my days with tyrants

Timur...

What other options does he have now?
He really didn't want to join the war openly now, even if he planned to ambush Zhu Di, it was because he was confident that he could wipe out Zhu Di's group.

The latter is nothing more than [-] to [-] cavalry.

He brought [-] elites, and the Golden Horde itself still has nearly [-] in disorder. Even if it is the westernmost part of Zhu Di's control area, it is still two to three thousand miles away, and there is the Nogai Grassland in the middle. The ambush was a decisive blow to Zhu Di. Even if Zhu Di escaped by chance, he would not be able to walk to the Aral Sea alive under his siege.

As long as Zhu Dituan is destroyed in the Golden Horde, he can continue to act as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and then get rid of Bayezid before Yang Feng knows the truth.

Even if Yang Feng knew that Zhu Di was missing, he would only think that it was a lonely army that went deep and was destroyed by the Golden Horde, but Yang Feng would not rush to avenge Zhu Di. After all, he and Zhu Di were not brothers and sisters. There is no rush to avenge him against the Golden Horde.The Golden Horde is not Timur, and it was not a minister of the Great Ming. Even if he can find out the truth through other means, it will probably be a few years later. Timur is confident enough to solve Bayezid during this period.

But now he has no such possibility.

Zhu Di's [-] to [-], Zhu Gaoxu's [-], and Guilichi's [-], although this strength is smaller than the number of coalition forces he can muster, there is no absolute gap, not to mention Zhu Gaoxu's [-] is the most terrifying Camel City Cavalry.Moreover, they were in Salechuk. Even if Timur defeated them, he would not be able to really chase and intercept them. They could just turn around and retreat. They were all cavalry, so it was difficult to encircle and annihilate them.If we really want to talk about the ability to cross the desert, Timur’s cavalry is not even as good as the Ming army. The latter carried too many camels, more camels than war horses. They can carry enough supplies to cross most of the deserts in the Western Regions. ...

After all, a camel is full of food and drink, and can maintain a load for more than five days, and even a little less can travel for more than ten days, and the normal speed of a camel can maintain a load of [-] kilometers a day.

No problem in the Sahara desert.

What's more, the desert in Kazakhstan is not the Sahara. It is only spring at this time, the climate is suitable, and there are actually many ponds in the desert where the snow melts.

In fact, there are several rivers that flow into the Caspian Sea within less than a thousand miles of the Barsuki Desert that Zhu Gaoxu passed through.

It wasn't really a desert there, at least at this time it could only be called a desertified grassland.

But Timur didn't have so many camels.

However, the Ming army had so many camels, a large part of which was actually sold by him. In order to buy armor and weapons from Daming, he sold tens of thousands of camels to the Ming army in recent years.

In short, as long as Timur publicly participates in the war now, the relationship between him and the Ming Dynasty will be broken. After four months at most, Yang Feng will know the news of his betrayal of Ming Dynasty, and after seven months at most, the main force of Song Sheng's Gansu Army It will enter the Western Regions, and at most nine months later, Wei Guogong Xu Huizu's Shanshan Army will also enter the Western Regions.And before that, the coalition forces of Anketimur, Mahama, Nahei Shizhihan, Haji, and Ugzihashiha will enter Khujand in advance to attack the Bekabad Fortress, because he is here It's impossible to rush back in a short time, so his defenders in the river will face the attacks of these guys.

Even if they were able to hold on to the Bekabad fortress, and Bayezid didn't backstab him, he led the army back to the river and defeated these guys. At that time, hundreds of thousands of the main force of the Ming army had already entered sunny.

He can only fight the main force of the Ming army in Xiangyangdi.

Even more likely to be stuck in the mountains west of Kashgar.

This was not the result he wanted.

As an excellent commander, he knew that he should stick to the established plan and not be led by the nose by the development of the situation.

but……

He has no choice.

An hour later, Timur issued an order for the entire army to go north to raid Salechuk.

