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After dealing with the affairs of Jerusalem, Li Cun did not stay in Jerusalem any longer, but returned to Isfahan, the capital of the Sayr Dynasty.

The railways of the Great Qian Dynasty were laid very quickly, and the main roads had been paved for almost all of Central Asia.

However, even so, the railway had not yet reached Jerusalem.

Therefore, it is safer to have easy access to Isfahan.

To be honest, this time is that Li Zhi died in battle, and Jerusalem is too special here, Li Cun feels that it is safer to come by himself, otherwise Li Cun will never take this trip in person.

After all, as far as the current situation is concerned, as long as Li Cun does not make any mistakes, it is very likely that all the people in this world will have the surname Li.

On the contrary, if Li Cun had an accident, then the Great Qian Dynasty would not be able to continue to expand its territory, and its internal affairs might fall apart.

You want to.

Who can be like Li Cun, constantly provide Li Cun's sons with an army that can fight well, and continue to provide Li Cun's sons with grain, grass, baggage, weapons and equipment, and support Li Cun's sons to continue to expand their territory for the Daqian Dynasty and create fiefs for themselves?

Li Biao?

is only afraid that Li Cun will die, and the first thing Li Biao has to guard against is these royal brothers who have not weak force.

Taking a step back, even if someone wants to do such a thing, they still don't have the prestige or the ability, let alone these sons who deter Li Cun and make them obey.

Also, don't think that these sons of Li Cun are now invincible, and after Li Cun's death, they will still be invincible.

First of all, with the big banner of Li Cun in place, small tribes and small forces in various localities will come to join one after another, so that the Great Cadre Expeditionary Force will not only fight less and less, but will fight more and more.

Secondly, as long as Li Cun's banner is raised, many places will take the initiative to surrender without even having to fight.

Again, only Li Cun dares to use talents in an eclectic manner.

- Li Cun appoints people on the basis of meritocracy, and if he annihilates any place, Li Cun will send people to select capable people and righteous people to join the Daqian Dynasty, so in the Daqian Expeditionary Force, you can see talents of various nationalities, such as Han people, Khitan people, Goryeo people, Jin people, Tangut people, Dali people, people from various countries on the Indochina Peninsula, people from small countries in Southeast Asia, natives on the prince's continent, Uighurs, Arabs, Persians, people from Western Crusader countries, etc., it can be said that as long as the people who serve the Daqian Dynasty have made meritorious contributions, It can be reused, and because of the addition of all kinds of capable and righteous people, the cadres have gained many unexpected gains, the most significant of which is that no matter where the Great Cadres Expeditionary Force fights, it has guides and interpreters.

Secondly, Li Cun attaches great importance to the laying of railways and the development of trains, which can ensure the unimpeded operation of the railways, and can also enable the local territory of the Daqian Dynasty to continuously provide the Daqian Expeditionary Force with war horses, grain, grass, baggage, weapons and equipment.

In addition, although Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian and other generals rarely directly participate in the war now, under the leadership of Li Cun, who attaches importance to strategy, tactics, and can also flexibly use tactics, they each set up the world's earliest and even the most advanced staff department, and each battle must be carefully planned by the staff department, which can ensure that Li Cun's sons do not fight indiscriminately and can always win the battle.

In addition, Li Cun also invented the system of expanding the army based on local materials, that is, after the defeat of the enemy country, the cadres would recruit a group of soldiers, and those who surrendered and were willing to accept the political education and training of the Great Cadre Expeditionary Force would leave their lives behind, and they could also be promoted through their military exploits. Those who are unwilling to surrender, or who are unwilling to accept the political education and training of the Great Expeditionary Force, will only be waiting for them to become prisoners, and they will have their two thumbs and two big toes cut off and then go to build the railway. For this reason, many people have joined the Great Cadre Expeditionary Force, and it is officially because of this system that the strength of the Great Cadre Expeditionary Force has snowballed.

It should be noted that although the Daqian Expeditionary Force has been recruiting foreign troops, Li Cun has always insisted that the ratio of the Han army to the foreign army is one to one, that is, for every foreign recruit recruited, one Han recruit must be recruited, so as to ensure that the Daqian Expeditionary Force is always under the leadership of Li Cun and Li Cun's sons.

