps, Ivan Khovansky, drew his sword, roared loudly, and ordered the surrounding firing corps soldiers to line up to resist, but what he didn't know was that his performance quickly entered the sight of the light infantry hiding in the dense forest, and several light infantry invariably raised their guns to aim at Ivan, who was roaring loudly, and between the lightning and flint, the gunshots rang out, and a cloud of blood exploded in Ivan's chest, and he fell off his horse. Carp

"Retreat! Retreat!"

The battlefield became chaotic, and the Russian soldiers were in a dilemma, some of them spontaneously loaded the arquebuses in their hands, trying to shoot at the ambushers in the dense forest, some scattered and fled under the fire of the Xia army, and some were even more demented standing in place, looking at the bloody scene like purgatory on earth, and constantly bewildering in their mouths.

Grand Duke Miroslavsky, who had been by the Tsar's side, watched the Tsar almost fall off his horse when he was shot in the chest, and he looked at the Russian soldiers who were caught in the massacre, knowing that if they were allowed to be slaughtered by the Russian army, Russia would really be finished.

Therefore, Grand Duke Miroslavsky gritted his teeth and took over the command on his own initiative, and he did not give the order to launch a counteroffensive against the Xia army, but ordered the whole army to retreat, and it was necessary to break through the ambush circle.

Grand Duke Miroslavsky knew very well that breaking through to the west was a dead end, and there were still a large number of Xia troops outside Moscow, and if they broke through to the west, the Xia army ambushed here and the Xia army outside Moscow would be killed in front and back, and they would all be buried here.

But if they go back and break out, maybe there will be a lot of casualties, but at least they can still preserve their strength.

So, under the orders of Grand Duke Miroslavsky, those Russian troops who were still able to obey the order began to turn around and break through, he looked at the Tsar who fell into a deep coma, and in order to prevent the Tsar from dying here, he ordered the Dvo cavalry to escort the Tsar out of the siege at all costs. Carp

The Dvo cavalry was the most elite aristocratic cavalry in Russia, they were loyal to the Tsar, and under the orders of the Grand Duke, the Dvo cavalry ignored the fire of the Xia army and risked their lives to escort the unconscious Tsar to break through.

When the Xia army discovered their intentions, some of the soldiers immediately turned their guns and fired at the Dvo cavalry who broke through, and the Dvo cavalry could only run in the face of fire, and some of them were shot and fell from their horses from time to time, but this did not stop them from breaking through.

On the other side, Boris Khossovsky, seeing that the main forces were not following for a long time, ordered to stop the advance with some confusion, and he looked back at the road from which he came, with a puzzled look on his face.

At this moment, an officer at the end of the team seemed to hear some movement in his ears, and he immediately lay on the ground, put his ear to the ground, and listened to the movement of the ground

Get up and run briskly to the front of the group.

Soon, he came to Boris and said in a hurried tone: "General, I seem to hear the sound of gunfire coming from behind, and I am afraid that His Majesty the Tsar has been ambushed!"

"What?"

Boris's face changed dramatically, his eyes fixed on the direction he had come, and he tried to listen intently, trying to hear any movement, but the dense forest was strong enough to absorb the loud noise of the battle, so he could not hear any movement at this distance. Carp

However, Boris did not disbelieve the officer's words because of this, he only thought for a few seconds, and then decisively ordered to turn around and go back to check, if they really encountered an ambush, then their reinforcements would definitely be able to save more friendly troops.

Under Boris's order, the Russian advance immediately turned around and rushed in the direction from which it came.

As they got closer and closer to the battlefield, the dull sound of artillery gradually reached everyone's ears, Boris's face became more and more ugly, Xia Jun really set up an ambush and directly let them go, which somewhat proved that Xia Jun looked down on them.

"Speed up the march! His Majesty the Tsar needs us!"

He drew his sword and shouted to his Western-style soldiers, and the vanguard immediately quickened his pace and slaughtered the battlefield.

Soon, the Western-style regiment returned to the battlefield, they looked at the corpses all over the ground, and the remaining Russian troops who were still fighting with the Xia army, everyone's faces became very ugly, Boris couldn't care about anything else, hurriedly raised his sword and ordered an attack.

Immediately, the Western-style regiment and the Cossack cavalry roared and rushed into the battlefield, their arrival undoubtedly gave the Russian army that was still holding on a strong shot, and the Xia army that was fighting in the dense forest did not expect that they would turn around and come to help, Daniel Zhang looked at the corpses that died in their hands, knew the truth of receiving it when he saw it, and immediately ordered to bring artillery and retreat the whole army. Carp

The Xia soldiers who received the order quickly pulled the artillery away, and the infantry continued to shoot at the Russian army, and only after the artillery was towed away did they cover each other's retreat in an orderly manner.

The Russians did not pursue them, or rather, Boris knew that it was the wrong choice to pursue them, and he looked at the corpses of friendly soldiers all over the ground in pain, as if he had been struck by lightning.

Grand Duke Miroslavsky also received news of Boris's reinforcements, and after the battle, he returned to the battlefield with his guards, and did not scold Boris after seeing him, but calmly ordered to clean up the battlefield and rescue the wounded.

After the order was given, he looked in the direction of the city of Moscow, and under Boris's painful gaze, he muttered: "It's over, if this war continues, we will really be finished, and we should end this damned war as soon as possible."

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In this ambush battle, the Russian army undoubtedly suffered heavy losses, the remnants of the Russian army retreated to Vladimir City, the Tsar fell into a coma, and the Grand Duke Miroslavsky, the highest rank in the army, undoubtedly became a temporary talker.

After he withdrew to Vladimir City, he immediately ordered an inventory of the casualties in the army, wanting to grasp the temporary strength at hand, but then the casualties reported from the bottom directly made his face pale. Carp

In that disastrous ambush battle, the total number of Russian dead and missing was nearly 20,000, not counting the seriously wounded, in addition, the army was disheartened and completely incapable of continuing the war, even if they stayed in Vladimir City, they had to prevent those disheartened soldiers from escaping without authorization.

It is no exaggeration to say that after this battle, although the Russian army still retains more troops, it is actually not much different from being scrapped, let alone reinforcing Moscow, and they have to pray that the Xia army will not attack them in turn.

Grand Duke Miroslavsky's heart was filled with deep sorrow.

On the other side, the news of the Xia army's victory in the ambush battle also quickly reached Moscow, and Fu Xinghua naturally could not let go of this good opportunity to hit the enemy's morale, and he ordered some Russian prisoners captured by Daniel Zhang to be released back into Moscow, so that they could publicize the news of the defeat of the main force.

However, the generals of the Moscow garrison apparently did not give the Xia army a chance to shake the morale of the army, and when they saw the prisoners of war being released, they did not hesitate to order to shoot them when they went under the city walls.

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Answering the bewildered gazes of the soldiers, they explained: "Those people are female cadres who have defected to the Xia army, and if they are allowed to enter the city, Moscow will be in danger, and the gates of the city will not be opened unless His Majesty the Tsar himself returns."

Seeing that the defenders were not fooled at all, Fu Xinghua had no choice but to change his mind, and he ordered the soldiers in the army who knew Russian to loudly publicize the defeat of the Tsar outside the city day after day with special loudspeakers, and from time to time launched artillery bombardments on the walls of Moscow to demoralize the defenders. Carp

Under such means, after a long time, the morale of the defenders in Moscow really began to waver.