Last time, it was mentioned that at this time, Timur not only did not die, but also successfully invaded the Ming Dynasty and eliminated the northwest frontier army of the Ming Dynasty, causing the Nanjing government and the opposition to shake.

The fiasco of the "Battle of Hami" led to the loss of the main force of the Northwest Frontier Army of the Ming Dynasty, and after the news reached Jiangsu, it immediately caused the shock of Nanjing's "Yingtianfu".

At this time, Zhu Di of the "Ming Empire" was preparing to move the capital of the "Ming Empire" from the "Nanjing City" of "Yingtianfu" to the "Beiping" (Beijing) of "Shuntianfu", and at first subjectively thought that the invasion of the "Timur" army was just an ordinary border trouble, but he did not expect the enemy to be so menacing, so that the main force of the northwest of the dynasty was empty in a battle, and even the veteran Song Sheng was martyred, which made Zhu Di feel that the situation was not good, after all, at this moment, the northwest barrier of the Ming Dynasty has been lost!

However, the Ming Dynasty still did not know the size and strategic planning of the "Timur" army, so the anxious Zhu Di successively ordered Jinyiwei to be fully responsible for investigating the matter. But at this time, the "Timurid army" had completely entered the territory of the Western Regions of the Ming Dynasty, and the elite cavalry alone exceeded 160,000 people!

The "Timurid army" is attacking cities and plundering land in the northwest region, and wherever it goes, it is invincible. Soon after, Zhu Di finally figured out the strategic intention of the "Timur" army, that is, to capture Beijing, restore the Yuan Dynasty, and restore Mongol rule over the whole world, so the first target of attack was "Yuan Dadu".

After the "Battle of Hami", the two largest Mongolian tribes of "Tatar" and "Walla", which were originally disabled or even abandoned by the Ming Dynasty, were also ready to move, while hurriedly sending people to the Western Regions to get in touch with "Timur", saying that they were looking forward to it, and at the same time stepping up the attack on the Ming Dynasty's Great Wall, especially the "Nine Border Towns".

At this moment, Zhu Di, who had survived a hundred battles, immediately realized that if he did not sit in Beijing immediately, it would likely lead to further deterioration of the situation in the north, and even develop to the point of complete uncontrol! As a result, Zhu Di decided to move the capital to Beijing immediately, and the famous "three major battalions" also moved north with Zhu Di.

At the same time, Zhu Di sent the general Qiu Fu to lead the Ming army in Shanxi, Henan and other places, with a total of 250,000 troops in 33 guards and 14 institutes. Among them, there were 170,000 "motorized troops" equipped with "Central Plains War Horses", and the remaining 80,000 were infantry, and they were ordered to immediately go to the northwest to block the "Timur" army from continuing to advance eastward with all their might.

Qiu Fu is the first general in the "Battle of Jingyan", and was once named "Duke of Qi" by Zhu Di and "Prince Taifu". Qiu Fu was born in the army, because there were no major wars in the world after the "Battle of Jingjing", which caused the former "leading general" to be idle at home, idle, bored, and depressed.

Now, coinciding with the entry of the barbarian "Timur" army of Rongdi in the Western Regions, and the war in the Northwest Frontier and even the Central Plains has started again, it is a good time for him to make meritorious contributions. Therefore, Qiu Fu was very looking forward to leading the troops to the battle, and vowed to share the worries of the monarch.

After Qiu Fu, the "Duke of Qi", was ordered, he mobilized the main forces of the Ming army in Shanxi, Henan and the "three major battalions", and obtained a total of 190,000 horses and horses of the "Central Plains Cavalry". However, Zhu Di knew that Qiu Fu was anxious to fight, so he strictly ordered him not to act rashly, just confront the enemy.

At the same time, "Timur" also observed the movements of the Ming army. After he led the main army to the northwest frontier of the Ming Dynasty, while stepping up the collection of supplies, he divided his troops to attack the weak points of the Ming army in various places.

At this time, the strategic focus has been concentrated near the ancient city of Xi'an, and Qiu Fu, the "Duke of Qi", is also preparing to take Xi'an as the center to attract enemy troops from all over the world to besiege Xi'an, and when he is tired, he will break the enemy in one fell swoop. In this way, Qiu Fu withdrew the troops in the cities around Xi'an, and hit the supply troops into the city of Xi'an. The deployment of Qiu Fu allowed the "Timur" army to quickly capture the cities around Xi'an and form an encirclement of Xi'an.

At this time, the "Timurid army" began to attack the city fiercely, and Qiu Fu was also overjoyed after asking the battle report, after all, with the "ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties" The city height and depth will inevitably greatly weaken the enemy's attack power, and after a long time, it will inevitably lose the enemy's combat power. At this time, Qiu Fu, who was eager to make meritorious contributions, began to make mistakes.

He can't take Zhu Di's advice to him anymore - just confront him and don't act rashly. So, Qiu Fu ignored the emperor's edict and only mobilized the army to Xi'an to fight the enemy. It is no wonder that the "Timur" army organized and besieged Xi'an to no avail, but the troops and food and grass in the city were sufficient, and there was even spare strength to attack the enemy forces outside the city. In this way, Chufu despised "Timur" even more, and felt that the enemy chief was not enough to worry.

After the Ming army's troops and horses were gathered, the 190,000 troops marched slowly due to the constraints of logistics and supplies. Qiu Fu also knew that "the soldiers are fast", so he kept urging the army to speed up, but the sky was not beautiful, and heavy snow began to fall again, making it more difficult for the army to advance.

