Han Du looked at Xu Chengfei's expression and lowered his head to ponder a question. He said that he had to choose to join the army because he was not good at reading. He also knew Mongolian and could read Uighur script. At this level, he was good at reading.
Not good? Then who do you think you are?
As if he heard what Han Du was thinking, Xu Chengfei raised his eyes and said, "It's not as complicated as you think. The military has more contact with General Meng Yuan, so it will come naturally."
There were also many Meng Yuan generals in the Ming army who surrendered. Not only did Lao Zhu not be harsh on these people at all, but he also trusted them very much and allowed them to continue serving in the army.
"What does it say?" Han Du asked curiously when he saw that Xu Chengfei had been reading the letter and had not responded for a long time.
Uighur text is inherently difficult to decipher. Although Xu Chengfei recognized it, it still took a lot of energy to decipher it, so he could only do it slowly.
"Oh, it says here, ask us where we come from and why we want to attack them."
"Ah?" Han Du's eyes widened and he pointed at the letter in disbelief and asked, "There is such a long article written on it, but only these two sentences?"
Xu Chengfei curled his lips, raised the letter, and said, "The main thing is these two sentences, the rest are just nonsense. For example, he said that he is the younger brother of the great Sultan of the Timur Empire and the supreme city lord of Yilibali.
Wait, do you want to listen to them one by one?"
"Then forget it." Han Du shook his head repeatedly. Han Du had no interest in asking about this self-proclaimed rainbow fart.
But after hearing that this man was Timur's younger brother, Han Du suddenly had an idea.
"Since he is Timur's younger brother, if we capture him, will Timur submit obediently?"
Xu Chengfei sneered, "Don't say that he is just Timur's younger brother. Even if you catch Timur's son, it will be of no use."
Han Du nodded and understood that the people in the Western Regions did not value their brothers as much as the Ming people. In their eyes, even their brothers were their biggest threat. Because their brothers were also qualified to inherit the throne. Maybe they would be in the post.
In Mu'er's heart, it would be best if his brother died.
"Since he wants to know, then tell him our origins openly."
Xu Chengfei nodded slightly and asked, "What's the reason?"
Han Du smiled and said, "Then tell him to hand over the Ming Dynasty's mission. Anyone who dares to detain us is simply eating the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard."
Xu Chengfei nodded, then wrote a reply and sent his cavalry forward to shoot an arrow into the city wall.
Shasu Chagan opened the letter and took a look, his face suddenly darkened.
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br> Of course he is no stranger to the Ming Dynasty. Although he has never been there personally, whether it is from his brother's mouth or from the mouths of Ming merchants, he has a far better understanding of the Ming Dynasty than ordinary people.
Even with the current strength of the Timur Empire, it would not dare to easily provoke the Ming Dynasty.
As for what happened to the Ming Dynasty's mission, Shasuchagan also happened to know. The first Ming Dynasty mission was six years ago. At that time, the Timur Empire was using troops against the West and was constantly winning.
By the time the Ming Dynasty envoy arrived in Samarkand, the Timur Empire had defeated Tokhtamysh.
Therefore, Timur himself began to float.
When the Ming Dynasty envoy informed the "minister" Timur in the name of the emperor, Timur arrogantly believed that the Ming Dynasty was too far away from the Timur Empire and that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not as good as him.
Next, Timur detained the Ming envoys, refused to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and sent people to take the Ming envoys to travel around the Timur Empire to show off how big the territory of the Timur Empire was.
As for the second Ming Dynasty mission, Shasu Chagan was even more aware. Since he knew his brother's attitude towards the Ming Dynasty, as soon as Shasu Chagan saw another Ming Dynasty mission coming, he directly reported this Ming Dynasty mission to the Ming Dynasty.
The regiment captured him and sent him to Samarkand.
Shasu Chagan never expected that the Ming Dynasty would use so many troops to attack just for two missions.
Just for two missions, is that enough?
While Shasuchagan was making excuses with the Ming army and stepped up his deployment of troops to respond, he immediately sent people to Samarkand to inform Timur that the Ming Dynasty had sent troops to attack and demanded news of the Ming Dynasty envoy.
Yili closed all the Liduo city gates, immediately isolating the inside and outside. The people in the city also got the news that a large army was coming, and some people even knew that it was an army from the Ming Dynasty.
The local people are relatively familiar with the Ming Dynasty. Originally, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was extremely respectful to the Ming Dynasty, and people were extremely interested in the products of the Ming Dynasty.
Demand led to trade. At that time, many merchants from the Ming Dynasty walked on the Silk Road and came to Yilibauli to trade with people of various ethnic groups. The prosperous trade naturally brought all kinds of news about the Ming Dynasty to Yilibaoli.
