sweeping the world

Chapter 1079 Guessed it

The offensive and defensive battle of the city of Peshawar began to become extremely fierce as the Sasanian troops on the siege side pushed up many siege equipment.

"The city wall can't be defended anymore." What Zhou Bian saw was that the Peshawar defenders were suppressed first, waiting for multiple siege towers to set up on the top of the city. Although the Peshawar defenders resisted desperately, they gradually lost their numerical advantage: "The correct thing to do now is to withdraw the soldiers on the city wall to avoid more casualties and preserve more resistance forces."

Not long after, the palace fortress was ringing a bell.

That was a signal for the Peshawar defenders on the city wall to withdraw into the city, but the number of Sasanian soldiers on the city wall was increasing, and they were entangled with each other, which did not mean that they could retreat if they wanted to.

"They probably expected that they would not be able to defend during the day." Ma Bin said that the Iron Armored Army had already been withdrawn into the city: "The defenders on the city wall are only making necessary attempts."

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

Building a siege tower with a height of four meters and building a siege tower with a height of seven or eight meters or even higher, in terms of physical conditions, the higher the difficulty, the more difficult it is. Ensuring that there will be no tilting, etc. is the difficult place.

The Sasanian troops who pushed up the siege tower were rushing up the city wall like a tide, and then rushed towards the nearby Peshawar defenders.

Some Peshawar defenders who really had no place to run, some extremely fierce people chose to jump off the city wall and limped towards the city without dying. Naturally, they ran faster if they had their own people to help.In addition, the Peshawar defenders who lost their courage threw away their weapons and wanted to surrender. Whether they surrendered standing or kneeling, the Peshawar defenders were killed by the Sasanian soldiers without any hesitation.

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

Most of the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar who didn't run away, or who didn't have time to run away, were shot in the back by arrows, and their deaths were clean and tidy. I wonder if they could have had a good time waiting for the Sassanid soldiers to come down.

The western city wall fell first, followed by the northern city wall, and the remaining two city walls fell successively.

The Sassanid army occupied the city wall and did not immediately press down on the soldiers in the city. Instead, they cleaned up the sundries on the city wall and the bodies of the dead on both sides, and killed the injured and surviving Peshawar defenders.

"What are they trying to do?" Ma Bin could look more carefully with a telescope: "Cleaning up things on the city wall is also digging holes in the city gate."

Occupying the city wall, shouldn't it be a large-scale attack when the defenders are flustered and morale is fluctuating?

Zhu Xia's style of play is like this, but it's different here?

"The Persians have been attacking Peshawar one at a time. They should have figured out the defenders' usual defensive methods." 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."

The Sasanian soldiers were busy cleaning up, and the catapults that had been built in the rear and the bed crossbows that had not been put into use were brought up.

Catapults are relatively large, and there is not enough space for them to enter the city gate, but there is no problem with bed crossbows.

"They want to install long-range siege equipment on the city wall?" Ma Bin has seen Sassanid soldiers installing the hanging tower, the first bed crossbow was also hung on the city wall, and some Sasanian soldiers are laying out the pedestal: "The catapult won't fit on the wall."

Sasanian catapults are not small in size, with a single length of five meters, a width of three meters, and a height of more than five meters when erected.

The width of the city wall of Peshawar is only three meters, and it must not be able to accommodate such a huge catapult.

"They are fixing the bed crossbow." Zhou Bian also judged that the catapults could not be placed on the city wall, and pointed to the pile of buildings with complex terrain: "The defenders are preparing to counterattack."

There is an open space between the city wall and the residents group, about 200 meters in length?
I don’t know if the buildings in Peshawar were planned or not when they were built. It is far more than a simple mess. There is almost no gap between one building after another. The widest road inside will not exceed two meters. Some small alleys Even Kankan only allows one person to pass through. I really don't know how they usually move things.

Ma Bin has been there in person, and it can be said that the most surprising thing is that some people's houses are regarded as roads at all.

So it's not that there are no wider passages, but that you need to pass through some residential houses. It's just that once the gates of the residential houses are closed, the road will be blocked.

In the narrow alleys and in the backyards of some residential areas, armed men are constantly gathering, and they flock to the periphery of the residential area in small groups.

At this time, the Sassanid army was stepping up the installation of hanging towers, and some bed crossbows were hoisted up, but if they wanted to bring the catapult into the city, the requirements for hanging towers were much higher than hanging up the bed crossbows.

The catapult built by Sassanian military craftsmen will definitely not be less than [-] jin in size, and may even reach [-] jin.

Many Sasanian soldiers and craftsmen brought in very thick wood and heavy objects.

Wood is of course the supporting frame of the hanging tower, and heavy objects are the necessary lumps. In addition, a lot of iron chains are used.

A catapult is definitely not a single hanging tower that can hang on the city wall, and even after hanging on the city wall, it must continue to be hung so that it can be placed in the city. It was ultimately a major accident.

"The Persians do have what an empire should look like." Zhou Bian looked at the scene of the work in progress: "The small country doesn't even know what a hanging tower is, but the Persians can build a hanging tower with a load of about two thousand catties on the battlefield. "

That's the thing, the more technical machinery is needed, the less it can be researched by a small country with few people.

In many cases, it is useless for a nation to exist for a long time. It also needs to have enough territory and population, and even the geographical environment for survival also plays a crucial role.

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

The royal palace fortress was blown with the sound of a mighty horn.

The fringe residential area was already crowded with people, the sound of horns was blown, and a large group of people shouted "Waaaaaal" and rushed out of the building and the alley.

Some of the defenders' archers went up to the roof, and after standing still, they began to draw their bows and shoot arrows.

"Bamboo bows and bamboo arrows can shoot up to 160 meters..." Zhou Bian said contemptuously, "It just looks soft and fluffy, with almost no lethality."

