Chapter 1079

The city offensive and defensive war in Peshawar began to become extremely fierce as the Sassanian troops on the siege side pushed up many siege instruments.

"The wall can't be defended." What Zhou Bian saw was that the Peshawar garrison was suppressed first and waited for several siege towers to set up the city. Although the Peshawar garrison tried hard to resist, it gradually lost its quantitative advantage: "now the correct way is to withdraw the soldiers back to the city wall, avoid more casualties and preserve more resistance."

Before long, the bell rang at the palace fortress.

That is a signal to let the Peshawar garrison on the city wall withdraw into the city. However, the number of Sassanian soldiers on the city wall is increasing. Entanglement with each other does not mean that they can retreat if they want to retreat.

"They probably expected that they couldn't keep it during the day." Ma Bin said that the armored army had long been withdrawn to the city: "the defenders on the wall are only making necessary attempts."

The wall of Peshawar is too low. If the height is seven or eight meters or even higher, it will not be so easy to build siege equipment even after the Persians come.

Building a siege tower four meters high and a siege tower seven or eight meters or higher is more difficult in terms of physical conditions. That's not how to pile it up. Even if it's finished, how to nail it firmly to ensure that it won't tilt, and so on.

The Sassanian troops who pushed up the siege tower were surging up the wall like a tide, and then rushed to the nearby Peshawar garrison.

Some Peshawar garrisons really have no place to run. Some extremely fierce people choose to jump off the wall and limp to the urban area before they die. With their own help, they naturally run faster. In addition, the Peshawar Garrison who lost courage abandoned their weapons and wanted to surrender. Whether standing or kneeling, the Peshawar garrison was killed by Sassanian soldiers without any hesitation.

The city is not absolutely safe. The Sassanian archers on the city wall are free to shoot arrows at the enemies below the city from the beginning.

Most of the Peshawar soldiers and civilians who didn't run, or didn't have time to run, were shot in the back and died cleanly. They didn't die. I don't know if they can have a good time when Sassanian soldiers come down.

The west wall was the first to fall, followed by the north wall, and the remaining two walls fell successively.

The Sassanian army occupied the city wall and did not immediately press the soldiers in the city. It was to clean up the debris on the city wall and the bodies of both sides of the war dead, and kill the wounded Peshawar garrison.

"What do they want?" Ma Bin can look more carefully with a telescope: "clean up the things on the city wall and dig the city gate hole."

Occupying the city wall, shouldn't we attack on a large scale when the defenders are flustered and morale fluctuates?

This is the way Zhuxia plays. It's different here?

"The Persians have been attacking Peshawar once, which should be a consistent means of defense for the defenders." Zhou Bian only had this answer: "they know that occupying the city wall is only the first step, and the battle in the city will be more intense next."

Sassanian soldiers were busy cleaning up, and the built catapults and bed crossbows in the rear were brought up.

The volume of the catapult is relatively large, the space of the city gate is not enough for them to enter, and the bed crossbow is no problem.

"They want to install the long-range siege equipment on the wall?" Ma Bin has seen Sassanian soldiers installing hanging towers, and the first bed crossbow has been hung on the city wall. Some Sassanian soldiers are arranging bases: "the catapult can't fit on the city wall."

Sassanian's catapult is not small. Its single length is five meters, its width is three meters, and its height is more than five meters.

The width of Peshawar's wall is only three meters. It must not be able to hold such a huge catapult.

"They're fixing the crossbow." Zhou Bian also judged that there were no stone catapults on the city wall and pointed to the pile of buildings with complex terrain: "the garrison is preparing to fight back."

There is an open space between the city wall and the residential group, about 200 meters long?

When Peshawar's buildings were built, I didn't know whether they had been planned or not. It was far more than chaos. There was almost no interval between one building and another. The widest road inside would not exceed two meters. Some alleys even allowed only one person to pass. I really don't know how they should move things at ordinary times.

Ma Bin walked by in person. It can be said that the most surprising thing is that some people's houses are regarded as roads at all.

Therefore, it is not that there is no wider channel, but that there is a need to pass through some folk houses, but once the folk houses close the door, the road is blocked.

