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Chapter 1080 Chapter 1087: The Last Chance
Guessing that the Persians wanted to set fire to Peshawar, Ma Bin and Zhou Bian first looked at each other in blank dismay, and then stopped watching the battle of attacking and defending the city.

They entered the room and ignored the salutes of passers-by along the way, and they didn't even have time to greet some ministers who hadn't left.

"Please tell the lord of your country." Ma Bin will not show the fluctuations in his heart: "This envoy has something to tell."

Luhmaru Jiduo woke up a long time ago. He was busy commanding his generals. When he heard that Ma Bin brought Zhou Bian to look for him, he hesitated for a while and did not meet him in the war room. He found another place.

"I believe the lord already knows that the Persians have thrown in bed crossbows and catapults." Ma Bin didn't mean to talk nonsense, and said directly: "This envoy found that the Persians have prepared a large number of jars outside the city."

"..." Luhmaru Ji didn't understand for a while, and asked wonderingly, "What does the messenger mean?"

"Catapults and bed crossbows may not exceed some individual long-range weapons in terms of range, but because of the mechanical force, the objects they shoot can be very heavy." Ma Bin talked about altars and cans. Didn't the Peshawar defenders carry altars and cans? Fire oil to attack?He was surprised that Luhmaru Jido didn't even guess this: "Your army uses kerosene, and the Persians are planning to do the same."

Luhmaru Jido's face changed a little, but he didn't panic yet.

"This envoy didn't explain clearly enough?" Seeing that Luhmaru Jido did not understand, Ma Bin took a deep breath: "The Persians prepared a large number of jars. This envoy thought that it would be enough to burn the entire Peshawar to the ground. gone."

At this moment, Luhmaru Jiduo's expression changed drastically. He opened his mouth, closed it and paced back and forth quickly, then stopped suddenly: "There is a kind of black oil in Sassanid, which has a huge output."

black oil?As one of the praise paintings of the Western Expeditionary Corps, Ma Bin still knows the existence of black oil.He also knew that the Persian land was rich in black oil, and the center seemed to attach great importance to this kind of black oil.

"It's over, they actually..." Luhemaru Jiduo was obviously panicked: "How dare they!!!"

Although war is the darkest kind of behavior, there are still some scruples in many cases, such as not killing civilians on a large scale when it is not necessary, let alone doing things that wipe out the city.

Luhemaru Jiduo's cheeks twitched for a long time, and he asked Ma Bin rather suddenly: "Messenger, how do you think this king should choose?"

Ma Bin understood.

Luhmaru Jidona was asking whether the soldiers and civilians in the city began to fight the Persians regardless of casualties, or whether they quickly surrendered wisely.

"This envoy thinks that in order to avoid burning the city of Peshawar, the lord should kneel and surrender to Sassan." Before Ma Bin came, he had thought about what kind of attitude Luhmaru Jiduo would have: "It's just that the lord thought... ... After the surrender, the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar, and even the ministers, may be able to live. What will happen to the king?"

Even if it's just a palace fortress, you can still hear the movement from outside.

Two different trumpets are being sounded all the time.

The "dong dong" sound of war drums has never stopped since the start of the war.

The clamor and shouts of killing were very intense.

The tragic battle caused people to die every moment, and they became corpses lying on the ground that gradually became cold.

Whether to surrender or persist in resisting, only the superior has always been qualified to choose, and the people being led can generally only passively accept the fate set by the superior.

The current situation is that once Lukhmaru Jiduo chooses to surrender, it will not just be a group of soldiers and civilians in Peshawar, a city and a place that surrender, but because of his identity as the leader of the country, the entire country will surrender.

When a country surrenders, it is inevitable that the military, civilians and ministers will pay the price, but they may not die.

However, the king is different. After surrendering, the price the king has to pay is far higher than anyone else. Not to mention the great risk of the country's destruction and severance, the invaders usually don't let the current king continue to live in order to better digest the results of the war. go down.

"Tell the king the truth." Ma Bin looked at Luhmaru Jiduo, whose face was constantly changing due to his mood swings, and raised his head slightly: "The powerful army of the big man has already arrived around Peshawar."

Luhmaru Jido should have guessed this earlier, and even guessed Ma Bin's subtext, Sassan can destroy Jidoro, and it will not be difficult to destroy the Han Empire.

