Sukhbalu began to slow down the pace of his horse's running, intending to turn the cavalry back, then choose a certain direction and launch a fierce attack.
This kind of deceleration and turning in front of the enemy is actually very dangerous. Whether the enemy is covered with arrows or takes the opportunity to launch a short charge, it can cause huge casualties. But Sukhbalu himself was a Mongolian with rich combat experience, so he was very sure that after the Huolarasi people were cut into two pieces, their command was completely messed up, and they couldn't care about it.
The grassland people are accustomed to hardship, and they have accumulated countless fighting instincts in their bodies, so every Mongolian is the best rider and hunter; every ten Mongolians, or even every hundred Mongolians, can form the same size Below, the most elite and brave army.
But these alone did not give the Mongols the upper hand in the battle with the Jurchens. In the past many years, the Jin Kingdom invaded the grasslands with tens of thousands of people each time. With their strict formations, they seemed to be entering uninhabited territory. In fact, the Mongolian tribes did not have the ability to confront them head-on.
It was only with Genghis Khan that the Mongols formed armies of thousands of people or even larger, and mastered the ability to dispatch and fight an army of ten thousand people.
Genghis Khan believed that hunting was the legitimate duty of an officer, and it was the obligation of soldiers and soldiers to obtain lessons and training from it. Under his rule, the Mongolian army enforced regular hunting that was equivalent to military training. As the scope of control expanded, the size of the hunting increased from a thousand people, to ten thousand people, to more than 100,000 people.
When the Mongol Uluses were overwhelming the grasslands, a large-scale hunt would take two to three months and spread over a vast area of hundreds of miles. Each Mongolian belonging to dozens of thousands of households participating in the hunt had to march day and night, drive away wild animals at any time, maintain a tight blockade, and often run hundreds of miles to respond to the Khan's urgent dispatch and execute various orders.
Sukhbalu still remembers that when the hunting circle was reduced to two or three miles, he and tens of thousands of Mongolian warriors surrounded the circle, standing side by side, and everyone seemed to have turned into a mountain and an iron-like city. No matter how many thousands of beasts in the circle screamed in terror, they could only be shot and killed by the cowards.
This kind of training is the best drill. People who have participated in hunting have developed their command and coordination skills and learned the secrets of war. When they gather next time, they will become an unstoppable southern invasion force like a raging wave.
Sukhbalu himself was once a member of the southern invasion army. At that time, he was a centurion. After his meritorious service in the fierce battle at Yehuling, he was transferred to attack the Xia Kingdom and served as an envoy stationed in Zhongxing Mansion. As a result, when he returned to China a few years later, he heard that the Mongolian army suffered successive losses in the Central Plains, so that Genghis Khan had to use the banner of the Western Expedition to avoid direct confrontation with them.
Having been away from the grassland for several years, Sukhbalu was more sensitive to changes in the situation than ordinary people.
He vaguely felt that the outcome of the confrontation between the grasslands and the Central Plains was related to a greater reversal of strength and weakness. It was not as simple as Genghis Khan losing to the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Ning, or the Divine Arrow General Zhebie falling into a trap to lure the enemy. That's why he eagerly sought refuge with Da Zhou, trying to find a new path for himself and his subordinates.
This choice of his caused great turmoil within the Qianhu tribe to which he belonged, so much so that when he led his troops southward, some members of his tribe fled or even rebelled along the way. He suppressed and punished all the way, and by the time he settled in Xuande, his hands were already stained with the blood of his people.
Sukhbalu has no regrets about this.
The more familiar he became with the Central Plains and the Great Zhou Dynasty, the more he believed that his choice was correct. The embarrassing posture of the Huoluolasi people convinced him that the strength of the Mongolian army as a whole had little to do with the bravery of the Mongols themselves.
Perhaps it comes more from the genius of Genghis Khan and some of the results created by the current situation. Once Genghis Khan could not take care of the grasslands for the time being, and the current situation did not allow it, the Mongolian army would not be able to maintain the cycle of continuous battles and continuous harvests, so its combat capabilities would not be maintained forever.
What is even more troublesome is that the Great Mongolia has been established for more than ten years, but its internal management still maintains the unrestrained and rough style of the grassland people, which is far less meticulous than that of the Central Plains.
The Zhou Dynasty had not fought a war for two or three years. But the Central Plains was rich, and the imperial court was able to mobilize. Every year, money like gold and silver was invested in the military academy, and hundreds of elite soldiers and generals trained hard in the military academy.
