Alina, the princess of the Delhi Sultanate, travelled from the capital city of Delhi to the frontier battlefield in Bengal under the protection of a mighty guard.

As the leader of the mercenaries, the mercenaries of the Celestial Sect in the middle of the river, led by Timur, have already achieved a series of victories.

These mercenaries are ruthless and belligerent by nature, and apart from fighting, their primary concern is robbery.

Especially after Duan Gong took the initiative to shrink his defense and gave up many peripheral cities, these Heavenly Fang Sect mercenaries were even more proud and complacent, despising the enemy.

The same was true of Timur as a general.

In Princess Alina's opinion, these mercenaries from the middle of the river were a bunch of savage and vulgar countrymen, who could do nothing but savage burning, killing and looting.

Therefore, when Princess Alina came to the vicinity of Timur's military camp under the protection of the court guards of Gracchus, she immediately ordered her guards to defend it tightly, mainly against these barbaric Celestial mercenaries.

For what Princess Alina did, these mercenary generals in the river led by Timur were quite disdainful.

"What princess, but the daughter of the Sultan, not the daughter of the Caliph, dares to call her a princess!"

Timur led these mercenaries across most of the Delhi Sultanate, and the military aristocracy of the Delhi Sultanate had already seen through the reality.

The Delhi Sultanate originated from a mercenary group of Persian and Transoxiana generations, and it can be said that their predecessors were also of the same origin as Timur.

It's just that after so many years of leisurely and wealthy life in the Indian Venerable, the military aristocracy of the Delhi Sultanate has long been seriously corrupted.

Even the Glacuse Janissaries, known as the strongest combat force in the Deli Sultanate, were mostly a group of people wearing bright armor to show off their might.

As for the military lords who occupy a piece of land in various parts of Tianzhu, their armies are even more rotten, and they have no record of being able to suppress the Indian untouchables and Brahmans who rebel in their territory.

After a series of victories, Timur and others not only seriously despised Duan Gong from the east, but even their own gold lord, the Sultanate, was also despised by them.

"Send to tell Princess Alina that there is now a lack of necessary rewards in our army, and that there is no shortage of women to please the warriors, and I see that there are many gold and silver treasures in his ranks, and many slave girls, all sent to our army!"

Timur commanded his men.

Hearing that Timur was so arrogant in asking Princess Alina for money, his generals were all overjoyed.

Let's be honest.

This part of Bangladesh, although not poor, is definitely a relatively backward part of India.

After this period of fighting, these mercenaries under Timur did not rob much of the gold and silver treasures, except for some food and drink.

As for women.

Although these lustful mercenaries are not very picky eaters, the Indian natives in Bengal are all black one by one, and they are really not women who match their vision.

Among Princess Alina's guards, there were naturally people who seriously rejected Timur's unreasonable demands.

"These Mongolian barbarians dare to threaten their employers!"

Princess Alina was also furious when she learned about the request of Timur's mercenaries.

"We haven't opened the road yet, and we still need these mercenaries Timur to continue to fight, if they refuse to fight because the rewards are not enough, then we are afraid that we will be stranded here in Bengal, when will we arrive in the Han Kingdom in the east?"

An accompanying court official advised Princess Alina and the Gracchus generals.

Everyone knew that His Majesty Firuzishah, the Sultanate of Delhi, was eager to complete marriage and trade with the Han Kingdom in the east.

If these mercenaries of Timur are not willing to help, then I am afraid that the Janissaries of Gracku will have to go into battle in person.

The remnants of Dali led by Duan Power, who defeated the tentative attacks of the Delhi Sultanate one after another, had already made the group of gentlemen of the Gragu Praetorian Guard tremble.

If you really let the Gracchus Janissaries go into battle to kill the enemy, it will be no different from killing them.

Therefore, after hearing the persuasion of this court official, all the generals of the Praetorian Guard of Gracchus fell silent.

The current situation still counts on the service of these people in Timur.

Princess Alina glanced at the Praetorian Guard generals under her command, and she also knew that they were of little use.

In desperation.

Princess Alina had no choice but to have some of the gold and silver treasures and slave girls with her, and sent them to Timur's military camp as a reward.

Really.

With these rewards, Timur's mercenaries burst into greater combat effectiveness.

