"Roy, now you can't find anyone to send this letter back, and Timur will never allow us to leave the army's camp. Why are you writing to His Majesty the King?" Seeing Kalaviyo put down the goose feather.
Pen, another man with brown-black hair and brown-green eyes said to him with a smile.
"Alonso, even if you can't find anyone to deliver the letter, you'd better write down what you saw and heard these days, otherwise you may forget the details of the matter when you return home." His full name is Roy Gozerai.
Z. de Clavijo's man responded with a smile as he put on his coat.
"Even so, you can write it in your own diary instead of writing a letter. I wrote everything I saw and heard these days in my diary."
"I'm used to writing letters. Even when I write a diary, it's always in the form of a letter to myself, so these manuscripts have a slightly different title and become my diary."
"Okay, okay," the man named Alonso Don Quijano changed the subject: "Roy, do you think the Timur Khanate's army can capture the city of Hami today?"
"If Timur's judgment on the defensive equipment in the city is accurate, he should be able to capture the outer city. But even if Timur's judgment is accurate, the Ming army in the city must not be unprepared, and it is impossible to capture the inner city."
Calavio thought for a while and said.
"I think so too. After he captures the outer city, he must continue to fight for the inner city. But I heard that Ming Dynasty reinforcements are about to arrive. If the inner city still cannot be captured at a huge cost, Timur will fall into
Passive." Quijano also said.
As they were talking, the two of them walked out of the tent and walked towards the place where they usually observed the battle situation. As they were walking, a person appeared in front of them. Karaviyo hurriedly greeted him in Khorezim: "Good morning, Fu An.
"
Fu An, who was wearing a Turkic-style robe, heard someone calling him, turned around and saw the two of them, and responded in Khorezm: "Hello, Karawiyo, Jijano."
"Fu An, didn't you sleep well last night?" Karaviyo looked at his haggard face and said, "Fu An, even if the Timur Khanate is attacking your motherland now, you don't have to do this.
In my opinion, both the Timur Khanate and the Ming Dynasty are very powerful countries. Timur cannot destroy your motherland. The war will still be ended through negotiation at the end, and then you will be able to play a big role.
It’s working.”
Fu An forced a smile and said nothing. In the past few days, he had also roughly understood the situation in the Kingdom of Castile, where Calaviyo and Quijano were from. The cultural customs were completely different from those of the Ming Dynasty, and they could not understand it even if he explained it himself.
He could only say casually: "It's hard to say anything." Then he said: "Are you going to observe the battle situation?"
"Yes, yesterday Timur said that we can capture the outer city today. Let's see if it can be achieved." After saying this, Karaviyo thought about how Fu An, a member of the Ming Dynasty, would fight against the domestic army.
He should be more familiar with it, and asked again: "Fu An, do you think the army of Timur Khanate can capture the outer city today?"
"The guarding generals in the city are Song Sheng and Song Xiang, veterans who have guarded the northwest for nearly 20 years. They will definitely remember that the city's defense equipment is about to be exhausted, and they must be prepared. Therefore, Timur will never be able to seize the inner city.
The city!" Fu Anxian made a decisive judgment, and then said: "It's just that the city defense equipment cannot be transformed, so the outer city probably cannot be defended."
Kalaviyo had already heard Fu An brag about Song Sheng, so he only paid attention to the key points and nodded after hearing the last sentence: This is similar to the judgment of the two of them.
"It seems that the outer city is about to fall. I just don't know if the inner city can be captured before reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty arrive." Calavio said in Castilian and Quijano.
"It seems like that. I hope Timur can successfully capture the city of Hami." Jijano said. They do not support both sides of this war, but to some extent the Timur Khanate is in conflict with the Castilian Khanate.
Lia and Leah worked together to deal with the Ottoman allies, so they did not want the Tamerlane Khanate to suffer too much loss.
The two of them were still discussing when they heard a voice coming from the front: "Calaviyo, Quijano, do you two want to watch the fall of Hami City with me?"
Kalaviyo quickly looked up and saw Timur standing not far away, looking over with a smile.
"Good morning, Khan." Calaviyo and Quijano hurriedly bowed three times.
"Good morning." Timur returned the greeting, said a few more words to them, then turned to Fu An and said: "Fu An, I remember that you are from Henan Province in the Ming Dynasty. These Khitan people who were killed were not
There will be your relatives, friends, and even fellow villagers, so there is no need for you to be so unhappy."
"When I conquer the Ming Kingdom in the future and make Shaharu the Eastern King, I will appoint you as prime minister and help him rule the vast land and large population. Your power will be far greater than your current power in the Ming Kingdom.
