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Chapter 1742 Megatron Persia
That night, Qin Zuoming led five Indian infantry regiments to raid the fortress defended by 5 Persian defenders. The Persians were repulsed because of their lack of power in the field, and abandoned the heavy artillery and the fortress that had piled up gunpowder. They trampled on each other in the chaos and suffered heavy casualties. .

The next day, the yellow dragon flag symbolizing the army had already been planted on the fort, but there was no trace of the Persian defenders.

"Their armaments are loose, but modest." Qin Zuoming reported to Huang Degong, commander-in-chief of the expedition to Persia.

"Don't be careless, they haven't reacted yet, we quickly marched towards Isfahan, and quickly broke through their imperial city with a 'blitz'."

Huang Degong didn't clean up the battlefield carefully. They asked the navy to count the food, and then quickly advanced to Isfahan.

Although their mobility is still relatively backward, the speed of information dissemination within the Persian Empire is quite worrying, and it will take a lot of time for them to react in time.

Because the firepower of the Persian expeditionary force was too strong, Huang Degong believed that there was excess firepower and there was no need to concentrate all the troops in one place, so he divided the expeditionary force into three teams and moved forward alternately.When encountering a strong fortress on the way, deploy heavy artillery to encircle and attack with one unit, and the other two troops will rush forward across the fortress guarded by the Persians, and try to advance as far as possible before the Persian Empire fully reacts. A place closer to the imperial city.

Especially the two Indian Tubang cavalry regiments, Qin Zuoming personally led them to charge at the forefront, using rear-loaded carbine guns, and defeated the Persian cavalry who surrounded them one after another.

In order to compete for territory with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Persian Empire deployed its main armies on the frontier and seriously ignored coastal defense.

The expeditionary army smashed the Persian soldiers who came for reinforcements on the way one after another, and fought 17 times all the way, without losing a single one!

The "blitz tactics" implemented by Huang Degong achieved great results. The three detachments advanced rapidly, and the progress of the main force would not be delayed just because a certain detachment was hindered. At the same time, the Persian generals everywhere did not know which detachment to block. .The three detachments divided the defenders in various places, and lured the enemy to fight in the field to destroy them.

There are also great hidden dangers in the blitz tactics of dividing troops and advancing, and they are likely to be defeated one by one when the firepower is insufficient.

But Huang Degong obviously didn't have this worry, because the troops in the southern part of the Persian Empire had lost most of their combat effectiveness, and they were only red-turban militias from all over the place who were urgently called up, and they would collapse in front of the regular expeditionary army.

When the expeditionary force reached Isfahan across a distance of several hundred kilometers, the main force of the Persian Empire withdrew from the north and west.

At this time, the expeditionary force had successively attacked dozens of important towns and plundered tens of thousands of horses, camels, cattle and sheep.These looted supplies provided food for the expeditionary force.

They came under the imperial city of the Persian Empire, and at the same time fell into the siege of the entire Persian Empire!

The 10 new Persian army, border guards, auxiliary soldiers, and militiamen deployed layers of defenses in Isfahan. They lost the opportunity to stop the expeditionary force in the south of the empire. When they reacted, they had only the last one left. Here's your chance - defend Isfahan.

If the expeditionary force captures Isfahan, the imperial city of the Persian Empire, the entire Persian Empire will collapse.

The imperial court of the Persian Empire fell into an unimaginable panic, and the entire imperial court was like ants on a hot pot.

In the past month, news of the defeat of the defenders and the fall of the town has been continuously coming back from the front line. The southern part of the empire was devastated by the war and was in turmoil.

And a month later, the expeditionary force using blitz tactics had already reached the outside of the city.

"No wonder I've been anxious before. I felt that the other party was not kind. I didn't expect that the other party really coveted the territory of our Persian Empire. It's just that the defenders in the southern border were defeated too quickly..."

The prime minister of the Persian Empire paced back and forth in the imperial court. He never thought that the other party would directly use force.

What the ambassador of the Ministry of Rites said before was not a joke. The other party really has the ability to defeat the Mughal Empire and the Ottoman Empire alone!
The Persian prime minister and the Persian nobles thought that Huaxia's record was watery, but it was actually not that terrible.

But the other party quickly used the facts to make the Persian dignitaries understand that the other party had the ability to easily destroy an empire.If it is not handled well, the Persian Empire is now the next Mughal Empire or Ottoman Empire!

"The opponent has advanced hundreds of kilometers in the past month, defeated tens of thousands of defenders in the southern border of the empire, and lost thousands of soldiers on our side. My lord, what should we do? If we fall to Isfahan, we may be reduced to Captives of the barbaric armies outside the city..."

"We should seek peace with them. The southern border of the empire has gradually lost control. If we fail to quell this matter in time, there may be many rebellions. Outside the border, Turks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks will take advantage of the gap, and the border The Pashtuns within will be out of the control of our Persian Empire."

"There are still [-] troops inside and outside the city, including elite new troops. Military officials from all over the country are trying to find ways to support us in Isfahan, but the enemy army is surrounded by us. They can completely fight against the city!"

A group of Persian nobles surrounded the prime minister of the Persian Empire. The palace was like a noisy vegetable market. It was divided into two parts, the main war faction and the main peace faction, and they couldn't settle down.

The main combat faction wants to rely on the new Persian army to fight to the death with the expeditionary force and defend the imperial city, while the main peace faction wants to restore peace as soon as possible and prevent serious external and internal troubles due to the war.

When the Portuguese appeared in the past, almost all the Persian nobles were the main fighters, and they fought fiercely with the Portuguese.

But the enemy outside the city is far more terrifying than the Portuguese who attacked the coastal areas.

It took the expeditionary force just one month to penetrate half of the Persian Empire. The Persian Empire, which had only a few bastions and still used most of the old castles, could not stop the combination of cannons and explosives.

All the Persian nobles looked to the prime minister who actually managed the empire, seeking peace or fighting to the death?

"We sent people to negotiate peace with them. If the other party only asks us to go to the Oriental Capital to participate in some kind of World Expo, then we will agree to their request..." The old prime minister was worried.

He also didn't know how to deal with overseas conquerors.

The strength of the opponent is ten times or twenty times that of the Portuguese who caused them a headache at the beginning.

The Persian nobles, including the prime minister of the empire, also believed that it was the rejection of their envoy's request that caused the other party to mobilize their troops.

However, diplomatic incidents are just an excuse to create war, and what the other party needs is an important material that they have never heard of.

(End of this chapter)