Chapter 610: The Great War in Central Asia Begins (Addendum 20/20)

Luntai City, an expeditionary force of 120,000 people, embarked on the expedition again, and this time, the goal of their expedition was even farther - Alimari City in the Ili River Valley.

"Temujin won't let us rest, we can only defeat him. Destroy the Chagatai Khanate and force Temujin to return to Mobei. ”

Chutian ordered a corps of 50,000 men to bring war horses and camels to participate in this expedition.

"Hoo ......"

Huo Qing followed Huo An, because he was about to go on an expedition to the Chagatai Khanate, and his cheeks were excited.

"This time it's not to play, it's to fight, the Seljuk Empire won't last long, we have to set off as soon as possible."

Hoan rode a war horse.

"I've participated in the expedition to the Luntai, don't underestimate people."

Huo Qing protested, she could easily ride a war horse, after all, she had followed Huo An to live in the Western Regions for several years, and she also had a little force.

The capital of the Western Regions protects the mansion and sends 30,000 troops!

Ban Chao, Gao Xianzhi, Li Siye and other generals of the Western Regions Protectorate almost turned over at the same time!

Ban Chao is good at commanding the servant army, and he can greatly enhance the combat ability of the servant army.

Gao Xianzhi and Li Siye are partners in a team, and the two of them belong to the military generals of the Tang Anxi Protectorate. Historically, Gao Xianzhi was also Li Siye's boss.

Gao Xianzhi's class is the Tang Rest Legion, and Li Siye is the elite of the Rest Legion-the Tang Mo Sword Team.

The relationship between the two is equivalent to the Yuejia Army and the Beiwei Army.

Gao Xianzhi and Li Siye's troops had suffered heavy losses in the previous war, and Huo An recruited new soldiers for them immediately after the Battle of Luntai.

This time, they could only sharpen this group of recruits into a division of a hundred battles through a tragic war.

"Gao Xianzhi's legion marches quickly in the mountains, which can reduce the adverse effects of the mountainous terrain."

Huo An temporarily mentioned Gao Xianzhi's ability to Chu Tian.

Gao Xianzhi, Qin Liangyu, Zhang Yan and others have the ability to fight in the mountains.

Many generals have their own characteristics, such as Ban Chao's manipulation of the servant army, Gao Xianzhi's mountain marching ability, and Li Siye's Modao heavy infantry.

"Everyone must be careful, or they may be wiped out."

Lao Qin brought Wang Qian, Yang Dayan, Meng Tian, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhu Jun, Gao Shun and others on an expedition.

The 30,000 Guanzhong legions seemed to be a little unaccustomed to the cold winter south of the Tianshan Mountains, but they had to carry out an expedition in the cold winter, otherwise, the Seljuk Empire would be destroyed by Temujin.

"On this expedition, we may be about to enter Central Asia......"

At this time, Chu Tian knew that the expedition to Central Asia was really not something that ordinary empires could do, and the expeditionary force needed to pass through deserts, Gobi, wastelands, mountains, plateaus, heavy snow, and rivers......

Generally speaking, the Han Empire and the Tang Empire, with their ability to expedition to Central Asia, were already quite amazing, reaching the limit of agrarian feudal empires.

"It's time for us to go, too."

Chu Tian and many generals led 50,000 elites, some cavalry marched quickly, and a small number of cavalry broke off to escort grain wagons.

The Han army's battle flag hunting, the 120,000 Han Empire expeditionary force left Luntai City, this time targeting the royal city of the Chagatai Khanate, Alimali City, located west of the Tianshan Mountains.

Cheshiguo, a 110,000-strong Han Empire expeditionary force began to march to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and Wei Qing and Huo Qubing prepared to fight with Subutai at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

The Han Empire Expeditionary Force was actually divided into two legions, 110,000 in the northern legion and 120,000 in the west, a total of 230,000!

These 230,000 troops were selected from all the Han Empire's expeditionary forces and the Western Regions Protectorate, and were used for the expedition against the Chagatai Khanate and the recovery of the territory at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains!

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The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Catherine returned to the front line of the confrontation with the Golden Horde.

Due to the heavy snow and the difficulty of supply, Catherine also chose elite tactics, selected 150,000 elite infantry and cavalry, and launched a tentative attack on the Golden Horde.

The three khanates ordered the city to be closed, and it was difficult for the scouts to convey the news, so they needed to be patiently probed.

The Viking warrior Harald led the Varangian Guard, serving as the vanguard.

At critical moments, Catherine could even order the Varangian Guard, made up of Tomahawk Viking hoplites, to use the "Berserk" trait to destroy the surrounding enemy.

On the border between the Persian Empire and the Ilkhanate, the lords of the Persian Empire amassed about 200,000 troops for the attack on the Ilkhanate.

Unlike Catherine and the Han Empire, the Ilkhanate occupied the eastern part of Persia, and the Persian Empire was equivalent to fighting a war within its own territory, so even if it gathered 200,000 troops, it was relatively easy to replenish.

"How come the Arab Empire has only sent 30,000 men, and almost all of them are infantry! Didn't we promise to supply food and grass for reinforcements? They don't have to worry about food and grass at all! ”

The Persian lords were dissatisfied with their allies.

The Arab Empire, as one of the five major civilizations involved in the Great War, worked with the Persian Empire against the Ilkhanate, but the Arab Empire only sent 30,000 men to support the Persian Empire.

