In the spring of 1744, when the flames of war between the old and new sects were burning into the territory of the Swabian family, the nomads supported by the Hereford family also gave up their grazing life in pursuit of water and grass in the Cuman-Kipchak steppe, and began to fight to the death with the people supported by the dark elves. www.biquge.info The nomads who rode fast horses and armed with all kinds of rudimentary weapons and bows and arrows were very sad to find that their opponents were more powerful than they had imagined.

Most of these nomadic cavalry, supported by the Hereford family, have been equipped with new weapons and armor. A large number of them were equipped with cuirass armor, as well as a full set of harnesses. In addition, the rudimentary weapons and equipment in their hands were also replaced by steel sabers with sharp blood. The only weapons and equipment that have been retained are the traditional bow and arrow.

At this point, the Hereford family is more helpless. They have completely abandoned the traditional weapon of the bow and arrow. Only a very small number of Cossacks who were good at hunting, or who had traditions, were equipped with them. The well-developed military industry of the Hereford family did not produce a single bow or a single beam of arrows.

The Hereford family also had no idea of changing their production policy for the sake of these guys. What they brought for these guys were a large number of carbines, as well as some short-barreled handguns, and a very small number of them, to give to those Cossack Gaimant revolvers.

Replacing bows and arrows with muskets was a matter of course for the Cossacks, something that had to be done. It's just that it's one problem for them to abandon the traditional bow and arrow, and it's another to train them to be good enough to handle the marksmanship.

At least until the end of this war against the dark elves, William felt that he did not need to consider the issue of large-scale costume change of the steppe nomadic tribes.

These steppe nomadic tribes have no intention of taking the initiative to change their costumes. These guys are quite arrogant, and feel that their traditional weapons and equipment, that is, bows and arrows, as well as traditional nomadic tactics, are very useful. There is no need for the Hereford family to make irresponsible comments.

In this case, the officers and commanders of the Hereford family did not force it.

However, in the ensuing battle, these newly baked Cossack Gaimantes, at a speed of 108,000 kilometers per hour, changed their minds in the shortest possible time - and that was after seeing the way the Hereford family fought.

The Hereford family, under William's leadership, is arguably the youngest, most changing, and most unconventional and innovative army in the world today.

It's like the steppe nomadic independent cavalry brigade of the Hereford family, that is, the 1st Cossack Cavalry Brigade, and their training, equipment, and tactics have a total of two sets.

In the face of the human world, the well-arrayed regular army, and in positional warfare, the Cossacks liked to act like regular cavalry, wielding sabers, leveling their rifles, and then charging in dense arrays or specialized assault arrays. And in the face of the eastern, steppe nomadic cavalry, the Cossacks had two tactics.

One of them is when facing nomads who are inferior to them in combat and have poor riding skills. They will strike with classic nomadic tactics. It's just that their cavalry bows were replaced with carbines and short-barreled handguns. At medium ranges, carbines are used for firing, and at close ranges with short-barreled handguns. Complete two rounds of shooting before the two horses on both sides stagger together.

Usually after this, the enemy, who is inferior to them, will collapse. Even if there is still a small amount of resistance, they will draw their sabers and turn them into a rolling gourd in one fell swoop.

And when faced with a nomadic enemy who was better than them, the Cossacks would choose to dismount and fight on foot. These Cossacks would form a horizontal column like line infantry, and then bayonets, forming an impenetrable array of enemy cavalry. Then cooperate with a small number of cavalry.

In this case, though, there is no way to get a big win. However, in the face of the attack of the superior enemy, he can protect himself as much as possible.

It was by using such a flexible and changeable tactic that the Cossack troops were able to mix like fish in water in the Cuman-Kipchak steppe. The nomads who killed were frightened and ran away. This tactic of becoming cavalry when encountering line infantry and cavalry being line infantry. It gives people the feeling of a "bat" that is neither a bird nor a beast.

Plus these guys belong to the Hereford family, such a Gothic civilization empire. But it is itself a group of steppe nomadic cultures. The two are different, distorted, changing, and the desire to be able to remain independent. The same is "neither bird nor beast".

