The Ming army is simply terrifying, if it is not launched, it will be enough, and once it is launched, it will be a thunderstorm, overwhelming, and it is impossible for people to resist at all, and Sultan only realized at this moment that he was tricked by the Earl of Trafford.

What the Ming Empire is difficult to protect itself, what the Ming army can't fight over, it's all a lie, and people are using him as a gunman.

Looking at the sparse and embarrassed thousands of cavalry behind him, Sultan only felt a cool air rush to his mind, if the greasy relationship between him and the Earl of Trafford was known by Lord Strange, a thousand cuts would be light, you must know that all this was caused by his greed for a while!

He secretly made up his mind that if he could return alive this time, he would kill all the cronies, retinues, and servants who had seen the Earl of Trafford that night, and if the news leaked, his end would be extremely miserable.

At this time, the city of Farah was already in sight, and Sultan collected his mood and led the army to attack the city of Farah.

The city of Farah is about 400 miles away from Kandahar, it is an important eastern frontier town of the Persian Safavid Empire, Persia is not like the Ming Dynasty, there are cities everywhere, even a small county town has a city wall, they do not have as many people as the Ming Empire, only the city equivalent to the provincial capital will build a city.

Fleeing here, Sultan did not dare to escape, because there were only three cities in total between Kandahar and Isfahan, the capital of the Persian empire, and except for Farah City, which happened to choke the only way to Isfahan, the other two cities were not on the route from Kandahar to Isfahan, and the Ming army could completely ignore it and go straight to Isfahan!

While he was cleaning up the remnants of the defeated army in Farah City, he sent people to report urgently to the Lord of Ranqi in Isfahan, and more than 300,000 Ming troops poured out of the nest and launched a sneak attack, he could not resist, and had retreated to Farah City, asking the imperial capital to send support.

He didn't dare to tell the truth, nor did he dare to panic too much, so he could only exaggerate the number of enemy troops to prove that it was not that he was incompetent, but that the enemy was too strong.

The Ming army was indeed very strong, and if it were not for the fact that the encirclement on all sides might prompt the Persian soldiers to resist desperately and cause too many casualties, it was very likely that Sultan would not have been able to escape.

After the sneak attack on the camp and the defeat of the Persian army, Qin Yiming and Yang Zhong began to lead the cavalry to launch an endless pursuit of the fleeing Persian soldiers, while Hou Shilu led the infantry to slowly clean up the battlefield and advance slowly.

For a time, the entire wasteland between Kandahar and Farah City was full of fleeing Persian soldiers and pursuing Ming cavalry, and the great drama of desperate escape and crazy pursuit was staged all the time.

The chase lasted for five full days before it ended, and there was no Persian rout on the wasteland, and Hou Shilu had already led nearly 200,000 foot soldiers to the city of Farah.

Sultan's defeat this time is called a miserable, the 200,000 army he led was defeated without even a single injury of the Ming army, and then was chased and killed by the Ming cavalry all the way, he not only lost all the grain and grass baggage, but also lost nearly 100,000 horses, and finally fled back to Farah City to be worth more than 100,000 people!

100,000 people defended the city, less than 200,000 foot soldiers attacked, according to this ratio, it should be difficult for the Ming army to capture the city of Farah.

However, almost all the artillery of the Persian army was lost in the original camp, and how could it be the opponent of the Ming army with only the original more than 100 cannons in Farah City.

Hou Shilu did not rush to attack, but mobilized more than 1,000 artillery pieces and launched a dense run and bombardment of the city wall west of Farah City.

The range of Persian artillery was originally inferior to that of the Ming army, and coupled with the difference in numbers, they had no power to fight back at all.

Seeing that the battlements of arrows were slowly being flattened, the female wall was becoming full of holes, and the western wall was about to become bald, Sultan became more and more anxious.

As soon as he fled to the city of Farah, he sent an urgent report to the imperial capital, and the instructions given by the prime minister, Lord Bunqi, were to defend the city of Farah.

When the Ming army approached the city, he sent an urgent report to the imperial capital, the Ming army's shells were like rain, and sooner or later the west city wall could collapse, and he couldn't hold it at all!

It is more than a thousand miles from the city of Farah to Isfahan, and even if the horses are fast, day and night, it will take nearly four days to go back and forth, so the arrow battlements on the western wall are almost flattened, and he has not yet received instructions from the imperial capital.

In fact, the Ming army did not surround the city of Farah, but only assembled in the west of the city, constantly bombarded with artillery, he could completely escape, if only with cavalry, day and night non-stop, even only two days, he could escape back to Isfahan.

However, how dare he run, now there are less than 20,000 cavalry left in Farah City, even if they all flee back to Isfahan with him, what should the infantry do, it is impossible for the two legs to run past the Ming cavalry, and it is impossible for more than 80,000 infantry to run more than 1,000 miles and escape the pursuit of the Ming army!

He led the main army of 200,000 to come out, but when he went back, there were only less than 20,000 remnants left, and he didn't dare to imagine how miserable the ending would be, so he didn't dare to run back, even if he died here, it was better than fleeing back.

Good people don't live long, the scourge lasts for a thousand years, Sultan was in a panic, the instructions of the imperial capital finally arrived, and the prime minister ordered that he couldn't stand it anymore and sent an envoy to the Ming army camp to ask for peace talks!

Sultan was waiting for this sentence, this situation, how could he withstand it, as soon as he received the order, he immediately asked people to go out of the city with a white flag to find the Ming army and ask for peace talks.

Hou Shilu and the others were also waiting for this sentence, but they didn't expect that the Persian Empire would not be able to withstand it so soon.

Peace talks can be considered, but the consent of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire must be obtained, and Hou Shilu made such a reply on behalf of the Ming army.

Immediately afterward, he sent people back to Kandahar and sent a telegram to the emperor who was far away in Jiayuguan.

Zhu Cijiong was simply happy to receive the telegram, this Hamiwei had just cleaned up the Tile Spur Alliance, and the Persian Safavid Empire had sued for peace in South Asia, which was simply great!

He immediately replied, peace talks are okay, the Ming Empire will send representatives of peace talks to the Ming army camp outside Farah City, if they want peace talks, send representatives to the Ming army camp to talk.

Then, he sent a telegram to Zheng Zhilong, who was far away in Xingcheng Port, asking him to negotiate peace with the Persian Safavid Empire on behalf of the Ming Empire, as for the requirements, it was very simple: the Persian Empire must cede the narrow land between Kandahar and the Ottoman Empire, and if the land is not ceded, the Ming Dynasty will not retreat!

Zheng Zhilong is also idle during this time, the Ming Dynasty has put his energy into the war against Tsarist Russia in the north for the past two years, the south, especially on the sea, there is almost nothing at all, he can only arrest those vassal officials who come to do business all day long, bragging and fart, urging them to promote Sinology, promote dragon coins, promote Chongzheng Tongbao and so on, very boring.

Now he finally has something to do, and it is his favorite peace talks, peace talks are good, especially the peace talks that ask others to cede land and pay compensation, he likes it the most.

The emperor's will is also very much in line with his appetite, if he doesn't cut the land, the Ming Dynasty will not withdraw the army, cool!