Last time, I mentioned that at this time, the army of "Timur" and Zhu Di's army confronted each other on the plain north of Xiangyang City, and the great war that decided the fate of Asia began.

At this time, in the Ming army, Zhu Di led the "3,000 battalions" in the middle of the army, the seventeenth brother "King Ning" Zhu Quan led the "Duoyan Sanwei" Mongolian cavalry as the vanguard, the second son "King of Han" Zhu Gaoxu led the "Shenji Battalion" as the right wing, and the third son "King of Zhao" Zhu Gaosui led the "five military camps" as the left wing. With such a strong lineup, it has to be done in one battle.

In terms of the "Timurid army", "Timur" sat in the middle army, the third son Milansha led the Samarkand hoplite cavalry as the vanguard, the fourth son Shah Ruu led the Iranian infantry and camel artillery as the right flank, and the general Busain led the Afghan hoplites as the left flank, intending to confront the opposite Zhu Di's army.

The Ming army was strong, almost twice the number of the "Timurid army", and it covered an area of more than ten miles after it was spread out, and its purpose was also to thin the opponent's front and suppress the opponent's momentum from the military momentum.

Of course, Zhu Di's move was also to prevent the opponent's elite cavalry from making a detour to attack his "left flank", after all, the "five military camps" were mainly infantry.

However, "Timur" was proficient in warfare, and he immediately saw the strategic intentions of the Ming army, because after observing the opponent's arrangement, he found that the Ming army's "Shenji Battalion" was equipped with a lot of "firearms", but it took time to reload ammunition after firing, and the range and power of the Ming army's "firearms" at that time were not much stronger than ordinary bows and crossbows, and his Samarkand heavy cavalry armor was strong, and he could completely take the opponent's "Shenji Battalion" as the focus of the breakthrough in this battle.

On the Ming army, although Zhu Di's "Middle-earth Army" fought the "Timurid Army" outside the territory for the first time, he had also heard a little about his previous tactics and knew that the opponent's cavalry was very powerful. Therefore, as the supreme commander and king, Zhu Di did not say anything arrogant to his soldiers.

Zhu Di's military ability has been vividly demonstrated in the "Battle of Jingjing", and as the "commander-in-chief", he has won the full trust of the soldiers of the whole army, because in war, there is no more critical factor than trust. As the saying goes, "a strong soldier will make a nest of bears", and the role of the "boss" is beyond doubt.

And "Timur" declared to the whole army: "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty has been in the battle battle in person, and if he can win and capture the opponent's monarch today, as he did in the 'Battle of Ankara', he will definitely make the entire country of the other side submit to our feet, and this rich land will forever support the warriors and their descendants who participated in the war!" At this time, the "Timurid army" thundered with joy, and the whole army was boiling, as if the defeat of the opponent and the conquest of China were just around the corner.

Seeing this, Zhu Di was unmoved, but carefully observed the enemy's camp. Suddenly, the Samarkand hoplites led by Miransha, the vanguard of the "Timur" army, had rushed out of their positions like arrows from the string, pointing directly at the opponent's "Shenji Battalion", and the battle had begun.

Zhu Di could see that if those heavily armored Samarkand heavy cavalry charged on the battlefield, they would probably not be able to resist it just by relying on the various "firearms" of their "Shenji Battalion". Therefore, he hurriedly ordered Zhu Quan, the "King of Ning", to lead the Mongolian iron cavalry of the "Duoyan Sanwei" to intercept the enemy army.

On the battlefield on the plains, the two large groups of cavalry collided together, and suddenly converged like a torrent, but although the "Duoyan Sanwei" was known as the "Mongolian Iron Cavalry", it was actually a lightly armed cavalry wearing leather armor and wrist bows and arrows and scimitars.

After all, your bow and arrow can't shoot through other people's armor, and your scimitar can't cut off people's limbs and heads, but people's extremely sharp "Persian scimitar" and thick and straight "big food scimitar" can easily cut through your leather armor, and even caused by huge force, even people and horses are cut in two, how not to let the Mongolian cavalry suffer heavy losses? So, Zhu Di hurriedly increased his troops to rescue.

