Chapter 688: The Decisive Battle of Isfahan (2)

After a group of Qing cavalry finished shooting arrows, another group of Qing cavalry immediately rushed up and continued to shoot, and no one knows how many arrows Dolgon prepared for this war to destroy the Persian Empire.

Like an endless rain of arrows, covering the sky and the sun!

The dense number of arrows stuck everywhere on the city, coupled with the large number of corpses of hedgehogs at range, it was not easy to walk, and many Persian soldiers who obeyed the order to climb the city wall could not help but feel numb with fear when they saw this scene.

"Whew! Laugh at! Snort"

A Persian soldier who had just rushed up the stone steps to the top of the city was immediately shot by a rain of arrows and a hedgehog, becoming one of the countless corpses on the city.

There are also those who escaped the rain of arrows and successfully defended the city.

The same Persian soldier lifted a stone and just smashed a Qing Persian soldier who was climbing the city wall, but he was also shot by the Qing cavalry with a bow and arrow because he exposed his body.

The tragic battle continues, with soldiers on both sides killed and wounded at every turn.

"Boom, boom, boom" The artillery of the Qing army is still bombarding that section of the city wall, but the wall of Isfahan seems to be too strong, and it has been bombarded for an hour, and it has not been cut down much, and there are even few cracks, and I don't know when it will collapse.

Dolgon frowned, and summoned several generals to give him advice.

After a while, a cavalry of 10,000 men rushed towards Isfahan, and after coming to the edge of the city wall, they joined the ranks of archery at the head of Isfahan, which originally only had 10,000 cavalry archery, but now it has increased to 20,000, and the intensity of the arrow rain has doubled.

At this time, a group of Qing soldiers carried a large amount of gunpowder and shells from the artillery camp and rushed towards the walls of Isfahan.

Dorgon was thinking of blasting the walls open with a large amount of gunpowder and cannonballs.

Boxes of gunpowder and shells were at the foot of the walls of Isfahan.

Of course, the Qing army could not really blow up the walls of Isfahan smoothly, as an empire of hundreds of years, in such a decisive battle related to the survival of the empire, the Persians could not have been unprepared.

The density of the Qing army's arrow rain suddenly doubled, which immediately aroused the alarm of some Persian generals, and after a while, Persian soldiers from time to time braved the arrow rain to come out to investigate, even when they saw the movements of the Qing army.

No, just after seven or eight boxes of gunpowder and shells were piled up, Persian soldiers rushed to the place where the Qing army had stacked gunpowder and shells with water in the rain of arrows, intending to get wet with gunpowder and shells. Break the plans of the Qing army.

"Whew! Laugh at! In the process, many Persian soldiers were killed by the rain of arrows, and the water they were carrying also fell on the head of the city, but in the end, a few Persian soldiers managed to carry the water to the position and began to pour gunpowder under the city wall.

With a bang, two buckets of water came down and directly drenched several boxes of gunpowder and shells.

Dolgon's face darkened, and after a pause, he called several more generals to give orders.

Still, a group of Qing soldiers rushed towards the walls of Isfahan with gunpowder and cannonballs.

"Still not dead?" A Persian general got the report and sneered. The soldiers were immediately ordered to prepare the water, and as soon as the Qing army began to pile up, they rushed over and poured the water into the wet.

Estimating that the Qing soldiers might have been stacked, the Persian general immediately waved his hand, and the prepared Persian soldiers stiffened their heads and rushed out of the castle where they could hide from the rain of arrows, and rushed towards the place where the Qing army was facing gunpowder and cannonballs under the city.

However, before the Persian soldiers could carry the water, there was a loud bang, and the earth shook, and the walls of the city shook.

It turned out that the Qing soldiers followed Dorgon's order and ignited the gunpowder and shells before they were stacked in sufficient quantities, and the explosion just now was three boxes of gunpowder and four boxes of shells.

Although this amount was far from enough to blow up the walls of Isfahan, the simultaneous explosion of seven boxes of gunpowder and cannonballs still loosened this section of the bombed city walls.

The Persian soldiers at the head of the city were dumbfounded, and they didn't know whether they should continue to carry the water over, but unfortunately they soon had no chance, they were already braving the rain of arrows, and they were still there in a daze, and immediately a rain of arrows struck, and the sound of arrows penetrating **. Several Persian soldiers were shot like hedgehogs on the spot, and the two men in the city began to throw down their buckets and run back in fear.

The Qing army continued to make persistent efforts, and another group of Qing soldiers rushed towards the bombed section of the city wall with several boxes of gunpowder and artillery shells.

In any case, the explosion of cannonballs and gunpowder together is more powerful than the cannonballs exploding on the city wall one by one, and I believe that if this can happen seven or eight times, the walls of Isfahan will be blown down, no matter how strong they are.

Unexpectedly, the Qing army would do this, and the Persian generals commanded at the head of the city also looked gloomy.

Before he could hesitate, there was another loud bang, and the walls shook.

"What's going on! What happened! Such a huge movement also alarmed General Abad, who was hiding in a place in the city, and General Abad immediately shouted and asked.

"Back to General Abad, the enemy is blowing up the city walls!" A short time later, a Persian soldier reported.

"What! How can this be! General Abad's eyes immediately widened, his eyes full of fear, for fear that the Qing army would really blow up the city wall and rush in.

"Quick, let people stop it immediately, we must not let the enemy continue to bomb the city wall, otherwise we will all die!" General Abad shouted.

In fact, without the orders of General Abad, the Persian generals in command on the front line had already tried to stop it by all means, and many Persian soldiers were forced to carry water and rush towards the bombed section of the city wall in the rain of arrows.

On the side of the Qing army, in order to cooperate with the bombing of the city wall, all the cavalry of the Qing army also began to gather their strength and shoot arrows at that section of the city wall to be blown up.

In an instant, around the bombed section of the city wall, a new round of stalemate began between the two sides.

The arrows were even denser than the rain of arrows just now, like a downpour, and countless Persian soldiers who rushed into the rain of arrows were shot into hedgehogs, and the water they carried poured all over the city.

"Boom" was another violent explosion, which successfully detonated the Qing army again.

"Click!" This time, it was a fist-thick crack that directly exploded this section of the city wall, which was amazing, the Qing soldiers were excited, and the Persian soldiers were afraid.

Although a lot of gunpowder and shells were wasted, some results were finally seen, and Dolgon suppressed the blood in his heart and continued to blow up that section of the wall by the Ming soldiers.

Of course, even if it can really blow up that section of the city wall, it does not mean that the victory necessarily belongs to the Qing army, but it represents the start of the real decisive battle, and then it is the time for the two sides to fight to the death.