Western summer of 1214.

At this time, as far away as the Awl River, 80,000 Mongol cavalry was passing through the pontoon bridge across the two sides.Under the leadership of the founder and legendary hero of the Mongolian nation, Tie Mu really, once again entered the land of Persia.

At this time, Tie Muzhen did not know that the Great Zhou Republic was cobbling together against his encirclement network.So his second invasion of the Xiliao Empire had no half-money relationship with the Tiemu-jin encirclement net.

He invaded the West Liao again only to open the way into Europe.

The iron wood of this time and space did not grow up on the northern grassland, but in the camp of the Young Guards of Tabor.

So he, like the straight-rutnut, had a dream of conquering Rome!

If he had not lost his position in the infighting of the Sila, he would have been forced to return to the Ural basin to develop.He is now mostly a senior official such as the Vice-Este, and may have led the Great Stone Guard into Constantinople!

Although he is not now a courtier of Xiliao, in the nearly 20 years of the Great Stone Guards, the conquest of Constantinople has become his life goal.

To accomplish this goal, you must take Persia and Asia Minor, ruled by Sioja!

In addition, there is another reason why the iron wood really wants to invade the xilia again.

That's light tomorrow's teaching!

The siege of Baku by Tiemu and the capture of the bright holy woman Moxis is not a whim, nor is it to become the public enemy of the whole world of Guangming.

He did this with the sole purpose of seizing the dominion of Persia with the influence of the science of tomorrow.

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

These millions of people can become their own basic disk in the eyes of Tie Muzhen.

With their support, the population of Greater Mongolia can jump from one million to one million, and it will also have a well-developed industrial and commercial and agricultural system.

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

As for the Golden Horde in the north, Tiemu really does not care much.

For in his view, the conquest of Europe was the conquest of Constantinople, Greece, and Italy, and at most part of Spain.

It is the core of the Roman Empire in history.

Elsewhere, it seemed to him to be a barren place.If he is only 40 years old now, then sloppy to conquer it.He was born in 1162.This year is the 1214th year of the Western calendar, and Tiemu is 53 years old.

There’s not much time left to waste on the blonde Europe.

So after completing the initial conquest of this military material and technology export site in Central Asia, Tie Muzhen did not even spend too much energy on the Western Song army of the Western Crusade, but let his eldest son use scorched earth tactics to perfunctory.He commanded 80,000 Mongol warriors to enter Persia again.

For the topography of Persia, iron wood is very familiar.So he did not stay in the desert on the south bank of the Amu River for too long, swept a little, and quickly advanced to the southwest, less than 20 days to the Caspian coast, and captured the religious holy land of Lai, less than 250 miles from the Caspian Sea (the later Tehran, before being destroyed by the Mongols called Rai).This city is a holy place created by the God of Light—the God of Light, the god of fire, who was also introduced by Manichaton, and is united with the light tomorrow.So the Mongols who converted to tomorrow will not destroy it.

After the capture of Rai, Tie Muzhen "dedicated" the city to the holy woman with the army, turning Rai into a new top of the light.

Later, under the auspices of Moxis, Tiegi was crowned Emperor of Genghis of Greater Mongolia and King of Persia.

This also means that the rule of Tiemu Jin on Persia has been recognized by the Holy Mother of Light!

Although Rutugu had been arrested after Moxus had been arrested, he had discussed the establishment of another saint with the king of the Golden Horde khanate.But there is no precedent for such a thing, and Wang Yongji and Zhilugu both want to put their favourite candidates on the throne of the saint.The two did not reach a consensus for a while.As a result, Tiemu really took the first place and turned himself into a Persian king.

The act of being crowned king of Persia also means the revival of the Persian nation that has been destroyed for hundreds of years—though Tiemu Zhen himself is not a Persian.But he became king of Persia under the crown of the bright saint of Persia as a Persian.

Compared with the Silica Empire, the Persian kingdom always had a greater sense of belonging to the Persians.

It can be said that the iron wood really clicked on the dead hole of straight Lugu.

If he hides in the Asia Minor peninsula and dares not send troops, then the Persians, whether they are the Li or the Celestials of tomorrow, will regard Tiemu as their king - the caliphate of Baghdad and the sultan of the Seljuk Dynasty of Iraq, as well as the Sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty, who hate the great stone empire, of course, willing to see the great stone empire unlucky.

