Chang Sheng didn't think about attacking the city today, he just fired a few cannons first and told the defenders in the city that he was coming.

Therefore, after two rounds of artillery salvos, Chang Sheng immediately ordered the whole army to eat, and when he was full of food and drink, only the people who stood guard were left behind, and ordered all of them to rest.

The soldier saw that it was still early, and it was not time to sleep at all, and he thought about gambling a few rounds before going to sleep. But unexpectedly, Chang Sheng, who was inspected, found that he confiscated their gambling equipment on the spot, and drove them back to the tent with kicking and beating!

"Let's sleep well, but don't sleep too hard, the little cubs in the city may come out to steal the camp at night!"

"Huh?"

The little soldier, who was a little unconvinced just now, immediately poked his head out when he heard this.

"General, since your old man expected them to steal the camp, why did you let us go to sleep?"

Chang Sheng said impatiently when he heard this.

"Nonsense!"

"If you don't let you rest, where do you have the strength to beat them?"

"Let's lie back and sleep in peace, they don't dare to come out in the middle of the night!"

"No!"

With Changsheng's assurance, the soldiers finally ran back to sleep.

Although Chang Sheng drove the soldiers into the tent to sleep, he himself did not sleep, and kept listening to the movement outside with his ears open.

This is not the first time he has led troops, he has led the team to perform tasks many times at the border over the years, and he has long been a qualified battlefield general.

But it was the first time he had carried out such an important task, serving as the commander of an army of 100,000 and shouldering the heavy responsibility of avenging his nephew.

Therefore, he not only has to win this battle, but also fight beautifully!

In the middle of the night, Chang Sheng suddenly heard a "bang", he reflexively stood up and looked around, only to see that the soldier guarding the door accidentally kicked down the jar, and then he was alarmed.

Chang Sheng, who was disturbed, was a little angry when he saw this.

"I can't look at the door, what a bunch of rubbish!"

The little soldier didn't speak when he heard this, and silently straightened the jar.

"What time is it?"

"General Hui, it's past the end of the day."

"When?"

Chang Sheng panicked on the spot when he heard this, and shouted at the soldiers outside the door.

"Quick, give the order down and get the soldiers up. It's really not okay to wipe your face with ice water, hurry up and get up! ”

"But be careful, don't make any noise, and get up from the bed quietly......"

"No!"

On the other hand, Haril struggled to stay up until midnight, waking up the soldiers half an hour early, and stuffing a stick in each of their mouths.

"No sound, no torches!"

"Everyone is holding the corners of the clothes of the people in front of them, let's touch them while it's dark and kill them by surprise!"

"Eh......"

Khalil's strategy was not inadequate, and he cleverly timed his camp, just in the middle of the night when the people were sleeping soundly.

Before opening the door, Khalil ordered someone to pour hemp oil on the shaft of the gate, and only after doing this did he slowly push the gate open.

The place where Changsheng camped was very close to Mulu City, less than two miles away.

This distance is not possible for a bow and arrow, but it is the best range for artillery.

Haril suffered a big loss during the day, and at this time, when he touched the Changsheng camp, the roots of his teeth itched.

Just as Haril was secretly ruthless, planning to rush into the enemy camp and kill them, he suddenly felt a light in front of him, and tens of thousands of torches lit up around him instantly.

Haril looked around, and saw that at some point, his group of sneak attackers were surrounded by others!

"Haril, surrender and don't kill!"

When Haril heard this, he realized on the spot that he had been calculated, and Chang Sheng must have expected that he would sneak attack, so he arranged all this in advance and waited for him to send it to the door.

But to make him surrender is absolutely impossible!

Haril drew his sword and shouted at the soldiers around him.

"Kill!"

"Kill these Daming dogs!"

When Chang Sheng heard this, he did not hesitate to order the shooting.

In a burst of crackling sounds like fried beans, the five thousand people brought out by Haril were slaughtered in the blink of an eye.

Chang Sheng did not send people to clean up the battlefield, but immediately ordered the siege of the city after dealing with these people.

Two hundred pieces of artillery fired another volley, and the head of the city and the city were full of fire.

In this heavy artillery fire, the Ming army opened the city gate and rushed in from all directions.

"General, the vanguard battalion asked you what to do with the people in the city?"

Chang Sheng was slightly entangled in the lower road.

"Whoever dares to resist will be killed!"

"No!"

The city of Mulu did not have many inhabitants, and the only 10,000 or so people were almost all the most loyal and brave soldiers of the Timurid Empire.

