Chapter 1051: The Battle of Isfahan (2)
Although there were Manchurian bloody warlords, forcing the Persian flag, Indian flag, Ottoman flag and other Qing soldiers to brave the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army to climb the city wall to resist the Ming army, but the Ming army's artillery fire was still too fierce, when the fear reached a certain level, even if they knew that the retreat would be killed by the Manchus who supervised the war, there would be people who could not control the retreat, and when there were many people who retreated together to a certain extent, the Manchus who supervised the war could not stop it.
"Boom!" A cannonball directly tore apart a Qing Indian flag general on the city wall.
The nearby Qing soldiers trembled with fear.
"Boom! Rumble! Two more shells exploded on the city wall not far away, killing several Qing soldiers.
Suddenly, the other Qing soldiers could no longer control the fear in their hearts, and fled under the city wall in groups, they could no longer stay on the wall like a bloody purgatory.
Watching the hordes of soldiers flee down, the people who oversaw the battle were full of anger.
"Go up, don't go back! No refund! Several Qing soldiers who fled to the front were killed, but there were less than ten Manchus who supervised the battle here, and many more Qing soldiers broke through the Manchu battle and successfully escaped into the city.
More people broke through despite the Manchu killing, and even one of the Manchus was kicked to the ground by the resisting soldiers.
Outside the city.
Ji Feng, who commanded the siege, suddenly saw the wall of Isfahan through the telescope, and suddenly there was no resistance, as if all the Qing soldiers on it had disappeared, and the opportunity could not be missed, Ji Feng waved his hand.
Immediately, a small group of Ming cavalry that had already been prepared rushed to the walls of Isfahan, each Ming cavalry carrying a bundle of explosives in his arms. After rushing to the city wall, the Ming soldiers jumped off their horses, piled up explosives under the city wall, lit the fuse, turned over their horses, and rode away.
Compared with using artillery to collapse the city wall, using explosives to blow it up is undoubtedly more time-saving and labor-saving.
If the Qing army still resisted on the city wall, then it would be almost impossible for the Ming army to smoothly pile up the explosives under the city wall, and could only honestly bombard with cannons and pile up expensive shells, but now, the Qing soldiers suddenly all escaped from the city wall, giving the Ming army a chance.
There was a loud bang of "boom---", and the walls of Isfahan were blown out of a gap no less than twenty meters wide.
"Attack!" Thousands of Ming soldiers armed with rifles, light machine guns, mortars, and heavy machine guns rushed into the city of Isfahan on foot through the gaps in the explosion, and began to clear the Qing army inside.
----As soon as a Ming soldier rushed into the city through the gap, he used his light machine gun to shoot at a group of Qing soldiers dozens of meters away, killing a large area.
This group of Qing soldiers were holding flint guns, and they were swept away by light machine guns, and they were so frightened that they turned around and fled back without even firing.
The 600,000 troops of the Qing army were stationed in the Isfahan defense line with Isfahan City as the core, and the most important battle area was Isfahan City.
However, like the previous two battles of Murkala and Yazd, most of the Qing troops were cold weapon armies, and the flint armies and rifle armies were only tens of thousands, even if the Isfahan defense line was more numerous because of Dolgon's personal command, but it was only 100,000, and it was almost impossible for Dolgon to consume a large number of Ming troops through such a defensive line.
The Qing army, which used cold weapons, faced the Ming army, and it was crushed at the first touch, and it did not play the slightest role in resisting.
The Qing army using flint guns hid in some building bunkers, but killed and injured some Ming troops, but unfortunately the reload of flint guns was too slow, and the range was insufficient, often at most one or two rounds of shooting, they would be annihilated by the Ming army.
More flint guns of the Qing army were routed after a single shot, and they were also unable to stop the Ming army's attack.
However, those Qing troops who used rifles could not only kill and injure the Ming army from a long distance, but also send grenades to the Ming army and kill some Ming troops.
"Boom! Rumble! "Two grenades exploded, knocking over five Ming soldiers who had approached.
----The Qing soldiers hiding in the building took the opportunity to shoot at the Ming soldiers with their rifles, killing several more Ming soldiers.
"Damn it, the mortar blew me up!" The commander of the Ming company was furious and ordered the use of mortars equipped with the company.
"Da da da---" The Ming army's light and heavy machine guns suppressed the Qing army fiercely.
Several mortars were brought up and aimed at the buildings and bunkers where the Qing army was hiding in front of them.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Several mortar shells were fired and exploded, and it was clearly visible that a large group of Qing soldiers were swept away by the blazing waves and shrapnel from the explosion.
"Kill!" The Ming soldiers took the opportunity to step forward with rifles and light machine guns to kill the remnants of the Qing army.
Although the Qing rifle army could rely on buildings and bunkers to cause some trouble to the Ming army's attack, it was only some trouble, and it was also impossible to stop the Ming army's attack.
In less than half a day, the Ming army advanced to the center of Isfahan, which means that more than half of the city of Isfahan was already controlled by the Ming army.
The further back they went, the more Ming troops entered the city, and the more fierce the offensive became.
On the other hand, the Qing army, the further back it went, the more people were defeated, and at this point, even the rifle army, the core force of the Qing army, was directly defeated when it encountered the slightest resistance of the Ming army.
And the defeated cold weapons Qing army is even more numerous, roughly estimated, no less than 200,000.
The Qing army began to rout towards the rear of Isfahan.
"Regent, the Ming army has already stood in most of Isfahan, and it will soon be able to capture the entire city of Isfahan!" A Qing general retreated from the city of Isfahan to the rear and reported to Dolgon, who commanded here.
Dolgon's face was not pretty.
Although the Isfahan defense line was established based on Isfahan City, there were still many defenses behind Isfahan City, and 600,000 Qing troops, although more than half of them were sent into Isfahan City and then were defeated by the Ming army, but the Qing army that really died in the hands of the Ming army was at most about 100,000, that is, in fact, there were still 500,000 Qing troops in Dolgon's hands that could be used.
However, Isfahan City was the strongest defense, and it was defeated so quickly, and the defense established on the basis of Isfahan City was far inferior to Isfahan City, and how could it withstand the attack of the Ming army.
Moreover, once the city of Isfahan was captured by the Ming army, it was not about how to continue to resist the Ming army, but how to keep the remaining army from withdrawing backwards, after all, the city of Isfahan was not the intended location for a decisive battle with the Ming army, and the city of Baghdad in the rear was.
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