Compared with the unaware civil and military officials in the Taihe Palace, Yang Shiqi and Zhang Fu and other auxiliary ministers, as well as the governors and court officials of the five prefectures and six ministries, were much calmer, and they had already learned from Li Yuntian that the national strength of the Timurid Empire was far stronger than they imagined.

From Ba Hu's panicked reaction, Yang Shiqi, Zhang Fu and others realized that Li Yuntian was telling the truth, otherwise Ba Hu would be so panicked.

On the high platform in front of the main hall, the Empress Dowager Zhang looked at the flustered Ba Hu in amazement, when Li Yuntian told her that the national strength of the Timurid Empire was on par with that of the Ming Dynasty, she still thought that Li Yuntian was exaggerating, but now she believed that what Li Yuntian said was the truth, which made her feel extremely shocked in her heart.

Since he couldn't understand Daming's words, Dorul didn't know what was happening, and he felt that the atmosphere at the scene had become very strange, so he couldn't help but whisper to Narsa, who was quite excited next to him.

"God forbid!" When he learned from Narsha that Li Yuntian had exposed Bahu's lie about the national strength of the Timurid Empire, Dorul couldn't help but be overjoyed, so it seemed that Bahu had fallen into a predicament, and hurriedly prayed secretly in his heart.

"Lord Lord, although my country's land is large, it is mostly a barren land with no grass, and although the population is large, most of them are people of different races who are not subject to control."

Ba Hu quickly recovered from the shock and hurriedly whispered a few words to the stout entourage, who then opened his mouth and explained to Li Yuntian, "Therefore, our country cannot compare with the Ming Dynasty, and it is already the strength of the whole country to gather 100,000 troops. ”

"When your Timurid Khan went east to conquer the Ming Dynasty, he used a million troops to fight from your capital Samarkand to the capital of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, Beshi Bali City, which is only more than two hundred miles away from my Ming Hamiwei, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate has almost fallen."

Li Yuntian saw that Ba Hu was still quibbling, so he sneered and said, "If it weren't for your Timur Great Khan who died of illness in Beishu Bali City, I'm afraid that my Ming Dynasty would have a big battle with you, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate would have ceased to exist a long time ago!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked, and Zhang Fu, Yang Shiqi and others were even more heavy and fell into the memories of the past.

Timur's Eastern Expedition occurred shortly after Emperor Yongle ascended the throne, and Song Sheng, the chief military officer of Gansu and the Marquis of Xining, suddenly sent 800 li to urgently report to the imperial court, saying that the Western Chagatai Khanate raised troops to attack the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was defeated and retreated, and the army of the Western Chagatai Khanate did not mean to stop after capturing the capital of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, Beshi Bali City, and was advancing towards Hamiwei, and Yi had bad intentions towards the Ming Dynasty.

Hamiwei is an important town in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, more than 800 miles away from the city of Beishibali, once the army of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate invades Hamiwei, then the southwest of the Ming Dynasty will be full of war.

At that time, the military strength of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest was limited, and only the guards of the two major capital divisions of Shaanxi and Shaanxi Xingdu could be called.

Among them, the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division has 15 guards and 2,000 households, and the Shaanxi Xingdu Division has 12 guards and 3,000 households, and the full strength of the two divisions is about 155,000 people.

Once the Ming Dynasty went to war with the Timurid Empire, then the three capitals that could support the nearby Shaanxi Dusi and Shaanxi Xingdusi were the three Dusi of the surrounding areas, namely the Shanxi Dusi, the Henan Dusi and the Sichuan Dusi.

There are 7 guards and 5,000 households in Shanxi, 12 and 6,000 households in Henan, and 14 guards and 3,000 households in Sichuan, a total of 33 and 14,000 households, with a total strength of about 200,000 people.

The rest of the troops of the Ming Dynasty were too far away from Shaanxi and Gansu, so it was difficult for them to rush to the front line in Shaanxi and Gansu within half a year, which meant that in half a year, the Ming Dynasty could only rely on 350,000 people from the Shaanxi Division, the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, the Shanxi Division, the Henan Division, and the Sichuan Division, to block the progress of the Timurid Empire's army.

On the surface, 350,000 Ming troops are not a lot, but this is a force distributed in the five capitals, and if they are taken out individually, they cannot compete with the army of the Timurid Empire.

Moreover, the Ming army was not prepared for the sudden outbreak of war, while Timur came prepared this time after years of planning, and the Timurid imperial army conquered the capital of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and now the morale is high, so it is conceivable that the early stage of the war was extremely unfavorable for the Ming army.

Emperor Yongle was taken aback after receiving Song Sheng's urgent battle report, and never expected that the Timurid Empire would march eastward, and he also wanted to get involved in the Ming Dynasty.

To tell the truth, Emperor Yongle was not afraid of a fight with Timur, thinking about how powerful Mengyuan was back then, how brave the rebel armies were, and in the end, they were not all cleaned up by Emperor Hongwu and him.

What is particularly critical is that the Yongle Emperor first ascended to the Great Treasure, due to the instability of the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Jingnan, the Yongle Emperor was not worried about Timur's army, and the Ming Dynasty had already experienced in dealing with the Mongolian cavalry, even if Timur's army could attack the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, it would become a lamb to the slaughter when his logistics supply line was broken.

