But will Temujin give him 40 years?

Yesterday, March 21, 1105 A.D., the Norman spy brought the latest news about this old but still ambitious Mongol man, a total of 200,000 Mongol cavalry, and hundreds of thousands of troops from the Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, and other nomadic tribes of Central Asia, as well as the land they conquered, millions of servants, who invaded the territory of the Timurid Khanate like hungry wolves, Timur Khan, this poor fellow who also bears the name of conqueror brave, And stupidly chose to take the initiative, hoping to win a field battle, of course, the final result was very miserable, Timur's side was defeated, more than 200,000 soldiers of the Central Asian Empire were killed, the corpses were built into a landscape, the river was dyed red, Timur luckily escaped the pursuit of the Mongol cavalry, and fled all the way south to Abahad, a city located at the mouth of the Murghab River, the largest city on the border of the Timurid Khanate, the capital of the Timurid Khanate, and one of the most important trading centers in the entire Middle Eastand, as Temujin said, fell into the hands of the Mongols.

Fortunately, because Timur chose to fight in the field rather than defend the city, when he failed to retreat, the inhabitants of Marand did not choose to continue to resist, but surrendered the city, offering a large amount of gold and tribute, which made Temujin generously not choose to slaughter the city.

However, the small plundering and killing and rape of the Mongol cavalry in private were inevitable, and after this the Wu'er merchants, the first of those who submitted to the Mongol Empire, happily took over the vast majority of the rights of this commercial center, and obtained the city, and the wealth that it brings, the Mongols were not satisfied, and withdrew the riches of Marham, fountains, marble buildings, gardens, palaces, mosques,

All this was like a dream, and the cities built by all the skilled craftsmen, all the best building materials and treasures that the Timurid Khanate could find, only made the Mongols even more impatient, and these treasures stimulated them to want more.

The Great Khan of Mongolia roared again, as he had said on the banks of the Hannan River.

"Our goal this time is to completely destroy the Timurid Khanate! Conquer it all! Plunder everything! ”

The soldiers of the Mongol Empire cheered and accepted the orders of the Great Khan.

"Miserable! It's miserable! Will Timur's goods work? I can count on that guy to be my shield. ”

Because of the unexpected ferocity of the Mongol Empire, or the unexpected ineffectiveness of the Timurid Khanate, Randy felt a very great sense of oppression, and under the full speed of his brain, he came up with a poisonous plan.

"To annihilate the entire Cuman invading army, at least the vast majority must be killed."

Randy turned around and walked briskly to the operations room, nodding to the soldiers stationed there, and then looking at the strategic sand table in the conference room.

"Very well, such a strategy should work, I'm going to trap all those guys around Moscow."

In the next few days, the Norman Hussars began to get busy, they wanted to drag each other's footsteps when Randy carried out this battle plan, a total of three legions of Norman light cavalry, two thousand Celtic light cavalry, they were hundreds of people, day and night around the Cumans and centaurs whistle, at the first opportunity to pounce on the arrows and then ride away from the horses, more nomadic than the nomads, if anyone is not convinced to catch up, it is definitely a meat bun to beat the dog, there is no return.

The Norman hussars harassed the Cumans day and night, which made the Cumans more and more unconfident in the war, and the casualties gradually became larger and larger, the other side did not have a well-established and seemingly impregnable defensive base like the Normans, and their camps were usually bare and vulnerable, and the Norman hussars could easily carry out a surprise attack.

This situation lasted for nearly two months, during which the Cumans could not stand it and launched an attack on the Norman army camp, but the final result was very miserable, 30,000 Cumans and centaurs who launched an attack did not reach the edge of the Norman camp, they were blocked by a large number of horse pits, traps, trenches, and the Norman army camp was immediately alarmed, and the Norman soldiers who reacted quickly immediately took their places, manipulating crossbow machines, catapults, bows and arrows, The large and small stones and the large crossbow arrows used by the city defense crossbows shot together, beating the Cumans into a daze, the gates on both sides of the barracks opened, and a large number of hussars circled the figure-eight, picking a path from the outer defensive circle, and came out to attack the dazed and extremely confused Cumans.

The turning point of the war was in April......

When the Norman attack reached a heinous point, the Cumans had lost nearly 10,000 soldiers because of this tactic, and the Norman soldiers had calmly entered Moscow when they were overwhelmed, bringing with them a large amount of supplies and fortifying the city defenses, and the Norman baggage soldiers and Norman engineers, skillfully and skillfully mixing glutinous rice juice, marl and clay, carrying stones and hardwoods, soon repaired several gaps that had been broken in the siege, even stronger than the previous Moscow itself.

"At least, what the Normans said was to help us build the walls and defenses, that can be believed." Catherine II, who was rejoicing in suffering, comforted herself in this way, after reluctantly signing an agreement with the Normans, Catherine II quickly stabilized her mind, like all mature and sophisticated politicians, her attitude took a 180-degree turn, and she began to take the initiative to get closer to the Normans, and at the same time began to think about how to extract the maximum benefits from the Normans.

Today's Moscow is as stable as a mountain, after repelling several Cuman attacks in succession, the Muscovites began to make sure that they were safe, and it proved to be a good idea to defect to the Norman Empire, in the eyes of the Normans, who were prosperous in civilization, scientific progress, and especially in military technology, the inferior engineering skills of these steppe nomads were not worth mentioning at all.

It is worth mentioning the new weapons used by the Norman Empire, the most eye-catching props in this defensive battle, those that look extraordinarily inconspicuous, made of sealed clay pots in the classical style of heavenly flame incendiary bombs, and the black powder iron cannons mixed with iron sand and iron sheets, forged from cast iron, the grenadiers holding these incendiary and explosives showed their might in the defense of the city, throwing incendiary bombs and iron cannons in dense places where several enemies gathered, in the explosion of distance and the fire in the sky, Hundreds of Cumans screamed to death, burned to ashes, or pierced through their bodies by patches splattered by the explosion.

