The news that "The Tang Dynasty is coming", as if it had wings, spread wildly throughout the Western Regions that the Tang Dynasty once dominated. Of course, it also reached the Seljuk Sultan of the Abbasid Dynasty who had just defeated the Taohuashi Khanate. Jal Malik Shah's ears.
Yes, the Seljuk Sultan was also attacking the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate!
Of course, the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate he defeated and the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate defeated by the Western Tang Dynasty were not the same country. The Peach Blossom Stone Khanate he defeated was the Western Peach Blossom Stone Khanate, and the one just defeated by the Western Tang Dynasty was the Eastern Peach Blossom Stone Khanate. The Stone Khanate... The Peach Blossom Stone Khanate was divided into two countries, and they were both brutally beaten in the same year. They were really brothers who suffered the same fate!
Of course, if there had not been the "arrival of the Tang Dynasty" and Yelu Dashi's Western Expedition, the Eastern Peach Blossom Stone Khanate would not have been able to escape the fate of being attacked by the Seljuks.
After Sejal Maliksha digests the Western Peach Blossom Stone Khanate, he will definitely launch a new Eastern Expedition until he tramples on the entire Peach Blossom Stone Khanate under his feet, or even completely crushes it!
It's not that the land of Hezhong and Anxi occupied by the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate is very rich, but that this country is a bit different compared to the world of Tianfang Sect... The leader of the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate is the Great Khan, and Not the Sultan or the Emir. Theoretically, the sultan and emir were not emperors who were directly ordered by heaven, but were ministers of the caliph.
Therefore, the Seljuk Empire does not exist legally. The Sultan of the Seljuk Empire is actually the Sultan of the Abbasid Dynasty... The Seljuk Sultan can also be regarded as the conqueror of the Abbasid Dynasty. General.
The Abbasid Dynasty is the official name of the Arab Empire, the Saracen Empire or the Food Empire today.
The Arabian Empire, the Saracens and the Great Food Empire are all names given by outsiders to the countries under the rule of the Caliphate, and are not the official names of the Caliphate.
The official name of the caliphate is the name of the dynasty, such as the Umayyad Dynasty, the Abbasid Dynasty, the Fatimid Dynasty, etc.
And all sultans and emirs are theoretically subjects of the caliph. The Seljuk Turkic regime is similar to a shogunate regime, which is appointed by the caliph and governs all sultans and emirs.
However, although the Taohuashi Khanate also adopted Tianfang religion as its state religion, it was not in the feudal system of "Caliph-Sultan-Emir". Instead, it established a "Taohuashi Tiankhan" system (there were some Taohuashi Khans). Khan will call himself Heavenly Khan). Therefore, its legal system comes from the Tang Dynasty, not the Khalifa Dynasty.
Moreover, Taohuashi Khan is the "Great Khan", that is, the emperor, who is on the same level as the Caliph and is more senior than the "Shogun" known as the Seljuk Sultan...
However, the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate cannot be easily destroyed by the Seljuk "Shogun"... On the one hand, the "Shogun" has too many enemies. There is a war with Rome and the Crusaders in the west, a group of Afghan warlords in the southeast, and an endless civil war within the Seljuk Turks!
On the other hand, the strength of the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate is not weak...especially the Eastern Peach Blossom Stone Khanate (the West Peach Blossom Stone Khanate is not Zhengshuo, but came out for independence) and still rules a vast territory. It was possible to muster an army of more than 100,000 people, which was not easily defeated by the Seljuk "shogun".
Moreover, the Taohuashi people do not have a high degree of recognition of the Abbasid Dynasty - in the early days of the establishment of the Taohuashi Khanate, the Samanid Emir of the Abbasid Dynasty (the Samanid Dynasty of Persia) once launched a large-scale conquest of Hezhong and Qihe. At one time, the Taohuashi people were driven out of their hometown, and then the two sides fought a tug-of-war for more than a hundred years before the Taohuashi Khanate won the final victory.
And the Taohuashi man who "defeated the Abbasid Dynasty" would certainly not give up his Taohuashi Khan legal tradition and become the emir of the Abbasid Dynasty.
Although the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate is now divided and declining, they will not completely succumb to the Abbasid Dynasty without some hard work.
Therefore, after defeating the Western Peach Blossom Stone Khanate, the Seljuk "Shogun" Old Malik Shah (Sajjar's father) still retained the name "Peach Blossom Stone Khan" and supported puppets.
Sajjar Malikshah's attack on Samarkand (the capital of the Western Khanate) in the early spring of 1130 AD was because his old father-in-law, Aslan Khan, who was paralyzed in bed, was no longer able to control it. But the Khanate was still unwilling to give up and go to see God... So as a good son-in-law, Sajjar had to lead 70,000 "invincible" soldiers to Samarkand to pay his old father-in-law a final death. .
Now Aslan Khan has gone to see Allah, but it will take some effort to completely defeat the Western Peach Blossom Stone Khanate... If this matter is not handled cleanly, the Peach Blossom Stone people in the Hezhong area will turn to the East of the same clan, the originally divided Eastern and Western Peach Blossom Stone Khanate will be reunited.
Then the "Seljuk Shogunate" will be in big trouble!
