Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 19 Fighting Nation

In fact, what the adoptive father and adoptive mother said was already relatively polite.

Guo Kang did not mention these things to more people from the beginning to the end.It's not that things about the "future" cannot be said. In fact, he has given others "spoilers" many times in the name of divination and deduction of history.But the result is not always very good.

After all, this world is somewhat different from his original hometown, so deviations are natural.If it was only for this reason, he would not be so helpless.

The biggest obstacle is that the "problem" in the eyes of many later generations was not a problem at that time, but the best choice that could be made.He originally thought that after pointing out the hidden dangers that would arise in the future, he could try to avoid them.But the actual experiment found that this may bring greater side effects.

Sometimes, there will indeed be questions from the authorities, but in more cases, the person who made the decision back then may not have considered less than him.Even, because they are more immersive and have more relevant experience, these people will consider more carefully than he thinks.His worries, others may not understand.

For example, is it right for the Khanate to support the Ross city-state?
Judging from later generations, the Ross people eventually perished the Golden Horde.But at this moment, the Ross people are the most harmless.

At this time, Lithuania was in a strong and prosperous period. It had repeatedly intervened in the affairs of the Ross countries, and even publicly challenged the Khan Court.Not long after Zanibehan's death, the Lithuanian army defeated the Golden Horde army at the Blue Water River, occupied Kiev, and drove the Mongols east of the Don River.Until Tutuo lost the battle, Lithuania was the first thing that came to mind.

Not supporting these Russians and allowing them to maintain their independence is tantamount to making the Grand Duchy of Lithuania fatter.At that time, I am afraid that the Khanate will be completely finished before the 15th century.

To the west of Lithuania, there is a more difficult Poland.The Poles have also repeatedly reached out to South Russia. In 1352, Zanibe Khan was still there, and before the Golden Horde went downhill, Poland entered the Ukrainian region of later generations, partnered with Lithuania, and blatantly divided the Galich-Volyn Principality, trying to expand its territory to Black seaside.

If you do not support the Ross agent, it means that the Khan court must rely on its own strength to fight a long war with these big countries on the long borders and surrounded by unfriendly locals.This cost is obviously unbearable.

After all, people of Guo Kang’s time looked at these countries inevitably with stereotypes—at that time, most people probably didn’t know what Lithuania was.Occasionally, those who pay attention to the international situation will often only remember his inexplicable provocations against themselves, thinking that this is a strange little country at the level of a clown.

As for Poland, there should be more people who know about it, but its most famous joke is that it is divided up every two days, looking like a weak and unlucky egg.

The Ross people, on the other hand, have become the largest country in the world, and they have the title of "fighting nation", which sounds very powerful at first glance.

Under such circumstances, supporting the Russians and fighting against Poland and Lithuania is indeed easy to give people a feeling of irrelevance. It seems that it would be better to eliminate this potential opponent early.

However, at this time, Poland's strength in the entire Christian world is among the best.Lithuania, on the other hand, is the largest country in Eastern Europe, occupying a vast territory from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea. The area makes people wonder whether he or Moscow is the later Russia.

In this case, it is also difficult for him to guarantee that his suggestion is really appropriate.

Not to mention, there are some concepts that people of different ages may not be able to understand each other at all.For example, in this era, if he insists on asking someone who is the fighting nation, everyone will think that it is him.

Europeans have never had contact with East Asian forces, but the world of Tianfang Sect has already started dealing with them.

At the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Umayyad dynasty was undergoing its second major expansion in the Arab world.This aroused the concerns of the Central Asian countries, so they all asked the Tang Dynasty to come forward to settle the Arab invaders.But the Tang Dynasty was not very interested in this, so it left the job to the Tuqishi tribe split from the Western Turkic Khanate.

After that, Sulu, the leader of Tuqishi, led his army to the south and fought against the Arabs for more than ten years.The Arab Empire lost nearly 20 troops before and after, and most of them were veterans brought from the Arab mainland and Syria.The largest province of Khorasan in the empire was beaten to nothing by the Tuqishi people.The Caliph was forced to transfer his troops back from the direction of India, the Caucasus and even Asia Minor to fill the bottomless pit in the east.

Serious military failures led to the suspension of expansion in other directions, a blow to the prestige of the empire.The rapid consumption of the core army directly shook the rule of the Umayyad Dynasty.Not long after, he was overthrown by the more Persianized Abbasid dynasty because he could not suppress the resistance of the Persians.

This result made the Arabs themselves feel incredible.

You know, at this time, 7000 Arabs can conquer North India, and more than 30 people can defeat the most powerful country in Iberia.During the Western Expedition, which was carried out simultaneously with the Eastern Expedition, tens of thousands of soldiers fought all the way from Tunisia to southern Gaul, conquering almost all areas along the way, and did not stop until they were defeated by the Frankish Kingdom in Poitiers.Moreover, these people were basically new converts recruited on the spot, and did not consume much of the strength of the headquarters.Even [-] years ago, only [-] soldiers were invested in the decisive battle with the Eastern Roman army under the command of Heraclius on the Yarmouk River.

If the more than [-] veterans who were sent away in vain in the East were all thrown into the Western Expedition, then it is estimated that there will be no Catholic world in the future.

And Tuqishi was not even considered a real powerful country—later, Sulu Khan fell out with the Tang Dynasty, and as a result, he was pressed to death by the Tang Dynasty almost without causing much trouble.

In Arab eyes, this means a very outrageous reality.

In this world, only the Central Plains people care about, or are qualified to care about the difference between "Jiji" and "Native".In the eyes of other civilizations, this is a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, who beat the Arab Empire to the point of doubting life.

This kind of shock will undoubtedly have an impact on the subsequent history.

Later, because of Gao Xianzhi's outrageous operations, the Tang Dynasty's regular army lost to the Abbasid Dynasty in Talas, and their record was even worse than that of their own vassals.But even so, the Abbasid dynasty still took the initiative to maintain friendly relations with the Tang Dynasty, and had little interest in expanding eastward and preaching.Because the lesson of the previous dynasty is very straightforward, that is, "Why do you mess with them if you have nothing to do?"

(End of this chapter)