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Against the background of the blood-red dawn, Hu Biao stood on the roof of the shrine with a cigarette in his mouth, looking down with contempt.

Countless corpses spread out below him until there was no end in sight, and the blood-stained land was also endless, and in this red mountain of corpses and blood, those Persians were still attacking, and the flames from the roofs of the same shrines and the windows everywhere were constantly spewing out, and then knocking them down one by one, adding new heights to the mountain of corpses under their feet.

Persians are not the only ones in this mountain of corpses.

In fact, their outer defense line has been breached, and this shrine is already the last fortress of the inhabitants, under the protection of the reinforced concrete wall depicting the sun and moon emblem, there are less than 2,000 men, women and children, including the Ming people, the subjects, and a large number of Persians who converted to the Holy Religion, and nearly a thousand people died outside this fortress, of course, they also inflicted ten times the number of casualties on the enemy.

The people who are still alive are still silently resisting.

is also waiting for their almost inevitable end.

"Stationmaster, do we really have to become Chinese people when we die?"

Hu Biao, a Siamese subject beside him, said expectantly while loading his bullets.

"You are now, just now the envoy has reported, the emperor personally ordered that all the believers of the Holy Religion here, whether they are subjects or Persians, all promoted to the Ming people, not only you, your relatives who are not here, but also promoted to the countrymen, in the future, their nation will always become the Han nationality, we are already brothers!"

Hu Biao said.

What he said is true, His Majesty the Emperor did know about their heroic deeds, and specially issued an order to give all the warriors who fought to defend the Holy Religion here with Han nationality, such a thing is almost customary, and all the subjects who fought bloodily to defend the countrymen are usually given the status of countrymen, so in many colonial battles, those subjects have no worse will to fight than the countrymen, and sometimes even more brave and tenacious.

"It's worth it!"

The Siamese roared excitedly.

Then the rest of the people who were fighting shouted in the same excitement.

This is the dream of all the Ming people, as long as they can become Chinese people, as long as their children and grandchildren can become noble Han people, what does it matter if they die here, they die, they can exchange for a bright future for their relatives, they can let them enter the eternal fairyland after death, for this dream, they regard death as the road to the light, at this time not only them, at this time, even the old and weak women and children in the shrine have also taken up arms, ready for the final battle.

"Their reinforcements are coming!"

Suddenly, someone shouted.

Behind the Persians, thousands of warriors appeared, and in fact the Persians who had come from all over the country during this time, these warriors, inspired by religious fanaticism, led by the elders who wielded scriptures and scimitars in front of them, continued to converge here like a swirl of water. The Persians, who had been attacking the shrine, were so angry that they slammed into the shrine's fortified walls like a tidal wave, despite the oncoming bullets, and some of them carried powder kegs that lit the fuse, and crashed into them with fanatical euphoria under the cover of their companions.

"Stop them!"

Hu Biao shouted anxiously.

The defenders on the roof, ignoring the bullets fired from outside, leaned out as much as they could, aimed at the rou bullets, and kept knocking them to the ground, but the Persians were also crazy, and when one of the rou bombs fell, the people next to them took the smoking powder keg as fast as they could, shouted the slogan of the great lord zhen, and continued to run wildly towards the holy shrine. One of them soon reached the base of the wall, and at the moment he was knocked down by the bullet, the powder keg in his arms exploded, and the explosion caused even several defenders who were shooting on the roof, but the reinforced concrete structure was very strong, and the explosion of a small barrel of gunpowder only chiseled a small hole, and did not cause serious damage at all. And the women and children inside the cave immediately threw burning pings in recklessness, and one by one the bottles filled with kerosene and flames smashed outside, and the raging fire soon engulfed the Persians who were about to rush in.

However, this did not save Hu Biao and them.

Because one barrel was not enough and there were more, another ROU bomb rushed under the wall, and countless fragments flew up in the force of the explosion.

"Come on! Let Lao Tzu kill happily! ”

The Siamese roared with blood-red eyes.

After saying that, he grabbed an explosive bag, pulled the fuse and stood up desperately, threw it out with all his might, and then was hit by two bullets at the same time.

