Chapter 58: The Decisive Battle
Because of Genghis Khan's unconscious, the remaining 800,000 Mongol troops had fallen into a de facto division, and the Mongol generals and the thousand households had all found their masters. Among them, Ogedai received the most, with a total of more than 400,000 Mongol troops, including the elite of the Cowardly Xue Army and the Proton Army, all of whom swore allegiance to him. And the rest of the Mongolian famous generals, Chi Lao Wen, Kublai Lai, and Subutai, the three only remaining Mongolian generals, also took refuge in him.
In addition, Ögedei controlled a large area of territory in Northeast Asia and Central Asia, including the Mongolian Plateau and Central Asia, which produced nomadic and strong armies. It is conceivable that although he did not receive the title of Great Khan, among the four brothers, he would have the greatest advantage.
And the remaining 400,000 troops have taken refuge in Torre, and there are many who want to go to Jiangnan to enjoy happiness, a total of more than 200,000. However, most of these are miscellaneous soldiers of the Han army, few of them are Mongolian elites, and even fewer are colored people. But in addition, there is also an elite Mongolian army in the Jiangnan region. It is under the command of the Mongolian Taishi Mu Huali. If Torre can get this army, then his strength will not be much weaker.
Chagatai, the second prince of Mongolia, has the third largest number of people. Mainly those armies from Persia. After all, Chagatai's fiefdom was in the Persian region. It's just that, although the place is quite good, there has been a Black Death recently. Therefore, few people were willing to follow him. In addition, in the northwestern part of India, there is also a lingering Timur in Afghanistan. If he rebelled with his troops, it would be another catastrophe.
However, Chagatai also has some potential to be explored. Syria and Egypt in the Near East are chaotic and easy to occupy. India, on the other hand, is densely populated and rich in territory. And in Syria, there are hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops with Borshu - I just don't know how many of those armies will be left after this plague......
And the most tragic of the four Mongol princes was the great prince Jochi. His fiefdom was the territory west of the Ural Mountains. Sad ice and snow. Therefore, not too many Mongols intended to follow him. In the end, he had less than 100,000 troops at his disposal. Most of them are indigenous Cumans, with a small number of his own tribesmen. A small number of Tatars and other nomads.
Other than that, there is not much potential for his territory to be explored. The local Cumans suffered heavy casualties in previous wars. When they defected to Genghis Khan, they brought with them an elite nomadic army of 400,000, comparable to the allies of the Semu people in Central Asia. However, after two years of conquest by the Normans, their numbers had plummeted to less than 100,000.
This state of affairs made the Cumans feel very resentful. If the Mongols were able to occupy the area completely, it is not clear that such a policy was correct. But now...... Jochi's heart was dripping blood. He didn't even dare to wonder if the Cumans would follow his orders if the rest of the Mongol army had left.
Or kill him all at once, take his head and ask the Norman emperor for a reward.
"Forget it. Let's take one step at a time. "Jochi, no matter how you look at it, it's not a sad thought for the guy that his father likes. What Jochi didn't see, however, was his second son. The efforts of the long-eyed, physically powerful young man -- within a few days of Genghis Khan's fall, the twenty-eight-year-old quickly understood the condition of himself and his family. And try as hard as you go crazy.
He used the few resources he had, desperately throwing money at it, hoping to get a little more support from the Mongols. He married the powerful Cuman chieftains, or married their daughters and granddaughters to gain their loyalty. He was privately linked with his other cousins. I hope they can get their help when they are in danger - he seems to be crazy. Twenty-four hours a day, I worked hard to do these things. And not like his father or brother, who would not do anything but lament lamentation. ...,
His father, his own brothers, these people did not understand what Batu had done. There were even a few times when he tried to ask Jochi for money in order to win over those who had strength, but he was scolded by Jochi: "We have been assigned to a poor place! You still spend money so lavishly!
After hearing this. Batu almost wanted to vomit blood.
And when the Normans were so arrogant that they broke out of Moscow's absolute defenses, their first opponent was Jochi, the Mongol prince who claimed to rule over Siberia - in fact, of course, the Normans were fighting not so much Jochi as Batu, the rising star of the Mongol Empire.
