Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Chapter 904

Taixi, who was raging in flames, sealed the head of the city, and the panic-stricken Sasanian soldiers finally realized that the enemy was in the river under the city wall.

One of the centurions held a torch in the wall and leaned down to look down.As soon as he saw clusters of flames on the river, he heard the sound of arrows piercing through the air, and then a heavy arrow from a long bow shot through his head.Lian Ren took torches and fell towards the city wall.

More than a dozen archers of Army Commander Liang stood on the deck of the semi-submersible ship, bowing their bows and nodding their arrows, looking for the target to kill.At this time, the crossbowmen readjusted their gun positions and extended the drop point of the projectiles to the city.One after another, fireballs rose into the air one after another, and were thrown into the city...

At this time, Ardashir was still having a banquet with the officials. He was drinking the fine wine with a wine glass, watching the singing and dancing of the singers, but he was thinking about how to kill those Liang Jun who had rushed into the big swamp. Hurry up and go out.

In fact, Ardashir's palace is very close to the southern city wall, which is to facilitate the drainage of the Euphrates River for the palace gardens and lake views.But the sound of singing and dancing above the hall covered up the faint noise coming from the city wall, so Ardashir and the officials were still unaware of the attack launched by Liang Jun.

Suddenly, a thunderous sound exploded outside the hall, startling everyone inside.The singing and dancing also stopped abruptly.Ardasil glanced out the window and questioned, "Is it thunder? But the moon is still so big outside..."

Before he finished speaking, several thunderous explosions rang out one after another.One of them was very close. Accompanied by the loud noise, Ardashir saw a flash of flames outside the door, and then the entire door of the palace seemed to be blown away by a strong wind, and it burst open.In addition, everyone in the hall also felt a slight tremor on the floor.

Those divas who had been stunned also screamed in fright, and then they retreated to the back of the hall in a panic, their faces paled from fright.Ardashir also knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly stood up and asked, "What happened?!"

At this time, a palace guard with ragged skirts and a bloody face broke into the hall and said, "Liang Jun! Liang Jun attacked the city..." Before he could finish speaking, he threw himself on the floor and passed away.

When Ardasil and the ministers heard this, their souls were instantly shaken. They didn't know how many Liang Jun came and where they came from.Rud Shaba, who has been promoted by Ardashir to be the full-time prime minister, shouted eagerly: "Quick, where are the guards? Come and protect the king and go to the back of the palace to take shelter. Hurry up and call the city's soldiers and horses to help!"

At this time, the Liang Jun semi-submersible boat on the river continued to throw explosive bombs and explosive bombs into the city.Several fires broke out in Taixifeng City, and many people were bloody and bloody from the blasting bombs, and some even died on the spot.The Sasanian soldiers at the top of the city finally began to counterattack with bows and arrows, but the Liang army had long been prepared for this.

They used large shields to cover themselves and the ballista without any flaws.Although the arrows from the top of the city hit the shield like a shower, they did not cause any damage to Liang Jun on the deck.

After going on like this for a quarter of an hour, the gate of the city opened with a bang, and more than [-] Sasanian soldiers and horses rushed out from the inside, fighting towards the river.

The archers of Army Commander Liang stood up from time to time behind the shield wall and shot out precise arrows. The Sassanid soldiers were hit by arrows one after another, and then another explosive bomb was shot directly into the middle of the crowd.After a muffled bang, seven or eight Sasanian soldiers were knocked to the ground by the blast, and four or five people who were close were smashed to pieces by iron filings and nails.

The wailing of more than a dozen Sassanid soldiers who had been killed and wounded resounded through the night sky.The other [-] or so Sassanian soldiers quickly dispersed, never daring to gather together again.Liang Jun's hot bombs continued to project towards the city.

After a while, all the military camps close to Taixi Fengcheng were urgently ordered to send reinforcements to the city.If you look down from a high altitude, more than ten fire dragons are surging towards Taixifeng.At the same time, a large number of soldiers and horses gathered in the city and rushed towards the south city.

Liang Jun didn't seem to care about this, and continued to shoot "fireballs" into the city continuously.Taixifeng City is already in a mess, and even the imperial palace is on fire.

