The gray-white procession marched along the meandering banks of the Kuzhang River (Syr Darya), and from the moment they entered the Kuzhang River valley, the Mongol army did not stop its advance. This is a huge army that cannot be seen from head to end, and the number of people is probably no less than 100,000. It is a cavalry, one man and two horses, and it also drives a lot of cattle and sheep as military rations, so it can travel at a very fast speed!

In the past twenty or thirty years, the Mongol army, armed with nine black Sulu ingots, has swept through Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula and Anatolia like a whirlwind, invincible and invincible!

The once invincible Great Liao Empire, the Golden Horde, the Seljuk-Great Food Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Western Liang Kingdom all trembled in front of the Mongol army. Either broken, or destroyed, or paid the New Year's coins to make peace.

And the Mongols who have led the northwestern part of the Kipchak steppe to rise to this day are their generation of Tianjiao, heroes from the Qiyan Department. Temujin!

Temujin of this time and space was not born on the banks of the Ural River, but in the small city of Qiyanbao on the banks of the Ural River. It is a small city located near the mouth of the Ural River (Caspian Sea) and a bustling commercial city. So Temujin in this time and space was a native of Europe

It should be noted that the Qiyan Fort was not the property of the Qiyan Ministry, but a free merchant market built by merchants from Persia and the Church of Light rented the land occupied by the Qiyan Ministry. They only had to pay a small annual tax to the Khan of the Qiyan tribe to retain the city's autonomy.

It was also because of the city's autonomy that the nine-year-old Temujin took refuge in the city of Qiyan Fort after the death of his father, who was the leader of the Qiyan tribe, and escaped the pursuit of the enemies of the Qiyan tribe.

And when he was ten years old, he got another opportunity to change the fate of him and the Mongolian nation from the Church of Light in Qiyan Fort - to go to Tabriz and join the Dashi Guards Youth Corps!

Yelu Dashi, the first ruler of Western Liao, has long since passed away, but the empire he left behind is still strong, and he also occupied the entire peninsula of Asia Minor and Syria, forced the Seljuks and the Great Eclipse of Iraq to submit to them, and repeatedly crossed the Bosphorus to attack Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire. It wasn't until the rise of Saladin, the hero of the Saracens, that he showed a slight decline.

And what kept the Western Liao Empire strong for decades after Dashi's death was the Guards created by Yelu Dashi himself.

The members of this guard did not come from the increasingly decaying Khitan aristocracy, nor from the ruling Persians, but from the Kipchak steppes and the steppes of Eastern Europe. The members were recruited by Persian merchants and the Church of Light, and the recruits were all steppe boys around ten years old. Mongols, Kipchaks, and Turks can join the Boys' Regiment of the Oishi Guard. Their families also receive a generous settling-in fee.

The teenagers themselves will be provided with a relatively generous supply, very strict training and education. Of course, the brainwashing of the Church of Light is indispensable - they must take the emperor as their father and the holy daughter as their mother, and fight to the end for the empire and the Bright Heavens!

After seven to eight years of training, education, and brainwashing, after rounds of brutal elimination, the teenager who persevered had grown into a strong and mighty young man, and became a member of the glorious Oishi Guard.

And after that, there will be at least 20 years of military career and countless war trials waiting for them.

The best of them will also get the opportunity to study at the Tabriz Military Academy. There, the best of the Oishi Guards will learn the most advanced military theories and methods of warfare, as well as the knowledge of mathematics, natural science, geography, history, and engineering, as well as staff courses and middle and senior command courses.

When they graduate from the Tabriz Military Academy, they transform from a good fighter to a good officer. Under normal circumstances, the soldiers of the Oishi Guards who became officers would always be loyal to the emperor and the holy woman, and became the staunchest defenders of the Great Liao Empire.

There are exceptions, though!

Sons are only catty. Temujin is an exception!

Because he was not an ordinary steppe boy, but from the Golden Family, he was a descendant of the founder of the Mongol Kingdom, the Great Khan of Hebul, and the heir to the throne of the Qiyan tribe - the Mongols of this era were still relatively superstitious about blood, so as long as Temujin returned to Qiyan Fort, it would not be difficult to regain the throne. It would be even easier if it could get the support of the Western Liao court.

In order to gain the support of the Western Liao court, Temujin struggled in the Western Liao army for 20 years, from the most ordinary student of the Guards Youth League, to the high position of deputy chief by virtue of his military exploits with a knife and a gun. In the Battle of Jerusalem in 1191, he led 6,000 soldiers of the Great Stone Guard to defeat Saladin's army of 100,000, and in the spring of the following year, he invaded Damascus.

