Hamadan, a small city that is not very wide.

Because Timur fled again, the small city suddenly became lively.

Bands of soldiers in military uniforms roamed the streets, and occasionally aristocratic lords dressed in ornate silk hurried down the streets.

All of this makes the natives of Hamadan feel very new.

It's just that the novelty is not interesting, and it is even a little annoying.

Because of the arrival of these people, the prices of goods in the city of Hamadan skyrocketed.

Originally, only one silver coin could buy hundreds of catties of grain, but now it takes three or even more.

The salt was also eaten out of stock by these nobles, and the livestock was all bought by them at a high price.

Although these aristocratic lords are very arrogant, throwing away a bag of money and taking the sheep together, but fortunately, the money is indeed a lot, so there is no chaos.

Therefore, the feelings of the residents of the city are also very mixed with these uninvited guests. I hope they will get out of here quickly, and return the city of Hamadan to a clean place as soon as possible. I also hope that they will stay a little longer and exchange the last bit of junk at home for money.

Compared with the embarrassment of other noble lords, Timur, the sultan, did not have a good time.

Even if he requisitioned the house of the city lord here, it still made him live in a stretch.

Fortunately, he was not a man who cared about food and shelter, and after fleeing to the city of Hamadan, he had been closely following the battle of Isfahan.

In fact, he had already made all the preparations before escaping this time, even if he couldn't give Da Ming a fatal blow, he would be able to drag Da Ming for at least ten days and a half months.

First of all, he predicted the garrison camp of the Ming Dynasty, and sent people to dig a secret passage directly outside the city in advance, intending to let the defenders go out of the tunnel to attack the city at night.

Secondly, he also ambushed a strange army in the mountains near Isfahan, planning to wait for the Ming to suddenly kill after the siege was frustrated, and the Ming Dynasty was caught off guard.

Eventually, he upgraded Isfahan's defenses and placed a large number of artillery on the city.

Although the quality of his artillery cannot be compared with that of the Ming Dynasty, it is also something that can be released by loading gunpowder and iron sand.

If the Ming soldiers attacked the city, they would definitely be killed and wounded.

However, Timur predicted everything, but he did not predict that Daming would change the main general this time, and replace it with someone who had never fought with him.

Chang Sheng, this person has no other characteristics in fighting, that is, he seeks stability.

In Lan Yu's eyes, his character is ten thousand things to look down on, and he always laughs at him for fighting like a girl, grinding and grinding.

However, no matter how sarcastic Lan Yu tridicated, Lan Yu still went her own way.

Zhu Yunxi's set of how often the artillery will fire a round of artillery, and he will resolutely implement it, and he will resolutely not let go even a second.

Zhu Yunxi said that he wanted the artillery to open the way, and then send infantry to attack the city after knocking down the opponent's defenses, so he firmly cut the opponent's battlements into the ground until he could not see a single person, and then sent his own infantry to attack the city.

In short, this is a simple general who does not seek merit, but seeks no fault.

However, it was such a criticism that somehow escaped the traps set by Timur.

Chang Sheng came to the Isfahan area, and when he was still a dozen miles away from Isfahan, he set up camp.

This made the defenders of the city so angry that they almost gritted their teeth!

Because the place where Changsheng set up camp was six miles away from the tunnel exit they had prepared in advance!

Originally, according to His Majesty Timur's plan, they could suddenly appear behind the Changsheng army and give them a surprise attack.

Fortunately, if they want to sneak attack, they can only appear in front of them and fight them head-on......

This is a fart, as long as they dare to show their heads, the fire gun on the other side can beat them into a sieve!

Timur's surprise soldiers in the mountains did not come in handy, because the great battle they had expected did not take place, and the defenders of the city did not even move at all.

On the second day, Changsheng was full of food and drink, and walked the remaining ten miles in an hour, and before mid-morning, he was under the city of Isfahan.

Chang Sheng, who was cautious and cautious, still let the artillery regiment under his command come to two rounds of artillery before dinner.

The defenders in the city finally survived these two rounds of artillery, thinking that they could be relaxed in the afternoon, but they did not want to eat lunch, and the artillery did not stop throughout the afternoon, and the soil at the head of the city was cut off one zhang high before stopping.

At night, the defenders of the city planned to carry out the top tactics of His Majesty Timur, and went out of the tunnels in the city to surprise the Changsheng army and attack it.

But he didn't expect that the cannons that had been bombarded all afternoon had already blown the head of the city and the houses on both sides into ruins, and the entrance to the tunnel was under the ruins......

The defenders in the city could only watch the dawn with their eyes, and then when the Changsheng army attacked the city, they launched the artillery prepared in advance and gave a few cannons to the enemy who rushed in first.

Chang Sheng saw that the other party still had such firearms, so he ordered to stop the siege on the spot, and once again brought in an artillery regiment to bombard the city.

The bombardment lasted for three days, and every other hour for three days was a round of artillery fire, and the defenders in the city were not attacked at all.

