Sweep the World

Sassan also naturally has a weapon of war with the bed crossbow.

This Sassanian army who invaded Jidoruo did not carry too heavy siege equipment. Although the bed crossbow is also large, it is not as cumbersome as other large equipment, and it is still carried by an army of nearly a hundred.

The reason why Dospals Canaandina didn't put the bed crossbow into use right away was simple, it was just in time.

The city wall offensive and defensive battle began again as the offensive and defensive armies entered each other's range of long-range weapons.

It was that various types of arrows were sent out by the crossbowmen. They would cross in mid-air. Some arrows would collide and fall, and more arrows would fly forward according to their own fixed trajectory.

When an arrow falls, the arrowhead falls first. The kinetic energy of the flight and the sharpness of the arrowhead will produce penetration when they hit any object.

The arrowheads of Sassan and Gidoruo are a flat double-barb shape. This type of arrowhead is actually lacking in accuracy and penetration. However, this kind of arrowhead is generally used to strike without armor. Soldiers who did not die after entering the flesh wanted to be pulled out, the double barb must have caused a second injury when they were pulled out.

On the battlefield, soldiers kept falling down with arrows, screaming and groaning repeatedly.

In the advancing Sassanid troops, the soldiers carrying the ladder in the front row began to run as early as the bow and arrow shè journey into the defending side. They themselves carried the ladder, there was no agility, and they could only run forward with their heads stuffed.

The defenders on the wall of Peshawar, of course, their arrows are aimed at Sassanid soldiers carrying ladders. The more dead, the fewer ladders will be on the wall, and the less pressure on one's side will be.

The part of the people carrying the ladder attracted the arrow rain on the wall, and the following Sasanian soldiers began to make the necessary arrangements. They used shield carts to form a curved horizontal line.

The Sassanid sword and shield fighters who have arranged the shield car begin to charge forward. When they charge, they will try their best to keep their bodies short and put the shield in their hands on top of their heads, feeling the strength of the arrows on the shield, listening in their ears. The clash of metal and skin.

Of course, it is not absolutely safe to charge with a shield. The shield only protects a large part of the upper body, from the waist to the soles of the feet is still exposed.

Some Sassanid sword and shield players ran and hit arrows in their thighs. At the same time, they lost their balance and staggered and fell to the ground. The bad luck was that the shield had just moved away from the protection key position, and the next moment there was an arrow. She came over and was killed.

The Sassanid soldier carrying the ladder approached the wall, and before he had time to catch his breath, he met the heavy objects dropped from the wall and began to erect the ladder.

It didn’t take long for the Sassanian sword and shield hand to get close to the wall. The sword and shield hand who ran to the side of the erected ladder naturally began to climb. Keep smashing things down, if the not so exaggerated stones can be withstood with a shield, if the big stones or the wood can't hold them, they will fall down.

The Sassanid sword and shield players who ran to the position where the ladder had not been erected, they had to participate in the task of erecting the ladder. In the process, they also had to endure the constant smashing of things on their heads. Many people were hit in the busy. Injured or die immediately.

Both under the wall and on the wall are busy. The Sassanid soldiers who have already reached the wall are going to go up. The Peshawar garrison on the wall naturally wants to stop them. They are just a part of this battlefield.

Sasanian's crossbowmen arrived at the position where the shield cart was arranged.

A small number of crossbowmen started the winding movement with a crossbow machine imitating the Han Empire.

Should Sasan get the crossbow in the 14th year of Yuanshuo? They carried out disassembly and research, and began mass production of their crossbow machines when Yuan Shuo was approaching the sixteenth year.

Some imitations are improved and the performance is far better than the original products.

Some imitations are because some lack of performance is not up to standard.

Sassan actually did a comparison. They must admit that they didn't seem to fully understand that the imitated crossbow machine was not as good as the Han Empire crossbow machine in terms of its range, but the damage speed was very fast.

It always takes time to be familiar with a new thing, especially when it comes to the creation of science and technology. Without the precipitation of time, how can one produce an excellent creation of science and technology, especially in terms of imitation.

Persian craftsmen can be very sure that no part is installed wrongly, guessing that the gap in the shè process should be the bowstring relationship. As a result, they used bowstrings whose value far exceeded that of the Han Empire, and the shècheng had reached the standard, but the cost had also risen.

