Dominate the Country

Caucasus, a certain city in the Principality of Baku.

It was noon at this moment, and smoke was rising from the roofs of every household in this ordinary little village. Although there was news that the Cossacks were coming, the villagers thought that our place was thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and the Cossacks could not fly here even if they all had wings.

Outside the village, several children aged eight or nine were chasing and playing with each other, and a young mother stood at the head of the village calling her children to eat. But the children were all having fun and turned a deaf ear to them. The mother was anxious and shouted loudly, and at the same time stepped forward to grab the ears of a seven or eight-year-old child and dragged him home. Suddenly, she heard the sound of hurried horse hooves from behind, and she looked back and saw a group of cavalry galloping over. They were wearing black clothes, like a black cloud.

The mother didn't know which army this was, but out of fear of the army, she hurriedly pulled her son and went to the village. But after a few steps, everyone heard a crisp gunshot in their ears. Both mother and son were startled and looked back. They were so frightened that their legs and feet went limp because they saw a dead person.

Ilham, who was playing with his son just now, was lying motionless on the ground, his head was blown off, and blood was like a stream of water, staining the ground under him red. Both mother and son looked ashen! The children who were still playing were frightened by the sudden change and stood there motionless!

"Run! Run!"

The mother reacted quickly. She shouted anxiously, grabbed her son's hand, and ran to the field down the slope with all her strength.

She was very scared. She wanted to find a place to hide. The subconscious fear and terror made her rush to the field under the road without thinking, instead of continuing to flee to the village along the road.

The crisp sound of gunfire rang out behind him again, and the son's legs went limp and fell to the ground. The mother was so scared that her soul flew away. She just thought that her son was shot, but then she found that her son was frightened.

While the mother pulled her son up, she looked back at the cavalrymen, turned back, and her face was full of pain. Because another child was shot in the back, the whole person fell to the ground, but it was obvious that the person was not dead immediately, still twitching, and the blood quickly dyed a large area under his body red.

The mother grabbed her son and went into the cornfield at the head of the village. She was not smart and knew that she would not escape the bad luck if she returned to the village, but she was completely scared by the cavalry's shooting and only wanted to find a place to hide.

The cornfield in June of the Western calendar can obviously hide the mother and son. Although the area of ​​the cornfield is not very large, the group of cavalrymen who came to kill them should not have extra time to deal with them.

The mother and son were relieved after hiding in the cornfield. They were very lucky. The cavalrymen did not shoot at them from beginning to end. After calming down a little, the mother regained her senses. The mother and her son looked out through the gap in the cornfield. They suddenly screamed, and the mother hurriedly covered her child's eyes!

This is a group of demons!

These damn cavalrymen actually stepped directly over the child who was shot in the back but did not die immediately.

Under the horse's hooves, blood splattered...

"Gambar..." The son called his friend's name, his eyes were still tightly covered by his mother, and he buried his head in his mother's arms.

It's coming!

The galloping horse ruthlessly hit the two children who only knew to run along the road to the village and home. The two poor children were knocked out by the galloping warhorse without even a cry! The mother was terrified. If she hadn't pulled her son into the cornfield, then the fate waiting for them would surely be death.

The Cossack cavalry didn't even look at the cornfield. It's not that they didn't see someone escape into the cornfield, but now is obviously not the time to deal with this. They need to "rule" the entire village as quickly as possible.

Although the population of the Caucasus is small, the people here are very tough. There are hunting rifles in every village, but the men in this village cannot be organized, so they have no time to delay in the cornfield.

When the cavalry rode through the cornfield, the mother was so scared that her legs were weak and she squatted on the ground, hugged her child tightly, and silently prayed for the blessing of the true God in her heart.

Fortunately, these demons who deserved to go to hell did not find them.

But at this time, the village was already in chaos, and the sudden gunfire from outside the village made many people realize that something was wrong.

"The Russians are coming, the Cossacks are coming!" Shouts rose in the village, and the doors of every household opened, and panicked men, women, old and young rushed out in a hurry. But what awaited them was either a bullet that killed them in one shot, or a whistling saber.

In the cavalry, one person stopped his horse, holding a Cossack saber, and shouted loudly.

The look in his eyes when he looked at the men, women, old and young in the village was not like looking at his own kind, but looking at a group of lambs to be slaughtered.

Following his shout, the Cossack cavalry began to split into two groups. One group was chasing the villagers outside, and the other group was breaking into farmers' homes with knives and guns. As long as there were people at home, there would be a tragedy.

In order to create the greatest influence, the Cossacks had to kill the most cruelly, do the most decisively, and be the most vicious.

In this way, their huge intimidation would scare more Caucasians to flee southward.

…

The soil has long turned reddish brown, the blood cannot coagulate, the haze in the sky cannot disperse, and the broken branches occasionally seen have long-unrecognizable limbs hanging on them. The sounds of fighting, shouting, and gunfire that filled the place not long ago have disappeared, but the silence at this time seems extremely hideous. Everything is gone, all life.