The Cumans finally couldn't hold it anymore......

"Those centaurs are at ease, watching us fight to the death all day long."

"Don't do it, go home!"

"Really, Lao Tzu didn't want to fight for a long time, grabbed enough cattle and sheep, and didn't find a place to raise them well, but they all had to be lost."

However, the centaur Khan Ayujie did not want to withdraw his army because his daughter Printhia had not returned, and tried his best to dissuade the Cumans, hoping that they would hold on a little longer.

"If we leave like this, the other side will definitely catch up and attack us behind the back, and we will have a great chance of defeat, the other side has very strong combat effectiveness and excellent organization of light cavalry, and we have to return with our booty, these cattle, sheep, livestock and gold and silver treasures greatly limit our mobility."

"What are we supposed to do, Khan? Anyway, I'm not going to do it when I'm besieging the city. A Cuman leader next to him interrupted Ayujie's words and asked loudly.

Ayujie Khan was very self-contained, and he was not angry because of the other party's rudeness, and smiled slightly: "Of course! Of course! As I am about to come to this point, in fact, I have already thought of three countermeasures, and no matter which one of them is implemented, it can change the situation we are in. ”

"Oh? Then you say! ”

"First of all, the best policy, the reason why it is the best policy, because it can preserve our strength to the greatest extent, perhaps the vast majority of people will not agree, I hope that our army can quickly get rid of this kind of battle, lightly armed, and return with only a small amount of the most precious trophies that can be carried with us, so that we can recover our greatest advantage, speed, turn around, whether it is retreating or continuing to fight the enemy on the steppe, we can be at ease, as long as we can continue to defeat each other, Then the loot will remain ours. ”

The centaurs and the leaders of the Cumans shook their heads and waved their hands, rejecting such a strategy, although this was indeed a good way to change the situation of the war, but when they heard that all the spoils of war were to be discarded, these short-sighted nomadic leaders were immediately frightened, and said: "How can this be done, this is something we have snatched with our lives, and we must not drop it, not even a needle and thread." ”

"The middle strategy is that we feign a retreat, march at a regular speed, let a small number of troops go first with baggage and booty, and the main force follows behind, if the other party does not pursue it, forget it, if it is chased, our main force will give him a head-on blow."

This method sounds pretty good, the most important thing for the Cumans and Centaurs is that they don't have to throw away the spoils, most of the Cumans and Centaurs nodded their heads, thinking that this method could be tried, but some people remember that Ayujie had three ideas, so someone urged him to say the last one.

"The next step...... We all know that the people of Journey to the West have a tradition of making an appointment to fight, and we can submit war letters to them and agree on the time of battle, so as to lure them into a head-on battle. ”

Most of the leaders didn't agree with this idea and fought head-on......

I have already fought with the Celtic army once, even if this kind of battle is won, the final result will be heavy losses, strength is everything in the grassland, how many tents there are for the people who work for themselves, so as to seize the pasture, grab cattle and sheep, the Cumans are not united, but they will not carry out this kind of hard-fought war.

Seeing that the minotaur chiefs did not speak, Ayujie Khan smiled slightly and said, "Then let's implement the middle strategy!" Tell me to go down and get ready to leave."

Oirat's centaur Khan is indeed resourceful, and the three strategies, no matter how good or bad they are, can change the current form of the entire battlefield, as he said, but unfortunately his opponent Randy does not seem to want to give him a chance to show his talents.

After the discussion, the hundreds of thousands of troops spent nearly half a month to pack up their booty, loaded carts and herds, almost gnawed the pasture of cattle and sheep under the escort of about 10,000 small troops to leave first, the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops followed, scouts armed with bows and arrows scattered around the main force, strictly ordered that the enemy was absolutely not allowed to pass, but not allowed to pursue.

On April 30, 1105 A.D., the battle in Eastern Europe was coming to an end.

The first to notice that something was wrong was the scouts at the forefront, two hundred troops from various Cuman tribes and centaur warriors, these soldiers who were responsible for patrolling and exploring, looking at the sun in the sky, observing the geographical coordinates on the ground, carefully advancing a little south-east, that is, the steppe area where the Cumans and the Centaur tribes gathered, and the area around Kazan.

They soon discovered that there was a large wooden fort in front of them, which was guarded by a trench, a trap, a wooden fence, a large shooting platform, a catapult, a ballista, a ballista, just like the one they had seen near Moscow, a newly built barracks of the Norman army.

"What's going on? Have we taken the wrong path? The soldiers looked at each other in disbelief, knowing that they were not dreaming, so they sent some of them to the main force to report to them, while the rest divided into two groups, hoping to bypass the fortification, which seemed to be quite large and far in sight.

In one day, the main force of the coalition army received more than a dozen reports that the soldiers were cutting off the way of advance by several large wooden forts not far from the Normans, and the Cumans and centaurs were in an uproar, and the faces of Ayujie Khan were even more suspicious.

For nearly two months when the Norman hussars were harassing each other, the Norman soldiers, whether they were baggage soldiers, engineers, infantry, archers, or even under Randy's forcible orders, those knights had to condescend to join the ranks as carpenters, masons, or even the most basic coolies.

In the past two months, 80,000 Norman infantry and heavy cavalry, as well as 100,000 baggage soldiers and engineers, along the completely uncovered terrain of hundreds of kilometers outside Moscow, diverted the Volga River in the north and the Oka River in the south, breached the river and flooded it into a swamp.

(End of chapter)