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In 1130, the Southern Song Dynasty army fought a major battle with the Jin Dynasty army at Huang Tiandang, and soon after Kaifeng fell. The Southern Song Dynasty still chose to compensate in exchange for the economic development of the Song Dynasty. Every time I read this history, some people will be indignant, in fact, it is not necessary, this is just a war between two tribes in ancient China. But at the time of the Song-Jin-Zhongyuan War, a Chinese far away in the west was holding a grand sacrifice.
The Song-Jin War was just a "nest fight" without suspense, but because of this sacrifice activity, the Chinese in the far west will carry out a war to change the historical geopolitics in the next second, and a powerful hegemon will soon be born.
The person who sacrificed was Yelü Dashi, an exile of the Liao royal family, who performed this sacrifice still continued the Khitan way of "killing green cattle", the Khitan people who fled west killed green cattle, slaughtered white horses, and sacrificed heaven and earth to worship their ancestors, and Yelü Dashi vowed to inherit the legacy of the ancestors of the Liao state and continue the glory of the Liao Empire.
By the time Yelü Dashi held this grand sacrifice, the Liao kingdom had been destroyed for 5 years. Although the Jin Dynasty occupied the Liao State, it was still a dependency of the Liao State in the western part of the Liao State. Due to the long distance, the Jin Kingdom did not have the energy to go to the west to conquer, which gave Yelü Dashi the opportunity to grow and allow it to develop smoothly in the western region and Central Asia.
After the ceremony of the Great Stone sacrifice of Yerushalayim was completed, he led his army to continue to advance westward. In 1132, Yelü Dashi arrived at Yemili City and ascended the throne as emperor here, where he continued to use the state name and era name of the Liao state, and from then on the history book Western Liao was born.
After Yelü Dashi renewed his life for the Liao state, he certainly would not forget the enemy of the Liao state, the Jin Dynasty, and he had vowed to destroy the Jin Dynasty and restore the territory of the Liao State again. The first thing Yelü Dashi adopted was the strategy of marching eastward and westward, both eastward and westward. However, Yelü Dashi knew that the difficulty of the Eastern Crusade was too great, the Southern Song Dynasty did not cooperate, and there were still Tibetan and Western Xia forces in the middle, and there were many deserts in the Gobi, and the cost of the Eastern Crusade was too large, and it was not necessarily successful, so Yelü Dashi turned to take westward measures.
In 1137, Yelü Dashi led the Khitans into the Fergana Basin, where he defeated the western Qarakhanid army and won a major victory in the Western Expedition. But the Mahmud Khan of the Western Qarakhanids fled, and he ran to Sabalhan.
Mahmud was furious, and he summed up the reasons for the defeat in the war in Samarkand, believing that the Gelug had helped the Khitans. He decided to take revenge on the Gelug people. Why did Mahmud destroy the country and still have the strength to fight back again? Because Mahmud's relatives were so powerful, his uncle was Sultan Sanjar of the Seljuk Empire. After the fall of the country, Mahmoud could only ask his uncle for help.
Seeing that his nephew was being bullied, Sanjar immediately sent an army of 100,000 men to support Mahmud, hoping to destroy the Silulu in one fell swoop. When Sanjar's army crossed the Amu Darya, the Gelugs were frightened, because the Seljuk Empire was a powerful empire in West Asia and Central Asia, and the strength of this empire was even feared by Europeans. In the face of the coming of the army, the Gelug people asked for help from the Great Stone of Jerusalem.
When Yelü Dashi learned of this, he wrote a letter to the Sultan of Sanjar, the content of which was very earnest, and Yelü Dashi interceded with Sanjar Sufan, hoping that he would spare the Gelug people. Sultan Sanjar did not know that the new Western Liao people were powerful, nor did he take the Yelü Dashi in his eyes, and when he received the letter, he was very angry, so he returned the letter and sent someone to send it to yelü Dashi.
Sultan Sanjar's letter to Yelü Dashi was actually a "war letter" asking Yelü Dashi to recognize the strength of the Seljuk Empire and surrender to him, otherwise he would send a large army to destroy the Western Liao. In this letter, Sultan Sanjar also said something that made Jeroboam amused. Sultan Sanjar said that the Seljuk army was not only powerful, but also able to fight, and the soldiers had accurate arrows and could shoot the enemy's hair with one arrow. It seems that the ancients bragged that they did not pay taxes.
Jeroboam immediately ordered a man to take a steel needle, and he handed the steel needle to the envoy of the Seljuk Empire, and asked the emissary to take the steel needle to cut off his beard, and if he continued to pierce, he would behead him. The Messenger had to tie his beard with a steel needle, and he kept his beard in any case.
Yelü Dashi laughed, "Your emperor is so braggadocio, you even have steel needles piercing your beard, how can your army shoot us out of our hair?" "The Great Stone of Jerusalem killed this messenger, heralding a declaration of war on the Seljuk Empire. Sultan Sanjar was furious when he heard of the western liao's killing of the envoy, and he despised him, and he decided to attack the Great Stone of Yerushalayim and destroy the western Liao.
By the time The 100,000-strong army of The Sultan of Sanjar reached the Steppe of Katwan, Yelü Dashi had already led the Khitans to line up here to meet the Seljuk Empire. A fierce battle on the steppes began. After the war began, the Seljuk army learned that the Khitans were too strong, because the Seljuks had not seen the way the Central Plains Dynasty fought, and thought they were the most powerful. Yelü Dashi soon led his army to defeat the Seljuk army and captured the sultan of Sanjar and his family. Sultan Sanjar eventually fled with only more than 10 retinues. This is the history of the Western Liao and the Seljuk "Battle of Katwan".
In 1157, Sultan Sanjar fell ill and died. After the Battle of Katwan, the Seljuk Empire lost its dominance of the Amu Darya Valley of the Syr Darya River forever, and the powerful empire weakened. The Western Liao Empire has since become the new hegemon of Central Asia. The Seljuk Empire had to move westward again, squeezing the europeans and causing turmoil in Europe. It can be seen that after Yelü Dashi fled west, he not only changed the history of China, but also changed the history of Europe.