The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Yelu Dashi's acceptance of Yelu Shuxue's suggestion - talk to Song He. As a pioneering monarch, he naturally has a clear mind, agile thinking, knows how to gain and give up, and understands that the benefits he has gained from cooperation with Song are obviously more

Not to mention the distance, the 20,000 troops trapped in Gaochang are just the decisive significance to the precious Western Liao at this moment. With them, they have more chances of winning in the battle with Seljuk.

After convinced the ministers, Yelu Dashi immediately sent Yelu Shuxue as a special envoy to Gaochang to negotiate with the Song army. They thought that the negotiation would be very difficult when the Song army had the advantage, but the result was smooth and they couldn't believe it.

The Song army agreed to coordinate with the Xia army to release the Western Liao army back to China and ensure that it would not be attacked along the way; while the Western Liao army would admit that Gaochang had been alleged for the Song Dynasty, and allow the Song Dynasty and the caravans traveling to and from the Song Dynasty to pass through and ensure their safety.

and interests; it was proposed that the Song Dynasty and Liao were originally brotherly countries, but they are still willing to restore friendly relations with them.

The Song army's request was reasonable, reasonable and without excessive demands. Western Liao had no reason to refuse and agreed to them all. At the time of parting, the Song army's commander Gao Chong said that they had known that the war between the Western Liao and the Seljuks was about to break out.

It was stated that if they were needed, they could send troops to help the Western Liao Communist Party fight against the invading enemy. After all, the two countries were still in-laws. Moreover, the Seljuks occupied the trade routes, robbed and exploited the caravans from the sea in the Song Dynasty, which had already caused the emperor's anger.

It also implied that the Song navy had reached the Persian Gulf waters and was ready to punish Seljuks, which could also help the Western Liao Dynasty if necessary.

Then the Song army sent people to the Xia army camp as promised that Gaochang had surrendered and that the Song and Liao countries had reached an armistice agreement. They could occupy the territory of Gaochang east of the Qaidam River according to the previous agreement, and the war was over.

Cheap. What was wrong with the Western Xia? He immediately gave up the attack. The Western Liao army was able to escape and returned under the escort of the Song army. The Western Liao people felt embarrassed at this time and sent people to send some food and cattle and sheep to reward the army.

Express thanks.

The Song people generously released the Western Liao army that invaded Gaochang without any grudges, allowing Yelu Dashi and the ministers of the Western Liao to personally feel the sincerity of the peace of the Song Dynasty. The news that the Song Dynasty's naval army had arrived in the Persian Gulf also shocked them.

This shows that the Song Dynasty not only had the strength to expedition on the road, but also could do it at sea. As long as the Song Dynasty was willing to conquer Western Asia through both waters and land armies, including the Western Liao Dynasty.

Yelu Dashi's re-understanding of the power of the Song Dynasty surprised him. He was shocked that Song was so powerful that his desire to restore the country became out of reach. Although the Song Dynasty claimed that they had a common enemy, he understood that Song was not

He would recreate the glory of the former Great Liao Kingdom. They marched into Gaochang and Mobei to warn themselves not to return to the Central Plains anymore; they were happy that they were glad that the Song Dynasty did not regard itself as an enemy, otherwise the troops and combat power they dispatched were enough

The Western Liao Dynasty was defeated. Now their show of kindness can be considered as "being polite first and then being soldier". If they do not know how to be polite, they may have met each other.

After understanding the joints, the Song Dynasty also gave the steps. Yelu Dashi could no longer be ungrateful and issued an order to send envoys to the Song Dynasty under the name of visiting the princess of Shu Kingdom, and to rebuild the old friendship with the Song Dynasty and become a brother country.

With the occupation of Gaochang area, establish inter-field trade, and hope to send troops to resist the invasion of the Seljuks when necessary and reopen the ancient silk road.

Gao Chong was much more relaxed after receiving the response from Western Liao. Now they lack ammunition and fight again, although they will not fail, they will definitely struggle. He informed Zhao Li in Gaochang City at the same time, and also reported the victory to the emperor.

The court asked the court to send people to receive the newly occupied land and send troops to escort the Liao envoy to Tokyo. The mission of the Western Expedition Army also changed from preparing for combat to clearing out the remaining resistance forces, accepting, establishing local governments, and pacifying the people to resume production.

While reaching a peaceful agreement with Song, Western Liao was able to fight the Seljuks with all their might, but when they were tensely preparing for a war, the situation slowed down - Khwarezm, a vassal state of Seljuk, was about to make independence,

Sanjar had to deal with this emergency first.

Khwarezm is located in the lower reaches of the Amu River and is also a vassal state of the Suljuku Sultanate. In the mid-eleventh century, a personal guard named Anusi Teshi in the palace was given a personal guard who was born in a slave named Anusi Teshi because of his loyalty and reliability and cleverness.

Sultan Maliksha's favor, like all his favorite ministers, soon rose to the top and became an important member of the court, and changed from a slave to a dazzling political star.

