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The Mongol cavalry that once swept across the Eurasian continent was by no means reflected in the ferocity of the head-on battle.

The descendants of these wolf clans have inherited the ferocity and cunning of wolves, and their victories are usually not won by hard fighting, but by using guò mobile and flexible tactics and exquisite cooperation to defeat enemies who are more powerful than them.

Like Arslen this time, if he fought head-on with his 3,000 Mongol light cavalry and 1,000 Cossack cavalry, the final outcome would be unpredictable.

But he resorted to a pocket tactic of spreading out a line of 3,000 cavalry, which at first glance seemed weak at every point, in which case almost all the enemy would concentrate their forces and rush to the middle of the Mongol line-like formation to take their commander.

Few people realized that the Mongols could fight without losing the upper hand, and at the same time could hold off the enemy's pursuit with few casualties.

This time, Arslen paid the price of 100 casualties in the front, and then exchanged for dozens of enemy casualties, using more than 100 human corpses and horse corpses on both sides of the enemy and us, to form a barrier, making it difficult for the cavalry to rush through smoothly.

And once your charge is slightly blocked, the Mongol cavalry flanked by both flanks will fiercely smash into your soft tendons, killing you to the ground, and then the men and horses on the front will bounce back, forming a situation of forcing you on three sides.

It was very difficult for the cavalry to turn their heads, especially when they were trapped on three sides and in chaos, it was impossible to quickly turn around and escape, so they could actually trap the enemy to death if they were surrounded on three sides.

In this battle, without Li Ding's help, Arslene successfully annihilated a thousand Cossack cavalry. Coach Khmelniki was captured alive.

In the past, the Mongols used a variety of clever tactics to defeat many European legions that were more powerful than them.

Li Ding watched this bloody battle attentively. I learned a lot from it. When he set out on the expedition, Qin Mu asked people to collect some information about the Mongolian expedition to the west. Let him see and learn more on the way, and attract more useful knowledge from the Mongols.

In war, weapons are important, but they are definitely not the only magic weapon for victory, and if you rely too much on them, they may become your Achilles' weakness.

Therefore, although the weapons of the Qin army are advanced now, Li Ding cannot regard them as his only reliance, and he still has to study hard.

A wonderful cavalry decisive battle came to an end, and the grassland was littered with corpses. The ownerless war horse raised its head and screamed, lingering beside the corpse of its master.

Vultures from the sky flew down in flocks and pecked at the corpses. The jackals, tigers and leopards on the ground also began to watch from afar, ready to enjoy a sumptuous meal.

According to the practice of the Mongols, all the Mongol soldiers who died in battle were not buried.

The Mongols believed that wolves were messengers to heaven who led their souls after death, so the Mongols did not enter the earth after death and kept their corpses in the places where the wolves were infested. Let the wolves eat their bodies, and only then will their souls be led by the wolves to immortality.

Li Ding rewarded Arslen and then had the few captives separated. Torture the collateral to make them confess the military deployment of Tsarist Russia in East and Siberia.

With some of these confessions, it is possible to follow the map. Avoid taking a lot of detours and wasting a lot of time.

Li Ding then summoned the generals to discuss the matter. Xie Yun, one of the staff officers of the accompanying army, pointed to the map and explained to the generals the enemy situation in East and Siberia: "According to the information obtained from the interrogation of the prisoners just now. The total strength of the Rakshasa State in East and West is only about 70,000 people, of which the largest garrison in Kashrek, the capital of the former Siberian Khanate, reaches 2,000 men and horses, and most of them are elite Cossack cavalry.

others like Tomsk, Upper, Middle and Lower Velyuysk, Verkhoyansk, Nizhneyansk; Peterszvelsk, Upper and Central, Lower Kolymusk, Okhotsk Fort, etc., more than a thousand, less than one or two hundred.

These castles were usually built of logs, so they were not very large, and the garrison consisted mostly of Cossack cavalry, with only a small number of Rakshasas.

In addition, among the few tribes they conquered, there were probably 20,000 to 30,000 troops, although these few tribes were poorly armed, but they had lived in the bitter cold of the extreme north for generations, and they were tall, powerful, and resistant to severe cold, which should not be underestimated.