In the narrow alleys and the backyards of some folk houses, there are armed men gathering. They flock to the periphery of the residential area in small groups.

At this time, the Sassanian army was stepping up the installation of hanging towers, and some bed crossbows were hung up. However, if you want to get the catapult into the city, the requirements for hanging towers are much higher than hanging crossbows.

The catapult built by Sasan's army craftsmen will never be less than 1000 kg in volume, or even up to 1500 kg. It's really not that any hanging tower can be lifted casually.

Many Sassanian soldiers and craftsmen brought very thick wood and very heavy objects.

Of course, wood is the support frame of the hanging tower, and heavy objects are the necessary lumps. In addition, a large number of iron chains are used.

A catapult is definitely not a single hanging tower that can be hung on the city wall. Even if it is hung on the city wall, it should continue to be hung and put into the city. Once the hanging tower is unqualified or improperly operated, it will be a major accident if such a heavy catapult falls.

"The Persians do have what an Empire should look like." Zhou Bian looked at the scene of the ongoing operation: "a small country doesn't even know what a lifting tower is, but the Persians can build a lifting tower bearing about 2000 kg on the battlefield."

It's the same thing. The more technical machinery is needed, the less small countries and people can study it.

Many times, it is useless for a nation to exist for a long time. It also needs to have enough territory and population. Even the geographical environment for survival also accounts for a crucial factor.

There are some ethnic groups, obviously with vast territory and a large population, but they have not entered the Bronze Age for hundreds of thousands of years. Some ethnic groups have entered the firearms age, and they are still playing with bone arrows.

The palace fortress sounded the sound of strong horns.

The marginal residential area was crowded with people, the sound of ox horns was sounded, and a large group of people called "waaaaaal" rushed out of the buildings and alleys.

Some garrison archers, they went up to the roof, stood firm and began to bow and shoot.

"Bamboo bows and arrows have a range of up to 160 meters..." Zhou said contemptuously, "just looking at the soft floating, they have little lethality."

Bamboo bow is a kind of long bow. Its overall length is almost one meter eight. Jidoro selects tall people as this kind of archers, and most of the height is above his head when holding flat.

"Sendoro has no crossbow." What Ma Bin knows is that there is a nation that also uses bamboo bows: "Japanese bows and arrows are also bamboo, but the style is different from ah San."

The Japanese people's bow is relatively small, and its tension is not very good. If you use bamboo arrows, even 30 meters is lethal, and even the leather armor can't be broken.

The Han Army had a large number of powerful crossbows. Naturally, they couldn't see the long bamboo bow with long range but little lethality.

Ah San will use a lot of bamboo bows and arrows on this side, probably because he lacks weapons with a long range for individual soldiers, and there are few people wearing armor on the battlefield, or just think of a kind of harassment?

If a large number of bamboo bows and arrows are equipped to harass, does it seem that the goal has been achieved on the battlefield?

The Sassanian soldiers who entered the city were first startled by the sudden influx of Peshawar soldiers and people, subconsciously ready to fight, but the sky made a "wheezing" sound and fired a large number of arrows.

Whether it's a bamboo arrow or an arrow, as long as it's an arrow, people's instinct is to avoid or block it with something.

The Sassanian soldiers who made different choices on the ground in the city naturally looked chaotic because of their different choices.

The Sassanian soldiers on the city wall saw that there were so many soldiers and civilians pouring out of the city. The crossbow men started shooting arrows under the shouting of the officers, and the close combat soldiers began to prepare for defense under the shouting of the officers.

This wave of counterattack was sent to the army and people in Peshawar on DORO's side. It seems that there are more people strong, and there are no elite troops

In addition to various types of weapons in their hands, many people have a jar tied with a rope in their hands.

The Sassanian soldiers on the ground in the city kept retreating to the root of the city wall. Some people who were shot by bamboo arrows actually got up quickly even if they fell down. Only a very few unlucky soldiers were hit to kill or cause shock coma due to too much pain.

