Two days later, on the second day of the fifth month of the seventeenth year of Wu'an, north of the city of Mashhad. Mean

The day of the decisive battle set by the Persian commander had come, and in the early morning of that day, the two armies slowly walked out of the camp with their backs to the camp amid the sound of trumpets sounding in their respective formations.

Needless to say, the number of troops in the sixth town of the Xia army was naturally in the battle, and after a few days of consolidation, Nader Aziz had gathered more than 50,000 soldiers in Mashhad, including 10,000 "modern" troops armed with muskets and bronze cannons, and 40,000 soldiers who were generally armed with cold weapons conscripted from the provinces.

Mu Tianbo, who is over half a hundred years old, is draped all over his body, riding a high-headed horse, walking in front of the army under the entourage of the deputy general and the guards, he squints his eyes and looks at the Persian army that stretches for miles.

Of course, this kind of pressure is completely immune to Mu Tianbo, and at most it can only affect the soldiers under his command who have just been replenished and have not experienced several major battles.

"Father, it looks like this is going to be a tough battle."

Mu Zhongxian, who was half a step behind Mu Tianbo, said, his voice fell, his hand was raised, pointing in a direction in the opposite military formation, and continued: "Look, they also have considerable artillery in their army."

Mu Tianbo looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that on a hill on the side of the Persian army formation, dozens of artillery pieces were lined up, those cannons were different from the standard artillery equipped in the Xia army, the barrel was thick and heavy, and it looked not only ugly but also bulky, but there were also some artillery pieces with slender bodies and smooth bodies. Mean

"But that's it." Mu Tianbo only glanced at it, and then gave this evaluation, "On today, my Great Xia artillery skills are the best in all countries, invincible in the world, and barbarian artillery is not to be feared."

"That's true, but the child thinks it should be more careful." Mu Zhongxian said.

While the father and son were talking, the Xia army formation gradually lined up, and they used the most elite 1st Brigade as the central army, which would face the elite part of the Persian army, with the 2nd and 4th Brigades guarding the flanks, and the attached cavalry brigades also deployed on the flanks, waiting for the situation on the battlefield to change before entering the battle.

After the army was completed, Mu Tianbo also ended the conversation with his eldest son, he ordered Shuai Qi to follow behind him, rode his horse to the front of the military formation, and in the respectful eyes of the soldiers, he rode his horse from one end of the military formation to the other end of the military formation, so that the whole army could see his figure.

Everywhere Mu Tianbo went, the soldiers of the Xia army cheered loudly, they raised their rifles above their heads, and shouted "victory" under the leadership of the officers, everyone's faces carried confidence in victory, they held their heads high, full of vitality.

After running the entire army formation, Mu Tianbo returned to the rear of the Chinese army a little out of breath, he looked at his eldest son with a smile, and said self-deprecatingly: "Old man, I will be tired after running such a lap on horseback, if this is a small matter when I was young, I don't know if I can lead the army to fight in a few years."

Mu Zhongxian also replied with a smile: "Father's words are wrong, Xi Lian is still brave in his eighties, and his father is only three out of fifty, and he can still play with a big knife, why are he worried about what will happen in a few years?" Mean

Mu Tianbo couldn't help laughing when he heard his words, but he didn't continue to discuss this matter.

About half an hour later, the two armies were all lined up, Mu Tianbo also put away his relaxed look, he waved his big hand, ordered the attack, and the heralds around him immediately puffed out their cheeks and blew the horn of attack.

After the fierce horn of attack sounded, it quickly echoed throughout the Xia army's formation, and the officers of all companies, battalions, and targets heard the horn sounding, drew their sabers one after another, raised them high to the enemy, and shouted:

"Attack! Move forward!"

Knock Knock Knock –

As soon as the officers' voices fell, the snare drummers in each company beat the dense drums, and each time the drum beat sounded, it corresponded to the steps taken by the soldiers, and in the sound of the snare drums, the soldiers marched slowly with neat steps, and the neat steps taken by the more than 30,000 soldiers when they advanced together almost made the whole ground tremble.

