Shadi Behan......

Shadi Behan went straight away.

"W-what does this mean?"

Qiu Fu looked at the rapidly retreating Golden Horde cavalry in confusion.

"How much do they lose?"

Zhu Di looked at this scene and said with a smile on his face.

"Back to the king, how can you get more than three thousand, and they are all elites."

Qiu Fu said.

"How many casualties do we have?"

Zhu Di said.

"The general's subordinates have killed a total of twelve people, and more than thirty people have been wounded, but they are all minor injuries, even if they continue to fight, there is no hindrance, their arrows can't penetrate our armor at all, at most some of them accidentally fell on the cracks in the armor, as for the twelve killed, eight were grenadiers and rocketeers, but they slashed and killed more than a hundred enemies."

Qiu Fu hurriedly said.

With this tactic, it is really difficult for the Ming army to have too many casualties.

If the enemy does not rush through the fire net, it is useless to shoot arrows from a long distance, let alone the cavalry bow thirty meters away, and even a strong bow ten paces away cannot penetrate the layer of plate armor on their bodies, although their plate armor is only fully ironclad type. But this is a serious medium carbon steel forged and then heat treated, and the surface is carburized and polished, even if the three-eyed bullets of the past can't be pierced unless they are within ten steps. As for the bows and arrows of the Golden Horde, it was purely like scraping them from a distance of thirty meters, that is, the number of shots shot in was enough to accidentally fall into the cracks of the armor and cause damage.

As for the grenadiers and rocketeers who rushed through the fire net, their armor was heavier, except for the grenadiers who needed to keep an arm to throw grenades, the rest of the fingers were protected by the armor.

Long knives, heavy armor.

They can easily slash and kill enemies who are lucky enough to dodge bullets and shotguns.

Of course, these are also the main casualties on the battlefield, after all, they need to fight out of the camel city.

"We have killed less than a hundred in total, and they have died at least three thousand, how can we fight such a battle, Shadi should be supported, if he wants to get rid of Yedi, he must first have soldiers in hand, and fight all the elites in his hands here, how will he fight for power with Yedi in the future?

Let them go!

It's still useful to keep them. ”

Zhu Di said.

With that, he turned south.

But Tokhtamysh didn't need his reinforcements anymore.

Shadibe Khan's retreat had declared the winner of the battle, and shortly after his retreat, the Golden Horde cavalry, who were engaged with Tokhtamysh, quickly withdrew from the battlefield.

However, Tokhtamysh was not capable of pursuit.

He immediately made peace with Zhu Di, and visited the battlefield with shock, and then the two of them took all the troops and even many of the original Shadibe Khan's subordinates who surrendered and lost to Tokhtar to the south without the slightest delay. This is not surprising, he was originally the former Golden Horde, and it was normal for him to surrender at this time when he surrendered. In short, the 50,000-strong army of the victorious army rushed straight to Belgosare, and when they arrived, Shadibeh Khan had just returned, and in the face of the pursuing enemy, the Great Khan did not hesitate to gather some supplies and abandon the city.

In fact, during the ongoing civil strife in the Golden Horde, almost none of them would hold the city.

They are nomadic herders......

At least these Mongol rulers, who were descendants of conquerors, were nomads.

Therefore, they did not have the habit of defending the city, as long as they encountered a strong enemy, they immediately left the city, the vast grassland is their real home, even in a capital like Belgosare, the inhabitants are essentially subordinate to them, serving them to enjoy the slave.

Will the master care if they live or die?

When Timur attacked, Tokhtamysh ran away without hesitation, and now that Zhu Di and Tokhtamysh have fought, Shadi Bekhan also ran away without hesitation.

And then......

Belgosale.

Zhu Di stood in front of the palace, which had obviously been burned down once, admiring the exotic buildings with interest.

"So you are obviously Mongols, you are from the Golden Family, how did you learn from the Turks? Learning their language, learning their writing, learning their architecture, worshipping their gods, how did you surrender to the vanquished, when you were clearly conquerors? ”

He said.

Tokhtamysh was speechless.

At this time, a large number of elders, wealthy merchants, and serf owners in the city, driven by Tokhtamy's lost subordinates, walked up to them one by one with flattering smiles, and then knelt on the ground without hesitation, bowing to the Golden Horde and the Khan King from the Ming Dynasty as if they were welcoming the king. As a nomadic conqueror, Shadibe Khan could run away without worry, but they couldn't, everything they had was in the city, but they were used to it during the decades-long civil strife in the Golden Horde.

