My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 665: Marching into Central Asia
There are a series of mountain ranges in the northern part of Tianzhu, with the Himalayas in the east and the Hindu Kush and Sulaiman Mountains in the west. These three mountains are connected together and form a natural barrier in northern Tianzhu.

Logically speaking, with this natural barrier, Tianzhu should be very safe geographically. If you want to invade Tianzhu, the only way is to invade from the sea.

But maybe God was playing a joke on Tianzhu, and a huge mountain pass was opened on this natural barrier, which is the Khyber Pass on the Hindu Kush Mountains. It also became the site of the invasion of Tianzhu from Central Asia and West Asia. the only entrance.

Historically, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, etc. all invaded Tianzhu from the Khyber Pass. The name Hindu Kush, translated, means to attack Indians.

Foreign tribes continued to invade from the Khyber Pass, which also led to racial mixing in northern Tianzhu. The locals in Tianzhu were also accustomed to being conquered by outsiders.

The only one who did not take the unusual path was Zhu Gaoxu, the conqueror from the Ming Dynasty. He led a huge fleet to land at Shizi Port and Beizheng Port, and pushed across from south to north. Not only did he occupy the entire Tianzhu, he even sent all his troops to Pushed to the Khyber Pass and built a strong city at the pass.

Not long after Zhu Gaoxu proclaimed himself emperor, he led his army to the Khyber Pass to take control. If Zhu Di hadn't died suddenly, interrupting his plan to send troops, he might have reached the other side of the pass.

Opposite the Khyber Pass is the Timur Empire. Ever since the lame Timur died on the way to conquer the Ming Dynasty, the Timur Empire has been in decline.

The Delhi Sultanate that Zhu Gaoxu destroyed was originally just a governor of the Timur Empire. Later, when Timur died, it broke away from the control of the Timur Empire.

However, although the Timur Empire has weakened, it is still the overlord in Central Asia and West Asia. It has always looked down upon the small countries around it. In addition, the power struggle within the Timur Empire is very fierce, so naturally there is no energy to care about the empire. external things.

Therefore, some people in Timur's empire may have known about Zhu Gaoxu's invasion of Tianzhu and even established the Han Dynasty in Tianzhu and proclaimed himself emperor, but they did not care.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the people of Timur's empire for being careless. The main reason is that for thousands of years, Tianzhu has been invaded by others, and as long as Tianzhu is invaded, no matter how powerful the nation was in the past, it will soon fall. , eventually conquered by the next nation.

Therefore, the people of the Timur Empire never dreamed that someone would come out from Tianzhu, and they even did not deploy many troops on the other side of the Khyber Pass.

Zhu Gaoxu had already sent Jin Yiwei to find out the internal situation of the Timur Empire, so he was well prepared for sending troops this time. Not only did he kill the Khyber Pass in one fell swoop, he also captured the Peshawar area of ​​the Timur Empire, which was equivalent to He bit off a large piece of the eastern part of Timur's empire.

When Zhu Zhanhe received the news that Zhu Gaoxu was sending troops, he immediately rushed back to Xijing. While paying close attention to the movements of Zhu Gaoxu's army, he also supervised the logistics of grain and grass supplies so that Zhu Gaoxu would have no worries.

The current Sultan of the Timur Empire is named Shaharul. He is the fourth son of Timur. A few years ago, he took advantage of the opportunity to suppress the rebellion and suddenly sent troops to occupy the capital Samarkand and killed his nephew Pir. Ma Heima successfully seized the throne of Sultan.

Shaharul's ascension also means that after Timur's death, the chaos within the empire has temporarily come to an end. Although internal disputes continue, at least Timur's empire has temporarily restored unity on the surface.Shaharul was also a very accomplished sultan. In order to control the Persian area, he moved the capital to Herat in the northwest. In the past few years, he fought in the north and south, and almost unified all the original Timurid Empire. Territory, only the western part of Persia cannot be conquered yet.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly sent troops into the Timur Empire and captured the eastern Peshawar area. This was an important eastern town of the Timur Empire. Losing this place would affect the entire eastern part of the Timur Empire. of stability.

Therefore, when the news reached Herat, Shaharul was extremely angry and immediately ordered his eldest son Ulugh Beg to lead the army to the south.

Ulugh Beg has been guarding the area around Samarkand, which was the original capital of the Timurid Empire. There were many nobles in the city and the power was the most complex, so it needed to be heavily guarded.

But this time Shaharul was completely angered, so he not only used the troops in Samarkand, but also mobilized tens of thousands of surrounding troops to form a total of [-] troops, intending to drive Zhu Gaoxu back to Tianzhu in one fell swoop.

In fact, Shaharul was quite aggrieved. Compared to his father Timur, Shaharul had a very friendly attitude towards the Ming Dynasty. Even after he unified the Timur empire, he even sent several sons to follow the mission. He traveled thousands of miles as an envoy to the Ming Dynasty and met Zhu Di to express his friendship.

Zhu Di also sent an envoy to Herat to meet with Shaharul. The two sides gave each other many gifts, which was considered to have resolved the hatred of Timur's eastern expedition.

Therefore, although Shaharul had known for a long time that Zhu Di's son had occupied Tianzhu, he was not prepared because he felt that his relationship with Ming Dynasty was not bad, and Tianzhu was an undefended piece of fat that anyone could bite. One mouthful.

What Shaharu didn't expect was that even the fat piece of Tianzhu would bite him back. Zhu Gaoxu, the Han emperor, didn't pay attention to the friendship between the Ming Dynasty and the Timur Empire.

Of course, this also made Shaharul particularly angry, so he gave Ulugh Beg an order to teach Zhu Gaoxu a lesson no matter what. It would be best if he could reach Tianzhu and break through the capital of the Han Empire, so that Zhu Gaoxu would understand that in Outside the Ming Dynasty, the Timurid Empire was the real overlord.

So in this situation, Ulugh Beg led an army of one hundred thousand people and attacked Peshawar in a mighty manner.

After Zhu Gaoxu captured Peshawar, he did not expand further because he had limited troops. He only used [-] troops this time. After all, after the founding of the Han Dynasty, troops were needed all over the country, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't like to use natives. Therefore, there are naturally not many troops that can be used.

After taking Peshawar, Zhu Gaoxu also knew that he would definitely face a counterattack from the Timur Empire, so he prepared to fight the Timur Empire's army here in Peshawar. He did not have an advantage in terms of military strength, but at least he had a favorable geographical location. Advantage.

As long as Zhu Gaoxu can defeat the Timur Empire's army in this decisive battle, it will mean that he has officially established a foothold in Central Asia, and the power of the Han Empire has also extended to Central Asia.

(End of this chapter)