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At this time, Patriarch Filaret could no longer care about the rear, and had to concentrate all his energy on dealing with the Ming army that had appeared.

It must be said that the Ming army was coming with great force and momentum. To the east of the Ural Mountains, which is dozens of miles wide, there are groups of Ming troops who are not closing in at night. They roared in, robbed the property, sheep, etc. of the Tsarist Russians in the east, and drove them to flee into the west of the Ural Mountains and swarm towards Samara Fort.

The panicked crowds and the panicked news aggravated the panic in the Samara Fort area. What troubled Patriarch Filaret was not only these panics, but also the problem of food and grass needed by such a large population.

Tsarist Russia was very poor at this time. Even though Patriarch Filaret had mobilized the domestic nobles to participate in the war with all their strength, supplies were still limited. Faced with the huge threat from the east, no one is sure when this war will end. Therefore, materials are very precious and cannot be misused.

The consequence of this was that Patriarch Filaret also expelled these Russians who had escaped and asked them to either go south or continue west to find food. As for whether they can survive, it depends on their own luck.

Although this can ensure the army's supplies, it can also damage the morale of the army. In the Samara Fort area, the 40,000 troops fully deployed by Tsarist Russia were basically very nervous, mixed with fear. Patriarch Filaret naturally wanted to boost morale in this regard, and specifically mentioned the previous years. The supplies plundered from the Mongols in Oirat were used to trumpet the war to prove that the Ming army was not actually that powerful, in order to boost the morale of the army.

Against this background, the Tsarist Russian army, with uneasiness about the future, officially began to contact the Ming army.

What makes the Tsarist Russian army a little desperate is that the Ming army from afar is like a pack of wolves, staring at the Tsarist Russian army. If there is an opportunity, they will pounce on it and take a bite; if there is no chance, then in Wandering around, looking for opportunities, waiting for them to appear.

This style of the Ming army can easily remind the Tsarist Russians of the horrors of the Genghis Khan era. The Mongols in the Genghis Khan era also had light cavalry, which gave full play to the mobility of the cavalry and their strong combat capabilities, creating an unforgettable nightmare for generations of Westerners.

But now, these Ming troops stay at night. They are also riding two men, but they are better equipped than the Mongols before. They are no longer just wearing the clothes of herdsmen like the previous Mongolians, but are uniformed in military uniforms. Bows, arrows, firearms and other long-range weapons are their sharp teeth and fangs, which makes people despair.

The total number of cavalry in the Tsarist Russian army was only about 5,000. The number of scouts drawn from it is limited. Therefore, the Tsarist Russian scouts and the Ming army stayed in contact at night, and Tsarist Russia suffered a big loss.

Patriarch Filaret discovered that to deal with the Ming army's Ye Busu, only twice the strength of the Ming army would be needed to stop the Ming army's Ye Busu arrogance. However, he could still feel from the news coming from the front that this was still the case when the Ming army refused to retreat at night and did not want to cause casualties. Otherwise, twice the force would not be able to stop the Ming army's invasion at night. This realization made him feel a lot of pressure.

Of course, what made him most nervous was that the main force of the Ming army was slowly approaching. It was unpleasant, but it made him feel a mountain of pressure, approaching bit by bit. According to the scouts who risked their lives to get information from the rear, the vast grassland was filled with Ming cavalry troops. The ground was so red that it even covered the green grassland.

In this regard, Archbishop Filaret really couldn't sit still. With more than 100,000 cavalry, who could stop him?

He immediately sent people to rush to the rear, urging several other countries to send reinforcements as soon as possible. Otherwise, if Tsarist Russia cannot stop it, other countries will also suffer. As for any conditions, you might as well agree first and then talk about it.

He had to do this because he knew the countries on the border of Tsarist Russia very well. Especially Poland, he could think of it with his toes as fast as he could. When the King of Poland died, he saw this clearly and wanted to recapture Smolensk that was robbed by Poland before Poland could react. However, although Poland responded slowly, the war was ultimately won.

