The envoy who went to Qunu City returned from Qunu City to Yunlu City, bringing a piece of news that made Lu Ning frown, but it was the Arakan barbarians who were supposed to withdraw from the Southern Regions Province, there were two or three thousand people, and under the leadership of the commander, they actually went to the direction of Qunu City in the northwest. In fact, they marched west to raid the city of Qunu, which was considered a paradise by the most prosperous tribes in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent.

After all, the Qi people now actually control only the prosperous towns on both sides of the Ganges, and they are not very clear about the movements of the Arakanese.

However, the envoy said that the Ghaznavid's sect army was gradually approaching the city of Qunu.

The leader of the Bura Emperor of Qunu City, the king of Qu Zheluo, Luo Ge Polo, was also considered to be sick and rushed to the hospital, and when he heard of the arrival of the Arakan people, he asked him for help against the pagans from the west, and promised the Arakan people a very rich reward. In this way, these Arakanese tentatively promised to become the nominal mercenaries of the king of Qujira.

The messenger was worried about what would happen to the Arakanese when they entered the city of Qunu, so they hurried back.

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In the imperial tent study, Lu Ning looked at the results of the investigation of the Ghaznavid Holy War Legion brought by the envoy in front of him.

Many of them were hearsay, but the envoy also saw some people who had fled from the west into the city of Qunu and met the Ghaznavid army, and the records were not far from ten.

According to the emissary, the ruling class of the Ghaznavid was dominated by the Turks, and the commanders of the army were all Turks, at least, the Crusade Corps.

Its army is composed of prisoners of war, slave buyers, volunteers, adopts, and mercenaries.

Lu Ning knew that the western legions of the Ghaznavid Kingdom still had a large number of Arabs, Persians, and so on.

Moreover, historically, after the Ghaznavid Kingdom gradually invaded and plundered the northern part of India, especially after the capture of the city of Qunu, a large number of Indian prisoners of war and slaves were incorporated into the army.

The most elite court guard of the Ghaznavids? Then it is composed of Turks and Indians? Checks and balances on each other, even in the eyes of the Ghaznavid emir? Indian soldiers were more reliable than their own people.

Lu Ning understands now? Indeed, the native slave soldiers? There is no spirit of resistance at all, and giving them a little status [Liancheng fo] is enough to make them loyal? Of course? This is based on the fact that the people who rule them are stronger, and if the original masters are defeated and they are plundered to become slave warriors of stronger rulers, they will not hesitate to surrender to help the new masters.

But anyway? The local slave warriors were also very good soldiers? Therefore, in the Falcon Regiment, many strong and healthy prisoners of war were also selected to be added to the army, and most of the security forces in various states and cities were converted from prisoners of war.

Lu Ning is also pondering? What if there was a conflict with the kingdom of Ghaznavid in northern India? Indian slave soldiers, mercenaries, can they take on heavy responsibilities.

After all? The Ghaznavid Legion of Jihad, in addition to the elite regular army? It was also filled with a large number of prisoners of war, volunteers, mercenaries, and so on.

Follow the messenger's report? Ghaznavid's regular army? There were the Ghulam heavy cavalry led by the emir, the Iqtar heavy cavalry of the local lords, and the light cavalry archers recruited from the various nomadic tribes, while the regular army consisted mainly of infantry, armed with bows for long-range combat and maces, daggers and javelins for close-quarters combat, wearing chainmail jackets and carrying leather or iron shields, so that a strong line of defense could form "like a fortress" on the battlefield.

Its infantry excelled in engagements and siege warfare. The emir's pro-army, for the purpose of going out over long distances, this infantry would ride fast camels, and when they reached their destination, they would come down to fight.

In short, after defeating the Liao State, Daqi finally encountered a strong opponent again, not the surrounding tribal states, or weak states such as Goryeo and Dongying.

Of course, if the fighting broke out on the border of Daqi, then these sultanates would not be worried.

But the war is far away from the Great Qi mainland, and it may even be thousands of miles away in the southern region, and it is very difficult to predict who will kill the deer.

But under the challenge of the Sultanate in the Southern Regions, it was Lu Ning's original intention.

In any case, it is impossible to expand the sphere of influence of the various sultanates to the borders of Daqi, and even South Asia and Southeast Asia, in this world, they may all be favored by Daqi, in a sense, Daqi will become their protector, completely interrupting the way for the Sultanate to invade eastward into South Asia and Southeast Asia.

South Asia and Southeast Asia will only be influenced and radiated by Chinese civilization in the future, which is Lu Ning's strategic intention to challenge the Sultanate in the Southern Regions, of course, this is only known to him, even the most trusted minister, and it is difficult to explain it to them.

It's just that the Sultanate came so quickly, twenty or thirty years earlier than expected, and Lu Ning was also a little helpless, because the butterfly effect caused by the setback of the sectarian army in the Khotanese holy war was also caused by himself.

"Take me to write a text, and ask the remaining forty capitals of the Jingnan Army to go to Yunlu City." Lu Ning made a gesture.

He must not be careless in the slightest, and must use all the forces he can mobilize to block the eastward invasion of the Ghaznavid.

Strategically contemptuous, tactically attached, and not the slightest neglect.

The war that is about to break out will be a collision that will go down in history.

Today, there are three major civilizations, the Eastern civilization, the Middle Eastern civilization and the Western civilization.

The former Tang Dynasty, was the first time that the Eastern civilization and the westward invasion of the Middle East civilization broke out into a substantive war, although because it was far away from the homeland, only with the power of a capital protectorate, coupled with the defection of the tribal allies in Central Asia, the former Tang Dynasty lost the war, but the Arab Empire suffered more losses, and since then gave up the intention of continuing to move eastward, but the land of the Western Regions has gradually been encroached upon by the Muhammad sect, and the Turks have gradually been sectarianized.

Now, in the Southern Regions, Great Qi has to use the power of an overseas province that has just occupied to fight against the rising Turkic Sultanate, if it is defeated, although it will not be able to talk about the actual injury to Great Qi, but it will have to withdraw from the Southern Regions.

But the impact may be far less far-reaching.

After all, nowadays, if the Southern Regions and the Indian subcontinent are really digested by the Great Qi and become colonial provinces, it is difficult to estimate the help to the Great Qi.

Not to mention, if this battle is lost, in case the Northwest Battlefield is affected, the old path of history is repeated, and the Uighurs are also sectarianized, then Lu Ning himself can't forgive himself, and he was reborn in this world, but he didn't change anything at all, and in the end he just came to enjoy the wine pond and meat forest?