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When it comes to "crusaders", I am afraid that most people will be given the impression of the barbaric, backward, and corrupt medieval church invading the enlightened, pluralistic, and wealthy Middle East.

But in reality, this is a delusion, and this is actually a war between religions.

I won't say what is right or wrong.

Li Yan doesn't care who is right and who is wrong, and he can't tell what is right and wrong when it comes to religion.

Moreover, Li Yan came to Central Asia just to get some territory for his sons, so he didn't want to get involved too deeply.

Therefore, Li Yan made it clear that as long as the divine power does not disobey his imperial power, does not disobey the royal power of his sons, and does not contaminate the full power of the world, he will support freedom of belief.

In other words, Li Yan drew a line for religion - as long as religion does not cross this line, everyone will be fine, and if religion dares to cross the line, then I am sorry and there will be no forgiveness for killing.

In addition, the places next to Li Yan were beaten, and Damascus, the capital of the Arab Empire, was defeated, but he did not touch Jerusalem, the holy place of the Ki religion and the Muslim religion, and made this place a place for his childhood, and clearly ordered his descendants not to touch it.

In other words, Li Yan wants to not interfere with the river water with the religious well water.

But this is just Li Yan's personal thoughts, he has been caught in this whirlpool, how can he not be involved in it?

Short section.

In the face of centuries of brutal jihad, the Western Christian kingdoms launched a crusade to support the Eastern Christian religion and recover the Holy Land of Jerusalem.

But the Byzantine Empire then fell, and Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque.

Pope Urban II, at the Council of Claremont held decades earlier, called on the warriors of the Christian community to resist the invasion of the Iraqi world, and received an enthusiastic response, and thousands of warriors took the oath of the cross and prepared for battle.

The process of the First Crusade, not much to say.

After the fall of the Edesa Empire, which was established during the First Crusade, in response to the request of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Second Crusade was launched under the leadership of King Louis VII of France and King Conrad III of the Holy Roman Empire.

Speaking of which, the cause of this is that Sanjar, a militant who sent troops to occupy Edessa before Dazhong came from the east.

After the First Crusade, the earlier German Crusaders were defeated by the Turks in Asia Minor, and the French Crusaders' attempt to capture Damascus also failed, so the First Crusade did not achieve any purpose.

According to the situation at that time, if there was no more crusade to the East, then the Christianity would be completely beaten out of the East.

The point is that everything else can be lost, and the Holy Land of Jerusalem must not be lost.

So, the Crusaders began the Second Crusade.

The first Crusaders to set off included Flemish, Frisian, and British.

They planned to cross the Mediterranean Sea by boat through Gibraltar.

It's just a pity that they encountered a storm in Portugal and stayed in Porto.

In Porto, they meet an emissary sent by King Henry of Portugal, who was originally a French knight but became the founding monarch of Portugal by accident.

Henry persuaded the Crusaders to help him besiege Lisbon, a Muslim stronghold.

They agreed because Henry had allowed them to sack the city after the breach, and because the Portuguese bishop had promised them the same spiritual reward they had received in the East.

With their help, the French Crusaders stormed Lisbon.

Many Germans had missed the First Crusade, which had been led by the French, Normans, and Flanders aristocracy, and naturally wanted to add glory to themselves with new exploits.

Their leader, Conrad, had been to Jerusalem more than a decade earlier and had participated as a knight in the expedition of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem to the vicinity of Damascus, and had some experience in fighting in the Middle East.

Conrad led the German Crusaders across the Rhine and Danube rivers from Regensburg along the land route of the First Crusade.

After a bumpy journey, the Byzantines finally sent the German crusaders across the strait, and then Emperor Manuel sent his captain of the Varangian guard to guide the German crusaders.

In Nicaea, Conrad sent most of his non-combatants to Byzantine-controlled territory, leading his main force into the interior of Asia Minor.

Gradually, the Crusaders completed their convergence and began to attempt to encircle Asia Minor.

The Turks were not afraid of the Crusaders in the absence of a Chinese attack - in the years of war with the Crusaders, the Turks had repeatedly won against the Crusaders, and of course, the Crusaders had often defeated the Turks, and the two sides should be said to be evenly matched.

But the problem is that the Chinese army has already fought and defeated the Turks, occupied most of Central Asia, and then drove all the Turks who refused to surrender to Asia Minor, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Turks.

Such Turkic people are obviously no longer able to protect the Mu religion - not only can they not protect the Mu religion, but in the eyes of the people of the Iraqi world, they can no longer even protect themselves.

Just then, the crusaders struck!

The crusaders came to us, which meant that the Christian religion was going to encroach on the mission of the Muslim religion.

How does this work?

Therefore, the people of the Iraqi world must find another big brother to lead them to fight the crusaders, and it would be better if they could lead them to Europe and let the Mu religion defeat the basic religion.

And who is more suitable to be the big brother of the people of the Yi world than the Chinese who defeated the Turks?

Therefore, as soon as the people of the Yi world discussed, they gathered and presented themselves to Li Yan - they expressed to Li Yan that they were willing to submit to the rule of Li Yan and Li Yan's sons, and only asked Li Yan to protect them and protect the Mu religion.

And at this moment, Li Yan also ran into trouble - Li Yan had too many sons, and there were no enough places in Central Asia for Li Yan to divide the feuds, so recently, Li Yan was thinking about whether to continue to fight the sparsely populated African states, or send people to find the New World?

To tell the truth, Li Yan didn't think about fighting Europe at this time, because Europe at this time, although it can't be compared with Dazhong, it is already a relatively advanced civilization, therefore, it must be much more difficult to fight Europe, and moreover, Europe is only a little bigger, how can it be compared with Africa and the Americas, in addition, if it really fights with European countries again, it will really become a world war, maybe it will be fought for a few years, and it will not waste too much effort to fight backward African states or develop the United States, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "easy to get".

But at this moment, the crusaders came over, and the people of the Yi world said that as long as Li Yan led them to defeat the crusaders, they would completely submit to the rule of Li Yan and Li Yan's sons.

The temptation to make the people of the Yi world obey the rule of himself and his sons is really a bit great for Li Yan - this can save Li Yan and Li Yan's sons too many things, and it can also reduce a lot of variables.

Moreover, after all, there is still such a large territory in Europe.

In addition, there are countless beauties in Europe - all kinds of beautiful women, blonde, red, brown, hot, and amorous......

So, this thing...... Done!

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