…

Although the Seljuk Empire was nearly numerous times larger than Dazhong, the result was that Dazhong first assembled an army and prepared for war.

It can be seen that the Dazhong, which had an extremely well-established system and a high degree of centralization, was much more efficient than the Seljuk Empire.

In addition to this, after the death of Maliksha and Nizam Mulek, cracks began to appear in the Seljuk Empire, the royal princes competed for the throne, the royal family infighting, the military feudal lords in various places divided the dominance, and the Ismaili Assasin tribe occupied many fortresses in Persia and Syria, attacked the Seljuk army, and carried out assassination activities, which made the Seljuk Empire begin to disintegrate, in fact, there are some objective factors.

First of all, the army assembled this time is not just the army of the Seljuk Empire, but the coalition army organized by the entire Iraqi world and the various forces of the Mu religion - but any coalition army, it is inevitable to pull the strings, like how many troops your family has, how many troops my family will produce, like who will provide supplies, like how to divide the spoils of war, and so on, this kind of thing, three or five days is it, three or five months is it, and three or five years is also it, which is very, very delayed.

What's more, in advance, Sanjar and others did not expect that Dazhong, which is thousands of miles away, would really fight this battle, and more importantly, they never expected that the Chinese army would assemble so quickly - in Sanjar they thought that the Chinese army would fly, and it would never be possible to assemble so quickly, so when the Chinese army had crossed the green ridge, they were still there to fight, which led to the fact that there was still more than half of the one million army that Sanjar wanted to gather before.

Yue Fei, who had already sent out the spy personnel, saw that the Iraqi World Alliance was so slow to react, and his own troops were almost assembled, so he boldly proposed to Li Yan: We had better strike first.

Yue Fei's proposal was supported by many generals such as Liu Qi, Wu Lan, Yang Xian, and Wang De.

Li Yan has always used people without suspicion, so Li Yan decisively appointed Yue Fei as the marshal of the capital and Liu Qi as the deputy marshal, and then let Yue Fei and Wang De lead an army of 100,000 to attack from the east road, and let Liu Qi and Wu Lan lead an army of 100,000 to attack from the west road.

After receiving Li Yan's order, Yue Fei immediately used Yue Yun as the vanguard to attack Talas in the west, while Liu Qi attacked Shule and Shache with Wu Gong and Zhe Yanwen as the vanguard, intending to mix with them Kangli.

In this western expedition, Li Yan brought out all the young generals.

Resemble:

Yue Fei, today Chinese New Year's Eve eight.

Liu Qi, forty-three years old.

Wu Luan, today Chinese New Year's Eve nine.

Zhang Xian, forty-one this year.

Wang De is the oldest, and he is only forty-four.

And some of the older generals, like Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, and Niu Gao, were just over fifty, and Li Yan didn't bring them.

Moreover, the generals that Li Yan brought this time were mainly young generals - like Yue Yun, Wu Gong (Wu Jue's eldest son), Han Yanzhi (Han Shizhong's eldest son), Liu Rui (Liu Qi's younger brother), Liu Huai (Liu Qi's eldest son), Yang Qi (Yang Yizhong's eldest son), and Zhi Yanwen (Zhe Keqiu's eldest son).

In addition, Li Yan also privately told Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others that he should give young people more opportunities.

In other words, Li Yan's westward expedition is also training young people and cultivating successors to the Dazhong Empire.

By the way, many of these young generals are Li Yan's sons-in-law.

Yue Yun is the number one fierce general among the younger generation, brave and strategic, and has followed Yue Fei to fight in the south and north over the years, with very rich experience in the battle formation, and outstanding combat achievements - these years, if it weren't for Yue Fei's deliberate suppression of Yue Yun, with Yue Yun's military exploits, he would have been promoted to the sole ruler of the capital now.

Last time, the expeditionary force attacked Talas, if it wasn't for the Turkic cavalry suddenly killing from behind, Yue Yun, as the vanguard, would have already led people to attack Talas, but it fell short at the last moment.

