When Shang Bing presided over the public sacrifice and burial ceremony, Timur stood in his camp, watching with clairvoyance in his hands.
Shaharul stood behind him, also watching with his clairvoyance. When he saw Shang Bing tinkering in the cemetery, he suddenly felt a chill rising in his body, and couldn't help but said to Timur: "Great Khan, you should immediately
Send people to harass and prevent them from carrying out this ceremony smoothly. I think that after this ceremony, it will be more difficult for these Ming troops to attack."
"Even if we send people to cause trouble and prevent them from successfully completing the ceremony, it will be more difficult for these Ming troops to attack. Do you know what ceremony they held?" Timur asked Shaharul.
Shaharul shook his head. Before Timur officially decided to send troops to the east, he had been guarding the west, either Ashgabat or Rai (Tehran). He had also been stationed in Basra and Hormuz Island, but never
I thought I would come to the East, so I knew very little about the Ming Dynasty.
"They are holding a public memorial ceremony to commemorate the people who were beaten to death by the enemy in the past 20 days."
"The Khitans in the East are a nation that cares very much about the deceased. Historically in the East, if one side killed people from the other side in a war, holding a public memorial ceremony could eliminate the hatred of the remaining people from the other side.
Except for being massacred.”
"So they attach great importance to this ceremony, even those who have nothing to do with the person being commemorated. If we send troops to disturb us, the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty who have just arrived at Hami City and have no enmity with us will become enmity against us.
From now on, fight even harder in the war with us."
"And the Ming people have been on guard against us. Their cavalry has been operating outside the camp since early this morning, and the 50,000 to 60,000 garrison troops in the city have not moved at all. It is impossible to capture Hami City in one surprise attack. At the same time, our camp is far away from the cemetery.
The location is thirty miles away from the Ming Kingdom, and even if we send out the most elite cavalry, it is impossible to stop Shang Bing before he retreats into the city."
"So now if we send troops to harass and prevent them from successfully completing the public sacrifice, they will not be able to capture Hami City, nor will they be able to defeat most of the Ming army. At the same time, Zhu Shangbing will not be able to catch him, so he can only kill a few people who participated in the public sacrifice, and most of these people
He is old, weak, sick and disabled, so killing him will not do much good, but will give the Ming army a chance to defeat our army."
"So we cannot send troops to harass them." Tamerlane concluded.
After listening to Timur's words, although Shaharu still couldn't understand it, he understood the reason and muttered: "But just watching them showing off their power makes me feel unhappy."
"Since you are unhappy, don't look anymore." Timur put down the clairvoyance in his hand, stopped looking at the public sacrifice in front of him, and turned back to his tent. Shaharul quickly followed.
As soon as he returned to the tent, he saw Jesb hurried in and saluted him.
Timur saw that his face was not very good-looking, and after saying "May Allah grant peace to you", he asked: "What happened? 2? Make your face look so ugly?"
"Great Khan, I have received two things, one good and one bad. The good thing is that the second batch of auxiliary troops recruited from the country has set off, and about 100,000 of them will arrive here within ten days."
"The bad thing is that the army led by Boermu who went south to attack Tiemenguan has not yet captured Tiemenguan."
"Why? There are only about a thousand Khitan soldiers in Tiemenguan City. Boermu leads nearly 10,000 soldiers and has a small amount of siege equipment. How can it be impossible to defeat Tiemenguan City?" He suddenly thought of a possibility.
: "Could it be that the Mongols from the nearby Eastern Chagatai Khanate helped him?"
"Great Khan, there were indeed Mongolians who helped him, but the number was very small, only a few hundred. This is not the reason why Tiemen Pass has not been captured so far. It's because the Khitans who defended the city adopted some incredible methods.
Defend the city."
"What incredible method?"
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More than ten days ago, it was the first day of the sixth month of the Ming Dynasty.
"Master Qianhu, the soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom, about ten thousand people, have arrived twenty miles north of the city. They will be able to reach the city before tonight." Pu Bing bowed and said.
"What did the Mongols outside the city say?"
"Sir, the Mongols outside the city said that these ten thousand people should be the front line of the Samarkand army. Even if they defeated these ten thousand soldiers and horses, they could not stop the army that followed, so they decided to continue to retreat south. However,
In order to help our army defend Tiemen Pass, we decided to leave hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep behind."
"Where else do they want to retreat?"
"They said there is still water in the Tarim River this season, which is barely enough."
"Hmph! They are leaving hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep here to help our army defend Tiemen Pass. It's just because the water in the Tarim River is not enough for the cattle and sheep to drink." Someone couldn't help but say.
However, the person who was asking did not pay attention to this sentence. Instead, he asked a few more questions and waved the soldier to go down.
When the soldiers walked down, the man who just led him looked around: "Brothers, this is the situation. How do you think we should deal with it?"
The above conversation took place in a small house in a small courtyard. There were not many decorations in the house, only two tables and more than a dozen chairs. One of the tables was placed in the middle, facing north and south.
, this chair is placed on each side. From this table to the south, there are six or seven chairs on the left and right.
At this time, sitting on one of the chairs next to the table in the center was a man in his forties with a beard. This man was wearing a military uniform of the fifth grade, Qianhu, and he was stationed in Iron Gate Pass.
Qian Hu Qin Shouye. At this time, he glanced at the people sitting on the chairs on both sides wearing military uniforms ranging from fifth to seventh rank.
"Is there anything else that needs to be discussed and dealt with? The soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom are coming in a fierce manner. Naturally, we have to resist them. Isn't it possible to escape without fighting? I, Wang Cheng, can't do such a thing anyway." A hundred households said quickly.
After hearing this, two people suddenly became pretty. One of them, wearing a Qianhu military uniform, said: "Wang Cheng, you can't say that. First, our army was originally sent here to supervise the construction of the
The iron gate gate is also used to guard against the Mongols nearby who are plotting evil, but His Highness has not ordered us to hold on to the iron gate gate city."
"Secondly, our army currently only has one thousand households, and even including the civil servants sent over, there are less than 2,000 people. How can we defend against the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom? Especially since the current city can only be built hastily.
Well, we can’t defend ourselves against artillery bombardment.”
"So in my opinion," the man turned to Qin Shouye: "Our army should temporarily retreat together with the Mongols and deal with the people of Samarkand nearby. This has saved the lives of the soldiers and has not violated His Highness's original intention.