Thinking of this, Li Hongji made a decision in his heart, and said to Timur Khan Jr.: "It seems that we are going to take it by attacking like Genghis Khan the Great, but I found from this parchment scroll that Genghis Khan the Great seems to have entered Bukhara on the other side, and we must enter from the south side." Therefore, I decided to ask little Timur Khan to take your soldiers to hold the city of Samarkand, and Li Guo to bring Liu Fangliang 25,000 men and materials to support Liu Zongmin and them, and also to bring artillery, Liu Zongmin and they only brought mortars, that thing is too powerful, the range is a little short, it is not easy to suppress the Persian artillery. ”

Then Li Hongji said: "Tian Jianxiu and I will lead 10,000 elite soldiers to go straight to Bukhara along the mountain path on the south side, try to find a suitable route, and then think of a surprise attack, the agreed time is twenty days, if we can't find the road, we will return, and then go to Navoi to rendezvous, and fight a protracted battle with the Persians." However, it is now necessary for Timur Khan Jr. to find me some local guides, so as not to wander around, which would be a big joke to wipe out the whole army. ”

Li Hongji said that it was a joke, but none of these people dared to take it as a joke, this is more than 10,000 people and there is a commander of a small military region, the commander wants to go on an adventure in person, and others are not easy to stop, little Timur Khan was so moved that he immediately promised that he would find the best guide.

Little Timur Khan will definitely find the best guide, Bukharakha has been here for more than a year, and there are a large number of adventurous merchants in his caravan, as well as many hunters, and he knows the nearby terrain well, so Little Timur Khan selected a dozen of the strongest men from them and gave them to Li Hongji.

Li Guo led people to Navoi to support Liu Zongmin, and Li Hongji took about 10,000 elite soldiers and some horses to the south along the path at the foot of the mountain. Under the guidance of the guide, it took three days to pass through the hilly area southwest of Samarkand, and then to the swampy area, looking at the green grass all over the ground and a puddle of muddy water, Li Hongji asked everyone to connect with each other with their bodies, so as not to accidentally fall into it and lose their lives.

It's good that a few people know the path here, under their leadership, Li Hongji's 10,000 people carefully walked through this not too big swamp area, only a few unlucky people fell into the swamp, but they were still pulled out by everyone, although some materials were lost, but there was no loss of personnel, which was a blessing in misfortune.

When he walked to the edge of the desert, Li Hongji finally breathed a sigh of relief, the clear water he carried was enough to drink for a few days, and the water in the swamp was absolutely undrinkable, this was what Zhu Youxiao clearly told everyone, and now he could finally march quickly. Li Hongji roughly confirmed the direction, and then followed the edge until the northwest.

When he walked to the ground for seven days, he finally found a small town, but now the town was in chaos, and the crying was loud, and the soldiers who went out to reconnoiter reported that there were a large number of soldiers robbing the village in front, Li Hongji felt that it should not be too far from the Persians, and ordered the soldiers to continue to reconnoitre, to see how many people there were, what the terrain was nearby, whether there was any possibility of ambush, or if there were too many enemies, whether we had a chance to escape.

Half an hour later, the scout reported that it was just a group of about 5,000 Persian soldiers, it seemed that the equipment and soldiers were very elite, but I don't know why it appeared here, and there was a small river in the west of the town, which was now in a state of abundant water, and it was not a big problem to float over. There is also the fact that these Persian soldiers have finished burning and looting in the town, and it seems that they are enjoying lunch, which is a bit of a mess.

Li Hongji immediately ordered a small general to lead a thousand soldiers to quietly cross the river from the side, and then build fortifications to prepare to block the back road, while he himself led the soldiers to slowly touch the town, with the aim of completely annihilating this group of Persian soldiers and seeing what this group of men and horses was trying to do.

After another half an hour's effort, the soldiers who rushed back to report told Li Hongji that preparations had been made on the other side of the river. Li Hongji ordered the soldiers to surround the town from three sides, and then launch an attack after setting up a hand-cranked machine gun at the entrance of the village, so the soldiers began to quietly surround the three sides of the town, leaving the west side for them to escape.

The battle soon began, and Li Hongji led his soldiers to attack from the east of the town, blocking them with some hand-cranked machine guns on the north and south. The Persian soldiers who were sleeping, enjoying women, and eating could not have imagined that they would be attacked at this time, and for a moment they were in chaos, and the officers could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the officers. Li Hongji told the soldiers not to attack too fast, so as not to cause casualties, and just drive them out of the town.

