Chapter 191: News from the Western Regions

How to appease Beijing, He Xi already had a little idea in his heart.

The best way to do this is to have a military parade and show off your might.

Let the top and bottom be excited.

That's all for later, though.

In addition to these two news, there is another very important news, that is, King Yan has come to envoy.

It's also a success.

It is a great victory in northern Xinjiang.

King Yan led tens of thousands of elite horsemen, crossed thousands of miles of Guanshan, and north of the Tianshan Mountains, and fought fiercely with the Tile Thorn Department. In the fierce battle, Warat was invincible with 30,000 iron horses, and the king of Yan plotted and feinted defeat. Led the tile thorn to chase, ambushed thousands of fire guns and artillery, and suddenly attacked, killing thousands of tile thorn elite horsemen. Immediately, King Yan personally pursued and killed Baili, capturing tens of thousands of cavalry and countless war horses.

Won the puppet Great Khan, the leader of Warat, and dozens of other Mongol princes.

Only Mahamu, the son of the leader of Warat, led his men and horses to retreat to the banks of the Ili River.

This is the news reported by the envoys of King Yan.

He Xi attaches great importance to King Yan, so he will naturally know something, King Yan did not say it directly, but it was the reason why King Yan sent Lian Zining over this time, that is, the battle of the Western Regions has expanded.

Because Mahamu made an important choice, he defected to the Chahatai Khanate.

To tell the truth, with the strength of the Chahatai Khanate now, King Yan is not afraid at all. But behind the Chahatai Khanate there was a behemoth, or rather a tyrant. It was none other than the lame Timur.

He was not a descendant of Genghis Khan. A Mongolian nobleman who belonged to the Chahatai Khanate, in order to show his legitimacy, he married a Mongolian princess and treated the Chahatai Khanate very favorably.

But no matter how preferential he was, the Chahatai Khanate was also his vassal.

Speaking of the Chahatai Khanate, it is impossible not to mention the grievances and hatreds between the Great Yuan and the Mongol forces in the Western Regions.

When Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, was fighting for the throne of the Khan, he did not follow the Mongol tradition and actually divided the Mongol Empire, with Yuan Shizu I, and the Great Yuan were at war with the Chahatai Khanate. Later, although the words were reconciled. But the relationship can't go back to the original love.

This part of the Western Regions, the northern frontier, that is, many grasslands north of the Tianshan Mountains, is from the Tilesha Department, but south of the Tianshan Mountains is from the Chahatai Khanate. Although the Chahatai Khanate also had constant internal strife and was divided for a time. But on the whole, this situation has been maintained for quite some time.

The Mongols here have been ***ed. It is even more important not to take Kublai Khan's family seriously.

If the Great Yuan is strong, the Chahatai Khanate will not mind lowering its head. But that's no longer the case. Who cares about the orthodoxy of the so-called Kublai Khan's lineage.

And the relationship between Warat and the Chahatai Khanate, which has been neighbors for many years, is very complicated. But as if given Mahamu another choice, he would not go to the Chahatai Khanate.

Because once he defected to the Chahatai Khanate, the independence of the Warat tribe would be greatly lost.

In the future, it can only be a vassal of the Chahatai Khanate.

And the Chahatai Khanate is not terrible, and today's Chahatai Khan, although it cannot be said to be a wine bag and rice bag, is too much worse than the generals of the Warat tribe.

But Timur was the real terrible.

Today, Timur's territory, including the whole of Central Asia, west to the dark coast, part of Turkey, Iran, Iraq are all his vassals, and even the Kipchak Khanate, and many other Mongol khanates also let them submit one by one by diplomatic means.

Historically, Timur conquered the Ming Dynasty in the early years of Yongle, but died of illness halfway, and then Timur Khan's civil strife collapsed, and the confrontation between the Eastern and Western empires did not happen. But that's no longer the case.

King Yan appeared in northern Xinjiang, and he was already very close to the Timurid Empire.

Not to mention, the Chahatai Khanate had a close relationship with Timur, not only an in-law, but also a vassal, although the Chahatai Khanate had a swing between the East and the West, but he was more afraid of Timur.

King Yan threatened the Chahatai Khanate, and it was impossible for Timur not to react.

