Chapter 561: The Battle of the Manchus and the Persian Empire (4)
Today's update, both chapters are 5,000 words!
"Boom Boom"
The shelling on the city of Murkala never stopped, and after killing too many soldiers, no Persian army dared to assemble in one place on a large scale, at most a small army formation of more than 100 people, no more than 300 people, but it was still attacked by a few shells from time to time.
The soldiers of the Persian Empire, who were scattered everywhere and unable to form various effective offensive and defensive formations, could not stop the Eight Banners and their servant armies in all directions, and were killed and wounded heavily.
Since the war, due to being caught off guard from the beginning, and even almost collapsed twice, coupled with the non-stop bombardment of the powerful artillery fire of the Manchurians, the 170,000 army of the Persian Empire has lost at least nearly 40,000 troops, and its strength has been greatly reduced, while the relative Dolgon's side has only lost more than 10,000 iron cavalry, and its strength still exists.
A battlefield where two white flags are at war.
Hassan led 10,000 cavalry of the Persian Empire to fight extremely hard here, and he never dreamed that the enemy's cavalry would be so powerful. They are the most elite 10,000 cavalry troops in the empire, and they also unite the 3,000 heavy armor soldiers who are also the pride of the empire, if they deal with the Ottoman Empire in the past, they can at least deal with the Ottoman army that is more than three times their own number, but here, the opponent's white armored cavalry is only more than 10,000 people, but they are constantly defeated, and nearly half of the casualties are killed.
Hassan felt that this was a dream, a joke played by Allah on him.
When Hassan received the order of Marshal Kegreid, he subconsciously looked at the city of Murkara, where was there not the earth-shattering sound of cannonballs, and the powerful cannonballs flew out from there to kill and injure the imperial army, so that the imperial ** team could not effectively form various military formations, so that the soldiers would have such heavy casualties.
"Order all the remaining knights to withdraw from the battle immediately!" Hassan did not hesitate to obey the orders of Marshal Kgreid, and he also realized how much of a threat the enemy artillery fire on the head of the city of Murkala posed to the army, which artillery was there, and it was too difficult for the empire to win, so it was necessary to destroy, not only destroy the artillery, but also take the opportunity to take the city of Murkala first.
The remaining less than 6,000 Persian cavalry gradually broke away from the engagement with the two white flags and was replaced by other Persian infantry drawn from it.
Witnessing the reversal of this, Dorgon did not order the two white flags to bite each other to death, but allowed the remaining Persian cavalry to withdraw.
"Regent Khan, the Persian cavalry is running away!" A man of men shouted to Dorgon with an anxious look on his face.
"Let them run, this king has already laid a plan waiting for them to die, and there is no need to pay attention to them." Dolgon smiled inscrutablely, and personally ordered to stop some of the Eight Banners soldiers who wanted to pursue them.
The Manchurian general knew at once that Dolgon was very talented, so since Dolgon had said that he had another plan, they would not doubt it.
"Order, the whole army continues to attack the other Persian armies!" Suddenly Dolgon gave an order with a solemn face.
"Wow!" The Manchu generals took some heralds to various places to convey Dolgon's orders.
"Boom!" A cannonball exploded in the midst of a group of Persian heavy armor men gathered in about a few dozen men.
"Ah" Several Persian heavy armored soldiers were directly lifted into the sky by the powerful power of the cannonball, and after the sky rolled around, the bloody corpses were turned down.
A small heavy armor formation of dozens of Persian heavy armor soldiers was blown up in an instant.
"Kill!" A group of Manchurians with two white flags took the opportunity to rush in and slash the dozens of scattered Persian heavy armor soldiers.
"Whew!" A Manchurian cavalryman shoots an arrow feather, poof! thud into the neck of a Persian heavy armoured soldier, who fell to the ground and died.
"Whew!" A Persian heavy armor soldier was slashed by a Manchu cavalryman and fell to the ground and rolled and screamed, and then was trampled by another Manchu horse, and was trampled to death by the iron hooves of the war horse.
There were also some Persian heavy armor soldiers who were unable to form a military formation, resulting in enemies on all sides, exhausted, and already out of breath, but unfortunately they could not rest, and if they were not prepared, they might be killed by feathered arrows flying from nowhere.
