In this way, in the plains, farmlands, meadows, and wilderness of the north-central part of the empire, two armies that have been enemies for generations have fought bloodily. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThey rode in groups of dozens, hundreds, and horses, just like their ancestors, fighting each other in bloody battles.

The pattern of their battles is almost indistinguishable from that of their ancestors...... Basically, in medium and long-range combat, it was the Nomadic cavalry of the Hereford family who had the upper hand, and in close combat, the more organized Carpathian hussars had the upper hand.

Of course, in terms of weaponry, the Carpathian hussars also had the advantage - not that the Hereford family was inferior to the second-rate country of the Carpathian Kingdom in terms of financial resources, technology, and resources. It's that William is not in the mood to give too much preferential treatment to these guys with cannon fodder halos.

In this way, now, the Hereford family has spared no effort in promoting the increase of the main nation. The nomadic tribes and the Slavites under their command were rightfully sad.

The Slavians could barely mix up serfs or something and continue to work. But the nomads who were under the patronage of the Hereford family were not so lucky.

They had few production resources and technology to help William. With the exception of a handful of skilled nomadic cavalrymen who were hired as riding instructors, the best way to get along was to bring their men and cattle into the collective ranch run by the Hereford family, otherwise it would be tragic......

The herders have no resources other than livestock. Originally, they had only two ways to obtain other resources, such as salt, iron, and food and cloth.

One of them was robbery - the nomadic trade of the nomads, and when they ran out of things, they would go south to rob and eat all the good things of the cowardly settlers. That's what nomads love to do.

It's just that in many cases, these nomads can't rob and can't succeed. Become Luther. Maybe it's because their enemies are too strong, or maybe it's because of something else. All in all, that's it. Then they have to choose another method, which is trade and exchange.

Nomadic trade is also a type of trade. The weak nomads sold their livestock, and the strong nomads traded in human beings and booty - which they had plundered from elsewhere, of course.

However, after the rise of the Hereford family, the nomads of the savannah could not do either business.

Even such a powerful nomadic empire as the Tartariya Khanate was overturned by the Hereford family, what else could they do with these little broken tribes?

And they had no other way but to rob - because the door of trade was also closed to them.

After the Hereford family promoted animal husbandry, they were able to breed their own best horses and raise high-quality cattle and sheep. All this, both in terms of cost and quality, is better than the horses, cattle and sheep that the nomads have raised. And it's a little bit more numerous.

In this way, the Hereford family itself was able to provide enough livestock. When buying livestock from nomadic herders, it is natural to pick and choose and keep the price as low as possible. Anyway, if you don't sell it, there are others who sell it, and you don't sell it.

That's it, the fist product of the nomads.

Lack of sufficient competitiveness, but also lack of sufficient combat effectiveness. There are only two paths left in front of the nomads.

Either they were completely integrated into the system of the Hereford family, or they went south and entered the Cuman-Kipchak steppe, which the Hereford family had not yet thought of doing.

The end result is that the vast majority of people choose the first option, and only a few have a strong character, or idiots, choose the second. It's just that the nomads who lived in the Herefords, or the original Slavic lands, have lost their enterprising spirit. They are living well in this land in relatively good conditions. I don't want to go back to living in the cruel savannah, where the law of the jungle applies.

Because of this, William has the most cavalry resources in the human world, and can even pull thousands of nomadic cavalry without formal training to the battlefield without hesitation.

The vast majority of these guys are second-class cavalrymen who have failed to be selected for military service. William brought them into battle with the idea of waste utilization and the bad intentions of further reducing the number of nomads. How is it possible to issue them weapons so well?

Of course, these fellows are not without a chance - if one of these fellows is really lucky, capable of fighting, cruel or whatever, and he can contribute the heads of three enemies in this war, then when the next group of troops is expanded, he will be the first cavalry candidate.

Although this method of exchanging heads for military exploits is a little backward, it is also a helpless thing, after all, William has to face not civilized Goths or Slavits, but those barbaric and backward nomads. Tell them something about this and that, they don't understand it, they don't understand. It's better to just let them use the easiest way.