"Attack, charge!!!tear their formations!!, the heavy cavalry will pierce into it like a sharp sword. Let those Mongols know that it is powerful!!! "At that time, Egil commanded the army in high spirits. After ten years of fighting in the north and south, Egil has become a famous general. Except for Genghis Khan, who also has three points of fear, how could the rest of the people be in the eyes of Emperor Ai?
Therefore, as soon as the Norman emperor came up, he used a frontal assault. It was a slightly exaggerated, extremely strong and sharp tactic, but it seemed to be a lack of toughness.
He divided his heavily armored knights into a dozen teams and charged fiercely into the gap between the opposing arrays in a cone-arrow formation. In the simplest way possible, break through the opponent's array. Immediately after that, the assault infantry with heavy weapons such as long axes, halberds, and swords swarmed up. Completely tear apart the opponent's formation. Divide and surround the opponent, and then shoot densely with longbows, and slowly eat away with infantry sequences. Eventually destroy it.
Such tactics played an extremely powerful role in the hands of Egil. When the Norman heavy cavalry cut through the formation, the opponent didn't even have time to react. And when the other side is divided and surrounded, it completely loses command and cooperation. In the rear of the Mongols, in the end, only nearly 8,000 soldiers and horses led by Batu fought for their lives and escaped. The remaining army of nearly 100,000 died in only one day under the frenzied attack of the Normans, and the whole army was annihilated.
One of Genghis Khan's four sons, the eldest son Jochi, was given the title of leader! The Norman army continued to advance, and the Mongols broke out in the first and most serious crisis since unification!!
In just one day, the 100,000 horses of the Jochi army at the end were slaughtered. The fighting power of the Normans made the Mongols feel terrified from the bottom of their hearts. looked at Batu who broke out and fell to the ground crying bitterly. The Mongol generals looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
"We can't run away, we must organize and fight them!" said Genghis Khan's second son, Chagatai, "Although the other side is fierce, their number is only half of ours! We still have an army of seven or eight hundred thousand." We can crush them! We can even kill the Norman Emperor!"
"That's right, if there was nothing we could do about them when they were cowering in their city, now they're out. In the wilderness, there is no one who is the opponent of our Mongols!" After hearing Chagatai's words, Torre also shouted excitedly: "Think of it, what glory it would be to defeat that Norman?!
Hear two Mongolian princes speak like this. Other Mongol generals also spoke. Some veterans don't think they should be so hasty. But the vast majority of people still believe that the Mongols were invincible in the field. The vast majority of people think they should play.
Eventually, when the vast majority of the people agreed to fight, there was only one person left in the camp who did not express his opinion. And all the Mongol generals also set their sights on that man, the third son of Genghis Khan, who was supposed to become the Great Khan of Mongolia. This man, who wielded half the strength of the Mongol army, if he did not agree, then all the statements he had just made would be nothing more than nonsense. ...,
Seeing the Mongols looking at themselves eagerly, expectantly, indifferently, or implicitly hostile. Despite the uneasiness in his heart, he thought that now was not a good time to fight the Normans. But Wokotai could only sigh secretly and said:
"If that's your opinion, then ...... Let's go!"
Although he is now the most noble and powerful of all people. But Ogedei was not Temujin after all. He couldn't be like Genghis Khan, who was a man of his word among the Mongols. After all, it was the majesty that Temujin had cultivated in his decades of conquests in the north and south. If he strongly objected, he would have lost the support of many Mongols, and would have been denounced as a coward by his brothers, his rivals. It wasn't what he wanted.
Therefore, knowing that this battle would probably be difficult to fight, Ogedai still made a decision -- to support this war! And try to win this war!
Seeing the cheering crowd, Ogedai also seemed to be infected and cheered with them. And his heart gradually regained its calm:
"Either we will win, or this storm will not be over. It will blow from the Mongolian plateau to the other side of the sea, making us Mongolians the masters of this world. At that time, I will become the new Great Khan of the Mongols, and I will rule over a territory greater than that of my father Khan. Of course, maybe we will fail, and along with my brothers, and my father Khan, who is still fslung to death, will be beheaded and strung together by the Normans. And the Mongols will also decline, becoming an insignificant tiny particle in the history of this world - but, who knows? Immortal Heaven willing, we will fight a war. As for the result? ”