After a clamor, the pirates and the descendants of the barbarians finally reached an agreement.

Leading the Polish King and the general leader of the Teutonic Knights, 30,000 knights crossed the river from twenty river bays upstream, and quickly marched with a gentle slope to detour behind the Mongolian camp, relying on the Saint-Ey Castle and Granden Castle to threaten the Mongolian rear wing.

Then, the head of the Austrian Grand Duke and Holy Hospital Knights Order led 30,000 knights to cross the river from 30 miles downstream, and then headed north to oppress the Mongolian camp.

When these two troops arrived at the combat position, the King of Hungary, King of France, and the Holy Roman Emperor personally led the Hexi army to spread across the river on the front ice surface more than 20 miles.

In this way, with its military strength advantages and terrain castles, the Mongolians were sieged on three sides. This strategy can compress the action space of the Mongolian cavalry in dozens of miles of battlefield, greatly reducing their magical tactical effects, thus giving full play to the advantages of the Crusader heavy cavalry.

In that case, the Mongols had only one choice. They were either forced to fight the coalition forces in a full-scale battle with a small number of enemies, or retreated to the southeast gap and retreated to the Carpathian Pass not far away.

As long as the Mongolian army retreats, the coalition forces will never be fooled and pursue them alone. Instead, they will slowly push forward and drive the Mongolian army out of the Carpathian Pass. Then they will go south and advance east from Tiemenguan, cut off the retreat route for the Mongolian army to return east, and at the same time declare that Eastern Rome, Bulgaria and Ross countries will resist the Mongols.

This plan is called "noose strategy". I have to say that the Crusaders are indeed a good student and have learned to use strategies.

To be fair, this "noose strategy" is indeed good, at least in theory.

After assigning the battle mission, you will start to enjoy a generous banquet.

"Okay, children." The Pope raised the precious Venetian glass wine glass, which contained Hungarian red wine. "Praise God, give us courage and wisdom, so that we can defend the Lord, honor and dignity. Forbear our victory! Let the holy light of the West shine on the dark Eastern world!"

It is obvious that this massive and well-prepared Crusaders not only wanted to repel the invasion of the Mongolian army, but also launched an Eastern Expedition and launched a "holy war" against the Eastern World!

"His Majesty the Pope, my father." King Philip IV of France also raised his wine glass, and his golden wig trembled with the tone of singing.

"The east of the east is also the sea, and there is a huge country called Khitan. It is said that the Khitan Kingdom in the east has countless wealth. There are exquisite silk, porcelain, intoxicating art, and beautiful women, gold, silver, and gems."

"There is also the place where the Mongols set out. That's right, the hometown of these Satans is also in the Khitan!"

"So, gentlemen, whether out of revenge and punishment for the Mongols, or in the just desire to receive compensation and reparations, we should try to march towards the distant Khitan! Enjoy their wealth and women! Of course, this is for justice to be done."

"Someone may say, naive Philip, your idea is unrealistic fantasy, just as you can really find the treasure of King Solomon. No, gentlemen, that's not."

Philip IV looked very serious, "Since the damn Mongols could come to Rome from the distant Khitan, why couldn't the Romans go to the distant Khitan? Should we admit that they are really stronger than the Romans with noble skin?"

Emperor Ruof I agreed deeply, "You are right, dear Philip. The Khitans should be punished by God. Satan must return to hell and stay honestly, and cannot run to the world to cause trouble. It is time for the Romans to express their anger to the Easterners. God's wrath will come to the Khitan, and the horse hooves of the knights will step onto the land of sin!"

"We have more than 200 groups, and there will be more groups. No one can stop us!"

The princes and princes were all motivated, and they shivered excitedly when they thought of the legendary wealthy Khitan.

Fight, fight to the Khitan!

Gold, silver, porcelain, silk, jewelry, women!

The Hungarian king was also eager to fight the Khitan to compensate for his losses. He shouted: "Tell us the warriors, and those poor men who cannot marry their wives because of poverty, as long as they defeat the Mongols and fight to the East, they will become rich and comfort the women in the East!"

Soon, the slogan of "Defeat the Mongols and fight to the Khitan" spread throughout the Crusaders.

The 200,000 to 300,000 troops were in full bloom, and everyone kissed the cross and shouted frantically. The wealth and women in the East made their fighting spirit even more high, and they wanted to fight to the death with the Mongols immediately.