Moreover, the strength of the Northern Yuan at that time was still there, and it would definitely not sit idly by and watch the Timurid Empire enter the Central Plains, and Timur was a greater threat to the Northern Yuan than the Ming Dynasty.

At least the Ming Dynasty will not occupy the Northern Yuan Hala and Lincheng, and Timur, who claims to be a descendant of Genghis Khan, will definitely send troops to capture Hala and Lincheng, and send his Mongolian cavalry and Turkic cavalry to pursue the remnants of the Northern Yuan, which have been wiped out.

For the Northern Yuan and Timurid Empires, the biggest contradiction between the two sides at that time was the struggle for the dominance of the Mongol Empire, and it was obvious that Timur would not let go of the Northern Yuan, the suzerainty of the major khanates of the Mongol Empire.

Emperor Yongle was worried that once the Ming Dynasty and the Timurid Empire fought, then the unstable Ming Dynasty might break out into civil strife, first of all, the Ming Dynasty had many courtiers loyal to Emperor Jianwen at that time, and Emperor Jianwen's whereabouts were unknown, and once someone with a heart used it, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Secondly, those vassal kings who followed the Yongle Emperor to raise troops and Jingjing, such as King Ning and others, were suppressed after the Yongle Emperor ascended the throne, although the Yongle Emperor deprived them of their military power, but they had many cronies in the army, as long as they ascended to the heights, those old troops would definitely rebel.

Therefore, compared to the attack of the Timurid Empire, in the eyes of Emperor Yongle, the outbreak of civil strife within the Ming Dynasty was the most dangerous, which would directly shake his rule over the Ming Dynasty.

For winning the war with the Timurid Empire, the Yongle Emperor still has full certainty, although there are few founding nobles left after the Jingshan Dynasty, either died of illness or were killed by the Hongwu Emperor and the Yongle Emperor, but a large number of new military generals emerged in the Jingjing, that is, the Jingnan Honorable Nobles who were relied on by the Yongle Emperor.

After more than three years of the Jingnan War, Jingnan Xungui has grown up in the tempering of the war, enough to lead the still brave Weisuo army under the command of Emperor Yongle to defeat the menacing Timurid Empire.

What is particularly important is that after experiencing the rule of Meng Yuan, the people of the Ming Dynasty will definitely not want to be ruled by Timur under the banner of Genghis Khan's descendants, and will definitely fight bravely against the army of the Timurid Empire at that time.

However, just when the Yongle Emperor was dispatching troops in the capital to prepare for a showdown with the Timurid Empire, Song Sheng sent someone to send an urgent military situation again, and the forward of Timur's army, which was already about to arrive in Hamiwei, suddenly retreated without warning for some reason, and retreated to the city of Beshbali.

A few days later, Song Sheng's second emergency military intelligence unraveled the reason for the sudden retreat of the forward troops of Timur's army, and no one expected that Timur, who led the army to conquer in person, suddenly died in the city of Beshbali.

Due to the death of Timur, the huge Timurid Empire suddenly fell into war, not only the struggle for power between the top leaders of the Timurid Empire, but also the resistance of those countries and nations conquered by Timur, so that the Timurid Empire had no time to go east, and hurriedly retreated to Samarkand City, so that the Ming Dynasty avoided a war.

Afterwards, the Timurid Empire specially sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to explain to the Yongle Emperor about the dispatch of troops to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, saying that the Timurid Great Khan only wanted to capture the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and restore the glory of the Chagatai Khanate, and did not mean to offend the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Yongle was busy rectifying the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and where did he have the energy to entangle with the Timurid Empire, so he reached a reconciliation with the Timurid Empire.

In fact, the Timurid Empire was more afraid that the Ming would send troops to attack them, because the internal affairs of the Timurid Empire were more complex and chaotic, and the countries and nationalities conquered by Timur alone were enough for the top of the Timurid Empire to have a headache, not to mention the conflict at the top of the Timurid Empire.

Now, thirty years have passed in a flash, because the forward troops of the Timurid Empire had not yet arrived in Hamiwei at that time, and there was no armed conflict with the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming court did not issue a notice to conquer the Timurid Empire.

Not only the common people, but also many of the civil and military officials in the imperial court did not know about this matter under the deliberate closure of the news by Emperor Yongle, which made the Timurid Empire's eastern crusade suppressed.

It was precisely because of Timur's death that the royal children of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate were able to regain their territory after the withdrawal of the Timurid Empire's army, otherwise the current Eastern Chagatai Khanate would have ceased to exist long ago.

Therefore, for the civil and military officials in the court, except for Yang Shiqi and Zhang Fu and other important ministers of the court who had come into contact with this matter, the others did not know that the Ming Dynasty almost fought with the invading army of the Timurid Empire after Emperor Yongle ascended the throne, so they were shocked by this matter.

The civil and military officials in the hall have always thought that the Ming Dynasty is the Heavenly Empire and the most powerful country in the world, and no one would have thought that Timur would go east to conquer the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the shock, the officials on the scene finally realized that the Timurid Empire was not just a small country in the Western Regions as they had previously thought, but a superpower that was enough to launch a million troops to wage war against the Ming Dynasty, which made the ministers feel full of vigilance against the Timurid Empire's attack on the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.