Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 889 World War ([-]) (Please subscribe!)

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When it comes to the "Crusade", I am afraid that most people will be left with the impression that the barbaric, backward, and corrupt medieval church invaded the enlightened, pluralistic, and wealthy Middle East.

But in fact, this is an illusion, this is actually a war between religions.

I won't say what is right and what is wrong.

Li Yan doesn't care about who is right and who is wrong, and he can't tell right from wrong about religious matters.

Moreover, Li Yan came to Central Asia just to gain some territory for his sons, so he didn't want to get too involved.

Therefore, Li Yan made it clear that as long as the divine power does not violate his own imperial power, the royal power of his sons, or the power of the world, he supports freedom of belief.

In other words, Li Yan drew a line for religion—as long as religion does not cross this line, everyone will live in peace. If religion dares to cross the line, then I'm sorry, and there will be no mercy.

In addition, all the places next to Li Yan were attacked, including Damascus, the capital of the Arab Empire, but they did not touch Jerusalem, the holy land of Christianity and Muslim religion. Do not touch here.

That is to say, Li Yan wants to keep his relationship with religion in the same water.

But this is just Li Yan's personal thoughts. He has already been deeply involved in this vortex, so how could he not be involved?

The short section says.

Facing hundreds of years of brutal jihad, the Western Christian kingdoms launched the Crusades to support the Eastern Christian religion and recover the holy land of Jerusalem.

However, the Byzantine Empire fell and the Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque.

Pope Urban II then called on the Christian warriors to resist the aggression of the Iraqi world at the Clermont Conference held decades ago, and received a warm response. Thousands of fighters set up the sign of the cross. Vow, prepare to fight.

I won't say much about the process of the First Crusade.

After the fall of the Principality of Edessa established during the First Crusade, in response to the request of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Second Crusade was launched under the leadership of King Louis VII of France and Conrad III, King of the Holy Roman Empire East and west, the Europeans set off from Europe to fight the Turks in Saier.

Speaking of it, the cause of this incident was Sanjar, a militant who sent troops to occupy Edessa before Dazhong came from the east.

After the First Crusade, the earlier German Crusade was defeated by the Turks in Asia Minor, and the attempt by the French Crusade to capture Damascus also failed, so the First Crusade failed to achieve any purpose. Jiaer sent someone to take the very important Edessa to Zhanling, which led to the great defeat of the Christian religion in Central Asia.

Judging from the situation at the time, if there was no further eastward expedition, the Christian religion would be completely driven out of the east.

The point is that other places can be lost, but the holy land of Jerusalem must not be lost.

So, the Crusaders started the Second Crusade.

The first crusaders to depart included the Flemish, Frisian and English.

They plan to sail across the Mediterranean Sea via Gibraltar.

Unfortunately, they encountered a storm in Portugal and stayed in Porto.

In Porto, they met an envoy sent by King Henry of Portugal-Henry was originally a French knight, but he became the founding monarch of Portugal by accident.

Henry persuaded the crusaders to help him besiege Lisbon, where the Muslim religion was strong.

They agreed because Henry allowed them to sack the city after it was broken, and the Portuguese bishop promised them the same spiritual rewards as in the East.

With their help, the French Crusaders broke through Lisbon.

Many Germans missed the first Eastern Expedition led by the French, Normans, and Flemish nobles, and naturally hoped to add glory to themselves through new achievements.

Their leader, Conrad, had been to Jerusalem more than ten years ago, and participated in the expedition of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem to the area near Damascus as a knight, and had certain experience in fighting in the Middle East.

Conrad led the German Crusaders across the Rhine and Danube along the overland route of the First Crusade from Regensburg.

After a bumpy walk, the Byzantines finally sent the German Crusaders across the strait, and then Emperor Manuel sent his Varangian Guard Captain as the guide of the German Crusaders.

In Nicaea, Conrad sent most of the non-combatants in the team to the area controlled by Byzantium, and led the main force into the interior of Asia Minor.

The Crusaders gradually completed the confluence and began to try to surround Asia Minor.

If the Chinese army did not come over, the Turks were not afraid of the Crusaders. In the years of fighting with the Crusaders, the Turks had repeatedly defeated the Crusaders. Of course, the Crusaders also often defeated the Turks. The two sides should say They are evenly matched, and their strengths are not much different.

But the problem is that the Chinese army has already fought over, defeated the Turks and occupied most of Central Asia, and then drove all the Turks who refused to submit to Asia Minor, which seriously injured the Turks.

Such Turkic people obviously can't protect the Muslim religion anymore - not only can't protect the Muslim religion, but in the eyes of the people in the Iraqi world, they can't even protect themselves.

Just at this moment, the Crusaders came over!

The coming of the Crusaders means that the Christian religion will invade the missionary land of the Muslim religion.

How does this work?
Therefore, the people of Yi World must find another big brother to lead them to fight off the Crusaders. It would be even better if they can lead them to Europe and let the Muslim religion defeat the Christian religion.

And who is more suitable to be the big brother of the Iraqis than the Chinese who defeated the Turks?

Therefore, after discussing the matter, people from the Yi world gathered together to express to Li Yan—they expressed to Li Yan that they were willing to submit to the rule of Li Yan and Li Yan's sons, and only asked Li Yan to protect them and protect the Mu religion.

And at this time, Li Yan also encountered trouble - Li Yan had too many sons, and there were not enough places in Central Asia for Li Yan to entrust him. Therefore, during the recent period, Li Yan was considering , Should we continue to attack the vast and sparsely populated African states, or send people to find the New World?

To be honest, Li Yan didn't think about fighting Europe at this time, because although Europe at this time could not be compared with Dazhong, it was already a relatively advanced civilization, so it must be much more difficult to fight Europe. Moreover, Europe is only a big place, so how can it compare with Africa and the Americas? In addition, if it really fights with European countries again, it will really become a world war. It won't take too much effort to develop Africa or the United States, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "at your fingertips".

But at this moment, the Crusaders came over, and the people of Yi World said that as long as Li Yan led them to defeat the Crusaders, they would completely submit to the rule of Li Yan and Li Yan's sons.

For Li Yan, the people in the world of Yi can obey the rule of himself and his sons. This can save Li Yan and Li Yan's sons a lot of troubles, and can Less variables.

Moreover, Europe still has such a large territory after all.

In addition, there are countless beauties in Europe - all kinds of beauties, blondes, redheads, brown hair, hot bodies, all kinds of styles...

So, this thing... done!
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(End of this chapter)