Timur ......

Does he have any other choice now?

He really doesn't want to openly participate in the war now, even if he plans to ambush Zhu Di, it is because he is confident that he can wipe out Zhu Di's group.

The latter is nothing more than thirty or forty thousand cavalry.

He brought 50,000 elites, and the Golden Horde itself still has nearly 100,000 chaos, even if it is the westernmost part of Zhu Di's control area, there are still two or three thousand miles, and there is still the Nogai grassland in the middle, as long as he can use this ambush to complete the decisive blow to Zhu Di, even if Zhu Di can escape, he will not be able to walk to the Aral Sea alive in his encirclement and interception.

As long as Zhu Dituan is destroyed in the Golden Horde, then he can continue to play the role of a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and then deal with Bayezid before Yang Feng knows the truth.

Even if Yang Feng knew that Zhu Di was missing, he would only think that he was alone and was destroyed by the Golden Horde, but Yang Feng would not be in a hurry to avenge Zhu Di, after all, he and Zhu Di were not brothers, Zhu Di himself was killed and destroyed, and the Ming Dynasty was not in a hurry to avenge him and crusade against the Golden Horde. The Golden Horde was not Timur, he was not a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and even if he could know the truth through other means, I am afraid it would be a few years later, and Timur was confident enough to solve Bayezid during this period.

But now he no longer has such a possibility.

Zhu Di's 30,000 to 40,000, Zhu Gaoxu's 20,000, and 30,000 ghost power, although this strength is less than the number of coalition troops he can gather, there is no absolute gap, not to mention that Zhu Gaoxu's 20,000 is the most terrifying camel cavalry. And they are in Salychuk, even if Timur defeats them, he can't really encircle and intercept, just turn around and retreat, they are all cavalry, and it is difficult to encircle and annihilate. When it comes to the ability to cross the desert, Timur's cavalry is even inferior to the Ming army, which carries too many camels, more camels than war horses, and people can carry enough supplies to pass through the vast majority of the desert in the Western Regions......

After all, the camel is well fed and drunk, and can maintain more than five days of weight-bearing travel, and can even walk for more than ten days with less load, while the normal weight-bearing speed of the camel can be maintained for fifty kilometers a day.

It's all right in the Sahara.

What's more, the Kazakh desert is not the Sahara, at this time it is only spring, the climate is suitable, and there are actually many snow-melted pools in the desert.

In fact, the large and small Balsuki Desert that Zhu Gaoxu crossed was less than a thousand miles away, and there were several rivers flowing into the Caspian Sea that could be replenished.

It is not a desert in the true sense of the word, at least at this time, it can only be described as a desertified grassland.

But Timur didn't have so many camels.

However, the Ming army had so many camels, a large part of which he actually sold, in order to buy armor weapons from the Ming Dynasty, he sold tens of thousands of camels to the Ming army in recent years.

In short, as long as Timur now openly participates in the war, then his relationship with the Ming Dynasty will be declared broken, at most four months later, Yang Feng will know the news of his betrayal of the Ming Dynasty, and then at most seven months later, the main force of Song Sheng's Gansu army will enter the Western Regions, and at most nine months later, the Shanxi army of Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, will also enter the Western Regions. Before that, the combined forces of Ankh Timur, Mahama, Naheish, Ha, and Ugqi Hashkha would enter Khujand in advance to attack the fortress of Bekabad, and because it was impossible for him to rush back here in a short time, his defenders in the river would face the attack of these guys.

Even if they were able to hold on to the fortress of Bekabad, and Bayezid didn't backstab him, he would have led his army back to the river and defeated the guys, by which time the main force of the Ming army of hundreds of thousands had already entered the sunny land.

He could only fight the main force of the Ming army in Xiangyang.

Or even more likely to be blocked in the mountains west of Kashgar.

This was not the result he wanted.

As a good commander, he knew that he should stick to the set plan and not be led by the nose by the development of the situation.

But......

He had no choice.

An hour later, Timur gave the order for the whole army to go north and raid Saletchuk.