But when Temujin was soaring, he was helplessly involved in the power struggle of the Western Liao high-level. Due to the defeat of the Holy Maiden of Light Yelu Pu Suwan and the Privy Counsellor of the Great Liao Dynasty, Xiao Pugu Shali, who were supported by his faction, they were both killed. At the age of 30, Temujin also had to return to Qiyan Fort with more than a hundred former members of the Oshishi Guard, who were also unable to gain a foothold in Tabriz.

Although only a hundred warriors came to his aid, Temujin quickly swept away his political enemies and became the leader of the Beggars, relying on the prestige of his ancestors and himself (the deputy governor of the Dashi Guards and the conqueror of Damascus was a god-like presence in the steppe).

After seizing the power of the Qiyan Tribe, Temujin was not carried away by the success, but immediately sent an envoy to the Great Liao Emperor Yelu Zhilugu to plead guilty, and expressed his willingness to lead the Mongols to fight for Zhilugu.

At that time, Naolu Guzhen had a headache because the Guards were severely weakened in the civil strife. So he immediately pardoned Temujin, gave a batch of equipment and gold coins to the Qiyan Ministry, and ordered Temujin to train 3,000 Mongol warriors to fight for the Great Liao as soon as possible.

At this time, Yelu Zhilugu never dreamed that it was his tolerance and assistance that allowed Temujin to soar into the sky and become the eagle and overlord of the steppe.

The 3,000 elite soldiers of the Qiyan tribe, who were proficient in the use of the Dashi arquebus produced in the Western Liao (a kind of well-made light musket) and the Mongol horn bow, and were proficient in various tactics on horses and horses, were not at all something that other Mongol tribes in the steppe could fight.

And under the command of Temujin, even the powerful expeditionary forces of the Golden Horde and the Western Liang Kingdom were repeatedly defeated by the Mongols of the Qiyan tribe.

After less than 15 years of campaigning, Temujin conquered the Ural valley and the Kipchak steppes. Including the Kereh tribe who migrated to the Ural River valley with the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom, the Tatar and Wangu tribes who migrated with the Western Liang, the Naiman and Khorezm tribes who were placed by Yelu Dashi near the Khorezm Sea, and the various small tribes that migrated to the west with the Mughal Kingdom, all of them were subordinated to Temujin's Jiushu Baixu (peace with Baixu and war with Heixu).

In 1206, Temujin convened an alliance of the steppe tribes on the shores of the Caspian Sea and convened the Kuritai Conference, that is, the Mongol emperor's throne, called "Genghis Emperor", and the country was called the Great Mongolia.

And the reason why he chose "Emperor Genghis" as his honorific title is because the honorific title of "Emperor Genghis" was not canceled because of Zhao Ji's inner Zen.

After Zhao Ji of Song Daozong, Zhao Huan of Wuzong and Zhao Chen of Xiaozong of the Western Song Dynasty, and Zhao Xin, who is currently in power, all inherited the honorific title of Emperor Genghis and used it to command the departments of the Western Regions of the Grassland.

Gradually, this Genghis Emperor replaced Tengri Khan and became the supreme symbol in the minds of the steppes and the Western Regions.

Therefore, Temujin naturally chose the name "Emperor Genghis" as his honorific title.

Becoming Genghis Khan and founding the Great Mongolian State meant breaking away from the jurisdiction of Western Liao, Western Liang, Golden Horde and other countries (because the Mongol Kingdom fell apart soon after the death of Hebul, the territory of the rebuilt Mongolian State was not completely taken from Western Liao, but from the Three Kingdoms of Western Liao, Western Liang, and Golden Horde), and became an independent country that could sit on an equal footing with other countries.

The balance between the three kingdoms of Western Liao, Western Liang, and the Golden Horde, which had been maintained for many years, was completely broken.

However, the three kingdoms of Western Liao, Western Liang, and the Golden Horde have been at odds with each other for the past few decades, although nominally friendly and even married each other in order to maintain a stable rear. But in fact, the open and secret struggle between the three countries has never stopped!

In particular, the Xiliang Kingdom, which migrated from the Central Plains and ruled over the Fergana Basin, has always wanted to obtain an outlet to the sea so that it can catch up with the tide of the Eastern Song Dynasty, the Great Zhou, the Great Liao, Egypt, the Western Xia and other countries to carve up the world......

By the way, the age of the Great Voyage continues!

