"Zhang Dingbian?" Suddenly hearing this long-lost name from his mouth, Zhu Su was a little stunned for a moment. It has been a few years since the town of Ji. I thought that Zhang Dingbian was getting older, so he should have already found a place in the mountains and lived in seclusion.

But I didn't expect that this old man's blood was not cold, and he was still in this foreign land, cutting through thorns and thorns for China.

"Zhang Jushi is also in Thirsty Stone City now?" Zhu Su, who came back to his senses, looked extremely surprised. "He and this king are also old friends. didn't want him to be recruited by the second brother as a guest. ”

"The deputy gang leader is chivalrous, like-minded with our gang, and naturally there will be a day when they come together." "Flying on the grass" is uneven, and he is proud to be able to work with people like Zhang Dingbian who have left their names in history.

Zhu Su nodded, Zhu Fan was also a mistake. In the past, when he recruited Zhang Dingbian for the imperial court, Zhang Dingbian obviously did not want to have anything to do with the Ming court. At that time, he didn't expect to set up a gang in the rivers and lakes to recruit Zhang Dingbian in the name of the gang.

But now that Zhang Dingbian has joined the Qin Gang, he can be regarded as working for Daming in disguise.

"Deputy Gang Leader Zhang is strong in martial arts, a cooked copper stick, outside the thirsty stone city, I don't know how many soldiers of the Timurid Khanate have been killed!" When the 'little Meng' Gao Ye talked about Zhang Dingbian, he was even more excited. "The name of the 'Invincible Monk' is really loud!"

"It's just that the army of the Timurid Khanate is too much, and Rao is deputy Zhang gang leader killed a hundred, a thousand...... It doesn't help. ”

"His Royal Highness King Zhou, don't hesitate, hurry up and launch a big army! If it's any later, in case the gang leader is trapped in the city......"

Hearing the name of "Invincible Monk", the corners of Zhu Su's mouth twitched slightly. Speaking of this trend of naming the people in the rivers and lakes or Zhu Su himself brought it up, among the popular martial arts such as "Condor" and "Tianlong", there is no one who does not have a resounding name in the Ming Dynasty, but there is no one who does not have a resounding name, which also leads to the prevalence of names for people in the rivers and lakes today, and they all sound like heroes who robbed the road on Liangshan.

Zhang Dingbian's name is so bright, and with the name of this "invincible monk", it has a sense of nondescript and downgrade, which sounds really awkward.

However, this is not the time to dwell on these details, after listening to several rangers report the specific situation of Thirsty Rock City one by one, Zhu Su immediately asked people to mark the distribution of the two armies on the map. It can be seen from the map that the city is now guarded by Pingliang Hou Feiju, and outside the city are more than 80,000 main forces of the Timurid Empire and 50,000 servants. According to the rangers, they had just defeated Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in the north, and their morale was extremely high and they were extremely difficult to deal with.

In addition to the 70,000 troops of the Timurid Empire, there were 5,000 Ming descendants led by Zhu Di, and 20,000 Vara cavalry, which originally wanted to take advantage of the time when Timur was entangled with Tokhtamysh, and went south to take the land of Persia as soon as possible. Hearing that Timur had returned to the division of Thirsty Stone, he quickly withdrew under the leadership of Zhu Di, and when this army came to the left of Thirsty Stone, Thirsty Rock City had been besieged.

Judging from the several battles experienced by these rangers, Timur's strategy was simple: to encircle the thirsty stone and strike at the forces of Zhu Di's army on the periphery.

Zhu Su saw the ruthlessness of this strategy at a glance: logically speaking, Thirsty Stone City was the place where Timur started, and it was located at the throat, since Timur had returned to the division, he must have hurriedly ordered a general attack and quickly recaptured this fortress. Only in this way can we recover Persia again as soon as possible and maintain the original borders of the Timurid Empire.

Thinking about it, Zhu Di and Fei Ju originally thought the same: Timur will definitely do whatever it takes to get down to Thirsty Stone City as soon as possible. Therefore, they arranged for Fei Ju to defend the thirsty stone, and Zhu Di went south to take Persia, worsening the situation in the Persian region and making Timur anxious.

As long as Timur attacked the city of Thirsty Stone, even if Thirsty Stone fell, Timur's army would inevitably suffer heavy losses. The Timurid Empire was originally formed under the authority of Timur alone, as long as Timur's power was damaged, careerists would take advantage of the situation, and the nascent Timurid Empire would fall apart.

But Timur was unreasonable, in the face of Zhu Di, who was constantly eroding the foundation of Timur's empire's rule in the Persian region, he still chose the longest and least lost siege war, and did not take the initiative to attack the city, which forced Zhu Di to return to the aid of Thirsty Stone, after all, Thirsty Stone City is a military city, and there are not many fields and people for cultivation and grazing in it.

In this way, it was Zhu Di's turn to panic. If Thirsty Rock fell, they would have to retreat into Persia and fight a defeated battle with Timur...... Moreover, Fei Ju's subordinates were the elite of the Ming Suzhou Guard, and in order to support him Zhu Di, they traveled thousands of miles to this place in the middle of the river in Central Asia, and Zhu Di couldn't sit back and watch them die here.

A tug-of-war between the Timurid Empire and Zhu Di, the king of Yan in the Ming Dynasty, began......

"This Timur is really not an ordinary opponent." Zhu Su's expression was a little grim. Timur, the cripple who was later called the third world conqueror, was certainly not to be underestimated. He is a natural general, and this hand is mainly anti-guest, and he has the three flavors of ancient and modern art of war.

is also the lord of a country, compared to him, the Sultan of Firuz, who thought that the war elephant was invincible in the world and lined up outside the city to face the Ming army, used his troops like a child's house......

It is no wonder that the Delhi Sultanate was crushed by the Timurid Empire over and over again......

"In this case, without further ado, pass on the king's order to urgently prepare military horses and baggage supplies tonight."

"Delhi City is guarded by Cao Yuan, assisted by Huang Guan."

"Early tomorrow morning, this king will personally lead his troops to Thirsty Rock City!"

With a command, the city of Derry, which had just been incorporated under the Ming Dynasty, was in full swing like a war machine. Those sects knew that they would never be able to get out of Zhu Su's control, and they would need to rely on Zhu Su and the Ming army to help them strengthen their sect in the future, so they spared no effort to help Zhu Su's army prepare for the expedition. Early the next morning, 8,000 Ming troops, 10,000 followers and servants, and 20,000 war horses were ready.

The city was guarded by 3,000 Ming troops newly transferred from the fleet, as well as tens of thousands of sect believers.

Zhu Su even removed more than a dozen ship guns from the ship. These cannons are extremely heavy and not easy to transport, and on weekdays, a cannon requires nearly 100 people to transport it together, responsible for pushing carts, paving roads, installing cannons, carrying cannons, and so on. But now, there was an excellent artillery carrier: the elephants were so powerful that they could transport the cannons.

Although the speed was a little slower, let them slow down in the rear, and the other armies rode their horses first.

In this way, the three armies were mighty, and the whole army marched to Central Asia, looking for an opportunity to join Zhu Di.

(End of chapter)