At the same time, straight Rugu was also under pressure from the nobles of Tablipus and the Khitan in the city of Brusa.

A Liao emperor who has lost his whole or most of Persia is not what they want.

As long as the aid of the Great Zhou Republic arrived, Rugu led the Great Stone Guard and the large army of Khitan noble knights to attack the Lai with a hard scalp.

On August 16, 1214, 100,000 Xiliang troops rushed from Asia Minor and Big Liats to fight on the southern outskirts of Rai.

In this battle of Rai, Rugu put up a traditional big phalanx.

That is, the long gun array composed of the Khitan people is "the city", covering the guard with muskets to shoot, and then with a large number of artillery for long-range shooting, with cavalry to cover the side of the large array.

This kind of play, similar to the Spanish phalanx, is the standard pattern of war in the past few decades.

In this mode, the defensive side always has a certain advantage, and the party that launches the first attack always loses.So the war often began with endless shelling until one of the parties could not bear the killing and attack of the artillery fire.

But Tie Mu really took a different approach.

He first sent his cavalry to carry out a rounding attack, pretending to attack the side of the Liao army.The purpose was to tempt the cavalry of the Liao Army to attack, and then the Mongolian cavalry pretended to be defeated, and the cavalry of the Liaojun was drawn from the battlefield.

Then Tie Muzhen sent his own ace to the Shi Xue Army, he sent his own treachery army - this is the elite army formed by the Dashi Guard!Each soldier must also master a number of skills including musket shooting, melee combat hand-to-hand combat, horse-riding archery, and horse-riding impact.

The 20,000 Xue Army soldiers formed a horizontal team and launched a large front that could encircle the Liao people from three sides.The garrisons, armed with fire rope guns, marched under the cover of their own fire and carried forward against a wave of Liaojun artillery.It was forced to 40 steps away from the Liao Army, and then fired.

Because the Mongolian Shirley Army put out a wide front and a denser formation, the firepower that can be put into shooting is also stronger.And attached to a long gun phalanx around the big stone guard because the formation is more scattered, there is no formation of a cross team, can not play the maximum fire.As a result, it was a heavy loss in the musket shot!

Seeing the heavy losses of the Guards, straight Rugu immediately ordered the long gun team to attack.

And Tie Mu really timidly took the view of Xue Jun immediately retreated, leading the long gunmen of the Liao Army to a large forest.

The woods are certainly not the place where long guns phalanx exert their power.The Liao Army's long-arms are not stupid to this extent.The Great Stone Guards were ready to rush into the woods and the Mongolian stalking army to fight.A group of Mongolian cavalry somehow got rid of the entanglement of the Khitan cavalry, returned to the battlefield, and launched an impact on the Chinese army where the straight-rugou was.

The large stone guard near the straight-rugu guard was caught off guard, so he had to guard the direct Lugu transfer.

This was nothing, straight Rugu only need to transfer a little to continue to command.

However, the movement of this array has caused panic among the low morale Khitan long gunmen.

Just then, the timid army that had retreated into the woods suddenly pushed a dozen bronze guns to appear on the edge of the forest!

With bursts of roar, the dense shotguns knocked down the front-line Guards and Khitan's long-arms in a row.The gargoyles also returned to the line of fire and fired musketeers.

The Khitan long gunmen suddenly collapsed, and the tide of the sea generally rolled back.The straight-ruugu, who was transferring the current array, was startled by this scene and blindly gave the order to withdraw.

The disaster suddenly fell on the head of the Khitan people, 100,000 troops, the whole line collapsed!

After the First World War, in addition to the islands of Habez and Abadan (which belonged to the province of Awas, on the Arabian River, with ports, merchants and castles on the island), the whole of Persia soon fell into the hands of ironwood.

At the time when the Great Stone Empire was in a critical moment of life and death, in the ruins of the leaf palace in Central Asia, the expeditionary Song Army was caught in the dilemma of insufficient supply.

The Western Army is this time a ten thousand-dollar expedition!From the distance of the force, it is definitely a miracle!

