Rule over Ming Dynasty

European countries surrendered, and the glory of the Ming Empire shone across the world.

In the blink of an eye, another five years have passed, and now it is the 27th year of Hongzhi in the World Calendar!
While the Ming Dynasty was fully committed to economic development in recent years, the prairie showed a different look, with a bloody atmosphere filling the sky.

On the vast Mongolian grassland, a group of Mongolian cavalry swept in like a black storm. The sound of their horses' hooves was like thunder, shaking every inch of the land.

From east to west, from grassland to Gobi, from spring to winter, the only thing that remains unchanged is this bloodthirsty cavalry, and this cavalry is invincible.

On this day, another war broke out without any warning.

"kill!"

When this cavalry faced the enemy troops in front of the earthen city, their charge speed did not slow down at all, like a sharp arrow piercing straight into the army formation in the center.

The sky over the grassland is as blue as a mirror, and the sun shines on this golden land, but it can hardly dispel the shadow of war that has already arrived.

puff!puff!puff!
As the sharp knife flashed, blood splattered, and corpses fell from the horses, quickly dyeing the green grass red.

boom! boom! boom!
This war presented the charm of technology. A well-trained flintlock cavalry joined the battlefield. They fired precise shots, causing the enemy to fall off their horses before they could get close.

"how come?"

When a general saw the flintlock appear, he knew they had lost.

puff!
Babur was about to lead the charge and tear the invaders to pieces, but as soon as he raised his scimitar, a bloody hole appeared on his raised arm, and he fell heavily from his horse.

Without waiting for Babur's men to rescue him, a nimble figure rode up to Babur like lightning.

"Babur, I am the Great Khan of Mongolia. Will you surrender or die?" Zhu Houxuan, wearing a black armor and holding a long sword pointing at Babur, had a firm and cold expression on his face.

This young man is simply a younger version of Zhu Youtang. As he has lived on the prairie for many years, his skin is dark, but his body is stronger.

In fact, he was not strong in the prairie, but he was born with supernatural strength. He also had a very flexible mind and was taught by Zhang Sheng, the former Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, so he was also good at strategy.

At the end of the ninth year of Hongzhi, Concubine Bei brought the prince Zhu Houxuan back to her parents' home to visit relatives, but fell into Manduhai's trap. Zhu Houxuan was detained on the Mongolian steppes and became the heir of the Golden Family.

After all, Zhu Houxuan has half the blood of the Golden Family. He has shown great fighting talent and military ability since he was a child. With the full cultivation of Mandu Hai, he has become an outstanding leader.

Because the Ming Dynasty had occupied the Hetao granary, the Beishun Kingdom had been controlled by the Ming Empire for many years, so Manduhai decided to recover the four shattered Khanates.

Those who are familiar with history know that in addition to the Yuan Dynasty emperors inheriting the title and legacy of Genghis Khan's direct descendant Mongol Khan, Genghis Khan actually also established four relatively independent countries, namely the Four Khanates: the Golden Horde, the Chagatai Khanate, the Ögedei Khanate, and the Ilkhanate.

Zhu Houxuan led the most elite cavalry of the Northern Yuan Dynasty on a westward expedition, with the goal of targeting the four khanates. The first to surrender was the Chagatai Khanate, more correctly called the Eastern Chagatai.

The Chagatai Khanate was originally the fief of Chagatai, the second son of Genghis Khan. However, after years of evolution, it eventually split into Eastern Chagatai and Western Chagatai.

Next came the conquest of the former territory of the Golden Horde, where the situation was even worse.

This was the fief of Batu, the second son of Genghis Khan's eldest son Jochi, with Sarai as its capital. Due to various conflicts between ethnic groups and within the ruling class, the Golden Horde was split into several local regimes.

At the end of the 14th century, these separatist local regimes were defeated by the Timurid Khanate in Central Asia, and their capital Sarai was occupied.

Today, the Golden Horde is no longer known and has split into several regimes: the Kazakh Khanate, the Kazan Khanate, the Crimean Khanate, the Astrakhan Khanate, the Siberian Khanate, the Nogai Khanate, etc.

Zhu Houxuan retook the city of Sarai in the name of the Great Khan of Mongolia, and also made the surrounding forces surrender one after another.

The place we are setting foot on now belongs to the Ilkhanate, named after its ruler "Ilkhan". It is a regime established in West Asia by Hulagu, the grandson of Genghis Khan Temujin and the son of Tolui.

