sweeping the world

Chapter 1089
The sound of "Han army mighty" was a signal for the Sasanian soldiers that a bloody battle was about to break out.

For the soldiers and civilians in Peshawar, it was different. They thought for a moment that "Daddy" could be counted.

The Han army shouted the battle horn, and would not roar like Rao Tickle from the air, but nothing happened.

There were Han troops in both directions of the Sasanian camp, including the remnant cavalry unit that Dospals Canaandina sent out before and fled back.

Facing the incoming cavalry of the Han army, Dospals Canandina had already made relevant arrangements.

Thick infantry were deployed on all sides of the Sasanian camp, relying on fences and varying numbers of horses.

The infantry in the front row either carried shields or held spears in their hands. Naturally, the infantry carrying shields formed a shield formation, while the infantry holding spears put the tails of their spears on the ground at an angle.

Behind the dense infantry about ten meters thick, there are a large number of archers standing. There will be some gaps between them. If they are crowded together, there will be no room.

The thickness of the archers is about 30 meters. Judging from the north direction, there should be more than [-] archers deployed.Behind them are the crossbowmen.

Sassanian crossbows were imitated from the Han Empire, but the firing range was much shorter than those of the Han Empire. The longest range was about 260 meters.

One thing that must be explained is that although the Sasanian side imitated the crossbows of the Han Empire, a small capstan was omitted due to technical reasons, which resulted in the need to rely purely on manpower every time it was rewound, unlike the crossbowmen of the Han Empire. Can be easily re-wound with a winch.

If it is said that the crossbowmen of the Han Empire could shoot about five crossbow arrows in one minute, the Sasanian crossbowmen could shoot at most two crossbow bolts in one minute.

The imitation is an imitation, or an abbreviated version. The number of crossbowmen on the Sasanian side is not so many. The army led by Dospals Canandina only has about [-] crossbowmen. And there are only two hundred spare crossbows, and every time one is worn out, it will take a long time to feel distressed.

"Ugh...uuuuuuuu..."

The sound of the horn of the sound of the wind is to remind the cavalry of the rout to detour.

The collapsed Sassanian cavalry unit, some of them remained calm, and obediently pulled the reins controlling the mounts and made the necessary detours.

The problem is not that all the Sasanian light cavalry who collapsed can still keep calm, more Sassanian light cavalry distorted their faces in fear, and their eyes looked at the camp in front of them with endless expectations, thinking about He rushed in as fast as he could, as if he felt that only by entering the camp could he be safe.

"Dong dong dong..."

The crisp drum sound was struck.

"Ugh...uuuuuuuu..."

The sound of the trumpet of the decadent sound was blown even more lingeringly.

The Sassanian archers received the order, and they drew and loosened their bows amidst the voice of the command. Three thousand arrows were shot out amidst the sound of dense bowstrings rattling.

The arrows flying in mid-air were aimed at the defeated Sasanian cavalry who did not listen to the advice and did not turn around. Before they fell from the air, the second wave of arrows from the rear was shot out by the archers again.

Sasanian light cavalry with a broken mind, they were galloping on horseback with the desire to survive. Some people saw arrows raining from their own camp, and they howled in despair immediately after one shot or three waves. They were so frightened that they wanted to control their horses to dodge.

Although war horses are living creatures, they really cannot be pulled too hard by the rider's reins when running at high speeds. Their heads are pulled to one side, their bodies are twisted, and their four hooves have no time to adjust. The result is instantaneous. There was a blunder, and I fell off my back.

Just as the fleeing Sassanid light cavalry fell on their backs due to stumbles or trampling, the first wave of arrows fell from the sky. Their sharp arrows may have penetrated into the ground, or they may have been brought up by hitting the flesh. Blood flowers, contribute nutrients to the earth and take away fresh life.

Three waves of about 800 arrows were fired at nearly 1000 Sasanian cavalry who had already collapsed. In fact, no more than [-] people fell under the rain of arrows, but nearly [-] people were following up. Falling down while being stumbled and trampled, there are still about [-] or [-] running forward at an even crazier speed.

"Prepare—prepare—"

"Hold the shield well, shoulder to shoulder and chest to back, forming the tightest formation!"

"As long as the formation is tight, there will be no problem!"

