The Caucasus, located between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, seems to have nothing else to note in the eyes of later generations except as a natural dividing line between Asia and Europe.

The smoke of the vigorous Chechen war at the end of the last century has long since dissipated.

But the fact is that since ancient times, this place has been a brutal battlefield where the forces of the north and the south have clashed.

In the historical Caucasus, after the woolly bear became strong, their conquest of the Caucasus, their repeated battles with the Ottomans and Persians, the struggle for mountain tops, and the war that lasted for 200 years, the blood of the entire north and south of the Caucasus was dyed red.

And now? As a passage connecting the north and the heavenly world, the Caucasus mountains are naturally the focus of Lu Qi's strategy.

Here, the revolt of the Lu Qi army did not come from the Seljuks, but from the indigenous people of the Caucasus.

Surrounded by mountains, overlapping mountains, there are dozens of tenacious mountain peoples of all sizes living in this area, before Lu Qi entered here, the southern foothills of the Caucasus, small countries are numerous, and the contradictions of various ethnic groups are acute, and it is an absolute place of war.

The most powerful of the people here were the Georgians, and at the very moment of the establishment of Luqi, David IV of Georgia united many forces to defeat the Seljuks at the Battle of Didgri and recapture the Seljuk-occupied principality of Hilvan in Transcaucasia and a large area of northern Armenia. By the time the army arrived, the Kingdom of Georgia under Georgia III had become the most powerful state in the Caucasus, and its influence had extended to Persia and the southwestern Black Sea coast.

But no matter how strong they are, in the face of the resistance of the Lu Qi army, they are just grasshoppers shaking the trees and mantis arms blocking the car.

The forces of the southern foot of the Caucasus did not choose to surrender easily when faced with the land army that had strongly defeated the Seljuk Empire. Instead, they chose to resist resolutely.

Not for anything else, but for faith!

As a mountainous country, the courage of the Caucasians is undoubted, but their military armament is far from being sufficient even for the Seljuks.

The divided principalities of Azerbaijan were powerless in the face of the Lu Qi army, and were easily swept across the territory, and the remnants of the army retreated into the Kingdom of Georgia, plus part of the Seljuks and Byzantines of Armenia, and of course the Armenians, formed a multi-party coalition, just as they had united around David IV, tightly gathered around Georgia III, and resolutely resisted!

Shouts of killing and gunfire rang out, and tens of thousands of soldiers under the command of Hua Rong, Suo Chao, and Po Han Wu, many of whom were vassals, launched wave after wave of offensive against the combined army of Georgia III under the cover of muskets and thunderbolts, that is, small explosive packets wrapped around crossbow arrows.

In the firearms chain of the Lu Qi army, the muskets and thunderbolts, which belong to the absolute bottom in terms of power and performance, have now become the sharp weapons of the army to crush the Caucasians and show their skills on the battlefield. The Caucasians, who had never seen what a firearm looked like, were completely stunned by this devilish weapon.

- Isn't it evil? The warriors in heavy armor, holding thick shields, were also shot dead by their opponents.

This terrible weapon is too evil.

Frightened by the explosions, the horses lost control of the battlefield and fled in all directions, causing the Caucasian formation to be thrown into disarray. It gave the cavalry of the Lu Qi army the opportunity to repeatedly attack.

Hua Rong is the chief general of this partial division, Po Han Wu is the deputy general and front-line commander, and the vanguard of the same deputy general is the cavalry commander, with Zhang Bofen and Zhang Zhongxiong under his command, as well as Li Yanxian and Niu Gao, who have been withdrawn from Rus, and several fierce generals, who led a group of elite cavalry and repeatedly attacked the chaotic Caucasian coalition army.

The battle that began in the morning, before the sun set, the 40,000 or 50,000 troops gathered by Georgia III were completely defeated by the Hua Rong army, which numbered no more than 20,000 cavalry.

When the rout began, large numbers of Persian light cavalry, vassals, pounced like wolves, and a one-sided slaughter began.

The wide steppes were almost filled with the corpses of the Caucasians! There was a small river nearby, which was not very wide, and the channel was completely blocked by corpses, and the river water was almost stained red with blood!

At dusk the next day, the crown of Georgia III was presented to Hua Rong, only the crown, whose body had been trampled into a pulp by the horse's hooves.

If the Caucasians can obediently live after this painful lesson, then Lu Qi is already the master of this land!

Many Caucasians died, so naturally many Caucasians chose to surrender. They were not killed by Hua Rong, and the nobles inside were also treated well by Hua Rong.

It was clear to the upper echelons of the army that it was simple for the Luqi army to defeat the Seljuks and Byzantines, and to defeat the Crusaders and Azerbaijani, Georgian, and Armenians from Western Europe. But it is not easy to truly rule the land.

This land, as an area where monotheistic [Orthodoxy] and Tianfang Christianity have been repeatedly entangled, is first of all a big problem in terms of faith. Another is the southern foothills of the Caucasus, where the terrain is complex, and there are many ethnic groups, and there are many contradictions with each other. How can this be convenient to rule?

Georgia in the north is fine, Armenia in the south, and Azerbaijan in the east are all headaches.

In such a situation, it is not a good idea to get involved easily. Instead, let them 'govern'!

The Armenians who are monotheistic and outright are the main body, and the Georgians and Azerbaijanis are supplemented, all of whom are nobles. Divide them into various places to be the lords of the city, Georgians in Armenia and Azerbaijan, Azerbaijanis in Georgia and Armenia, Armenians, of course, in Georgia and Azerbaijan, supplemented by Celestials......

Wu Yong felt that there was no need to deliberately provoke after doing this, and they could all have a big hatred themselves.

And what Lu Qi wants the governors of all places to do is to pay tribute to them every year and provide a source of soldiers!

In the case of insufficient strength, they can only do so. Just like the choices made by the Mongols in history. Lu Qi's current territory is too large, and in the context of the current era, its power and immigration are not enough to be put into all places. Some minor places, such as the Caucasus, which are destined to have no major development prospects, will naturally be included in the deferred immigration form.

Or to put it more bluntly, this area is not the focus of Lu Qijun's attention, and it will only be left to those who are the first to probe into this area as a historical legacy in the future.

That may be Anguo [Lu Wan], or Luo Guo [Lu Yu] at the northern foot of the Caucasus.

Just as the Hua Rong army swept the mountains at the southern foot of the Caucasus, the area at the northern foot of the country was also kneeling under the swords and guns of Lu Qi's iron cavalry. But Lu Yu placed his capital at the mouth of the Volga River, which was constantly far from the mountains at the northern foot of the Caucasus.

As far away as this distance, control naturally decreases. But Lu Yu needed a large area of land, immigrants from the Central Plains, immigrants from Saibei and Anxi, and his own family background, which required a large area of land.

Don't think about easily controlling the entire feudal country, the territory that Lu Qi demarcated for his son is not small at all. In the future of a few decades, the competition between these feudal countries will not be small!

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