He has to deal with Zhu Gaoxu first. After all, Zhu Di has been trapped in Bieerge Saleh. No matter whether Zhu Di is intentional or he really doesn’t want to return east, at least Zhu Di will not go to Salechuk within half a month. If Zhu Gaoxu is defeated within a month, then Zhu Di will not be able to go back.But Zhu Gaoxu was defeated, and Gui Lichi did not dare to go south, although the price was that the established strategy was completely abandoned. He changed from participating in the war secretly to participating in the war openly, and his original plan to solve Bayezid had to be abandoned.Next, he can't care about Bayezid. After finishing Zhu Gaoxu, he must break through Belgosarai with all his strength as fast as possible, and then return east to the river at the fastest speed, and start to face the Northwest Army Corps of the Ming Army that will enter the Western Regions next. .

Then there was hope that Bayezid would resist the urge to stab him in the back.

So he still had to court Bayezid.

And right now.

Bergosarai.

Zhu Di was looking at the distant sky with a telescope, where a hot air balloon was slowly flying over, but it was not flying over Beergosarai, it was still twenty or thirty miles away from him. The hot air balloon is actually a high-powered lens given to him by Yang Feng.Because many functions of this thing are power-hungry, he rarely uses it, but now he must use it. This distance has long exceeded the capabilities of ordinary telescopes, and in his field of vision are the signal flags constantly waving on the hot air balloon ...

"Gao Xu led [-] cavalry to Salechuk, sixteen camel cities. He has captured Salechuk and rested in the Nuogai Grassland. In addition, Guilichi, Mahamu, and Taiping's three coalition forces marched [-]. The North Road has also reached Kazan."

He said.

Zhu Neng beside him immediately unfolded the map.

This hot air balloon appeared suddenly. After all, a red balloon in the clear sky is still easy to see.

And the appearance of this kind of thing must mean that the reinforcements are not far away, but this balloon has no ability to adjust the direction and can only fly along the wind, so...

So the people on the hot air balloon should not be able to go back.

"To get to Salechuk, you need to go along the river to Haji Talha, and then go north along the Khazar Sea. It takes fifteen days to march normally with cavalry, and it takes less than ten days to march in a hurry."

Tutuo lost and said.

Haji Talha is Astrakhan.

"But if we go out of the city, we have to deal with Yedige outside first."

Qiu Fu said.

"But I find it strange that Salechuk is Yedi's lair. Now that the prince's army has broken through Salechuk, why doesn't he go back? Besides, in this situation, he is bound to lose. The best The choice was to withdraw to the west of the Volga River and watch us leave, but he did not go back to save his lair, and did not withdraw to the west to protect himself. Instead, he continued to block us in front of us, as if trying to prevent us from leaving the city.

But even if he can stop us from leaving the city, can he stop the prince's army and Guilichi from coming?
Or does it mean that as long as he blocks us from leaving the city, someone else will block the prince's army and Guili Chi?

Those of Guilichi may be possible. If he gives Vasily enough benefits, the Muscovites may march to Kazan to contain Guilichi.

But there is really no such thing as the prince.

I can't think of anyone in the east who can stop the sixteen camel cities.

There is one in the south. "

Tutuo lost his face and said with a deep expression.

This guy is also a hero, he is only one level lower than Timur and Zhu Di, but he is also a hero who ran rampant in Eastern Europe. When he was the strongest, he captured Moscow, bloodbathed Armenia, and even hit Timur's core area Bu Hara, it can be said that the Golden Horde under his rule almost looked like a ZTE.

"So, where is the best place to ambush a large army?"

Zhu Di looked at the map and said.

Tutuo Lost pointed to the mouth of the Volga River.

"Here, Batu Sarai, although the south side of it is also a water network, but there are no big river branches, you can ride a horse and wade through it, and the best pastures are all the way to the south to the Khazar Sea. I will wait in Batu Sarai, and put 10,000+ troops in the south to nomad. King Khan’s army can only go to the east bank when it goes south. The south is blocked by Batu Sarai, so we can only go east. There is no river before the Yaik River in the east, only some water bubbles gathered by the melting snow. It's hard to feed, and they can't walk fast, and then they walk to the Yaik River in this way, and they will go along the coast of the Khazar Sea ahead of time.

At that time, it was estimated that even if there were remnants of us, the whole army would be wiped out in the Yaik River. "

He said.

"But now they haven't waited for us, it's time to go to Gao Xu and order the troops to prepare to break through."

Zhu Di said.

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, King Gaoyang may not be able to stand up to Timur."

Zhu Neng reminded him.

"If you can't stand it, you can retreat. There are no enemies behind him. Is it not easy for the whole cavalry to retreat?"

Zhu Di said.

