After conquering the Western Qarakhanid, the Chinese army was faced with two choices: one was to fight a decisive battle directly with the Iraqi World Alliance, and the other was to attack the Ghaznavid dynasty first.

The Ghaznavid Dynasty, also known as the "Goshanin Dynasty" and the "Ghazni Dynasty", was the Central Asian Empire at its peak, occupying most of the later Iran, Turkmenistan, parts of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India.

But

This was more than 100 years ago.

Because the local feudal officials of the Ghaznavid Dynasty held military and political power, posing a threat to the central authority, and at the same time, some remote and remote areas were ruled by various vassals, vassal states, nomadic tribal leaders, etc., which eventually led to the slow decline of the dynasty A few decades ago, after the death of Massoud III, the Ghaznavid Dynasty fell into a battle for the throne, and later Bahram Shah, one of the princes of Massoud III, received reinforcements from the Seljuk Sultan Sanga by bowing to the Seljuk Empire and eventually became a sultan, Bahram Shah then decided to break away from the Seljuks, but was defeated by the Seljuks, and the Ghaznavid kingdom gradually weakened to its present dynasty with only an empty shelf.

But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although the Ghaznavid dynasty is in decline, its territory is vast, even comparable to the Eastern Qarakhanate, larger than the Western Qarakhanate, and even the Sailzhu dynasty is not much smaller.

Of course, the more important thing is that it is weak, and it can easily be defeated for a period of Central Asia, and there is no too strong country, otherwise the Ghaznavid Dynasty would have been destroyed long ago.

If it is determined that "a thousand birds in the forest are not as good as a bird in the hand", then the Ghaznavid dynasty should be attacked first, rather than a decisive battle with the coalition forces.

But because of the problem of supply, the Chinese army only brought a total of more than 300,000 elites this time, in fact, the 1 million reservists and Li Yan's sons' personal soldiers can also fight, in addition, there are tens of thousands of people and horses who are attached to various small forces in the big and middle, but these troops, in the eyes of Li Yan, Yue Fei, Liu and others, belong to the second-line troops, and can only move things and fight a dozen tailwind battles.

But

In the eyes of Li Yan, Yue Fei, Liu and others, there are only more than 300,000 soldiers in the Chinese army who can fight.

And the Iraqi World Coalition has millions of troops.

Therefore, once the Chinese army divides its forces, it may not be able to defeat the Iraq-world coalition forces.

Therefore, Yue Fei and Liu proposed not to fight the Ghaznavid Dynasty first, but to directly fight a decisive battle with the Iraqi World Alliance.

Yue Fei and Liu's reason was that as long as they defeated the Iraqi World Alliance in the decisive battle, the subsequent battle could even be fought by the one million reservists and the personal soldiers of Li Yan and his sons, as well as those subordinate men.

In addition, if the millions of coalition forces in the Yi world are not disposed of, it is really a big threat, so we should concentrate all our efforts to destroy them first, so that the entire Yi world can be divided by Li Yan.

Several of Li Yan's sons who had not yet gained territory used various channels to persuade Li Yan to fight the Ghaznavid Dynasty first, and then fight a decisive battle with the coalition forces of the Iraqi world after defeating the Ghaznavid Dynasty.

Li Yan was really disappointed with his dizzy and short-sighted sons, and then they all rushed back to China, and it didn't work for anyone to intercede.

Li Yan is not acting rashly, but asking them to go back to further their studies and experience again, and then say that they are kings In Li Yan's opinion, based on their current performance, just with their brainless appearance now, they are not designated as kings, if they are forced to manage the country, it will definitely harm them, and their lives will be lost.

After Li Yan returned to these sons, no one dared to propose to fight the Ghaznavid Dynasty first.

After that, Yue Fei, Liu and others began to make final preparations for the decisive battle.

After more than half a year, Sanjar finally gathered more than 700,000 troops, announced 2 million, and then Sanjar personally led a fierce attack on the Chinese army.