"Sassan's insanity will definitely cause public outrage!" Luhmaru Jido roared angrily, but suddenly changed his face, and said to Ma Bin flatteringly: "Messenger, if you can inform your country's army, Immediately launch an attack on the siege army?"

Luhmaru Jido still knows a little bit.He heard that Sassan believed that he could not defeat the Han Empire, so he formed an alliance with the Romans, the thousand-year-old enemy, and drew a large group of younger brothers.

Even if the hatred of the millennium enemy is thrown aside, Luhmaru Jido can't know that the Persians think that the Han Empire is a far more terrifying existence than Rome.

Since they want to choose a side, they naturally stand on the strongest side.

Then, Luhmaru Jido knew too well that no matter what choice he made, he would be invaded. Either the Persians would kill him or the Han people would kill him, it would make no difference.

Seriously speaking, Luhmaru Jiduo knows that no matter what he chooses, there will be a large army to attack. He is more willing to compete with his old opponent, the Persians. The army also needs to go from blank to familiar experience accumulation process.

"Naturally, this envoy will immediately notify the army to come." Ma Bin stopped talking too much, raised his hand to salute, and turned around to leave without giving Lu Hemaru a chance to speak. After walking some distance, he said to Zhou Bian Said: "He seems to have made up his mind now, but he will definitely waver when the Persians make big moves."

There are only about [-] Han people in Peshawar. Except for Ma Bin, who is a civil servant, the rest are guards.

However, even if Ma Bin is a civil servant, given the martial arts of the Han people today, he is not a weak, weak, sick and disabled man, and his fighting ability is much stronger than some soldiers.

They didn't think about breaking through or anything.Once there is an intention to break out of the siege, it is to force Luhmaru Jido to have no choice but to discuss the terms of surrender with Sassan.

"Will they arrest us as a gesture of surrender?" Zhou Bian was very suspicious of what Luhmaru Jiduo would do if he was cornered.He also said: "We didn't have an agreed signal when we came, how can we remind the possible army to come?"

"Eleven days have passed. Calculated by the distance..." Ma Bin calculated silently: "It is the infantry army, and the farthest distance from Peshawar will not exceed sixty miles. The cavalry army must have arrived nearby early. It's just how Communicating with it ... is really a problem."

In fact, it is possible to run to the highest point and take a flag to make a semaphore. The problem is that someone outside the army needs to see it.

"Since we're here, we must send people to keep an eye on Peshawar's movements." Zhou Bian said decisively, "Whether it's to give Luhmaru Jiduo more confidence, or to try, we must do it. It's just... the timing Still not right."

Only at the most critical moment in Peshawar, the Han army suddenly appeared and defeated the Persians was the savior.

Before Peshawar encountered enough crises, the appearance of the Han army was just a kind of icing on the cake, and there would be more gratitude for sending charcoal in a timely manner.

"Luhemaru Ji had long guessed that the powerful army of the big man was outside." Ma Bin was not afraid of being burned to death, but told the truth: "It is impossible to get his sincere gratitude."

That being said, Ma Bin would not immediately try to summon the Han army outside the city to attack.

Even if Luhmaru Jiduo was really grateful, it would only be a short period of emotional fluctuations. As a country, how can there be so many emotions.

What the Han Empire needs is not just the gratitude and gratitude of one more person from Luhmaru Jidoro, who appears at the right time and appears as a savior, and is more aimed at ordinary Yudoluo people.

Zhou Bian communicated with the guards of the palace fortress, and with the strong support of Luhmaru Jiduo, he began to go to the highest place, holding a large flag and began to raise the semaphore.

Outside the city, probably in a pile of grass fourteen miles away from the highest point of the palace, Jiao Cheng has been observing the progress of the war with a telescope.

There have always been scouts from the Han army observing the offensive and defensive battles in Peshawar. There has been no major change. One person is dispatched every two hours to report to the rear. Of course, if there is any new situation, it will be reported to the rear immediately.

The scout team usually has more than three people, and no more than ten people at most.

Some scout teams encountered Sasanian scouts while moving, so it was naturally a small-scale fight or chase.

