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The Qarluq, a Turkic-speaking nomadic tribe in Central Asia, is actually one of the tribes of the Tiele people.

The Qarluqs were first nomadic in the southern Altai Mountains, and later migrated to the Syr Darya Valley, the Seven Rivers, the Ili River Valley, and the Ferghana Basin, with Sukant, Baishuihucheng, and Talas as their centers, and some Qarluqs in the Ghaznavid, Balkh, and Tocharistan regions.

After the rise of the Turkic Khanate, the Qarluqs belonged to the Turkic Khanate.

After the rise of the Xueyanta Khanate, the Qarluqs belonged to the Xueyanta Khanate.

The Tang Dynasty general Gao Kan cut the nose of the car, and the Qarluq people belonged to the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Xianzhi, the envoy of Tang Anxi, led 20,000 Han troops from Anxi, and 10,000 troops from the foreign army of Pakhana and the Qarluq tribe fought at Talas with the 30,000 Arab cavalry mobilized by the Abbasid governor of Khorasan. As a result, the Qarluqs defected and colluded with the Arabs to attack the Tang army, resulting in the defeat of the Tang army.

Later, the Anshi Rebellion occurred in the Tang Dynasty, and part of the Tang army in the Western Regions was transferred to the interior to quell the rebellion, and the remaining Tang army still held on to the Western Regions for decades, and finally because it could not get the support of the Central Plains Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty lost the Western Regions. And relying on the character of a bitch who sees the wind and turns his face when he says he will turn his face, the Qarluqs gradually became stronger, and then gradually replaced the Turks to occupy the Western Turkic homeland in the Chu River Valley, including the famous Broken Leaf City and Talas City.

After the Tang Dynasty lost the Western Regions, the situation in Mobei and the Western Regions was roughly as follows: north of Mobei and Tianshan Mountains was the Uighur Khanate; The northwest of the Uyghurs is the Tunis; The southwest of the Ghars is the Qarluq; The Qarluqs are the Tibetans in the south; The Qarluqs in the southwest were the Arabs who settled in Central Asia. There have always been wars, as well as economic and cultural exchanges between them.

Slowly, the Qarluqs and some of the Uighurs migrating westward established the Qarakhanid dynasty.

The Qarluqs contributed greatly to the strength of the Qarakhanid Dynasty, so the Qarluqs became a semi-autonomous region of the Qarakhanid Dynasty and enjoyed a part of autonomy.

Before the Great Qian Expeditionary Force attacked the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty, the Qarluqs had internal strife with the Kangli people, which provoked the attack of Sanjar, who also did not have a good opinion of the Qarluqs, and then the Qarluqs dedicated all the beauties of the clan to Li Cun to obtain reinforcements from the Great Qian Expeditionary Force.

Later, when the Great Qian Expeditionary Force met with the Central Asian Coalition Army, the Qarluqs participated in the pursuit, which can be regarded as a meritorious contribution to the Western Expeditionary Force of the Great Qian Expeditionary Force.

However, the Qarluq people always thought that after the Great Qian Expeditionary Force plundered here in Central Asia, it would withdraw its troops, just like the previous Tang Army.

I don't want to, after the Great Expeditionary Force defeated the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty, it was only a public trial of the high-ranking officials and nobles and wealthy families here, and they did not commit any offence against the ordinary people, and they also sent people to govern here.

The cunning Qarluqs couldn't see that the Daqian Dynasty was not ready to leave.

This is not what the Qarluqs want to see.

Actually-

The reason why the Qarluqs did not hesitate to sacrifice all the beauties of the whole clan to Li Cun, and then "lure the wolf into the house", was to get the help and protection of the Daqian Dynasty, occupy the territory of the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty, and become the new masters of the territory of the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty, just as the Qarluqs jumped from the Tang Dynasty to the Abbasid Dynasty and then became the biggest benefit recipients of the Battle of Talas.

Who would have thought that the people of the Daqian Dynasty would not leave when they came to Central Asia.

The Qarluqs were not willing to work in vain, and united with the Khamli people to wantonly encroach on the territory of the former Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty, which already belonged to the Great Qian Dynasty.

The Qarluqs were so capricious that Li Cun, who was about to clean up the Qarluqs, was not angry but happy.

Li Cun didn't care about the feelings of the Qarlu woman who had been sleeping recently, and directly gave the front line an order: eliminate the Qarlu and Kangli people.

It is worth mentioning that when he arrived in Central Asia, Li Cun changed his style of play.

