Wang Baobao was similarly shocked at the beginning.
Because although the Mongolian and Yuan armies numbered 60,000, there were only less than 20,000 cavalry among them, and the rest were all infantry and heavy baggage troops.
Yes, the Mongol Empire, which relied on cavalry to dominate the world, was now dominated by infantry in the hands of Wang Baobao.
However, after conducting some personal investigation, Wang Baobao quickly had a general understanding of the Golden Horde's army.
"The enemy is far from as powerful as it seems. Although their cavalry has a lot of armor, the lineup is in chaos. It is obvious that there is no good training. Even if they are wearing heavy armor, they will never be able to break through our defense line!"
Wang Baobao said to his generals with confidence.
The infantry of the Mongolian and Yuan armies was mainly composed of Sinicized Mongols and Han people. They basically served in the Central Plains for a long time and had rich experience in fighting against cavalry.
Moreover, Wang Baobao also discovered that there were no traces of advanced firearms among the Golden Horde army. There were at most a dozen small cannons less than three feet tall.
As for the matchlock gun, it didn't even have a hair on it.
Wang Baobao's Mongolian and Yuan army had nearly a hundred artillery pieces, large and small, and all of them imitated the advanced styles of the Ming army.
Both the Mongolian Yuan and the Golden Horde were full of confidence in themselves, and a decisive battle took place on the vast plains of the river.
Both sides claim to be the orthodox heirs of the Great Mongolia.
It's just that one army all held high the crescent moon flag of Tianfang Sect.
The other side's army consists of Chinese infantry as the backbone.
The two sides were at odds with each other, and the bloody battle soon began.
The Golden Horde army led by Naurus was so large that it was naturally impossible to attack them all at once.
Therefore, Naurus personally led tens of thousands of elites as a reserve team and sat in the middle army to watch the battle.
The Kipchak cavalry of the Golden Horde took the lead in launching an attack on the Mongolian and Yuan troops.
These cavalrymen on the Qinchak grasslands, like the Mongols, have also lived a nomadic life since childhood.
Therefore, their tactics are similar to those of the Mongols, consisting of a large number of light cavalry and a small number of elite heavy cavalry forming a cavalry phalanx.
It's just that these brave and capable Kipchak cavalry were beaten to death in front of the infantry of the Mongolian and Yuan army.
The soldiers of the Mongolian and Yuan armies basically had a lot of battles with the Red Turban Army. Whether it was tactics or organizational cooperation, they were far superior to these Kipchak cavalry.
What's more, Wang Baobao also deployed a large number of muskets and artillery among the Mongolian and Yuan armies, and killed the Kipchak cavalry in rivers of blood.
Fierce battles occurred one after another on the battlefield, and the casualties of the Golden Horde's troops gradually increased.
However, the phalanx of the Mongolian and Yuan troops did not waver at all.
Navurus, who was watching the battle from behind, immediately sensed the crisis.
"How could the Kipchak cavalry lose their support so quickly!?"
Navurus was shocked and frightened. The combat effectiveness of the Kipchak cavalry was considered to be above average among the Golden Horde, but their morale was greatly reduced by being beaten so quickly by the Mongolian Yuan army.
However, before Naurus had time to send troops to support the Kipchak cavalry, the Wara cavalry among the Mongolian and Yuan troops took the lead in launching a countercharge.
The ancestors of the Oara people fought Genghis Khan for three rounds on the grassland before being defeated and surrendered. Naturally, their combat effectiveness far exceeded that of the Kipchak cavalry.
Although the number of the Oara cavalry was small, with the support of the artillery and infantry of the Mongolian Yuan army, they quickly killed the Kipchak cavalry of the Golden Horde and fled in all directions.
On a chaotic battlefield, a small accident can trigger a rout.
What's more, the Kipchak cavalry, which was the main force of the Golden Horde army, was defeated, and the consequences were even more disastrous.
As the coach of the first army, Wang Baobao naturally cannot miss this excellent opportunity.
He immediately commanded his elite men to charge and fight fiercely at the gap in the Golden Horde.
The artillery of the Mongolian and Yuan troops also poured out firepower mercilessly. Any Golden Horde army that dared to resist suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of artillery.
Naurus, the Khan of the Golden Horde, was completely stunned.
He never thought that the enemy on the opposite side would be so powerful.
When Navurus reacted...
The Mongolian and Yuan troops commanded by Wang Baobao have completely disrupted the formation of the Golden Horde.
There are many vassal and servant armies in the Golden Horde army. Their fighting will was not strong in the first place. Now they have been cut off from each other by the Mongolian Yuan army, and each of them is fighting alone.
Soon, the morale of the Golden Horde army suffered a chain reaction that plummeted.
