On the grasslands of the Kazan Khanate, an army of 100,000 people was marching. The war horses lined up in a long queue, stretching for more than ten miles. The formations of cars and trucks were equally spectacular, with thousands of trucks.
There were also heavy cannons towed behind.
"Send a telegram to Huo Yun and ask him to slow down and at least leave the city of Moscow to me until I arrive before I can attack the city. Otherwise, no matter how fast he attacks, he will not get any credit by then."
Zhu Houzhao, who was wearing a military uniform on top of a sweaty horse, looked a little anxious.
The war is proceeding at a speed beyond imagination.
In just two days, the city of Kazan was captured, and in less than ten days, the Kazan Khanate was destroyed. Huo Yun defeated an army of 100,000 and continued to sweep from east to west. Wherever he passed, it was like locusts crossing the border.
Countless killings.
This is also the long-standing tradition of the Ming Army. As for the annexed areas, as long as the order has not been issued, the Ming Army must not only conquer this territory, but also sweep this territory clean so that no one will be left behind.
There are too many hidden dangers.
There are too many local alien races left to continue to live on this land, and they already have hatred. When they recover, they will inevitably betray the Ming Dynasty capriciously. Rather than waiting until then to start a big war, it is better
The house was cleaned at the beginning to facilitate later immigration and governance.
Huo Yun's army marched very fast. In less than ten days, it had crossed the Kazan Khanate and attacked the Principality of Muscovy.
When we arrived at the Principality of Moscow, we were invincible and invincible. We conquered Kasimov City and reached Ryazan City, which was very close to Moscow.
Zhu Houzhao was afraid that if he captured the city of Moscow before he arrived, he would no longer be the general marshal of the Western Expedition.
"Yes, Marshal!"
When Yang Yun heard this, he was slightly speechless, but he still quickly sent someone to send a message to Huo Yun, asking him to slow down and leave some for the generalissimo.
"Huo Ying, how is the situation here with Liao Yuan?"
Zhu Houzhao asked about the situation of Huo Ying and Liao Yuan. The 100,000 Western Route Army led by them mainly attacked the Crimean Khanate and the Ilkhanate, and they were also divided into two routes.
Along the way, a 70,000-strong army led by Huo Ying gathered the Black Sea Fleet, the Mediterranean Fleet directly attacked the Crimean Khanate, and a 30,000-strong army led by Liao Yuan attacked the Ilkhanate in the north of the Caucasus.
Obviously, the strength of the Ilkhanate was very weak, and the Ming Dynasty did not take them seriously at all. Only the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate deserved some attention.
"Liao Yuan has defeated the Ilkhanate Khan in Sarai and is currently sweeping the Ilkhanate. After the sweep is completed, he will attack the Muscovite Principality from the south. We will make peace with him."
"Huo Ying is already preparing to land in Kaffa City of the Crimean Khanate, and is preparing to sweep the Crimean Khanate from south to north from Kaffa City."
Yang Yun quickly replied.
"Yes, Not Bad"
"Speed up the march and catch up with Huo Yun as soon as possible. I will personally direct the siege."
Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction. This fight was so smooth, there was almost no difficulty. Wherever the Ming army passed, they were destroyed and destroyed, and there was no enemy at all.
Both the Kazan Khanate and the Ilkhanate perished very easily.
These two khanates themselves did not have many people, and their military strength was very limited. Facing the wolf-like Ming army, there was no way to resist them. A large number of people began to desperately flee to the west, because the only way was to the west.
There is a way to live, but heading east is a dead end.
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The city of Kaffa in the southern part of the Crimean Peninsula.
At this moment, on the Black Sea waters of Kaffa City, hundreds of warships have turned their guns and aimed at Kaffa City, which made the Tatars, Turks, and Genoese in Kaffa City approaching.
The enemy's face is ashen as death.
At the same time, on the coastline around Kaffa City, groups of Ming troops were quickly landing. The flying Ming dragon flag was extremely dazzling. The mighty Ming army was marching well, like a torrent of steel.
At the same time, there are also large ships transporting cars and trucks to the peninsula. These trucks and cars do not need horse-drawn horses and can be towed quickly by people, dragging heavy artillery towards the city of Kaffa.
"Ming Dynasty man, why?"
On the top of the city of Kaffa, Saldat looked at the scene in front of him and seemed extremely incomprehensible.
The Crimean Khanate has always had a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty needs Tatar slaves, and the Tatars need the Ming Dynasty's arms, weapons and food. There has always been a good relationship between the two sides.
