Chapter 1074

Peshawar has been surrounded by Sassanian army. Ma Bin just thought about it a little and sent someone out to die.

On the first day, the Sassanian army carried out a wave of offensive on the four walls. It was seen that the fighting forces and siege equipment were just for testing, not for real.

Night fell quickly. Because the city was preparing for war, campfires and torches could be seen everywhere. The whole city was illuminated as if it were day.

The Persians outside the city were not idle. They cut down enough wood during the day, and the craftsmen with the army worked overtime to make siege equipment.

Similarly, under bonfires and torches everywhere, there was a very obvious bird's-eye view from high altitude.

The city was full of fire everywhere. It was dark from about 50 meters to 200 meters outside the city wall, but there was fire again 200 meters away.

The fire of this city is so obvious that the clouds in the sky are reflected with a dim light, that is, the area that is still like day in the dark can be clearly seen tens of miles away.

"Are you sure it's not broken?" Li Tan took a team up a small hill and looked at the direction of Peshawar from a distance: "with this bright color, they are all desperately preparing for war!"

It is conceivable that no matter what the final outcome of the city offensive and defensive war in Peshawar is, there will not be much left in the surrounding woods, and even some shrubs and grass vegetation will suffer greatly.

No way, some of them can be used as siege equipment, while others will be used for combustion. Short-term large-scale consumption will certainly cause serious damage to the natural environment. I don't know how long it will take to recover.

Fortunately, the natural environment in this area of jidoro is much better than that in the east of Pisan and even in the west of the original Hungarian nit border.

In the east of sassanne and the west of hunit, that is, the main camp area of the western expedition, it is difficult to see a lot of shade, but more dry and soft vegetation free surface.

There is no grass in the place where the army passes. Most of the time, it is not specifically used to describe killing. In fact, too many people suddenly come to a piece of land. Even if it is just for the needs of living, cooking and boiling water, the consumption of combustibles is more than expected. Not only trees will be cut down in large quantities, but also dry grass will not be let go.

After nine days' journey, Li Tan and his army arrived in the Northeast 55 li away from Peshawar yesterday.

The army is parked in a mountainous area, of course, in order to facilitate concealment.

In a fighting area, necessary scouts and patrols will be arranged within 50 miles, and some sentries will also be arranged.

Li Tan will not read that the Persians have no military knowledge or do things carelessly. They are coping with the habit of marching and fighting in the Han Empire. He left the army fifty-five miles away. He took twenty to ride to a place about thirty miles away from baishawa, and went up the mountain to look into the distance.

They didn't encounter the Scouts of sashan's army all the way. As for whether they were found by secret sentries, it's really hard to judge whether sashan came out to hunt them.

"How long can Peshawar last?" Li Tan is not asking about things that even he doesn't know. How can the soldiers know? It's purely a trade-off and Thinking: "Peshawar has more than 10000 troops to defend the city, which is also needed by the citizens. More than 20000 people can be mobilized to defend the city..."

The information of Peshawar obtained by the western expedition army was sent back successively after Ma Bin's mission. According to the information description sent back by Ma Bin, Peshawar is a city with forty or fifty thousand residents. It is described that the middle wall is short and narrow, and there is no noteworthy guarding equipment.

According to the customs of the various Xia dynasties, to see whether a city is easy to fight, the first thing to see is how many soldiers and civilians there are in the city, the number of soldiers and civilians is large, and the available military, human and material resources in wartime will naturally be sufficient.

Another is to see whether the city wall is majestic. Without a high and thick city wall, it will not be regarded as a majestic city, let alone an important military town.

What Li Tan knows is that the wall of Peshawar is not too high, four meters thick and three meters thick. It is definitely not called xiongcheng. It is even worse than that before some walls were demolished in the Han Empire.

Now the Han people... At least the Han army of the western expedition, already know what the situation is.

