Three Kingdoms Eschatology

"Report to the chief, the guards and patrols outside our city found them immediately, but these Liang troops who climbed up the high ground quickly formed an army formation on the edge of the high ground. Our people repeatedly attacked and failed, so we planned to gather to a certain place Then drive them down. But they seem to gather faster than us..."

Before Ling Bing finished speaking, he was interrupted by Sulehar angrily: "It's unreasonable! A few enemy infantry who sneaked up couldn't catch up? There are also iron cavalry, why don't the iron cavalry rush up."

Seeing that Sulehar was furious, the soldiers spoke even faster. "Sir, these enemy soldiers used a very powerful bow and crossbow. Not to mention the extremely high rate of fire, the power is also very powerful. It can even easily penetrate the armor of our heavy cavalry. We have dozens of heavy cavalry I tried to attack their positions, but they were all killed by random arrows in just a few seconds. And the soldiers and horses we deployed outside the city did not carry large shields for the convenience of patrolling, and they were even more likely to be shot and killed by them. "

Sulehar obviously panicked. He stood up and paced back and forth uneasily and said, "It's bad, maybe we made a mistake in our calculations. Maybe Liang Jun didn't plan to enter the highland from the north-south path at all. This way, the [-] soldiers and horses we dispatched are wasted. If all the Liang troops successfully ascend the high ground, then Persis will be in danger!"

As soon as he said this, a general suggested: "My lord, we can immediately send soldiers to recall the 6000 troops. At the same time, we will quickly send reinforcements to the two battlefields, especially a large number of sword and shield soldiers. Only then can we defend against their powerful crossbows."

Sulehar sighed: "That's the only way!" How could he know that his judgment on Liang Jun was still wrong.Liang Jun, who is really in charge of the main attack, has dived under the cliff to the west...

Chapter 909

The steepness of the cliff on the west side of the Bosis Heights is far higher than that on the east side. It rises from the ground at a nearly vertical angle, and due to weathering, the angle of some of its cliffs even exceeds [-] degrees.Moreover, the entire cliff wall is almost made of rocks, except for some sparse vegetation growing in the cracks of the rocks, there is no obvious place for hands to fall on.

To climb a cliff as high as tens of battles is dangerous and difficult for a well-trained person, and it will take a lot of time to climb up even if it is successful.

If it is limited to this, it is not enough to make Sulehar completely ignore that Liang Jun may launch a sneak attack from this direction.Assuming that some soldiers of the Liang Army overcome many difficulties and spend a lot of time climbing to the top of the cliff, they will immediately fall into despair.

Because they will find that there is still no way to go or even a foothold.The west city wall of Persis was built along the edge of the cliff with a height of four or five battles.Once discovered by the guard sentry here, no matter how many troops you have, you only need dozens of soldiers to easily kill them with various defensive facilities.

However, now Dian Wei and Liang Jun of Gao Shun's department are doing this impossible thing.The dozens of Liang soldiers who played the vanguard were originally mountain scouts from mountain people.I saw them carrying bundles of ropes and individual ballistas, and carrying various rock climbing equipment to climb the cliff.More than a thousand people in the second echelon crouched motionless in the nearby bushes and bushes.The rest of the main force is hidden two hundred battles away.They need to wait for the front troops to gain a firm foothold at the top of the city and lay out a vertical "path channel" before they can follow.

The soldiers of the Liang army who climbed the cliff did not speak a word, and only gestured when they needed to communicate.It turned out that they all tied their mouths tightly with cloth strips, and they couldn't get out at all.The individual ballistas they carried on their backs were not just their weapons, they had now replaced the mace as a climbing tool.I saw that they used individual ballistas to shoot directly at close range, and shot a special steel cluster ballista deep into the rock mass, using it as a point of strength when climbing.

Gao Shun was in the second echelon, nervously watching the dozens of people slowly climb up the cliff.As long as one of them is discovered by the defenders at the top of the city, it means that the entire operation has failed.Suddenly, a black figure fell from the cliff, and fell to the ground with a muffled bang.

It turned out that a mountain scout fell down by mistake, but he didn't make a loud cry from the moment he missed to the ground and died.It's not that he has such a strong willpower, but that he has already sealed his mouth.

At the head of the city, a patrol of more than [-] guards was passing up the stairway.The headed general has an extremely keen sense of hearing, and has the nickname "Smooth Ear" in the army.At that moment, he always felt that there was some special voice coming from the wind.

In fact, these sounds are the crisp crackle of crossbow guns hitting rock formations at close range, or the clang of mace hammers on climbing nails.It's just because the bottom of the cliff is still dozens of battles away from the top of the city, and when it was transmitted, it was so slight that ordinary people could hardly hear it.

