Elunqi's face was pale and his whole body was shaking.
They were defeated, defeated so completely. They all collapsed and fled in all directions.
The Heshuote man completely lost his ability to organize, and he galloped through every possible gap like mercury pouring down the ground.
Those who lost their horses had to run as fast as they could on two legs.
They didn't want to stay in this camel city for another minute. It was simply a hell of steel and fire. Those high-rate camel cannons completely shattered their understanding of camel cannons.
The Mongolians in the Desert are the most proficient in firearms in the Mongolian system. Because they are in Central Asia, a land of four wars.
Since ancient times, this place has never been quiet. Every few decades, strong people come to promote and format it.
In the middle of Asia, there are actually three human races and two major religious forces, all of whom are vying with each other and whose spheres of influence are intertwined.
Gao Xianzhi of the Tang Dynasty was defeated at the gate of Talos City, which caused two huge consequences.
One is that the entire Western Region has been gradually assimilated by Confucianism and Buddhism since the Qin and Han Dynasties.
But after this defeat, the Anshi Rebellion broke out in the Tang Dynasty. China then entered a thousand-year decline cycle and completely lost its ability to influence the west of Jiayuguan.
This resulted in a complete greening of the area.
The second consequence is that the security situation in Han Dynasty has deteriorated extremely. The power has shrunk so seriously that it basically has no long-term ability to control areas beyond the Great Wall for a thousand years.
The Western Regions were so important to the Han Dynasty. Without this strategic depth, the Song and Ming Dynasties were successively subjugated to the northern nomads, fishermen and hunters, which had devastating consequences for the Han civilization.
The Han people have gone from being a vigorous nation, constantly pioneering and enterprising, to a strange state that is tyrannical internally and weak externally.
The positive energy gradually decreases and the negative energy continues to increase. The bad nature criticized by later generations such as Mr. Zhou and Mr. Bo Yang probably originated from this thousand years of decline.
The central and western parts of Asia include Central Asia and West Asia. There are three ethnic groups here that have competed for dominance during this millennium.
They are Arabs, Persians and Turks.
The basic base of Arabs is North Africa and the Middle East.
The Persians' basic base is the Iranian plateau.
The basic base of the Turks is in the Asia Minor Peninsula and Central Asia.
Within these three ethnic groups, there are many small ethnic groups. They are divided into large and small countries headed by emirs, sultans, caliphs...
These large numbers of small countries and tribes believe in two main religious sects: Shia and Sunni.
Of course, there are numerous other small sects. For example, there is a minority group in China who believe in the Ismailis. The Sufi mystical sect has also been introduced.
The same is true in Europe at this time. It's just that they are four major races plus three sects.
The four major ethnic groups are the Germans in Western Europe, the Slavs in Eastern Europe, the Latins in Southern Europe, and the scattered Celts.
The three sects are Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic.
They also split into countless small countries, attacking each other and fighting endlessly.
At this time, various ethnic and religious forces were intertwined in Eurasia.
In fact, there are only three civilizations in this world to this day. They are the Christian civilization in Europe, the civilization in Central and West Asia, North Africa, and the Chinese civilization in East Asia and Northeast Asia. Relatively speaking, the one in the middle is the weakest.
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They are even more broken apart and unable to unite.
The two civilizations of the East and the West, one forms a whole relying on the European Union and NATO, and the other has been a unified civilization for thousands of years.
Therefore, after World War II, the United States continued to launch wars against the middle part of the world. In fact, it was the Christian world that was suppressing the Middle East.
This world is a Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The weakest alliance in the middle can compete with the strongest. In this way, all three families can survive.
The strategy adopted by the strongest is to concentrate on attacking the weak enemies first. Destroy the weakest first, and then deal with the middle ones, and you will be sure of victory.
Talking back to the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, on the surface, Central Asia seems to be dominated by the Mongols, but they have converted to local religions.
This is especially obvious in the Yarkand Khanate in southern Xinjiang. In fact, the four major khanates in Central Asia eventually converted to local religions and were assimilated.
What Yang Fan is really afraid of is not the Mongolian power, but the Turkic power represented by Ottoman Türkiye.
On the surface, the Mongols still maintained their status as suzerains, but below they were already controlled by Turkic forces. The Ottomans had greater influence in Central Asia.
The Mongols have some power in Europe and Xinjiang. The Turks are the actual controllers of the vast area in between. Especially the Turkmen and Tajiks in southern Central Asia.
This was a truly thousand-year empire, far more successful than any empire in China. They lasted from the 13th century to 1923.
The Turks are a Turkic-speaking nation and a small Turkic tribe under the original Roma Sultanate to which Seljuk belonged.
By handing over financial power to the Jews, they stripped away political power and financial power, thus avoiding the country's collapse due to financial bankruptcy caused by the Sudan's excessive spending and official corruption.
This is something that China has not done for thousands of years.
They adopted a tax farming system and directly auctioned the tax revenue of each city to merchants. This avoided the problem of being unable to collect taxes in the later period of the Ming Dynasty. This allowed them to always have sufficient tax revenue. And those who purchased the city to collect taxes had to collect taxes.
The city must be built and managed well.
The reason is very simple. People and businessmen will vote with their feet. If you don't manage well, people will move away if they don't make any money. Where are you going to collect taxes?
Another system is extremely cruel. Once the Sultan establishes an heir, he will immediately execute all the remaining princes. This prevents brothers from fighting each other and fighting civil war, which will lead to the country's destruction. Even the most benevolent Sultan in the Ottoman Empire finally followed the instructions of his ancestors and endured the pain.
He pushed his only infant brother into a basin of water and drowned him.
Yang Fan's western expedition will face a flanking attack by two powerful enemies, the Turks and the Slavs.
Zhao Ting did not give the order to pursue, but gave the opposite order. Ming Jin retreated his troops, and all members retreated back to the inner circle of Tuocheng.
The reason is simple. The pirate group suffered heavy casualties, and the three battalions in the front had been defeated.
Outside Camel City, there are three thousands-man Heshuote troops that are interfering with the battlefield. In this case, shrinking is a good idea.
Elunqi lost all his capital. Of the 5,500 cavalrymen, only more than 1,600 people escaped and joined the 3,000 fresh troops outside. He did not dare to attack Tuocheng again.
They retreated and retreated hastily towards the ancient city of Gaochang.