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In fact, there are advantages to having fewer people and difficulties to having too many people.

Among them, the most critical thing is that the more people there are, the greater the logistical pressure will be. The Ming army had been preparing for this western expedition for several years just in terms of preparing logistical supplies and training the army. Among the vanguard, Li Dingguo's 10,000 cavalry troops, after leaving the main force, just brought dry food with them and set off. This placed very high demands on Li Dingguo's cavalry army. It would be very dangerous if supplies could not be replenished before the food on the person was eaten up.

Subsequently, Mangui's main force of 30,000 forwards could no longer do what Li Dingguo had commanded. The army had to carry supplies, and the quickest way was to carry cattle and sheep, and use cattle and sheep to supplement the army's needs.

Next, the main force of Yang Sichang's army was too numerous to handle just by carrying cattle and sheep, and they had to pull carts of grain and grass supplies. It is precisely because of logistical constraints that Li Dingguo's troops can come and go like the wind, and every battle is unexpected. Although Mangui's troops were also cavalry, their speed was much slower. Yang Sichang's troops were even slower. But in this way, Yang Sichang's troops can carry heavy artillery for siege, and it will not affect the marching speed.

As a result, Mangui did not attack the Samara Fort, but the main force led by Yang Sichang had the capital to attack the city.

When Samara Fort was built a few years ago, I never thought that it would encounter so many enemies. Moreover, the main purpose of the construction at that time was the enemies of the nomads. Therefore, compared to the current war, Samara Castle not only cannot accommodate the approximately 20,000 troops brought by Patriarch Filaret, but the castle is also not strong enough to withstand heavy artillery bombardment.

Yang Sichang felt happy just after taking a look at the situation in Samara Fort. He can finally make some achievements, and he will not let Li Dingguo be the best.

When the army was surrounded, the heavy artillery came forward. Although there were only two heavy artillery with rifling, these two heavy artillery were just outside the range of the enemy's artillery. Slowly you fired one shot at a time, and I fired one at a time. It was obvious that the enemy was in some confusion, especially those under the walls of Samara Fort and those defending the city, who were the first to start rioting.

This time, Yang Sichang also felt the benefits brought by advanced weapons. The enemy's morale had dropped to a low point when the heavy troops attacked, and then he saw Samara Fort slowly collapsing under the bombardment of heavy artillery. One place after another, on the second night, the Tsarist Russian nobles outside the fort could not help themselves and tried to escape.

It's just that I'm really embarrassed. Yang Sichang was not an incompetent master. He had already expected this and dug a hole waiting for these Western Yi to jump.

At dawn the next day, Patriarch Filaret secretly climbed to the top of the city. When he saw the Ming army cleaning up the dead bodies near their camp, his face was so gloomy that water dripped from his face.

Originally, our own troops were no match for the Ming army, but these nobles outside the city actually acted without authorization and ran to die themselves. Fortunately, now, they were seeking death, but it particularly affected the morale of the city and boosted the morale of the Ming army. , the city wall will be blown down, how can we fight this battle?

In desperation, Patriarch Filaret asked people to fly a white flag and wanted to discuss surrender with the Ming army. However, the envoy's ears were cut off and he was quickly driven back. Yang Sichang only replied with one sentence: "In the past, countless Oirat people of the Ming Dynasty killed me. Now, I have come to attack according to the emperor's order. I will pay with blood!"

At this time, Patriarch Filaret was desperate and could not even surrender. This was too unreasonable. At this time, he began to regret the previous sneak attack on Oirat Mongolia. Thinking back to the time when he was complacent about the supplies he had plundered from Oirat Mongolia, now it seems that his vision was so short-sighted!

But then, he came back to his senses. It seemed that the Oirat Mongolia was not part of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning. How could he know that the Ming Dynasty would stand up for the Oirat Mongolia! This...this...the Ming army outside the city is unreasonable!

However, Patriarch Filaret had no choice but to gather his nobles and said seriously to them: "Everyone, you should have heard the reply from the Ming army outside the city. Now we have no way out, only Only by fighting to the death with the Ming army can we have a chance to survive. Therefore, everyone, remember, we must unite and act together, risking death and surviving, do you understand?"

I have to say that his words are still effective. Of course, what's more, these nobles have seen the fate of their accomplices who tried to escape privately, as well as the reply of the Ming army commander. Therefore, they had to give up other ideas and expressed their opinions one after another. They must listen to Patriarch Filaret and must Fight to the end with the Ming army.

