Chapter 90: The Twin Heroes

The snow-capped mountains are skyscraper, and the yellow sand is all over the ground.

Thousands of cavalry marched through the desert.

King Yan trudged through it. Covered in sand and soil, his lips are cracked, and he is no different from ordinary soldiers.

After a year in the making.

The war between King Yan and Timur officially began.

Hundreds of thousands of Timur's cavalry and more than 100,000 foot cavalry of King Yan fought fiercely along the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.

It's just that the special circumstances of the Western Regions make their battles different from those in the Central Plains.

It is simply impossible for hundreds of thousands of troops to start a fierce battle, because the logistics cannot be supplied at all. An army of hundreds of thousands requires at least the same number of civilians to go to the battlefield. And in the Western Regions, it is impossible for so many soldiers and horses to gather.

Therefore, even if there are more soldiers and horses, they can only be divided into several roads, or guard the back road, or manage the place. In short, the army that can be gathered to fight is only tens of thousands.

This was true of King Yan, and so was Timur.

Just in general.

Yan Wang still has more problems. Because the time that King Yan has gained a foothold in the Western Regions is too short. A seemingly surging expansion. However, the grasslands of the Western Regions are not the Central Plains, and the Central Plains region is not in danger. There are also cities in many places.

But it's not the same in the Western Regions.

When attacking, you can rush forward. But it's the same when someone attacks you. An easy place to attack and hard to defend.

King Yan is fine. He rebuilt the city of Tingzhou. Although this Tingzhou city is only a county town in terms of scale, it is even smaller than the city in the Han and Tang dynasties. However, the baggage of the army was all packed in it, and it was even more jammed in the main road of north-south traffic.

Here, King Yan's power can still be distributed in the north and south of Xinjiang, and if it is not here, the southern Xinjiang region is not owned by King Yan.

In the area of Hami and Turpan, it is estimated that they will surrender one after another. It's as if they surrendered to King Yan.

And it is difficult for northern Xinjiang to gain a foothold.

King Yan could only endure such a situation. Just attacking Timur was also unbearable for King Yan.

King Yan fought with Timur several times, and he also knew the strength of Timur's cavalry very well. In a word, it is the Iron Rider.

They are all equipped with chain mail, and there is leather armor on the outside, which is quite light when fighting. And they are all veterans who can fight well, the kind that kills without blinking. The most tricky thing for King Yan is that there are some very fanatical *** in it.

In King Yan's opinion, these people are dead soldiers, and they are quite deadly existences when they start a war.

Even if you hedge against the Yan King Han Cavalry, you can fight for more than ten rounds and fight to the death.

In the eyes of King Yan, among his subordinates, the elite cavalry expanded by King Yan's three guards may not be afraid of these people. But he can't consume too much. This is also the national condition of Yan Kingdom. The core of King Yan's rule is the generals from King Yan and the three guards of King Yan below. Outside were the Mongols with whom they were married. The outermost part is the ordinary Mongols.

Don't look at how King Yan treated the Mongols well. But in essence, King Yan only trusts his own people. Yanwang Sanwei is his own person. There were too many dead and wounded among these people. King Yan himself is not worried, as long as he is alive, no one dares to be presumptuous. But it's hard to say in the future.

Yes. In order to gain the support of the Mongols, King Yan compromised with the Mongols in many things. For example, King Yan wore Mongolian clothes, wrestled, and the men in the family were married to the Mongols. But King Yan never thought of making Yan a Mongol country, he had to be a Han country.

Therefore, the core of the Han people cannot lose too much.

If King Yan folds King Yan's three guards here, even if he wins Timur, it will be a victory that outweighs the loss.

Although it is likely that the consequences will not be felt until decades later.

King Yan thought about it and made up his mind, and he traveled far away in the desert. To go where others can't go, and to take the road that others can't, is to cut off Timur's support. After all, there is no far and constant logistical support from the Central Asian region.

It was also impossible for Timur to sustain an army of tens of thousands to continue to attack Tingzhou.

