My Daming New Empire

At this time, Zhu Di was not willing to make extra troubles, nor did he want to help the Indians get rid of this great enemy, so he accepted the surrender of the Delhi Sultanate.

The surrender conditions he gave to the Delhi people were not too harsh. He only asked the other party to pay tribute of 20 taels of gold, ten gemstones, and five thousand girls, and forget the past.

The Delhi Sultanate did not dare to say any conditions at all, and directly agreed to Zhu Di's conditions, and begged to trade with Daming in the future.

Of course Zhu Di agreed to this point, which is actually what Daming wanted to do.

After accepting the influence of Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Di is no longer an economic idiot. He is very clear about the trade prospects of the Indian peninsula, a place with tens of millions of people.

Through trade, Daming can not only dump its own products, but also control the economy here.

After the Delhi people left, he turned his gaze to the north, waiting for the messenger from the Northern Route Army to arrive.

At this time, the army of the Ming Dynasty had approached Samarkand from three sides and established contact with each other.

Charju, also known as Turkmenabad in later generations, is a large city on the south side of the Amu Darya River.Because of the moisture of the Amu Darya River, it is also the food production area and barrier in the south of Samarkand.

However, the city of Chaerzhu was only a settlement of herdsmen. Because it is located in the heart, the city does not have a city wall.

Zhu Di led the army along the Mashihad, Ma Lei and other oasis tribes all the way to the north. All the tribes voluntarily surrendered, offering horses, cattle, sheep and food, and never dared to fight again.

However, there are still many dissatisfied tribes. They robbed Charju of food, cattle and sheep, abandoned the city, and established a defensive front on the north side of the Amu Darya River.

The Amu Darya River is less than [-] miles away from Samarkand, and it belongs to the core area of ​​the Timur Kingdom.No matter how powerful Ming was, there were still many tribes that were unwilling to surrender.

On April [-]th, Zheng Heng personally crossed the mountains from the Osh Valley in the east, detoured for three thousand miles, and arrived at Charzhu.

Zhu Di was very satisfied with Zheng Heng's attitude, although as the commander, he led less than [-] cavalry, and trekking three thousand miles was an adventure.But now that Daming has an absolute advantage, and the surrounding tribes have joined in, the danger is not too great.

Zheng Heng has no arrogance or arrogance, and is still loyal. For the emperor Zhu Di, this is the most important thing.

On the banks of the Amu Darya River, Zhu Di, Zhang Xin, Mu Xin, Zheng Heng and other generals formulated the final strategy for attacking Samarkand according to the actual situation.

On April [-]th, it only took ten days for Zheng Heng to lead the soldiers to bypass the Alai Mountains and return to Kokand by the same route.

After five days of contact, the date of the general attack was arranged on the first day of May.

The reason for this rush is because I don’t want to cross the river when the weather gets hotter, the snow mountains melt, and the river becomes wider and faster.

Although the river brigades in the Western Regions are not large, you can find a place where you can easily cross the river everywhere.But now the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty rely heavily on muskets. If the gunpowder gets wet, the threat of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will not be exerted at all.

Zhu Di stayed in Charju for nearly a month. During this time, the soldiers have been building wooden bridges in places where the river is gentle.

In this regard, the Timur soldiers on the other side of the river had nothing to do.They can only harass with bows and arrows, but the range of bows and arrows is not as good as muskets. When bows and arrows are threatening, muskets are more threatening.

What's more, Ming's artillery was so powerful that the Timurid soldiers on the other side of the river did not dare to gather together and become targets.

On the first day of May, at the beginning of the total, hundreds of artillery pieces fired in unison and fired across the river.

In the ditch where the Timur soldiers were, the power of bows and arrows became smaller and smaller.They were so suppressed by the muskets of the Ming soldiers that they couldn't hold their heads up.

The Timur soldiers who were in charge of intercepting couldn't resist Daming's offensive at all, but within half a day, they lost their position on the river bank and retreated while fighting.

Zhu Di was not in a hurry, and kept fighting steadily. Now that he was approaching Samarkand, any conspiracy and tricks could not play any role in the face of absolute strength.