Whoever comes, kneel!

It's not that they didn't kneel back then, but now they just continue to kneel.

Zhu Di looked at these servile guys......

"Kill them!"

He said.

Tokhtamysh was stunned for a moment.

"Do you want them to kneel down next time? They've betrayed you once, and you want them to betray you a second time? Whoever comes and kneels these people, and then we have to hold out here for the winter, and the army of Yedigai will come back soon, and Shadibel will also come back, and they will besiege the city, and we need to hold out here until spring, so do you think they will join us together? And the city has limited food and livestock, are you sure to keep them to share the limited food and livestock with us, and finally hold out until next spring?

Kill them.

Give their fields, their houses, and their shops to the commoners and slaves.

Give their women to my soldiers, and their cattle to the soldiers who follow us, and then we can hold the city together. ”

Zhu Di said.

By this moment, the guards had raised their spears.

Tokhtamysh looked at the old ministers in front of him, although they had been old ministers for many people......

"Kill!"

He shouted.

The next moment, his cavalry and Zhu Di's guards picked up their spears at the same time, and then went straight at the elders, rich merchants, and serf owners who had already begun to flee.

Tokhtamysh is still very sober.

As Zhu Di said, it is impossible for these guys to work together with him if they stay.

In fact, if the situation is unfavorable, they will not hesitate to betray him, and they have not betrayed him.

What's more, the food in the city is limited, and more than 50,000 people have been eaten at once, and it is likely that there will not be enough in the next long winter, so it is necessary to kill a wave first, and of course those who cannot really work together with themselves must be killed. Killing them, including their clansmen, can not only stabilize the interior, but also ensure food, and also gain the allegiance of those low-level population, and in addition, they can also loot their women as Zhu Di's payment, which can be said to be a perfect choice.

"This can be regarded as the Golden Horde's Heavenly Street has stepped on the bones of the minister!"

Zhu Di looked at the guys who ran away in terror among the cavalry, and then were knocked over one by one and trampled under the hooves of the horses.

"Kill, kill their whole family except the women, all these people who betrayed me deserve to die."

Tokhtamysh shouted with excitement.

The carnage immediately spread throughout the city, with carnival-like soldiers storming mansions and then purging inside......

Of course, this was on the orders of the Golden Horde to punish those who had betrayed him.

The Ming Emperor also wanted to punish the three clans for this kind of traitor, of course, the Golden Horde had no reason to be more merciful, the men were all killed, the women and children were all not slaves, and then sent to the Ming soldiers. Their land was confiscated and then given to their serfs, and their houses and shops were given to the Khan's loyal subjects, and it was a carnival of great joy for all, except for those who died. The slaughter lasted for three days, and the population of Beergosale plummeted again, making it look like Luoyang in the Wuhu period, and then Zhu Di immediately drove those serfs to build a wall around the city.

Because it was winter, it was difficult to dig the earth, but fortunately the houses could be demolished, and anyway, there were surpluses of houses after the population plummeted.

There's also no need to actually pile up rammed earth.

This is the season when the construction debris is piled up and watered directly, and the cold will make it as solid as stone.

In this way, it took him a month to quickly perfect the defense of Belgosale.

Then he also took an army of 30,000 people, in the severe cold of minus 30 degrees, and hurriedly returned from Siberia, and met with the army put together by Shadi Behan, the 100,000 army of the Golden Horde counterattacked Belgosala, and then these elites who were frozen half dead in the ice and snow collided headlong with Zhu Di's solid defense, although the firearms have been used as much as possible because of the limited ammunition, but even with bows and arrows, his guards are still invincible across Mobei.

Especially after killing those possible Erwuzai in the city and dividing their property, even the civilians in the city have already worked together.

Helplessly, he had to continue to collect cannon fodder from all over the country, so that they continued to impact Zhu Di's defenses in batches, and then turned into a frozen corpse.

What's more, their food is not as abundant as Zhu Di's.

After all, they can't be like Zhu Di, kill those subordinate city dwellers to ensure food, it's not that they don't have this ruthlessness, but people will rebel.

And at the same time.

Peking Binh Prefecture.

"What's going on, my lord?"

