Chapter 156: The East Wind Blows the Snow of the Heavenly Mountains

Boyan Timur's thoughts. It can only be hidden deep in his heart.

However, his mobilization pierced the hearts of many tile spur soldiers.

Many people think that nomads are not attached to their hometowns, but in fact, although nomads are wandering most of the time, when to go to that pasture is generally certain.

Although they often leave their pastures, they know that the next reunion will be in that season. But now there is no going back.

Many soldiers of the same age as Boyan Timur stayed one after another.

So Boyan Timur collected thousands of spur soldiers, and forcibly recruited the strong men of the local tribes in the Western Regions, totaling 20,000 people and more than a dozen cannons, determined to defend Yili to the death.

And at this very time.

Fang Jin also opened the door of Hami at this moment.

King Hami originally wanted to delay for two days, but when he heard that the Ming army appeared north of the Tianshan Mountains, he didn't say a word, and surrendered.

Fang Jin was also not polite. It was directly announced that the king of Hami had colluded with the tile thorns, and the rat tail was sent to the capital at both ends, and the chariot was sent to Beijing, leaving thousands of Han people to garrison Hami, and the army continued to advance.

The disposition of Hami was determined from the very beginning.

Without him, once the Ming Dynasty restored its rule over the Western Regions, how could Hami, the main transportation route, be occupied by others.

King Hami is completely innocent and guilty.

After that, the army went smoothly.

From the perspective of the natural environment as a whole, the north of the Tianshan Mountains is better than the south of the Tianshan Mountains.

To the south of the Tianshan Mountains, in addition to the oasis formed by a series of rivers with snowy water in the Tianshan Mountains, there is a desert. The famous Tarimkan Desert is not without cities, and there are even some agricultural cities, but they are all distributed around the Tarimgan Desert.

Compared with the grasslands north of the Tianshan Mountains, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains are in the heart of Aci Timur, and it is clear which is more important and which is more important.

The center of gravity of the Shingles is not here.

Therefore, wherever the Ming army passed, they surrendered one after another.

For a while, what Fang Jin did seemed to be that most of the officials made wishes to block the people. There are still small-scale fights, but in general, every city dares to resist the heavenly soldiers.

It's just that in this way, Fang Jin became more and more worried.

Fang Jin and Shi Heng's personalities are completely different, in such a situation, Shi Heng won't think much about it at all, he will only chase and fight. But Fang Jin was wary of deception in his heart.

Worried, is the tile spur concentrated forces to hide somewhere, waiting for the Ming army to reveal the flaws.

So the action is quite cautious.

It's just that after doing everything, he heard Shi Heng's order, and the army attacked Yili, and the process was not smooth, and even made Shi Heng so angry that he ordered the city to be slaughtered. After the city was broken, Xu slaughtered the city for three days.

Fang Jin was taken aback, and immediately explained the matter to the south of the Tianshan Mountain

The task was assigned to the following lieutenants, and he led 30,000 cavalry through the Tianshan Mountains and headed straight for the Ili River Valley.

By the time Fang Jin arrived at Yili Jiangli, Yili Jiangli, who had been besieging Yili for about a month, had reached the last moment.

Yili is so difficult to conquer, not because Yili is a strong city, nor is it because the Ming army's siege skills are trendy, and it is not because Boyan Timur is a powerful city defender.

Yili is an old city, which was built during the Great Yuan Dynasty. The defense against artillery is not strong, and Boyan Timur has studied the way of attack and defense.

But if Boyan Timur is a famous general, it is also a joke.

The real reason why Shi Heng couldn't attack for a long time was nothing else, it was the composition of Shi Heng's army.

Everyone knows that the siege firearms of the army are the first, but Shi Heng's army only has light firearms such as handguns and firearms, and as for the siege cannons, there is no one.

Not only Shi Heng didn't, but even Fang Jin didn't have many in the army.

There is no other reason.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty inherited the Mongol system in many places. Especially above the military cavalry.

The logistical baggage of this cavalry march was supplied by the Ming Dynasty with more than 100,000 horses, and it seemed that there were only more than 200,000 cavalry in front, but the horses and livestock that followed behind were far more than this number.

It is precisely because of so much grain and grass that can be moved that the Ming army can be so fast and so fast when attacking the Western Regions. Straight past the prairie.

