In the summer of 1214, the Western calendar.

At this time, far away on the banks of the Amu River, 80,000 Mongol cavalry were passing through the pontoon bridge spanning both sides of the straits. Under the leadership of the Mongolian nation and the legendary hero Temujin, he once again entered the land of Persia.

Temujin didn't know at this time that the Great Zhou Republic was pieced together the encirclement against him. Therefore, his second invasion of the Western Liao Empire had no connection with Temujin's encirclement.

The reason why he invaded Western Liao again was just to open up a passage to Europe.

Temujin in this time and space did not grow up on the northern desert grasslands, but grew up in the Guards Youth Camp in Tabriz.

So he also had a dream of conquering Rome, just like Zhilugu!

If he had not lost power in the internal strife in Western Liao and was forced to return to the Ural River Basin to develop, he would have probably become a senior official like the Deputy Envoy of the Western Liao Privy Councilor, and perhaps he had led the Dashi Guards to invade Constantinople!

Although he is not a minister of the Western Liao Dynasty now, in the nearly 20 years of the Oshima Guards, he still turned the conquest of Constantinople into his life goal.

To achieve this goal, we must take over Persia and Asia Minor ruled by Western Liao!

In addition, there is another reason that prompted Temujin to invade the Western Liao again.

That is Guangming Tian Taoism!

Temujin besieged Baku and captured the saint of Light Mo Qisi on whim, nor did he want to become the public enemy of the entire world of Light.

He had only one purpose of doing this, which was to seize the dominance of Persia with the help of the influence of Guangming's Poeticism.

After more than 80 years of continuous spread, the Ming Cult was resurrected in Persia. Although the number of believers is still less than that of the Tianfang Cult, there are also millions of believers in the Light.

In Temujin's view, these millions of people can become their own basic base.

With their support, the population of Great Mongolia can jump from one million to ten million, and it will also have quite developed industry, commerce and agriculture.

With this support of population, industry, commerce and agriculture, he can cross the Bosphorus and become the master of Constantinople!

As for the Golden Horde in the north, Temujin didn't care much.

Because in his opinion, conquering Europe is conquering Constantinople, Greece and Italy, and at most part of Spain.

That is the core territory of the Roman Empire in history.

Other places, in his opinion, are wild places. If he is only 40 years old now, then he can conquer it casually. But he was born in 1162 of the Western Calendar. This year is 1214 of the Western Calendar, and Temujin is already 53 years old and "older" at the age of 53.

There is not much time to waste on the blonde and blue-eyed European barbarians...

Therefore, after completing the initial conquest of Central Asia, a military material and technical export site, Temujin did not even spend much energy on the Western Song army during the Western Expedition, but just asked his eldest son Shu Chi to use scorched earth tactics to perfunctorily. He led 80,000 Mongolian warriors to attack Persia again.

Tiemu is really too familiar with the terrain of Persia. So he did not stay in the desert area on the south bank of the Amu River for too long. After sweeping a little, he quickly advanced southwest. In less than 20 days, he arrived at the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and captured the religious holy land of Rai (the later generations of Tehran was called Rai before being destroyed by the Mongols). This city is a holy land created by the God of Light, the God of Light is a god of Zoroastrianism, and was also introduced by Manichaeism, which is united with the Nation of Light. Therefore, the Mongols who converted to the Nation of Light in this time and space will not destroy it.

After capturing Rai, Temujin "dedicated" the city to Mo Qisi, the saint who accompanied the army, turning Rai into a new place for the light peak.

Then, under the leadership of Mo Qisi, Temujin was crowned as Emperor Genghis of the Great Mongolian and King of Persia in Rai.

This move also means that Temujin's rule over Persia was recognized by the Holy Maiden of Light!

Although after Mo Qisi was captured, Naolugu had already discussed the matter of establishing another saint with Wang Yongji of the Golden Horde. There was no precedent for this kind of thing, and both Wang Yongji and Naolugu wanted to push the person they like to the throne of the saint. So the two did not reach a consensus for a while. As a result, Temujin snatched the first and turned himself into the Persian king.

The act of Temujin's crowning as the Persian king also means the revival of the Persian country that has been destroyed for hundreds of years. Although Temujin himself was not a Persian, he became the Persian king under the crowning of the Holy Maiden of Light as the Persian.

Compared with the Western Liao Empire, the Persian Kingdom always has a greater sense of belonging to the Persians.

It can be said that Temujin hit Naolugu's fatal point in an instant.

