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Isfahan, the capital of the Seljuk Empire.
In June 1052, Tughril Beg, the Khan of the Seljuk Empire, was discussing matters with his brother Chagar Beg.
As a Turkic people, the Seljuk Empire adopted a dual khan system in its early days, just like the Kara Khanate.
This situation continued until Grille Berg's death. Since he had no children, his brother Chagar Berg had only one son, Alp Arslan.
This made Alp Arslan the sole heir to the empire, which changed the system and gradually centralized power.
At this time, it was still the period of two khans. Tughril Beg was the Great Khan of the Seljuk Empire. His younger brother, Chagar Beg, was the Deputy Khan, ruling Khorasan with Malu as the capital.
It was during the entrepreneurial period that the two brothers worked together sincerely. Historically, this year they would march north to attack the Caucasus Plain, defeat the Eastern Roman Empire and the Georgian coalition forces, and continue to expand the territory of their empire.
However, because of the arrival of the Song Dynasty people, they felt deeply threatened, so at this moment, the two brothers had to gather in Isfahan to discuss countermeasures.
Inside the capital's royal palace, which was once the palace of the Buyish family, the two brothers maintained the habits of the Turkic tribe, sitting cross-legged on a rope bed, like an earthen kang, with a small coffee table on it, and drinking together.
They even have fried peanuts as a side dish.
"Chagar, come and drink."
"Okay, brother."
"Baji, baji, the peanuts from the Song Dynasty are really good."
"This wine is good too."
"well."
Tughril Beg took a sip of his liquor, put down his glass and sighed.
Chagar Berg grabbed a handful of peanuts and put them in his mouth to chew. There was also roasted beef and mutton next to him, and he picked up the knife to cut.
Suddenly, I caught sight of my brother sighing. I couldn't help but stop what I was doing and asked curiously, "What's wrong, brother?"
"I'm worried about the Song people."
"Song people?"
"Yes."
Tughril Beg nodded and said, "You know about the destruction of the Karakhanid Khanate, right?"
"Yeah, I know."
Chagar Beg said: "The border of the Song people has been connected with our ancestral land of Turkmen."
"Then you should also know how powerful the Song people are now."
"They were able to destroy the Karakhanid Khanate in such a short period of time. They are indeed powerful. But brother, I think your worries are unnecessary."
"how?"
"The Song people may be powerful, but haven't we also purchased a batch of artillery from the Liao Kingdom? As long as the artillery arrives, we will have the ability to resist."
"Hmm"
Tughril Beg pondered and said nothing.
Chagar continued, "Although the Song border is connected to ours, as far as I know, their empire's heartland is thousands of miles away from their westernmost border. We've been marching and fighting for years, and I believe I don't need to explain what we're fighting for. With such a long distance, the Song can only support them in a small-scale war at best. Destroying the Karakhanid Khanate is already the limit, and we can continue to migrate westward. If a large-scale war breaks out, whoever's empire's heartland is closer will be the winner."
Both of them were born in Ma, and starting from their grandfather's generation, they gradually rose from a small Turkic tribe of Turkmen, and then gradually annexed and united other tribes.
In their generation, it took decades of fighting before they finally established the Turkmen Turkic regime. Their army marched south and conquered large areas including Khorasan and Persia, achieving a great achievement.
They knew very well what they were fighting for.
In addition to military cohesion and excellent strategic and tactical command, the most important thing is logistical supply.
Historically, the Seljuk Empire had only 40,000 troops fighting against the Eastern Roman Empire's 100,000-strong army, and defeated the Eastern Roman Empire because of its good logistical support.
So although they did not know that the Battle of Talas between the Tang Dynasty and the Arabs was because the Tang Dynasty's central government was too far away from the Western Regions, logistical supplies were difficult and the central government could not send troops, so they could only form a coalition of various ethnic groups locally, and eventually suffered betrayal and suffered a great defeat.
But the principles are the same.
Even without drawing inspiration from the Battle of Talas, one could have come up with this idea on one's own.
Therefore, considering the distance between the Song Dynasty and their Seljuk Empire, Chagar believed that even if they became enemies with the Song Dynasty, the possibility of the Song Dynasty being able to cross such a long distance to attack them would be very limited.
What's more, as the Liao Dynasty was defeated by the Song Dynasty, the traditional economic center of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was taken away. Various places rose up in rebellion and stopped paying tribute. The economy of the Liao Dynasty had already collapsed.
As a last resort, the Liao Dynasty sold a lot of artillery to other ethnic groups. Some of the artillery flowed into the Seljuk Empire along the Mongol steppes and became their secret weapons.
With the combination of these two factors, the Seljuk Empire had the advantage of time, place and people, and also had new artillery as weapons. They did not think they could be defeated by the Song army.
However, Tugril shook his head and said, "I'm not worried about the war with Song."
Chagar wondered, "What is that?"
"I'm worried they might sell firearms to the Daylamites."
Tughril said with a worried look on his face, "Recently, we received news from Baghdad that the Song people, after arriving in Baghdad, demonstrated artillery fire for the Daylam people."
"Don't we have artillery?"
"But they have more than just artillery."
"More than just artillery?"
Chagall was puzzled.
"Yes."
Tughril said, "After the Karakhanid Khanate was destroyed by the Song people, many tribes fled to our side and were recruited as soldiers. The Karakhanid Khanate was once a powerful country, but it was destroyed by the Song people in just a few days. Do you know what they said when I asked them how the Karakhanid Khanate was defeated?"
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