The first month of the fifth year of Jingtai, the capital.

At this time, the capital is full of lights, the people are jubilant, since the Ming Dynasty suffered the defeat of the civil fort, the people in the capital have rarely had such joy, even if it was the victory of the defense of Beijing and the victory of the defense of Datong Town, the people in the capital were not so ecstatic.

The Spring Festival arrived, and caught up with the Tiance army, the soldiers of Datong Town annihilated the Warat army, and the Great Khan of Warat was beheaded and other slave chiefs, which made the capital more festive inside and outside, and hundreds of people smiled happily and took to the streets to find friends and friends, which was very lively.

But unlike the celebratory scene at this time, Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, frowned, and his mood was even worse to the extreme.

Emperor Jingtai's reward for meritorious soldiers has been promulgated, Yu Qian also learned that the soldiers of Shandong Town and Datong Town are very dissatisfied with this, Shandong Town is better, many soldiers in Datong Town are already "angry", and even many generals are gathering all things, although they have been suppressed by Xue Tong, the chief officer of Datong Town, but the military spirit has been corrupted!

Yu Qian was very sad about this, but he was helpless.

A few days later, Yu Qian learned that Liu Juntao had led his troops south, and it would not take a few days to enter the Shandong territory, and he learned that the soldiers of the Tiance Army had not done anything out of the ordinary because of the reward, which was a relief.

However, at this time, Yu Qian was still worried about another major event in his heart!

At this time, although many Warat generals, patriarchs, and nobles such as the Great Khan of Warat, the King of Saikan, and the General Arazhiyuan were killed, there were still many Warat tribesmen in the vast desert, and these people existed in hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands!

If these Warat tribesmen could not be collected by the Ming army in time, they would definitely be swallowed up by the rest of the Hu tribe.

In the vast desert, any Hu tribe that suddenly annexes hundreds of thousands of unarmed tribes will definitely rise in a very short period of time, and then the Ming Dynasty will finally defeat Warat, but it will have to face another rising Hu force!

This is also the reason why the Central Plains Dynasty has repeatedly defeated the Hu people for thousands of years, but has never been able to completely pacify the desert!

Moreover, after the defeat of Warat, there was a huge vacuum on the desert, if this huge area was not filled by the Ming army, it would definitely be occupied by the rest of the Hu people.

Therefore, Yu Qian wrote a letter, suggesting that Emperor Jingtai immediately send a large army to the north, enter the desert to collect the remnants of Wara, drive all these Warat troops south, place them along the Great Wall to take care, and draw young and strong soldiers from it, so that these Hu people can serve in the Ming Dynasty, just like the Changshui Hu cavalry of the Han Dynasty, so as to prevent other Hu tribes from taking advantage of the opportunity to grow.

At the same time, Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, who was leading the army south, also hurriedly wrote a letter, also suggesting that the imperial court send troops to the north to occupy the vacuum zone that appeared on the desert after the defeat of Wara, and open up a buffer zone for the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

However, at this time, Emperor Jingtai saw that Wara, a confidant, had been defeated, and his heart was even more happy, so he put all his thoughts on consolidating the imperial power and placing the vacancy of the crown prince's position.

Emperor Jingtai ignored the invitation of Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, and Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, and only symbolically restored it, saying that he would consider it at his discretion, and then there was no follow-up.

Seeing this, Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, sighed, and his heart was even more sad and indignant.

And Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, was furious, and felt very disappointed and even despised Emperor Jingtai's decision!

Jingtai in March of the fifth year.

Timur, the son of Warat Khan, was ordered to lead 150,000 horsemen into the Seven Rivers Valley (referring to the seven rivers in Central Asia that flow into Lake Balkhash: Ili, Karatal, Aksu, Lepsa, Ayaguz, Chu, and Talas), and defeated the White Horde ruler Abu Khair's Khan on the banks of the Syr Darya River.