Later, Anusi's special service was appointed as the governor of Khwarezm by Sultan. His son Hubuddin continued to serve the Sultan with respect, preserved the passed down territory, and obtained the "Sand" (king)

Title. Hubuddin died after thirty years of rule over Khwarezm. His son Ajis was ambitious and was not satisfied with being a vassal of the Seljuk Sultan. He betrayed Sultan Sanjar and refused to surrender

Gong. He tried to build an independent and powerful country at all costs. Sultan Sanjar lost his temper and made him feel anxious...

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When Gaochang was captured by the Western Expedition Army, the Song Shui Fleet entered the Persian Gulf waters in May after half a year of arduous voyage. Their understanding of their future opponents was limited to the words of merchants who had been in exchange for the past few times and had never touched them.

In the face, they knew nothing about their combat methods. They only heard that hundreds of years ago they fought a beautiful naval battle and annihilated the powerful Persian navy.

Along the way, Song Shuijun only had some contact with some pirates riding sailboats, but when they saw the tall and majestic battleships of the Song army, they avoided them far away and did not dare to go forward to fight. It can be said that there was no shot on the way.

After entering the Arabian Sea, in order to cover up their true purpose, they docked their fleet at the Port of Sudel on the west coast. This place flourished for a while in the seventh century and was an important trading port, but this city was destroyed for a hundred years

The earthquake before became a ruin, and now there is only one village left here, and they are all poor people with nowhere to go, which is easy to control and keep secret.

When he went on the expedition, he claimed to have dispatched thousands of warships, but in fact there were not so many. The navy used five third-layer test ships, ten god-class warships and twenty Yongzi-class warships, and the other was equipped with infantry and cavalry.

More than 200 large transport ships and supply ships were mixed with merchant ships to go to sea together. Although the city was abandoned, the port was still there and was hidden in it. Cheng Xishou followed the merchant ship and continued to move forward a hundred miles away.

, reconnaissance of the enemy situation...

In fact, the history of Arab sailing is shorter than that of the Central Plains. In the early days, even if they sailed, they only did business or were pirates, and their ships were only hired by Greeks or Coptics to drive. The Arabs would never drive ships themselves.

War. Even the Arab ethnic groups who settled on the Arabian Peninsula had far less sailing and shipbuilding skills than those of the Persians in the early days when the Muslim empire conquered and ruled the Persian Gulf.

But after nearly a century of practice and progress, the Arabs in the Abbas dynasty had inherited the sailing traditions and experiences of the early Persians, and sailed with Persian sailors who had already conquered the Arab Empire and turned to Islam, and began to sail on the seas of China

It has risen and occupied an important position in trade. It now occupies the Asian Ocean World, controls the most prosperous Middle Eastern waterways and controls the maritime dominance of East-West trade.

The Shi Kingdom is called the Central Plains people. In fact, it is an island located on the east coast of the Persian Gulf that is about thirty miles long from east to west and fifteen miles wide from north to south. It is separated from the mainland by a width of about twelve or three miles wide.

The strait, this island replaced the corpse-sieged city a hundred years ago and became an important town for trade with the Eastern countries. Cheng Xishou can be said to be an old businessman, and he has gained insight after traveling around the sea for many years, but after he went to the island with the caravan

It still shines. A large number of merchant ships from the East and Arabia gather here, and they are worthy of being the first prosperous envoy to be known as the Persian Gulf.

The entire island is a big market, and the goods brought by merchants from all over the country are here to trade. On the one hand, merchants from the Song Dynasty, Iraq, Yemen and Persia will use various colors of silk, purple cotton cloth, linen, cotton fabric, linen, wheat, and barley.

Millet, rye and other grains and dried fruits were imported into the island for trading; on the one hand, Indian merchants imported a large number of spices.

The residents of this island make a living by making profits from both merchants as intermediary merchants, and the government collects heavy taxes from here or half-snatches and buys goods and sells them further away from Europe to make huge profits. In addition to normal goods

In addition, there is actually a center of the slave trade here. Pirates often go to the coast of Zanzibar, East Africa to plunder black people and transport them back to the Persian Gulf to sell them to various countries as slaves.

Cheng Xishou sighed at the development of business here, and finally took back his eyes reluctantly. Finally, he did not forget that he had another task and re-examined the defense measures of the island. The Arabs built a walled city on the shore near the port on the island.

The city walls were not very tall, and there were high watchtowers. He observed the distance. If the warship was close to the port, the naval gun could be fully shot into the city.

On one side of the port are dozens of giant sailboats, like carved from a single giant wood. The hull is narrower and longer than the warships in the east. There are two layers of oars on both sides, and the captain is about ten feet long.

The bow of the ship had a huge horn. After careful observation, Cheng Xishou had a clear mind. Judging from the size and equipment of these warships, they belonged to sailboats, which could be ridden on about 200 soldiers, and if the sailors were added, they could reach three.

More than a hundred people. The ship was not equipped with stone throwers, nor did they have artillery. They should still use the original tactics of hitting enemy ships and jumping to board the enemy ships...