Talas.

Layers upon layers of corpses piled up......

"Burn, burn these dog things!"

Taiping shouted.

His Mongol soldiers are pouring cans of crude oil.

More than 5,000 corpses were piled up in a high mountain.

Immediately after that, as the torches in the hands of the Mongol soldiers were put together, the mountain immediately burst into flames, and more and more dead bodies were consumed by the flames as they rose, and then merged into it, turning into even more fierce flames. The firelight illuminates the small city, where the Mongol soldiers are carrying cattle and sheep, and women carrying all kinds of goods, happily showing off their gains to each other.

As for the Ming army......

Horses and camels belong to them.

And Zhu Di stood not far away, looking at the burning corpse mountain.

The messenger lay trembling at his feet......

"Go to the city of Seran, and tell the people there to prepare five thousand horses, five thousand oxen, and twenty thousand sheep for the army, which must be sent outside the city before the king reaches the city.

Otherwise, that's what happens to them. ”

Zhu Di said.

The messenger wept and kowtowed.

"Don't get out of here!"

Xu Huizu, who had just walked over, kindly kicked him.

He quickly got up, mounted his horse as fast as he could, and galloped south.

"Great King, I'm afraid these dogs won't be so sensible, one of them was born in the city of Selan, Timur has great respect for this person, he is also respected by the Turks, the Turkic family of the entire Western Regions will go to his grave to worship, they will not let people who don't believe in their set pass."

Taiping hurriedly slandered.

"Then blast the door open with a cannon."

Zhu Di said.

"The king is wise!"

Taiping, Ghost Lichi, and Mahamu touted in unison.

They are waiting for Zhu Di's words!

Now these three guys, like three spotted hyenas, are waiting for Zhu Di to point forward.

"King, the Marquis of Xining sent a letter, he has already led the army to Tiemen Pass."

Xu Huizu said at this time.

"He closes the iron gate? How could he have so many troops to relieve Yang Feng? ”

Zhu Di said suspiciously.

"The people of these places have become the same enemy because of Timur's slaughter of the city, and they put together all the men who are more than fourteen but not more than sixty, plus the five thousand cavalry brought by Song Sheng and the five thousand cavalry left by Ugqi Hashha, and finally made up an army of 40,000.

It is true that it is impossible to relieve Yang Feng from the siege, but it is still possible to contain Timur's tens of thousands of troops. ”

Xu Huizu said.

"They're really desperate."

Zhu Di said with a smile.

This result still surprised him.

It is normal for Song Sheng to rescue Yang Feng, but it is amazing that these places in Turpan can fight to this extent.

"The king, Turpan and other places have always had a deep hatred for the Dugrat Ministry, and the Dugrat Ministry killed many of their people who refused to convert, and now they finally have the opportunity to turn over, and they are indeed desperate."

Taiping said.

"Tell your men that after this battle this king will build a temple for you.

The family built a big temple. ”

Zhu Di said.

The three of them hurriedly saluted and thanked the king.

"Send a letter to Tan Yuan immediately, and ask him to find a way to tell Yang Feng that our army has captured Talas."

Zhu Di said to Xu Huizu.

Yang Feng......

Yang Feng was on the city wall, holding his high-powered mirror, looking at Timur in the division of troops.

In the night vision picture, a large number of cavalry are heading east, although the distance is a little far, and the night vision picture is not very clear, but judging from the proportion of camels, he can still be sure that it is the Dugrat soldier of Kuda. The latter is not as extravagant as Timur, most of them are on horseback, or even on good horses, most of Dugrat is on camels, and only one-third of the cavalry actually fights, and the rest are actually camel infantry.

After all, southern Xinjiang is not in the middle of the river, and the oasis area in this area is much smaller.

They are a self-preserving force.

"What are they doing?"

He said confusedly.

Timur's attack during the day suffered heavy losses, and it is conservatively estimated that there are more than 3,000 dead bodies under the city of Aksu, which are only dead here, and with the wounded, it is estimated that 7,000 people were wasted.

It's just a day's assault.

The casualties in the city were less than 1,000, mainly relying on the artillery of the Ming army.

And, of course, there are 10,000 enemies.

This thing is paired with crude oil, and the effect is amazingly good.

With such a number of casualties, Timur could not attack.