Who could have known that the Ming people would start attacking the city of Kaffa and the Crimean Khanate without any warning. The powerful Ming Empire was showing its incomparable strength at this moment.
All the ships on the sea area are Ming Dynasty ships. Huge warships are huge. There are also new steam steel warships that are emitting black smoke. There are huge cannons. Just looking at the muzzle of the cannon, you can know its power.
.
"Fire!"
Huo Ying rode on his tall horse and coldly issued the order to attack.
Immediately, the messenger quickly passed on the order. The speed of radio communication was very fast and very convenient.
"Boom! Boom!"
Along with loud noises, billowing white smoke rose from the sea, and battleships and giant cannons began to roar.
Cannonballs roared in the sky and landed on Kaffa City in the blink of an eye. For a moment, the entire Kaffa City was shaken. In the blink of an eye, the originally prosperous Kaffa City turned into a ruin.
Before the Crimean Tatars in Kaffa could react, the Ming army quickly attacked the city. In less than an hour, the Ming dragon flag was flying above the city of Kaffa.
"Tap tap tap tap!"
In Kaffa City, accompanied by the sound of neat steps, groups of Ming troops quickly entered the city.
"why why?"
"We, the Crimean Khanate, have always had a good relationship with your Ming Dynasty. Why do you want to attack us?"
Saldate became a prisoner gloriously. He kept roaring like an angry lion, but he was just a lion in a cage.
"Why?"
"Because we, the Ming Dynasty, need your black land to grow food, so we just have to ask you to find another place to survive."
Huo Ying rode a tall horse into the city of Kaffa and looked at the surrendered prisoners in the city. Hearing Saldat's words, he replied with a smile.
“Need our black soil to grow food?”
When Saldat heard this, everyone was dumbfounded. They thought it was because the Ming Empire was interested in the land of the Crimean Khanate.
"Your Ming Dynasty's land is already vast, why do you still want to seize this little land from us Tatars?"
Then, Saldate asked angrily.
"Why?"
"There are so many reasons. Just like you Tatars think that threshing is part of your life. You rely on threshing to obtain slaves, money and food."
"The Slavs, Ukrainians, and Poles who were beaten by you are also extremely angry, but you still think it is natural and right."
"Don't you call this behavior the harvest of the grassland people?"
Huo Ying looked at Saldate. He was dressed gorgeously, with a hat inlaid with gems, a gold belt around his waist, gemstone rings on his fingers, rings, a gold necklace around his neck, etc.
There is no doubt that this is a noble of the Crimean Khanate.
Hearing Huo Ying's answer, Saldat was speechless immediately, because the Crimean Tatars have always regarded threshing of grass valleys as a matter of course, and the plundering of slaves and wealth as belonging to the prairie people.
Fixed harvest.
In the final analysis, they take their own robbery behavior as a matter of course, and think that robbing other people is a matter of course and there is no moral problem at all.
Because in the eyes of the Tatars, plundering is a necessity for their survival. The plundered tribes are just like the grassland. After eating it, it will grow back and be harvested year after year.
But now, things have changed. When he suddenly became the target of the Ming Empire's invasion, and when the Ming people took a fancy to his black land, he suddenly didn't know how to refute.
"We Crimean Tatars are not easy to bully. We will definitely make you Ming people pay a heavy price."
Saldate thought for a moment and roared.
"Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it."
Huo Ying immediately laughed, then waved his hand and said: "Sell them all as slaves to slave traders."
"no no"
"You can't do this. We are Tatar nobles, and I ask for money to redeem myself."
When Saldate heard this, he was so frightened that he peed.
He knew very well that once he became a slave and was handed over to the hands of slave traders, he would really be doomed, and his life would be worse than death. Slave traders are devils in human skin and can swallow your bones.
Go down and squeeze all the value out of you.
"You don't have any money anymore, everything you have will belong to us Ming people."
Huo Ying said with a smile, but then he was too lazy to pay attention to him anymore.
The city of Kaffa is just the beginning. Next, I will sweep the entire Crimean Khanate from south to north, and drive all these Tatars to the west, towards the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, and Hungary.
expulsion.
Let these Tatars drive all the way to the west, let them slowly entangle with the Europeans, and continue to provide more slaves to the Ming Dynasty.
The news that the city of Kaffa was captured by the Ming Dynasty also spread quickly. The entire Crimean Khanate was extremely angry for a while. The great Khan of the Crimean Khanate, Mohammad Grai I, who had just taken office not long ago, even
He angrily threatened to turn every Ming Dynasty person's head into a drinking vessel for drinking.