Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

"I remember your father, he seems to be the Grand Duke of Vladimir now, right?" Batu said after thinking for a moment.

After the city of Vladimir was captured, he also imitated Zhang Yong and supported a puppet. What a coincidence.

The brother of the former Grand Duke Yuri II of the Principality of Vladimir was the Grand Duke of Novgorod who surrendered to Batu.

According to Russian law, he could just inherit Vladimir's great achievements, so Badu made a favor and made Alexander's father, Yaroslav, the new Grand Duke of Vladimir, and also served as Grand Duke of Novgorod.

"Yes, Lord Batu, if I can get enough credit in this war, my father will make me the Grand Duke of Novgorod, and he will serve as the Grand Duke of Vladimir." Alexander Nevsky spoke.

"Oh! To be honest, I am quite interested in your Grand Duke of Ross. You all seem to be cousins ​​or related? My military advisor has appointed two Grand Dukes without authorization. Do you think they are legal?" Meng Ge asked. asked.

"It stands to reason that all the Grand Dukes of Russia are related. They are all descendants of the Rurik dynasty. If the Grand Duke of any country dies without leaving any heirs, then relatives from other regions can become Grand Dukes. This has never happened. Set a precedent for local nobles to become grand dukes." Nevsky, the pressured man, said.

The meaning of these words is actually very clear, that is, all the Grand Dukes in the Rus region are of the same bloodline, inherited from the first generation of the Grand Duke of Kievan Rus.

They thought it was reasonable that the current Grand Duke of Kievan Rus, Mikhail, barely had the blood of the first generation Grand Duke.

But the other Grand Duke of Rus appointed by Zhang Yong was not very satisfactory. Kasev, who ruled the entire Ryazan and Murom Principality, was just a small nobleman from a remote rural area. What qualifications did he have to be a Grand Duke.

As soon as the Mongolian power leaves, it is estimated that people in the entire Rus region will oppose him becoming a great worker and drive him out of office.

Then support a new Grand Duke to succeed him, such as his brother Andre.

"Brother Meng, after all, they are the Grand Dukes canonized by Master Military Advisor. They are equivalent to the Grand Dukes canonized by us in Mongolia. In every aspect, they are the most orthodox." Batu glanced at Brother Meng and said.

He knew that his brother, the eldest son of his fourth uncle, was very dissatisfied with the Ogedai family, but you have to understand that the Ogedai family controls the entire Mongolia now. Even if you don't buy it, you have to break your teeth. Swallow it into your stomach.

No dissatisfaction was allowed to show. Among all the people present, General Subotai was loyal to the Mongol Khan.

"Okay, go down! Command your army well and follow us to fight. You don't have to worry about other things." Batu said.

Alexander Nevsky nodded, saluted all the generals and princes in the tent, then stood up and left.

"We want to rule the Ross area well, so the strategy of the military advisor is the best. If one family controls the entire Ross area, it will be detrimental to our rule." Batu glanced at Meng Ge and said calmly.

"Yes, Brother Batu, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have said that. The Grand Duke of Ross was conferred by Master Military Advisor.

It is equivalent to the Grand Duke of Russia conferred by our Mongol Khan. If the Russians have any dissatisfaction, then we Mongolia will have to step forward. "Meng Ge said.

Although he had successfully gained Batu's trust and sympathy recently, he did not want to offend the military advisor too much. After all, the last exchange of troop directions had made the military advisor dissatisfied.

And what I am doing now is indeed a bit too thoughtless. Outside now. Zhang Yong couldn't take care of himself, but once he returned to Mongolia, he could not help himself.

Both Guiyou and Zhang Yong have the ability to deal with their Tuo Lei family, but he, Brother Meng, will not sit still and wait for death. Now the entire interior of Mongolia is controlled by the Ogodai family, but the Tolei family still has a lot of military power and the support of the host kings.

He may not have a chance to make a comeback. The most important thing is to get the support of his brother Batu. He can be sure of one thing. Anyone can be the Great Khan of Mongolia, but this person must not be Guyu. If he is Guyu, Batu will never recognize him.

This time in the Western Expedition, the territory of the Juchi family will expand to an unimaginable level, and their strength will increase exponentially. However, due to bloodline issues, Batu will never compete with the Mongolian Khan and will not have this opportunity. When the time comes, he will The opportunity has come.

He originally wanted to use this opportunity to remove the two Ross Grand Dukes appointed by Zhang Yong, but now it seems that this is not possible. Whether in terms of blood or hard power, the two Ross Grand Dukes supported by Zhang Yong are both inferior in status. There will be no wavering.

"Okay, just let the Ross army in his hands help us. To deal with a mere 100,000 people, we actually don't need these servants at all." Batu said.

is not that right? They now have hundreds of thousands of troops! However, the real Mongolian army only has more than 70,000 people, including more than 50,000 people led by Meng Ge, 10,000 people from the princes of the East, and more than 10,000 people from the Jochi family.