"No matter what they do, Timur won't be able to attack again in half a month."

Zhang Fu said.

True, Timur lost almost all siege equipment.

The counterweight trebuchet that he had worked so hard to make was all burned by Yang Feng, several siege towers were also burned by Molotov cocktails, and the ladder cart was also burned, and even the ladders were not left in good condition, and unless he made a new batch, he could not attack again. In fact, the battle had made it clear to them that it would be impossible for them to open Aksu City unless they adopted a long-term siege.

But the long siege ......

It depends on whether Zhu Di agrees or not.

In the final analysis, the current Timur has actually jumped into a big pit.

I have to say that this war has brought all the forces in the entire Western Regions into the pit.

"He's not that stupid, I reminded him so much during the day, he already knew that King Yan must have entered the river."

Yang Feng said.

"I still don't understand, why are you reminding him?"

Zhang Fu said.

If Yang Feng does not remind, Timur is likely to be at least half a month before he can know the news of Zhu Di's army entering the river, and when he returns, it is estimated that Zhu Di has already arrived in Khujand, and this sudden attack will catch Timur off guard.

But now, even if he didn't withdraw his troops, he could quickly notify the cities of Hezhong and Khorasan to send troops north.

"What is my purpose? Grab more livestock women for you? Grab more land? ”

Yang Feng said.

"Who knows your purpose?"

Zhang Fu said angrily.

Anyway, he has basically been coerced by this guy all the way so far.

It's indeed coercion.

It's like a dream for him to hit this point.

Not only him, the entire Ming army was like a dream, the original task was to hit Helin, but after arriving at Helin, he was fooled to hit Kobdo, and after arriving in Kobdo, he was fooled to go to Don't lose Bali and Hami, and after he didn't slow down, he was dragged westward by him, in less than a year, they can say that they chiseled through the Mongolian steppe, chiseled through the northern Xinjiang, and now chiseled through half of the southern Xinjiang.

Nonstop.

The point is that this kind of expedition, which is obviously death by normal standards, actually won.

Not only did he win, but he won easily.

Of the 2,000 people who marched south from the Ming army, less than 200 have died so far, and a third of them have died of disease, and even if they are wounded, only about 300 have been killed or wounded......

In fact, there was not much war at all.

Those desperate jobs were done by the group of servants, they lost more than half, and those who were alive are now starting to feel a little sad, that is, Yang Feng is good at leading the rhythm, otherwise the morale would have collapsed long ago because of this casualty, but the Ming army has not fought a real field battle so far, and the main casualties are actually caused by defending the city during the day.

Fifty killed and eighty wounded.

"Their land is not important to me, and their cattle, sheep and women are not important to me.

But.

Without them, it's important to me.

There are some things that I explain to you that are a little too complicated, and there are many things that you don't understand at the moment, but you just need to understand one thing, and everything we do now is for our future generations, even for future generations in hundreds of years. All I want is that the population of those tribes under Timur has been greatly reduced, and if Timur can't go back in time, I'm afraid that the enemies faced by King Yan will not resist, after all, resistance is hopeless. But if Timur had known that King Yan was going south earlier, he would have ordered these places to be defended no matter what, waiting for him to return with a large army.

These people know that he is already returning, and they will choose to hold on as well.

After all, if they had a choice, they would not let King Yan enter the river.

Check it out here. ”

Yang Feng pointed to the map.

He was referring to the city of Sailan that Zhu Di was about to go to.

"That's pretty much it here.

A place for them to bleed dry. ”

He said.

"Is this special place?"

Zhang Fu asked suspiciously.

"This is true for Timur, and if he can't even hold it, then he has nothing to fear for those strange secrets in the river."

Yang Feng said.

It was the spiritual pillar of the Turkic system, the birthplace of Yasawi, the founder of Sufiism, and the most famous building left by Timur in his lifetime was the mausoleum that cost him a lot of money, which was a symbol of the Turkic system's submission to Timur. Although this mausoleum is in the Turkic city to the west, Seran is his birthplace, which is equally important, and if Timur can't even keep it, it will be difficult for the Turkic secrets to have any respect for him. After all, the Timurid Empire was still essentially an alliance, and in the middle of the river, the lords of Khorasan submitted to him, followed him out to expand, and plundered through expansion.

