Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 881 The wind doesn't stop (please subscribe!)

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After pacifying the north, Li Yan wanted to stop his expansion.

For this reason, Li Yan even changed the year name to "Da Ding".

Moreover, Li Yan presided over and supplemented his original "big railway" plan, adding Siberia to his "big railway" plan.

In addition, Li Yan ordered people to go to Siberia to explore for oil and natural gas. Li Yan did this to find stable oil and natural gas resources for Dazhong. If it is a little far away from China, we will give up Siberia, a treasure land with extremely rich resources.

All in all, Li Yan no longer wants to expand abroad, but only wants to digest the territory he has already obtained, and then vigorously develop his own country.

In other words, Li Yan has figured it out, a bird in hand is worse than a thousand birds in the forest.

But in many cases, it doesn't mean that if you want to stop, you can really stop.

Just when Li Yan rolled his arms up his sleeves and was about to fight, Guiyuan City in the far west (the former capital of the Karahan Dynasty in the east, Lasha Gun) suddenly sent back news that Ge Luolu and Kangli had rebelled. Now it is wantonly encroaching on Dazhong's territory.

As soon as the news came back, Li Yan was actually not surprised—in fact, this matter was already in Li Yan's expectation.

In Li Yan's original plan, the territory in the west of Dazhong was only as far as the Tianshan Mountains.

The reason why Li Yan asked Yue Fei and the others to fight against the Tianshan Mountains to destroy the Eastern Karahan Dynasty, and the reason why Li Yan later sent Lu Jiang and Li Ji to govern the Eastern Karahan Dynasty was because Li Yan did not want his neighbor to be a powerful Empire, this is too dangerous.

But then again, because Li Yan did not want to completely occupy the territory of the Eastern Karahan Dynasty, therefore, Li Yan did not immigrate there.

Of course, this is also because the Han people are not willing to go to places that are so far away and have such a bad environment—not to mention the west of Tianshan Mountains, that is, the Western Regions. Han people are reluctant to settle there because of the distance and poor environment.

This also led to Dazhong's relatively weak control over there.

Speaking of it, although Dazhong now has a population of more than 1 million and 5000 million, accounting for more than half of the world's population, the territory of Dazhong is really too large, so large that it seems that such a large population is not enough.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Yan is unwilling to expand further.

So does Li Yan have a way to solve the difficult problem of leaving his homeland?

Of course there are.

It's very simple, just use economic means to promote it, as long as there is money to be made, let alone the Western Regions, even the Western Paradise, there are people who are willing to go.

However, at the current stage, Li Yan wants to digest all the territory he has already obtained, and does not want to expand any more.

however--

The tree wants to be still, but the wind does not stop.

The rebellion of Ge Luolu and Kangli forced Li Yan to go to war again, and it was necessary to go to war.

First of all, Li Yan doesn't want to fight, but it doesn't mean that Li Yan is afraid of fighting - the road Li Yan has traveled all the way is all paved with bones, and all the rivers Li Yan has waded are all poured with blood. The emperor's throne under his buttocks is all piled up with the heads of the enemies. How could such a Li Yan be afraid of fighting?
Furthermore, Ge Luolu and Kang Li dared to fight back. If they didn't hit hard, everyone would follow suit in the future. Wouldn't Dazhong's country be like a piece of paper? What are we talking about for 100 or 200 years?
Therefore, Li Yan quickly ordered the Privy Council to mobilize [-] elites from various military regions, led by Yue Fei who had just returned, to go west again to crusade against Ge Luolu and Kangli.

This time, in addition to Wang De, the Privy Council also sent Zhang Xian to Yue Fei as his deputy, just in case.

As for the civil servants, the experienced Ma Kuo was the main one.

In addition, Li Yan also let Li Wei and his fifty or so sons who like to be soldiers join the expeditionary army for training.

Today, the Dazhong Railway has been built to Dingyuan City in the Western Regions.

Therefore, Yue Fei and the others arrived in Dingyuan City in less than seven days in a special military column, including men and horses.

Compared with Yue Fei and the others who took more than a year to reach Dingyuan City, it is simply a world of difference.

Let Yue Fei and the others really feel a lot of emotion, and feel that Li Yan is amazing!

Leaving Dingyuan City, Yue Fei and the others walked for more than [-] days, crossed the Tianshan Mountains, and then came to the territory of the former Karahan Dynasty in the east.

At this time, the people sent by General Lu and Li Ji to meet the expeditionary army had been waiting for the expeditionary army for a long time.

Soon, General Lu, Li Ji and the others resupplied the expeditionary force, and then the expeditionary force first entered the Fergana Valley.

Here, the expeditionary force met no resistance.

Then, the expeditionary force continued to advance westward and reached Kuzen—a little further to the northwest, which was Ge Luolu's territory.

But here, Zhang Xian, the former army of the expeditionary force, was attacked by Mahmud Khan of the Western Karahan Dynasty.

Although it was a sneak attack, the military literacy and weaponry of the two armies were so different that the army of the West Karakhan Dynasty was easily defeated by the Zhang Xianbu.

Mahmud later led the remnants and fled back to Samarkand, the capital of the Western Karahan Dynasty.

Afterwards, Zhang Xian learned from the captives that this battle had nothing to do with Ge Luolu and Kang Li, but because Mahmud couldn't understand the arrogance of the Chinese army and dared to enter his territory ostentatiously, so he wanted to give the expeditionary army It was a lesson that triggered this sneak attack.

The matter has become troublesome.

The target of the expeditionary force's western expedition was not the Western Karahan Dynasty, but Ge Luolu and Kangli. I did not expect to cause such a big misunderstanding.

After Yue Fei and others discussed it, Ma Kuo finally proposed to send someone to the Western Karahan Dynasty to hold them accountable, and then find an opportunity to find a way for both parties to resolve the misunderstanding.

But what Yue Fei and others never expected was that Mahmud was extremely unwilling to be reconciled to this defeat, and even asked for help from his suzerain, Sultan Sanjar of the Seljuk Turks.

Mahmud never told Sanjar that it was the expeditionary force he attacked first, but told Sanjar that the Mu religion had encountered a disaster, and encouraged Sanjar to defend the Mu religion.

in fact--

At the beginning, when the expeditionary force attacked the Eastern Karahan Dynasty, Sanjar was already ready to move.

This is not to blame Sanjar for being sensitive. It is because Dazhong not only invaded Central Asia from land, but also invaded Central Asia from the sea. Therefore, Chinese merchants began to bypass the Dashi merchants and trade directly with the West. This behavior of Chinese merchants seriously violated the interests of the Seljuk Dynasty.

But at that time, the Chinese army withdrew shortly after defeating the Eastern Karahan Dynasty.

In addition, at that time, there was a West Karakhan Dynasty between the East Karakhan Dynasty and the Seljuk Dynasty.

The two sides did not fight.

Now, with the Western Karahan Dynasty as the introduction and providing the battlefield, Sanjar decided that he must give Dazhong some color and let Dazhong know who is the lord of Central Asia!
Therefore, Sanjar called for the defense of the Muslim religion in the name of the sultan, and the kings of Khorasan, Sijistan, Ghazna, Mazanland and Gur all led troops to join.

In the end, Sancar gathered more than [-] cavalry and crossed the Amu Darya in a large scale to fight the expeditionary army...

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(End of this chapter)