The turning point of the war was in April. When the Normans raided to an outrageous level, and the Kumans were surprised to find that they had lost nearly 10,000 soldiers due to such tactics. The Norman soldiers had calmly entered Moscow when they were frustrated, bringing a large amount of supplies and strengthening the city defense. The Norman baggage and Norman engineers were skillfully and skillfully mixed with glutinous rice juice, mud and clay, and carrying stones and hardwoods. They soon repaired several broken gaps in the siege - even stronger than those built by Moscow himself before.

"At least, what the Normans said to help us build the city walls and the city defense system, I can believe it..." Catherine II, who was in pain, comforted himself like this. After signing the agreement with the Normans helplessly, Catherine II quickly stabilized his mind, and like all mature and experienced politicians, his attitude took a big turn of 180 degrees. He began to take the initiative to get closer to the Normans, and at the same time began to think about how to squeeze the greatest benefits from the Normans... Well, the second article, the so-called interests, to be precise, should be given a larger piece of cake when Normans developed Moscow...

Today, Moscow is as stable as Mount Tai. After repelling several attacks from the Kumans, the people of Moscow began to confirm that they were safe. It was proved to be a good idea to surrender to the Norman Empire. In the eyes of the Normans who were prosperous in civilization, scientific progress, and especially the extremely developed military technology, the siege skills of these nomadic peoples in the grassland were not worth mentioning. A little bit of city defense heavy crossbows and catapults, and strengthening the city defense can make the entire defense line as stable as Mount Tai.

It is worth mentioning that the new weapons used by the Norman Empire, the most eye-catching props in this defense battle - those classical-style paradise flame burning bombs made of sealed pots, as well as black fire iron cannons mixed with iron sand and iron sheets and forged with cast iron. Grenadiers holding these burning objects and explosives showed their power in the city defense battle, throwing burning bombs and iron cannons in the dense places where several enemies gathered. In the violent explosion and the firelight, hundreds of Kumans died screaming and died. They were burned to ashes or were pierced by the iron sand and iron sheets burst out from the explosion, and died extremely miserable...

The people of Kuman couldn't hold on anymore.

"That group of people is free and easy! I watch us fight to the death all day long..."

"Don't do it anymore, go home!"

"Really, I haven't wanted to fight anymore. After grabbing so many cattle and sheep, if you don't find a place to raise it well, you'll lose weight!"

However, Centaurs Khan Ayujie did not want to withdraw his troops because his daughter Princia had not returned for a long time. Therefore, he tried his best to dissuade the Kuman people and hoped that they would persist.

"If we leave in shame, the other party will definitely catch up and attack us hard. In this way, we will have a great chance of failure!" A Yujie dissuaded his allies like this: "The other party has strong combat power and is well organized light cavalry. But we have to return with our spoils. The cattle, sheep, livestock, and gold, silver and treasures greatly limit our mobility."

"So Khan, what should we do?! Anyway, I will stop attacking the city!" A Kuman leader next to him interrupted A Yujie's words and asked loudly.

Ayujie Khan was very well cultivated, and he was not angry because of the other party's rudeness. He smiled and said, "Of course, of course, I am about to come here now - in fact, I have already thought of three countermeasures, upper, middle and lower, and no matter which one is implemented, it can change the current situation."

"Oh?! Then you should speak well!" Hearing the Centaur Khan's statement, the Kumans and other Centaur-headed people couldn't help it and urged A Yujie to continue speaking.

"First of all, the solution I thought of at the beginning was the best strategy. The reason why it was said to be the best strategy was because it could preserve our strength to the greatest extent. Of course, most people would not agree - I hope our army can quickly get rid of this battle - lightweight and simple, leaving only a small amount of the most precious spoils that can be carried with us. In this way, we can restore our greatest advantage, that is, speed. Then turn around, whether it is retreating or continuing to fight the enemy on the grassland, we can be more flexible. As long as we can defeat the other side, those spoils will still be ours."

Hearing Ayujie Khan's statement, the Centaur and the Kuman leaders shook their heads and waved their hands, refusing to implement such a strategy. Although this is indeed a good way to change the situation of the battle, when they heard that they wanted to discard all the spoils, these short-sighted nomadic leaders were frightened. They all said one by one: "How can this be done? This is something we stolen for our lives, and we must not throw it away! Even a needle-like person cannot do it!" So they asked Ayujie to tell other methods.

