The Persian envoys soon ventured through the battlefield and came to the Xia army's formation, where the line infantry saw the cavalry running from the opposite side, and one of the soldiers was about to subconsciously open fire, but was pressed down by the officers on the side. Ugh

The soldier looked up at the officer in confusion, but the officer squinted at the cavalryman with the white flag in his hand, and said, "Don't shoot, that man seems to be trying to pass us something."

As the officer's voice fell, the cavalryman was able to come to the front of the line unharmed, and he spoke in Chinese, with a strong accent that was difficult to understand for a while, and said loudly: "I am the messenger of the Emir of Nader, and I want to see your general!"

When the officer heard this, he beckoned to his subordinates and said, "Make way for him and let him in."

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The soldiers then gave way to a road large enough for horses to cross, and the Persian envoy slapped his horse and rode into the passage, all the way in the direction of the Xia army's banner, and it was not long before he came to the perimeter of the banner, and was stopped by the tall grenadiers.

Looking at the bright bayonet in front of him, the Persian envoy did not dare to continue to ride his horse forward, he quickly turned over and dismounted, passed through the grenadier block, and walked quickly to the outside of the handsome banner, he could see a bearded Xia army general was riding a horse standing under the handsome banner, the face of the Xia army general was full of the majesty of being a general of the Celestial Empire.

The Persian envoy then stood down, looked at the majestic general with awe, stroked his chest and saluted, and said, "Honorable Xia general, on the orders of the Emir of Nadri, I have brought a message from him, that we have surrendered and are willing to withdraw from the Mashhad region, but in exchange allow us to keep our weapons and evacuate this area safely." Ugh

Mu Tianbo didn't speak, and the lieutenant general beside him took the first step and said, "This battle was already provoked by you, how could it end because of your will? As soon as the battle begins, there is no reason to end halfway, you go back, tell your general, Mashhad does not need you to give up, we will go and get it!"

When the Persian envoy heard this, his expression changed slightly, but he still insisted: "General Xia Ren, before the start of the war, our two armies had already agreed that we would use this war to decide the belonging of Mashhad, and now we are willing to admit defeat and hand over Mashhad, why do you still insist on going to war?"

"Because from the very beginning, our goal was not Mashhad." Mu Tianbo finally spoke at this time, he showed an indifferent smile on his face, and said, "Our goal has always been your army, go back and tell your commander, this battle will not end here, unless all of you lay down your arms and become prisoners."

When the Persian envoy saw Mu Tianbo's words, he knew that he had made up his mind, and he looked at Mu Tianbo deeply a few times, and then said, "Since this is the case, let's see you on the battlefield."

With that, he turned back to the horse, turned on the horse, turned the horse's head, and departed from the direction from which he had come.

After the Persian envoys had departed, the order to continue the attack was conveyed to every line of infantry on the front line, and officers of all ranks immediately drew their sabers and shouted orders to their infantry to reload their guns and check the flintlock devices to prevent forks in the ensuing battle.

Subsequently, with the sound of the fierce attack horn, the Xia army began to slowly move forward, and the heavy infantry guns and howitzers were also loaded, and the infantry moved forward with the infantry, preparing to set the position closer to increase accuracy. Ugh

On the other side, although the envoy sent out had not yet returned, seeing that the Xia army had begun to move, Nadel Aziz instantly understood that this was a breakdown in negotiations, and his face sank, and he said, "Let the soldiers be ready for battle, it seems that our enemy is likely not to let us leave here safely."

Nader did not have the idea of breaking through, the Persian cavalry was basically defeated, and the rest of the fleeing back could not form combat power, while the Xia cavalry still maintained intact establishment and combat effectiveness.

Hearing him say this, the emir of Mashhad unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but then his heart rose again, if Xia Jun was not ready to let them go, then they

Aren't they all going to die here?

Even if you don't die, you will lose your freedom and become a lowly captive.

Nader didn't care what the others thought, and he immediately began to deploy in an orderly manner, he ordered the soldiers who had been defeated on the battlefield to be gathered back into formation, and the officers among them were killed for reasons that were unfavorable to supervise the battle, and the veterans who had performed valiantly in battle were promoted, so as to boost morale and encourage the soldiers to fight bravely.

