Qian Song

Chapter 487 Sweeping the World (please vote for me!)

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After dealing with the matter in Jerusalem, Li Cun did not stay in Jerusalem, but returned to Isfahan, the capital of the Serju Dynasty.

The railways of the Daqian Dynasty were laid very quickly, and the main roads had almost been paved throughout Central Asia.

However, even so, the railway has not yet been laid to Jerusalem.

Therefore, Isfahan, which has convenient transportation, is safer.

To be honest, Li Zhi died in the battle this time, and Jerusalem was too special. Li Cun felt that it would be safer to make the trip in person, otherwise Li Cun would never make the trip in person.

After all, as far as the current situation is concerned, as long as Li Cun makes no mistakes, it is very likely that everyone in the world will be named Li.

On the other hand, if something happened to Li Cun, then the Daqian Dynasty might fall apart internally, let alone continue to expand its territory.

you think.

Who can, like Li Cun, continuously provide Li Cun's sons with troops capable of conquering and fighting, continuously provide Li Cun's sons with grain, grass, baggage, weapons and equipment, and support Li Cun's sons to continuously open up the Daqian Dynasty? Expand territory and carve out fiefdoms for themselves?

Li Biao?

As long as Li Cun dies, the first thing Li Biao has to guard against is his imperial brothers who have strong military power.

To take a step back, even if someone wants to do such a thing, they have neither the prestige nor the ability, let alone frightening Li Cun's sons into obeying his words.

Also, don't think that these sons of Li Cun are invincible now, and they will still be invincible after Li Cun's death.

First of all, with the banner of Li Cun, small tribes and small forces from all over the country will come to support them one after another, so that the Daqian Expeditionary Army will not only fight less and less, but also fight more and more.

Secondly, as long as Li Cun's banner is raised, many places will surrender without even having to fight.

Once again, only Li Cun dared to use talents in an eclectic way.

——Li Cun appointed people based on their talents and annihilated any place. Li Cun would send people to select capable and righteous people to join the Daqian dynasty. Therefore, in the Daqian expeditionary army, you can see talents from various ethnic groups, such as Han, Khitan, Koreans, Jin people, Xixia people, Dali people, people from various countries in the Indo-China Peninsula, people from a number of small countries in Southeast Asia, indigenous people from the Prince Continent, Uighurs, Arabs, Persians, people from various Western Crusader countries, etc. Wait, it can be said that as long as those who serve the Daqian Dynasty make meritorious deeds, they can be reused. Also because of the joining of various capable people and righteous people, the Qian army has gained many unexpected gains. One of the most significant gains is that the Daqian Dynasty No matter where the expeditionary force fights, there are guides and translators.

Secondly, Li Cun attaches great importance to railway laying and train development, which can ensure the smooth operation of the railway and enable the Daqian Dynasty to continuously provide war horses, grain, grass, baggage, and weapons and equipment to the Daqian Expeditionary Force. It is no exaggeration to say that , as long as Li exists, it can ensure the unlimited endurance of the Daqian Expeditionary Army officers and soldiers, and also give the Daqian Expeditionary Army speed and maneuverability unparalleled by armies around the world.

In addition, although veteran generals such as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Zhao Li, and Li Yanxian rarely participate in wars now, under the leadership of Li Cun, who attaches great importance to strategy and tactics, and can also use tactics flexibly, they have formed their own The world's oldest and even most advanced general staff, every battle must be carefully planned by the general staff. This can ensure that Li Cun's sons will not fight randomly and always win the battle.

In addition, Li Cun also invented an army expansion system based on local materials. That is, after defeating an enemy country, the Qian Army will recruit a group of soldiers to surrender. Those who surrender and are willing to accept the political education and training of the Da Qian Expeditionary Army will keep their lives. You can also get promoted through military exploits.Those who are unwilling to surrender, or are unwilling to accept the political education and training of the Daqian Expeditionary Force, will only become prisoners. They will have two thumbs and two big toes cut off and then go to build the railway.For this reason, many people joined the Daqian Expeditionary Army, and officially because of this system, the strength of the Daqian Expeditionary Army snowballed.

