After the Western Expedition army left, Li Yuntian paid close attention to the information related to the Western Expeditionary Army, and Song Hai, the Duke of Wuguo, led the 150,000 troops of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion all the way to a long journey, and it was already more than a month later when he arrived in Xi'an City.

According to the plan, Song Hai will wait in the city of Xi'an for the arrival of all the men and horses of the western expedition, and if the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan do not withdraw from the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Western Regions, then he will march west to conquer.

From Song Hai's point of view, it is not natural to hope that the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan will flee in the wilderness, in that case, his trip will be in vain, which is equivalent to a long-distance armed training in Shaanxi and Gansu with hundreds of thousands of troops, and he will not be able to make any merits.

The Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan did not disappoint Song Hai, not only did not retreat, but joined forces to attack the Eastern Chagatai Khanate from the north and west, and captured the city of Beshbali in the city of the king of the Eastern Chagatai Khan in September of the second year of orthodoxy.

The Monte Great Khan of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the civil and military officials had to flee to the Turpan region of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and entered the city of Turpan in a hurry, gathering all their forces in the city of Turpan, preparing to wait for reinforcements and waiting for the rescue of the Ming army.

Song Hai was overjoyed when he learned that the city of Beshbali was captured by the king of Eastern Chagatai Khan, which meant that the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan did not retreat in spite of the difficulties, and he could finally lead a large army to conquer in the name of justice.

At this time, except for the Liaodong troops, which were the farthest away from each other, had not yet arrived, the rest of the horses had been assembled in Xi'an City.

So Song Hai immediately held a pledge meeting, and then waved his army westward, leading more than 400,000 troops out of Jiayu Pass, passing through the jurisdiction of the Guanxi Seven Guards outside the Guanxi and entering the Turpan region of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

On the second day of entering the Turpan area, the Western Expeditionary Army encountered a Timurid cavalry army of more than 10,000 people, which was besieging a local city and burning and looting everywhere.

Song Hai wanted to annihilate the cavalry of the Timurid Empire in one fell swoop and get a good start, but after some fighting, the cavalry of the Timurid Empire slipped faster than rabbits, and fled with excellent mobility ability, which made Song Hai feel quite disappointed.

After the Western Expeditionary Army relieved the siege of the city besieged by the cavalry of the Timurid Empire, it was warmly welcomed by the people in the city, and the whole city became a sea of joy in an instant, and many enthusiastic young women even stepped forward to offer kisses to the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army, which made those soldiers blush in an instant, causing the girls to laugh for a while.

In order to relieve the siege of the Great Khan of Eastern Chagatai who was besieged in Turpan by the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition forces as soon as possible, Song Hai did not stay too long in this enthusiastic city, and soon led his army to continue westward.

At the end of October, the Western Expeditionary Army met 300,000 people from the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Coalition Army in Huozhou, two hundred miles east of Turpan City, and the first major battle broke out after the Western Expeditionary Army left the customs.

After more than ten days of confrontation, the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition army were defeated by the offensive of the Western Expeditionary Army, leaving more than 10,000 corpses behind and began to retreat.

In the Battle of Huozhou, the Western Expeditionary Army won a complete victory, not only killing more than 10,000 people of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Alliance, but also capturing thousands of prisoners on the battlefield.

What is particularly important is that the first battle of Huozhou played the prestige of the Western Expeditionary Army, so that the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition army besieging Turpan City abandoned the city and fled, the Timurid Empire's army returned to Beshbali City, and the Northern Yuan army retreated to the direction of Mobei, and it seems that the two sides have no intention of fighting with the Western Expeditionary Army.

Song Hai was warmly welcomed by the Great Khan of Monte and the soldiers and civilians of Eastern Chagatai in Turpan City, and if it were not for the timely arrival of the Western Expeditionary Army, Turpan City would not have been able to support it for long.

In order to prevent the troops of the Timurid Empire from fleeing the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, Song Hai decided to recover the city of the king of the Eastern Chagatai Khan, Beshbali City, before the heavy snow in November, and to start a decisive battle with the Timurid Empire's troops in Beshbali City, which was also a New Year's gift to the Orthodox Emperor and the Empress Dowager Zhang.

