Qian Song

Chapter 485: Don’t move, let my sons come in (please vote for me!)

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Geluolu is a nomadic tribe in Central Asia that speaks Turkic language. It is actually one of the tribes of the Tiele people.

The Garrolu people were nomadic in the southern Altai Mountains at first, and later migrated to the Syr Darya River Basin, the Seven River Basin, the Ili River Valley and the Fergana Basin. Sukant, Baishuihucheng, and Talos became the centers of their activities. There are also some Gelulu people distributed in Ghazni, Balkh and Tocharostan areas.

After the rise of the Turkic Khanate, the Geluolu people belonged to the Turkic Khanate.

After the rise of Xueyantuo Khanate, the Geluolu people belonged to Xueyantuo Khanate.

The Tang Dynasty general Gao Kan cut the nose of the car, and the Geluolu people belonged to the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Xianzhi, the military governor of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, led 1 Han troops from the Anxi Protectorate, [-] foreign troops from the Bahna and Gelulu tribes, and [-] Arab cavalry mobilized by the Governor of Khorasan of the Abbasid Dynasty to fight in Talas.As a result, the Geluolu people defected before the battle and colluded with the Arabs to attack the Tang army secretly, resulting in the Tang army's defeat.

Later, the Anshi Rebellion occurred in the Tang Dynasty, and some of the Tang troops from the Western Regions were transferred to the interior to suppress the rebellion. The remaining Tang troops still adhered to the Western Regions for decades. In the end, because they could not get the support of the Central Plains dynasty, the Tang Dynasty lost the Western Regions.However, relying on the ability to adapt to the situation and the bitch character of turning their backs on each other, the Geluolu people gradually became stronger, and then gradually replaced the Turks in occupying the Western Turks' old lands in the Chu River Basin, including the famous Suiye City and Da. Logos City.

After the Tang Dynasty lost the Western Regions, the situation in Mobei and the Western Regions was roughly as follows: Mobei and the north of the Tianshan Mountains were the Uighur Khanate; the Uighurs were in the northwest were the Xijiasi people; the Xijiasi people were in the southwest were the Geluolu people; To the south of the Lu people are the Tubo people; to the southwest of the Geluolu people are the Arabs who settled in Central Asia.There have always been wars and economic and cultural exchanges between them.

Slowly, the Karakhan dynasty was established by the Geluolu people and some of the Uighurs who moved westward.

The Geluolu people made great contributions to the prosperity of the Karakhanid Dynasty. Therefore, the area where the Geluolu people lived became a semi-autonomous area of ​​the Karakhanid Dynasty and enjoyed some autonomy.

The Geluolu people are cunning, untrustworthy, and capricious by nature. Before the Daqian Expeditionary Army attacked the Eastern Karakhan Dynasty, the Geluolu people had internal strife with the Kangli people, which aroused Sang, who also had a dislike for the Geluolu people. After Jiaer's attack, the Geluolu people dedicated all their beauties to Li Cun and received reinforcements from the Daqian Expeditionary Force.

Later, when the Daqian Expeditionary Force fought with the Central Asian Allied Forces, the Geluolu people participated in the pursuit, which can be regarded as making contributions to the Western Expedition of the Daqian Expeditionary Force.

But the Geluolu people always thought that after the Daqian expeditionary army looted Central Asia, they would withdraw, just like the Tang army before.

Unexpectedly, after the Daqian Expeditionary Army defeated the Eastern Karakhan Dynasty, they only tried public trials of the dignitaries and wealthy families here, and did not harm the common people, and even sent people to govern the place.

How could the cunning Geluolu people not see that the Daqian Dynasty was not ready to leave.

This is not the result that the Geluolu people want to see.

in fact--

The reason why the Geluolu people did not hesitate to dedicate all their beauties to Li Cun and then "lead the wolf into the house" was to get the help and protection of the Daqian Dynasty, occupy the territory of the Eastern Karahan Dynasty, and become the Eastern Karahan Dynasty. The new owners of the territory, just like the Gelulu people jumped from the Tang Dynasty to the Abbasid Dynasty and became the biggest benefit recipients of the Talas War.

Who would have thought that people from the Daqian Dynasty would never leave Central Asia.

The Geluolu people were not willing to work in vain, and they joined forces with the Kangli people to encroach on the territory of the former Eastern Karakhan Dynasty that already belonged to the Daqian Dynasty.

The Geluolu people were so capricious that Li Cun, who was about to deal with the Geluolu people, was not angry but happy.

Li Cun didn't care about the feelings of the Geluolu woman who had been sleeping recently, and directly gave the order to the front line: eliminate the Geluolu and Kangli people.

