The last time he demonstrated the fact that the army of "Timur" in different time and space went east to conquer the Ming Dynasty, because "Timur" died of drunkenness in the middle of the way, but he did not die at this time.

Parallel time and space, multiverse. According to the "quantum theory", what happens in that time and space will definitely happen in this time and space, and according to the "conservation of energy", "conservation of mass" and "conservation of entropy increase", it can be seen that the "superposition state" of two groups of elementary particles determines that the same thing in each other's space-time may not develop exactly according to the same law. This is why people will find in their dreams that countless "themselves" have made countless dreams and come up with countless results.

In the winter of 1404, "Timur" ordered all the diplomatic envoys of various countries stationed in the capital of the "Timurid Empire" in Samarkand to leave immediately, including the ambassador of the "Spanish Empire" in Europe, because the "overlord of Central Asia, Timur" asked the envoys to bring back a "shocking news" to the countries.

This "amazing news" is that he will raise 200,000 elite cavalry (known as the "800,000 army") to conquer the Ming Dynasty! Previously, "Timur" had made sufficient preparations for the Eastern Expedition for a long time, because he not only attached importance to intelligence gathering, but also attached great importance to logistics and material support, and in order to ensure the success of the Eastern Expedition to the Ming Dynasty, he had made a lot of preparations more than ten years in advance, and the rich capital Samarkand and Bahara provided him with solid logistics support.

A total of 800,000 people, including logistics and transportation personnel, almost each had a camel, three horses, five oxen, and three sheep as military rations for the Long March, because camels could be used as the main means of transportation to transport military supplies in non-combat conditions, and could also be used as "military food" when food was extremely scarce.

In addition, "Timur" also learned from the information he had collected that the northwest frontier region of the "Ming Dynasty of China" was extremely arid and rainless, and water resources were extremely scarce, and if the army could not find water when marching in the desert, it could also drink camel milk, horse urine, horse blood, and camel blood to tide over the difficulties.

The "Timur" Crusade Army advanced in four echelons: the vanguard was an army of 20,000 led by the "Emperor Sun" Hari, and in the process of advancing, the herdsmen who grazed and cultivated along the way were left to supply the army. At the end of November 1404, "Timur" left the city of Samarkand with a large army.

At the same time, the forward troops led by his "imperial grandson" Hari had already crossed the "Tianshan Mountains" of the "Western Regions of Xinjiang" in early December of the same year, that is, less than two months after the departure of the army, it had advanced to the "Jimusar" area, which was less than 800 miles away from the "Hamiwei" of the Ming Dynasty.

In the ancient history of communication between the East and the West, the "Hexi Corridor" was not the most ideal choice for entering and exiting East Asia from Central Asia, because the roads here were narrower and slower than those of the northern steppes, which was not conducive to the simultaneous passage of large cavalry units, because it would not be possible to use it if it was to be fought.

However, "Timur", the "overlord of Central Asia", chose to march to the east from here, and on the way to cross the branch of the "Tianshan Mountains" and enter the "Khotan" area of the "Southern Xinjiang Basin". Throughout the ages, "Khotan" was an important member of the ancient kingdom of the Western Regions, especially for the Han and Tang dynasties.

"Khotan" is the name of the ancient country of the Western Regions, that is, Yutian County, Hotan District, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, founded in 232 BC, destroyed in 1006 AD, Guozuo as long as 1238 years, is the ancient Western Regions Buddhism, is the long-term residence of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Western Regions Protectorate", and is also one of the "Anxi Four Towns" of the Tang Dynasty's "Anxi Protectorate". The "national surname" of the monarch of the "Khotanese State" is "Wei Chi", which is the surname of "Wei Chi Gong" in the "Biography of Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" and on the rural door panel.

Because the royal family of "Khotan" admired the Tang Dynasty, there were two monarchs who changed their surnames to "Li", they were Yuchi monk Wubo (Li Shengtian) and Yuchi Sula (Li Congde). Xuanzang, who experienced Khotan, described Khotan in "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty": "Since it has been descended, it has been inherited from generation to generation, and the king of the country has been passed on without losing its clues."

For thousands of years, the "Yuchi" family controlled the power of Khotan, and the ancient inhabitants belonged to the so-called "Scythians" (Scythia).

s), also known as a Tibetan and Indian mixed tribe. There is also a relevant record in "Northern History: The Biography of Khotan": "From the west of Gaochang, the countries and others have deep eyes and high noses. However, this country is not very bearded, and it is quite similar to China. In 1006, Khotan was annexed by the Qarakhanid state and gradually Islamized. By the 11th century, their ethnicity and language were gradually "Uighurized", and they no longer looked like they were before the Tang and Song dynasties, but became purely "Muslims".

"Khotan" is located in the south of the Tarim Basin, east to the end of the end, Shanshan, west to Shache, Shule, the heyday territory includes the present Hotan, Pishan, Moyu, Luopu, Celle, Yutian, Minfeng and other counties and cities, Duxi City (now Hotan Yotegan ruins), and since ancient times it is "the place where soldiers must fight."

For the "Timurid army", "Khotan" has always been a good agricultural and animal husbandry production area in the "Western Regions" region, which can provide the first round of supplies for the army.

At that time, the main force controlling the "Western Regions" (Xinjiang) was the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate", and it would never block the "Timurid army" from crossing the border, because it did not have this strength, and there was no need to touch the mold. On the contrary, the "Eastern Chagatai Khanate" at both ends of the first rat will transmit information to its eastern neighbor Ming Dynasty on the one hand, and on the other hand provide supplies to the "Timur" army, so as to send away these "uninvited guests" as soon as possible, after all, neither the Ming Dynasty nor the "Timur" can be offended.