Troops one after another began to run towards the rear.
Navurus was powerless to prevent this sudden rout.
The Mongolian and Yuan troops commanded by Wang Baobao became more and more courageous as they fought.
After they saw that the enemy had collapsed, they pursued and fought fiercely, not giving the Golden Horde army a chance to regroup.
A great defeat became the final outcome of the war for the Golden Horde.
The Mongolian and Yuan armies killed and captured tens of thousands of people during the battle. Even Sulu Ding, the Golden Horde to which Nawurus belonged, was captured by the Mongolian and Yuan armies during their rout.
As for the captive cattle, sheep and horses, they were countless.
If it weren't for the fact that Nawu Lusi's mount was one of the best horses in a million and could run very fast, even he would have been a prisoner of Meng Yuan.
For these captured Golden Horde soldiers, Wang Baobao did not have much mercy for them.
Thousands of miles apart, they no longer see each other as compatriots.
For these prisoners, Wang Baobao used the method of drawing one out of three to execute them, and the remaining ones were all used as slaves, and they were going to be rewarded to the meritorious soldiers and Oara people after they returned.
However, among these prisoners, Wang Baobao discovered a very different group of Golden Horde soldiers.
The general soldiers of the Golden Horde are Tianfang believers, but these prisoners are not Tianfang believers at all.
Moreover, these prisoners were quite hostile to the Tianfang believers of the Golden Horde, and the Tianfang believers also disliked them.
Wang Baobao immediately interrogated the prisoners personally.
"It turns out that they are the Oros people." Wang Baobao knew that when Genghis Khan sent his army to conquer the west, the land conquered in the far west belonged to the Oros people.
Basically all the Rus people in this era were tributaries of the Golden Horde.
The ancestors of later generations of Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians and other countries are now divided into more than a dozen large and small principalities.
These Slavs are one of the most backward groups in Europe. Facing the Mongolian conquerors from the East, they are naturally no match for them. They can only act as the Mongolian lackeys.
By interrogating these Russian prisoners, Wang Baobao learned that their country was headed by a Muscovite principality, and all were vassals of the Golden Horde.
In addition to the annual payment of grain, gold, silver and women, a religious tax must also be paid starting ten years ago.
Because the Khans of the Golden Horde converted to the Tianfang religion, they naturally had to collect religious taxes from the pagans in accordance with the Tianfang teachings.
This made the life of the Slavs increasingly difficult. They were unwilling to change their Orthodox Christian beliefs, and they were unable to defeat the powerful army of the Golden Horde. They could only live in extreme frustration.
Today's battle was definitely an eye-opener for these Slavs.
In the eyes of the Slavs, the army of the Golden Horde is the most powerful army in the world. Whether they are Georgians, Bulgarians or Poles, they are all defeated by the army of the Golden Horde.
However, such a powerful Golden Horde army was defeated by Wang Baobao in a very embarrassed manner.
The shock brought to these Slavs can be said to be indescribable in words.
"So you are not Tianfang believers. As an Orthodox, do you worship a kind of cross?" Wang Baobao asked these captured Slavic generals.
As a vassal state of the Golden Horde, the Slavs naturally knew a lot of Mongolian among their nobles and generals, and there were basically no barriers to communication between the two parties.
"You are right, Your Majesty! That is the sacred symbol of Jesus in the world!" A Slavic nobleman named Andrei knelt on the ground and said respectfully.
These Slavs couldn't figure out Wang Baobao's origins. They only knew that they were Mongols on the eastern grasslands. Seeing that Wang Baobao was the leader of this army, they thought that Wang Baobao was the emperor of the Mongol Empire in the far east.
"I see, it seems that you and those Asos should be of the same religion!"
Wang Baobao looked at the crosses in the hands of these Slavic prisoners, nodded and said.
The Azov people are a nation that Mongolia conquered in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus during their Western Expeditions. Most of them share the same faith as the Slavs, which is Orthodox Christianity.
When the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty fought against the Red Turban Army, it mobilized many Asos people to go out.
Wang Baobao was naturally very familiar with them and even understood their religious habits.
After talking with these Slavic prisoners, Wang Baobao became happier and happier.
Because he felt that he seemed to have discovered a way to deal with the Tianfang Sect.
Wang Baobao already knew that from the Hezhong area to the west, even to the end of the mountains and seas, all countries and nations have their own religions.
Among these ethnic groups, religion is the law, religion is the state, and religion is ethics.
No matter how powerful the conqueror is, if he wants to rule these ethnic groups, it will be impossible without a suitable religion as a means.
The powerful Golden Horde defeated all enemies, but in just a few decades, the monarchs and nobles of the Golden Horde from top to bottom also chose to convert to the Tianfang religion.
