Among Princess Alina's guards, there were naturally some who seriously rejected Timur's unreasonable request.
"How dare these Mongolian barbarians threaten their employer!"
Princess Alina was also furious after learning about the demands of Timur's mercenaries.
"We haven't opened the road yet, and we still need mercenaries like Timur to continue fighting. If they refuse to fight because they don't have enough rewards, then we may be trapped in Bangladesh. When will we arrive in Han Dynasty in the east?
country?"
An accompanying palace official advised Princess Alina and the Gracchus generals.
Everyone knows that His Majesty Firuz Shah of the Delhi Sultanate is eager to complete marriage and trade with the Han Kingdom in the east.
If mercenaries like Timur are unwilling to contribute, then the Gracchi Guards may have to go into battle themselves.
The remnant troops of Dali led by Duan Gongfa successively defeated the probing attacks of the Delhi Sultanate, which had already frightened the Gracchi Guards, a group of dandies.
If the Gracchi Guards were to go into battle to kill the enemy, it would be the same as killing them.
So after hearing the persuasion of this palace official, all the generals of the Gracchi Guards fell silent.
In the current situation, people like Timur are still expected to serve.
Princess Alina took a look at these generals of the Imperial Guard and knew that they were of little use.
Without any choice.
Princess Alina could only ask people to take out some of the gold and silver treasures and slave girls that were accompanying her, and sent them to Timur's military camp as a reward.
really.
After receiving these rewards, Timur's mercenaries developed stronger fighting power.
Specific results include, but are not limited to, conquering a city occupied by Brahmans, burning the Brahmin temple inside, killing all men and women, and taking away all gold, silver, treasures and livestock. During the march,
They also killed and burned all the Brahmin villages along the way.
Under this series of victories.
As the nominal lord of Bangladesh, Duan Gong never sent troops to rescue.
This made Timur and others even more arrogant.
When fighting in this pagan land, Timur was lame because of an injury to his leg. He was afraid that his mercenaries and local Tianzhu natives would look down on him. During every battle and robbery, he would be more cautious than anyone else.
of ferocity.
soon.
Tamerlane the Butcher, this brand new name spread throughout the Delhi Sultanate.
Princess Alina wrote to her father Firuz Shah one by one about what she saw and heard in the front line.
Firuz Shah was naturally happy that Timur was able to defeat Duan Gong with his deliberate use of troops, but he did not like that Timur's reputation was getting louder and louder in the Delhi Sultanate.
The Tianfang believers in the Delhi Sultanate are already spreading some extremely unfavorable news to the Sultan.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Many people say that Timur was a devout believer and a person who was blessed by the prophet, so he was able to defeat the enemies of the Delhi Sultanate one after another.
What does this mean?
This is a naked allusion to His Majesty Sultan Firuz Shah!
As the saying goes, scholars can be patient, but others cannot be tolerated.
Firuz Shah hired these Tianfang cultists to fight in order to consolidate his power, rather than hoping that these Tianfeng cultists would threaten his power.
The Delhi Sultanate was a country established as a military group, and their various local warrior lords were not quite who the Sultan was.
There had been several mercenary rebellions in the Delhi Sultanate that overthrew the previous Sultan.
Therefore, in order to prevent the Tianfang believers in the country from supporting mercenaries too much, Firuz Shah decided to personally lead the army to complete the final blow against the Orientals.
Firuz Shah felt that Duan Gong was at the end of his tether if he did not dare to fight Timur. As long as he led the army and went to the battlefield to win the final battle, he would be able to take all the credit for himself and avoid the mercenaries such as Timur.
The army is too powerful.
In order to achieve this goal, Firuz Shah sent people at an accelerated speed of 800 miles and ordered Timur's army to stop attacking and wait for his arrival.
Timur didn't understand the reason for Firuz Shah's order at first, but when they heard that Firuz Shah had begun to prepare an army to come in person, they all knew that Firuz Shah was afraid that they would get too much credit for it.
, ready to grab the credit.
The actions of the Delhi Sultanate naturally did not escape Duan Gong's spies.
Duan Gong's original plan was to shrink the defense in order to lure Timur and others to risk going deep, so that he could give them a fatal counterattack under the city walls.
Now Duan Gong has received news that Firuz Shah, the monarch of the Delhi Sultanate, is mobilizing all his forces and preparing to launch a full-scale attack on Duan Gong.
This scared Duan Gong quite a bit.
There are more than 20,000 mercenaries under Timur, and the number of troops being mobilized by Firuz Shah of the Delhi Sultanate is said to be more than 100,000.
The indigenous Indian troops under Duan Gong had low combat effectiveness and were no match for the enemy. The only military force they could truly rely on was his own more than 10,000 men.
"Why haven't the reinforcements from the imperial court arrived yet?"
Duan Gong couldn't help but panic, and began to look forward to the early arrival of reinforcements sent by the Ming Dynasty.
