Chapter 289 Caliphate VS Datang for a monthly ticket)
The news that "The Tang Dynasty is coming" was like it had wings. It was spreading wildly in the Western Regions where the Tang Dynasty once dominated. Of course, it also spread to Seljuk Sultan Saijar Maliksha, who had just defeated the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate.
That’s right, the Sultan of Seljuk is also fighting 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 are not the same country. The Peach Blossom Stone Khanate he defeated is the Western Tao Blossom Stone Khanate, and the one that was just defeated by the Western Tang Dynasty is the East Tao Blossom Stone Khanate... A Peach Blossom Stone Khanate was divided into two countries. They were beaten up in the same year. It was really the fate of brothers and brothers!
Of course, if there was no "The Tang Dynasty is coming" and Yelu Dashi's Western Expedition, the East Peach Blossom Stone Khanate would not have escaped the fate of being attacked by the Seljuks.
After Saijar Maliksha digested the Western Peach Blossom Khanate, he would definitely launch a new Eastern Expedition until the entire Peach Blossom Khanate was trampled under his feet and even completely crushed!
It’s not how big the land of Anxi is in the river occupied by the Taohua Stone Khanate, but the country is a bit different from the world of the Tianfang Sect... The leader of the Taohua Stone Khanate was the Great Khanate, not the Sultan or Emir. In theory, the Sultan and Emir were not emperors who were directly ordered by heaven, but the Caliph’s ministers.
Therefore, the Seljuk Empire did not exist in legal terms. The Seljuk Empire's Sultan was actually the Sultan of the Abbasid Dynasty... The Sultan of the Seljuk could also be regarded as the general of the Abbasid Dynasty's expedition.
The Abbasid Dynasty is the official name of the Arab Empire, the Sarasen Empire or the Great Food Empire today.
The Arab Empire, Sarasen and the Great Food Empire are both titles of countries ruled by outsiders, and are not the official names of the Caliphate Kingdom.
The official name of the Caliphate Kingdom is the dynasty, such as the Wumaiye Dynasty, the Abbasid Dynasty, the Fatima Dynasty, etc.
All the sultans and emirs are theoretically ministers of the Caliph. The Seljuk Turkic regime is similar to a shogunate regime, and is ordered to govern all the sultans and emirs.
However, although the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate also regards the Tianfang Cult as the national religion, it is not in the feudal system of "Calif.-Sultan-Emir", but has developed a "Peach Blossom Stone Tiankhan" system (some Peach Blossom Stone Khans call themselves Tiankhan). Therefore, its legal system originated from the Tang Dynasty, not the Karifa dynasty.
Moreover, the Peach Blossom Stone Khan is a "great Khan", that is, the emperor, and is at the same level as the Caliph, and is more advanced than the "shogun" Seljuk Sultan...
However, the Peach Blossom Khanate was not a "shogun" of Seljuk who could easily perish... On the one hand, the "shogun" had too many enemies. In the West, they had to fight against Rome and the Crusaders, and in the southeast, a group of Afghan warlords were needed to fight, and there were endless civil wars within the Seljuk Turks!
On the other hand, the strength of the Peach Blossom Khanate is not weak... In particular, the East Peach Blossom Khanate (the West Peach Blossom Khanate is not a righteous man, but a riot of independence) also ruled the vast territory and could summon an army of more than 100,000 people, which could not be easily defeated by Seljuk's "shogun".
Moreover, the Peach Blossom Stone people did not have a high recognition of the Abbasid Dynasty. In the early days of the establishment of the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate, the Samman Emir (the Persian Saman Dynasty) under the Abbasid dynasty once conquered the land of the river and the Qihe Rivers, and once drove the Peach Blossom Stone people out of their hometown. Then the two sides fought for more than a hundred years of tug-of-war, and the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate achieved the final victory.
The peach blossom stone people who "resisted the Abbasid Dynasty" certainly would not give up their peach blossom stone khan law and become the Emir of the Abbasid Dynasty.
Although the Peach Blossom Stone Khanate is now divided and declined, if they don’t make any effort, they will not completely surrender to the Abbasid Dynasty.
Therefore, after defeating the Western Taohua Shi Khanate, the "shogun" of Seljuk, the old Maliksha (Sejar's father), still retained the name "Peach Flower Shi Khan" and supported the puppet.
Saijar Maliksha attacked Samarkand (the capital of the Khanate of the West Peach Blossoms) in the early spring of 1130 of the Western Paradise because his father-in-law, Aslan Khan, who was paralyzed in bed, was unable to control the Khanate, but he was reluctant to leave his hands to see Allah... So, as a good son-in-law, Saijar had to lead 70,000 "invincible" soldiers to Samarkand to see his father-in-law.
Now Aslan Khan has gone to see Allah, but it will take some effort to completely deal with the Western Peach Blossom Stone Khanate... If this matter is not handled cleanly, the peach Blossom Stone people in the Hezhong area will go to their fellow tribes in the East, and the originally divided peach Blossom Stone Khanate will be reunified.
At that time, the "Seljuk Shogunate" will be in great trouble!