At its peak, its territory stretched from the Amu Darya and Indus Rivers in the east to most of Asia Minor in the west, from the Persian Gulf in the south to the Caucasus Mountains in the north.

In 1355, Janibeg Khan of the Golden Horde conquered Tabriz, and the Ilkhanate was completely destroyed, with only some descendants scattered around.

Babur was the sixth-generation grandson of the Ilkhan. After being driven out of the river, he seized Kabul and established a small kingdom ten years ago. After the plan to retake the river failed, he used Kabul as a base to invade India from the Khyber Pass.

However, his strength was still a little weak. Although he was facing the Lodhi Dynasty which had lost the support of the people, he invaded India three times and returned unsuccessfully three times.

Just when he was preparing to invade India for the fourth time, he was met by the now powerful Mongolian pseudo-Khan. He never expected that he would be defeated by the enemy.

"Babur, surrender or die!" Zhu Houxuan's eyes were as sharp as an eagle, as if he would tear the other party to pieces in the next moment.

Babur felt an unprecedented fear, and even more so, he could faintly sense the supreme arrogance of Yuan Taizu from the other party: "Your Majesty, Babur, pays homage to the Khan!"

Uh...

As soon as these words were spoken, the Mongolian cavalry behind him immediately issued an overwhelming cry of victory.

When Babur's subordinates saw that their Khan had recognized Zhu Houxuan's status as the Great Khan of Mongolia, they immediately realized that not only could they no longer fight this war, but they would also have to accept the other side as their king. They dismounted from their horses and knelt down.

In fact, they also wanted a new overlord to emerge in Mongolia, to lead them to restore the glory of the Yuan Dynasty and lead them to conquer the world.

"I am the Great Khan of Mongolia, and I will lead you to restore the power of gold!" Zhu Houxuan let the golden sunlight fall on his body, raised the long sword in his hand and shouted loudly.

"Sweat! Sweat!"

Both Zhu Houxuan's subordinates and Babur's army immediately expressed their submission and supported their new king.

With Zhu Houxuan's entry into Kabul, Babur's five expeditions to India came to an end, and Zhu Houxuan led his cavalry to invade India for the first time.

Autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Hongzhi.

A mighty cavalry force came from the northeast and entered India through the Khyber Pass.

The Khyber Pass is the largest and most important mountain pass in the Hindu Kush Mountains. It passes through the Khyber Mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the eastern pass is 16 kilometers away from Peshawar, Pakistan.

Without this mountain pass, Indian civilization would probably have to be rewritten.

Zhu Houxuan, wearing armor, led a cavalry unit, winding through the valleys like a giant dragon, with dust flying on the mountain roads and drums rumbling. "Great Khan, aren't we going west to unify the old territories of the four Khanates? Why do we have to come to India? Taizu originally wanted to conquer here, but the weather here is too hot, and we Mongols can't stand it!" Amuguleng, riding a black horse, said in confusion.

Zhu Houxuan, who had swept the world all the way, had a hint of loneliness in his eyes, and said in a low mood: "Just do it!"

"Yes, sir!" Amuguleng was afraid of angering Zhu Houxuan, so he immediately expressed his opinion very obediently.

Although the head coach of the invasion of India was changed this time, the Lodhi dynasty also responded.

The Lodi dynasty was unaware that Babur had surrendered to his new master. They only thought that Babur had borrowed some soldiers from elsewhere. However, after experiencing the first three battles, they realized the threat posed by Babur.

That's right, they mobilized the strongest army to stop the enemy, but the commander Kafur was confident that he had defeated Babur three times, so he scoffed at Babur's invasion.

The moment Zhu Houxuan stepped onto the battlefield, it seemed as if his entire being had changed, like an indestructible spear.

As the clarion call of war finally sounded, the army of the Lodi Dynasty surged in like a tide, and the phalanx armored troops rampaged on the battlefield, appearing unstoppable.

boom!
Twenty tiger squat cannons have been placed in the battle formation. As the gunners lit the fuse, one gunpowder shell after another flew into the air and then fell into the enemy's armored formation.

Boom!

A gunpowder shell fell into the armored formation. The shock wave generated by the explosion instantly swept everything around. The soldiers in armor were unable to defend against this shock wave at all. Blood splattered everywhere and the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder.

The armored army that was unstoppable just now has now lost all its momentum.

After the shells fell into the formation and exploded, some unlucky armored soldiers were directly killed or injured, while other frightened armored soldiers fled the battlefield.