At the same time, in order to boost the morale of the front, he also asked the Persian generals around him to go to the front line to personally supervise the battle, and with rich gold and silver wealth as a reward, announced how many silver coins would be rewarded for killing a Xia person, etc.

Under Nadir's reward at no cost, the morale of the Persian army was greatly boosted and quickly recovered to the peak, and the soldiers looked at the infantry of the Xia army line advancing towards them, and suddenly felt that the other party did not have the sense of oppression just now, but was full of temptation - it was the temptation of money. Ugh

Although the morale of his soldiers was restored, Nader still did not order the attack, and the firepower of the Xia army was too fierce, so Nader decided to wait for the Xia army to take the initiative to attack.

Under his command, the Persian artillery roared again and launched a heavy artillery attack on the advancing Xia army columns—even though the Persian artillery had suffered considerable losses in the previous artillery battle between the two sides, they were not discouraged.

In the deafening sound of artillery fire, the Xia army line stepped on the slightly trembling ground and continued to advance, from time to time there were shells whistling into the crowd, ploughing out a tragic blood path in the crowd, people's stumps, broken arms and internal organs fragments flew sideways, and blood also stained the ground under their feet.

Braving the fierce artillery fire, the Xia army was completely unmoved, still continued to advance, the Xia army artillery also drove the artillery trucks, the position was shot on a small slope on higher ground, under the shouts of the officers, the artillery hurriedly unloaded the artillery, aimed the gun in the direction of the enemy in the distance, and loaded.

"Reload the shells! Hurry up!"

"Put-"

Rumble - huh

The Xia artillery quickly returned fire to the enemy after completing the loading, and dozens of artillery pieces roared and fired revenge shells, which smashed into the dense Persian infantry formation, and exploded violently after falling into the formation, knocking the infantry around the shells to the ground, and the flying shrapnel also killed and injured a large number of people.

Under the ferocious fire of the Xia artillery, the morale of the Persian infantry, which had been finally aroused, was shaken again, and they looked at the exploding shells in horror, and then cried under the explosion of the shells.

The Xia army's artillery forced Nader to change his plan, and he knew very well that if he continued to let the army wait in place, it was likely that he would collapse before the Xia army could be bombarded.

Therefore, he could only put on a gloomy face and gave the order to blow the horn of the attack.

"Allah believers, forward!"

"For Allah, for the seventy-two little raisins in heaven!"

The Persian infantry shouted and began to advance slowly with the dull sound of horns, and the gap cleared by the flowering shells was quickly filled by the rest of the soldiers, and in the face of the constant cannonballs falling from the sky, the timid soldiers could only raise their shields in vain, hoping that the gods would give them divine power to avoid being killed by the cannonballs. Ugh

But the gods on high apparently did not care about the prayers of the common people, and the sincere prayers of the Persians were not rewarded by the gods, and the cannonballs easily smashed through the shields they were holding, tearing their bodies apart along with them.

In the explosion, the Persian army formation was quickly dispersed, and the formation of their advance was also chaotic, and the officers could only tear their throats to restore the military formation, but the chaos on the battlefield muffled their shouts, and the Persian army formation became more and more chaotic.

The Xia infantry seized this opportunity to launch a fierce attack, they did not line up in place according to the content of the infantry drill and shoot at the enemy, but ran quickly under the order of the officer, and after approaching the enemy, the soldiers in the front row raised their guns and fired a volley, and after using the salvo to shoot a group of enemies, they directly raised their rifles and roared and charged.

At the same time as the infantry charged, the cavalry of the Xia army also brandished their sabers and fought out from the flanks, taking the lead in entering the crowd, and the cavalry crashed into the crowd

Dozens of people were knocked out of the way, screaming and flying several meters away.

The cavalry brandished sabers and slashed left and right, they were like hungry wolves rushing into the sheepfold to wantonly slaughter the weak Persian infantry, under the charge and slashing of the Xia cavalry, the Persian infantry's finally condensed fighting spirit and morale collapsed as quickly as a flood.

