In the past two years, under the threat of the Manchurian moment, in order to keep the empire alive, the Persian emperor conscripted almost all the young men of the empire into the army, except for the 110,000 troops who were annihilated by the Kur fortress and Yazd, Isfahan also gathered the last 320,000 troops.

In order to defend Isfahan and keep the capital of the empire, the Persian emperor tried his best to let his most trusted general, General Abad, lead the 320,000 troops.

Abad has the same royal blood as the Persian emperor, and the Persian emperor grew up together, and even the Persian emperor was able to inherit the throne He also has a lot of credit, plus Abad is very good at patting the Persian emperor's ass, if you want to say that the entire Persian Empire, who the Persian emperor believes in the most, is undoubtedly this Abad.

It is precisely by relying on the trust of the Persian emperor that Abad has only led his troops into battle three times in the past ten years, exterminating three insignificant groups of mountain bandits, but he has been able to rise all the way to the position of general second only to the marshal.

Of course, although he did not become a marshal, Abad believed in his talents and considered himself invincible, and even under the influence of Abad, the Persian emperor believed in Abad's talents and believed that Abad was victorious in all battles.

But isn't it, you don't see that General Abad successfully exterminated the mountain bandits in three expeditions, at least in the eyes of the Persian emperor, Abad has never been defeated.

The old Marshal Kgreid was defeated, and Adan couldn't even hold the Kur Fortress for a day, these two were both famous generals of the Empire, but they were both defeated, and the Emperor of the Persian Empire now has no one to trust except Abad.

With the command of the Empire's 320,000 legions, Abad was unprecedentedly high-spirited.

"The Qing army is nothing more than that, I, Abbas, can beat them away with a wave of my hand!" Abbas stood on the head of Isfahancheng and said with a smile as he looked at the more than 250,000 Qing troops who were approaching the city.

"Yes, yes, General Abad is invincible, and he will surely be able to repel the enemy army and become a hero of the empire." There was a general next to him echoed.

This man is Abad's right-hand man, and he knows Abad's preferences very well, and he can say that Abad is like a proud rooster in one sentence.

Abad is comfortable, but those generals who really have some talent are on fire, not to increase the generals who are under the command of Kegrid, in their eyes, Abad is too far behind the old Marshal Kegrid, His Majesty asked this person to command the army in such a decisive battle related to the fate of the empire, which made them extremely disappointed and even more worried about the future fate of the empire.

"General Abad, I heard that the artillery of the Qing army is extremely powerful, and General Adan was almost killed by the shells of the Qing army when he was observing the situation of the Qing army at the head of the city!" An unhappy Persian general suddenly said in a non-yin and non-yang manner.

Abad's heart immediately chuckled, his heart trembled, although he was a little frightened, but he didn't show it at all, he quietly snorted, and immediately found an excuse to go down to the castle.

Abad's performance undoubtedly disappointed some of the Persian generals even more.

Outside the city of Isfahan, the big battle is imminent, and the Qing army is stepping up preparations, and once the preparations are completed, they will immediately wave their troops to attack the city.

A fast horse came to Dorgon.

"Regent, according to the internal report, the Persian army is divided into two parts, 220,000 are stationed in the city of Isfahan, and another 100,000 are stationed in the city of Red Sal, ten miles west of Isfahan!"

Dorgon nodded, not surprised.

Although Isfahan is the largest city in Persia and can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, it cannot accommodate the 320,000 army together, so the Persian emperor divided the 320,000 army into two parts, a part of the city of Isfahan, and a part of the city of Red Sal, which is only ten miles away from Isfahan.

The city of Red Sal was originally the acropolis of Isfahan, and the Persian army deployed in Red Sal could rush to Isfahan to participate in the battle in a time of a stick of incense, and Isfahan and Red Sal relied on each other to prevent the enemy from completely besieging Isfahan.

"Keep a close eye on the Persian army in Red Saar, and report it as soon as there is a situation!"

"Wow!"

"Newspaper"

"Regent, the cannon is ready!"

"Good! Order, the whole army to attack the city of Isfahan! Dorgon ordered.

As the order was transmitted, fifty-nine cannons were quickly reloaded.

"Fire!"

