My Daming New Empire

Daming's firearms made them all understand that in future wars, they would no longer be familiar with it. The advantage of cavalry was not even comparable to that of infantry without horses.

No matter how brave you are, you are not afraid of death, but you will be killed without any chance to get close to the opponent. The braver you are, the faster you will die.

In the future, the world will be dominated by muskets. Without muskets, no tribe will be able to block Ming's attack.

But can they make muskets?

At least for now, it seems impossible.

In a war involving tens of thousands of people, Ming soldiers lost thousands of people even though they had muskets.

These dead soldiers died, and some muskets were also strayed out.Almost every tribe, or every country, has Ming Dynasty muskets in their possession.

Many of them have seen Daming's muskets with their own eyes. Among other things, no one can make the gun barrel without stitching marks.

They simply could not imagine how such a barrel was made.

At most, they can allow craftsmen to create spliced ​​gun barrels, but that kind of barrel is not durable at all, and the chance of self-explosion is greater than the chance of injuring the enemy.

At this time, every tribe is thinking, until they can't make a qualified gun barrel, they can only obey Daming's words obediently.

The disobedient Timur kingdom, even though it has fertile land for thousands of miles and rides millions of horses, can only end up with the death of the king and the fate of only one prince fleeing westward in a hurry.

Shah Ruh, Ulugh Beg father and son, they are heroes of a generation, no one in the Western Regions would disobey them, but what about now?

Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia. The earliest records about it can be traced back to the fifth century BC. The Sogdians who were good at business built Samarkand into a beautiful capital.

In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great of the Macedonian Empire captured the city, and it became the farthest border town in the East in the West.

Later, due to the rise of the Silk Road, the city did not decline, but gradually became prosperous.

During the Western Expedition of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, Samarkand was the new capital and cultural center of the Khwarizm Empire. After being captured by the Mongolian Yuan Empire of Genghis Khan, it suffered a catastrophe and the entire city was destroyed.

However, due to its special geographical location, the city was quickly repaired. In the past 200 years, the great khans of the Western Chahatai Khanate have used this place as their capital and restored its vitality.

As Timur's empire rose, his armies swept across Persia, India, the Caucasus, Azerbaijan, and Mongolia.

He vowed to make Samarkand the capital of Asia, so he piled up the treasures looted from all over Asia in Samarkand, brought the most exquisite craftsmen from each city to Samarkand, and built the most beautiful palace in the city. Splendid palaces and mosques.

After his death, Shah Rugh and Ulugh Beg were a generation of outstanding people. They valued culture and developed Samarkand into a prosperous city in today's world.

After half a month of suppression, the city has completely fallen into Daming's hands.The opposing forces in the city were all captured and killed, and the killed bodies stained the river north of the city red, and let people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions witness Zhu Di's ruthlessness with their own eyes.

When Zhu Di personally set foot in this glorious city, none of the 20 people in the city survived, and most of them were women and children.

The leaders and representatives of countless tribes prostrated themselves in front of Zhu Di, allowing Zhu Di to truly enjoy the glory of being admired by all people.

He was born in 1360. In his youth, Zhu Yuanzhang had already established Daming in Yingtianfu.

However, it is not that he has never been on the battlefield. After taking over Beiping, he participated in military operations against Beiyuan many times, and served as the coach twice.

He led two expeditions to the north, recruited and surrendered Mongol Naier Buhua, and once captured Suolin Timur, a general of the Northern Yuan Dynasty alive, and left a great reputation in the north.

Even when he became emperor, he went out twice, splitting the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and now subduing most of Oara and Tatar.

However, he never thought that he would be able to uproot a powerful country that once tried to occupy Ming Dynasty from thousands of miles away.

It can make countless tribes thousands of miles away surrender to their feet.

This was something Zhu Yuanzhang could not do at the beginning.

So far, he feels that he has no regrets in this life.

One emperor through the ages, nothing more than that!

Occupying Samarkand, the first thing Zhu Di did was to reward him. Although he had not yet returned to Daming, all the soldiers who participated in the Western Expedition were rewarded.

