I have to say that Zhu Di's painting style shocked Yang Feng......

Yang Feng dared to lead 2,000 people to dig through southern Xinjiang because he knew that he could not die.

But Zhu Di also knows that he is not immortal!

This kind of adventure is still a bit exaggerated.

What's more, Yang Feng's digging through southern Xinjiang is nothing compared to what Zhu Di is doing now, and Yang Feng didn't chisel through southern Xinjiang, he is still surrounded by people in Aksu, if it weren't for Zhu Di going south, even if Yang Feng himself could get out, his minions, even Zhang Fu and others, would have to be thrown in Aksu, but now Zhu Di really captured Beergosale, and then went straight to the hinterland of West Asia.

This belongs to stealing the limelight from Ambassador Yang!

Of course, he also knew that Zhu Di was just forced to move west and was forced to give up the battle for the throne of the Ming Dynasty, and his mood was a little depressed, so his mental state was a little unstable.

To put it simply......

Lose your marbles!

Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng took the two armies of the Beijing camp and 30,000 people to the south, while Xu Huizu and Song Sheng led the three armies to continue to Hami. At present, there are still not many Han immigrants in the Western Regions, and they are still those vassal cities and a few garrison guards, both industry and agriculture are in their infancy, and an army of 80,000 people, 150,000 horses and camels will empty the local area wherever they go.

It's much easier to divide the troops into three ways.

Yang Feng went to eat the supplies of the line from Khotan to Shule, Xu Huizu went to eat the line from Gaochang to Shule, and Song Sheng went to eat the line from Northern Xinjiang.

In the end, Xu Huizu took a group of vassals from southern Xinjiang to Dawan, he took two armies, and those vassals could provide him with at least 30,000 cavalry, and they could only make up 50,000 with Ugqi Hashha after they arrived in Dawan, adding up to more than 100,000 troops, even against the main force of Timur at least it was an undefeated result. Song Sheng only has one army, but his army is 20,000, he can take 20,000 cavalry from Hami and Gaochang along the way, and even if Gui Lichi and others do not come back after entering Ili, Zhu Gaochi can make up another 10,000 for him, if Zhu Gaochu and Gui Lichi withdraw, then his side is also at the level of 100,000, and he still has the ability to independently fight against Timur's main force.

So in the end, no matter which direction Timur attacked, it was impossible to open the Ming army's defenses, and even had to face another attack.

Then at the same time, Yang Feng, who was walking through the Wakhan Corridor, killed Khorasan.

At that time, he had only one choice left, surrendering, or crumbling, after all, the emirs of the cities of the river and Khorasan and even his son could not be buried with him.

The Ming just wanted them to surrender.

and not to destroy them.

In fact, Yang Feng was not ready to destroy them.

He has only just begun to digest the four towns, so how can he be interested in going west?

Expansion is to be done step by step, Timur is easy to beat, but the cities in the river and Khorasan, tens of millions of people are really difficult to solve, and this is a system, the emirs of the cities do not care about surrendering to the Ming Dynasty or betraying Timur, Timur is just one of the marquee-like rulers in this land, he deserves to die if he loses, and everyone will not bury him.

But the Ming really want to expand to this land in large numbers, this is what they can't tolerate, they will really work hard.

So now is not the time.

Now that Yang Feng can invest a limited number of troops in this direction, these 80,000 troops are already the limit, and he even has to rely on those other emirs in the Western Regions.

He hasn't yet shown his true colors.

However, Yang Feng's journey to the south is still very difficult, after all, from Dunhuang to the end, you have to go to Lop Nur in the middle.

Although there is still a bit of water in Lop Nur.

The 30,000 camps, which rode in four-wheeled carriages, followed him in the long yellow sand, along the trade route to India.

At this time, Zhu Di was about to start the decisive battle between him and Bayezet......

Erzurum.

Zhu Di looked at the Ottoman envoy in front of him.

"For our Daming, either surrender or be the enemy, and for the enemy, we usually destroy them, we have made countless countries that refuse to surrender to the Ming finally choose to surrender, and also let countless countries that refuse to choose to surrender disappear, you are not qualified to ask us for anything, I now ask your sultan to come and kneel at my feet as the Prince of Daming, if he doesn't come, then I will take my soldiers to catch him at my feet and kneel down according to him."

Zhu Di said.

