This encounter that broke out on the banks of the Ural River directly made the generals on both sides increase their vigilance and put away their contempt.
No matter how many tribes and small countries Lu Dazhu led his elite army all the way north, the combat effectiveness of the opponents they encountered was actually very limited. At least there were very few enemies who could make his elite army pay too much.
of the price.
In the same way, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which was at the peak of its external expansion, was absolutely extremely powerful in combat during this period. It was during this period that the foundation for such a large territory in later generations was slowly laid. It can be imagined that at this time
, what is the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Grand Duchy of Moscow on overseas expeditions?
When it comes to land combat power, looking at the Western world, there is almost no one that can compete with the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Similarly, in the Eastern world, the Ming Dynasty is absolutely unrivaled.
An accidental encounter between the two armies on the banks of the Ural River led to a big war. In this war, both sides had no idea at the beginning who their opponents were. Anyway, except for me, they were all enemies.
Under this principle, whenever you encounter an enemy, no matter what his origin is, just kill him directly.
It is conceivable that under such circumstances, when two elite armies collided, a tragic battle ensued.
The team sent by the Grand Duchy of Moscow is a legion, which is 20,000 people. The number of such a team is neither too many nor too few.
The army led by Lu Dazhu numbered 50,000 when he went on the expedition. However, in addition to repeated battles, nearly a thousand soldiers were killed and injured along the way. In addition, some soldiers were unable to adapt to a foreign country.
Due to the circumstances, they had to leave the team, and now there are about 47,000 people left.
So when it comes to the number of people, it is actually the Ming Dynasty that has the numerical advantage, 20,000 to 47,000, which can be said to be a crushing advantage.
At the beginning, the two sides just encountered each other, and there was no psychological preparation at all, so the vanguard armies of both sides collided.
In this case, after just one fight, both sides feel how tough and difficult the opponent is. However, the more this happens, the more both sides will pay more attention to it. The direct reaction is to invest more people, preferably a wave of generals.
The other party was destroyed.
It's just that both sides threw their armies in, and the final result was a tragic battle. Not only was Lu Dazhu heartbroken when he saw the soaring battle losses, but as the commander of the Third Army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Andrei almost fainted with heartache.
past.
The death of any soldier is a great loss to Andre and Lu Dazhu.
Seeing that if he continued to fight, Andre, who was really going to be injured, did not withdraw his troops. Instead, he broke out the warlike nature of his nation and led the only troops under his command to kill.
It is a nation worthy of being called a fighting nation. The fighting power it unleashed was able to suppress the Ming Dynasty for a moment and stabilize the shaky situation.
Lu Dazhu, who was sitting at the rear and looking at the overall situation, obviously noticed the change in the enemy's morale. Soon Lu Dazhu discovered that on the battlefield, wherever he went, he saw Andre, who had boosted the morale of the foreign armies.
With his eyes narrowed, Lu Dazhu jumped on the horse and ran straight towards Andre.
Andre held a broad sword in his hand, and the broad sword moved with ease in his hand. Every time the sword struck, Ming soldiers were severely injured.
Just as Andre slapped a Ming army commander away, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart. He subconsciously looked up and saw a general in armor running towards him from the opposite side.
As a rare general among the Ming army, Lu Dazhu's martial arts was naturally very astonishing. At this moment, he rode up on his horse and struck out with a faint sound of wind and thunder.
The spear flew across the air, hitting Andre directly. If such a shot had hit him, he would have been disabled on the spot, even if he wasn't dead.
What a good Andre. Facing the imposing Lu Dazhu, he didn't even dodge. He suddenly jumped up and took advantage of the horse's body to jump up from the air and chop down Lu Dazhu head-on.
It has to be said that Andre's attack was exquisite. Not only did he avoid Lu Dazhu's attack, but he turned from passive to active, and suddenly took the initiative in his hands.
However, Andre was not ordinary, and Lu Dazhu was not a weakling. Seeing Andre avoid his attack and instead fight back at him, a flash of disdain flashed in Lu Dazhu's eyes.
Lu Dazhu suddenly punched the broadsword that Andre had chopped down with his fist.
With a buzzing sound, Lu Dazhu's palm hit the blade of the broad sword, suppressing Andre's blow.
After just one fight, Lu Dazhu grasped Andre's strength. In fact, Andre's strength was inferior to Lu Dazhu's, but the two sides were not in the same system, and there was no way to make an effective comparison of their strength.
