Chapter 966: Heart-Digging Tactics
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On the reckless and vast Kipchak steppe, the sand is blowing, the cold wind is like a knife, thousands of troops and horses are fighting to the death, the banner is broken, the sharp arrow pierces the bones, the murderous spirit excretes the sky, the clouds are frightened, and the nine heavens are shocked.
The Lord Commander Arslen was covered in blood and roared like thunder, like an angry lion, with his sharp saber slashed over, his helmet thrown off, and his hair soaked with the blood of the enemy, and with the fierce slashing and slashing, all scarlet blood was thrown out.
The 2,000 Mongol iron horsemen around him were like huge waves destroying the sand, constantly destroying the Ottoman army's formation, shooting arrows all over the air, swords and lights crisscrossing like lightning, and where the iron horsemen plowed, corpses were all over the field, and flesh and blood were flying.
In this battle, Arslen had only 3,000 men, and Rowick had 6,000, twice as many as him.
However, Arslen skillfully took advantage of the superior mobility of the Mongol cavalry, first directing Rowick's forces to the two flanks, and finally gaining the advantage in the front.
This process may seem simple, but in fact, there are several key conditions that must be met to do so.
First of all, it is necessary to take the initiative to enter and make a posture of attacking from both wings.
Secondly, the forces on the two flanks must not be large, but the enemy must feel threatened, so that the enemy can be forced to throw more troops into the flanks.
Then there is the refueling technique, adding some troops to the two wings at the right time to create an illusion to the enemy that your main attack direction is on the two wings.
To do this, not only do the cavalry on both flanks need to have super mobility, but they also need to be prepared to pay heavy casualties.
When the enemy's frontal forces are gradually at a disadvantage, immediately with a thunderous force, a heavy punch is struck straight to the enemy's heart, and the target is the enemy's commander.
As long as you can successfully kill the enemy commander, regardless of the battle situation on both flanks, the enemy will have only one end, that is, total collapse.
In that year, the Mongol army fought a decisive battle at Yehuling, which attacked the Jin Kingdom. Genghis Khan led the so-called 200,000 Mongol cavalry (the actual number is probably more than 100,000), almost all the family of the Mongol tribes, and the main force of the Jin Dynasty, which is known as 600,000 (the actual number may be about 450,000), to achieve a rare miracle in the world that the cavalry wins more with less.
In the first battle of the wild fox, Genghis Khan used this kind of heart-digging tactic.
This tactic, which can be used in both large-scale battles and small- and medium-sized battles, is a tactic that the Mongols evolved from observing wolves hunting for food.
When wolves hunt for food, they usually don't pounce directly. Instead, a small number of wolves are sent to harass and intimidate from other directions, and after attracting the attention of the prey to other directions, the head wolf will pounce on it with the main force of the wolf pack.
At this moment, Arslen is the head wolf, with two thousand Mongolian wolf troops, with an extremely fierce offensive, directly hitting the heart of the enemy, and the 1,500 Ottoman cavalry around Rowick was shot down by Arslen after the banner was shot down. Suddenly there was chaos, and two thousand Mongolian iron horsemen rushed through like wolves, killing bloody winds and blood rain.
Arslen became more and more courageous. Constantly chiseled through the enemy formation, rushing towards Rowick, Rowick could not avoid it, one by one. was shot down by Arslene's mount, and the nearby soldiers desperately rescued each other and rushed up one by one. Block Arslen like a meat shield.
"Ahh Every time Arslen made a knife, he would roar wildly, and the blood on his face and Sensen's white teeth made him look like a killing god, and the roar shocked people's hearts.
Burst! The saber slashed, and another head flew up, and the headless corpse was taken out by the war horse several steps away before falling off the horse.
When Alslen struggled to kill the "meat shields", he saw that Rowick had been rescued by his subordinates, and desperately fled into the distance.
"Ahh
"Ahh
Two thousand Mongolian horsemen roared like thunder, urging the horses to chase wildly. As soon as the commander fled, the Ottoman and Kazakh coalition immediately collapsed, and was chased and killed by the Mongol wolf army all the way.
The murderous spirit of the tomb destroyed the mountains and rivers, and the roar of victory resounded through the vast prairie, and the scattered and fleeing enemies were like headless flies scurrying around on the grassland, the sound of horses' hooves was far away, and the corpses were everywhere.
