Chapter 14 King Sejong 14 Storms in Central Asia (Part 2)
Chapter 2139 Sejong Chapter 14 The Storm in Central Asia (Part 2)
For the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, especially the Anxi Kingdom, the Eastern Expedition organized by the Ghaznavid Dynasty is something that must be taken seriously. Not only because of the direct war threat brought by its large-scale organization of the Eastern Expedition, but also because the three countries want to
To establish a long-term foothold in the Transoxian region or further west in the Mesopotamia, the Ghaznavid Dynasty was a problem they had to solve.
From a geopolitical point of view, Ghaznavids, which was founded in "Afghanistan", borders Anxi and Kangju. It has a long enough border from west to east. Although it is blocked by mountains, deep valleys, and rivers, it is still
There is a direct security conflict of interest.
Moreover, the long-standing wish between the two parties has been deep, and it can even be traced back to the first Yisl Eastern Expedition. At that time, the Arabs of the Islamic religion once attacked Suiye City, causing serious threats and damage to the rule of the Anxi Governor's Palace.
,Although Ghaznavid was just a younger brother in the ysl world at that time, he was also involved.
The most recent grievance lies in the sharing of food from the Samanid Dynasty. As a new dynasty independent from the Samanid Dynasty, it naturally has "feelings" for its former suzerain country. But since the influence of the Han people came to the west, in Qihe
The river basin continued to expand, and when the Samanid Dynasty was conquered, it almost occupied the entire area in the middle of the river, eating up a large piece of fat.
As for Ghaznavids, although they seized large tracts of land in Persia to the west, completely annihilated and annexed the remaining small states of the Safar dynasty, and conquered cities and lands in the northwest of the Indus Valley to the south, in the "traditional" riverine areas,
How can he accept it when he only gets some leftovers?
The contradiction between the two parties and the conflict in fundamental interests are almost irreconcilable.
Just like the Three Kingdoms of Anxi in the eyes of the Ghaznavid monarch Mahmud, they are wolf-like foreign invaders, the biggest threat to the food-eating countries and the YSL religious tradition. In the eyes of the three kings, Ghaznavids are also the development and progress of the Three Kingdoms.
The biggest obstacle on the road.
Now, no more than thirty years ago, the Ghaznavid dynasty has completely replaced the Buyid dynasty and has become the most powerful dynasty within the framework of the Abbasid Empire. It is also the leader of the ysl world at the current stage, and the monarch Mahmoud has become
The first prince to use "Sultan" as his title. The most important thing is that it is still in the golden period of upward development.
As the "leading brother" among the Three Kingdoms, Anxi and Kangju, who had already had many conflicts and fights with Ghazni in the upper reaches of the Jihun River, had already reached a consensus on the issue of attacking Ghazni.
Within the Three Kingdoms, the reason why there had been endless debates over the expansion war was also due to the hesitation at the top. Otherwise, as the bloodline of Emperor Shizu, the "founder of the Three Kingdoms" in Anxi, he wanted to suppress the noise and turmoil below.
It's really not that difficult to denounce.
If the ysl world is still like it was twenty or thirty years ago, with countries sinking, internal divisions, and attacking each other, it would be fine to let the three countries stabilize for a while, rest, recuperate, and concentrate on development for a while.
However, the development of things never follows the will of the individual. In a foreign land full of MSL, there are even more things that are out of control. The rise of Ghaznavids is one thing. What is even more unpredictable is the massive Western expedition of the Han people.
It brought violent reactions to the Two Rivers and Seven Rivers basins.
This is different from the Yuezhi, Xiongnu, Turks and other nomadic tribes who have failed in their struggle for hegemony in East Asia in the past thousand years and moved westward. The Han people, as a group, just stay still. Once they take that step, no matter what the environment, they will be extremely vulnerable.
Easy to take root and sprout.
There is no reference to any of this, because going back thousands of years, no Chinese dynasty has ever been able to extend its tentacles to such a distant and wide area. Even if it shines a sword, it is not like the form of the Han Empire today.
scale, to such an extent.
Even after more than 20 years of continuous Western expeditions, he forcibly conquered a vast territory, represented Chinese power, and was deeply rooted in Central Asia that had never been reached by previous dynasties. When faced with some strategic development issues, Anxi King Liu Min still had to restrain himself.
That little bit of pride and complacency leads to a relatively cautious approach to things.
After all, what he has been doing has been an unprecedented undertaking. Every step he takes, every city he conquers, and every person he subdues are breaking the traditional Chinese barriers and are unprecedented breakthroughs for the Han people.
Compared with other Liu clan kings who conquered cities and conquered the barbarians in Southeast Asia, Liu Min always believed that what he and others did was more difficult and more valuable. Even in the Northeast, which was equally hard-working, Liu Min's attitude remained the same.
Reserved, because the opponents they faced were just some indigenous barbarians.
Although the enemies faced by the Anxi Three Kingdoms are still called barbarians in official propaganda and titles, when they are planning to fight against each other, can they really be regarded as uncivilized, barbaric and ignorant indigenous peoples and treat them lightly?
If Liu Min and others had always maintained a arrogant mentality, they would not have achieved what they have achieved today, and their achievements would have been overwhelmed by YSL's craze for jihad.
Therefore, the longer you stay in Central Asia and the Middle East, the deeper you will understand those enemies and enemies, and the more cautious your attitude will be.
However, caution is just a gesture, not timidity. When the second Yisl coalition was successfully formed and surged eastward, the senior officials of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, headed by Liu Min, quickly put away all their hesitations and returned to their usual decisiveness
and ruthless decision.