A look of horror flashed in Andre's eyes, obviously he felt Lu Dazhu's strength just after the fight.
"Hahaha, okay, okay, it's rare to meet an opponent, and Lu needs to learn a lesson."
Lu Dazhu, who was laughing endlessly, was shocked. Instead, he looked excitedly at Andre, who had a solemn look on his face.
Lu Dazhu targeted Andre, and the commanders of the two armies were stunned to fight together. This situation is quite rare. After all, as the commander-in-chief of an army, if it is not necessary, as the leader of an army
It is more about controlling the overall situation, rather than showing off one's courage and easily risking one's life to fight among the rebels.
Without the control of the two commanders, the soldiers of both sides who were already fighting together were even more immersed in fighting. Both armies were elite and had extraordinary perseverance. Under normal circumstances, if the average army could withstand 10% or 20% of the battle damage.
There is a high possibility of a rout.
However, these two teams cannot be compared with ordinary teams. They are the two most powerful and elite teams in the world. They are currently engaged in a fight, and they have not suffered any damage due to the battle.
Influence.
With a muffled groan, Andre flew backwards. The moment he landed, he took a few steps back, leaving several deep footprints on the ground and knocking several soldiers away.
Compared with Andre's ability to completely remove the force that invaded his body, the soldiers who were knocked out by Andre were truly unjust.
With a hint of jealousy on his face, Andre swallowed the blood that surged into his throat. He swayed slightly and stared at Lu Dazhu standing in front of him holding a spear.
Compared with the embarrassed Andre, Lu Dazhu's situation is obviously a bit better. After all, Lu Dazhu's strength is much stronger than Andre. If Andre hadn't been willing to fight hard, Andre might have been taken advantage of by Lu Dazhu by now.
Killed with one shot.
"withdraw!"
Andre is worthy of being the leader of the legion, and his ability to control the battle situation is quite strong. At this moment, he shouted, and soon the messenger blew the horn.
The low and rich horn sound sounded, and the soldiers on both sides, who were immersed in the fight, were stunned. The soldiers on the side of the Grand Duchy of Moscow could naturally hear that the horn sound was actually ordering them to withdraw.
How long had it been since they had heard the horn of withdrawal? At least during the process of their external expansion, the horn of withdrawal had almost never sounded, but they never expected that it would sound at this time.
For a moment, many soldiers showed doubts, subconsciously thinking that they had heard it wrong, but after careful identification, it was indeed the sound of the retreat horn.
Suddenly the army was in chaos, but it was rare that it did not collapse. It resisted and retreated at the same time. After leaving a mess of corpses, the strong man finally gave up some of his soldiers and successfully got rid of the entanglement with the Ming army.
Lu Dazhu was not in a hurry to chase Andre and others. It was not that Lu Dazhu did not want to catch up, but this battle was quite shocking to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, there were many casualties in the battle, and even Lu Dazhu did not dare to catch up easily.
It was only a short battle of about an hour, and the number of casualties reached as many as two thousand people. You must know that along the way, there were dozens of large and small battles, and the number of casualties was only thousands. But this
In the first battle, almost two thousand people fell.
Several generals looked at the casualty figures that took more than an hour to tally. They looked at Lu Dazhu solemnly and said: "Commander, where are these people from? They are so fierce. They are even more fierce than the Tatars."
It can be said to be the most difficult army we have encountered along the way."
Lu Dazhu glanced at the generals around him, and snorted coldly: "I asked you to send out sentries to find out the news. It would be better for you. One by one, they were both obedient and insecure. How about it? I met my opponent this time. Is he connected with someone?
I don’t even know if I’ve suffered a loss.”
The generals under his command knew very well what Lu Dazhu's temper was. Just hearing what Lu Dazhu said, everyone knew that Lu Dazhu was not angry.
A general said to Lu Dazhu with a somewhat embarrassed smile: "Commander, if you say so, you must know where these enemies are!"
In fact, Lu Dazhu was really confused when they first met because he didn't know who these people were.
However, as the leader of an army, Lu Dazhu obviously had much more information than those generals. After all, the information gathered by the sentinels were first summarized by the Jinyiwei and Dongchang people, and then the important ones were selected.
The news was presented to Lu Dazhu for a review.
Regarding the news about the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Lu Dazhu learned about it through this method. However, when the fight just started, Lu Dazhu's attention was entirely focused on the fight, and he did not think about the background of his opponent.
