Seeing Shapur II, who was brave and brave all the way, Ran Min planned to capture the thief and capture the king first, and sent many generals to lead elite soldiers to rush up, wanting to cut Shapur II off his horse.

But how can it be so simple?

At the side of Shapur II, there were also many brave generals and personal guards, and under their protection, all the generals could not get close to Shapur II for a long time.

The Wei army fought with the Persians for three hours, and finally died down.

Shapur II led his army out of the siege, and the Wei army suffered heavy casualties. This kind of tactics of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred by himself is actually hated by Ran Min, but there is no way, the combat effectiveness of the Persians is very strong, and the weapons and equipment are not much worse than the Wei army!

After the Persians retreated, the Wei army entered the city of Nishapur, but it didn't take long for Murong Ke to lead the army to surround the city of Shapur, and the Xianbei people and the Persians colluded, and hundreds of thousands of troops besieged the entire city of Nishapur like an iron bucket.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you all know what is going on. The Xianbei people suddenly appeared behind our army, taking advantage of our army's unpreparedness and crushing the rear army in one fell swoop, and most of the grain was destroyed by it! Shapur II has colluded with the Xianbei people, hundreds of thousands of troops are lying under the city of Nishapur, and we only have five days' food! In five days, even if we are not defeated by the enemy, we will all collapse without a fight! ”

Ran Min said in a deep voice: "I have decided that early tomorrow morning, the whole army will rush to kill the Persian army camp!" ”

Ran Min's tactics were correct, because the Persian camp was in the east, and the Xianbei camp was in the west, and once the Wei army attacked one of them, the army in the other place might support, but it might not be as fast as that.

Just like the battle of Yique of the famous general Bai Qi of the Warring States Period, the Qin army fought against the Han and Wei coalition forces with one enemy and two enemies, and finally took advantage of the other party's psychology of wanting to preserve their strength, and defeated the Han and Wei armies with less.

But Qin Mu thought that this move was inappropriate, and he said: "Your Majesty, among the combined forces of the Persians and the Xianbei people, the Xianbei people are slightly stronger and the Persians are slightly inferior, it stands to reason that Your Majesty wants to win, and it is right to attack the Persians, but what about after defeating the Persians?" Isn't it cheap Xianbei people? ”

Hearing this, Ran Min said proudly: "Hmph, the Persians are just our defeated men, who have just experienced a fiasco, which is tantamount to a frightened bird, tantamount to a lost dog!" All I need to do is take 80,000 horsemen, divide them and surround them, and within an hour, the Persians will be defeated! And it's a complete failure! ”

In fact, Ran Min was right, after so many battles with the Persians, the Wei army almost always had the upper hand, and the Persians were sluggish, although with the support of the Xianbei army, it was difficult to turn back the morale that had fallen to the bottom for a while.

"But...... Your Majesty, what if Murong Ke led an army to reinforce the Persian camp? Xun Ji said worriedly.

"Hmph, I know Murong Ke very well, and he also wants to borrow our hands to weaken the power of the Persians. Looking at the banner and cooking smoke, the Xianbei people have at least more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, so Murong Ke may not want to protect himself, and when our army and the Persians are both defeated, it is not impossible to defeat our Wei army in one fell swoop! ”

Xun Ji lowered his hand and said, "Your Majesty, having said that, even if Murong Ke really intends to sit on the sidelines, we were able to defeat the Persian army, but what about after that?" If the Xianbei people avoid and do not fight, the war will fall into a tug-of-war, and even if they only need a few days, our Wei army will collapse without a fight! ”

"I've made up my mind!"

Ran Min insisted on going his own way and ordered: "Where are Lu Gan and Su Lin!" ”

"The last general!"

"The two of you will lead 50,000 soldiers and horses at the north gate early tomorrow morning, if the Xianbei people really gallop to the aid of Shapur II, be sure to fight so that they cannot gallop quickly!"

"No!"

