Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 1030 Lu Wan doesn't know either

Chapter 1030 Lu Wan doesn't know either

Under the low hills, the green field stretches in all directions, and the vegetation in summer is full of vitality under the bright sunshine.Among the large and destroyed wheat fields, villages can be seen faintly.

It's just that I can't see the curling smoke rising slowly.

This is the Armenian Principality of Cilicia on the southern coast of Asia Minor, a branch and successor of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia.But unlike the ancient Kingdom of Armenia, its geographical location was not on the Armenian Highlands at the southern foot of the Caucasus, but concentrated in Alexandretta on the northwest bay of Cilicia in the Asia Minor Peninsula, which was the southern part of later Turkey.

——At the junction of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, located in the coastal plain south of the Taurus Mountains.

Its founders were "Armenian refugees" who had to go into exile to escape the Seljuk invasion.

Their feud with the Seljuks made them natural allies for the Crusaders, and they saw themselves as the eastern outpost of the monotheistic world.

Therefore, this small principality, which is not powerful, has been crushed more than once by the Byzantines in the past half century.John II couldn't move the Crusader Knights, couldn't he deal with the Armenians who were once ruled by Byzantium?
In 1137 AD, John II personally led an army to capture most of the towns on the Cilicia Plain.The Byzantines captured Leon I, Grand Duke of Armenia, and imprisoned him and some other family members in Constantinople, including Leon's sons Ruben and Soros.Three years later Leon I died in prison.Ruben was also blinded and then killed in prison.But another son of Leon I, Soros (Soros II), managed to escape in 1141. He returned to Cilicia to lead the struggle against Byzantium, and finally succeeded in driving off the Byzantine invasion.

But before the Armenians could take a breath, the Lu Qi army rushed into the sky. The powerful Seljuq Empire collapsed overnight, and the Byzantine rule in Asia Minor was also precarious.The Kingdom of the Crusader Knights is also crumbling...

The whole world changed color in an instant.

Under such circumstances, Soros II did not have the great belief of dedicating his life to the world of one god.Even if they are the first official monotheism as the state religion in the world, the first single-belief country.

But four years of hard work in Constantinople filled Soros with hatred for the Byzantines.He had prayed to God more than once, but God did not protect the troubled Armenians.

However, it is very sad that not all Armenians agree with Soros's idea. Just when he secretly contacted Lu Qi secretly, there were already devout monotheists among the Armenians who informed Byzantium of the news. people.

In this way, the Byzantines and the devout people in Armenia, and even the Crusader aristocratic forces that flowed into Cilicia-one Crusader knight country became a thing of the past, and the remaining Crusaders retreated into Cilicia one after another. Not Byzantium.Now that these people are unified and united, the powerful power is not comparable to that of Soros II, so he had to flee in a hurry and join the Lu Qi army!

And with Soros leading the way, when the Lu Qi army rushed to Cilicia, wasn't it just chopping melons and vegetables?
However, within a few days of Cilicia's acquisition, Lu Wan was once again attacked by the Italian navy!

The shortage of water surface forces in the Mediterranean forced Lu Qijun and Lu Wan to face an embarrassing reality - when they wiped out and flattened all the Crusader Knights and other forces at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, what they got was not a peaceful Mesopotamia .The power of the Italian Navy based on Cyprus Island, and even some remnants of Cilicia's retreat into Cyprus, caused Lu Qi's offensive and defensive momentum in the local area to suddenly undergo a 180-degree reversal.

The Latins used naval warships as their carriers to wantonly harass various places, from Jerusalem in the south to Antioch in the north, and even Cilicia, which had just been taken down. Some embarrassment.

The long coastline cannot be defended by Lu Qi's remaining troops, but you can't turn a blind eye, otherwise, within half a month, the certain kingdom/principal will be restored.

But even so, Lu Qi couldn't let Baghdad fill this power gap. Even after the Battle of Jerusalem, the power of the Tianfang people also obediently withdrew from the city of Jerusalem.

Originally, Lu Qi's side was a minority faction, and if the Tianfang people took advantage of the loopholes, there is no guarantee that there will be big troubles in the future.

But it's really uncomfortable to be like this.

Especially Lu Wan, the king of Anguo, let alone how depressed he was, but the Italians had already destroyed all the shipyards in the coastal ports before him, recruited many sailors and shipbuilders, and even A large amount of shipbuilding timber was burned up.

Start now.Even if the Chinese have prepared a large number of armed forces and shipbuilding craftsmen, but they have no timber in their hands, there is nothing they can do.There is indeed a large amount of wood in the Taurus Mountains, but the wood that has just been cut cannot be used to build ships. It must be placed in the shade for three or two years before it can be used.Moreover, the wood used for shipbuilding, different wood materials, have completely different effects.

In other words, Lu Wan has no hope of building a real warship in the short term.

His entire planning process was disrupted.It can only abandon Jerusalem, Syria and other places along the Mediterranean Sea.

Only send a small number of soldiers and horses to garrison a few important cities, and abandon all the rest, isn't it "abandoning all"?This is very different from his original plan.

Not only was a large area of ​​land "wasted", but even the troops in his hands were dragged down. It was not because of the servant army gathered on the Persian plateau, and the strong support of Yue Fei and other important generals. With the few troops in his hands, how could he defeat the enemy? Stand firm at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.

But the biggest difference between his Anguo and Luo, Wu, etc. is that Asia Minor has a special geographical location. Before the Lu Qi army can completely solve the threat of Byzantium, it will definitely stop here on a large scale.This was originally Lu Wan's biggest confidence, but looking at it now, if you gain something, you will lose it, it really is a wise saying.

If the imperial army wants to concentrate on dealing with the Byzantines and the remnants of the Seljuks in Asia Minor, it must first solve the Crusader Knights.The foothold of Yishen World at the eastern end of the Mediterranean was eradicated, and the army on the front line of the province was fighting, but a large number of enemy troops landed on the flanks, and they went straight to the rear of the army.

And now this long coastline has become the shackles that restrain his hands and feet...

Lu Wan's heart is naturally full of reluctance, because this will greatly slow down his progress, but the matter has come to this point, and his power is powerless to change all this.Even if the Lu Qi army completely defeated the Byzantines and Seljuks on the Asia Minor peninsula in a short period of time, and completely ruled the area east of the Bosphorus, he should be harassed by the Italian naval forces, and still want to accepted.

No matter how powerful Lu Qi's elite was, he couldn't turn into a mermaid, and ran to the vast ocean.

Europeans' naval superiority in the Mediterranean is a 'natural' talent of monotheistic civilizations.

Moreover, the Byzantines did not engage in a direct confrontation with the Lu Qi army at all. The harassment and sneak attacks were combined with defensive warfare. Relying on the complex geographical terrain of the Asia Minor peninsula interspersed with mountains and plateaus, the Byzantines were delaying time as much as possible.They want to drag Lu Qi down with a war of attrition!

The Asia Minor peninsula covers 60 million square kilometers, and the terrain is complex, from coastal plains to mountain pastures, from cedar forests to rolling prairie. It is impossible for the Lu Qi army to do their best in one battle with the Byzantines.

Lu Wan doesn't know how long this war will last.

(End of this chapter)

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