The Chinese army's eastward crusade was divided into three directions.

The northern route was to cross the Caucasus between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea in the west, penetrate deep into Russia, and attack the Turkic Polovtsis, which was led by Yue Fei.

The middle route was to destroy the Crusader states, and then cross the strait on an Arab ship to attack Bulgaria, which was led by Liu.

The last southern route was through Egypt, then Libya and Tunisia, and then across the strait on Arab ships to attack Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, led by Li Yan himself.

Let's not talk about the first two roads for the time being, just talk about Li Yan's south road.

As soon as he set out on the expedition, he encountered a hard bone on the south road that was not easy to gnaw.

This hard bone is the 120,000 Mamluk cavalry of Egypt.

The Mamluk cavalry was made up of slaves, fearless to death, and quite difficult.

At the beginning, Li Yan sent Liu Rui to lead 20,000 cavalry as the front army.

But Liu Rui was young and vigorous, and was carelessly lured by the Mamluk cavalry to the Ain Jalu plain, and then, the Mamluk cavalry pretended to be defeated and led 20,000 cavalry led by Liu Rui into a valley.

The Mamluk Sultan Khudusi (also known as the king of Egypt) lined up there and waited for the arrival of the horsemen.

At the same time, the Mamluk cavalry, which had lured the enemy, also stood in formation on the right flank.

Waiting for the ambushed army to rush down on the left flank, they quickly surrounded Liu Rui's troops on three sides.

In the face of such a situation, whether it was Liu Rui or other Chinese army officers and soldiers, they all showed the combat power of the world's first army, and they used muskets to crush the Mamluk cavalry, and they did not dare to step forward at all.

Later, the Mamluk Sultan Khudusi gave up shooting with the Chinese soldiers, adopted hand-to-hand combat tactics, and then personally led the army into the Chinese army, brandishing a Damascus machete to kill the Chinese soldiers.

Kudusi was very brave and good at fighting, and in a short time he hacked to death more than a dozen Chinese soldiers.

Kudusi was so brave that he inspired the soldiers around him, and everyone also rushed forward to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese army.

The biggest growth of the Chinese army is to rely on the advantages of muskets and artillery, not hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore, in this battle, Liu Rui was defeated, killed more than 10,000 horses, and finally fled back with only a few thousand men and horses.

This was the biggest defeat Li Yanxi had suffered since his expedition.

Li Yan was furious, pushed Liu Rui to the end, and then sent Zhang Xian to meet the Mamluk cavalry in person.

Zhang Xian, who was old in the battle array, was not as reckless as Liu Rui, and in the face of the temptation of the Mamluk cavalry, Zhang Xian ignored it, and steadily advanced to the capital of Egypt, forcing the Mamluk cavalry to come to the decisive battle.

Seeing that Zhang Xian was not fooled, and that the soldiers and horses led by Zhang Xian were only more than 30,000, only 10,000 more than Liu Rui, and they still had more than 100,000, which was three or four times that of the Chinese army, so Hu Du thought of coercing the power of a great victory and had a real decisive battle with Zhang Xian.

In this battle, Zhang Xian gave full play to the advantages of the advanced weapons of the Chinese army, defeated the Mamluk cavalry, killed sixty or seventy thousand Mamluk cavalry in the first battle, the Egyptian king Khudusi was killed in battle, and the remaining Mamluk cavalry scattered because of the previous defeat of Liu Rui, there were no prisoners in this battle.

After defeating the main Egyptian forces, the Chinese army swept across Egypt.

Soon, Li Yan divided Egypt into five countries and gave them to his sons.

After defeating all the main forces of Egypt, Li Yan left Egypt to his sons to slowly pacify, and then personally led the army to Libya.

Even the Mamluk cavalry of Egypt was no match for the Chinese army, and even less so in Libya.

It didn't take much effort for the Chinese army to sweep through the entire Libya, and then, Li Yan divided Libya into five countries and gave them to his sons.

After that, Li Yan led a large army to Tunisia, and after occupying this place, Li Yan gave it to his son Li Ke, and then crossed the sea from here, and then went straight to Constantinople to kill.

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After the Chinese army on the northern route led by Yue Fei crossed the Caucasus into Russia to attack the Turkic Polovtsis, the Russians, who felt the cold of their lips and teeth, decided to send troops to help, hoping to fight to the death with the Chinese army on other people's lands and avoid worries, so the principalities sent troops to form a huge Rus' coalition army.

