Yizhou City was breached in less than an hour, which really surprised Zhao Ta.

Originally, I really thought that the city in the Western Regions was easy to attack, but according to what Li Yanxian said, the elite soldiers and strong generals would arrange it carefully, and they would definitely be able to take it within a day, but they didn't expect that it would only take an hour.

Zhao Ta couldn't help but be silent for a while, and then glanced at Liyan Nazha, who didn't speak, just looked away, quite embarrassed.

Zhao Ta knew how Yelu Dashi swept through the Western Regions and Central Asia, and with fifteen or six thousand soldiers, he could fight a huge territory in Western Liao, which was really staggering, and the actual reason was that the combat strength of the Central and Western Asian army at this moment was really indescribable.

No matter how powerful the 20,000 elite cavalry Yelu Dashi obtained from Kedun City, the combat power cannot be compared to the current Jurchen, but the west has no power to fight back, and it can be inferred from this that the current Jurchen army is so powerful and incomparable.

And these countries in Central and Western Asia, the Western Uighurs, the Eastern and Western Qarakhanids, the Seljuk Empire and their dozens of subject states after the division of the year, including Byzantine Asia Minor, the Ghaznavid Dynasty in Tianzhu, the Caucasus, and those countries in Central and Western Asia led by Persia, a battle of Katwan, all of them were broken and sunk, running and fleeing, where was the opponent of Yelu Dashi.

All were shocked, defeated, and dispersed by the Liao cavalry!

And then speculate from this, what a crusade is simply a joke, the combination of combat power in Central and Western Asia, the Crusades have not been fought for 200 years, which relatively proves how weak the Europa side is in this era.

Extrapolating in this way, it is not too surprising that the Tatars swept across the Eurasian continent later, and it is completely understandable that in the era of cold weapons, the absolute king has always been in the East.

Of course, Zhao Ta did not come to a hasty conclusion, but really thought deeply, and pondered from the attack and defense of the city, the city in the Western Regions was poorly built, difficult to defend and easy to attack, and the same is true for the Central and Western Asian side, which is not too easy for the eastern army that is good at attacking the city.

Originally, the city was not powerful, and when you encounter an army that is good at besieging the city, wouldn't it be like delivering food?

As for the castle on the Europa side, it looks solid, but in fact it is unbearable, because the castle has several weaknesses, such as fear of fireworks and fear of long-term sleepiness, and these are all strategies used by siege commanders.

Referring to the Battle of Katwan, the armies of Central and Western Asia were not only unable to defend the city, but also too much worse in terms of encounters and positional warfare, and according to this, in such a weak situation, the Crusades did not come, and Europa's army was not strong.

The Battle of Katwan is a very representative and authentic battle, because this battle is not only recorded in the East, but also recorded in the West, especially in the local papal records, which are more realistic, because from the opposite point of view, objectivity is the bottom line, but bluntly talk about the fiasco of this battle.

Therefore, the Battle of Katwan can truly reflect the combat power of the East and the West in this era.

As for the representative, the other side is a multinational coalition army, with several times the strength of Yelu Dashi, which involves a variety of war modes, both plain encounters and siege and land grabbing, but Yelu Dashi won more with less, and completely defeated the other side, which is a multi-faceted and complete collision of the Eastern and Western armies.

The Western Liao established by Yelu Dashi has built a bridge that can compare the combat power of the East and the West, and can objectively reflect the combat power of all parties in this era, while the Tatars of later generations are only crushed, and there is no value reference comparison between opponents.

After Zhao Ta figured out these things, he asked Liyanaza to take over Yizhou City, after all, he didn't want to slaughter the city and cleanse it, so it was just right for Liyanaza to come forward.

As for how to take over, suppress and appease, Zhao Ta had already had a set of methods and taught it directly to Liyan Nazha.

Then the army did not drive away directly, but stayed in Yizhou for three days, just to spread the news, and the whole Uighur knew about it, and the whole country knew that it would be subdued, afraid, and frightened by the other party.

Three days later, the troops were sent to the river.

Jiaohe was the capital of one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions.

"Hanshu Western Regions Biography" said: The former country of the Cheshi, the king ruled the river city, and the river water flowed around the city, so it was called the river city.

Li Yanxian led his troops to attack the city, but he didn't expect that Jiaohe was even worse than Yizhou, this time he didn't run out of an hour, only a little more than half an hour, and he took the city.

It is really Yizhou Linxixia, which is regarded as an important border town of the Uighurs, so the defense should be tighter, and Jiaohe as the rear is not as good.

Therefore, the army was stationed at Jiaohe for another three days, and when the news was completely dispersed, the army continued to set off for Gaochang City.

Gaochang is already in chaos at the moment, there is an Eastern Qarakhanid invasion in the west, and there are strong armies in the east to break through the city, it is far from being as simple as being overwhelmed, and it is just a panic that feels like a black cloud is pressing down and is about to destroy the country.

It took a lot of effort for the Uighur Khan of Western Prefecture to figure out the origin of this team, which turned out to be the Song army.

This surprised him very much, after all, the Uighurs in Western China had very little contact with the Great Song Dynasty, and they were mostly close to and dedicated to the Liao, and they knew little about the situation of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, he also knows a little about the current situation in the world, Liao was attacked by the Jurchens, the empire was about to overthrow, and Western Xia was captured by the Song army and had been completely destroyed, so did this army come to destroy the Uighurs? He couldn't help but panic.

In fact, the countries of the Western Regions have never been the opponents of those powerful countries in the east, but on the one hand, they are barren, and on the other hand, there are natural barriers such as hurricanes and dust storms and the Hanhai Desert, so the big countries in the east will rarely take care of it, and sometimes they will suffer some losses due to natural reasons, but if the tiger moves his face and moves his real character, the countries of the Western Regions will be able to resist at all.

As the news came little by little, the Uighur court knew that this army was the Song army that had destroyed Western Xia, led by the King of Qin of the Song Kingdom, and at this moment, the King of Qin actually called himself the King of Great Light and the first king of Mingjiao.

But this is not the most shocking, the most shocking thing is that the third princess Liya Nazha is actually in this army, and Yizhou and Jiaohe are both taken over by Liya Nazha, which shows the power and majesty.

According to some of the defeated soldiers of the two cities who fled to Gaochang, the son of the third princess was actually the son of King Qin of the Song State, and the two were actually a family.

The shock of this news was no less than the loss of two cities in a row, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were even more shocked, even if they didn't want to think about it, they also knew that the other party came this time with the intention of revenge, after all, they wanted to send the third princess to the Eastern Qarakhanate at that time, in order to stop the war.

Brother Bile immediately convened a meeting of ministers to discuss countermeasures, but where is there any good way, at this moment, if the Liao soldiers Jin Ge Iron Horse comes, it is impossible to say that it will surrender directly, after all, the Song State is not a deep deterrent, and the ministers of the court are worried that Liyan Nazha will enter the city to retaliate against the previous matter, so they all offer advice, and they should focus on defense.

After listening to the words of the ministers, Bile Ge ordered the gates of Gaochang to be closed on all sides, and came out in a posture of defending the city.

(End of chapter)