In fact, Poland at this time, whose full name was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was at the end of Poland's most glorious "golden age." In the past years, Poland's winged cavalry was famous, often defeating more with less, creating brilliant battles one after another, and making Poland one of the powerful countries in Europe. But in fact, its domestic system has restricted Poland's development, causing Poland to stop there.

Speaking of which, Poland at this time was very similar to the original Ming Dynasty, both because the central government had no money.

At this time, Poland was still a country with a federal system of serfdom, and the decline of its royal power directly affected the king's prestige. Over-dispersion of power resulted in the population and wealth being controlled by the Semuchi Council and Schlachta in various places. Unless vital interests were threatened, Schlachta and the great nobles would definitely not submit sufficient taxes and troops to the king. The national financial system of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation has almost no savings. It is often necessary to hold meetings, submit tax drafts, and pass war taxes to raise military expenditures just before war. The long and complicated procedures greatly restrict the efficiency and upper limit of military expenditure collection.

To sum it up in one sentence, the King of Poland wants to be rich, but the local authorities do not agree. He will not pay if he can, and he will argue as much as possible. Poland is such a country. When the front lines win big battles, they often fail to expand the results and get no actual benefits. Therefore, the army runs out of money and cannot support the next war.

Take the Smolensk war that just ended between Poland and Tsarist Russia. The two sides finally signed a peace agreement. Tsarist Russia had to pay huge war reparations (that is, 20,000 gold rubles), but at the same time Poland had to give up its claim to the Russian throne and return A symbol of Moscow imperial power.

The final result of this agreement was that Tsarist Russia stabilized its internal affairs, unified its imperial power, and laid the political foundation for its subsequent rise. It can be said that although Tsarist Russia did not win military victory, it achieved great gains politically.

As for Sweden, it is currently an ally of Tsarist Russia, and the two countries often unite against Poland. In the previous battle of Smolensk, the King of Sweden initially invited neighboring countries to deal with Poland. However, Patriarch Filaret was too impatient and was afraid that Poland would react and took action first.

But no matter what, if Sweden follows suit and sends troops, Tsarist Russia will still have to pay the price. Moreover, Sweden's troop buildup is almost gone. Even Patriarch Filaret was sure that other countries might be deliberately slow, and it would be best to let Tsarist Russia consume the strength of the Ming army, and finally they would come forward to clean up the mess!

Therefore, when Patriarch Filaret ordered the people to report the news, he also emphasized that he must fully explain the power and cruelty of the Ming army, which was even more powerful than the Mongolian army during the Genghis Khan era! If necessary, you can exaggerate more.

What he didn't expect was that he thought it was an exaggeration, but when the 30,000 main forwards led by Mangui began to cross the Ural Mountains, he was really shocked when he saw with his own eyes a sea of ​​red all over the mountains and plains.

For a long time, when Tsarist Russia fought with neighboring countries such as Poland, Sweden, and the Crimean Khanate, the two sides deployed 10,000 troops in a battle, and only about 20,000 troops were needed to support the sky. For example, the previous Smolensk battle. Just here, there may be a lot of mercenaries.

But what I saw before me was a sea of ​​red. For the cavalry, tens of thousands of cavalry are endless, let alone 30,000 cavalry! And this is just the forward of the Ming army. It is said that there are larger cavalry units behind them.

The endless pressure, especially the news that the scattered troops were easily eaten by the Ming army, made Patriarch Filaret realize that there was something wrong with his previous layers of defense. So, he immediately ordered that all the troops be gathered together. Since the Samara Castle could not accommodate anyone, they formed a circle around the perimeter and concentrated all their forces to resist the Ming army.

Before being surrounded by the Ming army, Patriarch Filaret sent three waves of messengers in a row to rush for reinforcements. He looked forward to the day when he could use Samara Castle to deplete the morale of the Ming army. Finally, reinforcements would arrive, and they would cooperate inside and outside to defeat this powerful enemy from the east!

"Everyone can rest assured that the Ming army will not be able to come all the way for long. We have firearms, artillery, a strong Samara Castle, and reinforcements from Poland, Sweden and other countries. Winter is coming, as long as we persist , this war must belong to us!" Patriarch Filaret said this to his nobles, and also ordered them to convey this message down below, boost everyone's morale, and persevere to the end.

