March of the 19th year of the Apocalypse.

After months of intense preparations, Zhu Youxiao formally declared war on Tsarist Russia on the grounds of invading his subordinates, the Chechen Khanate.

Shortly afterwards, Chechen Khan King Shuolei also led the tribes in northern Serbia that surrendered to Chechnya to declare war on Tsarist Russia, and initially adopted the tactic of fast horse harassment, exhausting the Tsarist Russian army.

In the Ming Dynasty, the 34-year-old British Duke Zhang Shize was appointed as the general of the capture of the enemy, Chen Yanzuo, the general of Taining, and Ma Yong, the general of Ningxia, was the deputy general of the left and right. Qi Xuan, Da and Ning went to the expedition to the expedition of 130,000 elite troops.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao issued an edict ordering Urianha, Monan, Left Wing, and Mongolian tribes in northern Mo to send cavalry to Beijing for expedition.

By the end of March, the Ming army gathered at the foot of the capital with 130,000 elite horse-strikes and 80,000 Mongolian cavalry, and pretended to be 500,000 troops. They attacked from multiple directions and marched into Tsarist Russia in a mighty way.

Zhu Youxiao personally set up an altar in the suburbs of Beijing to practice it for the army to go to war. At the same time, the capital began to prepare for the ceremony of commendation and promotion in advance, which also greatly boosted the morale of the entire army.

On April 18, the Ming army vanguard, Ningxia, the military headquarters, arrived at the New Fort located on the border of Chechnya and Tsarist Russia.

Construction of the fort started seven years ago is the largest military station in Tsarist Russia in the Far East. It was led by a duke and was stationed by up to 5,000 Russian troops.

But on this day, the war drums suddenly thundered in the distance, and a solid projectile that came from nowhere hit the city of New Castle.

A Tsarist Russian soldier stepped forward curiously, wondering, suddenly remembered the huge sound of breaking through the air in the sky, followed by countless screams.

"Look at the sky!"

"What's this?"

With several screams of exclamation, densely packed projectiles appeared in front of me, and then fell like hail.

On the distant plain, Zhang Shize held a monocular lens and sneered: "This battle is so easy."

Ningxia General Ma Yong also smiled and said, "The Russians' firearms are not as good as us. They can't fight here, but we can easily penetrate their defenses."

"This kind of wealthy war was hard to imagine ten years ago!"

Yes, this is the benefit of military science leading the way.

After cooperation with the West, the Ming Dynasty's Zhenlu Cannon has been updated and replaced again, and its range and power have been improved.

The latest style of Zhenluo Cannon is equipped with accurate and accurate gates, which not only greatly improves its power, but also increases its accuracy to the limit.

As he was talking, a cheer came from afar.

"There is a gap in the city wall. General, should we rush?" Ma Yong asked with a smile.

Zhang Shize put down his telescope and smiled and said, "Why do you want to rush? They can't hit us. He passed my order, and then fired a gun to suppress the formation. With the strong crossbow behind him, the cavalry is ready to attack at any time."

"I just kept bombarding. Apart from surrender, they had to go out and get beaten!"

As Zhang Shize expected, the Tsarist Russian defenders in the castle soon could not stand this kind of fighting style and broke out one after another, trying to fight to trap beasts.

However, Zhang Shize's calculation was just right, and they rushed out of the fortress for a few steps, and came towards them, and a line of Ming army shot him.

The high-precision gun attack formed by the gun was irresistible. In just one round, almost all the Tsarist Russian soldiers rushed out fell into a pool of blood.

Soon, a white flag appeared on Castle Mountain.

Taining Hou Chen Yanzuo sneered: "They surrendered!"

Zhang Shize turned around and said, "What did you say?"

A few days later, the Kremlin.

"No, Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has captured our new castle on the Chechen border!" A close minister ran in in a hurry and shouted loudly.

The current Tsar Mikhail has been lying in bed for more than a month, and his health is not good, and he is even more shocked when he hears this.

The new castle is the largest fortress in the Far East that the empire took years to build. It was stationed by Duke Monir, led by 5,000 brave and warlike imperial guards.

Chechnya alone will never be able to shake such a military city.

However, the news of the Ming Dynasty declared war just a few days ago, and the news of the fall of New Castle was immediately followed. It was so quickly that it had to worry about the current situation of the empire.

Gu Yuan

Three years ago, Polish king Sigmund III died suddenly, and Mikhail immediately dispatched a large number of Far East legions to invade Poland with the intention of regaining the city it lost many years ago.

However, the good times did not last long. Although Sigmund IV was young, he inherited his father's courage. This battle took three years. Tsarist Russia invested a lot of military strength, but it formed a stalemate.

