Chapter 1073

The Sassanian army marching into Peshawar seems to have no intention of taking a rest? They assigned a large number of people and began to cut down the surrounding woods. There was no doubt that they wanted to make siege equipment.

Peshawar is a city, but it is not much bigger than the county town of the Han Empire. Even before the city walls were demolished in the counties of the Han Empire, the height and thickness of the city walls were higher and thicker than it.

"Don't panic, Lord." Ma Bin looked very calm and said, "as the head of a country, if you panic, what will the rest of you do?"

Luhmaru Although it is a woodlouse country owner in woodlouse countries, it is impossible not to know that. The problem is that he doesn't want to panic, but he can't control it!

Peshawar is a kind of wall composed of soil, straw, gravel and stones. The more it is about four meters high, the thicker it is three meters.

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

Judging from the wall of Peshawar, it's good to be able to arrange 25 people every ten meters. This kind of force composition is too thin for a city wall only four meters high!

"Messenger, when can your army arrive?" Luhmaru The sender almost begged, "can you send someone to urge?"

Ma Bin is looking at the garrison defending the city wall. Compared with the unbearable of the national Lord, there is no obvious panic.

Before the envoy jidoro came to Peshawar, Ma Bin still knew some history of jidoro. What he saw was that jidoro thwarted sashan's invasion many times.

Since jidoro can beat sassanne many times, shouldn't it be so useless?

The problem now is that 60000 or 70000 Sassanian troops broke into the border of jidoro. It took only eight days to attack Peshawar. The fact is seriously inconsistent with the rumor.

"It's different." Luhmaru Jiduo heard Ma Bin's question and explained: "we, apiro, hunnit and two satraps have been fighting against sassanne together. In the past, sassanne marched into one country, and other countries will start to respond. Now..."

Ma Bin understood as soon as he heard it. It turned out that if Sasan wanted to send troops, he needed to face the siege of multiple countries. At the same time, the positions of those countries were still different, which meant that Sasan would fall into multi-faceted combat as soon as he had an action.

So sassanne has to face not only Rome, but also a multinational alliance? It was the emergence of the Han Empire that changed the international situation of sassanne. Rome, two satraps and hunnit, who were once enemies, became sassanne's allies. It is estimated that jidoro hasn't made a decision yet. As a result, the western expedition army of the Han Empire came.

To replace sassanne with the Han Empire, we have to face an empire that is not weaker or even stronger than ourselves, and then face several enemies and several minions who are regional powers. In this situation, what should the Han Empire be like?

Ma Bin had the answer in an instant. The situation faced by the Han Empire in the early stage was much worse than that in Pishan. He had to face the direct pressure of Shijie Zhao, Murong Yan, Li Chengguo and the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Only a seemingly friendly Tuoba state remained, and the Han Empire had not cleared all the obstacles.

Of course, Ma Bin doesn't know that the Han army with Liu Yan doesn't have to consider the transportation of grain and fodder at all, otherwise

"Xiao Wang has always wanted to be a big man, so he has today..." luhemalu In fact, Jiduo is still waiting for a price. Seeing that the army of the Han Empire is coming, I have never thought about how the war between the two empires will leave the audience nearby: "you can't ignore it!"

"The messenger is still here." Ma Bin doesn't have to guess too much about luhmaru What was the original intention of Jiduo? Anyway, Jiduo Luo has no other choice now: "the letter for help was sent eight days ago. According to the foot schedule, the big Han heavenly soldiers will arrive in a few days."

The people sent by sassanne to cut wood are slowly closing in. Soon, you can see a large number of people busy making all kinds of siege equipment.

Before that, some other troops in Sassanian began to arrange troops and gradually gathered outside the four walls of Peshawar.

The first place to fight was not Ma Bin and luhmaru Jiduo's location, listen to the news, the North fought first.

Sasha must have his own style of siege equipment, but one is nothing special, that is, the city ladder.

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

The wall of Peshawar is only four meters long. The splicing difficulty of ladder production is less. Don't worry that it is too long and easy to break.

People who understand physics will understand a basic truth. The longer an object is, the easier it is to bend, and the more fragile it is as a load-bearing structure by a centimeter.

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

After the Sassanian army came to the city, they were divided into four parts and surrounded Peshawar from all sides.

Outside the city, Sasan deployed the most troops in the west, and the rest in the north, East and South varied in number, but no less than 5000.

The Sassanian army in the north had enough ladders. After a loud trumpet sounded, several Sassanian soldiers in front carried a ladder together, and behind them were the hula people holding weapons.

The Sassanian army has just arrived, and there are too many preparations are not enough. It is obvious that they haven't even made a simple wooden shield.

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

This kind of bow and arrow with ah San's characteristics has a long range, but the lethality remains to be determined by the power supplier.

The Sassanian soldiers who launched the attack looked that only a few people were wearing armor. After the arrows on the wall came, although the bamboo arrows looked very floating, they could fall one for each shot.

Once a Sassanian soldier carrying a ladder is shot down, it doesn't matter whether he is dead or not. The main reason is that the ladder will lose its balance and smack to the ground, and the rest will fall down.

In fact, only a few of the Sassanian soldiers who were hit by the arrow died at the first time. Most of the Sassanian soldiers who were hit by the arrow were just injured.

The injuries are diversified. Most of them are arrows that enter the flesh without causing penetration. If the stronger soldiers directly pull out the arrows, they can continue to charge forward.

The number of defenders on the city wall is too thin, not everyone shoots again with a bow, not too dense arrows, probably killing hundreds of Sassanian soldiers, and not many people died.

