"I have sworn before that I will fight for my kingdom and people until I shed my last drop of blood and let out my last breath. But God punished me for betraying the Song Dynasty, and once vowed to resist all the invaders for us.

Allies abandoned us at the last moment, and I decided to accept the conditions of the Song army and open the city to surrender! Although accepting this fact is more painful than drinking poison, in order to save my people from war, I still have to drink it.

Go down!"

The next day, the Lord of Gaochang, Bilege, announced his decision in the morning court. The ministers in the palace were very surprised by the sudden decision made by the Lord. They were mixed feelings. After all, being forced to surrender the city was not glorious.

The matter was relieved. After all, the king's decision to rescue them from the nightmare and save tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city, but he didn't understand why the king changed his mind overnight.

In fact, Bile Ge was forced to make a decision that he had no choice but to make. He summoned several important officials of the lord last night to discuss and analyze the current situation. Everyone thought that the people in the city were angry with the lord's inaction, and the army suffered heavy losses.

The fighting spirit will cause riots as long as someone jumps out, and they are powerless to do anything about it. The Song army will definitely take advantage of the situation, and the result at that time is unimaginable.

Furthermore, the Western Liao Dynasty was incapable of helping the invasion of the Seljuk Empire, and the opponent they faced was very powerful. He was an old empire that dominated the entire Western Asia with strong troops. Although the Western Liao Dynasty was not weak,

It has only been more than ten years since its founding, and it is still quite different from Seljuk's strength, and the outcome is unknown. It is better to win, but once you lose, it will be a disaster for Gaochang. Bilego knows that the Seljuk people are

Compared with the Western Liao and Song people, they are a hundred times more greedy and cruel. Moreover, they believe in Islam, and they will convert the countries they conquered to their religion. Otherwise, they will die.

Bilege and several ministers dare not bet on the Western Liao because they could not afford to lose. Although the Song Dynasty in front of them was an enemy, they were also an empire that had lasted for hundreds of years, dominating the economic prosperity of East Asia.

Their emperors were also enterprising, and the strength of their army was right in front of them. The Western Liao Dynasty was not their opponent, and it was not easy for the Seljuks to defeat them. More importantly, the Song Dynasty did not reject their beliefs

Buddhism will never do anything that requires them to change their faith.

After a night of discussion and repeated weighing the pros and cons, Bilege surrendered to the Song Dynasty was hundreds of times better than the Seljuks massacre and extermination of the clan. As for the Western Liao Dynasty, they had lost confidence, and in their eyes, Gaochang was just a pawn.

The tool to make money for them, and the abandoned sons who could be abandoned at critical moments. So he decided to accept the conditions of the Song army unconditionally. He issued a self-criticism, canceled his title, handed over the seal, waited for the Emperor of Song to deal with it, and ordered Gao Chang to be the subject of

The states gave up resistance and stopped all supplies to the Western Liao army...

Gao Chong and Zhao Li looked at Bilege's surrender. They were also relieved. They would be exhausted in another two days, and their ammunition would be exhausted, and their troops would be hungry! The two accepted Gaochang's surrender.

The report ordered the cessation of artillery bombardment and ordered all departments to prepare to enter the city. The gate of Gaochang City, which had been closed for nearly a month, finally opened to the Song army. Bilege took off his royal robe and handed over the national seal outside the city. He led all the civil and military officials to surrender.

Gao Chong immediately led his army into the city to control the main traffic roads, occupy the city walls, and ordered Gaochang's army to put down their weapons and leave the city. At the same time, Zhao Li led a brigade of infantry to enter the palace city, accept the palace and the government office, sealed the granaries and property, and general Bile.

Brother and his concubines and children were imprisoned in the inner palace, and all the supplies were provided as usual, waiting for the emperor's edict before disposing of them. Then the two of them made a list of the people in the name of the General Office of the Western Expedition Army of the Song Dynasty. Officials at all levels temporarily resided in their original positions and cleaned up the ruins as soon as possible.

Corpse, rebuild the market and resume transactions.

Three days later, Gaochang City returned to peace, and the Song army replenished its food and supplies. Gao Chong led the Dragon Cavalry Brigade, the Desert Army and various troops to join the army to Kucha and Yanqi prefectures to meet with the Western Xia army, which was still confronting the Western Liao Dynasty.

Li led two infantry brigades, baggage teams and hunting cavalry brigades to stay in Gaochang City, and at the same time counted the spoils, prepared to transport them back to the country, report the victory to the emperor, and wait for the next instructions from the court.

At this point, the war in the Western Expedition to Gaochang was basically over, but the battle to attack Gaochang City, which was thought to be the most difficult, ended with zero casualties. They relied on their weapons to attack the enemy's depth and important targets, which reduced the losses of the army and collected them.

The long-range attack with artillery fire brought unbearable pressure to the enemy's politics, economy and people's psychology, and had a huge boost to the process and outcome of the war, making the world further realize the power of artillery

, in the history of war, the shock of "defeating the world"!

..............

At the end of the Battle of Gaochang, another great war had begun. The flag of the crescent moon slowly rose in the sky, and the warriors of Allah came from all over when they heard the news of the holy war.