"Boom Boom"

The Qing army began to fire artillery on the city of Isfahan, and the decisive battle between the two armies began.

The cannonballs exploded at the head of Isfahan, and for a moment, the entire head of Isfahan seemed to be enveloped in a sea of fire, and shrapnel and blazing waves blew many of the Persian soldiers who were guarding the city head.

Inside the city, at the moment when the Qing artillery began to bombard, General Abad felt that his heart and liver were about to jump out.

"The enemy is starting to open fire, where are our artillery!" General Abad roared with a pale face.

"Yes General, our artillery is also ready, ready to listen to your orders!" A Persian general replied.

General Abad nodded in satisfaction.

"Fight back! Shoot back immediately and destroy the enemy's artillery! General Abad nodded and roared loudly.

After a while, the Persian cannons began to roar as well.

"Boom Boom" about seventy dozen cannons, twenty of which seem to be powerful redcoat cannons.

All of the more than 70 shells were aimed at the Qing artillery camp.

Although only 212 shells actually hit the artillery camp, they blew up three Qing artillery pieces on the spot, and killed and wounded more than 30 soldiers of the Qing artillery camp. Other shells that exploded elsewhere also killed and wounded dozens of Qing soldiers.

Dolgon's face changed, and he picked up the telescope in his hand and glanced through it, and found the location of the Persian cannon from the place where it was smoking.

The cannon of the Persians was built in the turret behind the wall of Isfahan, the turret was slightly next to the city wall, if you don't pay attention to it, you really can't see the muzzle, even if the enemy perceives where the cannon is, and wants to destroy it, it is much more difficult than placing it directly at the head of the city, which shows that the Persians still have a set of use of cannons.

Sensing the location of the Persian cannons, Dolgon's face was frosty, although it was inevitable that the Persians would have cannons to defend the city, but he still felt distressed that three of his cannons had been destroyed in the bombardment just now.

"Order, destroy the Persian cannons first!" Dolgon ordered with a grim face.

At present, the Qing Dynasty only has these sixty imitation Shenwu field cannons, and it is impossible to recreate them in a short period of time, destroying one less and one less, counting the one destroyed in the Kur Fortress, four have now been destroyed.

The Qing artillery battalion began to adjust the muzzle of the gun and bombard it with the turret that hid the Persian cannon.

"Boom, boom, boom" The two sides began a fierce artillery battle.

The Persian cannons consisted mainly of twenty red-coated cannons purchased from the Portuguese and fifty-six iron cannons of various types produced by the Persian Empire, among which the red-coated cannons were the most powerful and had the longest range.

Because in order to bombard Isfahan more conveniently, the Qing army set up the artillery camp position 600 meters away from the city of Isfahan, so that the Persians together with 20 red-coated cannons, there are more than 50 cannons to reach the firing range, in terms of quantity, the number of Persian cannons that can reach the firing range is not less than that of the Qing army cannons, and the Persian cannons are still under the protection of the turrets, which is even more difficult to destroy.

However, although the artillery of the Qing army did not have an advantage in geography and numbers, it had an advantage in power and rate of fire.

You must know that the cannons of the Qing army were originally stolen from the drawings to imitate the Shenwu field cannon of the Ming Dynasty, and the Shenwu field cannon of the great god was designed to go to the power and range of the red-clothed cannon, and after the imitation of the Qing army, although the technology is not as good as the original Shenwu field cannon of the Ming Dynasty, the weight is 200 catties heavier, but the power and range are not inferior at all.

It can be said that the Qing army's imitation of the Shenwu field cannon has both the power and range of the red-coated cannon, and the red-coated cannon does not have the advantage of the rate of fire.

The red-coated cannon needs sixty breaths to fire one shell, while the Qing army's cannon can fire one at the fastest of twenty breaths, three times the rate of fire, that is, three times the power of the number of red-coated cannons.

Counting the remaining 56 imitation Shenwu cannons of the Qing army, the destructive power is no less than 168 red-coated cannons.

In the face of the Persians, with only 20 red-coated cannons and more than 50 ordinary iron cannons, the Qing army still had an absolute advantage.

