At that hour, the sky was still dark, but the second regiment of the expeditionary force and the camp of the loyal army outside Kandahar were already full of lights and orders.

This is already the west of the Ming Dynasty, and the time difference between the capital and the capital is more than an hour, and the soldiers who came from the Beida camp have not yet adapted to the reality that it is dawn here, and they will be accustomed to waking up when they arrive.

For the problem of time difference, the Ming army actually has a comprehensive understanding, since the Ming occupation of most of South Asia, the army mobilization has become more and more frequent, and this problem is often encountered.

Under normal circumstances, the leading generals will adjust their work and rest according to the local time, so that the soldiers under their command can adapt to it for a few days, and then enter the battle.

But this time, Qin Yiming and Yang Zhong did not adjust their schedules, and the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force and the Loyal and Brave Army still gathered and practiced in the morning, and began to rest in the evening before it was dark.

What's going on, is it because Qin Yiming and Yang Zhong are too young to understand jet lag at all?

Of course not, if they didn't understand this, they wouldn't have been able to become the commander of the legion at all, and the reason why they didn't adjust their work and rest time was entirely to implement the next tactics.

The day after the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force and the Loyal Warriors arrived in Kandahar, Hou Shilu discussed with Qin Yiming and Yang Zhong the next tactics, and the overall tactic was to attack Isfahan and force the Persian Safavid Empire to negotiate peace.

As for the Persian Safavid Empire's army, which was stationed dozens of miles away, in order to avoid excessive casualties, they were ready to adopt sneak attack tactics and crush them in one fell swoop.

On the third day, Qin Yiming and Yang Zhong moved the camp to a place only ten miles away from the Persian Safavid camp.

Sultan was naturally taken aback, but, fortunately, the Ming army did not attack with all its might, it seems that there is still a legion left in Kandahar to garrison, and it didn't come at all, two legions, 200,000 horses, as long as the defense is tight, there should be a fight.

He is not a wine bag and rice bag, otherwise he would not be able to become the Minister of War of the Empire, he is still quite familiar with the art of war, he at least knows that in the case of equal troops, the attacking side is more at a loss.

Therefore, he strengthened the defense of the large camp and strictly ordered his soldiers to be on guard at all times, day or night.

He thought that as long as the Ming army couldn't help but take the initiative to attack, he could use the defense of the big battalion to make up for the gap in combat power, and it might be difficult to win, and it should be no problem to withstand the attack of the Ming army.

To his surprise, the Ming army did not rush to attack, and for several days in a row, there was no movement in the Ming army's camp, but the scouts came and went more frequently, and the army did not even show any signs of gathering.

The scouts of the Ming army were relatively ruthless, not only patrolling everywhere, but also hunting and killing his scouts everywhere, so that his scouts did not dare to run out of the camp three miles away, because they basically couldn't come back if they ran out!

What does this mean, is it to lure him to lead his army to attack? He is naturally not so stupid, his combat effectiveness is already worse than that of the Ming army, and he went to attack, that is looking for death, three miles is three miles, anyway, he just wants to hold the big camp, and it is enough to have this warning distance.

Qin Yiming and Yang Zhong naturally didn't want to lure him to attack, the reason why they used scouts to clean up his scouts was mainly to prepare for a sneak attack.

After a few days of drills, the Ming soldiers gradually adapted to the darkness before dawn, Qin Yiming and Yang Zhong sent a telegram to Hou Shilu that they could start the sneak attack!

That night, Hou Shilu led 50,000 elite cavalry of the First Expeditionary Army to sneak more than ten miles behind the Second Army and the camp of the Loyal Army.

The next morning, before dawn, the Second Legion of the Expeditionary Force and the Loyal Warriors began to assemble outside the camp, and this time, they did not shout vigorously, and did not make any noise during the whole process, as if they were acting in a silent movie.

After the assembly was completed, the army began to advance slowly, and in less than half an hour, the 200,000-strong army silently touched the Persian Safavid camp four miles away.

Immediately afterwards, one artillery cannon after another was pushed to the front of the army, and these cannons were basically big guys with a range of more than three miles, and even the hundred Shenwei cannons equipped by the First Army of the Expeditionary Force were impressively listed.

By the time they had everything ready, the sky was slowly dawning, and it was time for the Persian army to prepare for a change of defense.

Those who were stationed at night were ready to return to the camp to rest, and those who were stationed during the day were also ready to get up and take over.

At this moment, a series of terrifying roars suddenly sounded outside the camp, "boom, boom, boom", and countless shells fell into the front half of the camp.

The first round of the Ming army used flowering shells, and before the Persian soldiers could figure out what was going on, the first half of the entire battalion was in a sea of fire!

Immediately afterwards, the roar of artillery continued to sound, first several rounds of solid bullets smashed the military tents in the camp, and then rained scattered bullets, smashing the Persian soldiers who had just gotten up or were about to go to bed crying for their fathers and mothers, and holding their heads and running away.

Sultan had just woken up by the roar of artillery and didn't understand what was going on, and the sound of thunderous horses' hooves sounded outside the camp, and 70,000 Ming army iron cavalry followed closely behind the artillery fire, rushing into the camp of the Persian Empire, and then, there was a shocking shout of killing, and more than 100,000 Ming soldiers also followed the cavalry and launched a charge.

He ran out of the tent and saw that the front half of the entire camp was already in a mess, and countless soldiers were desperately running back, and the Ming army was about to kill his tent!

He shouted in fright, "Quick, lead my horse." “

He didn't need to be reminded of this, his guards had already led the horse, and soon, one of the guards led his war horse and ran over.

He stepped onto the war horse with a whoosh, then turned the horse's head and shouted: "The whole army retreats!" “

In fact, without him shouting, the soldiers in front of him almost ran, and those who didn't run basically became corpses on the ground.

As soon as he ran, the soldiers of the rear battalion also ran with him, and the whole battalion suddenly became a pot of porridge, and the clever ones knew how to flee back with the flow of people, and those who were not very clever still stupidly picked up weapons and prepared to resist, but they were either beaten into a hornet's nest or stabbed into a sieve.

This sneak attack went surprisingly well, the Ming army rushed into the Persian camp without paying any casualties, and the Persian soldiers in front were already frightened by the shells falling from the sky, and they began to flee directly.

In fact, this is also to blame Sultan for being too careless, he didn't think about the range of the Ming army's artillery, he subconsciously thought that the Ming army's artillery was also about the same range as theirs, the farthest was less than three miles, but he didn't know that the Ming army had long been equipped with cannons with a range of five or six miles!

This is a classic sneak attack that will go down in history, the Ming army used various methods to paralyze the Persian army, and used the advantage of artillery range to tear apart the defense of the Persian camp, and finally defeated the 200,000 Persian army and fled without paying any casualties.