This time, Yue Yun made a comeback, and there was a large army to suppress the formation, and as a result, Yue Yun attacked Talas in the first battle.

This is not the end, Yue Yun pursued and killed the Qarlu people for more than 3,000 miles, and finally captured the Khan family of Qarluq, and then dedicated it to Li Yan, who had already arrived in Guiyuan City.

Soon, Yue Fei dispatched troops and completely wiped out Ge Lulu.

Wan Yanchang was very good at figuring out what Li Yan meant, so he proposed to Li Yan to massacre Ge Lulu.

But Wan Yanchang's proposal was resolutely opposed by Shi Hao and Yelu Dashi.

But—

Although Shi Hao and Yelu Dashi both opposed Li Yan's massacre, their reasons for opposing it were different—the former was to instill benevolence in Li Yan with Confucianism and ask Li Yan to kill carefully. The latter believes that since Dazhong has only only arrived in Central Asia, it is not appropriate to use massacres to stimulate the forces of all sides in Central Asia, because this will certainly cause all forces in Central Asia to resolutely resist or resist to the death, and in this case, the cost of war in Dazhong will increase.

After listening to the advice of many other people, most of these people did not advise Li Yan to slaughter the Qarluqs, Li Yan finally resisted his disgust with the Qarluqs, and sent people to send the Gelulu's women and children back to the middle school, and let the household department resettle them - send the Gelulu's children to the school as Han children, and reward the Gelulu's women to the meritorious Chinese soldiers. The men of Qarluq were all escorted back to Dingyuan City to build a railway and contribute to the Belt and Road Initiative. As for the daughter of the Qarlu royal family, she naturally entered Li Yan's harem.

At the same time, Wu Gong and Zhe Yanwen also entered the capitals of Shule and Shache, and then Liu Qi sent Wu Lan to destroy Kangli.

In such a short period of time, Dazhong sent more than a million troops (the more than one million reservists were also treated as regular troops) - in other words, this is also normal, Dazhong's reserves are all retired from the regular army and militias who have received formal training, the key is that just in case, Li Yan also issued weapons to them, not only each reservist has knives and guns in their hands, some of them are also issued muskets, and even each battalion has several artillery, with their combat power, It is definitely much stronger than the warriors of the vast majority of forces in the Western Regions and Central Asia, so it is no wonder that the people in the Western Regions and Central Asia misunderstood.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Chinese army wiped out Gelulu and Kangli, who were very famous in the Western Regions and Central Asia, with a thunderous force.

The strength shown by Dazhong is much more powerful than that of the Tang Empire in its heyday.

The powerful strength of Dazhong has shocked many forces in the Western Regions and Central Asia.

Slowly, some small forces, like the remnants and descendants of the 36 countries of the Western Regions, began to come to Guiyuan City to meet Li Yan.

These small forces paid tribute to Li Yan with beauties and treasures, and expressed their submission to Li Yan.

They wanted to call Li Yan "Ju'er Khan", which means "Great Khan" or "Khan of Khan" in Turkic.

But as soon as Li Yan heard this title, he was a chrysanthemum, and then directly rejected it, and let them call themselves "Tian Khan" like Li Shimin, without specialization.

"Tian Khan" and "Ju'er Khan" are actually relatively common "Khan" in the Rouran, Turkic, and Uighur periods, and as long as they can make all other forces surrender, they can be called "Ju'er Khan" or "Tian Khan".

Therefore, since Li Yan doesn't like "Ju'er Khan", it is better to call it "Tian Khan".

Later, all the people who came to see Li Yan called Li Yan "Heavenly Khan", and they all expressed their willingness to submit to Dazhong and become a subsidiary of Dazhong.

Li Yan accepted all of these voluntary submissions, incorporated them into his army, and promised them that as long as they made meritorious contributions, they would be rewarded.

As soon as the Chinese army came, they started fighting, which shocked all the forces in the Iraqi world, and they quickly stopped arguing and quickly formed a coalition army to prepare to meet the Chinese army to defend the Muslim religion......

……