Therefore, after resting for three days in Turpan City, Song Hai led 250,000 Western Expeditionary Troops, mainly 150,000 troops from the Gyeonggi Governorate, to Besshin Bali City, intending to spend the Spring Festival of the three years of orthodoxy in Beshu Bali City.

The 180,000 Western Expeditionary Army, mainly with 80,000 troops of the Shanbei Military Region, remained in Turpan City, led by Yang Sanyu, Marquis of Chengning.

To Song Hai's disappointment, the Timurid Empire's army did not organize an effective resistance as he had imagined, but fled before the Western Expeditionary Army arrived, allowing the Western Expeditionary Army to regain the royal city of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate without bloodshed.

Due to the arrival of the snow season in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and even the entire Western Regions, Song Hai ordered the army to rest on the spot after recovering the city of Beshu Bali, preparing to wait for the snow to melt in the spring next year before going to conquer the troops of the Timurid Empire on the territory of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

It is worth mentioning that after the Western Expeditionary Army relieved the siege of Turpan City, Song Hai believed that the strength of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Coalition Army was not enough, so he let the 70,000 Liaodong troops who had rushed to Jiayuguan rest in Jiayuguan, and then enter the Western Regions to participate in the battle in the coming year, and at the same time be responsible for the safety of logistics and supply roads, so that the military supplies could be smoothly transported to the military camp of the Western Expedition Army after leaving the customs.

In this way, the Western Expeditionary Army was divided into three major parts, namely Beishi Bali City, Turpan City and Jiayuguan.

When the news of the Western Expeditionary Army's recovery of the Eastern Chagatai Khan's King City of Beshin Bali City reached the imperial court, the people of the capital all cheered, judging from the overwhelming offensive of the Western Expeditionary Army, they would soon be able to defeat the invading Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition army, and then return triumphantly.

Especially those gamblers who bet on the victory of the Western Expedition army on the gambling market are even more overjoyed, the development of the war situation is so beneficial to the Western Expedition army, it seems that they are waiting for the Western Expedition army to return to the court to collect money from the gambling house.

Although the odds of winning the Western Expedition are very low, the gamblers have a lot of gambling money, and some even mortgage their houses and other properties to borrow money to participate in gambling, in order to make a profit from it.

The civil and military officials in the court were also full of hope for the future of the Western Expeditionary Army, and if this situation continued, Song Hai would soon be able to lead the Western Expeditionary Army to drive out the Timurid Empire army and the Northern Yuan army in the territory of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

In the telegram sent by Song Hai to recover the city of Beshbali, he had already asked the imperial court whether to take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to the Western Regions to teach the Timurid Empire a lesson and help the Eastern Chagatai Khanate to recover the Hezhong region.

The Transoxiana region was originally the richest area of the Chagatai Khanate, but after the division of the Eastern and Western Chagatai Khanates, the Transoxiana region was returned to the Western Chagatai Khanate, and is now the most important area of the Timurid Empire.

Once the Timurid Empire loses the Transoxiana region on which it depends, then the national strength will be severely damaged, and it will no longer be able to attack the east to disturb the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the successive victories of the Western Expeditionary Army, even the royal city of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate has now been recovered, so the Empress Dowager Zhang has been in a very comfortable mood recently, and often summons the female dependents of the nobles and officials of various ministries and courts to accompany her into the palace.

In the opinion of the Empress Dowager Zhang, as long as the military strength of the Timurid Empire is defeated, then no country in the world can threaten the safety of the Ming Dynasty.

Regarding Song Hai's request to capture the Hezhong region, the Empress Dowager Zhang asked the civil and military officials of the imperial court to discuss, after all, she was a woman's family, and this kind of fighting and killing matter was still left to the subordinates to solve.

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, it snowed heavily in Beizhili, and the capital soon became a world of ice and snow made of pink and jade.

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Li Yuntian stood in front of the window, looking at the snowflakes in the courtyard with a solemn expression, judging from the information transmitted back by the Western Expeditionary Army, the Western Expeditionary Army's trip to the Western Regions was too smooth, except for the First Battle of Huozhou, the people of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty were either crushed at the touch of a button or fled from the wind.

