Chapter 375: The Ming Dynasty and the Western Regions in a Different Time and Space (Part 4)

Last time, it was mentioned that the army of the "Kazakh Khanate" destroyed the "Uzbek Khanate" in one fell swoop in revenge, and the "Kazakh Khanate" Kereh was killed by a hidden arrow when he entered the city of Samarkand, and passed the "throne" to the "Janibek Khan" before he died, which attracted the envoys of the "Timurid Khanate" and the "Ming Dynasty" to congratulate.

In 1468, the "Uzbek Khanate" was destroyed by the army of the "Kazakh Khanate", and most of the descendants of the "Uzbek Khan" Abu Hail were also killed, and only the 17-year-old "Shabani" successfully escaped. After several years in exile, Shaybani chose to join his traditional ally, the "Timurid Empire", because his grandfather Abu Hair had sent troops to help the ruler of the "Timurid Empire" seize the throne. However, the situation does not seem to be rosy.

At that time, the "Timurid Empire" was also in decline, although there was a "middle atmosphere" during the reign of Busain, but after he led his army to conquer the "Aries Dynasty" established by the Persians, his huge "Timurid Empire" fell into the chaos of civil war again.

Due to the civil war, the "Timurid Empire" was divided into five, namely the usurper Baihara, the eldest son of Busain, Ahma, the third son, the conspiracy, the fourth son Umar (the father of Babur), and the seventh son Urub. The five "kings" each commanded strong troops and fought against each other, which attracted the prying eyes of foreign enemies, so that the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" took the opportunity to find an excuse to intervene in the civil war of the "Timurid Empire", and when intervened, gradually swallowed up the territory of Busain's fourth son Umar.

Faced with the danger of encroachment by foreign enemies, the eldest son of Bu Sain, the strongest of the five forces, Ahamma, prepared to repel the foreign enemies first, and then stabilize the interior.

He took in the wandering "Shaybani" and carved out a pasture on the outskirts of the capital Samarkand, so that the "Shaybani" could collect the old parts of the "Uzbek Khanate" scattered all over the country. "Shaybany" took the opportunity to gather 3,000 people and form an armed force. This is the capital of "Shaybani".

In 1487, when "Shaybani" had just turned 36 years old, the eldest prince of the "Timurid Empire", Ahama raised an army of more than 50,000 people to conquer the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate". "Shaybani" went into battle with his "Uzbek army".

However, shortly before the start of the war, "Shaybani" secretly sent a secret letter to the "Mahmu Khan" of the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate", in which he expressed his willingness to offer a "great gift". In the same year, 50,000 troops of the "Timurid Empire" and 40,000 troops of the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" fought in the valley along the Syr Darya River.

At the beginning of the battle, Mahmu Khan of the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" first led his army to attack the Ahma army of the "Timurid Empire", with infantry in front and cavalry in the rear. Just when the two armies were fighting fiercely, the 3,000 "Uzbek" army led by "Shaybani" suddenly seized the high ground behind the position and attacked the "Timurid Empire" army with bows, arrows, stones, etc., so that the "Timurid Empire" army was miserably flanked from head to end, panicked, and collapsed.

In this battle, the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" won a great victory and took the opportunity to capture many cities of the "Timurid Empire". After the war, in order to thank the "Shaybani" for their help in the war, the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" of the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" rewarded the "Turkestan" city captured in this battle to the "Shaybani".

At this point, "Shaybani" had a territory, and after recuperation, it gradually grew its wings, and with the support of Maham Khan, it successively occupied Central Asian cities with important geographical locations such as Shagnak and Hatara.

By 1497, the "Shaybani" had the ability to organize an army of about 20,000 men, and became a significant force at that time. The "Timurid Empire", on the other hand, fell into unprecedented chaos after the death of Ahama from the defeat of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and the parties continued to fight.

In fact, in 1495, the third grandson of Busain, Boshen Mirza, gradually took control of the main territory of the "Timurid Empire" and became emperor ("sultan"), but his cousins did not approve of this and rebelled one after another. And the son of Umar, the son of Busain's fourth son, "Babur", who was only 11 years old at the time, also joined the chaos of the battle for the throne of the "Timurid Empire".

In 1497, after more than a year of fighting with his relatives, he could not hold on anymore and turned to "Shaybani" for help. However, when the "Shaybani" led the "Uzbek" army to Samarkand, Bershin Mirus refused to open the door to meet the "Shaybani" army.

As a result, "Shaybani" simply withdrew. In 1500 AD, the situation in Central Asia changed again, and after the death of Bershin Mir, his brother Ali entered the city of Samarkand and began to claim the title of emperor ("sultan"). At this time, the "Shaybani", who had been coveted for a long time on the side of the imperial couch, suddenly raised his troops to attack, first captured the city of Bukhara, and then attacked the capital of the empire, Samarkand. After the capital was breached, Shaybani executed the ruler Ali.