"Can't those jars contain fire oil?" Ma Bin saw some Peshawar soldiers and civilians twisting pots and pans being shot down by arrows. When they fell to the ground, they broke the pots and pans, and some yellow liquid flowed out: "there is a buffer belt of about 200 meters, and fire attack is really a good choice."

"Look over there..." Zhou argued, referring to the section of the city wall: "there is a Tibetan cave in the city wall!"

The city wall is neither high nor thick, but it is no problem to leave some Tibetan caves.

In fact, when building the city wall, every country will make some Tibetan soldiers' holes. I don't know whether there are Tibetan soldiers' holes in the city gate hole, directly above the city wall and under the city wall connecting the ground.

If the defenders knew where the Tibetan caves were, they would undoubtedly be a good breakthrough. They didn't have to climb the city. It wouldn't be too difficult to hit the city hammer.

Although there are Tibetan caves in the city wall, it seems that there are not too many Peshawar garrisons hidden in advance, but their presence has greatly disturbed the reaction rhythm of Sassanian troops.

"Are you worried about being found?" Zhou Yan commented: "otherwise, it would be obviously not cost-effective to participate in the attack this time."

To be reasonable, the fear of hiding under the enemy's feet and not being found should indeed be suddenly killed at the most critical time.

However, it is a common practice of all countries to have Tibetan caves in the city wall. The Sassanian troops will certainly check them and find them sooner or later.

The arrows in the sky are shooting at the ground when you come and I go. The people who hit the arrow scream, but they don't necessarily die. However, there are people on both sides of the enemy and US falling down all the time on the battlefield. Soon, there were corpses and pools of blood on the ground.

There were about 3000 Peshawar soldiers and civilians who only launched a counterattack against the western wall. They must pay a price when they rushed up against the Sassanian crossbow men on the wall, but it was only about 200 meters. Soon, the first group of people who ran fast fought closely with the Sassanian soldiers below the wall.

"The people who sent to DORO are still quite fierce." Ma Bin repeatedly examined the alliance of jidoro, which is not even a country: "I just don't know whether the people of jidoro in other places are the same."

Zhou Bian came to Peshawar with Ma Bin and other Han people from the border, but they didn't come airborne.

Along the way, they really didn't find that the people of jidoro were so fierce. They even looked at nothing special. They had no expectation that the citizens of Peshawar dared to participate in the war without fear of the war after the outbreak of the war.

"Yes!" Ma Bin thought of something, and his face suddenly changed: "the Persians didn't put the catapult and bed crossbow into use before, but there is a trend of large-scale layout in occupying the city wall. Look at what the Persians, horses and vehicles outside the city carry."

The terrain on this side of the palace is high, and the top floor of the building has a better view.

If you only use the naked eye, your eyesight is better than 35 kilometers. From a distance, you can really recognize things too clearly. You can only recognize the fuzzy outline of some large objects.

Ma Bin and Zhou Bian both have binoculars. They didn't realize why the Sassanian army didn't put the catapult and bed crossbow into the war early. Seeing that the Sassanian army took so much trouble to prepare for the placement of the catapult and bed crossbow, and then seeing the baishawar army and people charging with oil of fire, Ma Bin, who turned faster than him, immediately had a bad guess.

"Pottery pot..." Zhou Bian even had a telescope, but because of the distance, and whether the Persians covered the carriage with cloth, or happened to see the cloth of a carriage blown away by the wind, he tried to identify it: "what needs to be packed in pottery pots?"

Ma Bin wants to see it. The carriage opened before has been covered again. He looked to the other side of the city wall. The soldiers and civilians of Peshawar who rushed up had set fire, and then moved his sight to the residential areas connected by buildings. There was almost no traffic situation on the road: "the soldiers and civilians did their best to clean up, but there were still too many sundries!"

Zhou Bian obviously guessed what Sassanian Army wanted to do. He was surprised and said, "even if there are combustion aids, how much fire oil should they prepare to make the whole city fall into a sea of fire? In addition, there are squares and moats around the palace. If we can't burn the palace, even if there is a fire in the city, we can't burn us anyway."

As for how many jidoro people would die if the fire burned the city, Zhou argued that it was not Han people who died anyway.