The sky gradually brightened, and the bleak sun, which made people dare not have a trace of warmth, shone on the head of the city.

Inside and outside the city, there was a scene of chaos. Outside the west gate of the city, a large number of footprints and rutted marks were trampled on the road, and it was obvious that a large number of chaotic convoys of people and horses had just entered from here. The originally lush wheat fields on both sides of the Kuzhang River were also trampled into flat ground by horses' hooves.

Standing at the head of the city, there is black smoke rising everywhere, some are still rolling sparks, and some are fading and gradually extinguishing. Everywhere these black smoke and flames started, there were villages everywhere, and the subordinates of the busy brother Timur were setting fire to the west of the city of Kuyu!

The news of the arrival of the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty in the Kuzhang River Valley has reached the Kufelt where the golden tent of the busy brother Timur is located, and the boundless steel armored male soldiers swept in from the north, like splitting mud, and the soldiers were unstoppable!

Knowing that it was difficult to match, Timur, a busy brother, had to shrink his forces, abandon a large area of land on both sides of the Khuzhang River, and carry out the harshest policy of clearing the wilderness, forcing the people on both sides of the Khuzhang River to abandon their homes and move to the Ferghana Basin. At the same time, he sent envoys to Kublai Khan and Abha.

Today, the emissary sent to Taoli Monastery (the capital of the Ilkhanate) has returned to Khuyu, bringing with him a personal promise from Abha Khan that he will come to the aid with the troops of the Ilkhanate, and that Timur, a busy brother, will hold on to Kufelt until the help arrives.

That's good news! The Ilkhanate's military strength was not weak, and in the past, Hulegu led 100,000 Mongol cavalry to conquer Persia and the Great Eclipse. After defeating Persia and Great Eclipse, he also got a lot of vassal armies. If you can come to the rescue, the army of more than 100,000 can still be pulled out.

And. Since Ilkhan Abha knew the truth of cold lips and teeth, then Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Europa, should also know this. He and the Golden Horde should not be able to die without help. If Kublai Khan and Nahai could also send rescuers. Outside this felt city may be the burial place of the Ming Western Expeditionary Army!

Thinking of this, the eyes of the busy brother Timur suddenly sharpened. Swept over and over again the mountain passes and rivers in the west of Kufelt City.

Kujāyā, also known as Kujān, is located at the western entrance to the Ferghana Basin. The terrain of the Fergana Basin is very dangerous, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there is only one exit that can be entered and exited, which is dozens of miles west of Kuyu City. The outlet is very narrow, but only more than ten miles wide, and it also leans on the Khuzhang River, which is the Syr Darya River, an east-west river that rushes out of the Ferghana basin and flows all the way to the west. And the outlet of the basin though in the west. However, the mouth of the valley is open to the north, and the Kuzhang River flows right through the mouth of the valley, forming a natural barrier. As long as the river is not frozen, this is a moat that is easy to defend and attack in the south. To the west of the valley is a plateau, which is also a dangerous point to hold the Ferghana Basin. When Kublai Khan was stationed in Kufelt, he once ordered people to build a castle here, and named it Tongtianguan. As a key point to hold the Ferghana Basin.

After the busy brother Timur took over the felt, he immediately realized the value of Tongtian Pass, and not only expanded Tongtian Pass. A team of 10,000 people was also placed here. And it was also a 10,000-strong squad of firearms armed with guns and bronze cannons.

On the slope west of Tongtian Pass and on the south bank of the Kuyu River on the east side of Tongtian Pass, countless people with color eyes, most of them are old and weak, and they are digging trenches with rudimentary tools. Building a Breastwall - Using a trench breastwall to block an army with a large number of firearms is the experience of the Europa and Tianzhu battlefields. Abba sent several Mongol officers who had participated in the Battle of Delhi to Timur.

From the descriptions of these Mongol officers, Timur, a busy brother, seemed to see a little more possibility of victory.

The Ming army was not invincible! They narrowly missed the Battle of Delhi. On the one hand, the camp of the Delhi army was not attacked for a long time; On the one hand, it fell into chaos for a time in the field night battle. Nearly defeated - Boyan, who served as an adviser in the Delhi Sultan's Army, found the surviving Ghulam Guards and inquired about the bloody night encounter.

In that night battle. The Han Chinese infantry were far less formidable than during the day. The coordination of the firearms and pikemen was disjointed, and the pikemen began to charge only after the musketeers retreated. The speed did not rise and collided with the Ghulam Guards. Moreover, the melee combat ability and physical strength of these pikemen seem to be weak (it is also possible that the repeated attacks during the day and the rapid march at night caused a decrease in physical strength), if it were not for the steel armor, they would probably have been defeated by the Ghulam Guard, and would not have survived the arrival of reinforcements.

Moreover, this battle also showed that a shield and a hard-headed hammer were enough to deal with the Ming army wearing steel armor. The steel armor of the Ming army could block bows and arrows and scimitars, but it could not protect against blunt weapons......

As long as the warriors are equipped with hard-headed hammers and wicker shields, and then rely on the trenches and chest walls, and arrange more bed crossbows, they should be able to withstand the frontal offensive of the Ming army. If you really can't do it, dig a few more trenches and build a few more breastwork. In addition, it was necessary to use the night to launch counterattacks and sneak attacks in order to consume the strength of the Ming army.

In this way, it is very likely that the felt will be able to hold on! As long as you hold it for two months, Abaha's army will be there!

……

Timur, a busy brother, came out of the west gate of Kuyu, and was about to inspect the fortifications outside the city, when he saw a procession hurrying from outside the valley mouth in the west, and on top of hundreds of carts, full of grain, the carts creaked and creaked. Hundreds of crying and crying people, all carrying burdens, struggling to push the vehicle forward. There were also hundreds of Mongol cavalry, led by a thousand-household official, wearing armor and holding bows, escorting the guards all the way.

Needless to say, the people of these carts and carts came from along the Kuzhang River. Their villages had been burned down by Timur's army, and their fields had been trampled by horses, and they fled to the Ferghana basin with only what they had food and goods.

When the commander of the thousand households in the team saw the busy brother Timur, he quickly got off the horse, galloped to the busy brother Timur, and knelt on the ground and saluted.

Timur, a busy brother, was not in the mood to talk nonsense with him, so he asked: "Why are there only so many people?" ”

The Qianhu official had a panicked expression on his face, "Back to the Great Khan, the men and horses of the last general met the sentinels of the Ming army, all of whom were steel-armored cavalry. The last will not dare to make a mistake. I had to withdraw my troops early...... According to the general, the outside of the valley mouth is already gone! ”

Busy brother Timur smiled bitterly. This Mongolian iron cavalry met the "Daming steel cavalry", and it was only possible to flee for its life. Those steel-armored cavalry are really powerful, and their kung fu at archery on horseback is no worse than that of the Mongols. A body of steel armor is even more difficult to hurt by arrows. They can only shoot horses but not people, but they can shoot the Mongol cavalry (in fact, most of them are not Mongols) under the busy brother Timur, who only has thin leather armor to protect themselves, with one arrow!

Therefore, when the Tanma of the busy brother Timur encountered the steel-armored cavalry of the Ming army in the field, most of them turned around and fled, and they did not dare to fight. In other words, the control of the battlefield was often in the hands of the Ming army's western expeditionary army.

Busy brother Timur gritted his teeth and waved his hand violently: "Okay, that's it, your thousand-man team doesn't have to go out of the valley again!" ”

The official of the thousand households sighed, and gratefully rushed his brother Timur to salute again. before going backwards and leaving. Since the vanguard of the Ming army has arrived, it is a life-and-death errand to fight out of the valley. It's better not to go, or not to go.

Watching the silent horse ride to the granary in the city, the busy brother Timur rode out of the city with his cronies to inspect the construction of the fortifications. It was like a boulder pressing down on my heart.

After riding a horse for a long morning, he had already arrived at the construction site of the defense line near Tongtian Pass in the west of Huyu City. Almost all of the people who are working are old and weak. At present, the two river basins are scarce and strong, especially in agricultural areas and several large cities, almost all of them were captured by Kublai Khan as banner slaves. Left to the busy brother Timur, they are such unusable old and weak. It is impossible to send them to the battlefield, only to drive them to do something to dig trenches and carry dirt. But even these things, they don't do well. The Mongol soldiers, who were supervising the scene, saw Timur coming, and everyone waved their horsewhips as if they had eaten gunpowder. Shine on the skinny, tattered old and weak old and weak, and force them to use the last bit of strength. But even so. In the eyes of these Mongolian overseers, the movements of these people were still a little slow.

The Ming Army's Western Expeditionary Army will come at any time. At that time, if you can't complete the construction of the defense line, I'm afraid that the big guys will have to give their lives!

The atmosphere on the construction site was already gloomy and terrified.

And the busy brother Timur immediately went to the Tongtian Plateau. However, it is more than ten zhang high, which is not a natural risk. But now the Xiongguan is built on the platform, and three breastwork walls have been built under the pass, three trenches have been dug, and the layers of protection have been laid, and cannons have been arranged on the pass, and there are also a lot of three-bow bed crossbows behind the breastwork, and there are already some Xiongguan dangerous plugs.