It wasn't until a large number of Sasanian soldiers and horses rushed to the Euphrates River that the general commanding the Liang army shouted loudly: "Withdraw!".These semi-submersible boats immediately set up their sails and fled down the water in a fully floating state.Naturally, the Sasanian army would not let them go so easily. First, a large number of Sasanian war cavalry appeared on the south bank and then on the north bank to pursue them.

The Sasanian war cavalry who had chased to both sides of the strait came out in a panic when they received the military order, and did not prepare rocket fuel and other things.So apart from continuously shooting arrows at these semi-submersible ships, they also have nothing to do with these semi-submersible ships for the time being.After such a pursuit for less than half an hour, these ships have been shot like hedgehogs, but Liang Jun soldiers have all hid in the cabin, and there will be no casualties.

During this time, although the two "fire dragons" continued to bite the seven or eight prey, they did not always move along the river bank.Because the Euphrates River has many tributaries flowing into it, when the two fire dragons encountered such a tributary and could not cross the river directly on horseback, they had to detour to a place with a bridge and continue their pursuit.

Even so, the speed of the war horse was still much faster than those ships, and the semi-submersible ship was still bitten tightly by the two fire dragons.Finally, these semi-submersible boats were stopped by an iron chain blocking the river at a military town barracks by the river.The Sasanian soldiers in the barracks on both sides of the strait had already been informed by the cavalry in advance, and they had already ambushed here.

When they saw that these semi-submersible boats were blocked, the soldiers on the shore were bowing their bows and crossbows. As long as Liang Jun emerged from the boat, he would be shot like a hedgehog.There are also a large number of Sasanian soldiers using bamboo rafts to approach the intercepted semi-submersible boats.One of the soldiers was eager to make meritorious service, and was the first to board the deck of one of the semi-submersible ships, then probed into the lookout button less than three feet in diameter, stabbed it with a spear gun, and finally held up a torch jumped in.

Then, the people on the shore saw a sudden bright light in the river, and their eyes were temporarily blinded, and then there was a deafening thunder-like sound.When their eyesight recovered, a sea of ​​fire was burning on the river.The bamboo rafts and Sasanian soldiers that surrounded the Liang army ships were gone.A cavalry centurion found something falling from the sky on his horse's back. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a bloody arm.

It turned out that the semi-submersible ship mechanism detonated all the explosive bombs contained in it.The people on board had already escaped with a one-person snorkeling device halfway through the water.

The sky finally lighted up again, and Ardashir looked at the messy Taixi Fengcheng, and sent an order to his personal guards: "Go, quickly send my military order, and quickly bring back the troops from the Eastern Expedition."

Chapter 905 Flame Hill

Before dawn, the left hill in the east of Persis City.

A bright spot suddenly appeared in the dark night sky, and it drew a graceful arc in the air, just as it landed on the top of the hill, and then burst into flames.Then hundreds of bright spots followed and fell to the top of the mountain like meteors.In the originally silent night, there were bursts of low and dull sounds like rolling thunder in the distance.

The entire hilltop was ablaze with raging flames in clusters here and there.It's just that there were no screams and screams in the flames, which showed that the explosive bombs of the Liang army did not cause many casualties to the Sasanian defenders.

Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of killing on the hillside, and Liang Jun, who had advanced his camp to less than [-] battles away from the Sasanian camp on the top of the hill, launched a general attack.Hundreds of Liang Jun jumped out of the trench with various weapons in hand, climbed over the barrier and rushed towards the burning hill.

They had just rushed twenty or thirty steps away when a large number of arrows struck them with the sound of piercing through the air.Several soldiers of the Liang army who rushed to the front were shot through the breastplate by powerful arrows and fell into a pool of blood.

These arrows came from the bunkers of the Sasanian army.These dark forts are actually very hard elm boards erected in the original tunnels, and the boards are covered with floating soil up to one foot thick, leaving only a gap less than one foot above the ground as a window for shooting and observation.

