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It took a certain amount of time for Joseph to organize the cavalry group, and it still took a certain amount of time to come from the Eastern European plains. During this waiting time, Ibn Haidar and others had to face the siege of the Condor Empire alone.

In order to reduce the consumption of food and supplies and prevent the morale of the soldiers from further decreasing, Ibn Haidar finally gave up the idea of ​​attacking and breaking out, and began to shrink the defense across the board, waiting for the arrival of the Eastern European cavalry.

Facing the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces that suddenly switched from offensive to defensive, Ning Yuan immediately guessed that the enemy might have found reinforcements, so he gave up the breakout and began to recharge his batteries and conserve his strength.

Now the entire Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are under attack by the Condor Army.

After all the teleportation arrays failed, the remaining troops of the two countries had difficulty even protecting themselves. They were unable to rescue the surrounded Ibn Haidar and others, so the only direction where reinforcements could appear was to the west. .

The current location of the battlefield is more than a thousand kilometers away from the Ural River. If the enemy really finds reinforcements from Eastern European countries, the furthest distance can even reach more than three thousand kilometers.

If you want to cross more than 3,000 kilometers to rescue the trapped Ibn Haidar and others, the only feasible way is to dispatch the purest cavalry regiment.

In order to complete the journey of more than 3,000 kilometers as soon as possible, all strategic supplies and food must be transported by war horses. Therefore, the European Cavalry Corps that came to rescue Ibn Haidar and others this time must at least do One person with three horses or one person with four horses.

Two horses are used for transportation, and the other horse or two horses are used to carry necessary food and supplies. A large amount of food must be prepared for the war horses in advance along the way to reduce the weight of the war horses in the early stage.

Only in this way can the European cavalry regiment that came to support be able to cover these more than 3,000 kilometers faster.

Thinking of this, Ning Yuan knew that the cavalry coming to support this time would most likely be light cavalry with lighter loads and more flexible combat capabilities.

This opportunity to come to the rescue across a distance of two to three thousand kilometers basically only comes once, so in order to ensure the success rate of the rescue, the enemy is likely to send all the light cavalry in the country this time.

As a result, in half a month, light cavalry armies from the entire Eastern Europe and even Europe will appear in the west, and their number is likely to reach more than one million.

Although the cavalry force of the Condor Empire is also very powerful, facing a European cavalry group with a size of more than one million, the Condor Empire must not be too large. Otherwise, once the enemy seizes the flaw, it will be difficult to accumulate in the early stage. The situation that arises is likely to be lost in one fell swoop.

After realizing the seriousness of the matter,

Ning Yuan meditated alone in the room for a long time.

Ning Yuan now had two choices before him.

The first option is for Ning Yuan to immediately mobilize the cavalry from the Condor Empire to quickly support them, and then use cavalry against cavalry to fight a cavalry battle with the European Cavalry Army on the grasslands of the Kazakh Khanate.

The second option is not to mobilize troops from the country, but to use the Condor Empire's troops in the Kazakh Khanate to make targeted arrangements in advance, and then wait and wait for the enemy to come over in a hurry, and give the enemy the most A fatal blow.

The first choice has a very high probability of winning, because the Condor Empire, which owns the entire Mongolian Plateau and Siberia, has the most powerful cavalry force in the world.

As long as Ning Yuan mobilizes all the domestic cavalry, the probability of the Condor Empire winning this cavalry battle will be close to 100%.

However, the cost of doing so will also be very huge. In addition to consuming countless grain and supplies, the cavalry army of the Condor Empire will also suffer a large number of battle losses.

Although winning is the first priority in fighting a war, if you have to break your muscles and bones every time you fight, it will definitely not be worth the gain.

After several years of recuperation, the Condor Empire finally recovered. Ning Yuan did not want to let the Condor Empire fall into the same extremely difficult situation again, so even though he knew that this would lead to victory, he still did not want to compete with Europe. The cavalry army fought a large-scale war of attrition.

If you don't want to mobilize large-scale cavalry from the country, the only option left is to adapt to local conditions and use the existing troops in the Kazakh Khanate to perfectly tide over this difficulty.

Facing a European cavalry group that may reach millions in size, the Centaur Legion, a natural cavalry, will definitely participate in the battle.

