Chapter 265: Nine million slaughtered, that is, the hero among the heroes
Chapter 265: Kill nine million, you will be the hero among heroes
Author: Mu Yunfeng
Chapter 265: Kill nine million, you will be the hero among heroes
Seran.
With all the soldiers and civilians kneeling to greet him, King Yan of the Ming Dynasty, who was fully armored in plate, rode into this ancient city on horseback with his personal guards behind him.
"I want to build a temple here for passing business travelers to ask Buddha to protect them on their journey. The King of Samarkand will not stop it, right?"
Zhu Di said with a smile.
Tamerlane, who was walking side by side with him, gave a stiff smile...
"Of course not."
he said.
He just wants to coax this guy to withdraw his troops quickly, and then go to rescue Andiyan.
Besides, there is no point in stopping it.
Because cities such as Shymkent and Talas have been controlled by Zhu Di, he will definitely build in these cities. Can he still demolish them after he leaves? Then give him a reason to go south again. After all, Zhu Di has already obtained Mongolia and Oara
Be loyal and join even after a month's separation, the Ming Dynasty will definitely garrison the land of Seven Rivers in the future. It can be said that Hezhong will have to face this powerful enemy in the north in the future. Even if Zhu Di completely withdraws from Hezhong this time, he must remain humble in the future.
attitude.
What's more, Zhu Di may not return Shymkent and Talos to him.
"You seem to have something on your mind?
Are you afraid that I will occupy your place and not leave? Your Excellency, you can rest assured that I have been ordered to patrol. As long as you are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, I will not occupy your place and not leave.
Shymkent and Talas will all be returned to you."
Zhu Di said.
"Of course I am loyal to the Ming Dynasty."
Timur said with some surprise.
"Then I'm relieved. However, I still have another task on this trip, which is to demarcate the boundaries of the vassals in the Western Region. After all, they are all ministers of the Ming Dynasty. They can no longer fight against each other as in the past. Your northern boundary will be Talas City.
In addition, I will also submit a petition to ask Your Majesty to grant another national title.
After all, Samarkand is only your capital.
After all, it is inappropriate to use the capital as the name of the country, not to mention that it is also uneducated."
Zhu Di said.
"Everything must be obeyed by Your Majesty."
Timur said.
This is not a bad thing for him. They are so far away from the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty has no control over his place. Whatever country name they like to give him is just to use it when interacting with the Ming Dynasty in the future. It is better than the ones he used before.
The title is inexplicably strong. As for internally, he is still the Sultan. This has nothing to do with his status in the Ming Dynasty. The key is to return Shymkent and Talos to him. He does not care about such fictitious things.
In fact, he has no real national title at all now.
His identity is rather embarrassing.
Of course what he wants to do most is to be the Great Khan, but he is not from the Golden Family and is not qualified.
Let alone the Great Khan of Mongolia, he is not even qualified to be the Khan of Chagatai.
Even if you force yourself to call yourself someone else, no one will care.
On this point, whether in Hezhong or other places in the Western Regions, they are very determined. You can use whatever title you want. Even if you are the Great Khan, you are not qualified. Even if you regard Chagatai Khan as a puppet, you are not qualified to be called the Great Khan.
title.
And the highest level in their system is of course the Caliphate.
But he also considers himself a Mongolian.
In fact, even in the original history, he did not try to use this title. The Mongolian people were not interested in this title. The highest level in people's consciousness was the Great Khan. After all, the Great Khan could trample the caliph to death. Even if the Mongolian people changed their beliefs,
There is still some pride in people's hearts. Caliph, isn't he just someone who was trampled to death by us? This title has little market in the Mongolian system, so he calls himself Sultan until his death. This is the title he established for the Western Chagatai Khanate.
After the Khan became a puppet, he called himself the Western Chagatai Khanate in order to rule and was recognized by the Great Khan. The Great Khan is the Great Khan, and the Sultan is the Sultan. He is still the subject of the Great Khan, but he also rules the Great Khan as the Sultan.
There are no other believers of the same religion under his rule, but there are no other believers in the Western Chagatai Khanate, so in fact he is still the supreme ruler.
He was the Prime Minister Cao of the Western Chagatai Khanate from beginning to end.
There is also another title, which is the title of Shah he received after conquering Persia.
So he is now equivalent to the Sultan of the Western Chagatai Khanate, but the Great Khan has died, and then he is also the Shah of Persia.
Now add a king of the Ming Dynasty.
It's really humiliating.
but……
Strategically it doesn't do him any harm.
