My Daming New Empire

With the invincible musket, even though he is currently at a disadvantage in numbers, Daming is unstoppable with absolute superiority.

In the past, one cavalry could almost deal with three infantry, but one thousand cavalry could deal with five thousand cavalry.

Now it is a thousand musketeers who, with the help of barbed wire and trenches, can wipe out five thousand cavalry.

The number of people in the Timurid Kingdom is much smaller than that of Ming Dynasty, and they are not a centralized state with strict hierarchy, but an alliance formed by tribes and forces.

In the unfavorable situation of the war, Shahru faced enormous pressure, except for the tribes directly under him, the other tribes almost lost control.

The people of Zhu Di killed a lot in the south, and the tribes who stayed in the south cried for their fathers and mothers.Across the Pamirs and the deserts of Afghanistan, the tribes in the north began to secretly contact Zheng Heng.

Zheng Heng also did not expect that the war in the south would go so smoothly. It took him 2000 people to get through the Pamirs and establish an information channel with the South Route Army. Now it seems that it will soon lose its effect.

This is because many tribes saw that Ming was unstoppable and the Shahru regime was crumbling. In order to avoid being hostile to Ming and being liquidated in the future, they began to take effect now.

They were willing to hide from Shahru and Ulugh Beg and cooperate with Ming's northern and southern armies and provide intelligence support.

They didn't know that in the Hezhong area north of the desert area of ​​Afghanistan, Daming had no idea of ​​massacre.

Zheng Heng wants to restore the territory of the Tang Dynasty, expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty to the Caspian Sea, and want to be a veritable emperor in the Hezhong area. Now he is working hard.

No matter which tribe, as long as there was no direct conflict with Daming, Zheng Heng is willing to accept it now.

On the second day of February, this was the time agreed upon by the two armies of the North and the South to attack. After four years of preparations and four months of fighting, Ming had truly entered the stage of the general offensive.

In one month, the South Route Army established a long offensive front outside Herat. Except for the north, the other three walls were erected with tall trebuchets and artillery.

The Timurids were not idle either. In addition to strengthening the city walls, they also began to demolish houses and build fortresses in the city, trying to bring the Ming people into a brutal battle of strangulation.

But their plan was impossible to succeed from the very beginning, because Zhu Di didn't come to occupy this place. His purpose was only one, which was to kill as many enemies as possible, and he would not invest too much force in order to grab a city.

He arrived in Kochi in May and started attacking in October. The four or five months in between were to prepare more kerosene bombs.

The wealth in the city is not attractive to him, not to mention, gold is not afraid of fire at all.

The city of Herat is tall and large, except for a few adobe brick walls, most of it is built with locally collected stones.

However, this city does not have a moat. As long as it loses the protection of the city wall, it will directly face the attack of Ming Dynasty.

Although their trebuchets were higher and cast farther than Daming's trebuchets, they were far inferior to artillery.

The first target of Daming's artillery was the catapults on the city wall. When a catapult was destroyed by the artillery, they lost the most effective weapon they relied on.

However, Ming's attack was not smooth, because their city walls were too strong, and today's weapons are difficult to be effective.

Throughout February, the two sides were entangled in this back-and-forth offense.

The trebuchets on the Timurid city wall were destroyed, and they transported the trebuchets to the back of the city wall. They stocked up enough kerosene bombs, which prevented Daming from attacking directly.

Zhu Di has nothing to do about this situation. The capital of the Timur Kingdom here is a strong city that must be taken.

Only by taking this place will the entire Timurid kingdom truly lose its will to resist.

But the soldiers of Ming Dynasty were inconvenient to transport, so they didn't dare to consume them at will.

It was at this time that Meng Ying and Changsheng finally arrived in Herat after a three-month long journey with Changsheng.

Since they were all steam sailboats this time, it actually took less than two months to reach Horumos.

In Hulumos, Meng Ying first showed Gu Xingzu Zhu Zhanji's grandson decree, asking him to accept the position of the deceased Liu Jiang.