Several casualties of Liang Jun soldiers were quickly dragged down, and a Liang Jun led a shield and approached a discovered bunker.The lower edge of the metal hoop of the shield was dragged almost against the ground, rubbing out a series of sparks.The arrows flying close to the ground kept shooting at the shield, making a muffled sound, but it didn't slow down his footsteps at all.He rushed to the front of the bunker in a few strides.

He knelt on the ground on one knee, raised his shield an inch, and stabbed the spear in his hand almost close to the ground into the bunker. He felt the spear hit something, and then heard a scream, but Immediately, a long spear pierced through the gap at the bottom of the shield, pierced his calf, and the point of the spear pierced his shin. He yelled in pain and fell to the ground, and the shield covered him.

When the Sassanian soldiers in the bunker were about to shoot the second shot, the team had already been dragged down by Paze.

Another Liang Jun rushed up. He didn't have a weapon in his hand, but he held a burning object with a long handle in his right hand. An arrow shot into his lower abdomen at close range, but he still suffered from severe pain. The thing stabbed into the bunker.There was only a muffled sound, and after a flash of red light in the dark castle, there was the sound of howling ghosts and wolves.Then three or four Liang Bing armed with short knives found the entrance to the tunnel of the bunker.Not long after they jumped down the tunnel and rushed into the bunker, the howling of ghosts and wolves stopped abruptly amidst the screams.

What Liang Jun stabbed was an explosive bomb, which was different from a hot bomb, and it didn't need to be completely fragmented to produce a lethal effect.It only needs to receive a certain shock and vibration, and the flame from the outside can be introduced into the semi-sealed clay pot, detonating the mixture of naphtha, air, and iron filings.

At present, although the power of these iron nails and iron filings is not enough to ensure that the enemy soldiers who are bombed are killed on the spot, they can completely smear the enemy soldiers' flesh and blood, injure their eyes and limbs, and cause them to lose their fighting ability.

In this way, Liang Jun conquered all kinds of Sassanian army's dark fort strongholds along the way, and advanced to a place less than ten battles away from the Sasanian army's main camp.At this time, the arrows fired by the Sasanian army became more intensive.Suddenly several fire dragons spewed out from the ground on the slope, and swept towards Liang Jun who was rushing towards the hill.The Sasanian army stationed on the hill finally used their big killer weapon --- Greek fire.

Some Liang Jun quickly lay down on the ground, but some were burned to death in an instant when they couldn't dodge.Even the backs of those Liang Jun who lay on the ground to avoid the fire were burned by the flames.The screams and screams on the battlefield can be heard endlessly.Wei Yan, who was supervising the battle in the rear, shouted sharply: "Huanhuobu, come on!"

Immediately, hundreds of Liang Jun soldiers quickly put fireproof clothing made of fire cloth on their armor coats.Holding a shield and holding a gun, he rushed to the top of the mountain.These Huanhuo cloths were urgently trafficked from Rome by Feng Yu's order. After they were transported to the factory in Xihekou to rush out the protective clothing, they were transported here along the southern supply line through Suguan for thousands of miles.

These soldiers wearing fire cloths once again attacked the last few dark forts in front of the main Sasanian camp.The fire dragon still spewed out as scheduled. Although these Liang soldiers were wrapped in fireproof clothing, the temperature of the flames was too high.Through the fireproof suits, the soldiers jumped up feeling as if their skin was being splashed with boiling water, and threw their shields aside.Then he fell under the dense arrows shot from behind the camp.Others were directly blinded, screaming and scrambling on the hillside, and finally fell under the arrows of the Sasanian army.

Seeing the heavy casualties, Wei Yan roared: "Second wave, wear double-layer fire-resistant suits, follow me!"

After that, he took off his armor, and wrapped two layers of fireproof clothing on himself one after another.This fireproof suit is very heavy, with two layers and armor.With that weight, even Wei Yan might not be able to move.The rest of the soldiers did the same, put on two layers of fireproof suits one after another, and rushed to the top of the mountain following Wei Yan.In addition to wrapping their bodies in fire-resistant clothing, they even wrapped their shields in a layer of fire-fighting cloth.

Holding a large shield, Wei Yan reminded the soldiers behind him: "Attention, you must use the shield to cover your eyes when the fire comes!" As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a red light in front of him, knowing that the fire was coming, he quickly used the large shield Cover your head.

