Timur's courtship had set out a month earlier with a large number of belongings, and they had gone to the powerful chieftains of Stan and Chagatai, Il, and the Golden Horde for Timur's many grandsons.

The envoys sent to Tatar and Warat left before they did, and they brought with them the oath of Timur: "How can the descendants of Timur be compared with the descendants of Genghis Khan?" After I live for a thousand years, I should choose the virtuous among the descendants of Genghis Khan, and this eastward crusade of the Ming Dynasty, once successful, thousands of miles of splendor, belongs to everyone, and in the future it will be the direct descendants of Genghis Khan, not all the ...... of me Timur."

And Samarkand is also in full swing preparing for war.

In late autumn, the cold was very cold, and early this morning, all the foreign missions in Samarkand, and even the foreign merchant groups in various places, received an order from Timur Khan: "Be sure to leave Samarkand that day, and early the next morning, but if you find those who have not yet left the country, you will be killed!" This was a tough measure taken by Emperor Timur in order to prevent anyone from spying on intelligence and mō to clear the truth of Samarkand.

Immediately, Timur called the Ming envoy to the tent. This Ming envoy's surname is Ding, named Dingyong, and he is the nephew of Ding Baolu, the commander of Wu Changwei, because he is a Hui and believes in Islam, so he was designated by Zhu Di as a suitable candidate to visit the Timurid Empire.

Soon after the envoys of the Timur Empire, Gaisuyaddin and Aldushah left the Ming Dynasty, he set off on his way, but as soon as he arrived in Samarkand, he was controlled and not allowed to leave. Because of the long distance, the return date is difficult to determine, and the Ming side does not know yet.

Ding Yong walked into the palace of Samarkand, only to see the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, crowded, only in the middle of the thick carpet, leaving a road for him, Ding Yong did not know what happened, his heart was worried, and he did not want to weaken the prestige of the Celestial Empire, so he had to force his composure, stepped forward, and said to Timur with the etiquette of the country: "Great Khan, Ding Yong's return visit to your country on the order of the Ming Emperor is to conclude close and friendly relations between the two countries, and at the same time to urge the Great Khan to resume the tribute to my Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. But the Great Khan detained his ministers, and such a rude act ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Emperor Timur, who was nearly seventy years old and still in extremely strong health, interrupted him in a loud voice: "Call you here today, Ben Khan is going to let you return to the country!" ”

When Ding Yong heard this, his eyes lit up and said, "Really? ”

Timur shouted: "Listen, go back and tell your khan that he betrayed his father and killed his nephew, and is a big bastard!" I, Timur, am the courtier of the Great Khan of Hongwu, and I want to crusade against the traitors for my father, and I will send troops to conquer the Ming Dynasty in the near future! Tell him to wash his neck, and wait to try my Timur's sword! ”

Ding Yong was shocked and angry when he heard this, and refuted with a stubble: "You dare to be so rude to Emperor Ming? Once His Majesty the Emperor knows, he will definitely not spare ......"

Timur sneered: "Timur is about to compete with him!" Blasting him out! A few strong and powerful guards immediately pounced on the left and right, set up Dingyong and left. Dingyong was set up out of the Khan's tent, fixed his mind, turned around and left. In a short time, all the members of the Ming envoys got on their horses, all the heavy supplies were gone, and they rode away from Samarkand.

Dingyong is not an idiot, all the changes that have happened in Samarkand in the past few days, combined with Timur's words today, he knows that what Timur said must be true, and after he arrived in Samarkand, he also really understood Timur's military strength. He knew that even if His Majesty the Emperor knew Timur's ambitions by now, it might not be too late to urgently deploy defenses.

What's more, Timur was about to send troops, so he pretended to be generous at this time, but then immediately followed behind his ass and sent troops, and when he sent the letter to Nanjing, Timur's army had already reached Shaanxi, which was not much different from not declaring war, so he could grab a moment is a moment, and the sooner he called Daming to be vigilant, the more he could fight for some opportunities for his country.

Having received orders from Timur Khan, the defenders of Samarkand did not embarrass them, and the soldiers and horses of the city mocked and mocked them, opened the gates of the city, and deliberately left most of the jerky meat, cheese, and drinking water they had with them in an extortion manner, and then let them go on their way.

On Timur's palace, after Dingyong and others were blown away, Timur walked to a huge veil facing the wall, stretched out his hand and pulled it hard, and the veil fell to the ground, revealing a huge map, with a blood-red arrow on it, from west to east, like a sharp bent horse, straight to the end of the east, the end of the east, the first blood-red circle, circled with a place name: Khotan!

The first stop of Timur the Great's Far Eastern Holy War was here.

More than ten years of meticulous preparation has made him fully prepared in all aspects, and he has even calculated that if his cavalry advances at full speed from Khotan, the time to arrive at Nanjing will be one hundred and sixty-one days, and the time is accurate to the sky!