It is worth mentioning that when he arrived in Central Asia, Li Cun changed his playing style.

Here, Li Cun let the regular army led by Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian, etc. hold down the battle, and let the pro-army led by Li Cun's sons and the vassal armies here in Central Asia act as the main force.

Li Cun said to his sons: After any war, as long as the war is captured, [-]% will be handed over to the treasury of the Daqian Dynasty, [-]% will be given to himself, and the remaining [-]% will be divided according to the credit.

In other words, no matter how many things Li Cun's sons grabbed, they could get half of it, and the greater the merit, the more they would get. If one person can conquer a city, then the number of people in this city will be Half of the seizure belongs to that person.

Of course, Li Cun's sons also had to share the spoils of war with those who fought against them, or pay military salaries.

But even so, this reward system is terrible.

Think about it, this is almost equivalent to Li Cun's sons going around burning, killing and looting under the banner of Li Cun. The crimes are all left to Li Cun, but the benefits are left to themselves.

With such a good thing, all of Li Cun's sons naturally started screaming to fight.

Not to mention anything else, the Geluolu people who like to repeat themselves and the equally bold Kangli people first tasted the power of Li Cun's sons.

Yes.

The main force of the Daqian Expeditionary Force did not go out into the formation, but only held the formation and watched the enemy's formation.

But don’t forget that the pro-army troops of Li Cun’s sons were all regular troops of the Daqian Dynasty. They were all veterans who came out of the war. How could they be defeated by the Geluolu people and the Kangli people? Passed?

Therefore, Li Cun's sons can be said to have crushed the Geluolu and Kangli people all the way, and soon completely wiped out the Kangli people, and at the same time they hit the center of the Geluolu people's activities - Ta Ross.

However, there is a reason why the Geluolu people have been able to exist here in Central Asia for hundreds of years and continue to grow.

Seeing that Li Cun's sons seemed to want to destroy his clan, the cunning and ferocious Geluolu people launched a ruthless attack, and then saw the right opportunity to fight back with their entire country.

In this way, the Geluolu people suffered a lot from Li Cun's somewhat aggressive sons.

Fortunately, Yue Fei sent Yang Zaixing to rescue in time, which prevented a major defeat.

Many of Li Cun's sons who had recovered were furious and felt that they had been humiliated. They then led their own troops and vassal troops to hunt down the Geluolu people.

This time, Li Cun's sons, who had already suffered a big loss, were no longer as aggressive as before. They made full use of the wolf pack tactics to tear the Geluolu people apart bit by bit, and then took their time. Eventually, the Geluolu people were completely reduced to history.

By the way, Li Cun's sons also conquered the Western Karakhanids, a vassal state of the Serzhu dynasty.

Li Cun's sons were relatively young, and the captured royal family and clan of the Western Karahan Dynasty, as well as the beauties among the Kangli people, were all sent to Li Cun as soon as possible, and the Western Karahan Dynasty was also The best treasures owned by the , Geluolu people, and Kangli people were all dedicated to Li Cun.

And that's just the beginning.

After capturing the Western Kara Khanate, the Daqian Expeditionary Force faced two choices:

One is to continue westward to attack the Serzhu Dynasty;

The other was to attack the Ghaznavids first.

The Ghaznavid dynasty, also known as the "Gazni dynasty" and "Gazni dynasty", was a Central Asian empire at its peak, occupying most of Iran, parts of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and *** *With northern India, it imitated the various systems of the Samanid Dynasty and established a relatively complete centralized bureaucracy, with the center vertically managing various places.

But this was more than 100 years ago.

Because the local feudal officials of the Ghaznavid Dynasty held military and political power, which posed a threat to the central authority, and at the same time, some remote and remote areas were ruled by various vassals, vassal states, and nomadic tribe leaders as agents, which eventually led to the slow decline of the dynasty.

Decades ago, after the death of Masud III, the Ghaznavid dynasty fell into a struggle for the throne. Later, Bahram Shah, one of the princes of Masud III, surrendered to the Seljuq Empire in exchange for the Seljuq throne. Later, Bahram Shah decided to break away from Seljuk control. However, he was defeated by the Seljuqs. The Ghaznavid Kingdom gradually weakened to the point where it is now only an empty dynasty. .

But then again, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Ghaznavid dynasty has declined, its territory is vast, even comparable to the Eastern Kara Khanate and larger than the Western Kara Khanate. It is a competition. The entire dynasty has not grown much.

If the Daqian Expeditionary Force chooses to attack the Ghazni Dynasty, it should be easy to defeat it.

In other words, among the Central Asian countries in this era, there is no country that is too powerful. Otherwise, the Ghaznavid dynasty, which was only a mere appearance, would have perished long ago.