On the opposite side, seeing that the Xia army took the initiative to attack, Nader Aziz also ordered to blow the horn of attack, and the huge Persian army immediately began to move

Although the movements were not as uniform as those of the Xia army, the momentum generated by the military formation composed of more than 50,000 people was enough to make those timid people turn pale and their legs tremble. Mean

While the infantry was advancing, the Xia artillery was also moving quickly under the traction of pack horses, and the goal of the artillery was to erect the artillery on a small hill on the higher ground on one side of the battlefield, as long as it could occupy the commanding height, it would be of great help to the artillery bombardment in the whole battle.

The Xia army needed to move the artillery position, but the Persian artillery did not, they had already seized the favorable terrain in advance, so while the two armies were moving, the Persian gunners who had received European artillery training loaded the artillery one after another, adjusted the firing angle, and aimed at the dense Xia army formation.

After dozens of artillery pieces were loaded, the artillery officer gave an order, and the Persian artillery position was the first to let out a roar that resounded throughout the battlefield, only to feel that the entire ground trembled for a moment, and dozens of solid shells flew into the air at high speed, and the distance of hundreds of meters was shortened in just a few seconds, and then with a sharp sound of breaking the air, it smashed heavily into the Xia army's formation!

"Enemy artillery fire is coming!"

In the shouts of the officers, the infantry could only stubbornly take the shells that smashed into the crowd, and although only a few of the dozens of shells successfully fell into the crowd, they also caused a lot of casualties to the Xia army.

The cannonball fell into the crowd, directly cutting off the driving limbs of the soldiers in front of it, and even if it was just a light brush, the power of the cannonball could cut off a large piece of human flesh.

A solid bullet fell a few meters in front of the infantry line, smashed a pit in the soft ground, and then bounced high under the action of inertia, shaving the head of a veteran who walked in front head-on, blood splattered from the neck of the headless corpse, like a hot spring sprayed two meters high, the soldier standing next to him was sprayed with most of his body, his face was covered with blood, he numbly raised his hand to wipe the blood from his face, and continued to move forward. Mean

For a time, the cannonballs forcibly plowed out a bloody path in the crowd, and a whole line of soldiers died under the cannonballs, and the stumps and internal organs of the people were sprinkled on the ground with the splash of blood, and the scene was extremely bloody.

"Speed up! Run! We can't let our infantry brothers be slaughtered by enemy artillery!"

While the infantry endured the shelling, the artillerymen picked up speed, and the officers encouraged their artillery to keep up with the carts that were being dragged forward by pack horses.

After two rounds of artillery fire from the Persian artillery, they finally arrived at the intended position, and the officer looked back at the blood marks behind the infantryman, clapped his palms, and said to his subordinates, "Brothers, unload the artillery, and then let the Persian barbarians see what the real artillery is!"

The artillerymen shouted in agreement, then unloaded the heavy guns, pushed the guns together, and aimed the cold muzzles in the direction of the enemy, and some of the artillerymen struggled to carry down the wooden boxes with shells placed on the tractors and placed them next to the guns.

Subsequently, the artillerymen of the Xia army began to reload the artillery, and one by one the solid shells were stuffed into the barrel and compacted with the black powder.

"Fire!" Mean

Rumble –

As the officer's command flag waved, dazzling sparks burst out from the front of the cannon, and the solid cannonballs flew towards the dense Persian formation with a whistling sound that almost tore through the air.

A few seconds later, the cannonballs smashed into the crowd like hailstones, setting off a bloody storm in the Persian army's formation, compared with the loosely armed Persian artillery, the battle-hardened Xia army's artillery was obviously more accurate and reloaded.

Soon, the Xia artillery completed the loading again, but this time, they replaced the solid bullet with the flowering shell, in the second round of deafening shelling, the flowering shell smashed into the crowd with the artillerymen's belief in revenge for their comrades, and some exploded in mid-air before they were about to land, and the shrapnel produced by the explosion shrouded the soldiers below like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers, killing and injuring one, and some of them exploded directly after falling into the crowd, forcibly clearing a small piece of no man's land.

The terrible artillery of the Xia army soon caused a commotion in the Persian army, and in order to avoid disturbing the morale of the army in advance by the Xia artillery, the Persian artillerymen were quickly ordered

, they aimed their guns at the Xia artillery that was being fired.