Just when Syjar Sultan was thinking about how to handle the funeral of the West Peach Blossom Khanate, his brother-in-law (the son of Aslan Khan) suddenly rushed to Samarkand from Maru (the location of the Seljuk Shogunate, located in Turkmen), and brought a news that shocked Saijar's arrival - he no longer had to worry about the issue of the East Peach Blossom Khanate, because the Tang Empire of the "real Peach Blossom" is here!
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"Mahmud, can you say it again...what the hell happened?"
In the city of Samarkand, among the magnificent palace built by Aslan Khan, he is 45 years old and looks like a tyrant who looks like a hard-to-serve hero. He also felt a little unbelievable when he heard that he was his brother-in-law and said something about the "real peach blossom stone" that he had called from the East.
The East Peach Blossom Khanate is a powerful country that can bring out an army of 100,000 - the army that Jal brought to Samarkand has more than 30,000!
Why is it gone?
Mahmud, who had just died of his father and had no chance to inherit his inheritance (Saijar Sultan was preparing to hand over the seat of Xi Taohua Shi Khan to Aslan Khan's younger brother), looked like a frightened elementary school student with a pale face and just lowered his head to reply.
"His Highness Sultan, Mahmud Kashgarri Khan has fled to Malu City... His 100,000 troops were defeated by the Tang army in the Battle of Yunhushui! Only 1,000 Gulam knights left to escort him from the battlefield to escape from the battlefield. Because the enemy was too strong, and Mahmud Kashgarri Khan lost most of his troops, he did not even dare to defend Kashgar to death, nor did he dare to cross the Tianshan Mountains to Balashaguon..."
"How is this possible?" Sultan Saijar was still a little disbelief, "How could the 100,000 troops be wiped out in one battle? The East Taohua Stone Khanate is too weak, right?"
Is it too weak? Mahmud said in his heart: Isn’t it that the Tang Dynasty, the real Taohua Stone in the East, is too powerful?
"Your Majesty Sultan... This time the enemy is from the Tang Dynasty, which is located in the Peach Blossom Stone!"
Of course, Sultan Saijar had heard of the Tang Dynasty, and he also knew what happened to the local Peach Blossom Stone... The silk clothes he wore and the exquisite porcelain used for meals were all wholesale from the local Peach Blossom Stone by Arab or Persian merchants.
Moreover, Sultan Saijar also knew the powerful "Zhongqin Khitan"...
"The Tang Dynasty...hasn't it been fighting with the Khitan all the time?" Sultan Saijar obviously did not understand the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
"The Khitan has been defeated!" said Mahmud, "Mahmud Kashgari Khan said that the Khitan of the Upper Qin was defeated by the Tang Dynasty a few years ago, and only some remnants were left hiding on the grasslands in the north to survive... His Majesty Sultan, hundreds of years ago, the Tang Empire first defeated the Eastern Turks on the grasslands in the north, and then conquered Anxi, the rivers and the seven rivers... They are now here again!"
"What are you afraid of?" Sjal Sultan looked calm, "Aren't they defeated by the Caliph's soldiers in the Battle of Talas? Since Abu *** can do it, then I... As the sultan of the Abbasid Dynasty, what reason can't I do?"
The Great Food Kingdom that defeated the Tang army in the Battle of Talas was also the Abbasid Dynasty, but it was the "real Abbasid Dynasty". The second caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty was Mansour. At that time, the Abbasid Dynasty had just won the civil war and was in the strongest state. It had a huge Khorasan Persian Legion, which could mobilize up to hundreds of thousands of troops!
Talas is closer to Khorasan, so the Abbasid Dynasty could send a huge expeditionary force there.
But now... the "Seljuk Shogunate" does not have much power, and it is very divided inside. The Sultan, Saijar, is just a nominal communist, and the troops that can be mobilized are far from comparable to the Abbasid Dynasty back then.
In addition, although the Tang Dynasty dominated the Western Regions and established the Anxi Protectorate, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty was in the East and did not have the motivation to immigrate to the Western Regions in large quantities. Therefore, the Anxi Protectorate did not have many reliable "nationals" in its hands and had to rely on the army provided by its vassals to fight.
Now the Western Tang Dynasty fled the whole country... There were at least 500,000 or about to move into Anxidu. They also received strong support from the Gaochang Uighurs, and their strength was far greater than the "Seljuk Shogunate".
Sultan Saijar was quite tough, but his heart was still weak. Although he was coquettishly beating this and that, he didn't have much capital. The 70,000 people brought to Samarkand were almost his old capital. If he really wanted to fight all of them, his "Seljuk Shogunate" would be in a state of dismay.
So after he got up to his mouth, his tone changed, "Since the Tang Kingdom came from the west, then once this war begins, it will be a war between the Caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, which will be a collision between the two worlds!
Therefore, we must be cautious. After all, the Tang Kingdom did not attack the Abbasid Dynasty, but was attacking the Taohua Stone Khanate. I will go to Baghdad in person and ask the Caliph to send an envoy to the Eastern Tang Dynasty... If the Emperor of the Tang Kingdom had no intention of invading Xintu under the Caliphate, then I would not lead the invincible Seljuk army to expedition the Taohua Stone Kingdom."
Chapter completed!