(I had a head twitch yesterday, and there were no horses in America at that time, and I knew it for a long time, but I forgot it when I wrote it, and I have revised it.) ）

Compared with Di Pingxia's success in the north, Yixin encountered many obstacles from entering the local sphere of influence.

The Aztec Empire, which had historically dominated one side, had not yet been formed, and was only just developing.

This is because in the north, the tribes are still in their primitive stage.

But in the South, where civilization has developed faster than in the North, because of the climate, there have been definite classes and ruling classes, and everywhere the rudiments of the state have been formed.

In 1372, a Kuhuacan and Aztec king, Akama Pichitili, ascended the throne. During the expansion of the Tepanix and the Aztecs, the kingdom of Akova in the eastern part of the Valley of Mexico grew stronger.

War broke out between the two countries, and the Aztecs played a crucial role. After the victory in the war, Tenochtitlan also became a large city.

In 1426, the Typanix monarch Terzozomoc died, and the kingdom of Terpanix fell into civil strife.

After two years of war, the new Aztec king, Itzco Attel, was victorious, uniting the then Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan to form an alliance and gain dominion over the Valley of Mexico.

The territory of the former state of Tepanix was divided into three countries. The treasury of the country of Tepanix was also divided, with Tenochtitlan receiving forty percent, Descoco forty percent, and Tlacopan twenty percent.

The alliance formed by these three countries will dominate the valley of Mexico for the next 100 years, and expand aggressively to the coast. During this period, Tenochtitlan gradually became the dominant force in the League.

But their strength was also the last glory of the Indians, because by the sixteenth century, that is, in 1529. The arrival of the Spaniards completely interrupted the momentum of the Indians.

Central America at this time, a bit like China more than a thousand years ago, formed an alliance between tribes, but there was a suzerain.

China's alliance was dominated by the Zhou Dynasty, and after the end of the Zhou Dynasty's rule, it entered the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The Central American allies were the kingdoms of Tepaniks, and they were now in the final stages of their reign.

Because this year is already 1421.

Under the influence of the country of Tepanix, the tribes here in Central America have undergone an epochal leap, which is the main reason why the major tribes in Central America have developed better than the north.

Although war will destroy some civilizations, it will also promote the development of society and the birth of new civilizations.

The better the country of Tepanix develops, the faster the surrounding tribes will imitate it. Many tribes in Central America have ceased to be patriarchal. And all the classes were divided, and there was a ruling class.

It's just that because there are no wheels and no cars in the Americas, everyone is still confined to one place.

Without the transportation capacity of vehicles, the ability to transport goods, no matter how big the forces are, they are simply unable to go to distant places. That's why tribes are formed, not a huge nation.

The area where easyMarkets landed was what would become Sarina Cruz, which was also the narrowest, flattest, and most fertile area of Mexico.

Their target was Veracruz, on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, which was also the hieroglyphic tribe recorded in Magellan, and was suspected to be an area where the descendants of the Yin Shang dynasty gathered.

However, as soon as they came ashore, they were attacked by miasma, and more than a tenth of the 6,000 men fell ill.

The rainforest area is not so friendly to anyone who is not adapted to the climate here, although they are fully prepared and prepare all kinds of medicines, but when so many people are sick, they can only stay in the local area for the time being, and then send people to explore the surrounding situation.

In its original history, when the Spaniards arrived in Mexico, they were considered "white gods" by the local natives.

According to this logic, when the Ming people landed, they were not considered "yellow gods" and should be treated more kindly.

But it turned out that all this was nothing more than optimistic thoughts. Because of the hot climate, the local natives are slightly darker than the Ming people, but it can be seen that they are the foundation of the yellow race.

Because of the similarity of their skin tones, they lack that kind of panic and respect.

The people of these rainforest areas are also very different from the northern ones, they rarely fight in large numbers, and mainly rely on small groups of men and horses to attack.

The natives of the north fought with sticks, stones, and spears, and although they also used stones and spears here, they preferred to use all kinds of poisonous blow arrows.

Because of the language barrier, those natives did not have due fear of the Ming soldiers, although they did not dare to directly face the large number of Ming soldiers, but used various traps and sneak attacks to make the Ming soldiers miserable.

At this time, the soldiers learned by Yu Linwei and the soldiers drawn from the southern mountains played an important role, and they used special operations to capture those sneak attacks one by one, and searched their lair.

When one tribe was completely wiped out, and another tribe was completely wiped out, the local natives settled down and began to seek dialogue.

In the Ming Dynasty's plan, this continental shelf, which is only 200 kilometers wide, will be an important stronghold for the Ming Dynasty to occupy the entire Americas and connect the East and the West.

Although Panama is narrower in the south, it is too far away from both northern and southern civilizations to serve as a stronghold.