Countries in the Western Regions paid tribute to a large amount of goods and women, all of which were regarded as rewards and bestowed by Zhu Di.

Not only wealth, but also titles were bestowed free of charge. As for the dukes of the state alone, two of them were conferred, namely Zheng Heng, the general of the Northern Route Army, and Zhang Chang, the admiral of the Chinese Army's Jingwei.

What made Zhang Xin a little bit disappointed was that he had never made great achievements in the frontal battlefield this time, and his meritorious service was not enough to become the Duke.

This also made him feel a little inadequate for now, and he wanted to continue westward and wipe out the remnants of Ulugh Beg.

There are many people who think the same as him, especially the tribes in the Western Regions. They were bullied by Ulugh Beg before, and now that Ulugh Beg's power has been greatly damaged, they certainly want to take revenge.

But at this time, Zhu Di didn't have the heart to go west, and he wanted to return to the court with his teacher.

This expedition, although he traveled all the way by car, he never suffered any hardship.But he is 62 years old after all, and his legs and feet are still deformed due to rheumatism, and the pain is unbearable.

Before that, he had always held the idea of ​​establishing an immortal merit, holding his breath, and after he occupied Samarkand, he missed Yingtianfu's imperial palace very much.

Faced with Zhang Xin's initiative to challenge, he did not refuse, but responded: "I want to return to the court in September, and there are still a hundred days left. This hundred days is also your last chance. No matter what the result is, before September , you will return to Samarkand."

There is only a hundred days, which is not enough for Zhang Xin and others, because Ulugh Beg and the others are now fleeing to the east of the Caspian Sea, and they may not be able to catch up with each other in March.

But now the Ming army is mostly cavalry, as long as the tactics are proper, it is not difficult to get some gains.

Zhang Xin and others also quickly determined their pursuit direction. They will pursue to the southwest, and the target is the Hyrcania region of the Timurid Kingdom.

It is located in the south of the Caspian Sea, has a large area of ​​farmland, and was once the capital of Persia.There, there is a long-standing culture of the Timur country, and Ulugh Beg is also the fortress of the rear.

Moreover, the pursuit to the south can be delayed for some time, as long as they can meet up with Zhu Di on the return trip in October or November.

With the experience of leading [-] cavalry and harassing Timur Kingdom for more than half a year, Zhu Di was also very relieved of Zhang Xin this time, and allocated [-] cavalry to him, as well as [-] Indian auxiliary troops.

As for food and grass, Zhang Xin's army didn't bring much. They fought this way with the purpose of supporting war with war.

After Zhang Xin and the others left, Zhu Dicai turned his energy back to civil affairs.

After the great chaos came great rule. At the beginning when Zheng Heng was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the North Route Army, he took a fancy to Zheng Heng's strengths in wooing others.

After receiving the news from Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Di also believed that the establishment of a Samarkand governor's mansion in Samarkand would be beneficial to Ming's rule in the Western Regions.

Moreover, this place is different from Nuer Gandusi, where there are only some small tribes, facing the sea, there are no foreign enemies.So, it is enough to set a Dusi where.

In the Western Regions, there are many tribes, many nationalities, many countries, and many beliefs.Setting up a capital here can't show the strong position of Ming Dynasty at all.

Only by setting up a Governor's Mansion with [-] cavalry under its jurisdiction can it effectively deter other countries and maintain Ming's rule.

So Zhu Di has actually been hiding here all the time, and handed over all the affairs to Zheng Heng, and watched with cold eyes.

He also intends to test Zheng Heng to see if he can be a good governor.

Zheng Heng came to the Western Regions as early as October last year and has maintained close contact with various ministries.He is now entrusted with a heavy responsibility by Zhu Di, but he is not panicked.

With the assistance of Chang Shi Zhou Xu, he actively appeased the various ministries and signed a large number of trade agreements with the various ministries. At the same time, he sent a cavalry of [-] people to go north to assist Tanglin City in attacking the various ministries of the White Horde Khanate.