145 The Whip of God
After cleaning up the Jade Dragon Chijie, Su Hai did not plan to listen to the words of the Emperor and chase an old man who was unable to turn over, but went north along the east coast of Zhuo Zhanghai, preparing to go to the vast and flat grassland to have fun.
To the north of the Blanc Mountains (Alps), the Pontuha, the Chojang Sea and the Gokaso Mountains, and to the west of the mountains, there is a small undulating Kipchak steppe, which is very suitable for both the European cavalry and the Mughal and other horses. In addition to the mobility of the nomads, they also had advantages in commercial circulation, and it was by virtue of this role that the Khazar Khanate, which was labeled as 'Turkic', became a khanate. The territory of the nomads has never had much to demarcate to speak of, but the Khazars have become an important link in the European trade chain, and they must have occupied an advantageous position - from Talas to the west into the Kangju steppe, through the passage between the mountains and the Zhuozhang Sea, and further west to the Felt Sea (Sea of Azov), into the Pontus Sea, and connected with the Damascus Sea, which is the most important section of the steppe Silk Road.
Yessuhai was now passing through the territory of the Khazars, and given the status of his allies, he had not been able to kill a single person, and he had three options, one was to continue to the northwest and greet the Rakshasa principalities west of the Don River; One is to go north of the Zhuozhanghai, to compete with the fellow villagers of the Tatar Khanate between the Wowa River (Volga River) and the mountains across the mountains; The last option is to head south from the Gaukaso Mountains to join the Khutthorns.
Located between the Pontu Sea and the Chojang Sea, the Gokaso Mountains are a group of mountain ranges resembling a 'Z', with two acute angles naturally forming a trumpet-shaped alluvial plain with two rivers flowing into the sea, one on the left and one on the right. The small flat land in the west is the country of the Gurki (Georgian) people of the indigenous people of Gaokaso, because it faces the Pontus Sea, it is naturally dominated by Nestorian people, and the small delta and a large plateau mountain area in the east are directly connected with the Persian Plateau, and Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan), which belongs to the Turkic system, is influenced by the Great Food and Persian culture, and is all Tianfang Christians.
In the gap between the Flat Empire and the forces of the Celestial Sect, even though Azerbaijan was once a vassal state of the month, Gurji was known as the 'Nestorian Shield' of the Holy See against the Eastern Great Eclipse, Rest and other Celestial Sect countries, but the awkward geographical position of the two made them very pragmatic to uphold the principle of 'big things' of riding on the wall.
The Khut Thorns, who had followed Salman Khan's arrival, encountered no hindrance and disembarked at the port of Langkaran in Azerbaijan, where they were not only informed of Salaman Khan's death, but also received supplies from the Azerbaijanan city of Tabriz. However, this did not prevent him from continuing to go north to test the attitude of the Gurgi.
After receiving Brooke's report, the Holy See of Great Qin reacted coldly to the Muguls, and Pope Alexander IV summoned four other bishops to discuss how to deal with the 'Yellow Peril' of successive victories. Bishop Komnenos from Whira had been dealing with the Orientals for many years, and proposed an alliance with the Muguls to fight the Great Eclipse together. This attitude was denounced as heretical, and the Pope then publicly informed all Nestorians in the form of an edict that the Muguls were untrustworthy heretics.
Gurki has been under the control of the Gurk for a long time, and it is a buffer zone for the Wool to resist the eastern forces, and after the beginning of the confrontation with the Great Eclipse, the pressure was greatly reduced, and it became the first power in the Gokaso region, which is why Azerbaijan welcomed the Khut Thorn so much, and hoped that this new brother from the east would help clean up the pagan country of Gurki.
Gulki's capital, Tiflis (Tbilisi), located in the middle of the Z-shaped hill, was clearly a position to attack and retreat, and they also had a Cossack mercenary army, at least with the capital to resist. Although he wiped out half of Gurgi's elite cavalry, it was impossible to take this country of mountains and seas with 30,000 men in his hands, so he could only let it go for the time being, and detoured from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan at the easternmost end of the Gokaso Mountains, to the north of the mountain.
Gurgi, who was greatly injured, naturally did not dare to pursue, but the Cossack cavalry, fearing that the goal of the Mughal was the entire Kipchak steppe, brought in foreign aid, hoping to keep the Mughurs in the mountains. In addition to a few local indigenous tribes, the only helpers they could find were the Alans, a European nomadic tribe from the north of the Gokaso Mountains. This army, which had been gathered in fear in much greater number than the men and horses of the Khuts, blocked the path of the Mughal on the banks of the river north of the Gokasuo Mountains.
