The news of the rout of the first line of defense, the Murkara Line, reached Dolgon's ears, and Dolgon's face was suddenly full of anger. Net?

"The 400,000 army was defeated, and nearly 200,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, in exchange for less than 3,000 casualties of the Ming army. Dorgon said angrily.

At the same time, Dolgon was even more shocked by the strength of the Ming army, there is no doubt that the current Ming army is much stronger than the Ming army ten or twenty years ago, which is completely beyond his estimate.

He was sure that if he hadn't deployed a rear route so that the army could retreat quickly once it was defeated, all the 400,000 troops on the Murkala Line would have been annihilated by the Ming army!

The losses were too great, and the Ming army killed and wounded was too small to be proportionate.

Dolgon originally planned to gradually consume the living strength of the Ming army through the defense of a series of fortified cities and dangerous places, and when the Ming army was exhausted, he would have a final decisive battle with the Ming army to defeat the Ming army.

Theoretically, the attacking side will always lose and will have to break through the defense with greater casualties.

The so-called strategic depth, in fact, the main role is to wear down the enemy with defense along the way, as Dorgon did, until the enemy can no longer withstand the attrition and finally defeat the enemy.

The territory of more than 14 million square kilometers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, stretching for tens of thousands of miles from east to west, is undoubtedly deep enough in strategic depth, according to Dorgon's vision, he deployed a number of large defenses, the Ming army attacked all the way, can support until the final decisive battle is not yet known, the possibility of victory of the Qing Dynasty is much greater than the possibility of the Ming Dynasty destroying the Qing Dynasty.

Dolgon had overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Ming army as much as possible, however, the combat effectiveness shown by the Ming army was still far beyond his estimate, and the strong defense line garrisoned by the 400,000 troops in Murkara City was broken in just one day under the attack of the Ming army, and he was no longer sure whether the subsequent defense lines could still play a role in depleting the Ming army.

And if he can't consume a large number of Ming troops, but his own casualties are huge, then what is the use of so many large-scale defenses he deploys?

Thinking of this, Dolgon's face was almost blackened by the pressure in his heart.

After breaking through the Murkala Line, the Ming army continued to attack in multiple ways, penetrating deep into Persian territory, and constantly capturing towns along the way.

Although the Qing army focused on guarding several large defense lines, each town was more or less garrisoned by some Qing soldiers, in fact, Dolgon was not too many, as long as each small town could kill and injure dozens or hundreds of Ming soldiers, he would be satisfied.

Unfortunately, Dolgon's wish could not have been fulfilled.

"Boom ---boom boom" Ming army firepower is strong, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, thousands of mortars and thousands of field artillery, this is how powerful firepower, those towns garrisoned by Qing rifle soldiers may be able to kill and injure several Ming soldiers, those towns garrisoned by pure cold weapons soldiers, almost before the arrival of the Ming army, they abandoned the city in fear and fled.

"Kill ---" The soldiers of the Ming army changed into war horses, rode horses and galloped, chasing and killing the Qing army that abandoned the city and fled.

"Smack! Syllable! -----"After the cavalry of the Ming army caught up with the Qing army, they immediately opened fire, constantly killing the Qing army within the firing range, like chasing ducks, chasing and driving the Qing army deeper and deeper into the hinterland of Persia, in just six or seven days, and killed and injured more than 100,000 Qing army cold weapon army, and thousands of Qing army rifle army, flint army, etc., on the other hand, the Ming army, casualties are less than or even 1,000 people, and the casualty ratio is also extremely different.

The Ming army was devastated, and with extreme speed, approached the last major defense line in front of Isfahan, the Yazd Line.

Yazd was close to Isfahan, and although Dolgon only garrisoned 300,000 Qing troops here, he was supported by more Qing troops from Isfahan, and his theoretical defensive capability was not inferior to that of Murkala City.

However, in the face of the extremely powerful firepower of the Ming army, Yazd was not much better than Murkara, and in less than a day, the Yazd defense line collapsed, plus the subsequent losses of being chased by the Ming cavalry, it is initially estimated that the loss of the Qing army is definitely not less than 100,000.

The Ming army was like a bamboo, and with an incomparably strong momentum, it chased Yazd's rout and killed directly under the city of Isfahan.

"Rubbish! It's all useless waste! Dorgon roared angrily.

The two major lines of defense and hundreds of thousands of troops have never killed or injured more than 10,000 Ming troops, is the Ming army really strong to this extent?

Dolgon's face was ugly, and what made him even more gloomy was the unscrupulousness of the Ming army. After the Ming army captured Yazd, it was still divided into multiple routes, chasing and killing Yazd's rout, while also wantonly capturing the surrounding towns, sometimes, the Ming army only one or two thousand people dared to attack a city very close to Isfahan, and was not afraid that the Qing Dynasty in Isfahan would ride out of the city to surround and annihilate them, as if he did not put the Qing army's more than 600,000 troops in Isfahan in his eyes at all, how could Dolgon not be so angry that he wanted to go crazy.

"We must not let the Ming army continue to be so unscrupulous, otherwise before the final decisive battle, the Qing Dynasty will collapse first, and we must annihilate a Ming army at all costs and defeat the arrogance of the Ming army!" Dorgon gritted his teeth, making up his mind.

He had just received news that a 7,000-strong Ming cavalry was attacking a county town thirty miles east of Isfahan, and taking advantage of the dispersion of the main force of the Ming army, he planned to send an elite Qing army to quickly annihilate the Ming army that was unscrupulously approaching Isfahan's attack, and to boost the morale of hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in the Isfahan defense line with a victory.

Immediately, Dolgon ordered Ao Bai to command a 40,000-strong cavalry of the Eight Banners to ride out of the Isfahan defense line, pounce on the Ming army of 7,000 men thirty miles away, and annihilate the 7,000-strong Ming army that dared to advance with nearly six times the absolute superiority of the force, before the main force of the Ming army could react.

"Boom Boom -----" Ao Bai took the lead, and behind him were 40,000 full eight banner iron horses.

Different from the scimitar bows and arrows of the Eight Banners in the past, this cavalry of the Eight Banners has an imitation rifle, a scimitar inserted in the side of the horse, and even two imitation grenades are hung on the waist, and the equipment has been changed by half, but it is still wearing the excellent armor necessary for the elite of cold weapons, which looks a little nondescript!

"The Ming army is rampant! Give them a bloody lesson this time! "Ao Bai is wearing armor, holding the reins in one hand, holding an imitation rifle in the other, and two grenades are also hanging on his waist, the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty at that time, now he has thrown away the bow and arrow, picked up the rifle, and there is still a trace of bravery, worthy of being the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty, one of Dorgon's right-hand men!

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