At this time, in the distant Western Regions, the expeditionary force led by Zhu Di was already standing on the Siberian steppe in early autumn.

"It's boundless!"

His Royal Highness King Yan said with emotion.

His eyes were green, full of flowers, berries, and full of life, looking a lot like Huining in the same season.

He was blown away by the size of this vast land.

He traveled almost as far as he could from the capital to Gansu, but he only reached Chengjitula, and most of the places along the way were lush pastures, which in his opinion could also be cultivated into farmland. Especially after arriving at the Irtysh River, it can be said that all the way along the river is fertile soil, which is completely different from the sandy Western Regions, which is not only fertile, but also has water sources for irrigation.

Even the water is too much.

There were swamps everywhere, and quite a few soldiers even accidentally fell into them along the way.

"It's big, it's too cold, it's icy and snowy for half of the year, and it's all water after the snow melts in the spring, which is the best time to do it, there is no snow, and the water is dry.

But up to two months.

That's when it's going to be a snowy place.

Extremely cold!

It is colder than Hara and Lin. ”

The guide beside him, Muri, who was also one of the chiefs of Yuejibe, said.

"It's colder than Helin, so how do they spend the winter here?"

Zhu Neng said suspiciously.

"General, in colder places than here, there are also people who live, everyone knows that it is better to go to a warm place, but if you can't go to a warm place, you can only live in a cold place, and as for how to survive, you have to figure it out yourself.

Further north, there are still some tribes in the forest, who live by hunting deer and herding deer, and do not even eat cooked food, but rely on raw fish and meat, and in winter they are frozen into lumps and eaten little by little with knives.

What kind of place, what way of living. ”

Muri said somewhat meaningfully.

"As long as you are loyal to Daming, even if you can't live in Daming, this king will also let your children and grandchildren live a good life in Daming."

Zhu Di said.

The latter hastened to thank him.

These are actually the small tribes of the Golden Horde, and in the past, when they followed the Yueji Behan, they were indeed the latter's cronies or even equivalent to the Guards, but after his death, the Golden Horde became a pot of porridge, and these small tribes who had lost their support had to flee to the east. However, due to the lack of organization, they could not defeat the Varat to the east and the Chagatai Khanate to the south, and could only nomadize in the wilderness equivalent to the northern part of modern Kazakhstan.

Now that there is a powerful monarch like Zhu Di, of course he is willing to follow, and it would be even more perfect if he could really let their descendants enjoy the blessings of Daming.

The children and grandchildren of these chiefs, of course.

Ordinary herders certainly don't have such an opportunity.

At this time, a group of cavalry came on, and this was the cavalry that was released to reconnoitre.

When they arrived in front of Zhu Di, they quickly dismounted and knelt on the ground to report.

"King Khan, the city of Chengjitura refuses to submit to the Ming Dynasty."

Muri said.

He and Zhu Di actually communicate in Mongolian.

Although the month belonged to the Golden Horde, and the Golden Horde was indeed established by the Mongols, it was completely Turkic from the beginning of the month and the Khan, and in Eastern Europe mixed with those chaotic peoples, it had long formed its own language. The modern Uzbek language is completely different from Mongolian, and in fact, even the Ming Dynasty, those military households who relocated to the southwestern mountainous areas and originally spoke the official dialect of Jianghuai have basically begun to form new dialects.

Da Ming is still like this, let alone them.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Golden Horde had little real contact with Mongolia.

"What are they going to do against our army of 30,000?"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

Indeed, he went north with an army of thirty thousand.

However, most of these 30,000 servants are patchwork from various departments, and there are only 5,000 cavalry who really follow him, the former does not need to care about supplies at all, and the Siberian steppe is not a desert, so he can directly drive livestock to play nomadic advance, including Zhu Di's guards, and the supplies are also provided by these nomads.

They gave full support to Zhu Di's campaign to sweep the Siberian steppes.

As for the reason, of course, it is simple.

Looting!

They came all the way here, and along the way, they didn't know how many small tribes they refused to surrender were slaughtered.

Those who surrender also have to sacrifice horses, cattle and sheep as a symbol of their submission, but most of them are actually slaughtered, after all, this area has belonged to the Golden Horde for more than a hundred years, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even the Mongolian Khan can't control this, Zhu Di suddenly came with a large army, asking those nomadic tribes to surrender, but also to sacrifice livestock......