"That's..." Jiao Cheng looked back and forth at the same spot for a few times, but didn't notice it at first: "Is it our banner?"

Chang Bing took the binoculars from Jiao Cheng's hand, and after looking at them for a while, he tried to identify them: "It's our flag, he's playing the semaphore."

With the production capacity of the Han Empire, there is still no way to equip all the scouts with binoculars. A team of scouts has two, one for normal use and the other for backup.

As scouts, they have basically learned semaphore. They often don't have to travel far to transmit information. They can use semaphore to transmit information between each other according to the situation, which can save a lot of time.

"Sassan... kerosene..." Chang Bing read out while reading, and after reading it twice, he understood what the semaphore meant to express: "Sassan will invest a lot of kerosene to attack the city, he invited us Get ready to strike, depending on the situation.”

Regarding the number of Sassanid troops attacking Peshawar, Zhou Bian naturally didn't need to remind them, the supporting army would investigate clearly, even in quite a detailed manner.

"You and Xiaosan stay where you are." Jiao Cheng slowly changed from a prone position to a squatting position, poking his head out of the grass and looking around: "I'm going to report the situation."

Chang Bing naturally had no objection.

The other person, who was called Xiaosan, was lying on the ground and sleeping.

Jiao Cheng didn't stand up straight and run carelessly, but kept his body as low as possible to move.He came to about 300 meters away from the location where he had just observed, and entered a small forest full of bushes.

This grove is some small trees with not thick trunks, and the trunks and branches are still curved, so they are worth as firewood if they are cut down.

There are four war horses placed in the grove, all of which are muzzled. They have undergone relevant training, and they will stay obediently when they are tied in one place.

Jiao Cheng didn't get on his horse right away, but led the horse out of the woods along the route he had planned long ago, and entered a wilderness with dense grass and taller grass.

After getting on the horse, Jiao Cheng also didn't immediately drive the horse to gallop, but let the horse do the necessary slow warm-up.

It is such a situation. If it is not necessary, you cannot drive the war horse to run wildly before it has warmed up. Otherwise, the horse will suffer invisible damage and reduce the service life of a horse as a war horse. Not to mention running wildly from the beginning. It will also cause the war horse to quickly enter a state of fatigue. The faster it is in front, the slower it will run behind, and there may even be tragedies such as a stumble and overturn or the sudden death of the war horse.

In fact, Jiao Cheng wasn't the only scout team who noticed Zhou Bian's semaphore, but all the scout teams saw it as long as their line of sight wasn't blocked.

The scouts of the Han army could see that the Sasanian soldiers in the siege state were not blind.

"That's... the battle flag of the Han Empire, right?" Dospals Canandina didn't go up to the city wall of Peshawar. He stayed in his military tent and came out with a telescope to watch the station when someone reported it. Zhou Bian, who was waving a flag at the highest point of the palace: "I heard that Han people can use flags to communicate."

This is not a secret. Countries also have related semaphores, but no country has formulated a set of semaphores as complex as the Han Empire.

"There are Han troops around us." Dospals Canandina didn't have any surprised expression on his face: "This is inevitable, but we haven't found it, and we can't judge how many there are. What kind of arms."

It wasn't their scouts who discovered the arrival of the Han army. It was Dospals Canandina who judged the situation based on the situation.

The Han Empire was fighting for Jiduoluo, so how could it be possible to watch Jiduoluo perish?That's not the case. After the arrival of Dospals Canandina, he would not stop attacking the city without stopping, and use harsh punishments to force the craftsmen to work overtime to build siege equipment.

They rushed so fast, and they didn't care about casualties, because they knew that the Han Empire would not sit idly by and watch Sassanid perish, so they would definitely send troops to rescue.

"Should we postpone the offensive..." Abu Badile asked, "Are you ready for the arrival of the Han army?"

"There must be related arrangements." Dospals Canandina couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The Han Empire made a quick decision, and the army came too early. He thought they would have At least three days of siege time: "There is no need to suspend the siege, on the contrary, it should be stepped up."

One thing Dospals Canaandina can still confirm is that there are no large groups of soldiers from the Han Empire within [-] miles, so even if the Han army has already approached, it will take at least an hour to approach the battlefield , they still have the last hour, and they must strive to turn Peshawar into a city of flames within an hour!
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