Although the kingdom under his rule is now full of rebellions, Monomakh's influence remains undiminished when his name is raised.
Young people and veterans from all over the country who want to make a difference on the battlefield come from all directions, and Monomach is still frantically recruiting young men in the areas he can still control.
With this two-pronged approach, by September 1086, Monomakh pulled out an army with a strength of 25,000.
Given the vastness of the area that Monomach rules, generally speaking, it is not a problem to mobilize 40 to 50,000 people under normal circumstances, but now his kingdom is full of rebellions, and these places cannot really
Leave it alone.
Moreover, he is a new ruler, so the 25,000 people he can draw is the limit, but the Seljuk army he has to face has a full 50,000 people.
The difference in strength reached a full 1:2. It can be said that he was facing an extremely bad battle. More than half of his 25,000 men were still used as cannon fodder. The prospects for this battle were very bad.
Monomakh is facing tremendous pressure. If he is defeated by the Seljuk Sultan, his future will be almost over, and the kingdom he just won will disappear like the moon in a mirror.
As the Seljuk army advanced, Monomakh led his army to stay stationary in Tbilisi for a long time. According to the plan, this army was going to intercept the Sudanese army.
Even when news came from the front that the border fortress had been captured, Monomach did not start taking action, but continued to wait. This made his subordinates very anxious, but Monomach would not move, and he was now under great pressure.
Thinking hard about what to do next.
This made many people disappointed with Monomakh. They believed that Monomakh was frightened by the Seljuk army. The direct consequence was that some people began to run away, and some Transcaucasian nobles began to prepare for rebellion.
The more impatient ones have already raised the flag of rebellion.
While everyone was waiting, not knowing when Monomach would take action, and even thinking that he had lost his courage, Monomach finally made a move.
That was when he received news about the movement of the Seljuk army. At this time, the Seljuk army was very close to Tbilisi. The Turks seemed that they would definitely capture the city. Malikshah also thought that he seemed a little high-spirited.
Look at that Ross adventurer, with his performance, he doesn't need to assemble so many troops at all.
While the Turks were setting up camp with this kind of thinking, Monomakh unknowingly led his troops to the vicinity of the Seljuk Sultan.
Monomakh's team bypassed several Turkic armies and arrived at the place where Malik Shah was. By coincidence, it was raining heavily when they arrived.
Monomakh's 3,000-strong elite attacked Malik Shah's camp in the rainy night. The Turks did not react to the attack at all. In less than an hour, Malik Shah's own troops
The array collapsed.
Although the Seljuk Sultan was able to escape successfully, he threw down all his ceremonial guards and flags, almost only escaping with his own life. For Monomakh, although this was a pity, it was completely enough.
Taking advantage of the information gap, Monomakh spread the news that "Malik Shah is dead" everywhere, but the various Turkic armies did not know why. After seeing the Sudan's honor guard and flag, they subconsciously believed Monomakh.
Words from the Nomacher Army.
The result of this was that the Turkic armies everywhere began to retreat in a hurry, and the retreat quickly turned into a rout. Although not many people in the entire army were killed, most of them had fled.
When Maliksha finally found his troops two days later, spread the news that he was alive and stabilized the troops, he found that almost half of the people had fled.
And Maliksha still has a big trouble. No matter how you say it, he has achieved a defeat. The Turks are never kind to losers, even if he is a sultan, even if he is a ruler with such high prestige,
Next, we must put all our efforts into dealing with internal troubles.
For Monomakh, the Seljuk invasion came to an end, and the Turkic invasion was resolved by his audacious raid.
After solving the Turks, the next step is to solve the internal rebellion. This time the Seljuks attacked a lot of people who jumped out, so Monomakh believes that the next few years will probably all be spent on countering the rebellion.
However, he also said that it didn't matter. The rebellion of these guys was expected. It would do no harm to pull them out earlier.
In this way, Monomach began the war to quell the chaos in his kingdom. The dawn of stability that finally appeared in this land has now been strangled to death again, and war is likely to come again.
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When the Transcaucasus in the south was once again in the flames of war, the fuse of war was also lit in the north.
In a port in the Kingdom of Denmark, a prisoner who paid a ransom had just been released. The prisoner had obviously suffered a lot of abuse, and his body was covered with various wounds. However, due to the prisoner's strength, these wounds made him
It seems very prestigious.
"Go back...back to Ross, we can't just let this matter go..."
The prisoner said fiercely, his tone full of anger, and those who ransomed him quickly supported him. This person was none other than the second son of the Grand Duke of Kiev, Volorida Rostislavich.
As for why he is here, that's a long story.
After Volorida returned to Rus, she was soon given an important task by her parents, which was to go to the West to find a suitable husband for her sister Corsenia.
Koseniya is now 14 years old and is at the age where she should get married, but Rostislav and his wife plucked the few vegetables in the field and couldn't find anything suitable.
Don't even think about marrying with Rome. Alexios's children are only a few years old. There are no sons of the right age.
And for Rostislav, he doesn't consider political gains or losses when marrying his daughter this time. The key is whether the person can treat his daughter well, but the vegetables in the field don't look very good now.
Since there is no such thing around, we can only look for it in distant places, so Volorida was assigned by his parents to go to the west to inspect the mission. In fact, he was going to inspect the princes of the right age in various countries to see if there was anything suitable for his sister.
.
Volorida naturally wanted it. He had long wanted to go further west and took this opportunity to go. But it was during this trip that something went wrong.
Volorida's habit of looking for women got him into big trouble. The Russian prince always flirted with beautiful women when he saw them. This time when he docked at a Danish port, he took one of the Danish King Olaf's
The mistress got into bed.
Originally, this was just a trivial matter. Things like mistresses were just for fun, so there was no need to care.
But this time is different. The conflict between the Free Trade Alliance and the Kingdom of Denmark has always been great. Even if the Swain brothers have been involved in disputes, their hostility towards the Free Trade Alliance is very unified. Denmark everywhere
Jarre also supported the hostile policy.
In this context, Volorida's behavior was regarded as a provocation, so he was captured by the Danes and then tortured together with the king's mistress.
In this process, the king's mistress was directly killed. Anyway, she was just a miller's daughter. If she died, she would be dead. She was used to scare Volorida. She wanted the Prince of Ross to talk about some free trade.
Important information from the alliance, but Volorida withstood it and didn't say a word.
And the Danes didn't dare to really do anything to Volorida. Although they had made up their minds and were ready to go to war, it was not good to kill a captured prince rashly.
Volorida's bad life ended only when Rostislav sent someone to redeem him. In order to save his son, Rostislav spent a huge sum of money. At the same time, he also vowed in his heart to solve the problem in the north.
Ever since, with the capture of Volorida, the atmosphere of war in the Baltic Sea and even the North Sea has become intense, as if a battle will break out at the next moment.