For example, Sukhbalu went to the military academy in Datong Prefecture. Except for the difficulty of Chinese dictation, it took him three months to pass all the courses required for junior officers in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Three months later, he did not return to the army, but was transferred to the senior military academy in Tianjin Prefecture. As an instructor, he taught officers above the general level about the training, selection and common tactics of the Mongolian cavalry.
While teaching, he also occasionally attended courses at the Tianjin Military Academy, and even boarded a sea-going ship, where he was exposed to some boarding battles at sea.
As for other courses, such as tactics, strategy, geography, arithmetic, military system, national history, etc., Sukhbaru was dizzy and completely confused after listening to them, but he knew from this that after the officers learned these, The army will be even more powerful.
There is such a method in the Central Plains. How to deal with it on the grassland? Without the proceeds from plunder, it would be impossible to gather armies and organize hunts, and many combat skills would not be spread and passed down.
Those things were all accumulated bit by bit during the rise of Genghis Khan, and they were the treasures that the Mongolian army relied on to dominate the world! Dear nobles on the grassland, do you have a solution to this?
No.
They don't even feel the problem.
So the problem became more and more serious. As a result, over the past few years, even the powerful Qianhu who were left behind by Genghis Khan in the grasslands could not avoid being weak, let alone the Qianhu who were already marginalized and vulnerable to suppression.
At this moment, Sukhbalu, as the vanguard of the entire army, only brought a few hundred cavalry to crush them, but he had already crushed them to the point of disgrace!
Amid Sukhbalu's shouts, the cavalry completed its turn. The Kholorasi people felt the threat of the enemy behind them, but they did not do anything to hinder it except being busy reorganizing their troops.
Some obviously very experienced Mongolian officers roared and ordered some cavalry who were too far away from the team to come back.
If the cavalry is experienced on the battlefield, it can not only keep the queue loose to adapt to changes, but also be able to assemble at any time to launch attacks. This is what Han'er's military book calls the cavalry "the soldiers of clutches".
But these Huoluolasi people are not only loose, they are simply loose and chaotic. Most of them rely on a small group of elites to barely maintain the formation, but it can't be said to be a close response. They were more like teams of ten being forcibly formed into teams of one hundred. Although the centurions and the centurions kept coming and going, they could not see the movement of cooperation with each other.
"A bunch of trash! These people have forgotten all about Dahan's Zasa! What's the difference between this and the flocks of pheasants on the beach?"
A cavalryman who was nearly fifty years old rode his horse beside Sukhbalu. Seeing this, he couldn't help complaining, as if he had forgotten that they were already enemies.
Sukhbalu glanced at him and said in a slightly more serious tone: "It's Genghis Khan of Mongolia, not the Great Khan."
Turning back, he continued to stare at the cavalry on the opposite side.
He noticed that some of the Huolasi people who were far away from the team were not out of lack of experience. They wanted to run, to get away from the battlefield, but their superiors stopped them with a stern voice, and they could only roar in fear and rage.
The people who can still remain calm at this time only account for less than 10% of the hundreds of cavalry, twenty or thirty cavalry.
In a thousand Mongolian households, the proportion of people who can truly serve as the backbone of the army is only one. These people have experienced many wars and gained considerable status in the wars. They have titles such as Batuer, Xuechan, and Bokuo, and have mastered several Harachu and Boul. Therefore, they can receive long-term support, and have considerable time to practice combat skills and review their battle deeds in previous years.
These people were all silent because they felt that their side was already at a disadvantage, and it was a disadvantage that could very well lead to death and annihilation.
These people are the elite of the Mongolian army, and they have nothing to take seriously except killing and looting. In their eyes, even ordinary Mongolians are pariahs who can be killed at will, let alone the army of Han'er in the Central Plains.
But they never thought that one day they would encounter a Central Plains army composed of ordinary Mongolians led by Mongolian nobles!
How is this different from the Yi army of the Jin Kingdom? Why do the Mongols sacrifice their lives for the Central Plains people?
They don't understand, they are depressed, they are sad and angry. But they felt more scared.
Because compared with the Huoluo Lasi people running randomly, the Zhou army cavalry attacking from the opposite side was more like the Mongolian army in its heyday, and even compared to the Qixue of the Great Khan.
Their formation is equally loose, but has a strict sequence, and they advance slowly with almost the same rhythm. The closer they got, the more sophisticated armor and weapons they wore became more distinct. The sound of the collision of metal armor blades merged with the rumble of hooves, and a strong chilling aura came out, which was heart-stopping.
"Damn it, the Zhou Dynasty would actually trust the Mongols? This traitor Sukhbalu is really getting fat!" someone complained angrily.
