159 Europe in flames (2)
The once great food was infinitely beautiful, defeated the Tang Dynasty, made the city of Jiling, where the Persian capital was located, disappear, completely drove the Westerners out of the Levant, and unified the Asian and African regions west of the Western Regions. After the collapse of the empire, several dynasties fought against each other, which gave Westerners an opportunity to get their hands on the Holy City. At that time, the first Ayyubid Sultan seized the holy city from the Zanji Dynasty, and Zanji Sultan asked the heyday of Fula as foreign aid, and was willing to give the holy city to the Holy See, preferring to give it to friends rather than domestic slaves. So the three parties sat down to drink tea and negotiate, and the 'Crusades' had a perfect first time, and the soldiers took the holy city without blood. The prestige of the Holy See began to have the confidence to compete with the Great Qin Holy See, and began the century-old project before the split between the East and the West of the Church, and the Holy City also became a place for sightseeing, and like the harbor, it was freely open to the followers of the three religions - the Shuhu people could cry as much as they wanted, the Celestial Sect could enter and exit the Golden Dome Tianfang Temple at will, the Knights Templar in white robes and red crosses stayed, and the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre was built for Jesus, independent as a Temple Crusader principality.
With the Holy City as a banner and buffer zone to call on the followers of the three religions to join forces to resist Mongolia, the Mamulu people, who are now the de facto controllers of Egypt, are not in a hurry to respond to Turansha's request for help. He sent only two people to temporarily raise an army to attack the knights of the Holy City. He himself has more important things to deal with first, such as cleaning up the unjustifiable female Su Dan on the top of his head.
To be the first to be named a female Su Dan in the Heavenly Sect country, this woman named Sha Jilei can also be regarded as a big food version of Wu Zetian. Like the Mamu Army, she was born as a Turkic slave and was the favorite concubine of the previous Sudan, and had a son. When her husband was braided, it was when the navy was defeated and retreated to the Tianzhu Sea, and she did not mourn on the grounds of avoiding shaking the morale of the army. After the orthodox heir returned to China, she presided over the succession, and within a few days, she secretly gathered the generals who did not agree with the new Sudan and clicked it. When everyone thought she was going to support her son to succeed to the throne, she declared herself queen and took over the power to start a series of star-making campaigns: building a new Tianfang Temple, asking for prayers to praise her name, coining new coins with her head, and presenting the Kaaba curtain to the holy city of Mecca. As for the opinions of Hai Lifan and the men of other countries, WHOCARE?
The Marin dynasty, which bordered Egypt, was the first to oppose this, and Abdullah sent an army ready to crusade against her from land. The Holy See of Great Qin encouraged Italy and Gaul, which were not threatened by war, and Iberia, which had full control of the exit from the Damascus Sea, to gather together in Sicily to launch the Second Crusade.
In May of the ninth year of Emperor Shenzong, the Sea of Damascus, which had just undergone a major naval battle a few months earlier, came alive again, and almost 2,000 warships of various sizes set sail and headed straight for the Grand Port of Cairo's 'Damietta'. Because the Egyptian generals were unwilling to accept the instructions of the female Sudan, and because there were traitors who opened the door to thieves, the Crusaders easily captured Damietta. The hot climate caused the plague to spread, and the vanguard troops who conquered Damietta were not familiar with the flood season of the Nile, and did not dare to enter the interior at will, so they stayed in the city and waited for the follow-up troops to follow. Baibars calmly stationed the fortress of Mansoura to the south, sunken ships in the river as fortifications, and carefully selected a dry canal as a future battlefield to meet the Crusaders.
In late July, a crusader army of 5,000 knights and 40,000 infantry, as well as archers and pilgrims, marched towards Cairo. Baibars retreated and fought, leading them to the vicinity of the canal. The corner between the canal and the Nile was chosen as a camp by the Crusaders, who began to build the city and set up camp. In early August, the Nile flooded the dry canals, and Egyptian ships easily surrounded the Crusader camps, cutting off their back routes. After being besieged for more than ten days, the crusaders in a dilemma were infighting, the grain and grass were burned, and they crossed the river overnight and retreated. Early the next morning, the Mamu cavalry pursued, and the exhausted crusaders suffered a crushing defeat, including the commander being captured by 10,000 people, and the rest drowned or annihilated.
Baibars exchanged 300 nobles for a high ransom, and the rest were killed. He returned to the court with victory, assassinated Sajirei's mother and son, proclaimed himself Sudan, turned the Ayyubid dynasty into the Mamulu dynasty, and led the cavalry north again.
There were Muguls on top, Egyptian soldiers on top, and Turansha was even more entangled.
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Equally entangled with Turansha was Ogaqi, who faced an attack from two Mughal armies.
In addition to the fact that he was already working on the establishment of a Celestial Sect and that Suhai preferred to kill, the other two Mughal Khans did not seek to establish an effective form of government, but rather ruled the conquered lands and peoples in the form of military deterrence and the surrender of the wind wherever they went. Therefore, for the Khut Thorn and the Bahei, the trumpet-shaped plain of Azerbaijan, facing the Zhuozhanghai, has a cool climate and fertile water and grass, which helps to maintain the nature of the horse people, and is too suitable for cavalry to recuperate. The nearby agricultural areas fed by three small lakes, as well as large cities like Toris, provide the best supplies, and are easy access to the Fertile Crescent, the Persian Plateau, or the Kipchak steppes. It can be seen that it is really ill-intentioned to divide the land among the brothers like this.