He wasn't sure what those voices were.But the muffled sound of Liang Jun soldiers falling off the cliff aroused his vigilance.He asked the soldiers behind him, "Did you hear anything?"

However, these soldiers were at a loss. "Shunfeng Er" looked out of the city again, but the bottom of the cliff outside the city was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.In fact, even in the daytime, he couldn't find anything.Because part of the cliff wall is sloped at an angle greater than [-] degrees, the bottom is blocked by the cliff itself.

At this time, "Shun Feng Er" heard a rush of footsteps behind him, turned his head and saw a soldier holding a command flag running in a hurry.The soldiers ran and shouted: "The troops of the two, five, and six-knife shield battalions stationed in the west city, quickly go to the square in front of the Governor's Mansion to assemble and stand by. There is a new mission!".

"Shunfeng Er" wanted to stop him and ask him carefully, but the other party had passed by them like a gust of wind, and continued to call down to report.Naturally, Sulehar was mobilizing troops to support the two battlefields opened up by the Liang army on the high ground.

"Shunfeng Er" belonged to the Fifth Battalion, and after receiving the military order, they had no choice but to run down the city with the soldiers behind them.The strange noise he had vaguely heard before had long been forgotten.When he ran down the city, he also saw a large number of Sassanid soldiers running towards the Governor's Palace from different corners of Persis City.

The square in front of the gate of the Governor's Mansion has already gathered a mass of Sasanian soldiers from various ministries, and from time to time, groups of soldiers can be seen coming out of the crowd, or running south or north along the main street to the outside of the city.Shunfenger quickly found the assembly point of his own battalion, and the commander of the fifth battalion saw that everyone was almost there, so he pulled the troops and ran towards the south gate.

At this time, Shunfenger learned from other people that Liang Jun came to the high ground from the cliff, and the chief general Sulehar tried to drive them out of the city, so he dispatched troops from various defense lines to go for reinforcements.

Soon, a team of followers of Shunfenger came to the battlefield.With his keen hearing, he could hear the shouts of fighting from a long distance, and even the whistling sound of arrows flying through the air.Then, at the scene full of soaring flames, he saw corpses all over the ground.Under the light of the fire, the circle of Liang Jun's shields in the distance loomed in the gap between the figures in front of him.

There was a sound of swishing arrows in the air, and Shunfenger saw the overlapping figures in front of him fall down, and the sound of screams and wailing came immediately.From nowhere came a shout that seemed to be from a senior general: "Have the Sword and Shield Soldiers come? Where are the Sword and Shield Soldiers!" Then he shouted again: "The Sword and Shield Soldiers line up their shields forward, and the rest of the troops followed closely behind. Forward. If we can advance twenty battles, we can drive them down to the lowlands!"

Shunfenger's immediate boss, the commander, immediately commanded them. The soldiers in front put their shields together to form a shield wall, and the soldiers in the rear raised their shields over their heads to form a turtle shell, and pressed down on Liang Jun with their swords and cats straight.Then Shun Feng Er heard the sound of arrows piercing the air and the muffled sound of these arrows piercing through the shield.

Shunfenger was in the front row, and he also felt a huge force, as if his shield had been pushed hard, and then he saw a thick arrow piercing the shield.It is more appropriate to say that it is a pocket short spear than an arrow.He took another two steps forward along with the army formation, the force came again, and at the same time he felt a heart-rending pain in his arm.It turned out that after a crossbow shot through the shield, it shot through his arm that was close to the shield and nailed it to the shield.

Shunfeng howled heart-piercingly, but heard a whirring sound in his ears, and a fireball fell in the middle of the crowd, hitting the ground from the gap between the shields.Flames rose into the sky, and people scattered to escape.

Shunfeng'er was also pushed by the dodging crowd, and the shield in front of him also showed a flaw. At this moment, a crossbow spear pierced his chest...

Chapter 910

East of Persis Heights.The two Liang army positions located in the north and south of the big slope, respectively, still did not retreat in the face of the continuous influx of Sasanian reinforcements.Of course, they did this to attract as many Sasanian troops as possible to provide support for the Liang army who was attacking from the west.

At this time, the two thousand Liang troops boarded the high ground in two places, and set up portable ballistas hanging from the cliff in the center of the two circular positions, and continued to throw explosives at the Sasanian army rushing in all directions. bomb, explosive bomb.Some soldiers continued to use ropes and bamboo baskets to carry crossbow guns, projectiles and other consumables upwards from the bottom of the cliff.

The arrows of the Sassanian army were as dense as a shower, occasionally accompanied by javelins.It's just that almost all the soldiers of the Liang Army had large shields on their heads, and the casualties caused by the intensive arrow shooting were far less than that of the opponent.Because the Sasanian army could not advance as close as Liang Jun's defensive circle, most of the javelins they threw could not be thrown into Liang Jun's formation.Even some of the javelins thrown on Liang Jun's shield were at the end of their strength, unable to penetrate the shield, and fell to the ground by the bullets.