However, this Rus' coalition army was purely feudal, each army was commanded by each feudal lord, fought separately, and was full of hostility and distrust between each other, and the overall combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and the Europeans knew almost nothing about the Chinese army at this time, and it was not clear how strong the Chinese army was.

Therefore, the final crushing defeat of the Rus coalition army can be imagined.

Short section.

On the banks of the Dakalka River, the main force of the Rus' coalition army met the main force of the Chinese army led by Yue Fei.

In this wide plain, the forgetful Rus coalition army took the lead in the charge, but unfortunately fell into the trap of the Chinese army, was shot by the Chinese army, and was surrounded by the Chinese army before it knew it, and finally almost completely destroyed.

The already loose Rus' alliance collapsed, and the princes retreated to their fiefdoms with their pockets.

Taking advantage of the victory, the Chinese army pursued and killed eleven princes and kings, and besieged the camp of the leader of the coalition forces, Kiev Hou.

After three days of siege, the leader of the coalition forces, Kiev Hou, chose to lead everyone to surrender.

In order to prevent the recurrence of these people, all these people were sent to Cairo, and then sent back to the Great and Medium Railway by the fleet of the sun never sets.

After this battle, Russia, which had lost its main forces, could no longer organize a decent coalition army.

Yue Fei sent someone to inform Li Yan's dozens of sons, who had been waiting for a long time, that they could bring their pro-army and reservists up.

Li Yan's sons led their pro-army and reservist wives to disperse according to the country that Li Yan had divided in advance, and went to occupy the whole of Russia.

In just a few months, almost all of Russia's cities were breached.

Every time a city was broken, Li Yan's sons arrested all the nobles in the city, regardless of men, women, and children, according to Li Yan's instructions in advance, and then raided the homes of the nobles in the city, and then sent people to send all these nobles and jewels to Cairo, and then the country belonged to them.

As for Li Yan's sons, do they dare to privately swallow these nobles and treasures?

Borrowing 10,000 of their guts, they didn't dare to do such a thing, because there were all Zhu Gui, Shi Xiu, and Chai Jin among their people, they didn't want to be kings, and they wanted to be punished by Li Yan, so they could try.

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Mid lane.

After sweeping through all the Crusader countries, Liu led a large army across the strait to attack Bulgaria.

This way, it was also all the way to sweep the army led by Liu to fight and cross the Carpathian Mountains and march straight to the capital city of Pisti (near the city of Budapest, Hungary in later years).

Soon, the army was assembled opposite the Hungarian city of Pest.

Budapest is originally two cities, the part east of the Danube River is called Pest, the part west of the Danube River is called Buda, and the two parts together are called Budapest, whether it is Buda or Pest, it is a big city in Hungary, the capital of Hungary is Buda, and Pest has facilities such as the palace of Béla I.

Seeing the Chinese army coming, Béla I did not panic, he thought that the wide Danube River was enough to prevent the Chinese army from crossing the river.

Therefore, Béla I did not rush out of the city to meet the battle, but slowly gathered his forces and waited for the middle army to reach the city, and the city of Pest had already gathered 100,000 Hungarian troops.

The Chinese army attacked but did not break through.

The Hungarian army did not go to war again.

Seeing this, Liu made a surprise plan to lure the Hungarian army to the Ning River, and then Liu led the army to retreat.

Seeing this, Béla I went out of the city to meet the battle.

The Chinese army retreated slowly until it reached the confluence of the Saiyo and Tisza rivers.

At this time, the Chinese army ambushed the Hungarian army in a big mess in the process of escaping.

In the course of several days of pursuit, the Hungarian army was annihilated by more than 70,000 men, and Béla I was captured alive.

The Chinese army then reached the city of Pest and breached it.

Two days later, the city of Buda was also captured by the Chinese army.

Liu captured all the nobles of the two cities of Buda and Pest, confiscated all their homes, and then sent people to send all these nobles and treasures to Cairo.

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The southern army went straight to Constantinople, Russia fell, the capital of Hungary was breached, and the European countries were shaken, and new alliances were formed and "close" alliances were formed.

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At this time in Europe, the Rus' and Poland and Hungary were divided into principalities, each of which did not obey the orders of the Grand Duke, and Germany, Italy, and Austria were involved in the Crusades.

The situation in Europe is very favorable for the Chinese army's westward expedition.

What is more crucial is that the armies of European countries are far inferior to the Chinese armed forces, both in terms of weapons and equipment and in terms of tactics.

Therefore, the Chinese army conquered the whole of Europe, not whether it could be defeated, but when it could be completely defeated.

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