Chapter 674: Counterattack (I)

"Chu Zimou's cavalry swept the villages and towns around Sarai City......"

Batu, who remained behind in the Golden Horde's city of Sarai, led a cavalry patrol around the perimeter, and he finally realized that something was wrong.

The Han cavalry mentioned in the 50,000 intelligence did not directly attack the city of Sarai, but were looting villages and towns everywhere.

The Cossack cavalry, knowing that it was impossible to capture the city of Sarai with their own abilities, relapsed into the old problem of horse thieves and plundered the cities and villages of the Golden Horde.

Chutian's task to Yermak, the leader of the Don Cossacks, was to delay the large army that remained in the Golden Horde and to make a tendency to attack the city of Sarai.

In addition, Chutian did not ask for 50,000 Cossack cavalry to capture the city of Sarai.

In fact, the Cossack cavalry did not have such capabilities.

Yermak, who realized this, seemed to understand Chu Tian's intentions, and did not take the initiative to attack Sarai City, but indulged his subordinates to burn, kill and loot, and create trouble for Batu.

Yermak's little trick did give the Golden Horde a false impression that the Han army was about to attack the city of Sarai, and the people were panicked.

However, Batu was a legendary hero of the Golden Horde, patrolling the periphery, especially when he reached the village after the Cossack cavalry had sacked it, and quickly noticed the clues.

"According to the survivors of the village, the cavalry that attacked the village looked very different from us, and we were so similar to the cavalry of the Han Empire that it was almost impossible to tell the difference. Therefore, it is very likely that this cavalry is not Chu Zimou's cavalry, and it may also be a servant army...... Is it ......?"

Batu looked at the messy village, if it was Chu Tian's cavalry, it would not have destroyed a good village to such an extent.

"Could it be that this is a suspicious soldier?!"

Batu suddenly understood, and a cold sweat broke out behind his back.

The War Eagle of the Iron Eagle Scout appeared in the vicinity of Sarai City, making Batu subconsciously think that it was the arrival of Chutian's cavalry.

It was only when he came to investigate and noticed the clues that Batu realized that his previous subconscious judgment was wrong.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing!

"Immediately inform the Great Khan that Chu Zimou's cavalry did not attack Sarai City! According to the description of the sacked tribes, 50,000 cavalry, most likely, the Cossacks who have not been very willing to submit to us! ”

Frightened by his judgment, Badu immediately managed to inform Temujin, who was fighting a decisive battle on the Don River.

Temujin could only use relatively primitive means to let Temujin know that the traces of Chutian's cavalry were not actually detected by the Golden Horde.

The attack on the city of Sarai was, in Batu's opinion, only a dispensable Cossack cavalry. The Cossack cavalry could not have taken the city of Sarai, so there was no such great threat as they had imagined.

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On the battlefield on the left bank of the Don River, Temujin did not know that the cavalry that threatened the city of Sarai was not the army commanded by Chutian himself, but the Cossack cavalry living in the Don and Volga valleys.

The battle was very fierce, Catherine exhausted a large number of elite regiments, Varangian Guards, Polish hussars, Poye cavalry, and even the Tsar's Guards were sent to the battlefield, and a large number of elite regiments were lost, so that the breakthrough of the Cowardly army was not so smooth.

The stubborn resistance of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was unexpected by Temujin.

According to Temujin's judgment, even if he could win the final victory in this battle, he would lose a large number of elite divisions.

As for the promise to Attila to send 500,000 cavalry to help him defeat Alexander, Temujin was not sure whether he would be able to send reinforcements to Attila as promised after the terrible battle. His losses were simply too great.

However, it is necessary to defeat Catherine first in order to be equal to Attila.

The Jochi corps made a breakthrough from the left flank and completely opened up the situation, and Catherina's main forces were suppressed by two lines of troops and horses and were forced to retreat back.

"I personally led the cavalry and completely destroyed the enemy army!"

"Order Jochi, send a cavalry, completely cut through the left army, attack Catherine from the rear, completely defeat Catherine and crush her army!"

Temujin was keenly aware that this was an opportunity to completely destroy Catherine's army, and he attempted to completely annihilate Catherine's new army on the left bank of the Don River and completely occupy the Grand Duchy of Moscow!

Temujin's commander, Lewu and Kublai, two important generals, personally went to the front and assaulted with cavalry!

After the defeat of the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, they retreated again and again.

The Nevsky Corps, located on the right flank, on the glacier, took advantage of the favorable terrain to hold on to it under the offensive of Muhuali, and was never captured by Muhuali.

He sent scout cavalry to contact the Chinese army, and he had learned that Catherine's Chinese army was retreating, and if it weren't for the Tsar's Guards and Boyer's cavalry desperately defending, perhaps her army would have been defeated.