However, the resilience of the Timurids has also increased a lot this time, they no longer disperse in a herd, even if they can't withstand the firepower of Ming Dynasty, they still use the mobility of horses to contain the army of Ming Dynasty.

Especially at night, they would send soldiers to harass them every day, trying to exhaust the Ming soldiers.

Zhu Di and the others had already received news from the spies in Samarkand, and Ulugh Beg had already begun to transfer scholars and people.

They migrated westward from Samarkand, traveling westward along the Amu Darya River.In the Nukus Oasis, it is divided into two roads, north and south. After arriving at the Caspian Sea all the way, it goes south, and all the way along the edge of the Dead Sea, it goes north.

Zhu Di was well aware of this, but he was powerless to stop it.

There are wastelands and deserts everywhere here, and the pursuit of the army consumes countless supplies.

What's more, the Western Regions are too big, even the cavalry, their total strength is only about 30, if they want to completely seal off these millions of square kilometers of land, they have more than enough heart but not enough power.

For Zhu Di, as long as he can defeat the opponent and let him evacuate from his homeland, it is already a victory.

As a semi-nomadic, semi-agricultural country, as a tribal confederation.Abandoning one's own home means losing most of one's strength.

A powerful Timur country is not an opponent of Ming Dynasty, and Timur whose strength has been greatly weakened is not a threat.

Moreover, the ethnic groups in the Western Regions are complex, and the relationship between tribes is extremely complicated.It is more in Ming's interest to leave a big enemy for these tribes.

For Daming, it would be better if they want to occupy this gold producing area and cotton producing area and let them continue to fight among themselves.

Ulugh Beg’s evacuation this time did not damage its strength much. They harbored hatred and would leave threats to the Uzbeks, the Golden Horde, and the Eastern Chahatai Khanate.

Of course, Zhu Di would not let them escape in vain. Through spies, he learned of several horse teams transporting goods. Zhang Xin and the others divided into several chasing teams to target these goods, and intercepted a lot of goods.

The army advanced steadily along the oasis corridor of Bukhara and Navoi, and finally arrived at the western suburbs of Samarkand at the end of May.

Zheng Heng has also led an army to surround the city from the north and east. At this time, Samarkand, except for [-] enemy troops, has almost become an empty city.

Zhu Di's Chinese army tent was arranged at the Ulugh Beg Observatory on the northeast outskirts of Samarkand. Zhu Di was shocked by this unfinished observatory.

The 40-meter-long marble quadrant (Baidu Encyclopedia said it was a sextant, but there was no sextant technology at that time, it should be a quadrant.), no one can not be shocked.

"A small barbarian country can build such a huge observatory. Why can't I, Ming Dynasty?"

(Chinese New Year, I went on a business trip after the new year, and the update was not effective. I returned home today, and I will start to update tomorrow)

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"Prepare... let go!"

"Prepare... let go!"

With a sound of order, the soldiers raised their muskets and aimed straight ahead. Every time the small flag was lowered, the muskets fired a salvo, and a puff of white smoke rose from the position.

After two shots in a row, the soldiers in this row retreated to the sixth row behind, and the soldiers who followed closely followed the shield hand and walked forward five steps, directly crossed the smoking position, and continued to shoot.

Since they are all double-barreled muskets, the three-stage attack has become a six-stage attack, and the firepower is stronger and more concentrated.

Although the enemy soldiers rushing forward were only separated by a short distance of more than a hundred meters, this distance was like a natural moat, which became a nightmare for the last Timurid cavalry.

They were sacrifices in the first place, and they stayed in the rear to contain the soldiers of Ming Dynasty, so that the retreating people could retain more vitality.

But when the city wall of Samarkand was destroyed, the [-] cavalry left behind became shackles, and they didn't even have a chance to break out of the encirclement.

When the gunfire stopped, the thick fog on the battlefield quickly dispersed with the strong wind.There were only screams and moans of surviving horses on the battlefield.

What was more shocking than the [-] cavalry were the representatives of various tribes in the Western Regions. They originally thought that Daming would use them as cannon fodder to fight the Timurids desperately.

But this time, they just followed Daming's soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and they never went to the front line of the battlefield at all.