There are also Ming army sentry posts on the high mountains dozens of miles northwest of Kandahar, and there is no clear national border at this time, and it is better if there are rivers and mountains blocking it, like near Kandahar, there are no rivers, and there are no mountains blocking the two countries, then the national boundary is relatively blurred.

In this case, the two sides will generally default to a section of the area as the border area between the two countries, and the desert hundreds of miles west of Kandahar is the border area between the Ming Empire and the Persian Safavid Empire.

However, on this day, a huge army appeared in the desert west of Kandahar, and the size of the black pressure within a radius of several miles was full of heads, at least no less than 100,000 horses!

Seeing this scene, the Ming army sentries on the high mountain hurriedly ran to the barracks behind the mountain to report to the captain in charge of the sentry.

When the captain heard the news, he ran to the sentry post and looked at it carefully with his binoculars, and immediately ran back to the camp and sent an urgent report to Kandahar.

Responsible for garrisoning Kandahar is the first legion of the Ming Empire Expeditionary Force, their commander is Hou Gongji's father Hou Shilu, this Hou Shilu is a famous veteran in the Ming army, in the first year of the Apocalypse, he led the army to participate in the battle between Liaodong and Houjin, and later was seriously injured and returned to the rear to recuperate, and accumulated military merits to rise to the Guyuan General Army.

Hou Shilu and Hou Gongji were once famous father and son commanders in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and both father and son accumulated military merits and rose to the rank of commander-in-chief This kind of thing is very rare in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but, unfortunately, in the desperate situation of the Chongzhen Dynasty, no matter how talented they are, they can't give full play.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army besieged Yulin, and Hou Shilu, Hou Gongji, father and son, and You Shiwei, Wang Shiqin and other generals led the whole city to resist by the army and the people, and finally the army was defeated and captured, and died unyieldingly.

Of course, these are all things of the Chongzhen Dynasty, in the Chongzheng Dynasty, their fate has been completely rewritten, like Hou Shilu is now a military general of the Zhengyi Empire, a five-star general of the Ming Empire Army, responsible for the defense of the entire South Asia, and is already the only high-level military leader of the Ming Empire.

Hou Shilu and Hou Gongji are both extremely conscientious and responsible generals, and they are extremely careful about the defense arrangements of the station, and there is basically no possibility of being attacked, so the 200,000 troops of the Persian Safavid Empire were discovered by the outpost he arranged as soon as they appeared a hundred miles away.

Poor Sultan, for fear that the Ming army would not find out that he was leading a large army, so he had the courage to continue to move forward for more than ten miles before stopping, so that he did not die and stopped under the nose of the Ming army sentry.

After the news of the forward post was transmitted back to Kandahar, it was quickly delivered to Hou Shilu's hands, is the Persian Safavid Empire crazy? How dare you come to attack Kandahar!

Although he couldn't figure out what the Persian Safavid Empire was mad about, he immediately ordered the whole army to assemble and all four walls to enter a state of emergency defense.

The army of the Persian Safavid Empire is no joke, their gunpowder weapons are much more advanced than those of the Mughal Empire, if it weren't for the numerical inferiority, it is estimated that they would have taken the Mughal Empire down long ago.

Now, they have gathered nearly 200,000 troops to attack Kandahar, and even Hou Shilu does not dare to guarantee that they will be able to defend it, after all, the number of opponents is twice as large as their own, and the gap in weapons is not very large.

Therefore, after he arranged everything, he immediately sent a telegram to the capital and directly asked the emperor for help!

After Zhu Cijiong received the telegram, he finally felt that something was wrong, if it was said that the Watts and the Kazakh Khanate were helpers invited by Tsarist Russia, he still believed it a little, because Tsarist Russia bordered them after all, and the relationship between the two sides seemed to be good.

To say that the Persian Safavid Empire was invited by Tsarist Russia is pure, the two countries have no contact at all, why should the Persian Safavid Empire take the risk to help Tsarist Russia.

Combined with the strength shown by Tsarist Russia when he attacked Manjingwei, he finally understood that the mastermind of the whole thing was not Tsarist Russia at all, but must be a ghost behind the anti-Habsburg coalition!

Dare to be behind the scenes, Zhu Cijiong was completely angry, he directly turned out the latest world map and studied it carefully.

Britain, France, the Netherlands and other powers have no way to clean up for the time being, because they are too far apart, and there is still a certain gap in the relative strength of the allies in Europe compared with the anti-Habsburg alliance, so only Tsarist Russia, the Tile Spur and the Persian Safavid Empire are angry, who let them be the accomplices of the great powers.

First of all, Tsarist Russia, originally Zhu Cijiong was still thinking, whether to occupy the Yeni River Basin, after all, it is too far from the Central Plains, even if there is a train, it will take at least half a month to transfer materials, and then push forward, it is likely to take more than a month, and the thawing period in Siberia is only so long, one year, two years, don't even want to completely occupy the whole of Siberia, it is too time-consuming.

However, now Zhu Cijiong is ruthless, no matter how long it takes, he must defeat all Siberia, if the anti-Habsburg coalition does not fully support, he even wants to destroy Tsarist Russia!

Then there is the Tile Spur Alliance, the Tile Thorn must be exterminated this time, as for the Kazakh Khanate, if they do not accept the "Ming Vassal State Command System" and become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, then they will be destroyed together!

Finally, there is the Persian Safavid Empire, and it is a bit difficult for the Ming Dynasty to face three powerful countries or quasi-powers at the same time, but not only Tsarist Russia has allies, but also the Ming Dynasty has allies, and the Ottoman Empire has been fighting with the Persian Safavid Empire for control of West Asia, and directly let them send troops from the west.

Although it may not be possible to destroy the Persian Safavid Empire, it is still very simple to occupy the small piece of territory between Kandahar and the Ottoman Empire under the attack of two sides.

Hasn't the Persian Safavid Empire been dragging its feet and not allowing the Ming Dynasty's railway and telegraph lines to cross the border, this time it simply didn't ask, and directly grabbed the middle place, so that the Ming Dynasty bordered the Ottoman Empire, and there was no need to ask for the consent of the Persian Safavid Empire to build railways and pull telegraph lines.

It will take some time for the entire strategy to be arranged, and the most important thing now is to resolve the crisis in South Asia, and the Second Army Corps and the Loyal Brave Army, which originally wanted to be transferred to the northwest, can only be transferred to South Asia.

There are already three legions in the northwest, and there is absolutely no problem in withstanding the attack of the Tile Spur coalition army.

South Asia is different, the Ming Empire has not yet fought with the Persian Safavid Empire, their 200,000 troops are still uncertain, if they really want to take Kandahar or even the whole of South Asia, then they will definitely have reinforcements, to be foolproof, at least two legions must be transferred over.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong directly issued an order, ordering the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force and the Loyal and Brave Army to immediately go to Kandahar to support.

At the same time, he also sent a telegram to Hou Shilu, ordering him to hold out for fifteen days and wait for reinforcements to arrive.