With the arrival of a heavy snowfall, the European continent has finally returned to its former calm.

This calm was extremely rare for Europe, because before that, the West of Europe was in the midst of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, the East was panicked by the Ming army's northward march, and the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire were defeated in successive battles.

But did Europe just enter into a brief peace?

Definitely.

On the west bank of the Volga River.

Qian Yong is a mature and stable person, he is even more stable than Jian Xiao, in Zhu Zhanyan's opinion, Qian Yong's only drawback is that he is too cruel.

Because among the three people, only Qian Yong himself can completely and thoroughly carry out Zhu Zhanyan's orders without additional orders, Jian Xiao and Zhu Sanfeng cannot.

In dealing with foreigners, Zhu Zhan Yan has always left no room for it, Jian Xiao and Zhu Sanfeng are not very good at this aspect, only Qian Yong is not soft.

But this time, Qian Yong did not follow the Don River all the way north after the bloody battle in the Sea of Azov and filled the Sea of Azov with a large number of people from the Principality of Lithuania and the Golden Horde, as he had done before.

According to the map given by Zhu Zhanqi, he followed the Don River to the highlands along the Volga River.

Along the way, Qian Yong only fought a few small-scale battles, and the number of enemies destroyed was less than 30,000.

Of course, the main reason is that he hasn't met anyone, and if he meets more people, he will definitely not have such a small record.

However, as the saying goes, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and the too smooth on this road also makes Qian Yong jealous.

Upon reaching the southern edge of the highlands along the Volga, he decided to stay there and not advance until he had sufficiently clear and correct information.

As for why we chose this place, there is only one reason: supplies.

The fleet of the Ming army stopped at the Sea of Azov, and it was possible to enter the Don River along the Sea of Azov, but at this time the Don-Volga Canal did not exist, so it was impossible to enter the Volga from the Don River.

Now, the Ming army could send supplies by boat to the closest place between the Don River and the Volga River, and then transfer to the land route for less than 20 miles to reach Qian Yong's hands.

However, even Qian Yong didn't expect that he had been stationed in the highlands along the Volga River for more than half a month, and just when he was losing patience and wanted to change his thinking, the arrival of a person changed his mind.

Yuri Dmitrievich.

Speaking of this person alone, most people may not know who he is, but he has a father who is very awesome.

The first Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Mosk.

Whether it is the Principality of Kiev or the current Grand Duchy of Mosk, just thirty years ago, the person who commanded this state group was not the Grand Duke of Moscow, but the Grand Duke Vladimir, who inherited from the Principality of Kiev.

In addition to this, the fifteenth century, although it was a period of expansion of the Grand Duchy of Mosk, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Grand Duchy of Mosk was not in a good situation.

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the west was eyeing each other, and the Golden Horde to the south was also dissatisfied with the fact that the Grand Duchy of Mosk had cut off its tribute several times, and there were many enemies such as the Principality of Ryazan around it, and even Yuri Dmitrievich was ambitious inside.

After the death of Vasily I, the Grand Duke of Mosk, who had begun to take command of the surrounding states, was succeeded by the eldest son, Vasily II, who was the younger brother of Vasily II, Yuri Dmitrievich was dissatisfied.

However, due to the fact that Vasily I was on his deathbed and handed over Vasily II to his father-in-law, Vytautas, who also fulfilled his promise well, Yuri did not find a suitable opportunity.

Historically, Yuri waited until after the death of his grandfather, Vytautas, to begin to show his fangs.

But now, he's found a new possibility.

"So, what do you need to get, and what do you want from our Daming?"

Looking at Yuri who was respectful in front of him, Qian Yong's brows furrowed.

To be honest, although he has not encountered any decent enemies over the years, and is more dealing with the Wa Kingdom that Zhu Zhan has roughly conquered, he has not seen a lot of people's hearts.

Like Yuri, a person who can grovel to himself who obviously does not have any official position or title, Qian Yong feels that he must be a person who can achieve great things.

In other words, Yuri is now a wolf, but still a wolf in his infancy.

Once he grows up and has his own powers, he is very likely to backfire.

"Honorable Oriental, I don't need you to pay anything extra, all I need is for you to do something to the Golden Horde."

Yuri bowed his head, very humble.

"I obtained the title of Grand Duke of Mosk from the Golden Horde through bribery, but this is not officially recognized by the Golden Horde, so I need you to involve the Golden Horde when I move my troops, that's all."

"So......" Qian Yong narrowed his eyes, and the gaze that emerged from the gap between his eyelids was very unkind.

"What do we get?"

When he said this, Qian Yong's tone was a little heavy, because he had a further understanding of Yuri as a person.

Avoiding the heavy and light, the play is very practical, but it is still relatively clumsy.

Qian Yong believes that Yuri is capable of playing this technique beautifully, but his current situation is not good.

Under the disapproval of his brother on the inside and the Golden Horde outside, he didn't have much capital, and he couldn't get much leverage, so this method was particularly clumsy.

"Honestly......" Yuri paused, gritted his teeth, and decided to break the boat.

"Now I can't promise you anything, I can only say that after I become the real Grand Duke of Mosk, I will give you enough reward, including but not limited to money, food, and beautiful women, except for land!"

"Besides, you actually got what you wanted in the process of helping me, didn't you?"

……

Qian Yong looked at Yuri in front of him, he actually didn't want to agree, because Yuri's chips were not enough, and this transaction was extremely worthless.

To put it bluntly, Yuri can't give anything substantive now, and what he said to Qian Yong is just a blank check.

After he became the Grand Duke of Mosk, he said that he would not honor it.

But!

Qian Yong does not have the right to make such a decision.

"I will inform our Royal Highness, you can go back first."

Looking at Yuri, who was full of anticipation, Qian Yong gave an answer that was not an answer, and then mercilessly gave an eviction order.

"Besides, it's winter, and even if our alliance is finally reached, we won't attack at this time."

"Finally, I would like to remind you that before that, I still hope that you can come up with some chips that can make us look at them, otherwise we will ......"

As he spoke, the corners of Qian Yong's mouth curled up, revealing a chilling smile.

Looking at Qian Yong's smile, Yuri was in a trance, and a hairy feeling instantly spread from the bottom of his heart to all parts of his body, giving him goosebumps.

Actually, he planned it well.

In addition to obtaining the title of the Golden Horde by means and uniting the Ming army to block his brother's reinforcements, he also approached the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in order to attack the Ming army when the Ming army attacked the Golden Horde.

You must know that although the current Ming army cannot be said to occupy half of Europe, half of the wall can still be counted.

After receiving the old lands of the Ottoman Empire and taking almost all of Bulgaria and part of Wallachia, the Ming army had already become a European power.

However, Yuri, now, suddenly has a feeling that he has done something wrong.

(End of chapter)