In May 1571, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible was busy seizing the Baltic Sea, the Crimean Khanate in southern Russia, with the support of Ottoman Turks, led 120,000 men to capture and set fire to Moscow.
At that time, most of the buildings in Moscow were wooden structures, the fire with the help of the wind, the more it burned more and more, the people who could not escape were burned to death, hiding in the basement were suffocated, the people hiding in the stone church were collapsed because of too many, and jumped into the river was drowned, after the study of later scholars, the fire in Moscow killed nearly 80,000 people.
Although Ivan the Terrible was arrogant and tyrannical, he also understood the principle of "staying in the green mountains and not being afraid of running out of firewood". When Moscow was captured, he fled decisively, abandoning the capital and his subjects.
However, the looted Crimean Khanate (Tatars) was not satisfied after robbing countless treasures and capturing more than 100,000 people.
In 1572, the Crimeans came again, but this time their army was only half that of the first, but 60,000 was also an absolute advantage, because poor Ivan IV had only 25,000 men.
The Russians had acquired more advanced artillery and military technology in their long struggle with the West, while the Crimeans were still the Mongols, rampage and slash, but they could afford more. This war of attrition rushed the Russians huddled in the city and did not dare to come out.
Soon, the Russians will run out of ammunition and the balance of victory will fall in the Hands of the Crimeans.
At this moment, a Russian army of surprise soldiers, unknowingly, crossed the Crimean defense line and came to their rear. When the Crimeans awoke from their slumber, they found their stables on fire.
So the Russians in the city quickly attacked, and the inside and outside fought a war of annihilation, and the Crimeans did not have time to stop the defense, and they were scattered and fled.
Only about 20,000 people escaped back to the Crimean Khanate, that is, 40,000 people were lost in the Battle of Moloj, and the Crimean Khanate began to decline.
In 1783, the Crimean Khanate was conquered by Russia and became part of the Russian Empire.
So what did the Crimean Khanate do in the more than 200 years from the end of the Battle of Molody to the conquest by Russia?
Although the Crimean Khanate declined, with the strength of the Russian Empire at that time, there was really no way to take it. The Tatars continued to regularly sweep the steppes, preventing the Slavs from settling the steppes and constantly harassing russia's borders.
To this end, Russia had to build the Great Wall to defend the Crimean Khanate.
After the collapse of the Golden Horde in 1502, the Crimean Khanate identified itself as the heir to the Golden Horde, while Russia had traditionally presented itself as the heir to the Eastern Roman Empire.
When Russia conquered the Crimean Khanate, Russia considered itself to have acquired the legal system of the Roman Empire and the Mongol Empire, and this is why Russia has never been able to urinate with the European countries in the same pot.
The Christian countries of Europe will not recognize in any way that Orthodox Russia is one with them, and they feel that Russia is completely a pagan country that wants to subvert their faith, although they all believe in God.
The Mongol Conquest has left an indelible memory of suffering for European countries, Russia said that it has the legal system of the Mongol Empire, that is not only to conquer them spiritually, but also to enslave them physically, in exchange for you are a European country, will you be willing?