Chapter 673: Tsar's Guard (Supplementary Noon)
"Destroy the Polish hussars!"
The Mongol cavalry in the east and the Polish hussars in the west fought in the field, and the Polish hussars formed a forest of spears in rows and suddenly killed hundreds of Mongol cavalry!
The Mongolian cavalry used the Mongolian bow, Zhang Xian shot at the Polish hussars, and the arrows broke through the air and fell, and from time to time the Polish hussars fell from their horses!
The Polish hussar general BΓ‘toli broke into the Mongolian cavalry three times in a row, was hit by two arrows, and led the Polish hussars to charge back and forth, and the Mongolian cavalry who fell under the iron hooves of her Polish hussars were more than 10,000 people!
The Polish hussars suffered a lot of casualties in the battle, and the number of dead cavalry exceeded 3,000!
These Polish hussars, they are elite high-level cavalry, expensive to build, but they are treated as consumables, and they die in the battle, and the fate of ordinary cavalry is almost exactly the same!
Behind Subutai, Ulianghetai, and Jebe, Temujin continued to invest a large number of servant armies of the Golden Horde, and the middle army of Catherine was consumed, and batches of servant armies, driven by thousands and hundreds of Mongol households, used as cannon fodder to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, shouting and killing to make the surface of the Don River tremble!
Under the frantic offensive of Temujin and Subutai, Catherine's various corps suffered heavy losses.
Catherina, like the other big lords, had an organization similar to the legions, and one by one the legions went up one after another to block the assault of Subutai, and each legion went up, and it didn't take long for them to be defeated by the cavalry of Subutai.
The cavalry of Subutai, superimposed on the aura of the whole army of the three heroes of the Mongol Empire, the more you fight, the more courageous you become!
A nobleman of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, armed with a two-handed sword, led an infantry from the city of Ryazan into battle with the Mongol cavalry of Ulianghetai.
He had already been hit by five arrows and had several cracks in his breastplate.
Dressed in iron armor, the Uliang Hetai galloped in, and the spear pierced through the nobleman's armor from behind, nailing him to the ground!
"Grand Duke Ryazan, die in battle!"
"General Mikhail was killed in battle!"
"Count Bathory is wounded!"
"There is only one General Harald left in the Varangian Guard!"
"The Polish hussars lost more than thirty percent!"
One bad news after another reached Catherine, who was located under the banner of the Grand Duke of Moscow, and she paid a great price to fend off the fierce Mongol cavalry.
At the peak of the Mongol Empire, there were not many civilizations that could compete with it in the field of cavalry, and the princes of the Han Empire used the troops of three northern princes and one southern prince in order to increase the chance of victory.
And now, Catherine is alone against the remnants of the Mongol Empire and the Golden Horde, and the pressure can be imagined.
If Chutian hadn't arrived, she wouldn't even dare to take the initiative to break out a decisive battle with Temujin in the Don River Valley.
Sure enough, despite the fact that they managed to gain terrain advantage, under the attack of Temujin at all costs, the losses of the various corps of the Grand Duchy of Moscow were considerable, and one Grand Duke was killed.
"Your Highness, the Mongol cavalry is coming towards your banner, we should retreat and avoid the Mongol cavalry for the time being......"
Many of the nobles who participated in the war heard that the Grand Duke of Ryazan had been killed, and when they saw the menacing attack of Subutai, they were timid and wanted to retreat and end this dangerous battle.
The direction of the assault at Subutai was clearly Catherine's position, where she had a double-headed eagle banner and commanded the advance and retreat of the various corps.
"No one shall retreat!"
Catherine looked at the time, it was already noon, and the two warring sides were constantly rotating their forces to maintain their strength.
"Noon......" Temujin was also observing the direction of the shadow, "order the cavalry of Wuliang Hetai to stop attacking, Chilaowen and Timur, you lead the cowardly Xue army and capture the battle banner of the Grand Duchy of Moscow!" β
"The Great Khan has an order, please lead the cavalry to retreat, and the cowardly Xue army will go into battle!"
After a long battle between the Uliang Hetai and the Polish hussars of Bathory, they received an order from Temujin, and without the slightest hesitation, they decisively chose to withdraw their troops and hand over the battlefield to the heroic and warlike Xue army!
"Timur, this battle is related to the life and death of the Golden Horde, and the prestige of the Great Khan, you don't have to be cowardly on the spot, because in this battle, you and I may die in battle."
Chi Lao Wen took a spear, the edge of the spear was extremely sharp, and the cold light flowed.
"I, Timur, will not die easily until I do something great."
Timur also put on a spear as a weapon.
Five thousand cowardly Xue troops have become the absolute force of the main force of the assault on Catherine!
In a narrow battlefield, a small number of high-level cavalry can concentrate their forces and destroy the opponent in one fell swoop.
The Mongol cavalry of Wuliang Hetai retreated, and Chilao Wen and Timur commanded the cowardly Xue army, and after the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was tired, they launched a decisive attack!
"Cowardly Xue Jun! The Mongols threw themselves into the cowardly Xue army! β
When the Cowardly Xue Army appeared on the battlefield, almost all the officers and soldiers of the Grand Duchy of Moscow who witnessed the well-equipped Cowardly Xue Army realized that the Cowardly Xue Army in front of them was not an ordinary Mongolian iron cavalry, but an elite division among the Mongolian iron cavalry!
"Step through the enemy formation, cowardly Xue Jun, and move forward!"
Timur launched a rapid attack, led the cavalry of the cowardly army of his headquarters, and rushed into the main army of Catherine!
The more afraid you are of death, the easier it is to die!
"I didn't expect this cripple to have a little guts, how can we fall behind!"
