Sweep the World

The Sassanid army entering Peshawar does not seem to have any intention to rest? They divided up a lot of manpower and began to cut down the surrounding woods, undoubtedly to make siege equipment.

Peshawar is said to be a city, but it is a city not much larger than the county seat of the Han Empire. Even before the walls of the Han Empire counties were demolished, the height and thickness of the city walls were higher and thicker than it.

"Lord of the country, don't panic." Ma Bin looked very calm and said: "As the lord of a country, if the lord of the country is panicked, what will happen to the rest of the people?"

Although Luhmaru Jiduo is the owner of a turtle country, it is impossible to not know the truth. The problem is that he doesn't want to panic, just can't control it!

Peshawar is a city wall made of mud, straw, gravel and stones. The height is about four meters, but the thickness is three meters.

The height of the city wall determines the advantage of defense, and the thickness determines the force that can be deployed in each section of the city wall.

Judging from the walls of Peshawar, 25 people per ten meters is considered good. This kind of force composition is too thin for a city wall that is only four meters high!

"Emissary, when can your army arrive?" Luhmaru Jidou said pleadingly, "Can you send someone to urge you?"

Ma Bin was watching the defenders defending the city wall. Compared to the state's unbearable state, the defenders did not appear to panic.

Before his envoy to Peshawar, Ma Bin had learned some history of Jidoruo. What he saw was that Jidoruo had frustrated the Sassanid invasion many times.

Since Jidolo can defeat Sassan many times, shouldn't it be so useless?

The problem now is that 60,000 to 70,000 Sassanian troops broke into the territory of Jidoruo, and it only took eight days to attack the city of Peshawar. The facts are seriously inconsistent with the rumors.

"It's not the same." Luhmaru Jiduo heard Ma Bin's question and explained: "We, Abiro, and... Hunite and Two Satrap have been fighting against Sassan together before. Sassan marches toward one country, and the other countries will raise troops to respond. Now..."

Ma Bin understood as soon as he heard it, it turns out that if Sassan wants to send troops, he needs to face the siege of multiple countries. At the same time, the positions of those countries are still different, which means that Sassan will fall into multi-faceted combat if he moves.

So, Sassan not only has to face Rome, but also a multinational alliance? It was the emergence of the Han Empire that changed the Sassanian international situation. The former enemies of Rome and the two Satraps and Hunets became Sassanian allies. It is estimated that Jidolo has not had time to make a decision. As a result, the Western Expeditionary Army of the Han Empire came.

To replace Sasanian with the Han Empire, you have to face an empire that is not weaker than yourself or even stronger, and then confront a few enemies who are regional powers and a few others. Under such a situation that affects the whole body, what should the Han Empire be like?

Ma Bin had the answer in an instant. The situation in the early Han Empire was much worse than that of Sassan. It had to face the direct pressure of Shijie Zhao, as well as Murong Yanguo, Li's Chengguo and the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. , Only a seemingly friendly Tuoba Dai Nation was left, and the Han Empire had not cleared all obstacles.

Of course, Ma Bin didn’t know one thing. The Han army with Liu Yan didn’t have to consider the transportation of grain, otherwise...

"Xiao Wang has always been to the big man, and today..." Luhmaru. Sending a lot is actually still waiting for the price. Seeing the army of the Han empire is out of business, he has never thought about the two empires. How could the warring leave the audience watching the show next to him: "The big man can't be ignored!"

"The messenger is still here." Ma Bin doesn't have to guess what Luhmaru's original intention is. Anyway, there is no other choice for Ji Duo: "The letter of help was sent eight days ago. ，According to the schedule, Dahan Heavenly Soldiers will arrive soon.”

The people Sassan sent out to cut timber are slowly returning, and soon you can see a large group of people busy making all kinds of siege equipment.

Before that, some other Sassanian troops began to line up, and gradually moved closer to the four walls of Peshawar.

The first place to fight was not at the location of Ma Bin and Luhmaru Jiduo. The fight started first to the north after listening to the news.

Sassan must have his own style of siege equipment, but there is one kind that is nothing special, that is, the city climbing ladder.

If the city wall is high, the ladder is naturally more difficult to make.

