. The Great war. ailed. The two armies stood facing each otherfor a fortnight, when in order to secure his line of retreatIvan decided to retire. Believing that the withdrawal wasthe result of defeat, a panic broke out in the army and theretreat became a precipitate flight. Strangely enough, theTatars believing this maneuver, which they did not under-stand, a ruse of war, also retreated. Thus ended the periodof Tatar domination in Russia. Vasili Ivanovitch, the son and successor of Ivan, raisedthe army to a strength of 360,000, composed principally ofcavalry. Of this force 300,000 were furnish
. The Great war. ailed. The two armies stood facing each otherfor a fortnight, when in order to secure his line of retreatIvan decided to retire. Believing that the withdrawal wasthe result of defeat, a panic broke out in the army and theretreat became a precipitate flight. Strangely enough, theTatars believing this maneuver, which they did not under-stand, a ruse of war, also retreated. Thus ended the periodof Tatar domination in Russia. Vasili Ivanovitch, the son and successor of Ivan, raisedthe army to a strength of 360,000, composed principally ofcavalry. Of this force 300,000 were furnished by the pos-sessors of fiefs who served without pay and equipped andmaintained their soldiers. The military training of thesearmies was not sufficient to permit them to maneuver inthe face of the enemy; their tactics were of the simplestkind and their strength lay in their numbers rather than inthe quality of their soldiery. Their inferiority was clearlydemonstrated in Vasilis attack on Smolensk in 1514 against. Troop of Cossacks.
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