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Although because of the stimulation of the Chinese army, the formation speed of the Iraqi World Alliance is much faster than before, but because the coalition army needs to be mobilized from various forces in the Iraqi world, and they also need to prepare armor, war horses, grain and grass, therefore, Sanjar and they can only watch the Chinese army fight.

After destroying Qarlu and Khamri, the Chinese army entered the Ferghana Valley and then continued westward to Kuyu.

Here, the Eastern Route Army led by the Chinese army general Wang De fought a decisive battle with the army of the Western Karakhanid State, which had to fight.

As a result, despite the resolute fighting of the Qarakhanid army, the Qarakhanid army was easily defeated by the Chinese army because of the difference in strength between the two armies, and the Qarakhanid Mahmud Khan fled back to his capital Samarkand (the second largest city in Uzbekistan and the old capital of Uzbekistan).

Wang De ordered Yue Yun to be the vanguard, and led the back cub army to pursue and kill Mahmud Khan, all the way to Samarkand.

Despair hangs over the hearts of every Western Qarakhanid, and they all think: our country is going to be finished, we are going to end up with the Eastern Qarakhanid, and we are going to be conquered by the Eastern Emperor.

In desperation, Mahmud Khan could only go to Isfahan, the capital of the Seljuk Empire (later the capital of Isfahan Province in central Iran), to ask for help from his suzerain, the Seljuk Turkic Sultan Sanjar, and ask Sanjar to lead the coalition army that had been gathered to quickly march east and fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army.

But as soon as Mahmud Khan arrived in Isfahan on the front foot, he heard a bad news on the back foot - Yue Yun led the back cub army to attack Samarkand, and his entire family was captured by the Chinese army.

Mahmud Khan really didn't believe the news!

You must know that Samarkand is a rare fortified city in Central Asia, and there is a moat more than ten zhang wide outside the city of Samarkand, how could it be breached so easily?

Mahmud Khan firmly believed that the news was false and continued to urge Sanjar to send troops.

Within a few days, however, the people of the Western Qarakhanid Kingdom fled to Samarkand.

Mahmud Khan called these people to ask them carefully, and learned from these people that the Chinese army easily crossed the moat of Samarkand with pieces of magical wooden planks (flying bridges), and then used dozens of iron boxes (steel wheel fire cabinets) to easily blow up the walls of Samarkand, and conquered Samarkand in a battle.

After listening to the accounts of those who had escaped from Samarkand, not only Mahmud Khan's eyes were full of shock, but Sanjar and others were also shocked beyond measure.

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Sanjar and others also thought that if the Chinese army dared to kill from the east thousands of miles away, it must be a strong dragon crossing the river.

But Sanjar and the others never thought that the Chinese army, a strong dragon that crossed the river, would be so strong!

Mahmud Khan quickly put away his sadness, and then said to the representatives of various forces: "Li Yan came this time, not just for our Qarakhanid, if so, their purpose has been achieved, there is no need to march westward, but you have all seen that they are still marching westward, they must be here for the Mu religion this time, this is a holy war, if we don't win this war, this will be the biggest catastrophe in the history of the Mu religion." ”

Anyone can understand that Mahmud Khan encouraged them so much because he wanted them to send troops to avenge Mahmud Khan and restore the country for Mahmud Khan, with bad intentions.

But the offensive of the Chinese army is indeed here, obviously aimed at the entire Iraqi world and the Mu religion, and more importantly, as long as the Chinese army eats the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty, it will border the Seljuk Empire, and at that time, there will be a war between the two sides, so what Mahmud Khan said is not wrong.

As the boss of the Iraqi world, the Sultan of the Iraqi religion, Sanjar must stand up whether he wants it or not.

More crucially, the Chinese army is about to hit Sanjar's house.

Therefore, Sanjar stood up and said: "This is the Yi world, it is the Yi world of our Mu religion, if Li Yan goes back to the east now, let's stop the war, otherwise we will fight to the east, I will write to Li Yan now, and give Li Yan another chance, the last chance!" ”

Sanjar did what he said, and really wrote a letter to Li Yan and sent an envoy to Guiyuan City.

During this time, the Chinese army was digesting the territory of the Western Qarakhanid - while pacifying the Western Qarakhanate, Li Yan divided the territory of the Western Qarakhanid, including the territory of the Eastern Qarakhanate, into ten countries that were about the same size according to the actual situation, and then let himself be willing to be the son of the king of these ten small countries by lottery, and he would go wherever he was selected to be the king. If the army is not enough, Li Yan will give them some reservists to help them pacify, and the name of their country will be named after Li Yan, for example, Li Ji's country is called "Jiguo", and Li Xiu's country is called "Xiuguo".

It was also at this time that Sanjar's letter to Li Yan was delivered to Guiyuan City.

Sanjar said in the letter: "The Sultan of the Seljuk Empire sent a letter to the Eastern Emperor: The Eastern countries and the Iraqi world have always been friendly and communicate with each other, and many countries in the Iraqi world are from the East, and the two sides should not meet each other in arms, so in order for the two sides to coexist peacefully, you should immediately withdraw from the Iraqi world and return the Eastern Qarakhanid and the Western Qarakhanid, and the matter will be settled, otherwise, as soon as our army arrives, the jade will be burned, and my million-strong army will be brave and invincible, and the soldiers can shoot the enemy's beard with arrows, are you afraid?" ”

When Sanjar's letter was about to be sent, even Sanjar's ministers advised him: "Sultan, you can't write such a letter, it's so insulting that there's no room for maneuver at all, don't you leave yourself a way out?" ”

But Sanjar didn't listen, saying that this letter had to be written like this, otherwise he wouldn't be able to scare away Li Yan's coward, and said that he didn't have to worry, as soon as this letter was delivered, Li Yan heard that they were going to send a million troops to meet him, and he would definitely be scared away.

The ministers repeatedly persuaded to no avail, and the letter was finally sent to Li Yan.

After Li Yan saw it, he smiled, and then let his group of civil and military people circulate it.

When Jerodashi had seen it, he had a needle brought and asked Sanjar's envoy to cut off his own beard with a needle.

Sanjar's envoy pricked him with a needle for a long time, but he kept stabbing at all.

Li Yan looked at the sweaty envoy and said: "You go back and tell Sanjar, I want to see how his soldiers used arrows to break the hair of our Chinese soldiers, and tell him that there is no need to say more meaningless words, hurry up and fight, and I will accompany him to the end." ”

Sanjar's envoy returned to Isfahan in a gloomy manner, and then said to Sanjar: The minister of the Eastern Emperor asked me to prick my beard with a needle, but I didn't cut it, and the Eastern Emperor said that he wanted to see how our warriors used arrows to break the beards of their soldiers, so let the Sultan, you don't have to talk nonsense, hurry up and fight.

As a result, Sanjar was completely cut off, and he could only continue to gather a large army and prepare for a decisive battle with the Chinese army.

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