Half a month later, Jianzhong Guimi led a group of envoys to bid farewell to Zhu Di in the Fengtian Palace.

Yongle Emperor Zhu Di immediately issued a decree, ordering Zhao Juren, a pedestrian Zhang Hong, and a monk Lu Siyou, to cross the sea with Jianzhong Guimi, and to envoy to Japan.

Under the sea breeze, the flag hunted and hunted, and the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in a silk shirt couldn't help but smile as he looked at the fleet slowly approaching the shore. It turned out that Kenaka Keimi had already sent people back to Japan in advance, and informed him of the news of the Ming envoy's visit, and today he specially led his princes to wait for the envoy at the dock.

About forty years old, dignified appearance, wearing official uniforms, and born with three long beards under the chin, Zhao Juren, the Ming Zuo Tongzheng, came slowly accompanied by the monk Jianzhong Guimi.

Zhao Ju Ren Jianzhong Gui Mi Chen said, knowing that the old man in front of him who was wearing a silk shirt, holding a folding fan, and dressed as a Ming scholar was the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu who was in Japan at present, and his eyes swept over the incense case on his side, and he couldn't help but feel a little smoky in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: Unexpectedly, an overseas island country, a barbarian chief, also knows my Ming etiquette. Seeing that the other party solemnly led his subordinates to greet him, the envoy of the Celestial Empire, he did not dare to be too lazy, and immediately read out the will of the Ming Emperor Zhu Di on the side of the incense case, and sprinkled a large number of quotations, which meant to accept the Japanese shogun's Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as a minister, and asked him to send his subordinates to exterminate the Japanese invaders who were entrenched on the islands and raided the coastal provinces of Middle-earth from time to time. In addition, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was rewarded with a gold seal of turtle buttons and a hundred ways of surveying. ”“

Dozens of steps behind Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, two samurai with long knives at their waists knew that the head of the family had always been unconvinced by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in private.

In Kyoto, in the shogun's mansion, dozens of attendants rushed in, and moved boxes of raw silk, porcelain, books, pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other items from the Ming Dynasty to a place not far in front of the Ashikaga Yoshiman table.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu looked around and saw the unconcealable greed on the faces of the large and small princes sitting on the ground on both sides, and couldn't help but feel very complacent, stretched out his hand and pointed to a pile of bunza in a wooden box on the left hand side, and then looked at Jianzhong Guimi who was sitting not far away, and said loudly: "There is Master Lao Jianzhong Guimi who has worked tirelessly to go to Middle Earth to get a hundred ways from His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so let's see how it should be distributed?" ”

When the daimyo heard the shogun's words, they immediately turned their gaze to the table with their eyes on the raw silk, porcelain, and books. It turns out that the survey is the official trade certificate issued by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to Japan, with this thing, it means that the next time Japan sends tribute to the Ming Dynasty again, he can send ships to follow the mission to the sea, buy back raw silk, porcelain and other things that can be taken off to obtain huge profits.

"Your Excellency, the villain's majesty is not effective, so that there are many rudeness when greeting the envoy of the Heavenly Empire today, please punish the general." Not far from Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's right hand, a daimyo who was over fifty years old and had a very evil appearance turned around and kowtowed to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and asked for sin.

Ashikaga Yoshi's face was full of anger and he scolded, "What do you do with these two rude fools? ”

The Daimyo of Sinin stood up, went to the entrance of the main hall, and waved his hand to let several of his men carry the two corpses in planks. After a closer look, everyone in the hall suddenly realized that the two corpses that had broken their stomachs and were already dead were the two samurai who were secretly whispering and dissatisfied with the two samurai who bowed to the Ming envoy when Ashikaga Yoshimitsu led the crowd to greet the Ming envoy Zhao Juren at the dock during the day.

I saw that the daimyo who pleaded guilty knelt on the ground again, and said to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu: "The villain has ordered these two rude fools to apologize for their sins. "After secretly beating Ashikaga Yoshimitsu today, he immediately made a wise decision to exchange the lives of his two retainers for a survey. The lives of the two confidant samurai were certainly not worth mentioning in the face of the interests of his participation in the tributary in the future.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu bowed his head slightly and said, "Remembering your loyalty to the shogunate and this shogun, I will give you the way of Kanyi." ”

The daimyo who was closest to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu on his right hand was dressed in a gorgeous costume, about thirty years old, and his face was full of rebelliousness, and he turned to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and kowtowed, saying, "Lord Shogun, there are only 100 ways to investigate, please allow me to discuss it in private, and then ask Lord Shogun to decide." ”

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was very aware of the small calculations of these princes from all walks of life, and when he heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement, and said in a deep voice: "The meaning of the will of the Ming envoy Lord Zhao has been conveyed to you, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty means that if our shogunate wants to show the sincerity of the tribute, we must vigorously exterminate the large and small islands entrenched, and so far we have refused to submit to the shogunate, and we have refused to submit to my big and small widows. If there is any more collusion with bandits, those who oppose this general will be against the matter of tribute, don't blame this general for being ruthless. Speaking of this, his face was already full of murderous energy.