Bamboo bow is a type of long bow with an overall length of almost 1.8 meters. Jidoluo chose tall people to serve as this type of archer, and when held flat, most of the height is above the head.

"Jidoro doesn't have crossbows." What Ma Bin knows is that there is a nation that also uses bamboo bows: "The Japanese bows and arrows are also bamboo, but the styles are different from Ah San's."

The bows of the Japanese people are relatively small, and their tension is not very good. If they use bamboo arrows, even if they are 30 meters, they are lethal and cannot even break leather armor.

The Han army equipped a large number of powerful crossbows, so they naturally looked down on the long bamboo bows with a long range but no lethality.

Ah San will use a lot of bamboo bows and arrows, probably due to the lack of weapons with a long range for individual soldiers, and also because there are few people wearing armor on the battlefield, or is it just for harassment?
If a large number of bamboo bows and arrows are used to harass, it seems that the current battlefield has achieved its purpose?

Those Sasanian soldiers who entered the city were first startled by the sudden rush of Peshawar soldiers and civilians, and subconsciously prepared to fight, but a large number of arrows were shot from the sky with a "swoosh" sound piercing the air.

No matter if it is a bamboo arrow or what kind of arrow, as long as it is an arrow, the human instinct is to dodge or block it with something.

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

The Sassanid soldiers on the city wall were not much better when they saw so many soldiers and civilians pouring out of the city. The crossbowmen started to shoot arrows under the shout of the officer, and the melee soldiers started to prepare for defense under the shout of the officer. .

In this wave of counterattacks, Jiduoluo is on the side of Peshawar's soldiers and civilians. It seems that there are more people belonging to the people. There are no elite troops,

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

The Sasanian 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. coma of shock nature.

"Those pots and pots can't contain kerosene, right?" Ma Bin saw some Peshawar soldiers and civilians twisting the pots and pots were shot down by arrows. When they fell to the ground, they smashed the pots and pots, and some yellow liquid flowed out. : "With a buffer zone of about 200 meters, Fire Attack is indeed a good choice."

"Look over there..." Zhou Bian was referring to the section of the city wall: "There is a cave for hiding soldiers inside the city wall!"

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

In fact, when every country builds a city wall, it will create some caves for hiding soldiers. It is not known that there are caves for hiding soldiers in the city gates.

If the defenders knew where those hidden soldier caves were, they would undoubtedly be a good breakthrough, without having to climb the city, it would not be too difficult to get a battering hammer to hit them.

Although there are caves for hiding soldiers in the city wall, it seems that the Peshawar defenders who hid in advance are not too many, but their appearance greatly disrupted the response rhythm of the Sasanian troops.

"Are you worried about being discovered?" Zhou Bian commented: "Otherwise, it is obviously not worthwhile to participate in the attack this time."

To be reasonable, hiding under the enemy's feet without worrying about being discovered should indeed be the most critical moment before suddenly killing them.

However, it is the practice of various countries to have caves for hiding soldiers in the city walls. The Sasanian troops will definitely check and find those caves for hiding soldiers sooner or later.

The arrows in the sky are shooting back and forth, and the people hit by the arrows are screaming but they may not necessarily die. However, people from both the enemy and us are indeed falling down on the battlefield every moment, and soon the ground will appear. There were corpses and puddles of blood.

There are more than 200 Peshawar soldiers and civilians who launched a counterattack against the western city wall alone. They must have paid a price for rushing up against the Sasanian crossbowmen on the city wall, but it was only about [-] meters away, and soon there were people running The first group of people who were fast had a hand-to-hand fight with the Sasanian soldiers below the city wall.

"The people in Jiduoluo are still quite tough." Ma Bin repeatedly examined Jiduoluo, an alliance that is not even considered a country: "I just don't know if the people in Jiduoluo in other places are the same."

Zhou Bian came to Peshawar with Ma Bin and other Han Chinese from the border, not by airborne.

Along the way, they really didn’t realize that the people of Jidoluo were so tough, and they even looked like nothing special at all. After the war broke out, the citizens of Peshawar dared to participate in the war without fear of war.

"By the way!" Ma Bin thought of something, and his expression suddenly changed: "The Persians didn't put their catapults and bed crossbows into use before, but they tended to occupy the city walls on a large scale. Look at the Persians outside the city." What does the carriage carry?"

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

If you just use the naked eye, even if your eyesight is better than 5000 meters, you can actually recognize things too clearly from a distance, and you can only recognize the blurred outlines of some large objects.

Ma Bin and Zhou Bian both have binoculars. They didn’t realize why the Sasanian army didn’t put the catapult and bed crossbow into battle early. The soldiers and civilians in Peshawar charged with kerosene, and Ma Bin, who had a quicker brain, immediately had a bad guess.

"Claypot..." Zhou Bian even had a telescope, but because of the distance and the fact that the Persians covered the carriage with a cloth, or happened to see a carriage whose cloth was blown away by the wind, he tried hard to identify it. : "What needs to be specially packed in clay pots?"

Ma Bin wanted to see that the carriage that had been uncovered before had been covered again.He looked towards the city wall, and the Peshawar soldiers and civilians who rushed up had already been set on fire, and then moved his gaze to the residential area where the buildings were connected one by one. There was almost no traffic on the road: "The soldiers and civilians tried their best to clean up. , but there are still too many debris!"

Zhou Bian obviously guessed what the Sassanian army wanted to do, and said in surprise: "Even if there is fuel, how much fire oil should they prepare to burn the whole city into flames? Besides, there are squares around the palace, and The moat can't burn the palace, even if the city is set on fire, it can't burn us anyway."

As for how many Jiduoluo people would die if the city was really burned, Zhou Bian said that it was not the Han people who died anyway.

(End of this chapter)