He wants to deal with Zhu Gaochu first, after all, Zhu Di has been trapped in Be'er Gesala, no matter whether Zhu Di deliberately or really doesn't want to return east, at least Zhu Di will not go to Salechuk for half a month, as long as his army can defeat Zhu Gaochu within half a month, then Zhu Di will not be able to go back. And Zhu Gaoxu was defeated, and Gui Lichi did not dare to go south, although the price of this was that the established strategy was completely abandoned, and he changed from secretly participating in the war to openly participating in the war, and his original plan to solve Bayezet must also be abandoned. Next, he didn't care about Bayezet, after solving Zhu Gaoxu, he had to go all out to break through Belgosalai as quickly as possible, and then return east to the river as quickly as possible, and begin to meet the northwest army of the Ming army that would enter the Western Regions next.

Then we have to hope that Bayezid can resist the urge to stab him in the back.

So he had to make overtures to Bayezet.

And right now.

Belgosale.

Zhu Di was looking at the sky in the distance with a telescope, where a hot air balloon was flying slowly, but it was not flying over Beergosale, it was still twenty or thirty miles away from him, as for the one he used to look at this hot air balloon, it was actually a high-powered mirror given to him by Yang Feng. Because many of the functions of this thing consume electricity, he rarely takes it out and uses it, but he must use it now, a distance that has long exceeded the capabilities of ordinary telescopes, and in his field of vision is the signal flag constantly waving on a hot air balloon......

"Gao Xu led 20,000 cavalry to Salechuk, sixteen camel cities, has captured Salechuk and rested in the Nogai steppe, and 30,000 troops of the three tribes of Guilichi, Mahamu, and Taiping have also arrived in Kazan by taking the northern road."

He said.

Zhu Neng beside him immediately unfolded the map.

This hot air balloon appeared suddenly, after all, a red balloon is still easy to see in a clear sky.

And when this kind of thing appears, it must be that reinforcements are not far away, but this balloon has no ability to adjust the direction and can only fly with the wind, so ......

So the people in the hot air balloon shouldn't be able to go back.

"To Salechuk you need to go along the river to Haji. Talha, and then along the Kharzar Sea to the north, it takes fifteen days to march normally with cavalry, and ten days to march in a hurry. ”

Tokhtamysh said.

Haji. Talha is Astrakhan.

"But if we go out of the city, we must first deal with the outside of Yedikai."

Qiu Fu said.

"But I find it strange that Salechuk is the old nest of Yedegai, and now that the prince's army has broken through Salechuk, why hasn't he returned? Besides, in this situation, he is sure to lose, the best choice is to withdraw to the west of the Volga River, and then watch us leave, but he does not go back to save his lair, and second, he does not withdraw his troops to the west to protect himself, but continues to block in front of us, as if to block us from the city.

But even if he stops us from going out of the city, can he stop the prince's army and the ghost power from coming?

Or does he just need to block us from the city, and the prince's army and Ghost Lichi will be blocked by someone else for him?

It may be possible that if he gives Vasily enough benefits, the Muscovites may march to Kazan to contain him.

But there really wasn't one on the prince's side.

I can't think of anyone else in the east who can hold back the sixteen camel cities.

But there's one to the south. ”

Tokhtamysh said with a deep face.

This guy is also a hero, he is only one level lower than Timur and Zhu Di, but he is also a hero who is rampant in Eastern Europe, when he was the strongest, he captured Moscow, bloodied Armenia, and even hit Timur's core area Bukhara once, it can be said that the Golden Horde under his rule once almost had the appearance of Zhongxing.

"So, where is the best place to ambush a large army?"

Zhu Di looked at the map and said.

Tokhtamysh refers to the mouth of the Volga River.

"Here, Batu Sarai, although it is also a water network to the south, but there are no big rivers, it can be crossed by horseback and wading, and it is the best pasture all the way south to the Khazar Sea, and if it were me, I would be waiting in Batu Sarai, and put a hundred thousand troops in the south to herd. The Khan's army could only go south to the east bank, and when it reached there, this army attacked, and even if the king was not completely annihilated, he could not cross the river to the west, and to the south was blocked by Batu Sarai, so he could only go east. And to the east to the Yaik River before there is no river, only some snow melts and gathers blisters, this season the grass has just begun to grow, our livestock so many are difficult to feed, it is not fast, and then go to the Yayik River like this, they will go to the coast of the Khazar Sea in advance.

At that time, it is estimated that even if we still have a remnant, we will all be wiped out in the Yayk River. ”

He said.

"But now they haven't waited for us, it's time to go to Gao Xu, and order the armies to prepare to break out."

Zhu Di said.

"Great King, if this is the case, I am afraid that King Gaoyang will not be able to withstand Timur."

Zhu Neng reminded him.

