I have to say that Zhu Di's trick is extremely effective.

These peoples conquered by Timur did not dare to resist, it is nothing more than that they are not familiar with the Ming Dynasty, the vast majority of people here have a concept of the Ming Dynasty, and even the Ming Dynasty does not know where it is, and some people even think that there is actually a country called Khitan in the East, and the Ming and Khitan are two countries. In this era, the only ones that can bring news from the East are caravans, but the news that caravans can bring is limited, and because of the different languages, it is easy to cause confusion......

For example, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, European missionaries also tried to find the powerful Khitan in the East, and the earliest missionary from the Western Regions to the Ming Dynasty was Benedict, but after arriving at Jiayuguan, he learned from the letter given to him by Matteo Ricci that the Ming Dynasty was actually the Khitan they imagined.

This is still the intellectual class.

For ordinary people, even those local heroes, their knowledge is even more lacking, for example, one of the reasons why Benedict passed safely in southern Xinjiang was that those elders did not know Christianity at all.

Even his prayers were no different from his own.

I thought it was a faction I didn't know about.

This is still more than two hundred years later, and as for this time, it is even more closed, it can be said that even those elders estimate that Da Ming is limited to knowing a name.

It is even possible to think that the Ming and Khitan are parallel countries.

They didn't know how powerful the Ming was, but they knew how strong Timur was, so they were afraid that Timur would come back to take revenge.

Then let them see the strength of the Ming Dynasty's military power.

Let them see how Timur's army was strewn with corpses in front of the artillery fire of the Ming army, how the Hezhong and Khorasan cavalry that once made them tremble were shot like dogs by the Ming army, and even the servants of the Ming army were strong in combat, at least those Huining soldiers really beat Timur's subordinates in the mountains and forests, and then let them know that Timur had no ability to open the ear ban......

They can get rid of this demon.

It is impossible to cross the Caucasus Mountains without opening the Daerban, which is a majestic Great Wall thousands of meters above sea level, and it stretches from east to west, and there is only the gate of Daerban.

And as long as he can be kept blocked in the Kipchak steppe, all the ethnic groups in the south will be free.

There is no need to pay him heavy taxes, there is no need to sacrifice young men as cannon fodder, and there is no need to worry about one day when he suddenly slaughters his own city with his troops.

And then......

In the mountains north of Tiflis.

"These filthy heretics."

Milan Shah's son, Mir, looked with disdain at the mountain people leading the way in front of him.

He stayed behind to guard Tiflis, but he had a few thousand soldiers under him, and Zhu Di's 100,000 army went south, and he didn't dare to meet it at all.

Timur remained south of the Caucasus with actually tens of thousands of troops.

After all, he still has to warn Bayezid, and he has to suppress Georgia and other places.

But......

The vast majority are vassal in nature.

For example, the Black Sheep Turkmen, the White Aries Turkmen, the Zarayars, and the Persians.

His army was originally composed of soldiers of these conquered nationalities, and the core of the Hezhong and Khorasan soldiers was only 100,000, but half of them had to be left for defense in the east, including suppression in other places, and only half of them were brought to war, and the rest was these chaotic peoples.

Originally, in history, he defeated Bayezid's army with a group of vassals in the Hezhong and Khorasan lineages.

Among them, the Aries Turkmen contributed the most, while the Black Sheep Turkmen incited the Ottomans for him, accusing Bayezid of not having a pure faith......

One of the main forces of the latter was the Serbs.

Bayezid even married the daughter of the Serbian king, after killing her father, of course, but was an ally with her brother, and the Serbian legions fought for him in the Battle of Ankara.

Of course, it is interesting to accuse Bayezid of impurity of faith, who massacres the most of his fellow brothers and even drove old and weak women and children into the temple and burned them to death.

But in the current situation, it is impossible to expect these messes to work hard for Timur.

They are all on the sidelines.

In the end, Timur is strong, of course they don't mind gnawing bones, but Timur is weak, they become gnawing Timur's bones, and now Timur is not easy to say, so of course we have to wait and see, it is estimated that Timur will not open the ear beating class, these guys will look forward to it.

