The Imperial Age with the Resurgence of Han Style

Chapter 2 Hormuz Island ([-])
"when!"

Li Yanliang held the musket in both hands and swung to the right to block a sharp scimitar. Then he took a step forward and kicked an Omani soldier in front of him to the ground.

"Yeah!" While the opponent was still struggling, Li Yanliang stabbed him hard with his musket. The sharp bayonet easily penetrated the Omani's abdomen, and a bloody arrow shot out instantly.

"Hoo..., hoo..."

Li Yanliang gasped and looked warily in both directions, then took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and continued to charge forward with his musket in hand, chasing the Omani soldiers who were fleeing.

"Sir, be careful!"

A huge collision force suddenly knocked Li Yanliang away several meters away, and then he heard a harsh sound of handover.

Staggering to his feet, Li Yanliang turned to look to the left and saw a stocky soldier holding a musket fighting an Omani who looked like an officer.

The Omani officer's face was covered in blood, and he held a machete in his right hand. Taking advantage of his height and strength, he kept swinging the knife to chop at the Qi soldier, but he was shot away one by one with a musket. .

When Li Yanliang came over with a musket, the Omani officer was obviously panicked and stopped taking the initiative to attack.While waving the machete and shouting loudly, he kept retreating. At the same time, he kept observing the surrounding situation left and right, as if he was waiting for an opportunity to turn around and escape at any time.

"Abandon your weapons and surrender, I will spare your life!" Li Yanliang and the soldier were divided into two groups, forming a double-team. He had absolute initiative, so he thought about capturing him, maybe he was a big shot.

Although the Omani officer could not understand what Li Yanliang was talking about, the current situation made him feel endless despair.

After the fierce bombardment at sea, encouraged by the imam who accompanied the army, they gathered the entire army and rushed out of the city, preparing to fight the landing Qi army.Unexpectedly, before engaging in battle, they were fired upon by wave after wave of volleys from the opponent, shattering the charging formation into pieces.Not surprisingly, the troops who suffered huge casualties soon began to collapse and then fled in all directions.

When he was being chased away by the defeated soldiers, he accidentally tripped over a corpse, which knocked him to pieces and was trampled by countless big feet.It took him a long time to regain his composure, and when he got up secretly, he saw soldiers from the Qi army passing by him constantly, chasing the fleeing Omani soldiers.

After looking at a target, holding the scimitar tightly, he would suddenly raise it and prepare to chop at a passing Qi army soldier.Unexpectedly, another short soldier noticed his move, knocked his target away with an arrow, and then held a musket equipped with a blunderbuss sword to confront and fight with him.

Although the opponent was short in stature, he was very stocky and his movements were well-founded. Facing his fierce attacks with swords, he was very calm. He held his musket and blocked left and right, defusing his attacks one by one.

Before he could deal with the enemy in front of him, another companion came from the other side. Two cold bayonets pointed at him from a distance and kept approaching.

surrender?Or fight to the death?
True God, please come and save your helpless people!

"drink!"

Just when the Omani officer hesitated, the short Qi soldier suddenly lunged forward and stabbed him fiercely with a bayonet.

The Omani officer was shocked. He held the scimitar in both hands and swung it with all his strength, barely blocking the bayonet.

However, when the Qi soldier quickly approached him with momentum, he suddenly discarded the musket in his hand, pulled out a broken blade from his waist with his right hand, and quickly pierced his abdomen, then turned the handle of the knife and used all his strength. The ground stirred.

"Sir, these Omanis may have been bewitched by their True God Cult. They are all determined to die and will not surrender easily." The soldier was talking to Li Yanliang while rubbing the dagger in his hand against the corpse. Bloodstains.

"Japanese wakizashi?"

"Yes, sir." The soldier looked up at Li Yanliang and said softly: "This sword was passed down from my great-grandfather. He was a Japanese samurai back then."

"You just saved me." Li Yanliang said with a grateful look on his face: "In this way, I owe you my life. ...What is your name?"

"Sir, in our Da Qi army, the officers and soldiers are all united. We can't say who owes anyone's life." The soldier picked up the musket he dropped from the ground, turned his head and said with a smile: "My name is Wu Ping. I come from Wei. Far away (today’s New Guinea). Sir, where are you from?”

"Daxing (now Brisbane, Australia)."

"Wow, sir, you are from a big city in our country!" Wu Ping couldn't help but show a look of envy. "Growing up, I have never even been to Weiyuan City (today's Port Moresby), let alone seen the prosperity and prosperity of my country. It’s lively.” “Whether it’s a local city or a great development, there are just more people, more factories, and more horse-drawn carriages and steam cars on the road. In terms of living environment and fresh air, I think you are far better. Much better than the local ones." Li Yanliang said it lightly, but deep down he couldn't help but feel a sense of superiority.

A huge Weiyuan Island, except for Weiyuan, Jinhua (today's Lai City, Papua New Guinea), Hudong (today's Jayapura City, Papua Region, Indonesia), Tongzhou (today's Manokwari City, Papua Region, Indonesia), etc. A "big" city can be said to be a large, remote rural area with a population of just over 120 million. Its overall economic strength is not as good as that of Weihai Prefecture (today's Cairns, Australia), which is across the sea. It is a thoroughly poor area. .

Not to mention that Li Yanliang was born in Daxing, a big city with the second largest population and economic scale in the country. Even an ordinary person from a remote local town is arrogant enough to look down on those "bumpkins" from overseas territories.They are afraid that many of them have never even seen a train, let alone the various novelties that have appeared in the country, such as hot air balloons that can fly at high altitudes, public steam cars that drive on urban roads, and large agricultural steam vehicles in rural farms. mechanical……

"Sir!"

