The northern flank battalion of the Persian army, which was the first to be attacked by the Chinese army.

Although Isfahan is a large city in central Persia, it is difficult to accommodate more than 200,000 troops on the basis of a large number of residents, and B.C. will not be stupid enough to gather all the troops in the city and let the Chinese army surround it.

According to the deployment of B.C., the Persian army had more than 100,000 people in the city of Isfahan, as the basic support point, with more than 70,000 people on the north flank and more than 100,000 people on the south flank, forming a defense line with Isfahan as the center, more than 70 miles long from north to south and more than 20 miles deep.

On the night of 17 June, the Huaxia army concentrated more than 100 stone cannons and threw more than 2,000 rounds of fire and oil bombs at the camp on the northern flank of Persia in half an hour.

The fires that broke out everywhere not only caused panic among the Persian troops in the northern flank camp, but also exposed this military camp within a radius of dozens of miles in the dark night. 60,000 Chinese cavalrymen brandished sabers and rushed back and forth in teams.

Night combat is a compulsory subject in the Chinese army, but because it has all kinds of strict requirements for the external environment, enemy conditions, and their own quality, the Chinese army rarely uses this killer move, even if it is used for small-scale night attacks, such large-scale night attacks are rare, so as soon as the Chinese army launches an attack, the Persian army in the northern flank camp is the same as what Musa's troops encountered outside Basra last year. However, compared with Zeng Mu, Lu Zhen was more experienced in using troops, and he divided the 60,000 Zhaozhou Xiang troops in his hand into three routes and attacked them separately. Moreover, the attack was carried out according to the area and route that had been determined long ago, even if the Persian army did not know the direction of the main attack and the number of opponents and became more confused, so that the Chinese army would not clash with each other, and it was able to clear the Persian camp with the greatest efficiency. Lu Zhen stood on the periphery of the camp on the northern flank of Persia with hundreds of guards, coldly looking at the fire-blazing killing battlefield in front of him.

Lu Zhen, who is already in his fifties, no longer needs to be at the forefront of the charge, with Duan Huan, Zhao Fu, Jiang Nan, Liu Yao, Zhang Qu, Xu Dang and other first-generation generals aging, the generals who are now the main force in the Chinese army have become Lu Zhen, Cao Yan, Li Tianzheng, Hou Ming, Xiahou Khotan and Chen Guan led by Shanglin Seven Generals, and among them, the most famous, almost mythical like the first generation of veterans, but only Lu Zhen and Cao Yan.

Lu Zhen followed Zeng Hua in his teens. The western expedition to Liangzhou, the northern expedition to the desert and the southern desert to the north, and the destruction of Goguryeo, you can see the shadow of his whip and hooves. In particular, he has been guarding Mobei for more than ten years, and is famous in Hezhou and Pingzhou. Even now, the Ele, Rouran, Xianbei, etc., whether they still live in Hezhou, Pingzhou, or have moved out. When they heard Lu Zhen's name, they would be extremely reverent, and it was only the spokesman of the Holy Lord they believed in, Yi Zeng Hua.

Later, Lu Zhen and Ye Lixun crossed tens of thousands of miles in the Taihe Second Western Expedition, subdued hundreds of thousands of Western Xiongnu, and destroyed dozens of countries. The beheading of hundreds of thousands made all the "barbarians" in the area south of the Dnieper remember his name, and Roman historians also tremblingly remembered Lu Zhen's place name from the cries of the "barbarians".

Cao Yan shined in the battles of Xizhou, Shazhou, and Zhaozhou. Then he guarded Zhaozhou, and looked at Tocharian and Kushan for many years, and its prestige not only deterred Tocharian and Guishan, but also spread to Tianzhu and Persia.

