Chapter 355: Imperial Ambition
20,000 can be said to be the most elite cavalry of this era in the blink of an eye to drown Salechuk
There aren't many young people here.
This is equivalent to the territory of Yedegai, after the collapse of the Golden Horde in the original history, it was the sole Nogai Khanate, and Nogai Khan was his descendant, and then the Nogai Khanate was annexed by Russia, and his descendants became the top wealthy families in Russia with the title of prince. It can be said that this grassland is his backing and the support of his current power, so most of the young men were recruited and followed him to besiege Beergosale, he never thought that the Ming army would be killed from thousands of miles away......
No army of the Han dynasty has ever reached here.
Even if you start from Broken Leaves, it will take 4,000 miles to get here, and the army of the Han Dynasty will reach the Aral Sea at its limit.
Between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, there are nearly 1,000 miles of semi-desertified hills, which are actually deserts in modern geography.
Size Barsuki Desert.
In the end, his carelessness led to the destruction of his own nest, which can be said to be destroyed.
Zhu Gaoxu, who was already very brutal, showed his bloodthirsty nature in this small city.
After walking thousands of miles, the Ming army finally found some decent prey, and slaughtered in the city like a carnival......
Zhu Yuanzhang's guards in the Western Regions are just patchwork, boasting with all kinds of rhetoric from the military households, coaxing those who are full of livestock, women and gold and silver treasures, and looking for those who are willing to move west instead of punishment from prisons......
That's all he can do.
Who is a good person who wants to leave his hometown and travel thousands of miles away?
Then such a group of hungry wolves can be said to follow a brutal commander, it is really comparable to the Mongol army that marched westward, and in the end, the entire Salechuk can be said to have no chickens and dogs except for women and children.
Even the city was burned to the ground.
also Dicai's wealth and women were all enjoyed by Zhu Gaoxu.
Although this did lead to the desperate resistance of the Nogai people, it was useless, after all, the strength they could use to resist was insignificant, Zhu Gaoxu led sixteen camel cities, and his father helped Tokhtamysh defeat Ye Di Cai only used five. The biggest advantage of this thing is that it can keep moving in formation, and camels carrying rapid-fire guns and ammunition and supplies maintain a quadrangular formation to the maximum extent, moving at a speed of nearly 100 miles a day in the middle of the cavalry soldiers. Once they encounter an enemy, they use their genes to fight against the wind and sand, quickly lie on the ground and turn into a castle, and the nomadic cavalry they need to fight against will have a hard time hurting them......
It's nothing more than a bow and arrow.
These camels are burdened with all kinds of mess, and they have rough skin and thick flesh, and they are quite large, and it is not at all a matter of being subjected to a few arrows.
As for shooting at close range......
The nomadic cavalry first had the ability to rush to close range with rapid-fire guns that sprayed shotguns.
Sixteen camel cities plus accompanying hussars, this is similar to the Hungarian hussars, fast horses with scimitars and bows and arrows, specifically for the camel city to clear the surrounding attack, or to expand the victory after the defeat of the enemy.
Armored cavalry, this is the mounted cavalry, although there are not many of them, but they are the most feared force on the battlefield.
At present, the Ming Army's camel cavalry has become a truly perfect establishment system, and in fact has formed a brigade-level combat unit.
That is, with one or several camel cities as the core, plus hussars and armored cavalry, and then there are artillery, including mortars and field artillery, commanded by a general, and several guards in the Western Regions are like this, and a guard is a brigade-level soldier plus auxiliaries.
And unlike the original history after entering the firearms, the Ming army's requirements for armor were reduced, and now they are all pursuing plate armor, as for the reason, of course, it is very simple, they are basically using firearms to crush the enemy when they go out now, and their enemies are still mainly cold weapons, so of course they must try to plate armor.
After all, it feels good to listen to the armor on your body bounce off the enemy's arrows, and then bombard the enemy with artillery.
However, Zhu Gaoxu did not directly go to Beergosale, but only led the Ming army to sweep along the Ural River and the Caspian Sea, he was qualified as a general, after all, he was also his father's main thug in history, and his lack of political acumen did not hinder his military acumen. He led 20,000 troops to expedition to 5,000 miles, and before that, he passed through thousands of miles of desert, although he was invincible by abusing vegetables, but he knew very well that he could only abuse vegetables now, and it would still be dangerous to really face the enemy's army.
He needs to rest.
The banks of the Ural River are a good place to rest.
