"But the weather is hot, it's not just us, it's also hot, and the people of the Ming Kingdom are also hot, and they can't set up tents on the city to shade the sun." Salha said immediately.

"It's always more disadvantageous to the besiegers. But you're right, both friend and foe are hot. So I think there are other reasons, I just haven't figured it out, and I have to think again. You go back and think about it, too. Jesbu said.

When Salha saw that he did not know, because Jezbu had always been very tight-tongued, whether he knew it or not, since he said that he did not know and could not ask anything, he stopped asking.

Jesbu added: "According to the custom of the Great Khan, tomorrow morning we must give a speech to the generals and soldiers, and we generals must also be asked to get up very early, so we should go back early to rest so as not to be sleepy." After all, there won't be a catch-up sleep tomorrow during the day. ”

"Hmm." Salha agreed.

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Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as it was dawn, Timur sent to wake up all the soldiers, and after they had eaten breakfast hurriedly, they gathered around a high platform that had been hastily erected yesterday, and at the same time let all the generals stand in front of the high platform.

After the sun completely illuminated the sky, Timur led the guards to the high platform, his eyes scanned the soldiers below, and saw that the main force standing in the front row was very excited, and the auxiliary soldiers in the back were still yawning, and he was busy covering his mouth when he saw him standing on the platform, but he still couldn't hide the slack in his eyes.

Timur nodded slightly, shook his head, coughed a few times, cleared his throat, and then began to speak.

"I, the generals of Samarkand, the civil officials, the soldiers, the craftsmen, and the people who have just abandoned the darkness and turned to the light."

"The city in front of you is now the westernmost territory of the Ming Kingdom in the East, but this city has only been the territory of the Ming Kingdom for four years. And before that, it was a place occupied by the Celestial Cultists. ”

"The persecution of us Tianfang cultists in the Ming Kingdom is extremely strong, we are not allowed to have our faith, and the reputation of Allah and the prophet is slandered, such a thing is unbearable for every Tianfang cultist!"

"For the sake of Allah, for the sake of the Prophet, for the sake of the Heavenly Sect, and for the sake of all the believers in the world, we must defeat the Ming Kingdom, punish them, kill all the Khitans who have persecuted the Heavenly Sects, and capture this order for the Ming Emperor, and put him in a room full of the Gulan Sutra to starve to death!" Let all the people of the world know that Allah is not to be blasphemed, and the followers of the heavenly side are not to be humiliated! ”

Every time Timur said a word, the guards beside him repeated it aloud. The 200,000 main forces under his command could understand Samarkand, and most of the auxiliaries could also understand it, and as for the local Semu and Mongols, they couldn't understand it.

At this moment, when these people heard these words, they all raised their weapons in their hands in excitement and shouted: "Allah is not allowed to be blasphemed, and the Heavenly Sect is not to be bullied!" ”

"Therefore, for the sake of Allah, the army will storm Hami City from today, first knock down this city, take out Zhu Shangbing, the king of the Ming Kingdom of Qin, who ordered the massacre of the Eastern Christians in the city a few days ago, and execute him with the most cruel punishment!"

"For Allah!" The crowd shouted again.

"Followers of Allah, begin to siege the city."

"Siege!"

After shouting this, Timur announced the end of his speech and came down from the high platform. The generals returned to their troops and began to lead their soldiers in preparing for the siege.

And while Timur was speaking, one of the two people who was standing in a tent in the camp and listening to the speech suddenly smiled bitterly at the other: "You guessed correctly." ”

At the same time, at the head of Yiwu's city, Shang Bing also said the same thing: "The official family actually guessed correctly. ”

"Your Highness, what did Your Majesty guess right?" Song Hu, who was beside him at this time, couldn't help but ask. Even Song Sheng and Gao Xiang looked at Shang Bing with interested expressions.

Today, Timur woke Shang Bing up when he first began to speak, and he was curious, so he immediately sent someone to call someone who knew Khorezm, and hurried to the city with his clothes on.

On the way, he met Song Sheng, Gao Xiang and others. Some of them were already up and some of them were not, but they were all alarmed by the great movement.

When the people reached the city, they immediately commanded an interpreter to translate Timur's words. After listening to the last paragraph, Shang Bing was about to refute a few words, when he suddenly thought of a passage that Yun Xi had said to him before, and he couldn't help but blurt it out.

At this moment, he heard Song Hu's inquiry and said: "Two years ago, when I went to the capital and talked to the official family about preparing for the war against Samarkand, the official family said to me: This war will inevitably become a war between the Confucian civilization of the East and the Tianfang Sect of the West, not just a war between the Ming Dynasty and Samarkand. ”

"I didn't believe it at the time, but at this time I finally understood that the official family was right."

"The war between the Confucian civilization of the East and the civilization of the Heavenly Sect of the West?" Gao Xiang repeated this sentence again. He knew every word in this sentence, but together he pondered for a while before he said, "How is this different from the battle between the Song Dynasty and the Mengyuan Dynasty?" "Yun Xi once defined the battle between the Song and Yuan dynasties and the battle between the Yuan and Ming dynasties: 'The battles between the Song and Yuan dynasties and the Yuan and Ming dynasties were wars between the Han and the Mongols, not ordinary wars of dynastic change.' So he asked.

But after listening to his words, Shang Bing did not answer for a while, but seemed to be in deep thought.

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"Official, why do you say that the war between the Ming Dynasty and Samarkand will become a war between the Confucian civilization of the East and the Tianfang Sect civilization of the West? How is it different from the Song-Yuan and Yuan-Ming Wars? Shang Bing sat on the chair and asked very puzzled.

"Let's talk about the battle of Song and Yuan and the battle of Yuan and Ming first." Yun Xi stood up and stomped his steps in the room: "The Mongols are different from all the barbarian tribes that have lived in the Central Plains before. Although all the barbarian tribes before were also slaughtering in the Central Plains, they all admired the civilization of the Central Plains and tried their best to sinicize, so in the end, whether it was Xianbei, Xianbei or Xiongnu and other ethnic groups, they all became Han people, and the Yang family, who had been Xianbei but finally re-sinicized, unified the world! ”

"But the Mongols are different, they despise the Han civilization, and do not hold the imperial examination for decades after the destruction of the Jin State, even if Kublai Khan opened the imperial examination, it is extremely unfair, causing the Han scholars to be centrifuged, and they lost the Central Plains and returned to the desert after less than a hundred years of enjoying the country."

This passage is quite concise and easy to understand, and it also makes sense, Shang Bing nodded after hearing it.

"But after all, the Mongols are barbarian tribes, although they are civilized, they are very immature, and it is difficult to influence the Han people, so it is only a war between two countries or peoples, not a war of civilizations."