Chapter Seventy-One: Civil Strife
When the bruised and swollen Cuman envoys and the drunken centaur envoys, who had returned a day late, met in the Khan's tent, things became lively. Enraged, the Cumans lashed out, claiming to have been betrayed by their centaur allies. Although there are some Cumans who remain calm, it is clear that they are only a very small minority. The centaur Khan Ayujie repeatedly claimed that this was a Norman ploy, a trap. But the Cumans didn't want to hear his explanation.
Eventually, in a dead son, the mood became so agitated that the Cuman headman, who had drawn his scimitar, shouted:
"I'll kill you villain!" and after lunging towards Ayujie Khan, the situation spiraled out of control. The Cumans shouted loudly, and several of the leaders were immediately agitated and drew their scimitars. Soon, however, the Ayuj Khan's guards, as well as the other centaurs, drew their scimitars and raised their battle axes. A fire is about to begin......
"Stop!" Ayujie Khan shouted angrily, his voice squeezing the Cumans and centaurs as they were about to charge. Afterwards, the Khan said: "I have made it clear enough that these are the tricks of the Normans! Who do you think will be happy when we do it? They're going to rush over and wipe us all out!"
"Hmph...... Of course you don't want to fight. You want to preserve your strength so that you can grab a good position in front of your new master!" Ayujie Khan's words had just made the Cumans calm down a little, when they heard such a strange voice from the crowd. And after hearing such words, the Cumans became alert again.
In the end, nothing came out of the meeting. The Cumans discussed it privately and waited until the next day. Intentionally or unintentionally, he moved the camp tent of his army together, and separated it from the centaur army [Shining God Slaughter Group] team. Meantime. In the battle to harass the Norman engineers, they were not willing to obey Ayuj Khan's orders, but rose up on their own. So a few days down. The Cumans suffered heavy losses due to improper command. During this period, there were some small accidents - some Cuman heads were assassinated, and the scene of the assassination left some small things commonly used by centaurs, in the process of attacking the Normans, the matter was detected in advance, and then they were ambushed...... and so on, which further deepened the contradiction between the Cumans and the centaurs.
At this moment, Ayujie Khan was extremely anxious. He also tried to renegotiate with the Cumans. In fact, there were some sensible people among the Cumans who believed that Ayuj Khan had not taken refuge in the Normans - that the matter had not yet reached the end of the road. The future is still promising. As the khan of a large tribe, how could Ayujie deign to worship a man twenty years younger than him as the ruler?
Unfortunately, however, these are the wiser Cumans. Shortly after contact with Ayujie Khan. He was assassinated one after another. As mentioned earlier, there were a number of clues left at the scene that pointed directly to the centaur.
The Cumans finally couldn't take it anymore. Although in peacetime, the various tribes of the Cumans often attacked each other. They all have a grudge against each other. But at the same time, it is inevitable that the various tribes will marry each other. Fighting against foreign enemies -- who of the leaders of the slain tribes did not have a good friend? At this moment, the army of the Cumans was turned upside down. The Cuman chiefs, in a mixture of anger and fear, made the most wrong decision. The chiefs gathered their armies. Turn over your horse and put your bow and arrow and scimitar in order. Kill the centaur camp on the side.
However, Ayuj Khan did not want to fight the Cumans at such a time - but he was prepared. Seeing that the Cumans were killed, the centaurs began to put up an organized resistance after a brief panic. Heavily armored centaurs form a defense on the front. Centaurs armed with bows and arrows supported the shooting behind. Lightly armed centaur lancers attacked from both flanks and unleashed a powerful charge......
Slightly inferior in quantity. But the quality is much higher than that of the centaur army. The Cumans only held out for a little before they broke up...... The centaurs cheered in celebration, but their Khan Ayujie remained frowning. ...,
"In the end, it has come to this point...... "Ayujie Khan sighed: "It seems that in the future, you will only have to rely on yourself." ”
That night, news of the battle between the Cumans and the centaurs reached Egil. On the one hand, he was proud of the success of his strategy, and on the other hand, he was shocked by the combat effectiveness of the centaurs, a total of 80,000 Cuman troops, even if they were not in the same command. However, it took only one day to defeat it. The horror of the combat power end of the centaur!
