Kun Timur led the Zhaosheng army in Haji. During the carnival in Talha, Yedicai, who was originally pursuing Zhu Di, led the Kipchak and Nogai cavalry to ......

But it's useless.

Timur's supplies in the city were eventually looted.

As for the next battle, it was not fierce, in fact, it was only the striker who should have arrived at Yedi, who had traveled seven hundred miles.

As soon as the two sides made contact, they immediately realized that these enemies who had run out inexplicably were not easy to deal with.

Extremely combative.

Although they don't have the desperate firepower of the Ming army, those who seem to be poorly equipped, and even poorer than them, have excellent archery skills, almost all of them are at the level of marksmen, and this is Timur's logistics base, not his, he has lost a lot recently, there is no need to fight with these mad dog-like enemies in order to protect Timur's supplies. In the end, he sent someone to report to Timur and made a symbolic attack, but in fact he sat back and watched Timur and others calmly withdraw. Talha crossed the Volga and then pursued Zhu Di's army south.

And Timur, who learned the news at this time, was also stupid.

He was still fighting with Zhu Gaoxu at this time, and the battle situation could almost be said to be progressive.

It is impossible for him to bet all the 50,000 troops on the army to fight with Zhu Gaoxu, these are all his descendants, all of them are Hezhong and Khorasan soldiers.

He didn't dare to let his subordinates know the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, just like the Persians, Turkmens, and Zarayirs, who were conquered by him, once they really saw the combat effectiveness of the main force of the Ming army, they would immediately grow grass in their hearts.

You can only use the lineage.

But the descendants can't be used as cannon fodder.

So these days he can only try to attack in various ways, trying to find out the weaknesses of the Ming army, and continue to consume the ammunition and energy of the Ming army.

With enough time, he will succeed in the end.

After all, there is no supply in the rear of the Ming army, it is just the materials that are carried, once it is consumed to a dangerous level, it will definitely retreat, and he no longer fantasizes about total annihilation, he can't do the total annihilation of 20,000 Ming troops, in the final analysis, even if these Ming troops have no ammunition, it is not easy to deal with cold weapons.

The fierceness of Zhu Di's son reminded him of his son who was split by Yang Feng......

It's very fierce in Milan Shah!

However......

Now dumbfounded.

Of course, he knew the consequences of Zhu Di once he crossed the Caucasus Mountains.

The south is indeed his ruling area, but the south is also full of peoples whom he has conquered with massacres, and they are all full of hatred for him!

Persians, Black Sheep Turkmenistan, Zarayir, Georgian, Armenian......

That's not grass growing in the heart, it's simply igniting a fire on the grassland after autumn.

He did not hesitate to order a retreat.

"Withdrawn, this is withdrawn?"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the rapidly retreating enemy in astonishment.

Zhang Fu beside him was also stunned, this result was indeed something they didn't expect at all, the two sides have continued to fight until now, their losses are actually not small, and the total casualties are almost three thousand, and they are already thinking about whether it is time to retreat, after all, these 20,000 are also the elite of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions, and it is impossible to fold in for Zhu Di. Even if Zhu Di was wiped out, it would be nothing more than a loss of 5,000 Ming troops, which would not affect the dominance of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions, but the 20,000 would be in trouble at the Ural River.

But......

Timur actually withdrew himself?

"You can't chase it, in case there is fraud!"

Ping An said very simply.

He is the commander of the armies under the imperial court, and Zhang Fu is the commander of the Yan King Guards, but in fact, Zhu Gaoxu listens to Zhang Fu, so Zhang Fu is in command, but the soldiers of Beiting and Anxi are not the guards of the Yan King, and they obey the orders of Ping'an. Ping'an's statement actually determined that it could not be chased, after all, the main force of the imperial court would not put himself in for Zhu Di, and it was necessary to come to the rescue, but it was not possible to fight hard to rescue Zhu Di, although losing the feudal domain was a felony, but that was before.

It was Lao Zhu's dead son.

Now that Zhu Di is dead, it is difficult to say whether his niece and granddaughter will avenge him!

Zhu Gaoxu and Zhang Fu silently looked at Timur's subordinates who hurriedly retreated under the sunset.

"King Gaoyang, something is wrong, there seems to be something big behind them, even these war elephants have been left behind, it is obvious where they need to rush quickly."

Zhang Fu said suddenly.

