Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Take a look at how these Mongolian armies from the east fought, and how they relied on this fighting method.

Sweeping across the entire Eurasian continent, defeating so many countries and so many ethnic groups, this was what he was curious about.

If he could learn one and a half of the Mongolian cavalry tactics, it would be a great thing for the Croatian Principality that he rules.

The Mongolian army's fighting methods rely heavily on bows and arrows, tactics, and team command, which is completely different from their European armies.

Their European armies were all commanded by lords and nobles of different sizes. The king ordered the duke, and the duke ordered the ordinary small nobles. The small nobles then ordered some lower-level nobles and knights, and then mobilized the entire militia team.

In these European principalities and kingdoms, there are not many professional soldiers. When there is no war, ordinary people will go home and farm.

Only when there is war will they take up arms and become soldiers.

If we only count professional soldiers, the Principality of Croatia only has 200 cavalry and several hundred infantry, which totals less than 1,000 people.

However, in times of war, all male members become soldiers.

But it is a bit unrealistic for the Principality of Croatia to use the Mongolians' terrifying and extremely mobile bow-cavalry tactics. First of all, the number of cavalry is not enough, and even if the number of cavalry is enough.

It is also very difficult to train an army that is very good at riding and shooting. The cost is too high, and the principality of Croatia cannot afford it financially.

However, their tactics can still be learned, not on a large scale, but on a small scale, one can also imitate these tactics according to the Mongolian training methods.

Just when Kalman lowered his head to think about and observe the Mongolian tactics, the Serbian Archduke came over and spoke. :
"Grand Duke Kalman, do you want to come with me to collect the loot? I will give you part of it. All of your men are cavalry. It should be no problem to pull dozens of carriages."

After getting Zhang Yong's guarantee and promise, he is now in a very good mood. Moreover, both countries will surrender to the Mongolian Kingdom in the future. It is very necessary for the two countries to maintain peaceful relations in the future by giving each other some trophies.

"Thank you for your generosity, Grand Duke of Serbia, but this is what King John gave you. How dare I ask for it?" Kalman said.

"Hahaha! You're welcome, I will share some of it with you. After all, King John has given these things to me." The Serbian Grand Duke said.

"Thank you then, Grand Duke of Serbia. I heard that you are still the son-in-law of Tsar Ivan Asen II? Why don't you go and ask for mercy from King John? After all, no matter what he says, he can still be regarded as your father-in-law." Kalman said. .

is not that right? The Tsar of Bulgaria who is fighting below is nominally your father-in-law! Grand Duke of Serbia,

"Hahaha! Your sister is still his wife! He also married your Hungarian princess and asked your Hungary to give him part of the land as a dowry. Didn't you plead for him?" Serbia said openly.

"There are so many people related to His Majesty the Tsar by marriage. The Latin Emperor Baldwin II originally wanted to marry his daughter, but later he married the princess of the Kingdom of Jerusalem." Kalman said disapprovingly. .

There are simply too many political marriages in Europe. There are certain marriage relationships between certain royal families and certain grand dukes.

There are even many potential in-laws for this tsar.

The conversation between the two was also told to Zhang Yong intact by the translator standing aside.

After Zhang Yong heard this, he wanted to laugh a little. Did he make a mistake? It turned out that you Europeans were fighting back and forth, and they turned out to be relatives!

The Grand Duke of Serbia and the Grand Duke of Croatia were actually related to the Tsar of the Bulgarian Empire, and these two guys had no intention of interceding for the Tsar.

But have you heard that the last Queen of Jerusalem has married Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?
"How did the King and Princess of Jerusalem marry the Latin Emperor Baldwin II?" Zhang Yong leaned on his chair and asked curiously.

"Well, King John, now the titular king of Jerusalem is Conrad II, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II,
At that time, the church probably felt that Baldwin II was too young and the regency was too stressful, so it asked John, the old king of Jerusalem, to go to the Latin Empire to serve as regent.

John was the husband of the old queen and the regent father of the former queen of Jerusalem. John the old served as regent for the Latin Empire.

Baldwin II married Mary, the daughter of King John and his second wife, so this Princess Mary was also the princess of Jerusalem. "Kallman said.

After all, the Latin Empire and the Kingdom of Jerusalem were Crusader countries.

It made sense for the last king of Jerusalem to go and serve as regent for an empire. After all, Baldwin II was too young at the time.

"I see, this relationship is a little complicated. We in the East do not allow such outsiders to come to regent." Zhang Yong said.

When the emperor of one country who just succeeded was too young, he sent an old king of another country who had abdicated to act as regent.

This is simply outrageous! However, the marriage relationship in Europe is really chaotic.