The lords and knights hope to get more land and slaves, the poor hope to live a wealthy life and enjoy the taste of women.

On that day, fifty groups sent to the other side set out from south and north.

In fact, these fifty regiments marched far away from the river bank. Logically speaking, the Mongolian army on the other side would not know. However, the Mongol Haidongqing immediately discovered a large number of crusaders.

So, Ananda got the news less than half an hour after the Crusaders were mobilized.

"The yellow-headed and secluded eyes are about to cross the river." Ananda replied to summon the generals to discuss, "Haidongqing discovered that two yellow-headed and secluded soldiers, one south and one north, left the camp, most of them were going to cross the river upstream and downstream."

Ananda pointed to the map, "Where is the easiest place to cross a river from dozens of miles north to south? It should be in two river berths, where the river flows slowly and the ice layer is very thick."

Mongolian general Adibuhua said, "Do you want to ambush them?"

Liu Tai said: "The last general thought that it would be better to use a plan than to ambush them. Their two partial troops crossed the river to attack us." He pointed to the map, "The north road may be around the castle behind our army and threatened our army's rear wing. The south road must go north to force our army."

Ananda sneered: "Well, by then, the enemy troops in front will be crossing the river and besieged from three sides. These yellow-headed and beautiful eyes are smart, and do they know how to use military strategies? Unfortunately, they are still too tender."

He also admitted that the Crusaders had a good strategy, and if they fought well, they would have a high chance of winning. After all, their military strength was there, and their morale and combat power were not bad.

But Ananda's confidence in answering was still full.

That's right, the strength and military strategy of the Western coalition are much stronger than decades ago. However, the Mongolian army has declined due to the decline of the older generation of sects.

However, Dayuan also had another killer weapon, that is, Han arms and weapons.

Today's Han arms and firearms are not comparable to those of the past. But the Western coalition does not know about it, or at most they have only heard of it, but have never experienced it.

Ananda replied, "That's right. Don't divide the troops to ambush them. Our troops are not as many as them. Then just use the trick. When the enemy crosses the river, our army will also cross the river."

"Tujige!"

"The last general is here!" Mongolian right marshal Turige stood up.

Ananda replied and threw an arrow, "You lead 10,000 Mongolian light cavalry, 10,000 Red Army, 10,000 Tujue soldiers, a total of 30,000 cavalry, crossing the river from the Tianhe River. Attack between the weakest Seventh Castle and the Eighth Castle."

"Don't fight in love. After breaking through the defense line, go west and attack Pace City! If the enemy pursues you, you will stick to them. The more enemy troops you attract, the better."

"Zhe! Don't worry, the general will definitely reach Pace City within two days!" Turige picked up the command arrow and went to mobilize his troops.

The Yuan army was organized closely and moved quickly. As soon as the commander's order was issued, 30,000 light cavalry were ready, just waiting for darkness.

Next, Ananda dispatched the generals to make all preparations before the decisive battle. According to the rules of the Mongolians, a new password was replaced. The password was usually the names of the generals of the Mongolian Qianhu and the hundred households, which was difficult for the enemy to know.

It was late at night, and the "lights of thousands of families" were lit up in the camps on both sides, as brilliant as stars and magnificent.

With a command in the dark night, the Yuan cavalry, who were not afraid of night battles, began to cross the river from the expected selected section of the river. In order to prevent the horse's hooves from slipping, the horses were covered with linen.

Thirty thousand light riders and sixty thousand horses crossed the river in batches from a glacier that was more than one mile wide.

Before the first batch of 10,000 people were crossed, they were discovered by the crusaders on the other side.

The Front Enemy Committee originally thought that the Mongols would never choose to cross the river, but would instead cross the river dozens of miles away like them.

Unexpectedly, the Yuan army would choose to cross the river head-on.

At the same time, all the Yuan army camps were moved, and more than 100,000 troops went out to the camp together, posing as a full crossing of the river.

This is of course to cover 30,000 light cavalry crossing the river.

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"Dongdongdongdongdongdong"

The prosperous era of the Yuan army was very chaotic. On the 800-mile-wide section of the river, there were torches, and the sounds of people shouting and neighing horses everywhere.

At this time, there were still 200,000 troops in the front of the Crusaders, but they were distributed on the river bank more than 20 miles north and south. It was difficult to concentrate in the middle for a while.

Moreover, they thought that the Yuan army crossed the river in the entire line and could only defend themselves step by step, without focusing on the defense of a certain position.