"But we still have to face Timur at the Yaik River."

Tutuo Lost reminded him.

"Did I say I went to the Ural River?"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

The Yaik River is the Ural River, and the Khazar Sea is the Caspian Sea. It’s just that Tutuo Lost these Golden Horde all use the local language. The Yaik River is the Bashkir language, and the Khazar Sea is the Turkic language. But Zhu Di is used to the name on Yang Feng's map.

Tuotuo was stunned.

"Tell me, would the Persians have rebelled against Timur if it were possible?"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

"meeting!

They only had hatred for Timur, but no loyalty, they just didn't dare to resist. "

Tuotuo Lost said without hesitation.

"And what about the Azerbaijanis? What about the Armenians?"

Zhu Di said.

"They can't wait to eat Timur's meat."

Tutuo lost and said.

"So who's going to fight for Timur?"

Zhu Di asked.

"No one will, the Black Sheep Turkmen and Jalayir are his enemies, but they can't beat him and have to accept his rule. Yusuf, the leader of the Black Sheep Turkmen, refused to surrender to him and fled to Mamluk Hiding there, that is, the Aries Turkmen may fight for him, but it is just a superficial idea, not to mention that their real enemy is the Ottomans."

Tutuo Lost said with excitement.

Indeed, there is no need for them to go east. After all, the coalition forces of Timur and Yedigai are in the east. They have at least 15 troops, and they have a total of more than 3 people. Moreover, the Ming army actually does not have much ammunition, but the problem is They are high-speed cavalry with countless camels. As long as they can enter a place where there is no shortage of food and forage, they can really walk casually. So where is there no shortage of food and forage?To the south, Georgia, Armenia, the Taoli Temple or Tabriz originally controlled by the Black Sheep Turkmen, the whole Tamar is an agricultural area, and the east is the city of the Persians, and all of them are related to Timur Hatred is as deep as the sea.

Of course, he also went to plunder back then, and he also had a grudge against him, but this way he can just lead the way!
And once they go south and incite these conquered people who have a deep hatred for Timur, it is tantamount to letting Timur's decades of conquest go to waste.

This is digging his roots!
"King Khan, Timur is still an official of Ming Dynasty, right? His territory also belongs to Ming Dynasty?"

He said.

"This king, as the great-uncle of the Ming Emperor, replaces the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to inspect the commanders of the Persian capitals of the Ming Dynasty and comfort the ministries. Isn't that reasonable? Although Timur is the king of Kangju of the Ming Dynasty, he only restrains the commanders of the three capitals including Persia. It’s not that the commanders and envoys of the three capitals belong to him, these chiefs are officials of Ming Dynasty, and this king will come to comfort him instead of the emperor. If it is known at this time that Timur betrayed Ming Dynasty, then these loyal ministers of Ming Dynasty will naturally You don’t need to listen to his orders, as the Ming royal family, this king is the one they should really obey, and this king will lead them, the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, to fight against the rebellion for the Ming emperor.”

Zhu Di said with a smile.

I have to say he looks like a lunatic right now...

The Emperor's Soul is on top, but the sense of adventure does satisfy him, and if he succeeds, he can severely damage or even kill Timur.

At that time, he will be the true master of the Western Regions.

"My lord, are we taking some risks?"

Zhu Neng still persuaded cautiously.

After all, with 500 cavalry, and there are only [-] real Ming troops in it, so far the Ming army has killed less than [-] people in total.

Originally there were 500 people, but there are still [-].

As for the injuries, there are still seven or eight hundred, but except for the two hundred disabled, the other injuries are basically healed now.

But in any case, it is a bit exaggerated for this person to plunge into the Timur-controlled area.

"What do these forces want from Daming?"

Zhu Di said.

"trading!"

Tutuo Lost said very simply.

The only connection between these forces and the Ming Dynasty is the trade on the Silk Road, and there is also maritime trade. Although the maritime trade is now controlled by the Jianwen Dynasty, there are few people here who can understand the affairs of the Ming Dynasty. Control, Zhu Di is also his own uncle!
"Then I will give them what they want, what is their most likely dissatisfaction with Daming?"

Zhu Di said.

"god!"

Tutuo lost and said.

"What do you believe in? What do other people believe in Yueji?"

Zhu Di said.

Tuotuo lost his smile.

Indeed, they are all one faith!