The two princes smiled, stood beside Zhang Yong, and continued to watch the battlefield below. After all, the relationship was indeed a bit messy.

But these are only relatives in name. When it comes to harming one's own interests, no one will care about anyone else.

For example, both of them are related to the tsar, but no one will intercede for the tsar.

On the battlefield below, the battle has also come to an end. Without the protection of the cavalry team, the army of the Bulgarian Empire Tsar has completely fallen into passivity.

The Mongolian army kept firing arrows around them, and then began to drive them away, gradually shrinking their encirclement, just like a big hunt. All of them, like prey, were driven to the center.

Those who walked a little slower, once the Mongols narrowed the encirclement, a group of cavalry rushed over, holding scimitars to harvest their lives, mercilessly.

The army of the Bulgarian Empire had nowhere to escape, and could not even surrender, because Zhang Yong had given the order not to take prisoners in this battle.

"Stabilize the whole army, narrow our encirclement, and press them together. All Qianhu are responsible for their own defense direction, and they must not let the enemy rush out. If someone's defense circle is rushed out by the enemy, then the warlord will deal with it. "Gui Youqi said from the horse.

After hearing the order, a large number of Mongolian households did not dare to neglect at all, and began to gradually reduce their living space around the Bulgarian army.

Any Bulgarians who attempt to break out are the key targets of the Mongolian army.

After all, Mongolia's military law is very strict. If any opening of the siege is broken, then this thousand households will be punished with death, and the hundreds of households below will not feel easy.

This Bulgarian soldier was killed even if he knelt down and surrendered. At this time, Tsar Ivan Asen II had also fallen into despair.

how so? He fought against the Nicene Empire, against Serbia, and even against the Cuman-Kipchaks who were also nomadic people.

But I have never encountered such a one-sided fighting situation. These Mongols are far more powerful than their own army.

"Tsar, let me lead some of the remaining cavalry to break out. No matter what, I will take you out." A general from the Bulgarian Empire came to Tsar Ivan Asen II and said.

"We can't rush out. The enemy's cavalry is too numerous to escape." Tsar Ivan Asen II said.

Under the current circumstances, if he were the commander of the Mongols, he would never let them run away. This battle was a complete failure. I originally wanted to defend the enemy from outside the country, but I didn't expect to be defeated so completely and miserably.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Guyu gave an order, and tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry began to launch a final attack on these Bulgarian soldiers.

The Mongolian cavalry made strange howling sounds and drew out their scimitars. Mongolian soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding steel knives rushed into the Bulgarian army's formation.

Raising the scimitar, he killed everyone on sight. With the help of the terrifying impact of the war horses, the Bulgarian formation collapsed at the first touch. A large number of soldiers were trampled by the horse's hooves and scratched by the scimitar.

"No! Don't kill us, we surrender, we surrender." A large number of nobles raised their swords and surrendered to the Mongolian army.

But what greeted them were bright scimitars and flying blood. "Ah!" The screams were endless. At this time, the battlefield had turned into a Shura hell. Mongolian soldiers were everywhere, massacring the Bulgarian army.

"Don't take any prisoners. Kill them all, leaving no one behind." Guyu said.

In less than a day, the Bulgarian Imperial Army of nearly 50,000 people was completely wiped out by the Mongolian army. The Tsar and a large number of nobles were beheaded by the Mongols on the spot, leaving no one alive.

There were fewer and fewer soldiers around the Tsar, and he himself was surprised to find this.

The Mongols did not seem to want to capture themselves at all, their goal was to kill them completely.

When the last soldier beside the tsar fell, a Mongol general rushed over and chopped off his head with a scimitar.

The entire battle from start to finish took just one morning and noon.

Soon Guyu came to Zhang Yong carrying a human head. The human head looked like a middle-aged man with a beard, and his hair was extremely messy. There was an expression of disbelief on his face, as if he still couldn't accept his defeat before he died.

Looking at the head in front of him, he looked at the once arrogant Tsar of the Bulgarian Empire. The two Grand Dukes of Serbia and Croatia could not help but show a dazed expression.

If they had resisted to the end, they would probably end up like this!

Fortunately, Serbia and Bulgaria are both small countries, and there is nothing that the Mongols can value. As long as they surrender, the Mongols are willing to let them go.

"Well done Guyu, you fought beautifully in this battle." Zhang Yong stood up, patted Guyu on the shoulder and said.

"Of course, Brother Zhang, how can these people be my opponents?" Guyu also said very proudly.

This battle was easier than he imagined. The armies of these Western countries were simply ridiculously weak.

"Well! Take your people down to rest! Collect all their gold, silver, jewelry, grain, grass and baggage, and then rush all the horses into the army. Then let the army of the Grand Duke of Serbia go to clean the battlefield!" Zhang Yong said.