Arslen pursued all the way for thirty or forty miles, until he approached the Kazakh Xiaoziyu Aktobe, and then gave up.
In this battle, Arslen annihilated more than 2,000 enemies with weak forces and captured a large number of war horses and weapons.
There were less than 4,000 who could escape back with Rowick, and all of them lost their armor and lost their armor, and the wolves were unbearable, and it was difficult to expect them to have the courage to go to the battlefield again in the short term.
This time, the Ottoman army that came to reinforce Kazakhstan, as many as 50,000, was commanded by the Ottoman governor of the Greater Caucasus, Arthurus, who was a man of about forty years old, with eagle eyes and a high nose, and thin lips, giving people a sense of fortitude and meanness.
The Greater Caucasus has always been a battleground for soldiers, and now although the Ottoman influence has extended into the steppes of Eastern Europe, except for Tsarist Russia, no country can threaten the security of the Greater Caucasus.
However, given the importance of the strategic position of the Greater Caucasus, the Ottomans were still stationed in elite troops all year round.
Since Arthurus became governor of the Greater Caucasus, he has been actively preparing for an attack on the Volga valley and forcing Tsarist Russia to submit to it.
This time, the Qin army suddenly appeared in Central Asia and captured the Ottoman Empire's quasi-empress Agul, which was an absolutely intolerable insult to the Ottoman Empire.
Arthurus was ordered to lead an army of 50,000 to come, first of course, to teach the Qin people a good lesson, and secondly, to include Kazakhstan into the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and he was determined to win.
But he never expected that as soon as he started the battle, Lowwick was defeated, which made Arthurus lose face and couldn't even raise his head in front of the Kazakhs.
He looked coldly at Rowick kneeling on it, holding the hilt of the knife at his waist, and the green tendons in his hand jumped suddenly, "Get out!" Eventualus resisted the urge to kill, and with a loud shout, he frightened Rowick into a faceless man, and crawled out of the way.
Lowik was the Empress Dowager, and the current caliph Mohammed IV was only ten years old, and the power of the Ottomans was actually in the hands of the Empress Dowager Koseim.
Coseme was a very intelligent and power-hungry woman. The military and political affairs of the Ottoman Empire were now at his disposal, which made the governors everywhere very dissatisfied, including Arthurus. Rowick was sent by Queen Coseme to oversee him.
Coseme is in power, and Arthurius is helpless, this time Coseme's henchman general Lowwick was defeated in the first battle, and Arthurius felt that he could do something from it.
After he drove Rowick out, he sent people to reconnoiter the movements of the Qin army, wrote to Istanbul, and at the same time sent letters to the governors of Aleppo, Baghdad, Bitlis, and other places with whom he was befriended, so that they could work together to finally achieve the goal of letting the harem relinquish power.
As for the Qin army, although Arthurius was vigilant, he did not regard it as the biggest threat, he believed that this defeat was completely due to the improper command of Rowick's rice bucket, and it did not mean how much the Qin army had at stake.
And after Arslen found out the enemy situation in Akto's other cities, he didn't dare to venture any further, and hurriedly reported back to Li Ding.
Arthuria, the governor of the Greater Caucasus, brought 50,000 Ottoman troops, plus the Kazakh middle and small accounts combined, there were nearly 50,000 troops.
In other words, what Li Ding and they will face will be the enemy's 100,000 army.
Out of prudence, Yu Xingguo said: "General, we only have more than 10,000 horses, and we have not had a good rest in the west, and the soldiers are very tired, so I think it is really inappropriate to fight a decisive battle with ten times the enemy at this time."
I first retreated to the Kazakh Central Tent, resting and recuperating while trying to get in touch with General Su Jin in the south, so that we could take care of each other. In addition, at present, the tens of thousands of troops of General Chebai are still far away in Eastern Siberia, and I think it is better to wait until next summer, when the tens of thousands of troops of Chebai arrive, and then make plans. ”
Chief of Staff Xie Yun also said: "General, I also agree with what Lord Yu said, the Ottoman tens of thousands of troops arrived, but they did not immediately come to find our army, but stopped at Aktobe, which may be a little strange, which also needs to be explored first, so as to divide the strong enemy and break it down." ”
Arslen hurriedly said: "Lord Yu, Chief of Staff, in fact, the Ottoman army is nothing to fear, although they are numerous, their combat effectiveness is not necessarily strong. As long as we find their weaknesses, it will not be difficult to defeat them. ”
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