Seven days after Cherchen returned to the Azov Fort lightly, a large army composed of 5000 cavalry and nearly 2000 infantry left the Azov fort. Their goal was cherkesk occupied by the Kalmyks.


    If you can, Cherchen wanted to delay sending troops again for a while. Because of the information collected from prigit, Kalmyk Khanate is a big Khanate with more than 100000 people, and its ultimate mobilization capacity exceeds 30000 people. Even for an expedition like cherkesk, Kalmyk people can provide more than 10000 troops.


    Ten thousand cavalry. In order to deal with such an opponent, Cherchen wanted to send envoys by sea to borrow Kemal''s Sudanese soldiers from Mahmoud Pasha to enhance his strength. But Che Chen wanted to wait, but ah Yuqi didn''t give him a chance. Almost at the same time that Chechen returned to Yasu fort, countless karmec teams secretly dived across the Kuban river. They burned, killed and looted the Tatar village on the other side of the river. Ah Yuqi responded to Chechen''s challenge with practical actions.


    This makes Chechen extremely passive, because after knowing that his territory was attacked, saijetbei came to Chechen several times a day and asked him to send troops as soon as possible. At the last time, saijetbei even brought representatives of more than 30 tribes. These tribal chiefs swore in the name of Allah that as long as Chechen sent troops, all tribes would do their best to provide the troops and supplies needed by the army.


    For this reason, Cherchen has no reason to refuse. He announced a crusade against the Kalmyks gathered in cherkesk in the presence of sajetbei, karazimir and all the tribal chiefs present.


    And the tribal chiefs did not break their promises. They sent one hundred or three hundred tribal cavalry to join the crusade. Of the 6000 cavalry, more than 4000 were provided by them. And sajetbei also recruited sokasia cavalry from sokasia far away.


    Sokasia cavalry is a well-equipped medium-sized bow cavalry. They are excellent in close combat and riding and shooting. They are equipped with lock armor, knife and bow. Although there are only 200 people, the combination of these weapons is better than most Tatar cavalry. It can be said that Chechen leads the huge army from the sea of Azov in the East and the Don River in the West. They ride horses and control strings, one after another, advancing row by row.


    Karazimir Zan and saijietbei, two Crimean nobles, also set out with Cherchen, and they followed him.


    However, Fatima is the closest person to Dechen. After Cherchen accepted Fatima''s love, Fatima became like a little woman and stuck to Cherchen all day. This surprised Pedro, who didn''t know the truth and was still in the dark. Once, Pedro said to his nephew half jokingly, "Cherchen, Fatima seems to like you!"


    And Chechen wanted to take advantage of Pedro''s unintentional words to clarify his relationship with Fatima with his uncle, and tell Pedro that Fatima had his own children, but before the words were exported, Chechen was stopped by Fatima with eyes.


    When Chechen asked Fatima why she didn''t let herself tell her uncle the truth, Fatima just said that she wanted to talk when the war was over.


    However, except for Pedro, almost everyone saw the changes in the relationship between Chechen and Fatima. We are all comrades in arms who share weal and woe together. We are sincerely happy that Cherchen can accept Fatima. Even Catholic clergy such as sparsokukotsky also expressed blessings to Fatima. The only slight disappointment was yelishei. However, the Russian boy''s mood came and went quickly. After forcing himself to drink a few beers, yelishey forgot his sadness and flirted with Ingrid instead.


    Due to the precedent of being ambushed by the Kalmyks in the forest for the first time, Cherchen''s march was much more cautious this time. He sent more scouts and carefully searched every bush and forest on the military road. This undoubtedly made the troops move very slowly, and also made the soldiers in high mental tension all the time. Later, Chechen also realized that he was too careful. So he found falcons from various tribes and asked falcons to release falcons from time to time. He judged whether there was an ambush through the Falcon''s response in the bushes and woods. This method was told by the patriarch of Isak to Cherchen, which is more useful and saves time than relying on manpower alone.


    But all these became useless in the end, because until reaching cherkesk, the sudden attack of kalmec cavalry that Cherchen worried about never appeared.


    In the previous disguise reconnaissance, Chechen and his party had not been to cherkesk. This time, when Cherchen and others arrived at the site of the once cherkesk City, he and karazimir couldn''t believe their eyes. Because the once cherkesk city disappeared, except for a huge tomb, not even a building and a trench were left.


    "Allah, am I dazzled!" the old Isak patriarch rubbed his eyes hard. But no matter how he rubbed it, the things that had disappeared would not appear in front of him.


    "My nephew, is this what you call cherkesk?" Pedro asked Cherchen.


    At this time, Chechen also looked iron green. He did not expect that ah Yuqi would tear down the whole city of cherkesk. In his mind, such a move was incredible. It was the atrocities committed by talents such as Nero, the tyrant of ancient Rome, and ah Yuqi didn''t look like such an irrational and unreasonable person.


    Cherchen, who came from a settled civilization, can''t understand in any case. For nomads, towns are not important to them. They care about grassland, pasture and water.


    Just like Genghis Khan who established the Mongolian Empire. As a nomadic people living on the grassland, Mongols are naturally aggressive. Genghis Khan believed that it was the prairie that brought vitality to the whole nation. Because the grassland is rich in water and grass, there are many animals. Moreover, with the grassland, the Mongols did not have to bring more marching food when they fought.


    Based on this idea, Genghis Khan had such a subconscious mind. After conquering a land, he turned it into a prairie and killed all the indigenous people there.


    When Genghis Khan died, his successor, the close attendant of wokuotai, bidie, and others even advocated in the Far East: "the Han people are not helpful to the country, but they can learn about the empty people and think of them as pastures." that means that the Han people in the central plains are weak and useless for the Mongolian and Yuan expedition all over the world. It''s better to drive them out of their residential areas and plant grass and horses here.


    Although such a terrible policy was not implemented under the strong struggle and inducement of Yelu Chucai, it can also be seen that the Mongolian attitude towards the city.


    For a long time, Chechen, who recovered from the shock, opened his mouth to saigetbey: "bey, why do you think those Kalmyks demolished cherkesk? Are they afraid of our military power or are they strong and clear?"


    Chechen believes that the Tatars in the Asian speed region are still mainly nomadic, so their ideas should be close to the Kalmyk people. From them, they may get an answer similar to ah Yuqi''s ideas.


    After thinking for a while, serget bey said to Cherchen, "Cherchen bey, I think these Kalmyks are not afraid of us, nor are they strong walls and clear fields, but cherkesk is useless to them, but it will be cheaper for their enemies to keep it, so they demolished the city."


    "How could it be?" Pedro looked unbelievable when he heard that a city was useless.


    Saijietbei spread his hand and said, "that''s the truth. You are from Crimea, so I don''t know that the people here live by water and grass. The people live in leather tents and eat cattle and sheep. They only need salt and other daily necessities brought by a caravan to meet their lives."


    After listening to serget bey''s explanation, Pedro was silent. This time, the mercenary regiment prepared 2000 infantry for the attack on cherkesk, but now this army has no place at all.


    Then, saijietbei said: "the Kalmyks, like our Tatars, are good at riding and archery. I think they don''t want to tie their hands and feet when they demolish cherkesk. After all, guarding the city is a strange thing for them."


    Like Pedro, Chechen was disappointed that his most effective infantry could not play a role. But he soon recovered from his disappointment. Chechen went on to ask sajetbaye, "then sajetbaye, where do you think the Kalmyks will be now?"