The pioneer battalion rushed into the city, and in order to reduce its own casualties, it used a large number of weapons such as bazookas and palm mines to open the way.

When the sun rose the next day, the military flag of the Ming Dynasty finally fluttered on Mulu City.

Chang Sheng climbed the city gate tower, looked at the corpses above and below the city, and smiled quite self-deprecatingly.

"I can't imagine that I, Chang Sheng, also slaughtered a city?"

"General, you can't be blamed for this, it's really that the resistance in the city is too strong, and if you don't do this, you can't take it quickly!"

Chang Sheng shook his head indifferently when he heard this.

"It's fine!"

"I often do things and do them, so I don't think about them so much."

"Pass the order, and in the future, anyone who dares to resist will be slaughtered!"

Chang Sheng was ready to fight all the way and kill all the way, but to his surprise, the news of his massacre spread to other places, and the officers and soldiers defending the city elsewhere did not wait for him to lead the troops to fight over, so they brought gold and silver treasures to bribe him in advance.

"The little one is the city lord of Mowa City, I heard that the general is going to pass by Mowa City, and he brought some local specialties to reward the general!"

"Treat?"

Hearing this, Chang Sheng looked at the person coldly, and then looked at the gold, silver and jewelry piled up in the chest.

"Yes!"

"As long as you open the gates, I will not kill a single person!"

When the visitor heard this, he fell to his knees with a thud.

"The general is benevolent!"

"The 100,000 people of the small Daimowa City thank the general for not killing!"

After Chang Sheng entered Mowa City, he fulfilled his promise very strictly, not only did he not kill anyone, but even the procurement of military supplies was carried out according to the market price.

Chang Sheng's benevolent and righteous deeds not only made him gain a lot of good reputation, but even his evil deeds of slaughtering the city were whitewashed a lot.

"How can such a benevolent and righteous person as General Chang slaughter the city?"

"It must be that the defenders are too much, which makes General Chang anxious!"

"That's right!"

"General Chang gives money to buy things, there are not many such good people now!"

Chang Sheng led an army of 100,000 and fought all the way to the city of Yezd, which was less than a hundred miles away from Isfahan.

Although the lord of Yezd City was also a close confidant of Timur, after knowing that the person in front of him was the general who slaughtered the city, he immediately surrendered the city when the army arrived.

When the city lord of Yezd knelt on the ground and respectfully welcomed General Chang Sheng to lead the team to take over the city of Yezd, the city lord silently prayed for himself in his heart.

Pearl, it's not that I'm cowardly, it's really His Majesty's reinforcements that have been delayed, and I'm forced to surrender......

Chang Sheng did not rush to attack Isfahan after entering the city of Yezd, but took a short rest.

During the recuperation period, he reported the progress to Zhu Yunxi while waiting for the arrival of the other two armies.

Zhu Yunxi looked at the information transmitted from the front line, and couldn't help but explode in the military aircraft department.

"These!"

"Don't be cruel to them, they really don't take us seriously!"

Lan Yu listened to Zhu Yunxi's complaint and couldn't help but tease.

"Wechen told you a long time ago that these barbarians are afraid of power and not virtuous, and His Majesty's previous policy of softness will only be considered weak and bullying by them!"

"To deal with them, you should be thunderous and plough the holes."

"Slaughter a few of his cities, and see who dares to resist us!"

"And the people here have long been accustomed to slaughtering the city, they just killed a son-in-law of Genghis Khan, and they were slaughtered by Genghis Khan's army."

"Now they are assassinating His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, if they don't kill him for millions, how can they be worthy of the blood shed by His Majesty?"

Zhu Yunxi listened to Lan Yu's words, and was secretly glad that he didn't release the goods.

If Lan Yu is allowed to fight, it is estimated that there will be few living people left in the Western Regions after the battle.

"Okay, okay, you always have something to say."

"You can tell me how long it will take us to defeat Isfahan?"

Lan Yu smiled playfully when she heard this.

"Your Majesty, the timing of our defeat of Isfahan depends on how fast the Lan Yu and the other two armies march."

"If they can arrive in ten days, then we will hear the news of the destruction of Isfahan in ten days."

"This ......"

Lan Yu saw that Zhu Yunxi was a little unconvinced, and hurriedly explained to him.

"Your Majesty, you can't measure this group of people from the Western Regions by the ethics of our Ming soldiers, they don't have much concept of family and country, for them, Timur is the conqueror, and we are also the conqueror."

"Since they can surrender to Timur, they can naturally surrender to us!"

