After pacifying the north, Li Yan wanted to stop his expansion.

For this reason, Li Yan even changed the era name to "Dading".

Moreover, Li Yan personally presided over the supplementation of his original "Great Railway" plan and added Siberia to his "Great Railway" plan.

In addition, Li Yan ordered people to go to Siberia to explore oil and gas - Li Yan did this, firstly, to find stable oil and natural gas resources in Dazhong, and secondly, to hope that future generations would pay attention to this wasteland of Siberia, and not give up Siberia, a treasure land with extremely rich resources, because it is a little far away from Dazhong.

All in all, Li Yan no longer wants to expand externally, he just wants to digest the territory he has already obtained, and then vigorously develop his own country.

In other words, Li Yan has already figured out that a thousand birds are in the forest, and it is better to have a bird in hand.

But a lot of times, it's not like you can really stop if you want to.

Just as Li Yan rolled up his arms and sleeves to prepare for a big fight, the distant city of Guiyuan in the west (the former capital of the Qarakhanid Dynasty in the east, Lhasa Roll) suddenly sent back the news that Qarlu and Kangli had rebelled and were now wantonly encroaching on the territory of Dazhong.

As soon as the news came back, Li Yan actually didn't feel strange - in fact, this matter had long been expected by Li Yan.

In Li Yan's original plan, the territory to the west of Dazhong could only reach the Tianshan Mountains.

The reason why Li Yan asked Yue Fei and them to fight across the Tianshan Mountains to destroy the eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty, and the reason why Li Yan later sent Lu Jiang and Li Ji to govern the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty was only because Li Yan did not want his neighbor to be a powerful empire, which was really too dangerous.

But then again, because Li Yan did not want to completely occupy the territory of the Qarakhanid Dynasty in the east, Li Yan did not emigrate there.

Of course, this is also because the Han people are not willing to go to such a far place and the environment is so poor - not to mention the west of the Tianshan Mountains, that is, the Western Regions, the Han people are unwilling to settle there because of the distance and poor environment.

As a result, Dazhong's control over there is relatively weak.

Speaking of which, although there are now more than 150 million people in Dazhong, accounting for more than half of the world's population, the territory of Dazhong is really too big, so large that it seems that such a large population is not enough.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Yan is reluctant to expand anymore.

So does Li Yan have a way to solve the problem of being unable to leave his homeland?

Of course.

It's very simple, it's okay to promote it by economic means, as long as there is money to be made, not to mention the Western Regions, it is the Western Heavens, and there are people who are willing to go.

It's just that at this stage, Li Yan wants to digest all the territory he has obtained, and he doesn't want to expand anymore.

And yet—

The trees want to be quiet, and the wind does not stop.

The rebellion of Ge Lulu and Kang Li forced Li Yan to go to war again, and he had to go to war.

First of all, Li Yan doesn't want to fight, but it doesn't mean that Li Yan is afraid of war - the roads that Li Yan has come along this way are all paved with corpses, all the rivers that Li Yan has crossed are infused with blood, and the emperor's throne under Li Yan's ass is all piled up with the heads of the enemy, so how can Li Yan be afraid of war?

Besides, Ge Lulu and Kang Li dare to pull their beards, if they don't crack down hard, everyone will definitely follow suit in the future, then the big and middle rivers and mountains are almost like paper paste, what are you talking about in a hundred years and two hundred years?

Therefore, Li Yan quickly ordered the Privy Council to mobilize 100,000 elites from various military regions, led by Yue Fei, who had just returned, to march west again and crusade against Qarlu and Kangli.

This time, in addition to Wang De, the Privy Council also sent Zhang Xian to Yue Fei as a deputy, just in case.

As for the civil officials, they are still mainly experienced Ma Kuo.

In addition, Li Yan also asked Li Wei and other more than 50 of his sons who like to be soldiers to join the expeditionary force for training.

Nowadays, the Dazhong Railway has been built to Dingyuan City in the Western Regions.

Therefore, Yue Fei and the others took a special military train, and it only took less than seven days, and even the people and horses arrived in Dingyuan City safely.

This is a world of difference compared to when Yue Fei and the others took more than a year to arrive in Dingyuan City.

Let Yue Fei and them really feel a lot of emotion, and feel how powerful Li Yan is!

Leaving Dingyuan City, Yue Fei and the others walked for more than 20 days, crossed the Tianshan Mountains, and then came to the territory of the Qarakhanid Dynasty in the eastern part of the country.

At this time, the people sent by General Lü and Li Ji to meet the expeditionary force had been waiting for the expeditionary force for a long time.

Soon, General Lü and Li Ji resupplied the expeditionary force, and then the expeditionary force first entered the Fergana Valley.

Here, the expeditionary force did not meet resistance.

The expeditionary force then continued westward to Kuyu, a little further northwest to the territory of Qarluq.

But it was here that Zhang Xian, the former army of the expeditionary force, was attacked by Mahmud Khan of the Qarakhanid dynasty in the west.

Although it was a sneak attack, the military literacy and weapons and equipment of the two armies were so poor that the army of the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty was easily defeated by Zhang Xian's troops.

Mahmud later led the remnants of his army to flee back to Samarkand, the capital of the Western Qarakhanid Empire.

Afterwards, Zhang Xian learned from the captives that this battle had nothing to do with Qarlu and Kangli, but it was because Mahmud was not used to seeing the Chinese army so arrogant and dared to swagger into his territory, so he wanted to teach the expeditionary force a lesson, which triggered this sneak attack war.

The matter got troublesome.

The expeditionary force's western expedition was not aimed at the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty, but only Qarluq and Kangli, but he didn't expect it to cause such a big misunderstanding.

Yue Fei and the others discussed, and finally Ma Kuo proposed to send someone to the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty to hold them accountable, and then find an opportunity to find a step for both sides to resolve this misunderstanding.

What Yue Fei and the others never expected was that Mahmud was extremely unwilling to be defeated, and even asked for help from his suzerain, the Seljuk Turkic Sultan Sanjar.

Mahmud never told Sanjar that he had attacked the expeditionary force first, but told Sanjar that the Muslim religion had encountered a disaster and encouraged Sanjar to defend the Muslim religion.

Actually-

When the expeditionary force attacked the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty, Sanjar was already ready to move.

This is not to blame Sanjar for being sensitive, but in fact, Dazhong not only attacked Central Asia from the land, but also invaded Central Asia from the sea - with the rapid development of Dazhong, the Chinese merchants were no longer willing to be peeled off by the big food merchants, so the Chinese merchants began to bypass the big food merchants and trade directly with the West, and this behavior of the Chinese merchants seriously infringed on the interests of the Seljuk dynasty.

But at that time, the Chinese army withdrew not long after the defeat of the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty.

In addition, at that time, there was still a Western Qarakhanid dynasty between the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty and the Seljuk Dynasty.

The two sides did not fight.

Now, with the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty as an introduction and a battlefield, Sanjar decided that he had to give Dazhong a little color to see, so that Dazhong knew who was the lord of Central Asia!

Therefore, Sanjar called for the defense of the Muslim religion in the name of the Sultan, and the kings of Khorasan, Sigistan, Ghazna, Mazanland, and Ghor all joined with troops.

Eventually, Sanjar gathered more than 100,000 cavalry and crossed the Amu Darya River in a big way to fight the expeditionary force......

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