Organize a group to go out to burn, kill and loot.

But such a state is heavily dependent on a strongman.

For example, Yang Feng.

He is invincible!

So it doesn't matter if it's a Mongol, a Sari Vulture, or a Warat, everyone is willing to follow him out and plunder!

But without him, the guys themselves still cooperate?

It's strange if you don't hit the brains!

This was the case with Timur, who gathered all the tribes with an invincible record, but as soon as he died, his empire quickly collapsed.

In the same way, if he fails, especially a landmark failure like this, then he will no longer be trusted by the secrets of the city, this thing is like the credibility of a certain bank, and once the golden body is broken, and at the moment he is not considered a failure, it can only be said that he is an offensive failure, but if he loses such an iconic place as Sailan City, it is really a failure.

"An empire in bulk cannot afford even one defeat."

Yang Feng sighed.

Then he continued to look outside at the earth, which had turned back into darkness......

"Uh, what is he doing?"

He was stunned.

Zhang Fu immediately squeezed him away and looked at him on his high magnification mirror.

"No, Timur is going to withdraw his troops!"

He said.

"Well, if he withdraws, why would he let Kudada go east?"

Yang Feng said suspiciously.

Timur was indeed withdrawing his troops.

On the night vision screen of the high-powered mirror, you can clearly see that the cavalry is leaving Timur's camp, and most of the lights are deliberately extinguished, creating the illusion that the entire camp is sleeping. But the problem is that they don't know that Yang Feng still has a high-magnification mirror here, and their every move at night is actually under Yang Feng's monitoring.

Although the distance is long.

But the march of the cavalry brigade was still very conspicuous.

The question is, if he withdraws his troops, why did he let Ku Guda lead his troops to the east?

Contain?

Prevent Yang Feng from going out of the city to chase and kill?

"There is a question, how can Timur make it appear that he has not suffered heavy losses and returned with nothing, how can he make his subjects continue to believe that he is invincible?"

Zhang Fu said suddenly.

Yang Feng smiled.

"Okay, Kududa really made a big mistake this time."

He said.

Then both of them burst out laughing at the same time.

Indeed, it was a shame for Timur to go back like this, he led an army of 100,000 to the east, not only killed a son, but also suffered nearly 10,000 casualties. So he needed a harvest that would cover up this defeat enough to show his subjects in the river that their sultan had once again returned victorious.

So where to get the catch?

Kashgar.

Kumada was originally his hostile force.

Khuda's uncle, Hammaruddin, was Timur's main opponent for many years, although Hammarudin was ultimately defeated, and then fled to the mountains south of the Ili Valley in the last battle with Timur.

And then it was gone.

Whether it was eaten by wild beasts in the mountains or buried by an avalanche is unknown.

Anyway, it never showed up again.

Later, after Ku Gangda became the leader of the Dugrat tribe, he was also fighting against him.

Now it's just cornered, so I'm looking for him for help, since he is retreating now, it means that it is impossible for him to take the southern Xinjiang, rather than keep it for Yang Feng, it is better for him to rob it! Therefore, he first coaxed Kumada to lead his troops to the east, and then immediately withdrew his troops to the west, and took his army to sack Kashgar first. What's more, he didn't have enough supplies to return, even if the cavalry had to walk for twenty days from here to Khujand, during which there had to be enough supplies, and everything was available after robbing Kashgar.

"What to do? Do you want to send someone to tell Kudha? ”

Zhang Fu said with a smile.

"No, let him go and rob it first, and then tell Kududa.

I think it's time for us to make a truce with Kudada. ”

Yang Feng touched his mustache and said sinisterly.

Of course, the main thing is that he doesn't have enough cannon fodder.

All he can put together now is more than 30,000 horses, which is too few.

If Kumada still resists desperately after Timur's withdrawal, then if he doesn't get these cannon fodder, he will be wiped out, even now, Kuda's troops are still close to 50,000, and he is still desperate to protect the wealth of his relatives. But if Timur washed Kashgar in blood, he would go to Kusada for a truce, and then lead Kubada's army to hunt down Timur, which would be more cost-effective.

"Yes, just do it, we can't rob Kashgar, we can rob Ferghana!"

Yang Feng said proudly.

It is estimated that almost half of the 50,000 troops who have reached such a sudden level have been killed.