Meng Ying is highly respected and a descendant of Mencius. Although Gu Xingzu got Zhu Di's order to take the post of chief of the navy temporarily, he did not dare to compete with Meng Ying.

However, Meng Ying was not appointed by Zhu Di. He took over Liu Jiang's position in the navy. It's not right.

So he spent a few days meeting with the navy generals, and hurried to Herat with Changsheng, other craftsmen and entourage.

In Herat's army, Meng Ying saw Zhu Di who hadn't seen him for a long time. Although the expedition was hard, Zhu Di was getting older and slightly weakened, but he was in good spirits.

Meng Ying brought a lot of domestic news from the Ming Dynasty, compiled these affairs into a book, and submitted it to Zhu Di.

On behalf of the internal supervisor, Changsheng also provided a copy of the information submitted by the internal supervisor and Zhu Zhanji's letter. Zhu Di first read the letter from Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji's control of the government has almost no loopholes. It took less than a year to completely control all the civil and military officials. Zhu Di is quite satisfied with this.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji wrote the letter not as an heir, but in the tone of a grandson's concern for his grandfather, which made Zhu Di feel a lot.

At the end of the letter, Zhu Zhanji reported to him that Daming has now developed explosives that are ten times the current gunpowder, and with this explosives, a new type of musket has been developed.

Seeing this news, Zhu Di's spirit was greatly lifted, because the main reason why Herat could not be attacked now was that the power of gunpowder was too small. If there were explosives with ten times the power, would this city wall still be a natural moat?

"Since we have a new type of fire...explosives, can we bring them together this time?"

Meng Ying replied: "The new explosives are powerful and difficult to transport. This time we just brought materials and craftsmen, so we can directly manufacture them here."

After saying hello several times, Zhu Dicai said again: "The grandson said that you have something to present to me separately, let me see it."

Meng Ying had someone present the locked wooden box, and Changsheng had someone present two hundred bullets.Tao Kan, who was sent by Zhu Zhanji, took out the key and wanted to teach Zhu Di how to use a pistol.

Zhu Zhanji didn't want Zhu Di to hurt himself because he forgot to turn off the insurance.

Looking at this strange iron thing, Zhu Di couldn't get in touch with the gun no matter what.In his opinion, this iron bump in a cowhide holster is no different from a hammer that smashes walnuts.

But when Tao Kan skillfully disassembled the pistol, and then introduced the functions of each part to Zhu Di in detail, Zhu Di believed that it was a musket that did not need to be ignited.

Moreover, although this gun is small, it can hold fifteen bullets at a time, which made Zhu Di a little stunned.

Holding this gun in his hand, Zhu Di felt very comfortable.Both he and Zhu Zhanji have big bones and big hands, which suit Zhu Zhanji's hand shape, and of course his hand shape.

At this moment, he couldn't hold back anymore, he weighed the pistol in his hand, and Tao Kan in front of him was so frightened that he fell silent, but he didn't dare to stop Zhu Di, and just knelt down all at once.

Zhu Di looked at him curiously, and Tao Kan said with a mournful face, "Your Majesty, the insurance is not turned off, and if there is a fire, the servant's life will be gone."

"It's very powerful?"

Tao Kan nodded and said, "Except for the shorter range, the power is amazing."

"Come here, bring a sheep..."

After getting a new toy, Zhu Di became very interested, and everyone else was also curious about whether such a little thing is really so powerful?

The crowd surrounded Zhu Di and came outside the camp. They formed a circle and watched as Zhu Di aimed his gun at a sheep in the field.

Tao Kan persuaded for a long time before letting the people opposite Zhu Di get out of the way.

Zhu Di pointed the muzzle of the pistol at the sheep's head five meters away and pulled the trigger.There was a muffled sound, and a guard watching the excitement screamed and fell down holding his thighs.

Tao Kan immediately picked up the automatically discarded bullet casing. As for the unlucky guard, a doctor was there to treat him.