Looking at each other, William looked at the wolf's head on the opposite side, and at the same time, Shaybani Khan also looked at William's double-headed eagle banner on the opposite side, and the two sides just glanced at each other, although they couldn't see people clearly, but they could understand that it was their enemy who had arrived. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Shaybani Khan's heart is mixed. William, however, was very calm.

The former is because he feels that this is an unwarranted disaster. In fact, even now in the face of William's army, in the face of William's 100,000 cavalry, he still thinks so in his heart. I just feel very unlucky, and at the same time very inexplicable. I don't know why I annoyed such a terrible opponent.

Although William tried his best to dress up as a nomadic khan on the steppe. But on the other hand, the Uzbek Khanate is not all idiots either. They had long since figured out the true nature of their adversary, a nation-state with a well-established, agrarian-based settler. Generally speaking, this kind of guy should play the role of resisting with all his might when being invaded, or being defeated when being invaded, prostrate in front of these barbaric invaders.

Although the vast majority of Uzbeks are not so shameless, when they saw the two-headed eagle banner and the army under William's command, they still couldn't help but have a feeling of "when will the sheep take the initiative to eat the wolf?"

It's ridiculous.

Why should they come.

To come to this place of barren, uncultivable, all murderous nomads?

What do they think?

It is completely inconceivable that a settler Caesar would covet these uncultivated lands. But it doesn't matter, in this case, it doesn't matter what you say, the most important thing now is to defeat the enemy in front of you, and then everything can return to normal. Whether it's order or rules. It's pretty much the same anyway.

"Just, can we really win?"

Although before the war, he and his subordinates, the nobles of the Khan's court, and the leaders of the small tribes cheered each other up, and they all spoke of William and his army with great disdain. Thinking that these guys are all clumsy impostors, thinking that these guys are just running a family and drinking, and have no combat power at all, they will definitely be defeated easily.

However, if you say this kind of thing, you can't really believe it. Wilhelm von Hereford. This name, which is very strange for the grassland people, makes him can't help but have doubts and doubts. But at the same time, he has enough knowledge of the combat effectiveness of the opposing army, as well as the command ability of the Caesar on the other side.

The opponent's strength is about 100,000. It's a big piece to spread out. Of course, his own army is actually quite large, with 150,000 troops and cavalry from various tribes. Although there are some half-hearted two or five boys, there are also some weak chickens with combat effectiveness to the extreme, which makes people disdain. But there are also 100,000 main forces that can really fight, as well as passable troops.

Not less in number than the other side.

And the other side's weapons and equipment, especially those artillery, are definitely more than their own, which is a great pity.

Then there is the command ability of the other party's commander, that is, Wilhelm von Hereford.

Being able to command an army of 100,000 and arrange all this in an orderly manner shows William's organizational and leadership skills.

As for military ability, Shaybani Khan actually has some questions, after all, he has never fought with his own hands, and in the previous small outpost battle, there is no way to see how much command ability a commander has.

If I had to say it, it would be a roundabout tactic.

As mentioned before, both sides used roundabout tactics, but all failed. The reason for this lies in the fact that the reactions, judgments, and maneuvers of the cavalry on both sides are basically the same. The Imperial Army, which has the advantage of having the upper hand on a war horse with a well-developed logistics and cavalry, may be a little faster. But in the latter, the Uzbek cavalry was better than the terrain and geographical familiarity. The roundabout forces on both sides were led by the elite of Shaybani Khan's cronies and William's aunt, Lieutenant General Freya. The direction of the two sides is also unfortunately completely identical.

This led to a very awkward situation, that is, the roundabout troops of the two sides collided directly with each other after a detour for a while, and an unexpected encounter began with the scouts of both sides fighting each other.

At first, the commanders of both sides did not consider the other to be the main force of the enemy, but only regarded the other as a small group of skirmishers. So the order was given to quickly resolve the battle and not to drag it out for too long.

It was only immediately after the two sides discovered that something was wrong, and the scout's troop soon became a grappling between the vanguard troops of the two sides, and the entanglement of the vanguard troops of the two sides soon became the entanglement of the front troops, and then, the two sides were completely entangled together, and an encounter of unprecedented scale broke out in an instant.