As soon as the fire receded, he took the lead in two or three strides and rushed to the transom of a bunker on the slope. Sure enough, he saw something like a copper pipe facing out of the window, and there was a kindling like an oil lamp in front of the copper pipe.Apparently this is the Sasanian army's weapon for launching Greek fire.

Wei Yan stabbed hard at the transom with the spear in his hand, and then there was a scream from the bunker.He saw the brass pipe moved slightly and knew that the people inside were going to set fire again, so he hastily shot again. This shot first extinguished the fire, and then pierced the copper pipe's eyes.

A stream of Greek fire oil sprayed out from the copper pipe, but because it was blocked by the tip of Wei Yan's gun, the spray was not far away, and a lot of it leaked into the bunker.When the kerosene stopped spraying, Wei Yan pulled out his spear and swept it over a bonfire a few feet away. After the Greek kerosene on the tip of the gun ignited, Wei Yan stabbed it into the bunker again.

Suddenly there was a muffled sound, and the Greek fires that had leaked out in the bunker suddenly blazed up, and then a three to four-foot-long flame gushed out from the transom.Then there was a bang, the ground trembled violently, and several connected bunkers collapsed.It turned out that the flames in the bunker ignited the kerosene in the Greek kerosene tank, resulting in a violent deflagration in a closed environment, blowing up all the connected bunkers.

Chapter 906 The Slaughterhouse on the Slope

Knocked to the ground by the air waves, Wei Yan, who was dizzy from the shock, finally woke up.

He jumped up from the ground, pointed the spear in his hand forward, and shouted: "Kill!" Then he and the hundreds of Liang Jun in fireproof suits rushed across the Sasanian line of defense and rushed to the main camp of the Sassanian army.Behind them, thousands of Liang Jun jumped out of their hiding place and came to attack the hill from all directions along the hillside.In addition, at the foot of the mountain, more Liang Jun rushed up the mountain along the various tunnels and paths that had been opened before.

In the past few days, when Liang Jun, who was at every step, pushed the camp to within [-] battles of the main Sasanian camp on the top of the mountain, he would occasionally shoot explosive bombs into the main Sasanian camp.After seven or eight days of continuous bombardment, the surface of the Sassanid Army's main camp had already been burnt to ruins, and even the wooden fence built on the rampart had been burnt to the point where only a section of dark wood remained. pile.The only intact buildings on the surface of the main camp are several giant water tanks that store rainwater.

But this does not mean that all the Sasanian defenders were completely lost. On the contrary, they still hid a large number of Sassanian soldiers in caves dug along the mountain, bunkers transformed with trenches, and natural stone caves.

At this time, they saw Liang Jun launching the final full-scale attack, and they knew that it was impossible to stop Liang Jun just by hiding in the bunker cave and shooting cold arrows at Liang Jun.Under the urging of the general, they had to get out of the cave one after another and face Liang Jun.

Wei Yan had already thrown away his spear and large shield, took off his double knives from his back, danced into a ball and entered the Sassanid army.In just a quarter of an hour, five Sassanid soldiers became Wei Yan's ghosts.At this time, the entire mountain was in chaos.The two sides in the war did not form an army formation, and regardless of the dividing line between the enemy and the enemy, they all randomly found an enemy target and then caught each other and fought into a group.The spears or arrows thrown by the soldiers on both sides flew back and forth over the heads of the fighting soldiers.The sound of shouting and fighting shook the sky.

After the Sasanian army attacked the Liang army for nearly two months, only five or six thousand of the original 6000 defenders on the mountain remained.These [-] people had the upper hand in the fierce battle on the hill at first because of the advantages of local troops, but as more and more Liang troops rushed up, they gradually became difficult to support.Then when Liang Jun's dozens of giant ape warriors charged towards them, it became the last straw that crushed them, and they collapsed instantly.The remaining two or three thousand Sasanian soldiers knelt down and begged for surrender.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Liang Jun's battle flag was flying on the top of the mountain.Shortly thereafter, another mountain was also conquered by Gao Shun's army.