In the face of an enemy several times his size, in addition to his terrifying military might, the Khut Thorn demonstrated the diplomatic means of the Mughal people. Because the Tatars belong to the Turkic-language and yellow blood like the Mughurs, and the former two are closer to the Alans of the Indo-European language family, the Khutthorn can easily convince the Cossacks that the Mughurs are not interested in the Kipchak steppe, and that he had taught Gurki a lesson at the invitation of Azerbaijan, but now he just wanted to go to his brother, and he did not mind sharing the spoils with the Cossacks at all.
The Cossacks retreated, and the Alans fought alone with the Mongol army, kneeling in seconds.
Losing the barrier of the Gaokasuo Mountain, on the Kipchak steppe of the Pingchuan River, Kute Thorn immediately chased the Cossacks to the northwest to the Felt Sea, completely ignoring what the east side of the country was doing. Eventually, he took the Crimean Peninsula and spent their first winter in Europe on the warm shores of Pontus.
Naturally, Suhai was not idle, and went straight to Kazan, the capital of the Tatar Khanate, the stronghold of the Cossacks in the north. If the Cossacks in the Kipchak steppe were the main opponents of the Mughal domination of the steppe, then the territory of Kazan was already a forest area in terms of topography, and it should not be very attractive. However, the Cossacks and the Khazars, relying on the combination of pastoral and commercial economic methods, accumulated a lot of wealth and supplies suitable for the use of nomads in a few settlements, the difference between the two is only that the Cossacks and the Rakshasas are more closely related, participating in the Vashi trade route along the coast of the Valan Sea along the Dnieper River to the south into the Pontus Sea, while the Khazars relied on the steppe Silk Road, during the period when the Central Plains gave up the operation of the Western Regions, the business volume was inevitably affected, so the Cossacks and Rakshasas sat large. The two sides once fought for trading posts near several major rivers north of the Pontus Sea and the Felt Sea, which are now roughly bounded by the lower reaches of the Don River and the middle and upper reaches of the Wowa River.
Under the onslaught of Yesuhai, the forests of southern Kazan did not succeed in holding back the Mughal Iron Hoof, and the Cossacks scattered and fled. These nomadic settlements undoubtedly became the logistical support of the Mongol army, and the fur-replenished Yesuhai could swim through the warm winter in the Wowa River and then wander through the western Rakshasa territory in the following year.
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The Rakshasa kingdoms are currently in a state of separation, mainly divided into two parts: the north and the south.
In the north, there are major towns such as Novgorod, Moscow, Ryazan, Suzdal, and Koromuna from east to west, with Vladimir as the main one, and the Grand Duchy of Vladimir naturally became the nominal co-lord of the Northern Rakshasa. The southern core is the Qiva (Kiev) principality on the Dnieper River, and for the passage of the Vashi trade route into the sea, the Southern Rakshasa fell in love with the Cossacks of the Kipchak steppe all the year round and became the target of robbery by the Cossacks. Because both sides are tribes or state cities, in addition to tearing apart, there will also be private cooperation between various forces.
The Southern Rakshasa was the first choice of the Cossacks for an alliance, and the Grand Duke of Qiva, Dimitri, tried his best to persuade the other principalities to join in the fight against the Mongols, after all, the Mongul's devastating method of conquest was more terrifying than the Cossacks who robbed from time to time, and besides, a dozen incompatible Cossack tribes were much easier to deal with than the powerful empire that almost unified all of Central Asia. The area where the Northern Rakshasa is located is mostly forest and steppe, and it is believed that it will not become a favored place for the yellow cavalry, but for the sake of commercial interests, Grand Duke Vladimir Yuri agreed to send troops together to first solve the Khut Thorn that occupies the Crimean Peninsula and regain control of the port of the Washi trade route on the peninsula.
The Southern Rakshasas and the Cossacks organized an army of 100,000 troops at the mouth of the Dnieper, ready to teach the 'dwarfs on horseback' a lesson and keep the Yellow Peril out of the country. Faced with a threefold numerical superiority on the other side, Khutt sent an envoy again to divide the Rakshasas and Cossacks, but the Alans learned the lesson and the envoy was killed. Feeling that the chances of victory were quite high, and they were also afraid that there would be a dispute over 'war cooperation' within the country for a long time, the coalition forces gave up the advantage of defending the river and took the lead in crossing the river to attack.
The Muguls never won by numbers, but the first time they fought in a short hand, they were defeated by the Rakshasa coalition, and the Mongol army's vanguard general was captured and killed. Determined to teach them how to behave, Khut sent a small group of light cavalry to harass and contain the Rakshasa coalition while fighting and retreating to the Don River to the east.
