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Chapter 260 The Anger of the British (please subscribe for monthly tickets)
During the three months when the Chinese army besieged the city of Kabul, King Safi of Persia sent several waves of troops to support him.

However, without exception, they were annihilated by the Chinese army, and the Persian Empire suffered a loss of troops and generals.

Afghanistan was not completely captured, but tens of thousands of Persian troops were lost.

Life in Kabul was not easy either, although the Chinese army did not choose to forcibly attack the city due to a lack of heavy artillery.

However, the Chinese snipers were elusive and kept sniping at the defenders outside the city. In the past three months, the Persians also killed thousands of Chinese snipers, and they were so scared that they did not dare to show their faces in the city.

And these Chinese snipers were disguised outside the city, and the defenders on the city could not detect their whereabouts at all. They could only let the cannons on the city fire randomly as a way to vent their anger!
After three months of torture, the defenders in the city were 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 can rely on is their artillery advantage.

But now this has become a thing of the past.

Because the Chinese army's artillery is already in place.

There are two types of new artillery.

12-pound field cannon, and 24-pound heavy city-breaking cannon.

These artillery pieces not only use new composite steel, but the rifling technology is also more mature.

In addition to the artillery, artillery shells have also been improved.

In addition to the solid shells that artillery can fire, explosive shells are also divided into explosive shells, shotgun shells and shrapnel shells.

The range and lethality of the artillery have been greatly improved.

Following the order from the second prince Li Shizu, the artillerymen who had adjusted the gun positions quickly loaded the shells and lit the fuses of the artillery.

Countless shells flew directly towards the city walls of Kabul with loud noises.

Nearly half of the cannonballs fell on the city walls in the first test firing alone.

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

When the dust cleared, the Ottoman envoys discovered that the city wall was riddled with holes.

Although the city wall has not collapsed yet, large areas have been blown up by artillery shells in several places.

Chinese artillery was extremely lethal to the soldiers defending the city.

It is obvious that neither the Ottoman Empire nor the European artillery is as good as China.

If the Ottoman Empire could obtain such artillery, capturing Vienna or even occupying the entire Europe would no longer be a dream!
But the messenger's thoughts soon stopped. After just a few rounds of shelling, a hole was opened in the huge wall of Kabul.

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

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

But the Chinese had no intention of launching a charge.

Again their artillery fired a salvo.

After a stick of incense, both the artillery on the walls of Kabul and the soldiers guarding the city had been almost wiped out.

The east city of Kabul is already in ruins.

At this time, the Japanese warriors from China raised their Japanese swords and spears poured into the city like a tide.

Although the new Persian army still used the broken city wall as cover to shoot at the Japanese, causing many Japanese soldiers to fall on the way to charge.

But the Chinese snipers behind them quickly used their sniper rifles to clear their targets.

After entering Kabul, they encountered Persian hoplites.

These Japanese soldiers were also extremely ferocious, and they quickly charged towards the enemy with their samurai swords raised high.

Although the Japanese knives were imitations of Chinese Tang knives, they were superior to their predecessors due to their excellent craftsmanship.

Japanese swords, along with Damascus steel swords and Malay Kreiss swords, are known as the three most famous swords in the world.

It just so happened that the Persians were also equipped with Damascus steel swords.

These two famous swords collided directly.

Although in terms of craftsmanship, Japanese knives and Damascus knives have their own advantages and disadvantages, the Japanese are more skilled in the use of knives.

In addition, many of the Persian heavy infantry had been wiped out by their own muskets, and their numbers were at an absolute disadvantage at this time.

Soon these short Japanese soldiers gained the upper hand with their numerical advantage.

The Japanese swords in their hands continued to kill Persians. Even the fish scales of the Persians were often cut off by the Japanese swords. The originally small number of Persian heavy infantry was quickly wiped out.

As the battle deepened, Chinese soldiers also joined the battle.

Although the east gate was almost reduced to a pile of ruins, several other gates were 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 to engage in street fighting, but news came that Warkin led Western mercenaries to escape from the west gate of Kabul.

Although the Chinese adopted the strategy of "encircling three towers and one tower", it didn't take much thinking to know that a large number of ambushes must have been deployed outside the west gate to lure the defenders inside the city to break out.

But at this moment, Manigold couldn't bear to call Warkin stupid.

With the Afghans surrendering and the Westerners fleeing, he was left to fight alone.

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

For three full months, the Persian Empire's reinforcements have never been able to get closer to Kabul. It is obvious that his persistence has lost its meaning.

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

The Ottoman envoy did not expect that the heavily defended Kabul would be captured by the Chinese army in just half a day.

The terrifying combat power displayed by the Chinese Empire forced him to re-examine the plan he had proposed before.

The idea that the Ottomans wanted to annex most of the Persian mainland seemed unrealistic.

After consultations, the two sides decided to use 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 capture the capital of the Kingdom of Persia 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, to formally sign an alliance with the Chinese Empire.

Although the Chinese army had previously shown signs that it would soon invade Persia.

However, after the Ottoman envoy left, Li Shizu immediately announced that all armies had entered a state of rest.

Although Kabul was captured in this battle, the Chinese army suffered considerable casualties.

Li Yan and Gao Jie had lost 7000 people outside Kabul before, and nearly 4000 people were killed in this attack on the Japanese army.