Who are you?

Where did you come from?

In this case, of course, everyone will not explain it to them, and if they don't surrender, they will be killed.

It was originally a Scourge legion.

Surrender to a large number of livestock, accept the canonization of King Yan for the Ming Emperor, and then you can serve as the Ming Hanhai command envoy's guard, and pay tribute to the Ming Emperor every year in the future, pay taxes to the King of Yan, and pay poll tax! King Yan's moderation of the four capitals of the Western Regions is just moderation, you have to collect taxes, you have to collect poll taxes, each guard counts the population, roughly sets a total tax standard, and pays taxes every year after that. However, paying taxes also has the advantage of being protected by King Yan, and obtaining the right to trade in Beiping Prefecture, even when it is too cold in winter, you can go south to the jurisdiction of King Yan to escape the cold......

The Ili Valley is always warmer than Siberia.

In the same way, those chiefs have become serious Ming officials, and their children and grandchildren can go to the Ming Dynasty under the banner of tribute and study, and then enjoy life in the world of flowers in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is to turn them into Indian kings.

At this time, the cavalryman who led him lay there and said something.

Muri's face immediately changed.

"King Khan, there is some trouble, he said that he heard from the herdsmen who had been bribed, that Tokhtamysh had lost to Chengjitula."

He said.

"Tokhtamysh, the White Horde who robbed the Golden Horde?

Didn't he, with the support of Lithuania, fight the Golden Horde, which Timur supported? ”

Zhu Di said suspiciously.

"King Khan, I think it should be that he lost, and he lost very badly, otherwise he would not have fled back to Chengjitula."

Muri said with a smile.

Indeed, only when there is nothing left to lose, not even a place to take refuge, will they abandon the Eastern European Plain and run to Siberia to take refuge.

This is indeed the place where the White Horde was based.

"That's the mourning dog, give the order, advance, and surround Chengkitura."

Zhu Di said.

Beside him, Zhu Neng waved the signal flag.

In the sky above their heads, on the hot air balloons tied to the backs of four oxen, the signal soldiers immediately waved the signal flag, and issued an order to march to Chengjitula to the various units marching in multiple directions, and then the balloons that were also raised everywhere also began to pass downward, and the cavalry teams lying across the grassland dozens of kilometers wide immediately began to advance.

This balloon command system is also the magic weapon of Zhu Di's rampant grassland.

The most difficult thing for cavalry is to command.

After all, the dispersion of cavalry far exceeds that of infantry.

Tens of thousands of cavalry can be said to be boundless.

Say millions.

In the late Ming Dynasty, when it was recorded that the Mongols entered the Kou, there were often hundreds of thousands of cavalry and the like, which were basically such innumerable exaggerations, after all, even Lin Dan Khan, a serious Mongolian Khan, was ridiculed by the wild boar skin You don't even have 40,000 cavalry. And Zhu Di's 30,000 cavalry, even if they have been as close as possible, are still scattered in an area of thousands of square kilometers, and the liaison officers assigned to those chiefs rely on hot air balloons in the sky to receive orders and transmit information. Zhu Di, who has been using it for many years, can be said to be the most familiar general in the Ming army with this set of tactics, and he popularized the hot air balloon to one for every thousand cavalry.

In the pure Siberian sky, balloons made red to make it easy to see represent teams of thousands of people, and then according to the already familiar formation, they are moving towards Chengkitula.

An hour later.

"There are ambushes!"

Zhu Neng looked at the hot air balloon overhead.

"Go, tell Tokhtamysh, don't hide and sneak attack if it's a man, I'll send three thousand guards, let him attack, if he wins, I'll withdraw the army."

Zhu Di said to Mu Li with a smile.

This kind of thing is inevitable, there are forests everywhere around here, and the most suitable thing is an ambush.

But the problem is that they have hot air balloons overhead, and the observers on them are looking at telescopes, and it is not easy to ambush.

Muri smiled too.

Three thousand guards, that is, three camel cities, no firearms, cavalry with pure cold weapons to attack such a camel city is no different from suicide, if you storm Cheng Jitura will suffer a lot of casualties, after all, even if the Ming army has the advantage of firearms, the siege is still inevitable in hand-to-hand combat, and the people here are still very combative, after all, this environment determines that their physique is very strong.

He immediately urged his horse forward, and at the same time Zhu Neng pointed to the distance, where there was a large forest.