Several of the most powerful daimyo looked at each other and bowed their heads and said, "The little one is willing to follow the general and exterminate the bandits." "None of these princes who can dominate one side are fools, and the reason why they have been in the past with those who still refuse to submit to the shogunate is that in addition to coveting the position of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu shogun, another reason is that they can get a piece of the wealth plundered by the Japanese robbers. Since the Shogun wants to divide the benefits of the tributary among the princes, no one with a little brain will do anything stupid to collude with the Japanese and endanger the safety of the tributary sea route and damage the common interests.

A few days later, when the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who was still dressed as a Ming Dynasty literati, accompanied the Ming Dynasty envoy Zhao Juren to visit various scenic spots in Kyoto, he received a secret report from his confidant samurai, saying that in the past few days, those daimyo's daimyo's swordsmanship had sent their samurai with high swordsmanship, and according to the strength level of their respective vassals, in order to compete for the distribution of the survey, they launched an open duel, and dozens of casualties had been killed, and their faces could not help but show a little cunning smile. This Hundred Dao Survey, which was brought by the Ming Dynasty envoy Zhao Juren, will not only bring huge benefits to the shogunate, but also make it impossible for those daimyo from all walks of life to secretly collude against themselves for the benefit of their respective vassals, which can really be described as killing two birds with one stone.

In front of a vast forest near the Haris River in the east of Ankara, an important town of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, an old man in armor, with a high nose and deep eyes, looked up at the blazing sun in the sky, stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and took the sheepskin water bag handed by his attendant, and drank bitterly, but his eyes were always fixed on the distant horizon on the plain, full of vigilance. He is the supreme ruler of the Turkish Empire, who once beat Constantinople to Sultan Bayezid, nicknamed "Lightning".

The tens of thousands of cavalry assembled in front of the woods looked tired in the sun, but because the enemy was coming at any time, they did not dare to fall off their horses and step into the shade of the trees to enjoy the shade without the commander's military order.

Originally from last year, after the army of Timurid State, led by his Sultan Cripple Timur, conquered the city of Sivas that had not been conquered by Turkey for a short time, buried thousands of Armenian soldiers under the command of Bayezet alive, attacked the city of Kemakh, and killed Bayezet's son Ertugrul, Ottoman Turkey and Timur have become mortal enemies who are on the same footing and do not share the same sky. Since Timur's army invaded Turkey again, Bayezid, who had long wanted to avenge the murder of his son, flatly rejected the advice of his generals to hold on to the city of Ankara and wait for the heavy defeat of Timur's army before counterattacking. In the opinion of the proud Bayesset, how could he, who had once beaten the Byzantine dynasty and abandoned his armor, hide in the city and not be able to retreat? In the wild, of course, fight to the death with that damn Turkic cripple. Because he knew that this Timur was not only insidious and cunning, but also had extremely elite cavalry under his command, Bayezet, who had experienced a hundred battles, took his 80,000 troops out of Ankara early and came here to wait for Timur's arrival. In this wood, his musketeers have the best cover, and they don't have to worry about scattering the enemy cavalry on the plains, and they can give full play to the power of the firecrackers' shots and inflict heavy losses on the enemy.

On the plain dozens of miles away, 150,000 Timurid cavalry on horseback converged into a torrent like a river and advanced towards Ankara, an important Turkish city. The gray-haired Sultan Timur stood high on his mount, watching from a distance the dozens of scouts under his command who rode ** Zhan chasing and killing the Turkish knights who came to check the military situation, looking at the wolf with an eagle and a wolf, and he couldn't tell that he was over sixty years old. According to the scouts, the Ottoman army was stationed near the woods dozens of miles away, apparently trying to use the terrain to fight him, and he certainly wouldn't be stupid to be led around by the nose of the self-righteous Bayesset. Of course, the location of the decisive battle must be decided by yourself.

About an hour later, two Turkish scouts who had escaped from Timur's cavalry finally rode out of the woods and reported to their commander that Timur's army had turned around and headed straight for Ankara.

