Isfahan is one of the oldest cities in Persia, founded during the Ahmenides dynasty in the 4th and 5th centuries BC and served as the capital of the dynasty several times. It is the only way to travel between the north and the south, and is a famous center of handicrafts and trade.

During the Safavid Empire, the city was in its heyday, with merchants and guests from all over the world, and most of the buildings and mosques in the city were built at that time. There is an Iranian proverb that says "Isfahan is half the world", reflecting the prosperity and far-reaching influence of the city at the time.

Isfahan is described in the book "****** in Persia": "The city had 600,000 inhabitants, 162 mosques, 48 madrasas, 182 inns and 173 public baths. Passers-by are luxuriously dressed, markets are thriving, exquisite tents are next to each other, and shops are lined with colorful handicrafts. ”

The rectangular Imam Square in the center of Isfahan was the square where Abbas the Great inspected his army and watched polo matches. Ali on the west side of the square. Karp Palace, the residence of Abbas the Great and the royal family, can be seen from the palace overlooking the whole city.

At present, the seventh Shah of the Safavid Empire is Abbas II, although he is a promising Shah and very diligent in government affairs, but now he is less than ten years old, and the power is handed over to several important ministers under his command to the empire.

The night before the decisive battle between the Far Eastern Army and the Safavid Army, dozens of airships flew silently over Isfahan.

As early as a few years ago, the Far Eastern Intelligence Department invested a large number of intelligence forces in the major cities of the Safavid Empire in Persia in various ways, such as business.

After the Air Force Department of the Far Eastern Army formulated an air raid plan, the Intelligence Department made active preparations, set up ground-based radio receiving devices and various ground-based fluorescent indicator signs at each important target, and the air boat units of the Far Eastern Army used night-vision binoculars. It can easily find and identify targets on the ground, and complete the precise delivery of important targets in major cities in Persia.

As the canisters were dropped, small parachutes opened and slowly floated down. They all fell on Ali in the city of Isfahan next to the Imam Square. The interior of the Karp Palace, as well as around several high-ranking areas in the city.

As soon as the canisters with parachutes touched the ground, the parachutes fell off automatically. At the same time. Streams of greenish-yellow smoke slowly released and instantly spread across the target area.

It was four o'clock in the morning, when people were most sleepy, and the rich greenish-yellow chlorine gas continued to cover the surrounding buildings, like a giant beast from ancient times opening its hideous mouth and devouring everything around it.

The military-industrial department of the Far Eastern Corporation, after years of development, has been investing a lot of resources in the development of special weapons. Now the special weapons of the Far Eastern Army are more powerful than they used to be. The effect and penetration of the weapon have also been increased several times, so the lethality is very domineering and powerful.

Today, the target area is in a state of light breeze, and the people here are also in a state of deep sleep, so the drop of special weapons has achieved the best effect. Moreover, in order to increase the intensity of the attack, the scale and intensity of the airboat force on various targets in Isfahan are very large.

In the early morning, it was already dark.

Ali that permeates the city of Isfahan next to the Imam Square. The greenish-yellow smoke around the Karp Palace and the various important targets in the city has all cleared.

The entire city of Isfahan was dead silent until near noon. The officials and defenders of the city realized the seriousness of the problem and they smashed Ali. The entrance to the Karp Palace and the homes of the high-ranking officials of the Safavid Empire. They were stunned by the terrifying sight.

The bombing campaign was a complete success, including the seventh Shah of the Persian Safavid Empire, Abbas II and members of the royal family, as well as the Persian religious leaders, imperial officials, and military bigwigs in the city of Isfahan.

Other major cities in the Persian Safavid territory were also attacked by the air ships of the Far Eastern Army, and although the scale was not comparable to that of Isfahan, the important targets in various places were also wiped out by the special weapons of the Far Eastern Army.

For an empire like Persia. The collective fall of Abbas II and the royal family, as well as the Persian religious leaders and imperial officials in Isfahan, would have plunged the Safavid Empire into great chaos without the attack of the Far Eastern Army.

The top of the Safavid Empire died overnight, and the Safavid Empire of Persia suddenly fell into a state of great chaos. Although some officials in Isfahan organized fast horses to go to the border to report the news, by the time the fast horses of these messages arrived at the front line, the 300,000 Persian elites had already been defeated, and countless defeated troops were fleeing frantically into the territory of the Persian Safavid Empire.

The intelligence stations of the Far East Intelligence Department stationed in various parts of the Safavid Empire also transmitted the situation back to the headquarters of the Samurai Army in a timely manner, which made Qiao Haipeng, Fujita and others ecstatic.

Fujita immediately issued an order to all units of the Samurai Army to speed up the attack, and ordered the airboat unit to give maximum support to the several assault units in front of the assault to ensure the speed of the assault force's attack.

Although Qiao Haipeng, Fujita, Lin Hua and others have estimated that the air raid and beheading plan will cause a certain amount of chaos to the Safavid Empire, they still underestimate the consequences of the Safavid Empire losing its high-level command.

Because of the extremely closed communication of this era, the Safavid Empire did not know that the Persian army on the front line had been defeated, that there were air raids on Isfahan and other major cities, and that the imperial Shah and the royal family, as well as the main high-ranking officials of the empire, had all been killed.

Therefore, Fujita and Lin Hua also adjusted their previous battle plans according to the changes that occurred on the battlefield. And several overseas divisions of the overseas army grouped in the rear were ordered to immediately take ships and land on the coast of Persia to strengthen the forces of the Far Eastern Army in various parts of Persia.

Tens of thousands of armed police units, which followed closely behind the main force, also accelerated the pace of the march. In order to speed up the attack, the death army troops captured a town, and they would kill it on a large scale, and then only a few troops were left to garrison, and even many places that were extremely prosperous before became a no-man's land full of corpses, and there were no garrison troops left at all.

Fortunately, the samurai army had a lot of war horses, plus a large number of captured Persian war horses, and now the troops did not lack war horses and four-wheeled carriages. In order to speed up the march, the Daredevils almost every man had a war horse and marched on horseback all the way, which greatly increased the speed of the advance. (To be continued.) )

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