Indeed, Timur abandoned those war elephants.

After the failure of the first attack, these giant beasts have been staying in Timur's military camp, although they are not only useless against the Ming army but also add to the chaos, but against other armies that is a magic weapon, the normal retreat should be the cavalry to protect the war elephant, the normal marching speed of the cavalry and the war elephant can keep together, the elephant is indeed not as good as the war horse, but the ability to continue to march is not inferior to the war horse. And now Timur's cavalry did not wait for the war elephants, but retreated at full speed alone, pulling the war elephants and elephant soldiers behind, and it was clear that there was an emergency, and the cavalry had to rush at full speed.

"Let's go, grab these elephants!"

Zhu Gaoxu said.

Then he urged the horses.

Then his guards and the cavalry led by Zhang Fu also rushed out and pursued Timur's war elephants.

But Ping'an and his court soldiers did not move.

Four days later, Timur, who had traveled 600 miles, returned to Haz. Tarkha, and on the same day, Zhu Di's army crossed the Terek River, and he, not knowing what was happening behind him, did not slow down because of this, but continued to move south into the mountains of the Caucasus at a rate of 100 miles a day, along the narrow corridor along the Caspian coast, and reached Tarban five days later. On the same day, the Zhaosheng army led by Kun Timur caught up with the miscellaneous cards of Zhu Di's rear team, and the two sides even fought on a small scale because of misunderstandings, but fortunately, Hasmu arrived soon and knew from those Kipchaks that they were following Zhu Di......

These guys are all residents of the original Beergosalai, Zhu Di took them to clean the city's heroes, and then they followed Zhu Di to stick to Beergosalai, and they were still afraid of Zhu Di, and they knew very well what Timur's style was, and now that Zhu Di retreated, the result of them not following Zhu Di was that Timur went to Beergosalai and killed them all.

They could only follow Zhu Di.

Or rather, follow their Golden Horde to get lost in Tokhtamy.

Then they reported to Zhu Di.

When he got the news, Zhu Di had already passed the ear class.

As for the belligerents......

There were no engagements.

There were no defenders in the ear class.

This pass, which is called the gate of all gates by West Asia and Kipchak, has been trampled into a bus by various forces again and again over the years.

And now this is the territory of Shirvanshakh, who submitted to Timur, and while Timur was fighting with his army in the north, he was stationed heavily in Erban......

What do you mean?

Do you want to cut off Timur's neck when you're in a bad mood?

Therefore, there are hundreds of doors in total to collect merchant taxes.

And after the appearance of Tokhtamysh Khan, who had gone south from here twice, these defenders did not hesitate to abandon the city and fled, and then the heroes in the city welcomed the king, they had actually welcomed Tokhtamysh twice in the past, and the third time to kneel can be said to be neat, like this kind of place Haoqiang pays attention to a kneel in all directions, and whoever comes is the master.

Uncle, please inside!

Baku.

"He's smart."

Zhu Di, who entered the city, looked at the palace in front of him with a smile.

Before he could arrive, Ibrahim I fled with his family, but it cannot be said that he had escaped.

He withdrew to the old capital of Sylvan.

His territory is not just Baku, in fact, his territory is equivalent to modern Azerbaijan, the core is the plain south of the Caucasus Mountains, he is indeed a smart man, and the result of defending Baku is to destroy the city and put himself on the blacklist of the Ming Dynasty. He is a commercial city here, and there are a bunch of Armenian merchants under Gulina in the city, he has long known the strength of the Ming Dynasty, including Timur, who surrendered to the Ming Emperor, Zhu Di is just passing by, he really doesn't need to fight with Zhu Di.

But it is impossible to surrender openly, after all, Zhu Di is passing.

It is impossible to stay to protect him.

If he surrendered to Zhu Di, and then Zhu Di's army passed, Timur would have to kill him.

So he was frightened by Zhu Di's army, so he gave up holding on to Baku and fled to Sylfan to continue to resist.

Of course, if Zhu Di continues to move forward, he will continue to escape.

In this way, his army will not be lost, and his city will not be destroyed, at most it will lose some grain and livestock, even if Timur comes, he will not have time to entangle with him, after all, he still has a certain strength, and if Timur really wants to fight with him, it will be even more impossible to catch up with Zhu Di.

"My lord, a merchant came and said that he was a naturalized chief of the lawsuit, and he was trading here."

Zhu Neng said.

