In the third year of Zhaoxiang (761), late autumn.

On the north bank of the Caspian Sea, the dew fell and the dew turned into frost, and the back of the cold winter was vaguely visible.

Ten days ago, Bai Xiaode, the chief manager of the camp in the north of the Great Qin State's "Xosa Strategy", strongly covered the castle within a radius of 100 miles.

On this day, with the sound of bells on the Xicheng Gate Tower, the bronze horns and drums sounded one after another, a cavalry took the lead. The cavalry was about 3,000 people, all of whom were one and two riders. After running out of the Ximen, they immediately whistled to the west!

At the same time, the big bell on the seventh-story pagoda in the city also rang.

“Dangdang…”

The sound of the big bell resounds across the banks of the Sazedge River (Ural River) and is clearly transmitted to a place dozens of miles away.

The "Xhosa Strategy" has begun!

The Xhosa people did not feel sorry for the Great Qin State, but they were also a good trading partner of the Great Qin State. However, in this world, it is an eternal truth that every man is guilty of being guilty and possesses a treasure. He occupies one of the best places on the Eurasian continent and does nothing is a sin, so he can only give way to more capable people.

The destination of the three thousand cavalrymen who left the West Gate was Shakr city (Volgograd, Xiadu of the Khanate of the Khanate) upstream of the Attila River (Volgograd). A mere three thousand cavalry could neither cross the river nor capture a castle made of purely white marble, so they were naturally used to flick a shot.

When bells, trumpets and drums sounded, the more lively place was the Port of Atlau. Atlau Port was already full of ships, densely packed with piers about five miles long.

In addition to Li Simu's two naval fleets, there are also large ships with a total capacity of up to 200, namely large transport ships like the Zhenyang-class.

As mentioned earlier, a standard Sabrei military camp head is three thousand people, and a navy fleet composed of nine ships can load all the soldiers, but the horses are not enough. A large ship can only carry two hundred war horses, which means that a standard battalion requires at least fifteen large ships to load. Considering the artillery, pack horses, camels, etc. it is necessary to transport a standard battalion to the destination safely and safely, twenty large ships are the minimum.

Therefore, the five regular battalions needed one hundred large ships, and Bai Xiaode had ten regular battalions in his mobile military. One cavalry battalion had been sent out, and nine were left. They were all squeezed on the dock now!

Why do we need to arrange this?

You should know that whether it is the Hun Empire or the Badu army in later generations, they must cross the Attila River without exception. However, the Attila River is a special river. It is north of Shakr City (Volgograd) and all the way to Kazan Fort on the edge of the dark forest. The water surface is extremely wide and it is impossible to build a floating bridge.

However, from the downstream from Shakr City to Astrakburg (Astrakhan), it is a strip-shaped swamp area about 800 miles long and fifty miles wide. If it weren't for winter, it would be a dream to pass through this area calmly.

Even in winter, if it weren't for locals, it wouldn't be easy to get over swamps with varying thicknesses of ice.

Therefore, this area became a natural barrier. Whether it was Attila's ancestors or Badu, they could only send troops in the winter when the river was frozen strongly. Attila's Hun Empire relied on this river to block the harassment of other nomadic tribes in the Kazakh prairie, so that they could safely and steadily carry out their European strategies.

Therefore, people at this time called Volga River as Attila River actually had a profound meaning. Many years later, the Golden Horde of Badu also established its capital near this barrier belt. More and more Turkuts later relied on this river to make a living in Christ and the True Lord's world.

The importance of this river can be seen.

For later Russians, the importance of the Volga River was even more important than all the rivers, no doubt about it.

Although the Shattered Ye Army has excellent logistics support, it cannot escape the impact of seasonal factors on the army. In winter, the war horses can only eat hay, and their physical condition is far from autumn. Moreover, the Shattered Ye Army now has a large number of ships, so there is no need to wait until winter.

At Atlau Port, all nine complete shattered leaves battalions led by Bai Xiaode were ready to go on the ship. After hearing the bells on the pagoda, a fleet commanded by Li Simu took the lead in sailing out of the fleet.

In late autumn, the strong northeastern wind has completely covered the northern shore of the Caspian Sea. At this time, there is no need to use a boat to drive the boat out of the harbor with half a sail. When you reach the outside sea, you can raise all the remaining sails.

After Li Simu's fleet sailed out, there was a huge transport fleet behind him, and finally another navy fleet.

After the navy fleet finally completely left Atlau Port, the entire fleet stretched for twenty miles!

However, the fleet soon changed its shape. The fleet, which was originally a long snake formation, began to get closer. In the end, it roughly advanced with five ships, stretching for four or five miles in front and back, and winding southwest from the sea about ten miles from the west coast of the Caspian Sea.

For this moment, Bai Xiaode's army has been adapting on the ship for half a year!

But all this is worth it. If you march from the road, even if you only arrive at Astra Fort 600 miles away, it will take at least ten days for the army to arrive. However, if you march from the sea, you will arrive in a day and night!

In ten days, tens of thousands of troops and a huge group of livestock would cost how much food and grass?

This is the miracle of the ocean.

