160 Europe in Flames (3)
Compared with the restraint of the brothers, Suhai is much more enjoyable. He marched all the way west, connecting the cities of the Rakshasa principalities, and the entire Rakshasa except for the Novgorod principality in the north, which was surrounded by wet and cold swamps, completely fell to the vassal of the Mughal Khanate. The Grand Dukes ran to Magyar with gold and silver to ask for support, and also gave Yesuhai a good excuse to continue westward into Magyar.
Hundreds of years ago, after the Magyars converted to Nestorianism and obtained the status of a principality, the pocket-shaped Magyars steppe and the Magyar kingdom standing within it have always been regarded as the 'Nestorian shield', resisting the invasion of nomads coming and going in the European steppe countless times, the Alans, Cossacks, Huns, and now the Mughal people.
He led his own team from the mountain pass between the eastern and western Korpathian mountains into the steppe to play, and Beltokh continued west along the western Korpathian Mountains to explore the path of the Porel.
If the Magyars obtain the Chinese inheritance, they will definitely build a strong Great Wall on this protective pocket mountain range, and properly stop the men on horseback, but unfortunately the Magyars are also cavalry, and they will only block the mountain pass with wood and stones, and the soldiers sent to garrison will only play the role of communication, and at most they will delay for half a day, and they will lead 30,000 troops into the hinterland and approach the capital Buda. The entire Magyar steppe is divided into two parts by the Danube River from north to south, the city of Buda is located on the west side of the river, and was once the royal city of Attila on the last whip, and the new city of Pest is on the east side of the river, and the two cities are connected by ferry. Now the Mughal soldiers are under the city of Pest, and the cities along the way have been swept clean, but the princes and nobles in the city of Buda are not very anxious, because the river is thawing, the wide Danube can stop the Mughal horses, and the best cavalry of 100,000 Magyars are placed in the city of Pest, and the guards can be supplied at any time, and they can quickly cross the river and fight a protracted war.
The main force of Ye Suhai did not rush into the grassland, but went to the side of Po Lie'er to wander around, one made Po Lie'er dare not go south to aid the Magyar without authorization, and the other heard that Po Lie'er had a heavily armored knight army. He first tried the depths, and then went south down the river to cross two mountain passes, and it was not too late to enter the pocket grassland. Therefore, the men and horses of Be'er were not in a hurry to defend the city and besiege it, but instead started a guerrilla war in the outer cities, and they took it away.
With a more positive attitude, Suhai successively took the cities of Sandomir (Sandomierz), Krakov (Krakow), and Vroslav (Frauzlaw), and the capitals of these principalities were first looted and then slaughtered, and set on fire. Henry, the titular king of the Duchy of Porly, could not sit still, and gathered 30,000 allied troops including Poriel, Germania, and Teutonic Knights to set out for Legnica (Legnica). This heavily armed European knight coalition was not familiar with the Mughal combat methods, and their experience was limited to the characteristics of Cossacks, Alans or Turkic cavalry raids and harassment, and weak organization, and did not understand that the well-disciplined Mughurs could rely on the command banner to quickly convey combat orders, and how could the Mongol army, which had captured a large number of craftsmen and craftsmen all the way from the Western Regions, have no heavy cavalry like the European nomads.
Yesuhai still started with a feint, and the well-armed European ironclad forces were confused by the defeated and retreating Mongol army, and scrambled to follow them. Because the 30,000 knights belonged to different camps, out of their own considerations, they did not pursue at the same time, and the originally neat formation became scattered. When the allied soldiers and horses were tired, the Mongolian army suddenly counterattacked, and the neat 20,000 heavily armored Mongolian cavalry appeared in front of the formation, and the real battle began at this time. The heavy armored Mughal cavalry lined up as a wall to charge and shoot from a distance, and the European knights were shot into hedgehogs by the cluster of armor-piercing arrows, and the light cavalry who used as bait before knew that the iron armor on the knight's body was not easy to penetrate, and specialized in shooting unarmored mounts in the flexible run, and the knights who fell off their horses were unable to move, so they could only be restrained and harvested like melons and vegetables cut by the of the Muguls. The Mongol army also released a smoke that obscured the view of the lagging ones, and the backward knights and the European infantry who came to 'clean up the battlefield' could not see the tragic battle situation, and plunged headlong into the trap of the Muguls, and were undoubtedly annihilated. Henry was captured and beheaded, the other Grand Dukes and nobles were killed in battle, and the Teutonic Knights were wiped out, with only 5,000 escaped.
He cut off the ears of the fallen Europeans and filled them with nine sacks, but luckily he decided to go south to pick up Buda and Pest first. The Monghurs who went south down the river greeted Vienna across the Danube, frightened the core town of the Germanic 'Holy Great Qin Empire', and passed through Boloni (Bratislava), known as the 'Magyar Gate', to the horror of the entire European royal family and the Holy See of Great Qin.
On the other hand, the Magyars, who had the best cavalry in Europe, could not sit idly by and watch the Mongol army happily rejoicing in their own homes, and there was a terrifying Mughal leader to the north, and an army of 100,000 took the initiative to go out of the city to meet the battle, wanting to cut off the convergence of Yesuhi and Beertokh. The more mobile Mongolian army still threw off the Magyar army, joined forces on the banks of the Saiyo River (Slana River) in the northeast of the Danube, and camped underground in the swamps east of the river, and the Magyar army then camped in the small town of 'Muxi' west of the river and sent 5,000 troops to guard the bridge.
