The White Wave Army marched along the Syr Darya River, first arriving at the Aral Sea, and then at the Caspian Sea. They marched south along the coast of the Caspian Sea and plundered cities. After breaking these cities, they burned, killed, and looted—no respect for religious gold and silver.
It can be said that the special-style gold and silver inlaid crosses on the church and the silver-inlaid icons in the church were all taken down and stripped of the gold, silver and precious stones, and the rest were burned.
Those precious books were not burned, but were packed and prepared for the convoy to be transported away. A lot of silverware was snatched from the city, including many exquisite and exotic silverware from the Middle East. It was not easy to just smash it.
It was treated as silver bullion, but it had to be sent back with straw in a wooden box. As for the others, they were exotic female prisoners, and the whole army would be happy - but Bailang didn't let them mess around, but distributed them to those
soldiers.
After a few nights, the roster will be made, and then the teams that come to transport the trophies will still be brought back. No one will come to snatch them along the way - Bailang has already spread his evil reputation throughout the grassland. These trophies are
The women will be sent back to Da Qin and wait for distribution in the capital. Bailang has not collected a few of them because the ones he has caught so far are not in his eyes.
Bailang's army tortured the captured local nobles and found out that the Tsar's army had arrived, so Bailang ordered the entire army to turn around and head north towards the Ural River - the first goal was to capture Lower Uralburg.
The Tsar's army is coming, and I want them not to return to Moscow without their armor." Bai Lang's words were murderous, and he was also very happy, finally having a chance to kill the Western barbarians.
Lower Uralburg is a castle made of stone and wood. Bailang selected a few elites to follow him. He entered the castle directly and surrounded it with the army. He started killing people inside the castle. The settlers outside the castle were also caught and killed.
Once looted, the city walls were of little use. The occupants of Lower Uralburg fled from the city gate. They would rather surrender directly to the "Tatar" army outside than be crushed to death by the terrifying man inside the castle.
Killed like a bedbug.
The Lower Ural Fort was destroyed. The White Wave Army forced the residents to start demolishing the castle, and the stones were used to build breastworks for blocking. White Wave sent light cavalry hundreds of miles away to investigate. Four days later, the expedition horse reported that the Tsarist army had been discovered.
These days, the Tsar and the Cossacks are cooperating, but at the same time they are confrontational, and even more confrontational. The Cossacks not only refuse to pay taxes to the Tsar, but also like to plunder the cities built by the Tsar.
Anyway, Bailang doesn't care. As long as they are these nomads, he will execute them on wheels. He doesn't need these people to pay him blood tax. He just needs them to get back to the west of the Ural River. The size of the Tsar's army was determined by Bailang himself after receiving the report.
To investigate. According to his estimate, the Tsar mobilized about 50,000 to 70,000 people. Finally, after many cavalry reconnaissances and a detailed estimate of the size of the Tsarist army after it set up camp, the Tsarist army may be only 55,000.
About a thousand.
"We have all infantry, cavalry and artillery." Bailang said to the generals after observing the formation. There were many gunmen in the Tsarist army, and they had even begun to popularize flintlocks. Some of them were armored spearmen, and the cavalry were similar to Cossacks.
Bailang also saw no less than fifty artillery pieces, "I just don't know if the so-called Tsar Romanov is in the formation." The Tsar's army should be led by several dukes, and the main commanders are all foreigners.
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The Russian officers were just apprentices who helped them. These commanders were veterans who had participated in the Thirty Years' War in Europe and had rich combat experience. Compared with the organization and command of the Russian army, Bailang's army looked more like it had stepped out of history. The ancient army. His army still had matchlocks, and the proportion of equipment was not high. Most of the infantry were equipped with shields and spears. The artillery was also light and top-notch Crouching Tiger Cannon, with only twenty-four in total.
As for the cavalry, the cavalry on the opposite side is already equipped with reed pistols, but Bailang's cavalry is not equipped with such a thing and has never even seen it, and is not equipped with three-eyed muskets. Among his cavalry are "ancient" armored cavalry, All of these are disadvantages. The residents of Lower Uralburg escape secretly every day. The camp Bailang set up is not that tight, and he also has two-thirds of the logistics craftsman battalion and part of the cavalry and infantry in dozens of places. Grazing kilometers away.
These people will not come over. They have to take care of hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep. They only need to regularly transport supplies and weapons to Bailang's military camp. All this information was brought to the Tsarist army by the fleeing residents of the city. They even brought news that there was a "Great Khan" in these "Tatar" troops, which made the upper echelons of the Tsarist Army feel very proud - if the Great Khan of the Tatars was captured, wouldn't it mean that the land and How much is the ransom?
The two sides did not send envoys to each other. This was Bailang's unilateral refusal. He pretended to take the initiative to attack but only dispatched a part of the cavalry. All his armored cavalry were in battle, and the original armor on the horses had been made by craftsmen. The battalion re-made leather armor inlaid with iron plates, which greatly reduced the weight and made it easier to wear. The felt was hung down to prevent the horse's legs from being shot by arrows, and it also had a somewhat protective effect against lead bullets.
The man was wearing fish-scale chain mail instead of plate armor - it wasn't that he hadn't captured it, but that he had captured few and was not used to wearing it. The weapons in his hand were naturally spears, knives and war hammers, as well as long-range bows and arrows. Bailang also wore them. Wearing armor that was polished to reflect light and a helmet inlaid with gold, they took the lead in front of the entire army. Several of the cavalrymen were dedicated to raising Bailang's white tiger flag. After the flag was raised, Bailang led the cavalrymen. Slowly move forward in a conical formation.
After resisting the horse, the Tsarist army formed a formation. First, they used artillery to bombard Bailang's conical formation - this formation was stretched very thin, and Bailang was almost alone in the front. The artillery shells flew over and bounced on the ground a few times, but nothing happened. It missed, so the artillery fire was temporarily stopped, waiting for the Tatar cavalry to get closer. Bailang made a gesture, and the cavalry behind him slowed down, while Bailang himself urged the horse to accelerate.
From the very beginning, Bailang had already agreed that he would break out of the battle first, and then the cavalry would follow after disrupting the opponent - who would let the previous scoundrels run out and have to take them now? If he rushes in alone, then naturally It was the firecrackers who gathered fire. When Bailang rushed about fifty meters away, more than 300 firecrackers opened fire. Then something happened that stunned the tsar's officers and soldiers - the guy who rushed into the formation unexpectedly Unscathed.
Some soldiers and officers with good eyesight saw the lead bullets hitting this man and the horse under his crotch, but the situation was that they did not cause any damage at all, and the lead bullets deformed and flew away.