Did Byzantium dare to go to war with Tianzhu in West Asia? How can it be!

Heraclius knew very well that the upper echelons of the empire in Constantinople did not have the guts to do so, including Emperor Manuel IV, and that Byzantium, although still under the name of the Eastern Roman Empire, had actually been reduced to a small state whose territory included only Greece and the Balkans.

Even Hungary and Romania to the east were not following the orders of the so-called emperor.

Since losing control of Hungary and Romania to the west, the empire's grip on the continent has been declining, and today it is a country that is almost exclusively in the hands of the Greeks, and as a thousand-year-old empire, the problems caused by the division of the empire's noble lords in the Balkans are an almost incurable disability of the empire.

Such a country may be inferior to France, England, and Spain that rose in Western Europe, at least I heard that some countries could go to the New World and Africa to seize colonies, and His Majesty the Emperor was envious.

But with the strength of Constantinople, even the Mediterranean Sea cannot be reached, so naturally it is even more impossible to have such an opportunity.

For thousands of years, Byzantium has occupied its current position, and it is simply the saddest, and the pressure of those powerful pagans from the east, round after round, has pressed Byzantium to the point of immobility, where is it possible to develop.

The current Byzantium is not to mention Tianzhu, I am afraid that the strength from the Qin family of the Marquis of Tianfang is enough to suppress this country. Thanks to Constantinople, those Greeks can still have the cheekiness to keep the name of the empire on it.

So when Heraclius got the way blocked by the Feixiong Army in front, he immediately coaxed, and they also got the bottom line from the Feixiong Army's actions, so they simply turned around and headed north, and began to march towards Georgia.

Now the situation is that everyone is busy taking advantage of the fire, and it depends on who can get more from this feast.

The poor Khan of the Ilkhanate, the Ghurbans, was still fighting against the princes' coalition in the east, and his territory was about to be divided up by wolves who had invaded the border.

Hundreds of years ago, the Mongols swept across the Eurasian continent with great glory, but they didn't expect to fall into such a situation!

The Qin side sent a section of the Feixiong Army to block the Byzantine army, and their own side quickly advanced towards Tabriz.

Along the way, the Feixiong army occupied Deir ez-Zor, Anai, Baghdad, Mosul, and marched towards Tabriz.

After the western expeditionary army led by Shi Xiu in the east occupied Isfahan, the Zoroastrian forces quickly scavenged a local servant army mainly composed of local Persians from the surrounding area, and continued to advance westward under the banner of liberators. Leave the Great Army of Ghurban behind.

Ancient Isfahan is a real ancient city, an ancient city founded as early as the 6th century BC, the real core of the Persian era, even though the Mongols occupied it for more than 400 years, but there is no trace of Persian civilization in this area.

The main ethnic group in Isfahan is still the Persians, and there are many other Central and West Asian peoples, such as Turks, Kurds, and Armenians.

Even after conquering this land for four or five hundred years, the Mongols did not really change the civilization here, but the Mongols themselves were assimilated a lot by the native civilization.

This time, the Song people of Tianzhu Kingdom united with the local Zoroastrian Persians to invade here, and Isfahan was really surging, and the strong potential accumulated by Zoroastrianism for hundreds of years was once flourished.

Almost immediately, the whole of Isfahan boiled like a volcano.

The Western Expeditionary Army had an army of more than 100,000 servants overnight. The ethnic groups of Isfahan, who have been brutally oppressed by the Mongols for hundreds of years, are like having met a savior.

Shi Xiu was obviously not good at this situation, but the Zoroastrian followers led by Hestia were like fish in water.

The people of the various tribes who rose up surrounded the Western Expeditionary Army, which originally had less than 10,000 people, and the Western Expeditionary Army instantly swelled into a mighty army, and the front of the army was directed at Tabriz.

Half a month later, the Feixiong Army and the Western Expeditionary Army returned to the city of Tabriz. Together, hundreds of thousands of troops camped and surrounded the city.

Tabriz, located in the foothills of the southwestern side of the Caspian Sea and northeast of Lake Rezayer, connects the Persian homeland with the military and transportation centers of the North Caucasus and Armenia.

The reason why the Ilkhanate established its capital here was because it was the center of the vast territory around it, whether it was to the north of the Caucasus or south to Asia Minor, it was the absolute center point connecting Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

At the beginning, the Great Khan of the Ilkhanate, Abha, built his capital here, and it was located in the middle of the Eurasian continent, just like standing on the top of the world.

The Ilkhanate was founded more than 400 years ago and has a deep relationship with Tabriz's excellent geographical location.

The Mongols were brutal and tyrannical, exterminating the people of all nationalities under their command at every turn, and for more than 400 years, Georgia, Asia Minor, Khorasan and other places were everywhere, and there was a large-scale uprising every few years.

The presence of the capital allowed the Mongol army to quickly travel to various places to quell the unrest, and the history of the Ilkhanate for hundreds of years is almost a history of constant repression and uprising.

Now that the Song people have hit this city, if nothing else, one of the so-called four khanates of the Mongols will finally end in the hands of everyone.

Both Qin Fang and Shi Xiu were very excited, they had also followed to destroy other countries in the past, but most of those countries were the likes of the vassal states of the barbarian land, how could they be compared to the Ilkhanate in front of them today.

Destroying this khanate that once dominated all countries and crisscrossed the territory with his own hands is definitely enough to go down in the history of future generations.

The two can already imagine that in the future history books, there must be words "X year, X month, X day, Tianzhu Qin Fang and Shi Xiu attacked the Ilkhanate here", and the ecstasy in their chests is almost indescribable.

In the evening, in the tent of the middle army under the city, the two respectfully begged to see Hestia,

"Madame!"

Tia's identity is embarrassing, and the two really don't dare to call her a princess, so they can only call her a relatively respectful lady.

The two asked:

"Madam, the next thing should be up to your sect."

All the way from Isfahan, Shi Xiu has thoroughly seen the strong strength of Zoroastrianism, and the previous suspicion of these sneaky folk sects has been completely dissipated, and the servant army under his command has snowballed all the way, and the army under the management of Zoroastrianism has swelled to about three or four hundred thousand.

The Zoroastrian cult had such a strong appeal in the enemy's country that he had no doubt about what Hestia had said before.