There have been many conquerors in history, the ancient nomads were subject to the development of terrain and living habits, so they reflected a very strong aggressiveness, Genghis Khan is one of them, whether Genghis Khan is Chinese, there have been various controversies in history, but the next thing to say is a down-to-earth Chinese emperor, if he does not die, the territory will expand to Europe, this is the founder of the Western Liao, the eighth grandson of Yelü Abaoji, Liao Dezong Yelü Dashi.
In 1087, Yelü Dashi was born in Shangjing, as an imperial nobleman, he was clever and clever, diligent and studious, and good at riding and shooting, in 1115, Yelü Dashi was admitted to the Jinshi again, becoming the only Khitan jinshi in the "History of Liao", successively serving as the envoy of Taizhou, Xiangzhou, and Liaoxing.
At that time, after 200 years of the Liao state, the magnates were arrogant, the Liao royal family abandoned the military, and was still under the attack of the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, when the Tianzuo Emperor of the Liao State was also a dim monarch, facing the joint attack of the two countries, did not actively defend, and even planned to take the initiative to attack.
Yelü Dashi also knew in his heart that following such an emperor would be a dead end, and in 1124, when Emperor Tianzuo sent troops to fight the Jin Dynasty, Yelü Dashi led 200 soldiers to flee the Liao barracks. On the way to escape, many of the scattered Liao army and the people who escaped the enslavement of the Jin State joined the ranks of Yelü Dashi, and soon, the ranks of Yelü Dashi expanded to hundreds of thousands of people, including Khitans, Han Chinese, And Mongols, such a multi-ethnic army continued to drive west, looking for land suitable for survival.
Soon The army of Yerushalayim came to Central Asia, and the countries of the Western Regions naturally did not welcome this group of uninvited guests, and in 1134 the Eastern Qarakhanid Khan died, and the Kanri and Gelug people took the opportunity to betray, and Ibrahim, who succeeded to the throne, requested that the Yelü Dashi stationed nearby intervene. Dashi resolved the rebellion and demoted the Eastern Qarakhanid To vassals, cutting off its northern territory as a direct territory to re-establish the name of the Liao State, historically known as the Western Liao.
Yelü Dashi had tried to launch a crusade in the hope of retaking the Liao state, but failed because of poor grain and grass, so he immediately turned his attention to the west and expanded to the other side.
At that time, the biggest hegemon of Central Asia was the Seljuk Empire, they regarded the group of pagans of Yelü Dashi as heretics, and the war soon broke out, in 1137, Dashi invaded the Seljuk vassal state of the Western Black Khanate, for which the Seljuk Turkic Empire gathered Khorasan, Ghazni and other countries to form a coalition of more than 100,000 Muslims, and Yelü Dashi responded with 30,000 cavalry, in 1141, the two sides fought a decisive battle near Samarkand, Yelü Dashi defeated the Turkic allies, and drove their sphere of influence out of Central Asia. The Western Liao became the hegemon of Central Asia,
At that time, Europe had launched a crusade against the Seljuk Empire, but it was fruitless, but they heard that the invincible Seljuk Empire was defeated by the Emperor of the East, and the European countries were also nervous, after all, there had been a history of Xiongnu invasion before, after defeating the Seljuks, the ambitious Yelü Dashi planned to develop to the north and continue to conquer, but in 1143, just when he began to prepare for the crusade, Yelü Dashi still died of illness at the age of 57, at the age of 57, if he did not die The territory will also reach Europe. Yelü Dashi relied on his own strength, and thus continued the Khitan kingdom for more than a hundred years, which can not be described as brave.