He also led the Chinese army to attack the bridge head-on, attracting the attention of the Magyars, and took off the upstream and downstream estuaries of the army, wading through the water and crossing the raft, and copied the opponent's back road. The Magyars, accustomed to European-style head-to-head duels, collapsed in an instant, and the duel between the two top cavalry of Europe and Asia still ended in an overwhelming victory for the Muguls. More than 70,000 Magyars were annihilated, and the rest retreated to Pest, but it was not easy for Suhai to win, and he garrisoned outside Pest, waiting for the Khuts to come and attack.
In the days when Ye Suhai was looking forward to his brothers, the entire east bank of the Danube was once again plundered, and after the land was burned, the Magyars who were unable to stop the Mughal people from retreating to the small plateau in the southeast corner of the pocket steppe to preserve their strength, the Mongol army really stopped there, and did not intend to conquer the mountainous areas.
In the eighth month of the reign of Emperor Shenzong, the Danube, which was frozen again, ushered in the iron hooves of the Mughuls, and Suhai and others paid a heavy price and successfully entered the two cities of Buda and Pest. King Béla fled, and the rich were slaughtered alike as the royal nobles, but the merchants and many poor survived and became slaves of the Mughal because their new masters were to spend the winter here.
Béla's choice was no different from that of Saleman Khan, and he and his remnants fled to the eastern shore of the Aegean Sea, a coastal area known as 'Dalmatia' under Venetian control. With the intellectual blessing of the Khut Thorn, Buda and Pace did not turn into ashes, and Suhai chased Bella to the coast, and the Khut Thorn stayed in Buda, and through diplomatic means, let the Great Qin and the Holy See, as well as the Germanic Empire, know that the Mughal people want to fight the Magyars because they have sheltered the Cossacks, and the same reason can be proven, whoever takes in Bella will also usher in the punishment of immortality. All the Western powers and the two major papal sees stood by and Béla had to pay a lot of money to buy the merchants in the port and avoid the sea.
He didn't really care where Bella was, he wouldn't let himself be idle, and his iron hooves ravaged Dalmatia happily, crossing the mountainous cities of Macedonia and Sofia in the Balkan Mountains, and entering the west coast of the Pontus Sea. This is the territory of Bolgar, separated from the pocket steppe of the Magyar to the north by the Southern Korpathian Mountains, with a flat direct access to the Kipchak steppe. His target, of course, was Preslav, the capital of Bulgaria on the Danube, and King Madara had no intention of resisting at all, sending money and opening the door to receive guests. However, the Diao tribes in the northern mountains refused to surrender without a fight, and they took advantage of the terrain to haunt the forests and attack the small Mongol army from time to time.
Armed with a group of Bolgars from Preslav, he went to Kronstadt (Brasov), the largest town in the mountains, to charge at these compatriots, who were still resisting stubbornly, disrupting their positions and capturing alive 10,000 prisoners. Then he ordered all the prisoners of war to be blinded in the eyes, leaving only one one-eyed man out of every hundred, who led ninety-nine blind men back to Preslav on foot.
This earned Yesuhi the title of 'Butcher of Bolgar', and his feats left a greater image of the 'whip' in European history than Attila, and his atrocities are recorded in historical books, literary works, and even fairy tales. For example, they promised to pardon and not kill, encouraged or forced the fugitives to return to their homes, and treacherously slaughtered them all after the inhabitants had provided the Mongol army with enough supplies, made sufficient equipment, or finished harvesting the crops. As for the old tactics of organizing prisoners and civilians into death squads, rushing ahead of the Mongol army, and storming fortified cities, it has been summarized as one of the tactical characteristics of the Mughals.
Under the persuasion of Khutthorn, Yesuhai fought back against the Europeans who dared to provoke the Mongol army, and at the same time began to clean up the coast of the Pontus Sea from Bulgaria to the Crimean Peninsula.
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The Mamu cavalry is recognized as the most powerful army of the Great Eater, and the emergence and existence of this group is due to a certain Hailifan who had just conquered the Rest Empire hundreds of years ago, and he was afraid of the strength of the rest nobles under his jurisdiction, and through his birth mother of Turkic origin, he hired the Turks, the strongest cavalry race in Europe, Asia and Africa, to establish the 'Gulam Guard'. Later, this Guards no longer hired professional soldiers who lacked loyalty, but bought Turkic children from the Kakaso region as slaves, and began strict training and training from an early age, and no less than 20,000 children were abducted or kidnapped every year to Baoda, Cairo and other places. Of course, if the Mughal people had already come to the Eurasian and African steppes to sayhi, perhaps this lucrative human trafficking business would have driven the big food merchants to travel thousands of miles to go deep into the Mobei grassland to catch piglets.
The Mamulu people have now become the main military force of the Great Food Empire, they are highly disciplined, well-formed, and particularly outstanding in swordsmanship, and can slash a dangling date in the air when riding a horse, which has a clear advantage in melee combat. The new official has been in office for three fires, and Baibars has already proven his ability by repelling the crusaders at sea, and if he completes the great cause of recovering the Holy City, no one will dare to attack his slave origin again.
The men and horses under the two of you are not as good as the Mamu army, and there are more remnants of a small number of Yue, a large number of mercenaries recruited from North Africa, the upper Nile and other places, plus religious fanatics, but in the Ayyubid Dynasty, where the Ten Leaves sect is predominant, they can get a lot of support and morale if they declare war on the Crusaders and the Sunnai Dynasty.