But no matter how strange, the Western Song army is still an army of agricultural people, and it is impossible to drive cattle and sheep with the army like nomads.

Therefore, in support of the Western Crusade, in fact, the Gao Chang and Shule King operated the military cantonment in the Ili Valley.

The ancient Ili River is located in the middle of the two territories of Gaochang and Shule, so it is jointly occupied by two towns.

Fortunately, Zhao Huan used the method of sealing the king to guard the western region of the border, and the kings of the county, the county, and the kiosks, respectively, brought a certain number of military households and criminals to build a city and reclamation on the beautiful land of the water.At last it took 70 or 80 years to operate the Ili Valley, a place located on the edge of the Chinese civilization.

However, the developed Ili Valley region is also more than a thousand miles away from the Broken Leaf Province.

Thousands of miles of food, has been a taboo for soldiers, and the grain in the Ili Valley is also limited.It is impossible to supply 200,000 troops for too long.

It was thought that it could be supplied to the broken leaf palace in the western cool town, but the Mongols destroyed the whole broken leaf province into scorched earth ruins.

Not only that, the small cavalry of the Mongols was still active around the broken leaf province, waiting for the opportunity to fight the logistics line of the Song army.

Although the Song army commander Guo Baoyu also has ace in his hand, that is, "target show talent" and "target people", let them follow the waiting cavalry activities, can cause certain casualties to the small stock cavalry in Mongolia.

But the attack on the Mongol cavalry could not turn into a real supply, and the main force of the Mongols would never appear (in fact, it was no longer in Central Asia).Guo Baoyu, who did not find the main force of Mongolia, did not dare to continue to advance to the Fergana Basin - after all, he was shouldering the life and death of 200,000 troops.

Therefore, after a month of incipulating the broken leaf province, Guo Baoyu, who was facing the food, was forced to withdraw to the Ili Valley.

“Son, we’re defeated by this fight, aren’t we?”

The head coach of the "firstborn son of the West Crusade" initiated by Xisong, and Zhao Cai, Wang Zhaoxuan of the broken leaf county, are also among the retreating brigades.

He is the eldest son of Xi Song Dan's son Zhao Xian today, more than 30 years old, half of the pedigree of the Hu people, the eyes are hollow, the hair must be curly, the nose is tall, and it is very handsome.His mother was the "Bright Lady of the Light" dedicated to Zhao Xian, the last generation of the bright holy woman, Jerup.

So he is not only out, but also a cul-de-sling, and has a background of light and tomorrow's science.Therefore, it was excluded from the appointment of the Crown.

Fortunately, Xisong is not raising the prince as a pig now - now the military attaché class is becoming more and more unreliable, so every generation of Western Song emperors must support the royal generals to restrain the army of officers.

In addition, the expansion of the Western Song is also very strong, occupying a lot of wild land, not suitable for the management of the flow of officials, and can not be without the members of the town.Rather than setting up a town, it is better to be a cheap child.So the West Song began to seal the king on the frontier.

In order to seal the frontier king, the prince cannot understand the military strategy.Therefore, the prince joined the army and gradually became the practice of the West Song.

Zhao Wei, who was not qualified to succeed the throne, also became a candidate for the king of Sai Wang and received harsh military training from an early age.

Therefore, the commander of the Western army is not completely arranged, but really has the ability to command.

It is a pity that he and Guo Baoyu's ability, even the opportunity to play, was forced to withdraw by the strong wall of the art.

"Your Highness," Guo Baoyu's eyebrows slightly, "victant and defeat are the common thing of the soldiers... The battle of broken leaves has just begun, and it is not the time to say victory or defeat."Now there is no chance of a quick victory, and it seems to be a lasting solution.”

“To the Ili Valley in the cantonment?”Zhao asked.

“We have to go to Tanta!”Guo Baoyu said, "We don't know the field ourselves, Gao Chang, Shule two can't supply us for a long time anyway."

Zhao Wei nodded gently, "It seems that you can only fight a long-lasting battle with the Mongols."I don’t know, how long will it take?”

At this time, Zhao Wei and Guo Baoyu did not think that the war would eventually last for hundreds of years!

Because the West Song is no longer facing a nomadic empire, but a vast territory, with nomadic, agricultural and industrial and commercial attributes of the superpower.