Chapter 1465 Temujin the European (Happy New Year)
The gray-white team marched on the winding Huzhang River (Sir River). From the beginning of entering the Huzhang River Basin, the Mongolian army's advancement has never stopped. This is a huge army that can't be seen from the front and tail, with a population of probably less than 100,000. They are all cavalry, one man and two horses, and drive many cattle and sheep as military rations, so they can move at an extremely fast speed!
In the past twenty or thirty years, the Mongolian army with nine black Sulu ingots swept across Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula and Anatolia like a whirlwind, invincible and invincible!
The once arrogant Great Liao Empire, the Golden Horde, the Seljuk Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Western Liang Kingdom were all trembling in front of the Mongolian army. They were either broken, destroyed, or paid annual monies to make peace.
The Mongols who led the northwest of the Qincha Grassland to this day are their generation of geniuses, heroes from the Qiyan tribe, Borjijin and Temujin!
Temujin in this time and space was not born by the Onon River, but was born in the small town of Qiyanbao on the Ural River. This is a small town near the mouth of the Ural River (Caspian Sea) and is also a prosperous commercial city. Therefore, Temujin in this time and space is a native European who grew up in this time and space.
It should be noted that Qiyan Fort was not the property of Qiyan tribe, but merchants from Persia and the Light Church rented the land occupied by Qiyan tribe to build a free market. They only needed to pay a small amount of taxes to the Khan of Qiyan tribe every year to retain the autonomy of the city.
It is precisely because the city has autonomy that the nine-year-old Temujin lived in Qiyan Castle after his father Yesu, the leader of the Qiyan tribe, died, and escaped from the pursuit of the Qiyan tribe's enemies.
When he was ten years old, he got the opportunity to change the fate of him and the Mongolian nation from the Light Church in Qiyan Castle to go to Tabriz and join the Dashi Guards Youth Group!
Yelu Dashi, a hero of the Western Liao Dynasty, had long passed away, but the empire he left was still powerful, and occupied the entire Asia Minor Peninsula and Syria, forcing Iraq's Seljuk and the Great Food Kingdom to surrender. They also crossed the Bosphorus many times to attack the capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople. It was not until the rise of the Salatin hero of the Salasen people that he showed a little decline.
The power that allowed the Western Liao Empire to maintain its strong strength for decades after Dashi's death was the Guards founded by Yelu Dashi himself.
The members of this Guard did not come from the increasingly corrupt Khitan nobles, nor were the ruled Persians, but from the Qincha grassland and Eastern European grassland. The members were recruited by Persian merchants and the Church of Light, and the recruitment targets were all teenagers in the 10-year-old grassland. Whether they were Mongolians, Qinchas, or Turks, they could join the Dashi Guard youth group. Their families could also receive a generous settlement fee.
The young man himself will receive relatively generous supply, very strict training and education. Of course, the brainwashing of the Light Church is also indispensable. They must take the emperor as their father and the saint as their mother, and fight against Guangming Tianli to the end for the empire!
After seven to eight years of training, education, brainwashing, and a round of cruel elimination, the teenager who persisted has grown into a strong and mighty young man and has become a glorious member of the Oshishi Guards.
And after this, at least 20 years of military career and countless war tests await them.
The best of them will also have the opportunity to study in the Tabriz Academy. There, the best of the Dashi Guards will learn the most advanced military theory, combat methods, as well as mathematics, nature, geography, history, engineering, and also learn staff courses and intermediate and advanced command courses.
When they graduated from the Tabriz Academy, they would transform from an excellent soldier to an excellent officer. Under normal circumstances, the Dashi Guard soldiers who became officers would always be loyal to the emperor and the saint, and become the most determined defenders of the Great Liao Empire.
But there are exceptions!
Borjijin and Temujin are an exception!
Because he was not an ordinary grassland boy, but from the Golden Family, a descendant of Hebule Khan, the founder of the Mongol Kingdom, or the heir of the Khan throne of the Qiyan tribe, the Mongols of this era were still relatively superstitious of blood, so it would not be difficult for Temujin to return to Qiyan Castle to regain the Khan throne. If he could get the support of the Western Liao court, it would be even easier.
In order to gain the support of the Western Liao court, Temujin fought for 20 years in the Western Liao army. He went from being the most ordinary junior guards to the high position of deputy general manager with his military merits with one blow. In the Battle of Jerusalem in 1191 AD, he led 6,000 Dashi Guard soldiers to defeat Saladin's 100,000 troops and invaded Damascus the following spring.