"I can divide a force of 20,000 to 50,000 people to support the Chinese army. The terrain here is in our favor, and I can hold on for a while. ”

The glacier's Nevsky, who blocked Mu Huali, knew that the Chinese army had collapsed, and was so anxious that he decided to risk being broken by Mu Huali and divide his troops to support his lord.

If Catherine's central army is defeated, then how hard he holds on the right will not help!

After all, Catherine is the core figure of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and if she is suddenly killed by the cowardly army, the Grand Duchy of Moscow will collapse, and it will be just in an instant.

"His Royal Highness the Grand Duke asks the general to stick to the right side, not to leave without permission, and without support!"

As Nevsky prepared reinforcements to support Catherine, he received an almost unbelievable order, which Denied his request to send reinforcements and instead asked him to guard the dangerous position on his right.

In Nevsky's opinion, Catherine will have to turn the tables on her own.

"So far, I can only choose to believe in His Royal Highness the Grand Duke."

Nevsky also had to believe that Catherine was capable of turning the tables, because he knew that even if he sent reinforcements of twenty or thirty thousand people, under the offensive of Temujin's cavalry, they would be overwhelmed by the sea of cavalry in an instant!

The cavalry of Temujin and Subutai are so terrible that only a small number of elites can compete with them!

Nevsky's transfer of the elite will not be able to defend against Muhuali's Tanmachi's offensive.

"In any case, Your Highness the Grand Duke, you must win! The number of people killed in this battle may exceed 100,000! Nevsky, by order of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, will definitely defend the right flank! ”

Nevsky drew his saber and swore an oath in the direction where Ekaterina was.

The Tsar's Guards and the Boya cavalry retreated to the rear while engaging the pursuing Mongol cavalry, while the cavalry of Berge, according to Temujin's instructions, after attacking several charges, finally chiseled through the defeated Dmitry's corps and appeared in the rear of Catherina's main army to contain it!

The Mongol cavalry was surrounded on three sides by the main force of Catherine, sandwiched between the defeated Dmitry's corps.

The militia of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was still fighting fiercely against the Mongol cavalry, but the defeat of Dmitry's corps, the lack of effective command, and the militancy and bravery of the individual were extremely limited in the brutal and narrow battlefield!

The feudal nobles of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, who accompanied the army to war, watched the situation deteriorate step by step, and everyone turned pale. Even if the Tsar's Guard was strong and the rest of the legions supported the situation, the Tsarist Guard was unable to support itself, and in the face of an offensive from three directions, the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was likely to be completely annihilated!

"It's not time yet...... Keep retreating! ”

Catherine repeatedly demanded that the army, while maintaining the battle with the Mongol cavalry, retreat and engage the Mongol cavalry.

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After the retreat of Dmitry's legion, the Chutian legion, which was originally located in the jungle behind Dmitry's side, became the front line, and Belge's cavalry even passed by the edge of the woods for a time, busy chasing the infantry of Dmitry's legion, not noticing that the jungle in the fog hid unexpected dangers.

"Lord, Miss Ye has failed, we can go to support."

Xue Rengui was holding Fang Tian's halberd in his right hand, and when he heard the shouts of killing outside, the sound of the hooves of the Mongolian cavalry swept by outside, and he was already gearing up.

"First of all, Catherine was not defeated, but really defeated. Secondly, now is not the time. ”

Chu Tian had no intention of sending troops.

He was waiting for Temujin's main cavalry to pass by, exposing his flanks.

Catherine was the same as Chu Tian had guessed, her army could not defeat Temujin, and could only barely withstand Temujin's cavalry offensive.

The main army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was defeated, although there was an element of arrangement, but because of the strong cavalry of Temujin and Subutai, the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was defeated, and there was no sign of deceit.

The Mongol cavalry drove straight in, and Temujin had already personally killed the enemy, showing the world the terrible Genghis Khan, and his cavalry inflicted heavy losses on the broken Tsar's Guards and the Boya cavalry!

Victory was within striking distance, and as long as the troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow continued to pursue them to the north, they would face a tributary of the Don, and that branch would prevent the retreat of the Grand Duchy of Moscow's troops, leaving them drowned as they crossed.

"Perhaps there was no need to grovel and ask Attila for a hundred thousand cavalry. Now Attila's cavalry has not yet arrived, and I am already on the verge of taking the Grand Duchy of Moscow. If I take possession of this duchy with a fierce people, I will reign over the world again......"

Temujin took a fancy to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, a land similar to the northern latitude of Mobei, and the fierce population of the land.

Victory is just around the corner, but it can be a distraction.

"It's time for us to go."

Chu Tian patiently waited for the opportunity, and when Catherine was about to have no way out and waited for a counterattack, he personally commanded the ambushed cavalry and carried out a surprise attack on the flank and rear of the Mongol cavalry that broke through!

The fog was thick in the woods, and suddenly a cavalry stood out from the fog, with the Heavy Cavalry Janissaries as the vanguard, and rushed through Temujin's cavalry!