Because this means that he no longer has to worry about the safety of the rear. As long as he continues to show his loyalty to the Ming Emperor, continue to pay tribute, and continue to send envoys to grovel, then he can continue heading west without any distractions.
The world to the west is still vast.
He has not yet defeated the Ottoman Empire, nor has he destroyed the Delhi Sultanate.
There are countless conquerable lands ahead waiting for him to conquer.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was too far away and could not really go westward with all his strength. He knew this very well. In fact, in the original history of his Eastern Expedition, there is a saying that he did not even think about marching into the Ming Dynasty. He just wanted to destroy Guo in a false way.
He solved the Chagatai in the east and the Oara tribe in the north, and then completely conquered all the Mongolian tribes to obtain the title of Great Khan of Mongolia that he dreamed of.
It's not like he didn't know how far it was to reach Ming Dynasty and how difficult it was to supply supplies along the way.
Such an expedition would be tantamount to suicide.
He is not a nomad.
Both Hezhong and Khorasan are urban-dwelling farming, nomadic and commercial complex economies.
He cannot live without urban supplies.
During his Western expedition, he also jumped from city to city.
Therefore, this kind of surrender can gain him a stable rear and even new weapons of the Ming Dynasty, such as the telescope he used, as well as the firearms and armor used by the Ming army in this war, all of which he can use. If he can use
In exchange for these surrenders, he could even conquer the Ottoman Empire and march to New Rome.
If you can exchange this little humiliation for this, what's the big deal?
Kneel down?
It's not like he has never knelt before.
Back then, he knelt at the feet of Tuhelu Timur. Isn't he still lording over the river now?
What a hero!
Everyone knows that you can kneel down when you need to.
"However, your Excellency's tribute must be re-determined in the future. The Ming Dynasty does not need those gems or anything else, it just needs horses and camels. Your Excellency will pay tribute every three years. How about a tribute of 5,000 horses and 5,000 camels at a time!"
Zhu Di said.
"If Emperor Ming really makes a decree, then even if I try my best, I will still give it to His Majesty."
Timur said with a smile.
This was a trivial matter to him. After all, he was out to rob, so he could just let Persia and other conquered cities out.
"Well, the King of Samarkand is indeed loyal!"
Zhu Di said with a smile.
Then he rode into the temple on horseback while a group of elders in front of him knelt down in humiliation.
Timur quickly dismounted.
But this makes him look more like he is leading the horse for His Royal Highness, Prince Yan.
He didn't care.
But the generals such as Hoylchak behind him all looked furious. Zhu Di, who was riding a horse and walking in the temple, was undoubtedly a huge humiliation to them. Then the horse was walking very rudely.
pull.
However……
They looked at the Ming soldiers who were all heavily armored and riding war horses, and in the end they could only swallow this sigh of relief.
And while Zhu Di was visiting the temple on horseback, the city of Andiyan had also been captured.
"You traitors, you minions of the devil, the gods will not forgive you, you will be burned to ashes in the fire!"
The Emir of Andijan howled in despair.
Caught, he is watching his city fall into a catastrophe.
There are fires and dead bodies everywhere, his woman is carried on the shoulders of the enemy, his money is being shown off by the enemies, and the buildings he has built for generations are collapsing in the fire. The whole city is filled with smoke, and the sky is filled with smoke.
The invaders who were dyed black and galloped through his city on horseback were cutting off the heads of his brothers with swords. The war horses trampled the bodies of his relatives, and the Wara cavalry happily waved their scimitars and howled in his land.
The leader of these intruders was Ha Zhi, who was also an old acquaintance of his.
Haha!
What an ironic title.
"Drag him out!"
Ha Zhi said nonchalantly.
What is there to care about? This city now belongs to him, and he will use Andiyan as his royal city in the future.
He and Ugqi Hashiha had discussed that the area north of the Syr Darya River was occupied by Oara, and the latter could build the royal city in Akhshe. This city is roughly located in the same location as Mannagan, and south of the Syr Darya River
Andijan, Uzgen, Osh and other cities belong to him, but Oara can nomadic in this area, after all, this area is very large.
And he really needs the protection of Ugqi Hashha now.
After the Ming army withdrew, he had tens of thousands of people. How could he suppress the rebels?
You have to rely on Wala.
Of course, you have to kill as many as possible before that.
Otherwise, if he adds Wala, he may not be able to suppress the resistance here.
"Kill, kill them all, and avenge our dead relatives!"
Then he raised his knife and shouted.
Accompanied by the curse of the Emir of Andijan, he led the Dugrat soldiers and continued to kill crazily in the city.
