Chapter 535: The Golden Horde

Grand Duchy of Moscow, Volga Valley, teleportation array of a large city, a female lord wearing a two-horned hat and a team of guards came to the city.

The noble lords of the Volga valley, the leaders of the Cossacks, have been waiting here for a long time.

They slept restlessly, and it was not until the Grand Duke arrived that they felt a little relieved.

The Grand Duke was still as unattainable as ever, but his words and deeds seemed extremely capable.

Numerous European lords and nobles tried to gain the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow through marriage, but all failed.

"Grand Duke Catherine of St. Petersburg, the Mongol cavalry that appeared in the lower reaches of the Volga has recently become more and more rampant, not only frequently expanding upstream, but also sending envoys demanding that we pay annual tribute to him and surrender our subjects as a servant army."

"Our allegiance is to you, the Grand Duke, who annually pays taxes and horses to St. Petersburg, and provides you with soldiers, and asks you to protect us from the slaughter of the barbarians."

A group of East Slavic nobles and Cossack nobles of the Grand Duchy of Moscow sought refuge in Catherine.

The Golden Horde had already appeared in the Volga Valley, conquering nearby tribes and growing in power.

Catherine, as the lord of St. Petersburg, the new Grand Duke of Moscow, was obliged to provide military asylum to her vassals.

If she is defeated, her majesty in the Grand Duchy of Moscow will be destroyed, and the Cossacks, as well as some of the Grand Duchy's nobility, may choose to defect to the Golden Horde to preserve their power and position.

The historical Golden Horde, when its territory was the most extensive, reached an area of 6 million square kilometers, when the predecessor of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Rus' principalities, paid tribute to the Golden Horde and became a vassal state of the Golden Horde.

Later, after the rise of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, it broke away from the control of the Golden Horde, and exacerbated the decline and demise of the Golden Horde.

It can be said that the Golden Horde and the Grand Duchy of Moscow were mortal enemies.

Based on the relationship between Catherine and Chutian, as well as the current delicate situation, the Mongol Empire controlled the four khanates, and Catherine and Chutian had common opponents.

"The strength of the Golden Horde, I have basically figured it out. Defend the Golden Horde, reorganize the army for war, and in August, directly destroy the Golden Horde. ”

Catherine's tone was cold.

In the minds of this group of nobles, she was the future empress of Tsarist Russia, and at the same time ruled the fate of tens of millions of people in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Catherine brought the heroes of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, as well as the captured heroes of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the heroes of the prisoners of war to deal with the threat from the Golden Horde.

"The Golden Horde had a huge elite cavalry, whose name was the 'Eldest Son Army', and the generals were the eldest sons of the Mongol major households, thousands of households, and hundreds of households, as well as the pseudo-cowardly Xue army established in imitation of Genghis Khan's cowardly Xue army. In the Golden Horde, the Mongol cavalry was only a minority, but the real majority were the Turks and Bolgars. ”

"Its kingdom is located in the city of Sarai in the lower reaches of the Volga River, as long as the city of Sarai is captured, the Golden Horde can be dismantled, and even the Golden Horde can be annexed, and our Grand Duchy will be strengthened."

Sophia, who served as an adjutant, provided Catherine with accurate intelligence.

The Golden Horde also had its own capital, which was distinguished from the Mongol Empire.

It was possible to consider the Golden Horde as part of the Mongol Empire, but later the Golden Horde became independent.

"Let's go meet the cavalry of the Golden Horde."

Catherine led a group of heroes, together with the Boyer cavalry, Cossack cavalry, and Polish hussars, to explore the reality of the Golden Horde.

In the third national war, she and Chutian once faced Temujin's cowardly Xue army head-on, and was almost succeeded by Temujin's cowardly Xue army head-on, but Catherine was still undaunted.

Since even Temujin's cavalry had seen it, it was not a big deal to face the Golden Horde, one of the four khanates controlled by the Mongol Empire.

A detachment of cavalry moved south along the Volga River and soon met the Turkic cavalry.

The Mongol cavalry of the Golden Horde was the main force, but most of the servant army was dominated by Turkic Kipchaks and Turkmens.

"Destroy them!"

