Chapter 56 The Great Battle (Shocking
However, no matter what, the empire was still victorious. Under the order of Emperor Norman, Marshal Far continued to lead his army to North Africa and fought a decisive battle with Moldova Sultan Arslan. Therefore, Marshal Ess had nothing to do on the west and south roads. He could concentrate on fighting with Ilhan Hulagu...
On January 2, 1015, when Emperor Norman led his 700,000 troops toward the Kazan region, he did not give up on conscripting the troops of Italy, France and Britain. However, the emperor asked them to change their goals and did not continue to advance towards Krakow, the capital of Eastern Europe. The troops from the provinces of Lombardy, Naples, Flanders, and South Flanders went south, and took warships along the Mediterranean coast to Egypt to attack Ilhan Hulagu.
The British army was transported directly to the Moroccan area by warship entrance...
Join Marshal Fal against Arslan.
All the recruits in England were mobilized, with a total of 100,000 troops. The four provinces of Flanders combined exceeded 200,000. These 300,000 troops joined the war, which marked the Norman Empire's launch of a comprehensive mobilization order! The army with a total number of more than one million was put into the battlefield! The country's war machine was fully launched! A full-scale war against the surrounding enemies!
Egil is confident and will surely win! He is about to unify the entire Western world and take control of all the territory along the Mediterranean coast to complete his hegemony! It is almost the same as the previous one, but the battle against the Mongols was different. This time, the empire launched a war with absolute confidence and a belief in victory! Because they are the strong, they occupy the time, the place and the people! They will definitely win!!
In this way, a total war is also likely to be the last total war of the empire. Finally, the table tennis team broke out...
In the Moroccan Marshal Far, he recruited 30,000 Norman regular troops and 100,000 England soldiers to fight against the Moors and Berbers. In the near East Palestine Marshal Ess led 30,000 Norman regular troops and 200,000 Italy, France recruited squads to fight against the Mongols and Arab coalitions of Ilhan Hulagu. On the northern Ross grassland, Marshal Wende's 20,000 regular troops and 80,000 militias were guarding against the Mongols and Yuan emperors, and the third ruler of the Borjijin family, Borjijin Kublai!
Fighting three opponents at once, the Norman Empire showed its style as a strong man. At this time, the Norman Emperor could say a coquettish sentence: "Even if the whole world attacks from three sides, we will give them a head-on attack." Such arrogant words were like this.
And the most terrifying thing is that this arrogant and bold statement is likely to come true.
The first thing that ignited the war was the Moroccan region. Marshal Far, who was as fierce as a fire, did not wait for his reinforcements. The recruits from England gathered and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and launched an attack on the coalition forces of the Moors and Berbers.
Among the three battlefields, the weakest enemies he faced - This is not a problem with Sultan Arslan's personal ability. In fact, this Sultan, who has wolves and is always covered with a veil and does not show his true face, is indeed extraordinary. Under his leadership, the Moorish empire in North Africa reached its peak. It was able to manage such a barren place and such a difficult and hiding area to this extent. Arslan is worthy of being a hero.
It’s just a pity that he had exhausted his energy. His years of wars in the south and north made the tribe soldiers under his command physically and mentally exhausted. The invasion in Egypt failed and later lost the Southern Iberia, which he had obtained from a hundred battles. These two blows made the Moore and Berber soldiers feel depressed and their morale was low. At the same time, years of wars greatly destroyed the health of the sultan, making his spirits very bad and his temper become more and more irritable.
As the same palace Ah Pu lamented: the eagle in the sky broke its wings, and the lion on the ground broke its legs. The great Sultan lost his luck.
When the Normans' army took a large ship and opened the way with naval guns, the cavalry rushed to launch an attack on the coastal areas of Morocco. Although the Sultan fought his best, he still failed to win. He was swept by the defeated army and fled to the mainland of North Africa different from the previous failures. This time the failure was too sudden, too fast and too simple. When the Normans launched the attack with weapons a hundred times stronger than them, even the bravest Moorish warriors could not stand up and resist.
