My Daming New Empire

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It was also because of his efforts that the Green Cult flourished in Central Asia, and in the next few hundred years, no force could pose a threat to them.

It was not until the European invasion hundreds of years later that this trend changed.

But in this life, he met a prophet Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji, who has the ability of prophet, of course will not sit back and watch a powerful country rise up next to his own country.

So he deliberately attracted Zhu Di's attention, and with the name of his life and death, and his name through the ages, he attracted Zhu Di to carry out a fatal subversion of this country that has not yet stabilized completely.

The emergence of new guns and artillery has changed the mode of warfare.It also allowed Shaharu, the virtuous king of later generations, to see the changes in the world.

He was already outdated, the powerful cavalry he was proud of, now he couldn't even charge into the camp of the Ming infantry.

So, what else do they have?

Facing Daming, they no longer have any reliance.

Therefore, his fate is doomed to have only one, and that is failure.

Tarabat cannot be entered further, because it is an agricultural city, a transportation hub, but has no strong walls.

Without the support of the city wall and the deterrence of the catapults, even if the city is firmly defended, it will not last long under the attack of the Ming people.

Seeing the firepower of the Ming people, they were completely terrified.

Therefore, although most of the soldiers fled into Tairabat, Shah Ru took his elite cavalry and fled directly to Herat.

While fleeing, he also ordered to withdraw all the troops walking around Herat into Herat.

In the wild, they no longer have any confidence to fight against the Ming people, unless they also have muskets.

This battle only lasted two hours, but the pursuit took five full days.

Because too many fighters fled into Tairabat, Da Ming didn't directly attack Herat recklessly.

Before attacking Herat, they first had to take Tairabat and seize the food and grass here.

Moreover, the tribes of the Timurids migrated, and there were many tribes around Herat.There are countless horses, cattle and sheep here.

Horses can be used as war horses, cattle can be used as food, and coolies can be used to pull carts.There are also countless flocks of sheep that can solve the food crisis for Daming.

On the tenth day of December, most of the territory of Daming was already covered with snow, but in Herat, the temperature here was still around ten degrees.

This kind of climate is the most suitable for the battlefield, it will not be too hot, and it will not cause plague due to too much corruption of corpses.It will not cause soldiers to catch wind and cold because it is too cold.

Under the deliberate concession of the Timurids, the soldiers of Ming Dynasty had completely occupied the advantage outside the city.

Outside the city of Telabat, the grain and grass hoarded here became the seizures of the Ming people, and thanks to these seizures, hundreds of thousands of sheep could have enough food.

The soldiers guarding the city looked at the Ming soldiers outside the city, and they were full of despair. They never thought that their side would lose so badly, and they were completely powerless to resist.

Now their only support is the kerosene bombs in the city and the trebuchets on the city wall.

It is also because of the existence of the trebuchet that Daming has not yet launched an attack. Of course, the main reason is to wipe out the tribes here and obtain food.

Now, all the tribes around Herat have been wiped out. Of course, Daming will not show mercy to these tribes where Yi Xin followed Shah Ruh.

Except for the young women and girls who survived, everyone was killed, and the cattle and sheep were used as military rations by the Ming people.

Now, finally, it's the turn of the remnants of Terrabate.

In fact, Daming is not helpless, because besides trebuchets, Daming also has artillery.

With fine steel, the barrel of the artillery is tougher and more powerful than the small artillery at the beginning.

On December [-]th, Ming officially launched a full-scale attack on Tairabat.Two hundred cannons mounted on carts were fixed on two square logs and then unloaded. The muzzles were aimed at a section of the city wall of the eastern city of Telabat.

This city wall is the weakest section of Tarabat, and fifty of the two hundred cannons are loaded with solid ammunition, targeting the city wall.

150 chain-loaded bullets, that is, flowering bullets, were aimed at soldiers and trebuchets on the city wall.

Because of the condescending height, the catapults of the Timurids can drop bombs farther than Ming's catapults, so their own catapults cannot go to the battlefield until they completely destroy the enemy's catapults.

It's not that the Ming Dynasty couldn't make bigger trebuchets, but the transportation distance of more than 1000 miles was a big problem, so we could only build some medium-sized trebuchets, and then assemble them at the destination.

When the artillery attack began, the Timurids resisted.What made them desperate was that the artillery's attack distance exceeded 2000 meters and it was still astonishingly large, but their trebuchets couldn't send the kerosene bombs 2000 meters away.

The city wall on the east side suffered a devastating blow under the rain of shells. The chain bombs strung together in a string caused more damage to the personnel, and the city was in chaos for a while.

This kind of despair that can only be beaten passively, but can't beat the opponent, spread quickly.

When all the trebuchets at the top of the city were damaged, Daming's trebuchets came in handy.

A trebuchet was quickly assembled and set up at a distance of only a thousand acres from the city wall. Then the kerosene bombs were ignited, and burning fireballs were sent into the city one by one.

Even more chilling to the enemy than the kerosene bomb was the Ming Dynasty's unique flowering bomb. Although this bomb was just a stone ball, it would explode after being thrown into the city.

Once it exploded, no one could survive within tens of meters around, and the house was directly blown up.

In less than a day, the entire east of the city was completely destroyed, and the nearly [-] people and [-] soldiers hiding in the city no longer dared to stay.

Many people have already decided to take advantage of the darkness to start escaping at night.

However, at night, they became even more desperate, because large fires were lit outside the city, surrounding the entire city.

Anyone who tries to escape will be found.

At each exit, 1 soldiers from the Shenji Battalion were ambushed, and [-] people served as a reserve army.

And a large number of Ming soldiers retreated to a camp five miles away from Tairabat, resting quietly.

Zhu Di has been very excited these few days, and his spirits have been greatly lifted. In the evening, he was lucky enough to meet two captured Persian beauties.

When he learned that there were a large number of cavalry, and some even wanted to escape on foot, he just gave orders lightly. "According to the original plan, kill without mercy."

In the Hezhong area, Daming appointed Zheng Heng as the coach, the purpose is to win over all ethnic groups.

But on the Persian Plateau, Ming Dynasty did not favor this place, and the scorched earth policy was implemented.

Unless they intentionally defected to Daming's tribe from the very beginning, other tribes would never leave any trouble behind.

In this era when manpower is not only national strength, the reduction of population means the weakening of national strength.

Without a sufficient population, Persia in the future will not even be able to subdue the surrounding tribes, and it will never become a serious problem for Ming Dynasty again.

In the night, the massacre was still going on, and everyone who went out of the city, whether they were riding horses or running on legs, were all exposed to the guns of Daming soldiers one by one.

When batch after batch of people fell beside the blazing bonfire, the people in the city were finally afraid.