Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Chapter 576: Batu was shot by an arrow! Chase him!

The power of the firearms of the Western Expedition Army far exceeded Batu's imagination. Batu originally thought that the troops pursuing them this time were cavalry.

They didn't carry many firearms, they just rushed forward, and it was just a close combat. Although their weapons were inferior to those of the enemy, it could not be said that they were completely at a disadvantage.

At least their sabers can have a certain degree of lethality.

But these cavalry units were actually able to come up with firearms that could be fired with one hand. Are you kidding me?

Don't firearms require a lot of infantry to operate? Just like catapults? When did they become weapons like bows and arrows or sabers?
What was even more difficult for Batu to accept was that the opponent used a new type of powerful bow, which was superior in both range and power.

They are all better than the ox horn bows they are equipped with. The craftsmanship of making ox horn bows is a traditional skill of the Mongolians.

The Mongols have been using this thing for hundreds of years and have basically never upgraded it because it has always been powerful, better than some Western bows and arrows.

But this time, facing the enemy's new powerful bows, they seemed completely inadequate. Even some of the European iron armor and old-time armor they wore were directly pierced by these powerful bows.

The gap in weapons and equipment was quite large! This was a little hard for Batu to accept, but if he failed and retreated in this situation, the enemy would probably believe him more!
After leaving behind thousands of corpses, Batu decisively chose to retreat, and the elite soldiers of the Golden Horde also looked a little dejected at this time.

When facing those European cavalry, no matter how weak they were, they could beat the enemy without any chance of fighting back, and even make the enemy dare not come out of the city to fight.

But now, facing the equally well-equipped and brave Mongolian cavalry, and even the Han cavalry equipped with advanced firearms, they were completely powerless to fight.

"Hahaha! Batu is nothing special. Your Majesty, let's order a pursuit! Directly destroy the Khan of the Golden Horde!" said a general of the Ogedei family.

In the close combat just now, they all saw very clearly that the one leading the army this time was not the substitute as previously speculated, but the real Batu himself, the Khan of the Golden Horde.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If they can capture or kill Batu, they will win the war in the end.

The remaining hundreds of thousands of troops of the Golden Horde would not pose any threat to them, and even Batu's brothers would begin to compete for the position of Khan.

Therefore, the generals of the Ogedei family, and even many other Mongolian generals, wanted to continue the pursuit.

"Your Majesty! Please give the order to pursue. This is a golden opportunity. If we rush forward, we can take advantage of the situation to destroy Batu's army and even capture him."

"No! This is obviously a trick. We can't be fooled so easily. It is better to proceed steadily. Batu can't escape." Zhang Dingguan shook his head and said.

This is obviously a trap! Although Batu was no match for his own men when he rushed over.

But it would not be a good idea to chase after him rashly.

At this time, Batu, who was running wildly in the distance, frowned deeply when he saw that the enemy did not chase him.

"Khan, they don't seem to be chasing us. What should we do now?"

"How about we go back and kill them again?" asked a general of the Golden Horde.

"No. If we charge in now, the enemy will realize that we are luring them. The current situation is that we are losing!

Order everyone to throw away their helmets, armor, or other things, even our flags, and leave only a saber on their bodies, and even throw away the spare sabers." Batu said.

He recalled that when he was at war with the Delhi Sultanate, he followed Ogedei to attract the Delhi Sultanate's army. At the beginning, the people of the Delhi Sultanate were unwilling to pursue until Ogedei was defeated.

Every soldier had a saber and a bow.

Apart from that, all the remaining things were thrown away, which attracted the opponent's attack and made them believe that they were really defeated.

"What! Khan! The flags are lost, and the helmets and armor are all lost. Then, how can we fight the enemy?" A general of the Golden Horde who followed Batu asked in disbelief.

We are only pretending to be defeated, not really defeated! According to this method of discarding, the soldiers' equipment is extremely poor, each with a saber, which is almost the same as the most ordinary peasant cavalry.

"I don't have time to explain so much to you now. We must pretend to be defeated now, and we must not stop running. If we stop for the slightest, we will be finished." Batu said.

"Yes, Khan! Everyone, throw our helmets and armor on the ground." A general of the Golden Horde nodded, took the lead in taking off his helmet, and threw it on the ground.

"Let all the centurions disperse and take their men with them, pretending to have completely lost the will to fight, and flee in all directions. Find a path in the valley for me, and then rush in. Only leave 1/4 of the men with me, two or three thousand will be enough." Batu said.

I can't fool you by throwing away my weapons and armor, so my troops have been scattered, so why don't you come and chase me?
"Khan! We got it."

At this time, other soldiers also followed suit, throwing their flags, helmets and armor on the ground, and even the formation began to change.

