Chapter 19: The Fighting Nation (I)

In fact, the statement of the stepfather and the stepmother is already more polite.

Guo Kang never mentioned these things to more people. It's not that he can't say anything about the "future", in fact, he has already given others "spoilers" many times in the name of divination and historical deduction. But the result was not very good.

After all, this world is somewhat different from his original hometown, so it is natural that there will be deviations. If it were only for this reason, he would not be so helpless.

The biggest obstacle is that the "problem" that many later generations saw was not a problem at the time, but the best choice that could be made. He thought that by pointing out the hidden dangers that would arise in the future, he would be able to avoid them. However, it has been found that this may have even greater side effects.

Sometimes, there will indeed be questions from the authorities, but more often than not, the person who made the decision back then may not have considered less than him. Even, because of the more immersive and relevant experience, these people will be more thoughtful than he is. His worries are not ununderstood by others.

For example, is it right for the Khanate to support the city-states of Rus?

Judging by later generations, the Rus' eventually destroyed the Golden Horde. But at this moment, the Rus, on the contrary, are the most harmless.

At this time, Lithuania was in a period of strength, and it had repeatedly intervened in the affairs of the Rus' countries, and even openly argued with the Khan's court. Not long after the death of Janibe Khan, the Lithuanian army defeated the Golden Horde at the Blue Water River, captured Kiev, and expelled the Mongols east of the Don River. Until Tokhtamysh was defeated, Lithuania was the first thing that came to mind.

Not supporting these Rus' and allowing them to maintain their independence would be tantamount to fattening the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. At that time, I am afraid that before the 15th century, the Khanate will be completely finished.

To the west of Lithuania, there is an even more difficult Poland. The Poles also repeatedly reached out to South Russia. In 1352, while Zanibe Khan was still alive and the Golden Horde was still in decline, Poland entered the later regions of Ukraine and partnered with Lithuania to openly divide the Galich-Volyn principality in an attempt to expand its territory to the Black Sea.

Failure to prop up Rus' proxies meant that the Khan's court would have to rely on its own strength to wage a long war with these great powers on long borders, surrounded by unfriendly locals. This kind of cost is obviously unaffordable.

In the final analysis, people in Guo Kang's era inevitably looked at these countries with stereotypes - in his time, most people probably didn't know what Lithuania was. Occasionally, those who pay attention to the international situation often only remember that he inexplicably provoked himself, and feel that this is a strange small country at the level of a clown.

As for Poland, there should be more people who know about it, but its most famous joke is that it was divided between two heads in three days, and it looks like a weak and unlucky egg.

The Rus', on the other hand, became the largest country in the world, with the title of "Fighting Nation", which seemed very powerful at first hearing.

In this case, it is indeed easy to give the impression that there is no distinction between the importance and the importance of supporting the Rus' against Poland and Lithuania, and it seems that it is better to eliminate this potential opponent as soon as possible.

However, at this time, Poland was one of the most powerful in the entire Christian world. Lithuania, on the other hand, is the largest country in Eastern Europe, occupying a vast territory from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea, and the area makes people wonder who will be Russia after him and Moscow.

In this case, it is difficult for him to guarantee that his advice is really appropriate.

Not to mention, there are some concepts that people of different eras may not be able to understand each other at all. For example, in this era, if he has to ask someone who is the fighting nation, then everyone will think that it is himself.

The Europeans had no contact with the East Asian powers, but the Celestial Sect world had been dealing with them for a long time.

At the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Umayyad dynasty was in the midst of its second great expansion in the Arab world. This caused concern among the Central Asian countries, and they asked the Tang Dynasty to intervene and put down the Arab invaders. However, the Tang Dynasty showed little interest in this, so they lost their lives to the Turkish tribes that had split off from the Western Turkic Khanate.

After that, the leader of the Turgish, Sulu, led his army south and fought the Arabs for more than ten years. The Arab Empire lost nearly 200,000 troops, most of them veterans brought from Arabia proper and Syria. The largest province of Khorasan in the empire was beaten into a bare pole by the Turgish. The caliphate was forced to bring back troops from the direction of India, the Caucasus, and even Asia Minor to fill the bottomless pit in the East.

Serious military defeats, which led to the suspension of expansion in other directions, dealt a blow to the prestige of the empire. The rapid attrition of the core army directly shook the rule of the Umayyad Dynasty. Not long after, because he could not suppress the resistance of the Persians, he was overthrown by the more Persian Abbasid dynasty.

This result is incredible.

You know, at this time, 6,000 Arabs will be able to conquer North India, and more than 7,000 will be able to defeat the most powerful country in Iberia. During the Western Expedition, which coincided with the Eastern Crusade, tens of thousands of soldiers fought from Tunis all the way to southern Gaul, conquering almost all of the territory along the way, until they were defeated by the Frankish kingdom at Poitiers. Moreover, these people were basically new converts recruited on the spot, and they did not consume much of the strength of their headquarters. Even thirty years earlier, the decisive battle against the Eastern Roman army under the command of Heraclius at the Yarmouk River had cost only 25,000 soldiers.

If the more than 100,000 veterans who were sent away in the East were all thrown into the Western Expedition, it is estimated that there would be no Catholic world in the future.

And Turgish was not even a real power - later, the Sulu Khan fell out with the Tang Dynasty, and as a result, he was crushed to death by the Tang Dynasty without making much of a wave.

In the eyes of the Arabs, this means a very outrageous reality.

In this world, only the people of the Central Plains will care, or are qualified to care about the difference between "bondage" and "locality". In the eyes of other civilizations, this is a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, beating the Arab Empire to the point of doubt.

This kind of shaking will undoubtedly have an impact on the history that follows.

Later, because of Gao Xianzhi's outrageous operation, the regular army of the Tang Dynasty was defeated by the Abbasids at Talas, and its record was even inferior to that of his own vassals. Even so, the Abbasids maintained friendly relations with the Tang dynasty and had little interest in eastward expansion and missionary work. Because the lesson of the previous dynasty is very straightforward, that is, "you have nothing to do to provoke them".