"
But even after hearing Timur's words, Fu An didn't show any special expression. There was no unnecessary expression on his pale face, he just bowed and agreed.
Seeing this, Timur stopped talking and continued to the high platform.
After a while, he came to the place where he usually observed the battle situation and signaled to Jesb. Jesb bent down and saluted, and then loudly announced: "Attack the city!"
Upon hearing this order, the Semu man who was standing loosely at the front of the formation straightened up and raised the sword and gun in his hand.
The team of Samarkandites standing behind them raised their spears and moved forward, while also forcing the Semu people in front to set off. Many Semu people were reluctant, but they could only move forward.
Just like the previous days, when they walked to a place about 60 feet away from the city, a "swish" sound was heard from the top of the city, and the crossbow with a longer range began to fire arrows; when they walked to a place about 30 feet away from the city,
At that place, the sound of "縭" sounded, and the archers began to show off their power.
The Semu people also held shields in their hands, and they raised them above their heads. But they were still charging and could not form a tight formation. From time to time, someone would be hit by an arrow and fall to the ground screaming.
But the remaining people still kept charging. Firstly, the team behind them would not allow them to retreat, and secondly, Zhu Shangbing, whom they hated so much, was in the city. They all wanted to break into the city to capture Zhu Shangbing alive, and then used the most powerful force to
The cruel punishment tortured him to death, so even though the casualties were heavy, his morale was still high and he rushed towards the city wall.
The cannons behind also roared, bombarding the city wall. Although Yiwu City was built according to the inland prefectural cities, after all, time was still short and the manpower was insufficient. The height of the city wall was enough, but the thickness was not enough. The bombardment of more than ten days has already
Make the walls so pitted that you can climb up for a while even without ladders or ropes.
The Semu people who rushed to the city wall immediately threw away their shields, put their swords in their mouths, climbed up, and then their pockets were poured with boiling water or boiling oil. They screamed uncontrollably and fell to the ground.
The Samarkand archers began to unfurl their bows and nock arrows and shoot at the city head; the Ming army archers at the city head also gave up attacking the infantry and instead shot at the Samarkand archers.
The pressure on the siege infantry was greatly reduced. Most of the second batch of siegeers arrived very close to the city safely, and began to build ladders to the top of the city and climb up the city.
The Ming army's artillery also fired at the right time. Most of them were firing back at the Timur Khanate's artillery, and a few were firing shotguns. Small pebbles were fired from the muzzle, covering an area of dozens of feet, and everyone next to them was miserable.
They screamed and fell. Some people died in mid-air, some fell to the ground and died, and only a handful of people survived.
Calaviyo and Quijano stared at the situation in front of them. Although they had been watching this situation for more than ten days, they were always amazed by a war of this scale.
In Europe, there has not been such a large-scale war for a long time since the end of the Crusades. Now the Oros in the East are fighting the Mongols, the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania is facing off against the Teutonic Knights, and England
They were also at war with France intermittently, and their motherland Castile also joined forces with the Venetians and Genoese to deal with the Ottomans at sea. However, these wars only involved tens of thousands or even thousands of troops in a single battle.
Great war.
What they saw in front of them was that tens of thousands of people were fighting at the same time, and hundreds of thousands of people were waiting behind them to join the battle.
"If His Majesty Enrique III (King of Castile) can dispatch hundreds of thousands of troops at once like Timur or the Ming Dynasty emperor, no one in Europe, North Africa and even West Asia can stop him, and His Majesty will reappear in Rome.
The glory of the empire, becoming the greatest emperor in Europe since Basil I!" Calavio thought in his heart.
But he was just thinking about it in his mind. Not to mention that Castile simply couldn't supply food for so many soldiers. Even if it could, the intricately connected nobles in the country would try their best to prevent the king from having such great power.
While he was thinking in his mind, Quijano said: "Roy, look quickly, the Ming army firing arrows at the top of the city is obviously much slower, and there are far fewer cannons that are still roaring."
"Could it be that the barrel is overheating?" Karaviyo glanced enviously at the cannons of the Tamerlane Khanate not far away. The power of these cannons is so great that most of the bastions in Europe cannot hold the cannons.
of bombardment.
"I have been observing the firing frequency of the city's cannons for the past ten days, and it is definitely not to the extent that most of the barrels are overheated. It must be that the Ming army does not have enough arrows and shells." Jijano said very confidently.
At the same time, Timur also smiled and said: "The Ming army must not have enough defensive equipment. Pass my order to double the total siege force and attack Hami City!"