Due to the "nomadic habits" of the "Shaybani" army, after a large-scale raid, only 500 soldiers were left to defend the city, and the remaining "Uzbek" troops followed the "Shaybani" to withdraw to the steppe and station. Babur, who had been observing the situation in Afghanistan, led 200 cavalry to capture the city of Samarkand at night, and then was proclaimed the new ruler of the "Timurid Empire" ("Sultan") by his subordinates. But the good times did not last long, and the next year they waited for the Uzbeks to attack the city.

In 1501, Shaybani again led the army of the Uzbek Khanate to besiege the city of Samarkand, and finally broke through the imperial capital a few months later, but Babur took advantage of the chaos to escape. However, Babur's sister, Ezata Bekun, was captured by Shaybani and forcibly adopted as her concubine.

After the strength of the "Shaybani" became strong, he turned the spearhead to Mahamu Khan of the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate". Mahamu Khan was so remorseful about this that he had no choice but to ask his younger brother, the "Turpan Khanate" Aheima Khan, for help. In 1503, "Shaybani" led 30,000 "Uzbek" elite cavalry to fight at Sarpul with the 30,000 coalition army formed by the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate", the "Turpan Khanate" and the "Timurid Empire" prince Babur.

Located between the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, Sarpul is an open terrain suitable for large-scale cavalry operations. However, in this battle, the "Shaybani" feigned defeat and only began a large-scale counteroffensive after leading the local coalition forces into the quagmire, resulting in many coalition forces being bogged down in the quagmire.

After a day and night of bloody fighting between the two armies, the coalition forces were defeated. The "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" Maham Khan and his younger brother the "Turpan Khanate" Aheima Khan were captured alive, and the "Timurid Empire" prince Babur miraculously escaped again. At this point, the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" gradually declined, and the vast territory ruled by the descendants of the "Timurid Empire" was successively annexed by the "Uzbek Khanate" of the "Shaybani", which made the "Shaybani" power increase sharply.

In 1506, the last secessionist of the "Timurid Empire", Baihara, died in fear. A year later, the "Uzbek" army led by "Shaybani" captured Herat, and after a lot of looting and massacring the city, the "Timurid Empire", which had once dominated Central Asia, was destroyed.

After the annexation of the "Timurid Empire", the prestige of "Shaybani" reached its peak, so he prepared to recapture the homeland of his grandfather Abu Khair, so he reorganized his army and launched an attack on the "Kazakh Khanate" in the northeast. In 1509, Shaybani finally led a large army to attack the "Kazakh Khanate".

At that time, the "Khan" (or "King Khan") who ruled the "Kazakh Khanate" was Hasmu Khan, the son of "Janibek Khan". After the battle between the two armies, the "Kazakh Khanate" actually succeeded in defeating the "Uzbek" army of the "Shaybani", because the "Kazakh cavalry" was generally equipped with a "meteor hammer" to make up for the lack of weapons.

After failing to expand to the northeast, Shaybani turned his attention to the Iranian plateau to the southwest. At that time, the "Aries dynasty", which ruled the Iranian region, had been replaced by the "Safavid dynasty". However, in order to ridicule the family of Ismaili I, the ruler of the "Safavid Dynasty", "Shaybani" deliberately gave him a bowl used by the "wandering monks" (walking monks) to beg, alluding to the fact that Ismaili I's ancestor was just a wandering begging monk, and asked him to return to his old business.

This move immediately angered Ismaili I, the ruler of the "Safavid dynasty" in Iran. Soon after, the two countries had differences in religious beliefs, with Iranians believing in "Shiism" ("Black Food") and Uzbeks believing in "Sunni" ("White Food"), and there was a dispute over the ownership of the border between the two countries, so a major war finally broke out. At the end of 1510, Ismaili I, who had been maliciously humiliated, led an army of 40,000 to attack "Khorasan" in the east.

Khorasan had been Iranian territory during the days of the "Classical Persian Empire", when Persia was defeated by the Arabs who suddenly rose to the desert of the Middle East and forcibly popularized "Islam", just as a bitter war broke out with the Tang Dynasty of China, which continued to advance westward. After the defeat of the Don army, the "Khorasan" region was Turkicized.

To get back to the point, when "Shaybani" learned that the Persians had "taken the bait", he immediately gathered 20,000 elite cavalry to meet the opponent's 40,000 infantry legions.

Ismaili I resorted to the "trick of luring the enemy", pretending not to engage the enemy and slowly retreating. However, the "Shaybani" pursued by the enemy, but was divided and surrounded by the "Persian hoplites" who suddenly rushed out, and finally died on the battlefield. In this battle, the "Uzbek" army was defeated, which triggered a "great earthquake" in the Central Asian steppe.

After his death, his body was sent to various places for public display, his scalp was stripped off and sent to the "Sultan" of the "Ottoman Turkish" empire for demonstration, and his skull was inlaid with gold and silver as a wine cup for Ismaili I. When the news of the death of "Shaybani" came, Babur, who had been repeatedly defeated in road battles, wept with joy, because he felt that his desire to restore the "Timurid Empire" seemed to be close and within reach. However, there are many good things, and they may not be as expected.

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