Chapter 865: Betting on the country’s fate

In recent years, Kaiyuan Military Studies and the study of the European Union has just emerged. The study of the study of the European Union by the Ming Dynasty is limited to strategy, tactics, geography, and is still in its infancy. The grudges and historical disputes between European countries are even the Europeans themselves.

It’s hard to explain clearly that the new school students of the Ming Dynasty’s military studies and the public schools were even more unfamiliar with their power. It doesn’t matter, Ma Cheng is still very optimistic.

The Ming Dynasty, through missionaries, mercenaries, and allies, the Portuguese, at least some knowledge of Europe, but the arrogant Europeans knew nothing about the Ming Dynasty. The news was not smooth, and the Taiwanese navy firmly blocked the Strait of Malacca, Europe

Most people only know that the Ming Dynasty had a powerful fleet in the Pacific and an army that used a medron to fight, that's all.

Do Europeans understand the ongoing changes in the heart of the Ming Dynasty? They are mostly ignorant.

Ma Cheng flipped through the bloody certificate. The certificate of this era was just a piece of yellow paper with names, ages, positions, nationalities and other information. The Pole, whose name was difficult to pronounce, was a Russian military officer, from the Russian Far East First Corps.

A centurion, this is the characteristic of the Russian army in this era. All the soldiers were Russian bankrupt farmers, herders, irritable drunkards who committed crimes, while all the officers were foreign mercenaries.

At this time, the Grand Duchy of Russia was a backward serf-sected country that was brewing reforms. The first one to improve was the army, which was like the backward Qing army in the late Qing Dynasty, employed a large number of experienced foreign officers. Unlike the Qing army, the Russian army was the same as the backward Qing army.

It is done more thoroughly, directly allowing a large number of experienced Polish mercenaries and members of the Bankrupt Knights to directly command the troops. Therefore, the Russian army is a new type of army under the command of foreign officers and has good combat effectiveness.

How many Russian troops have in the Far East? There are quite a few Cossack light cavalry, and the six major Cossack groups in the southern Russian grasslands, Ukraine and other places can easily organize a 50,000 Cossack army, but hire Cossacks.

It costs money. The Russian regular army in the Far East had two legions of about 8,000 troops and a dragon cavalry regiment with a total force of about 10,000. These were all information produced.

From the captured Russian officers, the small amount of intelligence obtained and the judgment of Macheng, the Russian Grand Duchy of China, which was in the period of social reform, had more than 100,000 troops, among which the elite Dragoon Legion and the Cavalry Legion were purely composed of nobles,

Boyar members, some foreign mercenaries, were composed of very powerful heavy cavalry units, and cooperated with a large number of Cossack light cavalry to fight.

The Russian infantry regiment is not strong in combat, mainly responsible for defending the city, and the treatment is also low. The Russian army has about 30,000 to 50,000 troops in the Far East, scattered in three solid castles, including the dragon composed of Russian nobles and mercenaries.

The Cavalry Regiment, Hussar Regiment, and the Cossacks were the main force, with about 30,000 people. This analysis is probably accurate and the error will not be too large.

Ma Cheng did not dare to underestimate the Russian noble heavy cavalry regiment. He mobilized 120,000 troops to encircle and suppress them. In the battle, he would win or win quickly. If the Ming army could not capture it for a long time, the weak and sick Russian emperor would go crazy.

, launched a large-scale expansion of the army, organizing the Cossacks, serfs, herdsmen and thugs on the vast grasslands in southern Russia and the Ukrainian territory in the east, which would be an army of 100,000.

Can the Principality of Russia support a 100,000 army? It is hard to say, but it should be possible in a short period of time.

Ma Cheng was so anxious to fight in the northern expedition, and the opportunity he chose was the Russian Empire to improve the serfdom and the last period of weakness before the rise. Once this once-in-a-lifetime fighter is lost, there is no doubt that within twenty years, the Russian Empire will

It will rise as strongly as in later generations.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, mid-October.

Before the first heavy snowfall in the Far East, 120,000 Ming troops approached the Russian fortress at the fortress at the fortress at the Far East from both east and west. Yakutsk, forty thousand cavalrymen came out in full swing to cover the battlefield, against this

The Far East Fortress with a population of 50,000 and 20,000 cavalry is surrounded. It is not easy to surround this huge fortress. The Russians in the city are all soldiers, and 50,000 people can even take up weapons to fight.

The ten thousand cavalrymen were even more unwilling to sit and wait for death and attacked from all sides.

The Ming army and the Russian army launched a cavalry war around the water source, which was also a great war that determined the national destiny of the two countries. This was really a national destiny battle, and Macheng also had his eyes red and bet on everything.

Four of the five major A-type main battalions were transferred, and the North was mobilized to mobilize a large amount of military supplies, manpower, material resources, and financial resources could not be calculated. If the Ming army wins, the Far East and Siberia will be all over the Ming people and they can control the territory all the way.

Expand to the Arctic Ocean.

If the Ming army was defeated, ten years of hard work would be ruined. If you want to build such an elite cavalry army, it will take at least five to ten years to retreat to the front line of Xing'anling, and most of them will have to follow the Qingting to sign the Nibchu Treaty.

, in a short period of time, he was unable to advance north. The wise ruler could not afford to be defeated, nor could the Russian army. If the Russian army was defeated, he could only retreat to Eastern Europe and even had to give up the battle for Central Asia.

Therefore, Macheng is fully prepared for long-term combat, facing a large number of reinforcements that the Russian army may arrive in the Far East at any time. If you underestimate the potential of war that can break out in desperate situations of the Russians, it would be too stupid. In history,

Those who dare to underestimate the Russians were defeated and killed, including Napoleon, the arrogant Hitler, and Ma Cheng did not think he was better than these two.

Yakutsk city, southeast.

The two battalions of light cavalry stopped by the river. Deng Chengzhi held down his war horses and raised his mirror to look at the city dozens of miles away. It was actually a moat dug on the periphery, and a stone city with a complete defense system. The only castle for the Russians was

Two words can be described as tall. Deng Chengzhi felt that the Russian buildings were larger than those in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. The city walls were tall, the fortresses were tall, and even the suspension bridge was tall.

"Barish."

Deng Chengzhi spitted over with a mouthful of saliva, and shouted softly, leading more than a thousand cavalry around the city to the northeast. It was not easy to surround the city. He had to annihilate the cavalry in the city first. He sent it to the combat manuals of each battalion on the front line and ordered his troops.

The cavalry battalion was cautious and closely guarded a dragon cavalry regiment and a Hussar regiment in the city to prevent the Russian heavy cavalry from suddenly coming out and being caught off guard.

Deng Chengzhi was dissatisfied. Are the dragon cavalry? What a big gimmick. It's much stronger than the Jianlu Bayala in three layers of armor. It's not much stronger. More than a thousand light cavalry of the Ming army walked around the city, and Russia was in the city.

The people became noisy, and a light cavalry crossed the moat and rushed out of the tall suspension bridge. They lined up in three rows of murderous intent, and even walked along the city wall to the front, intending to stop Ming cavalry from heading northeast.
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