The artillery battle between the two sides immediately began, and the artillery of both sides came and went, and the artillery fire rang out in unison, so it was not lively, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

On the other side, the battle of the infantry was about to begin, and the Xia army opened the way with the light infantry that maintained a skirmish formation, and the light infantry who walked in the front quickly brought the enemy into the range of fire, and then the light infantry on one knee was the first to shoot the first round. Mean

In the sound of the two-type rifle gunfire, there were finally casualties in the advancing Persian army formation that died under small arms, and those officers and standard-bearers with battle flags in different armor from the surrounding soldiers were the first to be targeted, and in the crisp gunfire that rang out from time to time, the officers and standard-bearers were constantly shot and fell to the ground, and they quickly sensed the enemy's target, but they did not have the slightest ability to counter it.

In order to protect the officers from being shot, the officers could only act as shrunken turtles and hide behind the shields of the soldiers.

They quickly withdrew from the front line, handing over the battlefield to the infantry, the mainstay of the army, who continued to advance to the beat of the drums, gradually bringing the other side into range.

Knock –

As the last drum beat fell, the line infantry also stopped advancing, and the officers of all ranks shouted in unison the order to prepare to shoot, and the soldiers immediately checked their weapons in place, and the soldiers in the front row, after checking them, raised their rifles in their hands to their chests and aimed at the enemy on the opposite side.

When the enemy slowly advanced to within 100 meters, the officers shouted in unison to shoot, and the infantry in the front row immediately pulled the trigger and fired a salvo, and the Persian infantry walking in front saw a row of fire explode on the opposite side, and then felt a piercing pain in their chests, they looked down at the source of the pain in shock, and at some point, a small blood hole appeared in their chests, and the strength and vitality of the whole body were also flowing out of this small blood hole.

After firing a volley, without bothering to check the results, the soldiers in the front row immediately knelt down on one knee to reload their ammunition and give up their firing position to the robes behind them, and the soldiers in the second row also raised their rifles and fired a volley at the enemy who continued to advance under the order of the officer. Mean

In the middle army of the Persians, the soldiers of the new army equipped with arquebuses had stopped, looking at the Xia army formation that was almost obscured by the smoke of gunpowder, and the Persian generals gave an order, and the soldiers in the front row gave way one after another, revealing dozens of bulls surrounded by the military formation!

The horns or heads of the bulls were wrapped with hay, vines and other flammable materials, and under the orders of the officers, the soldiers held torches to ignite the flammable materials on the bull's head, and the flames immediately frightened the bulls, and the cattle mooed angrily, and rushed forward in the frightening of the flames.

Xia Jun, who was still shooting, only felt that the ground suddenly trembled, and at this moment, a breeze blew, blowing away the gunpowder smoke in front of them, and the next second, the soldiers were shocked to see dozens of red-eyed bulls rushing towards them angrily!

"Fire Bull Formation!"

These three words instantly appeared in the mind of the experienced Xia Jun officer, and he hurriedly ordered to shoot at the bull, wanting to stop the bull from continuing to rush this way, but the bull who was in anger was difficult to kill even the rifles of later generations in the first place, let alone the musket projectiles with lower accuracy in this era.

In the stunned shouts of the infantry of the Xia army, they shot at the rushing bull, one after another blood flowers bloomed on the bull, the bull who felt the pain fell into greater anger, and rushed into the Xia army column, the sharp horns directly poked the infantry in front of them, and the whole person was knocked out, like a kite with a broken line and flew out several meters away.

After disemboweling the Xia soldiers in front of them, the bulls continued to run forward, and many of them still had their horns wrapped around the intestines of the people who had been torn out, and the intestines continued to drip blood outward as they ran, and even the filth inside fell out. Mean

"Kill them!"

The ranks of the Xia army were full of voices, and the soldiers screamed and shot at the bulls that rushed into the crowd, or risked their bayonets to stab the wounds on the bulls, and the herd let out a painful neigh

The soldiers who stood in their way were either knocked into the air, or knocked to the ground, trampled on by the heavy hooves of the ox, and the flesh was blurred, almost turning into a puddle of minced meat.

After paying nearly 100 lives, the Xia army finally reluctantly killed the scarred herd, and they finally killed the herd here, but the Persian musketeers on the opposite side opened fire unscrupulously, causing them a lot of casualties.