This created great convenience for the Yuan army's 30,000 light cavalry to cross the river.

When the Crusaders discovered that there was only one Yuan army that actually crossed the river, and other places were feinted attacks, it was too late.

The first batch of Yuan troops had already rushed to the river bank.

"Huruhehaoning!" The Mongolian cavalry rushed up the river beach and fired arrows, and their arrows were like rain. They used the arrow formation commonly used by Mongolian cavalry during attacks and penetrated into the closest one mile gap between the Seventh Castle and the Eighth Castle.

In this gap, 10,000 Crusaders were arranged to defend. There were thousands of Crusaders in the castles on both sides. Nearly 20,000 people had defensive power, and there were tens of thousands of people just on the horse equipped with chain mail.

Hundreds of butter piles suddenly lit up, illuminating the nearby space. The fire on the seventh and eighth castle was also lit.

The guards here are the twelve regiments of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the six regiments of the Principality of Bavaria. This position is indeed the weakest place in the coalition's defense.

"Kill! For God!" The Crusaders wore armor and rushed towards the Mongolian cavalry in groups, some held triangular shields and big swords, some rode horses and spears, and some shot feather arrows with crossbows and longbows. Some mercenaries rushed towards them, holding round shield spears and battle axes.

The castles on both sides also shot out longbow feather arrows from a high point. The Crusader's longbow range reached a terrifying three hundred meters, and it was very lethal.

Logically, such a defense is enough for the Mongolian cavalry to have a drink. At least it is impossible to break through the defense line in the short term.

However, this line of defense of 20,000 people did not have a unified command at all. It was entirely based on regiments, even battalions, or even companies. Although there was already division level (primary phalanx) organization in the West at this time, it was not common.

This made the defense of 20,000 people seem fierce and brave, but there was no unified command at all, making it seem messy.

On the contrary, the first batch of rushing up the river and the Yuan army had a compact formation and a consistent pace. At the military flag, tens of thousands of people rumbled and accelerated the war horses in the same direction.

The Mongols obviously discovered the crusading army with the least armor, which was a mercenary team, with a very diverse source and a combat power that was not as good as that of the knights.

The Mongolian cavalry rushed towards the mercenary with the least armored soldiers and the fewest war horses without thinking. Before they could reach their sight, dense rain of arrows poured down.

"Ah damn!"

"God, your poor Paul was shot in the arrow!"

"Damn!"

"Mongols' arrows are poisonous!"

At the same time, the periphery of the Mongolian cavalry stormtroopers was also hit by arrow rain from castles on both sides, and the Yuan cavalry were dismissed one after another.

The armor of the Yuan army's light cavalry was not enough to completely resist the shooting of the modified longbow at this distance.

However, the Mongols were very cunning. They placed the Red Army and the Semu Army on both sides. Although the Crusader's longbow had a good result, most of the Yuan army on the outside were killed and injured. As the core Mongolian soldiers, they did not lose.

boom!

The Yuan army cavalry finally put themselves in the mercenary ranks, like a sledgehammer, hitting the hard stone. Although the stone was hard, it still broke immediately.

The mercenary team of more than a thousand people was torn apart in an instant, and in a blink of an eye, a gap was rushed into by the torrent of Yuan army cavalry, and the cavalry behind rushed forward.

The cavalry on both sides had time to lean over from both sides and desperately attacked the sides of the Yuan cavalry.

However, the Yuan army cavalry was an arrow formation. The thicker the cavalry came from behind, and only the cavalry on both sides could contact the crusaders. The cavalry inside was able to play the advantage of cavalry and shooting and shoot feather arrows under the protection of the cavalry outside.

Especially the Mongolian cavalry in the middle of the team, they can shoot the knight's eyes on the Mercedes-Benz battle horses. The tricky and vicious feather arrows can mostly shoot the knight's eye area without face armor protection within dozens of steps.

In the blink of an eye, I don’t know how many knights were shot.

For a time, the Yuan army cavalry roared forward, and the arrows were dense, so it was difficult for the crusaders to raise their heads. Almost all the archers in the Crusaders were professional archers, so the number of archers was not too large. Idea, each of the Yuan army cavalry was an archer.

This makes the strike output of both sides completely asymmetric. Although there are a large number of knights equipped with mail armor in the Crusader, they can only attack the outermost Yuan cavalry because they are mainly equipped with big swords and cavalry rifles.

"kill!"