The panicked Persian soldiers really followed Li Hongji's train of thought, rushed to both sides, met the interception of the machine gun, and were beaten in two, so frightened that they hurriedly rushed west, intending to cross the river and flee for their lives. When these Persian soldiers rushed out of the village, and there were less than 3,000 people left, Li Hongji ordered the soldiers to chase after them from behind, and the femme fatale soldiers desperately rushed to the small boats by the river and prepared to cross the river.

Most of the Persian soldiers did not grab the boat, some began to float directly, and some tried to resist, but in the face of Li Hongji's absolutely powerful force, the final result was to be killed. Those who got on the boat thought they had escaped, but in fact they turned out to be even more unlucky, the boat was smashed by a machine gun, and then waited on the water to be called by a rifle.

After interrogating the few prisoners left behind, it became clear that Abbas I had the same method as Li Hongji, which was also an attempt to cut off the back route of the Ming army in the small town of Navoi, and then cause a lack of supplies, and finally form a rout. But this is also a coincidence, it just so happened that their robbery of the town was discovered by Li Hongji's soldiers, and it became such a result.

Leaving a few captives to lead the way, Li Hongji was not afraid of their deception, and after a day he rushed to the south side of Bukhara City, where there was a small river, just passing through Bukhara City, Li Hongji asked the soldiers to pour all the kerosene used for cooking into the river and then ignited it, and the fire went down the river into Bukhara City, and for a time the whole city was in chaos, and no one could understand why the water of the small river caught fire on its own. Li Hongji took advantage of the chaos in the city and led his soldiers to kill him.

The location of the Persian barracks and the location of the officers of the garrison were naturally asked long ago, and before they could rush out, * it fell on their heads, and soon these soldiers were dispersed, and in less than an hour, Li Hongji's troops occupied the city of Bukhara, cleaned up the battlefield, and cleared the remnants of the enemy, and these tasks naturally did not need Li Hongji to worry about.

Li Hongji checked the seizures of this operation, the food is enough for 10,000 people to eat for a year, there is naturally not much gold and silver treasures, and these are all looted in the city of Bukhara, as for the muskets, Li Hongji naturally will not look at them, but those * are still somewhat useful. After packing up these things, he immediately ordered the soldiers to build fortifications and prepare to meet Abbas I, who might turn back and seize the city, which broke his life, and it is estimated that he will fight hard.

After several days of fighting, the battlefield of Navoi town has become very bloody, nearly 50,000 Persian soldiers have been buried in the trenches here, and more than 30,000 people of the Ming army have also lost more than 5,000 people, which is the largest loss suffered by the Ming army since Zhu Youxiao began to expand, but there is really no way, Abbas I adopted the tactic of dying together, letting the soldiers rush up at the risk of shooting, and their own artillery has been firing at the position again. With the arrival of Li Guo, the cannons of the Ming army also brought more than a dozen, so that the Persian artillery was pressed down and the casualties were reduced, but the ferocious attack of Abbas I also made the soldiers angry, and many times when they were about to rush to the position, the soldiers lay on the ground and did not advance, and then ran back when they retreated.

The sudden news frightened Abbas I, the city of Bukhara was lost, although Abbas I also wanted to block the news, but it still spread quickly, when the rest of the night was two chiefs quietly led the team to slip away, and the next morning, Abbas I was ready to attack again when he found that the next was all the chiefs who refused to attack, seeing the red eyes one by one, Abbas I immediately ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and he was also afraid of provoking a mutiny.

But it was useless for Abbas I to be afraid, and soon there was a looting, the granaries and gun depots were looted, and then there was a camp roar, and nearly 100,000 troops dispersed. Hearing the news that the enemy camp was in chaos, Li Guo immediately judged that Li Hongji's attack was successful, and as soon as Liu Zongmin gave the order, the entire Ming army began to launch a counterattack.

After the death of Abbas I, the entire Persian soldiers were completely in chaos, and Li Hongji led the generals to take advantage of the situation to occupy the entire place east of the desert, and the west of the desert was the Ottoman Empire, but the desert was too big, separating the war between the two military groups, forming a blank space in the middle, and later became some small tribal states, and no one cared about them.