Sulehar, who was watching the battle at the head of Persis city, saw the two mountains billowing with smoke, and the sound of the fighting could be vaguely heard in his ears, and his heart was anxious.When he saw Liang Jun's battle flag rising from two hills, his heart sank.

At dawn, he was awakened from his sleep by his own soldiers, saying that the Liang army might have launched a general attack on the camps on two hills outside the city.He hurried to the top of the city and looked into the distance.Sure enough, they saw that the camps on the two hills were ablaze, and the flames were raging.He immediately sent out all the remaining war cavalry in the city, divided into two groups, and went to attack the Liang army who was waiting to attack under the two hills, so as to relieve the pressure on the defenders on the hill.

But his cavalry rushed out of the east gate and rushed down the high ground along the slope outside the gate. As expected, they were chased and intercepted by nearly ten thousand Liang army infantry.In the end, not to mention going to reinforce the two strongholds, it was not so easy to return to Persis City.

The reason why it is true is because in the past month, he did not wait for Liang Jun to eat up the two outer strongholds of Persis step by step.Instead, the company sent six three waves of soldiers and horses to reinforce the two hills, but they were all repelled by a red-faced and long-bearded general in the Liang army camp on the east slope of the city leading the Liang army war cavalry.

Then, he tried to rely on night raids to pull out the nail under the east slope of the city.But I didn't expect that this not only failed to achieve the effect of a sneak attack, but it was bloody, and lost two or three thousand war cavalry.The other party seemed to expect that he would send troops to attack him, and had already set up many traps in the camp to prepare for it.As soon as his war cavalry rushed into the camp, they encountered overlapping horse-rejecting antlers and traps.Those Liang Army infantry appeared from nowhere, and the camp was filled with black heads of soldiers in an instant.A large number of Sasanian war cavalry fell under the intensive projection of javelins, and many cavalry riders who were standing in front of the horse's antlers were directly pulled off their horses by Liang Jun's soldiers and beheaded.

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"Lord Governor, look! Shall we open the city gate?" The shout of a soldier woke up Sulehar from his contemplation.

He looked down the city, and it turned out that it was the war cavalry that he dispatched at dawn, and finally a hundred of them broke through the enemy's siege and interception, and fled towards Persis City.But behind them, there are five or six hundred Liang Jun war cavalry biting them tightly.And behind the five or six hundred Liang army cavalry, there was still a mass of Liang army infantry heads swarming, and it was hard to see how many people there were.It's just that the leading general, Sulehar can already recognize it familiarly, is the big man with red face and long beard.

Sulehar gritted his teeth, and said coldly: "Don't open the city gate, the crossbowmen and crossbowmen obey orders, and shoot and kill all those who are close to the city wall, regardless of whether they are enemies or not!"

Immediately, arrow rain and stone bullets flew down the city with the whistling sound of piercing through the air.Those Sassanid warriors who were galloping, thankful that they could escape back to the city, never dreamed that they would be attacked by their own people.In the dense arrow rain, they fell off their horses one after another.After four or fifty casualties, these Sasanian cavalry finally understood that Sulehar abandoned them and refused to let them enter the city.

They hurriedly turned their horses' heads and rushed down the slope again.One of the centurions faced Liang Jun who was several battles away, threw away his weapon, raised his hands and shouted: "Surrender! We surrender..." Before he finished speaking, a stone from the head of Persis City The bullet just hit the back of his head, and his whole head suddenly turned into a cloud of blood and disappeared into the air, and the headless body fell directly off the horse.

In the end, of the more than [-] Sasanian cavalry, only [-] or so cavalry threw away their weapons, raised their hands high, and successfully rushed into the crowd of Liang Jun's infantry and cavalry and were captured.

This incident made Feng Yu, who was watching the battle from a distance, also realize how intensive the firepower of the Sassanian army deployed in this section of the city wall.

The stone bullets and arrows from the top of the city killed nearly [-] Sassanid cavalry and more than [-] Liang army cavalry who rushed to the front in less than ten breaths.And let the ground of the slope be covered with pits made by arrows and stone bullets.This is still the case when the Sasanian army did not use ballistas to fire Greek fireballs, otherwise the lethality would be even more astonishing.