However, at this moment, a strange whistling sound suddenly sounded, and then in the white tide outside, countless fires exploded densely, and those Persians who were attacking instantly flew all over the sky with stumps and broken arms, and this fire exploded all over the sky, as if dozens of cannons were bombarding at the fastest speed, and those Persians crowded outside the shrine, like crops under the sickle, fell down in the explosion all the time, with horror and amazement watching the direction of the cannonballs.

There, a black monster with the blood red of the morning sun roared like lightning, and on the monster's body, two striking flames continued to erupt, and the cannonballs flew out of the flames with a strange whistling.

"Ma, he's finally here!"

Hu Biao sat on the ground and said with relief.

"Keep firing!"

Less than a mile away from him, Wu Zhen, the captain of the Second Brigade of the Road Protection Team directly under the Ming Army's Lianghe Economic Envoy, said with a gloomy face.

"These rats can't be killed!"

Then he added.

On either side of him, two five-barreled rapid-fire guns continued to spew flames, and on either side of the two rapid-fire guns, two soldiers mechanically repeated the action of pulling out empty magazines and inserting new ones, and the three-seven-millimeter shells continued to explode among the Persians at a rate of almost two rounds per second with the rotation of the five barrels. On either side of these two rapid-fire guns, four machine guns were also spewing flames, reaping the lives of the Persians with impunity, and underneath these was a square steam locomotive full of rivets, the black steel plates densely covered with specks of bullets, but there was no sign of penetration.

This is an armored train of the Ming army.

In addition to the armored train, there was also accompanying infantry.

Nearly 1,000 Ming infantry were rushing out of the carriages behind, kneeling on one knee by the railway, holding Type 4 rifles, mechanically repeating the firing motion, firing a dense barrage of bullets at the Persians.

The latter collapsed in an instant.

"My lord, at present, almost all stations have been attacked, because those Xie elements have destroyed the railway, so it is difficult for the road escort to arrive in time, many stations have suffered serious losses, one station has been breached, including twenty Chinese nearly a thousand people have been killed, and in the attack on these stations, there are Persian troops involved, Isfahan does not respond to this."

The two rivers of Xiyuan passed through the envoy's mansion, and the chief of staff said to Yan Hu.

"Then let's fight!"

Yan Hu sneered and said: "Order the 1st and 2nd Marines to land in Bandar Abbas and Bushehr Port respectively, and then attack Shiraz, order the 13th Brigade of the Cavalry Brigade and the 70th Brigade of the Infantry to attack Isfahan, and the 71st and 72nd Infantry Brigades to attack Tehran along the railway line." The Twelfth Army was informed that they had to arrive within a month to speed up, that they did not have to come to the West Garden, that they would land directly at Bandar Abbas and attack in depth to the east of Persia, and then attack Isfahan from east to west, and that all the reserves in the two rivers should be collected, and that we should prevent the Ottomans from taking advantage of the opportunity. ”

The Twelfth Army of the Ming Army is currently stationed in the province of Naturalization, that is, those small colonies around India, the headquarters is in Ceylon, and the nearest brigade is in Bombay, which will not take long to arrive, and several other brigades can also reach it within a month.

The enemies that the armies of the two rivers need to face are not only the Persians, but also the Ottomans in Baghdad, where there are a full 100,000 Ottoman guards, in fact, they are the real enemies, and at present, there is actually only one infantry 13th army under the Lianghe Legation, in addition to two brigades of marines, and garrisons from all over the country, especially because this is a direct subordinate to the royal territory, so there is also a garrison directly under the Jinyi Guard Internal Affairs Division, which is also a brigade-level unit, but these people have no problem defending, The offensive is a bit under-manned.

After all, what they need to annex next is a real power with millions of square miles of territory.

"We have to have another army."

Yan Hu said.

"Immediately send a telegram to the General Staff, asking for another army to be transferred, and the Holy Lord will expand the army to forty armies, so we have to ask for another army here."

Then he added.

"Then give him two more armies!"

