In the last years of the Liao Dynasty, the Tianzuo Emperor was absurd and unscrupulous, and the imperial court was whitewashed and corrupt, and the people were displaced and the people were not happy.
The time came to 1115 AD (5 years of the Northern Song Dynasty and 5 years of Liao Tianqing), this year, the Jurchens, dissatisfied with the Liao Dynasty's long-term exploitation and extortion, established Dajin under the leadership of Wanyan Akuta, and set the capital in Shangjing (present-day Harbin, Heilongjiang Province); in this year, the 20,000 Jurchen troops born in the Baishan Heishui conquered Huanglongfu (present-day Nong'an County, Jilin Province) and confronted the 100,000 troops personally recruited by the Tianzuo Emperor, resulting in infighting in the Liao army, and the Jin Dynasty army seized the opportunity to counterattack, "the Liao division was defeated, and the dead belonged to more than 100 miles"; A 28-year-old Liao Dynasty emperor participated in the imperial examination and passed the jinshi examination, becoming the only Khitan jinshi in the Liao Dynasty recorded in the "History of Liao", and he was yelü Dashi, the eighth grandson of The Liao Taizu Yelü Abaoji.
From then on, in the lingering Liao Dynasty, Yelü Dashi began a wandering and legendary political career: he first fought with the Tianzuo Emperor, and then fled with the Tianzuo Emperor, and then together with his subjects, yelü Chun, the king of Qin and Jin, was established as emperor and established the Northern Liao. After Yelü Chun's death, he established his wife Xiao Defei as regent and twice defeated the Northern Song invasion. Hearing that Emperor Dazuo had raised a team in Nanjing (present-day Beijing), he immediately defected.
After emperor Tianzuo recovered a little, he began to get carried away and was anxious to raise an army to recover the lost land. However, Yelü Dashi thought that the time was not yet ripe for a complete reversal of face with Jin Guo, but Emperor Tianzuo did not listen at all. Faced with this self-absorbed monarch, Oishi felt disheartened and clearly understood that it was impossible to restore the country by relying on the Tianzuo Emperor.
Yelü Dashi's heart was extremely painful, he had long been influenced by the Confucian ideology of "self-cultivation, Qi family, governance of the country, and peace in the world" and the historical education of the ancestors of the Liao Dynasty, and he was well aware of the decline of the Great Liao Qi from a young age, and always took the revival of the Great Liao as his responsibility, which was quite the integrity of the Song Dynasty scholars. However, the faint Tianzuo Emperor did not have a long memory, did not eat lessons, and thought that the Khitan soldiers were those invincible warriors in those years, but they did not know that after more than two hundred years of peace and prosperity, the Khitan people were no longer the horseback people who worked hard to govern in those years. However, "kings and subjects" can only advise and cannot stop. Emperor Tianzuo's trip will undoubtedly be defeated, and he must find another way out for the tomorrow of Daliao. Looking around, in the east there are the divisions of the Great Golden Tiger and Wolf, which is already the dead end that Emperor Tianzuo wants to choose; in the south, there are Northern Song troops allied with Dajin, and the Liao Dynasty has also thought about it, but the two troops have been defeated and returned; there are only two roads to the west and the north; relatively speaking, there are Liao Dynasty garrisons in the west, and there are Mongol tribes that submit to Daliao, which can be regarded as the best place to go at present. At the moment, he immediately made a decision, and within a few days, he led two hundred of his cronies all the way to the west to reserve the fire for the restoration of the Liao Dynasty and establish a counter-offensive base.
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After leading 200 people out of the Tianzuo Emperor, Yelü Dashi headed northwest into the Mongolian steppe. After reaching the northernmost city of the Liao State, the Liao army that guarded the city heard that the Jin Dynasty army was so arrogant, coupled with the fall of the homeland, their hearts were tormented and unwilling. And the Great Stone of Yelü, which was known for its prestige throughout the Liao Dynasty, became the only sustenance and the whole hope of restoration for all people. Soon, he reorganized the garrison of Ködun City and gained an initial foothold in the Mongolian steppe.