If he hid on the Asia Minor Peninsula and did not dare to send troops, then the Persians, whether they were Guangming Tianli or Tianfang, would regard Temujin as their king, the Caliph of Baghdad, the Sultan of the Seljuk of Iraq, and the Sultan of the Ayub Dynasty, all hated the Dashi Empire to the core, and of course they would like to see the Dashi Empire in trouble.

At the same time, Zhilugu was also under pressure from the Khitan nobles in Tabriz and Brussah.

A great Liao emperor who lost all or most of Persia was not what they wanted.

As a last resort, Zhilugu could not wait for the arrival of the Great Zhou Republic, so he gritted his teeth and led the Dashi Guards and an army of Khitan noble knights to attack Rai.

On August 16, 1214, the Western Liberation Army, 100,000 Western Liao troops, who rushed from Asia Minor and Tabriz, launched a decisive battle in the southern suburbs of Rai.

In this Rai Battle, Zhilugu set up a traditional big array.

That is, the long spear formation composed of the Khitans was used as the "city wall", which covered the guards holding muskets to shoot, and at the same time, a large number of artillery fired long-rangely, and used cavalry to cover the side and back of the formation.

This style of play, similar to the "Spanish Square", is the standard model of war in the past few decades.

In this mode, the defensive side always has a certain advantage, and the side that initiates the attack first always suffers losses. Therefore, war often starts with endless artillery bombardment until one of the sides cannot tolerate the killing of artillery fire and takes the initiative to launch an attack.

However, Temujin adopted a unique style of play.

He first sent his cavalry to conduct a roundabout feint attack, pretending to attack the Liao army's side and rear. The purpose was to lure the Liao army's cavalry to attack, and then the Mongolian cavalry pretended to retreat and led the Liao army's cavalry away from the battlefield.

Then Temujin sent his ace, Qiexue Army, and he sent his Qiexue Army to follow the elite troops formed by the Dashi Guards! Every soldier must also master a number of skills including musket shooting, melee combat, horse-riding and archery, and horse-riding impact.

20,000 soldiers of the Qiexue Army formed a horizontal team and launched a large front that could surround the Liao people from three sides. The Qiexue Army soldiers, holding messile guns, advanced with waves of Liao army artillery fire under the cover of their own artillery fire. They pushed all the way out of the Liao army's 40 steps away, and then fired.

Because the Mongolian Qiexue Army was posed with a wide front and a denser formation, the firepower that could be put into shooting was even stronger. However, the Dashi Guards, who were attached to the square formations of spears, did not form a horizontal team, could not exert the maximum firepower. As a result, the heavy losses were caused in the musket shooting!

Seeing the heavy losses of the Guards, Zhilugu immediately ordered the spear team to attack.

Seeing this, Temujin's Qiexue army immediately retreated and led the Liao army's spearmen to a large forest.

Of course, the forest was not where the spear phalanx was exerted. The Liao army's spear soldiers were not so stupid. When the Dashi Guards were about to rush into the forest and fight with the Mongolian Qiexue Army, a team of Mongolian cavalry somehow got rid of the entanglement of the Khitan cavalry and returned to the battlefield, launching an attack on the central army where Zhilugu was located.

The Dashi Guards, who were guarding Zhilugu's side, were caught off guard and had to protect Zhilugu and move.

This was nothing, and Zhilugu only needed to transfer it to continue commanding.

However, the movement of this formation caused panic to the low-mooded Khitan spearmen.

At this moment, Qie Xue Jun, who had retreated into the woods before, suddenly pushed more than a dozen bronze cannons and appeared on the edge of the woods!

With the roar, dense shotguns knocked down the front line of Guards and Khitan spearmen in rows. The musketeers of the Qixue Army also returned to the line of fire and fired with muskets.

The Khitan spearmen collapsed instantly and rolled backwards like a tide of retreat in the sea. Zhilugu, who was moving his own formation, was frightened by this scene and blindly issued an order to retreat.

The disaster suddenly came upon the Khitans, and the 100,000 army collapsed on the whole line!

After the Battle of Rai, except for Tabriz and Abadan Island (which belonged to the Avas Palace, located on the Arabian River, with ports, markets and castles built on the island), the entire Persia soon fell into the hands of Temujin.

Just when the Dashi Empire was in a critical moment of life and death, in the Suoye Mansion in Central Asia, the Song army on the expedition was in a dilemma of insufficient supply.

The Western Song army was expeditioning thousands of miles this time! In terms of the distance of troops being deployed, it was definitely a miracle!

