Krum rode on horseback facing 27,000 cavalry, with a serious face and loudly said: "My warriors, we could have stayed in the comfort of the Danube River, herding horses and sheep, and we could have been lying in tents in this heavy winter.
On the fur mattress inside, I was drinking milk tea and gnawing on roasted leg of lamb.
Things about the Eastern Roman Empire and Thrace have nothing to do with us, but we are here.
Why is this because of the Western Qin people?
After the attack, once the Western Qin people capture Thrace, they will definitely go north to attack our Bulgar Khanate.
Now we can also unite with the Eastern Roman Empire, Thrace and other countries to resist the Western Qin people's attack, but if we Regardless of this matter, when the Western Qin people wipe out other countries and tribes, they will eventually turn their butcher's knife on us.
Then we will be isolated and helpless, so we must fight this battle."
"I misjudged the strength of the Western Qin people.
Judging from the current situation, they are more terrifying and powerful than I imagined.
Now we have been forced to huddle in this small area and cannot break out.
We have no way to retreat.
Of course, we can also abandon the war horses and flee back to the Bulgar Khanate, but this is more dangerous.
Without the horses, we will become lambs to be slaughtered, and we are likely to be attacked on the way over the mountains.
If the Slavs attack, it is more likely that they will all freeze to death and starve to death in the mountains."
"Escape is shameful.
It has never been the way we Bulgars behave.
Today we are going to fight to the death with the Western Qin people here.
Our Bulgar cavalry is the most powerful cavalry in the world."
After Krum finished speaking, a captain shouted: "Let the people of Western Qin see how powerful we Bulgars are!"
"Kill them" "Drive them back to the east" "Kill them all and steal all their horses, weapons, armor, crossbows, and food."
"Go to Western Qin, burn down their houses, kill all the men, and kidnap all the women."
"Robbing money, grabbing food, grabbing women" One by one, the Bulgar cavalry raised their weapons and shouted.
It was chaotic at first, but soon they merged into a unified roar.
"My warriors, kill me."
Krum held up his gem-encrusted scimitar and brandished his horse and rushed towards the Western Qin army formation.
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh," all the Bulgars screamed, waving their weapons and following Krum as they rushed towards the Western Qin people.
In the Western Qin army formation, Liang Zhenwu shouted: "Attack!"
The Western Qin cavalry in the front row slowly started to run, and then the military formation as a whole slowly moved forward.
This charging process is one of the daily training subjects of the Western Qin Army, in order to exert the power of the military formation group charge and save money.
The time to accelerate the charge, if one row after another starts and accelerates, it takes too long.
Basically, the front row has already been in contact with the enemy, and more than two-thirds of the rear cavalry have not moved.
This makes it impossible to exert the overall strength of the battle formation , and this process of moving slowly to accelerating to the highest speed requires the shortest time, and its impact on the enemy is also the most powerful.
Although the collision force that the front row needs to withstand increases several times, the losses suffered It is also the largest, but few enemy formations can withstand such an intensity of group charges, and this tactic requires strong technical skills.
How to improve this technical skills is incomparable, with extremely high tacit cooperation and countless times.
Practice, practice, practice.
The Bulgars charged very quickly, and their formations were very scattered.
The nomadic cavalry basically had no formations to speak of in battle, and they never trained formations.
Once there was a head-on battle, they would charge collectively and rush to the enemy first.
Fight first, rush in and fight later, in short it is a melee.
A scattered formation is also beneficial when charging.
It can minimize the long-range strikes of enemy bows and arrows.
If it is a dense military formation, the loss suffered by long-range strikes by enemy bows and arrows during the charge will definitely be greater than that of a scattered formation.
Much more, this is the area under attack.
The denser the military formation, the larger the attack surface, and the greater the losses, and vice versa.
"shoot arrows" "shoot arrows" They were all offensive cavalry, mainly based on mounted archery.
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The generals of both sides shouted orders five or six seconds apart.
The Western Qin Army's cavalry bows had a longer range, so the Western Qin Cavalry took the lead in attacking with bows and arrows.
Five or six seconds later, It took only a few seconds for the Bulgars to start firing arrows, and in just five or six seconds, the Western Qin cavalry had already fired two rounds of arrows.
Although the formation of the Bulgars was relatively scattered, after a few rounds of two dense rounds of arrows, the Bulgars were able to Several pieces of the Garr army fell almost at the same time.
Casualties were no longer something that the general should consider at this time, and no one was still in the mood to care about the life and death of others.
Everyone was rushing forward desperately, shooting arrows quickly while shouting to cheer themselves up.
The Western Qin cavalry fired six waves of arrows, and the Bulgars fired four waves of arrows.
The Western Qin cavalry relied on their sophisticated equipment to withstand these waves of arrows and suffered some losses, but not much.
Although the Bulgars The formation was scattered, but the defensive equipment was poor, and the arrows of the Western Qin cavalry were sharp, which caused great losses to the Bulgars.
Bursts of weapons clashed after the collision between the two sides, followed by row after row of cavalry in the front row of both sides being knocked down and overwhelmed by the rear row of cavalry.
