Early on the next morning, Yunxi set out with tens of thousands of soldiers from different sources, heading for the destination of the trip, Yiwu.
"I hope the final battle has not started before I arrive." Yunxi thought to himself.
…
"Dear Your Majesty, more than twenty days have passed since the last time I wrote to you."
"The final suspense of the last letter: whether Timur could capture the inner city of Hamin before the Ming reinforcements arrived has come to fruition. Just when he was about to capture the city, he heard the news that the Ming reinforcements arrived, and finally decided
retreat."
"After that, Timur not only gave up his plan to attack Hami City, but also retreated from Hami City to a small city west of Hami City - a place that the Seris people called the Acropolis."
"I'm not sure why Timur made this decision. He probably wanted to be more confident in the war. He had fewer soldiers than the Ming army. But the Ming army pressed forward. After leaving about 100,000 people in the city of Hami,
They also sent more soldiers than Timur to station near the Samarkand camp, and sent people to provoke him every day, trying to provoke Timur to send troops to fight."
"Tamerlane did send troops to fight, but he was not provoked. To be honest, a man with rich war experience like Tamerlane is not easily provoked. The Seris people probably just wanted to give it a try."
"These days they send soldiers to fight between the camps of the two armies every day, but not many soldiers are sent each time. Both sides calmly arrange their troops and do not give the other side a chance. But even in such a 'low-intensity war'
The casualties caused are already unbearable for all Western countries."
"As of the evening of yesterday, July 29, more than 30,000 soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom had been killed and more than 40,000 others were injured. If any Western country, even the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, which is now said to be very powerful, has
Or the Kingdom of France, which is at war with England, cannot withstand it. Of course, due to limited medical conditions, many seriously injured soldiers could not be rescued and were counted as soldiers killed in battle."
"But the most concerning thing is that this war has finally slipped into the worst situation I had expected: a stalemate. There is not much difference in the strength of the two warring parties, and the terrain near the Hami Basin does not have many undulations, and even the woods
There are very few of them, and it is difficult to make a sneak attack. The winner of the final war is likely to be the party with more abundant food. But now Timur has sufficient food, and there are many cattle, sheep and horses to eat, and he can last at least eight to
Nine months have passed, and judging from the commander's command, the Ming Dynasty on the opposite side does not seem to have insufficient food. The prolongation of the war is probably inevitable."
"The Ottomans finally got the much-coveted rest. When I first set foot on the land of West Asia, I wrote a letter to Your Majesty, telling you that the Ottomans were engaged in a fierce civil war. The civil war would of course deplete their strength, but
When the civil war ends, the unified Ottomans will surely burst out with stronger fighting power than when they were divided. Before the end of the war between Iraq and Wu, the Ottomans should not dare to provoke the Kingdom of Samarkand, but they can continue to advance westward and attack
The rotten Byzantines."
"I would hate to hear when I return to Castile that the Ottomans have captured Constantinople. This will be the first time the city has fallen to the Celestials. It will be huge for all followers of the Lord.
Attack. Although the people who now control Constantinople have long since become heretics, I can't help but pray for them, hoping that they can defend the city."
"There is something very important to tell you. According to the prisoners of the Seris captured by the soldiers of Samarkand, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is rushing to the land of Hami City. This year, I heard that Timur sent troops
After the Eastern Expedition, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty named Zhu Yunxi set out from their capital on the East Asian coast to the northwest. Before that, he stayed in a city called Ganzhou for a while, and decided to leave for Hami more than ten days ago. Tomorrow or
The day after tomorrow, he will arrive here."
"According to the prisoners, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty originally did not want to come to Yiwu. This emperor was very humble. He believed that his war skills were not as good as those of the generals who are now commanding this army. He was worried that his coming would interfere with the command and cause the war to fail.
But when he heard that Timur had assembled another 500,000 troops in the Hami Basin, and that the Ming Dynasty also had 700,000 troops, he couldn't help but come to command this unprecedented war in human history."
"Yes, this is an unprecedented war in human history. Although some records of the Greeks say that the Persians sent millions of people to conquer Greece in the year of the Lord, but I am skeptical about this, even if
The Persians literally sent out millions of people, and the vast majority of them were real farmers, not warriors, not even half-warriors."
"I think anyone would be tempted by the temptation of commanding such an unprecedented war in human history, including the emperor of the Ming Dynasty."
"Timur once considered sending an army to intercept and kill Zhu Yunxi on the way, but because Zhu Yunxi himself brought 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers, Xu Huizu, the commander of the Ming army, also expected such a situation and sent most of the cavalry in his hands.
To go out to protect their emperor, Timur could only give up his own ideas."
“In this way, the emperors of the two most powerful countries in the world will gather in this small Hami Basin and command a total of more than one million troops to fight face to face to prove which country is the most powerful country in the world.