According to the current comparison of strength, Duan Gong only has more than 10,000 people, and the strength of the Delhi Sultanate will increase to more than 100,000 by then.
One beats ten.
Even if Duan Gong makes all his soldiers become three-headed and six-armed, it still won't be enough to fight.
What's more, because the lame Timur turned into the butcher Timur, his reputation for cruelty frightened the indigenous Indians in Bengal. Many indigenous princes who were originally loyal to Duan Gong secretly surrendered to Timur, which made Duan Gong's
The strength is obviously weakened.
Almost all the lords outside are no longer loyal to Duan Gong.
The only indigenous Indian power he could really count on was the tens of thousands of people in New Dali City.
His situation became very critical, and Duan Gong immediately tried his best to reverse the situation.
Duan Gong recruited indigenous troops in his territory, but the effect was very small.
The indigenous people of India have long been poisoned by the Brahmins. Their expectations for the afterlife are far greater than this life. Except for the lords with land and land, the common people are just salted fish waiting to die.
They would not fight Timur for an outsider like Duan Gong.
If one plan fails, another plan will be made.
Duan Gong also sent people to carry a large amount of gold and silver treasures and contacted Timur and other mercenary generals through secret channels.
Since these mercenaries were fighting for money, Duan Gong felt that as long as he paid more money, he might be able to make these enemies switch sides.
But Duan Gong far underestimated the professionalism of these mercenaries.
In particular, these mercenaries are all devout believers in the Tianfang Religion.
Their allegiance to the Delhi Sultanate was not just to Sultan Firuz Shah.
I also want to use this war to gain enough credit for my future ascension to heaven in a holy war.
For these devout Christian warriors, Duan Gong's behavior can only bring humiliation to himself.
In desperation, Duan Gong could only order his generals and soldiers to strengthen defense in New Dali City, ready to deal with a large-scale attack by the Delhi Sultanate at any time.
In the military camp of Timur the Butcher, a large group of mercenary generals gathered around Timur.
They were laughing wildly.
The gold and silver treasures Duan Gong sent as bribes were all intercepted by Timur.
Not only that, Timur also sent people to brutally cut off the nose and ears of Duan Gong's envoy, a native of Tianzhu who was proficient in multiple languages, to show the future and bravery of the Tianfang Sect warriors.
Now these mercenary generals are happy to receive their own gold and silver treasures.
After fighting together for such a long time.
These mercenaries have already placed great trust in Timur, a ferocious and smart young man.
Timur naturally knew the psychology of these people very clearly.
His ambitions also expanded further.
So this time the gold and silver treasures were distributed. In order to win over these generals and completely turn to him, Timur showed his generous characteristics and distributed all the gold and silver treasures to these generals, leaving none for himself.
"Sultan Firuz Shah will be coming here soon. I believe it won't take long to defeat the Easterners. By then, after harvesting this vast land, we will probably have to go back to the river!" Timur said deliberately.
Said regretfully.
When the other generals heard this, their expressions of joy turned into regret and loneliness.
These mercenary generals all come from the barren Kabul, Khorasan and other places. Even the slightly richer Hezhong area cannot compare with the rich Tianzhu continent.
So after these days of marching and fighting, these greedy mercenary generals have already become full of ambitions for this land.
As soon as the war is over, they will leave.
Everyone looked like Timur and stole inquiring glances.
obviously.
Everyone hoped that Timur would find a way to allow them to continue to enjoy happiness on the continent of Tianzhu.
"When those hateful Easterners are eliminated, I will ask Firuz Shah to let us become the Gracchus of Balad!"
The Balad region is located in the northwest of the Delhi Sultanate, where the famous Khyber Pass lies.
Almost every time the Indian mainland was invaded in history, invaders poured in through mountain passes.
Although the land there is not fertile, it can grow some food and graze livestock. For mercenaries in Central Asia, it is really a rare geomantic treasure land.
The large and small military nobles of Drisuda Kingdom have a special name called Gracchus, which is equivalent to the European knight lord.
The Guards of the Sultan of Delhi were composed of these elite Gracchi, so they were also called the Gracchi Guards.
Moreover, Gracchus had considerable local power. Except for paying part of the taxes and military service to the Sultan, all other powers belonged to Gracchus himself, large and small.
If Tamerlane and his mercenaries could be canonized as Gracchus, they would be equivalent to having their own independent kingdom.
Moreover, the Balad area is close to areas such as Transoxiana and Kabul, where the hometowns of these mercenaries can be contacted.
Once there is trouble, the Balad region can borrow troops from Kabul and the river to enter India for military conquest.
Therefore, Timur's plan obviously has very strong ambitions.
"What if the Sultan refuses to agree?"
Immediately some mercenary generals raised their concerns, because the ambition here was too obvious. As the sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, Firuz Shah could not be a fool and could definitely see it.
"Then we should let the Sultan know that without us devout God warriors, he would not be able to win this holy war against the Easterners!" Timur said coldly.
In Timur's plan, the war against Duan Gong can almost be said to be a sure victory.
