"What's wrong?" asked Artoria in a daze, "Moscow has already agreed to all your conditions, and there is not even a bargain." What else are you not satisfied with?"

"No, it's not for this, go to sleep, Hani. Egil patted Artoria on the chest and said so.

"I hate ......" and Artoria fell asleep again.

Then, after making sure that Artoria was asleep, Egil carefully got out of bed, put on his fox fur clothes and cloak, and walked out of the tent.

Of course, Emperor Egil did not want to go to his lover to have an affair today. It's about thinking, thinking about some questions. For example, what should be done in the future war?

Moscow acceded to Egil's request, which is indeed pleased. But it also meant that the Norman Empire would have to be wounded and bled for the benefit he had gained...... The opponents are nomads who come and go like the wind, and extremely tough centaurs. The number is also very staggering, 1.5 times that of the Norman army. Even if you engage in positional battles with them, you will not necessarily be victorious. Moreover, the other party may not be willing to fight with Egil's soldiers.

"Perhaps, in this campaign of the other side's attack on Moscow, we can rely on their greed and desire for Moscow to engage in a positional war with it. But after that...... If that fails, leave it alone. If they win, what should they do? The other side has better mobility than we do, and they will flee after defeat. After that, it will continue to invade Moscow...... It doesn't matter how many Muscovites die, but I still have to use them as shields. In addition, it is very likely that the Cumans would have pledged allegiance to that Temujin after the Mongol invasion of the west. So ......"

Egil found this more difficult. Because the centaurs already had a very good and ambitious Khan king, and their own strength was quite good, the possibility of bowing to the Mongols was very low. In addition, Egil has a very strange mind about the little mare. Therefore, he did not think that the centaurs would be his enemies in the future war against the Mongols. On the contrary, the Centaur is likely to be a very valuable ally to woo.

The Cumans are different. The various Cuman tribes scattered west of the Ural Mountains add up to several hundred, the largest ones are no more than a few thousand tents, and the small men, women, and children are no more than a hundred. There is no organization at all. The conquest of such a people was very simple - as Egir did in Finland - and nowadays, as more and more Finns return from service in the Norman army. Accustomed to the extravagant life of the Norman Empire, these guys no longer want to endure the traditional Finnish life of fishing and hunting. The call for complete entry into the Norman Empire and the administration of Finland by Norman officials is getting louder and louder, and the old-fashioned tribal elders are almost overwhelmed......

Perhaps after a while, the annexation of Finland to the Norman Empire will be a matter of course......

"So, the same nomadic peoples, the Uzbeks of Central Asia, the Kazakhs, and the Cumans of the north. It is quite possible that these peoples joined the army of conquerors of the Mongol Empire. In addition, they were able to recruit millions of Han infantry in the Northland Central Plains. Plus the engineering and mechanical ...... they obtained from the Wu'er people, as well as the Tang Kingdom."

What would a madman with extraordinary wisdom and courage do when he had access to such vast resources for war? If I were this madman, what would I do?

Egil pondered this question, and reminded himself again and again that it was not because he was inferior to Temujin. Because Temujin was almost sixty years old. And he is only twenty-one years old. If you fight for another forty years, you will surely gain much more than the barbarian on horseback.

However, it was clear that Temujin would not give him another forty years. Just yesterday, March 11, 1005, Norman spies brought the latest news about the old but still ambitious Mongol Great Khan. A total of 200,000 Mongol cavalry, as well as hundreds of thousands of troops from Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and other nomadic tribes in Central Asia, as well as millions of servant troops from the lands they conquered, invaded the territory of the Timurid Khanate like hungry wolves. ...,

And Timur Khan, this poor fellow who also bears the name of conqueror, bravely and foolishly chose to take the initiative, hoping to win a field battle, of course, the final result was very miserable, Timur's side was completely defeated, and at the same time, more than 200,000 soldiers of the Central Asian Empire were killed, the corpses were piled into a fortress, and the river was dyed red......