In fact, it is related to the knowledge of materials science. The same parts and different materials have different performances. But it is not only the bowstring relationship, but also the materials used in some parts.

In addition, even if the Persian craftsmen used the same materials as the Han Empire when building the crossbow machine, the performance of the crossbow machine was still not as good as the Han Empire because of the gap in the specifications of the various parts, and the damage rate was also due to the part specifications that did not meet the standard. Direct relationship.

"The Persians imitated our crossbow." Ma Bin had known the news a long time ago: "This is the first time I saw them use it with my own eyes today."

The Han army will try its best not to leave anything related to firearms on the battlefield, and the packing of other war equipment is not so strict.

Furthermore, before the seventeenth year of Yuanshuo, the Han Empire had few troops equipped with firearms, and they were sent to the battlefield only a few times, and the loss rate was much lower than that of other war materials.

Almost every field army of the Han Empire will be equipped with a large number of crossbows of various styles, especially the number of crossbows used by the infantry.

In fact, it is not only the army. Although the civilians are prohibited from owning crossbows, the use of crossbows in Zhuxia has been so long. Not only are there people who can make them, but the homes of wealthy and wealthy people who privately hide crossbows are not. That's not enough.

It was far less difficult for the Persians to get crossbows than firearms. They worked hard for three or four years to get very little gunpowder, but the styles of weapons like crossbows are a lot more.

The Sassanian crossbowmen directly step on the string with their feet, pull the bowstring to the trigger position and buckle, and then move the arrow. It is not that they will send a shè when they are done, but they are waiting for the password.

"Shè!"

The hum of the trigger and the bowstring sounded almost at the same time, and the crossbow arrows shook forward when they left the arrow groove. The moment they shook out, they actually made a sound of breaking through the air.

"There are about five hundred crossbowmen on the west battlefield." Zhou Bian inspected it visually, and said: "We have seen so much, and Sassan should have imitated a lot."

The crossbow is the ultimate cold weapon individual long-range weapon. The reason why it can shuffle far is because some parts load the tension of pulling the bowstring, otherwise it is extremely difficult to pull it by relying solely on manpower. With great tension, the journey will naturally be far away, there is no doubt about it, but it also depends on the material of the arrow.

"The distance is about two hundred and fifty meters." What Ma Bin saw was that the crossbow arrows from the Sassanian crossbowmen not only reached the wall. A considerable number of Sassanian crossbowmen did not control the elevation angle because they were too far, so they arrived. Inside the city: "Our crossbow can reach a distance of up to 480 meters. Ordinary crossbows can basically reach a distance of 280 meters."

I don’t know what style of crossbow the Persians imitated. Judging from the status of use on the battlefield, it should be that there are no good styles, or that the Persians can’t imitate the good styles?

Whether it is a cold weapon war or a firearm war, Cheng Yuan usually has the upper hand. It is a dilemma where you can attack me but I cannot attack you.

"They don't have many crossbows, otherwise they should be covered with arrow rain continuously." Zhou argued that Zhu Xia had enough crossbows and enough arrows for common tactics: "Using Shicheng's advantage to continuously cover with arrow rain, it will be frustrated. The morale of the defending army will be distressed for a long time, and another attack on the city will surely get twice the result with half the effort."

In the history of Zhu Xia, the Qin Army who gave full play to the long-range advantage was the Qin army, who basically carried out the rain of arrows for several days or even more than a month every time they attacked a city. In this way, many cities encountered the Qin army, and they had not been able to manage the Qin army to launch a real siege. The city defenders could not bear the psychological pressure and surrender.

Afterwards, it was basically difficult to see Qin Jun’s arrows washing the ground again. First, the number of crossbows was rapidly decreasing, and second, the consumption of arrows was difficult to maintain. It would be so embarrassing because the assembly line production technology mastered by the pre-Qin Dynasty was lost. It is clear that the crossbow of the pre-Qin Dynasty can be repaired if it is damaged by replacing the parts. The consumption of arrows is the same. National power has increased, but production efficiency is low. Naturally, the production speed cannot keep up with the consumption speed.

Zhu Xia has always been developing, but with every change of dynasty, some of the technology is lost in the war.

