Li Yinglin's battle basically determined the future pattern. Even the second civil war in the Purple Horde did not give the countries in the northeast more opportunities.
Half a month later, Taiwei Wang Fangzhong came with reinforcements and wiped out the remaining enemies nearby. The king gathered the captured Polish nobles and nomadic leaders. First, he publicly praised the Russians who acted anyway before the battle, and then reprimanded the others. He said that these people were originally guilty of capital crimes, but the Great Khan took pity on talents and was willing to pardon those who surrendered, depending on who was willing.
The Polish nobles were very stubborn and unwilling to surrender. The nomadic leaders accepted it immediately, saying that they had long been interested in the Khan's court, and were only forced to participate after being deceived and coerced by the traitor Boyan. They tried hard to prove that they had been trying to contact the Khan for a long time, but due to various reasons, they were not completely successful.
Wang Fangzhong knew that this was all nonsense, but he did not refute it on the spot. Instead, he nodded slightly to show his approval. In the end, Wang Taiwei said generously that it was obvious what the people wanted. This war is not a challenge to us in Rome, but an opportunity to show our military might. Therefore, now that loyal ministers and brave generals have been identified, there is no need to worry about these trivial matters anymore.
He announced that all those who surrendered would follow him to meet the Khan and be awarded official positions and titles. As for the Poles who were unwilling to surrender, they were also brave warriors worthy of admiration. They are not traitors, they are just their own masters, so we will not pursue them and let them go.
Everyone praised him for his kindness. The Poles were not very grateful, thinking that the pagan generosity must have another agenda, but the lieutenant really sent the captured Polish nobles and knights out of the camp and let them leave. Gradually, they felt at ease and began to return along the way they came.
However, when walking to a village called Katyn near Smolensk, the Polish team was suddenly attacked by the surrounding Russians. Almost all hundreds of Poles were killed, and only two nobles escaped with good physical skills.
The surviving nobles fled back to Krakow, yelled at the parliament that the Russians were insidious and cruel, and asked the parliament to stand up for them.
At that time, the Polish hero Casimir III had just passed away. Because he had no male heirs, he made a will and handed over the kingdom to his nephew, King Lajos of Hungary, after his death, so that he could have a strong adult monarch. , command two countries to jointly fight against powerful foreign enemies.
Lajoche was also a very capable man, but he had just arrived and had to make concessions to the nobles.
At this time, the Hungarian army was fighting with the Purple Horde Khanate in Transylvania. Lajos was preparing to take advantage of the internal instability of the Purple Horde Khanate to concentrate his forces to regain the territory, drive the enemy out of the Carpathian Mountains, and rebuild the defense line. But in order to take care of the Poles, he could only give priority to political needs, make military concessions, and transfer his general reserves that were originally planned to be deployed in the south and send them to the southeast to accompany the Poles to beat the Russians.
The Polish-Hungarian coalition forces were overwhelming and began to besiege Smolensk. Several nearby principalities formed a coalition to resist, but were defeated by the enemy. Smolensk was desperate and hurriedly asked for help from the Purple Horde Khanate, but the Purple Horde reinforcements failed to arrive in time, and the weakly defended city was captured.
The Polish army burned, killed, and looted, almost completely destroying the city. The Purple Army only rescued a few hundred people who escaped, and all other citizens below the Grand Duke were killed by the Poles.
The destruction of Smolensk greatly shocked the surrounding Rus' people, and many southern cities began to seek asylum from the Purple Horde. Wang Fangzhong took advantage of the situation to migrate the population, using the veterans of the Nanya Army as the backbone, and expanded the military model to the areas north of Crimea and on both sides of the Dnieper River. It was also at this time that Kiev invited the Purple Tent Army to settle in, and it has since become one of the three 10,000-household garrison locations after the reorganization of the Beiya Army.
The nomadic tribe leaders were placed under house arrest after arriving in Varna. Under the auspices of Prime Minister Yelujian, the Purple Horde Khanate, taking advantage of its recent victory, began to reorganize various ministries from the Dnieper River to the Volga River. In the name of promotion and reward, nobles from various tribes were gathered in the capital, the original tribes were broken up, and floating officials were sent to supervise them.
Further afield, Yelujian canceled the original surrender of military states and garrison posts. He imitated the Han Dynasty's county system and European customs, granting chiefs higher titles but depriving them of actual power. The nobles of the tribe formed a parliament, and the prime minister sent by the Khan served as the speaker, granting the nobles the legitimacy of the parliament to govern, and at the same time organized them to manage the daily affairs of the entire tribe.
Yelujian's reform of various departments in Beiya has been used to this day. Today, ministers sent by the Purple Horde Khanate are stationed as far away as Kazan, the capital of Volga Bulgaria. The Khan and Burke of the tribe have become an honorary title, even owned by more than one person. The actual power lies in the hands of officials sent by the Khanate.
Officials often select capable young nobles and even ordinary herdsmen who are good at fighting to serve as their right-hand men. They are knighted by the Khan's court and allowed to join the Council of Nobles, gradually replacing the old nobles and controlling all aspects of the tribe.
Through this selection system similar to that of the police, the management of tribes has become increasingly formalized, and in relatively developed places such as Kazan and Batu Sarai, quite comprehensive local administrative institutions have been formed. Although it is still not as good as the "local" military mansion, it is still pretty good compared to before.
A few years after the war ended, the Poles began to doubt this conflict. Some people thought that the attack was very suspicious and suspected that the Purple Horde instigated the Russians to do it. Otherwise, the following things would be too coincidental.
Zi Zhang firmly denied it, and in turn suspected that Grand Master Hua died suddenly in battle, which was very strange. They believed that Poland and other countries conspired with traitors in the army to kill him, and threatened to avenge Grand Master.
In the end, no one could come to a conclusion.
Wang Fangzhong himself never revealed more in his life. Even the Guo family didn't know what role he played at that time.
On the contrary, the Greeks in the metropolis liked this kind of conspiracy story very much. They also uncovered the previous incidents of admonishing the Queen Mother Maria, and found that the same Queen Mother seemed to be behind a series of things such as peace talks and troop deployments. Wei is taking the lead. There were even plays written with him as the protagonist, which are still popular today.