In this western expedition, Zeng Hua led the general manager of the Persian East Road march, with Lu Zhen and Cao Yan as deputy commanders, leading the cavalry and infantry. The rest of the famous generals such as Xiahou Khotan, Li Tianzheng, Hou Ming, Tang Fu, Chen Guan, Wang Xianqian, Xie Xuan, Liu Gaozhi, Zhu Xu and many other famous generals are entourage

Lu Zhen carefully observed all the changes in the North Wing Camp and listened to all the movements. Then from time to time, he ordered the heralds around him to use different horns to inform the generals of the various branches of the army, and make some adjustments to the attack. And the various separate assault armies were always able to make some changes in a large area, controlling the entire battle situation, and pressing the Persian army to the death.

In the melee of more than 100,000 troops, it is almost impossible for the commander-in-chief to make detailed adjustments and changes. Lu Zhen just used the horn to convey his intentions. The specific actions must be made by the generals at all levels in the battle situation according to their own situation, but due to the tacit understanding between the generals. The adjustments they made were so harmonious. In the middle of the battle, a cavalry whistled from the north, slashed down hundreds of Persians with their sabers, and quickly disappeared in the firelight. When the Persians were in shock and had no time to clean up the pieces, another cavalry rushed out silently from the west, slashing and leaving hundreds of Persian corpses behind. When the Persians roared and fired indiscriminately at the back of the cavalry just now, a sudden rain of arrows flew from behind the fire in the south, and dozens of Persians were shot down at once.

In this way, the Chinese people flickered in the firelight, each appearance would bring a hurricane of death, and every disappearance would bring endless unknown fear. Their movements and coordination are fluid, smooth but effective. Looking at the world, perhaps only the Chinese army can carry out such an artistic tactical command and coordination.

The sky finally turned blue, Lu Zhen waved his hand, then turned his horse's head and left, leaving only the herald trumpeter to blow a long and slow trumpet sound there, and with this trumpet, similar trumpets sounded everywhere in the camp on the north wing. Soon, the Chinese cavalry came out of the black smoke of the northern battalion, their faces and bodies were covered with blood and stains, and some of the cavalry were pulling a horse behind them, on which lay their fallen comrades. The Chinese cavalry had an advantage on the battlefield, so they were able to recover some of the corpses of the sacrificed soldiers.

When the sun shone on the Persian plateau again, the 60,000 Chinese cavalry had withdrawn from the camp on the northern flank of Persia, and they gathered more than ten miles away from the camp, rested for a while, and then dismounted and prayed morning with the infantry who were preparing to attack. At the end of this morning prayer, more than 200,000 Chinese soldiers sang in unison:

"The Great War is coming,

Mother, don't cry, the Motherland is behind me!

In the distance, the footsteps of enemy soldiers could be heard, and the earth trembled.

It's time to defend honor, and the blood is already surging,

The flag has sounded the horn of the attack in the gale!

Lightning tore through the heavy black curtain in the distance,

Look, it's the warriors of China who are advancing.

Whether facing the storm or the sun,

We face death and victory with a smile;

We enjoy this grind,

We enjoy this glory.

Our iron horsemen roared forward.

With puffs of dust.

When the enemy soldiers were visible, we swung our sabers forward at full speed!

the value of our lives,

It's to fight for the glorious Motherland!

It is the highest honor to die for the Motherland!

Accompanied by the thunderous sound of horns.

We rushed at the enemy like lightning.

Moving forward with my comrades,

Fight side by side,

That's why we're invincible!

If we fall off the horse

If we are hit by the enemy,

If we can't go back to our homeland,

Please don't cry for me!

Our dear comrades-in-arms,

Our faithful mounts,

Together, we will go to the kingdom of heaven of the Holy Lord! "There is no instrumental accompaniment. More than 200,000 thick voices sang this song that Chinese soldiers loved so passionately, and practiced it for their comrades-in-arms who had died or were about to die, their incomparable courage and their firm faith. With a loud singing voice, it soared into the sky, shaking Isfahan and shaking the Persian plateau. It also shook the whole heaven and earth.