The organized army of 130,000 basically included all the elite troops of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi. In the country, except for necessary defense, the rest of the army was almost completely mobilized. All major military stations and camps organized by military methods were also mobilized.
, provide support from logistics, transportation and other aspects.
This is said to be the most thorough mobilization of the military machinery of the Three Kingdoms in Anxi. After all, the enemies they faced were different in scale and intensity.
This time a brutal war must be fought, not only fought, but also won! Not to mention the benefits of winning, all you need to know is that if you lose, the Hezhong area that has been captured recently will become a "black gang" that has been in business for 20 years.
"Khan's Homeland" will be unstable, and will even face the direct threat of counterattack from the Arabs and the crazy revenge of those YSL believers.
Even with the support of the Han Dynasty, they will not be driven directly back to Gaochang Road, but the thirty years of western expansion will suffer heavy losses, and it is basically impossible to make a comeback, because the Han Dynasty after entering the Yongxi era will not be able to be like that again.
During the Shizu period, it was difficult to turn around when supporting the Western Expedition and national policies at all costs.
Therefore, the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, especially the three kings, knew deeply that they had only one reason to win in this battle, but no choice to lose. Because of this awareness, from the beginning of the war, the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi were mobilized to attack with all their strength.
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This is still not a war in which the Han people singled out the entire YSL world, because the YSL world or the Arabs have never truly formed a joint force when facing the Han people.
Even though the Arabs had shown considerable unity when launching the Second Holy War, when the war machines of the Anxi Three Kingdoms were fully activated, they still found it difficult to cope.
The "Second Han-Iran War" broke out in the autumn of the 11th year of Yongxi's reign and officially ended in the summer of the 12th year. It lasted for a year and was divided into three stages and two battles.
The first stage was the offensive and defensive battle of Mingcheng, with Iraq attacking and defending Han Dynasty, and the two sides launched a desperate struggle around Mingcheng. Mingcheng (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan) existed as an independent city and administrative district for a short time.
It is a brand-new city that was completely built by the Han people and is imbued with rich Han cultural connotations inside and out.
A city that was not too big but was solid enough was built in just four years, thanks to the hard work of Haidong Economic Envoy Liu Wentao (the second son of King Zhao Liu Fang and the younger brother of King Liu Wengong of Beiting).
It must also be infiltrated with the flesh and blood of a large number of local aborigines and MSL.
"Building cities with flesh and blood" was a common practice within the Han Empire, let alone Central Asia where restrictions were completely relaxed and unscrupulous. It is said that in order to build Ming City, tens of thousands of YSL clergy and believers from Haidong and surrounding areas worked hard
Many people died, and many people were buried directly under the city foundation and within the city walls. This is also one of the most condemned "Han tyranny" in the ysl world.
With this connection, being located at a strategic hub of transportation, economic convergence, and the core of Haidong's military and political affairs, it naturally became the first target of the Eastern Expedition Army.
The battle began in September of the 11th year of Yongxi's reign. Maweir, the general of the Qiyar Kingdom, led an alliance of 50,000 troops to attack Mingcheng. At that time, Mingcheng, including the domesticated servant army, had only 7,000 defenders.
, close to a ratio of one to ten.
Fortunately, Mingcheng is the city with the highest degree of Chineseization and the highest loyalty in Haidong (east of the Caspian Sea). It does not have many soldiers and horses, but it has sufficient food, grass, armor and even twenty artillery as defensive weapons.
, it can still be supported in a short period of time.
Even though there are many "favorable factors", the disadvantage of the disparity in strength is enough to make the Mingcheng defenders fight hard and struggle more and more in the back.
The deterrence ability of artillery is still powerful, but it is nothing new in the Dashi area. Its strike coverage has limited lethality. After the artillery shells are used up, traditional urban attack and defense are still the mainstream of the battlefield.
As for the coalition forces that launched the attack, apart from a few thousand "elites" from the Ziyar Kingdom, the rest were all jihadists from the vast YSL world, and in the early preparation process, they also formed a certain degree of organization and discipline.
It was the experience and lessons learned by Ghaznavid Sultan Mahmud, the commander-in-chief of the entire coalition, from the failure of the first Eastern Expedition.
And this group of Eastern Expeditionary Army, which was well organized and well trained, had sufficient equipment and food, had a firm will to fight, and was filled with the blood of jihad and revenge, also used their fearless attack to push Mingcheng to a desperate situation.
However, the jihadists are like a frenzy, and the defenders of Mingcheng are also as solid as a rock. Needless to say, the Beiting Army headquarters has gradually increased to 4,000 people. Even the servants are fighting to the death. They also have no possibility of surrender.
After all, as the "betrayer" of ysl, he is the more hated heretic.
At the same time, when it comes to infringing on local tribes and believers, these servant armies have done more, and even have more blood on their hands than the Han people. This is the so-called "voucher of surrender", which means that if the Han people are defeated,
Their fate will be even more miserable, and they dare not fail to try their best.
Therefore, during the attack and defense of Mingcheng that lasted for almost a month, even though there were several critical situations, the defenders fought bloody and desperately to protect the safety of the city with an unusually determined attitude.
In this process, the Three Kingdoms of Anxi showed an attitude of "indifference". Apart from dispatching troops, arming soldiers and horses, raising supplies and conducting reconnaissance, there was no more action.
Even at the most critical moment of Ming City, facing the desperate messengers asking for help, Beiting King Liu Wenggong was eager to send troops to relieve the siege of Ming City, but Anxi King Liu Min remained silent, choosing to wait and see...