In the past few months since Xia Xun rushed back to the Central Plains from the distant Western Regions, the Timurid Empire has become a situation where princes compete for hegemony, so what about Zhu Di in the northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Di sent troops to sweep the north in the cold winter of Layue, and by this time he had been fighting outside the northern Xinjiang for half a year.
If you talk about war, the Tatars' combat effectiveness is not at all the opponent of this brave and invincible emperor Yongle, but if it is about escaping, the Tatars are good at it, so they adopted the most correct tactic: fleeing, dragging the Ming Emperor to escape.
This tactic, Tokhtamysh also used to his father-in-law the cripple Timur, Timur the Great in the face of Tokhtamysh's escape tactics, but also can only look at the endless steppe sigh, although he has a large cavalry team, he can not outrun Tokhtamysh, Tokhtamysh fled all the way to the north at that time, dragged Timur the Great exhausted, and then chased down without others to fight, he was going to be exhausted, and had no choice but to withdraw his troops.
At this moment, Benjamin and Arutai used this trick, they wanted to drag Zhu Di down.
The escape tactics did cause considerable difficulties for Zhu Di, the biggest difficulty was that the supplies were difficult to keep up, if he stopped and waited for supplies, the enemy would have to flee and not know where to go, how to find the vast grassland Zhu Di launched a ruthless attack, regardless of the supply to catch up at full speed, Qingyuan Marquis Wang Yuan escorted the grain and grass, in the ice and snow to catch up with Zhu Di, the army sergeants lacked food and clothing, many people died of cold and starvation, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di for two months, can only eat a small amount of vegetarian food every day, the captured cattle and sheep and a small amount of rice and grain carried in the army are matched, all with the soldiers under his command.
It wasn't until Liaodong raised grain and grass nearby and sent people to transport it that Zhu Di's worries were solved.
In the process of fleeing, the Tatars had a war with the Ming army and the emperor, but without exception, they all ended in defeat, more than 100 battles, no one was undefeated, this kind of defeat contributed to the Tatars' tendency to escape, and later they almost saw the banner of the Ming Dynasty from a distance, smelled the smell of the Ming people, and would jump on the horse and run away.
A whole winter and a spring, the two sides spent in the process of chasing and fleeing, and the huge grassland became a racecourse, and the two sides came and went, running in circles.
Zhu Di saw that it was not a way to go on like this, and finally made a ruthless heart, with the respect of the emperor, regardless of the obstacles of the generals, he personally led a group of 20,000 light cavalry elites, and in the absence of a map, left the main force of the infantry, and chased Benjamin for more than 20 days in a row.
He didn't want to run anymore, and if he fled again, his men and horses couldn't stand it, and this was the place where Genghis Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, was prosperous, and it was easy to boost morale, so he decided to stop and fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, and the morale was inspired, and the descendants of Genghis Khan really wanted to be very majestic in front of their ancestors, but their overall strength was more than one grade worse than that of the Ming army.
In particular, this army led by Zhu Di himself, is the elite of the elite of the Ming army, the two sides fought for only a quarter of an hour, the Han King Zhu Gaoxu took the lead, broke into the Tatar camp, and then the Ming Emperor Zhu Di personally waved the military flag, led the Chinese soldiers and horses to break in, the Ming army was excited, brave and brave.
This killing, only the Tatars turned on their backs and the blood flowed like a river, Benjamin only led seven horsemen to flee westward in panic, and Arutai Taishi led the main force to flee eastward in a hurry.
In the midst of the war, who still knew which was the Tatar Khan Benjamin, Zhu Di saw that there were many soldiers and horses fleeing with Arutai, so he urged the horses to chase eastward.
It was the height of summer, the soldiers marched in the desert, all sweating like rain, the people who chased it were hard, and it was also hard to escape people.
Zhu Di has always been unrelenting, he is like a big parent who protects his calves, and he is a very unreasonable big parent, my people bully you, you bully my people, I have to find this field.
Arutai was chased to the sky and had no way to enter the ground, and when he was going around the grassland in circles and continuing to hide from Zhu Di, the three kings of Warat happily begged for a reward.
It turned out that Benjamin fled in a panic, did not distinguish things, and finally escaped from Zhu Di's clutches, but broke into the territory of Wara, the son of Mahamu, Tuhuan, led a large army to camp on the border of Warat, waiting to pick up the cheap, this time Benya lost his life and blocked it, Benya lost his feelings and knew that falling into the hands of Wara would be more miserable than falling into the hands of Daming, so he resisted desperately, and was killed by an arrow.
The three kings of Warat learned that it was the Tatar Khan who was killed, and hurriedly sent people to show their merits to the Ming Dynasty, they first talked about how to ambush the left army of the Timurid Empire on the Western Front, for which the grandsons of the King of Mahamu were also killed on the battlefield, and then talked about how they cooperated with the Ming Dynasty on the Eastern Front, killed the Tatar Khan Benjamli, and after a lot of military exploits, they presented Benjamin's head to Zhu Di, and put forward a series of reward conditions: Warat was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, informed the Ming that the Timurid army came from the east first, ambushed the Timurid army later, and killed the Tatar Khan Benjamin, and made outstanding achievements.
Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is requested to give the Tatar territory to the three kings of Warat.
In addition, the grandson of the Mongolian Great Khan and the second son of Yuan Yizong is now under the supervision of the Ming Dynasty and is nomadic in Gansu.