In this way, these nomadic cavalry, which seem to have come out of medieval myths and legends, are ridden fast horses, dressed in smelly fur, holding all kinds of strange weapons and bows and arrows, and the saddle of the horses with human heads hanging from them, has become one of the bloodiest scenes of this war.

In terms of tactics, the reckless tactics that the steppe cavalry is good at are not unfamiliar to the Carpathian cavalry. Armed with full shields and light cuirass, the Carpathian cavalry was not too afraid of bows and arrows.

The tactics that the steppe cavalry was good at, such as outflanking, retreating, and introducing ambush circles, were also not very effective for the Carpathian cavalry. So in the end, the most common thing that happens to the cavalry on both sides is to see through each other's tactics and plots, and then concentrate a few squads to fight bloodily.

The vast majority of such battles ended in the victory of the Carpathian hussars. The Carpathian cavalry, which had an advantage in terms of equipment, tactics, training, etc., was often able to block the attack and impact of twice as many steppe nomadic cavalry. Then use the classic cavalry wall formation and cavalry lance charge to disintegrate the opponent's array in one fell swoop.

The Carpathian hussars were criticized for not being professional enough, that is, the intensity of the formation and the degree of training. In the course of playing against professional cavalry, hussars often suffer from disadvantages in both aspects. However, against the more unprofessional steppe nomadic cavalry, these two disadvantages became their advantage.

However, this is not always the case.

After several successive battles, especially in the Franknian region, in the Franknian region, the battle of the surprise attack on the rear of the coalition forces left the Carpathian hussars suffering heavy casualties.

Now the number of Carpathian hussars under Emperor Kalman IV is less than two thousand.

The emperor wanted to recruit more hussars from the Carpathians, but was strongly opposed by the local nobles of the Carpathians. Their objections are very simple.

If too many Carpathian troops are transferred, there will be a shortage of troops in the Carpathian region. In case at this time, the army of Ottoman dark elves acomes over, what should I do then?

Therefore, the local nobles of the Carpathians did not agree with this, and even if the emperor said anything, they were not willing to send a single soldier to the imperial battlefield.

This gave His Majesty the Emperor a great headache. At the same time, it also led to an embarrassment in the battlefield and outpost battles in the central and northern parts of the empire.

The carpathian hussars could defeat the steppe cavalry of the same number to twice as much. But what about more than two, three times, or even more, and can they still win in this situation?

Of course, you can, but it's difficult...... As the balance of forces between the two sides continued to shrink, the chances of victory for the Carpathian hussars became less and less.

In particular, William impatiently threw a separate cavalry brigade into battle.

These light cavalrymen, dressed in ship-shaped steel helmets, armed with sophisticated sabers, and dressed in ornate cavalry uniforms and cuirassiers, entered the battlefield with an arrogant, self-defeating attitude. Then, with greater organization, greater vigor and better weaponry, he easily turned the tide of the outpost - especially a special cavalry battalion in the cavalry brigade. These elites were the first to be armed with revolvers......

"Probably, with this thing, I don't need a knife at all, right?"

This is the idea of the vast majority of cavalrymen who have come into contact with revolvers. And in actual war, it is basically ...... No, it should be said that completely, well, yes, exactly.

If the outpost battlefield scattered with large numbers of small groups of cavalry is a sea area that adheres to the law of the jungle where big fish eat small fish, then the three companies of the pistol cavalry battalion are the top predators in the ocean on the battlefield.

These seemingly ordinary cavalrymen were always able to defeat their opponents with ease - in particular, their "mediocre" was the best disguise.

The Carpathian hussars consciously avoided the hard ones, such as a heavy cavalry battalion in the separate cavalry brigade and twelve cavalry companies in the lancer regiment. These heavy cavalry and lancers seemed to the hussars to be completely invincible enemies.

However, these pistols were different, and on the surface they did not look any different from the average light cavalry. After all, they were armed with pistols, very short guns. This kind of camouflage tends to make more self-righteous guys, like moths to a fire, crash headlong and then burn to slag.