Ten days later.

Armavir, the westernmost village of the Adige people, was suddenly attacked by the Circassians!

Armavir is one of the largest villages of the Adige people. In addition to the Adige people, there are also settled Circassians and Kalbajin people, with more than 300 households.

The attack was carried out at dawn, and the Circassians gathered nearly 3,000 horsemen this time!

As expected, Armavir fell quickly, but the Circassians only found young men in the village, and no other people, property, or livestock.

They obviously realized that they had been deceived. At this time, there were only about a hundred people left in the village, and the Circassians killed them all without mercy.

Since the city of Stavropol was destroyed, the Circassians would not be satisfied with destroying a mere Armavir, so they continued to march south based on their large number of people.

When they entered the vicinity of Nevenno, they surrounded a village opposite Nevenno.

Since Nevennor is near the intersection of two rivers, the long-term flooding and impact of the two rivers have made the land here very fertile. Therefore, there are large villages on both sides of the river.

This time, the Circassians were overjoyed when they discovered old, weak, women and children in the village. They surrounded the village and immediately launched a frenzied attack.

What they didn't expect was that this time they encountered extremely strong resistance. The battle started in the afternoon and they still hadn't captured it until the evening.

The leader of the Circassians in the steppe is called Shenkov. He is a young man in his twenties. At this time, he is already red-eyed and orders his subordinates to continue the attack.

At this time, a person next to him advised: "When they were in Almaville, they only had adult men. They were obviously on guard against us. Now they are resisting so tenaciously. There must be some fraud involved."

Shenkov disagreed, "I just let the Adige people kill them."

The man said in astonishment: "Why is this? The Adige people have joined forces with the Kalbajin people, and together they can dispatch 10,000 people. Although they have fewer horses, 3,000 people are still enough."

"Three thousand horses?" Shenkov smiled contemptuously, "Last time they took Stavropol when we were unprepared, but they were all farmers. Although they also had horses, they were mostly used for

Plowing and riding"

"The real war horses will not exceed a thousand. If there are three thousand riding over, they will not be our opponent, let alone..."

"Besides what?"

"Alas", Shenkov sighed, "I didn't want to tell you at first, but after thinking about it, I decided to forget it. Don't panic. I won't be afraid even if 10,000 Adige people arrive."

"Do you have any backup plans?"

The man was doubtful, "The leader's back-up force is nothing but Cossacks. Are the Cossacks nearby? But in this way, they will soon be exposed to the Ottomans and Persians?"

"Forget it about the Ottomans. They did it once last time. Even if it's a tie, the Persians will never let it go."

Not long after, the Adige people arrived with 5,000 reinforcements, but they really only had 1,000 cavalry with combat effectiveness, and the rest were infantry. Shenkov led the cavalry and dispersed them as soon as they charged.

However, the only one thousand cavalry they had were the standing army of the Adiges and Kalbajins, and they were very powerful. Although Shenkov had the advantage in numbers, he would not be able to defeat them for a while.

What's more, the scattered infantry at this time reorganized and formed a hedgehog formation surrounded by spears, leaving the Circassian cavalry helpless.

In this way, the two groups continued to fight and confront each other here until midnight.

At this time, both sides were a little tired, so they took a step back and camped nearby, preparing to fight again in the daytime.

In the middle of the night, Shenkov was woken up by the man.

"Chief, the Adige people have withdrawn!"

Shenkov smiled and said: "See, this is the backhand appearing."

The man asked tentatively: "The Cossacks are coming?"

But Shenkov shook his head, "Why do we need Cossacks to deal with these mud-legged people?"

"Is it the Alans? No, the Alans and the Adige people have always been friendly"

Shenkov said impatiently while getting dressed: "After the last war with the Ottomans and the Chechens, the Alans still have enough energy left to attack the Adiges? Of course they are the Chechens!"

"Chechens? There are Alans between them"

At this time, Shenkov had already dressed up and mounted his war horse. "Chechens and Alans look similar. Can't they pretend to be Alans and cross their territory to come here?"

"If my guess is correct, the Adige people must have asked for help from the Chechens before this. In any case, they all believe in Islam, and the Chechens were also eager to contact the Islamists in the Caucasus after their last defeat."
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"Have Chechens contacted the leader?"

Shenkov was noncommittal, and a large number of cavalry had gathered around him.

"What are you talking about? Hurry up and chase the Adiges. The cavalry can't catch up, but you must capture their infantry!"

Sure enough, when they chased after them, the Adige cavalry had disappeared, leaving only the infantry retreating hastily in the night!

However, since it was midnight, even if the Circassians were all cavalry, they were only slightly faster than the Adige infantry because they were all on small roads and the roads were unfamiliar.

So, they started a chase at night. Naturally, the cavalry had the upper hand, but the Adige people fought and retreated, and in the end they chased until dawn!