"So, what's next?" said Egil, looking bored, holding up the paper and holding it up to the oil lamp to burn and play, burning as he did......
"After this battle, the Cumans still have tens of thousands of soldiers to fight. But without organization and morale, it is just a plate of scattered sand. Well, it's easy to get rid of it. In fact, since yesterday's [Shining God Slaughter] day, there have been quite a few lonely, or groups of Cumans who have taken the initiative to come to our defense line and raise their hands to surrender, of course, what to do with these tomahawks is also a problem - and for the centaurs, although they still have the strength to fight. But that shrewd khan probably didn't want to fight either. The Empire should be able to negotiate with the Centaurs - and the Cumans have suffered heavy losses, and the Centaurs' power may be able to expand considerably. In this way, the group of centaur tribes that occupy the east of the Ural Mountains may become another shield against the Mongol invasion......"
Egil thought about it like this, but he was too engrossed. The flame of the paper in his hand burned his hand directly, and His Majesty the Emperor's hand shook and knocked over the oil lamp again. If Sonia hadn't been standing by, it might have caused a fire. The destructive power of His Majesty the Norman Emperor can be seen.
But in the end, things didn't happen to Egil. When the centaur Khan received his letter, he didn't even look at it, he tore it to pieces, and drew his knife and cut down one of his diplomats. and threatened to fight the Norman Empire endlessly, and to cut off Egil's head as a toilet. This made Egil feel a little strange - judging from his previous performance, Ayujie Khan is not the kind of person who will get angry and act rashly.
But Egil still miscalculated one thing in the end - that is, although Ayuj Khan was very well educated, his wisdom and experience were not low. But at the end of the day, he is still a centaur, and he is still the heroic and stubborn character of a centaur in his bones. After being so calculated by the Norman Empire, the arrogant centaur khan really couldn't accept it, and he was put on a hard beating. If before that, he had a little bit of peace with the Normans, now all that was left was anger.
It is not without reason to make such a wrong judgment at such a time. As Ayuj Khan's recent mantra was, "Too much deception!" Egil will eventually have to pay for his mistakes...... It's almost May. The peasants of Muscovy are in a hurry, and if they do not sow any more seeds, I am afraid that this year's grain will be finished. Therefore, the Moscow nobles also repeatedly urged Egil, hoping that His Majesty the Emperor would be sympathetic to the people of Moscow to end the war as soon as possible......
"QNMLGB!" Emperor Egil heard about this kind of thing, and did not approve of it at all, or sympathize with the Muscovites. Instead, he said angrily, "If you want to live in peace, you have to let my Norman sergeant take his life?!"
Of course, this kind of thing is just a little bit of complaining in the stomach [Shina God Slaughter Group]. When he looked at him in front of a group of Rus' nobles, Emperor Egil's statement was a different matter: "Don't worry, I have already set a perfect plan, and within May, I can let the enemy army be captured!"
"Is it by the system of fortifications?" asked some of the Rus' nobles, but Emperor Egil laughed irritatingly. I just don't agree.
Of course, if you really want to rely on this circle of denser and denser fortifications, it is not impossible to directly trap the centaurs and the Cumans who have now been scattered. But that will take a long time, at least half a year. However, how could Egil spend so much time fighting the centaurs with hundreds of thousands of people in a second?
What's more, what's the use of annihilating all the centaurs? Rather, the Mongols from further afield. It's like Bismarck from another world said: Don't kill all the enemies who can become friends later. Nor did Egil have any plans to actually destroy the centaurs - of course, it was not in Egil's plan to let them go free or return to the Kazan region unharmed.
In fact, His Majesty the Emperor already had a plan to force down the centaurs. In order for this plan to be carried out smoothly, Egil needs to delay a little. Eventually, a meeting was agreed with the centaurs on May 1. After that, he waited intently for news from Norman.
And at this moment - in the Norman Empire, a hilly area a hundred kilometers outside Krakow. The battle between the centaur raiders and the 50,000 Norman army commanded by Joan of Arc has reached a fever pitch! If you like this work, you are welcome to come to [Shin God Slaughter Edition Group] to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )
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