Temujin, who was advancing towards the Fergana Basin, knew the reality of the Xiliang Kingdom very well, and when he was the deputy commander of the Dashi Guards in Western Liao, he had read countless reports on how the Xiliang Kingdom was decaying and decaying!

By the way, the Mongols of this time and space were a bit like the Cossacks of Western Liao. After the Jurchens went to Kievan Rus' to enjoy their blessings, they occupied the Volga, Ural and the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, and became the main source of Western Liao guards and mercenaries while farming and herding for a small life. Temujin was one of the leaders of the Western Liao Guards, and the backbone of his military group was also from the Western Liao Guards. They are all civilized people, not barbarians - in the afterlife of this time and space, there are also thin gold calligraphy by Temujin (Temujin is a fan of Zhao Ji) bought and sold in the antique market!

Therefore, Temujin was actually a Western Liao warlord from a Mongolian aristocratic background, and his war with the Western Liao court was a bit like the Anshi Rebellion, which was basically a civil war. It's just that the Mongol warlords want to seize the throne of the Khitan emperor. And this civil war can also be seen as a continuation of the struggle between the old saint Pusuwan and the emperor Zhilugu. Temujin's subordinates were almost all Mongols who were expelled after the defeat of Pusuwan - because the Guards were recruited through the Church of Light, and their cultural education was also taken care of by the church, so Pusuwan had many supporters in the Guard. Her defeat seriously damaged the combat effectiveness of the Oishi Guards.

The Persians, who accounted for the majority of the population of the Western Liao Empire, were actually neutral in this struggle, anyway, both ends were outsiders, and they had to believe in the god of light, and they Persians just watched the excitement. Otherwise, Temujin's victory would not have come so easily.

Going back to Western Liang, some of the reports Temujin saw were from envoys from the Western Liao Empire, some from the Guangtian Sect stationed in Xiliang, and some from scholars from Tabriz University.

All the reports tell Temujin unmistakably that Xiliang, who had moved westward to the rich rivers and the land of the Seven Rivers, had become more and more decaying in his comfortable and comfortable life, and no longer had the vigor of the former to open up the West.

On the one hand, there are many rich cities, oases and basins in the river, which can allow the knights of Xiliang to live a comfortable and comfortable life.

On the other hand, the relationship with the Western Liao, the Golden Horde, and the Western Song Dynasty also stifled the space for the expansion of the Western Liang. There are powerful friends in all directions, it is not easy to fight out, and their own territory is so comfortable, how can the whole country have the motivation to open up?

Although the successive generations of Tenriko at the top have not forgotten the dream of running to the ocean, the entire state apparatus is slowly decaying in comfort.

In addition to its ease and difficulty in expanding, Xiliang also had the insurmountable difficulty of growing local power, while the central Xiliang royal court slowly rotted in the fertile and easily defensible Fergana Basin.

It was originally a long-term policy to set the royal court in a basin surrounded by mountains, with only one entrance, and the land was fertile, the irrigation facilities were complete, and there was no worry about flooding and drought. In order to lay down this comfortable nest, the last ten years of Tianlizi Zhangli's life were almost spent in constant battles.

But the king, who had laid a land of comfort for future generations, did not expect that a life of ease and lack of pioneering opportunities would turn the most courageous knights of heaven into a group of happy country landlords in a few decades.

The Celestial Knight family outside the Fergana Basin, in the long struggle of deceit, formed three knight groups: Broken Leaf, Chachi (Tashkent) and Samarkand.

Among them, the leader of Broken Leaf is a descendant of Han Shizhong, the area around Chachi is under the control of the Gao family from Lingzhou, and Samarkan is jointly controlled by several "scholar families".

They were self-respecting outside the Ferghana Basin, and they did not listen to the orders of the royal court, and each family claimed to be the king on its own territory.

