Chapter 416: Mongol Legion

After the continuous brainwashing and hypnosis of the Far Eastern Company, an unwilling fire was planted in the hearts of these bitter Mongolian herdsmen. In the past, these forced herdsmen had never thought about these problems, because this has been the case on the grassland since ancient times, and they were born to starve and be poor.

In the first few grievance meetings, no herdsmen came forward to tell their tragic experiences, so Ma Qing privately won over some more active herdsmen among the Mongol captives and asked them to go up and tell their tragic experiences first.

Among these people is Bagen, who was originally going to be a dog, and obeyed the orders of the Han master. I heard that if the table is good this time, you will get a bottle of corn stalk wine, and this product will be thrown to the ground in an instant.

At a grievance meeting, he was the first to rush forward, and he didn't care about anything for the bottle of corn straw wine. went up and began to follow the method taught by Ma Qing, slowly stating his tragic fate.

This guy actually went up to act, and then made him cry bitterly, and finally cried, this is all a script that Ma Qing has studied, just act according to it.

Bagen is also a tendon, he went back to practice for a long time, and made this set very ripe. After going up, this product began to desperately substitute in, but I didn't expect to be really into the play while acting.

He remembered that his grandmother had saved rations, and she had to feed him and do heavy work every day. Grandma was hungry until she died, but she just held his hand, and his hand was about to break.

As he spoke, he began to cry, this is really not acting, and the suffering of Bagen can be talked about for days and nights. Almost all of these Mongolian Tatars had the same experience as Bagan, so the stories he told touched all Mongolian herders.

The venue of the entire grievance meeting was filled with endless sadness. After Bagan went down, the others began to enthusiastically go up to complain, for a whole day. The crying in the venue of the grievance meeting shook the sky.

In the end, it was Bagen who rushed forward, complaining hoarsely about the atrocities of those tribes on the grassland, and calling on all the poor herdsmen to unite and rob their pastures, their cattle and sheep, and their women.

The following is the bitter persecution of the Mongolian herdsmen's feelings. The critical point had been reached, and they all shouted loudly with Bagan, and the grief and indignation that had been brewing for a day finally broke out at this moment.

Under the conscious guidance of the political workers of the Far Eastern Company, the seeds of hatred have been planted in the hearts of Mongolian herdsmen. They were all convinced that the main culprit of their suffering was those nobles on the grassland.

Once the unwillingness in their hearts turns into hatred, their psychology will become distorted, and they have always been full of jealousy of those nobles. and the innate greed in the blood, I can't wait to ride on the horse now to rob those nobles of their faces.

They used to have this kind of thought, but it has been continued in this way for thousands of years on the grassland, and such a harsh environment on the grassland, without the protection of the tribe, simple individuals cannot survive at all.

They were accustomed to endure the oppression of the nobles. Without a strong force to support the vast number of herdsmen, no matter how many people there are, they will be scattered. Even if there are a few heroes in troubled times, they will lead a group of hard workers to fight the world. In the end, it didn't change anything, it just changed the face of a group of nobles.

After more than a month of political and ideological education. The herdsmen's hearts were already full of hatred for the nobles of the steppe. Of course, it's more of an extremely distorted mentality. They were all looking forward to when they would be able to rob those nobles in the grassland.

Companies are all about taking advantage of the greed of herders. Only by letting them plunder frantically can these hard-pressed herdsmen maintain their vigorous fighting power. Let them loot and kill, psychologically, let the bloody courage of murder stimulate their belligerence and primitive courage, making these Mongols extremely brave and savage warriors.

The love of the Mongol captives was so high. The Central Military Commission also transferred a large number of experienced backbone noncommissioned officers from various units in due course to set up a Mongolian cavalry corps training team. Prepare for the next step in arming Mongolian herders.

As soon as the teaching team was formed, soldiers were selected from among the Mongol captives. In fact, there is really nothing to pick, as long as these Mongolian Tatars are on war horses, everyone is a warrior.

A European missionary spoke of his impressions of the Mongol cavalry during an audience with Möngke Khan. It was "they had big heads, small eyes, and surprisingly wide shoulders, and they ate on horses, slept on horses, and held meetings, and they had not dismounted for about months, and their leather clothes had rotted and stuck to their skin, and in order not to breed parasites, they had cut their faces and scarred them, so that they did not grow beards." ”

At the height of the Mongol Empire, the entire empire was a fighting society, and almost everyone was a professional soldier. They dealt with the armies of Europe, consisting of a handful of hulking knights and large groups of half-naked villagers, which were like chopping melons and vegetables.