Through the caravans and missions he arranged for long-term business in the Eastern world, "Timur" already had a relatively comprehensive understanding of the local situation (the Western Regions), and his clarity was even far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty government's understanding of the various regions of the Western Regions. This allowed the "Timurid army" to pass through the Western Regions without any problems.

At that time, the supreme military commander of the Ming Dynasty in charge of guarding the northwest region was the famous general "Song Sheng" of the "Hongwu Dynasty", who was fully responsible for the defense of the northwest. However, Song Sheng is Zhu Yuanzhang's former minister, and now he is old, so he can only be a look. As a result, the defense of the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty could only be entrusted to the border generals.

This gave the "old fox" "Timur" an opportunity to take advantage of, because his emperor Hari was leading 20,000 elite cavalry to fight the vanguard. According to the military customs of Central Asia in the 15th century, the elite cavalry who served as the vanguard during this period usually carried light "ballistas", which had a certain ability to attack fortifications.

"Emperor Sun" Ali used the huge torque of the light "ballista" to catapult stones, and referred to his own experience in attacking various cities in northern India, and really did not accept the power to conquer the "Hami Guard" of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time threatened to harass the remaining "guards", which could psychologically make the garrison of the guards frightened overnight.

At this time, the experienced veteran Song Sheng felt that the "Timurid army" was by no means comparable to the ordinary tribal rangers on the Mongolian steppe, and should be a real "military threat". Therefore, he mobilized the garrisons of various guards in the northwest, with a total of more than 90,000 people from 27 guards and 5 guards, and opened a defensive line near the "Shazhou Guard". And after the Ming army was concentrated, the lineup was suddenly very strong, and it also seemed that the 20,000 cavalry of the "emperor" Harry was a bit insufficient.

Harry knew that he could not be trapped in the lonely city, so he collected all kinds of supplies in the city and immediately retreated westward in order to meet the large army.

Song Sheng was a veteran of Zhu Yuanzhang's era, with rich combat experience, although he did not know the size of other enemy forces, but he also judged the enemy's intentions, so he decided to adopt the "encirclement and annihilation tactics" and concentrate superior forces to eat the opponent first, so as not to let him escape and join other enemy forces, which would be very disadvantageous to his own side.

In October 1405, the Ming army surrounded 20,000 cavalry regiments led by the emperor of "Timur" Hari near the "Hamiwei" with the "ambush on all sides" combined with the "tactics of "heaven and earth net". At the same time, the 90,000 troops of each battalion of the Ming army launched an attack at the same time, preparing to crush the opponent with their superiority in strength.

However, the "imperial grandson" Hari adopted the tactics of the "Mamluk Dynasty" in Egypt when he and his grandfather "Timur" went west to conquer the "Mamluk Dynasty", and in the face of the strong attack of the "Mamluk Dynasty" thousands of "camel cavalry" swarming in, he took the initiative to form a "circle formation" to defend and counterattack, that is, the cavalry of the brigade moved in a circle.

Although the Ming army had many soldiers, it was never able to break through the huge "ring army array" that integrated the enemy's attack and defense, because whenever their own men and horses tried to forcibly break through the opponent's army formation, they were shot down by the enemy cavalry with bows and arrows, or simply crushed in hand-to-hand combat, and the enemy went their own way.

Because the endurance of horses in Central Asia is generally good, suitable for repeated charges, it is far from being comparable to the horses produced in the interior, and even the horses produced in the Mongolian plateau are far inferior in endurance. As a result, although the Ming army was surrounded by several soldiers, it was never able to forcibly crush the enemy through superior forces.

Because he couldn't eat this enemy army, Song Sheng, the commander of the Ming army, was anxious, and he was old, so he actually fell ill in a hurry. The "boss" fell ill and the morale of the army was unstable. As a result, the Ming army could only shell in disorder, which led to a greatly reduced coordination of the attack. For several days, the Ming army besieged it without success.

However, the personnel who formed the Ming Army in the Northwest were soldiers of all ethnic groups, and they had fought a "tailwind battle", and they had not experienced such a bitter battle for a long time, and the "commander" fell ill, which was not a good omen, affecting the morale of the army, not to mention, and the generals of the various departments were also disobedient to each other, so the siege became futile.

Just when the Ming army was invincible for a long time, it suddenly found that a large force of cavalry appeared on the periphery of the battlefield, dusty and deafeningly swarming, numbering at least 50,000 people! This large force of cavalry that broke into the battlefield, as if mercury was pouring on the ground, tore the northwest corner of the Ming army's encirclement in a blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Harry, the "emperor's grandson" who had been besieged by the Ming army for several days, immediately led an army of 20,000 to counterattack with all his might, and the 90,000 Ming army was caught off guard and the formation was in chaos. And Song Sheng, who was in the tent, heard the shouting and killing, coupled with the latest battle report sent by the guards, he knew that the second echelon of the invader's "Timurid army" had arrived, several days earlier than he expected. He was about to give the order to regroup, but the enemy had managed to break through the camp.

Song Sheng, the "commander" of the Ming army, was sick in bed, and his soldiers desperately sent him out of the camp, but he was still caught up by the enemy and tried to besiege him, and all the soldiers died in battle.

At this time, the defeat of the 90,000 northwest defenders of the Ming Dynasty was decided, and when the defenders of each guard post fled the battlefield, they were pursued and killed by the cavalry of "Timur" all the way, which eventually evolved into a one-sided massacre. The fiasco of the "Battle of Hami" caused the loss of the main force in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, and after the news arrived, Nanjing should be shaken.

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