Feng Yu frowned, and understood in his heart that this big slope was a slaughterhouse waiting for Liang Jun.If the original plan was to attack from the front of the slope, the casualties would be unbearable.

Chapter 907 The Least Likely Direction to Attack

The head of the east gate of Persis.Standing under the scorching sun in early summer, Sulehar overlooked the slope below the city that was as wide as more than a hundred battles.He originally thought that Liang Jun would attack the main city after clearing the left and right strongholds outside the city.But to his surprise, Liang Jun did not move for three consecutive days, but sent people to attack the city with arrows and stone bullets, and took the risk of snatching back more than [-] Liang Jun corpses on the slope.

The slope is full of corpses of the Sasanian army that have begun to rot.Sulehar was worried that when he sent someone out to collect the corpse, Liang Jun would take the opportunity to cover up and kill him, so that he would have to close the door early and lose more soldiers.So he simply ordered the gates of the city to be closed tightly, and gave up on these corpses.

At this moment, when his eyes swept over these corpses.He thought to himself, maybe Liang Jun was afraid of the power of the crossbow and ballista at the east gate of his city, so he didn't dare to attack.Then they may choose to attack from other places.As for the rest of the roads that can reach the highland where the city of Persis is located, there are only two small roads, north and south.At the entrance of these two small roads, Liang Jun had to detour for a long time to come up.

Thinking of this, he immediately said to the commanding soldiers beside him: "Pass down my military order and call all the generals to discuss the matter."

Soon, all the generals under Sulehar's command gathered in the lobby of the government office.He told the generals what was in his mind, and someone suggested: "My lord, most of our crossbowmen and crossbowmen are concentrated at the east gate for defense. If the Liang army is coming from the north and south by detours, then we Some crossbowmen and crossbowmen should be dispatched from the east gate to defend the north and south gates."

Sulehar shook his head again and again and said: "No. In this way, the defense of the north and south gates is strengthened, but the defense of the east gate, which makes Liang Jun fearful, is weakened. More importantly, if all the Liang troops successfully go to the high ground .Then how easy is it for our remaining soldiers to defend an isolated city of Persis with a circumference of nearly forty miles? They must not be allowed to go to the high ground."

All the generals fell silent when they encountered difficulties for a while.Sulehar seemed to have an idea long ago.He smiled lightly and said: "The defensive deployment in the city does not need to be changed. We only need to send two troops of 3000 people each to set up ambushes near the entrances of the two small roads in the north and south, and we will be able to defeat the enemy who is trying to attack Persis from the north and south flanks." , and may even annihilate them completely. And the entrances of these two paths are just very suitable places to set up an ambush..." After finishing speaking, he began to deploy one by one.

In the afternoon, the south gate and north gate of Persis were opened at the same time.Two groups of thousands of people quietly walked out of the city under the dark sky.They were the Sasanian army who were going to set up ambushes at both ends of the north-south path.But how did Ardashir know that he never calculated that Liang Jun would launch a surprise attack from the west of the city where it was least likely to be attacked.The transfer of these six thousand soldiers and horses weakened the defenders' strength and helped Liang Jun.

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In the Gobi wasteland to the southwest of the Bosis Heights, a large-scale troop was advancing rapidly.This army is very strange. The soldiers are either riding a big bird with flapping wings, or riding a four-wheeled chariot.Dust billows rose along the road.

They are the troops of Dianwei and Gao Shun of Liang Jun. The task Feng Yu gave them was to go around to the west of the Persis Heights, climb directly to the top of the city from the cliff on the west side of the highlands, and attack Persis in this way that the enemy thought was the most impossible. Sith city.

In order to achieve this goal, Feng Yu also temporarily reorganized their legion.In addition to configuring all the nearly [-] soldiers and horses as infantry, all the infantry were also equipped with ostriches or baggage carts instead of walking.In addition, more than a thousand soldiers among them were equipped with bursting individual ballistas that Liang Jun is still piloting.

