During the three months that the Chinese army besieged the city of Kabul, the Persian king Safi sent several waves of troops to support.

However, without exception, they were annihilated by the Chinese army, and the Persian Empire can be described as a loss of troops.

Afghanistan was not fully in its hands, but it lost tens of thousands of Persian troops.

And Kabul did not have a good time, although the Chinese army did not choose to forcibly attack the city due to the lack of heavy artillery.

However, the Chinese snipers were elusive, constantly sniping the defenders of the city outside the city, and in the past three months, the Persians and the Chinese snipers killed thousands of people, so frightened that they did not dare to show their heads in the city.

And these Chinese snipers are disguised outside the city, and the defenders in the city can't find their whereabouts at all, so they can only let the cannons in the city fire indiscriminately as a vent!

After three months of torture, the city's defenders are now demoralized.

Moreover, there was already a shortage of food in the city, which made the morale of the Persian army even worse.

The only thing they could still rely on was their superiority in artillery.

But that's a thing of the past.

Because the artillery of the Huaxia Army is already in place.

There are two types of new types of artillery.

12-pounder field guns, and 24-pounder heavy city breakers.

These guns not only used new composite steel, but also the rifling technology became more mature.

In addition to the artillery, the shells were also improved.

In addition to the solid shells that can be fired, the flowering shells are also divided into blasters, shotguns, and shrapnels.

This greatly increases the range and lethality of the artillery.

With the order of the second prince Li Shizu, the gunners who had already adjusted the gun positions quickly loaded the shells and lit the fuses of the cannons.

Countless shells flew directly towards the walls of Kabul with a loud bang.

Nearly half of the shells fell on the walls of the city just after the first test fire.

At this time, the walls of Kabul were almost shrouded in dust.

When the dust cleared, the Ottoman messengers found that the walls were riddled with holes.

Although the walls have not yet collapsed, several places have been blown away by shells.

Huaxia's artillery was extremely lethal to the soldiers defending the city.

It is clear that neither the Ottoman nor the Europeans have inferior artillery to the Chinese.

If the Ottoman Empire could get such artillery, it would no longer be a dream to capture Vienna or even the whole of Europe!

Soon however, the emissary's thoughts stopped, and after only a few rounds of shelling, a hole was blasted open in the massive walls of Kabul.

A section of the city wall of more than 10 meters collapsed.

Soon a large number of Persian soldiers tried to close the gap.

But the Chinese had no intention of initiating a charge.

Once again, their artillery fired in unison.

After a pillar of incense, both the artillery on the walls of Kabul and the soldiers defending the city have been almost wiped out.

Kabul's eastern city is in ruins.

At this time, the warriors of the Wa Kingdom from Huaxia raised their swords aloft and their spears poured into the city like a tide.

Although the new Persian army still used the ruined walls as a cover, they fired at the Japanese people, causing many Japanese troops to fall in the way of the charge.

But the Chinese snipers behind them still quickly used the sniper rifles in their hands to clear the target for them.

After storming Kabul, they encountered Persian hoplites.

These Japanese soldiers were also extremely fierce, and soon rushed forward with their katanas in their hands.

Although the Japanese knife is an imitation of the Chinese Tang knife, it has achieved the best with its excellent craftsmanship.

Together with the Damascus steel knife and the Malay Klux sword, the Japanese sword is known as the world's three most famous swords.

It just so happened that the Persians also had Damascus steel knives in their hands.

The two famous knives collided directly.

Although in terms of craftsmanship, the Japanese knife and the Damascus knife can be said to have their own merits, but the Japanese people are more proficient in the use of knife techniques.

In addition, the hoplites of the Persians were wiped out a lot by their own muskets before, and their numbers were also at an absolute disadvantage at this time.

Soon these dwarf soldiers gained the upper hand by virtue of their numerical superiority.

The swords in their hands continued to slash the Persians, and even the Persian fish scale armor was often cut off by the swords, and the Persian heavy infantry, which was originally small in number, was quickly wiped out.

As the battle deepened, the soldiers of Huaxia also joined the battle.

Although the east gate is almost a pile of ruins, the other gates are still intact.

Soon the Chinese army began to attack several other city gates.