All in all, as long as Li Cun is safe and sound, the Daqian Expeditionary Force will always exist, and sooner or later this world will be completely surnamed Li one day, and Li Cun's sons and the soldiers of the Daqian Expeditionary Force can all enjoy the shade under the big tree of Li Cun.

Therefore, Li Cun's safety is the biggest thing in the eyes of Li Cun's sons and the Great Cadre Expeditionary Force.

Moreover, now Li Cun does not need to risk his life, his sons have grown up, and the generals and troops he brought out, as well as officials at all levels, are all very mature.

Moreover, Li Cun has fought for so many years, and it is time to enjoy it.

In a nutshell.

When Li Cun returned to Isfahan, the largest city in Central Asia, and continued to have fun with his beauties from all over the world, the Great Qian Expeditionary Force and Li Cun's sons began to continue their westward expedition.

It is worth mentioning that after occupying Central Asia, the army and navy of the Daqian Dynasty could already be contacted.

However, there was another very troublesome problem at this time, that is, Asia and Europe were cut off by land, in other words, the ships of the Great Qian Dynasty could not move through Europe unless they went around a very large circle.

In this case, it was obviously not conducive to the maritime trade of the Daqian Dynasty, nor was it conducive to the conquest of Europe by the Daqian Dynasty, and it was also not conducive to the communication between the Daqian Dynasty and the vassal states established by Li Cun's sons in Europe in the future.

Therefore, Li Cun made a plan: to open a canal to open up the shipping between Asia and Europe, to connect the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, and to provide the closest route from Europe to the Indian Ocean and the nearby lands in the western Pacific.

To put it bluntly, Li Cun is ready to dig the Suez Canal and shorten the voyage.

In fact, the Suez Canal has existed for a long time, but for various reasons, it has been abandoned and needs to be re-dug.

But then again, even if the Suez Canal had been around for a long time, it would not have been so easy to dig again.

Historically, it took the Egyptians nearly eleven years to dig canals through the desert.

- This is mainly because they have no technology and are seriously underfunded, otherwise it would not have taken so long.

Li Cun's sons soon reached Cairo and gained control of the Suez Canal.

It should be noted that Li Cun did not include Cairo in the territory of the sub-fief.

After the opening of the Suez Canal, Cairo will be one of the richest places in the world, so rich that Li Cun is reluctant to give up here easily, so Li Cun is ready to use this place to make some money first.

Li Cun did not ask the Ministry of Industry of the Daqian Dynasty to dig the Suez Canal, but contracted the project to dig the Suez Canal to a newly established private infrastructure company.

——This company was formed by Li Cun's three sons, Li Qiao, Li Zhu and Li Wei.

Their infrastructure company is now a bit of a later generation of China's infrastructure madness, any project contracted is completed quickly and well, up to now, their infrastructure company has built more than 100 bridges for Li Cun, including some extremely difficult projects.

Li Cun demanded that Li Qiao, Li Zhuan, and Li Wei and their brothers must dig the Suez Canal within two years.

The brother patted his chest and made a military order.

Here in Cairo, the Great Expeditionary Force once again waited for sufficient supplies, and the westward expedition to Europe really began.

This expedition to Europe was divided into three directions:

The northern route was to cross the Caucasus between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea in the west, penetrate deep into Russia, and attack the Turkic Polovtsians. Along the way, Yue Fei served as the marshal of the capital, and pressed Li Cun's sons on the formation.

The middle way was to destroy the Crusader states, and then cross the strait on an Arab ship to attack Bulgaria. This way, Han Shizhong served as the marshal of the capital, and pressed Li Cun's sons on the formation.

The last route, the southern route, was through Egypt, then Libya and Tunisia, and then on an Arab ship across the strait to attack Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. This way, Zhao Li served as the marshal of the capital, and pressed Li Cun's sons.

It is worth mentioning that although Wu Jue lived a few years longer than in history, he still passed away not long ago.

Before Wu Jue died, Li Cun went to see him, and he said that the greatest luck in his life was to meet Li Cun and be appreciated by Li Cun, and the only regret was that he could not see Li Cun conquer the world with his own eyes.