"If you can't resist it, you can retreat, and there is no enemy behind him, so it's not easy for the whole cavalry to retreat?"

Zhu Di said.

"But we're still going to face Timur at the Yayik River."

Tokhtamysh reminded him.

"Did I say I went to the Urals?"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

The Yayik River is the Ural River, and the Khazar Sea is the Caspian Sea, but the Golden Horde of Tokhtamysh is in the local language, the Yayk River is the Bashkir language, the Khazar Sea is the Turkic language, and Zhu Di is used to the name on the map of Yang Feng.

Tokhtamysh was stunned.

"You tell me, if it were possible, would the Persians rebel against Timur?"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

"Yes!

They had only hatred for Timur, no loyalty, just did not dare to resist. ”

Tokhtamysh said without hesitation.

"And what about the Azerbaijanis? And what about the Armenians? ”

Zhu Di said.

"They hated to eat Timur's meat."

Tokhtamysh said.

"Then who will fight for Timur?"

Zhu Di asked.

"No one, the Black Sheep Turkmen, the Zarayir are enemies with him, but they can't beat him, they have to accept his rule, the leader of the Black Sheep Turkmen, Yusuf, refuses to submit to him, and flees to the Mamluks to hide, that is, the White Sheep Turkmen may fight for him, but it is only a grass on the wall, not to mention that their real enemies are the Ottomans."

Tokhtamysh said excitedly.

Indeed, there is no need for them to go east, after all, the east is the combined army of Timur and Yedigai, with at least 150,000 troops, and they have a total of more than 30,000 people, and the ammunition of the Ming army is actually not much, but the problem is that they are high-speed cavalry with countless camels, as long as they can enter a place where there is no shortage of food and forage, it is really a casual walk, so where is there no shortage of food and forage? To the south, Georgia, Armenia, the Taoli Monastery or Tabriz, which was originally controlled by the Turkmen of the Black Sheep, all of Tamar were agricultural areas, and to the east were the cities of the Persians, and all of them were as deep as the sea with Timur.

Of course, he also went to loot back then, and he also had a grudge against him, but then he could lead the way!

And once they went south and incited these vanquished people who had a deep hatred for Timur, it would be tantamount to making Timur's decades of conquest go to waste.

This is digging his roots!

"King Khan, Timur is still an official of the Ming Dynasty, and his territory is also the Ming Dynasty, right?"

He said.

"As the uncle of the Ming Emperor, this king replaces the Ming Emperor to inspect the Persian capital of the Ming Dynasty and command the envoys, and comfort the ministries, which is very reasonable, right? Although Timur is the king of Kangju of the Ming Dynasty, he only controls the three capitals of Persia and other commanders, and does not mean that the three commanders are his, these chiefs are officials of the Ming Dynasty, and this king replaces the emperor to comfort him. If you learn that Timur betrayed the Ming Dynasty at this time, then these loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty naturally do not need to listen to his orders, this king as the Ming royal family is the person they should really obey, and this king will lead them, the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, to crusade against the rebellion for the Ming Emperor. ”

Zhu Di said with a smile.

I have to say that he is like a madman now......

The Emperor's Soul was on his head, but this sense of adventure did satisfy him, and if he succeeded, he could inflict heavy damage on Timur or even kill him.

At that time, he will be the true ruler of the Western Regions.

"King, are we taking some risks?"

Zhu Neng still cautiously persuaded him.

After all, with 30,000 cavalry, and the real Ming army in it is 5,000, so far the Ming army has lost less than 500 people in total.

Originally, it was 5,500 people, and now there are 5,000.

As for the injuries, there are still seven or eight hundred, but except for the two hundred crippled, the other injuries are basically healed now.

But in any case, it is a bit exaggerated to rush headlong into the area controlled by Timur.

"What do these forces want from Da Ming?"

Zhu Di said.

"Trade!"

Tokhtamysh said dryly.

The only connection between these forces and the Ming Dynasty is the trade of the Silk Road, in addition to the maritime trade, although the maritime trade is now controlled by the Jianwen Dynasty, but there are a few people here who can understand the affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and even if it is controlled by the Jianwen Dynasty, Zhu Di is also his own uncle!

"Then I give them what they want, what is their most likely dissatisfaction with Daming?"

Zhu Di said.

"God!"

Tokhtamysh said.

"What do you believe? What do others believe in? ”

Zhu Di said.

Tokhtamysh smiled.

Indeed, they are all one faith!