"But it's not just us who are hot when the weather is hot, it's also hot for the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they can't set up tents on top of the city to provide shade," Salha said immediately.
"After all, it will be more disadvantageous for those who attack the city. But you are right, the enemy and we are both enthusiastic. So I think there are other reasons, but I haven't figured it out. I have to think about it again. You should also go back and think about it."
Jesb said.
Salha saw that he said he didn't know, because Jesib had always been very tight-lipped. No matter whether he knew it or not, since he said he didn't know, he couldn't ask anything anymore, so he stopped asking.
Jesb added: "According to the practice of the Great Khan, we must give a speech to the generals and soldiers tomorrow morning, and we generals must be asked to get up very early. It is better to go back early to rest so as not to feel sleepy. After all, tomorrow will be
There won’t be time to catch up on sleep during the day.”
"Yeah." Salha agreed.
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As soon as it dawned on the second day, Timur sent someone to wake up all the soldiers and asked them to have a hasty breakfast and gather around a high platform that had been hastily built yesterday. At the same time, he asked all the generals to stand in front of the high platform.
After the sun completely illuminated the sky, Timur led his guards onto the high platform. He glanced around at the soldiers below. When he saw the main force standing in the front row, they all looked excited and very excited, while the auxiliary soldiers behind him were excited.
Still yawning, she hurriedly covered her mouth when she saw him standing on the stage, but she still couldn't hide the slackness in her eyes.
Timur nodded slightly and shook his head, coughed a few times to clear his throat, and then began to speak.
"My generals, civil servants, soldiers and craftsmen of the Kingdom of Samarkand, as well as the people who have just abandoned the darkness and turned to the light."
"The city in front of you is now the westernmost territory of the Ming Kingdom in the East. However, this city has only been the territory of the Ming Kingdom for four years. Before that, it was occupied by the Tianfang Cultists.
place."
"The Ming Dynasty persecutes us Tianfang believers extremely, does not allow us to have our faith, and slanders the reputation of God and the Prophet. Such things are intolerable to every Tianfang believer!"
"For Allah, for the Prophet, for the Tianfang Religion, and for all the believers in the world, we must defeat the Ming Kingdom, punish them, kill all the Khitans who have persecuted the Tianfang believers, and capture them alive. This order was given to the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and he was
Starve to death in a room full of Qurans! Let everyone in the world know that God cannot be blasphemed, and the followers of Heaven cannot be insulted!"
Every time Timur said something, the guards beside him repeated it loudly. His 200,000 main troops can all understand Samarkand, and most of the auxiliary troops can also understand it. As for the local Semu people and
Mongolians, it doesn't matter if they don't understand.
When these people heard this, they all raised their weapons in excitement and shouted loudly: "God cannot be blasphemed, and Tianfang believers cannot be insulted!"
"So for the sake of Allah, the army will attack the city of Hami from today on, knock down the city first, capture Zhu Shangbing, the king of Qin in the Ming Dynasty who ordered the massacre of Eastern believers in the city a few days ago, and execute him with the most cruel punishment!"
"For Allah!" the crowd shouted again.
"Believers of Allah, begin to attack the city."
"Siege the city!"
After shouting this sentence, Timur announced the end of his speech and came down from the high platform. The generals returned to their troops and began to lead the soldiers to prepare for the attack.
And when Tamerlane was giving a speech, one of the two people standing in a tent in the camp listening to the speech suddenly smiled bitterly at the other and said: "You guessed it right."
At the same time, on the top of Yiwu's city wall, Shang Bing also said the same thing: "The officials guessed it right."
"Your Highness, what did your Majesty guess right?" Song Hu, who was beside him at this time, couldn't help but ask. Even Song Sheng and Gao Xiang looked at Shang Bing with expressions of interest.
Today, Timur woke up Shang Bing when he just started his speech. He was curious and immediately sent someone to call someone who knew the Khorezmo language. He hurriedly put on his clothes and rushed to the city.
On the way, he met Song Sheng, Gao Xiang and others. Some of them had already gotten up and some had not, but they were all startled by the huge movement.
When everyone arrived at the top of the city, they immediately ordered the interpreter to translate Timur's words. After listening to the last paragraph, Shang Bing was about to refute a few words when he suddenly thought of something Yunxi had said to him before, and he couldn't help blurting it out.
At this moment, he heard Song Hu's inquiry and said: "Two years ago, when I went to the capital and talked with the officials about preparing for the war against Samarkand, the officials said to me: This battle will inevitably turn into the Eastern Confucian civilization.
The war with the Western Tianfang Sect civilization is not just a war between the Ming Dynasty and Samarkand."
"I didn't believe it at the time, but now I finally understood that the officials were right."
"A war between the Eastern Confucian civilization and the Western Tianfang Sect civilization?" Gao Xiang repeated this sentence again. He knew every word in this sentence, but together he thought about it for a while before saying: "This is different from the Song Dynasty and the
What is the difference between the Mongolian and Yuan wars?" Yunxi once defined the Song-Yuan War and the Yuan-Ming War: "The Song-Yuan War and the Yuan-Ming War were wars between the Han people and the Mongols, not ordinary dynasty replacement wars." So he has
This question.
But after listening to his words, Shang Bing did not answer for a moment, but seemed to be deep in thought.
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"Officials, why do you say that the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Samarkand Kingdom will become a war between the Eastern Confucian civilization and the Western Tianfang Religious civilization? How is it different from the War of the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the War of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties?" Shang Bing sat on the chair, very dissatisfied.
Xie asked.
"Let's talk about the battles of the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the battles of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties first." Yunxi stood up and stomped around the room: "The Mongols are different from all the barbarian tribes that have settled in the Central Plains before. Although all the barbarian tribes before have also
They slaughtered people wantonly in the Central Plains, but they all admired the civilization of the Central Plains and tried their best to sinicize. Therefore, the Five Husties destroyed China and eventually all the Xianbei, Jie, and Xiongnu tribes became Han Chinese, and the Yang family, the Han people who had been Xianbei but finally re-sinicized, unified the world!"
"But the Mongols were different. They despised Han civilization and did not hold the imperial examination for decades after the fall of the Jin Kingdom. Even if Kublai Khan did open the imperial examination, it was extremely unfair, which caused all Han scholars to alienate and lose the Central Plains after less than a century of enjoying the country.
Return to the desert."
This passage is quite concise and easy to understand, and it also makes sense. Shang Bing nodded after listening.
"But the Mongols are a barbaric tribe after all. Although they are civilized, they are very immature and have difficulty influencing the Han people. Therefore, it is just a war between two countries or nations, not a civilized war."