Just when Sajjar Sultan was thinking about how to take care of the affairs of the Western Peach Blossom Stone Khanate in a more secure way, his brother-in-law (the son of Aslan Khan) Mahmud suddenly left from Maru (the Seljuk shogunate). Located in Turkmenistan) arrived in Samarkand, and brought a piece of news that shocked Sajjar - he no longer had to worry about the problems of the Eastern Peach Blossom Stone Khanate, because the "True Peach Blossom Stone" Tang Dynasty The empire is coming!
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"Mahmoud, can you tell me again...what exactly happened?"
In the magnificent palace built by Aslan Khan in the city of Samarkand, the 45-year-old Sejar Sultan, who looked like a difficult to maintain hero, heard his brother-in-law stammering and finished saying: " The news of "real peach blossom stone" coming from the East also seemed a bit unbelievable.
The Eastern Peach Blossom Stone Khanate is a powerful country that can pull out an army of 100,000 - 30,000 more than the army Bijar brought to Samarkand!
Why is it gone?
Mahmoud, whose father had just died and who had no chance to inherit the inheritance (Sajal Sultan was planning to hand over the seat of Sima Khan to Aslan Khan's younger brother), looked like a frightened primary school student, with a pale face. , just lowered his head and replied.
"His Royal Highness the Sultan, Mahmud Kashgari Khan has fled to Malu City...His 100,000 troops were completely annihilated by the Tang army in the Battle of Yunhu Shui! Only 1,000 were left. Knight Gulam desperately escorted him to escape from the battlefield. Because the enemy was too strong, and Mahmud Kashgari Khan had lost most of his army, he did not even dare to defend Kashgar, nor did he dare to cross the Tianshan Mountains to Balashagon. ..."
"How is this possible?" Sejar Sultan still didn't believe it. "How could an army of one hundred thousand be wiped out in one battle? Isn't the Eastern Peach Blossom Stone Khanate too weak?"
Is it too weak? Mahmud thought: Isn't it true that the Tang Dynasty in the East is too powerful?
"Your Majesty the Sultan...this time the enemy is the Tang Dynasty from the mainland of Taohuashi!"
Of course Sultan Sejar had heard of the Tang Dynasty, and he also knew what the peach blossom stone was like... The silk clothes he wore and the exquisite porcelain he used to eat were all obtained from peach blossoms by Arab or Persian merchants. Wholesale from Shidu.
And Sultan Sejar also knew about the powerful "Khitan of the Middle Qin Dynasty"...
"The Tang Dynasty...hasn't it always been at war with the Khitan?" Sultan Sejar obviously didn't understand the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
"The Khitan has been defeated!" Mahmud said. "Mahmud. Kashgari Khan said that the Khitan of the Upper Qin Dynasty was defeated by the Tang Dynasty a few years ago, and only a few remnants are left hiding on the grasslands of the north to survive. ...Your Majesty the Sultan, hundreds of years ago, the Tang Empire first defeated the Eastern Turks on the northern grasslands, and then conquered Anxi, Hezhong, and Qihe... Now they are coming again Got it!"
"What are you afraid of?" Sejar Sultan said with a sullen face, "Weren't they defeated by the Caliphate's warriors in the Battle of Talas? Since Abu *** can do it, then I...as an Arab What reason could there be for the Sultan of the Bassi Dynasty to be unable to do so?"
The Dashi Kingdom that defeated the Tang army in the Battle of Talos was also the Abbasid Dynasty, but it was the "real Abbasid Dynasty" and the second caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty, Mansur, was in power. At that time, the Abbasid Dynasty had just won the civil war and was at its strongest. It had a huge Khorasan Persian Army and could mobilize up to hundreds of thousands of troops!
Talas was relatively close to Khorasan, so the Abbasid Dynasty could send a large expeditionary force there.
But now... the "Seljuq Shogunate" does not have much power, and it is also very divided internally. The Sultan Sejal is only the nominal leader, and the troops he can mobilize are far from what Abbas was back then. Compared with Sri Lanka.
In addition, although the Tang Dynasty dominated the Western Regions and established the Anxi Protectorate, the Tang Dynasty was based in the East and had no motivation to immigrate to the Western Regions on a large scale. Therefore, the Anxi Protectorate does not have many reliable "nations" in its hands, and must rely on the troops provided by vassals to fight.
And now the entire Western Tang Dynasty is fleeing... There are at least 500,000 or 600,000 "Tang people" who have moved or are about to move to Anxi, and they have also received strong support from the Gaochang Uighurs. Their strength far exceeds that of the "Sai" Erzhu Shogunate".
Sejal Sultan was tough on his lips, but his heart was still empty. Despite his coquettish behavior, he doesn't have much capital. The 70,000 people he brought to Samarkand are almost his capital. If they really run out of money, his "Seljuk Shogunate" will be in decline.
So after finishing his talk, he changed his tone, "Since the Tang Kingdom has come to the west, once this war begins, it will be a war between the Caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. It will be a war between two worlds. Collision!
Therefore, we must be cautious. After all, the Tang State was not attacking the Abbasid Dynasty, but the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate. I will personally go to Baghdad and ask the Caliph to send a mission to the Eastern Tang Dynasty... If the emperor of the Tang Dynasty has no intention of invading the land of faith under the rule of the Caliphate, then I will not lead the invincible Seljuk army on an expedition to Peach Blossoms. Stone country. "