Yixin's task was to establish the ruling power of the Ming in the region, to find evidence of the relationship between the Ming and the locals, or simply to create evidence of the connection between the locals and the Ming.

In this way, a local food supply base was established, which opened up the connection between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, and then developed northward.

Therefore, after the other party began to seek dialogue, he did not retaliate, but actively contacted the major tribes.

The language barrier is the biggest obstacle between the two sides, he has landed for nearly a month, and still has not established a real alliance with the tribes, they are still learning to speak the Ming language, and the Ming people are also actively learning each other's language.

However, an advance party of 2,000 men had already arrived at the La Bunta, which Zhu Zhanji had designated, to look for the temple he was talking about.

And after getting in touch with the locals, the two leaders of the team, Mr. Qian, are very sure. Even if the people here don't understand their language, they should be inextricably linked to each other.

Because the people here not only have similar skin color to them, but the pronunciation of the personal pronouns "I", "you", and "he" is almost the same as the pronunciation of ancient Chinese pronouns.

They call "flower" is also "fat", and the pronunciation is exactly the same as the northern accent in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty.

When they taught each other the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, these people were also the fastest learners, because there were too many pronunciations, and there was not much difference from the Ming people.

They struggled to build trust, and used medicine and agriculture to build prestige among the local natives.

However, because of the different goals, they can only develop slowly and step by step.

And in the Indian Peninsula, after the hottest August, Zhu Di also officially opened the tide of attacking Timur.

In the more than two months since he arrived in the Indian Peninsula, he has already let the entire Indian Peninsula see the majesty of the Ming Dynasty.

The nearly 50,000 cavalry, 70,000 infantry, and a huge naval division formed a large army, which completely shocked many small countries with a population of less than 100,000.

Small states quickly surrendered, especially the areas south of the Kaveri River, including those along the coast, and they fell into the arms of the Ming without the slightest hesitation.

But in the north of India, because of the threat of the Delhi Sultanate, many small countries still did not dare to completely fall to the Ming Dynasty.

This made Zhu Di determined to teach the Delhi Sultanate a lesson first, or simply overthrow their rule.

The conquest of the Delhi Sultanate was actually about as difficult as the conquest of Timur, because even the distance from Surat, the nearest coastal city to Delhi, was almost 2,000 miles.

However, the Delhi Sultanate and the Timurid State corresponded to each other, since they had to deal with the Timurid State, they would fight the rabbits with grass, and they would not fight in vain.

In fact, at this time, the Delhi Sultanate had no interest in Timur.

The rulers of this country were forty families from the Timurid state, most of them Turkic and Arab, who had the closest relationship with the Timurid state.

But at the national level, the rulers of the Delhi Sultanate do not want to have an emperor at their head, and the relationship with the Timurid state is mainly in terms of trade.

But for numerous Hindu countries, the entire Delhi Sultanate occupied large tracts of fertile land in the Punjab, Central Province, Inter-River region.

They are hugely powerful, intimidating the submission of small surrounding countries, and they are out-and-out villains.

Because of Zhu Di's change of mind, the marching route of the Eastern Expeditionary Army had to be changed, and under Fu An's arrangement, this Eastern Route Army should go north along the Indus River from the Indus River, that is, Pakistan in later generations.

This route is the closest and flattest route to the Khyber Pass.

Moreover, under the deterrence of the Ming Dynasty, the small countries in the coastal zone have raised a large number of food and ships, which can allow the Ming army to go north.

But now, all these plans have to be changed, because to conquer Delhi, the rivers are not smooth, and the cavalry is the fastest.

At the end of August, 10,000 cavalry, led by Zhang Xin, Marquis of Longping, and Mu Xin, the commander of the horses, first sailed north and arrived at Surat in northern Mumbai.

At this time, Mumbai certainly didn't exist, it was still a small island along the coast, with only a few small towns.

The real big port is Kochi, it is Goa, these ancient port cities of Surat.

At the same time, a fleet of 3,000 Ming soldiers, 8,000 Indian soldiers, and 5,000 Indian laborers escorted food and gunpowder along the Indus River all the way north to supply the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

Five days after the departure of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Zhu Di led the army to set off for Kurumus in the north.

Along with the Ming fleet, there were also 50,000 laborers contributed by various Indian countries.

Although they could not go to the battlefield, they were used to camp and transport supplies.

Even if Zhu Di wanted to reduce the burden of the Ming soldiers as much as possible, he could put all his energy on the battle.

Longping Hou Zhang Xin has always been favored by Zhu Di because of his refuge before Zhu Di's martyrdom. So on this expedition, he was also appointed as the chief officer of the former battalion of the Southern Route Army.

But Mu Xin, who served as his deputy marshal, knew that Zhang Xin was only a little smart, not a big wisdom. If this person hadn't been favored by Zhu Di, he would have been demoted because of his mistakes.