No.

It should be said that today, except for the Daqian Dynasty, there is no country that is too powerful in this world. Otherwise, Li Cun would not have let Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian and other generals stop and let his generals stop. The sons acted as the main force.

Li Cun did not decide who to beat first and who to beat later. Instead, he left it in the hands of his sons so that they could get more adequate training.

What was both unexpected and reasonable for Li Cun was that Li Cun's sons did not choose to attack the Ghaznavids first, but chose to continue their westward advance. To attack Isfahan, the capital of the Seljuq Empire.

Li Cun did not interfere with the choices of his sons, nor did he let generals such as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Zhao Li, and Li Yanxian interfere.

As a result, Li Cun's sons led their pro-army and Central Asian vassal armies in an unstoppable march. Those who ran fast reached Isfahan in only ten days and surrounded it. stand up.Soon, Li Cun's sons surrounded Isfahan.

At first, Li Cun was still worried that his sons would not be able to conquer Isfahan because they did not belong to each other.

Who would have thought that these guys actually elected a son of Li Cun named "Li Xiang" as their commander-in-chief.

Prime Minister Li decisively sent people to shout to the defenders in Isfahan, giving them only two hours to open the city gates. If they did not open the city gates and surrender, they would immediately begin to attack the city. After the city was defeated, all participating All those who defended the city were killed without mercy.

At the same time, Li Cun's sons began to count down the time and began to arrange an siege.

Seeing that the time was approaching, Li Cun's sons began to make final preparations for the siege.

The red cannons were all set up one by one, the airship was ready, and the tasks of each of Li Cun's sons were clearly divided by Prime Minister Li.

But just before Li Cun's sons were about to take action, the city gate of Isfahan opened, and then a large group of people tied up with dozens of people came out holding white flags.

——The people in Isfahan surrendered and dedicated the city.

The process does not need to be redundant.

After the city of Isfahan was captured, except for the high-ranking officials and wealthy families who contributed to the city, all the other high-ranking officials, nobles and wealthy families in the city of Isfahan were publicly tried by professionals from the Daqian Dynasty.

As a result, heads rolled and blood flowed into rivers.

Next, Li Cun's sons began to divide their forces to capture the entire Seerju Empire.

After defeating all the established armies of the Seer Empire, Li Cun's sons formed two armies, one to attack the Ghaznavids and the other to attack Khwarezm.

Needless to say, the Ghaznavids Dynasty was not attacked first by Li Cun’s sons because they did not want to divide their forces and affect the overall strategy of the Daqian Expeditionary Force. It does not mean that the Ghaznavids Dynasty was difficult to defeat. .

Therefore, Li Cun's sons who fought against the Ghaznavid dynasty easily wiped out the Ghaznavid dynasty.

On the contrary, Hualazimo has some strength.

Khwarezm was originally a vassal of the Turks of Saier. It was a country established by a guard who was a slave, Tuglubao, the Sultan of Saier.

However, over the years, the Seerzhu Empire declined more and more, and as a result, Khwarazmo took the opportunity to become stronger, got rid of its vassal status, and became a powerful country in Central Asia.

The title of King Khwarazmo is Sha.

At this time Khwarezm Shah was Aladdin Atsiz.

This Aladdin Atsiz can also be regarded as a generation of heroes. It was he who got rid of Khwarezm's vassal status and built Khwarezm into a powerful country.

Speaking of facts, if the Daqian Expeditionary Force had not come over, it is impossible to say that Khwarezm led by Aladdin Atsiz would have replaced the Serzhu Dynasty and become the overlord of Central Asia.

It's a pity that Aladdin Atsiz was born at the wrong time and lived in the same era as Li Cun, and Li Cun wanted Central Asia to divide his sons.

in short.

With the power of victory, Li Cun's sons were invincible and attacked Khwarezm with thunderous momentum.

Aladdin Atsiz was naturally not willing to let the Khwarezm he managed with great difficulty be destroyed by Li Cun's sons, even if he knew it, he had successively destroyed the Eastern and Western Kara Khanate and Seer The Qianjun living in the empire was simply not a match for his Khwarizmo, and he also had to fight against Li Cun's sons.

As a result, the two sides fought three consecutive battles, and the Khwarezm army was completely defeated. Li Cun's sons also went straight to the capital of Khwarezm to kill.

In the final battle, after Aladdin Atsiz was defeated, he fled westward with hundreds of people, and finally fled to Asia Minor.