In this way, the war returned to its original state. There were Ming troops outside the city. The two heavy artillery pieces were just outside the range of the artillery at the top of the city. They fired one shot after another in a leisurely manner. Other than that, there was no fighting. Mark of.

The Tsarist Russian army in Samara Fort regained some morale due to despair, but began to slowly be exhausted again. However, on this day, before the heavy artillery destroyed the walls of Samara Fort, their morale plummeted.

Therefore, a group of Ming troops returned from the west, took several people, and lined them up outside the city for execution.

"It's not good, His Excellency the Patriarch, it's not good!" A leader almost rolled into the palace of the Patriarch Filaret and reported in a panic, "Your Highness... Your Highness, he is here Outside……"

"What? He's here?" Patriarch Filaret was originally physically ill. After being besieged by the Ming army, he became so angry that his condition worsened and he was already bedridden. However, at this time, he suddenly jumped out of bed. He sat up on the bed, with an incredulous look on his face and said, "He has always been cowardly, and now he has brought troops to reinforce him in this situation?"

Without waiting for anyone to answer, he hurriedly got out of bed and walked out while guessing: "Are reinforcements from several other countries coming with them? How many soldiers and horses are there, can they defeat the Ming army? Quickly. , assemble the troops in the city immediately, it is best to cooperate inside and outside, maybe we can decide in one battle and defeat those demons from the east!"

"..." The leader who came to report the news had a look of panic on his face. He couldn't even get a word in, so he had to follow behind. Finally, when Patriarch Filaret finished speaking, he hurriedly replied, "No, no, Your Highness... Your Highness was captured by the Ming army!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Patriarch Filaret staggered and almost fell. Then, he immediately threw away the maid who had just supported him, turned pale, and hurried out to see the situation.

Naturally, it was impossible for his men to lie to him. When he arrived at the top of the city, he found that everyone was looking outside and didn't even know he was coming. He knew that everything was over.

As a tsar, his son has a cowardly temper and will definitely not come out of Moscow. But now, since he appears outside the city, it means that Moscow has fallen into the hands of the Ming army.

Sure enough, when he got to the top of the city and looked outside, he saw his son and several nobles who were staying in Moscow being escorted by the Ming army outside the city for execution.

Yang Sichang did the same. He actually found someone who knew Tsarist Russian and shouted into the city: "You are a small country, and you dare to attack our Ming Dynasty without knowing your own capabilities. Now that the king is marching west, killing you is like killing a chicken. How many of these people , it’s interest, open your eyes and look at it!”

After finishing speaking, the soldiers from the Oirat tribe got on their horses and pulled these people, and began to run around the city. Under the gaze of everyone on the city top, they dragged these Tsarist Russian nobles to death.

On the top of the city, there was silence, deathly silence.

Suddenly, with an "ah" sound, Patriarch Filaret screamed and fell back. Fortunately, the people around him were awakened by him and had quick hands and eyes to support him. However, seeing him vomiting blood and rolling his eyes, you knew something was wrong.

Sure enough, that night, Patriarch Filaret let out a few reluctant "Ahhh" sounds and stretched out his hands to grab the sky, as if he wanted to grab some life-saving straw but couldn't. Finally, he dropped his hands, kicked his feet, and there was no more movement.

His death once again hit the morale of the Tsarist Russian army. That night, the remaining Tsarist Russian nobles could no longer bear the pressure and led their men to break out.

No accident, the Ming army outside the city was waiting for work, and dealt a heavy blow to these headless Xiyi. When it was daylight, Yang Sichang started to climb up to Samara Fort with a smile on his face, and climbed up to see the distance.

In the temporary chat group, Yang Sichang was finally able to speak with some confidence: "Your Majesty, the humble minister has completely wiped out the main force of Tsarist Russia and occupied Samara Fort!"

Emperor Chongzhen was actually not surprised by this. You know, Tsarist Russia at this time was just a small country in Western Europe, far from the powerful country it would be in later generations. The Ming Dynasty is just the opposite. It is not the Ming Dynasty in history that was too busy to take care of itself and was about to destroy the country, but the Ming Dynasty that was at the height of its power and more powerful than any other dynasty in history. With the strength of the Ming Dynasty at this time, it was only dealing with Tsarist Russia, a small country in Western Europe, and it was naturally a crushing situation.