Ning Yuan was also very confident that he could use the hundreds of thousands of centaur troops in the Kazakh Khanate to defeat the European cavalry group that had traveled a long distance.

However, the number of centaur troops currently available for him to mobilize is not very large, because he must leave enough centaur troops to surround the million-strong elite army led by Ibn Haidar.

Once he deploys a large number of Centaur troops to the west to deal with the European Cavalry Army, then Ibn Haidar and others will definitely take the opportunity to force a breakout.

Without the deterrent of the Centaur army on the side, Ibn Haidar could choose to break up the million-strong army into pieces and bypass the front line of defense.

By then, even if Ning Yuan can lead his army to intercept some of the enemies, a large number of enemies will eventually take the opportunity to escape and ascend to heaven.

In Ningyuan's strategic plan, the million-strong army led by Ibn Haidar must remain completely within the Kazakh Khanate, and they must not be allowed to escape back to Uzbekistan.

Therefore, he must leave most of the Centaur army here to watch the enemy to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the chaos to break out.

It is impossible to summon all the Centaur troops to defend the enemy in the west, so other armies can only be used to take the place of the Centaur troops.

Although the other light cavalry regiments of the Condor Empire are also very outstanding, they are not much better than the enemy's elite cavalry army.

Therefore, if other light cavalry are allowed to take the place of the insufficient Centaur army, then if a large-scale cavalry battle breaks out head-on, the losses will definitely be inevitable.

After staring at the flags representing the various armies of the Condor Empire on the sand table for a long time, Ning Yuan's eyes suddenly stopped on a flag on the east bank of the Saresu River.

After seeing the name of the legion represented by the flag, a smile immediately appeared on Ning Yuan's face.

"Come here, pass my military orders.

Andrew was ordered to immediately lead the barbarian army to the Turgai River Basin to deploy defenses.

Ma Qianli was ordered to lead an army of 100,000 centaurs to the Turgai River Basin, where he assisted Andrew's barbarian army to intercept a large cavalry group that might come from the west.

Ma Qianzhang was ordered to lead an army of 100,000 centaurs and an army of 100,000 elven archers from the Siberian region to the Kostanay region, where they would be on standby temporarily.

Once the barbarian legions in the Turgai River Basin engage the enemy, they will immediately penetrate behind the enemy's rear for me, making sure to intercept all the defeated troops in the area east of Aktobe.

Ma Qianren was ordered to lead an army of 50,000 centaurs and an army of 50,000 elven archers to station in Ozek.

As soon as the enemy's main force reaches the Turgai River Basin, they will immediately move north for me, ready to raid the enemy's flanks at any time.

Lang Qingyun was ordered to lead 50,000 wolf cavalry to follow Ma Qianzhang. Ma Qianzhang was responsible for fighting during the day, and Lang Qingyun was responsible for harassment and sneak attacks at night.

Gu Chang told me Ma Qianli, Ma Qianzhang and Ma Qianren that I could allow dismounted enemies to escape alive, but I would never allow cavalrymen on war horses to escape alive. "

After selecting the army to deal with the enemy, Ning Yuan immediately chose the battlefield in the Turgai River Basin where the enemy was located.

In order to retain all the main cavalry forces in Europe once and for all, Ning Yuan finally chose to transfer 250,000 cavalry from China.

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After everything was arranged, Ning Yuan once again focused his attention on Ibn Haidar's army that was besieged in the Saresu River Basin.

Although Ibn Haidar stopped attacking and chose strategic defense, Ning Yuan still had no intention of letting them go.

Facing the heavily defended enemy camp, it was certainly impossible for Ning Yuan to attack directly.

In order to prevent the enemy from resting in peace and recuperating, Ning Yuan directly launched a series of targeted harassment actions.

When the south wind blows, Ning Yuan will have people set up a row of large pots five hundred meters away from the enemy's camp, and then stew fresh mutton in the pots.

Whenever a pot of mutton is cooked, hundreds of soldiers from the Condor Empire will go there to drink and eat meat.

From the morning until the evening, the mutton in the iron pot has not been cut off. Every time a pot of mutton is cooked, someone will immediately add meat to the pot.

In this way, as long as it doesn't rain, Ning Yuan will send people to set up a large array of iron pots near the enemy's camp, drinking wine and eating meat in front of the enemy.