But no matter how strange it is, the Western Song army is still an army of farming nations. It is impossible to drive cattle and sheep away like nomadic peoples.

Therefore, those who supported the army to fight the west were actually the military camps run by the Gaochang vassal kings and the Shule vassal kings in the Yili River Valley.

The Yili River was located in the middle of the two vassal territories of Gaochang and Shule in ancient times, so it was occupied by the two vassal territories.

Fortunately, Zhao Huan used the method of enfeoffment of the vassal kings to guard the western border, and the vassal kings also enfeoffed the county kings, county dukes, and marquises, and brought a certain number of military households and criminals to build cities and cultivate on the territory with abundant water and grass. Finally, it took seventy or eighty years to operate the Yili River Valley, which is located on the border of Chinese civilization.

However, the Yili River Valley area that was developed is more than a thousand miles away from Suiye Mansion.

Transporting grain for thousands of miles has always been a taboo in military strategists, and the grain in the Yili River Valley is also limited. It is impossible to supply 200,000 troops for too long.

I originally thought I could get supplies in the Suiye Mansion in the important town of Xiliang, but the Mongols destroyed the entire Suiye Mansion into scorched earth ruins.

Not only that, the small groups of Mongolian cavalry were also moving around the Suiye Mansion, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Song army's logistics line.

Although the head coach of the Song army, Guo Baoyu, also has aces in his hands, namely "target shooting scholars" and "target shooting juren", letting them follow the scout cavalry activities can cause certain casualties to the small groups of Mongolian cavalry.

However, the attack on the Mongolian cavalry could not become a real supply, and the main force of the Mongolians always did not show up (in fact, it was no longer in Central Asia). Guo Baoyu, who had not found the main force of Mongolia, did not dare to continue to advance into the Fergana Basin, after all, he was responsible for the life and death of an army of 200,000.

Therefore, after Suiye Mansion persisted for a month, Guo Baoyu, who was facing the cessation of food, had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat to the Yili River Valley.

"Good minister, we have defeated this battle, right?"

The commander of the "Big Son of the West" initiated by the Western Song Dynasty, Zhao Jian, the Prince of the Prince of Sailye, was also among the retreating large groups.

He is the eldest son of Zhao Xin, a son of the Western Song Dynasty. He is about thirty years old and has half of the Hu people's blood. His eyes are sunken, his hair is curled, and his nose is tall and straight, and he is very handsome. His mother is the "Maid of Light" presented to Zhao Xin by Yelu Pusuwan, the previous generation of the saint of light.

Therefore, he was not only a concubine, but also a Hu family, and also had a background in Guangming Tian Politicism. Therefore, he was excluded from the candidate for the crown prince from the beginning.

Fortunately, the Western Song Dynasty did not raise princes as pigs. Now the military officer class is becoming increasingly unreliable. Therefore, every generation of Western Song emperors must support royal generals to restrict the officer group.

In addition, the expansion of the Western Song Dynasty was also very powerful, occupying many wild lands, which were not suitable for use by officials and could not be without officials. Instead of establishing vassal states, it was better to be cheaper for descendants. Therefore, the Western Song Dynasty began to be crowned kings on the border.

If you want to enfeoff the princes of the border, the prince must understand the military strategy. Therefore, it has gradually become a convention in the Western Song Dynasty.

Zhao Jian, who was not qualified to inherit the throne, became a candidate for King Se and received harsh military training since childhood.

Therefore, the commander of the Western Expedition Army was not a complete decoration, but really had the ability to command the battle.

It’s a pity that he and Guo Baoyu had no chance to play, so they were forced to retreat by Shu Chi’s stalker.

"Your Highness," Guo Baoyu frowned slightly, "Victory and defeat are common among military strategists... The Battle of Broken Leaf has just begun, and it is not the time to talk about victory and defeat. Now it is just that there is no possibility of quick victory, and it seems that it is a long-lasting plan."

"We want to farm in the Yili River Valley?" Zhao Jian asked.

"We must cultivate farmland!" Guo Baoyu said, "We don't cultivate farmland ourselves. Gaochang and Shule can't supply us for a long time no matter what."

Zhao Jian nodded slightly, "It seems that he can only fight a protracted battle with the Mongolians. I don't know how long it will take?"

At this time, Zhao Jian and Guo Baoyu never expected that this war would last for a hundred years in the end!

Because the Western Song Dynasty is now facing a nomadic empire, but a superpower with vast territory and nomadic, farming and industrial and commercial attributes.
Chapter completed!