Most of Warat's subordinates have made meritorious contributions in battle, please reward and give firearms Zhu Di was furious when he saw Mahamu's letter, and scolded him: "Bastard things are clever and arrogant, and they are so arrogant, if you want to fight my autumn wind, you want to seal the official and ask for weapons, and you want the descendants of the Yuan clan to get rid of it, what do you want to do, do you want to learn from Arutai, and help a great khan as a puppet to rule the Mongolian tribes, should you be a good bully?"
The messenger of Navala was scolded by Zhu Di, and when he was lying on the ground to ask for sin, the Tatar master Arutai, who really couldn't escape, also sent someone to ask to see Zhu Di, and he wanted to surrender If Arutai blindly escapes, Zhu Di will not be able to chase him to the edge of the sky, and besides, he will not be able to delay for a long time in the grassland land, and now Warat is ambitious and intends to annex the Tatar territory, whether he agrees or disagrees, as long as he leaves, Warat will definitely attack the Tatars, if the Tatars are unified by the Warats, wouldn't it be even more powerful As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Di took advantage of the situation to accept Arutai's begging and named him the king of Hening, ruling Tatar and a subject state of the Ming Dynasty.
At this point, Zhu Di's northern expedition, the Tatar Khan Benyashi died, the Taishi Arutai surrendered, the three kings of Warat, Mahamu, Taiping, and Vulture Polo had already accepted the Ming Dynasty's edict before this, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate derived from the Mongolian Northwest Khanates had already been subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, and Nuer Gandusi controlled Heilongjiang, Ussuri River, Sakhalin Island and other vast areas, and the northern Xinjiang was appeased for a while Zhu Dizhi was full of pride, climbed the Fox Mountain in the far north, and carved a pair of sixteen big characters on the boulder: "Hanhai is a gall, Tianshan is a gall, sweeping away the wind and dust, and the desert is forever clear" At this moment, he did not know that the Western Regions had also undergone earth-shaking changes, his strong rival Timur the Cripple had inexplicably braided his hair, and Timur's descendants had become a pot of porridge, and Timur's fourth son Shaharu joined forces with his imperial nephew Sahei to snatch the Transoxiana region from the hands of the Sultan of Hari, and sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty.
After hearing this, Sultan Harry did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to proclaim his vassal to the Ming Emperor and win the support of the Ming Dynasty.
As soon as their envoys arrived, the Ming Dynasty would become the common suzerainty of the former Mongol Empire, including the Yuan Dynasty, the Ögedai Khanate, the Chagatai Khanate, the Ilkhanate, and the Kipchak Khanate.
After Zhu Di accepted Arutai's tribute and pilgrimage, he reorganized his troops and horses and prepared to return south, and Xia Xun had just arrived in Hami City at this time.
Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, the loyal and obedient king of Toto, is the lord of Hami at this moment.
His palace is very Western Regions style, this is the Yuan Dynasty when the Hami King has been living in the palace, once because of the war damaged part of the part, and later repaired and expanded, the Ming Dynasty Qin Feng took off as the king of loyalty, asked him to return to Hami, here again carried out a renovation, so splendid, very luxurious.
Tokhtar has been in a good mood lately, his uncle usurped his father's throne, and sent him to Daming as a proton since he was a child, and he returned to his homeland as a king after middle age, and he has no foundation here, although his dead uncle has no son, but there are many members of the Hami royal family, and his uncle has been running Hami for so many years, and he has been in distant Jinling, and his roots here are far less than his cousins, cousins, and cousins.
Therefore, Timur's crusade to the east, he was the most worried one, because his throne depended on the support of the Ming Dynasty, and if the Ming lost his influence in the Western Regions, he would definitely be doomed.
But recently he had received news that the cripple Timur had hung up, that the old fellow was old and decrepit, and had died after drinking all night, and that the princes and grandsons of the Timurid Empire were fighting for the throne of the Khan, and it was impossible and impossible for them to go east again.
On the night he heard the good news, he drank a jar of wine and was drunk until the next evening, when he woke up, and then he issued a royal decree: to choose a concubine He has figured it out, and he must be happy in life Xia Xun rushed to the Hami Palace, looked at the tall lintel, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Especially when he saw the eight guards at the gate control all wearing Ming military uniforms, he felt particularly cordial, this way of trekking, tossing and turning, running to the west for a circle, until now it is considered to be Hami, and he is completely down-to-earth when he arrives here.
It's finally home Ye An strode forward and said to the officers and soldiers guarding the door: "Please say a word, go to King Hami, and say" The guard guarding the door laughed and interrupted Ye An's words: "It's done, don't be a fox and a fake tiger, we know why you came, don't you have become a princess yet, what kind of score are you putting up, and you are also going to the king of Hami, hey, go over there, go in from the West Corner Gate, first through the hands of our Lord Changshi, can you see the prince and say it, but" He pinched his chin and looked at the two graceful beauties who had just come off the camel's back, the two girls were veiled, and they only looked at a pair of charming eyes, but they couldn't see it, but when the two of them just got off the camel's back, the skirt was stretched to the body, and the shallow grooves of the waist and the lines of the buttocks were charming.
Even if the appearance is not good-looking, just this figure, maybe Lord Changshi is close to the water tower and the golden house.
Ye An was stunned when he heard this, and asked in a daze: "What princess, who wants to be the princess?"
The guard swallowed his mouth and said in surprise, "Didn't you recommend these two women to our prince?"
Xia Xun, who followed Ye An up the stairs, cocked his beard when he heard this, pointed to his nose, and said in a deep voice: "The person who wants to see your prince is me."
To be continued: