Last time, it was mentioned that at this time, "Timur" and Zhu Di each led a large army to fight in the plain north of Xiangyang City, "Timur" was defeated and retreated, and Zhu Di took advantage of the victory to pursue.

On June 19, 1406, the "Battle of Xiangyang", Zhu Di personally led 200,000 Ming troops to break the main force of the 110,000 "Timur" army.

Just as the ministers were celebrating, Zhu Di was already thinking about the future strategic direction. After fighting with the "Timurid Army", Zhu Di deeply felt the strong combat effectiveness of the Central Asian cavalry, and hoped to take these strong armies under his own tent in order to establish a powerful cavalry like the Mongolian iron cavalry "Duoyan Sanwei".

From this, Zhu Di clarified the main strategy of the "Timurid army" in the future, that is, to change the complete elimination to the collection of his own use. This move made the ministers quite impressed.

At this time, the situation, including the more than 40,000 defeated troops of "Timur", had not yet converged with the 50,000 horses of his "imperial grandson" Hari. Of course, Harry's 50,000-strong army still threatens Nanjing, one of the imperial capitals. Therefore, the top priority is to go to the "emperor's grandson" Hari first, so as not to let his ancestors and grandchildren join forces.

So, Zhu Di issued an order and ordered the general Zhu Neng to lead a total of 150,000 troops and horses from all walks of life to preside over the campaign against the "emperor's grandson" Harry. Zhu Neng is a general who rose up with Zhu Di in the "Battle of Jingyan", experienced in a hundred battles, and is old and stable. After the death of Zhang Yu and other confidant generals, Zhu Di would come to Zhu Neng to negotiate every time he encountered a major event in the army, which shows his status in Zhu Di's heart. This time, Zhu Neng took command of the expedition and decided to follow Han Xin's example and win with Zhilian.

As for Harry, because he learned that the main force of his grandfather's "Timur" army was defeated, he couldn't communicate for a while, causing Harry to feel that his unit had become a "lonely army". Although he is still a "general", he is not a "handsome talent", where does the army go? He didn't know the bottom of his heart, after all, Yangzhou City had no food.

If you want to abandon the city, what should you do next? Harry had no clue about it. Although the capture of Nanjing has become a fool's dream, the army is short of food and grass, so we can only find a way to fill our stomachs first. As a result, Harry could only lead his troops to attack the Ming army's grain storage along the Yangtze River.

In this way, 50,000 troops from the steppes of Central Asia rushed around for food, like rogues. However, the movements of Harry's department have long been mastered by Zhu Neng, the chief general of the Ming army. So, in August 1406, after careful planning, Zhu Neng prepared to set up an ambush in the area of Taizhou, Jiangsu, and gather 50,000 horses to annihilate Harry.

Before setting up an ambush, Zhu Neng decided to use the Taizhou grain depot as a bait and release gossip in order to lure Harry's troops to come and grab grain. However, in order not to let the enemy army slip through the net, Zhu Neng did not know a number of generals at various key locations, and each led his troops and horses to cooperate with each other tacitly, striving to complete the battle.

At the same time, the police situation of Harry's department is becoming more and more difficult, because the "old ministers of Jianwen" who originally took the initiative to come to him have left, which makes Harry's department, who is not familiar with the place, even more clueless. At this time, his spies reported that there was a large grain depot of the Ming army hidden in the city of Taizhou.

As a result, this group of hungry troops immediately set out, and unknowingly fell into the ambush circle arranged by Zhu Neng. Just after the "emperor's grandson" Hari led the army into the hilly Taizhou area, several ambushes of the Ming army came one after another. Although Harry and the generals led the army to fight desperately, day and night, because the combat strength of the Ming army was far inferior to that of the "Timurid army", after Ali's troops broke through the siege, Zhu Neng was amazed.

However, what the "imperial grandson" Harry didn't know was that this was exactly the "ambush on all sides" set up by Zhu Neng to emulate the "soldier immortal" Han Xin, but Harry did not have the pride of the "Overlord of Western Chu" Xiang Yu, and could not recite the words of "pulling out the mountain and covering the world, and the times are not good for the time to pass away", all he could think of was a two-line poem that his grandfather "Timur" always said: "The most precious thing for a warrior is only the sword and honor...... so Harry rushed left and right, tired and tired, and unable to return to the sky.

Coupled with the lack of food, although the imperial grandson of "Timur" fought in the south and north for many years, this situation was the first time, so he was beaten dizzy. In the end, Harry decided to fight to the death to defend his honor, just like Xiang Yu at the beginning, breaking into the enemy line and slashing with his sword, until he died of exhaustion.

Harry was killed in battle, his army disarmed and surrendered, and the liaison cavalry sent by "Timur" knew that it was only then that the news of the "emperor's grandson" Hari was finally discovered, but unfortunately it was too late. "Timur" had hoped to join his grandson's army, but his wish was disappointed, and the situation became very unpleasant.

What's more, the exhaustion of his 40,000 remnants of the army, coupled with the loss of the "imperial grandson" Hari, really made "Timur" angry and almost fell ill.

However, "Timur" is, after all, a generation of heroes, and although the situation is unfavorable, a person like him who has survived a hundred battles will never give up lightly. So, he wrote a letter to Zhu Di, and in his heart he earnestly called himself "Your Majesty" in Turkic language, saying, "I rashly invaded the Heavenly Empire, and now I have defeated Tianwei, and I ask to withdraw and return to China." However, after Zhu Di received the letter, he knew that it was a delaying tactic by "Timur" to surrender, so he immediately took corresponding countermeasures.

On the one hand, Zhu Di sent people to return the body of the "imperial grandson" Hari to "Timur", and on the other hand, he asked the "Timur" army to lay down their arms, stay in the same place, and wait for the delivery. After "Timur" received the letter, he knew at a glance that Zhu Di had seen through his intentions, so he decided to fight Zhu Di again.

In December 1406, outside the city of Nanyang, the 40,000 troops of "Timur" confronted Zhu Di's 200,000 troops. On the battlefield, "Timur" put the remains of his grandson Harry in front of the prince, announced the whole army, ready to fight to the death. At this time, it rained heavily, and it seemed sad that a fierce battle was about to take place.

Because of the heavy rain, "Timur" knew that the superior weapons of the Ming army, "artillery" and "firearms", could not play a role, so if he could directly take Zhu Di, it would not be impossible to win in this battle. So, in order to boost morale, "Timur" sent a message to the whole army: "We asked to withdraw the troops and return to China, but Zhu Di did not allow it." Today, we can only survive by killing the enemy leader Zhu Di! After hearing this, the "Timurid army" knew that the time had come for a decisive battle.

In the camp of the Ming army opposite, because it was Zhu Di's "royal expedition", all the generals were killed, so that the battle of the Ming Dynasty army against the "Timur" army finally began. Among them, the desperate rush and tragic duel between the two sides are naturally indispensable. Because of the heavy rain in the sky, the "firearms" of the Ming army almost failed, and the Central Asian light and heavy cavalry of "Timur" quickly broke through the previous Ming troops and went straight to Zhu Di's main formation.

And Zhu Di also carried out many surprise attacks on the enemy's main general in the "Battle of Jingjing", so he was not flustered when he added this tactic, and he had already taken countermeasures. As a result, the two armies continued the bloody battle, and the "Timurid Army" broke through for a while, and the "Ming Army" would wrap another layer, so that the blood and rain filled the battlefield in the bloody battle, plus the stumps and broken arms everywhere, the wreckage and corpses, the intestines and stomachs, the flowers and green, the soldiers wailed, screaming again and again, which can be called extremely tragic!

However, because the combat effectiveness of the "Timurid Army" was too strong and the individual combat ability was extremely strong, although the Ming army had five times the number of soldiers on this side, it could not break the enemy for a while. The combat effectiveness of the "Timurid Army" was amazing, and from the morning battle to the evening, it gradually approached Zhu Di's Shuai Qi, even if the various units of the Ming army took turns to block the attack, but it still could not be effective.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Gaoxu, the "King of Han", decided to fight to the death, so he led his own personal guard army to storm the enemy, and it was purely by taking his life to pile up that he broke up the crazy attack of the trapped beast like the "Timurid army", and finally won the "Battle of Nanyang". In this battle, the "Timurid Army" lost more than 20,000 people, and the Ming army died 50,000!

