"Report! The second group of scout cavalry encountered enemy scouts, and our scout cavalry was completely wiped out, and no one returned! ”

"Report! The third group of scout cavalry was wiped out, and no one returned! ”

"Report! The fourth team of scout cavalry encountered enemy scouts and suffered heavy losses, with only two of them fleeing back! ”

"Report! The fifth team of scout cavalry is wiped out! ”

"Report ......"

Bad news came one after another to the Persian prince Hussein's big tent of the Chinese army, all of them were bad news of the Persian scout cavalry, and eight teams of 173 scout cavalry were sent out before and after, except for the first team of 20 people who went out at the earliest, the remaining seven teams of scout cavalry were attacked by the enemy, suffered heavy losses, and few people fled back.

"What the hell is the enemy?" Hussein was extremely surprised, "Our scout cavalry are the most elite cavalry, all riding Arab horses, they are superb in martial arts, proficient in cavalry and archery, and they can't beat the opponent's cavalry?" ”

After asking a few scout cavalry who had escaped by chance, Hussein realized that his scout cavalry was a weapon that had been defeated by the other party. The opponent's cavalry was equipped with a new type of musket that had a long range and could be loaded on horseback, which had a range of more than one hundred and fifty paces, and was far and accurate, not only able to reload on bumpy horseback, but also reloaded quite quickly, but in just over ten seconds, it could shoot again.

"Is there such a powerful musket in the world? Can you hit that far, is it a gun or a cannon? Hussein was surprised. Although there are rifles in European countries, they are very slow to reload, not to mention reloading on horseback, even if they are standing on the ground to load, they have to use a hammer to knock through the strip to load the bullets.

However, all the scout cavalry who survived said this, not as if they were lying, and Hussein believed it.

Although the Persian scout cavalry suffered heavy losses, it was impossible to completely shield the Persian scout cavalry with excellent riding skills in the vast steppe. Eventually, the Persians discovered the location and movements of the Ming army.

"Is it the Ming Army? They're thousands of miles away? Hussein was shocked when he got the news, "Our east is also the territory of the Turks, and there is also the territory of the Mongols, how did the Ming army break through the territory of the Mongols and Turks and appear opposite us?" And the Bukhara Khanate on the other side is also considered Turkic, could it be that they joined forces with the Turks? ”

The position of the Persians was somewhat awkward, with the Turkic territories to the east and west, the Ottoman Empire to the west, and the khanates of Central Asia to the east. At this time, the Arabs had weakened, and the former Arab countries had become the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and the Arabs had become subjects of the Ottoman Empire.

At this time, someone came to report: "The Ming army did not enter the castle to hold on, they set up camp in the field ten miles away from our army, and set up a posture to start a field battle with our army." ”

Hussein ordered: "Let's advance five miles!" ”

The Persian army advanced five miles and set up camp five miles away from the Ming army's camp.

After a while, the Persian scout cavalry came again: "The Ming army pulled up the wooden fence, dug trenches outside, and piled up a lot of sandbags. ”

Hussein personally went to the front line, picked up a telescope to observe the Ming army position opposite, and he found that the wooden fence built by the Ming army was not very tall, but there were multiple layers of trenches on the periphery, and there were many places where deer barricades were erected, and it seemed that someone was busy tying bundles of iron wire to the deer bar.

Just as Hussein was observing the Ming army's position, a Ming cavalryman rode his horse and stood a stone's throw away from the Persian army, drawing his bow and arrow, and shooting a letter.

A Persian soldier ran over and picked up the letter, which found it to be written in Persian. The general content of the letter is that the Ming Dynasty does not want to be an enemy of Persia, but only wants to protect the Bukhara Khanate, because the Bukhara Khanate is already a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and as long as the Persians withdraw their troops, then the Ming and Persia are still friendly countries.

"Let's withdraw?" Hussein frowned. The Persians took advantage of the Mughal Empire's efforts to clean up the Bukhara Khanate and take advantage of the weakening of the Bukhara Khanate. At this time, the Ottoman Empire was engaged in a protracted war with Russia, and it did not care about the Middle East and Central Asia at all. If the Persians did not take advantage of this opportunity to expand, I am afraid that there would not be such a good opportunity in the future, and if the Ottomans defeated Russia and turned back against Persia, Persia would not be an opponent of the Ottoman Empire.

"How many people are there in the Ming army?" Hussein asked.

The scout cavalry replied: "There are not many of them, most of them are camel soldiers, in fact, they are not even camel soldiers, they are just infantry on camels, and there are a few cavalry. ”

Hussein picked up the binoculars and continued to observe the Ming army's position, and found that the barracks built by the Ming army were not very tall, but on the contrary, they dug more into the ground. Hussein put down his binoculars and said to the soldiers around him: "The Ming army digs the ground like ground rats, and they don't know how to form a Western-style formation at all. If the musket cannot form a formation, it will not be able to exert its maximum firepower. Since they have set up this stupid formation, thinking that they will be able to hold off our cavalry, then we will attack them with artillery and infantry! ”

The next day, as soon as it was light, the Persians attacked.

The Persian artillery opened fire, and rows of shells fell in the positions of the Ming army, and many deer barricades and wooden fences were smashed over, and the shells fell to the ground, smashing the dirt and turf sideways.

However, the killing effect of the Persian artillery on the Ming army seems to be very unsatisfactory, and the lethality of the solid cannonballs to the Ming army hiding in the trenches is almost zero, and the Persians wasted thousands of catties of gunpowder and shells, just carried out a luxurious fireworks display.

Before the rumbling cannon fire stopped, the Persian infantry lined up in a neat formation and pressed up towards the Ming position step by step. Walking in front were rows of Persian musketeers, who imitated the formation of musketeers in the West, in a dense formation, ready to approach the Ming position and shoot with a platoon of guns.

At this moment, the Ming stragglers hiding in the trenches pulled the trigger one after another, and hundreds of mini rifles spewed white smoke, and the whistling bullets pierced into the crowd of Persians, knocking down more than a hundred Persian infantrymen.

The Persian formation did not break up, but continued to advance in a neat formation. After all, this is a modern army trained by Western instructors, capable of withstanding extreme casualties without collapsing.

The Ming army had few artillery, and due to the problem of long-distance transportation, there were fewer shells and gunpowder, and Li Laiheng was simply reluctant to waste precious shells to fire shotguns, but ordered the musketeers to continue firing. His Western Expeditionary Army can be said to be basically a pure musket army, even if it encounters the opponent's artillery, it is also carried by musketeers.