And the officials in Xinliangfu City didn't care about this, and most of them didn't even leave the paradise-like Ferghana Basin. Most of the remaining officials have only been to big cities such as Shaye, Samarkand, and Chachi.

No matter how far away it is, probably only the officials who have acted as envoys have been there.

Running to the ocean or something, it's basically just the fantasy of the Xinliangfu court......

Therefore, when the news of Temujin's army entering the Kuzhang River reached the royal court of Xinliangfu, the royal court, who did not care about the outside world, suddenly fell into shock.

How could anyone dare to attack the mighty Xiliang Kingdom?

After the shock, the emotions of contempt and arrogance inexplicably filled the royal court of Xinliang Mansion.

Temujin was nothing but a barbarian on the western steppe, a vicious dog raised by the royal court of Xiliang, how could he dare to challenge the majesty of the royal court?

Such a vicious dog must be taught a hard lesson!

The mad Mongols must be made to pay the worst price for Temujin's stupidity!

The Celestial Knights, who had not experienced a war for decades, actually burst out with extremely high fighting enthusiasm at this time. No one thought of dragging down the enemy from afar by clearing the wilderness with strong walls and holding on to the fortified city.

All the knights wanted to show their prowess in this war, and if possible, earn a little more land for themselves.

Driven by this mentality, 20,000 ironclad knights, 20,000 auxiliary cavalry, and 10,000 infantry were quickly gathered and marched out of the Ferghana Basin, arriving outside the basin, at the city of Sadhara on the banks of the Khujang River, where the army of Temujin awaited from afar.

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Several scouts galloped and found Temujin's Nine White Silks, and then ran until they were not far in front of Temujin's mount, only to be stopped by the cowardly warriors of the Great Khan, and after answering the command, a horse galloped to Temujin's horse, and the knight fell from the horse and fell on one knee.

"Report to the Great Khan, and find the camp of the Xiliang Army outside the city! The camp is huge, and it can garrison at least 50,000 troops! ”

"Flicker?" A young man next to Temujin interjected, "That's an ancient city, isn't it?" ”

"That's right, pretty old." Temujin said with a smile, "And it has not been transformed into a fortress, so the city defense is not worth mentioning." ”

"Father Khan, it seems that the enemy wants to have a field battle with us!" The young man said excitedly.

Temujin nodded: "Tuolei, if you are given 10,000 cavalry, how are you going to deal with them?" ”

This young man turned out to be Tuolei, the youngest son of Temujin, and he was deeply inherited by his father's art of war.

"Father Khan," thought Tulei, "I will let my cavalry show weakness and then lead them to the desert on the west bank of the Khuzhang River to go around in circles.

These knights of Tianli, who have lived a privileged life and have not suffered much, must not be as able to endure hardships as our Mongolian warriors. So as long as you take them around the desert a few times, tens of thousands of Heavenly Knights will be dragged down and exhausted. It won't be hard to clean them up then! ”

Temujin nodded approvingly, "Good! Worthy of being my Genghis Jin's child! Since you can use a team of 10,000 people to deal with the tens of thousands of Xiliang troops who are lying on the ground, then I will give you a team of 10,000 people! Go ahead and take those foolish Tenrikyo disciples into the desert west of the Kuzhang River. Remember, don't fight them! Although your team of 10,000 people can definitely defeat 50,000 Celestial Knights. But the lives of the Mongol warriors were too precious...... Even if you exchange one for three, you can't get it. ”

Underpopulation was the greatest difficulty facing Temujin. His Mongols numbered only 95 thousand households, less than 100,000 households, or about a million people.

That's enough before the age of guns. In the era of the rise of the Mongols in history, it was not easy to kill a Mongol who was wearing several layers of armor and had surprisingly good bows, horses, martial arts, and physical strength.

It's a pity that in today's time and space, when these "Mongolian Cossacks" began to rise under the leadership of a generation of Tianjiao, smoothbore guns and cannons have appeared for almost a hundred years!