"Deserters, anyone can be executed on the spot!"

The trampling sound of the horse's hooves was resounding, and most of the Sasanian infantry hiding behind the shield knew this, only a very small number of Sasanian infantry could look forward through the gap in the shield.

It would be impossible for these people not to feel confused and surprised when they saw their own cavalry rushing over.Basically, they are guessing whether those people have surrendered to the enemy and become the vanguard of attacking their own barracks.

In fact, that is already a very indifferent matter. No matter whether those Sasanian cavalry have surrendered to the Han army or not, they are all acting as the vanguard of the Han army.

The first batch of collapsed Sassanian cavalry rammed into them, some hit the shield array, some hit the spear array.

The Sassanid cavalry who collided with the shield formation had long been grim and distorted expressions. When the collision happened, the horses under their crotches wailed, and the people were pulled by a force and flung towards the sky, and then smashed into the dense crowd. Infantry overhead.

The crowded infantry, seeing something falling from the top of their heads, couldn't move if they wanted to hide, and some even couldn't do it if they wanted to raise their hands to block it, they could only watch as the object fell down.

In the background of constant screams and roars, the Sassanian cavalry doll's head pad that fell down may not be able to do anything, but the Sassanian infantryman's neck was broken and died, or the Sassanian infantry was smashed. It's all over the place.

In this crowded situation, even if a person is dead and cannot fall down, he will still be squeezed to stand, and then move with the movement of the living person.

"I'm alive, I'm still alive!" A sassanian cavalryman who didn't die showed an ecstatic expression. As for how many of his own people he killed and injured, he didn't care, he was silly: "it's great to be alive!"

Those Sasanian cavalrymen who crashed into the spear array were a little bit bitter. Although not all of them hit and were pierced, they were thrown up and fell dancing in mid-air, usually to be pierced by the spear pointing towards the sky. The spear can see through the body, spilling blood and sliding down the shaft of the spear, or it can simply be hung in the air and become a skewer of human flesh.

Sassanian cavalry galloped and bumped into them constantly, and the result was that they were deployed to defend the Han cavalry's line of defense. The Han army hadn't come up yet, but they were rushed miserably.

The Sassanid cavalryman who was not dead yet shouting that he was still alive just now crawled inward on top of the Sasanian infantrymen, but fell to the ground. Before he could cheer again, soldiers in black clothes rushed over. A wave of the scimitar in his hand made his cheers forever suppressed in his mouth.

If you see Sassanid soldiers in black on the battlefield, you don't have to guess that they are the supervisory team or the law enforcement team.They have kept this tradition for thousands of years, even with the change of dynasties.

The Sasanian cavalryman who thought he had saved his life was not the only one who was beheaded by the black-clothed supervising team. As long as any soldier dared to turn around and run backwards, and crossed a drawn line, there must be a black-clothed supervising team chasing him. Go up and kill.

Almost after the last defeated Sasanian cavalry rammed into it, the Han army following behind also approached within 300 meters of the Sasanian camp defense line.

"Ugh...uuuuuuuu..."

Amid the sound of the trumpets of the music of the wind, the Sassanian crossbowmen who had never fired an arrow pulled the trigger and shot first, followed by the rest of the archers who drew their bows and set their arrows.

The cavalry of the Han army who are charging, they are the fastest running group, the number is about [-], all of them are light cavalry.

The light cavalry of the Han army are actually the armored cavalry of other countries. That is because every Han army knight has at least one set of leather armor.They have a variety of weapons and a small buckler.

The [-] or so light cavalry of the Han army in the charging state each held a shield on the top of their head obliquely in front of them, but they only managed to protect a small part of their upper body, and their lower body, including the crotch. There is no protection at all.

The crossbow arrows shot by the Sasanian crossbowmen fell first, because there were about [-] Sassanian crossbowmen in the north, and the number of falling crossbow bolts would naturally not exceed [-].

In such a vast battlefield, especially in the state of cavalry charging, five hundred crossbow arrows are actually very, very sparse.

Lin Wen couldn't hear the sound of the crossbow arrows colliding with the small round shield, but the hand holding the shield could feel being shot. One of the crossbow arrows penetrated the shield surface and cut his wrist.What he was most worried about didn't happen. Although his thigh hurt from being hit by an arrow, at least the war horse didn't get hit in the head, otherwise it would be bad.

