Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Sapphire followed the strategy of the commander of the artillery battalion, which was to use artillery to suppress it, combined with conventional means of attacking the city.

However, a new problem soon appeared.

"By the way, can our artillery hit that high?"

"We won't hurt our own people during the battle, right?"

The two questions that Sapphire raised could not be solved directly by the commander of the artillery battalion.

Because no matter in the Ming Dynasty or during the attack on Beiyuan, they had never encountered this kind of problem.

There is no war within Ming Dynasty, they don't need to siege the city.Beiyuan does have needs, but Beiyuan has no city!
"This……"

"Is there any good way for General Lan?"

When Sapphire heard this, he immediately became angry.

"Damn it, I'm asking you now, but you're asking me back!"

The battalion commander said aggrievedly when he heard the words.

"I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do. I have only shot cannons on flat ground, and ordinary earthen buildings. I have never shot such a tall city!"

The siege battle fell into a stalemate for a while. Although Sapphire besieged Samarkand, he still couldn't think of a suitable way to attack the city.

If the city was attacked as usual, there would be heavy casualties. Let alone whether he could pass this level, at least Zhu Yunxie would definitely be happy.

But if there is no strong attack, Samarkand cannot be defeated at all with Daming's current firepower.

In any case, Samarkand is the capital of the Timur Empire. After decades of construction, the height and thickness of the city wall are the highest in the Western Regions.

Wanting to open a gap in such a city with artillery is tantamount to nonsense.

Although she knew she couldn't be attacked, Sapphire gave the order to attack after struggling for a day.

Fortunately, he always remembered Zhu Yunxi's order, and instead of using human lives to fill it, he ordered the artillery battalion to fire as much as possible towards Samarkand under the protection of his own soldiers.

After the artillery battalion commander adjusted the elevation angle to the maximum, he finally succeeded in firing the shells into the city.But the shells that hit the city wall all failed without exception, and only smashed a few layers of city bricks.

Lan Yu saw that the artillery battalion had been bombarded for a day, and she couldn't do anything about Samarkand. The scouts reported that there were reconnaissance cavalry dozens of miles away.

Therefore, after only one day of fighting, he ordered the artillery battalion to shut down, and called several veterans to renegotiate the method.

"The old man is out of control. I have never attacked a city in this life. If any of you have a way, why don't you tell me?"

Feng Sheng pretended to be dead when he heard this, he is not good at this.

Fu Youde has some experience in defending the city, and then reverse thinking, put forward a few constructive suggestions.

"How about we dig a tunnel, dig it from the ground..."

Sapphire shook her head upon hearing this.

"This trick won't work. The old man asked the local captives. They said that the city of Samarkand is very spacious. There are large tanks under the city wall to listen and dig tunnels. If we dig here, we will soon hear the movement there."

"At that time, throw some kerosene into the tunnel, or put some poisonous smoke or something, and our tunnel will be worthless!"

Hearing this, Fu Youde activated his brain cells again.

"How about we build engineering equipment, such as ladders, rush cars and so on?"

Sapphire pointed to the bare plain outside the barracks.

"Do you see any trees around here?"

"This……"

This time Fu Youde did not go the same way, imitating Feng Sheng's appearance and pretending to be dead.

Fu Youde stopped talking, and Li Jinglong and others contributed a few immature suggestions, which were rejected by Lan Yu one by one.

Just when Lan Yu was irritated and wanted to scold her, Chang Sheng rushed over and handed over the latest telegram.

"General, this is His Majesty's latest telegram!"

Sapphire scolded angrily when she heard the words.

"You fast-talking guy, don't forget to tell me about such a mess!"

Chang Sheng smiled awkwardly when he heard this.

"How can this be a whistleblower? This is to ask His Majesty for instructions to let His Majesty know the real-time movements of our army!"

Sapphire sighed secretly when she heard the words, then opened the telegram and read it.

However, as soon as he took a look, his eyes lit up.

"After all, it's our nephew, this brain is so easy to use!"

"There is a way!"

"Tell the little ones to get up and work for us, and we will go to Samarkand to drink in two days, hahaha!"

Fu Youde and others looked at the telegram in Lan Yu's hand in surprise.

"What did His Majesty say?"

Sapphire graciously threw the telegram to several people, and several people hurriedly stretched their necks to read it, only to see that there was only a short line of words on the telegram.

"The pile of earth forms a mountain, and the mountain and the city level. The artillery suppresses, and the soldiers attack the city!"

When several people saw the method Zhu Yunxi gave, they all applauded and praised.

"Your Majesty is indeed a genius, only His Majesty can come up with such a solution!"

"This is the simple report His Majesty heard from Chang Sheng. If His Majesty came to the battlefield in person, he might have thought of how to fight on the first day!"

Several people praised Zhu Yunxi for a while, and then went back to the camp to prepare for the mountain.