At this time, the Adige infantry, which originally numbered 4,000 people, had suffered at least 2,000 casualties. A thousand people had fled to nearby mountains. About a thousand people had fled to Pati, the home of the Adige people, despite running without hesitation.

Near Goska!

If in the past, Shenkov would have been frightened if he had penetrated so far alone, but this time he looked as normal.

The Chechens have arrived!

The Chechens obviously did not come through the territory of the Alans, but came from the mountain road at the northern foot of the Caucasus Mountains!

Since Mansour returned from a major defeat last time, he not only lost almost tens of thousands of Chechen cavalry, but also lost nearly 10,000 Dagestan vassals. Therefore, after receiving a letter from the Adige asking for help, arrangements were made immediately.<

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Without the support of the Azerbaijanis, he does not dare to cause trouble for the Truchen people on his own right now, but the Kalbachin people still have no problem dealing with the Adyges.

This time, he sent a general with 3,000 light cavalry, nominally to rescue them. In fact, as soon as he arrived near Pedigoska, he suddenly took action and killed the Adige garrison who stayed here by surprise.

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Fortunately, the Adige people were more thoughtful and did not allow them to enter the city. Instead, they prepared food, grass and livestock for them to station outside the city.

However, since they came from the Chechnya region hundreds of miles away, I couldn't help but not meet them, and I couldn't show weakness in front of them.

So, the leaders of Adi led a thousand people out of the city to meet them. While the two sides were meeting, the Chechens who were ambushing nearby suddenly took action!

It is conceivable that one side was prepared, while the other side was unprepared and believed that they were really reinforcements. Naturally, they were severely defeated. After one battle, the big leader's thousand elite troops were almost completely wiped out!

The big leader was also captured!

This is what Shenkov saw.

Although there are Kalbajin people from Nalchik nearby, they currently number five to six thousand people. The Kalbajin people are still weaker than the Adige people, and even if they all come, they will not be their opponent.

With the capture of the great leader of Adige, taking over the city of Pytigorska is no longer a problem!

It is impossible for the Chechens to secretly attack the Circassians again. Behind them are the Cossacks. If they offend them, once the Russians take action, they will have no choice but to leave Grozny and flee into the Caucasus Mountains.<

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Shenkov spent the whole night attacking, and it was impossible to immediately launch an attack on Pytigorska with the Chechens. After summing up, he planned to attack Pytigorska after lunch.

At this time, Pytigorska was just a wooden city with only a few thousand people living in the city, most of them Adige nobles. After taking it, you can still get a lot of property.

What's more, with these nobles in hand, the Chechens can force them to move to the Chechen region.

Afternoon.

The Chechens and Circassians each left a thousand horses to guard the perimeter, and the remaining people carried large shields. Behind the large shields were strong men armed with broadswords and heavy axes, preparing to cut down the wooden walls after approaching.

Break in.

When they approached the wooden wall, they tied the leader of Adige to a carriage, so that the people in the city did not dare to act rashly. As soon as they approached the wooden wall, a hundred burly men took out their thick-backed swords and large swords.

The ax chops wildly!

The Chechens and Circassians have some muskets in their hands, which can effectively suppress the few muskets, bows, arrows, javelins and other objects in the city. The Chechens seem to be very experienced in dealing with such a wooden city.

With every cut, the entire wooden city seemed to be shaking, which made everyone in the city tremble with fear.

According to the Chechen people's plan, at the beginning, they were all pretending to chop, but in fact they were intimidating the people inside. Once someone couldn't hold on any longer, they would leave the city and surrender, and they would even kidnap the big leader's family members and come out.

Surrender!

However, this time, they obviously underestimated the city's determination to resist. Even when they chopped down a section of the wooden wall about thirty meters long until it was crumbling, there was still no movement in the city.

This surprised both the Chechens and Circassians.

At this time, they had no intention of forcing everyone in Adi to surrender, and were ready to intensify their efforts to cut down a wooden wall and then rush in to burn, kill, and loot.

For the Chechens, their impure Islam is still a pagan, and they are also among the targets of the jihad. After a lot of looting, they kidnapped the remaining people to the Chechen area, and then sold them to the Ottomans.

A lot of money.

For the Circassians, it is only right to completely destroy the city of Pytigorska in retaliation for their destruction of the city of Stavropol.

There was only a small stubble left at the bottom of the wooden wall, and the entire wall collapsed in an instant...

At this moment, several Chechen cavalrymen who were on guard outside ran back in a panic.

"General, an enemy is coming!"

"Oh?", the Chechen general's expression also became serious.

"Who is it?"

"Looking at the clothes, he must be Armenian!"

"Armenians? Didn't they move to Kayasura, the place where we Chechens were originally?"

The general became even more anxious when he thought of the Truchen people behind the Armenians.

"Can you see clearly? They are all Armenians?"
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