From Turkestan to Gansu and Shaanxi, the biggest challenge is not the Ming army, but Tianwei, where there is a lack of water, even his invincible iron cavalry can't hold on without water, so this map marks the main offensive route and all the water sources on several preparation routes, all replaced by green symbols. These water sources were counted by his scouts pretending to be merchants for more than ten years.

Even if the exact location of these water sources is known, it is still a serious problem for them to supply a large army with grain, grass and water, and once there is a problem with supply, the more troops, the heavier the burden, and the faster the defeat, which is the biggest taboo of the expeditionary force. Therefore, Timur decided to set the number of elite cavalry vanguard led by himself at 200,000.

Considering that he had to pass through a long area with little arable land and sparsely populated, and that the grain and grass he had plundered might not be enough to supply the needs of the army, he drove a million cattle and sheep to accompany him according to the ratio of two rǔ oxen and ten rǔ sheep per person, and the number of shepherds accompanying him exceeded 600,000.

They stayed in the local area, and when they needed to increase the army in front, they could be transferred at any time, and after they were stationed in the tun area, they could continue to loot the grain and grass of the local people along the road to supply the military needs at the front. At the same time, the road was kept open to ensure a steady flow of soldiers recruited from all of Central Asia to the East.

The number of troops was a problem for Timur, who used 800,000 troops in the Indian war, 300,000 in the Russian war, and more than 500,000 in the Turkish war. What's more, "the Yuan Dynasty returned to the whole world", and Muslims and people in Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Inner Méng, Sichuan and other places are his potential sources of soldiers, as long as his spark arrives, he can ignite the momentum of the prairie fire.

Timur had been preparing for so long, and when he said a military deployment, he only heard that all the generals were full of blood and blood. Timur the Great's powerful language and confident demeanor had infected them, and they believed that under the leadership of the Khan, they would conquer the great empire of the East and multiply their wealth.

Timur's sonorous voice continued: "Our first step is to occupy the whole of Stan, and now, the east of Stan belongs to the Ming Court, the north belongs to Warat, and the west is our territory, and the other two sides have limited garrisons here, and we can easily take it." If the Tatars, Warats, and Stans are willing to cooperate with us, and the Ming army is vulnerable, we will drive eastward along the Yellow River, cut off the Grand Canal, and take Beijing with the Tatars and Warats first.

The Yellow River valley has been decided, and then the Jianghuai River is drawn, because the rivers there are criss-crossed, which is not suitable for our elite cavalry movement, and we may encounter relatively strong resistance here. At this time, we will have to adopt some other tactics to cooperate with our military operations, and we will find a Chinese young man to prove that he is the missing Emperor Jianwen, and make him the Chinese emperor to confront Zhu Di.

If we fail in our diplomatic measures against the Tatars, Warats, and the Western Regions, and the war is unfavorable, then we will change the haste into a slow policy, first enter Hexi, seize Guanzhong, and first consolidate Shaanxi, Gannan, and Ningxia, where the Ming army is mostly Chinese, Tibetans and Muslims, and they are not loyal to the Ming court, but on the contrary, they are very friendly to us, and when our missions come and go, they often take the initiative to reveal information about the Ming court to us, so, It's easy for us to get them to turn against us and join us!

Let's talk about the deployment of the army, the Ming army is divided into armies by the command of the capital, namely Beiping, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Fujian, Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Liaodong, Henan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Daning, Wanquan Division, the only front-line armed forces that can resist in time are the two corps of Shaanxi Dusi and Shaanxi Xingdusi.

Shaanxi Dusi and Shaanxi Xingdu Si have a total of 27 guards and 5,000 households, if their soldiers are full, about 155,000 people, stationed in various castles, can not be gathered together to fight a decisive battle with us, therefore, although they have a tall and strong city, but they are scattered and cannot be concentrated, which is their biggest disadvantage!

The second-line forces of the Ming court were mainly concentrated in Shanxi, Henan, and Sichuan, with a total of 33 guards and 14 thousand households in these three places, with a total strength of about 200,000 people. The rest of the army was too far away, and it was difficult to rush to the front line in Shaanxi and Gansu within half a year. Unfortunately, we learned that in each of their guards, there were wounded, sick, old and sick, and non-combatants who had completely turned into tunfu, so their actual strength in these places was greatly reduced! ”

When Timur said this, he dragged his lame tuǐ around slightly, and in the most elegant posture he could make, he glanced at his generals with a smile: "Now, you guys are clear? ”

The generals raised their arms and shouted: "The Great Khan will win!" The Great Khan will win! The Great Khan will win......"

Timur raised his hands slightly and pressed down, and the sound of the mountains and seas immediately stopped abruptly, and Timur's voice was as cold as a steel knife out of the sheath: "Let's go!" Right away! ”

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