Chi Lao Wen, as a fierce general under Temujin, was a charging general, and when he saw the cripple Timur attacking in front of him, he was not to be outdone and immediately followed up!
The cowardly Xue army advanced suddenly, resulting in a large number of casualties of the Polish hussars, who had already exhausted their physical strength, and the army then collapsed!
The rest of the Mongolian cavalry and servant army followed the cowardly Xue army to advance, and the cowardly Xue army forcibly opened the passage!
Along the way, tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry were killed, stray arrows were splashed, and more generals and soldiers were trampled by the iron hooves of the cowardly Xue army!
"Back for now."
When Catherine found out that Temujin had finally thrown in the main force of the cowardly army to attack the Grand Duchy of Moscow, she changed her attitude and chose to retreat, leaving behind the commander's banner.
The cowardly Xue army was like a bamboo, breaking through the middle of Catherina's main army and taking the banner directly!
Catherine had already retreated early, leaving behind a small group of soldiers guarding the marshal flag.
"She fled!"
Timur held the spear and fought to the death, blood flowed down the helmet, at the expense of part of the cowardly Xue army, he wanted to kill Catherine and win the battle, but Catherine learned that the cowardly Xue army was dispatched, and immediately chose to leave the position of Shuai Qi and move to the rear.
The defense line of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was still holding out, and the two sides were tug-of-war.
"Defeat them once and for all!"
Angry Timur and Chi Lao Wen, who failed in their surprise attack on Catherine, turned the goal into a complete defeat of the defense line of the Grand Duchy of Moscow!
The cowardly Xue army is still breaking through, if it weren't for the sufficient depth of Catherine's deployment, maybe the cowardly Xue army would have cut through the main army formation of the Grand Duchy of Moscow!
The Varangian Guards and the Polish hussars fought with Subutai for a long time, and almost all the troops were wiped out, with tens of thousands of casualties among the low-ranking troops, and the morale of the army was shaken.
However, the Boyer cavalry of the nobles of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, this group of characteristic troops of the Rus' civilization, entered the battle in time to block the attack of the cowardly Xue army!
High-level troops that are usually reluctant to use are consumed at any cost.
A large number of Poye cavalry entered the battle, and with the advantage of numbers, they barely blocked the cowardly Xue army from continuing to advance.
The two sides again fell into a stalemate tug-of-war, the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow remained at a disadvantage, and the Boyer cavalry began to die.
"Use the Tsar Guard!"
After Temujin used the cowardly army, Catherine did not reserve and sent reserves!
A group of high-ranking cavalry that is more elite than the Poye cavalry appeared, this group of cavalry is equipped with the best horses of Catherine's power, the most expensive equipment, and also has the most powerful combat power!
The cavalry of the Tsar's Guard appeared on the battlefield, and the morale of the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow rose because of the arrival of this legion!
This is a special effect of the Tsar Guard!
The cavalry of the Tsar's Guard became the core of the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, leading the Boyer cavalry of the Grand Duchy of Moscow to successfully block the cowardly army!
"What kind of cavalry is this, how come it's never fought before?!"
Timur was shocked when he saw that the well-equipped cavalry of the Tsar's Guards could actually block the cowardly Xue army.
Like the Persian Empire's Saintfall cavalry, the Grand Duchy of Moscow had its own elite of boxes.
The Tsar Guard pulled out a straight blade, a straight sword that was enough to pierce the armor of the enemy horseman, possessing powerful penetrating power, and could even penetrate the armor of the cowardly Xue army and kill it!
The Tsar's Guard, which is directly applicable to Catherine's bonus, is not comparable to ordinary high-level cavalry!
In addition to the elite cavalry, the arquebus squad of the Tsar's Guards, was responsible for protecting Catherine.
The arquebus squad had a serious expression, and they were capable of dealing head-on with the vast majority of cavalry charging at them.
Catherine looked indifferently at this big battle, the Tsar's Guards and the Poye Cavalry, unlike the Varangian Guard, Polish Hussars and other servant armies, these were the Grand Duchy of Moscow's own troops, and they were also the foundation of her fortune.
"Dmitry's army on the left should have been defeated. I have given you a chance. β
Catherine had already anticipated that the Dmitry corps, which was mostly recruits, was simply not able to withstand the enemy on the opposite side.
On the left, Dmitry of the Don, the poor hero of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, who did not yet know that he had become a decoy, was wounded by random arrows while fighting stubbornly, 100,000 soldiers and horses, and under the attack of the main forces of the Golden Horde, there were as many as 20,000 or 30,000 killed!
He tried his best to control the legions that were beginning to get bogged down, but Jochi and his son Belgo ordered a small force of cavalry to storm the flat ground between the swamps and quickly break through Dmitry's legions!
With Dmitry wounded, his legions had to retreat, and Jochi, with a large army dominated by horseback cavalry, defeated Dmitry on the Don.
"This army is much weaker than the army on the front, and it seems that even the most powerful heroes are powerless. Brother Fare, you go after the defeated enemy army, and I will attack the enemy's middle army! β
After the defeat of Dmitry's army, Jochi let his son, the brother of the Golden Horde, continue to defeat Dmitry, and personally commanded the main force of the Golden Horde, attacking Catherine's middle army from the left flank, and the Mongol cavalry turned sharply like a wave, cooperating with the cowardly army to flank Catherine!
"Jochi has made a breakthrough, two pinching blows, Catherine will definitely be defeated!"
What Temujin did not expect was that he tried his best to accumulate troops in the middle of the battlefield, and more than 60,000 troops were killed, and he could not make a breakthrough, while Jochi attacked the army on the left, but achieved unexpected results.
Catherine's situation is very precarious.