A Persian lord said: "The lords of the Arab Empire consider their Arabian horses unfit to fight in cold places, and are eager to let us and the Ilkhanate continue to consume." But they don't know that our Persian Empire can't stop it, can their Arab Empire stop the Ilkhanate? ”

"We can't rely too much on the Arab Empire, our Persian Empire can only rely on itself if we want to defeat the Ilkhanate."

The lords of the Persian Empire understood this.

In the final analysis, the Arab Empire wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and only when the Persian Empire is destroyed by the Ilkhanate, will they be really anxious.

"With my Saintfall cavalry and undead army, I should be able to defeat Tuolei."

Under the command of the First Lord of Persia was a group of fierce generals of the Persian Empire, who came from the First Persian Empire, the Second Empire, and the Third Empire......

A large army of 200,000 Persians, led by the Persian lords, launched an offensive against the Ilkhanate.

In the Ilkhanate, Tuo Lei consulted with Kublai Khan, Hulegu and others to resist the attack of the Persian Empire.

"Möngke has gone to assist Chagatai and Ögedai in the destruction of the Seljuk Empire, and we need to hold off the offensive of the Persian and Arab empires, which claim to be 500,000 strong. Do you think that the real strength of their so-called army of 500,000 is there? ”

Tuo Lei looked at Kublai Khan, Hulegu and other sons.

Hülegü said: "At least cut half, remove some auxiliaries and recruits, and cut another half, its elite, but about 100,000, high-level troops, maybe less." ”

"It's not much different from what I imagined. The Persian Empire has a lot of generals and elite legions, and if we can control them to become servants, the power of our Ilkhanate will be greatly strengthened, and it will be easy to destroy the Arab Empire. ”

Tuo Lei cast an approving glance at Hülegü.

"Father, please give me 80,000 cavalry, I will go out of the city and break it!"

Hülegü took the initiative to ask for troops from Tuo Lei and annihilated the 200,000 troops of the Persian Empire.

"For the time being, focus on defense, according to the plan of the Great Khan, first weak and then strong, and break through one by one."

Although Tuo Lei was quite impressed with Hülegü's ability, he still did not agree with Hülegü's risky approach.

Hülegü couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

A large city of the Seljuk Empire was attacked by Xiangyang cannons and siege towers, and the power of the boulders and fireballs thrown by Xiangyang cannons was far above the bombardment of Luntai City and Yumen Pass!

There are siege heroes that provide a huge bonus to siege equipment!

The defenders looked up at the sky in despair, only to see terrifying boulders and fireballs falling like meteorites!

Rumble! Rumble!

Huge rocks slammed down, the walls trembled, and the city screamed!

The power of the Xiangyang cannon is already very strong, and with the bonus of siege heroes, it will almost raze the cities of the Seljuk Empire to the ground!

"Could it be that the demon who destroyed dozens of walls of the Persian Empire came to attack our Seljuk Empire in person?!"

The defenders of the city had long heard the legend that terrified the Persian Empire that the Ilkhanate had a famous besieger and that no fortress could hold on to his attack.

And now, the Ilkhanate has sent part of its forces to attack the Seljuk Empire!

Only Temujin had enough prestige to personally come forward to coordinate the coordination of forces between several khanates!

The 50,000 cavalry deployed by the Seljuk Sultan on the border of Khorezm were vulnerable in front of the Khwarazm cavalry commanded by Yelu Dashi and the Persian servant army commanded by Möngke, and were quickly defeated by Jerodashi.

At this time, the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire led 200,000 cavalry and was being led by Timur's 30,000 cavalry.

The old sultan of the Seljuk Empire realized that he had brought too many cavalry, many but not fine, and many horses froze to death because of the cold weather. The problem of food and grass for 200,000 cavalry is even more difficult to solve.

Unable to catch up with Timur, the end of the war was far away.

Timur's delaying tactics worked wonders, and the Seljuk cavalry was hungry and cold.

To make matters worse, news from the rear claimed that the cavalry of the Ilkhanate and Khorezm was attacking the Seljuk Empire in a big way!

"Withdraw...... Retreat, the rear cannot afford to lose ......"

The old sultan was about to give the order to withdraw his troops, but in a blink of an eye, it occurred to him that if he withdrew his troops in this way, Timur would definitely take advantage of the situation to pursue and kill, resulting in a great defeat.

"Pursue and kill with part of the force, and retreat back to the Syr Darya."

The old sultan still had an iron fist and decided that he would rather sacrifice a group of cavalry than save the main force and return to the royal city of the Seljuk Empire.

If you lose the royal city, you will be assimilated by the khanate like the Khorezmians.

Timur led 30,000 cavalry of the Chagatai Khanate to lure the Seljuk cavalry into pursuit, dragging down their morale and physical strength, and then led the cavalry to counterattack, defeating the Seljuk cavalry pursuing him with his own strong bonus to the cavalry!

The Chagatai Khanate, led by the young Timur, achieved a second victory over the Seljuk Empire!

This time, though, Timur was still younger, and he found that he had defeated only about 20,000 Seljuk cavalry, rather than the main force of the Seljuk Empire.

"Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy, would the sultan of the Seljuk Empire rather sacrifice 20,000 cavalry to keep the royal city......"

Timur was not very satisfied with such a result, because the main forces of the Seljuk Empire returned safely.