"Tomorrow, I will lead 80,000 iron horsemen to annihilate the Persians! In this battle, if you don't break the Persian oath, you won't pay it back! ”

The next day, Ran Min led 80,000 iron cavalry to attack and attacked the camp where the Persian army was located. Shapur II never expected that the Wei army besieged in the city of Nishapur would dare to take the initiative to attack, originally the Persian army had already set up a huge phalanx outside the city, ready to attack the city, but seeing this posture, they were a little flustered.

"Raise your shield!"

The Persian soldiers at the front of the phalanx set up their rectangular shields and waited for the battle.

Ran Min looked ahead, and slashed with a stern expression: "Release the arrow!" ”

The iron cavalry of the Wei army were equipped with powerful and long-range divine arm bows, so when the Wei army had not yet entered the range of the Persians, Ran Min had already ordered the soldiers to draw their bows and arrows and fire all the crossbow arrows together.

All of a sudden, the entire sky was covered with a dense rain of arrows, and a large area of black pressure fell on the Persian army array.

"Ahhh ……”

The crossbow arrows were so penetrating that the armoured Persian soldiers in front of them were shot, wailing incessantly, and fell in a pool of blood in a miserable appearance.

What's more, even the Persian soldiers who were holding huge shields in front of them were pierced by crossbow arrows, and the whole person fell to the ground, blood splattered everywhere. But then another shield-bearer took his place.

Seeing the massive casualties on his side, Shapur II's face was very gloomy, and then he ordered the spearmen to come out and throw the shorter spear in his hand, and in an instant, the short spear flew out and spread all over the dome.

"Poof! ……”

The Persians were burly, powerful men, and the short spears thrown from their hands were naturally very powerful.

No, those armored Wei cavalry were caught off guard, and they were instantly pierced by short spears and were assassinated under their horses.

There are many Wei cavalry who have some martial arts, and they can swing their swords to shoot short spears away, but many unlucky guys, because the war horse under the crotch was stabbed by the short spear, and then the war horse fell, and the knights on horseback also fell off the horse, and they were half-crippled if they were not dead, and they were even trampled by the iron hooves of their comrades behind them!

When the Wei army's iron cavalry entered the firing range, the Persian phalanx suddenly fired thousands of arrows, and a rain of arrows flew out like locusts crossing the border, harvesting the lives of a large number of Wei soldiers.

"Throw-" With a wave of Ran Min's big hand, the Wei army iron cavalry who followed him suddenly took out one water bladder after another from the side of the saddle, and with Ran Min's shouting, they threw this kind of wine jar out.

"Shoot-"

And when those water bladders fell into the air, the Wei iron cavalry, who had already prepared the rockets, opened their bows and arrows and shot the rockets out, and the water bladders were pierced and ignited in an instant.

The wine sac was filled with flammable materials such as fire oil and saltpeter, which had been collected by the Wei army, and as the water bladder was shot through, a huge sea of fire poured into the front line of the Persian phalanx.

The Persian shieldmen and spearmen in front of them were all burned, wailing, and the shield array that had been arranged was broken.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Persians' shield array, the Wei army's iron cavalry drove straight into the huge phalanx of the Persians.

The impact ability of the iron cavalry is also very strong, the outermost is the heavy cavalry with heavy armor and the middle is the light cavalry, under the crushing of the heavy cavalry like a tank, it instantly tore a big hole from the Persian phalanx!

Seeing that the Wei army's momentum was so fierce, Shapur II gritted his teeth, fortunately, he did not fully hope that the troops in front could block the impact of the Wei army's iron cavalry, so he had already prepared and had set up another line of defense in the Chinese army.

"Roar, roar, roar! ……”

There, countless Persian soldiers roared with spears up to seven meters long. Encountering such a defensive line, some of the Wei iron cavalry who had too much impact momentum couldn't stop the horses, so they plunged into it, and were immediately stabbed into a hornet's nest, bleeding like a torrent.

However, with the paving of the corpses of these dead Wei cavalry, more Wei soldiers drove straight in, and it didn't take long for this line of defense to be broken.