Not long after the singing, the 100,000 infantry who had already stood in formation shouted orders in Cao Yandi, and walked slowly towards the camp on the southern flank of Isfahan, as if the Huaxia army was preparing to cut off the north and south flanks of the Persian army, and then attack the isolated city of Isfahan.

The Chinese infantry walked in a very orderly manner, with the battalion as a phalanx, to the rhythmic sound of marching drums beaten by the drummers of each battalion. Follow the rhythm step by step. Moreover, in order to maintain morale during the march, each battalion recited the "marching poem" according to its own rhythm, which was seven characters in one line, one word and one beat, and the format and content of each battalion were similar, and the front was to sing praises to the Holy Lord. In the middle, praise the merits of the camp. Behind is contempt for the enemy. The sergeants of each battalion chanted in unison in unison. There is the ethereal spirit of the Tianzhu people reciting Buddhist scriptures, the devotion of the Romans reciting the Bible, the mystery of the Persians chanting Avesta (the main classics of the Yuanjiao region), and the rhyme and spirit of the Chinese people reciting poetry.

The chanting followed the footsteps, and finally converged into a low sound of sea talismans that echoed in the sky outside Isfahan. From time to time, there was a very clear command from the ticking of Ma Han's corpse buckle, like the sound of waves flashing on the tip of the waves.

At the front is the Tiger Gun Battalion wearing gray and white infantry heavy armor, due to the rapid development of steel smelting, forging technology and craftsmanship in the Huaxia Workshop in these decades, the weight of the armor has decreased on the basis of improving the quality, and the appearance is more graceful and humane, so it is not so bloated and bulky. These tiger gunners, who only showed a pair of eyes, carried a tiger tooth stabbing spear with a wooden shaft and a steel tip, and a knife was tightly slung to the back.

Immediately followed by the sword players of the Sharp Battalion, and then followed by the sharpshooter battalion with longbows on their backs, these longbowmen in addition to carrying a longbow and a quiver, but also carrying a goose feather knife, once needed, they can immediately put down the longbow and become hand-to-hand combat knife hands, behind them is the crossbow machine battalion, and it looks like they are all carrying the crossbow on their shoulders.

When the Chinese army was slowly approaching, the doors of the camp on the southern flank of Persia were opened, and tens of thousands of Persian soldiers poured out, standing according to the classification of pikemen, archers, shield bearers, etc. After the defeat of Bosirshan, the Persians and the Persians thought of a lot of ways to deal with the tactics of the Chinese, and finally the Persian army absorbed a lot of the tactics of the Roman legions, after all, the Romans' infantry phalanx and legions are world-famous, and the Persians have been dealing with the Romans for hundreds of years, of course, they have also learned a lot of things, which can be used to deal with the Chinese.

Now that the Chinese people have come to the door, the Persians, after receiving the order from the city of Baschi, immediately went out of the camp to fight, because if they were blocked in the big camp, they would be in great trouble, and they might become rats in the nest. Because firstly, the large battalion could not let the large army spread out the formation, and could not cooperate with all arms, and secondly, the large battalion was no better than the city of Isfahan. There was no danger to rely on, and the large camp stretched for dozens of miles, so it was impossible to get fire support from the city of Isfahan.

After more than an hour, the two armies lined up several hundred meters apart, and the entire battlefield suddenly became silent. Now that it has entered the stage of battle, both sides are secretly holding back their strength, preparing to suddenly break out at the moment of engagement.

Zeng Hua was wearing a chain of soft armor, and he still wore a green soap robe outside, and he still had a bun on his head. He instigated his mount. Running towards the formation, followed closely by three large flags, in the middle is the national flag of the "double disc dragon", on the left is the army flag of "blue and yellow five stars", and on the right is the royal emblem flag of "black tripod on a white background".

Zeng Hua passed through the crowd of ten thousand troops, and the Huaxia sergeant followed the figure with fanatical eyes. They are willing to follow this figure to every part of the world.