Building a mountain is a big project, but no matter how big the project is, it can't support the crowd.

With 40 people, even if each person has a basket of soil, a mountain of dirt can easily be piled up outside Samarkand.

It's just that the distance between the earth hills must be carefully grasped. If it is too close to Samarkand, it may be hit by the trebuchet in the city.

Fortunately, the range of the Daming Cannon is simply not comparable to that of the trebuchet, so they have a lot of room to play.

When Sapphire ordered the soldiers to pile up the mountain, Mishalan in Samarkand was looking at the city wall.When he saw that Lan Yu stopped attacking the city and ordered the soldiers to pick up soil instead, his expression changed drastically.

"It's over!"

"The city of Samarkand is over!"

"You take advantage of the fact that Daming is not in a hurry to attack the city, so hurry up and go out and tell your father that the city of Samarkand will be broken soon, let him think of a way!"

Several guards around Mishalan hurriedly tried to persuade him.

"Your Highness, Daming is just digging. What does it have to do with the siege? Why do you say our city is going to end?"

"Mishalan said angrily when he heard the words.

"Can't you even see this? The Ming army is going to pile up a mountain of earth as high as ours, and then pull the artillery to the mountain to hit us!"

"Their artillery can hit the ground far, and it can explode when it falls on the ground. It will explode our trebuchet!"

"As long as we let them pile up the mountain, we will lose this battle!"

The guard advised immediately after hearing the words.

"Your Highness, why don't we lead our troops to rush out to stop Damingduishan..."

Mishalan smiled helplessly upon hearing this.

"You guys are so naive..."

"If we really have the strength to fight against Da Ming, why are we hiding in the city?"

"Run with the main force, and I will live and die with Samarkand with the rest!"

What Mishalan said was very tragic, and he was ready to die for his country.

Because based on his knowledge, he was already powerless to stop Daming's siege.

Two days later, when Sapphire successfully piled up the mountain, before he could start attacking the city, the gate of Samarkand opened, and a hundred thousand cavalry rushed out from inside, rushing desperately towards the west.

Sapphire deliberately left a gap when besieging the city, with the idea of ​​besieging three and missing one.

After all, he is here to occupy the city, not to kill people.

Therefore, the [-] cavalry who escaped from Samarkand ran away with little resistance.

Sapphire didn't immediately attack the city after running away, but sent several letters to the defenders in the city, telling them that if they didn't surrender, they would attack the city!

The defenders in the city did not respond after receiving the letter, and Sapphire immediately ordered to attack the city.

When a hundred artillery pieces were fired, the city of Samarkand instantly became a sea of ​​flames.

The people ran and wailed helplessly in the streets, and the soldiers defending the city lost their fighting spirit and hid in the caves where they dared not come out.

After Sapphire fired several rounds of artillery, she immediately ordered people to climb up the city wall and open the city gate.

After a simple battle, the Ming army occupied the west gate and successfully put the Ming army into the city.

At this point, the capital of the Timurid Empire fell.

Mishalan sat on the throne in the palace, drank the bright red wine, and watched the dancing beauties left to her by her father.

He has done his best, and he is worthy of this empire.

But Daming is too strong, and it is no longer something that any country in this era can resist.

Now he only hopes that Daming can be more civilized, and don't massacre the city like Genghis Khan's army back then.

When Mishalan poured poison into the wine and was about to die for the country, a group of Ming soldiers broke into the palace.

When the dancing beauty saw the soldiers who broke in suddenly, she was frightened and fled in all directions.

Just when Mishalan thought that the soldiers of the Ming army would hunt down the beauties, and then do some beastly things in front of her, but unexpectedly, the soldiers of the Ming army just guarded the gate of the palace, and then ignored herself and the beauties in her palace .

This surprised Mishalan, which was not the same as what he understood.

After a while, some old men with gray beards came in leading some businessmen from the city.

One of the old men pointed at himself, and then ordered the merchants on the side to ask him in Persian.

"Who are you and why are you sitting on the throne in the palace?"

"I... I am Mishalan, the third son of Emperor Timur..."

"Prince!"

Lan Yu suddenly realized when he heard the words, and then said to the merchants beside him.

"You tell this prince, let him come forward to stabilize the people in the city, and tell the people in the city that our Ming army is the army of justice and never burns, kills or loots!"

"But our Ming soldiers came all the way, so we can't go back empty-handed, let him organize the wealthy people in the city, and prepare 300 million dinar gold coins for us!"

After Lanyu finished speaking, the businessman hurriedly translated it to Mishalan. Mishalan was quite surprised when he heard the first paragraph. He didn’t expect that the Ming army was so civilized. I want myself to take the initiative to offer my property.

But this is not bad, at least avoid a massacre.

"Mishalan is willing to help!"

