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Chapter 1326
The departure of the Ming army was a terrifying event for the entire Western Regions.

People don't need to know who the target of the Ming army's exit is, and they don't need to know where they will end up.

Just knowing the news that the [-] Ming troops had left the customs caused panic in the entire Western Region.

The nobles thought a lot, and the letter of help from Hami City was sent to Tubo, and the news quickly spread to the south of the Tianshan Mountains.

All the royal governors, Aqimu, made two-handed preparations. While preparing caravans and sending envoys to see what the Ming army wanted to do, they sent their leaders to a village to prepare for the battle.

Historically, once the Central Plains dynasty failed to rule the Western Regions, wars would break out frequently in this borderland land. On the one hand, the minerals, pastures, grasslands, and sufficient sunshine in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains made the nobles of the Western Regions want extravagance. The yellow sand in the desert also makes ordinary people impoverished to death.

The more difficult life is and the fewer means of earning a living, the more conflicts and struggles will arise.

Because there is no other way.

When the disaster strikes, the meat eaters have no other choice. The most simple and rude way is to divert the disaster to the east and start a war.

Everyone is happy if they win, even if they lose, the resources in the dead city-state are not the same, is it enough?

As long as you can survive, what are these cruel facts?

Although the governors of Yarkand were brothers of the same clan, the tradition of mutual suspicion and attacking each other was as old as their Mongolian blood.

For the Central Plains people, the Western Regions have always been a very dangerous place.

Look at how people conscript. The governor who lived in the city sent people from all walks of life to go to the village to count the Dingkou, and draw from three.

One for three dings, two for five dings, three for six dings, four for seven dings, and four or five dings for more than ten brothers.

Not to mention, the same is to draw strong men, and neither can be forced to do so, but this is wiser than that of the Republic of China.

The lottery in the Republic of China was a lottery. Some people mischievously drew lots, and all of them were single households with weak voice in the village. If they were drawn out, the households would be wiped out.

Don't miss the opportunity to recruit soldiers in Bali, Yili Bali, Selekur, Wahan and other places, but Tubo has no such opportunity.

The Western Region is vast and sparsely populated, and the villages and pastures are particularly scattered. The situation of both agriculture and animal husbandry determines that it is neither like the Central Plains Dynasty with the financial resources to use a large-scale standing army, nor is it like the Mongolian herdsmen who have a large-scale army with all the people.

It would take two or three months to gather people and horses to the main cities of various places and allocate weapons. Seeing that Hami Ma Heima was forced by the Ming army to ask for help from him, Tubo Ma Heima immediately ordered the nobles in the city to mobilize manpower and send people to him first. East to investigate the situation, gather elites to wait and see the situation.

Tubo Ma Heima's small calculations were pounding, and Hami had never been willing to submit to him. Because of mutual suspicion, even the business routes were blocked for a long time. Hami's robbing and killing was really because he had Daming's back, so he didn't dare to raise troops.

This time he never expected that Daming would send troops to attack Hami, so it goes without saying that even if he thought about it, he would know that Hami must be cold.

He is very clear about Hami's military strength, let alone Hami or his Tubo, even the entire Tianshan South Road is only more than 60 people, even if the Tianshan North Road is counted, there are more than 60 people, and it is only in the early million.

In a place as big as the Western Regions, 100 million people spilled out, rounding up equals no one.

Competing for combat effectiveness, Tubo and the entire Yarkand could not win against Ming's regular army. Here Tubo Ma Heima was thinking of the old Ming army, that is, Ming's garrisons in Liangzhou, Ganzhou and other places.

Therefore, Tubo Ma Heima was never prepared to confront the Ming army head-on. Although he had some muskets from the west in his hand, he could gather [-] strong soldiers in two or three months, and he could recruit [-] Oirats with some money. The Mongols worked for him, and together with many fire fighters, he could make up a thousand heavily armored cavalry infantry.

But war is an economic account, and even if his army fought against the main force of the [-] Ming army, it would probably be enough to fight for three days.

If you lose, you will be finished. Even if you win, the most casualties must be the strong soldiers. It is during the farming season that the soldiers will be lost, and there will be famine this winter.

If he can survive until next year, the Oirat Mongols who were employed by him earlier this time next year will go south to plunder Tubo, which has insufficient defense forces, and the brothers and uncles who are governors everywhere will not miss this opportunity.

In the Western Regions surrounded by wolves, no matter whether the battle is won or lost, he is the final loser.

For Tubo Ma Heima, facing Ming on this land, there is only one important factor that determines the outcome of the war—whether he can destroy Ming's grain road.

At the head of the Tubo city, horse black hemp wears heavy knee-length armor, and the armored heart mirror under the setting sun is reflected by the sunlight in the same color as the desert outside the oasis.

He looked towards the east with frowning frowns, holding the Mongolian-style helmet with the pennant in his arms, and raised his arms to give instructions to the noble firemen gathered around him.

The most elite troops of Tubo have assembled under the city. With the help of their servants, [-] veteran warriors who have experienced melee in the Western Regions put all kinds of armored armor and baked naan with water bags on the backs of camels, and gave them to the horses. Put on the strongest horse armor, waiting for the order of Tubo Khan to go out.

"Hu Chi'er, after I leave, you have to keep an eye on the fire fighters inside and outside the city. If anyone wants to make trouble, use your army to quickly annihilate them. This expedition will take at least half a year."

The Fireman named Hu Chi'er looked relaxed, because there was no chance of winning a head-on confrontation with the Ming army, and they didn't think it would be a big battle, but it would undoubtedly be very hard and costly.

How can following out of the city compare to staying in the city and being relaxed and happy?
As for why Daming, who had been silent in the Western Regions for a long time, suddenly went out of the fortress, it was not important to them.

Maybe it's the holy lion of the grassland, Alda Khan, who is old and dedicated to worshiping the Buddha, so that the Ming emperor can relax again?
No one here knows that I Da Khan is dead.

"The cowards in Hami have always used the Ming army as their backer. This time, the backer will probably scare him to death. It is said that [-] Ming troops have left the customs. I don't think there are that many. Ready to attack in the desert."

"If the Ming army comes, don't panic. Daming laborers are going on an expedition. Just stay there for a few days. I will attack their food roads. If they can't supply rations in three to five days, they will plunder them. If they can't supply in half a month, they will have to do nothing." Withdrew from the army."

Tubo Ma Heima looked into the distance, with strange expectations in his eyes: "It's best if Hami can last for another half a month. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty was never the master of the Western Regions. When they smash Hami, Hami will be mine and yours." of."

This is undoubtedly a very ambitious yearning, and under the current situation known to Tibet, it is indeed the most likely thing to happen.

As the voice of Tubo Ma Heima fell, all the fire fighters had strong expectations for the war in the east.

No one knew that in the mountainous valley leading to Luntai in their northwest direction, an elite army named Long Live was stationed by the salt lake for a short rest.

The long live flag in the mountains fluttered in the wind, and the soldiers who pulled out the Tubo outpost wiped the blood from the blade on the armor pad of the arm, and the long and narrow eyes under the eyebrows of Bo Zhou showed sharp eyes to the southeast valley.

　Good morning! Chapter 2 will be released at eight o'clock.

　　
　
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