On the throne in Kabul City, Shahru's face looked much older than it had been five years ago, and many ministers and subordinates stood below.

After the original history Shaharu unified the Timurid Empire, the capital was built in Herat, but in this history, Shaharu failed to conquer the Ming Kingdom, and the country was oppressed by the Black Sheep Dynasty and the White Sheep Dynasty, and lost a lot of land, and the capital must be Kabul.

The two places were more than a thousand miles apart, which meant that he was closer to the Ming Dynasty.

The hot wind of June blew to Kabul, and also the news of the revenge of the Ming army's 2 million army marching westward.

When the news reached Kabul, it caused endless consternation.

A few years ago, the Ming army was less than 100,000 people, and the scene of the defeat of their million-strong army was still in front of them.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has invaded the whole country and sent two million troops, just hearing this number, Shaharu began to have a headache.

The 100,000 Ming army beat them and ran away, and they got 2 million?

Of course, as the commander of an army of more than one million, Shaharu immediately comforted everyone, the real elite of the Ming army is at most 500,000, there must be a million people, and 500,000 servants, there are so many of them, how much food do they need to bring over?

At that time, his father Timur prepared grain and grass for seven years for the westward expedition, and the number of people transporting grain and grass at that time amounted to hundreds of thousands.

That's what I said, but when you think about how elite the Ming army is, 500,000 is also terrifying.

Therefore, in the past few days, some people in the DPRK and China have been proposing to retreat to the Transoxiana region (Uzbekistan).

Shaharu's eldest son, Ulugh Beg, was appointed governor of the river and lived in Samarkand, where Kabul and Samarkand were the most splendid centers of the Timurid Empire's Renaissance and two of the most prosperous parts of their empire.

It was also proposed to run to East Persia.

Shahru's third son, Beisun, was in Eastern Persia, and he was originally in Western Persia with Shahru's younger brother, but was later defeated by the Black Sheep Dynasty and retreated to Eastern Persia.

There were arguments everywhere in the royal palace, most of them proposed to run to Samarkand in the middle of the river, and a few proposed to run to Eastern Persia, and then lead the Ming army to fight the Black Sheep Dynasty and kill people with swords, but the result was to abandon the entire Afghan region in the future.

"Stop arguing." Shaharu suddenly became furious, and with a roar, the hall fell silent in an instant.

His face was flushed, and he couldn't get angry.

The Ming army has not yet arrived, and everyone wants to escape.

"Where are the pioneers of the Ming army now?" Shaharu snapped.

"Father, the Ming army is in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, looting supplies and population, about two thousand miles away from Kabul."

Shaharu's adopted son, Harino, said at this time.

After that, he added: "The cavalry of the Ming army is one person and two horses, if it is at full speed, it will be able to come to the city in less than half a month." ”

Someone in the crowd immediately said: "The Ming army is walking very slowly, and our sentry has also seen that they have captured people from various tribes and are building roads." ”

"They still have a large number of infantry battalions and carts, and it will take at least six months before they can reach Kabul."

Harino said: "The Ming people don't talk about martial arts when they fight, and they may swallow slowly on the surface, and it is possible to accelerate suddenly. ”

The Ming army had tens of thousands of cavalry, and if it suddenly accelerated, galloping in the starry night, it would not take ten days for the cavalry to enter the territory of the Timurid Empire, and it would take less than half a month to come outside their city.

But the Ming army's westward expedition must be steadily advanced, and it is impossible to come so quickly.

"How many strikers are there in the Ming army?" Shaharu asked again.

"About 100,000." After that, the man added: "The Ming army's sentry cavalry is too strong, and our sentry cavalry can't get close, so we can only take a rough look." ”

In fact, the Ming army was 50,000 people, but there were a large number of chariots and horses, which looked like more than 100,000.

Therefore, the people of Shaharu thought that there were 100,000 Ming army forwards.

But he didn't know that Zhu Gaoxu had sent such an army, and at the beginning of the next year, Qu Neng's second batch of soldiers and horses would set out.

Everyone heard that there were 100,000 in the forward of the Ming army, and the main force in the back had to be at least hundreds of thousands.

There was a lot of noise in the hall again, and they were still arguing to retreat.

"Someone." Shaharu interrupted them in a loud voice.

Everyone looked at him.

