On the banks of the Henglus River, it seems to be a repetition of the collision between the East and the heavens four hundred years ago. Today, the Eastern Army, led by tens of thousands of iron horsemen with the Yellow Banner, the Red Flag, and the Yellow Banner, and the vassal armies of various parts of the Qarakhanid, once again launched a large-scale, but no special significance battle with the Celestial Army under the banner of the Western Qarakhanid.

This war was won in the east, and it was impossible for Emperor Lu to make a move against the Seljuks; The victory in the west is unlikely to shake China's foundations in the Hanaka region.

Because, everyone knows that the three flags that are currently suppressing the Hezhong region are a small finger stretched out by the Chinese. Not worth mentioning compared to the real power of China. It doesn't make the slightest sense to beat them.

At present, the Celestial Army is already a combination of the Seljuk governors of Khorasan and the Khorazmi, as well as the combined forces of the Ghaznavid dynasty and the Western Qarakhanid state that have not yet submitted to China. This is a large army of nearly 100,000 people, and there are 30,000 elite cavalry from all sides alone!

On the high looking car, the current Yellow Flag Banner Owner Gao Maitreya and the Yellow Flag Banner Owner Li Huaien surrounded the most central Red Flag Banner Owner Yelu Dashi. Helplessly, the yellow flag, the inlaid yellow flag than the red flag were established earlier, more than ten years have passed, the first flag owner Xuanzan and the name Qu Huai have withdrawn from the eight banners, become the noble of the Great Qi Dynasty Zheng'er Eight Classics, a title and Chuan Bo, a title Bo Lezi, as if it is a success.

Therefore, Gao Maitreya and Li Huaien, who are now taking over the throne, are naturally headed by the old-timer Yelu Dashi, not to mention that the Yelu Dashi army is slightly extraordinary, and has won many battles on the battlefield. On top of fame, the strength of the Zhenghong Banner under his name is already stronger than the two of them!

The Eight Banners are the masters of war, and they are not afraid of war, and the more they fight, the stronger they are. Of course, this refers to winning the battle, and defeating the battle means losing the pants.

The shouts of killing and the sound of guns and cannons came one after another, and the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Legion, under the cover of tiger squatting cannons and raising guns, as well as heavenly thunder arrows, repelled wave after wave of attacks launched by Muttalib's army.

There was no equipment in the Qi army to carry a gun, but now it has become a sharp weapon in the hands of the Eight Banners Army, showing its skills on the battlefield.

This is not bullying the heavenly people who have never seen firearms!

During the last expedition to the west, the Qi army and the Tianfang army had a big fight, and they had enough of it.

At the beginning, the Celestial Army, which had not seen much firearms, was completely stunned by this fire-breathing weapon. Even the war horses under their crotches were also frightened by this terrible weapon, the hearing of the war horses was very sensitive, and suddenly frightened, a large group of cavalry mounts lost control on the battlefield, scattered in all directions, and fled in all directions, making the formation on the other side of the heavens chaotic. gave the Ma Army, which belonged to the Qi Army, an opportunity. A total of 30,000 people swept the Western Expeditionary Army all the way, easily beating the sky.

Since the end of that war, who of the Heavenly people dares to disagree with the 'sound'?

The alien thing of 'cannonball' swept through most of the world at the fastest speed. Just like Emperor Lu's 'horse taming' back then, their method was to engage in a bunch of artillery battles to let the horses listen.

Now that they are fighting again, the war horses of the Celestial Legion will obviously not behave like before, but although their war horses are obedient, it does not mean that they will be able to break through the defense of the guns.

The Tiger Squat Cannon has a limited firing range, and it is the last shield in front of the Eastern Army front, but here is on the banks of the Henglus River, on the vast steppe, but there are no pre-prepared position fortifications.

Farther away is a grenade, the range of which is between 10 and 20 zhang. In fact, fifteen zhang is a hurdle. Very few people can throw a grenade to twenty feet.

The second is the strong bow, which is responsible for filling the distance between 20 zhang and 30 zhang.

And the distance of thirty zhang belongs to the lifting of the gun and the crossbow.

Carrying a gun, that is, a large-caliber musket. Hit farther, penetrate more. The effect is similar to that of the crossbow, but it is more powerful than the latter's armor-piercing and sustaining power.

This is the current armament of the Eight Banners Army, and Emperor Lu never allocates real cannons to them. But such armaments are enough for them to fight, so don't want to get them.