As for how many people below believed this statement, he didn't know. In fact, he himself doesn't have much confidence. It depends on how long he can persist. Especially when he saw countless sheep following the Ming army behind the army, he became even more worried.

At the same time, on the Kazakh grassland south of Samara Castle, two groups of people were fighting. There are only about 500 people on one side, and about 1,000 people on the other side. Those with fewer people were the Cossacks, while those with more people were the Crimean Khanate cavalry.

This kind of war happens almost every year, often. Either the Mongols from the Crimean Khanate invaded the Cossacks and robbed the Cossacks' property, or the Cossacks invaded the Crimean Khanate and robbed the Mongolian property. One of them belongs to the Polish Alliance camp, and the other belongs to the Ottoman camp. They are originally hostile to each other, and because of the issue of survival resources, they basically fight and kill each other every year.

At this time, the Hungry Cossacks were still basically an ethnic group. A small part was attached to Tsarist Russia, and most of them were in Poland. However, if the original historical development were to follow, under the oppression of the Polish nobles, the Cossacks finally could not bear the oppression and rebelled, which is the famous Hemel The Nitsky uprising eventually prompted the Cossacks to fully defect to Tsarist Russia.

In the small-scale war in front of them, in terms of combat power, although the Cossacks are small in number, they are powerful. Therefore, even if they are smaller in number than the Mongols in the Crimean Khanate, they still have the upper hand and are suppressing the Mongols.

But the two sides were fighting, and suddenly both sides stopped in unison and turned to look east. Because they are people from the grassland, they are very familiar with the sound of horse hooves on the grassland. Although the sound is still far away, they feel shocked.

I saw a red line rolling in the distance to the east, seemingly endless. In this regard, both sides immediately concluded that a very large cavalry army was coming.

They couldn't figure out where the cavalry would be in that direction on this grassland.

Coincidentally, the two sides separated again, keeping each other on guard while staring at the rolling red line from the east.

Closer, closer, closer. The Cossacks looked at it and were so frightened that they could no longer calm down. They could see that the Mongols were coming.

However, when the Mongols of the Crimean Khanate saw it, they were also frightened, because they recognized from the uniforms of the cavalry and the words on the flag that they were the Ming army in the east!

Invariably, whether they were the Cossacks or the Mongols of the Crimean Khanate, they were all like frightened rabbits, hurriedly avoiding the path of the Ming army, regardless of whether they were enemies or not, and hurriedly left the place together. It was as if two goats were fighting and suddenly noticed a leopard passing by. They were frightened and immediately forgot about the fight and ran away.

The Ming army rolling in was the 10,000 cavalry led by Li Dingguo. Through the chat group, he knew that Mangui's side had attracted the attention of Tsarist Russia, so his partial army took a detour to speed up and attack Moscow thousands of miles away.

Therefore, Li Dingguo paid no attention to the more than a thousand people who fled in front of him. He just led his army to sweep across the Kazakh grasslands and continued to roll westward.

It was not until he saw this cavalry army of tens of thousands retreating that the Kazakh leader came back to his senses. He looked at the red color that was about to disappear in the distance and sighed: "This army is really elite. I'm afraid only the winged cavalry can compete with it." ?”

"That makes sense, but there aren't that many hussars!" The people around him also looked at the disappearing red color in the distance and nodded in response.

As soon as the two parties finished speaking, they suddenly felt something was wrong and quickly turned their heads to look. The Kazakh leader discovered that the person next to him turned out to be the leader of the Mongols. Suddenly, both of them subconsciously distanced themselves.

Not only them, but also their subordinates suddenly found that they were surrounded by the enemies they had just beaten to death. Suddenly, there was chaos again.

However, no matter what, the two sides did not fight again. The sudden appearance of this army caused them to fight each other again. They looked at each other, left a few harsh words to each other, and then each took their people and hurried back to report the news they had seen.

The Ming Kingdom in the Far East sent its elite cavalry troops through the Kazakh grasslands to Tsarist Russia or Poland!

Europe, something big is going to happen!

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