Chapter 1924: Tugluk's Intuition
In fact, it took less than a month. The news from the Shendu City was on Tugluk's desk. This news surprised him. He did not expect that the Song Dynasty could join forces with the Roman Empire.
In this way, the Seljuk Dynasty will be under the attack of the Song Dynasty and Rome, and neither of these two empires is easy to mess with. There is no doubt that the power of the Song Empire is. During this period, the land on the east side of Seljuk was constantly lost, but it was not yet the most dangerous time. Needless to say, the combat power of the Roman Empire in the west is also the case.
What will happen to the joint efforts between the two countries now? Tugluk couldn't even imagine that it was not impossible for these two empires to join forces to divide Seljuk.
Tugluk felt that he had seen the sneering smile of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. This time it was not only the crisis in Seljuk, but also the destruction of India.
As the ruler of the empire, Tugluk thought of the first way out, one was to immediately send troops to fight the Song army to a decisive battle. Only by defeating the Song army could he be qualified as a winner.
The second is to immediately send envoys to the Song Dynasty for peace talks. Seljuk could no longer fight. The most difficult thing at the moment is to judge the strength of the Song army.
Tugluk was not a lazy emperor. He went to the battlefield in the country himself, and it was in his hands that the current Seljuk had such a scale.
He could clearly feel that the bottom line of the Song Dynasty was unfathomable. In fact, he had already used his last trump card to draw the Mamuliuk slave cavalry who were stationed in the west.
This was his most elite unit, and he had been placed west to guard against the Catholics, but now he could not help even if he had transferred the most elite cavalry. The strength of the Song army had already made him, the warrior galloping in the desert, feared him.
The longer he fought with the Song Dynasty, the more Tugluk could feel his powerlessness. This is true for people. Only when facing truly powerful things will they feel powerlessness and fear.
But even so, Tugluk did not give up his plan to fight with the Song Dynasty. He was a warrior. Even if he wanted to lose, he would attack the enemy for the last time before retreating.
But this does not mean that he will be desperate. On the contrary, Tugluk is also a cunning fox and cannot put all his elite on this big bet.
The six hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in Amu City are enough, and no matter how many there are, it is meaningless, but the elite Mamulik slave cavalry have to retreat first.
As for the 600,000 soldiers and civilians, it depends on their own. Seljuk has never lacked soldiers or people...
Tugluk didn't believe that even the Song army could not resist the 600,000 soldiers and civilians. Even if they could not resist, they could withdraw most of them. For war, the number of people who died on the battlefield was not as terrible as they heard.
The Song army could not kill them all. Tugluk even understood why the Emperor of Song suddenly waged war against Seljuk, because this war was a warning.
A warning that the Song Dynasty was dissatisfied with Seljuk's interference in India.
It is very important for Tugluk to understand the ideas of the Song Dynasty from a fundamental perspective. He had to understand the ideas of the Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Zhen and then fight against the Song Dynasty.
Tugluk knew very well that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was not a warlike person. Although he had been conquering wars and using troops for so many years, in fact, every war was carried out because of interests, and he rarely took the initiative to use troops to conquer unnecessary land.
This is true for the Yue Dynasty and Bagan, and the Goryeo. Although it is a small country close to the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty did not launch troops, which means that the Song Empire was not a militaristic country.
The conflict of interest between the Song Empire and the Seljuk Empire exists, but Tugluk believes that the Song Dynasty will not choose to confront each other alone. He wants to stabilize the Song Dynasty and give the Song Empire enough benefits to make the Song Emperor compromise and not participate in this joint strangle between the East and the West.
When he received the news, Tugluk really had no doubts. Until now, he did not doubt that the two most powerful empires in the East and the West would join forces, but there would be many things to do at such a long distance...
He felt that he could impress the emperors of the Song Empire. Compared with the Song Dynasty, the contradiction between the Roman Empire and Seljuk was more contradictory, and the religious conflicts between the two sides had reached an irreconcilable point.
The palace gate was pushed open, and the soft carpet was trampled into mud by dirty leather boots. The fate of this blanket was to turn into garbage, at least in the palace of Tugluk.
Tugluk didn't care, but got up and held Tuo'er's old hand: "You're finally back! How is the situation in the west?"
Tuoerke shook his head, and a sigh of pain seemed to come out of the abyss: "The various vassal states of the Roman Empire have responded to the Frankian dynasty's dispatch, and the Roman Emperor Henry III sent troops to the Byzantine Empire. The Romans attacked fiercely, and the Byzantine Empire has retreated to Constantinople."
Tugluk shook, feeling his mind a little dizzy. All the things that the nurse brought back only showed that there was no problem with the information coming from the Shendu City.
The Song Empire attacked the east of Seljuks and the Roman Empire had already taken action against Byzantium in the west. If Byzantium was captured, the most likely situation would be that the two shackles of the East and the West trapped Seljuks to death.
The news brought by Tugluk confirmed Tugluk's guess. Looking at Tugluk's dusty Tugluk and looking at the east, Tugluk finally made up his mind and said, "I will immediately send Achitai, and I will hand over 600,000 soldiers and civilians to him. He will defend Amu City, and even if he fights the Song army to the death, he will not retreat!"
Tuerke looked at Tugluk in surprise: "Dear Your Majesty, the glory of the gods has shined on the heads of the Song army. We cannot defeat this powerful enemy. Now the Romans are rising again and are beginning to expand eastward. Our best way is to negotiate with the Song people, give up those useless desolate places, put the power of the empire in the west, and beware of the Romans!"
Tugluk nodded: "Of course I have to be wary of the Romans. These despicable villains joined forces with the Song Empire and tried to attack us from both sides, but this conspiracy would never succeed. Although Achitai's 600,000 army is not an opponent of the Song army, the use of it will definitely become our support.
At least it is no problem to delay the attack of the Song army. After crossing Amu City, there is a desolate desert. If the Song army wants to cross this desert and fight Seljuk, they will eventually walk out of the desert when they are tired, and in that moment they will encounter the powerful cavalry of the empire."
Tugluk drew a big arc in the desert. The nurse knew that one end of this arc was the Jihun River where Amucheng was located.
Chapter completed!