The wall of Peshawar is only four meters long, and the stitching of the ladder is less difficult. Don't worry about being too long and easy to break.

Anyone who knows physics will understand a basic principle. The longer an object is, the easier it is to bend, and the weaker it is as a load-bearing structure by one centimeter.

The same is a ladder, only four meters, and needs six or seven meters or even longer, the difficulty of manufacturing is definitely not the same.

After the Sassanid army came to the city, they were divided into four parts and surrounded Peshawar from the four dough regiments.

The Sassanid troops outside the city are the most deployed in the west, and the rest of the troops in the north, east, and south are not less than five thousand.

The Sassanian army to the north had enough ladders. After a stubborn horn sounded, the Sassanian soldiers in front carried a ladder together by several people, and behind was the group with hulala holding weapons.

The Sassanid army has just arrived, and there are too many preparations and insufficient preparations. It is more obvious that they have not even done a simple wooden shield.

The Peshawar garrison on the city wall has begun to shoot arrows. Their bows and arrows have full Asan characteristics, using bamboo bows and arrows.

This Asan’s characteristic bow and arrow have a long range, but the lethality depends on the right quotient.

The Sassanid soldiers who launched the attack saw that only a few people were wearing armor. After the arrows on the city wall were shot, even though the bamboo arrows seemed to float very much, they could still fall down every one of them.

Once a Sassanian soldier carrying a ladder is shot down, it doesn't matter whether he died or not. The main reason is that the ladder loses balance and slams to the ground, and the rest of the soldiers also fall.

In fact, only a few Sasanian soldiers who were hit by arrows died immediately after being shot, and most Sasanian soldiers who were hit by arrows were only injured.

The injuries are diverse, and more often the arrows penetrate the flesh without causing penetration. If the stronger soldiers directly pull out the arrows from their bodies, they can continue to charge forward.

The number of defenders on the city wall was too thin, and it was not that everyone held a bow before shooting. The arrows that were not too dense probably killed and wounded a hundred Sasanian soldiers, and not many died.

The Sassanian soldiers of the stormtrooper, with bows in their hands, began to counterattack after entering the firing range.

Compared with Peshawar's defenders are all bamboo bows, Sassan is not like that.

The history of the Persians playing bows and arrows is too long and too long, especially with their own ace archers. The study of bows has always been at the forefront of the countries in the same period.

The standard bows of the Sassanian army are divided into three broad categories: angle bows, hard bows, and riding bows. The rest are non-mainstream extension types.

The bows equipped for Sassanian infantry are generally hard bows with different tensions. According to Zhu Xia's calculation habit, it is roughly divided into one stone, two stones, three stones...and the tension of five stones.

Like all countries, Sassan's soldiers are generally equipped with a one-stone hard bow. For a hard bow of this kind of tension, if the matching arrows are not too bad, generally the farthest range can reach 120 meters, and the accuracy of the head will vary from person to person.

The same is archery. After the Sassanid archers counterattack, once the Peshawar garrison at the head of the city is shot, unless it is a bruise, it will immediately lose combat effectiveness.

Soon the first group of Sasanian soldiers rushed under the city wall, and the soldiers carrying the ladder worked together to erect the ladder.

As soon as the ladder was erected, the defenders on the upper wall of the city had soldiers pulling a long fork and rushing over to push it. If a person couldn't push it, he hurriedly called out, and together they pushed out the ladder without occlusal device.

When the ladder was erected, the Sassanid soldiers had already begun to climb. They were halfway up the ladder but fell backward.

Many Sassanid soldiers found that the ladder had escaped by themselves and jumped out, reaching a height of about one or two meters without falling dead.

Some Sasanian soldiers who failed to get off the ladder smashed them down with a ladder, and they might even hit someone. The damage they suffered was much heavier than a fall.

The battlefield will never lack noise, the movement of various war instruments, the shouting and howling of many people, the groaning when people are injured, and the screams before death. After all kinds of sounds come together, people who are conscious will be dizzy from the noise.

After nearly two thousand Sasanian soldiers launched an offensive in the north, as the number of ladders gradually became sufficient, the remaining three sides also began their own offensive.

Ma Bin stood at the head of the city and looked at the Sassanid army shouting and charging. The timing might be so inappropriate, but he still couldn't help feeling superior because of the pictures he saw.

