Dominate the Country

Sheki is a very important city in the Principality of Baku. It is located on the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains. With the snow-capped peaks as the background, it is a beautiful scenery all year round.

It is one of the oldest cities in the Caucasus region and the most important city in the Principality of Baku besides the country of Baku.

As the defense center of northwest Baku, although the army here is limited by the strength of the Principality of Baku itself and is not very large, it reserves a large amount of military supplies. This is the same as the positioning of Baku itself.

Their own strength is very small, the country is small and the people are few, and the national military force is only about 10,000 people. But the city of Baku has a large amount of military supplies, because as long as the war starts, the boss behind them, the Kingdom of Persia, will send troops to rush to reinforce quickly.

Now the Cossacks are unscrupulously attacking small countries such as the Principality of Baku. In order to stabilize people's hearts, Deng Yun cannot help but accept the request for help from the Principality of Baku. The power of a reorganized regiment is not a small amount for him now.

But soon, Deng Yun became angry, because the defenders of Bazardju Mountain were embarrassed.

The National Defense Army officers and soldiers who were sent to guard Bazardju Mountain were distributed in many dangerous areas of Bazardju Mountain in teams. The location of their camp was very precise, all of which were very conducive to defense, but they just forgot to consider the changeable climate of the mountain.

Bazardju Mountain is the highest peak in Baku. The place where the National Defense Army chose to camp was certainly not on the top of a high mountain, or even on a mountain above 1,000 meters above sea level, but at the foot of the mountain. As a result, they encountered a mountain torrent.

The flood did not cause casualties and material losses to the defenders, because their camping place was on a high ground at the foot of the mountain, but the mountain torrent turned the high ground into a pool of water. The officers and soldiers of that team were trapped for three days. They saw with their own eyes a team of Cossack cavalrymen walking on the hillside not far away with loud laughter.

This is very embarrassing.

Deng Yun was very angry, Wang Shan. Such a shameful thing actually happened in his own defense zone. Especially as soon as this news was delivered, Baku sent an urgent report for help.

"Good-for-nothings! A bunch of good-for-nothings! Just a few cavalrymen made Baku so embarrassed! Are these people holding fire sticks?"

Wang Shan slammed the table and roared.

He was an officer who started his career on the battlefield in America. When he was a small team officer, he led his own soldiers to hold the position defense line in a battle, forcing half a regiment of Spanish cavalry to surrender, and personally led his troops to capture a noble with Spanish royal blood. That was a moment that Wang Shan would never forget in his life, and it was the first highlight of his life. His glory was built on the corpses of Spanish cavalry, but today he was swept away by the Russian cavalry. In front of Wang Shan stood several officers, all of whom shrank their necks, waiting for Wang Shan to release his anger.

Seeing that no one responded, Wang Shan did not turn off the fire, but became more and more annoyed. The Baku people's incompetence was like adding fuel to the fire.

He raised his hand, pointed at the nose of one of the right lieutenants and asked: "Zhang Dakang, tell me. What is your cavalry battalion for? Is it that our soldiers really can't beat the old Russians, or you are incompetent and can't catch up with the Cossacks!?"

Zhang Dakang lowered his head and said nothing. He couldn't answer this question, and any answer would be wrong. Moreover, the Baku people's emergency was indeed due to the slow action of the cavalry battalion, otherwise, the Cossacks would not have had the opportunity to attack Yarama.

Yashma is a small town on the coast of the Principality of Baku, located on the south bank of the Samur River.

Zhang Dakang hesitated and changed the subject and said: "Commander, please rest assured that if the Russians dare to attack again in the future, I will definitely not let them go. This time, I was really careless."

Zhang Dakang is an old subordinate of Wang Shan. He knows Wang Shan's temper. When he gets angry, it's better to take the initiative to admit his mistakes.

This time, the Cossacks attacked the Samur River area very quickly. It seems that he is also very familiar with the local situation, and he really comes and goes without a trace. In addition, they marched in the dark, got rid of the pursuit and interception of Chen Han, and launched the attack before dawn, doing one job and leaving, and Zhang Dakang was indeed relaxed, and chose to camp when he saw it was dark. This gave them an opportunity.

"Okay, okay! Stop talking nonsense to me! Just remember what you said. If you make a mistake again, you will go to the Seven Khanates to be an instructor."

Wang Shan was very rude to Zhang Dakang. But no one thought that Wang Shan looked down on Zhang Dakang. It was because the friendship between the two was too deep. When Wang Shan was a battalion officer, Zhang Dakang was under Wang Shan's command. Now Wang Shan is a senior regiment commander, and they have been friends for ten years. If he still looks back and forth when speaking, what kind of brother, friend, and comrade-in-arms is he?

But even so, when Zhang Dakang came out of Wang Shan's command post, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Although the cavalry active in the Caucasus today is commanded and dispatched by Platov, he is like an executioner wielding a broadsword. The "sword" that directly kills people is not Platov, but his nephew, Govorov.

This is a standard Cossack. Cruelty is his most basic factor. He can find happiness from killing and arson. This is the elite among the Cossacks.

Because happiness will make you interested, and interest is a person's best teacher. In order to experience happiness faster and more accurately, they often quickly absorb the nutrients of war.

A cavalry group was advancing southward along the Samur River.

The black cloak, the traditional Circassian robe, the Cossack high hat, and the green land formed a strong color contrast.

Wherever the troops passed, yellow dust filled the sky. From a distance, it was like a yellow dragon, rolling down and rushing straight to the south.

The Cossacks are back.

Govorov killed a surprise attack, but he didn't know that the Sino-Pakistani joint cavalry group with a Chinese cavalry battalion as the core was also madly rushing towards the Samur River. There were two thousand of them!

People shouted and horses neighed, and the scene was boiling.

Govorov was riding on a black war horse with shiny fur, standing on the side of a road crushed by thousands of war horses, with strong confidence and pride, looking down at the troops passing by, surrounded by his adjutant.

A cavalryman galloped over, handed a message to an orderly, then turned his horse's head and galloped away.

The orderly stood at attention and saluted, and handed the message to Govorov's adjutant.

"Oh, it's the admiral's order. The Chinese and Baku people have joined together and have begun to reinforce the Samur River. His Excellency the general ordered us to stick to the Chinese army. When the troops he led find an opportunity to cross the Samur River, the main force will attack Kuba [not Baku] to the east, cut off the retreat of the Chinese and Pakistani troops in the Samur River, and then ask us to cooperate with the army to completely wipe out the Chinese army in the Samur River."

"The latter's troops are not many, right?"

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel. His Excellency the general said that the Chinese and Pakistani coalition forces only have a total of 2,000 people. We are well-informed."

Govorov laughed happily. "This is a very good battle plan, isn't it? I can already see the scene I long for. If possible, I will allow the Chinese to surrender, and then I will definitely come to accept the surrender of the Chinese. I really want to see these proud Chinese bow their heads."

After laughing heartily, Govorov's face became very serious, and there was no trace of smile in it.

"So we must go all out to fight, and there must be no sneaky things. We must give the Chinese in the Samur River another heavy blow with lightning speed."

The best way to attract the attention of the Chinese is not to fight the Chinese, but to ravage the Baku people on the Samur River more vigorously.

"Pass my order and tell all soldiers and officers that if anyone dares not to work hard, be brave, and be loyal in the future, I will take their lives."

"Pass the order down, whichever company arrives at the Samur River first, I will allow them to move freely for two hours."

In addition to the cavalry team with Zhang Dakang's cavalry battalion as the core, the Samur River Basin also has an infantry unit with two Chen Han infantry battalions as the core.

Although the Samur River is not a very large river, it is a very important river in the Caucasus region as the geographical dividing line between Kuba and Khachmas. The defense force of several thousand infantry and cavalry is really not enough, so Wang Shan ordered the infantry and cavalry to pursue, and also commanded the Khachmas army to focus on the defense of the north bank of the Samur River.

As for whether this will work, even God doesn't know.

The Govorov troops, who turned back, visited Yarama again. Fortunately, the Kuba troops stationed there were brave, and the Sino-Pakistani cavalry arrived quickly, and no one continued to drop the chain. Govorov had only one regiment of troops [six or seven hundred people], and he didn't dare to fight hard, so he turned around and left before the Sino-Pakistani cavalry arrived.

However, several villages outside the city of Yarama were destroyed by the Cossacks.

It is not an easy task to pursue an armed group with strong mobility. Otherwise, there would not be such figures as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the history of Chinese bandits.

Especially when this armed group still has good combat effectiveness.

Chen Ming does not know the situation in the Caucasus region, but even if he knows, he cannot turn the tide of the war in an instant.

Chen Ming is more likely to let the cabinet provide financial assistance to the victimized countries in the Caucasus and the Persian Kingdom.

Chen Ming has just received the news that Austria has declared war on the Ottoman Empire, which makes him very happy.

Without Austria, Russia, and the participation of these two major European powers, Napoleon has an extra 100,000 veterans. How could he fail in the Sixth Anti-French War and be exiled to the island of Elba in Italy?

Moreover, although the Ottoman Empire's progress in the Black Sea is now blocked, before it was blocked, it has occupied half of the western coast of the Black Sea, and at the same time surrounded the Russian army on the Crimean Peninsula in the Sevastopol Fortress and the Kerch Peninsula.

Because of the advantage in manpower, the Ottomans had an advantage in the war. They surrounded the solid Sevastopol fortress but did not attack it. They mainly attacked the Kerch Peninsula and made good progress.

Even if Barclay led the second and third line Russian troops to the Black Sea, the Ottomans would still have the upper hand. Chen Ming did not want to see the real rise of the Ottomans from the bottom of his heart. Now that the Austrians have joined the war, it will interrupt the rise of the Ottomans.

Chen Ming is happy to see this situation!

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Don't say that he has a bad heart and ulterior motives. Chen Ming is an emperor, Chen Ming is a politician. Have you ever heard of a politician who is pure and honest?

The loyal and honest Lu Su can only exist in novels, but this is reality.

He is responsible for the future of the entire China!