Zeng Hua looked at the faces he had shaken, and suddenly remembered that when he first came to this world more than fifty years ago, he met a group of displaced people who had fled south, and they were also shaking in front of his eyes at that time. But at that time, my sight was full of fear, sorrow, helplessness and despair. Now, the descendants of these displaced people are now standing thousands of miles away. Their eyes were full of confidence, pride, excitement and a desire for the future.

Zeng Hua didn't expect to come to this different world, he didn't expect that he could live until now, he didn't expect to gather a group of people around him, he didn't expect to be able to take this group of people here, and he didn't expect to be able to guide Huaxia to today's situation. Perhaps from now on, the Chinese nation will not struggle in ignorance and barbarism again and again, and will not be closed in the eastern corner of Snow Mountain, but will step into the great jungle of the world and send out the roar of the king.

Come to think of it. Zeng Hua's arrogance rose sharply for a while, he grabbed the reins, stood in the military formation, then pulled out the steel knife at his waist, raised it high, and then shouted: "Huaxia will win!" ”

The entire Huaxia Army was ignited by Zeng Hua's shout. All the sergeants raised their weapons in the air. He roared: "Huaxia will win!" "The roar began like a hurricane in the center of the military formation. It quickly swept away, and finally gathered into a huge force, rushing towards heaven and earth.

Zeng Hua Cao Yan nodded, and then the steel knife swung forward. Cao Yan immediately shouted: "After blowing, the whole army will advance!" ”

The sound of the majestic trumpet was like the trumpet of the Neptune Land, and the black and white ocean was blown to boil by the sound of the trumpet, and rolled up a huge wave and rushed forward.

The Tiger Spearman raised the spear on his shoulder diagonally forward, and the line continued, followed by the Ground Sword Player, Longbowmen, and Crossbowmen.

Seeing the movement of the Huaxia army, Xue Tixis raised his hand, and the Persian shieldmen immediately rushed to the front with the spears following closely behind, and the archers were also ready to shoot.

When the front of the two armies was only a few tens of meters, a huge black cloud suddenly rose up behind the Huaxia army and flew towards the Persian army, which was so loud that it even covered up a white cloud that flew up at the same time. The black cloud is naturally the iron arrow shot by the god's arm crossbow that terrifies the nations, and the white cloud is the wooden pole feather arrow shot by the longbow. Although the longbow of Huaxia is not as famous as the Divine Arm Crossbow, its power is not about the same, because the Divine Arm Crossbow wins with ferocity, while the longbow wins by quantity. 100,000 Huaxia troops, except for 20,000 crossbowmen, 10,000 tiger gunners, 20,000 sword players and a few Mo knife players, the remaining 50,000 are all longbowmen, and one shot is a large piece.

Mixed in was thousands of long iron arrows, all fired from bed crossbows. More than 200 bed crossbow rooms marched together in the crossbow machine camp, only to hear an order, only to hear the bed crossbow clang, the crossbow moved, six long iron arrows were immediately sent into the sky by four giant bows, the flying long iron arrows are very similar to the javelins of the Roman legions, but the castration is more than ten times faster, whether it is a war horse or a Persian soldier wearing armor, it will be nailed through the moment it hits the ground.

The rain of arrows had just been baptized three times, and the Huaxia army and the Persian army were finally officially connected to the fire. The two armies suddenly burst into a loud sound like molten slurry meeting seawater.

Like the Roman legions, the Persian army formed a huge "steel defense" with shields standing on the ground, and spears stretched out from the gaps in the shields, pointing at the Chinese soldiers who were slowly walking by.

Dozens of days before the Huaxia Tiger Gun Battalion was about to engage the Persian army, with the command of each battalion, the Tiger Gunners made a slight adjustment in the slow march. The first row does not move, the second row moves two steps to the left, the third row moves two steps to the right, and so on and so on, moving left and right, and slightly opening the gap between the left and right. Therefore, the Tiger Gun Battalion, which was still aligned before and after, suddenly became staggered before and after. And by this time, the first row of tiger gunners had already gone to the Persians.