Seeing that the Ming army was not enough, Zhu Di hurriedly ordered the 30,000 spear infantry and sword and shield infantry of the Chinese army to come forward to help in the battle. Because the formation of the "middle army" of the Ming army had changed, it was immediately observed by the sharp-eyed "Timur" and knew that the time was ripe for a decisive battle, so he sent the left and right flanks to press together and attack the enemy with all his might, wanting to completely disrupt the formation of the Ming army on the opposite side with the strong combat power of his own army. However, such a big gamble may not work.

Because in the face of the surging enemy army, Zhu Di was not moved at all, but still mainly infantry, and the "Shenji Battalion" waited for the opportunity to move, striving to kill and injure a large number of enemies in the defensive counterattack. Therefore, Zhu Di decided to defend first and then fight, and strictly ordered all departments to hold their positions, and those who retreated will not be spared!

Because the Afghan hoplites in the "Timur" army had excellent armor, amazing defensive power, and not bad offensive power, they quickly pressed the "King of Zhao" Zhu Gaosui on the left flank of the Ming army, because although the "five army camps" of the Ming army were elite infantry, not everyone was wearing heavy armor, but they were only well-trained.

Therefore, not long after the start of the battle, the "left flank" of the Ming army was opened a gap by the strong attack of the enemy army. At this time when the situation was extremely critical, the envoys of "King Zhao" also came to the Chinese army in an endless stream to ask for help, but Zhu Di was unmoved, because he believed that the well-trained infantry army array equipped with broadswords, bows and arrows, spears, shields, hook and sickle spears, golden gourd hammers and other weapons would not collapse so quickly, and as long as they held out for a while, there would be a turnaround.

Sure enough, Zhu Di then found that the Iranian infantry of Shahru, the fourth son of "Timur" who originally attacked the Ming army's right-wing army formation, was fired at close range by the "firearms" of the Ming army's "Shenji Battalion", and its heavy armor made of steel was actually penetrated one after another, with many casualties, and the formation had begun to be chaotic, showing signs of retreat.

Fighters are rare, and if they can break through from here, there is a great possibility of opening up the situation. Therefore, after careful observation for a long time, Zhu Di found that the "weakness" of the enemy army was not camouflage, but that the steel helmet and iron armor could not withstand the close-range intensive shooting of a large number of "firearms", so he decisively ordered the "3,000 battalions" to attack. On the "Timur" side, Shah Ruh was trying his best to coordinate the army, and suddenly found a large force of cavalry surging not far ahead.

As a result, the Iranian infantry corps he led began to collapse, after all, the reason why these Persians participated in the "Timur" army left home to go east together, in addition to being coerced by these powerful "Turkic" "Mongol magnates", it was nothing more than the opportunity to plunder some gold and silver treasures.

However, while money is important, what is more important than one's own life? What's more, seeing that the enemy army was able to take the lead by virtue of the advantage of "firearms", if you don't leave now, when will you wait? Since you know that you are impatient to fight, then don't fight hard for others anymore, it's better to run for your life first!

All of a sudden, 40,000 Iranian infantry were scattered, and the left flank of the "Timur" army was opened, and the general of the "3,000 battalions" hurriedly led his soldiers to pursue the victory, and directly attacked the "Timur" Chinese army. This sudden change immediately caused a panic in the camp of the "Timurid army".

And the "King of Han" Zhu Gaoxu was not willing to lag behind, so he ordered the "artillery" of the "Shenji Battalion" to move forward, and the "gunners" also lined up one after another. However, after all, "Timur" is an "old Jianghu" who has lived for the rest of his life, and he is no worse than Zhu Di in terms of taking our fighters, and even surpasses them.

