Sukhbalu began to slow down the pace of his horse's running, intending to turn the cavalry back, then choose a certain direction and launch a fierce attack.
This kind of deceleration and turning in front of the enemy is actually very dangerous. Whether the enemy covers it with arrows or takes the opportunity to launch a short charge, it may cause huge casualties. But Sukhbalu himself is a Mongolian with rich combat experience. , so he was very sure that after the Huoluolasi people were cut into two pieces, their command was completely messed up, and they couldn't care about it.
The grassland people are accustomed to hardship, and they have accumulated countless fighting instincts in their bodies, so every Mongolian is the best rider and hunter; every ten Mongolians, or even every hundred Mongolians, can form a group of the same size. Below, the most elite and brave army.
But these alone did not allow the Mongols to gain the upper hand in the battle with the Jurchens. In the past many years, the Jin Kingdom invaded the grasslands with tens of thousands of people each time. With their strict formations, they seemed to be entering uninhabited territory. In fact, the ministries do not have the ability to confront each other head-on.
It was only with Genghis Khan that the Mongols formed armies of thousands of men or even larger, and mastered the ability to dispatch and fight an army of ten thousand people.
Genghis Khan believed that hunting was the legitimate duty of an officer, and it was the duty of soldiers and soldiers to obtain lessons and training from it. Under his rule, the Mongolian army enforced regular hunting that was equivalent to military training, and as the scope of control expanded With the expansion, the scale of hunting has also grown from a thousand people, to ten thousand people, to more than 100,000 people.
When the Mongolian Uluses overran the grasslands, a large-scale hunt would take two to three months and spread out over a vast area of several hundred miles. Each Mongolian belonged to dozens of thousands of households participating in the hunt. People need to march day and night, drive away wild animals at any time, maintain a tight blockade, and often run hundreds of miles to respond to the Khan's emergency dispatch and execute various orders.
Sukhbalu still remembers that when the hunting circle was reduced to two or three miles, he and tens of thousands of Mongolian warriors surrounded the circle, standing side by side. Everyone seemed to have turned into a mountain and an iron-like city. No matter how many thousands of people were in the circle, Tens of thousands of beasts screamed in terror, but they could only be shot and killed by the cowards.
This kind of training is the best exercise. People who have participated in hunting have developed their command and coordination skills, and have learned the secrets of war. When they gather next time, they will become an unstoppable southern invasion force like a raging wave.
Sukhbalu himself was once a member of the southern invasion army. At that time, he served as a centurion. After his meritorious service in the fierce battle at Yehuling, he was transferred to attack the Xia Kingdom and served as an envoy stationed in Zhongxing Mansion. The results are several When he returned to China years later, he heard that the Mongolian army suffered successive losses in the Central Plains, so that Genghis Khan had to use the banner of the Western Expedition to avoid direct confrontation with them.
Having been away from the grassland for several years, Sukhbalu was more sensitive to changes in the situation than ordinary people.
He vaguely felt that the outcome of the confrontation between the grasslands and the Central Plains was related to a greater reversal of strength and weakness. It was not as simple as Genghis Khan losing to the Zhou Emperor Guo Ning, or the Divine Arrow General Zhebie falling into a trap to lure the enemy. That's why he He would eagerly seek refuge with Da Zhou, trying to find a new path for himself and his subordinates.
His choice caused great turmoil within the Qianhu tribe to which he belonged, so much so that when he led his troops southward, some members of his tribe fled or even rebelled along the way. He suppressed and punished along the way, and by the time he settled in Xuande, his hands were ready
Stained with the blood of the people.
Sukhbalu has no regrets about this.
The more familiar he became with the Central Plains and the Great Zhou Dynasty, the more he believed that his choice was correct. And the embarrassing posture of the Huoluolasi people convinced him that the strength of the Mongolian army as a whole had little to do with the bravery of the Mongols themselves.
relation.
Perhaps it comes more from Genghis Khan's genius and some achievements created by the current situation. Once Genghis Khan temporarily couldn't take care of the grassland, and the current situation did not allow it, the Mongolian army could not maintain the cycle of continuous battles and continuous harvests, so its combat capabilities
It can't be maintained forever.
What is even more troublesome is that the Great Mongolia has been established for more than ten years, but its internal management still maintains the unrestrained and rough style of the grassland people, which is far less meticulous than that of the Central Plains.
The Great Zhou Dynasty had not fought a war for two or three years. However, the Central Plains was prosperous and the court was able to manage things well. Every year, a huge amount of money was invested in the military academies, and hundreds or even thousands of elite soldiers and generals were trained hard in the military academies.