Persian heavy armor soldiers, everyone wears heavy armor, strong defense, this is the elite of the elite of the Persian army, with the heavy armor army formation they compose, can tear apart any enemy formation, the enemy army is divided alive.
However, at this moment, in the face of the absolutely fierce artillery threat of the Manchurians, this group of Persian heavy armor soldiers could only be forced to disperse against the enemy because they could not form a military formation, so that the heavy armor on their original strong defense became a burden to them, making them tired and slow, but they were killed and injured by the Manchurians in large numbers.
At this moment, most of the Persian heavy armor soldiers with 3,000 people have been killed and wounded, and there are only more than 500 people left, and they are already at the end of their strong crossbows, and their physical strength is about to be unable to carry the heavy armor on their bodies, and it is likely that they will be completely annihilated in the next moment!
Approaching the west direction of the Murkala city gate, the Persian cavalry commander with nearly 6,000 cavalry under his command consciously came to this distance of less than 200 meters from the Murkala city gate, and the iron cavalry could rush into the city gate with a charge.
"Warriors of the Empire, for the sake of Allah, for the sake of the Empire, rush into the city of Murkara!" The commander of the Persian Empire, Hassan, roared and rode his horse to the gate of Murkara, intending to lead his Persian cavalry to rush into Murkala while the enemy army was unresponsive, and then destroy the enemy artillery in the city.
"Rush!" Nearly 6,000 Persian cavalry followed Hassan, all of them rushing towards the gates of Murkala.
Head of the city of Murkara.
"Haha, the little cubs are here!" The city's Manchurian Commander Zihar laughed, and then made a gesture.
Immediately, a man ran to the side facing the city and waved the flag.
In the city, more than 1,300 dragon breakers armed with flintlock pistols and another 5,000 cavalry all set up ambushes according to the original plan.
When Hassan, the commander of the cavalry of the Persian Empire, was the first to rush into the city of Murkara with almost no resistance, his face couldn't help but be overjoyed, and the recapture of the city of Murkala was at this moment!
"Kill!"
The horses were very fast, and in order to prevent the Manchus outside the city from finding out that they were rushing into Murkara and coming to stop them, the Persian cavalry was almost desperate to squeeze into the city quickly, so that in a short period of time, nearly 6,000 Persian cavalry had completely rushed into the city.
In order to prevent the Manchu cavalry from following into the city, the last dozen or so Persian Imperial cavalry also killed the war horse they sat on with their own hands, and blocked the city gate with the horse corpse, with the more than a dozen Persian cavalry who lost the war horse accumulated two horse corpses to the highest place, the horse corpses of more than ten war horses accumulated a total of nearly half a zhang high, which could temporarily prevent the Manchu cavalry outside the city from rushing into the city.
"Oh, the Persians are self-defeating!" Inside the city, Zihar witnessed this scene and couldn't help but be happy, if they couldn't completely annihilate these Persian cavalry, they would be sorry for this scene.
Hassan also sensed that something was wrong at this time, they had been rushing into the city for a while, why had they still not met resistance, didn't there still be five thousand cavalry of the enemy army in the city of Murkara.
Don't think about it, in any case, the main thing is to destroy the cannons set up by the enemy army on the head of the city first.
Unfortunately, before Hassan could give the order, a strange enemy force of more than 200 people suddenly appeared on the avenue in front of them, blocking their way dozens of meters in front of them.
"Hey, the enemy still has a musket team!" As soon as he saw the flintlock muskets in the hands of the more than 200 enemy troops, Hassan recognized them as muskets, and in fact, the Persian Empire had also formed a musket team of several thousand men, but unfortunately it was annihilated by the Ottoman Turkish army in the Battle of Baghdad a few years earlier.
For muskets, Hassan was not afraid. The power of the musket is not too slow, and the fire rope needs to ignite the gunpowder before it can be fired, which greatly limits the combat effectiveness of the musket team, and the more than 200 enemy musket teams in front of them have not even lit the fire rope, and dare to appear in a place only a few tens of meters away in front of them.
Although he was dismissive, Hassan obviously did not want to entangle with the musket team in front of him, but should immediately turn around and attack the city wall, and the main thing was to rush up the wall and destroy the enemy artillery.
