My Daming New Empire

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He not only maintained diplomatic relations with the Mamluks of Egypt, Byzantium, the ruler of Bulgaria, and Yuan Renzong to fight against the Ilkhanate.

To show his closeness, he married a princess to the Nasir Sultan of Egypt.

Another major event during his reign was that Lithuania competed with the Kipchak Khanate to become the protector of Russia. Ivan I of Moscow took the opportunity to cooperate with the Kipchak Khanate for development.

For this reason, he once married a Byzantine princess and made her also believe in Green Cult.It was only later that the princess left him and returned to the Orthodox Church.

The history of 100 years ago, for now, has just passed.Due to the decline of the Mongols in the Golden Horde, the number of people who believe in the Green Sect has been greatly reduced.

But Zhu Zhanji didn't want to leave any future troubles, so during the sending of Chen Cheng as an envoy, he was asked to establish a relationship with the Kazakhs in order to weaken the power of the Golden Horde.

Today's Golden Horde is headed by the White Horde tribe, and most of them became Uzbeks in later generations.

Russia in later generations was still a small principality, protected by the Golden Horde.

And another powerful nation, Kazakhs, does not have this nation at all.

Because the meaning of Kazakhs originally means breakaways, refugees, they were originally a branch of the Uzbeks, separated from the Uzbeks.

Zhu Zhanji asked Chen Cheng to come to Central Asia for the purpose of finding out this branch and supporting them, and supporting a large yellow-skinned force in Central Asia who does not believe in the Orthodox Church or the Green Church and has Mongolian and Yuan blood.

With this idea in mind, Chen Cheng walked from Yilibali to the shore of Daqing Lake (Balkhash Lake) where he found a descendant of the Mongolian Yuan people who still lived a nomadic life.

While most tribes have begun to semi-settled and grow crops, this tribe still lives a primitive nomadic life.

But their number is definitely not small, there are 5 people, and they are brave and good at fighting.

Under the introduction of Yili Bali people, Chen Cheng contacted them and promised to give them the nomadic areas of the Chu River and the West Seven Rivers of the Talas River Basin in order to strengthen their strength.

This area is the area of ​​northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan in later generations, and currently belongs to the disputed area between the Chahatai Khanate (Yilibali) and the Golden Horde.

But under Yilibali's concession, this place was assigned to this tribe.

Daming's request is that the other party cannot believe in the Green Church or the Orthodox Church, and is willing to join Daming.

And they believed in Buddhism, so they readily agreed to Chen Cheng's conditions.

Time entered the end of November, and after more than a month of long march, Zheng Heng arrived at Suiye City with a total of 18 troops.

This small city located in the northwest of Lake Issyk-Kul, beside the Chu River, became the forward position of the army.

Here they will wait for the weather to warm up before marching southwest to Samarkand.

On the southern front, after the Eastern Route Army made a fortune in India, it also entered Peshawar, the garden city that the Delhi people gave up.

In fact, this name is not mainstream nowadays. Many people still call it Guishuang City because of the former Guishuang Kingdom.

Since in Shahpur, after collecting ransom, the opponent's city could be saved from military disasters, under the intentional spread of the Ming people, other cities took the initiative to send gold in exchange for the Ming people's non-attack.

After leaving Shahpur, 1 cavalry galloped back and forth across the vast plains.

Although the Delhi Kingdom also organized several counter-offensives, they had no power to resist the muskets at all.

Under the muskets, they no longer dared to attack on a large scale by taking advantage of their numbers, and could only defend the city.

The entire country of Delhi seemed to have become an undefended country, allowing Ming soldiers to run rampant.

Under such persecution, the Delhi people could only admit defeat. They knew that they were not the main target of Ming Dynasty, and they were willing to open the upper reaches of the Indus River, and gave up Peshawar at the Khyber Pass to Daming troops to transport supplies.

After getting the authorization from the new king of Delhi, Muyizddin Mubarak, Zhang Xin and the others finally gave up.With tons of gold they harvested, they set off from Derry City without any delay along the way, and went directly northwest to Peshawar.

At this time, a large number of Indian trackers pulled the boat, and under the protection of Ming soldiers, they went north along the Indus River, turned into the Swat River and the Butini River, and arrived at Peshawar.

At this time, the army led by Zhu Di followed the mountains above the Iranian Plateau and arrived at Tairabat in the west of Herat without much fighting along the way.

The Iranian plateau in this era is not as barren as it will be hundreds of years later.Here, like the Mongolian plateau, there are large grasslands and small rivers.

It is precisely because of such a unique environment that a powerful country can be bred.

If there were no such conditions, Shah Ruh would never even think about moving the capital to Herat.

However, the Persian ethnic groups in a semi-nomadic and semi-settled state did not have strong cities.

Therefore, most of the tribes on the plateau have moved north with the Shahru, leaving empty grasslands.Even the tribes who were unwilling to move northward were robbed of a large number of horses and sheep by Shahru, and their lives were difficult.

For such an opponent, Zhu Di didn't care at all. He was traveling all the way, even if there were some tribes that didn't want to belong to, they had already been wiped out by the cavalry.

Because the road was unimpeded, they had planned a three-month trip, but it took only two months to arrive in Herat.

And Tairabat is not only the gateway to the west of Herat, but also a famous transportation hub on the Persian Plateau.

This place is only three hundred miles away from Herat, and it is also the battlefield prepared by Shah Ruh for a decisive battle with Ming soldiers.

Before Zhu Di's infantry arrived, the cavalry who arrived earlier had already selected a place for the army to station in a small town called Rizhen outside Tairabat.

There is a small river in the west of Tarabat, which is also the largest agricultural base in the area, where a large number of crops are planted.

Because there is a river and the mountains next to it, it has the necessary conditions to garrison troops.

And when Zhu Di arrived, the war was about to break out.

This was the first head-on collision between Daming and Timur's army. Although the Timurids had once confronted Daming at sea three years ago and their entire army was wiped out, they believed that it was Daming's artillery.

They are not afraid of the army's confrontation.

Moreover, after two months of marching, the soldiers of Daming are exhausted. They are waiting for work, and they have a great chance of winning.

On November 26, the night when the Ming army arrived, Shah Ruh sent a cavalry force of more than 3 people to carry out harassment tactics.

It's a pity that their dispatch didn't work, and they were beaten to death by more than 5000 people by the guarded Jingwei before they even got close to Daming's camp.

This new tactic of using infantry against cavalry was the first time the Timurids knew that cavalry was not omnipotent.

In the next few days, Daming's cavalry did not move out. Instead, the infantry escorted the Indian servants and collected fodder for the soldiers and horses from nearby.

In the small-scale encounter, facing the muskets of the Ming people, the cavalry of the Timurid Kingdom were killed before they approached.

At this time, the Eastern Route Army defeated the Delhi Sultanate with 1 people, and the news that they bowed their heads and surrendered to Herat reached Herat.

Looking at his subordinates with low morale, Shaharu, the always elegant king, showed his irritable side for the first time. "Why? Why don't we have reliable muskets!"

The Timurid Kingdom now has small artillery, but this kind of artillery with high iron content cannot be used on a large scale at all, because it will explode if it cannot fire a few shots.

At present they can only use bronze to cast cannons, but throughout Persia, the output of copper is not high.

They can't even make reliable artillery, and they are powerless to make more demanding guns.

The morale of the Timurids had already dropped a lot before the first official war started.