That's it, with every step forward, William's army grows stronger. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After reaching the Cuman-Kipchak steppe, where the Uzbek army was infested, his army had swelled to nearly 100,000 men. In addition to the 35,000 regular troops, there were ten improvised Cossack cavalry brigades. Most of these ten cavalry brigades were large units with excess strength. Of these ten cavalry brigades, four cavalry brigades consisted entirely of centaurs.

It's as if before this, the Crimean Khan lamented. Almost all the centaurs in the entire steppe joined the expedition.

As soon as he thought of this, Crimean Khan felt that what he had thought before, what he was worried about, and what he was a threat to William was very ridiculous. With such means, such resources, and such prestige, even when his father Sarida Khan was alive, he was not able to recruit all the centaurs in the entire steppe.

This means that William's prestige among the steppe centaurs now surpasses that of his father, Sarida Khan.

How could such a great fellow be afraid of the rebellion of a little man like him?

Thinking so in his heart, Crimean Khan's heart was somewhat sour and heartbroken. After all, at first sight, when he first met William, he was a candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful countries in the world, and William was just the son of an unknown minor nobleman.

At that time, the gap between the two was very different, just like now, the gap between his status and William's is as big.

In the blink of an eye, it has changed so dramatically in just a few years. If there is no touch in the heart of the Crimean Khan, there is not a little thought, it is definitely nonsense.

However, at the same time, it was more relaxed and emotional than heartache and sourness. This shows that the mentality of being William's subordinate prevails over William's enemies and opponents. In this case, it may be difficult for this Crimean Khan to make up the idea of confrontation and confrontation with William.

That's it. After William's army reached the Cuman-Kipchak steppe, an army of 100,000 people covered the sky and the sun, and the nomadic herds, herds and cavalry herds easily occupied, covering a range of thousands of miles. When William's Khan's court was still three hundred kilometers away from the opponent's main army, the light cavalry scouts and forward troops on both sides had already fought dozens of encounters.

As I said before, in such an endless steppe, it is the most, the most, the most suitable place for cavalry battles.

Every day, William receives dozens of similar pieces of information. It is written about various squads, scouts, nomadic cavalry with Cossacks, battles with nomadic cavalry.

In such skirmishes, the training advantage of the Imperial army was not very great. The same goes for array and tactical superiority. In fact, this is exactly what the Uzbek army expects to see. They hope to take advantage of some small advantages in such a battle, so that they can add some confidence in the next main battle.

It's just that, unfortunately, this is destined to be an unattainable luxury.

In terms of the steppe cavalry tactics that temporarily took refuge in William and did not have much training and military reform, the combat effectiveness of the other side was not very high, and basically, the two sides were equal opponents on the same level. If you fight, you can beat one and a half pounds and eight taels, and no one can help anyone.

But with the elite horsemen of the Hereford family, things were different again. The light cavalry of the Hereford family is usually like this when playing against the opposing cavalry.

The light cavalry, armed with cuirasses and sophisticated steel sabers, suffered a little in long-range guerrilla warfare. Only a very small number of truly elite troops, armed with rifled precision carbines, could take on the nomadic cavalry and the most elite cavalry archers.

But in the course of close combat, the situation will be completely reversed, and the armor and scimitar will comprehensively surpass the opponent's light cavalry, and the opponent will have no temper. Even two-on-one is fearless.

When the other party tries to escape, they will be surprised to find that they are not as fast as the enemy - some steppe cavalry on good horses may be able to distance for a certain time, but they will eventually be overtaken.

Because the light cavalry of the Hereford family is usually one man and two horses, and more importantly, the endurance of the standard military horse of the Hereford family is far superior to that of the other party!

In this case, the light cavalry of the Hereford family naturally won more than lost.

And there is another case......

That's when they met the Grimford family's musketeers.

The original revolver was further reformed with new equipment. Today, in addition to two six-loading revolvers, a carbine with Mineer rounds is now standard equipment. This makes them in medium and long-range strikes, in no way inferior to any archers. It is still more lethal than ever.