Sanjar personally went to battle, and for the sake of morale, Li Yan couldn't help but face the battle in person.

Li Yan discussed with Yue Fei, Liu and others, and personally led an army of 300,000 to meet Sanjar.

The decisive battle between the two sides took place on the Katwan steppe, north of the city of Samarkand, in what was later Uzbekistan.

Although the enemy army did not have as many as 2 million, there were 780,000 troops, more than double the Chinese army.

But Li Yan was not afraid.

Li Yan, who put on armor and helmet again after more than ten years, said impassionedly to his soldiers: "Although the fighters are our number, the enemy army is composed of troops from many countries, tribes, and clans, and there is no unified exercise in advance, so it must be impossible to command, and the attack must not be saved, and you are all crawling from the mountain of corpses, from the sea of blood, I have never been defeated from the land of a mountain, to the whole world, this time will be no exception, my soldiers, follow me, I will lead you to the highest glory again! ”

After a divine blow, Li Yan handed over the command to Yue Fei and Liu.

Yue Fei and Liu divided the army into three groups, with Li Yan personally leading the central army, Yue Fei commanding the left army, and Liu commanding the right army.

On the other side, Sanjar also led the central army, his prime minister led the left army, and Mahmud Khan led the right army.

The situation on the battlefield was that Li Yanling's Chinese army was against the central army of the coalition army, the left army of the Chinese army was against the right army of the coalition army, and the right army of the Chinese army was against the left army of the coalition army.

The location where Yue Fei, Liu and others chose for Li Yan was a gentle slope with a mountain in the middle.

Zhang Xian, Yelu Dashi, Zhe Yanzhi and others, who helped Li Yan command the Chinese army, made full use of this canyon, and they arranged the Chinese army in front of the canyon, and the left and right armies were separated from each other, fighting with their backs to the canyon.

As soon as the battle began, the left army of the coalition army stormed the right flank of the Chinese army, and the Chinese armies of both sides reached a stalemate.

In this way, a gap was opened between the right army of the Chinese army and the middle army and the left army.

Seeing the opportunity, Sanjar ordered the left army of the coalition army to intervene between the right army of the center army and the center army and the left army.

The bigger the offside of this gap.

The left, center, and right armies of the coalition army have gradually entered this gap.

Seeing this, Yelu Dashi suggested to Li Yan that the Chinese army and the left army should make a detour to the right flank of the coalition army.

Li Yan followed Yelu Dashi's advice and personally led the Chinese army to start a detour with the left army led by Yue Fei.

Such a detour turned out to become, the right flank of the Chinese army attacked the left flank of the coalition army, the left flank of the Chinese army detoured back to the back of the coalition army, and the Chinese army of the Chinese army attacked the right flank of the coalition army, which formed a situation in which the door of the Chinese army was suddenly opened, and the coalition army was attacked on three sides.

The coalition forces had no choice but to be forced into the gorge by the sharply attacking Chinese army.

And the canyon is very narrow, and hundreds of thousands of horses have to make a U-turn as soon as they enter.

The key is that Yue Fei and Liu had ambushed hundreds of thousands of reservists on both sides before.

Soon, millions of explosive packs were thrown into the canyon from both sides of the canyon by reservists.

The explosives rained down, causing the allied soldiers in the canyon to turn over on their backs.

And that's not all.

After the explosion, the Chinese army slaughtered into the canyon again, and carried out a second massacre of those coalition warriors who had not yet been killed.

After a battle, hundreds of thousands of corpses were ambushed by the coalition army, and most of those who did not die were captured alive, only a few 30,000 or 20,000 people were killed from the other end of the canyon, and as for Sanjar himself, when he was seriously injured, he was captured alive by the young general Yue Leisheng.

The fate of Central Asia was decided by the Chinese army in the first war.

Soon, the Chinese army took advantage of the great victory to kill Isfahan, the capital of the Seljuk Empire......

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