Then he pointed to the groveling white man behind him.

"Yang Feng's concubine?"

Zhu Di looked at this guy unexpectedly.

Then he motioned for the latter to step forward, and the man quickly bowed forward, and then knelt down to the ground and kowtowed without hesitation.

Obviously, Da Ming has learned etiquette well.

"Villain Yang Forty-two, knock on His Royal Highness King Yan, this is the villain's identity credential."

He held a document in both hands.

Zhu Di took it, looked at the handwriting on it, and then slanted at the sun, these handwriting immediately showed a faint red, which is enough to prove its authenticity, this kind of ink that can change color Until now, it is still the top secret of the inner court of the Ming Dynasty, and it can only be produced in the factory of the inner court, and it is also the key to the treasure banknote that cannot be forged so far, and the above is a description of this person's appearance, as well as the name used in the Ming Dynasty.

"Get up, since you can come to do business, you can also go to naturalization, and bring a letter to Yang Feng for me!"

Zhu Di said.

Then he called an officer, and this was his military paperwork.

"Write it to him in a letter!"

He said.

The latter nodded immediately.

The merchant had to cross the city in the river, and there was a possibility that Timur's men would search for it, but even if some of Timur's men could understand Chinese characters, it would be impossible for them to know Lishu.

He then dictated that the officer wrote a letter to Yang Feng in Lishu, telling the latter his current location and the previous battle situation, including his next plan, in fact, he did not expect to be able to kill him back in this way. The route he could go back was to go south to Persia, then cross Persia eastward, take Khorasan and go east through Barikh and Kunduz and return home via the Wakhan Corridor, so as to avoid storming Samarkand, the core of Timur, especially the fortress between Termez and Samarkand.

But the plan itself is a desperate quest to survive.

It was entirely hoped that the flame of hatred of the chaotic peoples in the Timurid region would be ignited by him.

Then dragging Timur with the resistance of these peoples can make them calmly return to the east.

But if these peoples did not resist and continued to obey Timur, he would have fallen into the trap entirely.

So he needs support, if Yang Feng joins the battlefield, then Timur will die, and he is now sending a letter to Yang Feng, it will take about three or four months to reach Yang Feng's hands, as for Yang Feng's arrival in the Western Regions, it is very fast, one month is enough. Then as long as Yang Feng arrives in the Western Regions, all that remains is an order, and all the vassals in the Western Regions will obey the order without hesitation, form a coalition army to march westward like last time, and go straight to the core area of Timur in the river. At that time, it was impossible for Timur to entangle with him anymore, and he could only fight Yang Feng with all his might, and he would not only solve the problem of returning to the east, but could even continue to expand his power in Persia and other places.

Or even kill back to the Kipchak steppe.

Anyway, apart from Timur, no other force in this place could defeat him, even with his current strength.

He is also very strong in front of him.

Thirty or forty thousand main forces, thirty thousand Kipchak servants, more than 20,000 Zhao Shengjun, not to mention that there is still Ghost Lichi in the north, and his son can also be reinforced.

In fact, after a trip to the Kipchak steppe, Zhu Di had realized that this land was really suitable for him.

Vast prairies, rivers with huge volumes, fertile black soil......

And it is said that the farther west the better, beyond the Volga to the west is the vast steppe along the Dnieper, where the most fertile black soil is located.

This is the foundation of hegemony!

Once he took the Eastern European Plain and opened up for a few decades, it was enough to build a powerful country beyond the Golden Horde, and even if he still couldn't seize the Ming throne to the east, he could continue to open up to the west, so that the entire west would become his own territory, and the Ming throne would not matter at that time. So although the current situation seems dangerous, it is actually the beginning of his breakthrough, and even his obviously deadly expedition is itself a part of his plan.

Otherwise, how could Timur be forced to betray the Ming Dynasty? If the latter does not betray the Ming Dynasty, then he will have to continue to entangle with Timur for a long time, and now that Timur is forced to rebel, he can borrow a knife to kill people, kill Timur with Yang Feng's hand, and then solve his biggest enemy in the westward expansion.

He's not brain-pumping.

He planned it.

He is the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, the uncle of the empress, and the patriarch of the Zhu family, and it is impossible for Yang Feng to let him die in the hands of Timur.

Otherwise, it will become the greatest shame for the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the adventure of this plan......

For a hero of his level, the last thing he lacks is the spirit of adventure.