However, when Temujin was in great success, he was helplessly involved in the power struggle of the high-level leaders of the Western Liao Dynasty. Because the saint of light, Yelu Pusuwan, who was supported by his sect, and Xiao Pugu, the prime minister of the Great Liao Dynasty, were both killed. Temujin had to return to Qiyan Castle with more than a hundred former Dashi Guard members who were also unable to gain a foothold in Tabriz.
Although there were only more than a hundred warriors to help, Temujin quickly eliminated his political enemies and became the leader of the Qiyan tribe with his ancestors and his own reputation (the deputy general manager of the Oishi Guards and the Damascus conquerors were god-like on the grassland).
After seizing the power of Qiyan tribe, Temujin was not blinded by success, but immediately sent envoys to apologize to the Emperor Yelu Zhilugu of the Liao Dynasty, and expressed his willingness to lead the Mongols to fight for Zhilugu.
At that time, Naolu Guzhen was very troubled because the Guards were severely weakened during the civil strife. So he immediately pardoned Temujin, gave the Qiyan tribe a batch of equipment and gold coins, and ordered Temujin to train 3,000 Mongolian soldiers to fight for the Liao Dynasty as soon as possible.
At this time, Yelu Zhilugu never dreamed that it was his tolerance and assistance that allowed Temujin to soar into the sky and become the eagle and overlord on the grassland.
The 3,000 elite soldiers of Qiyan who are proficient in using the Dashi Mine Cord Gun produced by Xiliao (a very well-made light musket) and Mongolian horn bows, and are proficient in various tactics of horses and horses. They are not something other Mongolian tribes on the grassland can fight against.
Under the command of Temujin, even the powerful Jinzhang Kingdom and the Xiliang Kingdom's expeditionary forces have repeatedly become defeated generals under the Mongols of Qiyan tribe.
After less than 15 years of war, Temujin conquered the tribes on the Ural River Basin and the Qincha grassland. All of them surrendered to the Krei tribes who followed the Jin Jurchens to the Ural River Basin, the Tatar tribes and Wanggu tribes who moved to the Western Liang, were placed by Yelu Dashi in the Naiman tribes and Khwarezm tribes near the Khwarezm Sea, and various small tribes who followed the Mongolian Kingdom to the West, all surrendered to Temujin's nine white flags (white flags are used for peace and black flags are used for combat).
In 1206 AD, Temujin convened the alliance of grassland ministries on the banks of the Caspian Sea and held a meeting of Currytai, the throne of Mongolia, named "Emperor Genghis", and the country was called Great Mongolia.
The reason why he chose "Emperor Genghis" as his honor is that the title of "Emperor Genghis" was not cancelled because of Zhao Ji's inner meditation.
After Emperor Daozong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan, Emperor Wuzong of the Western Song Dynasty, Zhao Chen, Emperor Xiaozong of Zhao Xin, and Zhao Xin, who is currently in power, all inherited the title of Emperor Gengsi and used it to command the tribes of the Western Regions of the Grassland.
Gradually, Emperor Genghis replaced Tengri Khan and became the supreme symbol in the minds of the grassland and the Western Regions.
So Temujin naturally chose the title of "Emperor Genghis" as his honor.
Becoming Genghis Khan and founding the Great Mongolian Kingdom meant that it had escaped from the jurisdiction of Western Liao, Xiliang, Jinzhang and other countries (because the Mongolian Kingdom fell apart soon after Hebule's death, the territory of the rebuilt Mongolia was not entirely taken from Western Liao, but from the Three Kingdoms of Western Liao, Xiliang and Jinzhang), and became an independent country that could be on par with the countries.
The balance between the Western Liao, Xiliang, Jinzhang and other three countries had been maintained for many years, and was completely broken.
However, the Western Liao, Xiliang and Jin tents have been together for the past few decades. Although they are nominally friendly and even married to each other to maintain a stable rear. In fact, the open and secret struggles between the Three Kingdoms have never stopped!
Especially the Xiliang Kingdom, which migrated from the Central Plains and was dominated by the Fergana Basin, has always wanted to obtain an outlet to catch up with the tide of the Eastern Song Dynasty, Great Zhou, Great Liao, Egypt, Xixia and other countries sharing the world...