"Sir!"

As the two chatted, they carefully stepped over the corpses and continued moving forward.Suddenly, he heard the sound of horse hooves behind him, and immediately turned around, raising his musket in a posture of alert to meet the enemy.But they saw Luo Zhanping, commander-in-chief of the landing force and Lieutenant Colonel Linghui, riding a majestic Arabian horse, surrounded by more than a dozen guards and staff, slowly heading towards Hormuzburg ahead.

"Yes." Luo Zhanping saw a young sergeant colonel and a stocky first-class soldier standing at attention and saluting him. He casually tapped the riding crop on his forehead as a return salute, "You will be temporarily included in the guard company. Come with me. Enter the city."

"Yes, sir!"

Compared to Li Yanliang, who looked excited, Private Wu Ping was a little frustrated.Gein followed the highest officer into the city to protect him, which meant that he could not clean the battlefield with other comrades, and he would not be able to obtain corresponding trophies.

As the commander-in-chief, Luo Zhanping naturally didn't care about the two little men's plans. He needed to control the entire Hormuz Island as soon as possible, then recruit people to repair the damaged castle and deploy corresponding defenses.

According to the proposed combat plan, capturing Hormuz Island is only the first step in counterattacking the Omanis. In the next period of time, they will seize Larak Island, Hunjam Island, and the largest island controlled by the Omanis one by one. Qishm Island (i.e. Qeshm Island), and finally took this important part of the strait into his own hands.

That's right, after Qi expelled the Omanis from the strait, it did not intend to return these recovered islands to the Persians. Instead, it planned to place them under the jurisdiction of the navy, set up corresponding naval bases, and completely control them. Access to the entire strait.

Therefore, the people of Qi will "patiently" wait until the Omanis have captured several major islands in the bay, and then "timely" dispatch naval and land forces for military intervention.

As for whether this move will anger the Persians and affect the friendly cooperative relations between the two countries for more than 60 years, the people of Qi are not worried at all.At this time, the Safavid dynasty of Persia was already in the midst of internal and external troubles and did not dare to turn against the powerful Qi State over these insignificant islands.

The tense religious atmosphere not only caused frequent riots in Sunni-inhabited areas, but also accelerated the decline of the imperial power.During the Shirvan riots a few years ago, many Shias were innocently killed, countless religious books were burned, and the sacred temple was turned into a stable.In order to resist the imperial army's suppression of the rebellion, those rioters turned to their fellow believers, the Ottoman Empire, for help.

If these frequent riots in various places were still a problem of scabies for the still powerful Safavid dynasty, then the rebellion in Kandahar greatly shook the foundation of the empire.The local Afghan leader Mahmud Hotak led 1719 tribal cavalry to invade Kerman two years ago ([-]) and looted the city, officially launching a massive rebellion.

The Safavid dynasty tried several times to send troops to seize control of Kandahar, but the ensuing Abdali rebellion, Shirfan rebellion, and Kurdistan uprising greatly affected the energy of the empire, so much so that the rebels Afghans are becoming more powerful.

As the Shah of the empire, Sultan Hussein still liked to stay in the luxurious Farahabad Garden southwest of Isfahan, eating the most exquisite delicacies in the city and holding the most beautiful women in the country. , passing through the fog woven by alcohol, completely obsessed with building and expanding his most beloved buildings and gardens.

News came from the east. After the brilliant victory in the military operation to invade Kerman two years ago, Afghan leader Mahmoud was inspired. In July, he left Kandahar and prepared to invade Persia again. It is reported that this time he He led more than [-] powerful cavalry and tribal armed forces, intending to invade the hinterland of Persia and plunder them fiercely.

Facing the menacing Afghans, the ministers of Isfahan were arguing endlessly about how to fight and where to recruit King Qin's army, and no formal decision has been made yet.

After the people of Qi heard about it, they shook their heads at the various performances of the Persians.

Damn, a huge empire with a population of nearly [-] million, facing a tribal armed force from a remote mountainous area, turned out to be timid and behaved at a loss, which is simply laughable.

You must know that even though the Safavid dynasty is in decline and the country is declining, it still maintains an army of more than 30 with its huge and strong national power.The Shah's Guards stationed in Isfahan alone number more than 105. In addition to being equipped with more than [-] flintlock muskets from Qi, they also possess more than [-] various land combat guns, including There is no shortage of heavy artillery with a caliber of [-] mm.

On the other hand, the Afghans are not only poorly equipped, but also number only [-]. They are far away from their home base in Kandahar and have traveled thousands of miles.The only belief that supports their war is probably that they can enter the rich hinterland of Persia and plunder as much as they want.

"Sir, will the Afghans invade the hinterland of Persia?" After entering the city and occupying the original city guard house, Li Yanliang helped several intelligence staff lay out a map of the regional combat situation, and then carefully pointed at a Xuanjie Colonel (Major). The officer asked: "Once there is a change in Persia, will it affect our attack on the Omanis?"

"The Afghans just rushed to Persia to grab some gold, silver and women. They should not shake the rule of the Safavid dynasty." The captain Xuejie said with a smile: "So, we don't think that the war that is happening in Persia is It will affect our military operations against the Omanis. Unless the Afghans get extremely lucky and invade the city of Isfahan."

(End of this chapter)