During William's expeditions, quite a few Cossacks began to call themselves bats. Even many Cossack hetmen with a more advanced degree of Gothicization began to use bats as their banners and coats of arms.

William didn't think it mattered. In a sense, for the Cossacks to maintain their independence was a good thing for maintaining the rule of the Hereford family. This will cause estrangement and tension between them and the Janissaries of House Hereford. It will destabilize the Praetorian Guard, and when the rule of the kingdom is threatened, there will be an army to rely on.

Of course, in this situation, the Cossacks still do not have mature dogs. If something really happens, it still won't come in handy. But William also knew that the time had come for them to really come in handy. It's so early that maybe I won't see it when I'm alive......

All in all, the Cossacks, the wind and waves in the steppe, are moving in a direction favorable to the Hereford family. William began to wonder if it was necessary to move a part of the Cossacks to that place after the capture of Tronika. After all, that place would be harassed by the Dark Elf pirates, and it was not suitable for safe farming.

And if too many Janissaries were deployed there, it would affect the strength of the other fronts of the Hereford family.

Therefore, turning it into a grazing area for the Cossacks, who were to fight against the possible arrival of the Dark Elf pirates, was a very pleasant and low-cost tactic.

At the same time, William believed that there would be many Cossacks who would be willing to migrate to the relatively warm, affluent and fertile Tronika region. After all, that area was the core area of their former master, the centaurs of Tartaria. In the impressions and memories of the Cossacks, it was a rather rich and fertile land. During the reign of the Tartariya Khanate, Sarida Khan did not allow the Cuman-Kipchak nomads to migrate to the region. Only the centaurs' core interests, the tribes that are the most loyal and closest to centaurs, are eligible to graze in this area.

William is confident that they will be grateful for the decision of the Hereford family.

Although it is said that the current Tronica has decayed. Moreover, William also believed that under the influence of the ensuing back and forth with the dark elves, and the simple minds of the steppe nomads who would only destroy and not build, the area would become more dilapidated and decayed.

Well, but it doesn't matter. With naval forces without access to the Black Sea, William did not think at all about managing the Crimean peninsula well. It's much better to have this area destroyed and turned into ruins than to run the area well and wait for the Dark Elf pirates to loot it.

The only area that William really cared about was Ruthenia. Even the southern regions of Ruthenia, can be abandoned. He only needs the northern part of Ruthenia, as well as the central part of Ruthenia, this area around the city of Kyiv!

It's just a pity that William's idea didn't work out.

It was at the same time that the cavalry had the upper hand in the Cuman-Kipchak steppe, that another cavalry brigade of Hereford, as well as the provisional 2nd Cossack Cavalry Brigade, the Crimean Khan and his cronies centaur troops, failed in their strategy of seizing Kiev.

Although before this, the Slavi nobles of the Kiev City Council had secretly sent emissaries to the Hereford family. But after the vanguard army of the dark elves arrived, they still surrendered without hesitation and without a little resistance.

The Dark Elves are one step faster than the Hereford family. When the cavalry of the Hereford family arrived here, they saw the banner of the white moon raised at the head of the city of Kiev.

Cavalry was not good at sieges. So, although the vanguard of the dark elves is not very strong. But they still did not dare to attack.

The Crimean Khan, as well as the commander of the cavalry brigade, had to shake their heads and sigh, and then sent a message to the rear as fast as they could, informing William of the defeat, and hoping that William would issue a new order, preferably to send more troops to fight alongside his side. Capture the city of Kyiv.

The news reached Novgorod, and William had a great headache about it. Send troops, no problem. Attacking Kyiv is also a matter of course.

The question is whether the city of Kyiv will survive the end of this war?

Now, the Dark Elves and the Hereford family are focused on Kyiv and vow to take control of the city. The reason for this is that the city of Kyiv is the only area in Ruthenia that is inhabited enough by humans today.

People, settlements, territories that can provide sufficient resources and supplies. This is the focus of contention between the two sides.

So, if the Hereford family won the war, but in the course of the war, the whole of Kyiv was destroyed by the war, so that after the war, the city could not play any role, then what was the point of capturing the city?

Defeating the Dark Elves is easy. The difficulty is how to defeat the dark elves while maintaining the vitality of the city as much as possible. That's what really bothered William.