During Mongolia's second expedition to the west, heavy cavalry accounted for about 40% of the whole cavalry. Mongolian archers, light cavalry and impact cavalry cooperate with each other to form a strong fighting capacity.
124 1 year, the engagement between Mongolia and the European Coalition forces reflected the powerful combat effectiveness formed by the cooperation of various cavalry. Mongolia first lured European cavalry to pursue with a small number of light cavalry, and then Mongolian cavalry and archers outflanked the pursued European cavalry from two wings, constantly shooting arrows at European cavalry and killing them.
At this time, the Mongolian heavy cavalry on standby attacked the European cavalry, and the Mongolian archers flanked by two wings completed the encirclement of the European cavalry. Due to the constant killing of Mongolian riders, the European cavalry formation has been scattered and defeated by Mongolian heavy cavalry.
At this time, the rear of the left and right wings of the European cavalry was surrounded by Mongolian cavalry and could not retreat. The front was hit by Mongolian heavy cavalry and the whole army was wiped out. In this war, Mongolia killed more than 20 thousand people. The Mongols cut off the dead man's ears and filled nine sacks.
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124 1, April 2nd. Bella combined Teutonic knights from France, Germany and Czech Republic to form a heavy cavalry army with more than 65,438+10,000 troops, which was arranged in Pace City. When Badou and sixty thousand slow Mongolian knights came to the gate, IV. Bella's heavy cavalry took the lead.
According to the idea of European knights, no army can resist the charge of tens of thousands of heavy cavalry. They believe that this blow will definitely defeat the Mongolian cavalry and solve the battle.
Sure enough, in the face of the metal storm of Teutonic knights, Mongolian cavalry began to flee, and European knights saw what they used to see. The Mongolian knights across the street are just a bunch of escaped cows.
When the European cavalry approached the Mongolian cavalry like a lion, they found that the Mongolian knight did not escape. They turned and drew their bows and arrows while retreating.
The power of Mongolian bows and arrows is unprecedented for these European knights. Mongolian bow is a compound bow, which is far more powerful than the English longbow that later made the French heavy cavalry suffer.
Coupled with the "reckless and evil" stunt of Mongolian knights, either horses or people were shot dead, and a large number of European knights fell on the road of charge.
Although heavy armor can protect European knights from being easily cut in battle, which is also a factor that makes heavy cavalry famous, it has become their burden at this time.
Heavy armor prevented European knights from charging for a long time. They need to rest and regroup. But in the process, they were constantly shot by Mongolian cavalry, but their swords were not even touched by Mongolian horses.
Angry European knights kept chasing, hoping to catch up and fight hand in hand with the Mongols, so they were led to the Zhaoyue River.
The long-term hard pursuit has made it impossible for European knights to cross the river to attack, so European knights built a bridgehead at the end of the only stone bridge with horses and chariots on the river, and planned to attack after a rest.
However, at dawn the next day, Mongolian heavy cavalry took the lead in attacking. Mongolian heavy cavalry, waving spike gang and sabre, crossed the stone bridge and broke through the bridgehead of European knights under the cover of fire from the bow and arrow behind, and started hand-to-hand combat with European knights, which is what European knights hope to see.
However, European knights found that even in hand-to-hand combat, they did not have the advantage. Their spears didn't have enough charge distance because they were in a hurry. Although a long sword can cut through the armor of a Mongolian knight.
The Mongolian knight's mace, a heavy blunt instrument, will also give a fatal blow to the heavily armored European knight under the impact inertia of the horse. Coupled with the use of sabre, the cavalry of both sides launched a big melee by the river.
Mongolian knights who were chased like cattle yesterday are now as brave as a group of lions. Mongolian knights are actually struggling to support, because this Mongolian knight who is responsible for attracting and actively attacking has only 30,000 riders, while the European knight opposite has 65,438+10,000 riders.
Behind the 30,000 cavalry led by Badou is the Shaoyue River. Only 30 thousand troops can't cross the river at the same time in fierce fighting. In addition, yesterday, in the face of 65,438+10,000 angry European soldiers teased by their bows and arrows, Badou sent his 30,000 to a desperate situation, which seemed to be a cross the rubicon. In fact, they are waiting.
Four. Bella also saw very clearly that the 30,000 Mongolian cavalry in front of her were struggling. In the afternoon, Bella decided to disperse tens of thousands of European cavalry to the opposite Mongolian knights.
But at this time, another 30,000 Mongolian cavalry led by Su Butai appeared behind the European cavalry, so 65.438+10,000 European knights were surrounded by 60,000 Mongolian knights.
It turned out that the night before, Su Butai led 30,000 Mongolian cavalry to take advantage of the darkness to detour hundreds of miles, cross the Jordan River too little, and come to the back of European knights! Even now, this is a big detour in the world military history.
Faced with heavy arrows and Mongolian cavalry from all directions, Bella's 65438+ million European knights collapsed.
Suddenly, they found a gap in the west, so tens of thousands of European heavy cavalry rushed to the west desperately. Unfortunately, this is a common tactic used by Mongols in the ancient military history of China: "encirclement of 3 gaps 1".
This is perhaps the most tragic scene in the history of heavy cavalry in Europe. When the European heavy cavalry rushed out of the encirclement, they found that they caught up with a large number of Mongolian knights from both sides and caught these European knights in the middle.
In this way, European knights kept running, while Mongolian knights on both sides kept chasing and shooting with bows and arrows. This is more like a hunting, and the yellow sand roars all over the sky along the way. In this way, the contest between the two large-scale cavalry teams of East and West ended.
In this war, less than one adult European knight survived. Before the war, Bella also drew a huge cross, hoping to bless her army with this trick, which often appeared miracles in the Crusades, but it was still a fiasco. No matter from the strategic and tactical point of view, or the intensity before the battle, the European heavy cavalry was completely defeated by Mongolian cavalry.
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