The Persians were unwilling to build fortresses on their territory in the Persian Gulf. Negotiations between the two sides broke down and a battle that forced the Persian Empire to surrender began in front of the Persian imperial city of Isfahan.

The artillery was roaring, the Gatling machine guns were spraying white smoke, and teams of Indian Tumen soldiers advanced to the Persian positions under the command of Chinese officers.

They advanced under the cover of firepower of artillery and machine guns in the most brutal way of queuing up to kill the times.

The Indian cavalry were on both sides. The tall Tumen soldiers selected to serve as cavalry were all tall Tumen soldiers. Although they did not have uniform clothing, they had undergone strict training by Chinese officers and the momentum they exuded was completely different from the Persian cavalry on the opposite side.

The Persian nobles in Isfahan heard the fire outside the city and their faces were pale.

Isfahan is located in the heart of the Persian Empire. No enemy has ever been able to penetrate deep into their hinterland and attack the city just under their noses.

As the sound of artillery became closer, the faces of Persian nobles became worse and worse, and an invisible pressure was pressing on them.

If the imperial city is captured by the Expeditionary Force, they are likely to become ministers of the country to be destroyed, and their property in the city will also be plundered and destroyed by the Expeditionary Force.

Some Persian nobles saw that the situation was not good, and they had already planned to clean up the fine and soft work to escape to a safer place.

"No one can leave! The emperor and I are still here. If I find anyone left without authorization, they will be sentenced to death after the war is over!"

The Persian prime minister has always been majestic and stood up to maintain order in an emergency.

After being scared by him, the Persian nobles who wanted to escape were no longer afraid to move.

The Persian emperor and the prime minister had not yet fled Isfahan, and both sides still had some room for maneuver, and the expeditionary army did not seem to mean to destroy the country. After the war, the Persian emperor and the prime minister might still rule this area.

"Follow me to the city wall to inspire the soldiers to fight. We will unite as one, and we will be able to resist foreign enemies!" The prime minister mobilized everyone.

A group of Persian nobles were forced to risk their way to the front line with reluctance.

"The emperor will not abandon us! The Lord will not abandon us! Our Persian Empire will definitely win!" The prime minister took the nobles to the city wall and used passionate words to inspire the soldiers guarding the city to fight bravely.

Their call played a certain role. Many Persian soldiers on the city walls frantically held up muskets or bows and arrows, not knowing what they were calling out.

The city guard in armor came to the prime minister and whispered: "Sir, the situation seems not very good..."

The prime minister and the Persian nobles looked down the city, and an unprecedented battle on the Iranian plateau is underway—

On one side is a Persian army with a total of 100,000 soldiers, and on the other side is an expeditionary army with only 10,000 men.

The Persian legion was not only Persians, but also other vassals. On the other side, the main body was the soldiers of the Indian states.

What is surprising is that the small number of expedition forces took the lead in launching an offensive, disrupting the Persian legion with artillery, machine guns and even simple Indian rockets.

When the formation of the Persian legion was in chaos, five Indian infantry regiments formed a dense three-row line of musket line to press towards the Persian legion. The depth of this musket line was very shallow, but the front firepower was very strong because there were only three rows.

The front of the Persian Legion was a musket line composed of spearmen and musketeers, with a depth of more than 8 rows. This was the tactics taught by the English more than 20 years ago.

Frontal is the most elite Persian New Army among the Persian Legion. It often fights against the Turkish New Army and is still quite elite.

Behind the Persian New Army were the red turban militias temporarily recruited from various places. Some of them were equipped with mesh ropes, and some were holding bows and arrows that were eliminated by muskets.

The Persian New Army is undoubtedly a relatively powerful army, able to fight against the Turkish New Army of the Ottoman Empire head-on. Many of them have been through the battlefield for a long time, and their opponents are Indian Turkish soldiers who have never fought much.

"When we went to their camp to negotiate with them, we found that the most of the enemy were Indians, not Chinese," a nobleman said to the prime minister.

"The Mughal Empire is nothing more than a large population, and their combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning in front of our new army. The Chinese planned to treat them as cannon fodder and wait until they consumed our new army before they took action in person?" the prime minister muttered.

He did not think that the Indian Tumen soldiers had any combat effectiveness.

Qin Zuoming, the central army of the five Indian infantry regiments outside the city, came into battle lightly. He led the commander-in-chief to urge the five Indian infantry regiments to march forward under the cover of artillery and machine guns.

He did have the intention to consume the vitality of the new Persian army. The training of musketeers was not difficult. As long as he had money and food, he could easily raise the strength of five Tumen infantry regiments on the Indian Peninsula in one month. What the Indian Peninsula lacked the least is cheap military sources.

On both sides are the more precious Indian cavalry regiments, which have much more training time than musketeers, and they also need to provide them with troublesome war horses to serve.

Behind the Indian Infantry Regiment is the brigade of the 12th Corps, which is used as a reserve force to be put into the battlefield.

The main force of the 12th Corps is the local soldiers in China, and their treatment is the best, and there is also a pension and welfare system. Due to the long-term garrison in Nanyang, the 12th Corps inevitably added a group of Malays, Javanese, and Siamese to serve as engineers, logistics soldiers, and even combat soldiers.

"Where is the better source of soldiers in Persian soldiers or Indian soldiers?" Qin Zuoming thought in his mind about where the source of soldiers was better.

Now, in addition to the majority of the Imperial Standing Army, the Chinese are still officers and soldiers, the Jiuzhou Army has also established a system of servants. To control such a large territory, if you have to do everything by yourself, the cost will be too high. The Chinese are controlling the position of officers in the servants' army, training and leading them to fight.

Even the vassal army has a division of combat effectiveness in the eyes of Chinese officers.

Generally speaking, Chinese officers prefer to use Japanese warriors with stronger combat power and Eastern soldiers formed by the Ronin, followed by Nanyang soldiers such as Java, Malay, Siam, and Annan.

Although Indian soldiers used it relatively late and had low physical fitness, they were the cheapest and easiest to tame.

In the future, recruiting a minion army in Persia to protect oil fields can be a good idea to control costs, but I don’t know how cost-effective Persian soldiers are.

Qin Zuoming thought of something else, and the sound of gunfire brought his thoughts back to the battlefield. Indian Turkish soldiers and Persian new army had already begun to exchange fire.
Chapter completed!