562.Chapter 562 - Prepare with both hands
The man who defeated Sarida Khan was William von Hereford. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Info Caesar, who was just over twenty years old, the youngest among the nations.
And now, the young man who once defeated Sarida Khan has come to the door. With absolute will and terrible action, execution, he stretched out his tentacles to the Uzbek Khanate, which was farther away and closer to the interior. At the thought of this, Shaybani Khan felt incredulous and trembled at the same time.
Fight, definitely fight. If he surrenders without a fight, then if Shaybani Khan himself does not say anything, the people of the Khan's court will tear him apart.
The question is how to fight and how to fight. At the same time, what should I do if I can't beat it? These questions plagued Shaybani Khan. It made him feel that he didn't know the taste of food and couldn't sleep at night. After thinking hard like this for a while, Shaybani Khan finally figured out the tactics-
Fight is definitely going to fight. But betting all your bets on this war is the stupidest and most undesirable tactic. The real tactic should be to have a good fight. If you win, everything will be fine. But if you fail, you must make sure you have enough capital to make a comeback.
Then it's not about fighting the Hereford Expeditionary Force. Instead, to the south, to the south, to attack the weak, three-sided Zoroastrian Empire.
The Great Law of Changing Families. It was Shaybani Khan's strategy.
If William wants his grassland, and he can't beat it, then let William occupy all the grasslands. He didn't want it, let it be to William. He was just in time to mobilize his entire army and go south in a desperate attempt to wage war.
He believed that the Zoroastrian Empire, which was now in an embarrassing situation, would never be able to withstand his thunderous blow.
When the time comes, although he has lost the Uzbek steppes, he has Zoroaster, and he can't even earn it.
Of course, there is another problem here, that is, what if he gives up the whole steppe and William is still not satisfied, and then kills Zoroaster?
"Then there's no way around it. Thinking so in his heart, Shaybani Khan sighed in addition to sighing.
You can't beat it, you can't run it, you can't run it, and there is naturally no other way to think about this situation than death. Of course, this is the path that only the more backbone guys choose, and for spineless guys like Shaybani Khan, or a little more generalization, for nomads like them, there is another way.
That is to admit cowardice, and then kneel and lick.
For a nation like nomads who recognize strength very much, kneeling and licking the strong has always been very good and there is no psychological pressure at all. As I said before, when the Xiongnu were strong, the whole steppe was Xiongnu, when the Xianbei was strong, the whole steppe was Xianbei, when the Turks were strong, the whole steppe was Turkic, and when the Mongols were strong, the whole steppe was Mongolian. When the Han Dynasty was strong, it was not for nothing that the Xiongnu knelt down to be a dog for the Han Emperor, and when the Tang Dynasty was strong, the Turkic Khan also gave the Tang Emperor a dog......
So, if you really can't beat and can't run away, then it's good to kneel and lick.
If the posture of kneeling and licking is correct, maybe you don't have to die, but you will get a lot of benefits - of course, the Goths in the West are usually not as civilized and sophisticated as the Easterners, and if you treat them as dogs, you can't expect those people to be like the Son of Heaven in the East, in order to show their generosity and gentleness, all kinds of rewards and all kinds of preferential treatment.
But. Yes, but. Even being a dog is better than dying and then having your whole family killed, right?
That's it. Although now, there is no similar sound in the court of Bukhara, all the people are saying that they must be destroyed and unify everyone in the entire steppe, maybe everyone will not have to fight Zoroaster in the south, and the Russian Goths in the west will be the same, no problem at all.
However, it's just that, if you really take it seriously, you're SB.
The previous Caesar had only sent two vassal tribes to cut off a large piece of meat from the khanate. Although the main force of the Khanate was victorious in the end, the battle loss ratio between the two sides was still 1:5 when the strength was overwhelmingly superior and the morale of the other side was not high. That is, the two people on the opposite side can exchange for three people from Uzbekistan.
It's a shame.