And with the spread of navigation technology and geographical knowledge, more and more countries have joined the Age of Discovery.

After the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty, Western Liao and Egypt were added, and the focus of these two countries was Africa!

Oh, the kingdom of Egypt in this plane is a great country! Because it controls the gateway to the Western world, it has been jointly supported by the Italian Four Seas and the Eastern Song Dynasty and New Zhou in the East.

And its royal family has the Komnenos dynasty from Eastern Rome, which has the support of the Orthodox Church. A steady stream of fighters could be hired from Kievan Rus' and the Balkans.

So in the decades after the founding of the Kingdom of Egypt, the country achieved great success in politics, economy, military and science and technology.

It was the first of all Western countries to establish a thermal armament force, and the first to establish an oceanic navy!

At the same time, the Kingdom of Egypt also took advantage of the historical opportunity of the war between the Celestial Sect and the Illuminati world, and expanded aggressively in the North African coastal region of the Mediterranean.

In just a few decades, it expanded from Egypt to Morocco, capturing Tangier and Ceuta (both port cities on the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, with Tangier just a stone's throw from the Atlantic). With these two port cities, the Kingdom of Egypt was able to organize the first voyage to the New World from the West!

by the Italian Grand Navigator Christopher. Four sailing ships commanded by Doria departed from Tangier and took more than two months to arrive at the island of Bigan in the Yin Shang Sea (Caribbean) - this island is the historical island of Haiti, but before Doria arrived, it was discovered by the navigators of the Zhou State and named after the loyal minister of the Yin merchants.

Although the Zhou State could reach the Yin Shang Sea, it did not have the ability to control all the islands in the Yin Shang Sea.

They only established strongholds and ports on Bigan Island (Haiti), Wenzhong Island (Cuba), and Huangfeihu Island (Trinidad), and deployed a small number of troops and ships.

In addition, the Eastern Song Dynasty also occupied two islands in the Yin Shang Sea, namely New Salmon Island (Jamaica) and New Penghu Island (Puerto Rico).

As for the countless other islands, they are in a state of "ownerlessness".

Therefore, the belated "Egyptians" still occupied a small island with a radius of only a few dozen miles in the Yin Shang Sea, named New Suez Island (New Providence Island in the Bahamas), and established the first Western colony in the Americas.

Going back to Xiliang, this country and its suzerain, the Western Song Dynasty, have wanted to have a piece of the ocean for decades. Because the benefits that the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou gained from the New World, Africa, and maritime trade were too eye-catching.

However, in the Western Song Dynasty, efforts to find an outlet to the sea to the east have failed one after another. Whether it was eastward into the Central Plains or down the Yangtze River, they all hit their heads in front of the defense lines of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty.

Under these circumstances, the Western Song Dynasty could only turn its hopes of going to sea to the West. I want to let Xiliang go south or west, and find Haikou in Persia and the Black Sea...... This was actually a plan that was not feasible, but the rulers of Western Liang and Western Song were still digging hollow out their minds to find a possible way.

Therefore, when Temujin rose to prominence in the northwestern part of the Kipchak steppe, the Western Liang Kingdom, which occupied the eastern part of the Kipchak steppe, the land of the Seven Rivers, and part of the land in the middle of the river, felt that this was an opportunity to realize the westward expansion of the Western Liang.

Therefore, a large number of weapons and equipment produced by the Western Song Dynasty were handed over to Temujin by Xiliang, and Temujin, who had obtained these weapons, quickly reorganized the people who had joined the Great Mongolia into 95 thousand households, and established a Mongol army of 100,000 men, armed with muskets and field artillery.

Relying on this army, Temujin conquered the Middle East and the West in the ten years after becoming Genghis Khan, seized large tracts of land from the Golden Horde and Western Liao, and plundered a huge amount of wealth. It gradually grew to become the hegemon of Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus Mountains.

And last year, in the winter of 1209, through a long siege, he broke through the Holy See of the Bright Top in Baku and captured the fourth generation of the Holy Maiden of Light. Thus the clerical power of the Bright Heaven Doctrine was held in his hands.

After defeating the Western Liao Empire and taking control of the Bright Heaven Religion, Temujin finally decided to break with Western Liang.

In the spring of 1210, Temujin ordered Mo Qisi to issue a decree to wage war against the Tenrikyo sect and Xiliang!

Now, 100,000 heavily armed Mongol and affiliated Mongol Empire warriors have entered the Huzhang River Valley, the hinterland of the Xiliang Kingdom.