On the opposite side, Shaybani Khan's cronies were the most typical nomadic cavalry commanders, and after a few orders, the tens of thousands of cavalry were divided into several groups, some to the left flank, some to the right, and some to attack head-on, ready to outflank the enemy. Although Freya is an orthodox knight. However, influenced by William's tactical thinking, and the recent efforts to study nomadic tactics, the result was that the tactics used were similar to those of the other side - if the 20,000-strong troops on both sides lined up and then attacked each other a little bit, it would not have taken a long time. But both sides dispersed their forces, split their forces, and then expanded the battlefield. In this way, the battle that could have been fought for a long time will be over in a while.

The shelling of artillery, the fire of carbines and revolvers, the scimitars and the recurve bows of the cavalry, the neighing of the horses mixed with the shouts of the warriors. A large-scale encounter came to an end in less than a day.

Tens of thousands of cavalry led by Shaybani Khan's cronies suffered heavy losses, nearly 6,000 were killed or captured, and many of the remnants fled. In the end, there were less than 2,000 people who ran back from an army of tens of thousands.

These guys were completely frightened by the fighting power of the Hereford family's army. There were even quite a few people who went straight mad - the scene of violent artillery fire, musket volleys, human bodies shattered, shattered, flesh and blood flying was much more brutal than the war they had originally known.

The battle was resolved in a few hours, and the intensity and pace were much faster than they had previously known.

All in all, in this case, no one can count on it, and it doesn't seem unimaginable to go crazy.

After this, Shaybani Khan isolated the rout. At one point, he even wanted to kill them all to avoid affecting the morale of the army. If it weren't for the fear that this matter would spread out, it would have a worse impact on the morale of the army, and since the battle was about to begin, and there was no extra time and manpower to do it, he might have really done it.

It's just a pity that it's too late now.

William's army, Freya was a partial division, to be exact. After a high-intensity encounter, Freya's army also suffered some losses, more critical than the loss of personnel - because of the detour, so the need for speed. Because speed is required, there are not too many supplies to carry. Even the standard cavalry guns were reduced by half.

After a big battle, shells, gunpowder, and bullets were consumed, which made Freya feel distressed. To make matters worse, after realizing that he might be detoured, Shaybani Khan immediately decided to retreat without hesitation.

For ordinary troops, such a "retreat" is often also the beginning of a rout. It's like another world before the Western Yuan, the battle of Qin and Chu. Originally, hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides faced each other, and the confrontation lasted for two years. Just because the people of Chu wanted to retreat a little, they were seized by Wang Qian, a veteran of the Qin army, and under the fierce pursuit, the whole army was inexplicably annihilated, and then the country was destroyed. Therefore, when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, it was discussed that Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and Chu was the most innocent.

This innocent is not talking about being innocent who didn't do anything bad, it's just that he died inexplicably......

Of course, it seems inexplicable to outsiders, but military strategists look normal. An army of hundreds of thousands of people is like a huge and well-packed machine. Any change must be cautious and cautious, and we must judge the situation and think carefully.

Especially at that time, the means of communication, means of transportation, the minds of the soldiers were insufficient. was caught up by people and then crushed, and then pursued hundreds or thousands of miles to directly destroy the country. Although it sounds exaggerated. But when you think about it, it's not that incredible.

But this is not the case on the savannah.

The superiority of the cavalry, the superiority of the cavalry, the superiority of the cavalry. Because it's very important, you have to say it three times in one breath, the speed advantage, plus the other party has almost nothing to guard. Not even the Khan Court is fixed.

In this case, if the other side wants to retreat, it retreats at full speed -- of course, for the sake of the morale of the army, the other side says that it is a roundabout advance. This is nothing uncommon for steppe nomads, and the degree of acceptance is very high. So it generally does not cause fluctuations in morale.

So, in this case, William gave up the roundabout tactic.

You take a detour, the other side also detours, you detour is the detachment, but the enemy detours but is the main force. In this way, it will not be able to achieve the effect of pinching, but it may allow the opponent to pick up the cheap. In this way, there is no use in detours. In this way, the two sides led the cavalry groups, and in the vast steppe, the large cavalry groups under the command of both sides pursued in this way and maneuvered for several days. In the end, William finally found an opportunity and bit the other party's tail.

After that, if you run away again, morale will naturally drop. Forced to be helpless, Shaybani Khan had to bite the bullet and prepare for a main battle with William.