Li Cun reassured Wu Jie that he would definitely treat his children and grandchildren well.

After Wu Jue's death, Li Cun posthumously crowned Wu Jue as the king of Fu and personally wrote a eulogy, affirming Wu Jue's achievements in this life.

Li Yanxian was left in Central Asia by Li Cun to guard here to ensure that in case of the failure of this western expedition, the Great Qian Expeditionary Force could also retreat to Central Asia, and then regroup and go west to Europe in the future.

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This westward expedition to Europe was not as smooth as the conquest of Central Asia.

This time it was not smooth, mainly reflected in the south road.

As soon as he set out on the expedition, he encountered a hard bone on the south road that was not easy to gnaw.

This hard bone is the 120,000 Mamluk cavalry of Egypt.

The Mamluk cavalry was made up of slaves, fearless to death, and quite difficult.

The key is that he swept through the entire Central Asia, attacking all the battles and being invincible, so that Li Cun's sons couldn't help but be a little rash.

As a result, Li Cun's sons led 20,000 cavalry as the front army, which was seriously out of touch with the large army led by Zhao Li.

The key point is that Li Cun's sons, due to their youth and vigor, were carelessly lured by the Mamluk cavalry to the plain of Ain Jalu, and then the Mamluk cavalry pretended to be defeated and led them into a valley.

The Mamluk Sultan Khudusi (also known as the king of Egypt) lined up there and waited for the arrival of Li Cun's sons.

At the same time, the Mamluk cavalry, which had lured the enemy, also stood in formation on the right flank.

The left flank of the Mamluk cavalry in ambush rushed down and quickly surrounded the 20,000 cavalry led by Li Cun's sons on three sides.

Faced with such a situation, Li Cun's sons showed the quality of the world's strongest army, and they used tiger squatting cannons and muskets to suppress the Mamluk cavalry from daring to step forward.

Later, the experienced Kudusi decisively gave up shooting with the officers and soldiers of the cadre army led by Li Cun's sons, adopted hand-to-hand combat tactics, and personally led the army to rush into the cadre army, brandishing a Damascus machete to kill the officers and soldiers.

Faced with such a situation, Li Cun's sons fearlessly chose to engage in a white-knuckle battle with the Mamluk cavalry led by Kudusi.

The two sides fought from day to night, and the killing was terrible.

In the end, Li Cun's sons, seeing that they were outnumbered and had no possibility of victory, led less than 3,000 remnants of the defeated army to open a bloody road and rushed out of the valley.

In this battle, Li Cun's son killed seven in the battle, and all those who were killed alive were wounded.

It can be said that this is the biggest defeat that Li Cunxi has encountered since his expedition.

After Zhao Li reported the report, he immediately led the main force to meet Kudusi.

Kudusi also wanted to do what he wanted.

But Zhao Li was not as reckless as Li Cun's sons at all, and in the face of the temptation of the Mamluk cavalry, he ignored everything, and steadily advanced to the capital of Egypt, forcing the Mamluk cavalry to come to the decisive battle.

Seeing that Zhao Li was not fooled, and that the soldiers and horses led by Zhao Li were only more than 50,000, and they still had more than 100,000 Mamluk cavalry, which was twice the number of the cadre army, so Hu Du thought of coercing the power of a great victory and had a real decisive battle with Zhao Li.

In this battle, Zhao Li gave full play to the advantages of the advanced weapons of the cadre army and defeated the Mamluk cavalry, as a result, the cadre army killed 60,000 or 70,000 Mamluk cavalry in the first battle, Kudusi was killed in battle, and the remaining Mamluk cavalry, except for a small part scattered, all the rest surrendered.

Because Li Cun killed seven sons in the first battle, Zhao Li ordered: kill all Mamluk cavalry.

After doing all this, Zhao Li handed over the army to the capital prison for the time being, and then he personally took the head of Kudusi and the corpses of Li Cun's seven sons to Li Cun to plead guilty.

Li Cun actually knew all this for a long time, and he also knew that Zhao Li was not to blame for this, but only to blame his sons for taking the enemy lightly.