For example, Sukhbalu went to the military academy in Datong Prefecture. Except for the difficulty in Chinese dictation, it took him three months to pass all the courses required for junior officers in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Three months later, he did not return to the army, but was transferred to the senior military academy in Tianjin Prefecture, where he served as an instructor and gave lectures to officers above the general level, teaching about the training, selection and common tactics of the Mongolian cavalry.
While teaching, he also occasionally attended courses at the Tianjin Military Academy, and even boarded a sea-going ship, where he was exposed to a little bit of boarding warfare at sea.
As for other courses, such as tactics, strategy, geography, arithmetic, military system, national history, etc., Sukhbaru was dizzy and completely confused after listening to them, but he knew from this that after the officers learned these,
The army will be even more powerful.
The Central Plains had such a method, how could the grasslands deal with it? Without the proceeds from plunder, it would be impossible to gather large armies and organize hunting, and many combat skills would not be spread and passed on.
Those things were accumulated bit by bit during the rise of Genghis Khan, and they are the treasures that the Mongolian army relies on to dominate the world! The nobles on the grassland, do you have a solution to this?
No.
They don't even feel the problem.
As a result, the problem became more and more serious. As a result, over the past few years, even the powerful Qianhu who were left behind by Genghis Khan in the grasslands could not avoid being weak, let alone the Qianhu now who were already marginalized and vulnerable to suppression.
At this moment, Sukhbalu, as the vanguard of the entire army, only brought a few hundred cavalry to suppress them, but he had already crushed them to the point of disgrace!
Amid Sukhbalu's shouts, the cavalry completed its turn. The Khoraras felt the threat from the enemy behind them, but they did not do anything to hinder this except being busy reorganizing the team.
Some Mongolian officers, who were obviously very experienced, kept shouting and ordering some cavalry who had strayed too far away from their own unit to come back.
If the cavalry is experienced on the battlefield, it can keep the formation loose and flexible, and can also be assembled at any time to launch attacks. Han'er's military book calls the cavalry "the soldiers of clutches", which is what it means.
But these Huoluosi people are not only loose, they are simply scattered and chaotic. Most of them rely on small groups of elites to maintain their formation, but they can't be closely coordinated. They are more like ten-man teams that were forcibly kneaded into a hundred people.
Although the Centurions and the Centurions were shouting one after another, they could not see the movement of cooperation with each other.
"A bunch of trash! These people have forgotten all about Dahan's Zasa! What's the difference between this and the flocks of pheasants on the beach?"
A cavalryman who was nearly fifty years old rode his horse beside Sukhbalu. Seeing this, he couldn't help but complain, as if he had forgotten that they were already enemies.
Sukhbalu glanced at him and said in a slightly more serious tone: "It's Genghis Khan of Mongolia, not the Great Khan."
Turning back, he continued to stare at the cavalry on the opposite side.
He noticed that some of the Huoluosi people who were far away from the team were not out of lack of experience. They wanted to run away and get away from the battlefield, but they were stopped by their superiors and could only roar in fear and anger.
Those who can still remain calm at this time only account for less than 10% of the hundreds of cavalry, twenty or thirty cavalry.
In a thousand Mongolian households, the proportion of people who can truly serve as the backbone of the army is only 10%. These people have experienced many wars and won considerable status in the war. They have Batu'er, Xue Chan, Bo Kuo and others.
They have the title of class, and have mastered a number of Harachu and Boul. Therefore, they can be supported for a long time, and they can have considerable time to practice combat skills every day and review the battle deeds of previous years.
These people were all silent because they felt that their side was already at a disadvantage, and it was a disadvantage that could very well lead to death and annihilation.
These people are the elite of the Mongolian army, and they have nothing to take seriously except killing and looting. In their eyes, even ordinary Mongolians are pariahs who can be killed at will, let alone the army of Han'er in the Central Plains.
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But they never thought that one day they would encounter a Central Plains army composed of ordinary Mongolians led by Mongolian nobles!
How is this different from the Yi Army of the Jin Kingdom? Why did the Mongols sacrifice their lives for the Central Plains people?
They don't understand, they are depressed, they are sad and angry. But they feel even more scared.
Because compared with the Huoluo Lasi people running randomly, the Zhou army cavalry attacking from the opposite side was more like the Mongolian army in its heyday, and even compared to the Qixue of the Great Khan.
Their formation is equally loose, but has a strict sequence, and they advance slowly with almost the same rhythm. The closer they get, the more distinctive the sophisticated armor and weapons on their bodies are, and the sound of the collision of metal armor leaves merges with the rumble of hoofbeats.
, then a strong chilling air came out, which was frightening.
"Damn it, the Zhou Dynasty would actually trust the Mongols? This traitor Sukhbalu is really getting fat!" someone complained angrily.