My Daming New Empire

Zhu Di's arrival was more sensational than Zhu Zhanji's at the beginning. Before he arrived, he sent people to notify all the countries in the entire Indian Peninsula region, asking them to go to Kochi to see him.

Including the Delhi Sultanate, they were all notified by the Ming envoy.

The Delhi Sultanate knew that Zhu Di was here, and of course the Timur Kingdom also knew about it.In fact, the news of the Great Ming's Western Expedition had already spread a few years ago.

When Zhu Zhanji was in Hulumos, he directly expelled the local Timur tribe for hundreds of miles.

The Timurid Kingdom sent envoys to Daming, wanting to send a teacher to question the crime.But when they arrived in Daming, they discovered that Daming had already regarded them as the target of the conquest.

Afterwards, Ming began to gather food and grass in the northwest, and all the ministries in the northwest also knew that Ming was going to use force against Timur.

Between the Timurid Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, there was also Yili, which was split from the Eastern Chahatai Khanate, and Li and other countries served as a buffer.

The Battle of Hulumos let the Timur Kingdom know that Ming's firepower is mighty and invincible.

Originally, it was a long way to attack Timurid country from the northwest, with a large desert and no man's land in the middle. The Timur country did not think that Ming had the ability to attack them.

But Zhu Zhanji's battle in Hulumos let them know that Daming has the ability to come from the sea and launch a large-scale battle.

Knowing the seriousness of the situation, Shah Ruh, the successor of the Timurid Kingdom, sent new envoys to Daming and brought a large number of gifts, while on the other hand, he was busy relocating the capital urgently.

When Timur was alive, he was the fourth son, and his fief was in Herat.Like Zhu Di, he robbed his nephew Harry of the throne.Then he granted his son Ulugh Beg to Samarkand, the original capital of Timur, and made Herat his new capital.

Herat is located at the border between Afghanistan and Iran in the later generations. Of course, it is far inferior to Samarkand, but Samarkand has a mixed ethnicity, Tatars, Kazakhs, Turks, and Baizhang people.

The population and ethnic groups in Herat are relatively simple, and almost all of them are Turkic.

From this point of view, Shaharu and Zhu Di did almost exactly the same things in their original history.

They are all the fourth sons, they all robbed their nephews of the throne, and they all moved their capitals because of governance issues.

But in this life, Zhu Di is luckier than Shaharu.Because his grandson Zhu Zhanji is capable, the national power of Ming Dynasty is much stronger than the loose Timurid state of the nomadic people.

If Ming came from the sea, Herat, which was less than two thousand miles away from the coastline, would become the main target.

Therefore, Shah Ruh was forced to move the capital back to Samarkand.

When Zhu Di arrived in the Indian peninsula, the Timurid kingdom got the news. They moved most of the tribes in the south to the north, not wanting to leave any supply for Daming, and stretched the supply line of Daming.

The Iranian plateau has high mountains and long roads. As long as Ming cannot obtain supplies from the local area, it will be difficult to cross the entire plateau and attack Samarkand.

But the Timurid Kingdom is not Ming, they are not a powerful regime, but an alliance of loose tribes.

Not all tribes were afraid of Daming, and were willing to leave their hometowns, leave their tribal strongholds, and migrate.

Without a stable source of food and water, no matter how powerful a tribe is, it will decline during this migration.

So when Zhu Di arrived in India, there was already a civil war here.

Shah Ruh is absolutely unwilling to leave each tribe behind and turn it into a supply point for Daming.A high-pressure policy was imposed on tribes that were unwilling to migrate, and for a while, wars broke out throughout the Iranian plateau.

Zhu Di, who arrived in Kezhi, lived in a luxurious other palace, and he was even more happy when he got the news.

He met the monarchs and princes of various countries in the other palace, and rewarded him generously, just like a prodigal son.

Compared with him, Huang Yuan is much harder.The arrival of the army in Kezhi meant that his leisurely days were over. In order to dispatch troops, he, the logistics manager, had to worry too much.

"Fu'anzi, the source of fire oil has been found. There is a large amount of fire oil in the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf, in the Black Sheep Dynasty, including all parts of Persia. The problem now is that the transportation of fire oil is a problem."