The west wall of Persis.Dozens of Liang Jun mountain scouts have climbed to the top of the cliff one after another, but there are still several tall city walls waiting for them.I saw these mountain scouts take out a special crossbow gun from their backs and install it on the individual ballista from the front. They said that this crossbow gun is special because it is tied with a rope at the back end, but it has a claw at the front end.In order to reduce the noise, the steel claws are also wrapped with burlap sponge.

With the muffled sound of individual ballista firing, these claws were thrown high into the air with ropes, and after falling, they hooked on the edge of the battlements amidst the muffled sound, and the claws and blades wrapped in the sponge broke through the cocoon. And out, the hook stabbed firmly on the wall.

Because a large number of troops have been transferred away, there are not many soldiers currently patrolling the west city wall. There are only 500 defenders stationed on the city wall that is six or seven miles long, and only more than [-] of them are divided into several groups in the corridor at the top of the wall. on patrol.

Among them was a team of ten people, lined up in two rows and walking slowly along the city wall.The leader even hummed a little tune, thankful that his people were not taken away to reinforce the south and north of the city.But they didn't realize that the team had become eight people, and the last two had fallen in a pool of blood.

The two scouts from Liang Junshan continued to follow them on tiptoe, and then wrapped the mouths of the last two people in the queue again with lightning speed, and cut them open with their sharp short knives before they struggled violently. trachea and arteries.The two Sassanid soldiers kept spitting blood bubbles from their mouths. They tried desperately to shout but couldn't. After being completely dead, they were gently knocked down by Liang Jun.

But when they did the same thing for the third time, the leader looked back for some reason, which immediately shocked him out of his wits.He just opened his mouth to shout: "There are enemies...", but seven crossbows were fired from the outside of the battlements, instantly piercing through the bodies of him and the remaining Sasanian soldiers.Seven mountain scouts were hanging on the edge of the wall by ropes, and erecting individual ballistas on the buttress wall.

Some of the Sassanian soldiers who fell to the ground were not completely dead. They had just groaned twice, and before they turned into wailing, they were dealt with one by one by the rushing Liang soldiers.When the seven mountain scouts climbed over the wall, more mountain scouts also climbed up.A Liang Bing, who looked like a leader, took off a lighting torch from the wall of the tower on the other side of the corridor, shook it outside the city a few times, and signaled.

Gao Shun, who was hiding in the bushes, saw the signal and was overjoyed when he knew he had succeeded.He waved his hand.The soldiers hiding in the bushes followed him and swarmed out, following the "path" set up for them by the predecessors, one after another, they climbed up to the towering city wall of Persis West.

Gao Shun didn't expect it to go so smoothly.In the few quarters of an hour he went up to the city, he didn't see a single Sasanian soldier appearing except for the ten corpses on the ground.

This is actually because these ten people are responsible for patrolling the city wall that is more than one mile long.In the darkness of night, even with the light of some open flames set by the wall, it is impossible to see anything two hundred paces away.In just a few moments, almost half of Gao Shun's people came up.Except for a few people who went up to the city wall, the rest squatted on the ground to prevent their figures from being spotted by the enemy under the reflection of the lighting fire.

At this time, several fires lit up in the distance, Gao Shun suddenly became nervous, and whispered to everyone to get ready.When the group of people walked seventy or eighty steps away from Gao Shun, they shouted loudly, and Gao Shun couldn't understand what they were shouting.Gao Shun just stood there silently with a weapon in his hand, and the soldiers squatting beside him leveled their individual crossbow guns.

In fact, this group of people is another wave of patrolling teams. After their leader walked back and forth in the section of the city he was in charge of several times, he realized that something was wrong.Because according to common sense, they should encounter the neighboring patrol team once or twice during these rounds, but he didn't encounter it once, so he felt a drum in his heart.So the boss personally brought a few people here to check the situation.

However, he felt relieved when he saw a few figures standing there from afar.Because if it is an enemy, it is impossible to have only such a few people.He guessed that this group of friendly troops was being lazy, so he greeted loudly, with a bit of teasing in his words: "I said, you brothers, you are here to enjoy yourself. If you are idle here, give me a call." Hello, I haven't met you a few times, I thought you had some accident..."

Before he could finish his sentence, someone covered his mouth from behind and cut his neck.The rest of the Sasanian soldiers who followed him met the same fate.Liang Jun outside the city continued to climb into the city in an orderly manner. After more than a thousand people from the second echelon came up, Dian Wei also led the rest of the people to start climbing the city.