Here, Li Cun let the regular army led by Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian and others suppress the formation, and let the pro-army led by Li Cun's sons and the vassal army here in Central Asia serve as the main force.

Li Cun said to his sons: At the end of any war, as long as it is captured in the war, thirty percent will be handed over to the treasury of the Daqian Dynasty, two percent will be given to himself, and the remaining five achievements will be divided according to the size of the merit.

In other words, no matter how many things Li Cun's sons grab, they can catch half of them, and the greater the meritorious service, the more they will share, if one person can defeat a city, then half of the capture in this city is that person.

Of course, Li Cun's sons also had to share the spoils of war with those who fought with them, or pay military salaries.

But even so, this reward system is terrible.

Come to think of it, this is almost equivalent to Li Cun's sons burning and plundering everywhere under the banner of Li Cun, leaving all the charges to Li Cun, but leaving the benefits to themselves.

With such good things, Li Cun's sons naturally went out to war with all their screams.

Not to mention anything else, the Qarlu people who like to repeat themselves, and the equally bold Kangli people, first tasted the power of Li Cun's sons.

Be.

The main force of the Great Cadre Expeditionary Force did not go out of the formation, but only pressed the formation and watched the enemy's formation.

But don't forget, Li Cun's sons' pro-army were also once the regular army of the Daqian Dynasty, and they were all veterans of a hundred battles who came out of the war, how could it be that the Qarluq and Kangli people were enemies?

Therefore, Li Cun's sons can be said to have crushed the Qarluq and Kangli people all the way, and soon completely wiped out the Kangli people, and at the same time hit the central activity area of the Qarluqs - Talas.

However, it is not for nothing that the Qarluqs have been able to exist here in Central Asia for hundreds of years, and continue to grow.

Seeing that Li Cun's sons seemed to want to exterminate his clan, the cunning and fierce Qarluq people were ruthless, and then saw the opportunity to fight back.

In this way, the Qarluq people made several of Li Cun's sons who were a little aggressive suffer a lot of losses.

Fortunately, Yue Fei sent Yang Zaixing to rescue in time, so that there was no big defeat.

Many of Li Cun's sons, who had recovered from the situation, were furious, feeling humiliated, and immediately led their pro-army and vassal armies to hunt down and kill the Qarluqs.

This time, Li Cun's sons, who had already suffered a big loss, were no longer as aggressive as before, and they made full use of the wolf pack tactics to tear the Qarluqs apart little by little, and then eat them unhurriedly, and finally made the Qarluqs completely reduced to history.

By the way, Li Cun's sons also laid down the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty, a vassal state of the Selzhu Dynasty.

Li Cun's sons were still relatively young, and the royal family and clan of the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty and the beauties among the Kangli people were all sent to Li Cun as soon as possible, not to mention, but also dedicated all the best treasures owned by the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty, the Qarluqs, and the Kangli people to Li Cun.

And that's just the beginning.

After conquering the Western Qarakhanid, the Great Expeditionary Force was faced with two choices:

One was to continue westward to attack the Celli dynasty;

The other was to attack the Ghaznavid dynasty first.

The Ghaznavid Dynasty, also known as the "Goshanin Dynasty", "Ghazni Dynasty", was the Central Asian Empire at its peak, occupying most of the later Iran, Turkmenistan, parts of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, **** and northern India, it imitated the systems of the Samanid Dynasty and established a relatively complete centralized bureaucratic system, which was vertically managed by the central government.

But that was more than 100 years ago.

Because the local feudal officials of the Ghaznavid Dynasty held military and political power, it posed a threat to the central authority, and at the same time, some remote and remote areas were ruled by various vassals, vassal states, nomadic tribal leaders, etc., which eventually led to the slow decline of the dynasty.

Decades ago, after the death of Massoud III, the Ghaznavid dynasty fell into a battle for the throne, and later one of the princes of Massoud III, Bahram Shah, by bowing to the Seljuk Empire in exchange for reinforcements from the Seljuk Sultan Sanga and eventually became the sultan, and then Bahram Shah decided to break away from the Seljuk control, but was defeated by the Seljuks, and the Ghaznavid kingdom gradually weakened to the present dynasty with only an empty shelf.

But then again, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although the Ghaznavid dynasty is now in decline, its territory is vast, even comparable to the Eastern Qarakhanids, and larger than the Western Qarakhanids.

If the Great Expeditionary Force had chosen to attack the Ghaznavids, it should have been easy to defeat.

In other words, in the Central Asian countries of this era, there were no countries that were too powerful, otherwise the Ghaznavid Dynasty, which was only one shelf, would have perished long ago.