In the face of these most elite musketeers, dressed in the most ornate silk uniforms, armed to the teeth, the other side is defeated in addition to defeat. Sometimes, the two sides can even play an extremely exaggerated record of tens to zero, or even 100 to 0.

In this way, the original plan to win a skirmish in a skirmish and boost morale with the high quality of its own cavalry completely failed. Not to mention the loss of soldiers, the loss of morale is even more of a headache. It is precisely because there are many defeats in such a small group battle that the enemy looks down on the possibility of victory in the war a lot. In this case, William met with several messengers.

These emissaries were all from the Uzbek army on the opposite side. Of course, it was the head of the tribe of the Uzbek Khanate, the envoy of the little king, the little khan and the chieftain. These guys are all here to negotiate things, they want to sell themselves for a good price, get the Hereford family to recognize their status or something, and then fight back in the next battle, and then win, and then logically become William's subordinates.

However, William didn't have a good face for these guys, these wall grasses and speculators. They snorted twice, but in the end they didn't reach an agreement.

This made William's subordinates feel very strange, and they didn't know why William did this. Obviously, the advantage of doing this is obvious, you can get an easy victory, reduce your losses or something.

But William's words quickly shut them up.

Well, yes, if you admit them next, if you exchange terms with them, then you can reduce the losses a little. But the Herefords, the Russian-Gothic Empire, had to pay much more than the benefits to be gained.

The other party did not betray the old master in vain. In the distribution of the spoils of war, in the distribution of slaves after the war and pastures and livestock after the war, they all wanted to take advantage.

Yes, William can certainly turn his face and disown people after the victory. But as the ruler of an empire, and a ruler who has taken out a few rulers in the world, William can't do it for such a small benefit.

But if he promised them and gave them these benefits, William was afraid that the tail would not be lost - these guys could surrender to William today because of the situation, and then they would naturally betray him tomorrow without hesitation. This kind of scum is the most unreliable. If they want to be bigger, it will have a big impact on William in the future.

He was going south and attacking the Zoroastrian Empire, and the Uzbek steppes would be his rear. There are a bunch of guys on the big rear who can betray at any time, and the tail is too big to fall. When you think about it, it feels unreliable.

In addition to this, there is another point, which is to show the strength of the empire.

The empire must show his strength at the first moment, as well as his overwhelming superiority. In order to facilitate the stabilization of the rear in the next war.

So, William decided in this war not to apply any stratagem, nor to any conspiracy. The two sides have to start a fight in a dignified manner, and then have a good fight. Defeat the other party in a dignified manner, crush it in a dignified manner, let these guys know what absolute strength is, and know to what extent the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides has reached. It also lets these guys know what fear is.

William believes that only by beating them so hard will they understand fear, will they understand surrender, will they be obedient, and will not choose to betray themselves in the vast majority of cases. In this case, he can confidently and boldly transfer the troops here, and confidently and boldly regard the entire Uzbek steppe as his sphere of influence, and then win the final victory.

Well, yes, that's it.

In the summer of 1747, June 22nd. When William's army was far away from his enemy, the Uzbek Khanate, the ambitious Shaybani Khan. That's what he thought in his heart.

The forward forces of both sides are currently mixing together, fighting desperately, and every second someone falls off their horses and is trampled into flesh by the fierce hooves of the horses. The commanders of both sides, the generals and chieftains, the Khan and Caesar, watched all this calmly. Taking advantage of the time of the scouts on both sides to fight, they tried their best to prepare their troops as quickly as possible, hoping that they could line up the array as quickly as possible, and then crush the enemy.

In fact, before that, the two sides also tested each other with the tactics of the steppe army - that is, interspersed with roundabouts. Great depth of detours and outflanking. This was something that was taken for granted in the battles of the steppe nomadic armies. At the same time, it is also the favorite and best tactic of any nomadic cavalry commander. Outflank in a roundabout, intercept the opponent's back, and then flank back and forth to win. Tactically, strategically, and psychologically, they can leave the deepest impression on the enemy.

It's just that it doesn't work on the other side. Because this tactic requires a premise, and this premise is that the speed of one's own army is faster than that of the opponent's army.

This was not possible for William and Shaybani Khan.