Chapter 91 Timur withdraws his troops
In Timur's view, King Yan was just a prince in the Ming Empire. Or just a king. He respected King Yan's strength and wanted to reach a peace agreement with King Yan, even if it was a short-lived peace agreement. After the war ended, they could just tear it up in a few years.
Timur never thought of binding each other with a letter of peace.
Whether it's someone else or yourself.
Timur just felt that he was not ready for today's battle. I want a buffer time to wait for the next war.
In fact, King Yan also needs this time.
How had King Yan ever prepared in the Western Regions? He also failed to gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions.
It would actually be great if it could be stable for a few years. A few years later, I don’t know who attacked whom first.
However, King Yan's identity and status did not allow him to sign a contract with Timur.
Without him, from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, all people outside the Central Plains would be barbarians. Timur was just the leader of the barbarians. If King Yan signs a peace treaty with him, he will recognize that he is equal to himself. In fact, if King Yan were the emperor, it would not matter.
Because King Yan had supreme power, he had some choices in terms of practical interests. It's also normal.
But King Yan is not the emperor, so he has to worry a lot.
At least he wants to think about what the reaction will be when this peace agreement reaches Beijing.
What did the people of the Ming Dynasty think of this peace agreement?
Finally, King Yan decided that he could not sign the contract.
Because the Ming Dynasty only had a tribute system and no equality treaty, or Tamerlane did not have the strength to prove that he had this strength. If he could attack the city and capture the Western Regions, it would prove that Timur had this qualification. Enough for a letter of equality and peace.
Probably at the Tanyuan League level.
Now King Yan felt that if he worked hard, he could drive the other party away. Why give the other person this face and add some humiliation to yourself.
What's more, Timur was a Mongolian. He is the son-in-law of the Golden Family.
Over the years, the Ming Dynasty has never been soft on the Golden Family. Talk about anything, it’s best not to talk about it.
This put Timur in a dilemma. If you can't attack, you can't retreat, so you have to explain to those around you.
However, the situation before him was not enough to shake Timur's mind.
Timur experienced the power of artillery at the foot of Tingzhou City. They gave different reactions. When the weak saw this situation, they would definitely be shocked and would not dare to look down on the other party. They would even think of ways to seek peace and compromise. But Timur was different.
Timur was filled with a desire for firearms at this moment. He wanted these things desperately. But he knew that no country could allow such weapons to flow out easily. Therefore, Timur decided that when he was ready next time, he would continue his eastern expedition and make sure these artillery pieces became his trophies.
Seems to defy logic. But in fact, Timur himself had his own logic.
First of all, the power of artillery is huge. If you don't get artillery, you will definitely fall behind in the future. Therefore, he will get the artillery and the manufacturing method of the artillery at all costs. And what is the greatest price at all costs? It's war.
Secondly, with weapons like artillery, even if he is willing to maintain peace with the East, will the other side be willing?
With a weapon in his body, he has a murderous intention. Read the book
Of course not. Timur felt that even if it were him, he wouldn't be able to do it.
In this case, there will definitely be a war between the two sides, so if I fight the other party, I will not have any strategic advantage over the other party fighting me.
In this way, Timur will decide to go from Türkiye to the Caucasus. India and other places have contracted and directed their attacks in the Western Region. Fight with King Yan.
This is an opportunity for King Yan. If King Yan can defeat Timur in the Western Regions, then Central Asia will be very easy to win. Of course. This is also a problem if King Yan cannot win against the opponent. The collision between Ming Dynasty and Tamerlane will definitely begin.
In addition, there is a small interlude.
That is the reason why the fall of Byzantium occurred decades later in history, because before that, Byzantium sent people to ask Timur for help, that is,
Two or three years later, Timur conquered the west with the Ottomans and was able to save Constantinople from the pagans.
Now it seems that Tamerlane will not advance westward.
I don’t know if Byzantium will fall early. In other words, the butterfly effect brought about by He Xi finally spread to the West and affected major events in Western history.
At this time, a cavalryman from behind suddenly came to Timur's horse and said in Turkic dialect: "King Yan attacked the logistics camp and burned hundreds of thousands of kilograms of our food."
Timur showed no expression at all. He said, "I understand." Then he paused slightly and said, "Give me the order to withdraw the troops."
Timur had long been prepared to withdraw his troops, and now the reason for withdrawing could not be better.
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On top of Tingzhou City, Zhang Yu also breathed a sigh of relief.
The construction of Tingzhou City was too sloppy. Zhang Yu has been on tenterhooks for a while. There is one thing that others don't know, but Zhang Yu knows it. That means the gunpowder reserves in the city have bottomed out.
There is a regiment of the Northern Army in Tingzhou City. They are soldiers from the Deng family.
Deng Zhen's position among the Northern Army was very embarrassing. But the problem is that Deng Zhen's lineage has always had a great influence in the military. We can't just kill them all because of Deng Zhen's problems. After a series of purges, the influence of the Dengzhen lineage has been very low.
The last bit of influence was also stuffed into this group and kicked off to the Western Regions because of the distance.
Most of the regiment's artillery was left behind, with only a few guns. But even so, this is pretty sharp. It belongs to Tingzhou’s Dinghai Shenzhen.
But no matter it is a firearm, the most important thing is gunpowder. Without gunpowder, these weapons are nothing.
The Western Regions and the Central Plains are too far apart. It was difficult to deliver food and grass from the rear, let alone gunpowder. The city was not good in all aspects, which led to huge consumption of gunpowder. In this case, if the enemy attacks several more times, tens of thousands of people will die. Zhang Yu could only engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
This is why King Yan took the risk.
fine. At the last moment, Timur finally withdrew his troops.
Zhang Yu had a feeling. At this time, the most dangerous moment for King Yan in the Western Regions had passed.
Timur slaughtered a lot here, which was also a good thing for King Yan. After all, no matter how gentle King Yan is to the Mongols in northern Xinjiang, he cannot get rid of one thing, that is, King Yan is a conqueror.
It is difficult to get them to surrender immediately.
But the arrival of Timur told these people that not all conquerors were as easy to talk to as King Yan. King Yan at least brought them a lot of goods from the Central Plains. Bringing advanced productivity, among other benefits.
But the Mongols in the west are of the same race, but they will only bring blood donation and war.
How to choose is very simple.
Although it is said that under Timur, the local people suffered a lot. But the rest should return to the Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Yu was so happy that he immediately sent someone to find a way to notify King Yan of his immediate return without mentioning it.
This battle has finally come to an end.
However, this is the first confrontation between King Yan and Timur, but it will definitely not be the last.
