This lustful man from Timur's empire was quite stubborn. He was thrown to the ground, but he struggled to stand up again. The dog quickly stepped forward and kicked him in the crook of the leg, forcing him to kneel down. Two more guards stepped forward and held him down heavily.
Zhu Su only glanced at him briefly and did not do anything. Because ahead, a Mongolian general carrying a banner with the word "Yan" was already approaching. Seeing Zhu Su from a distance, this man took the initiative to dismount his horse and walk forward. He glanced at the banner of the Ming Dynasty with the sun and moon hanging in the sky behind Zhu Su, as well as the banner with the word Zhou embroidered with dragon patterns. He knelt down and said: "But the Ming Dynasty Zhou Dynasty His Majesty the King’s face.”
"The little man Mahamu, I would like to pay my respects to His Highness King Zhou."
"Mahamu?" Zhu Su frowned and looked at the Mongolian man with a sharp voice in surprise. "Your name is Mahamu?"
"But Choros, Mahamu?"
"...Yes, the villain is indeed Choros, Mahamu." Mahamu was also startled. Is his name so famous? Even the Prince of Zhou of the Ming Dynasty had heard of his name. But after thinking about it, I felt relieved. It was the King of Zhou who mentioned him when he was communicating with His Highness the King of Yan.
"With the kindness of His Highness King Yan, he led a cavalry army with a villain to lure the Timur Empire army. But he didn't expect that the Timur Empire had an ambush here..."
"If it hadn't been for His Highness's rescue, the villain would have been defeated and died."
Mahamu's Chinese is quite good. Although he still has a slight accent, he can actually use a few idioms. It is obvious that he has put in a lot of effort. Zhu Su was a little curious as to why Zhu Di allowed Mahamu's life, but that was just a detail. What was more important now was to grasp the current situation of Zhu Di and Timur's armies.
Seeing that the general situation on the battlefield had been decided, but there was still some finishing work left, and he no longer needed to focus on command, Zhu Su called Na Mahamu to the map and asked him about the battle situation during this period.
From Mahamu’s mouth, we learned that after Zhu Di was turned away from the Timur Empire, he was not just helpless. Even though the Timur Empire had the right time, place and people, Zhu Di was still trying to reverse the situation. method of battle.
Their first attempt was to break through the Timur Empire's blockade of Thirststone. Zhu Di gathered all the muskets, squatting cannons, and grenades of the Shenji Battalion, and adopted the strategy of attacking from the east and attacking the west. He deliberately planted suspicious soldiers in the east to create momentum, and then suddenly attacked the west, which was relatively weakly defended.
With the blessing of firearms, Timur's empire was suddenly disrupted as soon as they entered the battle. Fei Juyi, who was in Thirst Stone City, saw the opportunity and brazenly opened the city gate and went out to fight, hoping to respond.
However, the Timur Empire's army had seen the Ming army's firearms outside the city of Yili. Timur was obviously very wary of these unknown weapons and left a strong reserve army at the beginning to deal with the assault of the firearms troops at any time. Moreover, the army of the Timur Empire was different from other armies in that it had a strong fighting spirit and high morale. Even if it encountered firearms, it did not panic and collapse.
In fact, the current firearms are most suitable for ambush or defense in positional warfare, and are not suitable for frontal attacks. In the past, the Shenji Battalion used firearms to attack the camp without any disadvantages. First, the enemy was often unprepared. Second, Yuanting and Wala soldiers were not really strong troops. They were often afraid of firecrackers and grenades. , self-disordered. But the Timurid Empire was rising like the sun, and the fighting spirit of its soldiers was far beyond that of Beiyuan Wala. After withstanding the initial indiscriminate bombardment, they actually stabilized their position with the support of reserve reinforcements.
Seeing that nothing could be done, Zhu Di quickly signaled Fei Ju on the inside with a flag language, asking him to quickly retreat to the city. At the same time, he gritted his teeth and asked the Ming army on the outside to step up their offensive. In the end, except for Zhang Dingbian who came to help and led more than ten people to break through the siege and enter the city, Zhu Di failed to break through the Timur Empire's front.
Timur won a great victory for a while, and then became more vigilant, surrounding the Thirsty Stone City like an iron barrel.
However, Zhu Di learned the hard way and knew that a frontal attack was no longer possible, so he broke it into pieces and simply began to continuously harass the siege defense line of Timur's empire. Although the soldiers of Timur's empire were strong and difficult to control lightly, there were always some soldiers who had their eyes set higher than theirs. Unable to bear Zhu Di's harassment and torture, it was inevitable that someone who saw Zhu Di couldn't help but rush out.
Since the person was successfully fished out, the next step was to ambush and greet him. Relying on this method, Zhu Di's troops also killed many generals of Timur's army.
However, the more times it happened, the Timur army naturally took precautions. No, the more than a thousand suspicious soldiers led by Mahamu fell into an ambush trap by a certain Timurid army general and fell into a bitter battle.
Mentioning this, Zhu Su just remembered the Semu general of Timur's army who was still kneeling. This general should be a general in a certain defense line of the Timur Empire. His beard and hair were all white. Although he was pinned to the ground, his eyes still had fighting intent. Judging from his ability to ambush the rebel general Zhu Di and his army, this person is a good general who is experienced and not cold-blooded.
"Go and ask him if he is willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Su said to the interpreter beside him.
Unexpectedly, this man actually knew Chinese. He struggled suddenly twice, but failed to struggle away, so he opened his mouth and cursed: "Despicable Mingren, do you want me to surrender to you, Ming Dynasty?"
"Absolutely impossible! You will not be the Sultan's opponent. The glory of Sultan Tamerlane will surely shine on all the lands where grass can grow..."
When Timur was mentioned, this man's face was filled with excitement and piety, and even his complexion, which had previously become pale due to excessive blood loss, turned red again. Zhu Su stood on his horse and watched with cold eyes for a long time. After he finished praising Timur, he turned to look at the dog and said, "Since this person is stubborn, let's kill him."
"Yes." The dog stepped forward without saying a word and put the knife into the man's throat.
At this time, around Zhu Su, there were actually many prisoners of Timur's army who had been captured. Seeing that the general was killed with one knife, everyone in the group of prisoners looked horrified. Some people's eyes even showed expressions of regret and hatred.
"Since they don't want to surrender, they will all be killed." Zhu Su waved his hand.
The personal guards came forward and killed all these people one by one. Zhu Su's original military order was to take no prisoners, but generals obviously cannot be equated with ordinary soldiers. Since these people can be captured, naturally all of them are generals with some status in Timur's army. Seeing that the king of the Ming Dynasty was going to kill them all without asking, a group of people immediately begged for mercy or cursed.
The scene was bloody, and Zhu Su looked away in discomfort, but did not ask the guards to stop... He was more worried in his heart, not to mention the general in Timur's army, even among these middle and lower-level generals , now there are far more voices scolding than begging for mercy.
Timur's army is so popular that so many generals are willing to die for him... It seems that the threat level to Timur needs to be raised to a higher level.
(End of chapter)