There is no suitable formation, no distinct attack echelon, not to mention a wide range of siege equipment, and some are crowded together "Waaaaal" and rush forward.

This kind of situation will not happen to the Han Empire at all, and it can even be said that unless it is the initial uprising stage when Zhu Xia's dynasty is about to fall, it is also rare in Zhu Xia's war history.

Zhu Xia is not only good at defending cities, but also has rich experience in siege.

The leaders of the insurrection army who would be chaotic at the beginning, they would figure out the way to siege the city after a few fights, and gradually have sufficient Zhuxia siege characteristics.

Sassan is an empire anyway? Ma Bin didn't know the situation of the Sassanid army that came to attack Jidoruo, but was surprised how it appeared to be inferior to Zhuxia's quite a few insurgents.

Still using arrows as the "speech" for the war, Ma Bin saw that the Peshawar defenders were using bamboo bows, and couldn't help but curiosity and asked Luhmaru. Jieduo: "You don't have any other types of bows?"

"Naturally, there are." No matter how stupid Luhmaru Jidu is, he can see Ma Bin's surprised expression: "The defenders of the city wall are an exception. Other types of bows will be used in street fighting."

In fact, Ma Bin had another accident. The Luhmaru Jiduo he saw was very afraid of death, but he did not leave the city after the Sassanid army launched an offensive.

"I'm not waiting for the messenger!" Luhmaru Jidu said with a wry smile: "If you don't go, how dare Xiao Wang go."

"..." Ma Bin didn't have the idea of ​​staying at the head of the city for a long time. He motioned to Luhmaru Jiduo to leave, and asked as he walked: "You just said street fighting?"

"The walls of Peshawar are too short to support for too long. This is not the first time that we were attacked by Persians." The inconvenience: "The messenger has entered the city and saw the staggered and complicated alleys and the layers of earth walls."

Of course, Ma Bin had entered the city. Seeing those appearances before, he thought that this group of Xiaoyue people didn't understand the order at all, but a good royal city was built in a mess.

To some extent, Ma Bin is actually restricted by his fixed thinking.

Zhu Xia's city offensive and defensive battles have always been the division of victory and defeat with the fall of the city wall, and there is almost no situation where the defenders are ready to fight in the street at the beginning.

Ma Bin now also understands how the palace was built like a fortress. It turned out that Luhmaru Jidu had no hope that the wall could block the invaders. He regarded the palace as the last line of defense.

There is no straight avenue connecting the two city gates in Peshawar. Some are winding trails, and even the road will be blocked by buildings when walking. You need to pass through some buildings that you don’t know for what purpose. In order to keep going.

It was not in a state of war before, and what Ma Bin saw was two different situations from now.

Buildings that were not known for what purpose were previously turned into defensive checkpoints or fortresses in a state of war.

Along the way, Ma Bin began to face this group of Xiaoyue people squarely, understanding that this group of guys who had fled from the old land of Zhu Xia were really useless, and even developed their own war thinking.

"The whole city has become a complex fortress!" Ma Bin even saw men, women and children serving the war: "It's still a fortress for the whole people to serve the war!"

Ma Bin thought about it in another way~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If a city in the Han Empire faces an invasion, the answer is that no matter how united the city is, it will not be as tacitly as the cooperation between the military and the civilians in Peshawar.

The soldiers and civilians of Peshawar seem to have faced such a situation more than once. It looks chaotic, but everyone seems to know what to do.

Just looking at the city walls of Peshawar, anyone would think that this is a city with paper-made city defenses.

From the perspective of a bystander to analyze the defenses in the city, Ma Bin suddenly became a little bit unhappy.

Jilongpo must have sent troops to rush to Peshawar. In terms of distance, Ma Bin can confirm that the army has arrived within fifty miles of Peshawar. He probably found a place to hide. Maybe he was waiting for Peshawar to be concealed. Breakthrough, waiting for Jidara's most desperate moment to reappear.

Not only can this show the importance of the Han army, it is actually a kind of psychological warfare. The emergence of the Han army is regarded as a savior, not a dispensable existence.

Now, Ma Bin felt that it was necessary to send someone out to find his army and reveal the situation here.