However, after being defeated this time, the Arslan Sultan was still unwilling to give up. He boosted morale and claimed that the Normans only relied on their artillery. The artillery was placed on warships. So as long as they were far away from the coastline, there was no need to be afraid. The other party's labor army was unfamiliar with people in the expedition. We could lure them into the desert and Gobi. Use continuous harassment tactics to reduce the morale of the other party, cut off their supply lines, and finally win.
Such remarks made the Moor soldiers excited again. At the same time, they did cause great trouble to Marshal Far. The desolate Gobi desert in North Africa is numerous. The climate is harsh and the supply difficulties are difficult. The Moor soldiers riding camels attacked and attacked them all the time. They also caused great trouble to them. If it were any army of their contemporaries, they would probably be unable to support them.
However, the Normans were Normans after all. They were professional troops trained with the modern military system. Both patience and morale were much stronger than those of the contemporary army. Marshal Far was also a very excellent commander. He knew how to boost morale. Of course, if it were just like this, then this battle against the Moors would not have won so simply victory.
The key to the Norman victory was the Norman spies lurking in North Africa early. After the Norman army set foot in the Moorish territory of North Africa, they continued to provide Marshal Farr with intelligence and maps drawn in advance, and acted as guides to prevent the Norman army from getting lost or getting into a trap.
Under such circumstances, the Moorish army wanted to rely on harassment tactics, so they set up a suspicion. The tactic of introducing the Norman army into the desert failed. Marshal Kofall ignored the provocation of the camel cavalry and just forced them back with a longbow and crossbow. He unswervingly followed the guidance of the Norman spies to attack the important Moorish cities. He was fully prepared and strictly defended their supply lines, so that the Moorish army had no chance to start.
In this way, Marshal Far gradually approached Marrakech, the capital of the Moors.
If Marrakesh is occupied, the Moors' strength will suffer huge losses. Arslan's more than ten years of operation will be destroyed. His reputation and prestige will also be greatly setbacked. These are things that the Sultan cannot accept.
So, he had no choice but to gather all the troops he could gather. In order to protect his capital, he set up a formation near Marrakech. He began to rush to Marshal Farr
"Faced frontal combat is beneficial to our army. It seems that this Sultan has no chance." Seeing the Moors and Berber troops on the opposite side who were obviously depressed but still held on forcing them, Marshal Far snorted. Then he ordered his army to plant a camp and rest while on guard. He would launch an attack until tomorrow to defeat the enemy's army.
However, during the night, an accident happened one by one during the day, Arslan also observed the Norman army. Although they were dusty, they still had strong combat power and had better morale than their own army. The equipment was even more unparalleled. In the barren Moroccan area, even iron armor was rare, not to mention the exquisite full-body armor as the Normans.
Arslan also made the same judgment as Marshal Farr: if he fought head-on, my army would probably collapse at the first time. So he made the decision to launch an attack at night, while the Normans came from afar and were most tired.
A total of two thousand strongest camels were found by him. He lit their tails and made them rush towards the Norman camp.
Although the Normans had been prepared for a long time, they were still under such tactics. Camels with tails lit up screamed and strideed forward. They ran in front and fell into the trench in front of Norman camp. They made painful whine. Some of them were aimlessly around in other directions. However, many camels successfully rushed towards the Norman camp, causing great chaos.
"Get up and fight!" Marshal Far had already ordered that he could rest, but he would not leave his armor and his weapons. The same was true for him. He jumped out of the bed as soon as the riot occurred, grabbed the pillow, and the saber given by Emperor Norman shouted and rushed out of the camp.
Then a panicked camel rushed towards Marshal Fal!
"Damn it!" The marshal only felt a severe pain in his chest, and was hit by the camel. He didn't care about the severe pain in his chest and quickly rolled over to the side, only then avoiding the camel's deadly hoof.
"Marson! Is there no problem?" Many soldiers immediately gathered towards him and killed the camel. Then they pulled Marshal Far up.
"No problem." The marshal only felt that his ribs seemed to have broken a few. However, he still insisted on doing nothing to relieve the soldiers.
"The most important thing now is counterattack! That damn pagan dared to treat me like this! I'm going to chop off his head to make a chamber pot!!"
Chapter completed!