There is no doubt that the Qing artillery battalion quickly had the absolute upper hand in the artillery battle with the Persians, although there was turret protection, but in just half a column of incense, more than 20 Persian cannons had been destroyed, and the Qing army's cannons counted the three destroyed at the beginning, a total of only nine were destroyed.

The further the artillery battle progressed, the greater the advantage of the Qing artillery battalion.

"Boom, boom, boom" Qing artillery battalion soon had another round of shelling.

Two shells hit a Persian turret at the same time, collapsing the turret in an instant, the masonry flew out, and the three Persian cannons that were placed inside were buried, and the Persians lost three more cannons.

"How many more cannons do we have? Why hasn't the enemy's artillery been completely destroyed yet! General Abad's eyes twitched, his face turned pale, and he asked the people around him after witnessing his turret collapse again.

Several Persian generals watched each other, and after a while, some soldiers were ordered to investigate.

After a while, the investigating Persian soldiers returned and reported to General Abad: "General, we still have eighteen cannons left, the enemy, the situation of the enemy army is unknown!" ”

Unclear?

General Abad's lips trembled, what was going on, looking at the enemy's current firepower, it was hardly much weaker than at the beginning of the war, and it was obvious that not many cannons had been destroyed.

Also, from the beginning of the second and third rounds of artillery bombardment of the Qing army, General Abad was frightened, the rate of fire of the Qing army's artillery was too fast, almost only one round of salvo fire on their side, and the Qing army had already fired three rounds of salvos, and the power of the Qing army's artillery was obviously stronger than theirs, whether it was Abad or other Persian generals knew from then on that their artillery was definitely not the opponent of the Qing army.

A large group of Persian generals were silent, unable to predict how long their remaining eighteen cannons would last.

In the Persian Imperial Palace, the Persian emperor listened to the sound of dense artillery fire from the direction of the city wall, and he was also restless, and his heart trembled.

"Quick, go and ask Abad when you can repel the enemy!" The Emperor of Persia shouted at one of the guards.

The guard immediately ran out.

At the castle, Abad heard the inquiry from the Persian emperor from the guards, paused for a moment, immediately waved his hand, concealed the fear in his heart, and said unashamedly: "Soon, quickly, go back and tell Your Majesty that with my Abad, the enemy army will surely fail!" ”

The guard did not hesitate and immediately ran back to the Persian palace to report to the Persian emperor.

The Persian emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and praised: "With Abad, my empire is safe and secure, and the empire will not perish!" ”

After two years, the Persian emperor finally abolished the original queen and set up his favorite princess Rafia as the queen.

Thinking of Rufia's gentleness and charm, the Persian emperor's heart melted, and the fear in his heart seemed to be temporarily dispelled, and he acted immediately when he thought of it, and the Persian emperor left several worried ministers, lied that he was going to rest for a while, and walked in the direction of the harem.

Several worried ministers almost vomited blood in anger.

In the direction of the castle, the artillery battle came to an end, and when the Qing army still had thirty-nine cannons left, all the Persian cannons were destroyed.

Dorgon immediately ordered the muzzle of his guns to be aimed at the walls of Isfahan, and at the same time ordered 70,000 Persian infantry to begin the siege.

"Kill" 70,000 Persian infantry began to rush towards the city of Isfahan with a large number of ladders.

The Persian Empire lacked water, and did not like to build moats as much as the Ming Dynasty, so even an imperial capital like Isfahan did not have a moat, although it was built strongly, but the Qing Persian infantry could still carry the ladder directly to the city of Isfahan and start climbing the city wall.

At the same time, tens of thousands of Qing cavalry also rushed to the city of Isfahan, shooting round after round of arrows towards the city of Isfahan.

"Xiuxiu" arrows rained down and shells exploded. Rubble, fire, and blood covered the entire city of Isfahan, and the worst of the battles began.

The Qing artillery bombarded Isfahan, but did not disperse the forces too much, but concentrated as much as possible on a section of the wall, killing and wounding the Persian soldiers while trying to collapse that section of the wall as much as possible.

Although the artillery of the Qing army did not do its best to kill and injure the Persian soldiers because of the concentrated bombardment of a section of the city wall, but with the assistance of tens of thousands of cavalry under the city, the casualties were not much more than the Persian Empire soldiers defending the city.