"Therefore, once we exchange fire with Timur, with our fierce firepower, Timur's army will not be able to stop it for an hour, and the destruction of the city is inevitable."

"It's just that when will Timur be able to submit and occupy the entire Timurid region, it will not be an easy task."

"Even if we kill Timur, there are still several sons of Timur in the Timurid Empire, and they all have heavy troops and occupy very rich lands."

"It's okay if they come to attack, but I'm afraid that if they don't come, we will have to trek through mountains and rivers to fight them......"

While the two were chatting, Qi Tai hurriedly ran over, shouting as he ran.

"Your Majesty, we win!"

"General Chang Sheng called, saying that they had taken Isfahan and hung the banner of our Ming Dynasty at the head of the city!"

"What!"

Zhu Yunxi got up from his seat excitedly, snatched the telegram and looked at it seriously, but before he could read the two lines, he heard Lan Yuyin ask a question.

"You didn't catch Timur, did you?"

"Huh?"

Zhu Yunxi looked down and saw that there was no mention of Timur on the telegram.

"Go and ask how Timur is!"

"No!"

After Qi Tai walked out, Lan Yu sighed helplessly.

"Your Majesty, the war has just begun!"

"Uncle, what do you mean by that?"

Lan Yu smiled bitterly when she heard this.

"For the countries of the Western Regions, land is not valuable, but human life is very valuable."

"As long as Timur doesn't die, even if he occupies a hundred cities, it's useless, and the old thing can still come back at any time."

"Timur used to stay in Isfahan, so we at least know where he is."

"Now that Timur has abandoned the city and left, the world is so big, the sea of people is vast, where are we going to arrest him?"

"This ......"

Zhu Yunxi said unwillingly.

"What if Timur dies in battle?"

Lan Yu shook his head when he heard this.

"Impossible!"

"With Weichen's understanding of that old thing, he can die of old age and illness, but it is impossible to die in battle!"

"That old thing is very desperate, and he was almost caught by Weichen many times, but he ran away in the end."

"This ......"

While the two were chatting, Qi Tai returned.

"Your Majesty, General Changsheng said that Timur ran away, the day before they attacked the city......"

"Now it is said that there is a recruitment in the Hamadan area......"

When Zhu Yunxi heard this, he looked at Lan Yu, who was worried, and his mood couldn't help but become depressed.

"Uncle, what should we do next?"

Lan Yu shook his head when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, you know, it's okay to let me fight, but it's not okay to let me govern the place."

"Now to deal with Timur, it is useless to rely on military strikes alone, and it is necessary to gradually compress his space."

"Therefore, if we take down a place, we must be able to defend it. Otherwise, if we are not careful, we will be taken advantage of by that old thing. ”

"When Wechen was at home back then, didn't Your Majesty tell Wechen about a guerrilla tactic?"

"If Timur uses this tactic against us, we will not be able to take him even if we have a million troops!"

Zhu Yunxi thought seriously when he heard this.

"Uncle is reasonable, but in this way, our army will not be enough."

Qi Tai listened to the conversation between the two and basically understood what it meant.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that Liang Guogong is reasonable."

"When the First Emperor sent Wang Jian to destroy Chu, he once said that if the Chu State was defeated, 200,000 would be enough. If the state of Chu is destroyed, at least 600,000 will be needed. ”

"Now the Timurid Empire is dozens of times larger than the Chu State, both in terms of land and population."

"If you want to destroy Timur in one fell swoop, you need at least a million ......, if not a few million."

"Million ......"

Zhu Yunxi was silent again for a long time when he heard this.

He did have a million in the Kangdu region, but here are 400,000 local conscripted servants.

It's okay to let these people help defend the city or transport grain and grass, but they may not be able to fight a tough battle.

Moreover, their loyalty is also a problem.

If they are instigated to rebel and start a rebellion, they will have to transfer people from the front to suppress it.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi has not been able to make up his mind about whether to use these people or not.

However, he could not hesitate in the next battle situation, and after receiving a telegram for reinforcements for the third time, Zhu Yunxi decisively activated the 400,000 naturalized army.

The reason why reinforcements are always needed on the front line is not because of how many people died on the front line, but because soldiers were left to garrison a place that was not occupied.

Sometimes you have to send someone to watch a road or a bridge. Otherwise, there will be spies lurking in the occupied areas to take advantage of the chaos to destroy bridges and roads.

Just after Zhu Yunxi sent out the last army, he unexpectedly received a report that an army of 50,000 men was marching towards Kangdu......

(End of chapter)