Catherine drew her sword, and the cavalry that followed roared out, crushing the Turkic cavalry she encountered.

The Polish hussars, with their high mobility and defensive power, broke through the Turkic cavalry head-on.

The Turkic cavalry was not facing the weak Rus' principalities, but a Muscovy that was tending to be united, and the Grand Duchy was transforming into a Tsarist Empire, so it was easily routed by Catherine's cavalry.

Two legendary heroes of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Dmitry Donskoy (who defeated the 200,000 troops of the Golden Horde at the end of the period) and Alexander Nevsky, the hero of the Ice River (who defeated the Teutonic Knights), followed Catherine south.

Catherine also has heroes from other civilizations, and her status is equivalent to that of Joan of Arc, King Arthur, Artoria, Gil and other servant generals of the Chutian forces.

The cavalry led by this group of heroes once again routed a wandering Turkic cavalry and drove straight into the capital of the Golden Horde, Sarai.

"The Mongol cavalry has not yet appeared, they are the real whip of God, I have a bad premonition."

Catherine withdrew her sword and ordered the cavalry to retreat.

The Mongol cavalry was too adept at using tactics to lure the enemy into depth, and Catherine knew it well during the Third National War, so she smelled danger.

This time she personally ventured to the test, and Catherine only brought 30,000 elite cavalry.

"Khan, they didn't hit the scheme."

"They are more difficult to deal with than imagined, the eldest son army, and the cowardly Xue army, are already ready to attack."

Temujin's eldest son, Jochi, and Jochi's sons, Erda, Batu, Beerge, and others, were waiting for Catherine to enter the trap.

The wandering Turkic servant army was just a decoy set by Jochi and Batu, and once Catherine's cavalry went too deep, the real main force, the Golden Horde's eldest army, the pseudo-cowardly Xue army, would be dispatched to annihilate Catherine's cavalry, and even Catherine would become their prisoner.

But Catherine foresaw the danger in advance, only reconnoitred for two hundred miles, and then retreated.

A group of more capable Mongol generals, such as Jochi and Batu, led the cavalry in ambush to show off their might to the cavalry of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

The army of the eldest sons, the army of cowardice, this is a formidable legion.

After the failure of the Golden Horde's ambush, it flexed its force against the Grand Duchy of Moscow and forced it to submit.

Sophia saw the appearance of the Mongol cavalry in ambush, and Catherine's premonition of danger allowed them to escape: "This is the Golden Horde at its peak. ”

Catherine rode a war horse, and in front of the 30,000 cavalry, as well as the more than 100,000 Mongolian cavalry that appeared, she was not afraid: "This Golden Horde has surpassed the peak. Because when the Golden Horde was founded, Jochi should have been no longer alive. ”

The glacier hero Nevsky suggested to Catherina: "It is better to offer your possessions and exchange peace to the Golden Horde." ”

"Nevsky, appeasement cannot bring peace, only a strong force or a balance of strength can have peace."

Catherine was very unhappy with Nevsky's proposal to compromise with the Golden Horde.

Soon, Jochi sent envoys to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, demanding that the Grand Duchy of Moscow be a vassal to the Golden Horde, pay an annual tribute, and send his people to join the Golden Horde's vassal army.

At the same time, Jochi's second son, the true founder of the Golden Horde, Batu asked Catherine for a marriage, intending to annex the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the usual European way.

It is clear that both Jochi and Batu realized that the conquest of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was not as easy as imagined.

In "Lords", the current Grand Duchy of Moscow annexed part of the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with a population of about thirty or forty million, a state of total war, and a million troops were recruited.

The Golden Horde wanted to conquer the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and it was not easy.

If tens of millions of people could be obtained by marriage, the Golden Horde might surpass the Mongol Empire's Mobei mainstay......

The main body of the current Mongol Empire, not counting the four khanates, has a population of just over 10 million.

The population of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was already larger than that of the Mongol Empire.

The Golden Horde wanted to conquer the Grand Duchy of Moscow and gain hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of servants.

"Get out."

Catherine's expression was still cold, and she directly kicked the envoy sent by the Golden Horde.

With her 89 points of force, kicking an envoy is no problem.