Smelling the strong aroma of meat blowing in the wind, looking at the soldiers of the Condor Empire who were drinking and eating meat in the distance, and then looking at the food in their own bowls, many soldiers of the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Allied Forces suddenly lost their appetite.

Once upon a time, they also ate meat every meal, but as they went deeper into the Kazakh Khanate, they ate less and less meat.

At first, I could eat meat once a day, and then I could eat meat once every three days. Now I can only find some diced meat in the porridge that has been there for who knows how long.

As time went by, not only did the diced meat in the porridge become less and less day by day, but even the rice porridge itself became thinner and thinner day by day.

Looking at the watery rice porridge in the bowl and the hard pancakes in their hands, many soldiers felt cold in their hearts, because they knew very well why this happened.

In fact, Ibn Haidar did not want to impose food controls on the soldiers in the army at this time, because this would seriously affect the morale of the army.

However, facing the tight siege of the Condor Empire army and the millions of soldiers in the army, when he didn't know when the reinforcements from Joseph's side would arrive, he had to make careful calculations and use as much food as possible. Keep it.

Ibn Haidar's idea was simple. Anyway, before Joseph's European Cavalry Group arrived, he would not take the initiative to attack the enemy.

Instead of continuing to feed the soldiers every meal, it is better to make them work one meal and two meals a day.

After Joseph's reinforcements arrived, he would distribute the grain and dried meat saved these days to the soldiers. This would not only boost the morale of the army, but also make the soldiers grateful to him.

Therefore, even though he knew that depriving the soldiers of food in the early stage would affect their morale, Ibn Haidar still resolutely chose to do so without affecting the soldiers' health and physical strength.

Anyway, the Condor Empire's army did not dare to attack them, and they would not take the initiative to attack, so some effects on morale would not affect the overall situation.

Ibn Haidar's judgment was very correct. Although the coalition soldiers were affected to some extent, their spirits were still there.

But Ning Yuan's methods don't stop there.

After seeing that the temptation of food did not have as great an impact on the enemy as imagined, Ning Yuan continued to send people to drink and eat meat in front of the enemy's camp, and also sent the Somersault Cloud Legion to launch random air attacks on the enemy's camp.

In this air strike, what the Condor Empire soldiers on the somersault cloud threw were not any deadly weapons or dirty things, but various meats wrapped in brown paper.

Some kraft paper bags contain a delicious piece of bacon, some kraft paper bags contain freshly cooked mutton, and some kraft paper bags contain a small piece of delicious beef jerky. ....

In short, the brown paper bags dropped by the Somersault Cloud Legion are filled with all kinds of delicious meat. As for what is inside, it is like opening a blind box, it depends on everyone's luck.

At the beginning, the soldiers of the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Allied Forces were worried that the Condor Army would poison their food, so many people did not dare to eat even though their mouths were already watering with greed.

Maybe it was because they hadn't eaten meat for a long time, but in the end some brave soldiers chose delicious food between life and delicious food.

When the soldiers who tasted the delicacies found nothing strange afterwards, the entire camp of the Central Asian and Middle Eastern coalition forces immediately exploded.

Looking at those brown paper bags filled with delicious food, many soldiers' eyes immediately turned red.

Since the total amount of food in each brown paper bag is very limited, only enough for one soldier to eat a few bites, many jealous soldiers directly took action in order to grab the food in the brown paper bag.

Every time the Somersault Cloud Legion dropped a brown paper bag, varying degrees of chaos would immediately occur in the military camp below them, and many soldiers would fight over the food.

Even though Ibn Haidar had issued a death order and severely punished a group of unlucky people, he still could not stop the chaos caused by fighting for food.

It is actually very simple to really solve this problem, as long as Ibn Haidar takes out the dried meat from the granary and distributes it.

But that batch of dried meat was intended by Ibn Haidar to improve the morale and nutrition of the army after Joseph led his army.

If you take it out and distribute it now, the soldiers will have to eat hard biscuits and drink gruel later, and morale will definitely be very low by then.

So it's not that Ibn Haidar doesn't understand this, but that he must take the overall situation into consideration.

In the end, facing Ningyuan's damaging move, Ibn Haidar could only choose to turn a blind eye. As long as the soldiers did not suffer casualties due to fighting for food, then he would no longer bother to care about it. .

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