Yang Feng said.

He has no shortage of soldiers, because of the perfect reserve system, the expansion of the Ming Dynasty is very fast, in just a few months, there have been fifteen new armies, not many people are needed on the battlefield in the Western Regions, in fact, the current ones that have arrived plus those who are coming are enough.

"These Persians are simply there!"

Then he sneered.

Indeed, this time the Persians moved too quickly a little more than he expected, originally he was thinking of slowly increasing his troops there, but now he was a little caught off guard.

Of course, the losses of those stations of the Persian Railway are not worth mentioning, the vast majority of the dead are subjects, he doesn't care how many subjects die, and these battles have also greatly weakened the strength of the Persian people, just Hu Biao's station, let more than 10,000 Zhen main warriors become dead corpses, if they die so much at every station, then the Ming army basically has not much work to do, he has decreed that all the subjects who participated in the battle are promoted to the countrymen, and they are worthy of those subjects who sacrificed their lives for the Ming Dynasty.

As for the limited damage to the railway, it is not easy to destroy this kind of thing, it is not worth picking up a few rails, as long as the land base is not completely destroyed, it is very simple to relay the tracks, the key is those bridges and tunnels, fortunately there have been no reports of damage to these things so far.

"Your Majesty, in this case, we still have to be careful about the concession in Istanbul."

Chen Lie said.

After years of construction, the concession of Istanbul has become a prosperous city, where thousands of people, including the Ming Imperial Bank, a large number of Ming consortiums have branches in this concession, and there is even a garrison there, if the Ottomans also play a surprise attack, the loss of this concession is not small.

"Order the fleet to pass."

Yang Feng sneered and said: "If the Ottomans dare to do it, then you don't have to be polite, just bombard Istanbul with duke gas, and those who dare to kill us will destroy him, and send a decree to Yan Hu, the Persians are stubborn, and they are too deeply bewitched by the Xie Sect, so don't be too merciful for such people, kill them when they should be killed, and the Persian prince killed his father and rebelled, and the Afshar people helped to abuse, I am Ming to avenge the late Persian king Hou Sain, who beheaded Tahmasp as a sacrifice to make the king of Persia, as for the Afshar people, all the men were executed." ”

"Honor!"

Chen Lie hurriedly said.

That's fine, even if it's an invasion, it has to be righteous and awe-inspiring, not to mention that it is not good for him if Persia really resists the whole people, this country has complex terrain and is very suitable for guerrilla activities, so the best way is to support the puppet to become a vassal country, and you can also seal a few more vassal countries, in the end, this hellish place in Persia has no value except for the oil fields, and it is not worth wasting too much effort, and most of the oil fields in Persia have actually become his imperial garden now.

At present, the real opponent is still the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, he was not too worried about the concession in Istanbul, because the warships of the Ming Dynasty would teach Ahmet III how to behave, although the Hongwu-class battleships had not yet entered the Mediterranean, but the Dingyuan-class battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet and those cruisers alone were enough to wipe the city, including Ahmet III's palace, from the ground with those five-inch naval guns, and Ahmet III would not risk his life.

His life was precious.

"Not only the two rivers, Anhua and Tianfang also have an army each, especially Anhua, tell Fan Hong, let him prepare to attack Jerusalem, once we encounter the Knights Templar or the Teutonic Knights on the battlefield of Green Ridge, then immediately use this as a reason to crusade against the Vatican, and then directly seize Jerusalem to open the passage to Syria, the Celestial Army must also be ready, Guo Hong is cavalry, you can first assemble in the northern oasis area and wait for orders, once the Anhua army attacks Jerusalem, Then they also attacked the Jordan Valley. ”

Yang Feng then said.

Jerusalem belongs to the Knights of the Medicary Order, and its current territory is roughly equivalent to Israel plus Jordan, and of course, Palestine, while the northernmost part of the Great Ming Province is currently in the oasis areas of Tabuk and Sekake, so that the Ming army in Egypt and the Ming army in Heaven can flank the east and west, and then take the whole of Jerusalem in one fell swoop.