In this battle, the loss of Timur took 100,000 iron cavalry as the lead, and the 120,000 army led by Abu Khair Khan launched a decisive battle on the banks of the Syr Darya, the two sides fought for 17 days, regardless of victory or defeat, but on the whole, Timur still lost the upper hand, but for the time being, he could not turn the advantage into victory!

Then, under the arrangement and deployment of the lost Timur, the 50,000 Warat iron cavalry rushed to the flank of the battlefield in advance, and at the most critical time of the fierce battle between the two sides, they suddenly rushed into the battlefield, and together with the main army of 100,000 Warat, they launched a flank attack on the enemy, and completely annihilated the 120,000 army led by Abu Khairhan in one fell swoop, capturing countless and shocking all directions!

In this battle, the lost Timur troops reached the eastern border of the Transoxiana region, and the direct command post plundered Tashkent and other oases.

Timur also sent envoys to meet with Abu Said Sultan in Herat, the then Delhi Sultanate (present-day capital of Herat province in northwestern Afghanistan), with whom he established a temporary alliance.

The loss of Timur's western expedition not only expelled the former Chagatai queen from the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and plundered the eastern border of the river, but also restored control over the vast steppe area north of Hami and west of the Altai Mountains, and the harvest was quite rich.

Seeing the rich results of the war, Timur lost his ambition to continue to forge ahead, believing that such a feat could already consolidate his position within Warat.

Moreover, Timur had to take into account the return orders that his father Khan might send at any time, so he did not continue to march westward, but sent 30,000 troops to garrison various places to maintain local stability, and he himself led a main army of 120,000 to the east and began to march slowly eastward.

But just when Timur was complacent and ready to lead the army to return triumphantly, on the way to the march, he got the general Alazhiyuan to lead the rebellion, and his father Khan was also killed in battle with the king of Saikan, and the general Alazhiyuan was then killed by the Ming army, and the 100,000 Warat army was wiped out!

At this time, the news of the collapse of Warat and the defeat of the Ming Dynasty was like a ghost, which made the 120,000 troops under the command of Timur moved, and even had no courage to return to the east.

Timur knew that although he had achieved a great victory on the westward journey, according to the current situation, he could no longer control the homeland of Warat, and the hundreds of thousands of people stranded in the homeland of Warat could only give up!

Timur knew very well in his heart that even if he led his troops to rush back now, it would be in vain.

The current homeland of Warat must have become a new battlefield, and the Hu tribes on all sides must be competing for those hundreds of thousands of clansmen, not counting the strong army of the Ming Dynasty that is eyeing the south!

After some deliberation, Timur finally decided to lead his army to the west, and then led the tribes he could still control to move westward to avoid disputes and blood and fire in the east!

Just after Timur led his troops to move west, this huge news also spread, and the original Warat hometown suddenly became a mess, and the surrounding Hu tribes all rushed up to take a bite and divide the hundreds of thousands of Warat people as a plate of delicious food.

And after Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, learned the news through the Ministry of Intelligence, his heart was also full of regret.

If the imperial court can make up its mind to send troops north and sweep through the vast desert, he is fully confident that he will lead the army to kill the Quartet, not only can the vitality of the other Hu people in the desert be greatly damaged, and the hundreds of thousands of old Warat troops will be brought back, but also the border line of the Ming Dynasty will be pushed north for hundreds of miles, in exchange for a large living space for the people on the border!

But now, such a beautiful and brilliant prospect has become a sea pavilion under the veto of Emperor Jingtai and the ministers of the court, and it cannot come true!

In this regard, Liu Juntao's heart is very painful, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will not be available again in the future, and if you want to achieve such an effect in the future, you don't know how many good sons of the Han family will have to be sacrificed!

Thinking of this, Liu Juntao's heart rose with raging anger, and he even had an urge to lead the army into the capital and kill the traitor!

Finally, Liu Juntao calmed down, looked at the trees that had begun to sprout in the General Soldier's Mansion, and said secretly in his heart: "Now that the imperial court refuses to send troops, the Tartars on the grassland have a chance to breathe, and like this tree, the spring breeze blows and grows again!" ”