However, there is one thing that can probably be exploited, the Cossack cavalry is brutal by nature, bullying and insulting those few tribes at will, these minority tribes are not willing to be enslaved by the Rakshasa State, if we can counter this point, it is possible to let these few tribes be used by us. ”

After Xie Yun finished speaking, Yu Xingguo, the commander of the army, stroked his beard and said: "General, although the troops of the Rakshasa Kingdom in East and Siberia are not much, but the various cities are scattered all over the place, some are thousands of miles apart, if we go to uproot them one by one, I am afraid it will be too late."

It's already July, and in this far north, the harsh winter comes early, and it may be snowing heavily in August and September, and at that time, we can't move an inch. ”

Li Dingding nodded and said, "What do you have to build?" ”

Wu Dongshan, another staff officer of the army, said: "General, my subordinates think that they might as well take a two-pronged approach, divide and take it, and hit the key point. Specifically, it is to hand over these scattered cities to General Guerjia to attack one by one, and we will concentrate an army of 10,000 or 20,000 and attack thousands of miles to directly take the key points. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Dongshan pointed to a location in the middle reaches of the Ob River and continued: "General, generals, you see, this is Kashrek, the capital of the former Siberian Khanate, located in the middle reaches of the Ob River in the eastern part of the Ural Mountains, its strategic location is very important, if the army of the Rakshasa State wants to advance eastward, it must first cross the Ula Mountain, and then use Kashrek as a base and spread eastward."

When Wu Dongshan said this, Li Ding suddenly interjected: "It's too difficult to remember what it's called, you have to change your name, well, it's called Qiuming, okay, Staff Officer Wu, please continue." ”

"Yes, General, Kano, Tyumen is the most important strategic stronghold on the eastern side of the Urals. As the so-called snake fight seven inches, we can ignore other places for the time being, concentrate our forces to the west, cross the Tangnu Uliang Sea, and directly take the strategic stronghold of Tyumen, as long as it succeeds, it is actually equivalent to cutting off the connection between the Rakshasa Kingdom and the east and Siberia;

At that time, I am afraid that we will not need to go to the conquest, and those small tribes distributed in East and Siberia will also attack the Rakshasa army that enslaves them. ”

Although due to Qin Mu's reasons, Tsarist Russia was marked as Russia on the map of Great Qin, but the Mongols still used to call Tsarist Russia the Rakshasa Country, and after a long time, Wu Dongshan and they also called it the Rakshasa Country.

It doesn't matter what it's called, the important thing is how to quickly cut off his claws that stretched out to the east and Siberia, Li Ding didn't want to wait for twenty years and couldn't return to the dynasty, after listening to Wu Dongshan's construction, he couldn't help but nodded, and then asked the generals: "What do the generals think?" ”

Arslen, who had just made a great achievement, replied: "General, the last general thinks this is very good, the Rakshasa country does not have many troops in East and Siberia, let's take Tyumen directly, if we can't disintegrate their forces in East and Siberia, we will cross the Ural Mountains in the next year, go directly to Moscow, and end the Rakshasa lair, and then the remnants of the army in East and Siberia can still make any waves, even if they don't obediently surrender to our Great Qin, there will be no will to fight." ”

Yu Xingguo, the commander of the army, also said: "Calculate the distance, if you go straight to Tyumen, you should be in time before winter, and if you take this city, you just provide us with a place to spend the winter, and this official also agrees to take Tyumen directly." ”

Li Ding immediately clapped his head and said: "Since everyone has no objections, then it is decided, order Qin Heng's department, let them go hand in hand with our department, they will be responsible for attacking Tomsk, we will be responsible for sweeping Omsk in the south, and then we will meet under the city of Tyumen before winter, and the rest will be handed over to Chebai to sweep." ”

"Yes, General."

The messenger immediately spread Li Ding's order to all the armies, and Li Ding's headquarters of 10,000 horses, after a short rest, galloped all the way west.

Tyumen, a new place name, a new goal, what a magnificent picture it will play in the far northwestern frontier of Great Qin? .

(To be continued......)