It should be noted that although the Daqian Expeditionary Army has been recruiting foreign troops, Li Cun has always insisted that the ratio of Han troops to foreign troops is one to one. That is, for every foreign recruit recruited, one Han recruit must be recruited. In this way, Ensure that the Daqian Expeditionary Force is always under the leadership of Li Cun and Li Cun's sons.

All in all, as long as Li Cun is safe and sound, the Daqian Expeditionary Army will always exist. Sooner or later, the world will be completely named Li, and Li Cun's sons and the officers and soldiers of the Daqian Expeditionary Army can all be in Li Cun's name. It is better to stay under this big tree to enjoy the shade. Otherwise, Li Cun's sons and the Daqian expeditionary force will become rootless duckweeds, and they may be lost in the mix.

Therefore, Li Cun's safety is the biggest thing in the eyes of Li Cun's sons and the Daqian expeditionary force.

Moreover, there is no need for Li Cun to take personal risks now. His sons have grown up, and the generals, troops and officials at all levels he brought out are all very mature.

Furthermore, Li Cun has been fighting for so many years, so it’s time to enjoy it.

in short.

When Li Cun returned to Isfahan, the largest city in Central Asia, and continued to have fun with his beauties from all over the world, the Daqian Expeditionary Force and Li Cun's sons began to continue their western expedition.

It is worth mentioning that after occupying Central Asia, the army and navy of the Daqian Dynasty were already in contact.

However, there is still a very troublesome problem at this time, that is, Asia and Europe are isolated by land. In other words, the ships of the Daqian Dynasty cannot travel to Europe unless they make a very large circle.

This situation is obviously not conducive to the maritime trade of the Daqian Dynasty, nor is it conducive to the Daqian Dynasty's conquest of Europe. It is also not conducive to the future communication between the Daqian Dynasty and the vassal states established in Europe by Li Cun's sons.

Therefore, Li Cun made a decree: to open up a canal to open up shipping between Asia and Europe, connect the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and provide the shortest route from Europe to the lands near the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific.

To put it bluntly, Li Cun is preparing to dig the Suez Canal and shorten the voyage.

In fact, the Suez Canal has existed for a long time, but due to various reasons, it has been abandoned and needs to be dug again.

But then again, even if the Suez Canal has existed for a long time, this canal is by no means so easy to dig.

You know, in history, it took the Egyptians nearly 11 years to dig a canal through the desert.

——This is mainly because their technology is not good and their funds are seriously insufficient, otherwise it would not take such a long time.

Li Cun's sons quickly reached Cairo and gained control of the Suez Canal.

It should be noted that Li Cun did not include Cairo in the enfeoffment territory.

——After the opening of the Suez Canal, Cairo will be one of the richest places in the world. Li Cun is so rich that he is reluctant to give up here easily, so Li Cun plans to use this place to make some money first.

Li Cun did not ask the Ministry of Industry of the Daqian Dynasty to dig the Suez Canal. Instead, he contracted the project of digging the Suez Canal to a newly emerged private infrastructure company.

——This company was established by Li Cun’s three sons, Li Qiao, Li Zhuang and Li Yan.

Their infrastructure company is now a bit like my country's infrastructure madman in later generations. Any project it contracts is completed quickly and well. So far, their infrastructure company has built more than a hundred bridges for Li Cun. There are some extremely difficult projects among them.

Li Cun asked Li Qiao, Li Zhuang and Li Yan to dig the Suez Canal within two years.

The three brothers slapped their chests and issued a military order.

Here in Cairo, after the Daqian Expeditionary Force once again received sufficient supplies, the Western Expedition to Europe really began.

This expedition to Europe is divided into three directions:

The northern route is to go west to the Caucasus between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, go deep into Russia, and attack the Turkic Polovtsi people.Along the way, Yue Fei served as the marshal of the capital, supporting Li Cun's sons.

The middle route is to destroy the Crusader countries, and then take Arab ships across the strait to attack Bulgaria.Along the way, Han Shizhong served as the marshal of the capital, supporting Li Cun's sons.

The last route, the southern route, was to pass through Egypt, then conquer Libya and Tunisia, and then take Arab ships across the strait to directly attack Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.Along the way, Zhao Li served as the marshal of the capital, supporting Li Cun's sons.

It is worth mentioning that although Wu Jie lived a few more years than in history, he still passed away not long ago.