All the others are Turks and Kipchaks, accounting for half of the force.

The army led by Batu and Su Butai. After discussing the battle plan, they began to stay put and waited quietly for a few days. After a few days, the armies of Bohemia and Henry II merged together, and a motley army of a hundred thousand people soon arrived. The formation is completed.

There were miners from Germany, reinforcements from Bohemia, armies from other principalities across Poland, armies of the three major knightly orders, and some crusaders hired by Henry II from Western Europe.

A few days later, Batu, the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian army, issued a letter of challenge to Henry II in the city, inviting him to a decisive battle outside the city.

Henry II directly accepted Batu's invitation to the battle and gave five swords and several shields to Batu.

"What does he mean by sending weapons here? Do you want to surrender to us?" Batu looked at the five swords and several shields in front of him and said with some confusion.

"No! According to the tradition of our Slavs, this is telling you. If you lack weapons, these will be given to you, which indicates a victory or a humiliation for you." Alexander Nev stood aside Ski said.

"It's so audacious, just them."

"How dare a bunch of people laugh at us?" As soon as these words came out, all the Mongolian generals and princes present became furious.

Was there any mistake? The Mongolian army has always mocked the enemy, but no enemy has dared to mock their Mongolian army!

When Batu heard this, he smiled, raised his arm, and signaled everyone to stop talking.

"Hahaha! This time, this commander named Henry II will die in my hands.

Tomorrow's decisive battle will be the day of his death. I will cut off his head and insert it on a spear. "

"Hahaha! Brother Batu is right. Tomorrow we will call the Polish coalition forces to know our interests." Meng Ge said.

"Instruct the entire army to prepare for war tomorrow and annihilate the Polish army." Batu said.

Under Batu's order, a large number of Mongolian troops began to gather, and a decisive battle was about to begin.

On the day of the decisive battle, before leaving, Henry II held a solemn mass and prayer in the cathedral in Nignitz, praying to God to bless the battle and enable them to win.

After praying, he led the army to go to war, but before going out, a brick suddenly fell on him, almost hitting Henry II who was about to go to war.

"Grand Duke! This, this is an ominous sign. I think maybe we can ease the issue of sending troops. How about we gather in several cities separately?" said the accompanying Archbishop of Rome.

"No need! This heralds victory. God is telling us this time that although this battle will be bloody, we will definitely be able to achieve the final victory and defeat the Mongols." Henry II shook his head and said.

"There will be blood, but we will prevail."

The war has not started yet. If you are timid at this time, this battle will not need to be fought. Therefore, Henry II said that the brick that fell on him was an omen, a omen of victory, indicating that although they would lose a lot Bloody, but victory will definitely be achieved.

This time they have gathered the most elite troops in Europe, and they will definitely be able to defeat the Mongols, save the entire Europe, and become a savior.

At that time, everyone should change what they call themselves. He will not call himself the Grand Duke, let alone the King, but will call himself the Emperor of Poland.

After defeating the Mongols, he could invade the Rus region and establish a huge empire to rival the Holy Roman Empire.

Although the archbishop tried to dissuade him in every possible way, Henry II still led his army to the predetermined battlefield and confronted the Mongols.

After arriving on the battlefield, Henry II divided his 100,000-strong army into five square formations.

The First Army, that is, the first part, was led by General Boleslav, General Boleslav. He was a Marquis of the Moravia region of the Holy Roman Empire and guarded the borders for the Holy Roman Empire.

Ordered by the Holy Roman Emperor to come to support, in addition to his own army of Moravian cavalry, a considerable number of German miners were also summoned to assist in the battle.

A mixed lineup of infantry and cavalry was formed.

The second column, the second phalanx, was led by Duke Sulislav, who was the son of Duke Keriklov who had been killed by the Mongols.

So now he is eager for revenge.

In addition to the cavalry of the Principality of Krakow, a group of militia and serfs were also recruited. This army was also composed of light infantry and cavalry.

The third army, and the third phalanx, was led by Duke Mieszko, Henry II's most capable general.

Accompanying him were the Teutonic Knights who came to support him, consisting of more than a dozen knight masters, a hundred official knights and some members of the Knights of the Sword.

It was led by Grand Commander Feng Ostern personally.

Behind them were heavy infantry and archer troops recruited by some principalities.

The fourth square was an army led by Henry II himself and composed of Sicilian cavalry and the Knights Templar who had traveled thousands of miles from the Kingdom of France to assist in the battle.

In addition to the Sicilian cavalry, it also consisted of Sicilian heavy infantry and crossbowmen.

In the fifth phalanx, on the far right wing of the army, was the Grand Duke of Bohemia, who came to assist in the battle.

He led the Bohemian cavalry, as well as some infantry, and some hired Crusaders to help in the battle.