"How could this happen?" The Lodi Dynasty's chief coach, Kaful, was dumbfounded when he saw that his main force troops were fleeing everywhere after just one encounter.

"kill!"

Zhu Houxuan's eyes were as sharp as an eagle's, and he immediately led the cavalry to charge forward.

The Mongolian cavalry enjoyed this kind of killing very much. They galloped on the battlefield and shuttled through the enemy's formation like lightning.

The flashes of flintlock muskets flickered on the battlefield, and every shot was accompanied by the fall of an enemy soldier, while their arrows or knives also continued to reap lives.

A killing game seems to have begun...

The ace army of the Lodi Dynasty had been defeated, and the miscellaneous mercenaries behind them had little combat power. Now, under the flexible attack of the Ming cavalry, they gradually fell into chaos and were scrambling to flee the battlefield.

Zhu Houxuan rode a war horse, holding a long sword, and rushed to the front.

Each of his charges was unstoppable. His bravery and courage also inspired the Mongolian knights behind him, as well as the Babur tribe who had just surrendered. They fought bravely together and never retreated.

However, war is always full of variables.

Rumble…

The Lodi Dynasty showed their ultimate killer move, a group of war elephants were sent into the battlefield, and the entire battlefield was shaken.

Thousands of huge war elephants were like moving mountains, their footsteps were like thunder, shaking everyone's heart. The rough elephant skin became their natural armor.

"Stop the elephants and don't let them attack our central army!" Zhu Houxuan felt nervous and gave orders immediately.

If they cannot stop the charge of the elephants in time, not only will their army suffer heavy losses, but the entire battle situation will also fall into a passive position.

At this critical moment, Zhu Houxuan demonstrated his outstanding command ability.

As he quickly gave the order, the cavalry troops in front were divided into two teams, one team was responsible for confronting the elephant herd head-on, and the other team was responsible for harassing the herd from the side.

boom! boom! boom!
The cavalry in the front were holding flintlock rifles and shooting at the elephants' eyeballs, trying to disrupt the oncoming elephant herd to the greatest extent possible.

cough! cough! cough!
The Mongolian cavalry on the side drew their bows and drew their arrows, but their targets were not the thick-skinned war elephants, but the elephant cavalry on top of the war elephants.

Moo!
Under the attack of flintlock rifles, especially after their eyeballs were blown out, the war elephants in the front row no longer rushed forward, and even their huge bodies fell down with a loud bang.

The leading elephant fell, not only losing its charging effect, but its huge body also affected the progress of the elephants behind.

The elephant soldiers in the rear saw that the road ahead was blocked, and immediately gave orders for the war elephants to go around from the side.

At this time, the ingenuity of Zhu Houxuan's deployment was reflected. The cavalry on the side shot arrows and killed the elephant cavalry, causing these war elephants to lose their "brain" command.

Finally, under the wise command of Zhu Houxuan, the Mongolian cavalry successfully disrupted the charge rhythm of the elephant herd, especially the fire and attacks of the flintlock rifles caused great panic to the elephant herd.

Boom!

Just at this moment, the artillery unit had arrived, and twenty tiger squat guns fired shells towards the elephant herd, and then explosions occurred one after another in the elephant herd.

Although only a small half of the thousands of elephants fell, the war elephants had already regained their wildness and no longer obeyed the orders of the elephant cavalry. They even threw the elephant cavalry down and trampled them into meat paste.

When the elephants rioted, they caused even greater casualties to the Lodi army, and even their commander Kafur was killed by the elephants. "We surrender!"

The Indians responsible for defending the city did not have much combat power, and they had long been resentful of the oppression of the Lodhi dynasty, a group of foreigners, so they decisively chose to surrender.

When Ibrahim Lodi, the king of the Lodi Dynasty, learned of the defeat, he wanted to escape immediately, but was soon betrayed by his subordinates and then sent to Zhu Houxuan to receive the reward.

With the defeat of the Lodi army, King Ibrahim Lodi was killed, and the Lodi dynasty, which had only been established for seventy years, came to an end.

In the next half month, Zhu Houxuan personally led the army to recover the land here, as if he wanted to incorporate the whole of India into his territory.

Since the Lodi Dynasty had been destroyed, the process went very smoothly until they crossed the Kosi River and prepared to move eastward. As a result, a huge steel object appeared in front of them, and then there was a thunderous sound. (End of this chapter)