In fact, the tenth episode approaching the hinterland of South Russia is compared with the main force of Manchuria back then, because of the lack of many long-term training professional elites, the combat effectiveness may be lower, let alone compared with the elite main force of the volunteer army. When using a longbow with about one stone, it is not possible to do it, like the main archer of the volunteer army, and even if you use a strong bow with one stone, two or three buckets, it is not too limited in terms of physical strength.

When the arrows were opened at an average of six volleys per minute, they couldn't be too accurate, and the ten arrows were eliminated and effectively resisted, and the effective hits were less than one. However, when the attack begins to overwhelm those rudimentary armor, it can effectively bring a threshold effect, killing and injuring nearly 10,000 enemy cavalry rushing at close range in a short period of time.

When the momentum of concentrated elite attacks collapsed, the tide of battle began to turn. Many of the "mounted infantrymen" of the tenth episode also began to mount their horses at this time and launched an effective outflank from both flanks. Although the horse's riding skills were far inferior to those of the opponent, and the arrows were also affected by the full force of the horse, the impact of firing the bow and arrows when moving at a low walking speed was not as great as expected, and soon the initiative on the battlefield began to change hands.

In particular, the archers who launched a counterattack on both flanks were selected to be more talented, from courage to training. The local servant army selected from the area of the river in the team did not have much weakness in horsemanship, and effectively played the role of reaping the results after achieving a clear victory on the front line.

Although taking advantage of the overall cavalry power, the main force of the Eastern European coalition army finally got out of the crisis, but the casualties and losses under the fierce blow reached nearly 20,000 people, and the original 70,000 or 80,000 obviously superior forces did not seem to have as much as an advantage, and the situation suddenly became passive.

After realizing that the nature of the reinforcements from the east this time seemed to be somewhat different from the previous ones, the Eastern European coalition forces did not linger and hesitate for too long, and finally could only make the decision to concentrate their forces to garrison the capital and key areas. This is especially true after many people have seen the advantages of the defending side in this era in the reinforcement operations in Western Europe.

If the Polish-Lithuanian Federation or Russia at this time was the Xiongnu or even the Liao State, or just a country like Jianzhou, it might not have made such a choice, and it was more likely that tribes or ethnic groups were the core to carry out scattered guerrilla warfare in the Eastern European steppe. However, Eastern Europe at this time was different even from a hundred years ago, except for a few Cossacks, neither the Polish-Lithuanian Federation nor the Russian upper echelons could give up too many interests, especially the ability of the craftsmen who were becoming more and more important in the war of this era to concentrate their labor and divide labor. These advances also determined that the repacification of Eastern Europe would not have to come at the price it would envision.

Although Russia at this time could still be regarded as a vast country, at least within the scope of several provinces in the interior of the Central Plains, it did not take too long for the army to regain its grip on Moscow and even the Smolensk area.

Just when the defenders were expecting to be able to use the fortifications they had just captured to strike hard at the opponent in the defense and even finally turn the tide of the battle, the nearly 100,000 troops in the ninth and tenth episodes that had been reinforced did not immediately launch a strong attack as the enemy wanted, and when the firearms and ammunition were insufficient, they had to choose to build the outer encirclement fortifications as the main operation, and only in this way could they free up enough troops to form a raiding team to reconquer the place and establish order.

Feeling the great pressure, the Eastern European coalition forces did not hesitate for long, and launched a fierce counterattack when the besieging army had just begun to work on the fortifications. In this situation, the mobility benefits of sufficient horses were finally manifested, and often the defenders concentrated the elite main forces, and in a short time when a breakthrough seemed to be achieved in one direction, reinforcements were drawn in the other directions to plug the gap within about a quarter of an hour. Effective night combat training also allows the besieging army to have this ability to fight at night.

It took several days of fierce fighting to finally subside, and the remnants of Eastern Europe, who had suffered heavy casualties, could only hope that the resistance forces elsewhere in Europe would finally turn around and improve the situation.

What the Eastern European coalition forces did not expect at this time was that after several months of purging and fighting, the German Central Europe region was quickly quelled because of the vitality of the Thirty Years' War. The main forces of the Catholic coalition in Western Europe retreated in the direction of the Apennine Peninsula and in Spain.

The troops stationed in Europe, which had regained sufficient strength, also began to gradually aim at the Apennine Peninsula at this time to launch a counteroffensive, and the Western Route Group, which was composed of episodes 1 to 4, relaunched an attack on the Spanish region, with as many as 120,000 troops, and re-received supplies of firearms, gunpowder and even horses in the south of France, and its strength increased greatly. The forces in the direction of pacifying the Apennine Peninsula were slightly weaker, and at about the same time, the remaining forces on the British Isles increased from more than 10,000 to about 20,000 men, and began to be able to organize a decent counteroffensive against the localities.

In the autumn and winter of the ninth year of Chongzhen, with the arrival of large-scale reinforcements, the struggle for control of the European continent also brought a new round of war climax, and the army strategy in the attack was also different from the past, and obvious changes were launched. Wherever they encountered a relatively strong resistance, they launched fierce retaliation and even organized purges in the local areas according to the ratio of their own losses of 1 to 200, and it was this harsh policy that caused the resistance in many areas, including France and the German states, which had begun to resurge, to wither in just a few months.

Of course, both Zhou Dayong and Chen Xin also knew that both Britain and Spain still had a sizable base in the New World, which was different from other regions, so they were extremely cautious in the use of troops to avoid major defeats.

When marching into the army, Chen Xin also warned the officers and generals at all levels below: The battle situation in the western part of Taixi has improved significantly, in fact, the most obvious battle is the blasting attack of reinforcements near the Xihe barrier. This is not the first time that the enemy has encountered such a threat, and the ability to learn fairly well in previous battles has also been demonstrated. Therefore, in future operations, regardless of whether the enemy has such a capability or not, our army must pay attention to preparing for explosive attacks in the course of offensive operations, and the decisive battle should be fought during the day rather than at night, when the danger is greater.

(End of chapter)