This strategy of luring the enemy deeper was very clever, not only keeping the Rakshasa coalition away from supplies down the Qiwa River, but also showing that the purpose of the Mughal war was not to fight for the port of the Washi trade route, which led to a growing disagreement within the conflicted coalition over whether to pursue the Mongol army deep into the Kipchak steppe.
Once the rift between the coalition forces was seen by the Mugul, the opportunity for the Khuts to fight back came.
The lightly attacked coalition forces all the way over, and the Khutthorn gradually incorporated it into the encirclement in a V-shaped formation, and found the weakest Cossack team among them, and concentrated their forces to counterattack. When the Muguls defeated the part of the Rakshasas who dared to charge, the entire coalition collapsed and collapsed. After a failed decisive battle with the nomads on the steppe, and the end result was the annihilation of the army, Khutthorn began to reap the army of farmers and knights who carried grass rakes, and did not care at all about the Malays—the belated Northern Rakshasa army had landed along the Don River and was ready to build a defensive line on a high hill behind him.
The duke of the Northern Rakshasa army asked to surrender on the condition that his army go home, and Suhai accepted it, and the Northern Rakshasa army gave up resistance and opened the camp gate to welcome the Mughal people, but was completely annihilated by the rebels.
The reason why the survivors were able to save their lives was because they burned all the boats after escaping the Dnieper, and those who failed to cross the river naturally died under the multure knife. Although the Northern Rakshasa army was defeated without a fight, this loss did not shake Yuri's strength, but the Alan, Southern Rakshasa and Cossacks in the Kipchak steppe were no longer able to stop the pace of Khut Thorn and Ye Suhai.
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He also inherited the title of Attila's 'Whip of God', so that no sect or force dared to deal with him easily, and even surrendered and wooed him carefully. In contrast, the more rational one-eyed Hutt became the object of the Whisk Holy See.
At its peak, it partially recovered the lost territory of Western Daqin, occupying the Apennines, North Africa, and Iberia along the Mediterranean Sea, plus its original area around the Damascus Sea - the Balkan Peninsula, south of the middle and lower reaches of the Danube, the Anatolian Peninsula, the western half of the Fertile Crescent and Egypt, almost monopolizing the maritime trade routes of the whole of Europe.
At present, this huge empire is no longer what it used to be, its sphere of influence has been sharply reduced, and it is very staggered and anxious.
The rise of the Turks in Anatolia to form the Ottoman Khanate has severely eroded their interests along the coast of the Damascus Sea, and the Celestials who regained the Fertile Crescent, Iberia, Egypt, and North Africa are more willing to trade with the Ottoman 'brothers'. The coastal areas of the Balkans on the Sea of Venice (Adriatic) belonged to the trading partner of the Republic of Venice, and the Apennines returned to the Holy See of Great Qin and became known as the 'Kingdom of Italy'.
Due to the conflict of interests and doctrines, the Holy See and the Holy See of Great Qin had a long-term discord, and the Holy See of Great Qin wanted to maintain its transcendent position over other patriarchs, while the Holy See insisted that the five patriarchs were equal. Now, Bishop Komnenos of the Holy See wants to join Khazar in an alliance with the Mughals and direct the whip of God to the Ottomans and the Great Eclipse.
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If we look at the Green Ridge and the Eurasian land area west of the Western Regions, we can clearly see that there is an east-west uplift in the middle, from east to west, the Green Ridge, the Persian Plateau, the Gaukaso Mountains, the plateau on the Anatolian Peninsula and the Blanc Mountains extending into the Iberian Peninsula. To the north of this line is a plain, only the north-south Heng Mountains and Zhuo Zhanghai draw a dividing line, the west is the East European Plain including the Kipchak steppe and the alluvial flat land formed by the north flowing into the sea in Western Europe, and the east is the West Xianbei Wilderness and the Kangju Plain (including the Qihe region and the Hezhong area). To the south of this line, it is divided into Tianzhu, the Fertile Crescent, the Tianfang Peninsula (Arabian Peninsula), Egypt and North Africa.
At this time, the Mughal people, under the leadership of the four brothers, expanded their territory in different directions, they didn't care who their opponents were, nor did they fight because their survival was threatened, they only acted according to their own needs and terrain. The business-oriented Bahei naturally went to the richest and coastal Crescent and the Celestial Peninsula, and the murderous Suhai loved the Eastern European Plain with its rivers and rivers, because he had no successor, of course, Kuthorn had to follow to rub his experience and eat equipment, and the rest of the places seemed to be under his control, in fact, there were not many places that could make him feel comfortable.
