Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 1031
The Caucasus region located between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, in the eyes of later generations, seems to have nothing else worth noting except that it is a natural dividing line between Asia and Europe.

The smoke of the vigorous Chechen war at the end of the last century has long since dissipated.

But the fact is that since ancient times, this place has been a cruel battlefield where the north and the south are fighting against each other.

In the Caucasus in history, after Mao Xiong became stronger, they conquered the Caucasus region, they fought repeatedly with the Ottomans and Persians, and competed for each hill, and the war lasted for a full 200 years. stained red.

And now?The Caucasus Mountains, as the channel connecting the north and the world of heaven, are naturally the focus of the Lu Qi Army's strategy.

Here, the resistance encountered by Lu Qi's army did not come from the Seljuks, but from the natives of the Caucasus region.

Surrounded by mountains and surrounded by overlapping mountains, there are dozens of tenacious mountain peoples, large and small. Before Lu Qi entered here, the southern foot of the Caucasus area was full of small countries, and the conflicts between various ethnic groups were sharp. of war-torn land.

The most powerful people here are the Georgians. At the moment when Lu Qi was established, Georgia’s David IV united various forces, defeated the Seljuks in the Battle of Didegry, and recaptured the Transcaucasian Hills occupied by Seljuks. Principality of Van and large tracts of northern Armenia.By the time the Lu Qi army arrived here, the Kingdom of Georgia under Georgia III had become the most powerful country in the Caucasus region, and its influence had expanded to Persia and the southwestern part of the Black Sea coast.

But no matter how powerful they are, facing the resistance of Lu Qi's army, they can only shake the big tree and block the car with their arms.

The forces in the southern Caucasus did not easily choose to surrender when faced with the Lu Qi army that had defeated the Seljuk Empire.Instead, he chose to resist resolutely.

Not for anything else, just for faith!

As a mountainous country, the bravery of the Caucasians is beyond doubt, but their military armaments are far from even the Seljuks.

The splitting principalities of Azerbaijan had no resistance against the Luqi army, and were easily swept across the territory. The remnant army retreated into the Kingdom of Georgia, plus some Seljuks and Byzantines in Armenia, and of course the Armenians , Formed a multi-party coalition, just like uniting with David IV at the beginning, tightly gathered around Georgia III, and resolutely resisted!
The sound of shouts and guns came in bursts. Tens of thousands of soldiers under the command of Hua Rong, Suo Chao, and Po Han Wu, etc. - there are many vassals - were fighting on muskets and thunderbolt crossbows - that is, on crossbow bolts. Under the cover of wrapping a small dynamite bag, wave after wave of offensives were launched against Georgia III's coalition army.

In the chain of firearms in the Lu Qi army, muskets and thunderbolt crossbows, which are absolutely at the bottom in terms of power and performance, have now become sharp weapons for the army to crush the Caucasians, showing their talents on the battlefield.The Caucasian, who had never seen what a firearm looked like, was completely bewildered by this devilish and evil weapon.

——Isn’t it evil?Warriors wearing heavy armor and holding thick shields were all shot to death by their opponents.

This terrible weapon is too evil.

Frightened by the explosion, the horses lost control on the battlefield and fled in all directions, causing chaos in the formation of the Caucasians.It gave the Lu Qi Army cavalry the opportunity to repeatedly attack.

Hua Rong is the main general of this division, Po Han Wu is the deputy general and the first-line commander, and the vanguard who is also the deputy general is the cavalry commander. Zhang Bofen, Zhang Zhongxiong, and Li Yanxian and Niu Gao who have withdrawn from Ross are under his command. He led a team of elite cavalry to repeatedly attack the chaotic Caucasus coalition forces.

In the battle that started in the morning, before the sun went down, the [-] to [-] troops assembled by Georgia III were completely defeated by the Huarong Army, which numbered no more than [-] cavalry.

When the rout began, a large number of Persian light cavalry, the vassal army, rushed up like wolves, and the one-sided massacre began.

The vast steppe is almost filled with the corpses of Caucasians!A small river that was not very wide was completely blocked by corpses, and the river was almost stained red with blood!

At dusk on the second day, the crown of Georgia III was presented to Huarong, only the crown, whose body had been trampled into a pulp by horseshoes.

If the Caucasian people can live their lives obediently after this painful lesson, then Lu Qi is already the master of this land!
Many Caucasians died, so naturally many Caucasians chose to surrender.They were not completely killed by Huarong, and the nobles inside were treated favorably by Huarong.

The upper echelons of the army knew very well that it was very simple for the Lu Qi army to defeat the Seljuks and Byzantines, as well as the Crusaders from Western Europe and the Azerbaijanis, Georgians, and Armenians.But it is not easy to truly rule this land.

This land is an area where monotheism [orthodox religion] and Tianfang religion have repeatedly entangled. First of all, this belief is a big problem.Another is the southern Caucasus with complex terrain, where there are many ethnic groups, and there are many people who have conflicts with each other.How can this facilitate governance?
Georgia in the north is okay, Armenia in the south, and Azerbaijan in the east are all headaches.

Under such circumstances, it is not a good idea to get involved easily.Rather, let them 'self-government'!
With monotheistic Armenians as the main body, Georgians and Azerbaijanis as supplements, all of them are nobles.Send them to various places to be city lords [managers], the Georgians are in Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijanis are in Georgia and Armenia, and the Armenians are of course in Georgia and Azerbaijan, supplemented by Tianfang believers...

Wu Yong felt that after doing this, there was no need to deliberately provoke them, and they could all have great hatred themselves.

And what Lu Qi wants the generals to do is to pay tribute to them every year and provide them with a source of soldiers!
In the case of insufficient strength, they can only do so.Just like the choices made by the Mongols in history.Lu Qi's current territory is too large, and under the current background of the times, its power and immigration are not enough to spread to all places.Some minor places, such as the Caucasus, which is destined to have no great development prospects, will naturally be included in the immigration delay list.

Or to put it more bluntly, this area is not the focus of Lu Qi's army. It will only be left as a historical issue in the future, and will be left to those who take the lead in exploring this area.

That may be Anguo [Lu Wan], or Luo State [Lu Yu] at the northern foot of the Caucasus.

Just as the Huarong Army swept across the southern Caucasus mountainous area, the northern foot area also knelt down under the swords and guns of Lu Qi's cavalry.But Lu Yu put his capital at the mouth of the Volga River, which is far away from the mountainous area at the northern foot of the Caucasus.

When the distance is far away, the control power will naturally decrease.However, Lu Yu needs a large area of ​​land. The immigrants from the Central Plains, the immigrants from Saibei and Anxi, and his own family all need a large area of ​​land.

Don't think about controlling the entire feudal country easily, the territory that Lu Qi has designated for his son is not small at all.In the future decades later, the competition between these feudal countries will not be small!
(End of this chapter)