She even had a child, and it was impossible for her to agree to Batu, who seemed to her to be a barbarian. Although the child's father is a scumbag, he is not responsible at all......

Catherine rejected the Golden Horde's Batu, and she was so angry that she officially issued an ultimatum to the Grand Duchy of Moscow to destroy the country.

Catherine probably tested the strength of the Golden Horde and began to send troops to the Volga.

The sworn enemies of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, civilizations such as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden had their own barbarians to suppress, so they could free up their legions in the border fortress and prepare for war with the Golden Horde.

Catherine was also angered by Jochi and Batu, and in order to keep her son's position as the future Grand Duke, she had to destroy the Golden Horde!

The Khorasan region of the Persian Empire had completely fallen into the territory of the Ilkhanate, and the fourth son of Genghis Khan, Temujin, came to the Khorasan region in person to join Hülegü. In addition to Hülegü, the descendants of Tuolei also include Meng Ge, Kublai Khan, Ali Buge, Pa Xuan and others.

Compared with the other descendants of Temujin, the lineup of the four sons of the Tuolei branch is more luxurious.

Among the sons of Temujin, Tuo Lei had the strongest military ability.

The descendants of the tow mine are quite strong in military capabilities.

Meng Ge, the fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, devoted himself to the elimination of the Southern Song Dynasty and Dali.

Kublai Khan, the fifth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, established the Yuan Dynasty (began to sinicize), and expeditions to Dongying, Annam, Champong, Java and other civilizations.

Hulegu, the de facto founder of the Ilkhanate, conquered Persia and destroyed the Arab Empire.

Ali Buge accused Kublai Khan of being sinicized and failed to compete with Kublai Khan for the throne.

The Persian Empire was in a state of flux because of the arrival of the descendants of the tow mines.

Among the sons of Tuolei, Hülegü was probably the most capable of military affairs. Tulei was also the best among the sons of Temujin.

This branch of Tuolei captured the Khorasan region of the Persian Empire, defeated 100,000 Persian troops, and one of the cities resisted stubbornly, and after being captured by Tuolei, it was slaughtered, and all players and civilians of the Persian Empire were shocked.

The Persians fled the areas occupied by the Ilkhanate, and some of the cities did not dare to resist and surrendered to the Ilkhanate.

The Persian Empire lost its eastern regions, and a group of Persian lords came to Ardashir, the first lord, in fear.

"The empire sent a detachment of Parthian heavy cavalry, as well as a large number of archers, but was defeated by the Mongol cavalry, which angered Tuolei. Tow Lei slaughtered the city, 700,000 people were killed. ”

"How can we be the opponents of Tow Mine with such ferocity and military talent?"

"If we lose, we will all be killed."

"If we choose appeasement, will they let us go?"

"Khorasan is our territory, and if we have to submit to them, we will not be able to face our Persian subjects."

"The Mongol cavalry has fought all the way to the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt, how can we resist it with just our Persian Empire?"

"It is better to join forces with the Arab Empire and the Mamluk dynasty to deal with the Ilkhanate. If our Persian Empire is conquered, the Arab Empire, and the Mamluks of Egypt, they will not be able to escape. ”

"The Arab Empire has always had a discordant relationship with us, and the last time the country joined forces in a national war was already unbearable."

While the lords of the Persian Empire were arguing, Ardashir, the first lord of the Persian Empire, came to the cavalry camp.

In the cavalry battalion, the most elite cavalry in the entire Persian Empire, the core of the steel torrent, is being recruited-the Holy Fall Cavalry!

The Holy Fall Cavalry of the Persian Empire is equivalent to the Cowardly Xue Army of the Mongol Empire and the Xuanjia Army of the Tang Empire!

"This will be the most powerful weapon against the Ilkhanate. Whoever invades Persia, no matter how powerful his kingdom may be, will eventually end up with a misfortune. ”

Ardashir's eyes were fanatical, for he felt the same ferventness in the eyes of the Saintfall Cavalry.

A group of fanatical Yellow Turban soldiers and Arab Imperial soldiers have already given countless people a headache, but the Holy Fall Cavalry is a group of fanatical high-level armored heavy cavalry, which is the hole card he uses to deal with Tuolei, Hulegu, Meng Ge, and Kublai Khan.