1370-1400 (Timur, Who?)

"I held off Timur at Balkh. Balkh is in ruins, but I defeated Abu Sufyan."
- Amir Husayn

Battle of Balkh
Amir Husayn finds himself betrayed and besieged by Timur, but he is not going to give up. Husayn's army stays in the city, only leaving occasionally to burn siege towers and conduct supply raids. Also, Timur's men begin to have their grievances with him. He is showing to be a cruel leader, and his claim to be of linage of Chingghis Khan is dubious at best. The assaults are less enthusiastic as the fight goes on, with the city holding out for three months before one of Timur's men assassinates him, and the siege is abandoned.

Ottomans on the Rise
In Maritsa, a small Ottoman army of 800 slaughters thousands of Serbian imperial troops during a night raid. Thousands of Serbs were killed from drowning when they tried to flee in the Maritsa river. Serbia collapsed, and the Ottomans expanded and raided further into Serbia. The Ottomans continued raiding Serbia and Bulgaira, and convinced the Bulgarian Tsar Shishman to become a vassal of the Ottomans.