"The so-called central strategy means that we pretend to retreat. In general, we put the main force in front and the baggage behind. We will turn around and let a small number of troops take the baggage and spoils first, while the main force follows behind. If the opponent does not chase after him, it will be fine. If we chase him, our main force will give him a head-on blow!"

This method sounds quite a bit too much. Of course, for the Kumen and Centaurs, the most important thing is that they don’t have to discard their spoils. So most of the Kumen and Centaurs nodded, thinking that this method could be tried. Of course, some people still remembered that what Ayujiehan said was three ideas. So someone urged him to say the last idea. He also complained that this guy was unhappy and kept keeping him in the dark.

"The worst strategy is that the other party, that is, the Western Europeans, have a tradition of fighting. We can submit letters of war to them and agree on the time of war to lure them into a head-on battle with us."

Hearing this, the people below did not agree with it. Head-on combat... They had fought against Celtic's 40,000 troops once before. Even if they were won, they would suffer heavy losses in the end. And strength on the grassland is everything. As many tents are there, there will be as many men who work hard for them. Only then can they take the grassland and rob cattle and sheep. The people of Kuman are unhappy and will not engage in such a head-on war.

Seeing that the chiefs of the chiefs were not speaking, Ayujiehan smiled slightly: "Then, let's implement the Zhongshou. Okay, let's inform you and we are ready to leave."

Weirat's centaur Khan was indeed resourceful. No matter the advantages and disadvantages of the three strategies, they could change the current form of the entire battlefield as he said. Unfortunately, his opponent, Egil, the emperor of the Norman Empire, did not seem to want to give him a chance to display his talents...

After the discussion, more than 100,000 troops spent nearly half a month to pack up their spoils. The cattle and sheep that had almost chewed away the grassland were guarded by about 10,000 troops. The remaining more than 10,000 troops followed behind, and the scouts holding bows and arrows were scattered around the main force. They were ordered to strictly prohibit the enemy from passing, let alone pursue them. In this way, on April 30, AD, the battle in Eastern Europe was about to come to an end...

The first thing I found was the scouts who were walking in the front, a total of 200 soldiers from a certain Kuman tribe and a mixed army of Centaur Khan. These soldiers, who were the pathfinding and exploring, looked at the sun in the sky, observed the geographical coordinates on the ground, and carefully headed towards the southeastward direction, which was the grassland area where the various tribes of the Kumans and Centaurs gathered, and moved forward in the Kazan area.

However, soon they discovered that inexplicably, a large wooden fortress in front of them was a long and large wooden fort guarded by trenches, horse pits, wooden fences and numerous shooting platforms, stone scatterings, and crossbows—just like the barracks they had seen near Moscow, built by the Norman army.

"What's going on?! Did we admit the wrong way?" The soldiers looked at each other in surprise, knowing that they were not dreaming. So they divided some people to report to the main force, and the rest were divided into two teams, hoping to bypass this fortification that seemed quite large and could not see at a glance...

In this way, in one day, the main force of the coalition forces received more than a dozen similar reports. The soldiers told that their way forward was blocked by several large wooden forts not far from the Normans... After receiving this information, Kuman and the Centaurus were in an uproar, and Ayujie Khan's face seemed to be gloomy and sunny...

During this period, for nearly two months when the Norman Hussars kept harassing each other, the Norman soldiers - whether they were baggage soldiers, engineers, or infantry archers - and even, under Egil's forced order, the knights had to surrender to join the ranks, temporarily acting as carpenters, bricklayers, or the most basic coolies...

In nearly two months, more than 80,000 infantry and heavy cavalry, as well as more than 100,000 baggage and engineers along the outskirts of Moscow, the completely unblocked terrain led to the Volga River in the north and the Oka River in the south, bursting the river water into swamps. In places where water could not be diverted, fortresses were built, trenches were dug, horse pits were buried, and simple wooden fences were set up. All the surrounding land was transformed into its own positions, and the centaurs, who had the strongest power and the son of the grassland, were trapped to death...
Chapter completed!