In fact, the victory and defeat were not yet clear, and the Timurid Empire decisively retreated, and the Ming army did not pursue it. In fact, the Timurid Empire did not show any flaws, they covered each other on foot and horse, and slowly retreated, so that even Fei Ju, who was old in military affairs, was amazed.

As soon as the enemy retreated, the Ming army also collected its troops and returned to the camp. This first battle was just a small test, and it had already been tested that the combat power of the Timurid Empire far exceeded Zhu Di's expectations. Zhu Di frowned, he knew that such an enemy would definitely not be able to win quickly, and if he wanted to fight, it would definitely be protracted. Then the grain and grass on your side is another big problem.

His original intention was to emulate the rise of the Mongol Empire in the past, and to feed the war with war. But now the Timurid Empire is obviously a strong enemy that Mongolia has rarely encountered in the past, and there is such a roadblock here, just like the former Mongolia met the Southern Song Dynasty, and the snowball tactics of fighting to feed the war are not very easy to use.

Just when Zhu Di was hesitating whether to temporarily collect troops from Hami, and then transport grain from the Ming Dynasty, the detective horse of Fei Ju's department actually sent back a news that he did not expect: the Timurid Empire has withdrawn!

It was not just a temporary withdrawal, but the whole army set up camp and went straight back to the west.

Even Yili has removed the siege of Lili!

"Isn't there a fraud?" Zhu Di was quite stunned, it was just a tentative battle, and the Timurid Empire withdrew directly. With such an abnormal behavior, the Ming army did not dare to act rashly, and Zhu Di immediately dispatched more scouts to investigate.

"Your Highness, Master Dao Yan is back." Just as he was about to convene the generals to discuss, he heard the news that Yao Guangxiao had returned. Zhu Di got up to greet him, and Yao Guangxiao immediately walked into the tent and said, "Your Highness, the reason for the withdrawal of the Timurid Empire has been investigated by the poor monks. ”

"Oh? What is the reason? Zhu Di asked.

"It's a long story......"

So Yao Guangxiao told Zhu Di eloquently. This matter, however, involved the complex political changes in Central Asia in the early years with the Golden Horde, one of the four great Mongol khanates.

In the past, when the remnants of the Chagatai Khanate were still preserving, Timur already had considerable strength. He installed a puppet monarch and ruled the Transoxiana region as the "Great Emir" (emir, roughly meaning prince in Central Asia). At that time, a Mongol nobleman named Tokhtamysh lost his unsuccessful struggle for power with the Great Khan of the White Horde, Urus Khan, and defected to Timur.

Timur was planning to swallow the Ilkhanate at that time, and because he was worried that the White Horde would help the Ilkhanate, he sent troops to help Tokhtamysh control the White Horde, so that he could no longer have to worry about attacking Persia and other places owned by the Ilkhanate.

However, he overestimated Tokhtamysh's integrity, and after Tokhtamysh became the White Horde, he actually defeated the suzerainty of the White Horde, the Golden Horde's retainer Mamai, and took control of the territory of the Golden Horde. He then merged the White Horde with the Golden Horde to become the new Great Khan of the Golden Horde. As his status grew, Tokhtamysh began to see Timur as a mortal enemy.

Perhaps because he had been humiliated by Timur when he had been compromised in the past, or because he knew Timur's ambitions and was deeply jealous of him, in short, the new Golden Horde Khan, who occupied the northern part of the Timurid Empire, began the traditional nomadic art of the Timurid Empire: the grass valley.

The country was plagued and went to rob the Timurid Empire; There is nothing to do in the country, and it is better to be idle than to grab the Timurid Empire. Under the endless attacks of the Lost Khan of Tokhtarmsh, Timur had no choice but to interrupt his pace of devouring Persia and began to tug of war with the Golden Horde again and again.

"Oh? In this way, the situation of the Timurid Empire is similar to that of our Central Plains Dynasty. Zhu Di was quite interested, and the previous Central Plains Dynasty was also faced with such a situation: it was annoying to face the endless raids of the northern nomads.

I want to free my hands, but I can't get it.

"So this Timurid Empire is withdrawing its troops back to deal with the Golden Horde of Naraushzi?"

"It must be so." Yao Guangxiao bowed slightly. The poor monk found out that this time the Timurid Empire sent troops to the force, which was mostly a deterrent. Now that I see the courage of my Ming soldiers, I naturally don't want to fall into the quagmire here with us. ”

"Speaking of which, the son of the Great Khan in this Yili is still Timur's father-in-law, and the two countries have a good son-in-law. Even if Timur coveted it, he only repaired the book to the Great Khan of Warat, and wanted to borrow the hand of Warat to take it. However, the secret alliance between Warat and the Timurid Empire was made public by my Ming Dynasty, and the black fireman, in his wrath, took advantage of the entanglement between Timur and Tokhtamysh to send troops to attack the land in the river of the Timurid Empire, which provoked Timur's revenge only the day before......"

“…… The three of them, Timur, were obviously benefactors and sons-in-law of each other, but they attacked each other and betrayed each other. Sure enough, it is a genus of barbarians, who does not know etiquette and righteousness, and is equivalent to beasts. Zhu Di snorted coldly and commented on the chaotic relationship between the three kingdoms. Since Timur really withdrew his troops, he should not go for the time being. ”

"I'll meet later, this black fire man Khan in Yili."

So the Ming army opened and directly advanced to the city of Yili. Yili put the city through the siege of the Timurid Empire, and now it is crumbling, morale is declining, seeing the jackals retreat, the tiger is coming again, the soldiers in the city are all frightened.

"Why, I came all the way to help you drive away the Timurid Empire, is this how you treat the king?" Under the city, Wang Xian's face was not good, and he shouted to the city wall, as if in the next moment, the Ming army was about to take over the Timurid Empire and continue to attack the city.

The soldiers in the city looked at each other, but everyone was timid. Wang Xian was not afraid of their cold arrows, and still showed off his might under the city: "You dare to treat me harshly, I really don't know what the word death is." ”

"I'll count three, if we don't welcome the king into the city, don't blame us for taking the city by ourselves!"

"One!"

He didn't dare to allow the king to count three first, and the first count fell, and the broken Yili opened the inner city gate with a bang. Inside, Yili put the Great Khan of the Great Khan under the door, and the richly dressed Yili of the Great Khan of the Black Sons of the Fire is trembling and preparing to meet the Yan King Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that he doesn't want to refuse the Ming army to enter the city, but it's really that the city defense of the inner city has already been dilapidated. And the Ming Dynasty was stronger than the Timurid Empire, and the Timurid Empire also had a Golden Horde that stumbled his hands and feet, and the Ming ......

The graves of the Northern Yuan Emperor and the Great Khan of Warat are now unknown how many zhang high.

"The little sweat of the lower country, the black fireman, greets His Royal Highness the Yan King of the Shangguo......" the black firefighter shouted loudly.

Zhu Di sat on the horse, stood still, and did not come forward to meet the black fireman, but gave Mahamu and Aduqin a look, Mahamu and Aduqin understood, and the Mongol army rode into the city on horseback and fish, and snatched the city defense from the hands of the people in the city.

(End of chapter)