A funny thing that is not funny. By the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Zhao Kuangyin bullied the orphans and widows and started the Northern Song Dynasty, but his mastery of making crossbows was not as good as that of the Xiang party members.

That's because Xiang Party members inherited Li Tang's crossbow-making technology and also made some improvements. The other forces did not have the technology inheritance of crossbow-making, such as the Northern Song Dynasty, which once ruled Xiang Party members in name.

Later Xiangdang members split from the Northern Song Dynasty and founded the country on their own. The Northern Song Dynasty was still captured in the war with Xixia, and after its own research and improvement, it was considered a weapon that surpassed Xixia, that is, the god-armed crossbow.

The problem is that waiting for the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the manufacturing method of the God Arm Crossbow was lost again. Since then, the status of crossbows in the war has repeatedly declined.

Now, because the Sassanid army has a single-soldier weapon farther than the Peshawar garrison, it has staged a unilateral bullying by Shicheng.

The defenders on the wall of Peshawar, they were still shooting arrows at the Sasanian soldiers under the wall, but they were [] unable to reach the Sasanian crossbowmen two hundred meters away.

Waiting for the Peshawar garrison to be repeatedly covered by the Sassanian crossbow arrows, they didn't even shoot the arrows of the Sassanian siege soldiers under the city wall. They could only hide behind the female wall or shield and wait for the Sassanian crossbowmen's arrows to enter. During the interval, they can show their heads and continue to shè arrows.

In addition, the defenders who were responsible for throwing stones, wood, and pouring gold juice, kerosene, and boiling water at the enemy under the city wall actually wanted to avoid the Sassanian crossbowmen.

It’s just that there are crossbowmen who have a farther range than the defenders. The arrows they fired have also been accidentally injured, but they have repeatedly suppressed certain sections of the city wall, so that the Sassanid soldiers who attacked the city can be relatively Climb a ladder in the environment.

"If the Persians had more crossbowmen, not four or five times, just two or three times..." Zhou Yan actually looked down on the Sassanian crossbowmen's accurate head, as if he didn't know the importance of hitting the elevation angle. The crossbowmen are really far behind, but they are enough for the Peshawar defenders who are completely incapable of counterattack: "Since they don't care about the brutal strength of accidental injuries, it will be much easier to get on the ground first."

Also right, how long did Persian talents own crossbows in batches. They are still exploring how to use the crossbow, and for the time being, they have not discovered the importance of the elevation angle, or if they know it but don't have enough time to train the crossbowmen, it is normal.

The Han army promoted cultural education in the army. It didn't plan to teach a bunch of champion scholars. It just made the soldiers literate.

Educated soldiers and uneducated soldiers are two groups. When an educated soldier is trained, the speed at which he can master training skills is definitely much faster than that of an uncultured soldier.

In the pre-Qin period, it was recognized that crossbowmen needed to master mathematics. The Qin army did not have universal education, but the strict military laws forced soldiers to concentrate on learning when they were trained, dare to be sloppy or unable to keep up with the training progress. However, the flogging may still be light, and the punishment of hard labor or more serious punishment is not a problem, and it will not be parsimonious.

The offense and defense on the battlefield did not seem to be fierce, but the trend of victory and defeat has already appeared. Only the appearance of the crossbowmen changed the trend. Once the siege equipment is pushed up, the battle will inevitably be against the Peshawar defenders. Even more unfavorable.

This time, Li Tan ventured closer to Peshawar within fifteen miles~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Relying on the latest telescope...that is, the larger one that needs a stand, watching the development of the war in the distance.

"Last night the Persians attacked into the day?" Li Tan nodded his head after receiving the stalking scout's response, "They have a lot of determination to attack the city!"

After making a comment, Li Tan actually didn't care if Peshawar would fall, and he even wanted to fall quickly. Otherwise, the longer their army evaded, the more likely it was to be exposed.

"Attack on all sides at the same time, and the main direction of attack is west." Li Tan left the telescope and rubbed his sour eyes: "The courage is still too small, and the army has the overall advantage. If you don't attack all sides, two sides are better than one."

Li Tan guessed that there were not enough commanders in the Sassanid army.

To have enough troops, you really need to have enough commanders, otherwise it's the same thing with more soldiers.

Li Tan can be on his own and has the most basic judgment. He thinks that he should go back immediately and be ready to lead the troops to rush to Peshawar at any time.