Chapter 915： Sao operation of Mongolian cavalry

However, this is no wonder. You should know that the Crimean Khanate is a country of professional robbery, and all the nations are soldiers. What's more, the Crimean Khanate is all soldiers not to prevent foreign invasion, but to rob other countries.

Therefore, when Jamahan returned to China and communicated the intention of acquiring Marin, he saw the Crimean Khan, who was open to money, and he did not hesitate to touch thousands of Tatar cavalrymen. Attack.

Although Cossack's resistance brought some losses. However, in the face of the high price of 40 gold coins per family of Cossacks, the Crimean Khanate who was used to it felt that it was worth it. Not to mention, the horses seized by those Cossack villages can be exchanged for 20 gold coins in Marin. In this way, every captured Cossack can exchange 60 gold coins with Marin. Then, 2,000 Cossacks can be exchanged for 120,000 gold coins.

What is the concept of 120,000 gold coins? In the original history, Sigmund I spent only 15,000 gold coins, which lured the Crimean Khanate and its original ally, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, to fight. The 120,000 gold coins can basically make the Crimean Khanate crazy.

Although it is said that the Crimean Khanate now sells 10,000 cattle to Marin every year, and can exchange for 80,000 gold coins. Selling 2000 Eastern European Mongolian horses to Marin can also be exchanged for 40,000 gold coins. However, who would think that there is less money? Moreover, selling cattle and horses also requires raising cattle and horses, how cost-effective? How can you get it directly? Therefore, the robber-born Crimean Khanate did not hesitate to take the big list of Marin ...

This time, the **** team of more than 8,000 people from the 2,000 Cossacks was Jamahan who came last time. In addition to the huge population team, it is the same huge team of cattle and horses.

Marin looked at the size of the animals and felt something was wrong:

"No, Mr. Jamahhan, I didn't want so many animals! Didn't the 10,000 cows and 2000 horses be delivered last time?"

Even if each Cossack is equipped with a warhorse, there are 2,000 warhorse. The number of horses brought by Jamahan this time is tens of thousands, which makes Marin feel very wrong.

Jamahhan said disapprovingly:

"Duke, these horses are not sold to you, most of them are the rations of this long journey!"

"What? Do you use horses as food?" Marin was taken aback. You know, horse meat is not delicious. In addition, the horses are so powerful that they are very wasteful to kill and eat. Unless it is a disabled horse or too old to serve labor, it will kill meat.

"Hahaha ..." Jamahan laughed.

Then he explained to Marin:

"Duke, you misunderstood. The ration I said is not about killing horses to eat meat, but horse milk! These slaves always have to eat along the way? But we don't have so much money to buy food for them. So, only In accordance with the tradition of my great Mongolian empire-drink horse milk! "

"In the daily life of Mongolians, eating beef and mutton is not the mainstream, drinking horse milk and goat milk, or eating cheese is the mainstream. Of course, if you have tea, it is better to make milk tea. As for mutton beef, although it is often eaten, But not every day. "

"Like the army of our greatest ancestor, Genghis Khan, when the army marched west, each warrior usually brought three horses. One of them was a lactating mare. Its role is to provide the warriors of the expedition. Horse milk is used as food. Otherwise, the invincible Mongolian cavalry ca n’t expedite! "

"It turned out to be like this!" Marin was amazed and admired the Sao operation of the Mongolian cavalry.

Indeed, if the army is on the expedition, if the military food is not far away as far as the Han army, it will not be said that the national strength will not be overpowered, and it will also have a great impact on the movement of the army. How cumbersome is the food truck? Sometimes the army runs too fast and has to stop to wait for the heavy troops. Not only that, the heavy troops are also easily targeted by the enemy light cavalry. Once the grain truck was robbed or burned, the army was over.

This method of Mongolian cavalry is indeed very coquettish. Bringing a mare during lactation to solve all problems directly.

Of course, it is also possible to bring ewe. However, the ewe runs too slowly to keep up with the cavalry's marching speed. Therefore, the army expedition, the mare with milk is the best choice.

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Marin, including many people in later generations, always thought that the Mongolian cavalry was going west, and brought three horses to hurry up. But in fact, one of the three horses is a milk-producing mare, which feeds the cavalry. Of course, sometimes the mare will be changed, but the mare will never be tired. Otherwise, milk production will definitely be affected. Moreover, the two horses are enough to transfer if they are on their way.

Of course, this trick can only be used by the Mongolian cavalry. Because Mongolian horses are resistant to rough feeding. Even if you rush for a long time, Mongolian horses only need to eat grass. What is brought, mare, eat grass, milk is squeezed out, can be used as military food.

However, drinking horse milk alone is certainly not enough. Therefore, during the march, the Mongolian cavalry also plundered the food of the villages along the way, or the animals of nomadic tribes, in order to obtain food and meat, and comprehensively supplement nutrition. But when passing through some inferior land in Central Asia, it was all supported by horse milk.

European horses obviously cannot do this, because once European horses run, they need to feed concentrate. Therefore, the army operations, like the Han army, need a strong supply line. Even, each horse needs several times more food than a soldier ... Therefore, it is difficult for Europe to gather a large cavalry team ...

The descendants of the Golden Horde, such as the Crimean Khanate, inherited the characteristics of the Mongolian cavalry. The warhorse is also a mixed breed of Mongolian horses and native horses in Eastern Europe. Therefore, the Tatar cavalry of the Crimean Khanate also has the habit of using mares to provide horse milk.

The most important thing is that horse milk is cheap! For Crimean Tatars who mix on the grasslands, food is expensive. The horse milk is very easy to obtain.

European grain prices have always been very expensive. If you live by eating grain ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Tatars who have no money to buy grain have long starved to death.

Therefore, nomadic people generally focus on dairy products. Among them, goat milk is the most common source of dairy products. Moreover, sheep are more resistant to rough feeding than horses and almost never require concentrate.

It's just that when the march rushed, the sheep couldn't follow the march. Therefore, mare's milk is used instead of goat's milk.

However, this kind of sao operation can only be done by rough-feeding horses led by Mongolian horses. Otherwise, for a mare that needs feeding concentrate during lactation, it must not be used as a food source for long-distance cavalry. Because that kind of mare must bring a lot of food with the army ...

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After listening to Jamahan's explanation, Marin's eyes only shine. So he said to Jama Khan:

"I want to buy a mare! I have all these mares you brought, 10 gold coins!"

Jama Khan was surprised for a moment, saying:

"None of these mares are war horses, they are all stallions, and only have the ability to provide horse milk!"

For Crimean Tatars, horse milk is the cheapest food, and food is expensive. Moreover, before, Marin only bought war horse-class Eastern European Mongolian horses from the Crimean Khanate, and never bought sloppy horses.

Marin has been fascinated by the prospect of mares providing horse milk as munitions, so he said without hesitation:

"Horses will be needed in the future, but only mares!"

"Okay, no problem!" Jama Khan agreed happily. After all, horses are rare for Marin, and for the Crimean Tatars, it is Chinese cabbage. Besides, their mare is not enough, they can grab others!

The Cossacks around the Crimean Khanate, as well as the neighboring countries of Kazan Khanate, Astrakhan Khanate and Nogahan Khanate, are Mongolian descendants, and there is no shortage of rough-feeding Eastern Mongolian horse mares. Just grab a point, or change it at a low price, you can exchange gold coins with Marin ...