At the same time that William's emissaries were engaged in a series of intrigues and diplomatic activities, two Cossack brigades of the empire had entered the territory of the Uzbek Khanate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Like most nomadic states, the Uzbek Khanate did not have much control over the small tribes on the border. After the enemy attacked, their reaction speed was not too fast. In fact, after the Cossacks had easily slaughtered several small tribes, killed all the men who were taller than the wheels, and robbed all the women and children, as well as the cattle, sheep and livestock, the Uzbek Khan's court belatedly received the news.

However, even so, the Uzbeks did not take it seriously.

They don't care too much about the lives and deaths of some small tribes. There are just too many such things on the prairie. Individual herdsmen's families, small tribes, and so on are too easy to die. Or an accident, or a war. Even if there is a little more snow in a certain winter, there will be groups of small tribes that will disappear. But at the same time, more and new small tribes will emerge from the steppe.

There are simply too many such things, and many of the big names in the Khan Court are used to it.

For a group of tribes that suddenly appeared, enemies or something. Khanting didn't pay much attention to it either. It's probably some kind of tribal migration that doesn't open its eyes. This kind of thing has not happened before.

There was practically no natural danger between the Uzbek Khanate and the Cuman-Kipchak steppe. In the middle of the steppe, there are many small tribes, and they do not even know whether they are residents of the Tartarya Khanate or slaves of the Uzbek Khan. This kind of thing of crossing the line was also a common thing in the past.

It was for this reason that Shaybani Khan didn't pay much attention to it at first. It was just a matter of ordering the big tribes in the area to organize their own troops and destroy all those enemies, and that's it.

More attention from the Uzbek Khanate was concentrated in the south. After all, compared to the desolate and barren Cuman-Kipchak steppe, the two river valleys in the south are indeed more fertile, and the Caspian Sea is even richer. Destroy the Zoroastrian Empire, and then build a new dynasty like his nomadic predecessors. Do a position in Zoroas de Shah. Thinking of this, Shaybani Khan was still a little excited.

Of course, this little excitement will not be able to turn into real excitement in the end.

In fact, even without the orders of Shaybani Khan, several tribes near the Cossacks would still have formed an army to fight the Cossacks in the shortest possible time. It's about their lives, their pastures, their power and their dignity.

This little thing may not be anything to the people of the court of Bukhara. But for those of them who have been at a disadvantage for a long time in the Uzbek Khanate, it is very fatal.

If these two Cossack brigades were not defeated, then their position would be in jeopardy.

Soon, more powerful, ambitious tribes will come forward and challenge their position. They may even have the support of the Bukhara Khanate. In addition to this, it is very likely that those outsiders - that is, the Cossack brigades - will take their place.

It was not unheard of before this, when the foreign tribes easily defeated the local tribes, and then paid tribute to the court of Bukhara, and then confessed their mistake and sent their sons as hostages or something. In this way, it could be easily recognized by the Khanate's court and become part of the Uzbek Khanate.

Khan Ting didn't care about his dog's bloodline, and what he had eaten before. The Khan court only cared if his dog could fight, and he didn't even care too much about loyalty - because nomads didn't care whether they were loyal or disloyal. If the Khan's court is strong, it will be rightfully loyal, but if the Khan's court is in decline, it will naturally betray. It's that simple on the prairie. When the Xiongnu were strong, everyone was a Xiongnu, when Xianbei was strong, everyone was a Xianbei, when the Turks were strong, everyone was Turkic, and when Mongolia was strong, everyone was a Mongol.

That's pretty much it, so these people are very nervous -- they're not afraid of being dogs. For the grassland people, being someone else's dog is really a normal thing.

What they're really afraid of is that they can't even do it.

That is, to exclude what these Cossacks thought in their hearts. At least, for the Uzbek border tribes, this war is a crucial war related to whether they can still be dogs. You can't lose no matter what, otherwise you're not even a dog, and you'll have to be a dead man.

So, don't believe that the steppe nomads are very bloody or anything. They do have wolf nature, and rightly so. But what is wolf nature? It is to choose the most powerful and the most capable wolf to be the first wolf. The head wolf can any she-wolf at will, eat the best meat, or bully any wolf at will. No matter how brutal, the wolves will kneel and lick.