While recovering the camels and horses, the soldiers swept around, and their physical and mental states were restored.
As for the enemy......
Just wait.
It's not him who is in a hurry now.
There were still more than a thousand miles between him and his father, and in less than ten days, he would be able to reach the city of Beergosale.
What should be anxious is also Dicai.
Knowing the bad news, Ye Di Gai was indeed furious, and then regardless of Shadi Behan's opposition, he was going to directly lead his Nogai cavalry back to the division, but at this time another bad news came, Gui Li Chi, Mahamu and Taiping three coalition troops arrived in Kazan, and Gui Li Chi, as a descendant of Wo Kotai, has been appointed by the Ming Emperor as the patriarch of the Golden Family......
hand-appointed by divine decree.
After all, Ögedei was the second Great Khan of the Mongols.
And he deliberately gave the ghost power Chijin Jue to the king of the county, after all, he has been recruiting the moon for many years, that is, others have merit, so now he is the king of Daming Zhongyi.
The Golden Family has been in constant dispute for two hundred years, and even cannibalism has become a common practice, and now that most of them have submitted to the Ming Emperor, the Ming Emperor has the responsibility to consider their future.
Gotta set a rule for them.
Therefore, they were specially given genealogies, family rules, and patriarchs.
lest there will always be people who lie that it is the Golden Family in the future.
Then according to this genealogy, you can carry out the Tui En order in each department, that is, continue to divide the pasture, the chief of a large tribe dies, all his sons can share a piece from his original pasture, and the Ming Emperor can also give them titles, and even give them money, anyway, the Ming Dynasty's money is nothing more than money. In the words of Emperor Daming, it is necessary to let every member of the Golden Family have their own pasture and their own title, and let the Golden Family and the Ming Dynasty rest together with the country......
My Emperor Shengming!
It's so merciful.
With such a good emperor, the blessing of the golden family at that time was blessed by Genghis Khan's spirit in the sky!
The Buddha and the Immortal Heaven are blessing.
So now, as the patriarch of the Golden Family, Ghost Richi has come to announce the decree and settle the dispute for Jochi Urus.
Of course, before the dispute was resolved, the members of the golden family of Jochi Ulus first had to submit to the Ming Dynasty, and Tokhtamysh had already returned to the Ming Dynasty, he was already the king of Shunyi who was crowned by the Ming Emperor, and the holy decree of the ghost power Chixuan was to canonize him as the king of Shunyi. The descendants of Chagatai are the king of Gaochang, the king of Zhongshun, the descendants of Ogedai are the king of Zhongyi, and the Mongolian Khan Erlebok also made the king of the county, he is the king of Hue, he is the tow system, and after the king of Shunyi, the Ming Dynasty finally gathered the four major systems of the golden family. In addition, the original Jochi Urus or Golden Horde was divided into five commanders, of which the part east of the Ural Mountains, that is, Siberia, was under the jurisdiction of King Yan, and the other four were Eastern Europe, including the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which theoretically still belonged to the Golden Horde, and Kiev, which had been occupied by Lithuania, and even further south.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty had to use the map of the Golden Horde at its maximum.
In short, this piece is divided into four, all of which command the envoys, and then return to the king of Shunyi.
In this way, the Golden Horde returned to the Ming Dynasty.
This does not conflict with Zhu Di's fiefdom of King Yan when he grabbed it.
One day, it will be enough to get rid of the lost and betray the Ming Dynasty......
He will definitely betray.
People like him don't say that they will be betrayed when they need to, even if they are not betrayed, he himself will betray Daming sooner or later, how can this kind of hero really surrender to Daming, he just wants to temporarily borrow Zhu Di's hand and regain the throne of the Golden Horde first, as long as the Eastern European Plain is in hand, he will still have a heart of disobedience after all, and at that time Zhu Di can clean him up as much as he wants.
And now Shadi Behan and Yedi must face enemies from both directions at the same time.
And there is Zhu Di in front of them.
Unable to break through Be'er Gosalai forward, Zhu Gaoxu's army will kill them at any time, and they will have to face Zhu Di's exit from the city backwards, they will still be flanked by the front and back, and soon the coalition forces of Ghost Lichi will also arrive, and they will be pressed against them in three directions at the same time, and their strength can only deal with one direction, even if Ghost Lichi is also 30,000 nomadic cavalry, if you really fight, you can only say that you can barely win.
But it is impossible to eliminate.
So now they are left with only one choice......
Batu Sarai.
Here in the north of Astrakhan.