Neat rows of cavalry spears with destructive power penetrated the scattered Bulgar cavalry and took away the cavalry, leaving behind the horses.
At this time, the disadvantage of the scattered formation was fully exposed.
The scattered formation could not condense the overall strength at all.
The Western Qin cavalry was rushed to pieces by the military formations and neat movements.
The Western Qin cavalry carrying long spears have extremely strong military formation penetration.
Even though these cavalry are light cavalry and cannot compare with the penetration of heavy cavalry, they are still not able to stop the scattered Bulgars.
Yes, the Bulgars' formation was quickly penetrated by the Western Qin cavalry.
As the Western Qin cavalry completely rushed into the Bulgars, the collision force weakened and the speed also dropped.
The Western Qin cavalry that rushed through the military formation quickly turned around and returned to both sides of the battlefield and began to use bows and arrows to cruise and shoot, and lost The Western Qin cavalry, which had strong collision force and impact speed, quickly discarded their spears and drew their swords to kill the Bulgars.
Twice the force already had an absolute advantage on the frontal battlefield.
The Bulgars had already suffered a big loss during the charge due to their scattered formation.
Now that their force was more than doubled, they were even more disadvantaged in terms of situation.
"Kill!"
Krum roared, waving his machete and slashing at the Western Qin cavalry that rushed over.
The generals and soldiers on both sides were fighting desperately.
Everyone knew that the momentum could not be let down at this time.
Once the momentum fell, It's not far from defeat.
The Western Qin cavalry has a strong fighting will and strong combat effectiveness, and is supported by sophisticated equipment.
Although the Bulgars are not equipped well, this battle is a life-threatening battle for them, so everyone They were brave and not afraid of death.
Although the casualties were heavy, it did not make them timid.
The battle continued, and the number of casualties on both sides increased.
At first, everyone was roaring, but as time went on, everyone instinctively began to end the roar in order to save energy and energy, and later, Even if I want to yell, I don't have the strength anymore.
The battle lasted from morning to afternoon.
The generals and soldiers of both sides were just swinging their weapons stiffly to kill each other.
The only instruction they gave their brains was to kill and keep killing until they killed everyone.
The importance of fighting will, equipment, and combat endurance came to the fore at this time.
No matter how passionate they were before the war and how loud their roars were, it had no effect at this time.
The Bulgars, whose fighting will was not as good as the Western Qin cavalry, finally Some people couldn't hold on anymore.
Their physical and mental fatigue was so fast that their physical strength was exhausted.
It was even too difficult for them to even lift the knife.
The casualties of the Bulgars soared again.
The surge in casualties frightened the other Bulgars.
Krum, who was covered in blood, hacked to death a Western Qin cavalry and then turned to look around.
He found that more than half of his 20,000 horses had been lost.
The battlefield was full of Western Qin cavalry. figure, and there were only a few guard soldiers left around him.
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Krum knew that he had lost.
This had nothing to do with luck or commanding ability, but was caused by the strength gap between the two sides.
Even the determination and courage to put everything aside and risk everything failed to turn the tide of the war.
What else can be said about the current plan?
, and can only quickly escape far away, escape "Retreat!"
Krum shouted to the guards around him, turned his horse's head and ran towards the north.
The Western Qin cavalry in front of him were chopped down by him one after another.
As soon as Krum, the Khan, withdrew, the momentum of the Bulgars collapsed instantly.
Most of the other Bulgars didn't notice it at first.
Only a few people turned around and ran away immediately after seeing it.
Then other Bulgars also discovered the abnormality.
The number of people escaping gradually increased, and soon there was an overall rout.
"Pursue the whole army!"
Liang Zhenwu yelled and gave the order to pursue.
The Bulgars who had no time to escape were killed one after another, while those who were escaping were pursued by the Western Qin cavalry.
Krum fled to the foot of the Balkan Mountains with more than a thousand Bulgar cavalry.
He left his horses and climbed up the mountain on foot.
The road on the mountain was extremely rugged and difficult.
Countless people accidentally fell into ravines and cliffs.
Two days later, those who fell behind were left behind.
There were more than half of the people, and there were only more than two hundred people with him.
After entering a flat valley, Krum thought he could have a good rest and pick some wild fruits to satisfy his hunger.
Who knew that he would fall into a trap carefully laid by the Western Qin Army.
Dubosare and thousands of bandits had already arrived.
Set up a net here and wait.
As a large number of arrows fell from the sky, a large number of Krum's guards fell instantly, and shouts of killing followed.
The remaining Bulgars were terrified and in chaos.
A steady stream of horse bandits rushed up, and Krum struggled to resist, but was still unable to break through the siege.
All the guard soldiers around him were quickly killed, leaving him alone to resist.
Krum suffered countless traumas and died in the battle.
When he died, his body did not fall because he was unwilling to do so.
A horse bandit chopped off his head with a knife, and the headless body fell down.
A generation of heroes were buried here.
Soon, the domestic army of the Bulgar Khanate was completely wiped out by the Pechenegs, Magyars and the Western Qin army.
The Bulgar Khanate was destroyed and its country was occupied by the Western Qin people.
The Pechenegs were allowed to and the Magyars grazing cattle in some areas
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