"I understand. You need to dispose of all the corpses. If so many corpses are piled together, a plague will occur." Guyu said.

The Grand Duke of Serbia nodded, then saluted Zhang Yong, mobilized his troops, and began to clean the battlefield.

On the battlefield at this moment, the Mongolian army had already collected the horses of the previous cavalry, and found the logistics equipment of the Bulgarian army to take them away.

Some Mongolian soldiers on the battlefield also searched the Bulgarian soldiers to see if they could find any valuables such as silver coins. After doing all this, he left and handed over the mess to the Serbian Grand Duke and his army. .

The soldiers of the Duke of Serbia confiscated some intact armor, leather armor, weapons, bucklers, spears and other items from these dead soldiers.

Then, some soldiers began to dig pits to bury the remains of these Bulgarian Empire soldiers, and some chaplains accompanying the army began to pray.

"This is simply hell on earth." A nobleman who was following the Serbian Grand Duke said with a pale face.

"If we don't surrender, we will be the ones turned into corpses now, and we will be the ones buried under this land." The Grand Duke of Serbia sighed and said.

"Grand Duke, when will these devils leave our country, when will they leave our land?"

"Shut up, don't you want to live? Don't let others hear these words. The Mongols have no interest in our land and they are not engaged in farming.

They just want to reap the fruits. As long as we give them something, they can save their lives. All you need to know is this. "The Serbian leader said openly.

"To put it bluntly, they are just a group of greedy robbers."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and go to work!" the Serbian official said.

After a full night of work, it was not until early the next morning that all the bodies were buried.

After annihilating the living army of the Bulgarian Empire, Zhang Yong asked two thousand households to form a group and sent out 20,000 troops.

The troops were divided into ten groups and launched an attack on some cities and villages in the Bulgarian Empire. A month later, they gathered at the border of the Latin Empire.

In order to deal with some small bunkers, each team also carried a certain number of explosive bags. Under Zhang Yong's order, these teams set off at dawn the next day.

Now the entire Bulgarian Empire can no longer muster any decent army.

Ten Mongolian armies, two thousand troops gathered together, not too far apart, so they could take care of each other.

Wherever Mongolia passed along the way, there were thousands of miles of red land and rivers of blood.

There were massacres everywhere, and only a small number of Bulgarians barely escaped by escaping to the mountains and woods, or hiding in their cellars.

The true ferocity of the Mongolian army was revealed to the Europeans. This was the first time that Zhang Yong allowed the Mongolian army to let go and kill.

No way, now he somewhat understands the killings of Genghis Khan's Western Expedition. If everyone accepts surrender, then the defense force in the rear will definitely not be too stable.

A large number of troops need to be left behind to guard the country. Zhang Yong has left troops to guard Kievan Rus, Ryazan and other Russian countries, as well as conquered areas such as Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia, or supported some puppet forces.

Even so, there were still reports of riots from time to time in the South Ross area, although they were quickly annihilated by the Han troops who stayed there.

But it still reminded Zhang Yong that sometimes you have to kill.

The territory of the Bulgarian Empire is still very large. If there is no massacre, it will be impossible to manage here, let alone make the local people surrender to their children.

Moreover, Zhang Yong could not leave the army to guard him. After all, the decisive battle with the Shinra Empire would soon begin, so a massacre was inevitable.

At the same time, a Mongol envoy also headed towards the capital of the Nicaea Empire.

At this time, Zhang Yong's cheap father-in-law, John III, also learned the news from the Bulgarian Empire, and received Zhang Yong's envoy half a month later.

When he just received the news of the collapse of the Bulgarian Empire, John III seemed very shocked. He really didn't expect that the Mongolian army had just entered the Bulgarian Empire.

It only took just one day to defeat the army of the Bulgarian Empire and quickly conquer the entire Bulgarian Empire. The speed of the Mongolian army shocked the emperor of the Nicaea Empire.

The Tsar Ivan Asen II of the Bulgarian Empire, who had been fighting against him for most of his life, died inexplicably at the hands of the Mongols, leaving him breathless. The Bulgarian Empire just disappeared.

In just over half a month, it was attacked and destroyed by the Mongols.

"Honorable John III, the mighty King John asks you to mobilize your army to attack Constantinople from the east, and his army will kill it from the west." The Mongolian envoy said.

"Convey for me to my son-in-law, I will arrive with the army, I hope he can hand over Constantinople to me, other territories, Bulgarian territory, I dare not ask for it." John III said.

The news coming in the past few days made the emperor of the Nicaea Empire a little scared. The Mongols were more ferocious than he imagined.

"I will tell you. I hope your army can arrive in Constantinople on time in half a month." The Mongolian envoy said. (End of chapter)