About [-] Sasanian crossbowmen fired a wave of arrows, and the result of the battle was that thirteen Han troops turned their backs while galloping, and then tripped over twenty or so Han cavalry who were galloping up at high speed behind them. This is gone.

About 160 Sasanian archers only shot arrows when the Han army approached to about 100 meters.There is nothing wrong with their range of up to 13 meters, but the cavalry of the Han army is galloping at high speed, advancing about [-] meters per second, and the arrows they shoot will fly in the sky for a while. At that time, the cavalry of the Han army was It will enter the range of the arrow by itself in a high-speed moving state.

Generally speaking, archers shoot faster than crossbowmen. Archers shoot about three rounds before crossbowmen shoot the second round.

Sasanian archers don't like to use bamboo bows and arrows like Ah San, they are relatively normal bows and arrow shafts.

Normal bows and arrow shafts are much more threatening than bamboo bows and bamboo arrows. At least the arrows shot will not become too soft and fluttering when they reach a certain distance, and they will still have enough lethality.

120 meters is a matter of six or seven seconds for cavalry galloping at full speed. Elite archers can shoot about three arrows in such a short period of time, but many archers only have time to shoot one.

There were about [-] light cavalry of the Han army, and about [-] or [-] cavalry fell down on the way of charging, which seemed very normal.

About five hundred of them collided with the formation of Sassanid infantry in an invincible state. However, they did not rush blindly. They tried their best to choose the position where the Sassanid light cavalry had hit. When they collided, they didn't make any move to swing their weapons. On the contrary, they tried their best to adjust their posture at the moment when the collision was about to happen, so that their bodies would not be too miserable when they were thrown out due to the force of the collision.

The remaining 60 or so light cavalry of the Han army approached the Sasanian defensive formation about [-] meters away and began to make a detour. During the movement, they stopped shooting arrows towards the Sassanid formation.

There is a professional term for their behavior, called rushing, but professionals prefer to call it "wave shooting".

To put it bluntly, the main goal is not to make a collision, but to use your own speed to kill a wave or a few times before the enemy can even react. You can choose to evacuate afterwards, and you can continue to surround the enemy The army carried out continuous archery operations.

There will be about [-] Han light cavalry rushing up, which is an inevitable move in the military. It is nothing more than trying to use the impact to break up the Sasanian formation. It would be even better if the Sasanian soldiers forming the formation collapsed.

When the first batch of Han light cavalry entered the battlefield, the cavalry from the rear was also approaching quickly.

Dospals Canandina was standing on an instrument similar to Zhu Xia's chariot. His face had no expression, but his cheeks were shaking slightly: "So... so decisive! "

The Han army fought a wave first. It is impossible that there will be no battle damage, and the long-distance attack will come to chase and kill. How can it consume the physical strength of people and horses?
Dospals Canaandina originally thought that the Han army would at least pause for a while before launching an offensive, and it was not that he did not judge that the Han army would launch an attack immediately, but he really did not expect that all the large groups would enter the attack sequence.

"How is the second line of defense organized?"

"Go back to the general. We are already trying our best to speed up!"

There were more than 7 people when Sassan came, and the camp would not be too small no matter what, it wasn’t that the front collapsed and there was no room for a foothold, and there was still a vast camp behind.

Dospars Canandina held up the telescope and looked at the battlefield. When he saw something, his hands shook and he almost didn't drop the telescope in his hand.

On the battlefield, the roar of horse hooves is the main theme.

Amidst the cloud of smoke and dust, a cavalry brigade wearing iron armor and vests on the front half of the horse appeared just like that with even bigger smoke and dust.

Of course they belonged to the Han army, and they were considered cavalry in terms of arms.

Dospals Canandina saw the cavalry of the Han army just now, and the north and west protruded from the smoke at the same time. Although he was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but his heart twitched.

The Han Empire counted cavalry dressed like that as assault cavalry, while the Sasanian side counted all cavalry as equipped heavy cavalry.

"Can you hold it?" Dospals Canandina looked at his first line, wanting to deceive himself but couldn't: "Can't hold it!"

(End of this chapter)