The death gods wearing black cloaks left the town that was stained with blood. The air exuded a strong smell of blood, and the wind could not blow it away.

The Cossacks have started their own bloody killing, and the shadow of death has completely enveloped the entire Caucasus.

Two months ago, Chen Han also used killing and intimidation to scare hundreds of thousands of Russians, who fled their homes in a panic. And now the Russians are also using killing and intimidation to scare the entire Caucasus.

Tens of thousands of refugees entered Persia in a very short period of time. As for the small Caucasian countries such as Baku, Khachmas, and Nakhchivan, their respective capitals and a few limited important towns were all overcrowded.

In June of the Gregorian calendar, it was already the time for the summer harvest. In addition to killing and setting fire, the Cossacks also destroyed towns on a large scale and burned grain crops in the fields. It can be said that Platov used less than 5,000 Cossacks to forge blood feuds between Russia and the small Caucasian countries such as Baku, Khachmas, and Nakhchivan, and indeed delayed the Dengyun army outside the Vladikavkaz Fortress.

Platov turned the entire Caucasus into a mess. The real strength of the 5,000 Cossack cavalry may only be equal to that of a small country, but after they turned their spearheads on the people, the destructive power they produced was unparalleled.

In just half a month, a total of 267 towns in the Caucasus were destroyed, hundreds of villages were destroyed, and the population of each country was simply counted. If there were not 100,000, there would be 70,000 or 80,000 people killed. In addition, hundreds of thousands of acres and millions of acres of wheat were burned to ashes...

Whether it was people's livelihood or social order, they had produced unparalleled destructive power.

Even the Persian Kingdom could not withdraw troops to the north, and the first thing to do was to expel and curb the rampant activities of the Cossacks, restore and rebuild the social order of each vassal state, provide relief to refugees, and restore livelihoods. Their losses were great!

Platov's actions shocked Alexander I. The Cossacks' cruel methods against civilians almost made Russia's "barbaric" image stereotyped in the hearts of people all over the world.

But Platov had a good reason. If Russia could not keep the northern Caucasus, then the Chinese running dogs would definitely occupy this area, and some places would even become Chinese enclaves-such as the West Sea.

Or the Mongols will occupy more, or the Kazakhs will come to share a piece of the pie, but the benefits will definitely not be enjoyed by small countries such as Baku, Khachmas and Persia, and they will even quickly turn from friends to enemies.

In Platov's mind, no one will resist the fat meat at their fingertips.

The weakness of the Persian Kingdom and the strength of the Chinese are the gap between the rabbit and the elephant. The elephant will not stop its steps because of the rabbit's will.

In this case, what does it matter whether you destroy the small principalities in the Caucasus? It is not certain that Russia will become their friendly country in the future.

And if the final victory of this war belongs to Russia, these small principalities in the Caucasus will be even more worthless. These independent or semi-independent small principalities are the next targets of Russia's annexation.

If Persia had not been backed by the Chinese, who traded a lot of modern guns and cannons to Persia, at the end of the last century, Russia's will would have crossed the Caucasus.

…

The Russian army's raid on Baku, Khachmas and other principalities shocked the entire Caucasus, and also affected the military supply of the Caucasian Han army to a certain extent. Platov knew very well that his actions had caused a lot of trouble for Chen Han and Persia. But Platov knew even more that his desperate attack could only temporarily disrupt the transportation lines of the Chen Han army. When a large number of Persian troops entered the Caucasus, the good days of the Cossacks would be over.

So he had to change all this fundamentally.

He wanted to create more trouble for the Persians so that they had no time to take care of Russia. What solution did Platov finally come up with? It's very simple, burning, killing and looting!

Now, Platov has done what he wanted to do.

…

"Order Wang Shan to do a good job of defending Sheki, and be sure to guard the Samur River and Bazardi Mountain. No orders, no need to retreat."

If that place is broken into by the Cossacks again, Baku will cry again.

Before the staff had reached a consensus, Deng Yun made a decisive decision and issued a military order. He ordered a reorganized regiment to quickly reinforce Baku, and at the same time ordered a cavalry regiment under his command to join the Kazakh cavalry and strangle the Cossack cavalry with all their strength.

Platov's Cossacks totaled only 8,000 people, and even if some Russian militias were added, there would be at most 10,000 people. Now they are still in a scattered state. As long as their cavalry can catch up and attack boldly, they may win a good start!

But this requires his cavalry to catch up first.

While pursuing, Deng Yun also had to disperse his troops to the key points of each principality to assist them in defense. The number of Chen Han's troops under the Vladikavkaz Fortress was only 13,200 people, which could be said to be quite weak.

If the Ottomans had not tied down a large number of Russian militias in the Sea of ​​Azov, Deng Yun would not have dared to do this.