The Kurds of Diyarbakir, under the persuasion of the emir of Van City, finally chose to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

But the leader of the Aries Turkmen, Kara. The Ottomans thus laid siege to Diyarbakir, and then the combined forces of the Black Sheep Turkmen and Zarayir, led by Yusuf and Ahmed, came to the rescue and defeated Kara at Diyarbakir. The Ottoman army, which fled to the mountains along the Euphrates River, sent emissaries to Bayezid and Mamluks and their in-laws Trabsson for help.

Bayesset, who had already gathered nearly 100,000 troops in Sivas and was waiting for them to call for help, immediately sent an envoy to Zhu Di and marched to the border city of Erzincan at the same time.

And then this is the answer that Zhu Di gave him.

So the two sides will start their showdown in Erzinjan next.

The wars on this side of West Asia are basically this line, because from Erzinjan to the south is the mountainous valley of the Euphrates River, it is not easy to pass through this moat in this era, but the line of Sivas, Erzincan, and Erzurum in the north can be directly passed through the upper reaches of the Euphrates River, and finally formed a strategic passage that can be said to be West Asia. These cities are also the main battlefields in this land, originally in history Timur and Bayezid fought in Sivas, and the Ottoman extermination of Aries Turkmen was in Erzincan, and the Russian army seized the initiative in the West Asian battlefield with a surprise attack on Erzurum.

"Your Highness, our Sultan has an army of 500,000 troops, and here is far away from the Ming Dynasty, His Highness is just passing by, why should he protect the Kurds?

Your country is on the other side of the world, and it has nothing to do with you here. ”

The messenger said.

"Half a million?"

Zhu Di smiled.

Then Tokhtamysh and the others laughed too.

"Bayezid can't even make up 100,000, and a sultan still has to rely on the Serbs to fight, and he still boasts that he has an army of 500,000?

Drag him out and chop him into five pieces, and send him back to Bayezet.

That's what happens to the gibberish in front of me. ”

Zhu Di said.

The soldiers outside immediately stepped forward and dragged the stupid messenger out, the latter was still very heroic, and after he came to his senses, he howled to show his backbone, of course, this could not change his ending, he was still dragged outside, and then shut up with a series of screams. Zhu Di was not interested in caring about him, and looked at the map in front of him with Tokhtamysh, Kun Timur, Yusuf and others, although he laughed at Bayezid for not being able to make up 100,000, but he really had an army of 100,000 on his side.

However, there were very few Ming troops.

Because the ammunition was basically exhausted, and Zhu Di didn't want to make it here, so as not to leak the formula and process of advanced gunpowder, the Ming army only had one camel city to participate in the battle, and the remaining ammunition was scraped together, plus some inferior gunpowder collected from various places, which could basically sustain a battle.

So now Zhu Di's main force is the Zhaosheng Army.

This army has shown their strength, and of course they are also very loyal, after all, they have gained a lot during this time, and for this poor ghost army, they have now got all the things they want, high-quality war horses, beautiful women, and money bags full of gold and silver coins.

As for the dead......

Is there any dissatisfaction with the dead?

Those who are satisfied are alive, and those who are alive are satisfied.

In addition, some of those Kipchaks also followed Zhu Di, and they were incorporated into the Yuejibei Legion by Zhu Di, so the strength of Yuejiji others increased to 25,000......

They originally followed Zhu Di north to Chengjitula with 25,000, but they did not all follow the western expedition, followed the western expedition of 20,000, and lost 45,000 along the way, and now after adding these Kipchaks, it has increased to 25,000. They and the Kipchaks were originally one family, and the others were the original Golden Horde when they parted, similar to him who specially formed a Praetorian Guard, but after the death of Yue Jibe, after the continuous civil strife, they have been kicked out of the core of the Golden Horde, and finally can only go east to the Xiban family.

So there is no problem of integration between them and these Kipchaks, after all, they are one family.

Moreover, Zhu Di promised that in the future, the east of the Ural River and the north of Lake Balkhash would be their pastures.

In short, the current descendants in Zhu Di's hands are the guards, the Zhaosheng Army, the month is goodbye, and the total is almost 50,000.

Tokhtamysh had 30,000 cavalry in his hands.

Among them were the Kipchaks who he had brought from Siberia and Kazan and other cities along the way, but were blocked in the south and could not return, from Belgosale.