Although in this hundred years, the progress of gun technology has not been great. There were no flintlock pistols, no rifled guns, and the only improvement was the gradual lightening of the musket design, and the appearance of the sleeve bayonet - the sleeve bayonet first appeared in the Zhou state, and is said to have been invented in the late years of Wu Haogu, the first head of state of the Zhou state. However, it was not taken seriously until the Second Central Plains War (sent between the Western Song Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty) that it began to be gradually accepted by the armies of the Two Song and New Zhou Dynasty.

Subsequently, the level of firearms of the two Song and New Zhou armies increased sharply. The sword and shield men were completely eliminated, and the proportion of pikemen in the infantry also dropped sharply.

Although muskets and artillery were far less common in the Western theater than in the Eastern theater, they still caused heavy casualties to the Mongols.

That's when the guns go off, my father and mother are raising it for nothing!

Therefore, when Temujin challenged the Xia country of Xiliang, he could not but consider the damage that guns would bring to the Mongols.

"Yes!" Tuo Lei saluted Temujin, then took the command and galloped towards the 10,000-strong team he led.

This time, Temujin brought a total of 100,000 troops, eight of which were Mongolian troops, one Georgian 10,000 troops, and one Khorezm 10,000 troops.

After giving Tuo Lei a troop of 10,000 troops, Temujin still had nine thousand troops left in his hands. The nine thousand troops were divided into three divisions by Temujin, each of which was a three-thousand-man team, and they pounced on Bukhara, Chachi, and Tianmen Pass.

The 50,000 foot cavalry led by the fourth generation of Tianlizi Zhang Zhao was very easily led south of the Kuzhang River by the 10,000 Mongolian cavalry led by Tuo Lei, thus losing the opportunity to block the eastward advance of Allah Tiemu - although the cavalry led by Tuo Lei was only 10,000, it had a strong shielding ability, so that Zhang Zhao's 50,000 army could not figure out where the main force of the Mongols was? That's why he followed the tow mine across the Kuzhang River and plunged into the desert.

After Zhang Zhao's 50,000-strong army followed the 10,000 people who dragged the mines, wandered around for several days, and came out of the desert exhausted, the bad news that the Mongol army had surrounded Bukhara came immediately.

The inexperienced Zhang Zhao was frightened by the bad news, and despite the exhaustion of his troops, he went straight to Bukhara, while Tuo Lei took the opportunity to lead his troops to follow. In the end, Zhang Zhao's army was flanked by an army of 40,000 led by Temujin and Tulei on the open plain west of the city of Bukhara.

Although they had a slight advantage in numbers, the exhausted Xiliang army still suffered a crushing defeat, including Tianlizi Zhangzhao, a total of 30,000 people were killed, and more than 10,000 people were captured. The remaining remnants abdicated to Samarkand, joined forces with the Xiliang army stationed in Samarkand, and then fled together to Tianmen Pass, rushing into the pass (which was actually a fortress-type defense system) before the Mongols approaching Tianmen Pass could complete the blockade. The Mongol army later completed the blockade of Tianmen Pass. The main force of the Western Liang Kingdom was completely blocked in a basin surrounded by high mountains.

The strong fortified fort line was not so easily breached, but the cities of Samarkand, Chachi, and Zarara, which had lost the command and reinforcements of the Xiliang royal court in the Fergana Basin, quickly fell into the hands of the Mongols.

Knowing that Samarkand, Chachi, and Zara were occupied by the Mongols, the Broken Leaf Governor's Office, which was in a bad situation at the royal court of Ferghana, immediately asked for help from Chang'an, which was thousands of miles away.

Now Xiliang can only count on the rescue of the suzerainty of the Western Song Dynasty, and what Temujin is most worried about is the large-scale intervention of the Western Song Dynasty - but he has analyzed the situation before attacking Xiliang, and feels that the Western Song Dynasty has just experienced the defeat of a major war in the Central Plains, and the relationship with the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty is tense, so it should not be a large-scale westward expedition, right?