The attacks of the Celestial Legion were thwarted every time under the firepower of the Qi army, and their morale was naturally low. Be clear that the legion at the front is a multi-force unit, inspired by faith. Because the Western Qarakhanid State, which was strongly 'recovered' by the Qi army, has been very Buddhaized in recent years.

Looking at Gao Maitreya's name, you can know that he is a Buddhist, and Li Huaien and Yelu Dashi, who were born in the party, are also Buddhists.

These people have to do this from their own point of view, or from the point of view of their own perception. This is also the biggest reason for the multi-release forces to unite this time.

It seems that all the religions in the world have the idea of establishing a 'kingdom of gods on earth/kingdom of Buddha', and if you look at the early rise of Taoism, it was Buddhism in Japan. It didn't work out because they didn't have the idea, but because they didn't work out.

Monotheism also had a dark Middle Ages, and shamanism was once powerful enough to compete with the Great Khan, but whether it is monotheism or shamanism, the spiritual power is ultimately divorced from secular power, and Buddhism and Taoism are even more so. However, only the true God religion, that is really awesome, look at the future generations, and make people give Muhammad a thumbs up.

Now it is this kind of power that is at work, so that all forces unite together, as if it is a heavenly version of the Xingyue Army's crusade.

The strength of the Celestial Legion is far stronger than that of the Three Banners, and it would be too stupid to sit back and wait for them to fight. Yelu Dashi is not a stupid person, and his choice is the same as that of Gao Xianzhi at the beginning, leading the main force in his hands to take Henglus City, the 'national capital' of the rebels.

Henglus City is an important town in the Hezhong region, and it is also the military key point in the western border of the former Eastern Karakhanid, close to the Western Tianshan Mountains and the west of the Karatau Mountains [east-west direction]. Behind it is the valley of the Chu River, from which it can be connected to the Seven Rivers region [Lake Balkhash] in the east, and is the most convenient northern route of the land Silk Road.

And the east of the Karatau Mountain is Issyk-Kul Lake, there is a city on its lakeside, which is now an important part of the Qi army's defense of Central Asia, and its name is the Broken Leaf City, which is the birthplace of the famous poet Li Taibai, and it is also the westernmost place of the four towns of Li Tang'an.

The city of Henglus and the city of Broken Leaf are separated by an east-west Karatau mountain range. At the northern foot of the mountain is the Moinkum Desert, and the Chu River valley is the northern edge of the desert, connecting the east and the west.

To the west of Henglus City, there is still the entire Western Qarakhanid Kingdom as Lu Qi's sphere of influence, but now it has all been replaced by the Star and Moon Banner of Mahemu II.

When the Western Qarakhanid was destroyed, the Khan king Mehmed II fled to the west and died of illness in the west, and his son Ibrahim II ascended to the throne and made a comeback with the support of the Khwarazm and the Seljuks, but he was unlucky to die in a battle, and his luck was very bad. Then Ibrahim's brother Hassan. Kreich succeeded to the throne, and this one was even less lucky, as he died of illness just after taking over. In this way, the crown of the Khan fell to the current Mahemu II, the youngest son of Muhammad II.

Mahemu II was obviously the banner pushed out by the heavenly world, holding the banner of reviving the Western Karakhanid State from Khorasan, and soon received the response of many natives of the Western Karakhanid State, they were closer to the heavenly world, and the piety of their faith was higher, and they had long accumulated great dissatisfaction with the Buddhist policy they pursued. It's just that he was trapped in the sharpness of the Qi army and had no choice but to obey. Now that I have the opportunity, I have jumped back. Even among the natives of the eastern Qarakhanids in the west, there are quite a few who are swept up in this sentiment. So much so that when Mahemu II continued to march eastward from the territory of the Western Qarakhanid, he bloodlessly took the city of Henglus, an important military and commercial place in the west, and made a declaration expressing his lofty ambition, to recover the homeland of his 'ancestors', to get through the Qarakhanid, and to save his lost brothers from their mistakes. Therefore he made the city of Les his capital. It's an expression of your determination!

If this is lost just after the establishment of the national capital, the momentum of Maheki II will be impossible to talk about.

What's more, without Henglus City, there is no way to talk about the Chu River Valley. After it was recaptured by the Qi army, it also isolated the threat of the Celestial people to the east. As for the vast expanse of land west of the city of Henglus, the people on it need not be regarded as 'their own people', but as a huge hunting ground.

As long as the so-called "Western Qarakhanid Army" is defeated, everything that follows is just a flat push. They don't need the three banners to go into battle in person, just the Dongkala people behind them are enough to get things done......