On the fourth day, the defenders in the city couldn't stand it anymore and could only raise the white flag and surrender.

When Timur saw the battle report brought back by the escaped soldiers, he was so angry that he spat blood on the spot.

It's infuriating!

Da Ming is simply too angry!

Don't dare to fight with yourself with real swords and guns, you will only fire cannons in the air......

As everyone knows, if it weren't for Zhu Yunxi's fear of killing all these strong laborers in the Western Regions, he would have pushed the Western Regions a long time ago.

Now Timur, the sultan, is still alive, which can only be said to be stained with the light of tens of millions of people in the Western Regions.

When Timur saw that the Ming firearms were so sharp, he didn't leave himself a way to live at all, and continued to withdraw with a large army the next day.

This time he withdrew very simply, all the way to Baghdad.

Originally, Timur thought that he was going in shame, but as soon as he gained a foothold in Baghdad, he received a military report from the rear.

It turned out that within two days of his departure, Chang Sheng's department killed Hamadan.

It can be said that as long as he leaves a day or two late, he will be captured by the Ming Dynasty!

Timur was rejoicing in the rest of his life after the catastrophe, while calculating how much money he had left, and whether he still had the strength to fight with the Ming Dynasty.

Now he doesn't dare to hope to drive Daming out of his own land, he just wants to win Daming vigorously once, even if the price is to gamble on the entire empire!

In order to lure Da Ming to attack, he ordered people to spread his news everywhere. One moment he said he was in Baghdad, the other he was in Qazvin, or Tabriz.

In short, it was the suspicion that made Da Ming unable to figure out where he was.

After setting up his own suspicious formation, Da Ming really chose to divide his troops into three ways and attack these three cities separately as he expected.

Timur was so happy that he almost exploded on the spot when he heard the news, and now he only prayed for one thing, that is, not to attack him.

I don't know if Pearl heard his prayer, or if he came to work when Timur was in time, the main general who attacked Baghdad was really not Chang Sheng, but Li Yan, an unknown general of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Timur can't be said to be unfamiliar with Li Yan at all, the first Ming general he faced was this guy.

It's just that he didn't want to get too stiff with Daming at that time, so he confronted Li Yan across the river for more than a month.

This time, when he learned that Li Yan was coming to attack him, Timur let out a laugh like a night owl.

"Pearl bless!"

"I've finally waited for the opportunity to defeat Daming, hahaha!"

In the face of Timur's maniacal laughter, the remaining generals under Timur were stunned.

They haven't won since they faced Shang Daming, and I really don't know where Your Majesty's confidence comes from.

Alimuyad looked at Timur worriedly, and said in his heart, Your Majesty should not be mad by Daming, right?

"Your Majesty, do you have another trick to deal with Da Ming?"

"Yes!"

"I've thought of a way to deal with Da Ming!"

"Herald!"

"Dig trenches!"

As an emerging general of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yan had a brilliant record of defending the lonely city alone for a month, so he was naturally trained by the Ming military.

Whether it is Lao Zhu or Lan Yu, they are very important to this new general, and they specially arranged a position for him as the main general in the three-way army of the Western Expedition.

Li Yan is also very competitive, and after taking over as the main general, he does everything clearly, and he no longer has the rashness and indulgence of the past.

However, when he walked into the Baghdad area with his army, he was suddenly stunned by the sight ahead.

Thirty miles from Baghdad, all roads along the way were dug into one ditch after another.

The soil dug out of the trench was padded to the ground to form walls of earth.

"What's the situation?"

Scout Pegasus Newspaper.

"Report!"

"General, the front is somehow dug dozens of trenches by the enemy."

"Is there an ambush?"

"Back to the general, I didn't find it along the road, but I don't know about it from afar!"

"Probe!"

"No!"

While Li Yan continued to investigate, he also ordered the soldiers to dismount and repair the road.

Otherwise, even if men and horses could pass, the heavy artillery they brought with them would not be able to pass.

Just after Li Yan filled in a trench, the scout in front of him flew back again.

"Report!"

"No enemy troops were found ahead!"

When Li Yan learned that there were no enemy troops, he suddenly became emboldened and ordered all the soldiers to dismount and fill the road to clear the obstacles for the follow-up artillery troops.

In just thirty miles, they walked for three days to reach the foot of Baghdad.

Li Yan looked at the nearby walls of Baghdad, and while scolding Timur's soldiers for being a group of groundhogs who could only make holes, he felt sorry for his subordinates.

This way, but they are tired, and if they don't rest well for two days, let alone fight, even walking will be a problem.

Li Yan immediately ordered his soldiers to set up camp, and after arranging the warning measures, Li Yan ordered the soldiers to rest in place.

While they were resting, Timur was not idle.

The trenches that Li Yan had filled in after three days of hard work were re-dug one after another after they left, and advanced layer by layer to the area around Li Yan's camp.