Actually, he is not without being degraded. In the twelfth year of Yongle, Zhang Xin followed the northern expedition and supervised the transportation of wages.

Zhu Di conducted a big review in Xining, and Zhang Xin was absurd all night because of the forced abduction of the people's daughter the night before, and said that he was not sick the next day. As a result, he was demoted to an official by Zhu Di, and soon because of his contribution to the Northern Expedition, he was reinstated.

Traveling in a foreign country, Mu Xin knows the importance of intelligence. As the deputy commander, he vigorously promoted a group of soldiers who had learned from Yulin Wei to serve as the guard of the front, middle and rear armies, and even the entire intelligence agency was handed over to them and the internal supervisor of the Advisory Department, Jinyiwei.

Although all the cavalry was on this way north, the army was limited by supplies from all over the country, and the army marched only a hundred miles a day, preparing to reach the territory of the Delhi Sultanate in fifteen days.

At that time, Zhu Di would also land at Kurumus and be ready.

Zhu Di demanded that the 10,000 Eastern Expeditionary Army must occupy the Khyber Valley on the first day of December, regardless of the situation of the war, which was not difficult for them.

On the 10th day of September, benefiting from the abundant supplies of the small Indian states and the active cooperation of the guides, the Ming army arrived at Jaipur, the most important gateway to the southern part of the Delhi Sultanate, one day ahead of schedule.

The Delhi Sultanate is a **** country. The Sultan is both the head of state and the supreme patriarch of the Church, combining monarchical power and divine power. The central government has 36 ministries, and the chief minister, "Wazir", is nominally in charge of the ministries, but in reality only manages the finances.

Together with the Governor of the Military Ministry, the Minister of Religion and Justice, and the Confidential Secretary and Minister of Intelligence, he became the four pillars of the Sudanese state. In addition, a provincial system of local government was established, with local military aristocrats in charge.

Since the ruling class is all the most religious military feudal aristocracy from Central Asia, with the Turkic and Afghan families as the core, they occupy a large number of military fiefdoms and land "Ikta", and rely on foreign mercenaries from Central Asia as the ruling pillar.

The Sudanese regime adopted hostile, discriminatory, persecutive, and other high-pressure ruling policies against the Hindu feudal lords and the vast number of residents of all strata, especially the forced poll tax and forced conversion to Christianity, which stimulated the national feelings and religious sentiments of all strata of Hinduism.

The Sultan conferred the conquered territory of India to the military feudal nobles, mosques and imams in the form of "Ikta" (military meritorious field) and "Wakfu" (mosque teaching field) and "Inam" (the lifelong gift of the imam), as their military feudal fiefdom and religious property.

A large number of Indians have lost their land and have to become tenants. As a result, popular uprisings and sectarian movements have erupted continuously, and national, religious, and class contradictions have become acute.

In general, the Delhi Sultanate was one of the largest regional kingdoms in North India, and its territory was proportional to its strength.

These conquered and ruled areas were nominally part of the Delhi Sultanate, but in reality they were divided into three situations: the areas under the direct control of the central government were called harissa, i.e. state lands, which were mainly confined to Delhi and the inter-river areas.

The second is the area under the control of the provincial governor, that is, the fiefdom of Iqta.

Finally, there are the areas ruled by the vassal Hindu kings or chiefs. The state levied only land taxes on the first two types of areas, and only annual tributes for the latter areas.

Jaipur is the last one, where the rulers, the Singh family, have always been the most loyal Hindus, only succumbing to the force of the Delhi Sultanate and becoming vassals of the Delhi Sultanate.

In response to the Ming attack, the Delhi Sultan sent an army of 50,000 men directly to take over the city defenses of Jaipur.

However, the Ming army had long been aware of this situation, and did not take the Singh family, which had two hearts with the Delhi Sultan, as the main target.

The 10,000 cavalry only showed off their might outside the city, smashed the Delhi flag on the city wall with their muskets, and continued north.

This time, it was the turn of the Arab general of Delhi to feel uncomfortable, because it was a city defense battle, although he had 50,000 men under his command, there were only 5,000 cavalry.

Now the Ming soldiers are not attacking the city at all, and there are not many cavalry under his command, and they don't even dare to chase after him.

But if the Ming army goes north unscathed, then his head may not be guaranteed.

As a last resort, he could only order the five thousand cavalry under his command to catch up, wanting to wait until the intercepting army in front stopped the Ming cavalry, and then flank the front and rear.

However, when they caught up, the two thousand Ming soldiers who had tied up all their horses were divided into four phalanxes and waited for them to enter the encirclement.

Although it was a force of 5,000 against 2,000, when the guns rang out, the Indian cavalry, who had not been disturbed by the gunfire and had been trained with loud noises, was directly out of order.

The horses panicked under the burst of gunfire, and many soldiers were thrown off by the frantic horses.