Because the Tianfang Sect has a huge territory and a large population, if a country wants to maintain stable rule, choosing the Tianfang Sect seems to be a very good decision.
However, Wang Baobao had already become a public enemy of many Tianfang Sect members because of his mass slaughter in the Chagatai Khanate.
Of course, the Tianfang believers are not very courageous. During the Mongolian Western Expedition, Hulagu conquered Baghdad and ordered thousands of horses to trample to death the leader of the Tianfang religion, the Caliph. The Yin'er Khanate he established did not still rule the Tianfang believers.
There is a more important reason, naturally, that Wang Baobao extremely hates the teachings of Tianfang Sect.
The sanctity and teachings of the descendants of the prophets of the Tianfang Sect are contrary to the Dayuan Emperor and Chinese ethics. Once he converts to the Tianfang Sect, Wang Baobao will be questioned by the Dayuan Emperor's legitimacy.
Now the more he talks with these Slavic prisoners, the more Wang Baobao feels that Orthodox Christianity seems more suitable for the Yuan Dynasty.
In the Orthodox Church, the power of the patriarch is far below that of the emperor, and the power of bishops in various places is not as powerful as that of feudal lords.
In the Tianfang Sect, the religious leader is in charge of everything, and the caliph is even more sacred and unquestionable.
Wang Baobao felt that if he used the Orthodox Church, he could win millions of Slavs to his side.
If we could mobilize the Slavs to cooperate with us in defeating the Golden Horde, wouldn't the future be bright?
The more Wang Baobao thought about it, the more excited he became, and he immediately ordered all these Slavic prisoners to be released from restrictions. Although their weapons and armor were still confiscated, they were given sufficient food and a relatively free range of activities.
Wang Baobao's move immediately made these Slavs grateful.
He took the initiative to help the Mongolian and Yuan troops guard and monitor the captives of the Tianfang Sect of the Golden Horde.
Poor Tianfang believers in the Golden Horde, not only became miserable prisoners, but also suffered humiliation and torture from two groups of pagans, one from the east and the other from the west.
After defeating the army of the Golden Horde, Wang Baobao led the Mongolian and Yuan armies to move all the way and wiped out the opposition forces in the Hezhong area again.
The originally prosperous and prosperous Hezhong area has turned into a wasteland after the war between Wang Baobao and the Golden Horde.
Although the Slavs did not have many weapons, they were very active in the process of massacring the Tianfang believers.
Soon these Slavs won the favor of Wang Baobao.
Wang Baobao ordered that the Slavic general Andrei be appointed as General Rus of the Yuan Dynasty to command the three thousand Slavic prisoners in the Yuan army.
Oh, of course!
Now these Slavs are no longer prisoners, but the officers and soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the Russian army.
These Slavs soon set off waves of massacres in the river area. They were barbaric and ferocious, and they showed no mercy to the Tianfang believers. Even women and children would become the targets of their massacres.
Many people in the Mongolian and Yuan armies felt that they were cold-blooded, but compared with these Slavs, they were still considered good people.
Even the equally barbaric Varas were quite shocked by what these Slavs did.
Haohai, the leader of Oara, advised Wang Baobao: "Master, these Russian barbarians are like wild beasts. I have seen with my own eyes that when they have food to eat, they insist on eating human flesh. They are more ferocious than wild wolves. After all, they are beasts." They are also inhumane. If one day they rebel against us, the consequences will be disastrous, so why not kill them all now?"
Wang Baobao did not take Hao Hai's worries seriously, because he had discovered that although these Slavs were extremely ferocious, they did not have much strength on the battlefield and could hardly threaten the Mongolian and Yuan armies.
Because when these Slavs slaughtered civilians, they were extremely brave and extremely cruel with no bottom line.
but.
They are too barbaric and backward, with a serious lack of discipline and organization.
On the battlefield, there are all brave individuals, and it is difficult to form a coordinated army.
"A dog is a good dog if it can bite!" Wang Baobao dismissed Hao Hai's suggestion in one sentence.
Wang Baobao has made up his mind to fight to the death with the Tianfang Sect.
However, he is weak and weak, so he must win over these Slavs or the Orthodox Christians further away for his use.
After Wang Baobao defeated the Golden Horde, while he was busy burning, killing and looting in the Hezhong area, he also sent people to hunt down the nobles of the Western Chagatai Khanate who fled to the southern mountains.
The Western Chagatai Khanate has been completely destroyed, but the little Khan Babur supported by the lame Timur and others still has considerable appeal. Wang Baobao plans to take the opportunity to completely eradicate this hidden danger.
but.
Wang Baobao never expected it.
When he completely destroyed the Western Chagatai Khanate's home base, his own home base was also attacked by the Ming army!
