Qiming 1158

Chapter 1476 What he wants is to export ideals and new life
The Tang Empire managed well in the Western Regions and grasslands, and the country's prestige spread far and wide.

Whenever it encounters a war, the Tang Empire is very good at using the troops and horses of the local country and tribe to fight.

Therefore, the Tang army was a very expanded concept at that time. This concept included all the troops of the grasslands, tribes and countries in the Western Regions, including the regular Tang army, that obeyed the command of the Tang government.

Under the order of the Emperor Chang'an, the number of soldiers in the Western Regions and Central Asia who can fight for the Tang Empire will not be less than [-].

They are not Han people, nor are they imperial subjects directly controlled by the Tang Empire, but they go out to fight under the banner of the Tang army. In the eyes of the enemy, they are the serious Tang army.

Wherever they went, it was where the Tang army went, and the place they controlled was the place controlled by the Tang Empire.

Therefore, the Tang Empire was able to control several million square kilometers of land in the Western Regions with a mere [-] soldiers, so that it would not break away from the rule of the Tang government.

Even after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Empire had actually lost the ability to manage the Western Regions, but its strong power still allowed the white-headed soldiers of the Western Regions to persist in fighting for 42 years.

Behind it is the support of the major local tribes. Without the support measures taken by these tribes because of the inertia of the imperial power and their own interests, the Baishoubing would not have been able to persist for 42 years.

Of course, with the passage of time, everything that Daming faced was actually completely different from the original one.

In the warm climate, the Tang Dynasty operated the Western Regions and Central Asia, and faced not only the two unified imperial regimes, the Tubo Empire in the snowy region and the Abbasid Dynasty, which were full of military virtues, but also countless large and small people with bad intentions. Tribal groups are very difficult to manage.

In particular, the Tubo Empire, which has been entangled with the Tang Empire for a lifetime, is a lifelong problem for the Tang Empire to manage the Western Regions and Central Asia. The two major powers compete for the Western Regions throughout, until the Tang Empire's mid-term decline and the Snow Region Empire's loneliness.

Neither side was the final winner.

The Ming Empire was in a period of cold climate. Although it had not yet reached the Little Ice Age, it was far lower than the average temperature of the warm period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Under the "abuse" of this natural environment, the unified Snowland Empire disappeared.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo Empire, which could always threaten the important passage of the Hexi Corridor, is now in ruins.

They do not have a unified power, and most of the remaining population is in the Lhasa River Valley. The upper-level leaders with scattered sand recite scriptures every day to watch the sunrise, live a sustainable life of cannibalism in the Buddhist system, and focus on exploiting and oppressing serfs. Yong has no aspirations for this matter, nor does he have the ability.

Millions of people can't support a snowy empire.

In this way, an important factor for the Ming Empire to maintain its huge military force in the Western Regions is gone.

Furthermore, there is no large-scale unified military power in Central Asia, and the existing countries are either small emerging countries or old and fragmented empires.

Such as the Gur Dynasty and the Seljuk Empire.

So sometimes Su Yonglin also sighs, feeling that this era is really an era where everyone lays down and rots together, and the civilized countries in the entire Eurasian continent are just as promised, everyone will rot together.

The old powerful country was torn apart, and the emerging small country was insufficient. As a result, it was plowed from East Asia to Eastern Europe by the Mongolian Empire, and it became the largest military power in human history, with far-reaching influence.

And there is no doubt that the current Ming state is far stronger than the Mongol Empire.

If Su Yonglin really learns from the Mongols to fight with his hands, support the war with war, and open the way with cavalry, then he can be sure that his army will be able to fight from the Bering Strait to the English Channel, and plough the Eurasian continent from east to west.

There's no need for that.

Without the transportation revolution, the pursuit of a huge country is just waiting for the fragmentation. Instead of pursuing the ungovernable land, it is better to pursue the ideal output.

Su Yonglin doesn't want to export death and fear like the Mongolian Empire. What he wants is to export ideals and new life, export a new set of human laws, and lead all mankind out of ignorance.

Therefore, there is no need for a lot of people to garrison in the Western Regions, and an army of one army each in Anxi Province and Beiting Province is almost the same.

The rest is to export ideals and new life, and rely on the greatest and noblest ideals of mankind to create one new regime after another.

Before that, it was necessary to use the revolutionary army of the Ming Dynasty to clean up the resistance forces of the old era, weaken them as much as possible, and create an environment for the development and survival of the revolutionary forces.

So when Su Yonglin learned that the Guer Dynasty was going to intervene in the situation in Central Asia, Su Haisheng had already set off personally leading the [-] Ming army and the [-] servant army of the West Karakhan Kingdom.

It was the beginning of March in the 11th year of Hongwu.

According to the previous summary of military intelligence, Su Haisheng learned that the Gul Dynasty mobilized about [-] troops to the north to participate in this battle, which shows how much he covets the land of Khwarizmo and the land in the Hezhong area.

According to some local rumors, Su Haisheng learned that the Gul Dynasty army was relatively strong in combat, and there were many generals who were able to conquer and fight well.

Su Haisheng was not worried about these indistinguishable information.

He smiled at Masoud, the Khan King of the Western Karahan Kingdom, who personally led the troops to join him on the expedition: "Although the Guo Er Kingdom has a large number of soldiers, but despite this, they have not been able to seize the people they want from the Liao people. It can be seen that their ability is only so much.”

Of course, Maas Ude is in line with Su Haisheng's statement, but he is somewhat worried, thinking that Su Haisheng only brings [-] Ming troops a little too little, or is it better to have more.

Su Haisheng shook his head directly.

"The soldiers are not many, but the elites. Although the Guo Erguo army has a large number, it is absolutely impossible for them to be more elite than the Ming army. I feel that this time the biggest enemy of the Khwarizmo country may not even be us, but the army of the Guo Er country."

Su Haisheng still knew a little bit about the virtues of the feudal army.

In fact, this is also the case. After the army of the Gur Dynasty entered the territory of Khwarizmo, it opened the mode of untie the amusement park, and there was no discipline at all.

As they walked, they burned, killed and looted. Whenever they saw human settlements on the marching road, they would rush up and loot them regardless of the date and time. While robbing property and food, they ravaged the local residents and laughed loudly. Word.

Shihabuddin, the commander of the army and the younger brother of Gul Dynasty Sultan Gyasuddin, paid no attention to this.

Compared with the lives of the civilians in Khwarizmo, he was more concerned about whether he got the most precious part of the property that the robbers' subordinates got.

Even if I rob, I want to be in the first place, even if everything is robbed, I want to get the best.

Shihabdin is almost such an attitude.

And this time the marching operation, because of the difficult logistics of going abroad, the Khwarizm country itself promised to provide food and grass to the Gul Dynasty army, so in Shihabdin's view, it is just to get some in advance. get something.

The corrupt military discipline and looting of the Gul Dynasty not only brought huge disasters to the local civilians, but also brought huge troubles to the powerful landlords and officials in Khwarizmo.

Of course, the military within a country will be a little bit concerned about the powerful and powerful of its own country and will not violate their interests, but the military of other countries will not have such a good idea.

And from the point of view of the Gul Dynasty army, Lao Tzu is here to save you, and now I ask you to order food, money, and women.
As a result, not only civilians, but also the more powerful and powerful landlords became the targets of plunder by the Gul Dynasty army.

(End of this chapter)