"Turn around, attack," Hassan shouted and was about to give the order, when more than 200 Manchurian Dragon Breaker soldiers in front of him hooked the trigger of the flintlock pistol in their hands and fired.
"Bang Bang Bang" The first row of Dragonbreaker musketeers opened fire in unison.
More than 100 buckshot shot away, causing seven or eight of the leading Persian cavalrymen to fall from their horses, and even Hassan, who was a little behind, was swept by a lead bullet grazing his left arm, and one of the Persian cavalrymen in front of him just now had already fallen from his horse.
The main road leading from the city gate into the city was more than ten meters wide, but the more than 200 Manchurian Dragon Breakers were divided into five columns, which was completely able to block the front road of the main road and block the main road between the city gate and this place.
Since the founding of the army, the soldiers of the Manchurian Dragon Breaking Army have absorbed the paper shell bullet loading method of the Ming Ying Dragon Army, and the loading speed has been greatly accelerated, and the five rows of the Dragon Breaking Army are completely able to shoot continuously at an interval of only two breaths.
"Bang Bang Bang"
A large number of Persian cavalry were beaten into plugs, fell from their horses and fell to the ground, and even Hassan, because there was no obstacle in front of him, faced the lead bullets of the Man-Breaking Dragon Army, and was also hit by two bullets, staring at the eyes in disbelief and bleeding from his mouth, and fell off his horse.
"Commander!" Some Persian soldiers yelled and jumped off their horses, intending to rescue Hassan, but unfortunately the Persian soldiers were killed in an instant by the lead bullets of the Manchurian Dragon Breaker who greeted them.
"Attack forward!" After killing all the Persians in range, the 200-odd Manchurian Dragon Breaker soldiers began to attack slowly along the main road.
At the same time as the gunfire rang out here, there were also two teams of more than 100 people in the direction of the city gate, and the Manchurians of the Broken Dragon Army attacked the city gate from the left and right directions, and soon the Persians guarding the city gate were shot, and the same more than 200 Manchu Broken Dragon Army firmly controlled the city gate, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the Persian cavalry on the main road in the city and fired fiercely.
"Kill!"
In the alleys or intersections on both sides of the main road, a large number of Manchu and Three Khanate servant soldiers rushed out, one by one guarding the alleys or intersections with bows and arrows, and also began to shoot arrows at the Persian cavalry on the main road.
"Bang Bang Bang" Some large intersections rushed out of the Manchurian Dragon Breaker soldiers armed with flintlock pistols, and also fired fiercely at the Persian cavalry on the main road.
There were attacks on all sides, the front road was blocked, the back road was blocked, and the commander was killed, nearly 6,000 Persian cavalry suffered heavy casualties in an instant, and the army was defeated.
Some Persian cavalry planned to flee from the main road, but unfortunately the intersections and alleys on both sides of the main road were full of enemy troops, and they could not break through for a while.
"Attack forward!" The two roads in the direction of the city gate and the front of the main road began to attack and advance slowly, flanking the Persian cavalry who were blocked on the main road.
"Bang Bang Bang" flintlock pistols fired incessantly, firing dead lead bullets one after another.
This set of methods for using muskets that was forced to steal from Daming by the Ming Yinglong Army back then is also applicable here.
At this moment, the Persian cavalry on the main road was simply the target of the Manchurian Dragon Breaker Army that was flanking the front and rear, and they were constantly shot and killed with little resistance ability. Not only did the Manchurian Dragon Breaker Army attack at both ends, but a large number of arrows from various alleys and intersections also killed a large number of Persian cavalry, and more and more Persian cavalry died.
Outside the city.
The moment they heard the gunfire in the city, the two white flags, led by Dolgon, no longer paid attention to the remaining Persian heavy armor soldiers at the end of the crossbow, but began to launch the most fierce assault on the Persian infantry in an all-out way.
"Attack the Persian foot soldiers on all fronts!"
"Kill"
Without the containment of the Persian cavalry and Persian heavy armor, all the Iron Cavalry of the Eight Banners and the Iron Cavalry of the Servant Army began to launch the fiercest attack on the scattered Persian infantry without any scruples.