It is probably the Rouran tribal alliance or the alliance power countries such as xigaoche and donggaoche. The difference between jidoro and the above countries is that the alliance power with Xiaoyue as the ruling class is based on the way of living of settled farming, not the grazing habit of changing grassland.

With 60000 or 70000 troops, sashan almost didn't encounter much resistance. He swept through the northwest of jidoro and spent less than ten days under Peshawar.

No matter how many jidora troops were destroyed by Sassanian army in that process, or how much Sassanian army lost itself, jidora was invaded as a country, and it only took less than ten days for the enemy to enter the border to the city near the capital. In any way, it doesn't look like a person with self-protection ability.

Li Tan was puzzled that what they knew was that jidoro had thwarted sashan's invasion many times, so how did the Xiaoyue people do it?

"Go back!" Of course, Li Tan will not continue to advance rashly. It is not necessary. At the same time, as the leader of the first army, it is a risk to personally approach him for thirty miles to observe: "go!"

Of course, not only did Li Tan bring people to observe, but some scouting teams had already been sent out.

Scouts are the eyes of the Lord general. If you don't send scouts to investigate the dynamics of the war, do you want the Lord general to give orders? However, Li Tan did not send scouts wantonly. Too many scouts will only excessively attract the attention of Sassanian army.

Scattered scouts will naturally be discovered by Sassanian army. However, in view of the killing of the western expedition army, the Han Army has been exploring the terrain frequently before. Sassanian army attacking Peshawar knows that there are Han scouts. The number is not too exaggerated and will not cause excessive reaction.

In fact, Li Tan also knew that the Sassanian army attacking Peshawar could not be unprepared for the help of the Han Army, but knowing it was one thing and mastering the trend was another.

In Peshawar at night, Ma Bin was killed by luhmaru Send more invitations to the grand banquet hall.

Ma Bin was naturally entertained when he came. It should be said that the specifications were large and grand, but luhmaru At that time, Jiduo didn't go out in person, but was greeted by their prime minister mirumitz Send more to welcome.

After Sassanian main forces invaded jidoro, luhmaru Send duocai to meet Ma Bin urgently.

As if to make up for the previous neglect, although jidoro seemed to be half occupied, then Sassanian troops came to the city of Peshawar, luhmaru Jiduo will hold a grand banquet to entertain Ma Bin every night.

The banquet hall has sufficient decoration characteristics of ah San. In addition to deliberately displaying gold unlike ah San, there will also be various painted walls with various patterns carved on various walls and load-bearing columns. In addition, there are too many colors, especially very bright, which will actually appear very chaotic according to the senses of Han people.

Many banquets are not considered grand because of the decorations or the abundance of food.

This group of xiaoyueshi people fled for hundreds of years. They first integrated with the Cypriots, and then were stuffed into a large number of ah San culture and some Greek culture. It is reasonable to integrate so many cultures and become very rich in food. However, it is an illusion.

In terms of eating habits, they mainly focus on various barbecues, followed by cakes, accompanied by some disgusting rice categories.

The rice sent to DORO doesn't learn anything, but a San puts some messy things. It's just like the salted rice or covered rice in Zhuxia. Spices are added. The main rice looks yellow not because of the relationship between rice grains, but because of the addition of curry.

Curry may be a delicacy for ah San. It doesn't rule out that some Han people will like it. For example, Ma Bin likes it, but most Han people are not used to it.

Luhmaru The reason why the banquet held by Jiduo was considered grand was that all the dignified figures in Peshawar were invited.

As the Lord of the country, luhmaru It's not good to send too much. It's too shameless to flatter Ma Bin, which can't make Ma Bin feel enough enthusiasm, but the rest don't need to be too shameful. They will boast that Ma Bin will become the protagonist in the banquet, feel unprecedented attention and get enough vanity.

"Messenger." Luhmaru Jiduo held a gold cup and asked, "Xiao Wang has a daughter in Chang'an. Do you know what's going on now?"

A few years ago, led by sassanne and Rome, all the countries known to the Han Empire chose princesses and noble women to go to the Han Dynasty.