Next, the Muslim princes and princes from Khorasan, Gur, Gorgining, Sigistan and other places led their troops to come. One hundred thousand Muslim soldiers came from all over the country, gathered under the banner of Sanjar.

The grand military parade lasted for six months. Four centuries ago, Muslim soldiers defeated Gao Xianzhi's Tang army in Talas, and since then turned Central Asia into the territory of Allah. Now, Sanjar is trying to again

Create brilliance.

In April, Sanjar led his army, crossed the Amu River, entered the city of Samarhan, and met with Mahemu. A great battle was about to break out. At Mahemu's request, Sanjar ordered to first rely on the rebel Mahemu to rebel.

The Gelu people of Liao launched an attack. The Gelu people were unable to resist Sanjar's 100,000 troops, so they sent an envoy to ask for help from the Western Liao. Yelu Dashi, who was in Husi'erduo City, received a request for help from the Gelu people.

After the letter, he immediately wrote a letter to Sanjar, asking Sanjar to stop the attack and resolve the existing dispute in a peaceful manner.

But the arrogant Sanjar regarded this letter as a sign of weakness of Yelu Dashi. He believed that his God would bless him and he would win the victory of conquering the pagans. He threw Dashi's letter aside with contempt and sent him to

An envoy also brought a letter to Yelu Dashi. The letter written by Sanjar was not a call for peace, but a naked intimidation of "chiluo". He believed that with his own strength, he could easily crush Yelu.

Dashi's resistance.

In the letter, Sanjar asked Yelu Dashi to lead his subordinates to surrender unconditionally, and at the same time he would give up his faith and convert to Islam. He showed off his strong force and warriors from all sides gathered under his banner, and he boasted that he would not have the power of his life.

The warriors of Allah's archery skills are as good as gods, and they can use arrows to shoot the enemy's hair and beard. Facing the aggressive envoys of the Seljuk Empire, Yelu Dashi finished reading the letter under the protection of his ministers, and from the letter he read Sangja

Your arrogance and arrogance.

Yelu Dashi ordered Sanjar's envoy to pull out one of his beards and gave him another needle. He asked him to use the needle to break his beards to verify that Sanjar boasted that his warriors could shoot the enemy's beards with arrows.

.This is simply an impossible task. When the needle pierces it, the beard slides to one side and cannot be broken. As a result, the envoys of the Seljuk Empire were naturally disgraced in front of the Western Liao people. Yelu Dashi decided

Respond to the challenge and let the messenger of the Seljuk Empire tell Sanjar that he would decide the victory and defeat on the battlefield.

Such a battle between the two powerful people was inevitable. After sending off Sanjar's envoy, Yelu Dashi immediately mobilized his troops to go on the battle. Only then did he realize that his situation was very embarrassing...

Although the Seljuk Empire was a country established by the Turks, it was much different from the so-called Tuque countries that the Western Liao Dynasty had conquered. After a hundred years of territorial expansion and the absorption of foreign cultures, it has become a primitive slave.

Society transitioned to feudal society, no longer a nomadic tribe, but had a relatively advanced political system and a perfect social system. However, unlike the Central Plains civilization accepted by the Western Liao Dynasty, they accepted Western Islamic civilization.

The Seljuk Empire followed the political system of the Abbasid and Persian dynasties, and established a prime minister under Sudan. He represented the Caliph with plenipotentiary power in handling political, military, financial and religious affairs, and played a leading role in handling state affairs. The provinces were from

The Governor-General is mostly managed by the Seljuk nobles. In terms of economy, the military fief system is implemented, and the military chief can hereditate the land granted by Sudan. Farmers pay land taxes in kind, and some of them are handed over to the national treasury. The national treasury consumes huge amounts of money to dig canals and build them.

The Avenue, open a postal station to ensure smooth business access between the East and West.

Religiously, Sunnis believed in building a large number of mosques in the empire, and founded religious universities named after Nizam Mulek in Baghdad and Neshapur, and invested heavily in hiring famous scholars from all over the world to teach and spread the word.

The doctrine of the Nepai Ashelli School and the teaching theory of the Shafiyi School cultivate religious scholars and government officials. In terms of academic culture, scholars are rewarded for academic research and book theory. A new observatory is also built to recruit scholars to engage in astronomy.

Actual measurement and research, the Persian calendar was revised and compiled into the famous "Geralal Calendar", which is more accurate than the "Gregorian Calendar".

It is much more difficult to deal with a highly civilized country than a barbaric tribe. The Song Dynasty is a good example. The two countries have fought and killed for more than a hundred years. Although they once won military victory, they finally chose.

Instead of living peacefully and learning from his advanced cultural and political philosophy, Sanjar is even more arrogant, greedy and bloodthirsty monarch, and it is not easy to defeat him.

What made Yelu Dashi even more uneasy was that the Song army, which also possessed a high degree of civilization and mastered the world's most advanced weapons, was eyeing him. Western Liao had to face the attacks of two powerful countries in China and the West at the same time. If there was a slight mistake, they would

Turn into powder in collision...

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