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After conquering the Western Karakhra Khanate, the Central Army faced two choices - one was to directly fight the Iraqi World Alliance, and the other was to attack the Gassini Dynasty first.

The Gassini Dynasty was also known as the "Gogining Dynasty" and the "Gazni Dynasty". It was the Central Asian Empire at its peak, occupying most of Iran in later generations, Turkmenistan, part of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India. It imitated the various systems of the Saman Dynasty and established a relatively complete centralized bureaucratic system, and the central government managed various places vertically.

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This happened more than a hundred years ago.

Because the local border officials of the Gasseni Dynasty held military and political power, posed a threat to the central authority. At the same time, some remote and remote areas were ruled by various vassals, vassal states, nomadic tribe heads and other agents, which eventually led to the dynasty slowly decline. Decades ago, after Massud III's death, the Gasseni Dynasty fell into a battle for the throne. Later, Bahram Shah, one of the princes of Massud III, exchanged for reinforcements from Seljuk Sanga by kneeling to the Seljuk Empire and eventually became a sultan. Bahram Shah then decided to break away from Seljuk's control, but was defeated by the Seljuk people. The Gasseni Kingdom gradually weakened to this dynasty with only one empty affiliation.

However, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Gassinian Dynasty declined, its territory was vast, even comparable to the Eastern Karakhanate and larger than the Western Karakhanate. Even the Sailju Dynasty was not much smaller.

Of course, the more important thing is that it is weak and can easily be defeated - for a period of Central Asia, there was no strong country, otherwise the Ghassini Dynasty would have been destroyed long ago.

If it is determined that "a bird is worse than a bird in the forest", then you should first attack the Gassini dynasty rather than fight the decisive battle with the coalition forces.

However, due to the supply issue, the central army only brought more than 300,000 elite troops this time. In fact, the one million reserve military men and their sons could also fight. In addition, there were tens of thousands of people dependent on various small forces in Dazhong. However, in the eyes of Li Yan, Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others, these troops belonged to the second-line troops and could only move things and fight a smooth battle.

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In the eyes of Li Yan, Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others, the central army can only fight with more than 300,000 troops.

And the Iraqi World Alliance has millions.

Therefore, once the central army divides its troops, it may not be able to defeat the Iraqi World Alliance.

Therefore, Yue Fei and Liu Qi proposed not to fight the Gassini Dynasty first, but to fight directly with the Yi World Alliance.

Yue Fei and Liu Qi's reason was that as long as they defeated the Yi World Alliance in the decisive battle, the subsequent battle could even allow the one million reserve military men, Li Yan's sons' personal soldiers and subordinates to fight.

In addition, if the millions of coalition forces in the Yi world are not dealt with, it will be a big threat. Therefore, we should concentrate our efforts to destroy them first, so that the entire Yi world can be allowed to be enfeoffed by Li Yan.

Li Yan's sons who had not yet gained territory used various channels to persuade Li Yan to fight the Gassini Dynasty first, and then conquer the Gassini Dynasty, and then fight the decisive battle with the coalition forces in the Yi world.

Li Yan was really disappointed with his sons who were so fragile and short-sighted, and then rushed back to his country. Moreover, no one pleaded for mercy would work.

Li Yan was not an act of impulse, but asked them to study hard after going back, and then talk about their becoming kings. In Li Yan's opinion, based on their current performance, based on their brainless appearance, and designated as being a king, if they are forced to manage the country, it will definitely be a harm to them, and they may lose their lives.

After Li Yan drove these sons back, no one dared to propose to attack the Gassini Dynasty first.

Later, Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others began to make final preparations for the decisive battle.

After more than half a year, Sanjar finally gathered up more than 700,000 troops and announced two million to the public. Then, Sanjar personally led the army to launch a fierce attack on the central army.

Sanjar had all gone to fight in person, and for the sake of morale, Li Yan had to fight in person.

After discussing, Li Yan, Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others led an army of 300,000 to fight against Sanjar.

The decisive battle between the two sides was unfolded on the Katvan Grassland north of Samarkand (this place is located in later Uzbekistan).

Although the enemy's army is not as large as two million, there are still seven or eight hundred thousand, which is more than twice that of the central army.

But Li Yan was not afraid.

After more than ten years, Li Yan, who was wearing armor and helmet again, said passionately to his soldiers: "Although warriors are our numbers, the enemy is composed of troops from multiple countries, tribes and tribes. There was no unified exercise in advance, so the command will be impossible, and the attack will inevitably lead you to the end and end. You are all climbing from the mountain of corpses and wading from the sea of ​​blood. From having a mountain to conquering the whole world, I have never been defeated. This time, my soldiers, follow me, and I will lead you to achieve supreme glory again!"

After a magic blow, Li Yan handed over the command to Yue Fei and Liu Qi.

Yue Fei and Liu Qi divided the troops into three groups, and asked Li Yan to personally lead the central army, Yue Fei commanded the left army, and Liu Qi commanded the right army.

On the other hand, Sanjar also led the central army himself, his prime minister led the left army, and Mahmud Khan led the right army.

The situation on the battlefield was that the central army led by Li Yan faced the central army of the coalition, the left army of the central army faced the right army of the coalition, and the right army of the central army faced the left army of the coalition.

The stationing location chosen by Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others for Li Yan was a gentle slope along the mountain, and there was a canyon in the middle of the mountain.

Zhang Xian, Yelu Dashi, Zhe Yanzhi and others who helped Li Yan command the central army made full use of this canyon. They arranged the central army in front of the canyon, and the left and right armies were arranged on both sides, fighting against the canyon.

As soon as the battle began, the left army of the coalition forces attacked the right wing of the central army, and the central army of both sides fell into a stalemate.

In this way, a gap was opened between the Right Army and the Left Army of the Central Army.

Sanjar seized the opportunity and ordered the left army of the coalition to penetrate between the right army and the central army, and between the left army.

The gap becomes larger and larger.

The left, center and right armies of the coalition forces gradually entered this gap.

Seeing this, Yelu Dashi suggested to Li Yan that the central army and the left army would detour to the right wing of the coalition forces.

Li Yan followed Yelu Dashi's advice and personally led the central army to detour with the left army led by Yue Fei.

This detour turned out to be the right wing of the central army attacking the left wing of the coalition, and the left wing of the central army revolved behind the coalition, and the central army attacked the right wing of the coalition - this formed a situation where the central army suddenly opened and the coalition was attacked by the enemy on three sides, and the coalition was opposite the canyon, and the central army protected the bottom of the three sides and launched a fierce attack.

The coalition forces had no way out and could only be forced into the canyon by the sharply attacked central army.

And the canyon was very narrow, and it was difficult for hundreds of thousands of people to turn around as soon as they entered.

The key is that Yue Fei and Liu Qi had ambushed hundreds of thousands of reserve civilians on both sides.

Soon, millions of explosive packs were thrown into the canyon by reserve workers from both sides of the canyon.

The explosives covered the rain, causing the coalition troops in the canyon to overturn.

And that's not the end.

After the explosion, the central army entered the canyon again and massacred the coalition warriors who had not been killed.

After one battle, hundreds of thousands of corpses of the coalition army were buried. Most of the non-dead were captured alive, and only a few 30,000 or 20,000 people were killed from the other end of the canyon. As for Sanjar himself, he was captured alive by the young general Yue Lei when he was seriously injured.

The battle between the Central Army determines the fate of Central Asia.

Soon, the central army took advantage of the victory and directly killed Isfahan, the capital of the Seljuk Empire...

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Chapter completed!