Although the eastern border of Persia is empty of troops at this time, if the Chinese army marches directly in, then the main force of Persia will definitely move eastward to stop China. Didn't it mean that the Ottomans took the opportunity to pick peaches?

He must have asked Murad IV to take action first, which would make it much easier for him.

Warkin and others who had previously escaped from Kabul naturally could not run far. They were ambushed by the Chinese army less than fifteen miles out of the city.

Under the attack of Chinese tiger squatting artillery and rifles, these Westerners quickly surrendered.

This group of British guys caused trouble for themselves. Although they were driven out of India, the East India Company continued to instigate the rebellion of the native kings in southern India and caused trouble in their own backyard.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo and Sun Chuanting transferred 3 Burmese and Annan soldiers from Burma and Annan, so they did not cause further turmoil in the Mughal Empire.

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

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

In order to thank the East India Company for its support, the Safavid Dynasty handed over Bandar Abbas to them, which was the stronghold of the British East India Company in Persia.

In fact, the southeastern coastal areas of Persia, including the port of Aba in the south, are now the sphere of influence of the British East India Company.

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

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

However, out of humanitarian considerations, the British East India Company was willing to pay a ransom of 10 silver coins to redeem 800 people including Walkin.

Zheng Sen naturally declined the East India Company's kindness. Since this matter had nothing to do with the East India Company, China would handle these prisoners of war on its own.

Soon Warjin and others were ordered by Zheng Sen to be executed directly on the sailing battleship outside Bandar Abbas Port.

A total of 800 Western mercenaries were killed directly by the executioner on the battleship.

The sea soon turned bright red, and the entire port was full of sharks attracted by the food.

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

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

So he made a surprising decision, which was to sneak attack the Chinese sailing battleship anchored in the port.

If he was intimidated by the behavior of the Chinese, then he was not the leader of the East India Company.

I have never seen any scenes from the East India Company, so I will not be easily frightened!

Stimulated by the Chinese Navy, the "Sea King" sailing battleship launched by the British at the same time had a displacement of 2500 tons, far exceeding the same period in history.

In order to break the Chinese maritime hegemony, Britain has now reached an alliance with the Dutch.

The Netherlands provided funds, and the British shared the blueprints of the "Monarch of the Sea" with them. Currently, the two countries are working hard to build more new sailing battleships.

However, the construction of this kind of giant warship takes up to one and a half years, and it cannot be completed in a short time.

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

But they didn't expect that the Chinese would speed up their pace of occupying neighboring countries and actually drive the East India Company's power out of India.

Scheer decided not to hold back any longer, as China did not have many sailing battleships.

According to the East India Company's information, China has only two ships in India. In addition, there are also one sailing battleship each in the Bago Port in Myanmar and the newly built Singapore Port by the Chinese.

If they can burn this sailing battleship of China, it will undoubtedly greatly accelerate the pace of Britain's catching up with the Chinese navy.

This kind of giant ship has a sealed water-proof compartment, so it is impossible for the water ghost to scuttle it.

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

In order to avoid Chinese retaliation, he planned to fake a fire at the port.

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

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

For this reason, he prepared a large amount of kerosene at the port. In order to prevent the Chinese from escaping, Scheer even arranged in advance for several Persian merchant ships to stay on the channel outside the port.

Even if the Chinese did escape, the blame would still be placed on the Persians.

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

He actually dared to directly challenge the East India Company on British territory. Naturally, he could not have imagined that the other party would take risks.

Originally, he thought that the British would send at most a few fireships to ram him, but he did not expect that they would be so aggressive and prepare to burn the entire port.

They actually want to burn down the port, so I will help them.

The Intelligence Department has already developed some downlines here.

Scheer originally planned to wait until the Chinese people fell asleep at night before setting fire to the port.

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

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

Unexpectedly, a big explosion occurred in a warehouse storing kerosene.

The entire dock was on fire in an instant.

Merchant ships blocking the waterway naturally became the targets of the Chinese Navy.

Under the fire of the 32-pound naval gun, the two "merchant ships" docked in front were blown to pieces in an instant.

Without any hesitation, Zheng Sen directly ordered the warship to leave the port and sail out to a safe distance.

What Scheer didn't expect even more was that the fort at the port actually fired directly at the Chinese warship.

Several British gunners were unwilling to have their relatives among the mercenaries killed by the Chinese army, and directly fired at the fleeing Chinese.

Although this is true, this incident would not have happened if there were no spies from the Intelligence Department who were fueling the fire among these gunners.

The Chinese battleship that was bombarded was naturally not polite.

Outside the port, they fired a volley at the British docks and forts in the port.

The dock, which had originally stored a large amount of kerosene, was instantly engulfed in flames.

Those forts were immediately destroyed by Chinese naval guns.

This time the East India Company stole the chicken but lost the rice. Not only did it not burn down the Chinese warships, it also took on the charge of active provocation.

Li Shizu naturally would not miss this good opportunity. Since the Abbas region in southeastern Persia is actually controlled by the British, there are not many Persian troops here.

The Chinese army quickly crossed the border and marched towards Bandar Abbas Port, and the forts and other defense facilities along the coast had long been blown to pieces by Zheng Sen's battleships.

The Chinese army, which marched straight in, directly captured Bandar Abbas Port, opening the door to the southeast of Persia.

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