In fact, the Mongol cavalry could not at any time outmaneuver one-on-one against the European heavy armoured cavalry, whose spears and swords were far more lethal than the sabers, spears or maces in the hands of the Mongol cavalry. The horses of the European cavalry were also much taller than the Mongol horses. However, the strategy and tactics of the Mongol cavalry were far inferior to those of the European cavalry.

The battles of European armies, no matter how large the armies, were fought in small theaters. Moreover, the European armies had the usual chivalrous style and believed in front-to-head one-on-one dignified battles, and when they met the Mongol army, which could be used as a battlefield for a hundred miles and was accustomed to roundabouts, they did encounter unimaginable war scenes.

Unlike the Eastern armies, the Western armies used tight formations from the very beginning, with special emphasis on highlighting the offensive and protective power of the main battle, and it was obvious that the impact of this tactic was far from comparable to that of the Eastern armies, but its weaknesses were also very prominent: the troops were inconvenient to turn, and they had to always pay attention to maintaining a tight formation.

In the use of tactics, the Mongols particularly emphasized the mobility of their troops, and the main tactical characteristics were long-distance outflanking and detouring, and attacking in separate and combined directions. The Mongols maneuvered over long distances unprecedented in history, often maneuvering hundreds of miles on a large scale, making it difficult for the enemy to anticipate and guard against their attacks. They also rarely relied on mere frontal impact in combat.

The usual method used is that in the face of the enemy's well-organized phalanx, the Mongol cavalry formed several stormtroopers, first taking turns shooting arrows into the phalanx to weaken the enemy's strength, and if the enemy still did not waver, they let these stormtroopers take turns to attack the phalanx from different directions, and while impacting and detouring, as long as they found which side of the array was shaking, they immediately concentrated the whole army to attack here.

The knights of the allied European armies began to charge, and the Mongols always led the knights of Europe into scattered pursuits, and always kept out of the short range of European bows and arrows, and constantly covered the pursuing enemy troops with a rain of arrows.

During the pursuit, the previously neat formation became scattered, and the infantry lagged far behind. When the European knights were exhausted under the weight of their armor, the Mongols bombarded them with artillery and poison balls filled with croton and arsenic. European knights who fell off their horses were often restrained due to their heavy armor and limited mobility. The Mongol cavalry took their lives one by one with spears and sabers.

The enemy's swords could not cope with long-range bows and arrows, and the Mongol army had a complete advantage. The arrows of the Mongol cavalry could not penetrate the armor of the European knights and did no damage. Seeing that the enemy's armor was effective against the arrows they fired, they switched to shooting the enemy's mounts, and the knights who fell off their horses became the broilers of the Mongol cavalry to slash at will. Because the heavy armor can't climb, and you can't run, you can only stretch your neck and wait for death.

When the general attack was launched, the Mongol cavalry was all replaced with new horses, and the thousands of horses were like a landslide, unstoppable. Once the breakthrough occurred, the formation of the panicked semi-professional armies of Europe would be disrupted, and the Mongol cavalry would face the chaotic enemy as if it were a chicken, and the whole process would resemble the Mongols' daily hunting.

Although the Mongol Empire has declined, if the Mongols are the second in this era, no one dares to be the first.

Mongols have been warriors since childhood. Growing up on horseback, the toy of childhood was a bow and arrow, and as an adult, he was already a professional soldier. Because they grew up in a cold and difficult environment, they all have extremely tenacious and hard-working personalities, and almost never pay attention to material conditions.

Therefore, the focus of the Military Commission's selection of soldiers is not to care about the soldiers' plain habits, but to choose those hardships on the grasslands, just like the Mongolian hardship herdsmen who have the same hardship experience as Bagen. Once they are armed, these former hard herdsmen are a nightmare for the steppe nobility.

When the Mongol captives heard that the Far East was going to recruit troops from among them, they were so excited that they couldn't even sleep. The Far East's military policy was to select Mongol prisoners who were excellent in peacetime.

As long as he is elected by the Far East, the treatment and benefits will be turned upside down. Not only can you eat three full meals a day, but you don't have to get up early and do hard work at night. The most important thing is that only by becoming a member of the Far Eastern Mongolian cavalry corps can you have the opportunity to go to the steppe to raid those nobles in the future. So these Mongol captives were crazy and wanted to be part of the Mongol cavalry corps in the Far East.

But the first batch of Mongolian cavalry recruited and selected, only a pitiful six hundred. This is a standard configuration of a cavalry battalion. The Mongol Corps will be a purely cavalry unit, and all combat logistical support units will be separately equipped by the Military Commission. To put it bluntly, the cavalry units of the Mongol legions are pure cavalry assault troops, and they will also use the tactics of the Mongol Empire as the main mobile force in the Far East fighting in the steppes. (To be continued......)

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