Due to distance and communication constraints, many countries did not even have a contact for several years after sending out the princess and your daughter, luhmaru This is the case with sending more.

"Everything is very good." Ma Bin can't know the secret of the court. He doesn't even know whether princesses from various countries have been accepted, but he can't say he doesn't know. Before he came, he got some information. At least he knew that he would send the princess's name to DORO and would not arrange it. He said, "the life of Princess aisia in the Han Dynasty... I think the Lord of the country should understand that it would be much better than at home."

Unless it's aisia If Jiduo makes any mistakes, she will be punished. Otherwise, a woman who is the son of heaven may not have much luxury, but it is definitely not much worse. In terms of civilization and living environment, it is not a lie to say that it will be better than living in Jiduo.

"That's good... That's good..." luhmaru Jiduo originally wanted to mention in laws. After thinking about it, it was not so appropriate. He changed his mind and asked, "is the messenger still used to being in baishawar?"

What if Ma Bin is not used to it? He came here not for enjoyment, but for merit. To some extent, as long as jidoro plays his value in this war, the worse he lives here, the more points will be added to his performance evaluation in the future.

The marriage between countries is not useless. It depends on the situation between countries.

It can't be said that the first Han Dynasty's policy of Amity was not successful. Indeed, it successfully stopped the Xiongnu from invading the South on a large scale, but it was because the first Han Dynasty had the strength of resistance and the ability to knock and fly the Xiongnu's teeth.

The same is to send the princess to the western countries of the Huns. Do the Huns care? The Huns only knew that the countries in the western regions were too easy to fight, so they would not give up the invasion because of their in laws.

Rome, Sasha... And other anti Han axis countries, which one cares about the princess on the side of the Han Empire?

Jidoro is not a special country, luhmaru Sending more IQ is still online. Marriage works only on the premise of friendship. Even when the Han Empire thinks its country is valuable, it has extra points. If you want to rely on marriage, you can get special preferential treatment. Dream!

The music in the banquet hall was interrupted by war instruments, and Sassanian's decadent horn first appeared, followed by the crisp sound of war drums.

The palace in Peshawar is built into a fortress style. At the same time, it is also in the mountain or high position. The banquet hall is just at the highest place. Out of the hall is a balcony with no roof and a large area.

Luhmaru Jiduo took the lead, and Ma Bin followed. Behind them was a large area of dignitaries.

Because of the sufficient height, they looked out and had a very wide field of vision. What they saw was a large ocean of torches outside the city. It was a big movement that they knew that 5000 people raised their hands and ran forward.

On the west wall alone, about 5000 Sassanian soldiers attacked overnight. Looking at the other three sides, Sassanian troops invested at least 2000 people.

This time, there are not only ladders to climb the city, but also some other siege equipment, such as towering siege towers, shield cars nailed with boards, and so on.

"The big man's army should be here?" Luhmaru It's a pity that there is only a large area of darkness: "night battle, how can they attack the city all night?"

Even in modern times when science is sufficiently developed, the army will still suffer more and greater casualties in night warfare. Unless it is forced, the army will only fight under the condition of sufficient light.

Now is the era when most people have night blindness. There is no radio to command the troops in time. Unnecessary casualties caused by night fighting will be very serious. It is not uncommon for uncoordinated troops to make mistakes and kill each other.

"Lord, is there any army left outside?" Ma Bin meets Lu hemalu Sendo shook his head: "what a pity!"

Luhmaru The problem is that Peshawar has only 10000 garrison troops. If there are too many garrisons, it is to send vegetables. If there are too many garrisons, it can't take care of them.

"Perhaps some leaders have brought people around." Luhmaru He said more about the leaders of the occupied areas: "emissary, the Persians are too urgent to clean. The leaders of all places will organize Qin Wang soldiers. It's not the Han Army, it should be them."

Ma Bin didn't know that jidoro still had this magical operation. He was stunned for a while.