For wolves, brutality is not a mistake, much less a sin. The real sin is only weakness.

That's it. After seeing the Cossack army, the nearly 10,000 cavalry gathered by these border tribes were instantly frightened - in the front, the Cossacks' favorite to show off cuirassiers, of course, there was only one cuirassier battalion for each Cossack brigade. And around these people in glittering steel armor were the Cossack cavalry artillerymen. A total of thirty six-pounder cavalry guns were lined up, glowing with an icy metallic sheen in the sun's rays.

Some of these Cossack cavalrymen were armed with carbines, while others were armed with shining sabers. These weapons made of pure steel surprised all the cavalry of the border tribes.

Forging technology and metallurgical technology have always been symbols of whether a country and a nation are strong. It is only natural that a man with a bronze weapon can defeat a primitive man with a stone weapon. And the one with the iron weapon can defeat the one with the bronze weapon.

As for steel, it is a sacred metal in the hearts of most people. Before the advent of the industrial age, steelmaking technology was a technology that should be cherished by any nation and an empire. Any bit of steel will make people cheer. And at the same weight, steel can be exchanged for even the same weight of gold, or even more - a saber made of pure steel can even be called a treasure worth a thousand gold. And even a steel-clad weapon is enough to be called a samurai class, or a family heirloom passed down from generation to generation in a knightly family.

Truth be told, these guys actually have weapons made of steel as well, but most of them are clad steel, not pure steel. And only the bravest warriors of the tribe, or the great nobles, had them. And none of their steel is made from blast furnaces on a large scale. Rather, it is made using the forging method of patterned steel, which is the most popular in the Middle East.

The steel is indeed sharp, but it is soft, and with the force of the hand, it can even point the weapon up. The toughness is too great, but the rigidity is somewhat insufficient. So it's a little embarrassing......

Of course, something even more embarrassing was not for nothing, and that was that the knives, bows and arrows of these guys could not even penetrate the cuirassiers of those two battalions.

Yes, the Uzbek Khanate did also have muskets. But most of these muskets were hidden like treasures by the main forces of the Khancourt. These of them, who are grazing in the most remote and desolate places, and who are not loved by their grandmothers and uncles, can't even touch the hair of muskets.

That's it, before this battle could be fought, these guys from the border tribes were frightened by the enemy on the opposite side. Look at the other side's neat (relatively undisciplined steppe cavalry, Cossack cavalry with some formal training, it can indeed be called neat) arrays, as well as their sophisticated, armed to the teeth. These guys didn't fight, and their morale dropped by half. Wait until the thirty cavalry cannons fire in unison. The steppe cavalry on the opposite side exploded in an instant.

No matter for the army in the era of cold weapons, field artillery is a big killer. Even the six-pounder light gun, which was complained about by the Imperial Army as lacking firepower, was a god-level killer for the steppe cavalry of these small tribes that were not appreciated in these remote areas.

was bombarded by artillery for two rounds in a row, and the steppe cavalry on the opposite side did not die much, only about a hundred. But morale has dropped dramatically. There were even a few vassal tribes that came to join in the fun, but they just stopped fighting, turned around and ran.

Seeing this opportunity. Two Cossack brigade commanders immediately let out two cuirassier battalions. The impact of these hoplites, although not as powerful as the lancers, was enough to deal with these steppe nomads. What's more, the arrays and formations of these cavalry are all tight wall-shaped charging arrays, and their impact is doubled. And the scum who were impacted by them had lost their morale.

That's it, after being violently "hit" by the cuirassier battalion, the entire steppe coalition collapsed in an instant. Almost all of them turned and fled without hesitation, and no one dared to fight these terrible, demonic enemies again.

The next step is to clean up the mess.

A large number of Cossack hussars pursued, chased all the way, and the blood flowed all the way. The border areas of the Uzbek Khanate were instantly bloodied. A total of four frontier tribes were mercilessly crushed into scum by two Cossack cavalry brigades.

Tens of thousands of nomads were killed, and the whole of northern Uzbekistan was in mourning.

It was only after the news reached the Khan's court in Bukhara that the nobles of the Uzbek Khan's court, as well as the Shaybani Khan, realized the seriousness of the matter.