There was no need to worry about supplies as you traveled along the Persian Imperial Road, which had existed for thousands of years, and most of the towns or settlements along the way had developed from caravanserans. When they saw the venerious Mugul, they all tamed and offered money, but if the Hut assassination came tomorrow, they would be equally obedient and prosperous. Under the persuasion of Isda, Bahei began to consider building a capital in Taolishi, and as for his nephew Wanhaidu, who is currently lying in Taolishi to collect protection money, it is not a matter at all.
Even if Khutthorn prefers to fight Magyar with his younger brother, it is not a good thing that the fat that nominally belongs to him has been moved, and it is better to take it first and then sit down and negotiate the conditions than to expect the eldest brother to uphold justice. The Muguls were never simple-minded butchers, and in order to enter the peninsula plateau as soon as possible, the Khutthorns exchanged eyebrows, hired a fleet of ships, and went south down the Dnieper River into the Pontus Sea until they landed on the shore of Gurgi. This time, Queen Gurgi, who was powerless to resist, obediently 'obeyed' the instructions of the Holy See, surrendered to the Mughul tent, and opened the door to the army of the Khut.
The northernmost part of the peninsula plateau next to the Pontic Sea is a whole mountain range called the 'Ponting Mountains', and at its southern foot there are two rivers running in an east-west direction, and the long river valley forms a steppe corridor under the influence of the dry climate, and for thousands of years, the nomads of the Kipchak steppe have crossed the Gokaso Mountain, and it is through this corridor that they enter the peninsula, including the current owners of the peninsula, the Turkic Ottomans. Khutthorn chose the same path, and the treatment along the way was no different from that of Bahehei, and the cities paid tribute one after another. After conquering Erzurum, an important town on the eastern side of the plateau, this ancient city that had existed on the Silk Road for 6,000 years became their most convenient supply point, allowing the Khutthorns to continue westward along the steppe corridor with confidence and boldness.
The Ottoman capital city of Ankara, west of the western end of the Ponting Corridor, of course, had to be more wary of the arrival of the Khuts, rather than distract them, and at the same time provoke the Bahei, who were more interested in coastal commerce, and for this reason, they deliberately united with the Europeans in the Chabzon region on the northern coast of the Ponting Mountains to form a coalition to stop the advance of the Khuts.
The battlefield of the first confrontation between the Turks and the Mughal people was in the center of the river valley, on the watershed of the two rivers facing each other, the 'Kesai Mountain', with a total of nearly 150,000 people on both sides, and the main force engaged in the battle at the Kesai Pass. At the beginning, the Ottomans, as the defenders, relied on the castle and fortifications to hold on, and took advantage of the geographical advantage, but the commander still sent a vanguard force of 20,000 men to take the initiative to attack. The cunning Mughal cavalry used their superior mobility and strong combat power to engage with them, and they were not defeated, and fought fiercely from dawn to dusk. Because the Mughurs were not good at night fighting, they resorted to the usual strategy of luring the enemy into depth, scattered and fled, leading the Ottoman vanguard army to different directions, and as soon as the troops were dispersed, they were soon annihilated by the Muguls. Seeing this, Chabzong's army immediately turned against and retreated, causing confusion in their own defensive lines, and the Ottoman army lost its fighting spirit and was defeated.
Ogaqi did not give the two Mongol commanders a chance to drive in, and immediately used diplomatic means to send envoys to Khut and Bahei respectively to sue for peace, and offered sixty percent of the tax and naval supplies every year. It has to be said that this delaying tactic is very tempting, if the Ottoman is just a simple Turkic state, the Mughal will not hesitate to destroy such an opponent, but a mature government that lives on a mountainous plateau and has a city, coastline and navy cannot declare complete conquest by chopping up the monarch. What's more, in the Eurasian and African lands dominated by Westerners and big cannibals, the villagers who grew up on horseback always have a little intimacy, similar to the nomadic and merchant lifestyle of the Turks, which is also worthy of cooperation. The two sensible Muguls on the other side were not madmen and could understand how to make a trade-off, and as for how to distribute the spoils, it was a matter for the brothers to sit down and discuss.
Although Ottoman's defeat and submission were a great loss of face, with the support of the Mugul, Ottoman's navy could seize the ports of Pontus and the Levant with even greater brazenness. The original intention of the Whirk was to hope that the Khutt Thorn would defeat the Ottoman and relieve his pressure for the time being, but he didn't expect the Turks to play the two brothers so wisely, once the sea fell into the hands of the Ottoman, the impregnable Fulu City could only face the Ottoman army by itself.
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Bahkhel quickly made an agreement with Khutthorn to roughly divide the Euphrates and its northernmost tributaries, and the area south of it, plus Azerbaijan, belonged to him. Then he led the army south to the Levant like a burning ass - after the two of them took the holy city, the Mamu cavalry went north to annihilate the army of Namuban, and he knew the movements of the two, and he also personally led the troops to attack, avenging his son and his own territory, so he was not in a hurry.