Think about this picture, what kind of scene would it be if you carried a large number of artillery, on the grassland where there was no road, you couldn't bear it at all, hundreds of catties, thousands of catties of artillery carts, you could only walk a few miles, and the iron wheels would sink into the land, no matter how many horses you used.

In the absence of sufficient firearms, besieging a city guarded by firearms is a difficult task in itself.

Shi Heng naturally did not use his own people, but drove the captured troops to attack the city, and returned the original means of attacking Daming City to the Tile Thorn.

The number of firearms in the tile spurs is insufficient.

Azi Timur never stopped to imitate the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty.

The same is true when it comes to firearms.

Some of the firearms here in Yili were captured from the Ming army, some were imitated by them, and some were handed down from the Western Regions.

If it weren't for the fact that Azi Timur shifted his strategic focus and took away a lot of firearms here, they became his sharp weapons for attacking the city.

There are many more firearms here.

However, although the tile spur envied the Ming army that as soon as the war began, it would be able to smash firearms without money, but in fact, firearms not only cost money, but also the price was not low.

Take a fire gun as an example, the price of Shaofu is seven taels of silver. As for the cannon movement, it is a few hundred taels, thousands of taels.

Hundreds of cannons were dispatched together

, not to mention the value of the artillery, just the sum of the gunpowder projectiles consumed, how can it cost tens of thousands of taels of silver.

This is simply not something that Wattspur can afford.

Before the end of the month, the firearms in the hands of the tile spurs were used up, even if they were used sparingly.

And in the city, the hearts of the people are also scattered, and they can no longer hold it.

So, when Fang Jin came here.

Boyan Timur began his final charge. He took the last three kilowatts of spur old soldiers, opened Yili and rushed out of the inner city gate. Straight to the Ming army's main formation.

It's just that there are so many cavalry in the Ming army, how can Boyan Timur be beheaded by a general among the ten thousand troops.

If you really want him to do it, on the charge of losing the main general, I don't know how many soldiers will be subject to the marching law.

So in front of the Shiheng array, the Ming cavalry surrounded it. The two sides fought repeatedly. When the flesh and blood were flying, even Shi Heng had some itchy hands.

At this moment, the following people reported: "Wei Yuanhou has arrived. ”

Fang Jin inherited his father's Wei Yuanbo, and in the later wars, he was made a marquis. Now it is the Marquis of Weiyuan. It can be regarded as one of several important ministers of the imperial court and military, although he doesn't have to go to Shi Heng, but it's not much worse.

After Fang Jin came, he first saluted Shi Heng and said, "The last general has seen Guogong. ”

Shi Heng said: "Excuse me, I am no longer a national prince." ”

Fang Jin said: "Guogong is joking, Your Majesty's importance to Guogong is known to the world, after this war, Guogong will not be restored?" ”

This is also why although Shi Heng was removed from the title of Duke of Guo, the title of Shi Heng has not changed.

Shi Heng laughed and said, "That's right." "I actually accepted it calmly.

Only then did Fang Jin change the topic and said, "I heard that the Duke of the Kingdom is going to slaughter the city? ”

Shi Heng said: "Yes, the people here are stubborn, against the king, if they are not dealt with, how can they deter those who have a heart in the Western Regions." ”

Fang Jin said: "Guogong, if we do this, it will be difficult for us to explain after we go back." ”

Now, under the auspices of Zhu Qizhen, the military discipline is becoming stricter and stricter, and the killing of prisoners and the slaughter of the city has been explicitly prohibited by Zhu Qizhen several times.

But the above slogan is a slogan, but the following specific situation is a specific situation.

It was like the Battle of Lang Son, where both sides were red-eyed, and their hatred for each other was as deep as the sea, and it would be difficult for the generals to forcibly suppress the hatred of the soldiers.

Maybe a mutiny is imminent.

The army is the most violent institution, not only against the enemy, but also against itself.

Therefore, small-scale killing of prisoners and massacres, as long as they are not killed by the people of the Ming Dynasty, their hands and feet are clean, and there is no bitter master, even the army will turn a blind eye.

After all, most of the people who send troops to fight are all for the sake of making meritorious contributions and making a fortune. If you don't let the extra money stick underneath, there is no way for this soldier to take it.