The fierce knights wielded their big swords, or rode horses and spears to attack the Yuan cavalry from both sides, causing the Yuan cavalry to suffer heavy losses for a while and were assassinated on horseback.

However, the crusaders who fought on their own in regiments were still unable to cut off more and more Yuan cavalry. The crusaders at the front were killed and injured, while the knights behind were anxious and could not squeeze in to join the war, which was in chaos.

"The enemy army took the initiative to make the seventh and eighth castles!" The front-line committee only knew the specific location of the Mongolian army's main attack. The nearest crusaders of the sixth and ninth castles rushed to support them. The crusaders who were further away also came to reinforce them.

However, it can no longer be blocked.

At this time, all the 30,000 troops had rushed up the river beach, rushed into the gap opened by the forward, braved the rain of arrows from the castles on both sides, and rushed through the Crusaders' castle defense line and appeared to the west of the castle defense line.

The two armies fought fiercely, and the differences in organization and command between the two armies were immediately clear.

During this assault, although the Yuan army rushed out of the weakest seventh and eighth castles, it lost four or five thousand cavalry in less than half a quarter of an hour, and only 25,000 cavalry reassembled.

The war horses also lost more than 10,000. Many of them were captured by the Crusaders.

The loss is not small. But there is no way to achieve such a tactical goal, and you cannot use the best magical tactics and can only rush to the defense line.

Many injured and dismissed cavalry were captured by angry crusaders and prepared to be executed with the most cruel criminal law.

The casualties of the Crusaders were as high as five or six thousand. Many of them died under the impact of the Yuan cavalry.

Turige personally led 25,000 cavalrymen and headed west without looking back.

The king of Hungary, the northern commander of the coalition forces, was shocked.

Even idiots know that these 20,000 enemy cavalry were heading for his capital and for the city of Budapest!

But Hungary's main army is already here. What's in Budapest? There are only poor hundreds of knights and more than a thousand mercenaries to defend.

However, there was his royal palace, royal members, many noble families who took refuge, and a large amount of food and property.

The capital of Hungary must not fall into the hands of the Mongolians!

The Hungarian King La Ros IV was shocked and angry, and without thinking, he led 50,000 Hungarian troops to chase after him. He must go for reinforcements before the Mongolian army captured the capital.

Budapest is only three hundred miles away. Even if the Mongolians are fast, they can only arrive one day earlier than him. There is still time to rescue Budapest.

As for the castle defense line here, he no longer cared about it.

Joke. If his nest was captured by the Mongols, what would it mean to him even if he defeated the main force of Mongolia here? His losses would not be compensated at all.

La Ross IV casually sent someone to say hello to the front committee and led his army to pursue the Yuan army that was raiding Budapest.

The Pope, German Emperor, and the King of France were stunned when they learned that the Hungarian king was leading his army to rescue Dabpus despite the overall situation.

Originally, the fifty knights who crossed the river north and south to attack the Mongols had already set out, and now they should have crossed the river twenty miles away. There were only 200,000 people left in the castle defense line.

After the previous blocking battle, five or six thousand casualties were killed and six thousand, and the number of troops dropped to more than 190,000.

Now the damn La Ross IV actually took away dozens of Hungarian regiments. The castle defense line suddenly lost 50,000 troops, and only more than 140,000 people were left.

The castle defense line is already very weak.

The originally kind pope was furious at the front committee for the first time.

In order to vent the anger in his heart and retaliate against the Mongols, the angry king and grand duke immediately set up a war-time court and announced the trial of more than 2,000 injured and undead Yuan army prisoners.

All Yuan army prisoners of war were sentenced to torture by wooden stakes.

At dawn, a scene appeared on the river beach that made the Yuan army extremely angry.

More than two thousand prisoners were pierced into their lower bodies by wooden stakes and inserted them on the river beach, wailing endlessly, which was creepy.

The Yuan cavalry during the war were dismembered into several pieces and threw them on the ice of the Tisa River.

"This is an insult to Dayuan!" Ananda replied and said resentfully. He looked up at the sky, pulled out the dagger on his waist, and according to the tradition of the grassland tribe, he cut his face and swore blood:

"As long as the sun rises from the east, the punishment of immortality will come to the yellow-headed people! The anger of the Mongolians will make them dare not forget for a hundred or ten thousand years! The land in the West will be infected with blood! Mao Wusipo will be happy every night because of his endless soul."
Chapter completed!