On the city wall.
"What a vicious move you make!"
Zhang Fu looked at Ha Zhi and the killing Dugrat soldiers with great interest.
"I didn't force him, he was driven by his own desires."
Yang Feng was sitting leisurely on the city wall, with his legs still hanging down and holding raisins in his hand. Behind him were two beauties, shivering and serving this devil-like man. Ambassador Yang was not just a petty one.
Girls, in fact, no matter which city they capture, people like Hazhi always select the most beautiful women and offer them to him.
So Ambassador Yang now has hundreds of beauties around him, although he has no interest in them.
After all, they are too young.
But these are still his blatant concubines.
Of course, not only him, but also his uncle had hundreds of them.
And now the Ming army is watching the excitement, especially those from the Shenji camp, who are admiring the destruction of the city on the city wall. The Ming army does not need to rob it, because everything in the Emir's Mansion belongs to them, and Ambassador Yang has already
It is clear that when I return, I will have two horses, two camels, and two young women. As for the amount of gold and silver, it will depend on how much is found in the mansions of the emirs.
So there is no need to bother them with laborious tasks like looting.
After all, the enemy who is cornered is still very strong in resisting.
The Ming army had to try to avoid casualties as much as possible.
So far, the Ming army following him, including Zhang Fu's tribe, Tan Yuan's tribe, and Song Xuan's tribe, add up to a total of 5,500. Counting from the time they crossed Iron Gate Pass, the casualties so far have been less than 1,000, and only 400 have been killed.
Mainly the defense of Aksu city and the previous battle in Uzgen.
This casualty has little impact on morale.
Currently, there are still 4,800 people following, including some with minor injuries that will not affect the battle.
"So they say you are a devil. In fact, it is not unreasonable. You are really like a demon, bewitching them, guiding them, and even opening the door for them and telling them what to do."
Tan Yuan said.
"What am I? Compared to Timur, I am as kind as a good student. Do you know what he likes to do the most? Capture the city, kill all the people, and pile their heads up in Beijing, especially the women.
Capture the children and leave them to starve to death.
At least I still take care of the kids.
Later generations estimated that he killed close to 20 million people during his thirty years of expansion.
To kill one is a sin, to kill ten thousand is to be a hero, to kill nine million is to be a hero among heroes.
After killing nearly 20 million people, he became the overlord of the entire West. From the deserts of Egypt to the ice and snow of Eastern Europe, from the Mediterranean to the Tianshan Mountains, all countries and ethnic groups trembled at his feet. So much so that he later tried to recruit 800,000
He then marched across the Western Regions to conquer the Ming Dynasty, but before he could reach the southern border, he died of illness on the road.
Look, after killing so many people, he not only became a generational overlord, but also died a good death."
Yang Feng said.
Timur was famous for his cruelty towards their fellow religious brothers.
Capture a city, kill all the men and then build a pyramid with their heads, capture all the women, and leave the children to starve to death. West Asia and the Middle East regard him as a devil. He is the most terrifying person in this land after Hulagu's Western Conquest.
memory, so Tukashgar is really his routine operation!
This is also an important reason why Yang Feng does not want to destroy him.
He still has a lot of work to do.
He still had to defeat the Ottoman Empire and crush the Ottoman Sultan like a horse and stone.
He has not yet destroyed the Delhi Sultanate.
His bloodbath was the main reason why the Indus Valley fell into chaos and chaos.
These are what Yang Feng likes to see.
Therefore, he wanted to humiliate Timur and destroy his prestige. Then when he and Zhu Di withdrew and gave Timur no worries again, he had to expand on a larger scale to re-establish his prestige in front of his men. He wanted to
Use more victories to ensure that your men will not rebel, lead them to continue looting, and let them forget this humiliation in the face of new victories.
Use the slaughter of other cities to forget the shame of the slaughter of your own city.
Use it to conquer other countries to forget the shame of being penetrated deep into the country by others.
Use the wealth of others to make up for the wealth that has been plundered.
Then blood stained the West.
Even when necessary, Yang Feng doesn't mind giving him some help. Of course, the premise is that he can offer enough in exchange. He can even encourage him to continue to fight all the way to Constantinople, or let him march to Eastern Europe.
With the Kipchaks who surrendered to him, he continued to march towards Poland and Lithuania.
Returning Europe to fear of the whip of God.
He wouldn't live for more than a few years anyway.
Calculating time, he will live less than ten years.
That's almost enough.
A country like his will immediately fall into civil strife as soon as he dies.