At the beginning of the second year of Hongxi (1409).

Shaharu stood at the head of the city like a king who reigned over the world.

His face was as angular as a knife, and his eyebrows were filled with an unruly force.

At this time, at his feet, the ancient city of Samarkand, which has a history of thousands of years, was already trembling.

The city behind him was filled with flames, and countless figures flickered in it, and the subjects who betrayed the real jae screamed and fled, but eventually they all died.

Looking at the fireworks all over the city, Shaharu excitedly raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed to the east outside the city.

"Woola" outside the city first a loud shout, and then the endless sound of Ulla.

From the foot of the city where he was located, he looked at the east and west sides, and countless soldiers and horses formed a phalanx, endless, and there was no end in sight.

Shaharu whipped again.

"Ula--"

Hundreds of thousands of riders under the city roared wildly, and the overwhelming sound was one after another, endless in the sky.

"Driving" suddenly rushed out of the south city gate and rode a fast horse, flying from east to west.

I saw that where he passed, directly south of the army, there were countless captured rebels kneeling in rows.

All the rebels were tied with their hands tied behind their backs and knelt on the ground, and there were about 10 rows of about 1,000 men in each row.

The nearly 10,000 rebel soldiers knelt on the ground together, and went around from the south of the city to the north of the city, which was extremely spectacular.

The fast horse ran all the way to the middle of thousands of people, slowly raised his hand, and then swung down vigorously, shouting: "Kill." ”

Fluttering, the scene flashed, and tens of thousands of heads fell to the ground at the same time.

Shaharu at the head of the city watched the fate of these traitors with satisfaction, with a cruel smile on his face, he turned around and said loudly to the people around him: "Pass the order, and the sword will not be sealed for three days." ”

"Woo--" A deafening Ullah soon rang out inside and outside the city.

"His Highness the Sultan." At this moment, someone hurriedly ran in front of him not far away, and then knelt down, prostrate all over, picked up the toes of his shoes with both hands, and lightly tattooed his shoes.

"The great manzai, His Highness the Sultan given by God, Harino has returned."

"Harino is back?" With an incredulous expression on his face, Shaharu turned around and hurried down the city with his people.

When he came to the left side of the south of the city, he saw a team of cavalry all of them in Cangsang, and at first glance, they were coming from mountains and rivers for thousands of miles.

Some people were staggering on their horses, and when they saw Shaharu, they plopped, plopped, and several people fell off their horses one after another.

"Harino." Shaharu's heart ached and ran over.

Harino is his adopted son and his confidant.

"Bring me water." There were people shouting all around.

Harino seemed to be short of water, and everyone rushed up, carrying people and handing water.

After a few sips of water, Harino finally opened his eyes.

He grabbed his father-in-law's hand: "Father, after the Ming people were martyred, they fought a rebellion again, and it just ended." ”

"Ming is in a civil war again?" Shaharu was surprised and delighted, and couldn't believe it.

Shahru's father was Timur, the creator of the Timurid Empire, and was nicknamed "Timurlan" (i.e., "Lame Timur")

Timur was born in the Turkic Mongolian aristocracy, in his early years he belonged to the Eastern Chagatai Khan Balhulu Timur, in 1370 he killed Mirikhusin, seized the power of the Western Chagatai Khanate, called himself the "Great Emir", set the capital of Barihe, and established the Timurid Empire. Later, the capital was moved to Samarkand and renamed "Sudan".

Between 1388 and 1390, he conquered Khorezm and Afghanistan and subdued the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. During this period, he repeatedly went west to conquer the whole of Persia.

In 1391 and 1395, he defeated the Golden Horde at the battles of the Kundurcha River Valley and the Tirek River respectively, and went north to sweep the Golden Horde.

In 1396, Timur detained envoys, including those of the Ming and Ottoman Empires, declaring war on foreign countries and beginning the second phase of territorial expansion.

In 1398, he conquered the Delhi Sultanate in India, destroying Delhi, Punjab, and Kashmir.

In 1399, he went to Syria and defeated the Mamluk dynasty.

In 1402, he defeated the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Angola and captured the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. After a series of conquests, it formed a super empire that stretched from North India in the east, Asia Minor in the west, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf in the south, and the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea in the north.

After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, Timur already felt invincible.

At this time, he heard the news that there was a change in the internal turmoil of the Han people in the Ming Dynasty, and Timur decisively stopped paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty and began to plan for the Ming Dynasty.

In 1402, Timur convened Kuriltai in Samarkand to discuss an expedition to the Ming Dynasty. He concentrated on studying the situation in the Ming Dynasty and sent spies to Nanjing to collect information. At the same time, he ordered someone to make a more detailed military map, which indicated the important water source places in the western frontier of the Ming Dynasty. He planned to lead 200,000 elite troops to the east first, leaving some soldiers to settle fields along the way, and then send reinforcements from Central Asia year by year. For the conquest of the Ming Dynasty, Timur made adequate logistical preparations. According to the Tales of Timur's Martial Arts, he recruited an army of 800,000 men and prepared enough grain for seven years.

At the end of 1404, Timur ordered his grandson Khalil to lead an advance force from Tashkent, crossed the Tien Shan Mountains on New Year's Day 1405, and advanced to the Ili River on January 6. On November 27, 1404, Timur personally commanded a force of 200,000 infantry and 250,000 cavalry from Samalgan and camped for 50 days on the banks of the Syr Darya River, arriving in the city of Hindara, the confluence of the Areth and Syr Darya rivers in present-day Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Here, Timur ordered Haril to speed up his march and make sure to take the land of Eastern Chagatai in early March, so that he could approach the Ming Dynasty.