After the five square formations were arranged, they looked very majestic in terms of momentum, but the number of cavalry among these people was only more than fifteen thousand.

The remaining more than 80,000 people were all infantry, even serfs, miscellaneous mercenaries, miners, and militiamen.

Looking at the fighting troops in front, Batu shook his head. Is there any mistake? What exactly is your posture?

A mixed bag of troops? Cavalry, infantry, engineers, crossbowmen, and even some farmers were combined together.

Why were the cavalry units separated? And you should gather all the light cavalry and heavy cavalry together.

"Lord Batu! This is a commonly used formation here. Each lord will command his own army, and then under the unification of the commander, they will launch an attack together." Alexander Nevsky said.

The formation put up by Henry II seemed to him to have no problem, and was even very clever. But I don’t know why, these Mongolians seem to despise them very much.

"If I were their general, I should gather all the infantry together, with the heavy infantry and pikemen in front to defend against the cavalry assault.

The crossbowmen hide in the center and the cavalry are scattered on both wings. This is the best formation.

Their formation is simply dividing the entire army into five pieces of meat, waiting for us to destroy them. " Batu said.

This extremely dispersed formation is simply delivering food to the Mongols!

Basically, several groups of local armies were organized together, unable to exert their maximum combat effectiveness, and it was extremely inconvenient to command.

Hear this. Alexander Nevsky nodded thoughtfully and let me see how you Mongolians fought this battle.

"Pass my military order and I will send out a small group of Kipchak cavalry troops to attract their cavalry to come for a decisive battle and induce their cavalry to come to fight.

Let them chase forward for a certain distance, and then Xue Jun is ready to kill all their cavalry units in one fell swoop.

After that, two groups of light cavalry came out from both sides, cut off their retreat, arranged some hay for me on the battlefield, and then poured gasoline on it and set it on fire to prevent the infantry troops from coming.

Focus on wiping out all of their cavalry first, then pick up their infantry. "Batu quickly made his own battle arrangements.

The last time he followed Zhang Yong to fight in the Delhi Sultanate, he had seen this tactic of dividing the army with gasoline flames, and he happened to use it once.

Although they can be defeated quickly if the entire army is dispatched, there will inevitably be some casualties. This can be minimized.

The Kipchaks went up first to send off a wave, making these cavalry think that they were about to win, but the Mongolian troops were dispatched.

Soon the Mongolian army completed its change of formation, with the Mongolian Mangu servant army, Kipchak, and Turkic light cavalry units standing at the forefront.

The light cavalry of the Mongolian headquarters are in the center, while the real heavy armored cavalry is hidden in the rear.

After Batu arranged the battle deployment, Henry II on the opposite side also began to command his army.

The first to launch the attack was Borislav, the first left-wing army in Europe. This marquis from the Holy Roman Empire, with his Moravian cavalry, took the lead in attacking the Mongolian phalanx.

Looking at the cavalry who rushed out alone, Batu showed a contemptuous smile.

If he wanted to, he could crush these people to death, but there was no need now, so he only sent a thousand Kipchak troops to fight them.

The two cavalry units quickly fought together. The equipment of the Kipchak army during this period was extremely backward and was not as good as the equipment of the Mongolian army.

Their weapons were comparable to the grassland troops before Genghis Khan unified Mongolia, and they were a group of outright nomadic light cavalry.

The consequences of colliding with these heavily armored Holy Roman Empire cavalry can be imagined. In terms of close combat, there is no advantage at all.

Seeing this, Batu invested another two thousand Mongolian horse archers, went around to both sides, and started shooting at these Holy Roman Empire cavalry.

Cooperating with these death squads, the Kipchaks, shot and killed these knights from the Holy Roman Empire. After a new force joined, the knights of the Holy Roman Empire immediately fell into a disadvantage.

"Your Majesty the Marquis! Are those Templars and those from the Bridgetown Knights just watching us fighting and not coming to help?" asked a cavalry commander who was fighting next to Boleslav.

"Retreat, everyone retreat with me, and retreat to the headquarters camp first." Borislav gritted his teeth and said.

It’s not that others don’t support it, but it’s that I requested it, as a vanguard army, to rub off the Mongolian spirit and demonstrate the power of the Holy Roman Empire.

But it looks like he gave it a try.

After abandoning more than a thousand corpses, Borislav fled back to his phalanx with only a few hundred HRE cavalry troops.

He joined a group of German miners who were scared to death, but what surprised them was that.

After repelling them, the troops sent by the Mongols did not come to pursue them, but quickly returned to their respective phalanxes.

The first wave of small confrontations is temporarily over.

"It seems that Marquis Boleslav's army is not good! The Holy Roman Empire cavalry, but even so, let's do it instead!" Sulislav said openly.

It was now, at this moment, that he wanted to avenge his father. (End of chapter)