Therefore, Li Cun didn't blame Zhao Li for a word, so he let Zhao Li go back and continue to command the army.

After Zhao Li left, Li Cun looked at the corpses of his seven sons and couldn't help but shed tears in an extremely rare way.

To be honest, that is, Li Cun has enough sons, otherwise seven of them will be killed in this battle, and Li Cun's old life will have to be killed.

Now, Li Cun can only warn all his sons again: soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored......

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The Northern Route Army crossed the Caucasus into Eastern Europe and then attacked the Turkic Polovtsians.

Feeling cold, the Rus' decided to send troops to help, hoping to fight to the death with the cadres on other people's land and avoid worries.

As a result, the principalities sent troops to form a large coalition of Rus' troops.

However, this Rus' coalition army was purely feudal, and each army was commanded by various feudal lords, fighting its own battles, and it was full of hostility and distrust between them, and the overall combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

So the final crushing defeat of the Rus' coalition can be imagined.

Short section.

On the banks of the Dakalka River, the main force of the Rus' coalition army met the main force of the cadre army led by Li Cun's sons.

In this wide plain, the forgetful Rus coalition army took the lead in the charge, but unfortunately fell into the trap arranged by Yue Fei in advance, and was shot and killed by Li Cun's sons and their respective pro-army and vassal army, and was unknowingly surrounded by the cadre army, and finally almost completely destroyed.

The already loose Rus' alliance collapsed, and the princes retreated to their fiefdoms with their remnants.

Li Cun's sons pursued the victory, killed more than a dozen princes and kings, and besieged the camp of the leader of the coalition army, Kiev Hou.

After three days of siege, the leader of the coalition forces, Kiev Hou, chose to lead everyone to surrender.

After this battle, Eastern Europe, where the main forces had been lost, could no longer organize a decent coalition army......

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Mid lane.

After sweeping through all the Crusader countries, the central army crossed the strait to attack Bulgaria.

This is also a sweep.

Li Cun's sons fought and marched across the Carpathian Mountains to the capital city of Pisti (near the later city of Budapest, Hungary).

Soon, the central army was assembled opposite the Hungarian city of Pest.

Budapest is originally two cities, the part east of the Danube River is called Pest, the part west of the Danube River is called Buda, and the two parts together are called Budapest, both Buda and Pest are large cities in Hungary.

- The capital of Hungary is Buda, while Pest has facilities such as the palace of Béla I.

Seeing the Qianjun coming, Béla I did not panic, he thought that the wide Danube was enough to prevent the Qianjun from crossing the river.

Therefore, Béla I did not rush out of the city to meet the battle, but slowly gathered his forces.

By the time the central army arrived at the city, 100,000 Hungarian troops had gathered in the city of Pest.

The cadres attacked but did not break through.

The Hungarian army did not go to war again.

Seeing this, Han Shizhong made a surprise plan to lure the Hungarian army to the Mining River, and then led the army to retreat.

Seeing this, Béla I immediately went out of the city to meet him.

The central army retreated slowly until it reached the confluence of the Saiyo and Tisza rivers.

At this time, the ambush led by Li Cun's sons broke out, causing chaos in the Hungarian army in the process of escaping.

Over the course of several days of pursuit, the Hungarian army was annihilated by more than 70,000 men, and Béla I was captured alive.

The central army then reached the city of Pest and breached it.

Two days later, the city of Buda was also captured by the central army......

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The army of the southern route went straight to Constantinople to kill, the main forces of Eastern Europe were destroyed, the capital of Hungary was breached, and the European countries were shaken, and new alliances were established and "close" alliances were formed.

And yet—

At this time in Europe, Kievan Rus' and Poland and Hungary were divided into principalities, which went their own way and did not listen to the orders of the Grand Duke, and the German, Italian, and Austrian countries were involved in the Crusades.

It can be said that the situation in Europe is very favorable to the westward expedition of the cadres.

What is even more crucial is that the armies of the European countries are far inferior to the expeditionary forces of the Great Qian, both in terms of weaponry and tactics.

Therefore, when the Great Cadre Expeditionary Force conquered the whole of Europe, it was not whether it could be defeated, but when it could be completely defeated......

…… (End of chapter)