Because the main force of the "Timurid Army" was trapped in the Nanyang area, there was no food and no supplies, and it completely became the end of the crossbow. And Zhu Di is not thinking about completely annihilating them all, but how to persuade them and surrender them to his command, and it is best to use them for the "Ming Dynasty" that has just sat down in the country.

On the other hand, the reason why Zhu Di wanted to recruit the remnants of the "Timur" army was because the Mongolian tribes such as Tatars and Warats in the north took advantage of the main force of the Ming army to attack the border fortress on a large scale, and had already broken through several cities in the border fortress.

It is precisely because of the urgency of the northern border that Zhu Di does not want to continue to consume with the "Timur" who has been "trapped beasts". In addition, what worries Zhu Di a lot is that the leader of Wara, Ma Hamu (Yexian's grandfather), is quite familiar with the situation in the Central Plains and has the ambition to restore the Yuan Dynasty, which is definitely a big trouble!

Because Zhu Di had found out through the intelligence agency that Mahamu was planning a large-scale attack on the Central Plains, and was ready to take advantage of the emptiness in the north of the Ming Dynasty to unite the Mongolian steppe departments to break through the defense line of the Great Wall in one fell swoop and attack the hinterland of the Central Plains and seize Beijing City to re-establish the "Yuan Capital", therefore, this made Zhu Di very anxious.

It was January, the sky was snowing heavily, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Ming army were still standing in the wind and snow, physically and mentally exhausted, disabled and tired, and miserable, and the more than 20,000 remnants of the "Timur" were also hungry and cold, their morale was low, and they were already unable to fight again. Thinking of this, Zhu Di wrote a letter to "Timur".

Although this letter was written in Chinese, there were also many people who were familiar with Chinese among the people of the Western Regions, so they conveyed it to "Timur" in Turkic language, and said earnestly: "Your Excellency raised troops to invade our Middle Earth and the Ming Dynasty, burned, killed and plundered, did all kinds of evil, the heavens were angry and the people resented, and everyone was killed!" Now, the power of heaven is coming, the defeat has been decided, it is advisable to wait for the fall, if you can get lost and know how to return, and lead the whole army to surrender, then God has the virtue of a good life, or you can stay and wait for a way to live! ”

When the letter arrived, "Timur" was very sad and indignant after reading it, and he thought that he was a hero, but now he had ended up like a trapped beast. Through this invasion and fighting, "Timur" knew that the "heavenly might" of the Ming Dynasty could not be despised, so he regretted it. However, after instructing his sons and generals to return to the Ming Dynasty, such a generation of "heroes" died with hatred. The next day, the news of the death of "Timur" quickly spread throughout the military camps, causing a huge shock.

Although the third son of "Timur" Milan Sha was extremely reluctant to submit to the Ming Dynasty, the general trend and there was no way out, so he could only go to the Ming army camp with the army. As a result, the 20,000 remnants of "Timur", plus the tens of thousands of remnants of his grandson Harry, all returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Subsequently, Zhu Di reorganized the invading army of the "Timurid Empire" into a total of 50,000 strong troops, which were not only rationed with fine war horses, excellent weapons, and armor, but also given generous rewards and ordered to serve their own country.

Of course, the remnants of the soldiers who were unwilling to stay in the Ming Dynasty let them return to China with the sons of "Timur", which greatly moved the sons of "Timur", and they never expected the Ming Dynasty emperor to be so tolerant and generous, saying that the "Timurid Empire" was willing to pay tribute to the "Ming Empire" forever.

In this way, 50,000 "Timur" troops were reorganized into the "Semu Battalion". However, the Central Asian warriors generally admired the strong, so they regarded Zhu Di, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who could personally lead the troops into battle and defeat the "Timur", as their well-deserved "leader", and was willing to loyally follow Zhu Di forever to conquer the Quartet.

Because the Ming Dynasty at that time turned the "Timur" empire into the "Harrie State", the people at that time also turned this 50,000-strong Central Asian force "Semu Battalion" into the "Harriet Army".

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