Chapter 680: Chur Fortress

Dolgon abruptly broke the peace treaty and gathered a large army to attack the Persian Empire, moving too quickly. Although the Persian Empire had already taken precautions, it could not mobilize enough troops to meet the battle in a hurry, so it could only rely on the 80,000 troops in the Kur fortress at the forefront to defend the Kur fortress in order to buy more time for the empire to gather a large army.

Two years ago, due to the defeat of the city of Murkara, the Persian Empire lost almost all of its elite army, and nearly a quarter of the empire's territory was cut off by the Manchus, who announced the rebuilding of the Qing Empire in the captured city of Murkara.

Due to the establishment of the Qing Empire, the Manchus were like a sharp sword hanging over the head of the Persian Empire at all times.

Under the pressure of the Manchurians, and in order to regain the glory of the Persian Empire, in two years, the Persian Emperor developed his military strength as much as possible and recruited troops.

Don't look at the emperor of the Persian Empire who is only greedy for pleasure, but in the face of the fact that the Persian Empire may collapse at any time and his life is not guaranteed, the emperor of the Persian Empire is more crazy than anyone else.

After exhausting all methods, finally, with a population of more than 10 million, the Persian Empire desperately reorganized an astonishing 450,000 troops!

This is very terrifying, you know, the Persian Empire has only been defeated in recent years, losing more than 200,000 troops in the hands of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and two years ago in the city of Murkala lost nearly 200,000 troops in the hands of the Manchurians, and now it has formed an army of 450,000, which can be said to be the limit of the Persian Empire, so that because of the lack of youth and strength, the productivity of the Persian Empire has greatly declined, and the people are becoming poorer and poorer.

Although almost all of these 450,000 troops are recruits, and eighty percent of them have no armor, most of them have been trained for nearly a year, and they still have a certain combat effectiveness, at least much stronger than the rabble, and Dorgon has to be cautious.

The Persian Empire quickly assembled a large army in the imperial capital of Isfahan, and by this time, Dolgon and other Qing troops had already slaughtered under the Kur fortress.

The Kur fortress is not a city, but a fortress that guards the mountain pass that must pass through Yazd, surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the Persian Empire spent two years building three stone walls here, which is for three defenses, and a total of 80,000 Persian troops are stationed here, and there has always been only one purpose, to prevent the Qing army.

Under the Kur Fortress, the green dragon flag flutters.

The Manchu people advocate Han culture, even the text uses Chinese characters, and has always used the dragon as a totem, but the five-clawed golden dragon flag has been used by the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchu people use the five-clawed green dragon flag.

"Hmph, it's built quite sturdy!" Dolgon used the telescope he had captured from the Ming army to look at the walls of the Chur fortress from a distance.

The Persian Empire built the Kur fortress here with three stone walls, and Dolgon knew about it for a long time, and he never cared about it.

He has sixty imitation Shenwu field cannons in his hands, and the three stone walls can't stop it at all, and the Persian Empire is willing to spend a lot of manpower and material resources on it, and he can't wait for it.

On the first stone wall of the Kur Fortress, General Ahmadan, the commander of the Persian Empire who guarded the area, watched the Qing army here.

Amadan was the second most famous general in the Persian Empire after the hanged old Marshal Kgreid, and was the last pillar that could hold up the backbone of the Persian Empire. At the beginning, the old minister of the Persian Empire wanted to retire because Marshal Kgride was hanged, but before retiring, he strongly recommended General Amadan to guard the Kur fortress, which was also regarded as the last effort for the Persian Empire.

In view of the prestige of the old minister, the Persian emperor agreed.

Although General Madan's talent is far inferior to that of the old Marshal Kgreid, he knows the truth that he knows that he is invincible in a hundred battles.

For two years, General Amadan has been trying to understand all the situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the composition of the Qing army to the analysis of the combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers.

From the armor and clothing of the Qing soldiers, General Ah Ma Dan quickly analyzed the composition of the Qing army.

