Chapter 91: Timur withdraws his troops

In Timur's view, King Yan was nothing more than a prince of the Ming Empire. Or just a king. He respected the strength of King Yan and wanted to reach a peace agreement with King Yan, even if it was a brief peace agreement, after the end of the war, within a few years, they would just tear it up.

Timur never thought of binding each other with a peace agreement.

Whether it's someone else, or yourself.

Timur just felt that he was not ready for today's battle. Want a buffer time and wait for the next war.

In fact, King Yan also needs this time.

Yan Wang He had been prepared in the Western Regions. He also did not gain a foothold in the Western Regions.

It would be great if it could be stable for a few years. After a few years, it is not known who attacked whom first.

However, the identity and status of King Yan did not allow him to sign a contract with Timur.

Without him, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, outside the Central Plains, there are barbarians. Timur was nothing more than the leader of the barbarians. If King Yan signs a peace agreement with him, it is to admit that he is on an equal footing with himself. In fact, if King Yan is the emperor, there is nothing.

Because King Yan has supreme power, he has some trade-offs in practical interests. It's also quite normal.

But King Yan is not the emperor, so he has a lot to worry about.

At least he wanted to think about how Beijing would react to the peace talks.

What do the people of the Ming Dynasty think about this peace discussion?

In the end, King Yan decided that he could not sign it.

Because the Ming Dynasty only had a tributary system and no equal treaty, or Timur did not have the strength to prove that he had this strength, if he could come to the city and take down the Western Regions, it would prove that Timur had this qualification. It is enough to have an equal peace agreement.

It's probably at the level of the Tanyuan Alliance.

Now King Yan feels that if he works hard, he can drive the other party away. Why bother to give the other party this face and add some humiliation to yourself.

Not to mention, Timur was a Mongol. He is the son-in-law of the Golden Family.

For so many years, Daming has never been soft on the Golden Family. What to talk about, it's better not to talk about it.

This made Timur a bit of a dilemma. If you can't attack, it's hard to explain to your side when you retreat.

However, the current situation was not enough to shake Timur's mind.

Timur tasted the power of artillery under the city of Tingzhou. Given different reactions, the weak must have been shocked when they saw this situation, and they did not dare to despise the other party, and even tried to find a way to seek peace and compromise. But Timur was different.

Timur's heart was filled with a thirst for firearms at this moment. He desperately wanted to get his hands on these things. But he knew that no country could allow such weapons to flow out easily. So Timur decided that after the next preparation, he would continue his crusade and make sure to make these artillery pieces his own trophies.

Seems to defy logic. But in reality, Timur himself had his own logic.

First of all, the power of artillery is huge, and if you don't get artillery, you will definitely lag behind in the future, so he will do whatever it takes to get artillery, and how to make artillery. What's the biggest of all costs? It's war.

Secondly, with such a weapon as artillery, even if he is willing to make peace with the East, will the other party be willing?

With a sharp weapon, the murderous intent arises. Look at the book

Naturally, it won't. Timur felt that if it was his own words, he would not be able to.

Since this is the case, there will definitely be a war between the two sides, so I will not have a strategic advantage in fighting the other side than the other side fighting me.

In this way, Timur had to decide, from Turkey, to the Caucasus. India and other places shrank and put the direction of attack in the Western Regions. Fight with the Yan King.

This is an opportunity for King Yan. If King Yan can win Timur in the Western Regions, then Central Asia will be very easy to win. Of course. This is also a problem, if King Yan can't take it to the other party. The collision between the Ming and Timur will definitely begin.

Plus, there's a little episode.

That is, the reason why Byzantium fell decades later in history, because before that, Byzantium sent people to Timur for help, that is

Two or three years later, Timur went west with the Ottomans, the pagans who saved Constantinople.

Now it seems that Timur will not go west.

I don't know, Byzantium will fall early. In other words, the butterfly effect brought by He Xi was finally transmitted to the West and affected major events in Western history.

At this time, a cavalry suddenly came to Timur's horse and said in Turkic dialect: "King Yan attacked the logistics camp and burned hundreds of thousands of catties of our grain."

Timur did not have any expression at all. He said, "Got it." Then he paused slightly and said, "Give the order to withdraw the troops."

Timur had long been prepared to withdraw his troops, and now this reason for withdrawal could not be better.

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At the head of Tingzhou City, Zhang Yu was also relieved.

The construction of Tingzhou City is too sloppy. Zhang Yu has been worried for a while. There is one thing that others don't know, but Zhang Yu knows. That is, the city's gunpowder reserves have bottomed out.

There was a regiment of the Northern Army in the city of Tingzhou. It is a soldier of the Deng family.

Deng Zhen's position in the Northern Army was awkward. But the problem is that Deng Zhen's lineage has always had a great influence in the military. You can't kill them all because of Deng Zhen's problem. After a series of purges, the influence of Deng Zhen's vein is already very low.

The last bit of influence was also stuffed into this regiment and kicked to the Western Regions, because of the distance.

Most of the artillery of this regiment remained behind, carrying only a few guns. But even then, it's pretty sharp. It is the Dinghai God Needle of Tingzhou.

But whether it is a firearm, the most important thing is gunpowder, without gunpowder, these weapons are nothing.

And the Western Regions are too far away from the Central Plains. It was difficult to send grain and grass to the rear, let alone gunpowder. The city is not good in all aspects, which makes the consumption of gunpowder huge. In this case, if the enemy attacks a few more times, more than 10,000 people will die. Zhang Yu could only engage the enemy in close combat.

This is also the reason why King Yan wants to take a risky blow.

OK. At the last moment, Timur finally withdrew.

Zhang Yu had a feeling. At this time, King Yan's most dangerous moment in the Western Regions had passed.

Timur's slaughter here was also a good thing for King Yan. After all, no matter how gentle King Yan is to the Mongols in northern Xinjiang, he can't get rid of one thing, that is, King Yan is a conqueror.

It is difficult to get them to surrender immediately.

But the arrival of Timur told these people that not a single conqueror was as good a speaker as King Yan, who at least brought them a lot of goods from the Central Plains. Brings advanced productivity, as well as other benefits.

But the Mongols in the west were of the same race, but they only brought blood and war.

The choice is simple.

Although, under Timur, the local people suffered a lot. But the rest should be about Daming.

Zhang Yu was happy, and immediately sent someone to find a way to inform King Yan to come back immediately without mentioning it.

This big battle is over.

However, this was the first confrontation between King Yan and Timur, but it would not be the last.