My Daming New Empire

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At such a time, Shah Ruh was unwilling to wait any longer and decided to launch a war on his own initiative.

"Your Majesty, absolutely not. Now all we can rely on are the catapults defending the city. Give up our advantages and let our soldiers directly face the enemy's catapults, artillery, and muskets. It is to use our own weaknesses to head-on The other party's strengths."

"But the Ming people are not moving now, and the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to us. Their cavalry is much smaller than ours. I don't believe that they can defeat our cavalry with only infantry."

But he didn't know that there was a weapon called barbed wire.

This kind of iron wire with triangular points that can be coiled into a ball has been transported tens of thousands of meters by the Ming people. When it is coiled, it does not take up too much space. Pack a few kilometers.

When these barbed wire fences are unfolded, only two layers of inner and outer layers need to be arranged to form an attack on the horse's legs.

When the horses hesitated in front of the barbed wire, the speed advantage of the cavalry was completely lost.

What's more, because it was the imperial conquest, a large section of trenches had been dug outside the Daming barracks. When the Ming soldiers hid in the trenches and faced their attacks, they could only become targets.

Therefore, when Zhu Di saw tens of thousands of cavalry charging towards them with unstoppable momentum, he just smiled lightly. "A stupid king, an outdated tactic. I want to let him know why I have the confidence to travel tens of thousands of miles to fight in person."

The double-layered barbed wire fence was bumped up by Timurids who knew nothing about it. A large number of military horses began to go crazy because their legs were scratched.

Then, there was a loud bang, because most of the trebuchets have not been assembled due to the rush of time

But the artillery does not need to be assembled, and it exerts its due power.

The Timurid cavalry, who were already in disarray, became even more confused at this time because their horses had not been trained with loud noises.

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The barbed wire blocking in the first round, and the artillery attack on the second layer made the Timurids' attack completely overwhelmed.

But at this time, their cavalry still has a numerical advantage, and the offensive momentum ten miles wide will not collapse because of a temporary setback.

Seeing the army coming up like a tide, Zhu Di laughed.

He is not afraid of the Timur's counterattack, he is only afraid that the opponent will flee.Daming's battle line has stretched to [-] miles, and the logistical supplies have brought enormous pressure.

If the opponent keeps practicing guerrilla warfare, it will bring great trouble to Daming.

That's why Zhu Di marched unswervingly to Herat, because only by capturing here can he obtain sufficient supplies.

Confrontation is Da Ming's favorite tactic, because Da Ming has no shortcomings in long-range, medium-range, and short-range attacks.

On the contrary, the Timurids, who still mainly attack with cold weapons, will taste the impact of hot weapons.

The army like a tide surged up, and after entering the range of 200 meters, the musket sounded.

This distance is the distance that ordinary bows and arrows cannot reach, but it is the distance that muskets can show their power.

Although it is difficult to kill people directly at this distance, the damage caused by shotguns can directly reduce the combat effectiveness of soldiers.

Moreover, this shotgun covers a wider area because of its longer distance.When tens of thousands of guns shoot at the same time, almost no fish slipped through the net on the entire battlefield.

At this point, the power of this shotgun is more effective than that of later generations.

Injured people can still bear the pain and continue to attack, but the horses can't. After they are injured, they start to become manic and not commanded.

Then, the attack momentum of the Timurids began to become chaotic.

When the army cannot attack in one go, a death zone is formed at a distance of 200 meters to 100 meters.

More and more soldiers fell, forming a natural barrier.Those out-of-control horses did not dare to move forward, and charged their own army formation backwards.

This distance has become a nightmare space for the Timurids.

Even if there were scattered warriors rushing over, they just became the targets of the Ming people.

The scene of them holding machetes and roaring angrily has also become the last picture of life.

At this time, Ming's cavalry began to move. Instead of using the impact of the cavalry, they slowly outflanked the enemy's two wings.

Today's muskets cover too much area, so Daming's cavalry must maintain formation so as not to hurt their own people.

Although this slowed down the speed of the cavalry, its deterrent effect was greater.

On the hill in the distance, Shah Ru saw that the Timur warriors couldn't get close to the Ming soldiers, and they were killed one by one. The original attack formation turned into a frenzied escape in the end.

This is not because the Timur warriors are not brave enough, but because the enemy's weapons are sharp.

They are devils!

Shah Ru saw Daming's infantry soldiers rushing out of the trench, they only had two rows, and any cavalry formation could easily overwhelm them.

But they attacked the cavalry in turn. The muskets in their hands were like the sickle of death, and the Timurid warriors who were shot and fell off their horses became their trophies.

The most hateful thing is those Indian servants. They don't care about killing the enemy, they just clean up the battlefield.

The horses were led away by them, and the throats and left ears of the soldiers were cut off by them.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Shaharu was filled with grief and indignation, and ordered: "Withdraw the troops, and never attack the Ming people in the wild!"

With the sound of the bullhorn, the Timurids began to retreat, but at this time they realized that even if they wanted to run, it was not so easy.

The cavalry of Ming Dynasty were also equipped with muskets. They followed closely behind and attacked at a distance of about 100 meters. The soldiers who fell behind were shot and fell off their horses one by one.

The retreat turned into a flight, and the frantically fleeing Timurid fighters were now afraid of falling behind and becoming the target of the Ming people.

This kind of scrambling to escape has completely messed up.

Except for the large formation of the Chinese army that retreated at the beginning, the other cavalry completely lost their command.

The fertile farmland less than twenty miles from Rizhen to Tairabat is full of chaotic warriors. Those warriors who lost their horses can only pray for the blessing of Allah.

This is not fighting, this is massacre.

Objectively speaking, Shah Ruh is a ruler not inferior to Timur.

Timur has fought all his life, and his martial arts are indeed worthy of praise.But he is a destroyer. Apart from force, Timur's country is not strong.

Because they are semi-nomadic people, this weakness of national power is concealed by powerful force.

However, Shah Ruth was a builder. Under his leadership, the Timur Kingdom was later called the Khaled Kingdom (Herat was originally translated as Khaled), and became the most powerful country in the world.

In the original history, Shahru was in power for more than forty years (1405-1447).

In addition to unifying the territory and quelling rebellions in various places, he devoted his main energy to domestic construction to restore the damage caused by his father's war.

He took measures to develop agriculture, handicrafts and commerce, build irrigation projects, open up new business routes, set up post stations, rebuild and build new major cities, which made the economies of Persia and Afghanistan prosperous at that time.

In the field of culture, he created the so-called Timurid Renaissance, the golden age of Persian literature and art. Herat and Samarkand became the most splendid centers of the Timurid Renaissance.