"Damn Cossack barbarian!"

The specific situation was not clear in the snow fog, but on the pier to the north was a east-west market with only two exits. Rustone immediately made a decision. He asked some of the cavalry to go around the west side of the market, and he took the remaining cavalry to the east along the road, while the infantry followed the west side, and then stepped on the ice of the Don River from there, sealing the possibility of Cossack escaping north through the Don River.

Ruston led three hundred riders to the east end of the market.

All three hundred cavalrymen were Crimean horses - a mixed-blood war horse of Don hippo and Arabian horse. Such war horses are tall, endurance and speed. After hundreds of years of cultivation, the same dark red tall horse is also one of the powerful tools for the Crimean Khanate to traverse the grasslands in southern Eastern Europe.

Such a war horse is taller than the hippo, and it is also a reliance that the Crimeans do not fear after meeting the Cossacks.

The market will arrive soon!

The black high-pin leather hat that the Cossacks often wore in winter has already appeared in the snow and mist!

After seeing Rustone reaching, the Cossacks did not seem to have the intention of going forward to fight, and they all ran away from the side of the dock.

"Want to run?"

Ruston sneered. It was not a good idea to return to the ice surface of the Don River from the gap leading to the stone steps in the north of the street. The dock here is generally about one meter away from the ice surface of the Don River. The only walking stone steps war horse can't get up even after walking up.

Of course, war horses can step onto the large and small ships anchored there through the dock, but at this time the sailors on the ship should be on the bow of the ship with muskets in full force. Moreover, the advantage of war horses is in the wilderness. Wouldn’t it be a waste of martial arts if they get on board?

In the north of the Sea of ​​Azov, the temperature in winter is only minus ten degrees below zero. Ruston wore a gray cotton robe, and a Turkish helmet with a strong Tianfang Cult style was worn on his head, and a chain armor that was popular in the entire Ottoman and the Kingdom of Safe.

Originally, the horses also had chain armor, but when Ruston learned that it was Cossacks coming to harass him, he gave up the idea of ​​letting the war horses wear armor - the poor Cossacks did not even have armor for knights, let alone war horses.

Two groups of Crimean cavalry quickly broke into the east and west ends of the market, and rushed towards the gap leading to the dock. At this time, it might be difficult to quickly reach the ice surface, and some of the Cossack cavalry left behind turned around and killed them!

Only then did Rustone discover the appearance of these Cossacks who had been broken.

The black mink-fur high-tube hat was obviously wearing an iron helmet, and the common long-body leather jacket of Cossack was actually shining with iron armor!

"Plate armor!"

As a general of the grasslands in southern Eastern Europe, Rustone once followed the Khan to attack Transylvania. She naturally saw the plate-armored cavalry in Europe, but she didn't expect to see them here too!

What surprised him even more was that the plate-armored cavalry held a long spear with a strange spear head in the right hand, but the left hand held a short gun. Compared with the European plate-armored cavalry, their right hand generally held a cavalry knife, and the left hand was a short spear-wheeled gun.

And those war horses are obviously not hippos!

Everything is obvious. There is only one such outfit in the southern grassland now.

Daxia!

"Dadadada"

While Rustone was in shock, a large group of cavalry rushed from the distance between the east and west exits of the street market.

"I've been fooled!"

Rustone had a good idea, and came from Sun Sick, a general under Luo Jizhi, the governor of Crimea. The twenty-two-year-old Sun Sick was another person who became the commander of the cavalry brigade except Tulichen.

Luo Jizhi waited for such a weather and such a situation for a long time. When he received the order from Atlau to raid Azov, Sun Sic immediately let the brigade take action.

According to the information of the Hanhai Army, although the city of Azov is not big, the city wall is as high as two meters and the wall is more than six meters thick. It was completed by the Genoese and Crimeans after nearly a hundred years. If it is a strong attack, even if it is bombarded with a twelve kilogram of Nibchu bronze cannon, it is estimated that it will not be knocked down in a month. And the current Genoese and Ottomans are perverted cannons in the hands of the Hanhai Army neither want to produce nor use them.

Therefore, he appeared in the face of "robbed Cossacks" and attracted Rustone's cavalry to annihilate. If the infantry in the city comes out to rescue him, he will destroy it in one fell swoop.

Of course, the main goal of the Hanhai Army's operation this time was not Azov City.

"Bang……"

A large array of muskets sounded, and the tiger spear, one foot long, flashed with a cold light, stabbed forward!

In the narrow passage near the dock, Rustone's 1,000 infantry did not see the Cossack cavalry, but instead rushed into the brigade of Hanhai cavalry from both ends!

...

About half an hour later, all the five hundred Basque heavy cavalry of Rustone were wiped out, and the thousand Jenicer were besieged on the dock and unable to move. At this time, one person stood up.

Amir is the small bay who was sent by Grey III to secretly sneak into the vicinity of Charizin to prepare to attack Luo Jizhi's brigade. Dacia, who has the dual identities of Basque and Jenicheri, once served Grey III as a ** person. This man was trained to become Basque or Jenicheri since childhood and was the most prestigious among the white slaves who were trained to become Basque or Jenicheri since childhood. He was once close to marrying Grey III's daughter. Unfortunately, he was unfortunately captured in the Battle of Charizin.

After digging a mine in Sazhideg for two years, Luo Jizhi released him.

"Allow you to reconvert to Orthodox Church, join the Hanhai Army, and let you go back to Moldova at the appropriate time."

In fact, for people like Amir, after moving from Orthodox to Tianfang and after ten years of cruel training, they could barely survive as a "warrior" to fight for the Crimeans, they had long passed their attachment to their hometown and religion, and survived their only goal.

He was naturally willing to join the Hanhai Army. Later, he changed his name back to Adrian. As a person favored by the Great Khan Gre III of the Crimean Khanate, he was one of the few who could stand out from Basque and Jenicheri. His abilities needless to say. After joining the Hanhai Army, he was soon promoted to the regiment commander, and now he is the deputy commander of Sunsick's brigade.

What's more, he also married Xiao Chenghan, the widowed sister of the prefect and commander of Linhuang Prefecture. She is now a righteous and upright Daxia native. A person like him can survive in the Crimean Khanate and gain a certain status. It is also indispensable to observe his words and expressions. He saw that the Daxia Kingdom generally regards shamanism as the most respected, and simply abandons the Orthodox Church and becomes a believer in the immortal world.

Similarly, Alanar, the lord of Izmael on the Black Sea coast, which was close to Moldova, also converted to shamanism and now joins the Hanhai Army.

These infantry soldiers were all white boys captured by the Crimeans from later generations Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. After hearing Adrian talk about his experience, they fell into deep thought.

Adrian continued: "Everyone, with the help of the Great Xia Kingdom, the three Dacia Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldova have combined a country, and in the Kievan Rus region, a new country is being formed. With the help of the Great Xia Kingdom, nothing is wrong."

"Everyone, the Poles, the Russians are all big landlords, and the Crimeans are all robbers. Why do we work for these people?"

Finally, the thousand infantry surrendered, and Adrian's advice was one reason. The lord of Azov was defeated and died, and the body was dragged in front of them.

After a thousand Jenicer surrendered, they took the lead, Sunske's cavalry dismounted and seized twelve large ships of Rustone.

This is the real purpose of Sun Sike's troops coming!

Capturing off the ship is much more meaningful than taking down Azov. Sure enough, when Sun Sic led the cavalry to the city of Azov, even if he took out Rustone's body and another thousand Jenicer, the defenders in the city refused to surrender.

The city of Azo is of great significance. It is an enclave of the Crimean Khanate on the surface, but in fact it is jointly managed by the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate. The remaining thousand Jenicheris in the city all carry slender, long and very accurate Ottoman guns (Rumi guns). They are all loyal to the Ottoman emperors.

Sun Sic had no choice but to let the surrendered One Thousand Jenicheri dig open the ice layer of the Azov Sea - the Azov Sea is a shallow sea with an average water depth of only about ten meters and is not thick in winter, only about ten centimeters. After digging the ice layer, the paddle slaves who were tied with iron chains under the deck knew that they had changed their master after a full meal.

After hanging up the sails, the fleet sailed towards New Tianjin.

There, the craftsmen of the Great Xia Kingdom will make some modifications to the twelve Calais ships, mainly by replacing the cannons on the ship with the Nibchu bronze cannon series, as well as leverage devices equipped with tail rudders, plus the white slaves who have greatly improved their treatment and a large amount of enhanced firepower. I believe that they can still compete with the fleet of the Crimean Khanate.

When the fleet drove to the pier in Xin Tianjin, Nikan had already brought his people to wait there.

At this time, there was an old man standing beside him, the master of the shipyard of the Daxia Kingdom. Yang Chun, who is already 70 years old this year, is the grandfather of Yang Chengen, one of the commanders of the Hanhai Army. He stood beside him, his son, a 50-year-old man, who has now replaced Yang Chun as the master of the shipyard of the Ministry of Works.

Seventy-year-old Yang Chun was still in good health. When the fleet had just arrived, he couldn't wait to step on.

...

That night, in a three-entry courtyard in Nikan's palace in New Tianjin, Nikan met Yang Chun and his son.

"His Majesty"

Yang Chun was about to salute Nikan, but Nikan quickly helped him up and said with a smile: "Old Yang, do you still remember Meldiller? My first boat house in Daxia has come to a flash and nearly twenty years have passed."

What Nikan said was that when he defeated Huang Taiji near Chengde and rescued a large number of Han slaves, he found a group of shipyard craftsmen from the Grand Canal in Tongzhou, and immediately built a shipyard on the north bank of the Shileka River where the Meldiller tribe was located. There was the cradle of the Hanhai Navy.

Yang Chun was also full of emotion. Now he is also a person with a title. Although he has never been to his fiefdom, he is still a title after all. This is unimaginable in the workshop of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, since he retreated from the position of a master of the boat shop, he has been unable to rest. Now, I heard that the emperor was going to build a boat shop in the distant Anxi, so he followed his son.

"The Calais ships are all flat bottoms, and the wind and waves on the Azov Sea are too strong, so they can only walk along the coast and cannot go deep into the inland sea. It is still a bit troublesome if you want to modify them. However, the old man has carefully looked at it. This man-made ship in the west is far less than me... Xia Jingmei, you can add a hem to the bottom of the ship, and then use mortise, iron nails, gelling agent to connect it with keels, and other ship boards."

"If you can wrap copper, it will be a waste of time. After wrapping copper, the copper skin and rivets will increase the weight of the ship, making it more draught..."

"Inappropriate", Nikan suddenly spoke out, "Old Yang, if you wrap the copper skin, the paddle position will be greatly reduced. At that time, a slightly larger wave will surge into the cabin."

Yang Chun said: "Your Majesty, do you still want to use those paddles?"

Nikan's eyes lit up, "What do you mean?"

"Your Majesty, although these Calais are sailboats, their hulls are very large. If they are installed on the ship, they can completely replace those slave paddlers. Your Majesty, like those Grand Calais, there are 100 paddlers alone. The weight of these people is definitely heavier than the steam engine. With coal, it is almost the same at most."

"Your Majesty, the third and fourth type steam engine can be transported by four horse-drawn heavy-duty carriages. It is winter now, and it is the most convenient to transport it with heavy-duty carriages. The coal resources here are so rich, and they are still anthracite. Wouldn't it be wasted if you don't use it well?"

Nikan was overjoyed and thought to himself: "Why didn't I think of this?"

Then he said: "According to you, the steam engine produced in Linhuang Mansion will be transported to Atlau by ice boats through the Saridege River, and then transported to Lagan by ship, and transported to New Tianjin by heavy-duty carriage..."

"Your Majesty", Luo Jizhi spoke at this time, "In this way, you have to cross the Turhut grassland that is more than 800 miles away. It is better to pull it to the mouth of the Atlashan River first, then use an ice boat to pull it to the near Chalijin, and then transport it to the Don River by a heavy carriage. There is only more than a hundred miles between the Attila River and the Don River. At this time, you can continue to use an ice boat or ice melt and then use a ship to transport it to the New Tianjin by using the Don River."
Chapter completed!