Lan Yu and the others couldn't help laughing when they heard the merchants' translation.

"What did he just say, he said he was willing to help?"

"Hahaha!"

"Unexpectedly, the third prince of Timur is a wonderful person. Even if this kind of person is put in our Daming, he is a genius!"

"Chang Sheng, you send a few people to protect the third prince well, and make sure the third prince serves us well!"

"promise!"

The next thing was simple, Mishalan was invited into the barracks by Sapphire, and the palace was sealed by Sapphire, only allowed to enter but not to leave.

Just leave a small door to send in some food and water every day, so that the beauties inside will not starve to death.

He had fully learned the lessons of the early years, and he was afraid of leaving a bad impression on Zhu Yunxi, the new emperor.

After Sapphire captured Samarkand, she immediately sent a telegram to Zhu Yunxi to report the victory, and said very proudly that not only did she not touch Timur's woman, she also sealed up Timur's palace.

Zhu Yunxi read the telegram and smiled wryly.

"Ugh!"

"Our uncle has finally grown up!"

Yang Shiqi laughed on the spot when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, General Lan is in his 60s. If he hears this, he will probably be pissed off, hahaha!"

"It's okay, even if he dies of anger, I can revitalize him!"

"Send Lan Yu a commendation order, and make more good words to praise him!"

"My uncle has a good reputation!"

"After complimenting him, send a telegram in Ming Dynasty, replying to Duke Sapphire, and conferring on him Duke Liang!"

"promise!"

"Your Highness, since General Lan has captured Samarkand, you don't need to go to the Western Regions, do you?"

"After all, the Western Regions are thousands of miles away from Daming, I still suggest you stay in the capital..."

Zhu Yunxi showed a mysterious smile upon hearing this.

"go with!"

"Of course I have to go!"

"If I don't leave, can my clan relatives rebel with confidence?"

"what?"

Yang Shiqi realized instantly when he heard this.

"Wei Chen understands!"

"My minister is now ordering someone to prepare the guard of honor for His Majesty's trip. It must be loud and well-known!"

Zhu Yunxi nodded when he heard the words, and then began to immerse himself in the memorial.

Although he has left the capital now, political affairs have always been firmly in his hands.

Daming's capture of Samarkand was nothing new to the people of Ming Dynasty. After all, many people didn't even know where Samarkand was, let alone what significance this city had for Ming Dynasty.

But for the shock of the entire Western Regions, it was as if the sky had collapsed.

Golden Horde Khan Tutuo Milo is calling the princes and ministers of the Khan to discuss this matter.

"Everyone, the Ming Dynasty has captured Samarkand, what should we do for the Golden Horde, we must discuss a strategy today!"

Hugelut immediately stood up when he heard the words.

"Khan!"

"Wei Chen thinks we should quickly make an alliance with Timur and deal with Daming together!"

As soon as Hugelut said this, there was a voice of approval in the whole big tent.

The Golden Horde and the Timur Empire fought many times. After it was clear that they were not the opponents of the Timur Empire, two factions appeared within the Golden Horde.

One faction is the death-fight faction, and the other faction is the compromise faction.

Hugelut is a compromise faction, and he is also the kind of compromise faction that is closer to Timur.

However, Tutuo Lost was very unwilling, always wanted to restore the glory of his ancestors, and was unwilling to become Timur's vassal.

And from the bottom of his heart, he looked down on Timur, a pariah, and thought that he was not worthy of calling himself Timur, let alone bluffing and deceiving him in the name of his ancestor Genghis Khan.

Therefore, after Hugelut's proposal was approved by the majority of princes and ministers, Tutuo lost his face on the spot.

"Any other suggestions?"

As soon as Tutuo lost his words, there was a moment of silence in the big tent.

Just when Tuotuo lost his mind that his subordinates were all capitulators, a different voice suddenly came out.

"Khan, I think we have to fight Daming and Timur at the same time!"

Tutuo Lost's eyes lit up when he heard this, this was what he wanted to hear the most.

But before he could express his opinion, the compromise faction headed by Hugeroot collectively sprayed.

"Ugh, you bastard who doesn't understand, what nonsense are you talking about here!"

"Our Golden Horde has already made enemies on all sides, and domestic taxes and taxes have not been collected for a long time. Why do you want us to fight on both sides?"

The forehead should see so many people objecting, and immediately muttered unwillingly.

"Even if we can't beat it, we should show our attitude!"

"Furthermore, Timur is begging us to form an alliance now, not us begging him!"

"Since he formed an alliance sincerely, does he have to give us back the land he robbed us of!"

Tuo Tuo Mi Lost laughed happily on the spot when he heard these words, these words really touched his heart.

"Ben Khan thinks that the forehead is right!"

"It is possible to form an alliance, but the occupied territories must be returned, otherwise the matter of forming an alliance is out of the question!"