"What did you say?" Lu Yue screamed as if he had seen a ghost in the daytime.

His dad is going to send an army close to cold weapons to attack Eastern Europe? Although Kievan Rus' was indeed worse, Kievan Rus' was a powerful Kingdom of Poland and Hungary to the south.

In medieval Europe, the strength of these two countries was definitely the number one power. is really fighting hard, and the HRE is able to overwhelm them, and they are still in the Capetian period, and the France that has not really risen, as well as the Byzantines who are recovering, as well as England and Scotland, are not necessarily their opponents!

Under the circumstance that the whole army of Lu Qi had gradually contracted the 'firearms' dependence, Lu Qianhu decided to send an army that only carried a small number of large-caliber guns and light artillery, and the overall technical level was stronger than that of the Eight Banners to deal with Kievan Rus'......

So non-stop, so urgent, what is this for?

"You say, what does the old man think? Tianzhu hasn't been pacified yet, and the Seljuks haven't been drawn, so it's time to deal with the Rus? ”

Lu Yue, who didn't understand it very much, racked his brains and couldn't come up with a past step for his father.

Is this kind of world-wide fight addictive?

War, war, war!

Lu Yue does not hate war, his position has already determined his future development route - war, only by using war, can only rely on war, can use the sword in his hand to fight for more land for his children and grandchildren.

But he still felt that his father's steps were too big!

"Your Highness is going to take care of this. Your Majesty's decision to use a large army against the Rus' is a once-in-a-lifetime good thing for Your Highness! ”

Why was Lu Yue able to attract the nomadic tribes of Saibei? can only rely on the territory in his name. However, the territory in his hands now is not superior to the conditions in the north, although the territory is much more open, but the climate is even colder. can catch up with the difficult river.

If you want the tribes in the north of the country to defect on a large scale, Lu Yue needs to make more efforts. But with the strength in his hands - five thousand horsemen and less, even the scattered Rus' major dukes, the Rus' major dukes in infighting, can let him be wrapped for many years!

Yes, compared to other brothers, Lu Yue's capital is definitely second to none. But these forces also depend on who they are compared with. Compared with his brothers, it is very powerful, but if he gets the northern shore of the Black Sea, which is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, and compares it with the princes of the land snake Rus, the strength is much worse.

You must understand that the latter has long believed in Orthodoxy, and only talking about faith is not in the same pot as the Catholic countries, but when it comes to the critical moment, can the Catholic countries really look at Ross on the street? Hungary has good relations with it.

Moreover, the Rus' and the Kpchaks also have an indissoluble connection.

It is said that the Kupchaks first came into contact with Orthodoxy when they were in the heyday of their conquest and plundering of the Rus' princes. Although the peak of the Kpchaks came and went quickly. By the time Lu Qian had risen, the incumbent Grand Duke of Rus', Yaropolk II Vladimirovich, had even planned a counterattack.

It just didn't work out!

But with the misfortune of the Eastern Kepchak Khanate, the attitude of the Sykpchak Khanate towards the princes of the Rus' has changed - from the neighbors who used to fight with each other to the "quasi-comrades-in-arms" who are now dependent on each other.

The rapidly changing situation forced them to reconcile with the princes of the Rus' region. And when they reluctantly hit the GG under the fierce offensive of the Lu Qi army, a large number of Kupchaks fled to Rus.

As I said before, Kpchak is a large family of multi-ethnic 'combinations', with more than a dozen ethnic groups with names and surnames. There are both black-eyed and yellow-skinned Oriental people inside, as well as Caucasian people with purer blood.

This is not unusual. Looking at the history of China, there are many records of Caucasians. For example, the Qiang people, the animal people, and the yellow-headed Uighurs at the moment, and even the yellow-headed Murwei.

After the separation of the East and the West, the big alliance of Kpchak will be divided for the second time, and it will also be one and two, two and four. The tribes of the Nasik Puchak Khanate, the more westward their territory went, the more their physiognomy matched those of the Rus.