The specific results include, but are not limited to, the capture of a Brahman-occupied city, the burning of the Brahmin temple inside, the killing of all men and women, the theft of all the gold, silver, treasures and livestock, and the burning of all Brahmin villages along the way.

Under this string of victories.

Duan Gong, as the nominal lord of Bangladesh, never sent troops to the rescue.

This made Timur and others even more arrogant.

When fighting in this pagan land, Timur was lame because of his own leg injury, and he was afraid that his mercenaries and local Tianzhu natives would look down on him, and in the process of fighting and plundering, he would be more ferocious than everyone else.

Soon.

Timur the Butcher, the new name spread throughout the Delhi Sultanate.

Princess Alina wrote a letter to her father, Firuzisha, about what she had seen and heard in front of her.

Firuzisha was naturally happy that Timur was able to defeat Duan Gong with these deliberate soldiers, but he did not like Timur's reputation to become more and more famous in the Delhi Sultanate.

The Celestial Cultists in the Delhi Sultanate are already spreading some news that is extremely unfavorable to the Sultan.

Many say that Timur was a devout believer and belonged to the blessed people of the Prophet, who was able to bring about one defeat after another by the enemies of the Delhi Sultanate.

What does this mean?

This is a blatant insinuation of His Majesty Sultan Firuz Shah!

As the saying goes, people can bear it, but who can't bear it.

Firuzisha hired these Celestial Cultists to fight in order to consolidate his power, not to hope that these Celestial Wind Cultists would threaten his power.

The Delhi Sultanate was a state established as a military group, and their various local warrior lords were not very much in the sultan.

The Delhi Sultanate had previously rebelled several times by mercenaries to overthrow the previous Sultan.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Celestial Cultists in the country from supporting the mercenaries too much, Firuzisha decided to personally lead the army to complete the final blow against the Orientals.

Firuzisha felt that Duan Gong did not dare to fight Timur, it must have been the end of the crossbow, as long as he led the army and went to the battlefield to win the final battle, he would be able to take all the credit to himself, so as to avoid Timur and other mercenaries from being too powerful.

In order to achieve this goal, Firuz Shah sent men with an expedited speed of eight hundred li, and ordered Timur's army to stop the attack and wait for his arrival.

Timur did not understand the reason for Firuzisha's order at first, but when they heard that Firuzisha had begun to prepare for the arrival of the army in person, they all knew that Firuzisha was afraid that they would take too much credit and were ready to snatch the credit.

The actions of the Delhi Sultanate were naturally spies who did not escape Duan Gong.

Duan Gong's original plan was to shrink the defense, so as to lure Timur and the others to risk going deeper, so that he could give them a deadly counterattack under the city.

Now Duan Gong has received news that Firuz Shah, the monarch of the Delhi Sultanate, is mobilizing all his forces and preparing to launch an all-out attack on Duan Gong.

This scared Duan Gong a lot.

Timur's mercenaries numbered more than 20,000 men, and Firuz Shah of the Delhi Sultanate was saying that more than 100,000 troops were being mobilized.

The Indian indigenous army under Duan Gong had low combat effectiveness and was no match for the enemy at all, and the only military force that could really be relied on was his own more than 10,000 people.

"Why haven't the imperial court's reinforcements come yet?"

Duan Gong couldn't help but panic, and began to look forward to the early arrival of reinforcements sent by the Ming court.

According to the current comparison of strength, Duan Gong has only more than 10,000 people, and the strength of the Delhi Sultanate will increase to more than 100,000 by then.

One beats ten.

Even if Duan Gong made his soldiers become three-headed and six-armed, it would not be enough to fight.

What's more, because the lame Timur incarnated as the butcher Timur, the murderous reputation made the Indian natives in Bengal terrified, and many indigenous princes who were originally loyal to Duan Gong secretly surrendered to Timur, which made Duan Gong's strength significantly weakened.

Almost all the lords outside were no longer loyal to Duan Gong.

The strength of the Indian natives he can really count on is only tens of thousands of people in the city of New Dali.

His situation became very critical, and Duan Gong immediately tried his best to reverse the situation.

Duan Gong recruited indigenous troops in his territory, but the effect was very small.