However, those merchants who came here from Samarkand did not have a clear concept of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, in recent years, the Timur Empire had continuously won victories in the west, and its territory expanded for a time. In addition, Timur Empire
In the empire, I promoted myself as
Yin Silan, the only true god in the world, and the hearts of ordinary people were extremely swollen, and they did not take his country into consideration at all.
People below a certain level simply don’t understand the power of the Ming Dynasty.
Facing the troops approaching the city, the people in the city had two reactions. Originally, the people of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate closed their doors and windows tightly to protect themselves.
The merchants from Samarkand shouted loudly and arrogantly, and some even expressed angrily that they would implore the Sultan to summon a large army to march eastward.
Han Du looked at the prosperous city surrounded by him, put down his telescope, and said lightly, "Order the army to rest for the night and attack the city tomorrow."
"Siege the city? Timur is a big country, shouldn't it be more serious?" Xu Chengfei advised.
Han Du said indifferently, "What's so important? Two Ming envoys went to Timur, but there was no news about them. If Timur was not responsible for this, who would believe it? Or Timur imprisoned the envoys,
Or just kill the envoy. For the following crimes, the Ming Dynasty should treat Timur no matter what. Even if it immediately sends troops to capture the city of Samarkand, that is what Timur asked for."
"But if we attack the city, will Timur take revenge on the mission?" Xu Chengfei was a little worried.
Han Du laughed loudly, pointed to the city of Yilibali in the distance, and said, "These barbarians from the Western Regions worship the strong and despise the weak. If our army of hundreds of thousands comes here and goes back without doing anything, then
Timur thought that Ming Dynasty was afraid of him, and the people in the mission had no chance of survival. On the contrary, if we could capture this city, Timur would not kill the mission, and would even provide him with delicious food and drinks.
Hold them."
"That makes sense." After hearing this, Xu Chengfei smiled slightly and turned around to make arrangements for the camp and tomorrow's siege.
Sha Sucha spent a night on tenterhooks. He didn't see the Ming army's night attack, and thought he had successfully held back the Ming army.
But he didn't expect that before he could be happy, the shrill horn sounded again throughout the city.
"Who! What happened?"
Shasu Chagan rode his horse and ran up the city wall quickly, and saw the movement of the Ming army at a glance. "What do they want to do?"
The subordinates next to him were extremely speechless at the words of the city lord. The Ming army had already pressed forward in force. If they didn't want to attack the city, what else could they do? It couldn't be that the city lord wanted to treat you to dinner, right?
However, in view of Shasu Chagan's reputation for cruelty in the past, his subordinates did not dare to say anything and could only lower their heads to prevent the city lord's anger from venting on them.
What suddenly occurred to Sha Suchagan?
Well, he quickly wrote a letter and delivered it to the Ming army again.
Seeing that Xu Chengfei was checking the letter that had just been sent over, Han Du couldn't help but ask, "What does he want to say?"
Xu Chengfei shook his head, "Ask us why we want to attack the city, and the others are still shouting arrogantly as before."
"Then don't worry about it." Han Du waved his hand, "Cannon forward, attack the city!"
Following Han Du's military order, ten cannons were pushed out by the Shanzi Battalion and placed in a row in front of the formation.
Since a lot of gunpowder and cannonballs were consumed on the grassland, the current inventory no longer allowed Han Du to pull out all the cannons and fire a salvo.
In addition, Han Du wanted to test the strength of the defenders first, so he only used ten gates.
"Boom~"
A cannonball drew an arc and hit the city wall directly. Rubbles flew and sand flew down.
"Cannon, the Ming army has cannon!"
Hearing the shouts of his subordinates, Shasuchagan's face turned pale. He was no stranger to cannons. Sieges with cannons and sieges without cannons were two completely different concepts.
Timur's empire also had cannons, but the cumbersome cannons could only be used to defend the city. Using cannons to attack the city, Shasuchagan had never even thought about it.
Moreover, Sha Suchaqian still knew how far away the Ming Dynasty was from here. How did the Ming army move the cannons from such a long distance?
"Fight back! Fight back!" Sha Suchagan couldn't care less, drew out the scimitar from his waist, and kept shouting.
But after shouting several times in succession, his subordinates looked at him motionless.
"Lord City Lord, the Ming army's cannons are too far away and we can't attack them."
After hearing this, Sha Suchagan's heart felt numb.
What do you mean? That is, the Ming army can bombard him with artillery leisurely, but he cannot fight back? In other words, even if he fights back, it is of little use?
"Fight back! I order, fight back!"
Shasu Chagan waved his machete again and looked at the subordinates in front of him fiercely.
The subordinates felt as if they were being targeted by the Black Mamba. They were shaking violently and shouted to the soldiers under their command, "Fight back, fight back immediately!"
咻咻咻~
Rows of bows and arrows were shot out from a high position, but they only flew less than a hundred and fifty steps before falling down weakly.