My Daming New Empire

But now, he is still a young man. Although he has many ambitions, he is also afraid of Da Ming, an invincible enemy.

Daming's weapons are advanced, but Moscow has a large population.Relying on Moscow's stone walls, the Muscovites can still resist tenaciously.

What restricts Ming Dynasty's attack is nothing but expensive shells. Every shell has to be transported from Daming, and the transport journey exceeds [-] kilometers.

It can be said that although there is a train, it only goes to Tanglin City in the Ural Mountains, and then it will be transported through the Volga River and the Oka River.

The cost of transporting one shell to Moscow is almost the cost of three shells.

From June to September, the war stalled amid a shortage of shells.

However, during this time, Tang Saier led an army of 3 people to attack Novgorod, which belongs to the Hanseatic League.

At this time, the Hanseatic League sent a congressman to negotiate with the army.They took out an agreement signed between the Hanseatic League and Monte, and begged Tang Saier to surrender under the condition of retaining the wealth.

At the same time, representatives of Yang Zhihe also landed from the Baltic Sea. They not only brought a large amount of supplies, but also conducted secret consultations on the relationship between the Hanseatic League and Ming Dynasty.

After meeting with representatives of the Hanseatic League, Tang Saier agreed to their terms of surrender. Since then, the two duchies of Novgorod and Pskov surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

Under their influence, from Moscow to the Baltic Sea region, except for a small group of forces belonging to the Principality of Lithuania that are still engaged in guerrilla warfare, most of the forces have put down their arms.

The transport team of the Hanseatic League became Ming's transport troops and transported a large amount of supplies to Moscow.

However, ammunition was still in short supply.

In mid-September, a large number of shells finally arrived in Moscow with difficulty, and at this time, Tang Sai'er had already returned to Moscow, preparing to completely eliminate Moscow before winter came.

When the Ming army had enough artillery shells, the strong city of Moscow was also destroyed in the artillery fire.

Even if more soldiers repaired the damaged city walls with mud and demolished the houses in the city, the speed of construction could never match the speed of destruction.

There is a disadvantage in numbers, and the Ming people are more willing to use shells in exchange for the lives of soldiers.

Covered by artillery fire, the soldiers slowly advanced after the front was turned into ruins, bit by bit encroaching on the territory of the Muscovites.

Pieces of neighborhoods were turned into ruins, and the enemy's defense circle gradually shrunk.

On October 50th, Ivan finally ordered a retreat, and more than [-] young men in the city, carrying food, gold and silver, retreated towards Smolensk in the west.

In the past years, Lithuania and Moscow have fought for this city for hundreds of years, and the rich coal mines here have become resources for both sides to compete for.

It was not until 20 years ago that the two sides put down their arms and jointly developed coal mines and made steel.

Not only did the Principality of Moscow refuse to give up the last piece of land, even the Lithuanians would not back down for these coal mines.

If this place is lost, the Principality of Lithuania will lose the ability to resist just like the Principality of Moscow.

Ivan was worried all the time during the retreat, because of the gap in weapons, they were already scared by the Ming people.

But to everyone's surprise, the Ming army did not pursue, only a cavalry unit of no more than 5 people chased after it.

Although tens of thousands of soldiers lost their lives, this loss was not unbearable for the Ross people.

Tang Saier raised the Great Ming Dragon Flag in the Kremlin, and a large number of soldiers also lived in warm houses.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, whenever a new city is captured, the first thing to clear is the church in the city.As long as it is not a church of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, it will never appear in a city belonging to Ming Dynasty.

This move was opposed by the left-behind priests, but Tang Sai'er did not have the slightest mercy. With one order, all the priests were shot dead, and dozens of luxurious churches were all blown up with explosives.

Afterwards, the Ming soldiers settled down. They even took out silver coins and recruited the serfs to mow the grass in the fields.

They have no intention of chasing them, and have already started preparing for the winter.

In the south, Zheng Ying faced a far more difficult war than Tang Saier. After half a year, he still failed to completely wipe out the coalition forces in the Donetsk area.

This is not because of Zheng Ying's incompetence, but because of the different strategic positions of the North and the South.

The Principality of Ross in the north has no room for change at all. Their country, the capital, is directly exposed to Daming's gunpoint.

However, in the south, the discovery of the Donetsk iron mine caused all the countries of the coalition forces to station heavy troops on the front line, fighting against the Ming army.

In this era, in Eastern Europe, the most powerful is not Moscow, but the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

This country is just a small regional country in later generations, and many people have never heard of their names, but in this era, they are extremely powerful.

In the [-]th century, the Mongols marched westward, and the first to resist and drive away the Mongols was the coalition forces of Poland and Lithuania.

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania developed rapidly in the process of driving the Mongolian Yuan away.They expanded into the homeland of Kievan Rus and other Slavic lands, including later Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of Estonia, Poland, Moldova, and Russia.

They have a large population, powerful force, and occupy a large area of ​​food production. Even the Holy Roman Empire dare not fight against them.

But they have everything except metal mines.The Principality of Kiev was annexed by them as early as 100 years ago. Now that such a huge iron mine has been discovered, it has become a land that Lithuania cannot lose.

And their capital Vilnius is far behind, so they can deploy a large number of troops on this line.

This place was once occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and many defense systems have been built. Now, in order to fight against the Ming Dynasty, along the Don River and the Dnieper River, they have even spared no effort in manpower and material resources to build a maze-like defense system.

The Zheng family experienced the turmoil last year, and Zheng Hong was beheaded.Although Zheng Ying wanted to make meritorious deeds, he was even more afraid of making mistakes.When Zhu Zhanji repeatedly emphasized that the lives of soldiers are above all else, he did not dare to use the lives of soldiers to establish military exploits.

So in the south, although he has cleared several cities now, there is no good way to break through the defenses around Donetsk.

This piece of land of several thousand square kilometers has six mining areas. There are farmland and water conservancy between the mining areas, which are connected with each other and have a strict defense system outside.

If he doesn't break through here, he doesn't dare to attack Kiev on a large scale. If the army falls into a passive situation of flanking front and back, leading to defeat, the Zheng family may be doomed.

His reassurance is also correct, because this is not just a matter of Zheng Ying alone, even the generals in the staff department have no good way to face this situation.

The number of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty was much smaller. Of the 10,000+ army, only [-] were the elite of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that the enemy's mining area is still producing a large amount of steel every day, Zheng Ying and the others are very anxious.

If Donetsk cannot be captured before winter, it will have a great impact on next year's war.

At this time, Guo Ang sent two thousand Ross serfs from the northern war zone.

These serfs all voluntarily followed Daming, and they were willing to serve as Daming's vanguard for a better life for their families.

Of course, Daming didn't expect them to capture the entire mining area, but to use the mining area would require a large number of miners and serfs to get them in.

Just in October, Bakhchisarai, the capital of the Crimean Khanate, was captured by Zheng Ying. A large number of serfs lost their land and were driven out of the Crimea Peninsula.

More than 5000 people fled to the Donetsk mining area. They were forced to work in various places in the mining area by soldiers from Lithuania, Poland, and the Holy Roman Empire.

Since then, information about the layout of the mining area and the transfer of personnel has been continuously sent out.

When the first heavy snow fell, the Ming army captured the Yenakiyevo mining area located in the center of the mining area with lightning speed.

This mining area belongs to the Holy Roman Empire. Since Daming has now blocked the mining area, even if they smelt the steel, they cannot transport it out. Therefore, the production here has almost stopped recently.