And Zhu Di doesn't need many people to defend the ear class, a few thousand Ming troops are enough, in this case, Tokhtamysh and Kun Timur will not be idle, they have entered Sylvan, and it is inevitable to attack Tiflis, Mir we don't expect thousands of people to be able to resist their attack in a city full of infidels. It is estimated that the Georgians of Tiflis will not hesitate to welcome the king, knowing that Timur had slaughtered the city here before, and he even drove women and children outside, and then let the cavalry trample them directly.

Hatred is as deep as the sea!

So Mir, we're wise to go north.

He found these Ossetian mountain people, and they were the guides, and took him through the Caucasus Mountains, and if he could take this road to the north, then he could take his grandfather's army, and then go south from this road, and then copy Zhu Di's back.

"Something is wrong, Emir, why is there no bird call!"

The subordinate beside him said vigilantly.

Mir looked around, they were walking through the valley, lined with forests, but strangely there were no birds.

The passing of a large group of cavalry will surely startle the surrounding birds and beasts.

But now there is no ......

Someone has already scared the birds and beasts away.

"Damn it, catch them!"

Without hesitation, Mir pulled out his sword and shouted.

But at the same time, the Ossetian mountain people rushed to the dense forest on both sides as fast as they could, and one of them roared like madness, and the next moment in the cover of the fallen leaves between the trees, countless ambushers stood up, and then drew their bows and shot sharp arrows at them. Behind them, a large number of heavily armored soldiers also got up from the fallen leaves, and rushed straight into the mountain road with their spears in their hands, and slammed into the midst of the Khorasan cavalry with their arrows, and stabbed them off their horses with their spears.

And with the sound of shouting and killing, the stretching mountain forest was full of ambushes rushing downward.

"It's the Georgians, it's their king's soldiers!"

The subordinate shouted.

Almost at the same time, a sharp arrow hit him in the eye, and the guy screamed and fell off his horse.

Mir roared angrily, knowing that he was impossible to kill, just like his father who was chopped by Yang Feng, he bravely rushed straight to the Georgians who rushed out of the mountains and forests, he just cut down two, he was hit by a javelin in the war horse, he was thrown down by the fallen war horse, and then he was held down by the Georgians. Behind these Georgians, the figure of Georgian King Giorgi VII appeared, who triumphantly walked up to him under the protection of a group of guards. The fellow, who had been driven away from Tifrius by Timur the previous year, laughed at the struggling and roaring Mir, then drew his sword and stabbed him in the neck very simply, slowly cutting off his head in his convulsions.

……

"You go back and tell your king that as long as he pays tribute to the Ming Dynasty, then I can guarantee that he will get the title of county king."

At this moment, Zhu Di was looking at the envoy of Giorgi VII.

"Your Highness, this title is not easy to translate."

Yang Fifty-six said cautiously.

The translation problem is indeed difficult to solve, Totokhan can easily understand the title of the king of the county, mainly because Tokhan was named the king of Suning by the Yuan Dynasty in that year, and the latter was named the king of Suning by Yuan Wuzong, they already have the corresponding words, but there is definitely no word for the king of the county in the language of the Georgians.

The messenger looked at him suspiciously.

"I remember Yang Feng said that the title of the Ming Dynasty can be translated by some titles in the West, and he said that the king of the county can be translated as the grand duke, that is, the monarch of Kievan Rus' in the past."

Zhu Di said.

"Uh, I see, little one."

Yang Fifty-six immediately understood.

The term Grand Duke of Kievan Rus is definitely present in the Georgian language, and in fact the rulers of Georgia, the Bagration family, even married Kievan Rus', and the most famous queen in Georgian history, Tamara, was the son of the Grand Duke of Kievan Rus', although she later killed this husband.

He then translated for the messenger, who immediately smiled with satisfaction.

Of course, they don't really care about what knighthood, anyway, Daming is far away, it is impossible to care about their affairs, they are still the Kingdom of Georgia, but they use this new identity to trade with Daming, especially they don't have to pay taxes to Daming, as for paying tribute to Daming every few years, this is not worth mentioning. It is nothing more than that when the caravan passed, it brought some gifts to the Ming Emperor and exchanged this for trade rights, which is very reasonable.

Of course, he didn't know that Zhu Di was just coaxing them casually.

