Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A ranar 31 ga Mayu 1569 Kasim-Pasha ya tashi zuwa Astrakhan tare da Janissaries 15000, wasu dubban Turkawa, da ma'aikata 30000 don haƙa canal. Ya kasance tare da mutane dubu 40 ko 50 daga cikin mutanen Devlet. Sun hau Kogin Don zuwa inda koguna suka fi kusa kuma suka fara tonowa. Ba da daɗewa ba ya zama a fili cewa canal ba zai yiwu ba kuma babu wata hanyar da za ta jawo jiragen ruwa da bindigogi a fadin steppe. An mayar da bindigogi zuwa kogin. Kasim ya shirya barin amma ya ji cewa zai iya samun jiragen ruwa a kan Volga, don haka ya haye steppe kuma ya sauka zuwa Astrakhan. Garin ya kasance mai sauƙi, amma babu wata hanyar da za ta dauki sansanin ba tare da bindigogi ba. An yi magana game da jiran sake samar da kayayyaki a cikin bazara, amma suna da kayayyaki na kwanaki 40 kawai kuma sojoji sun zama masu tawaye a tunanin yin amfani da hunturu a cikin tanti a kan tsaunuka. A ranar 26 ga Satumba Kasim ya ɗage kewaye kuma ya nufi yamma. Circassians sun tsananta musu kuma an tura sojojin Rasha zuwa kudu. Mutanen Crimean da Nogais sun yi kyau sosai amma sojoji sun sha wahala sosai a kan tsaunukan da ba su da ruwa. Yawancin jiragen ruwa sun lalace a guguwa a Azov. Duba
Yaƙin Rasha da Turkiyya (1568<unk>1570).