Yun Xi looked at it intently, and saw that the old man had half-white hair, at least sixty years old, his left leg was slightly off, he didn't seem to be carrying a weapon on his body, and he was wearing a dress made of luxurious fabrics, but the style was very neat as that worn by generals in the army. At this time, he was walking towards him with the support of several people who did not know whether it was a subordinate or a guard.

If you just look at it from the outside, this person looks like an old man from an ordinary rich and noble family. But just by moving forward with unhurried steps, people can feel a momentum, an momentum that is difficult to express accurately but really exists.

Yun Xi didn't need to ask to know that this person must be Timur, but Lan Zhen still came over and said, "Your Majesty, this person is Timur, the Great Khan of Samarkand." ”

"I know." Yun Xi said a word, stood in place, and waited for Timur to come over.

His guards approached and searched Timur, and the man who was holding him shouted loudly, which he was very dissatisfied with; But Timur said something, although this man was still full of grievances, but he also kept silent, took out all the weapons on his body and handed them to the Ming army, and let the guards search their whole bodies. It's just that because of Timur's special status, the guards were very cautious when searching for him, but they still searched everywhere they could hide weapons. During this process, Timur's expression was always calm.

After the search was completed, Timur, with the support of his subordinates, walked up to Yunxi, and said with a smile in Mongolian: "You are Zhu Yunxi, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom?" His last three words were spoken in Chinese.

"Bold! How can you call Your Majesty by name! Qin Sen immediately shouted.

Yunxi waved his hand and replied in Mongolian: "I am Zhu Yunxi, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom." ”

Timur looked at Yun Xi carefully, but he didn't know what he was thinking, and then said: "Your Majesty plans to accompany the old man to your army's camp like this?" His tone was as if he were the master of the room.

"Of course not." Yun Xi was not angry. Only the winner is generous, he is already the winner at this time, and he can show his generosity. Even if he would be very harsh to ordinary Samarkand soldiers, it would not affect the courtesy of Timur. Historically, the fate of ordinary soldiers captured during the Crusades was tragic, but a king like the 'perfect monster' Louis IX would be treated well even if he was captured, and he was allowed to redeem it with money.

He immediately asked the groom to drive over his carriage, which had a usable area of more than 30 square meters, and stretched out his hand to Timur: "Please! ”

Timur was also not modest, and as soon as he gave up his hand according to the Han etiquette he learned from somewhere, he took the lead in getting into the carriage. His subordinates also tried to follow, but Timur pushed his hands, and the subordinates withdrew their hands and stood by the carriage, looking as if they were going back with the carriage. After that, Yunxi and one of the guards also boarded the carriage.

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"Boom! Drive! With a slogan from the groom, the eight horses tied to the carriage marched forward at the same time.

"I never thought I'd meet you in such a situation." Timur spoke in Mongolian.

"Although my total strength is not as good as yours, and my country's national strength is not as strong as yours, I never thought that I would lose such a big battle in my imagination. I've always believed that this battle would be a draw at best, or a long-term stalemate. Even if the result of the stalemate is that our army is close to running out of food first, I don't think I will be captured by you. ”

"To be honest, although I expected to defeat your army, I didn't expect to win like this!" Yun Xi also replied in Mongolian, and couldn't help but use a modern tone: "The most likely result I expected was to drag you until you were seriously ill or even died, and the whole army was shaken, and my Ming soldiers found out about it, and took the opportunity to attack and be defeated." In this case, even if you win, it will not be possible to capture you alive. But I didn't expect the results to come so quickly. ”

Hearing this, Timur's expression changed slightly, and he asked, "You buried a spy next to me?" ”

"No, not really." Yun Xi saw that he still didn't believe it, and said seriously: "Now that you have been captured, there is no point in me deceiving you, I really have not sent spies to your side." ”

"Besides, the people around you are very trusting people, and it will be difficult for me to find someone to be next to you in a short period of time."

"Although I am seventy-two years old, I was in good health before the expedition, how do you know that I am not in good health?"

Yun Xi smiled and did not answer. He couldn't tell Timur that in history you died of illness in February of the Western calendar next year, and although there is still more than half a year, running around on the bumpy road will greatly deplete a person's body, and it is normal for the elderly to accelerate their decline and die early.

"Anyway, you guessed it right, I'm going to die of illness, and if I mount my horse and retreat westward, I won't be able to make it back to Samarkand. Since leaving is death, staying is also death, so staying did not withdraw. And because I was very curious about you and Mingguo, I decided to be captured by you and talk to you face to face. But don't think that you can bring me back to the capital of your Ming Kingdom and show off your great military exploits. ”

"Actually, whether or not I can bring you back to the capital doesn't matter much, as long as you are captured alive." Yun Xi said: "There are a lot of countries that have paid attention to this battle, and all the countries of my Ming Dynasty, whether it is Fuso, Korea, Ryukyu, Siam, Brunei and other countries, have sent envoys, and this expedition followed the army to the Western Regions; In addition, I am sure that you must have brought many messengers with you. They will all know that you have been captured and spread the great name of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"That's true. I have brought all the envoys of all the nations so that I can show off to the nations after I have defeated you. But now it seems that, according to an old saying of your Khitans, I can be regarded as lifting a stone and shooting myself in the foot. He laughed self-deprecatingly.

"We are Han, not Khitan. The Khitans are an ethnic group that established a state in the north of our Han land 500 to 300 years ago. At that time, the country ruled over the Mongols, so the Mongols called all the people in the south Khitans, and as the Mongols expanded westward, the name spread to the west. But our real name is Han Chinese. ”

"Whatever the name, it refers to you people who live in the easternmost plain of the entire continent that is suitable for farming, and the term Khitan is not derogatory."

"That won't work out, I can't let a few Mongols change the name of my ethnic group without authorization." Yun Xi said.

"It's up to you." Timur was not attached to titles.