This scene was unexpected by the Xhosa people who were born in the nomadic tribe. In their minds, even if the Shattered Ye Army wanted to attack, they would have to wait until the middle of winter (January of the following year) before sending troops when all the rivers north of the Caspian Sea were frozen to a steady state.

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At this time, both the Port of Astra or the Port of Atlau are directly near the sea, rather than dozens of miles away from the sea like later generations. So, on a night before dawn, when a large group of ships suddenly sailed to the Port of Astra, the entire Astra Fort, both in the city and outside the city, was still immersed in his dreams!

There is no suspense. For Astra Port, which has been investigated countless times by Yu Houjun, she has no secret at all. She is completely exposed in front of the Shattered Ye Army. Even more than a dozen large slave galleys anchored in the port were captured and seized by the Shattered Ye Army before she could take action!

After the Thunder Ye Army seized the slave ship, it immediately announced that the freedom of these slaves would be restored and each of them was given a spear to take care of the captured Xhosa soldiers.

It should be noted here that most of these people are Slavs, and a small number are black slaves. Although they are chained to the paddle positions for a long time, long-term high-intensity paddle training has made their upper limbs very developed. Once they are free, they can still take up weapons and take care of the unarmed Xhosa soldiers.

Astra Fort, the newly built castle located in the largest state of the Attila River at the mouth of the Attila River welcomed the first light of the morning from the hustle and bustle.

However, when the castle was fully awakened, the pontoon bridge connecting the western continent and the eastern Shazhou on both sides of the castle had been captured by the Shaye Army. When the Khosa built the city, they considered that the main enemies came from the east. Therefore, they did not fully connect all the Shazhou in the east, but only connected one and set up a garrison on it, obviously just to protect the castle from the east.

After the two pontoon bridges were captured by the Shattered Ye Army, the entire Astra Fort was completely isolated and helpless!

This is the general in the city. Simon, the second son of the Khanate of the Khanate, Simon, did not expect that there were several ships that could drive to Shakr at any time in the port, but they were all taken down by the Shakr Army one night!

But since Astra Fort was guarded by the second son of Khan, it would not rely solely on the castle itself to defend itself. There are naturally other military forts that communicate with it on the west bank. The Shattered Ye Army could not have surrounded it all, so the news was still passed on!

This is also what Bai Xiaode hopes to see. In his planning, it is one of the goals that the defenders of the major strongholds of the Khanate of the Xhosa Khanate are confused about each other.

After surrounding Astra Fort, Bai Xiaode left a fleet and two regular battalions here, allowing him to attack the castle, and he took the remaining seven regular battalions to continue south on ships!

Also a day and night later, when the Astra Fort cavalry running desperately towards Baicheng on land was still on the road, the Shattered Ye Army raided the military port of Surak, about 60 miles north of Baicheng, the capital of the Khanate!

Surak Port is 700 miles away from Astra Fort. If the cavalry runs from the road, according to the regulations of the Khanate of Khonza at this time, they will have to rest once at full speed for an hour. Each time it takes about a moment, and a day and night, six hours will need to rest!

With the time to eat, even if the Xhosa cavalry ignored life and death and were loyal to their duties, he could only spend sixteen hours in a day and night. Moreover, when he was galloping at night, the horses would be much slower. Sixteen hours were not enough to allow them to arrive in Baicheng smoothly!

According to previous plans, the Sailye Army quickly expanded the wooden pier in Sulak Port and left a regular battalion to guard it. Bai Xiaode personally led six regular battalions to land and continued to drive westward!

At this time, Yuanfeng, who was departing from Batumi Port, had arrived at Taman Port and was attacking it. The Ma Lin army set out from Baku, also five regular battalions came on a large ship. They raided the New Carthage between Baicheng and Derbint. After bombing the New Carthage, which was completely made of soil, occupied the city without any effort!

At the same time, the regular battalion led by Naren Xiaofeng set out from Baku Port and attacked north along the land route. After three days, it arrived at the military fort Hachimas, which was occupied by the Chechin people, on the east side of the city of Kuba, near the sea, and surrounded the city!

The news on land is transmitted faster than at sea. As mentioned earlier, the largest nomadic tribal force near Baicheng was the Chechen people (Chchenites). Since Naren Xiaofeng and his army left Sumgate, the Chechen people, who were ready to be fully loyal to the Khonsa Khanate, led 5,000 elite cavalry to the vicinity of Hachimas City and formed a junction with the defenders in Hachimas City.

The adopted son of the Khanate of the Khanate stationed in Derbint Port, Shadick, the Ugus man, personally brought five thousand infantry and cavalry to Hatchmas. Together with the three thousand infantry in Hatchmas, the entire Khosa near Hatchmas reached 13,000, which was almost the same as the five regular battalions led by Naren Xiaofeng.

After learning that Shadick was heading south, Brans of White City ignored the Broken Ye Army in Surak Port and watched the change.

In the heart of the North Caucasus, in the newly built city of Xhosa (Stavropol), after learning that the army of the Shattered Leaf Army was dispatched, he immediately gathered 30,000 tribal cavalry within three days, and stood up to move under the leadership of Brans' nephew and the son of the real Xhosa tribe Suuth.

For Suuut, he could not only rescue Baicheng eastward, attack Surak Port, but also go westward to rescue Taman Port.
Chapter completed!