Where have the Afghans at the South Gate seen this formation?

They soon surrendered, handing over the south gate to the Chinese army.

At this time, the Persian governor Manig was still commanding the Persian army in street fighting, but the news came that Hualkin led a Western mercenary army to escape from the West Gate of Kabul.

Although the Chinese people adopted the method of "encircling three ques and one", they did not need to think about it to know that a large number of ambushes must have been arranged outside the west gate to lure the defenders in the city to break through.

But at this moment, Manig didn't bother to scold Walkin for being stupid.

With the surrender of the Afghans and the flight of the Westerners, he was left alone.

Most of the Persian army in the city were killed in battle, and only more than 2,000 people were trapped in the governor's palace with them.

For three months, the Persian Empire's reinforcements had not been able to get closer to Kabul, and it was clear that his hold had lost its meaning.

In the end, Manig, the governor of Persian Khorasan, chose a more dignified way to surrender to China.

The Ottoman envoys did not expect that Kabul, a heavy defensive formation, would be conquered by the Huaxia army in only half a day.

The terrifying combat power displayed by the Huaxia Empire made him have to re-examine the plan he had proposed before.

The idea that the Ottomans wanted to annex most of Persia did not seem realistic.

After consultations, the two sides decided to take Isfahan in central Persia as the boundary, with the Ottoman Empire in the west and the Chinese Empire in the east.

As for the ownership of the city of Isfahan, it depends on who can take the capital of the Persian Kingdom first.

While the envoy sent someone to inform Murad IV of the news, he went by sea to Beijing, the capital of the Chinese Empire, and formally signed an alliance with the Chinese Empire.

Although the Huaxia army had previously shown signs of imminent invasion of Persia.

However, when the Ottoman envoys left, Li Shizu immediately announced that the armies had entered a state of rest.

Although Kabul was taken in this battle, the casualties of the Huaxia army were really not small.

Li Yan and Gao Jie had previously lost 7,000 men outside Kabul, and nearly 4,000 were killed in the assault.

At this time, although the eastern border of Persia was empty, if the Chinese army drove directly into it, then the main force of Persia would definitely advance eastward to block the Chinese.

Didn't the Ottomans take the opportunity to pick peaches?

He must have let Murad IV do it first, so that he would have it much easier.

Hualkin and the others, who had escaped from Kabul before, naturally couldn't run far, and they were ambushed by the Huaxia army less than fifteen miles out of the city.

Under the blow of the Huaxia Tiger Squatting Cannon Synchronous Gun, these Westerners quickly surrendered.

Although they were driven out of India, the East India Company constantly instigated the rebellion of the native kings in southern India and caused trouble in their own backyard.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo and Sun Chuanting transferred 30,000 Burmese and Annam soldiers from Burma and Annam, so that no further turmoil in the Mughal Empire was caused.

At this time, Li Shizu will naturally not be polite to these mercenaries.

He sent Zheng Sen directly to Bandar Abbas in the Persian Empire to ask the East India Company why it supported Li Zicheng against him.

The Safavids, in gratitude to the East India Company for their support, gave them Bandar Abbas, the stronghold of the British East India Company in Persia.

In fact, the southeastern coast of Persia, including the port of Abba, is now the sphere of influence of the British East India Company.

Regarding Zheng Sen's questioning, Scheer, the boss of the East India Company, naturally denied it.

Scheer said that the relationship between Walkin and Li Zicheng was an employment relationship, which was their personal behavior, and had nothing to do with the British East India Company.

However, due to humanitarian considerations, the British East India Company was willing to pay a ransom of 100,000 silver coins to redeem 800 people, including Hua Erkin.

Zheng Sen naturally declined the kindness of the East India Company, since this matter had nothing to do with the East India Company, then Huaxia would deal with this group of prisoners of war by himself.

Soon Walkin and the others were ordered by Zheng Sen to be executed directly on the sail battleship outside Bandar Abbas.

A full 800 Western mercenaries were killed by the executioners directly on the battleship.

The sea soon turned red, and the entire harbor was filled with sharks attracted by food.

This scene shocked the head of the East India Company, Scheer.

The "barbaric acts" of the Chinese people made him feel a deep fear.