And if you look at the weapons and equipment on the other side, the breastplate of the other party is simply a good thing that can make people show a black face. Whether it is defense, weight, or wearing comfort, it is much stronger than traditional scale armor and armor. The more advanced heavy chain mail, and the more advanced, to some extent, the four-mirror armor that can barely be regarded as plate armor. Not an opponent at all. For the ownership of these hundreds of sets of cuirasses, the big names in the Khan court have already quarreled into a pot of porridge.
The other party's good things are not only these - compared to these cuirasses, their steel knives, their better war horses, and their artillery are also good things - knives and war horses are the things that the warriors on the steppe like and want the most.
And what is very frightening is that they, those civilized people's swords and armor are better than the steppe nomads, even if they are better than the steppe nomads, everyone admits this, after all, the other party is a civilized person.
The problem is that their war horses are even better than their own, which is simply unbelievable.
No one loves horses more than steppe nomads, loves horses more, and thinks they know how to raise horses better.
In this case, the nomads on the steppe are the most arrogant and arrogant in the "war horse" category. The vast majority of people think that the war horses they own are better and much better than others', to the level of Aheyan.
However, this time the captured war horses completely broke their impression.
-- Yes, these war horses, if you compare them with the best horses on the grassland, they must be a notch behind.
The problem is that there are so many of these horses -- the quality of these horses is so good -- these horses are almost like they were carved out of a mold. The standard of these war horses, even the height, and even the breed of the horse are all the same.
I don't understand what large-scale breeding is, and I don't understand at all how terrible it is for the Uzbek people to form a cavalry in a country with a population of 15 million, 5 million square kilometers of land, and countless herds, pastures, and the most scientific methods and scales of breeding.
In the industrial age, even war horses were of better quality than in the agricultural era ā not to mention in the nomadic era.
Both in terms of weaponry and tactics, all the Uzbeks saw how strong their enemy really was. Against such a powerful and terrible enemy, you can shout long live if you win, and there is nothing surprising if you lose. Therefore, although no one said anything, many people in the steppe were ready and conscious, ready to be dogs for the conquerors who came from the west.
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At the same time, at the same time that William's army was preparing to advance eastward, in Briton, the expeditionary fleet was also fully prepared. More than 600 warships will depart from several ports, and then more than 50,000 troops of more than three legions will be transported to the subcontinent of South Asia in batches, along with the artillery, supplies, weapons and equipment they need, and even luxury goods. The land called West Bengal.
It was the first place where the presence and power of the colonists were felt, and the city of Calcutta, which has been one of the most satisfying colonial strongholds established by the Britons. The seven million Indians living in the vicinity are the most loyal servants of the Britons and an army of servants who can be recruited at any time.
As if previously discussed between Lady Maria and her daughter, the Bretons would then bypass the Cape region of the Green Continent, and then make a short stop in Madagascar, and then try to attack the Zoroastrian Empire, not to conquer it, but to bring several important ports there under the control of the Britons as a supply point and one of the strongholds of the Breton navy.
If that fails, the navy will continue south to rest on Ceylon, the southernmost island in the subcontinent and a Frisian colony. It was also one of the first areas to establish colonial rule. At that time, Frisia had not yet established a confederation with Britton.
After that, she will face the second question: whether to go north, into West Bengal, and then attack the Mughal Empire, or just attack the south, attack the independent kingdom of Mysore, or the burgeoning kingdom of Marata.
As for the choice of strategy, Victoria has not yet made up her mind, because both tactics are relatively advantageous and have negative sides. However, neither the positive nor the negative is fixed. After all, the situation is changing from one situation to another.
So Victoria and her staff are constantly working out the strategic situation next and what will happen, while making plans.
Two offensive plans, or even more.
Of course, whether these offensive plans will be adopted and whether they will be used will not be made until they are actually in the local area. Perhaps by that time, the situation on the ground would be completely different from what they had thought. All the plans they had made were wasted and not needed, which is not necessarily the case......
Still, Victoria was confident. Yes, she is very confident that she can win this war, she will win. She will win the highest honor and the richest spoils for herself, for the House of Normandy, and for the Kingdom of Briton.
That's what she believes.