By the way, the era of great voyage is still continuing!
Moreover, with the spread of navigation technology and geographical knowledge, more and more countries joined the Age of Discovery.
In the Eastern Song Dynasty, after the Great Zhou Dynasty, Western Liao and Egypt were joined, and the focus of these two countries was Africa!
Oh, this Egyptian Kingdom in time and space is a great country! Because it controls the gateway to the Western world, it has been jointly supported by the Italian Four Seas Kingdoms and the Eastern Song Dynasty and New Zhou countries in the East.
Moreover, its royal family had the Komuning dynasty from Eastern Rome and had the support of the Orthodox Church. It could continuously hire warriors from the Kievan Rus and the Balkans.
So in the decades after the founding of the Kingdom of Egypt, the country has achieved great success in politics, economy, military and science and technology.
It is the first country among all Western countries to establish a hot weapon force and the first country to establish an ocean navy!
At the same time, the Kingdom of Egypt also took advantage of the historical opportunity of the Tianfang Cult and the Light Cult in battle to expand greatly in the North African coastal areas of the Mediterranean.
In just a few decades, it expanded from Egypt to Morocco, occupying Tangier and Ceuta (both are port cities on the south coast of the Strait of Gibraltar, among which Tangier is only a stone's throw away from the Atlantic Ocean). After owning these two port cities, the Kingdom of Egypt was able to organize the first New World voyage to the West!
Four sailboats commanded by the Italian navigator Christopher Doria took more than two months to arrive at Bigan Island in the Shang Dynasty (Caribbean Sea). The island of Bigan Island in the historical Haiti Island. However, before Doria arrived, it was discovered by the navigators of Zhou Kingdom and was named after Bigan, the loyal minister of the Shang Dynasty.
Although the Zhou State could reach the Shang Dynasty, it was not able to control all the islands on the Shang Dynasty.
They only established strongholds and ports on Bigan Island (Haiti), Wenzhong Island (Cuba), and Huangfeihu Island (Trinida Island), and deployed a small number of troops and ships.
In addition, the Eastern Song Dynasty also occupied two islands on the Shang Dynasty, namely New Shaman Island (Jamaica) and New Penghu Island (Puerto Rico).
As for countless other islands, they are all in a state of "ownlessness".
Therefore, the belated "Egyptians" occupied an island with only a few dozen miles in the Shang Dynasty. They named New Suez Island (New Providence Island in the Bahamas), and established the first Western colony in the Americas.
Let’s talk about Xiliang. This country and its sect leader, the Western Song Dynasty, have wanted to have an ocean for decades. Because the benefits obtained by the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty from the New World, Africa and ocean trade are so jealous.
However, the efforts to find the sea entrance eastward in the Western Song Dynasty failed one after another. Whether it was advancing eastward to the Central Plains or going down the south of the Yangtze River, they all collided in front of the defense lines of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty.
In this case, the Western Song Dynasty could only turn its hope of going to the West. It wanted Xiliang to go south or west and find the seaport in Persia and the Black Sea... This was actually a plan without any feasibility, but the rulers of Xiliang and the Western Song Dynasty were still trying their best to find a possible way.
So when Temujin rose to the northwest of the Qincha Grassland, Xiliang Kingdom, which occupied the eastern part of the Qincha Grassland, the seven rivers and some rivers, felt that this was an opportunity to achieve the westward advance of Western Liang.
Therefore, a large number of weapons and equipment produced by the Western Song Dynasty were handed over to Temujin by Xiliang. Temujin, who obtained these weapons, soon reorganized 95 thousand households and established a Mongolian army with 100,000 people and equipped muskets and field artillery.
Relying on this army, Temujin fought against the Middle East in the decade after becoming Genghis Khan, seized a large area of land from the Golden Horde and the Western Liao Dynasty, and plundered a huge amount of wealth. He gradually grew stronger and became the overlord of Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus Mountains.
And last year, in the winter of 1209, through long-term siege, he captured the fourth generation of the Holy See of Light Mo Qisi, and thus took over the power of the Guangming Principle Church in his hands.
After defeating the Western Liao Empire and taking over the power of Guangming's Tianli Sect, Temujin finally decided to break up with Xiliang.
In the spring of 1210 AD, Temujin ordered Mo Qisi to issue the order to start a war against the Tianli Sect and Western Liang!
Chapter completed!