So he made a surprising decision, which was to sneak attack the Chinese sail battleship moored in the harbor.

If he was intimidated by the actions of the Chinese, then he was not at the helm of the East India Company.

The East India Company has never seen any scenes, so naturally it will not be easily frightened!

Stimulated by the Chinese Navy, the displacement of the "Sea King" sail battleship launched by the British at the same time reached 2,500 tons, far exceeding the same period in history.

In order to break the maritime supremacy of the Chinese, the British had now reached an alliance with the Dutch.

The Dutch provided the funds, and the British shared with them the blueprints of the "Sea King", and the two countries are now working on building more new sail battleships.

However, the construction of such a giant warship has been for a long time and a year and a half, and it is not possible to take shape in a short time.

It is expected that it will take another two years to catch up with Huaxia.

It's just that they didn't expect the Huaxia to speed up the pace of embezzling neighboring countries and actually drive the forces of the East India Company out of India.

Scheer decided not to hold back any longer, and the number of sail battleships in China was not large.

According to the East India Company, there were only two ships in India, and there was also a sail battleship in the port of Bago in Burma and the port of Singapore, which was newly built by the Chinese.

If they were able to burn the sail battleship in Huaxia, it would undoubtedly greatly speed up the pace of Britain's catching up with and surpassing the Huaxia navy.

These giant ships have sealed water traps, so it is impossible for water ghosts to sink.

The Chinese people on the ship were very vigilant, and it was unrealistic to forcibly seize the ship.

In order to avoid retaliation from the Chinese, he prepared to fake the illusion that the port was on fire.

Although the East India Company's own losses were also enormous, these Chinese people had to pay the price for their actions today.

He wanted to let the Chinese know the consequences of angering the British.

To this end, he prepared a large amount of fire oil in the port, and in order to prevent the Chinese from escaping, Sher arranged several Persian merchant ships to stay in the channel outside the port in advance.

Even if the Chinese really escaped, this pot would be counted on the heads of the Persians.

At this time, Scheer's actions did not escape Zheng Sen's eyes.

He dared to directly provoke the East India Company on the territory of the British, and naturally it was impossible not to imagine that the other party would take a risk.

Originally, he thought that the British would send at most a few fireships to ram him, but he didn't expect them to make such a big deal and prepare to burn down the entire port.

They actually want to burn down the port, so I'll help them myself.

The Intelligence Division has long developed some downlines here.

Scheer had planned to wait for the Chinese to sleep at night before setting fire to the port.

So they did not block the channel of the port with sunken ships in advance.

Just two ships were arranged on the fairway, disguised as merchant ships waiting to enter the port.

Unexpectedly, a large explosion occurred in a warehouse where fire oil was stored.

The entire dock was set on fire in an instant.

The merchant ships blocking the waterway naturally became the target of the Chinese navy.

Under the fire of the 32-pounder naval guns, the two "merchant ships" docked in front were instantly blown to pieces.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zheng Sen directly ordered the battleship to leave the harbor and sail out of a safe distance.

What Scheer didn't expect was that the fort in the port actually fired directly at the Huaxia warship.

Several British gunners were unwilling to accept that their relatives in the mercenaries were killed by the Chinese army, and directly attacked the fleeing Chinese people.

This is true, but it would not have happened without the intelligence department's spies in the midst of these gunners.

The Huaxia battleships, which were shelled, naturally would not be polite.

They fired a salvo outside the harbor against the British docks and harbor batteries.

The dock, which was already stocked with a large amount of hot oil, was instantly on fire.

And those batteries were destroyed by Huaxia's naval guns for the first time.

This time, the East India Company not only did not burn the warships of Huaxia, but also assumed the charge of taking the initiative to provoke.

Naturally, Li Shizu would not miss this good opportunity, since the Abbasid region in southeastern Persia was actually controlled by the British, and there were not many Persian troops here.

The Chinese army soon crossed the border and marched towards Bandar Abbas, while the batteries and other defenses along the coast had already been blown to pieces by Zheng Sen's battleships.

In this way, the Chinese army, which had been driving straight in, directly took Bandar Abbas, and the southeast door of Persia was opened.

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