The rest are Zarayir, the Black Sheep Turkmen, and the Armenians.

As for Georgia, Ossetia, Shirvan, these did not go to war, they need to continue to guard Timur......

"Great King, there is news of King Gaoyang."

Zhu Neng suddenly walked in and said.

"He withdrew?"

Zhu Di said.

"No, he was still in Saletchuk, and Timur was very uncomfortable by him, and he was still in Belgoslay until half a month ago.

They didn't have enough food to feed their horses and camels, so even if they returned to the east, they could only graze while walking, but although it was spring to the east, only the shores of the Caspian Sea were good pastures, but this pasture was occupied by the king of Gaoyang. He attacked the king of Gaoyang, and the king of Gaoyang scattered with the camel city, and then attacked him, and he gathered his subordinates to fight against the fact that there was no enough vast pasture for the horses to graze, so that he did not dare to return directly to the east, after all, there was no pasture to the east. So Timur simply didn't leave now, sat in Belgosala, and then released his army and collected food from the surroundings, but he was defeated and went back, not to mention those Russian cities, even the cities of the Kipchaks, and he was not willing to continue to listen to him.

After all, the Kipchaks also had a grudge against him.

His requisition of grain was all requisitioned to Moscow, and it is said that the Grand Duke of Moscow refused to give him food, and the Russians who were still listening to Ye Digai, who were pestering with Ghost Lichi in the north, also withdrew.

Ghost is nomadic in the Samara River. ”

Zhu Neng said with a smile.

"Wu'er has some ability."

Zhu Di said with a smile.

Indeed, he didn't expect that his son, who had developed limbs and was simple-minded, would actually mess with Timur.

However, as long as Timur collected enough food, he would eventually return to the east, and he was actually because the cavalry was too large, and he had to walk a long time to the east back to the river, and if there was not enough food for fodder during this period, he could only disperse his subordinates into nomadic herding. But the problem was that he dispersed the nomadic herding, which gave Zhu Gaoxu the opportunity to attack, and the latter was not short of food, Zhu Gaoxu had a camel and a half per capita, and the march carried a large amount of fodder for long-term operations.

And it's not like he's really out of supplies.

He had a caravan behind him, and he had already grabbed a lot of it from the Nogais.

Of course, the main thing is that he has 20,000 men, and it is enough for nomadism along the Ural River, and as long as Timur does not have enough fodder to enter the desert, then he will feed the camels and war horses, and follow the attack.

He'd have to go the same way when he goes back anyway.

"In addition, the hearts of Yedi's subordinates have been scattered, it is said that during this time, many people left him with his subordinates and went to the Dnieper, and several cities in Crimea and other places no longer gave him reinforcements, and Shadi Be's subordinates have also left Belgosalai under the banner of requisitioning grain, and it is estimated that they will not follow Timur anymore."

Zhu Neng said.

So as long as Timur leaves, the Golden Horde of Tokhtamysh will be stable.

"The tree is falling and scattering, this rabble can only win and not lose after all, and once it fails, it will fall apart."

Zhu Di sighed.

Then he looked around......

He seems to be too!

Mongols, Turkmens, Turkics, Armenians, Kurds, Buramen of Huining.

It's also a rabble!

Of course, as long as you can lead them to win battles all the time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the countless gold, silver and jewels of Bursa are waiting for us, the wealth of Trabçon is waiting for us, what are you waiting for?"

He shouted in Turkic.

The Tokhtamysh and the others were immediately excited, as if they had seen the wealth that Timur had transported with thousands of camels in history.

At this time, the capital of the Ottomans was Bursa.

In fact, the Ottomans have not been very interested in expanding to the east, after all, the enemy in the west is easier to bully, and the east is not easy to mess with, their previous territory was to Sivas, and the decisive battle with Timur was only because Timur expanded to their borders, and now they also chose to start a war with Zhu Di, also because the expansion of the Ming Dynasty also reached their borders.

The matter of Aries Turkmenistan is just Bayezet's temptation, and if Zhu Di gives him face, he will stop moving forward.

But if Zhu Di doesn't give him face, then there will only be war.

"All armies march on Erzincan at once!"

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Di gave the order to march.

The princes departed at once, then went to their camp, and led their men to follow His Royal Highness the Prince to begin their decisive battle with Bayezet.