At this time, it was Timur who returned from the war in Iraq and other places, and repaired a lot. Preparing for a new round of expansion, historically

, Timur would attack India and dominate part of northern India. And leave a part of the town guarded.

After the death of Timur, the Timurid Khanate collapsed, and the sixth grandson of Timur inherited this part of the inheritance, entered India, and laid down a country, and then the Mughal Khanate.

However, the appearance of the Yan King. It is quite possible to change the direction of Timur's offensive.

That is, in history, the dispute between King Yan and Timur did not take place, and it is very likely that it happened in this era. And in the not-too-distant future.

This situation made He Xi a little embarrassed.

It feels like everything is changing.

However, He Xi quickly focused on this matter, the impact on the Ming Dynasty, and the impact on Beijing.

For Beijing, there are pros and cons to this matter.

Needless to say, the benefits are not to be said.

Before the war started, King Yan was already busy sending people to Beijing. It can be seen that the pressure on King Yan is great. Although the current Timurid Khanate has not reached its heyday, the Timurid Khanate, which occupied the five Central Asian countries in later generations, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, the Caucasus, Turkey, and Pakistan, is already a behemoth.

Historically, when Timur went on an expedition to the east, there were 500,000 troops, half of which were mounted on foot, known as 800,000 troops.

Now, even if there are not so many, the strength is definitely above the Yan King's headquarters.

In the face of such pressure, Yanwang naturally wants to get more support from Beijing.

It's just that how can King Yan talk about white teeth and ask for support from Beijing. Perhaps it has become possible for King Yan to throw himself into Beijing, nominally recognizing Beijing's orthodoxy. If King Yan really did this. It's also a big plus for Beijing.

After all, King Jin is dead. King Yan is the elder of the clan. Not to mention, King Yan still has such a large territory in his hands, hundreds of thousands of cavalry, and millions of people. Whether Yanwang supports it or not will have a great effect on Beijing.

But things have to be bad.

For example, if King Yan is defeated.

Yes, in He Xi's opinion, King Yan does not dare to say that he is the first in the world with soldiers, but he is also a famous general, even above many founding generals. It's just that He Xi knows very well that people's strength is often exercised.

King Yan did not have the tempering of the Battle of Jingyan, and he would not have the Yongle Emperor in history.

Now King Yan and the King of Yan in history are not on the same path, and He Xi can't fully trust King Yan's strength.

And anything can happen on the battlefield, although King Yan has proved himself, but how can Timur not win a hundred battles?

Who can't say that Timur was not a famous general.

In such a confrontation, He Xi is thousands of miles away, and it is impossible to predict the outcome of the battle. You can only prepare for everything.

Once King Yan was defeated, King Yan could only abandon the Western Regions and return to Mobei.

But what would Timur do at that time? Attack Mobei?

No, a fool attacked Mobei.

The current environment of Mobei, no matter who attacks, is a loss-making business. Their best option was to attack Gansu from Turpan, although the northwest region, in He Xi, no, in the eyes of the entire Ming Dynasty, was almost the most barren place in the Ming Dynasty.

But that's also relative.

For Timur, the Northwest can still gain something. Moreover, Timur repeatedly sent troops, and he had to ask for booty, otherwise he would not be able to appease the soldiers below.

In other words, once the East-West War is formed, it is good that King Yan can hold on.

If you can't hold on.

This war cannot be eliminated out of thin air, and King Yan can retreat to Mobei, but the flames of war will still burn.

However, today's Gansu is not under the jurisdiction of Beijing. But it also made He Xi feel uneasy.

He suddenly had a sense of urgency at this moment, that is, the pace of unifying the world might be faster.

Originally, He Xilai wanted to go through this big battle and clean up the world. So that the reform can be better implemented. But now He Xi found that the butterfly effect he influenced in this world was too great.

The Timurid Empire was actually East

A corridor of Western exchanges. Even if Timur had some Western Europeans under him, He Xi did not find it strange at all. War is also a very effective way of communicating.

King Yan fought against Timur, and some of He Xi's doctrines and scientific prescriptions *** and other books spread to Timur's army and spread to Europe through Timur, which is a matter of time.

What kind of impact this will have, He Xi can't say.

Just to give him more of a sense of urgency.

It seemed that someone was shouting in his ear, "Hurry, hurry."