This matter is so important that King Yan does not dare to put this one

Leave the matter to someone else. Because this is related to the life and death of Yan Kingdom.

King Yan personally led the troops, and he took Qiu Fu and other generals, these people can be regarded as the elite of the elite, all of them are the old men of King Yan's three guards. And Zhang Yu stayed behind to guard the city of Tingzhou.

"Your Highness, I found it. Fifty miles away is Timur's logistical camp." Qiu Fu is also full of yellow sand. Almost out of the sand.

King Yan lifted the reins and said, "Okay."

His voice was hoarse, as if two pieces of iron were rubbing. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, drink the blood of Hu Lu with me."

"Yes." The same hoarse voice replied.

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Yan Wang's planning has reached the most critical time. And Timur felt that he was facing the most dangerous problem of his life. ap.

Timur rode on his horse, drove it, and looked at the shells on the ground. Then he raised his head and looked at the back of the mountains, there was a city, which looked so small against the backdrop of the Tianshan Mountains.

Timur has been there for dozens of days.

Under this city, there were more than tens of thousands of dead and wounded.

Of course, these tens of thousands of people were not Timur's people. It's the Mongols.

Or the Watts. It is the local grassland department. When Timur arrived at the city of Tingzhou, after the heavy losses in the first attack, he immediately came to his senses and stopped attacking. Instead, he ordered all the people around him to be arrested.

Mongol or not.

Although Timur was a Mongol, he was a Turkic Mongol. Or rather, he's ***. He would not consider the Mongols who believed in the Yellow Religion or the Immortal Heaven as his compatriots. Moreover, it is also the habit of the Mongols to attack the city in wartime and let the local people fill the ravines.

Thus, the tragic siege began.

After the death of tens of thousands of Mongolian warriors, Timur had to admit that this small Tingzhou was an iron city.

And the foundation of making this iron city is not how tall the city is.

Tingzhou is not tall. It's just a temporary construction. Even in the Central Plains, it may not be called a city. Moreover, the city defense of Tingzhou is not complete. There wasn't even a moat, just a few deep trenches.

What really makes Tingzhou a fortified city is Tingzhou's weapons. Gunners, artillery used on a large scale.

To Timur's great amazement.

Especially artillery.

Truth be told, the Mongols had already brought artillery to the West, and in a few decades, the West would produce Byzantine cannons, known as giant cannons. Let Byzantium become history. It was not without that Timur had seen cannons.

But the density of firepower in the state of Jinting made Timur a little frightened.

Timur was silent for a long time and said, "Wisdom is in the East, and I must live and seek it." In the future, attacking the east is the direction of my direction."

Timur's crusade was not very determined. He didn't think it was much of a war. He even thinks that this year will be over, and after the end, he still has a lot of things to deal with.

For example, to the west, to conquer India, and so on.

Central Asia was a crossroads of civilizations, and Timur had too many directions to choose from. It is precisely because there are so many directions to choose from that it is difficult for him to completely defeat an opponent every time he attacks.

It's just using up your power to expand your power. Timur's wars were even a bit like the wars of conquest of the feudal period, and all he needed was to subdue his opponents. Let them want to contribute their own soldiers and horses and money for their own battles.

This conquest naturally collapsed behind Timur.

It was only Timur who felt his way forward at this moment.

It's the East.

Be sure to conquer the East.

In fact, at this point in the battle, Timur already had a premonition that this battle was about to be lost.

Speaking of which, Timur was indeed experienced in a hundred battles. It's much more powerful than King Yan. His sense of smell on the battlefield is also above that of King Yan, although he does not know King Yan's actions, but he has been unable to conquer for a long time, and Timur already knows that his time is running out.

After all, behind him

The empire is not the Ming Dynasty, and before he came, he did not think of a siege that lasted for several years, so he was ready to seek a decent end here.

After all, he came here to rescue the Chahatai Khanate, and he was coming out for his younger brother. In essence, he was not prepared to fight with King Yan to the end.

It's just that how could King Yan reach a peace agreement with Timur?