No.

It should be said that now, in this world, except for the Daqian Dynasty, there is no country that is too powerful, otherwise Li Cun would not let Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian and other generals all stop and let his sons act as the main force.

In the end, Li Cun did not make this decision about who to hit first and then who to beat, but also handed it over to his sons so that they could get more adequate exercise.

What was both unexpected and reasonable to Li Cun was that Li Cun's sons did not choose "a thousand birds in the forest is better than a bird in hand" to attack the Ghaznavid Dynasty first, but chose to continue westward to attack Isfahan, the capital of the Seljuk Empire.

Li Cun did not interfere with the choice of his sons, nor did he let Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian and others interfere.

As a result, Li Cun's sons led their pro-armies and the vassal armies of Central Asia, all the way like a bamboo, unstoppable, and those who ran fast only took a dozen days to reach Isfahan and surround it.

Soon, Li Cun's sons surrounded Isfahan.

At first, Li Cun was still worried that his sons would not be able to defeat Isfahan because they did not belong to each other.

Who would have thought that these boys would actually nominate a son named "Li Xiang" of Li Cun to be their commander-in-chief.

Li Xiang very decisively sent people to shout to the defenders in Isfahan, only giving them two hours to open the city gates, if they did not open the city gates to surrender, they immediately began to attack the city, and after the city was broken, all those involved in the defense of the city were killed.

At the same time, Li Cun's sons began to count down and begin to arrange sieges.

Seeing that the time was approaching, Li Cun's sons began to make final preparations for the siege.

The red-coated cannons were all set up one by one, the airships were ready, and the tasks of each of Li Cun's sons were clearly divided by Li Xiang.

But just before Li Cun's sons were about to make a move, the gates of Isfahan City opened, and then a large group of people tied dozens of people came out with white flags.

- The people of Isfahan surrendered and surrendered the city.

The process doesn't have to be too redundant.

After the defeat of Isfahan City, except for the dignitaries and wealthy families who contributed to the city, the rest of the dignitaries and wealthy families in Isfahan City were all subject to the public trial of professionals of the Daqian Dynasty.

As a result, human heads rolled and blood flowed like rivers.

Next, Li Cun's sons began to divide their troops and conquer the entire Sailzhu Empire.

After defeating all the established armies of the Sayrzhu Empire, Li Cun's sons formed two armies, one to attack the Ghaznavids and the other to attack Khorezm.

Needless to say, the reason why Li Cun's sons did not fight it first was because they did not want to divide the troops and affect the overall strategy of the Great Qian Expeditionary Force, not that the Ghaznavid Dynasty was difficult to fight.

Therefore, Li Cun's sons who fought all the way to the Ghaznavid Dynasty easily eliminated the Ghaznavid Dynasty.

But this Khorezm has some strength.

Khorezm was also originally a vassal of the Turks, and was founded by a slave-turned-guard of the Sultan Tukrubao.

However, over the years, the Selzhu Empire has declined more and more, and as a result, Khorezm has taken advantage of the opportunity to gain traction, get rid of the status of vassals, and become a great power in Central Asia.

The title of King of Khorezm is Sand.

At this time, Khorezm Shah was Aladdin Atsiz.

This Aladdin Atsiz can also be regarded as a generation of heroes, that is, he got rid of Khorezm's vassal status and built Khorezm into a powerful state.

As far as the matter is concerned, if it had not been for the Great Expeditionary Force, perhaps the Khorezm led by Aladdin Aitsiz would have replaced the Serzhu dynasty as the overlord of Central Asia.

It's a pity that Aladdin Etsiz was born at the wrong time to live with Li Cun in the same era, and Li Cun wanted Central Asia to divide his sons.

In a nutshell.

Li Cun's sons took advantage of the power of the great victory, were invincible all the way, and killed Khorezm with a thunderous momentum.

Aladdin Etsiz was naturally unwilling to let the Khorezm he had managed with great difficulty be destroyed by Li Cun's sons, even if he knew that the destruction of the cadres of the Eastern and Western Karakhanid States and the Sayrzhu Empire was not something that his Khorezm could defeat at all, and he had to fight with Li Cun's sons.

As a result, the two sides fought three battles in a row, the Khorezm army was completely defeated, and Li Cun's sons also went straight to the capital of Khorezm to kill.

In the final battle, Aladdin Etsiz was defeated and fled west with hundreds of men, eventually to Asia Minor.