Before Wu Jie passed away, Li Cun went to see him. He said that his greatest luck in life was meeting Li Cun and being appreciated by Li Cun. His only regret was that he could not see Li Cun conquer the world with his own eyes.

Li Cun reassured Wu Jie that he would treat his children and grandchildren well.

After Wu Jie's death, Li Cun named Wu Jie King of Fu and wrote a eulogy himself, affirming Wu Jie's achievements in this life.

Li Yanxian was left in Central Asia by Li Cun, guarding here to ensure that if the Western Expedition failed, the Daqian Expeditionary Army could retreat to Central Asia, regroup, and go to Europe in the future.

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This western expedition to Europe was really not as smooth as the conquest of Central Asia.

The misfortune this time was mainly reflected on the South Road.

As soon as he set off on the expedition, South Road encountered a hard bone that was not easy to chew.

This hard bone is Egypt's 12 Mamluk cavalry.

This Mamluk cavalry is composed of slaves. They are not afraid of death and are quite difficult to deal with.

The key point was that he had swept across the entire Central Asia and was invincible in every attack. Li Cun's sons couldn't help but underestimate the enemy and advance rashly.

As a result, Li Cun's sons led [-] cavalry as the front army, and were seriously out of touch with the large army led by Zhao Li.

The key point is that Li Cun's sons were lured to the Ain Jaru plain by the Mamluk cavalry due to their youth and vigour. Then the Mamluk cavalry pretended to be defeated and led them into a valley.

The Mamluk Sultan Hudus (also the King of Egypt) lined up there, waiting for the arrival of Li Cun's sons.

At the same time, the Mamluk cavalry that lured the enemy also took up formation on the right wing.When the ambushed Mamluk cavalry rushed down from the left wing, they quickly surrounded the [-] Ganjun cavalry led by Li Cun's sons on three sides.

Faced with such a situation, Li Cun's sons demonstrated the qualities of the world's strongest army. They used squatting tiger cannons and muskets to suppress the Mamluk cavalry from advancing at all.

Later, the experienced Hudusi decisively gave up shooting with the Qianjun soldiers led by Li Cun's sons and adopted hand-to-hand tactics. He also personally led his troops into the Qianjun soldiers and killed the Qianjun soldiers while wielding Damascus machetes.

Faced with this situation, Li Cun's sons fearlessly chose to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Mamluk cavalry led by Hudusi.

The two sides fought from day to night, and the killing was so brutal.

Finally, Li Cun's sons saw that they were outnumbered and there was really no possibility of victory, so they led less than [-] remaining defeated soldiers to fight a bloody path and rushed out of the valley.

In this battle, seven of Li Cun's sons were killed, and all those who survived were wounded.

It can be said that this is the biggest defeat Li Cun has suffered since his Western Expedition.

After Zhao Li received his report, he immediately led the main force to fight against Hudusi.

Suddenly they all thought about the old plan and followed Shi.

But Zhao Li was not as reckless as Li Cun's sons. Faced with the temptation of the Mamluk cavalry, he ignored it and steadily advanced towards the Egyptian capital, forcing the Mamluk cavalry to come for a decisive battle.

Seeing that Zhao Li was not fooled, and the troops led by Zhao Li only numbered more than 5, and they also had more than [-] Mamluk cavalry, which was twice the number of Qian's army, so they all wanted to seize the power of a great victory. , a real decisive battle with Zhao Li.

In this battle, Zhao Li gave full play to the advantages of Qian's army's advanced weapons and defeated the Mamluk cavalry. As a result, Qian's army killed [-] to [-] Mamluk cavalry in one battle. Hudu Si died in the battle, and the remaining Mamluk cavalry , except for a very small part that scattered, the rest all surrendered.

Because Li Cun lost seven of his sons in the first battle, Zhao Li ordered: Kill all the Mamluk cavalry.

After doing all this, Zhao Li handed over the army to the governor for temporary leadership, and then he personally took the head of Hudusi and the bodies of Li Cun's seven sons to plead guilty to Li Cun.

In fact, Li Cun had known all this for a long time, and he also knew that Zhao Li was not to blame for this, but only his own sons who underestimated the enemy and rushed forward.

Therefore, Li Cun didn't blame Zhao Li, and let Zhao Li go back and continue to lead the army.

