"What! 40,000 Iron Cavalry besieged 7,000 Ming troops, but they were all defeated? Dolgon's eyes widened in disbelief, his hands trembling with rage, and he stared at Aobai.

He ordered Ao Bai to lead the 40,000 Eight Banners out of the city to attack the 7,000 Ming army of Shah Ruzhen, because he was confident that the 40,000 Eight Banners would be able to quickly annihilate the 7,000 Ming army before the main force of the Ming army reacted, raise the morale of the Qing Dynasty, and better hold Isfahan.

However, he never thought that the 40,000 Eight Banners would be defeated by the 7,000 Ming Army!

Not only was it defeated, but it also lost 10,000, and the Ming army killed and wounded was no more than 1,000, which is the most shocking!

How could it be! The performance of the mighty Eight Banners could not be like this!

The Eight Banners took the initiative to attack, besieged with nearly six times the number of troops, and there was a disparity in casualty ratio of ten to one, which should not be the performance of the Eight Banners, so how could Dolgon, who had high hopes for the Eight Banners, accept it.

"Damn it, the minion has the trust of the regent!" Ao Bai knelt down in front of Dolgon with blank eyes, full of decadence, in the end, he was old, he was injured and defeated, and he no longer had the prestige shown by the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty.

"Damn! Right! You really deserve to die! Boom! With a furious kick, Dorgon kicked out the kneeling Aobai in front of him.

Ao Bai snorted, hurt and injured!

In the end, Dolgon still didn't kill Aobai, even if he was extremely angry, but the Qing Dynasty needed generals to lead the troops to resist the attack of the Ming army, so Aobai couldn't die now.

40,000 full of eight banners went out of the city to attack Shah Ruzhen's 7,000 Ming army, but suffered a crushing defeat, which greatly affected the morale of the Qing army, and Dolgon's heart was under more pressure, and he had to tighten his defense again, no matter what, the Ming army could not capture Isfahan so easily.

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Outside the city of Isfahan, the 440,000 troops of the Ming army all arrived, and the black pressure was dense, and some Qing soldiers on the city wall of Isfahan were a little pale.

Huang Xuan reported to Zhu Cizhen about the battle of Shah Luzhen.

"Forty thousand full eight banners are so defeated?" Hearing such a result, Zhu Ci couldn't help but be surprised.

You know, the Manchurian Eight Banners ravaged the Central Plains back then, how fierce, if the Manchurian Eight Banners still used cold weapons, such a Warring States Zhu Ci would definitely not be the slightest surprised, but the Manchurian Eight Banners are already equipped with rifles, although it is an imitation of the first generation of Daming rifles, even the performance of the first generation of Daming rifles is not as good, but in the end it is a rifle, according to the fierceness of the Manchu Eight Banners who are not afraid of death, it should not be such a performance, and the most unfortunate can control the casualty ratio at about one to three, not a full one to ten.

As Huang Xuan told the story of the battle, Zhu Ci was suddenly relieved, no longer a little surprised, but felt that it was a matter of course.

It turns out that even if the Manbaqi takes the imitation rifle, the combat method is still the same as the previous cold weapon charge, wasting the powerful power of the rifle in vain.

After all, the Eight Banners could not change their habit of defeating the enemy army by fierce charges, and they did not know that after the rifles and machine guns came out, the cavalry could only be used for mobile marching, and could no longer be used for battlefield charges.

"Since the Battle of the Northern Expedition that year, the Manchurian Eight Banners have fallen, and they are completely behind the times, at least in front of the Ming Dynasty, they no longer have the slightest prestige at all, only the same as the ordinary army!" Zhu Ci said with a mocking smile, and at the same time, his tone was also full of confidence in the Ming army, and he no longer had the slightest fear of the Manchurian Eight Banners.

In this battle of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has no reason to be invincible, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty will surely perish!

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"Fire!" On August 12, the Ming army officially began the battle of Isfahan.

----In the face of the seemingly solid Isfahan defense line defended by 600,000 Qing troops, the Ming army was not in a hurry at all, and as in the previous two major battles, it methodically carried out artillery bombardment, blew up the city wall, and then attacked the city.

When the Ming army came to the city of Isfahan, there were still 2,200 field cannons, and more than 7,000 mortars, of course, mortars did not participate in the bombardment of the city walls and the city, and the role of mortars was mainly when attacking the city.

However, the bombardment of 2,200 field artillery pieces had also been fiercely formed, and the city of Isfahan was in flames, a large number of Qing soldiers were killed, and buildings were blown into ruins.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The artillery of the Qing army is also returning fire.

The Qing army cannon with a new type of high gunpowder and a primer is not small, although the accuracy and range are worse than the Ming army cannon, but in the end there is still some power to fight back.

The shells fired by the Qing artillery exploded in the Ming artillery camp position, overturning some Ming artillery and killing some Ming soldiers.

Of course, what followed them was a larger-scale retaliation by the Ming artillery.

The overwhelming shells struck, turning the place where the Qing army's artillery was located into a sea of fire.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty obtained the new high gunpowder technology and primer technology a few years ago, it also built a number of new cannons, and it was these new cannons that could have a certain strength to fight back under the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army, but the number of new cannons of the Qing army was too small, and they were all destroyed by the Ming cannons after a while.

The remaining backward imitation Shenwu cannons, just a short time later, were also completely destroyed.

Without the containment of the Qing artillery, the Ming artillery began to concentrate its fire on the city walls of Isfahan, and every shell blew up a lot of bricks and stones, and even blew up one or two Qing soldiers.

A part of the Ming army rushed to a place about 100 meters away from the city wall, set up light and heavy machine guns or used rifles to shoot at the Qing soldiers on the city wall, and in order to prevent the Ming army from directly blowing up the city wall with explosives, the Qing army had to resist on the city wall under the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army.

"Da Da Da ---" heavy machine guns spat tongues of fire, and two Qing soldiers on the city wall were hit and fell off the city wall.

On the city wall, the Qing soldiers also shot arrows at the Ming army, or returned fire with rifles and flints, and from time to time they could also kill one or two Ming soldiers, but compared to their own casualties, the number of Ming soldiers killed was simply not worth mentioning.

The artillery fire of the Ming army was too fierce, like a sea of purgatory fire, as more and more Qing soldiers were killed, some timid Qing soldiers were trembling with their legs, their faces were extremely pale, and they did not have the courage to climb the city wall that was bombarded the most fiercely.

"Hurry up, if you don't fight, you won't be forgiven!" A Manchurian who supervised the battle slashed and killed two Qing soldiers who did not dare to climb the city wall, forcing the rest of the Qing soldiers to climb the city wall and hold on.

The battle for Isfahan began to reach its heights.

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