In the chat group, before Emperor Chongzhen had time to speak, Lu Xiangsheng, the Minister of War, had already spoken first: "Judging from several battles with the Western Yi, the excellent firearms of our Ming Dynasty have greatly reduced the casualties of our Ming soldiers. Therefore, I I suggest that we, the Ming Dynasty, must stay ahead in military research and development."

Sun Chuanting, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, saw this and immediately had the opportunity to speak: "The scientific and technological knowledge promoted by your Majesty is really a priceless treasure. We, the Ming Dynasty, have this weapon and can stay ahead. On the Weichen side, we are also drafting the adjutants of various yamen who must There must be a plan for people with excellent knowledge in professional science and technology to implement it.”

Hong Chengchou, the censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, met with him. Not to be outdone, he immediately spoke to express his presence: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate sent censors to the local yamen, asking the local governments to strictly investigate examination fraud and put an end to science and technology. Subject muddles through.”

Emperor Chongzhen was very happy when he saw it. He smiled and spoke to the group: "Everyone knows this, I am very relieved!"

Yang Sichang looked depressed. I have contributed to the destruction of the country. What do you mean? Instead of saying congratulations, you took the topic astray. In the end, the emperor didn't even say anything. Is this really good?

After complaining for a while, he had to admit that today's Ming Dynasty has long been numb to wars like the War of Destruction. Do the math, starting from the destruction of Dongwu, including Nanyang, Korea, Japan, etc., countless countries have been destroyed. No wonder everyone is not surprised by this.

After quitting the chat group, Yang Sichang took it easy to relax and look at the scenery on the Eastern European plains.

Speaking of which, things are really different in the Ural Mountains. Generally speaking, the temperature in the east is much lower than that in the west, so the vegetation is completely different.

Yang Sichang was qualified to know that the Ming Dynasty launched this war apparently to avenge the people of the Oirat tribe. In fact, the Ming Dynasty was also plotting endless wealth underground in the east.

The prisoners captured in this war will not stay in the capital like Li Dingguo did, but will work as coolies to expand the castle and become the bridgehead of the Ming Dynasty in this far west. The emperor gave it a name, and it was called Mingwei Fort. It meant that the Ming Dynasty was famous far and wide, which shocked the Western barbarians.

Thinking of this, Yang Sichang looked at the herds grazing in the distance, and suddenly thought in his heart: In fact, it is not a bad idea to name this place Yangcheng. It suits the occasion well, and it also implies that he conquered this place!

Therefore, with his careful thinking, after the expansion of the original Samara Fort, the official name was Mingwei Fort, but the local people, especially the Western Yi, still liked to call it Yangcheng. Of course, this is something to talk about later.

At this time, in the Ming Dynasty, after a year-long preparation, the Ming Dynasty officially returned to Yingtianfu and changed its name to the capital, also known as Nanjing. The original capital was restored to Shuntianfu, also known as Peiping, which was also the capital of the Ming Dynasty and also had eight bureaus and other yamen.

At the same time, Li Dingguo, supported by the Manchu and Guangxi armies, continued to cause trouble in Europe. The cavalry under his command came and went without a trace. In the territories of Poland and Sweden, two rivals that had just suffered heavy blows, they attacked nobles and divided their fields. They carried out the decree issued by Emperor Chongzhen, which was to hit Europe hard. That is, those with vested interests, that is, the European aristocracy, united with the oppressed people of Europe, that is, the serfs and slaves still common in Europe. Li Dingguo's reputation began to resound over Europe, and he was known as the Eastern Lightning.

It was not until late autumn, when the weather slowly cooled down, that he led the army back to Mingwei Fort and stationed it here, with Mangui as the commander. Yang Sichang, on the other hand, led his troops to Huitian Province for the winter. After all, the army is here, and the logistical pressure is too great.

In Moscow and other places, the Ming army had all given up. Even Poland and Sweden, which had been crippled, were eager to occupy the vacated territories.

However, the Ming army still had a deterrent effect in Mingwei Fort. On the European continent, many forces began to compete for territory, and at the same time they also began to join forces with each other.

At this time, Europe was originally engaged in the Thirty Years' War because of issues of faith. For this reason, some Westerners also inquired about what the Ming people believed in, hoping to distinguish between friends and enemies.

However, the answer they got was obviously beyond their expectations.