Zhu Di was furious when he learned that Qiu Fu had sent troops, and even issued an edict ordering him to be stationed on the spot, but Qiu Fu refused to carry out Zhu Di's order on the grounds that "the general is outside, and the king's order is not subject to it", but instead urged the armies from all walks of life to march forcibly. By November 1405, most of the Ming army had reached the border of Xi'an.

But the continuous rapid march had caused the men to be tired and exhausted, and they continued to recuperate. However, Qiu Fu, the "Duke of Qi", thought that victory or defeat was in one move, and he also disliked the slow march of the infantry, so he drew out the elite of the cavalry and formed a "front army" of more than 20,000 people, which raided the enemy camp non-stop.

Just as Qiu Fu's "Qianjun" cavalry passed through the "Tongguan" and arrived at Lantian in the south of Xi'an, the Ming scouts found a large force of enemy cavalry approaching.

After receiving the report, Qiu Fu thought that the enemy might be short of supplies and had to send some cavalry to plunder supplies, but the generals Wang Cong and Li Yuan realized that there might be danger, so they tried their best to dissuade Qiu Fu from retreating. However, Qiu Fu never listened, and severely reprimanded, "The military order is like a mountain, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" So he rode his horse first, and ordered his soldiers to follow, and the generals had no choice but to go with him on an adventure.

However, before the army had gone ten miles, it suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from all directions, and it turned out that the "Timur" army had attacked from all sides and was surging like a tide. However, before the Ming cavalry had time to expand the formation, it had already been cut into several sections by the enemy.

Because the "Samarkand hoplites" in the "Timur" army were good at breaking through in close combat, the cavalry of the Ming army was divided and surrounded and was shot down one after another. In this way, the Ming army was defeated. The 20,000 cavalry were surrounded by the enemy and broke each one, and not one of them escaped. That's what happens to the reckless!

But at the last moment, Qiu Fu, the "Duke of Qi", showed his family integrity, and he and his generals killed themselves in front of the battle in order to avoid being captured and losing their dignity. This deeply shocked many Central Asian generals in the "Timur" army, after all, it is normal for the Central Asian steppes to choose to surrender because they cannot defeat the enemy.

"Qi Guogong" Qiu Fu was rash because of the light enemy's rash advance, resulting in 20,000 troops being surrounded and annihilated. The defenders of Xi'an heard the sound of killing in the south, and knew that it was the arrival of imperial reinforcements, so they tried their best to attack the enemy camp besieging the city after leaving the city, but the enemy camp was strong, and the Ming army was unable to attack, and the soldiers were lost, and the effort was in vain.

Immediately afterwards, the follow-up troops of Chufu were also attacked by a large force of cavalry of "Timur", and the army was in disarray due to the death of the commander. At this time, the generals lacked unified command from their superiors and lacked coordination with each other, resulting in the baggage blocking the passage, and being pursued by the enemy cavalry, and the losses were extremely heavy!

It didn't take long for Xi'an to fall. And these reports were also sent to Zhu Di's desk one after another, making him anxious and unable to sleep all night. At this time, the battle-hardened emperor was infected with tears by the tragic atmosphere of the battle, and among the several generals who raised troops with him in the "Battle of Jingyan", Zhang Yu died in the early years, and Zhu Neng was preparing to conquer Annam (Vietnam) and couldn't get away. So, Zhu Di temporarily decided to send Qiu Fu to lead the troops into battle.

Zhu Di originally thought that Qiu Fu, as a veteran who had followed him for many years, would be able to calm down, but he didn't expect that even if he had a "perfect strategy", he still suffered a fiasco. Due to the crushing defeat of the Ming army, and the next target of "Timur" was "Yuan Dadu" (Beijing City), so the Tatar Kowala Kobian was gone.

All of a sudden, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have a sense of unstable foothold, and the "Mengyuan Imperial Court", which had already been forcibly overthrown by Zhu Yuanzhang by force, had a great tendency to be restored. Although the beacon fire is in full swing, Zhu Di can no longer increase taxes to the people at this time, because the "Tang Sai'er Uprising" in Shandong has become a prairie fire, and if the burden on the people is increased, wouldn't it be tantamount to adding fuel to the fire? At that time, I am afraid that I will have to face the crisis faced by the "Mengyuan Court" in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty.

Under the trade-off, Zhu Di had no choice but to order Zheng He to delay his voyage to the West, first open the "sea ban" in the southeast, and let Zheng He abbot take charge of the overall situation of Sino-foreign trade, so as to alleviate the financial pressure of the imperial court. At the same time, after the fiasco of "Qi Guogong" Qiu Fu, the defense of Shanxi and Henan was empty, allowing the "Timur" army to drive straight in.

Because there is no natural barrier in the southwest of "Shuntianfu," where "Beijing" is located, the only way to strengthen the defense force of Datong, Taiyuan, and other places as Beijing's outer military barrier is to strengthen it. Although Zhu Di successively ordered to strengthen the military forces around Beijing, to his surprise, "Timur" did not march according to the previously anticipated invasion route, but turned to the southeast, from Nanyang to Runing, and crossed the "Fengyang Mansion" to attack the "Huai'an Mansion". Obviously, this is to attack Nanjing!

At this point, Timur, the "overlord of Central Asia", and Zhu Di, who had fought a hundred battles and won the throne, these two "peerless heroes" finally had the opportunity to fight face-to-face. Therefore, Zhu Di hurriedly ordered to mobilize the combatable troops from all over the north to encircle the "Timurid army", but the latter crossed the city and did not occupy it, and went straight to Nanjing.

The duel between the two heroes is about to break out.

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