Bayezid learned that Timur completely ignored himself who was waiting for him, but led more than he expected an army of more than 100,000 people to Ankara, and his heart could not help but feel extremely heavy, recalling that his elite army could be said to have poured out of the nest and gathered here, and Ankara's troops were weak. Recalling his cowardly governor stationed in Ankara, and recalling that the army of Timur who exterminated humanity was the same as the former Mongol Temujin's method of slaughtering cities, Bayezet immediately issued an order, and the army hurried back to Ankara.

At dusk, the exhausted Turkish army finally reached the plain more than ten miles outside the city of Ankara. Seeing that the vision was unclear under the dark sky, which was not conducive to the decisive battle of the army, the commanders of the two armies unanimously passed down the military order, so that the army under their command would camp on the spot and fight to the death tomorrow.

At the dawn of the second day, groups of Ottoman cavalry, Timur's cavalry, began to gradually assemble on the plain.

Sitting on horseback, Bayezette saw that the morale of his army was very high after a night's rest, and the left, center and right parts of the army were already in full formation, and immediately passed the order to attack the cavalry on the left flank to attack first. It turned out that there were also extremely fierce and warlike cavalry in his army, and that was the cavalry under the command of King Stephen of Serbia.

At the sound of the horn rising to the sky, the fierce Stephen jumped out of his horse and led the cavalry to rush forward, and tens of thousands of Serbian cavalry followed, like a surging torrent, charging towards the Timurid army on the opposite side.

Timur, who was on horseback, saw the enemy attack, and also gave a military order, and the cavalry on the right flank met him. The sharpness of the cavalry lies in the high speed of the impact, so there is only one way to play the cavalry against the cavalry, that is, to attack against the impact, and defeat the opponent in the impact.

Timur's chest guards, saddles, saddle pads, quivers, belts, and even the spears in their hands were dyed red, and the tens of thousands of cavalry surged like a bloodied demon from hell, slamming head-on at the enemy troops who were getting closer and closer in the distance.

The arrows of the rain flew staggered, and among the two cavalry that were approaching rapidly, there were constantly knights who screamed miserably and fell off their horses, fell into the dust, and disappeared in the rolling torrent in an instant.

Seeing the enemy leaping on horseback, his face was faintly visible, and the knights on both sides let out a hoarse roar, put down their riding bows, and drew their swords on the side of the saddle.

When the horses were staggered, the swords in the hands of the knights on both sides slashed down diagonally, slashing those opponents who did not have time to know their faces under the horses, and before they had time to turn around their thoughts, they cut the flesh and blood of the enemies who were constantly attacking on the opposite side, and fell under the horses.

Rao is Timurid cavalry was extremely good at fighting, and he also suffered a loss under the first hedge. It turned out that the Serbian legion, as the first part of the Ottoman army to launch an attack, not only had extremely fierce knights, but also the more than 1,000 cavalry that took the lead not only were carefully selected strong horses, but also from the war horse to the knight were heavy cavalry wearing chain mail, and the opponent wearing leather armor was hand-to-hand combat, of course, it was quite advantageous.

Seeing that his right-wing army suffered heavy casualties under the impact of the enemy, Timur waved his hand expressionlessly and gave the order, and the middle and left flanks of Timur's army were also launched one after another.

In the middle of the middle army, dozens of huge elephants were burned by Timur's soldiers with blazing torches, and they rushed forward in rage.

In the distance, dozens of elephants could be seen galloping towards him under the guidance of the knights sitting on them, but Bayezette's face was not in the slightest panic, because in the middle was his descendant, the most elite army of the Ottoman Empire. Although the elephant was a beast with a huge body and looked quite powerful, it could not hide in front of the two armies at all, and it had the effect of a surprise attack, and he had already been confident about this.

The Turkish soldiers, who were aiming at the big stupid elephant in front of them with their firearms in their hands, saw those behemoths screaming in their mouths and rushed wildly, although they were quite frightened in their hearts, they still did not dare to fire because the law enforcement team with swords was not far away. It turned out that Bayezette, the commander of the Turkish army, who had already been equipped with firearms, knew that although the firearms were quite powerful, the range was quite limited, whether it was against cavalry or elephants, if they fired too early, they could only spend ammunition.

Seeing that the elephant was already within fifty paces of the galloping elephant, Bayezette gave the order to open fire.

The sound of fire in the ears of the front row of firecrackers rang out in their ears, and they lit the firecrackers one after another. In the smoke of gunpowder, one after another firecrackers were fired, and the roar was deafening.

Although the elephant has thick skin and flesh and a huge body, it can't withstand the bombardment of hundreds of thousands of firearms, and most of the flesh and blood that have been beaten before they can run close to the front are blurred, and they fall to the ground with a wail.