Sarai is the Persian palace, founded by Batu called Batu Sarai and Belgosare, which was also slaughtered during the last Timurid attack and has been almost completely abandoned since then.
In order to coax Bayezid, Timur has always claimed that he is in Georgia, and even sent people to threaten the Ottoman border fortress of Sivas, and at the same time sent envoys to Bayezid to spit on each other with letters, but in fact he led the main force to the north and set up a large camp here. His and Ye Dicai's plan was to use Georgia and Armenia to capture the cannon fodder of the strong men, consume the ammunition in Zhu Di's hands to the maximum, and then when Zhu Di returned to the east, the army led by Timur suddenly came out.
Zhu Di has to go here when he returns to the east.
The cavalry brigade had to go south along the Volga River to the east, because there was no river directly to the east, there was no place for livestock to drink, there was enough pasture along the Volga River, and then north along the Caspian Sea to Astrakhan, the sea water on the northern coast of the Caspian Sea was low in salt, close to fresh water, and could barely be drunk.
Timur's 50,000-strong army, ambushed in the swamps along the Volga River, could complete the ambush of Zhu Di.
After defeating Zhu Di, Timur would have access to a large number of firearms, new armor, and the army of the Golden Horde, and then leave the army to attack the Ottomans, at which point he would be more than twice as powerful, plus a large number of firearms and new armor, enough to complete the fatal blow to Bayezet. After defeating Bayezet, he will also receive the Ottoman army, so that he can go east to conquer the four capital divisions of the Ming Dynasty, whose strength has been sharply reduced due to the destruction of Zhu Di's entire army.
Take these four divisions and then talk about the others.
Or look at the next progress on Jianwen's side, if Jianwen goes north to attack the capital, Timur will continue to go east to knock on Jiayu.
But......
Zhu Di just won't leave!
Now that the weather was ready to return to the east, and the successive attacks had failed, it seemed that he could not afford to continue the battle.
But Zhu Di just didn't come out.
And now Zhu Di is not leaving, but his son and Ghost Li Chi are here.
"Sultan, we can't wait any longer, the hearts of the people will be scattered after waiting, the Ming army in the east is 20,000, we were defeated by Zhu Di with 5,000 Ming troops before, and all the departments are afraid of their camel city firearms, now it is 20,000, it is said that there are sixteen camel cities alone. They didn't have the courage to fight, even Shadi didn't want to fight anymore, they wanted to retreat to the west of the Volga River with their subordinates, let Zhu Di and them leave, those Russians had already begun to flee,
You must immediately send troops to attack Salechuk, and only if you openly participate in the war can you convince your troops that we can win and continue to fight. ”
He said.
Indeed, now their problem is not how to fight, or even whether they can win.
It's about how to stabilize people's hearts.
The cavalry led by Shadibe Khan was defeated by Zhu Di with five camel cities, and the horror of the Ming army's firearms had already spread during this time, and the Golden Horde was nothing more than a tribe and a tribe put together, plus the vassal Russian city-states, they could hardly be said to be a country with a complete ruling system in the true sense. Moreover, the Mongols, the Turks, the Russians, and other chaotic peoples are not one, and before they could not defeat even five camel cities, now sixteen have come over there.
How to win this.
If you can't win, why keep fighting?
It's not that there is no way out, after the west of the Volga River is still a vast grassland, even if Zhu Di leaves with the harvest, it will not affect everyone to continue to be nomadic.
Even if Tokhtamysh wants to be the Golden Horde, it's not a big deal......
He was meant to be!
It doesn't even matter what the Ming Emperor is, he is so far away, and the Golden Horde in the past is not a minister to the emperor of the East, although it is the Mongolian Great Khan, but now the Ming Dynasty has captured the Mongolian Great Khan to dance in the capital, such a powerful monarch is a minister!
No shame!
In this case, why should these tribes, the princes of Russia, continue to fight such an invincible enemy for the sake of Shadi and Yedi, and finally turn their youth into cannon fodder?
The hearts of the people are scattered.
Now there is only one way to stabilize people's hearts and minds and make these chaotic tribes and Russian princes regain confidence that Yedigai and Shadi will be the victors, and that is that Timur will no longer hide, no longer continue to play his role as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and directly and openly join the battlefield. His prestige had been suppressed in the Western Regions for decades, and he was also regarded as invincible within the Golden Horde, and as long as he openly joined the war in support of Yedigai and Shadibe, then these people would regain their fighting spirit.
(End of chapter)