For the first time, the musket power of the Ming soldiers was truly displayed in front of the eyes of the Indians, and less than 300 of the 5,000 cavalry fled, and all the other soldiers fell under the grabs of the Ming soldiers.

In just one short hour, 2,000 soldiers annihilated 5,000 cavalry, and this scene made those Indian servant troops who cleaned up the battlefield all look at them as if they were heavens.

They undressed the Delhi soldiers, picked up their weapons, and captured horses to the delight of many.

Because of these gains, they were also full of energy, and that night, they dug a huge pit large enough to bury more than 4,000 people, and when the next day dawned, more than 4,000 slick corpses were thrown into the pit, and a fresh mountain of earth appeared in its place.

Receiving news from the soldiers who had fled, Tughluk ordered the city gates to be closed and never dared to send anyone out again.

The powerful Ming has made him frightened, and in the face of the muskets that the Ming people can hurt people in the air, it is difficult for the big knives and spears in their hands to cause damage to the Ming soldiers.

Only archers can play a little role, but the Ming soldiers are equipped with wire soft armor. Because of the popularity of steel wire soft armor, the Ming Dynasty even canceled the shield soldiers during this western expedition.

When it is not possible to produce steel wire, hand-drawn steel wire is expensive.

However, when steel wire can be mass-produced continuously, a large piece of steel wire mesh can be manufactured with the weaving mode, and the cost of this steel wire soft armor becomes very low.

In order to let the people of Delhi hear the news, Zhang Xin and Mu Xin also deliberately rested by the crystal palace lake not far from Jaipur for two days before continuing north.

Sure enough, more and more Delhi troops wanted to intercept them, but when they heard that the 5,000 cavalry had been wiped out in an hour, they hurriedly retreated in fright.

More and more soldiers stopped in front of them, but did not dare to show their faces. The Ming soldiers were also undaunted. In addition to having the Indian servants scout the front every day, they still slowly went straight to the area where the enemy's forces were most numerous.

The speed at which they were marching had been reduced by more than half, although on the face of it they seemed to have been recklessly entering the encirclement of the Delhirians.

But before the number of the other side reached 200,000, their 10,000 soldiers were still waiting.

Every day, their route is rigorously analyzed, how to engage the enemy, how to fight each other, and how to retreat if the enemy advances.

"My lord, Shahpur is the last chance for the other side. After Shahpur, it was the plains, and at that time, our cavalry could reach Delhi without hindrance. So, in Shahpur, there will definitely be a big war waiting for us. ”

From Jaipur to Delhi, only a mountainous area in the north of Jaipur is located, and then there is a large plain. The Delhi wanted to intercept the Ming army, and only Shahpur was their last chance.

Zhang Xin looked at the group of Yulin Weixue Qian Zong in front of him, he didn't think that this time, he could clearly feel that the soldiers of Yulin Weixue were much stronger than ordinary soldiers in all aspects.

They have now occupied the middle position of the army, and in another ten years, another twenty years, this army will be all theirs.

In the past, he had always been a little unconcerned about the role of Yulin Weixue, but now it seems that his son should also be thrown in to have a good experience in the future.

"Are all the soldiers ready?"

"It has been notified, and all the soldiers are looking forward to it."

The power of the musket did enhance the self-confidence of the Ming soldiers, only they could fight others, and others could not hit themselves. In such a one-sided battle, the other side does not say 200,000 people, even 1 million, and they dare to fight.

Because of the long march, they did not carry much ammunition, and each of them was the base of fifty guns. Then the baggage team delivered another batch of spares, which averaged out to each person, which was the base of twenty rounds of ammunition.

Since it is difficult to supply, they cherish ammunition quite a bit and do not have the idea of taking the initiative. Instead, he wanted to wait for the enemy to gather together, cripple and destroy the enemy in one fell swoop, so that they would never dare to fight against the Ming soldiers again.

And because of the disparity in weapons, the Delhi people can now only rely on numbers to establish a psychological advantage, and as Zhang Xin expected, the enemy is constantly retreating, constantly converging.

Shahpur, a small city north of Jaipur that guards the exit from the mountains, has nearly 200,000 Delhi soldiers in a rambling camp.

For the 10,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, 2,000 servant soldiers dared to directly meet the enemy, the Delhi people did not dare to believe it, but they could not believe it.

They also thought that the Ming army would bypass them, but they didn't expect that they would meet them directly.

And Zhang Xin and they know very well that this is already half of Delhi's troops, as long as they are disabled, even if the Delhi people do not flee from the wind, their deterrence against the surrounding countries will be greatly reduced.

On September 14, in the valley of Mono Helpur, twenty miles south of the city of Shahpur, 10,000 Ming soldiers stopped in front of the Delhi soldiers who could not see the edge after occupying a small hill.