Li Cun's son named Li Bai was the first to enter the capital of Khorezm, Yulong Jiechi, captured all the royal family and clan of Khorezm, and then hurriedly sent it to the rear to be dedicated to Li Cun, just like when they captured Isfahan City, they quickly sent the royal family and clan of the Sailzhu Dynasty to the rear to be dedicated to Li Cun at the first time.

In the next two years, Li Cun's sons fought in the north and south here in Central Asia, and Khorasan, Sigistan, Mazanland and Gur were successively destroyed by Li Cun's sons, and all Central Asia was defeated by Li Cun's sons.

Li Cun divided the whole of Central Asia into 200 vassal states, and then divided them among his sons by lot.

By the way, in order to put some gold on his face, and also to have a basis for ruling Central Asia, and even more in order to slaughter the local nobles who did not obey the rule of his sons, Li Cun issued an order: to emancipate all slaves and give them all the rights of legal citizens.

In this way, Li Cun's sons had the foundation to rule Central Asia, and then they recruited a large number of Han Chinese from the Daqian Dynasty to fill their country and stabilize their rule.

In this process, Li Cun's sons can be said to be a little crazy.

Some of them went to the remote areas of the Daqian Dynasty to buy people, men, women and children;

Some promises, as long as they come, will be given to the nobility, and they will be given to women, and they are three or five hair;

Some simply go to places where no one cares, forcibly take them to their own country, and so on......

Li Cun's methods of his sons can be said to be varied, and the key is efficiency.

This actually brought a certain amount of trouble to Li Biao's rule.

But because Li Cun didn't speak out to stop all this, Li Biao could only watch his brothers dig into his corners, and only gave some verbal warnings when they went too far, and most of the time he could only open one eye and close one eye.

As a result, a wave of Han Chinese immigrants from East Asia to Central Asia broke out......

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The terrain of the road out of the west is high in the east and low in the west, so it is difficult to go west and easy to go out.

The Alashan Pass and the Ili River are important passages to the west, from which is the western Siberia of the Pingchuan River, and then the Great Plain of Eastern Europe, which is also the main passage for the nomadic forces of ancient China (the Huns in the fifth century AD and the Mongols in history) into Central Asia and Europe.

Li Cun went west, did not take the Wakhan Corridor, and walked here.

The Ili River basin is a strategically important region – since ancient times, the Ili region has been a key point of transportation in the West, and Arab and Indian civilizations have entered China from here.

Therefore, soon after the Great Qian Expeditionary Force entered Central Asia, Yue Fei sent Li Yanxian to seize this place, and established a city here to occupy it forever, and at the same time, the railway of the Great Qian Dynasty was also built into Central Asia from here.

-- There were two railways built into Central Asia by the Daqian Dynasty, and the other was built from the Wakhan Corridor.

Unlike the Great Qian Expeditionary Force and Li Cun's sons, who had already entered Central Asia and swept through Central Asia, Li Cun entered Central Asia only after Central Asia was pacified by his own sons.

The city where Li Cun chose to temporarily live in Central Asia was not Isfahan, the capital of the Serzhu Dynasty, but Samarkand, the capital of the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty, an important hub city of the Silk Road, and known as the "Pearl of the Ancient Silk Road".

The reason why Li Cun chose this way was not only because the railway of the Daqian Dynasty had been built to Samarkand, but also because Samarkand was close to the Daqian Dynasty and the city of Isfahan was far away from the Daqian Dynasty.

This is actually the arrangement of the front-line generals and Li Cun's sons.

Li Cun did not screw up with a group of well-intentioned ministers and his sons because of these trivial matters, but gladly accepted their suggestions.

As a result, Li lived in the Western Regions for more than two years before coming to Central Asia.

As soon as he entered Central Asia, Li Cun asked the literati who followed him into Central Asia to compose poems to record his conquest of Central Asia.

So a group of poets geared up, and good sentences came out frequently.

And Li Cun's most impressive song is "Long Song Xing" made by Lu You:

I don't envy the crane riding in the sky, I don't envy the crown in front of the Lord, I hope that I will die on credit and see Pinghu Nian. Once Hu Yun declined, sent to death Sang Qianchuan, Hu Xing was lightless, and Longting was flying smoke. Xichen crosses the green ridge, the east is in North Korea, the towering heavenly king's capital, Jiuding lays the stream, the Wanguo Dynasty is not young, and the jade silk comes to Lianpian. Yellow-headed clown, defile my king's meeting. It is not nameless, not enough to annoy, and you will return to your old position and shepherd sheep on the seaside.

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