Therefore, they invaded Chechnya in an attempt to explore resources on the land in the Far East and provide supplies for the continued war.

Unfortunately, Chechen has formed a vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and Mikhail never expected that the Ming Dynasty would start a war because of such a small matter.

Zhu Youxiao had actually wanted to go to war with Tsarist Russia for a long time, but he had no explanation.

Zhu Youxiao now pays great attention to his reputation. Some things that affect their reputation are too much. If you can do it, you will not do it, so you have never started a war.

I finally got a sarcasm and started to do it without saying a word.

Tsarist Russia is not having a good life now. Although the debt has been basically replaced after the rectification of Archbishop Feratre, and the royal army has basically improved its combat effectiveness, Feratre suddenly died in the past few years.

Originally, Mikhail, the Tsar, was indifferent and allowed the great nobles in China to be allowed to do so, but Archbishop Feratile paid more attention to the status of serfs and constantly suppressed the nobles.

Once Feratre died, the great nobles resurrected. In addition, the Duke of Monir, who supported the Tsar this time, died in the Far East, which shows that the Tsar Russian court is about to be in civil strife again.

Now Tsarist Russia really makes enemies from all sides, and because of Feratile's death, the serfs launched a massive uprising in China.

With war everywhere, Mikhail was exhausted and in poor health. Unexpectedly, after receiving the news of the fall of New Castle, he died a few days later.

As soon as Mikhail died, his eldest son Alexey, who was only nine years old, inherited the throne of the Tsar.

This Alexei was the enlightened monarch of the Romanov dynasty in history, but now he is just a little kid after all, and can only be controlled by the Queen Mother Marfa, who supports the great nobles.

In this way, in order to avoid the danger of destruction of the country, the great nobles manipulated the new Tsar Alexey and the Ming Dynasty, and Poland launched a two-year negotiation.

During the negotiations, the war continued, the Tsar's army continued to be defeated, and new uprisings continued to ignite in the country.

As a last resort, in the 41st year of the Apocalypse, he signed a "Treaty of Newcastle" with the Ming and Poland.

The content of the treaty stipulates:

Tsarist Russia returned five cities including Novgorod and Pskov to Poland, and ceded cities such as Yam and Ivan, which surround the Gulf of Finland, to Poland.

But in exchange, Poland promised to terminate the military alliance contract with the Ming Dynasty, no longer sign it within the next five years, and recognize the late Tsar Mikhail's status as Tsar.

In fact, the five cities that Poland demanded were equivalent to cutting off the passage from Tsarist Russia to the Baltic Sea, completely eliminating Tsarist Russia's ambition to expand to Western Europe.

Forced by the situation, Queen Mother Marfa had no choice but to sign this treaty, causing Tsarist Russia to lose its estuary in the Baltic Sea.

On the Ming Dynasty, Tsarist Russia promised to defeat the Duke's inheritance rights of the Far East Commander Duke Monir, and set up several monuments outside the Kremlin to commemorate the slaughtered two thousand Chechen tribes.

Since the Ming Dynasty dominated this war and had the ability to directly attack Moscow and destroyed the emerging Romanov dynasty, the request was also very exaggerated.

Even during the negotiations, the Ming army led by Zhang Shize attacked in four directions, and the farthest cavalry vanguard even advanced hundreds of miles.

The Ming army was unstoppable all the way, so they were very loud.

What Zhu Youxiao asked was far more than just to eliminate Tsarist Russia's expansion ambitions like Poland. He was determined to completely eliminate Tsarist Russia's Far East power during his reign.

Zhu Youxiao first asked Tsarist Russia to release the annexed Kazan Khanate, forming a further buffer zone located in Chechnya and before the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Ming army could also use the name of helping Kazan to enter Siberia openly and set up cannons here.

The reason why Tsarist Russia expanded its territory in Siberia was mainly because of the rich hardwood and fur here, which enriched the national treasury.

The former Patriarch Feratre also used a large amount of resources from fur and hardwood to obtain a lot of funding from the Tsarist Russian army.

In order to achieve the goal of boiling frogs in warm water, Zhu Youxiao clearly required that the Tsarist Russian army could no longer enter Siberia through Kazan.

Of course, in return, Zhu Youxiao promised that the Ming army would not occupy Siberia as its territory for the end of the world.

In this way, Tsarist Russia's expansion to the west and east was curbed.

The Ming Dynasty completely cut off Tsarist Russia's hands and feet. Although Tsarist Russia still owns Guangru's territory now, it is actually a situation of sooner or later collapse.
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