The shadow of the previous defeat had long been buried in the hearts of all the Persians, and even though they had been able to restore their morale as much as possible, in the face of the slaughter of the Xia cavalry, the shadow buried in their hearts was quickly unearthed and revealed, and the Persian infantry scattered screaming and fleeing.

The wave of defeat quickly swept the entire Persian army, this time there was no chance to recover again, under the fierce offensive of the Xia army, the Persian army was almost completely defeated, and the emir of Mashhad, who personally commanded the battle on the front line, saw that the situation was not good, and decisively withdrew from the battlefield with the guards and a part of the Mashhad army that obeyed his orders, intending to withdraw to the city first. Ugh

The retreat of the Mashhad army undoubtedly dealt a blow to the other friendly forces, seeing that the friendly troops were the first to retreat, and some of the soldiers who still wanted to continue to resist lost their will to fight, and they cursed the cowards who fled first, and threw away the shields and armor that got in the way, and ran for their lives.

Nadel Aziz watched this scene of defeat, only to feel that the blood was surging, his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of crimson blood spurted out of his mouth, and the surrounding guards hurriedly stepped forward to support him, but when the guards surrounded him, Nadel seemed to have passed out.

Seeing this, the guards didn't care about the defeat at the front, they put the commander on their horses and evacuated the battlefield with the commander first, they didn't go to Mashhad, they knew very well that the loss of Mashhad was only a matter of time, and to flee back now was to throw themselves into the net, so they directly bypassed the city and retreated to the hinterland of the empire.

……

The hunt continued until dusk, and outside Mashhad was a hellish scene, the Persians who did not surrender in time were slaughtered, the ground almost red with blood, corpses and human limbs and severed arms everywhere, and in some low-lying places, the blood that gathered almost drowsed the feet and necks.

The Xia army originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to conquer Mashhad, but the governor of Mashhad, who had fled into the city first, saw that the Xia army was approaching, and did not hesitate to order the city gate to be closed, and those deserters who did not flee back were also kept out, no matter how much the latter cried and pleaded.

Subsequently, the routed army that was blocked out could only surrender to the Xia army and become a prisoner of the Xia army, staring at the terrified figures on the city with that hateful gaze. Ugh

After Mingjin collected his troops and stopped pursuing the router, the Xia army began to clean up the battlefield, first sweeping the area with their weapons, looking for the wounded who had not yet died, and then carrying away their own for treatment, while the enemy's was stabbed into the vital point with a bayonet to end their suffering.

After making sure that there were no wounded, they further cleaned up the battlefield, took away all the valuable things, stripped them of the equipment from the corpses, and piled them together into a small mountain, and finally forced the prisoners of war to dig mass graves and bury the bodies of those enemies.

In this way, the Xia army swaggered to clear the battlefield outside the city of Mashhad, without the slightest intention of avoiding the panicked Persians at the head of the city, until the next morning, when the governor of Mashhad again walked up the city wall to look out, the battlefield had been cleared, but the red blood stains on the ground were still there.

As far as the eye can see, the entire outside of Mashhad is a dazzling red land, and the strong and pungent smell of blood still exists after the war, even permeating the inside and outside of Mashhad City.

It was not until the afternoon that the Xia army made an offensive posture, erected the cold cannon outside the city, and aimed the muzzle of the black hole at the city wall, and then a cavalry ran from the Xia army's army formation until it stopped under the city wall.

The cavalryman, however, did not look like a Han Chinese, apparently recruiting an man from among the captives to deliver the letter, and the man stopped under the city wall and shouted in Persian to persuade him to surrender, promising that if the defenders voluntarily surrendered the city, the Xia army would occupy the city by peaceful means.

But if the defenders resist stubbornly, once the cannon sounds, the soldiers and civilians in the city will not be left behind. Ugh

In the naked fullness of the Xia army

Under the murderous threat, the governor of Mashhad was already frightened, he had no courage to continue resisting, and under the hopeful gaze of the soldiers around him, the governor still ordered the soldiers and civilians to lay down their arms, open the city gates, and welcome the Xia army into the city.

On the third day of the fifth month of the 18th year of Wu'an, the Xia army finally won the battle after the battle of Mashhad, at the cost of less than 1,000 casualties, occupied the city, and then seized control of the entire Mashhad region.