After Zhao Li left, Li Cun looked at the bodies of his seven sons and couldn't help but shed extremely rare tears.

To be honest, Li Cun had enough sons, otherwise seven of them would have been killed in this battle, and Li Cun would have been killed.

Now, Li Cun can only warn all his sons once again: Soldiers are important matters of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival. They must be observed...

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The Northern Route Army crossed the Caucasus and entered Eastern Europe, and then attacked the Polovtsi Turks.

Feeling desperate, the Russians decided to send troops to assist, hoping to fight to the death with the Qian army on other people's land and avoid worries.

So the principalities sent troops to form a huge Russian coalition army.

However, this Russian coalition army was purely feudal. Each army was commanded by a feudal lord and fought independently. They were full of hostility and distrust between each other. The overall combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. In addition, at this time, people in Eastern Europe had almost no regard for the army. I don't know, I don't know how powerful Ganjun's combat power is.

Therefore, the final defeat of the Ross coalition can be imagined.

The short section says.

On the banks of the Dakalka River, the main force of the Ross coalition met the main force of the Gan army led by Li Cun's sons.

In this broad plain, the forgetful Ross coalition took the lead in charging. Unfortunately, they fell into the trap set by Yue Fei in advance and were shot dead by Li Cun's sons leading their own troops and vassal troops. Unconsciously, they were surrounded by Ganjun and were almost completely destroyed in the end.

The already loose Rus' alliance collapsed immediately, and the princes retreated to the fiefdom with their remaining armies.

Taking advantage of the victory, Li Cun's sons pursued and killed more than a dozen princes and kings, and surrounded the camp of the coalition leader, Marquis Kiev.

After a three-day siege, the coalition leader Kiev Alternate led everyone to surrender.

After this battle, Eastern Europe, which had lost all its main forces, could no longer organize a decent coalition...

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Midway.

After sweeping all the Crusader countries, the Central Army crossed the strait to attack Bulgaria.

This road is also a sweep.

While fighting, Li Cun's sons crossed the Carpathian Mountains and marched directly to the capital city of Pisti (near Budapest, later Hungary).

Soon, the troops from the middle route gathered opposite the city of Pest, Hungary.

Budapest is originally two cities. The part located east of the Danube River is called Pest, and the part west of the Danube River is called Buda. The two parts combined are called Budapest. Both Buda and Pest are large cities in Hungary.

——The capital of Hungary is Buda, while Pest has facilities such as the palace of Béla I.

Seeing the Gan army coming to kill, Bella I was not panicked. He believed that the wide Danube River was enough to prevent the Gan army from crossing the river.

Therefore, Bella I did not rush out of the city to fight, but slowly gathered his troops.

By the time the troops from the middle route arrived at the city, one hundred thousand Hungarian troops had gathered in Pest.

Qian's army attacks but does not break.

The Hungarian army did not fight again.

Upon seeing this, Han Shizhong came up with a strange plan to lure the Hungarian army to the Miaoning River, and then led his army to retreat.

Seeing this, Bella I immediately went out of the city to fight.

The army in the middle retreated slowly until it reached the confluence of the Seyo and Tisza rivers.

At this time, an ambush led by Li Cun's sons broke out and surrounded the Hungarian army, causing chaos in the Hungarian army's escape.

In the course of several days of pursuit, the Hungarian army was wiped out more than [-] people, and Béla I was captured alive.

The army from the middle route then advanced to the city of Pest and captured its city.

Two days later, Buda City was also captured by the Central Army...

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The southern army went straight to Constantinople to kill. The main forces in Eastern Europe were destroyed. The capital of Hungary was breached. European countries were shocked, and they established new coalition forces and entered into "close" alliances.

however--

At this time in Europe, Kievan Rus, Poland, and Hungary were divided into principalities. They were independent and did not listen to the orders of the Grand Duke. Germany, Italy, and Austria were involved in the Crusades.

It can be said that the situation in Europe is very favorable for Ganjun's western expedition.

More importantly, the armies of European countries are far inferior to the Daqian Expeditionary Force, both in terms of weapons and equipment, and in terms of tactics.

Therefore, the question of whether the Daqian Expeditionary Force can conquer the entire Europe is not whether it can be conquered, but when it can be completely conquered...

... (end of this chapter)