Another army of Timur, with straw pads on sleepers, pushed catapults into battle.

When everything was ready, Timur immediately ordered thirty catapults to be launched in unison.

On the catapult was a lit jar filled with fierce fire oil.

As the rope that restrained the catapult was loosened, one catapult after another accurately smashed the fierce fire oil into Li Yanjun's army.

Not long after, Li Yan's military camp was filled with flames.

Li Yan knew that he had been attacked as soon as possible, but he did not panic, but hurriedly ordered someone to find sand and gravel to extinguish the fire.

However, just as he was able to extinguish the fire, thirty more burning altars fell from the sky and burned his camp into a sea of fire again.

Fortunately, the soldiers who had just participated in the extinguishing of the fire did not panic about this thing, knowing that this thing could be extinguished with sand.

However, just as they were fighting the fire with all their might, they remembered the shouts of killing in all directions.

Li Yan couldn't care about extinguishing the fire when he heard the sound, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to take their places and design violently towards the outside of the barracks.

However, what made Li Yan wonder was that after a few rounds of firecrackers, the shouts of killing around him did not weaken, but became stronger and stronger, and they were getting closer and closer to him.

It turned out that Timur had already figured out the details of the Ming army's armaments and knew that they would have a short break after one round of shooting.

His men took advantage of this break to hurry, and they didn't have to travel far, as long as they could run from one trench to the next.

As long as they run into the trenches, no matter how many firearms the opponent fires, they will not be able to hurt them.

And it's blind in the dark, and the opponent's fire gun doesn't have much accuracy, so if you can't hit someone, you can't talk about it.

In this way, Timur's army crossed one trench after another, and when they were only twenty zhang away from Li Yan, the weapons in their hands were finally able to work.

For a while, bows and arrows, firearms, hand cannons, etc. greeted the Ming military camp together, and it didn't take long for the surrounded Ming army to be blinded.

Li Yan was also confused by the firepower outside, not knowing how many people there were outside, let alone knowing that the enemy troops outside were equipped with those weapons.

What made him even more distressed was that it was too dark at this time to accurately judge the enemy's position.

However, whenever he shoots and fires from his side, the light of the fire always reveals his position accurately.

After injuring tens of thousands of people, Li Yan could only order the soldiers to retreat in the camp and use the shelter of the camp to shoot sporadically at the enemy troops outside.

Now Li Yan is only looking forward to surviving this night, as long as the morning dawns, he can clearly see the enemy's military deployment, and with the invincible cannon in his hand, he can naturally slaughter them all.

It's just that Timur didn't want him to wait until dawn, and seeing that the firepower output of the Ming military camp could not keep up, he immediately ordered 300,000 soldiers to launch a general attack.

These people rushed to Li Yan's camp with a shout, even in the face of the fierce fire of Li Yan's army, they rushed forward without fear of death.

Although the army has worked very hard to slaughter, it can't hold up too many enemies around it, even if their firearms are smoking, they can't kill this overwhelming enemy.

After holding out for a few rounds, Timur's soldiers finally broke through the defensive line and stormed into the barracks of Li Yan's department.

Once the war descends into hand-to-hand combat, advanced weapons cannot play to their advantage.

Broadsword to sword, spear to bayonet.

The two sides scuffled and entangled, fighting for their respective countries.

Fortunately, Zhu Yunxi equipped the soldiers of this western expedition with a lot of palm mines, so that they at least had one more means to die together when they were in close hand-to-hand combat.

But even if the Ming soldiers killed the enemy bravely regardless of life and death, they could not withstand the enemy rushing up all over the mountains.

At dawn, the battlefield was in shambles.

Timur looked at the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died tragically on the battlefield, and only felt that his heart was dripping blood.

This time, he took advantage of the favorable time, place, and people to lure Li Yanbu to the city of Baghdad and implemented the technique of ambush on all sides.

However, after a big battle, he still paid the price of hundreds of thousands of casualties!

Li Yan looked at the robed corpses beside him, and then looked at the Timurid soldiers who were aiming at him with the firecrackers, calmly loaded the firecrackers with ammunition, and then raised the firecrackers high.

"Li Yan!"

"His Majesty Sudan has an order, as long as you are willing to surrender, our Sultan will not only kill you, but will also marry the princess to you......"

Li Yan frowned when he heard this, and then turned the muzzle of the gun towards himself.

"Thank you for me, the Sultan, and tell him for me, that I think your princess is ugly, and it is not uncommon for you to be your concubine!"

After Li Yan finished speaking, he looked at the morning glow gradually rising in the sky, and suddenly thought of what His Majesty the Emperor had said to him when he was still the emperor's grandson.

The Huns were not destroyed, how could they start a family?

Now that the Xiongnu have been destroyed, the Northern Yuan has been destroyed, and Chagatai has been destroyed, can I finally start a family?

Li Yan thought of this and silently pulled the trigger.

(End of chapter)