Although the Persian Plateau is a rugged mountainous area as a whole, it can be clearly divided into east and west according to the direction of the mountain range. The main body of the mountainous area in the east is the big snow mountain that makes Xuanzang suffer, and the big mountain range that continues from the green mountains, Zhang Qian in order to find the Daxia that the Dayue clan once visited, is the farming people who live in this mountain oasis, and can enter the Western Regions through the Wakhan corridor and Puli. To the south of the Daisetsuzan Mountains is an arid basin that does not directly face the Tianzhu Sea. In addition to the Daxue Mountain Range, the entire rest of the Persian Plateau once belonged to the ancient kingdom of Anxi, and the northern mountains near Zhuozhanghai were many rich and important cities, but unfortunately they were all in the hands of Bahei.
The tundra swamp of the West Xianbei Wilderness is not the place where the Muguls should go, and when the spring flood arrives, the ice and snow downstream have not melted, and it is a cold ocean.
The Kangju Plain is a land of four wars, and it seems that it is the most suitable for nomads, but unfortunately, the owner here may have to be neighbors with the powerful Eastern Empire in the future, and it is conceivable that the two best farmlands, the Dawan Basin and the Ningyuan Basin, will not be easily let go.
Fortunately, the pattern of southern agriculture and northern herding in the Great Xia and Kangju Grassland is the favorite combination of the Mengwu people, and it is no problem to feed the men and horses under the Qin. It's just that many passes and important roads to the east are in the hands of Da Yu, and sooner or later there will be a fight to determine a dividing line that makes everyone comfortable.
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At present, the Qinqin chased Yousu Yufu and Huyanjie across the Shen River, entered Tianzhu, and waited for the moon when others fled into Lahore, and when Xuanzang's Banga Kingdom was written, the Mughal people from the bitter land of North Asia could not bear the humid and sultry tropical monsoon climate of the Ganges River Valley, so they had to return home.
Under Hillard's repeated nagging, he finally issued an edict in the name of the suzerain, the Great Khan, 'to unify the place where the horse's hooves trodden, those who surrender are vassals, and those who resist are enemies', allowing the Muguls to freely join various sects, and in addition to recognizing the status of the Khazar as an ally, the Khanate was divided into four parts outside its borders - the Fertile Crescent and the Celestial Peninsula to the south and Egypt were all to Bahhei; The Persian plateau and the Kangju steppe are naturally in the hands of the diligent; Khutt was only able to get a little bit of land south of the Anatolian Peninsula and the Gokaso Mountains, but given his access to the relics of Yessuhai, such a base was sufficient. The fiefdom of Yessuhai was the most imaginative, north of the Gaokasuo Mountains and west of the Heng River, except for Khazar, where the Mughal horse's hooves belonged to him.
Of course, the wishes of the existing inhabitants of this land are not at all taken into account.
Bahei, who thought he had the most opinion, because almost all of his fiefdoms were in the hands of the Great Cannibal, and the place he was currently fighting in was under the control of the Great Cannibal, calmly accepted the fact that he was the suzerainty of the Great Cannibal, and said that as long as the Great Cannibal was interested, he would keep everything except wealth.
The territory of the Khuts was the smallest, and above it were the Ottomans and the hill tribes that were difficult to deal with, and since the Azerbaijans and the Alans had already sung on their knees and sang about the conquest, and Gurki was a shrunken-headed turtle, and the Crimean Peninsula was in hand, it was perfectly possible to run and play happily with Yasuhai.
He was one of the happiest of all, and it seemed that he could storm the Duchy of Rakshasa and large territories of Poreel (Poland), Magyar (Hungary), and even further west in Germania (Germany) and Gaul (France), but as a Khan with no heirs, he conquered land that would only be used as a wedding dress for others. Therefore, it is understandable that he chose the sympathetic but slightly better Khutt as an ally.
With Hillard's assistance, while sweeping away the opposition forces in the territory and conquering the small oasis states with developed agriculture, in order to have sufficient logistical resources in case of future war with Dayu, he created Mongolian characters, promulgated grammar, established taxes, began to develop iron smelting and weapons technology, and prepared to establish a khanate with Mulu, which was not so badly destroyed. Thanks to the devastating conquest of the Mughals and the rational administration of the Mughals, the Khanate was quickly stabilized, and the Bahei took Isda and Haydn with him and moved to Hamadan in preparation for the Fertile Crescent.
Barbarism has abused civilization and has been crowned as the 'whip of God', and civilization teaches barbarism, but it can be called 'enlightenment'. Then, if the whip of God is enlightened, it will be a blessing or a curse for Europe and the Great Eclipse.