Chapter 67: Victory

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The Mongols fled frantically, and Egil was sure that they still had an army of four or five hundred thousand before the collapse. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info even, this number is still much more than the Normans. But when morale is completely low, these troops are crying like women. Completely incapable of combat effectiveness. Eventually, they were pursued and slaughtered by the Normans, who were much less than them.

After taking care of the Mongol light cavalry on both sides of the battlefield, the remaining less than 10,000 Norman hussars also joined in this bloody feast, and after the addition of this part of the light cavalry troops, the Norman army's mobile surname was greatly enhanced. There are even more Mongols who can hunt down.

The hunting of the Mongols lasted longer than the defeat of them on the battlefield. The Norman army, under the command of Egil, drove the Mongols directly into their camp, and then continued the pursuit, driving them out - Egil did not even have time to probe his booty. He continued to give the order to pursue.

The pursuit lasted a total of five days and five nights. Egil gave the Mongols no chance at all—when they stopped, ready to rest, and then regroup. The Norman hussars, who often howled, rushed over. Then another massacre ensued.

In the course of the pursuit, the hussars' own light lances and sabers were shattered by too many stabs and slashes, and the rolls could not be used. But that's not a problem at all. After the weapons were broken, they grabbed the Mongols' equipment, the Mongols' spears and scimitars, and continued to slaughter the Mongols!

Eventually, the battle ended on April 12. After five days of continuous pursuit, Egil, who was scruffy and mentally exhausted, finally couldn't stand it anymore. And the army under his command has also reached its limit. Eventually, they had to recuperate and return to Moscow with regrets.

The reason why it is a pity is that Egil was not able to wipe out the Mongolian golden family royal family. In the final battle, the Chagatai Division, which bore the brunt of the attack, suffered heavy casualties, and Chagatai also died in the chaos when it retreated. What Egil ended up with was a corpse that looked like flesh. The original gorgeous armor and sturdy body were trampled by thousands of people. It's completely unrecognizable. It took a number of Mongol prisoners of war to identify it as Chagatai's body.

Similarly, Genghis Khan was not spared. In the fire of the Mongol military camp, his body was charred. Mixed in with several other skeletons, it was completely impossible to make out which one was which. This made Egil, who was originally a good opponent and wanted to bury him, also very difficult.

Eventually, though, Egil was able to identify—or rather judge—the body.

From this angle, the corpse lifted its upper body slightly, as if looking directly at the remains of the bow that had been hanging on the wall. So I know that this is the skeleton of Temujin, Genghis Khan. Egil sighed. For Genghis Khan, a man who wanted to continue fighting on the verge of death, Egil reciprocated with sympathy and admiration. And ordered someone to carefully collect his bones. Along with the remains of his bow, he was placed in the most precious of all, the marble coffin that Egil had prepared for himself. And let the Mongolian shaman among the prisoners of war preside over and perform a complete, Mongolian funeral.

Genghis Khan was finally buried here, in a barren steppe, about 400 kilometers from Moscow. On his tombstone, Egil had the following epitaph engraved in Mongolian and Norman:

He was once a man who was about to conquer this world, but unfortunately ended his life here. Defeat in the war was not God's will, not his lack of talent - Egil. Skadra Grímsson, the Norman emperor and Genghis Khan's greatest rival, erected a monument here. Pedestrians note that a murderous conqueror is buried here.

And on the back of the tombstone, the words are engraved: God's Whip.

Plus before, who died in the first round of the Norman war, Genghis Khan's eldest son Jochi. Two of his four sons-in-law have died. Of the only three remaining generals in Mongolia, two of them can be confirmed dead, Chi Lao Wen and Su Butai. The bodies of the two men were also recovered.

In other words, he still has two sons alive. Ogedei, and Torre. And the Mongol general Jebe was probably the same. Egil spent a month cleaning up the loot and inspecting the battlefield, but still hadn't found their bodies, or anything that looked like them. Of course, Egil could also use his imagination to think that they had died in the belly of some snow wolf. Or maybe the body was buried & fell into the river & fell into the ravine. and so on.

But, after all, Egil had to prepare for the worst - the three of them didn't die.

