My Daming New Empire

He was very aware of the strength of the various tribes here, and now Tanglin City could mobilize a cavalry force of nearly [-] people, which was already stronger than most tribes.

If the Slavs dared to attack Tanglin City, their tribes would naturally become targets of revenge.

There is no trade that can be faster than direct robbery.What's more, while robbing, it can also weaken their strength.

And the first goal of the Ming people was Birm City, which was [-] miles away from Tanglin City.

Although Birm is called a city, it is really just a Slav settlement on the banks of the Kama River.

This is a Grand Duchy, they are relatively independent, but under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Principality.

Compared with the larger and more powerful Novgorodians, they are more like a persimmon.

However, Chen Cheng did not send troops in a hurry. After he obtained enough food for more than 1 people for three months in the deal with the Bashkirs, it was already mid-February of 19.

During this month, the weather gradually warmed up.The 3000 Uzbeks who escorted him to Tanglin City, the [-] East Chahatai Khanate coalition forces, the [-] Turpan coalition forces, and the army composed of more than [-] Ming Dynasty civilians conducted two joint exercises.

The purpose of these two joint training sessions was not to enhance combat effectiveness, but to enhance the proficiency of cooperation on the battlefield.

In late February, a coalition of [-] coalition troops and [-] auxiliary soldiers driving carriages marched towards Birm.

These 7000 people are certainly not enough compared to the Bilmu people.Although the Duchy of Birm has a small population, it has more than 30 people.

But they are not an army, and their numbers are scattered over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.These 7000 people, no matter which side they face, have a certain advantage.

On February 23, the coalition forces arrived at Achit, southeast of Birm, and captured their first large tribe in only half a day.

The men were all executed, leaving only the women as captives of the Uzbeks.For them, women are also wealth.

More than half of the [-] carts were filled with grain and frozen meat, and tens of thousands of sheep were pulled on both sides of the cart by hemp ropes.

On February 26, the coalition forces arrived at the outskirts of Birm. Instead of directly attacking Birm, they swept away the major forces around Birm and never directly fought hard battles with each other.

On the sixth day of March, when the Birm gathered their superior forces to press the coalition forces, the coalition forces unexpectedly directly attacked Lisawa in the northeast of them.

Lisava is the second largest settlement in Birm and an important grain-producing area.

This time, the coalition forces did not hold back at all, and fought quickly. They not only killed almost everyone here, but also set fire to most of the food here.

Afterwards, Chen Cheng left two thousand cavalrymen to carry out harassing tactics all the time, so that the Birm people didn't know where the main force of the coalition forces were, and they didn't dare to pursue them at will.

Before the Bilmu people could react, the [-] coalition army returned to Tanglin City with [-] carts full of grain, tens of thousands of female prisoners, and nearly [-] horses, cattle and sheep.

And when the Slavs were full of anger and wanted revenge.In the south, the war between Daming and Timur broke out after the weather got warmer.

And the repeated victories of the Ming people also made all the ministries of the Golden Horde tremble with fear. The Slavs felt a little guilty when they saw how strong Ming was.

Most of the tribes no longer have the idea of ​​avenging the Birm people, and now they are more worried about angering the Daming people.

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Although Zheng Heng arrived in Suiye City in December last year, on the surface he stood still.

But in fact, from the moment he arrived in Suiye City, it has become an important battlefield for international diplomacy.

In the third year of Yongle, Timur died, and the sons competed for the throne.

In the seventh year of Yongle, Khalil Sultan, the grandson of Timur, was arrested by the rebels. Shah Ru took the opportunity to march into Central Asia, expelled the rebels, captured Samarkand, subdued the internal strife, and sealed Samarkand to him. Son Ulugh Beg.

From then on, the areas under the original Timur Empire, except western Persia, Iraq and Syria, eastern Persia and the middle of the river were all unified by Shahru.

Both father and son Shah Rugh and Ulugh Beg are rare scholar-type monarchs. During their reign, they vigorously developed the economy and expanded their cultural influence.