This situation is extremely strange in Li Yuntian's opinion, it is not that he does not believe in the combat ability of the Western Expeditionary Army, but that the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty do not seem to be doing their best on the battlefield, as if they deliberately induce the Western Expeditionary Army to move forward.

The Timurid Empire can crisscross West Asia and become a huge empire with a territory similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, and its military strength is definitely beyond doubt, no matter how it is said, it will not collapse in front of the Western Expeditionary Army after the first battle of Huozhou, and the Northern Yuan will not run away without much fight this time.

Therefore, Li Yuntian felt that the behavior of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty was deliberately luring the Western Expeditionary Army deep into the territory of Eastern Chagatai, which not only caused the Western Expeditionary Army to have the mood of underestimating the enemy, but also dispersed the strength of the Western Expeditionary Army.

Now the forces of the Western Expeditionary Army are scattered in Beshai Bali City, Turpan City and Jiayuguan, if it were Li Yuntian, he would definitely not do this, he would wait for the winter to pass in Turpan City before recovering Beshu Bali City, before that, his primary goal was to destroy the Northern Yuan troops.

In Li Yuntian's view, the Northern Yuan was familiar with the terrain of the Western Regions and had a very strong ability to maneuver, and once it cut off the supply route of the Western Expeditionary Army after the beginning of spring, the consequences would become very serious.

The grain and grass carried by the Western Expedition army after spending the cold winter has been consumed, and if it cannot be supplied, it will definitely lead to the fluctuation of the army's morale, and if the Timurid Empire counterattacks with all its strength at this time, then the situation of the Western Expedition army in Bali City will be in danger.

What particularly worried Li Yuntian was that the Timurid Empire now had only 200,000 troops in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and the 300,000 troops it used for reinforcements had not yet come to the Kaihezhong region, and it seemed that they wanted to wait until the winter had passed before joining the war.

Obviously, the reason why the Timurid Empire did this was from the point of view of logistical supply, and if there were 300,000 more people in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the winter consumption of grain and grass would make it difficult to bear, after all, it was not as rich as the Ming Dynasty.

This is also the reason why the Timurid Empire sent troops to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate twice, in the final analysis, the logistics could not keep up, so that it had no way to gather heavy troops to attack the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, because after the intervention of the Ming army, the two sides were bound to fall into a period of stalemate, and the consumption of grain and grass during this period of the Timurid Empire must be considered.

In fact, the Western Expeditionary Army made Li Yuntian feel the most regrettable that he did not recruit the people of the Guanxi Seven Guards to accompany the army to the expedition, and he did not know whether Song Hai and others were full of confidence in the strength of the Western Expeditionary Army or did not trust the Guanxi Seven Guards, so they wasted nearly 100,000 horses of the Guanxi Seven Guards in vain.

In Li Yuntian's view, the Kwantan Army, composed of the Seven Guards of the Kwanxi Empire, was an important force used to fight against the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan, and they were adapted to mountain warfare and were more comfortable fighting than the Western Expeditionary Army.

Since the establishment of the Guanxi battalion of the Xiaowu Army, Li Yuntian has already started to integrate the Guanxi Seven Guards, secretly supporting the pro-Ming forces in the Guanxi Seven Guards, and gradually getting rid of those generals who are hostile to the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, Li Yuntian also grasped the integration of the Kansai Qiwei, and did not hesitate to invest a lot of money to develop agriculture and commerce in the Kansai region.

But then again, those nobles of the Ming Dynasty were originally hostile to the Kwantai Army, or they were contemptuous, how could they dare to call on the Kwantai Army in such an important battle, and it would be bad if something went wrong.

Besides, except for Li Yuntian, I am afraid that no one in the Ming Dynasty will be able to suppress those Kansai troops.

When the Northern Yuan besieged the capital, Li Yuntian killed the Kansai army with a firearms battalion in Beizhili, and had to surrender, and finally Li Yuntian fulfilled his promise and put him back in Guanxi, so the generals of the Guanxi Qiwei were in awe of Li Yuntian, and it was not so easy for Song Hai to mobilize the Guanxi Qiwei.