The originally neatly arranged assault formation is now completely scattered, like a group of stragglers.

Naturally, this scene was also seen by Zhang Dingguan and others on the opposite side.

"Master! Look at what has happened to Batu. Isn't this a failure? They even threw away their helmets and armor.

If there really is an ambush, even if we don’t have armor, we still have weapons, so what can they do?” A prince of the Ogedei family said excitedly.

Isn't it? Even if you want to feign defeat, you should at least maintain the formation of your army! You should at least keep some weapons in your hands!
Batu's current posture is a complete and utter defeat, which cannot be faked at all.

"Commander, if you don't want to pursue, then let us, the soldiers of the Ogedei family, go. We will definitely be able to capture Batu."

A general of the Ogedei family spoke anxiously, saying that Batu was still running wildly and was almost far away, and it would be too late if they didn't catch up with him.

The opponent's posture is not just a feint, but a real rout!
"Commander! Give the order quickly! It will be too late if you don't give the order now."

However, Zhang Dingguan still did not say a word and just let Batu's army retreat, leaving behind all kinds of weapons, flags, armor, and sabers.

Even the troops of the Golden Horde began to flee in all directions, which was indeed a sign of defeat.

"Commander! We only sent a small cavalry unit to pursue and kill him. Now Batu only has two to three thousand men.

Besides, they don’t have any armor yet. We can definitely stop them if we rush over. I promise you, I will chase them to the mouth of the valley and will never go deeper into it.” A prince of the Ogedei family rushed to Zhang Dingguan and said.

What the commander feared was that they would pursue too deeply and fall into an enemy ambush.

But Batu's army could not ambush them on the plains. If they wanted to ambush them, they could only lure them into the valley.

The warriors of their Ogedei family are not fools, so they will not pursue excessively when chasing.

"Yes, commander, and you have the army watching over us. If anything happens, you can come and help us." Another general from the Ogedei family said.

They really don't want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Anyway, as long as they act carefully, there won't be any big problems.

After hearing this, Zhang Dingguan finally nodded, because he also felt that the Golden Horde did not seem to be faking a defeat.

After all, this time they were marching westward with the best weapons and equipment from the East, representing the East's latest scientific research achievements.

Batu's Golden Horde was no longer the invincible Mongolian cavalry it once was. Now being defeated by its own people did not seem to be something unacceptable.

My father told me that I should not underestimate any opponent, but sometimes you are really strong, and our Daqian Empire is really ridiculously strong.

"Okay, then you go and chase him, and I will support you. Remember! If you can catch Batu, then chase him. If you can't catch him, don't move forward rashly." Zhang Dingguan said.

In the end, he agreed to the order to pursue, but still ordered the soldiers of the Ogedei family who were going to pursue to be cautious. "Master, don't worry! Look at what kind of armor we are wearing and what kind of armor they are wearing? We are wearing the latest lamellar armor developed by your majesty's craftsmen, which is not only lighter, but also has stronger defense.

The sabers we hold are better than theirs. If their sabers dare to chop against ours, they will break immediately." A prince of the Ogedei family said.

Sometimes there is a very good saying that goes, "It is good to lean on a big tree for shade." Now that they have the giant tree of Zhang Yong behind them, their Ogedei family has indeed gained a lot of convenience!

This is their advantage. The weapons equipped by the cavalry of the Ogedei family are the same as those equipped by ordinary Mongolian soldiers of the Daqian Empire. They are all standard weapons and are absolutely leading.

"My men! Follow me and capture Batu alive!"

"Capture Batu, the Khan of the Golden Horde! Capture Batu, the Khan of the Golden Horde!"

More than 10,000 Mongolian soldiers from the family of Ogedei rushed out of the formation in an instant and began to pursue Batu's defeated troops.

Batu was relieved to see that some soldiers were finally coming up. However, he frowned again when he saw that there were only more than 10,000 soldiers and they were small groups.

Damn it! He didn't attract the entire enemy army, but only attracted a part of them, and didn't achieve his strategic goal.

Zhang Dingguan was indeed not easy to fool! Even though he had been defeated so badly, he did not order the entire army to pursue, but only sent a small cavalry force.

But if you think about it carefully, this is the right thing to do, sending this small cavalry unit to hunt down me.

It is completely enough. After all, he doesn’t have many cavalrymen around him now. Apart from his own personal guards, there are only two thousand people!

"Order the soldiers to shoot arrows at them and adopt guerrilla tactics first." Batu said.

The spare sabers, armor, and even some military rations were thrown away, but Batu did not order the bows and arrows in Beidu's hands to be thrown away.