He ran alone into the forest, and soon rushed into the forest, and soon ran out again.

And among the trees behind him, countless soldiers in haphazard armor rode out, and at the same time someone blew the horn, and then more horns sounded in the farther forest, and it was evident that there was more than one ambush, and then in the midst of these soldiers, a man in chain armor, a golden helmet, and a cloak came out, and beside him there were many people on foot, all carrying axes.

"King Khan, he agreed."

Muri, who returned, said.

"Who are those walking people around him?"

Zhu Di put down the binoculars and said.

"The Russians, subject to the Golden Horde, this is a lost slave of Tokhtamysh, he and the Lithuanians attacked Belgosalay last year, and the Golden Horde Khudurut and the Yedi of the Nogai steppe met the combined forces, he himself said that he had won, but it was obviously a crushing defeat, it is estimated that the Lithuanians abandoned him, and he could not stay in the Kipchak steppe, so he could only flee back to Chengjitura to avoid pursuit.

He probably wanted to submit to Daming and begged Daming to support him to fight back. ”

Muri said.

"So he wants to try Da Ming's condition? That's as he wants, just don't cry when the time comes! ”

Zhu Di said with a smile.

Immediately after he turned his horse's head and took Muli and others backwards, and behind him the three camel cities had been established, in the steppe of Siberia, the finished zigzag was arranged, Zhu Di took his iron cavalry quickly through the camel city and retreated to the rear of the zigzag, while Muli took his subordinate cavalry to retreat to the two wings, and at the same time, the other marches also got Zhu Di's order, and quickly lined up on the spot, leaving only this battlefield.

Tokhtamysh, on the opposite side, soon gave the order to attack.

The Russians, who were his slaves, naturally became the first cannon fodder to be sent to death, and these guys in messy armor, howling in a barbarian manner, with their tomahawks, or shields and spears in both hands, rushed madly towards the front of the camel city. In front of them was just a low wall surrounded by camels, and it was true that the horses could not jump over, but for the infantry, they could easily get into the air attack between the camels, and behind them were the cavalry that marched forward. As soon as these Russian slaves stormed into the camel city, the subsequent Kipchak cavalry would swarm in and trample on the opponents who were clearly not dense enough.

The roar of the barbarians resounded through the wasteland.

But their opponents are still quietly watching their performances.

The distance between them and the camel city kept getting closer, surging like a group of zombies, and soon came into range.

The next moment, the camel city turned into countless jets of flames.

The rapid-fire guns on almost every camel, the field guns in key defensive positions, the magic guns in the hands of the soldiers, and even the short guns in the hands of the cavalry reinforced to the defensive line, all firearms opened fire at the same time in an instant.

The Russian slaves in the charge were also strewn with corpses at this moment.

The few Russian slaves who rushed past the salvo watched in horror as grenades flew out and exploded around them.

In the confusion, they instinctively avoided the front of the camel city, diverted to both sides to avoid the firearms, and then prepared to turn to attack on both flanks, but at the moment when they turned, the two camel cities facing them also began to fire a salvo, and the Kipchak cavalry caught in the fire was like the Russian slaves, and the corpses were scattered all over the field under the countless bullets and shotguns. Even worse for them, after all, the Russian slaves only had to face one camel city, and in the crossfire of the two camel cities, their chain mail and armor could not even stop the rapid-fire cannon shotguns.

In their confusion, the rapid-fire cannon was the first to reload, and then fired again.

Then the field gun finished loading, and powerful shotguns swept across the front.

Then the flintlock is reloaded.

And then there's the Divine Machine.

Those Yan King guards, who had already experienced countless such battles, calmly continued to complete the procedures of loading and firing under the protection of camels.

They didn't even have any casualties.

After all, even those Kipchak cavalry did not rush to the distance where they could shoot their armor with their bows and arrows.

And at this moment the detachment in front of the forest is already stupid.

"Let Muri go and tell him that I want him to crawl in front of me on his knees as a subservient and beg for my alms."

Zhu Di, who was looking at him with a telescope, said with a smile.

Zhu Neng immediately laughed and rode towards Muli.

"Cavalry attack, don't let one live."

Zhu Di said.

The herald waved his flag.

The left and right flanks were separated from the rear of the camel, and the cavalry that had been waiting for a long time swarmed out, and one by one the enemy who fled on the battlefield with spears on horseback......