This was followed by the subjugation of the Mongol tribes. Relying on the former prestige of the Great Liao, Yelü Dashi gathered the governors of the seven prefectures and the leaders of the eighteen tribes to join the city of Ketun, and the ministers of the various states obeyed yelü Dashi's words and swore to follow them to the death. With their support in Mongolia, Yerushalayim's men and horses rapidly expanded, reaching tens of thousands of men.
This made the Great Jin Dynasty a little panicked, they immediately sent a large army to cut the grass and remove the roots, in the face of the menacing force of the Jin Army, and then look at the people and horses they had just formed, Yelü Dashi knew that the existing strength could not withstand the successive blows of the Jin Army. After much thought, Yelü Dashi set his sights on the vast western region, where there were rich oases where horses and sheep could be herded, and they could avoid the front of the Jin army, and immediately decided to "move west" at the moment. Tens of thousands of horses, the last flame of this Great Liao, began a long westward journey after the sacrifice of the ancestors of heaven and earth.
To the west, at this time, there were the Gaochang Uighurs, who occupied the powerful north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, the Naiman tribe on both sides of the Altai Mountains, and the Tangnu Wuliang Sea. They have been entrenched here for a long time, and their power is strong, and the only possible breakthrough is the Tang Dynasty, who is in the midst of civil strife. However, in front of the Long-term Battlefield, the Khitan troops who came from afar did not take advantage. Fortunately, Yelü Dashi was not fond of fighting, and he could hide and hide, quickly broke through, and soon came to the place where Ye Mili was located, and built a city to live in. At this time, another 16,000 people who had been nomadic here earlier came to defect, and some Turkic tribes also followed the trend. With favorable terrain and fertile land, as well as the environment of military and political access, Yelü Dashi gradually became the hegemon of the western region, and soon with the support of his subjects, Yelü Dashi succeeded to the throne as emperor and established the Western Liao.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" swept central Asia ></h1>
Fire in the western region shines and heats, branches and leaves... But the brutal storm didn't stop... A corner of peace is not the original intention of moving west!
Gaining a firm foothold, The Great Stone of Jerusalem began a further challenge to the restoration. The first target he aimed at was the fierce enemy he did not dare to provoke on the road to the west, the Gaochang Uighurs. The Uighurs were once the undisputed masters of this northern steppe, but as the country split, it has gradually declined. Facing the mighty division of Yelü Dashi approaching the city, the king of Gaochang, Billego, was frightened, trembling above the city, and before the battle had begun, he opened the city gates and welcomed Yelü Dashi into the palace, offering horses, camels, cattle and sheep.
Then came the second target, the Qarakhanids in the southwest. However, when Yelü Dashi fought against the Qarakhanid army, he suffered the biggest defeat since the westward migration, and almost the entire army was destroyed.
Fortunately, Heaven did not make him wait long. Soon after, the king of the Qarakhanid empire died, the new king ruled weakly, and domestic rebellions continued. Exhausted, he went so far as to send envoys to Jeroboam, asking them to send an army to receive his land and people. Upon receiving such a request, Yerushalayim immediately led a large army into the city of Balasagun and moved the capital there.
Since then, the Western Regions have become a stable base for the restoration of the kingdom under the control of the Great Stone of Yerushalayim.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the First Crusade</h1>
When everything was ready, Jeroboam began to fulfill the promise he had made before moving west—the restoration of the kingdom. An army of 70,000 men and horses began the first crusade after the westward journey.
However, because the road was too far away, and everywhere it passed was a barren place such as desert and Gobi Desert, the harsh natural environment caused the war horses and camels accompanying the army to fall one after another, and the overwhelmed soldiers also began to be wounded and deserted.
The First Crusade ended prematurely with a dramatic ending before it had really begun.
In desperation, Jeroboam had to turn his eyes back to the west, because only if he was strong enough could there be any hope of restoration...
For the third goal, he chose the Western Qarakhanids.
The Western Qarakhanids were only a small country, and he knew that he was by no means an opponent of the Western Liao, so he asked for help from his suzerainty, the Seljuk Turks. The younger brother has difficulties, how can the eldest brother watch? Without saying a word, the Seljuk Turkic Sultan Sangal decided to teach this Buddhist a lesson, and he gathered the Muslim tribes of Khorasan, Ghul, Koschenin, Sigistan, and gathered a crowd of 100,000 people and horses, and rushed to the Western Qarakhanid.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > The Decisive Battle of Kavante</h1>
More than 400 years ago, the Invincible Gao Xianzhi army of the Tang Dynasty encountered Waterloo in Central Asia, and it was this group of Muslim warriors who defeated them. Now, in the face of the Great Stone of Jerusalem, which also came from the East, they are clamoring to reshape the glory of their ancestors...