Because, just when the "Shenji Battalion" hurriedly changed formation, its flank suddenly killed a group of enemy cavalry, this is the "Timur" just raised troops to overthrow Iran's "Ilkhanid Dynasty" when the Central Asian light cavalry followed the southern expedition to the north, as one of the "killer features" of the "Timur", its speed is extremely fast, just before the Ming army's "Shenji Battalion" artillery position has time to re-fix, it has already been killed in front of the eyes, even if the cannon is hurriedly fired, it has not killed or injured many enemy soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, this Central Asian light cavalry had already entered the camp of the Ming army, and before the Ming army's "firecrackers" could line up, they were slashed and killed by the Central Asian light cavalry with scimitars. However, this Central Asian light cavalry did not fight with the Ming army in the battalion, but immediately attacked the left flank of the Ming army after destroying the "firearms position" of the Ming army. At the same time, the "Five Military Battalions" on the left wing of the Ming army led by Zhu Gaosui, the "King of Zhao", fell into a bitter battle.

Due to the rapid changes in the war situation, at this moment, the Ming army is already in danger, and it is also at the critical moment. At this time, Zhu Di ignored the dissuasion of the generals and insisted on leading the Chinese army to attack in an all-round way, and decided to break through from the middle. Zhu Quan, who was commanding the Ming army in the middle of the battle, led the "Duoyan Sanwei" Mongolian cavalry to fight hard against the Samarkand heavy cavalry.

Although the Samarkand hoplites were covered in leather armor and had amazing defensive and melee assault capabilities, they also had an Achilles' heel, that is, the physical consumption of men and horses was huge, and they were not able to endure protracted warfare. And Zhu Di led the Chinese army to suddenly attack, and finally destroyed the entire front of Samarkand's heavy cavalry.

In this way, the Chinese army led by Zhu Di and the "Duoyan Sanwei" led by Zhu Quan, the "King of Ning", attacked in the direction of the "Timur" Chinese army. The "3,000 Battalions" of the Chinese army that were attacking "Timur" before did not make much progress because they were blocked by "camel artillery", but when they saw Zhu Di's army killed, they joined forces to attack. However, at this time, Tiangong was not beautiful, as if the resonance of heaven and earth began to rain, which greatly reduced the power of "firearms" such as "camel cannons".

At this time, "Timur" saw the Ming army rolling in, and knew that the general trend had gone, but this hero did not succumb to the arrangement of fate, so he said loudly: "The brave will not easily lower their noble heads, we are on an expedition of thousands of miles, do we want to end all this today?" Although the Ming army was twice as large as the enemy, the dying and struggling "Timurid army" could not be eliminated for a while, so it was decided to break through.

The elite of the "Timur" generals concentrated on one point, tried their best to make a gap, and then led the army to flee. When the generals of the Ming army saw this, they also led their cavalry to chase after them, but Zhu Di said: "Don't chase the poor." We come back to the left. ”

At this time, the army led by Zhu Gaosui, the "King of Zhao", fought hard for a long time, and finally ushered in reinforcements. Although the battle was decided, the "Timur" army general Busain led the Afghan hoplites to fight and leave, and gradually withdrew from the battlefield. In this way, the shocking battle between "Timur" and Zhu Di came to an end.

In the "Battle of Xiangyang", the Ming army lost more than 60,000 horses, while the "Timurid army" lost more than 30,000 people, and another 40,000 Iranian infantry surrendered. And "Timur" only led the remnants of 40,000 to withdraw. Although the battle was extremely tragic, the Ming army won a complete victory. However, this battle is not over yet.

In the "Battle of Xiangyang", although the Ming army won, the main force of the "Timurid army" still has 40,000 people, even if the 50,000 troops led by the "emperor" Hari are not counted, the 40,000 troops of "Timur" are also a very strong force, and at this time "Timur" is leading the remnants to march eastward.

If the remnants of "Timur" and the 50,000 troops of "Emperor Sun" Hari were combined, the crisis of the Ming Dynasty would not be resolved. Therefore, Zhu Di did not disarm his armor, kept moving, and arranged for people to clean up the battlefield, and then led the army to embark on a new journey, because he was not at ease until he completely destroyed the opponent!

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