The Sassanian soldiers of the forward assault team, who had bows in their hands, began to fight back after entering range.

Compared with Peshawar, the garrison is full of bamboo bows, Sasan is not like that.

Persians have a long history of playing bow and arrow, especially with their own ace bow cavalry. The research on bow has always been in the forefront of countries in the same period.

The standard bow of Sassanian army is divided into three categories: angle bow, hard bow and riding bow, and the rest are non mainstream extension categories.

The bows equipped for Sassanian infantry are generally hard bows with different tensile forces. According to the calculation habit of Zhuxia, they are roughly divided into one stone, two stones, three stones... Up to five stones.

Like all countries, Sassanian soldiers are usually equipped with a hard bow of one stone. For this kind of tension hard bow, if the matching arrow is not too bad, the maximum range is generally 120 meters, and the accuracy will vary from person to person.

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

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

As for the erected ladder, the garrison on the wall of the city immediately rushed to push it with a long fork. If a person couldn't push it, he hurried to call people and pushed out the ladder without bite device with joint force.

When the ladder was erected, the Sassanian soldiers actually began to climb, but they fell back halfway up the ladder.

Many Sassanian soldiers found that the ladder fell back and jumped out by themselves. They could not fall to a height of about one or two meters.

Some Sassanian soldiers who couldn't get away from the ladder. They even hit people with the ladder, and they may hit people. The injury is much heavier than falling.

The battlefield will never lack noise, the movement of various war instruments, the cries and howls of many people, the groans when people are injured, and the screams before death. After all kinds of voices come together, people who are sober will be dizzy and swollen by the noise.

After nearly two thousand Sassanian soldiers attacked in the north, as the number of ladders gradually became enough, the other three began their own offensive.

Ma Bin stood at the head of the city and looked at the Sassanian army who shouted and charged. The timing may be so inappropriate, but he still could not help feeling superior because of the picture he saw.

There is no suitable formation, no clear attack echelon, nor a wide variety of siege equipment. Some are crowded together and rush forward.

This situation will not happen to the Han Empire at all. It can even be said that it is rare in the war history of Zhuxia unless it is the initial uprising stage when the dynasty of Zhuxia is about to fall.

Zhuxia is not only good at guarding the city, but also has rich experience in attacking the city.

Even the leaders of the rebel army who would mess at the beginning would find out the way to attack the city after fighting several times, and gradually had sufficient characteristics of Zhuxia siege.

At least Sasha is an empire? Ma Bin didn't know what the Sassanian army that came to attack jidoro was like. He was just surprised how it looked. It was inferior to a considerable number of insurgents in Zhuxia.

Ma Bin saw that Peshawar's defenders were all using bamboo bows. He couldn't help but ask luhmaru curiously Send more: "don't you have other kinds of bows?"

"Of course." Luhmaru No matter how stupid he is, he can see Ma Bin's surprised expression: "the garrison of the city wall is an exception. Equipped with other kinds of bows will be used in street warfare."

In fact, Ma Bin had another accident. He saw luhmaru Jiduo was afraid of death, but he didn't leave the city after Sasan's army launched an attack.

"I'm not waiting for the messenger!" Luhmaru Jiduo smiled bitterly and said, "if you don't go, how dare Xiao Wang go."

"..." Ma Bin didn't have the idea of staying in the city for a long time, motioned luhmaru Jiduo can leave. As he walks, he asks, "did you just say street fighting?"

"The wall of Peshawar is too low to support for a long time. This is not the first time that we have been attacked by the Persians." Luhmaru It's not fat. There are even some thin places where it's not inconvenient to move: "the messenger has entered the city and saw those staggered and complex alleys and layers of earth walls."

Of course, Ma Bin had entered the city. When he saw those shapes before, he thought that these xiaoyueshi people didn't understand the order at all, but a good King City was built in a mess.

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

The city offensive and defensive warfare of Zhuxia has always been to decide the victory and defeat with the fall of the city wall. Almost no defenders are ready to fight street battles at the beginning.

Ma Bin now understands what happened when the palace was built like a fortress. It turned out that luhmaru I didn't expect the city wall to block the invaders at all. I regarded the palace as the last line of defense.

There is no straight Avenue connecting the two city gates in Peshawar. Some are winding paths, and even the roads will be blocked by buildings. You need to go through some buildings that do not know their purpose.

Before, Ma Bin saw two different situations than now.

Previously unknown buildings have become defensive checkpoints or fortresses in a state of war.

All the way down, Ma Bin began to face up to this group of Xiaoyue people, understand that these guys who fled from the old land of Zhuxia were not good for nothing, and even developed their own war ideas.

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

Ma Bin transposed and thought about it. If a city of the Han Empire faced invasion, the answer was that no matter how united, it would not be as tacit as the military and civilian cooperation in Peshawar.

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

Just looking at the walls of Peshawar, everyone will think that it is a city with paper city defense.

From the perspective of onlookers to analyze the defense in the city, Ma Bin was suddenly a little unhappy.

Jilongpo must have sent troops to rush to Peshawar. In terms of distance, Ma Bin can confirm that the army has arrived within 50 li of Peshawar and probably found a place to hide. It may be waiting for Peshawar to be broken through and waiting for the most desperate moment of jidoro to reappear.

That can not only show the importance of the Han Army, but also a kind of psychological warfare, so that the emergence of the Han army can be regarded as a savior, not an dispensable existence.

Now, Ma Bin feels it necessary to send someone out to find his own army and disclose the situation here.