Although the width of the Persis Heights is only five or six miles from east to west, it is about the width of Persis City.But it is more than a hundred miles wide from north to south.In addition, in order to prevent the Persis defenders from discovering, it was necessary to turn to the back of the highland in a roundabout way.Therefore, it takes at least two hundred miles to go around from the east to the west, which is three or four days for ordinary infantry.

However, Liang Jun, who traveled on ostriches and wheels, arrived near the cliff west of Persis City in just over two days.Here, Dian Wei and Gao Shun let the soldiers abandon the birds and walk.Even some baggage carts dragging the necessary equipment no longer let the horses gallop, but lead the horses to draw the carts and walk slowly with the infantry.All this is to prevent the dust from being raised so that it can be discovered by the condescending Sassanid army from afar.

When they were still three or four miles away from the west cliff of Persis Heights, the sky was still hazy.By the way, Dian Weigao ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and hid in a grove to wait quietly for the night to fall completely.At the same time, surrounded by the generals, Feng Yu looked anxiously into the sky.It was going to be completely dark soon, and if the signal from Dianwei Gaoshun's army still could not be seen, then the Liang armies from the east and the west would not be able to cooperate well in the battle.

Just when everyone was about to be disappointed, a few small black dots appeared in the sky, and at the same time there were intermittent eagle howls.Feng Yu couldn't help but be overjoyed. This was the signal that Dianwei Gaoshun's troops had arrived near the cliff on the west side of the Bosis Heights. It seemed that everything was going well.

Zhao Yun next to Feng Yu immediately ordered: "Turn on the hourglass and start counting!" The nearby soldiers immediately set up the hourglass that had been placed on the table.The main force of the Liang army in the east will cooperate with Dianwei Gaoshun's actions according to the plan according to the time.

It was finally completely dark, and there was not even moonlight or starlight in this pitch-black night.More than a dozen fireballs rose into the air and blasted towards the east gate of Persis.It's just that there are more than a hundred battles and dozens of battles high slopes, and it is impossible to reach the head of Persis's city with their range.The farthest explosive bomb barely landed in front of the east gate of Persis City, igniting a dazzling flame.

The Sasanian defenders in the city reacted quickly, and countless arrows, rockets, and stone bullets poured down the slope.The firelight in the air and the firelight on the ground immediately brightened the lights on the slope.The flickering flames made the corpses look particularly hideous and terrifying.Some arrows or stone bullets hit the corpses, making a muffled sound like a stone being thrown into a muddy puddle.

Sulehar immediately received the news of Liang Jun's attack. He sneered, and said to the generals who were still gathered in his mansion: "Only bombard the ballista, but don't send troops to charge. This is obviously just a feint to attract me. The attention of the army. This also shows that they are really going to sneak up on the high ground from the north and south sides to attack the city of Persis. We will just wait and see."

One of his generals reminded: "My lord, if they really attacked Persis City from the north-south path, then they would not just use such a feint to cooperate. Climb to the high ground to meet their main force coming from the north and south. If our army goes out of the city to the north and south to rush and intercept, we can launch an attack from the back of our army to cooperate with their main force to break through the defense line."

Chapter 908 Still Wrong

After hearing the reminder from the generals under his command, Sulehar said disapprovingly: "That's right, but I set up a lot of secret sentries along the edge of the cliff on the high ground outside the city early on, and deployed a thousand-rider army The heavy armored cavalry patrolled along the edge of the north and south highlands. Therefore, if Liang Jun sneaked up from the cliff, he would be discovered by our army in a short time. Before they were discovered, they could at most successfully climb up with a small group of people. A unit of troops is not enough for the troops I have deployed."

Just when Sulehar said this, Liang Jun's various ballista projectiles and arrows still fell on the slope outside the east gate intermittently, and at the same time, Liang Jun's army shield wall had already moved along the slope. Pressed up, but only after more than ten battles, they stopped moving forward.Because the front convenience is the dense coverage area of ​​the arrow ballista projectiles of the Sasanian army.

But at the same time, about [-] Liang army infantry divided into two groups and dived under the highland cliffs on the left and right flanks of the east gate slope.Some of them are from Feng Yu's Guards Corps, holding special weapons such as individual ballistas.