War and robbery are really a good way to promote the great integration of peoples!

Now these people are flowing into Kievan Rus', and it really won't have much impact on the princes of Rus'. It can even be said that the strength of Kievan Rus' has been strengthened to a certain extent, and the seeds of hostility of the Rus' people have been planted here.

What were the causes of the war between the Mongols and the Rus' in history? That's the Rus' 'planning ahead'!

At that time, the Mongol army commander drove westward, and the Kipchaks fled one after another, and the leader of the Kipchak department, Kutan, defected to his son-in-law, the old Duke Michisi, asking him to send troops to help, so the old Duke Michisi took the initiative to come forward and summoned the dukes of southern Rus' to Yuqiva (now Kiev) to discuss the major matters of resisting the Mongols.

The princes argued about this, and the old Duke Michisi said: Although the Kipchaks are our enemies of the world, but the great enemy is present, and to save the Kipchaks is to save ourselves. If the Kipchaks are pushed towards the Mongols and their power is strengthened, sooner or later we will meet the Mongol army in the land of Rus'. It is better to strike first, take the initiative to attack, and keep the Mongols out of the country.

So the princes agreed to send troops, agreed to fight the Mongol army in the land of the Kipchaks, and sent messengers to ask Grand Duke Vladimir to send troops to help.

So, the enemies aren't wooden, they're not stupid, and they're not waiting for you to break them down.

Of course, the current Grand Duke of Rus' Vsevolod II Oligovich is a real-stirring stick, in order to be able to sit in the position of Grand Duke, he has stirred up right and wrong over the years, initiated infighting, and even more oppressed the people of the Grand Duke, which has already aroused the anger of the heavens and people.

Compared to his predecessor, Yaropolk II Vladimirovich, he is much worse.

Yaropolk II Vladimirovich died of illness a year before the Luqi Celestial War, leaving the position of Grand Duke of Rus to his younger brother Vyacheslav Vladimirovich. However, this Vyacheslav Vladimirovich is just an empty shell, and there is no reliable strength in his hands. Because his nephew Izyaslav Mstislavich had already cut off his foundations and took the Grand Duchy of Vladimir into his hands.

So, Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, who had been on the throne for less than a month, was overthrown by Vsevolod II Oligovich.

If the Grand Duke does not have strength, he will not be able to get the support and loyalty of people from all walks of life in the Grand Duke.

Vsevolod II Oligovich was the prince of Chernihiv.

In the last years of the reign of Yaropolk II Vladimirovich, he attacked the Grand Duke's domain, which led to a crusade against the latter's ally, King Béla II of Hungary. After the death of Grand Duke Yaropolk II, Vsevolod Oligovich drove out Vyacheslav Vladimirovich and finally seized the Grand Duke's throne.

Then he regarded the Grand Duke as a treasure land for his own fortune, and plundered the citizens in the territory. His favored ministers are even more reckless, causing resentment within the Grand Duke. In particular, for the struggle for the Volyn principality, Vsevolod twice went to war with Vladimirko Volodarevich, Duke of Galich.

The Rus' have now been torn apart by His Excellency the Grand Duke, although it is possible to abandon their old suspicions and cooperate in the face of a powerful enemy. Just like the Rus' in history, but can they really work together and work together?

In the second Mongolian expedition to the west in history, the army has penetrated Poland and Hungary, and the HRE and the Pope are still engaged in internal strife, and the head is broken and bloody? That is, the news of the death of Ogedai came, and Batu led the army to return to the east. Otherwise, the richer Western Europe would inevitably be trampled by the Mongols.

It's important to nip the threat early in your infancy! But it's really not that important to every force!

Look at the HRE and the Pope, look at the Zhao Song Dynasty, and think about the late Ming Dynasty in history......

It's really possible to be 'blind'.

Therefore, as long as the Central Plains can send an army of thirty or twenty thousand people, Lu Yue is really sure to sweep the entire Rus!