Fire oil is the most powerful weapon of the Timurid Kingdom. Their bows and arrows and their iron weapons are no threat at all when facing Ming's muskets.

However, after the kerosene is ignited, the water cannot be extinguished, especially when it is used on a large scale, it can pose a huge threat to Ming soldiers.

It is easy to deal with the cavalry of the Timur country, but if you want to occupy the cities of the Timur country, you have to consider the power of fire oil.

Since Timur state-owned kerosene for positional warfare and large-scale battles, then Daming cannot live without it.

They can use fire oil for defense, and Ming can also use fire oil for offense.

"Scholar Fu, arrange a time, I want to meet King Iskandar of the Black Sheep Dynasty."

Fu An nodded and said with a smile: "This is a trivial matter, but I don't know what Fu Anzi wants to talk to him, so I can make some preparations."

Facing Fu An, an old minister, Huang Yuan has always shown great respect. He looked at the map and said: "The only one in Persia that can resist the Tribunal of Timur is the Black Sheep Dynasty. Only through them can we obtain a stable firepower." source of oil."

In the 28th year of Hongwu, Fu An carried Zhu Yuanzhang's personal letter to the country of Timur, but at that time the ambitious Timur was already preparing to send troops to the East, so Fu An was detained.

This detention lasted for 13 years. It was not until the fifth year of Yongle, after Timur's death, that his grandson Harry released Fu An and his party.

After 13 years in the Western Regions, Fu An can speak Persian fluently and has a good understanding of the conditions of countries in Central Asia.

This time, Zhu Di marched west. As a staff officer with the army, he has been serving Zhu Di around him, and he has given many useful opinions on Daming's march and combat.

For example, it was he who suggested that the troops on the Daming South Road should be divided into two groups, sending troops from India along the way. They could obtain a large amount of supplies along the way in India, and then enter Central Asia through the Khyber Pass, the only passage in the Indian subcontinent.

Although this road is long, and it takes two thousand miles to march in India alone, sending troops from here has positive benefits for Daming.

Sending troops from various countries in India can pull all the tribes along the way into Ming's camp.At the same time, it can help those small countries suppress the power of the Delhi Sultanate.

Apart from the Delhi Sultanate, India today does not have a large power, which will be easier for Ming to manage in the future.

And sending troops from India, the road is flat, even if the journey is a little farther, it is much faster than marching from the mountains of the Iranian plateau.

Of course, the Iranian plateau cannot be given up, because that is the base of the Timur country. If you do not enter the Iranian plateau, how can you attack the power of the Timur country?

The time has entered May, and the South Asian continent has entered the hottest season of the year. It is not a suitable season for marching and fighting at this time.

Most of today's Ming soldiers are resting in Kezhi, while the other part has already arrived at Hulumos, where they are planning to build a castle as the base camp of the Ming army.

However, these were in charge of the former army commander Longping Hou Zhangxin, so Huang Yuan didn't need to worry about it.

Iskandar arrived in Kochi from Baghdad with gifts on a ship sent by the Ming Fleet at the end of April.

In a naval battle three years ago, the Ming Fleet wiped out all the sea forces of the Timurid Kingdom and drove the southern army hundreds of miles away.

This directly caused the Timurid Kingdom's power in the southern coast to be greatly damaged. Under this situation, the Khormos Kingdom completely surrendered to Ming Dynasty and became independent from the Timurid Kingdom's rule.

The Black Sheep Dynasty was also terrified of it. They have always been at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Timur Kingdom.Even the Timur Kingdom is not an opponent of Daming, so how dare they go against Daming.

Especially at the beginning of this year, Yusuf, the founder of the Black Sheep Dynasty, passed away and Iskandar succeeded him.He didn't have his father's wise strategy, and he didn't have the courage to go against Timur, but he didn't dare to go against Daming.

Following behind the servant, he walked into this majestic imperial palace again. This imperial palace was even grander than his own, but it was only the temporary residence of the Ming emperor.

It is said that the imperial palace of the Ming emperor is really grand, living in a city alone.

He also really wanted to have the opportunity to go to the east with Daming's fleet to see the imperial palace.

As the head of the army, Huang Yuan owned a small courtyard on the east side of the palace's front yard, where he worked and gave orders.