Early the next morning, Yun set out with the tens of thousands of soldiers from various sources to the end of the journey, Iwu.

"Hopefully, the final battle won't begin before I arrive." Yun thought to himself.

……

"Your Majesty, it has been more than twenty days since I last wrote to you."

"The suspense at the end of the last letter: whether Timur would be able to capture the inner city of Hami before the arrival of reinforcements from the Ming army has already been decided. He was about to capture the city when he heard the news that the Ming army reinforcements had arrived, and finally decided to retreat. ”

After that, Timur not only gave up his plan to attack the city of Hami, but also retreated from under the city of Hami until he retreated to a small city west of the city of Hami, which the Seris called the Acropolis.

"I don't quite know why Timur made this decision, probably because the war was more certain, and he had fewer soldiers in his hands than the Ming army. However, the Ming army pressed up, and after staying in the city of Hami with about 100,000 people, they also sent more soldiers than Timur to be stationed near the Samarkand ** camp, and sent people to provoke every day to try to provoke Timur to send troops to fight. ”

Timur did send troops into battle, but he was not provoked. To be honest, an experienced man like Timur was not easily provoked, and the Seris were probably just thinking about giving it a try. ”

"These days, they send soldiers to fight in the middle of the barracks of the two armies every day, but each time there are not many soldiers sent, and both sides calmly arrange their troops and do not give each other a chance. But even the casualties of such a 'low-intensity war' are already unbearable for all Western countries. ”

"As of yesterday, July 29, more than 30,000 soldiers had been killed and more than 40,000 wounded. If any Western country, even the United Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, which is now said to be powerful, or the Kingdom of France, which is at war with England, could not afford it. Of course, due to the limitations of medical conditions, many seriously wounded soldiers could not be rescued, and were counted as soldiers killed in battle. ”

"But the most important thing to worry about is that the war has finally slipped into the worst I had predicted: a stalemate. The difference in strength between the two warring sides is not large, and the terrain near the Hami Basin is not too undulating, and even the woods are very few, so it is difficult to sneak attack. In the end, the winner of the war is likely to be the more well-fed side. But now Timur's food is sufficient, there are still many cattle, sheep and horses to eat, and he can hold out for at least eight to nine months, and the Ming State on the opposite side does not look like there is not enough food to eat from the command of the commander. The prolongation of the war is most likely inevitable. ”

"The Ottomans finally got the rest they had been dreaming of. When I had just set foot on the lands of Western Asia, I wrote a letter to you, Your Majesty, informing you that the Ottomans were engaged in a fierce civil war. Of course, the civil war will deplete their strength, but when the civil war is over, the Ottomans who have completed the unification will burst out with greater fighting power than they did when they were divided. The Ottomans should not dare to provoke Samarkand until the end of the Iwu War, but they could continue their westward march against the decaying Byzantines. ”

"I am reluctant to return to Castile to hear that the Ottomans have captured Constantinople, which will be the first time that the city has fallen to the Celestials, and it will be a great blow to all believers of the Lord. Although the people who now control Constantinople have long since become hereticals, I can't help but pray for them to hold the city. ”

"There is a very important thing to tell you, according to the prisoners of the Seris captured by the soldiers of Samarkand, the emperor of the Ming kingdom is rushing to the land of Hami. This year, after hearing that Timur had sent troops to the east, the Ming emperor named Zhu Yun set out from their capital on the seaside of East Asia and headed to the northwest. He had been staying for a while in a city called Ganzhou, and decided to leave for Hami a dozen days ago. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, he will be here. ”

"According to the captives, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom did not want to come to Iwu. The emperor was very modest, he thought that his talent in fighting a war was not comparable to that of the generals who now commanded this large army, and he feared that his arrival would interfere with the command and make the war fail. But when he heard that Timur had gathered another 500,000 troops in the Hami Basin, and that the Ming Kingdom also had 700,000 troops, he couldn't help but come and command this unprecedented war in human history. ”

"Yes, this is a war unprecedented in the history of mankind. Although some of the Greeks' accounts say that the Persians sent millions of men west to Greece before the Lord's time, I doubt that even if the Persians did send millions of men, the vast majority of them would be real peasants, not warriors, or even half-warriors. ”

"I think anyone who is tempted to command such a war unprecedented in human history will be tempted, including the emperor of the Ming Kingdom."

"Timur once considered sending an army to intercept Zhu Yun halfway, but because Zhu Yun himself brought thirty or forty thousand soldiers, and Xu Huizu, the commander of the Ming army, also expected such a situation, and sent most of the cavalry in his hands to protect their emperor, Timur could only give up his idea."

In this way, the emperors of the two most powerful nations in the world will gather in this small Hami basin and face to face to command an army of more than a million to prove which country is the most powerful country in the world. It's very exciting to think about. ”