The indigenous people of India have long been poisoned by the Brahmins, and their expectations for the afterlife are far greater than in this life, except for the lords who have fields and land, those common people are salted fish waiting to die.

They wouldn't fight Timur for the sake of Duan Gong, an outsider.

If you can't make a plan, you will have another plan.

Duan Gong also sent people to carry a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and contacted Timur and other mercenary generals through secret channels.

Since these mercenaries are fighting for money, Duan Gong feels that as long as he pays more money, he may be able to make these enemies turn against him.

But Duan Gong far underestimated the professionalism of these mercenaries.

In particular, these mercenaries are devout believers in the Celestial Sect.

Their allegiance to the Delhi Sultanate was not limited to Sultan Firuz Shah.

It is also to use this war to gain enough credit for his future ascension to heaven in a holy war.

For these devout religious warriors, Duan Gong's behavior can only be self-inflicted.

In desperation, Duan Gong could only order his generals and soldiers to strengthen the defense in the city of Xindali, ready to deal with the large-scale attack of the Delhi Sultanate at any time.

In the barracks of the butcher Timur, a large group of mercenary generals gathered around Timur.

They are laughing uncontrollably.

The gold and silver treasures sent by Duan Gong to bribe were all intercepted by Timur.

Not only that, Timur also sent someone to brutally cut off the nose and ears of Duan Gong's messenger, a Tianzhu native who was proficient in many Chinese, to show the future and bravery of the Tianfang Sect warriors.

Now these mercenary generals happily got a share of their own gold and silver treasures.

After such a long time of fighting together.

These mercenaries already have great trust in Timur, a murderous and intelligent young man.

Timur naturally knew very well about the psychology of these people.

His ambitions are also further inflated.

Therefore, this time in the distribution of gold and silver treasures, in order to win over these generals and completely fall to himself, Timur exerted his temperament, and all the gold and silver treasures were distributed to these generals, and he did not keep any of them.

"The Sultan of Firuz Shah will be here soon, and I believe that it will not take long to defeat the Orientals, and when the time comes, we will have to return to the river!" Timur said with a deliberate regret.

When the other generals heard this, they all changed from happy expressions to regret and loneliness.

These mercenary generals are all from the barren Kabul, Khorasan and other places, even the slightly richer Hezhong region, there is no way to compare with the rich Tianzhu continent.

So after these days of marching and fighting, these greedy mercenary generals have long been full of ambitions for this land.

As soon as they thought of the end of the war, they were leaving.

The crowd looked like Timur stealing an inquiring gaze.

Obviously.

Everyone hoped that Timur would find a way for them to continue to stay on the continent of Tianzhu and enjoy their happiness.

"When the hateful Orientals are destroyed, I will ask Firuzisha to make us the Gracchus of Ballard!"

The Ballard region is located in the northwestern part of the Delhi Sultanate, where it is home to the famous Khyber Pass.

Almost every time the Indian continent has been invaded in history, it has been invaders who have poured in from mountain passes.

Although the land there is not fertile, it can grow some grain and graze, which is a rare feng shui treasure for mercenaries in Central Asia.

The military nobles of the Delishsoda Kingdom have a special name called Gracchus, which is equivalent to the knight lords of Europe.

The Delhi Sultan's Praetorian Guard is composed of these elite members of Gracchus, so it is also called the Praetorian Guard of Gracchus.

Moreover, Gracchus had considerable power at the local level, except for a part of the taxes paid to the Sultan and military service, all other powers belonged to Gracchus himself, large and small.

If Timur and his mercenaries could be canonized as Gracchus, they would have their own independent kingdom.

Moreover, the Balad area is close to areas such as River and Kabul, where the mercenaries can be contacted.

As soon as the wind blows, the Ballad region can borrow troops from Kabul and the river to enter India for military conquest.

So it is clear that Timur had very strong ambitions in this plan.

"What if the Sultan refuses to say yes?"

Immediately, some mercenary generals raised their concerns, because the ambition in this is too obvious, Firuz Shah, as the sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, cannot be a fool, he must be able to see it.

"Then we should let the Sultan know that this holy war against the Easterners would not have been possible without us, the pious warriors of Allah!" Timur said coldly.

In Timur's plan, the war against Duan Gong could almost be said to be a definite victory.