The cliffs in the eastern part of Persis Heights are not as steep as those in the west. They are not so much cliffs as they are steep slopes.But if ordinary people climb with bare hands, it is difficult to climb up.

On the south side of the soldiers and horses, Liang Jun, who was leading the battle, was carrying a single soldier ballista on his back, holding a short knife and inserting the knife into the soil as a support, and at the same time, using the vegetation on the steep slope, he climbed up quietly and quickly.A quarter of an hour later, more than a dozen people climbed to the top of the cliff first, and they threw down more than a dozen soft ropes.Let the people under the steep slope continue to climb up continuously.

When five or sixty people gathered on the edge of the cliff, there was the sound of arrows piercing through the air, and about seven or eight arrows rushed towards them.Two soldiers of the Liang Army were unable to dodge in time, and were killed by arrows one after another.Immediately afterwards, the sound of arrows and horns sounded, and it was Sasanian sentries calling for friendly support.

These Liang soldiers listened to the sound and identified their positions, and immediately judged that the opponent was not far from the left. Someone had already reported the opponent's coordinates according to Liang Jun's traditional positioning method, "Ten o'clock direction, twenty battles!"

Forty or fifty soldiers of the Liang Army raised their individual crossbows and fired in salvo in the direction of ten o'clock, twenty battles away.Immediately there were four or five screams.But the sound of the Sasanian army's warning did not stop abruptly. Instead, the sound of arrows and horns sounded more and more, gradually changing from one point to multiple points.

From time to time, a single infantry of the Sasanian army rushed to this side, but as soon as they entered the shooting range of the Liang army's individual ballista, they were shot and killed mercilessly.Most of these Sasanian soldiers on patrol or sentry did not carry shields for convenience.The force of the ballista fired by a single soldier ballista can penetrate their bodies three times.

After these Sassanian soldiers suffered a loss, they became wiser and only gathered in the distance, instead of approaching Liang Jun immediately.They fired arrows towards Liang Jun from time to time, and then immediately hid their bodies in the grass.Liang Jun was also shooting crossbows aimlessly at the woods and bushes where they were hiding in the night.However, Liang Jun, who was on the high ground, continued to climb towards the top of the cliff.

Half an hour later, hundreds of Liang Army soldiers had gathered on the edge of the high ground. They surrounded the "landing field" into a semi-circular temporary position and built a shield wall.At the same time, hundreds of ropes were hanging from the steep cliff behind them.The battle situation of the Liang army in the north is similar to them.

But at this moment, the sound of horseshoes came from the west of the position, and the figures of more than fifty Sassanid warriors appeared in the sight of the soldiers of Liang Army.

Sasanian soldiers hiding in the grass and trees in the distance fired rockets to provide them with illumination and guidance.It was early summer and some of the shrubs had dried up, and these rockets set them ablaze.Immediately there were more clusters of fires on the scene.Brighten up the surrounding fire.

The Sasanian war cavalry immediately rode their horses and charged towards Liang Jun's position, waiting for them to approach.Liang Jun soldiers could already see that they were well-equipped heavy cavalry.Seeing their menacing appearance, one could tell that they were trying to directly break into Liang Jun's formation and crush Liang Bing to pieces.

But they immediately tasted the power of Liang Jun's individual ballista.Those crossbow spears continuously shot towards the direction of the horse's charge at close range, piercing through the vest or the armor worn by the person without any effort.In the blink of an eye, the fifty Sasanian heavy cavalry turned into hedgehogs covered in crossbows amidst people screaming and horses screaming.

In the lobby of the Persis Governor's Mansion, Sulehar still did not rest, waiting for the battle report.All the generals, except those who had the task of leading troops, also sat here with him.

Just when a few of them were drowsy and nodding their heads from time to time, a commanding soldier rushed up to the hall and reported loudly: "Report to Mr. Manager, Liang Jun has climbed from the steep cliffs on the north and south sides of the east gate." Climbed up. And more and more people gathered!"

This voice woke up all the dozing people, and Sulehar was also shocked.He asked sharply: "Why didn't the soldiers deployed outside the city find them?"