Chapter 256: Ilkhanate
In 1632 AD, in the spring of the fourth year of Jingxing of the Great Song Dynasty, on the Tianzhu Tianfang Peninsula, Qin Fang, the son of the Marquis of Tianfang, led his family's Flying Bear Army along the Kuwait and entered Basra, one of the world's oldest civilizations, in the valley of the two rivers and one of the oldest ports in the world where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet.
"Xihu was really defeated by those people, and his morale has dropped to this point?"
Qin Fang rode a tall and sturdy camel of pure white with a height of more than two meters at his shoulders and slowly walked into the city, and the Feixiong army under his command had already poured into the city like a tide in front of him.
Basra is a wealthy city, an ancient city that existed thousands of years ago and has been one of the richest cities at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
The mountains of wood, leather, spices, and the famous Damascus scimitar in the harbor were all captured by the Flying Heroes, and the defenders of Basra were few and far between, and there were no main cavalry of the Khanate. The defenders were defeated almost at the beginning by the mighty Flying Heroes,
The port of Basra, which he now conquered, was close to Asia Minor, one of the core regions of the Ilkhanate, and the region of the Two Rivers was sandwiched between Constantinople and the eastern part of the Ilkhanate almost completely separated from Asia Minor.
In other words, if the Qin side occupied this place, it was easy to attack Constantinople in front and back, release the main force of the Byzantine Empire, which was blocked by the Turks in the Sea of Marmara, and besiege the Ilkhanate together, which was already in an extremely disadvantageous position strategically.
The main force of the Ilkhanate in Asia Minor is mainly some Turks, far from being powerful, and they are no match for the Flying Heroes and the elite knights of the Byzantine Empire.
The Ilkhanate didn't even care about such a strategic location, and was it really stunned by the coalition of princes in the east. The current Ilkhanate is really unprecedentedly empty, and it is simply fat on the lips.
At first, when they received the news from Mengzhou, the Qin family was still a little unconvinced, but now the Qin family's main focus is still on developing the Nile River valley and working towards the Mediterranean region, but they didn't expect that their old friend Ilkhanate in the north is no longer good.
After the Qin family got the news, they hurriedly dispatched troops, and finally pulled out an army, and hurriedly invaded when their former rival fell.
The news of the Byzantines is not slow, and they are also preparing to come to get a piece of the pie, and these European and Roman Baiyi are still very regular, and the news of cooperation was sent before the army, and now Constantinople and Tianfang are still friends and not enemies, at least when facing the Ilkhanate, the two are on the same side.
In the face of the barbaric Mongols, both families boasted that they were civilized.
This time, the abnormal state of the Ilkhanate Constantinople must have also been discovered, and since the Marquis of Heaven has already taken action, then Byzantium, which has been an old enemy for hundreds of years, will definitely not miss this feast.
A few days later, Qin's Feixiong army attacked north and east, targeting Syria and later Iraq, essentially cutting off the back route of Asia Minor.
The Byzantines, who got the news, was naturally unceremonious, and the general Narciss, who came out of Constantinople, led his army directly across the Sea of Marmara, annihilated the army of the Turkic commander Oktar in the Battle of Ankara in Asia Minor, and killed the governor of Asia Minor of the Ilkhanate, Geltai.
The two families were stirring up the sky in Asia Minor and the two river valleys respectively, and the momentum of their advance was like a bamboo.
At this time, if someone sees the map of the Ilkhanate from above, they will find that three huge arrows have appeared from the southwest, southeast and east respectively, and they are surrounding the Ilkhanate in the middle with the momentum of wolves, tearing at will.
The two sides that were attacking the western part of the Khanate and turning the entire eastern part of the Khanate upside down did not know that in Khorasan in the east, the current Great Khan of the Ilkhanate was leading a battle with the tribal alliance of Tianzhu.