Sixty thousand full eight banners, 110,000 servant cavalry, and 100,000 Persians made up the infantry.

"I see that the Qing Empire is all here except for a small part of the necessary uh stay!" General Madan muttered, his heart a little tense.

"Damn, those people who were originally subjects of the Empire are now helping the heretics attack the Empire!" Seeing the 100,000 Persian infantry composed of the Qing army, General Ah Ma Dan couldn't help but scold.

He was so angry, the Manchus were a foreign race, and the Manchus had occupied Murkara and other places for only two years, but there were 100,000 original Persian young men willing to act as pawns of the Manchus, and Allah would not forgive them!

Although Dolgon converted to Halal, Amadan never recognized this, and still regarded Dolgon and all Manchus as heretics!

Because of his anger, one of General Madan's faces was distorted.

Outside the Kur Fortress, Dolgon didn't care about General Amadan's thoughts, even if he knew what General Amadan was thinking, he wouldn't care, he didn't want anyone to agree with him, just to give ordinary Persians an excuse to identify with them after being conquered.

But no, the 100,000 Persian flag infantry is the harvest.

Regardless of the other Persians, at least ordinary Persians in the Manchu-occupied areas such as Murkara identified with their Manchu identity.

"Is the cannon ready?" Dolgon's telescope stared straight at where General Amadan was, and his expression flashed with a sharp look.

"Back to the Regent, there are already twelve doors ready!" The generals of the Qing army and the Dragon Breaker Army soon came to report.

"Okay, fire in that direction for this king immediately!" Dolgon ordered, pointing to the place where General Amadan was.

While observing the Chur Fortress just now, Dolgon also put a certain amount of effort into finding the traces of the Persian commander of the Chur Fortress, and the hard work paid off, and General Adan was really watching from the stone wall.

The Shenwu field cannon is the first generation of cannons equipped with anti-recoil devices in the Ming Dynasty, using black powder, specially firing solid iron balls and ordinary flowering shells, and the accuracy is several points better than the siege weapon red-coated cannon of the year.

Of course, the Shenwu Field Cannon imitated by the Manchurians is a step worse than the original Shenwu Field Cannon of the Ming Dynasty, although the power is only a little weaker, but the accuracy cannot reach that high.

The possibility that Dorgon wanted to rely on the twelve imitation Shenmu field cannons that had been prepared to blow up the Persian commander of the Kur fortress, General Ahmadan, was actually not very likely, at most there was a more than one percent chance.

"Boom, boom, boom" The twelve cannons that the Dragon Breaker Army had prepared opened fire at the same time.

Shells exploded through the stone walls of the Kur fortress, and countless pieces of rubble flew into the air.

General Madan only felt a shock under his feet, a gravel slashed through the edge of his palm, only a small blood mark was cut, and a cannonball hit a dozen meters away from him.

Ah, General Madan was so frightened that cold sweat came out.

"General, the enemy's artillery is powerful, quickly avoid it!" Some other Persian generals were shocked and said to General Ahmadan.

General Adan nodded, did not dare to hold it up, and immediately went down to the stone wall to hide.

Outside the fortress of Kull, Dolgon watched as Amadan disappeared into the stone wall, and secretly said that he was sorry.

If there was a salvo of sixty cannons just now, the chance of killing Ah Ma Dan on the spot was at least fifty percent, but unfortunately they had a cannon thing, the Persians already knew, if all the cannons were prepared, Ah Ma Dan must have avoided it in advance, so just now the twelve cannons fired a salvo is only the only one chance just now.

Although he did not kill the Persian commander of the Chur Fortress, Amadan, on the spot, Dolgon did not care much, because in any case, he was completely sure that he would take the Chur Fortress quickly, and at most it would take more effort.

As the Qing army was about to complete its preparations, the battle clouds of the Kur fortress became denser and denser, and the battle was about to start in an instant.