The final interpretation is not in Zhu Di.

He would propose to the court that Giorgi VII be crowned the king of the county, but whether he was crowned or not was a matter for the court, but there was no problem, and Yang Feng didn't care about being crowned the king of the county again.

"Your Highness, what about us Armenians?"

Another businessman, Yang Seventy-eight, said cautiously.

He had just returned from Schunik, which was now the last base of the Armenian resistance, in fact next to what would later become Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Armenian settlements were now largely under the iron heel of Timur, with a few remaining under the protection of Bayezid......

Yes, it's protection.

Compared with Timur, Bayezid was a safe haven for the Armenians, and the Armenians in Sivas even fought for Bayezid to the end, and in the end thousands of captured people were slaughtered, while the few who refused to submit to the remnants of Timur's control area hid in Syunik. These Armenian merchants, of course, knew very well, so if they wanted to call on the Armenians, they had to go to Shynik, and as for the king of Armenia, this title is now in Cyprus, and the king of Cyprus, Janus, crowned Jerusalem, Armenia, Cyprus three crowns, although his domain was only Cyprus.

"If you have your own monarch, the Ming can also make him a county king, so that all Armenian lands will be ruled by a county king, just like all Ming vassal states.

In addition to paying tribute, the Ming Dynasty doesn't want anything else from you.

You have been to Daming, you know the prosperity of Daming, and with the wealth of Daming, you will not be able to look down on your little things.

If you don't have your own monarch, it's not a big deal, it's nothing more than appointing all of you as commanders and appointing your big clan leaders as commanders, and it's so far away that the court can't send officials to you. ”

Zhu Di said.

"Your Highness, if this is the case, all Armenians are willing to fight for the Ming Dynasty."

Yang Fifty-six and Yang Seventy-eight knelt down excitedly and kowtowed.

They are accurate to say that it was not Timur who was destroyed, in fact, there was no Armenian kingdom before Timur, the Armenians were under the rule of the Ilkhanate, and even before the Ilkhanate, there was no Armenian kingdom, at least not in Armenia, this land has not had its own state for hundreds of years, they have always been under the rule of various forces.

If the Kingdom of Armenia could be rebuilt......

That's going to be desperate.

"Get up, my Ming Dynasty survives, and the Quartet is gracious, as long as you sincerely surrender to the Ming Dynasty, even if it is thousands of miles away, the Ming Dynasty will uphold justice for you."

Zhu Di said with satisfaction.

It is still very pleasant to talk about it casually, and you can exchange it for a nation to work hard.

"The king, the ear is urgent, and Timur has stopped the attack."

Zhu Neng came in and said.

"If you can't move, you will naturally stop, but you have to prevent him from going another way."

Zhu Di said.

It is impossible for Timur to open the ear class, the terrain of that place is too special, it is completely a copy of Shanhaiguan, this kind of terrain is blocked by thousands of powerful armies, in fact, now it is not the Ming army but the Zhaosheng army is defending, the Ming army's ammunition consumption is too fast, on the contrary, the Huining archers of the Zhaosheng army do not need to consider the ammunition problem.

Then he looked at Yang Fifty-Six.

The latter immediately understood, and hastened to tell the messenger.

The messenger said a few words firmly.

"Your Highness, he said that Georgia would not let Timur pass through Ossetia even if he fought to the last man, and that they had formed an alliance with the Ossetians, and that the Ossetians would work with the Georgians to block Timur's southward movement from Ossetia, and that they were still in contact with some other people in the north, such as Balkaria and Circassians, but these people were very confused."

Yang Fifty-six hurriedly said.

"Do they like Timur?"

Zhu Di said.

"Your Highness, no one likes Timur, he brings only death and plunder, Bayezid is a benevolent monarch compared to him, the Kipchaks don't really like him, he slaughters millions of Kipchaks. He is like a devil who takes death wherever he goes, but people are afraid of death, so wherever he goes, he has to surrender to him. But this surrender is when he can always be strong, and if he is always strong, he can always be feared, but if he is no longer strong, then everyone will pounce on him for revenge. ”

Yang Fifty-six said.

"Then, let's take action, in less than half a year, the army led by Yang Feng will enter the river to destroy Timur's lair."

Zhu Di said.