Soon, Sultan Sanjar, who had made a high-profile appearance, led his 100,000-strong army into the city of Samarkand to join the Western Qarakhanid army. They first attacked the Gelug people who had rebelled against the Western Qarakhanids who had surrendered to the Great Stone of Yerushalayim. Naturally, the Gelug people were unable to resist the offensive of the 100,000-strong army, and before they could start fighting, they came to yelü Dashi to rescue the troops.
Jeremiah had a plan in mind, and he took the retreat as a way forward, and wrote a letter to Sanjar - asking for peace talks. The arrogant Sanjar smiled at the sight of such a "cowardly" peace letter, so he happily replied with a letter humiliating Yelü Dashi, demanding that Dashi unconditionally lead his troops to surrender, and at the same time convert to Islam like them.
The Great War is on the verge of breaking out... On September 9, 1141 AD, the Katwan steppe north of the city of Samarkand was in full swing, and it was the season when the wind blew the grass and saw cattle and sheep, but this day was doomed to be unstable, and the armies of Yelü Dashi and Sanjar fought a life-and-death battle here.
The two sides began a fierce charge, Yelü Dashi's army experienced hundreds of battles, one after another brave battles, coupled with the fierce impact of the Khitan fierce iron horse, so that the opponent formation was chaotic, Sanjar's front was soon washed down, the soldiers saw that the general trend had gone, running, fleeing, running, fleeing, trampling on each other countless, and finally thirty thousand people died in battle... Sanjar fled back to the capital and never again fought with The Great Stone of Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim entered the city of Samarkand, at which point he reached the peak of his prestige.
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After Yelü Dashi entered the city of Samarkand, he adhered to his gentle way of ruling, without slaughtering the city, without religion, without looting, and also brought in Ibrasin, the brother of the fleeing Western Qarakhanid Mahemu Khan, and made him Taohuashi Khan, continuing to rule the land, leaving only a Khitan official to guard him to ensure his loyalty to the Western Liao.
After the Battle of Katwan, the Western Liao had become an irreplaceable core of Central Asia, and even many countries in Western Europe still used the term "Khitan" to refer to China.
But this was not enough, and Jeremiah took aim at his next target, the Khalazi mold. Farazim was a vassal state of the Selju Khanate, but had always rebelled against the rule of the suzerainty, causing headaches for the original Sanjar.
After the Battle of Katwan, Yelü Dashi conquered the Western Qarakhanids, defeated the Sultan of the Selju, and continued to advance westward. He stationed himself in His Majesty's Marhan and ordered the general Erbus to lead a large army to attack Huarazimo. At this time, the Western Liao army was threatened with the prestige of great victory, and the tribes were shocked and invincible all the way. King Huarazm understood that it was impossible to oppose this tiger and wolf division with his current national strength, so he wisely chose to make peace, promising to submit to the Western Liao and become a vassal state, paying thirty thousand gold coins as a tribute every year.
At this time, the Western Liao entered its heyday, with Hu Si Erduo as the center, controlling tens of thousands of miles of land in Central Asia, and the four tribes and khanates all paid tribute to them, becoming a powerful empire that affected the situation in Central Asia.
However, the conquest of The Flower Zi Mo is already the last song of the Great Stone of Jerusalem. In 1143, yelü Dashi, who had been a horseman for a lifetime, finally came to the end of his life, and he died with his attachment to his homeland in the palace tent of Hu si Erduo, at the age of 56. As the last afterglow of the Khitan nation, he was so great that when the Liao state was exhausted, he struggled and fought with his own faith, and established a new homeland for the Khitan nation with a majestic and tragic westward journey, and continued the Khitan national fortune for decades, thus writing a magnificent epic in history.
The Great Stone of Jerusalem created such a feat, but the obsession with restoration eventually turned into dung with the end of life...