It won't be long before this place will be full of blood and corpses, right? Thinking of this, the busy brother Timur raised his binoculars and looked westward, repeatedly trying to find the trace of the vanguard of the Ming army.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "There are military horses coming from the north!" ”

Busy brother Timur was shocked, and hurriedly turned the telescope to the north, in the eyepiece, you can already see the smoke and dust, from the scale of the smoke and dust analysis, the number of people who come is not much, the sky is hundreds of horses. I don't know if it was the scouts of the Ming army or the scouting horses sent out by themselves who returned.

"No flag! It's the Ming army coming! ”

Busy brother Timur's entourage reminded him loudly. Busy brother Timur fixed his eyes and looked at it, and sure enough! The enemy did not raise the recognition flag, and it was obviously not his own horse exploration ranger.

"King Khan, the last general is going to war!"

Immediately, the Mongol generals were called for battle. The enemy dared to show off his might at the gate of his own house with only a few hundred rangers, which was a big blow to the morale of the army. Therefore they must be expelled!

Busy brother Timur glanced back at the man, it turned out to be the ten thousand households stationed in Tongtian Pass, Mazartai, and also a member of the golden family, the grandson of Batu, and the cousin of busy brother Timur.

"Good!" Busy brother Timur smiled and nodded, "If there is a horse out of the Mazartai, I will rest assured, so I will order a thousand horsemen to fight." He paused for a moment and added, "Be careful, just drive away the enemy, don't fall in love with war." ”

"The last general knows." Mazartai saluted, turned around and galloped out to order his troops.

……

It was the king of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the general of the Western Expeditionary Army, and the governor of the military and political affairs west of Tianshan Province, who could act cheaply!

After many days of uninterrupted marching, Zhu Sijiu felt a little more wind and frost all over his body. However, the eyes are becoming sharper, and now just standing on the horse's pedal and looking at the terrain with a telescope has a kind of breathless majesty.

Surrounded by him, in addition to the 300 brocade-clothed soldiers who wore a red silk coat in addition to their armor (all of them were Zhu Sijiu's disciples), they were several major division commanders of the Western Expeditionary Army, Guo Kan, Yan Zhongji, Liu Quan, Xiao Da, Wei Zhutar and Chen Chu (Chen Dexing's false son), all of whom looked the same as Zhu Sijiu, rode up the high slope, stood on the horseshoe and checked the terrain with binoculars.

Now the entire Lianghe River basin is about to become a no-man's land, with a total population of more than 2 million, concentrated in the vicinity of a few big cities, one in the Kuyu and Ferghana basins, one in Samarkand, one in Buhua, one in Yulong Jiechi, and the black sand near the Ilkhanate, there are only five in total, and the surrounding land is also full of farmland. In the rest of the world, there are some nomadic tribes with small populations wandering around.

The Kuyu City and Fergana Basin are undoubtedly the largest, most populous and most agriculturally developed of all the densely populated areas.

For Zhu Sijiu, who came from the expedition, only by seizing the Ferghana Basin, which can be regarded as a granary, could it be possible to further go south to seize Persia. Otherwise, the food supply of more than 100,000 troops and tens of thousands of people will be difficult enough for the dead.

And for Timur, the Ferghana Basin is the foundation of his foothold on the two rivers! It is unrealistic to go to the steppe nomadism near the Ili River, which is too close to the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty. Let a group of steel-armored soldiers hang and beat every day, how can you live this day?

Since nomadism is not possible, it can only establish a foothold in the agricultural areas of the two rivers. And the best site in this area is undoubtedly the Fergana Basin. If you can't even hold the valley mouth of the Fergana Basin, then Timur, the busy brother, should surrender as soon as possible.

Therefore, Zhu Sijiu, who calculated that Timur was busy and would defend Ferghana, led a large army to the Ferghana Basin, and did not divide his troops to plunder the land on the way. Today's two rivers, human beings have been tossed to the point of extinction, and there is nothing to plunder.

And to establish a feudal state here, it is actually to establish a city-state state, which is similar to Chen Dexing's plan for the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Northern Ming Dynasty. Lay out a few points, build a few city-states, and then decide what to do. And the Fergana Basin, Zhu Sijiu himself doesn't want it, he is going to take it out to make a lottery, Yan Zhongji and Liu Quan, whoever enters Kuyu City first, will be the king of Fergana! (To be continued.) )