Because the battlefield was so chaotic, the enemy and the enemy were all in disarray, and there were no more hordes of Persian troops, and the bombardment of the city of Murkala finally stopped.
However, despite the threat of artillery fire, it was no longer possible for the Persian army to effectively assemble into a military formation.
Many of the Persian infantry, who were alone and alone, faced a battlefield with enemy horses galloping on all sides, which was fatal to them, and a large number of Persian soldiers were killed by the horses.
Some of the Persian soldiers were decapitated by the galloping iron horsemen, blood sprayed from their necks into the sky, and the fallen corpses were trampled into meat sauce by the iron horses.
The entire battlefield became a meat grinder for the Persian infantry, bloody and tragic, full of despair.
The sound of gunfire inside the city was heard outside the city, and even the commander of the Persian army, Kgreid, who was two kilometers away from Murkala, could hear it clearly.
Kegreid's old eyes were round, the enemy army even hid a musket team, and they stayed in the city specifically to set up an ambush in the city, and the cavalry of the empire was finished! The big war
Kgridd staggered back two steps with a dead face, and if it hadn't been for the guards beside him to hold him up, he might have fallen to the ground.
Kegrid suddenly covered his chest with a flushed face, and forbearance for a moment before forcibly holding back the old blood that had reached his throat without spurting out, but the old thing was choked and temporarily speechless.
Inside the city, the Persian cavalry, who had lost their commander, were soon wounded and wounded, and they were in disarray, but they could not break out of the main road.
Faced with a desperate path in all directions, full of arrows and lead bullets that could kill them in the next moment, they could not continue to resist in fear.
When more than half of the Persian cavalry were killed and wounded, and only more than 2,000 people remained, the Persian soldiers had completely lost their morale and fighting spirit, and fear and despair filled their hearts.
There are one and two, and more and more Persian cavalry are doing this.
"Stop attacking!" Zihar ordered the entire front to stop the attack.
With the cessation of attacks from all sides, all remaining Persian cavalry surrendered, and the battle in the city of Murkala ended, with all the remaining 2,000 Persian cavalry captured.
"Take care of the captives, and the Iron Cavalry will follow me out of the city to participate in the battle outside the city!" After Zihar ordered more than 1,300 dragon-breaking troops to take care of the Persian captives, he planned to take the remaining nearly 5,000 iron horsemen out of the city to participate in the battle.
More than a dozen horse carcasses blocked at the city gates were quickly dragged away.
"Kill!"
"Boom" Jihar took the five thousand cavalry in the city out of the city to participate in the battle.
The Persian army, which was already a general rout, pressured Zou Zeng and began to retreat continuously, and was about to evolve into a rout.
When it was reported that another 5,000 enemy cavalry had left the city to join the battle outside the city, Greid knew that the nearly 6,000 Imperial cavalry that had stormed the city of Murkala must have been wiped out.
The army of the Empire is really going to be defeated, and there is nothing left to save!
"Poof!"
At this time, Kegrid finally couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of old blood, and his body fell backwards.
"Marshal!"
"Marshal Kgrid"
The commander vomited blood and fainted, and before the news could spread, the Persian army on the battlefield could no longer withstand the huge casualties and the fierce attack of more than 80,000 Iron Cavalry of the Eight Banners and the Iron Cavalry of the Servant Army, and collapsed.
The Persian army was defeated, the anger that the soldiers had accumulated in their hearts because of Allah was replaced by fear, their morale and fighting spirit were destroyed, and fleeing from this battlefield became the only thing they wanted.
"Kill"
Dolgon took advantage of the situation and led the iron cavalry in a frenzied pursuit, and the already defeated Persian army was routed faster, and everyone rushed to flee for their lives.
The defeated Persian infantry had only one end, and was pursued by Dolgon and other iron cavalry.
The pursuit lasted a whole day, and Dolgon led his iron cavalry for more than 200 miles, and except for a very few Persian soldiers who hid, the rest of the Persian soldiers were either annihilated or surrendered to the Manchurians.
The Manchu victory completely consolidated the occupation of the city of Murkara, an important city of the Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire was defeated, losing the last remaining elite army of the Persian Empire since its defeat in the Battle of Baghdad with the Ottoman Turks.