But after calming down now, Lu Dazhu figured out the origin of the enemy he encountered not long ago.
While Lu Dazhu and others were talking about Andre and his party, and when they were running more than ten miles away from the Ming army, Andre spat out a mouthful of blood and fell off his horse.
As the commander-in-chief of an army, Andre suddenly fell off his horse, which naturally shocked the army. Several generals immediately stabilized the army and helped Andre up.
The pale-faced Andre slowly woke up and looked at the military generals around him with a bit of solemnity, and finally fell on Anthony, who was covered in blood.
"Anthony!"
Anthony quickly said to Andre: "General, how are you? That man actually hurt you so badly!"
Andre took a long breath, refreshed himself, stared at Anthony and said: "Anthony, I order you to go to Moscow as quickly as possible and report to Your Majesty that we encountered the Ming army in the Ural Mountains. I hope that Your Majesty can
Send a large army here, otherwise the Ming army will march straight in and march to the gates of Moscow!"
Anthony and the generals beside him couldn't help but change their expressions after hearing this, and Anthony exclaimed: "What, these people are actually Ming people, they... they are not fighting with the Portuguese
Man, are the Dutch going to war?"
After all, the Grand Duchy of Muscovy is now expanding in all directions and can be said to be a powerful country in the West. It is impossible not to know about the war between Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries against the Ming Dynasty.
But because of their status, only a very small number of people in the upper echelons of the Grand Duchy of Moscow really know.
As the leader of the legion, Andre is certainly qualified to know this. He even saw the flag pattern of the Great Tomorrow and the Moon Flag in the news.
If this were not the case, Andre would not have been able to recognize the identity of the army fighting them.
It was precisely because he was aware of the identities of Lu Dazhu and the others that Andre was so solemn, because behind the Ming Dynasty stood an extremely powerful country. If the Grand Duchy of Moscow did not show its strongest posture, I am afraid that it would
It can't stop the Ming Dynasty's soldiers.
Andre endured his injuries and chose a mountain pass to set up camp. He actually wanted to stay and block Lu Dazhu and his party, buying time for Moscow to send reinforcements.
Lu Dazhu's movement speed was not slow. In just one day, tens of thousands of troops appeared in the sight of Andre and others again.
This time Lu Dazhu was obviously well prepared. He not only sent people to capture local people within a radius of dozens of miles, but also gained an extremely detailed understanding of Andrei and the Grand Duchy of Moscow from these people.
The more he learned about it, the more Lu Dazhu became interested in a country that gradually expanded from a small kingdom to occupy a vast territory.
Relying on the intuition of a soldier, Lu Dazhu realized that if such a country with a strong combat capability and an army as strong as the Ming Dynasty was left alone, it would probably become a serious problem for the Ming Dynasty in a few years.
Just when Lu Dazhu gave the order to storm the defensive positions of the Third Army, a group of messengers were rushing towards the capital at high speed.
The summer of the 19th year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty
In the Forbidden City, in the imperial study room, Zhu Houzhao was sitting upright, while several cabinet ministers were looking solemnly at an urgent report that had been hurriedly delivered.
Zhu Houzhao, who had a rosy complexion, looked at several cabinet ministers, and turned to Yang Yiqing with a slight smile on his face: "Yang Aiqing, what do you think of the military report sent by Lu Aiqing?"
Stroking his beard, Yang Yiqing first looked at each other with Wang Yangming and other pavilion elders. Then Yang Yiqing stepped forward and saluted the emperor: "Your Majesty, I think this battle should be avoided if possible. We are thousands of miles away.
A hundred thousand troops are stationed in a foreign country thousands of miles away. It is useless to win. Once defeated, the majesty of your majesty, the sage king, will be damaged..."
Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly, stared at Wang Yangming and said, "Wang Aiqing, do you have any insights?"
For a moment, several pavilion elders all looked at Wang Yangming. Faced with the gazes of several pavilion elders, Wang Yangming was not affected at all. Instead, he turned to Zhu Houzhao with a solemn expression and said: "Your Majesty, I believe in General Lu's judgment.
This battle must go on. If the 100,000 troops are not enough, then we will deploy 200,000. Otherwise, raising tigers will lead to endless disasters in the future..."
Yang Yiqing couldn't help frowning and said: "Master Wang, that is an army of one hundred thousand. The most important thing is that it is thousands of miles apart. Have you considered how much it will cost to send an army of one hundred thousand thousands of miles away?"