At the brink of war, Timur was bedridden by malaria and died of illness at the age of 69 on February 18, 1405.

After Timur's death, the Timurid family immediately started a war for the throne, and the expedition to the Ming Dynasty was abandoned halfway. His fourth son, Shahru, quelled the infighting of the Timurid family at this time and conquered Samarkand, at this time almost reunited the empire except for Western Persia.

Shahru, who regarded himself as a majestic man, had millions of men with armor and revived the majesty of the Timurid Empire.

The next morning, Shaharu sat in a huge tent with some of his cronies, his son, and his son, Harino.

Harino's spirits improved a lot, and there were people sitting with him lurking in Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty.

In 1402, Timur sent Harino and others to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty again in the name of tribute envoys, and stopped in Nanjing, in order to collect intelligence and prepare for the eastward expedition.

Harino said at this time: "Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Ming Han Dynasty, raised troops in the fourth year of Yongle (1406), and entered the Beijing division in less than two years, and established the name Hongxi. ”

"Before I left the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu carried out a large-scale disarmament in the imperial court, and it is said that he wanted to recuperate."

Shaharu nodded: "The Ming people have two consecutive civil wars, and the vitality of the country must be greatly damaged, it is inevitable that Zhu Gaoxu wants to recuperate, if he is allowed to develop for a few years, the Ming people will be strong again." ”

After the original history Shaharu unified the empire, he also wanted to go east again and inherit his father's legacy, but the Ming people had been in the east for several years, and he estimated that the vitality of the Jing disaster had recovered, and finally there was no eastward crusade.

But at this time, after hearing about the martyrdom, Shaharu finally felt a little moved.

The eldest son, Ulube, said in a deep voice at this time: "The Ming people are just a civil war, and if they fight and surrender to the public, the Ming army's army will definitely not suffer much losses, otherwise Zhu Gaoxu will not be disarmed, we will go on an expedition of thousands of miles, mobilize the army, and prepare for the matter, it will take a year or two, and please think twice about my father." ”

Shaharu immediately wondered, how did his father Timur fight back then?

Timur really wanted to do the Ming Dynasty.

He first prepared a map of all the water sources in the western border of the Ming people, and then led an army of 500,000 to move forward, leaving more than 200,000 along the way, specially tuntian where there is a water source, and tuntian everywhere, preparing grain and grass that can be used for seven years.

This is like fighting chicken blood, and I want to fight a war with the Ming people to destroy the country.

After two or three years of preparation, soldiers and horses were successively recruited from all over the empire to the front line, and finally 800,000 troops were raised, preparing to attack Ming in one fell swoop.

It's a pity to die halfway through.

Harino didn't think so, seeing his father-in-law hesitating, he immediately said: "Father-in-law, when we came back, we passed through Benjamin's territory, and Benjamin and Arutai killed the envoy in anger with the mistake of the Ming envoy Guo Ji Yaowu. ”

"If nothing happens, the Ming Emperor will be furious, and he will definitely go on a northern expedition, which is still a godsend."

As mentioned earlier, Ben Ya lost Li recently provoked the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di was in the rebellion against Zhu Gaochu, so he sent Guo Ji to appease Ben Ya Li, when Guo Ji arrived at Ben Ya Li's territory, Zhu Gaochu had already entered the Beijing Division, Guo Ji didn't know it, and was killed.

Benjamin killed Guo Ji as in the original history, and in the original history he caused Zhu Di's Northern Expedition.

But this time, Benjamin thought that the Ming people were in a civil war, and Zhu Di should not take care of himself.

He just didn't expect that Zhu Gaoxu would calm the world like this.

So after Harino and his entourage passed, he knew that Zhu Gaoxu had pacified the country, and immediately decided to bring Shaharu together.

Benjamin asked Harino to bring a message to Shaharu, if you dare to go east, I will help you take the lead and involve the Ming forces in the north.

This is really great news.

At this time, Harino said: "When we came, the news of Benjamin's killing of the Ming envoy had not yet been passed back, and when the Ming Emperor received it, he would definitely go on a northern expedition." ”

"At that time, we will take advantage of the Ming people's northern expedition to the same time, and suddenly march eastward, reshow the power of the empire back then, and set foot on the Ming country in one fell swoop."

"The child thinks that now is the best opportunity, and after the Ming Emperor has finished the war and recuperated for a few years, it is pointless for us to think about the eastward expedition."

Shaharu listened to the flames in his heart, and the infinite fighting spirit rose to the sky.

What my father did not complete, will be done by my Shahru? At that time, the whole empire, who will dare to look down on me?

But Shaharu was also a great ruler, and he ruled the empire for forty years in history, which made Persia and Afghanistan economically prosperous, and Herat and Samarkand became the golden age of Persian literature and art.

In terms of their own domestic achievements alone, he definitely surpassed the Yongle Emperor in the same period.

At this time, he was not carried away by the excitement, and quickly calmed down, and said slowly: "The Ming country is rich in land and resources, and I actually disapprove of my father's expedition back then. ”

"Because we alone may not be enough."

"Ming has a population of 100 million yuan, if we can't completely defeat them, when they recover from it, we will be far from being opponents."

"So, be sure to find the best opportunity."

"The lion on the grassland is the overlord of the overlords, but when countless wolves surround the lone lion, the overlord can only die."

Shaharu's words had just finished when a long voice suddenly came from outside the tent.

"His Highness the Sultan, envoys from far and wide, the dynasties of Malacca, Siam, Nanzhang, Angkor, and Burma, ask to see His Highness."

(End of chapter)