"The edict ordered Ulugh Beg to march south and join forces in Kabul."

"The edict ordered Beisun to raise his troops to the east and join forces in Kabul."

"We couldn't beat them in the Ming Kingdom last time, and we can't beat the Ming army on our own territory this time?"

"I have made up my mind, and then I will fight the Ming army again."

The ministers were in an uproar, and many people changed color, shocked and frightened, it seems that the Ming army had scared them in a war a few years ago.

Shaharu obviously didn't think about morale and confidence, he thought that the Ming army had few soldiers, as long as the whole country was concentrated, it could still be fought in the local territory.

Then he went on to send an envoy to the Ming army to deliberately discuss the matter of peace, and he could cut the land and pay compensation to delay time.

For both in the river and in eastern Persia, where his eldest and third sons were, were more than a thousand miles from Kabul.

In this battle, Shaharu will concentrate the existing soldiers and horses in the country, a total of 300,000, and fight a decisive battle with the 100,000 strikers of the Ming army.

He can only win and not lose, and once he loses, he will have nothing, and the entire dynasty will perish.

This is the Great Patriotic War, there is no room for error, Shaharu, who had a nervous expression, faintly thought of one thing, when I was a million-strong army to the east, the Ming Emperor Zhu Gaoxu, was I so afraid?

As a result, he felt that Zhu Gaoxu was not afraid, because if he was afraid, Zhu Gaoxu would not only send less than 100,000 soldiers and horses to meet him.

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In June, the vicinity of Shache was full of Ming troops, and the entire Ming army had already arrived here.

Shache is a good place, ostensibly at the northern foot of the Kunlun Mountains, south of the Pamirs, between the Taklamakan Desert and the Buguri Desert in the middle and upper reaches of the Yarkand alluvial fan plain.

It is located in the desert, but it is a green state, with suitable light, hot water and soil resources, four distinct seasons, long sunshine, average annual precipitation of 56.6 mm, not only a variety of mineral resources (coal, lead and zinc, copper, iron, gold, mica, quartz, refractory soil, gypsum, limestone, marble), etc., as well as a variety of beast resources, later generations are planting cotton and the country's largest almond production base.

Under the rule of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, this is the core area of the rule of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, commercial agriculture and mining are very developed, and a large amount of wheat is planted locally.

When the Ming army arrived here, it was like going to heaven, and there were all kinds of fruits that had not been seen before, and tens of thousands of Ming soldiers rejoiced here for many days.

Sheng Yong decided to use this as a base to build a front-line base for attacking Shaharu.

In later generations, Shache had a large population, more than the population of some developed counties in the south of the Yangtze River, which shows that it is very suitable for group living.

After the Ming army conquered, plus plundered the vicinity, the population of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was more than 30,000, which was the largest plundered population since their western expedition.

Sheng Yong supplied logistics on the one hand, and organized people to build roads to the east to lay a good foundation for the Ming army to come in later, and at the same time continue to tuntian to ensure the autumn harvest.

In July, when the entire vicinity of Baili gradually settled down, the envoys of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate also came to Shengyong's camp and questioned why the Ming Kingdom had seized their territory and plundered their population.

Sheng Yong angrily reprimanded that Shaharu had gone east that year, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate raised tens of thousands of troops.

Of course, the envoy didn't admit it, but Sheng Yong reported a few names and asked them to go back and investigate thoroughly, if they really didn't participate, the Ming Kingdom would definitely withdraw its troops, and in addition, this time I went to fight Shaharu, borrowing your place.

The envoy had no choice but to return to Maha Khan.

Sheng Yong was just stalling for time, and he didn't take the Eastern Chagatai Khanate seriously.

By this time they were less than 1,500 miles from Kabul.

If the Ming army abandons the cart and rides all the horses, it will be able to attack the opponent's city in less than ten days.

But Sheng Yong thought about the emperor's words, and in the end he did not rush to attack Kabul to grab merit alone, he sent sentry cavalry and made detailed efforts to find out the news, while continuing to plunder the population and resources around, build fortifications, build roads, and store grain.

He decided to take good care of the territory already occupied by the Ming army east of Shache and wait for Qu Neng's support next year.

Because the emperor said that in the future, these places we occupy can never be thrown away again, and once they are lost, we will all become sinners of history, because no matter how you whitewash, the history books will record everything.

(End of chapter)