Although Egir did not believe that after suffering such a big loss from Norman, they still had the courage to continue attacking their empire. But what if—what if—the Mongols were already devastated. But they are Mongols after all. A terrifying nation that has been rampant in this world for hundreds of years. Just give them some time to recuperate, and who can guarantee that they won't come back?

"It seems that there is still a need for Moscow's absolute defense circle. Of course, maybe it should be renamed the 'Absolute Circle of Defense'. And the word Moscow can be discarded. "Egil has not forgotten that betrayal of the Muscovites.

Of course, in terms of results, it was the betrayal of the Muscovites that allowed Egil to launch a desperate charge. It was also with this as an opportunity that Egil had the opportunity to defeat the Mongols. Otherwise, the war between the Normans and the Mongols would not have ended so easily.

But Egil would not be grateful to the Muscovites for this. And completely strangle Moscow, this duke with great potential. Bring all of Eastern Europe under the control of the Norman Empire. It's also quite tempting.

The reasons are there, and the goals are set. Egil had already decided that after returning to Moscow, he would give these Muscovites a big "surprise". Let them know what happened to anger the Norman Emperor.

But this matter can be delayed for a while. The most important thing now is money, money! loot! dealing with the huge spoils of war after defeating the Mongols!!

The Mongols robbed most of the world, and the Normans robbed the Mongols - although many treasures were lost in the fire. There were also some scattered ones that were taken by the Mongol deserters. But Egil still turned around a lot of money—though only half of the plunder went to the public, and although Egil suspected that the system had reservations in dealing with the spoils of war - but in the end, the loot, the treasures, and the physical gold, silver, and gold and silver vessels, etc., etc., were ......

These things were sold for a high price of 30 million Norman gold! According to the calculation of the monthly income of 500,000 yuan in the heyday of Normanism, it would take 60 months, that is, five years, to save so much money! The spoils of this battle were equal to the annual income of the Norman Empire for five years!!

At that time, Norman's logistics troops, officials who specialized in calculating the spoils of war, were very busy. In the end, there was no way, and many engineers who were excellent in mathematics were invited to help, and it took more than ten days to barely count this number. Looking at this series of figures, these people involved in the calculation were all dumbfounded, not knowing what to say. And when the figure was sent to Egil, the Norman emperor also slowed down for a while before he came to his senses.

"More than 30 million?!" Egil chewed on the number over and over again, his eyes widened in disbelief, and finally he said something like this: "The most profitable business in this world is war. ”

In this way, in May, the Norman army returned to Korea in triumph. The remnants of the Mongol army also fled back to Central Asia. The armies that followed Torre and Ogedai together were no more than 100,000 men. This made them feel like they wanted to cry without tears - the army of millions was originally dispatched, but in the end, there was not one in ten. The Great Khan of Mongolia was killed in battle, and even the corpse of the capital could not be recovered...... The two brothers hugged their heads and cried, and at the same time swore to the heavens that they would take revenge on the Normans!

"This vendetta is not just for Ogedai or Torre. but for all the tribes of the entire Mongolian steppe. The Normans were the greatest enemy of the Mongols. Future generations will remember the enmity between the Normans and the Mongols. Every immortal citizen will spend his life hating the Normans. And fight to destroy the Normans! Either they die, or we die!"

The remaining Mongols among the 100,000 soldiers also swore an oath with Ogedai and Torrey. It is inevitable to take revenge on the Normans and destroy them completely!

After the oath, the two brothers wept again. Then the deliberations began. Ogedai took the Mongolian ethnic group back to Mongolia to recuperate. Torre, on the other hand, went to the Jiangnan region to accumulate strength. and wrote letters to Borshu and Mu Huali. Tell them about the situation. They should hurry back to Mongolia -- even if the plague spreads among Borshu's army, then Mu Huali's Jiangnan army will have hundreds of thousands of people! With such an army, even if the Mongols are greatly damaged, they still have the strength to protect themselves......

In this way, a great battle between the Normans and the Mongols came to an end. Egil was unable to go deep into the steppes to hunt down the Mongols. The Mongols no longer had the strength to go on an expedition to attack the Norman Empire. The two sides will be at peace for a while, accumulating strength and waiting for the next war......

(To be continued)