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"Xiliang is defeated? How can it be? ”

The current emperor who ruled the Western Song Dynasty was Zhao Ji's great-grandson Zhao Xin, and the future temple name was Song Guangzong.

The temple number is quite glamorous, but the country under his rule is still difficult to see any bright prospects.

He took over the country after the Second Central Plains War, and what he inherited was a complete mess. His country suffered a terrible defeat in the Second Central Plains War. Both the New Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty showed terrible strength in that war.

Those are two true world empires!

Among them, the Great Zhou has most of North America (divided into the United States of Great Zhou and the Dominions directly under the Great Zhou), most of the South American coastal areas, part of the African coastal areas, some South Sea islands, Japan (provinces), South Island Province (Hawaii), Yinzhou, Binhai Province, Arctic Province (Eastern Siberia), Xi Kingdom (Mongolian Plateau), and some chaotic islands. The entire country has a land area of more than 33 million square kilometers!

The Eastern Song Dynasty has a slightly smaller land area than the New Zhou, but it is also very impressive. The country's overseas territories include the New Song (Australia), the New Dongying, parts of the South American coast, parts of the African coast, some of the islands of the South Seas, as well as peninsulas, Siam, Cochin, Ceylon, and a number of other islands. Taken together, there are more than 20 million square kilometers of miscellaneous territory.

In addition to owning a large amount of land, the total population of the New Zhou and Eastern Song dynasties has also grown rapidly in the past few decades. The population of both countries is over 80 million!

While the population is growing, the two countries also have a monopoly on most of the metal on the planet. Whether it is gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, the production and holdings of the two countries can reach about 90% of the total!

The advantages of land, population, and resources, as well as the convenience of sea transportation, also greatly promoted the workshop handicraft industry in the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty.

Although the era of the industrial revolution has not yet arrived, the scale and craftsmanship of the three handicraft centers of Jiangnan, Xuhai and Yanjin are enough to make the Eastern Song Dynasty and Xinzhou firmly occupy the top two positions in the world's handicraft production, and no one can subvert their advantages at all.

In this case, the Western Song Dynasty chose to start a war with the New Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty at the same time, which is tantamount to suicide!

But the Western Song Dynasty, who committed suicide, couldn't die for a while. One is that the defensive advantage of the bastion has not been completely broken. Although the Bastion's defense bonus has been greatly reduced compared to a few decades ago, it has not been completely broken. Therefore, the Western Song Dynasty ran into a bloody battle in front of the fortress defense line of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty. The Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty, which counterattacked, were also blocked by the fortresses of the Western Song Dynasty.

The second is that the three-point situation is still there, and neither the Eastern Song Dynasty nor the New Zhou Dynasty dare to attack the Western Song Dynasty with all their might. I'm afraid that the other party will copy my hometown!

In this case, the Western Song Dynasty, which was not strong, was able to escape death and continued to maintain the situation of competing with the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty.

And Song Guangzong and Zhao Xin worked hard to maintain the country's half-dead. Zhao Xin, who was unwilling to sink like this, hurriedly set his sights on the west after stabilizing the situation in the east, hoping to rely on the rise of Temujin to attack the Western Liao and the Golden Horde, and then get the opportunity to enter the west and seize the sea.

But he never imagined that Temujin would actually become a vicious dog that devoured the lord, and he caught people off guard as soon as he made a move. But it's not a good thing, if you can't go east, let's try it west!

"Your Majesty," Zuo Xiang Han Tuoxuan said to Zhao Xin, "the Xinliang Mansion (Fergana Basin) in Xiliang is besieged, the Broken Leaf Mansion is in an emergency, and most of the Kipchak Steppe and the Seven Rivers are under Mongol control. If the imperial court does not send large troops to support, I am afraid that it will lose the country of Xiliang Domain! ”