One of Li Cun's sons, Li Bai, was the first to enter the capital of Khwarezm, Yulong Jiechi. He captured all the royal family and clan members of Khwarezm, and then hurriedly sent them to the rear to be presented to Li Cun, just like When they captured the city of Isfahan, they immediately sent the royal family and clan members of the Serzhu dynasty to the rear to offer them to Li Cun.

In the next two years, Li Cun's sons fought in the north and south in Central Asia. Khorasan, Sijistan, Mazenland and Gur were successively destroyed by Li Cun's sons. All Central Asia was destroyed. All of Li Cun's sons were beaten down.

Li Cun divided the entire Central Asia into [-] vassal states, and then divided them among his sons by drawing lots.

By the way, in order to add some gold to his face, to have the foundation to rule Central Asia, and to massacre those local nobles who did not obey the rule of his sons, Li Cun issued an order: liberate all slaves and empower All the powers of their legitimate citizens.

In this way, Li Cun's sons had the foundation to rule Central Asia, and then they, the Eight Immortals, showed their magical powers across the sea and recruited a large number of Han people from the Daqian Dynasty to fill their country and stabilize their rule.

During this process, all of Li Cun's sons could be said to have become a little crazy.

Some of them went to remote areas of the Daqian Dynasty to buy people, men, women, old and young;

Some promised that as long as they came, they would be given noble status and women, and they would be given three or five women;

Some simply go to places where no one cares about them and take them to their own countries by force, etc...

The methods of Li Cun's sons can be said to be diverse and classified, but the key is that they are all efficient.

This actually brought certain troubles to Li Biao's rule.

But since Li Cun didn't say anything to stop all this, Li Biao could only watch his brothers poaching him, and only gave them some verbal warnings when they went too far. Most of the time You can only turn a blind eye or close one eye.

Ever since, a wave of Han immigrants from East Asia to Central Asia broke out...

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The terrain of the road going west is high in the east and low in the west, making it difficult to go west and easy to go east.

The Alashan Pass and the Ili River are the important passages out to the west. From here, you will reach the vast plains of Western Siberia, and then the Great Plains of Eastern Europe. It is also the nomadic force in ancient China (the Huns in the fifth century AD, and the Mongols in history) Main gateway into Central Asia and Europe.

When Li Cun went west, he did not take the Wakhan Corridor, but ended up here.

The Ili River Basin is strategically extremely important - since ancient times, the Ili area has been the hub of Western transportation, and civilizations such as Arabia and India entered China from here.

Therefore, not long after the Daqian Expeditionary Force entered Central Asia, Yue Fei sent Li Yanxian to capture this place, build a city here, and occupy it forever. At the same time, the Daqian Dynasty's railway was also built into Central Asia from here.

——Daqian Dynasty built two railways into Central Asia, and the other one was built from the Wakhan Corridor.

Unlike the Daqian Expeditionary Force and Li Cun's sons who had already entered Central Asia and swept across Central Asia, Li Cun entered Central Asia only after Central Asia was pacified by his sons.

The city Li Cun chose to stay in Central Asia temporarily was not Isfahan, the capital of the Serju Dynasty, but the capital of the Eastern Karakhanid Dynasty, an important hub city on the Silk Road, known as the "Ancient Silk Road". Pearl” of Samarkand.

The reason why Li Cun made this choice was not only because the railway of the Daqian Dynasty had been built to Samarkand, but also because Samarkand was close to the Daqian Dynasty and Isfahan was far away from the Daqian Dynasty. The former was more convenient for Li Cun if the situation changed. Cun withdrew the Daqian Dynasty.

This was actually an arrangement arranged by the frontline generals and Li Cun's sons.

Li Cun did not get into trouble with a group of well-meaning ministers and his sons because of these trivial matters, but readily accepted their suggestions.

Therefore, Li Cun lived in the Western Regions for more than two years before arriving in Central Asia.

As soon as he entered Central Asia, Li Cun asked the literati who followed him to write poems to record his conquest of Central Asia.

As a result, many poets were gearing up and producing good sentences frequently.

The song that impressed Li Cun the most was "Long Song Xing" by Lu You:

I don't envy riding a crane up to the blue sky, I don't envy Eguan in front of the Ming Lord. I hope that I will die on credit and see Ping Hu Nian.Once Hu's luck declined, he died in Sangqianchuan, Hu's stars were dull, and Longting was filled with flying smoke.Crossing the Congling Mountains in the west, and guarding North Korea in the east, the towering capital of the heavenly kings, nine cauldrons laying down the stream, thousands of countries dynasty, and jade and silk hanging together.Huangtou, you are a clown, and you have defiled my king's meeting.I'll kill you all for being unknown, but I won't bother you with Ge Yuan. I'll return you to your old job, shepherding sheep by the Liaohai Sea.

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