This period was the golden age of Samarkand, with a prosperous economy, merchants from all over the world gathered, the treasury was full, academic culture was prosperous, and court scholars gathered.

Although the news that Ming was going to take action against the Timur Kingdom had been spread for several years, no one thought that Ming would have the upper hand at the beginning.

This is not because of the strong strength of the Timur country. In terms of comprehensive national strength, no country can compare with Ming Dynasty.

The reason why Ming Dynasty is considered to be at a disadvantage is that on the one hand, it is because of the expedition of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, it is because of the powerful cavalry of the Timurid Kingdom.

Shah Ruh is a famous poet who attaches great importance to cultural education.Ulugh Beg was clever since he was a child, and he was a famous mathematician and astronomer.

During the period between the seventh year of Yongle and the 19th year of Yongle, the father and son increased the economy of the Timur country by more than three times.

Moreover, their powerful cavalry and flexible warfare methods are almost invincible.

After Zhu Zhanji's expedition to Dongying, he made great achievements in Nanyang. Everyone realized that Ming Dynasty, with its new guns, was already at an advantage.

The Mongolian Yuan people in Mobei have completely surrendered. They dare not have any disputes with Daming. This influence has already reached the northwest countries.

After Shah Rugh and Ulugh Beg confirmed that the Ming Dynasty was about to march westward, they had been devoting a lot of energy to researching new types of firearms.However, the barrels they wrapped by forging still cannot avoid the result of bursting.

They sent the dark room into Daming, but because of Daming's blockade, they only knew that Daming used the casting method to directly cast the barrel, but they didn't know the specific process.

Raising the temperature of the furnace was a difficult problem before the second industrial revolution. Although Shahru and Ulugh Beg father and son were talented and courteous corporals, they could not break through the limitations of the times.

Although there are many iron mines in the Timur country, their furnace temperature cannot reach, so they can only half-melt the iron and then manually forge it.It cannot completely melt molten iron, and it is difficult to refine even fine steel, let alone alloy barrels.

They are still calm and reassuring on the surface, but in fact they are not very optimistic.

It's just that the powerful cavalry still gave them enough confidence, and they didn't think that Timur's advantages could be easily offset.

In particular, their southern navy was defeated by Zhu Zhanji in the Persian Gulf, which was a great blow to the entire Timur country.

To this end, last year, Ulugh Beg also built a huge observatory in Samarkand, equipped with a giant quadrant with a radius of 40 meters and other instruments.

With this set of instruments, Ulugh Beg measured the length of a year more accurately, and determined the positions and distances of hundreds of stars, showing that they surpassed Ming in terms of astronomy and astrology.

The power of Daming is not known to many lower class people because of the closed information.In the minds of many ordinary people, the Timur Kingdom, transformed from the Western Chahatai Khanate, is the most powerful country after the Mongol Yuan Empire.

This kind of morale may not have much effect on the battlefield, but in terms of the potential of war, it has the potential of more resilience.

Their people will think that even if the war is unfavorable for a while, it is not inevitable, but just accidental, and they will not lose confidence in resistance.

When Zheng Heng arrived in Suiye City, the battle had not yet started.Not only the people of the Timur Kingdom, but even the Golden Horde Khanate and many tribes in the Eastern and Western Chahatai Khanates still believed that it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to win.

Faced with Zheng Heng's wooing, they were not moved by it, and even hindered it.

The Southern Army was in full swing, and the news of the war on the Persian Plateau was blocked by Shah Ruth, but too many herdsmen who abandoned their homes still spread the news to the north.

This time, everyone was dumbfounded.

The navy's defeat can also be said to be because the Ming Dynasty had artillery, but the Timur Kingdom did not, so it suffered a big loss.

But in people's previous impressions, muskets were not even as powerful as longbows.

Now Timur's cavalry has almost no power to fight back. They have been defeated and defeated repeatedly, making everyone aware of the power of the new musket, which is by no means comparable to the musket that is easy to explode.