In the hall that had just been built, Zhang Fu looked at Zhu Gaochi.

Not only him, Tan Yuan and other generals who did not follow Zhu Di are also there, and even the two commanders of Beiting and Anxi also came, the former is Liu Zhen, and the latter is Ping'an, but in fact, Liu Zhen is the governor of Tongzhi, second only to Zhu Di in the Western Regions, he belongs to the relatively mediocre war, but a very steady veteran, suitable for construction. Zhang Fu and others originally presided over the placement of those guards left behind in various places, that is, building fortresses in various places, Zhu Di's attack on Chengjitula Of course, there was no need for the whole army to go north, so a small city was not worth using this level of strength, and after the last march into the river, a large number of elites had to be left to watch Timur.

The latter has already marched westward.

However, instead of a decisive battle with Bayezet, the previously conquered Georgia rebelled, and Timur had to deal with Georgia first.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my father's last letter is that he has marched west with Tokhtamysh's allied army, and conquered a place called Kazan, and since then there has been no news of him, according to his letter, he will march south to Belgosalai and fight the Golden Horde, now it has been three months, the victory or defeat is unknown, Gao Chi is worried about the accident, so he wants to mobilize the soldiers of the four towns to meet him, what do you mean?"

Zhu Gaochi said very simply.

He is the son of the world.

After Zhu Di's death, he was his agent.

"King, it's cold winter now, and it's ...... to rush to send troops"

Liu Zhen wanted to speak and stopped.

This means that the four towns in the Western Regions have to fight.

And Zhu Di's westward expedition was purely for the benefit of their Yan Domain, and it had nothing to do with the imperial court at all, Beiting and Anxi were soldiers of the imperial court, but they were only controlled by Zhu Di.

"Governor Liu, if my father has any accidents, all the towns in the Western Regions will be responsible for losing their domains."

Zhu Gaochi said very calmly.

Liu Zhen instantly shut up.

Indeed, the crime of losing the feudal domain means a capital crime, even if this matter is Zhu Di's death, his safety must be ensured.

"Don't worry about the cold winter, the soldiers and horses in each town gather for a month, since the king has gone south to Be'er Gosala, let's go west for at least three months, it was already spring at that time, but there were no supplies along the way, even if the Batu West Expedition was not a battle, in fact, with nomadic steps, even if we gathered tens of thousands of troops, we could not maintain such a long march. To the west, there are many arid places, and the nearest route is the Chu River to the Aral Sea and then to the Caspian Sea, but there are thousands of miles of desert in between, and a small number of nomads may be able to do so, and tens of thousands of troops with more than 100,000 horses and camels have no grass to eat, unless they take a longer route to bypass the southern part of the Hanhai Sea, but that will take longer.

And it is necessary to carry a lot of ammunition for a big war.

Therefore, in the opinion of the last general, it is better to divide the army into two routes, one way with nomadic cavalry to follow the same route as the king, go to Chengjitula and then to Kazan.

With 20,000 camel troops all the way, he carried enough supplies to the west along the Chu River. ”

Zhang Fu said.

The key to their westward expedition lies in the central hills of Kazakhstan, which is a desert and semi-desert, although the nomads are not affected, but they are riding horses to drive cattle and sheep a little nomadic, if it is a large-scale cavalry expedition to the west, 100,000 horses and camels pass quickly, there is not enough grass to eat. This was not the case with the Mongol expedition to the west, the eldest son had already been nomadic in this area for many years before the westward expedition, so he could only gather a small number of cavalry, carry enough supplies, and follow the Chu River to the Aral Sea and then through the desert to the Caspian coast.

It's easy to get to the Caspian Sea.

"Then according to General Zhang, the north road will form a coalition army with the various departments of Wara to go north, and the second brother will lead 20,000 camel city cavalry to the Chu River on the south road, and Gao Chi will lead the other armies west to Talas to guard the river, but at present, the guards can make up to 7,000 camel city cavalry, and the other 13,000 will invite the two towns of Beiting and Anxi."

Zhu Gaochi immediately said.

"The last general obeys!"

Liu Zhen and the others hurriedly said.

At present, there are seven guards in their two towns, and there are also 10,000 Gansu troops, which are of a garrison nature, after all, before all the guards are established, there are still foreign soldiers.

In fact, there is no difference, Liu Zhen was originally Song Sheng's lieutenant.

(End of chapter)