The tactics invented by his grandfather Genghis Khan were a kind of wolf pack tactics similar to hunting. This tactic was not meant to be successfully implemented.

There are two indispensable things: bow and arrow and horse. Even the saber is not important.

When the enemy is chasing us, the cavalry's archery power can be exerted to the maximum.

However, the arrows shot by the Golden Horde soldiers were directly ignored by the armor of the soldiers of the Ogedei family. The newly developed zelvod had an incredibly strong defensive power.

Unless they used the same recurve bow, or shot at vital points at a very close distance, the messy rain of arrows would not be able to hurt them, not even the horses under them.

The speed of the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the Ogedei family took out their bows and arrows and began to fight back.

The power of the recurve bow was truly demonstrated. Each arrow could basically penetrate the armor of the Golden Horde soldiers with ease and knock them to the ground.

"Hahaha! Batu, your Golden Horde army is nothing more than this." A general of the Ogedei family shouted.

I thought you, the Golden Horde, were so powerful! When the Great Khan was alive, he considered you to be the biggest threat to Mongolia, and Batu to be his greatest enemy.

Is this the level you are at? This is the case of all Mongolian soldiers. If it were the Turks and the Kipchaks, there would be no need to fight this battle. The Turks are better, as they are also a nation that is good at fighting.

The Kipchaks, haha! Their fighting power was extremely poor. They occupied the most fertile grasslands, but their fighting power was the worst among all the nomads.

Batu looked back at the generals of the Ogedei family who were pursuing him, and without saying a word, he turned his horse around and fled madly.

He knew this general. During the Western Expedition ten years ago, this guy had followed Zhang Yong and Guiyou. He didn't expect that after so many years, he would be chased by such a guy.

Although it was a false defeat, it was still very shameful for Batu.

"Batu Khan! The weapons and equipment of the enemy are so good. If we had such weapons and such things, how could we not conquer Hungary and Southern Russia?" said a warrior of the Golden Horde.

"This is all my fault. A decision I made back then, a wrong choice, led to the situation today.

Now I want to take responsibility for the mistakes I made, and I promise all of you that as long as I am still alive, as long as I am still breathing, I will definitely, uh!"

Batu suddenly let out a muffled groan; an arrow was stuck in his shoulder.

He was nearly pulled off the horse, but was held by a personal guard beside him. A trickle of blood flowed down Batu's back.

The arrow came from an unknown direction and pierced Batu's shoulder directly.

"Batu Khan!"

"Batu Khan! Are you okay? Are you okay?" The guards beside him were so frightened that they surrounded Batu in an instant and started riding side by side with him.

"I, I'm fine. Everyone, don't let your guard down." Batu's face was a little pale, and he spoke through gritted teeth.

It was such a long distance, but he could actually shoot me. Zhang Yong, Zhang Yong, what kind of weapon did you invent? Can any bow and arrow surpass us?

“Hahaha! I hit it! I hit it!

My boys, did you see it?

Batu was shot, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Quick! Everyone, move forward, don't let Batu escape, don't let Batu escape." The general of the Ogedei family who had just shot the cold arrow shouted excitedly.

This special bow and arrow newly developed by the King of Guanzhong is extremely powerful and has an extremely long range. It can hit the opponent from a long distance and deal a fatal blow.

In the past, their Mongolian bows and arrows had a range of only about 150 steps, but this recurve bow and arrow, when pulled to its maximum length, could shoot a full 200 steps, and it also required less effort to pull the bowstring.

He didn't expect that he could actually hit Batu this time. He was just giving it a try, but he didn't expect that he actually hit the Khan of the Golden Horde.

This is a great achievement! This is a huge fortune, but I didn't expect it to fall on my head.

"Well done, well done, haha, Batu is dead, Batu is dead."

The princes and generals of the Ogedei family were all roaring with excitement.

This new type of arrow has a blood groove. If it is pulled out rashly, it will damage the blood vessels, unless their military doctor performs surgery, sutures the wound, and uses the latest anti-inflammatory drugs to treat it.

Otherwise, if you were hit by their arrows, especially some parts of the body, you would be dead.

"I, I, keep running, don't listen to me, all of you spread out and let all the soldiers see me." Batu pushed away the guards who were running beside him and shouted.

At this time, both sides had already entered the canyon, and the pursuers of the Ogedei family were extremely excited. They even ignored Zhang Dingguan's previous warning and rushed in rashly.

This is a golden opportunity! If I shoot him, the target of this Western Expedition will die in my hands.

"I shot Batu, my men, I shot Batu, he is dead, chase him! Chase him! Don't let him get away."

The generals of the Ogedei family roared with excitement and rushed directly into the valley with their army.

(End of this chapter)