Timur was lucky enough to escape the Mongol cavalry. And all the way south, he fled to Ashbahad, a city at the mouth of the Murghab River. And Samarkand, 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 East, fell into the hands of the Mongols, as Temujin said.

Fortunately, Timur had chosen to fight in the field rather than defend the city. So after his defeat, the inhabitants of Samarkand did not choose to continue to resist. Instead, Kaesong surrendered and offered a large amount of gold and other tributes, which made Temujin "magnanimous" not choose to slaughter the city. Of course, small-scale plundering by the Mongol cavalry, as well as killings and rapes, were still inevitable. After this, the Vulture merchants, the first to submit to the Mongol Empire, happily took over the vast majority of the commercial center.

After acquiring the city and the wealth it brings, the Mongols were still not satisfied. Samarkand's riches, those fountains, those marble buildings, gardens, palaces, mosques...... All this was a dreamlike city, built by all the skilled craftsmen, all the best building materials and treasures that the Timurid Khanate could find, and on the contrary, made the Mongols even more desperate. These treasures spur them on and make them want more.

The Great Khan of the Mongols, as he said on the banks of the Martyrdom River, once again roared: "Our goal this time is to completely destroy the Timurid Khanate! Conquer everything and plunder everything!"

The soldiers of the Mongol Empire, on the other hand, cheered and accepted the orders of the Great Khan......

"Oh, it's miserable. Egil sighed: "Is Timur's goods good? I can count on that guy to be a shield for me and resist for a few more years......

Because of the unexpected ferocity of the Mongol Empire, or the unexpected ineffectiveness of the Timurid Khanate, Egil had a great sense of urgency, and his brain was moving at full speed, so he came up with a poisonous plan......

"To annihilate the entire Cuman invading army...... At least kill the vast majority as well. ”

Thinking like this, Egil turned around at the same time, walked quickly to the combat conference room, nodded to a few soldiers stationed there, and walked in, looking at the conference room, the strategic sand table exchanged by the system was distracted.

"Very well, such a strategy, it should be fine. Egil nodded, then slammed his fist into the sandbox, and the next day, he approached Artoria and told her about the tactic. At the same time, he excitedly declared: "I'm going to trap all those guys around Moscow!"

Thus, over the next few days, the Norman hussars began to get busy - they had to hold back the other side while Egil carried out this battle plan. There were three legions of Norman light soldiers, and 2,000 Celtic hussars - and many knights who were idle and bored, taking off their armor and going into battle to "have fun". They were in teams of several hundred people, and they whistled around the Cumans and centaurs day and night. At the first opportunity, he pounced on it, and after a chaotic attack, he rode away from his horse, but he was more nomadic than a nomad......

And if any of the leaders are not convinced, and want to catch up and kill Ya Ting, it will be terrible. It is often a textbook model for traps, ambushes, and total annihilation. Few of the Cumans and centaurs who followed in the footsteps of the Norman hussars returned alive.

In this way, the Norman hussars harassed the Cumans day and night. It annoys the Cumans. There is less and less confidence in this war. Gradually, the casualties were getting bigger and bigger - the other side did not have a well-established defensive base that looked like an impregnable one, like the Normans. Their tents are often bare and vulnerable. Norman hussars could easily carry out raids.

This situation lasted for almost two months. During this time, the Cumans could not stand it anymore and launched an attack on the Norman army camp. However, the end result was very miserable - more than 30,000 attacking Cuman soldiers and centaurs, before they could touch the edge of the Norman camp, they were blocked by a large number of traps, traps and trenches. Immediately after that, the alarm bell sounded over the Norman military camp, and the Norman soldiers who reacted quickly immediately took their places, operating crossbows, catapults, bows and arrows, bows and arrows, and large and small stones and large crossbow arrows used by the city defense crossbows. After the Cumans were stunned, the gates on both sides of the barracks opened, and a large number of hussars circled the figure-eight, picked a path from the outer defensive ring, walked out, and then launched an attack on the confused and chaotic Cumans......

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