At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly came from one end of the corridor of the city wall, and a fire dragon rushed from north to south.It turned out to be the same group of patrolling soldiers. They saw that the leader who went to check the situation had not returned for a long time, so they immediately guessed that the situation was not good.They didn't dare to check the situation themselves, but hurriedly reported the situation.

Their upper peak, a commander, immediately woke up the remaining [-] people guarding the west city wall from their beds, and rushed over to check the situation.However, the commander did not dare to report the situation to Sulehar immediately, because he hadn't confirmed what was going on, and if he made a false alarm, he would be blamed.

When they were less than thirty battles away from Liang Jun, they were greeted by wave after wave of crossbow guns.The Sasanian army of more than [-] people suffered more than [-] casualties in a short while, and the corpses almost covered a section of the city wall corridor.The rest of the people hurriedly ran back, and some of them rushed down the city wall and ran towards the governor's mansion to report the news...

Chapter 911 Besieged From All Sides

Persis City, Governor's Mansion.

Sulehar walked back and forth anxiously, and Liang Jun who was on the edge of the two highlands in the east and north and south was unable to catch up for a long time, which made him anxious.But now he has no troops to transfer, and the defenders in Persis City are now a radish and a pit, and if they are transferred outside, there will definitely be defensive loopholes.

At this time, he heard the commotion outside, and vaguely heard someone shouting: "It's not good, Liang Jun... go and report to the general manager."

Although the key content was not heard clearly.But just based on these few words, he knew it was not a good thing, Sulehar was startled, and walked out without saying a word.As soon as he walked out of the gate, he collided with the guards who rushed in.Before the other party could speak, Sulehar asked anxiously: "Say! What happened!"

"Report to the general manager, the big thing is not good. The defenders on the west wall came to report, and the Liang army came up from the cliff."

Sulehar's face darkened and said: "Don't be so flustered, tell me clearly, where did Liang Jun attack from?"

Because Sulehar didn't believe that Liang Jun would come down from the west cliff at all, so he just thought it was the soldier who made a mistake.At this time, several defenders of the west city wall who came to report the news also came to the door, and said eagerly to Sulehar: "General Manager, we are the defenders of the west city wall, Liang Jun doesn't know why, so we don't know why. They climbed directly to the top of the city from the cliff tens of battles deep. When we found out, they had already gathered hundreds of people at the top of the city.”

Only then was Sulehar convinced that Liang Jun was really attacking from the west city wall, and murmured: "How is this possible! How is this possible!" After more than ten seconds, he recovered and shouted: "Quick, pass Our military order is to mobilize the troops from the other three walls to reinforce, and drive them down no matter what. By the way, the soldiers and horses fighting on the two battlefields to the east must be brought back!"

Sulehar now doesn't care about the complete defense of Persis City, let alone whether Liang Jun can gain a firm foothold on Persis Heights.The only thing he prayed for now was to keep the city of Persis.

On the edge of the north and south cliffs in the east of the Bosis Heights, Liang Jun is still fighting hard.Although they had repelled the attacks of the Sasanian army many times, the opponents gathered more and more and the attacks became more and more fierce, and they gradually figured out a way to deal with the Liang army.

They began to stack two shields together and use them as one shield.In addition, a hard object protection was installed where the arm was in contact with the inner lining of the shield to prevent Liang Jun's arrows or crossbow guns from piercing through the shield and then injuring the arm.Although this is a bit heavy, it greatly increases safety.They also brought in ballistas and are busy installing them in the frontier.

But these are not the biggest threat to Liang Jun. The biggest threat is a small clay pot tied with a fire cloth, which contains Greek fire and is wrapped in sackcloth.This thing is used by the slingshot soldiers, and of course, before throwing it, the outside linen will be set on fire.In fact, it is a kind of incendiary bomb thrown manually.

I saw them line up the double-layered large shields into a shield wall, braving the Liang army's arrow rain and gradually advancing forward. The arrows from the crossbow spears crackled and hit the shield wall like hail, but they could not completely penetrate.

Even the crossbow gun fired by the individual ballista can only let the gun head pass through the shield slightly.When they got closer to less than twenty battles away from the opponent, these shields had been shot like hedgehogs.The Sasanian slingers hiding behind the shield wall started to ignite the incendiary pots in their hands, and then swung them around.Immediately, a ring of fire appeared on their hands.Then as soon as they let go, under the action of centrifugal force, a fireball roared towards Liang Jun's position.

The Greek cupping pot hit the "turtle shell" of Liang Jun's shield, and it immediately shattered into pieces, bursting into flames on the "turtle shell".The Greek fire was still flowing down the gaps between the shields, dripping on some Liang soldiers under the shields.These Liang Jun soldiers who were burned by the flames threw away their shields in a panic, screaming and screaming while slapping the flames on their bodies.At this time, the dense arrow rain of the Sasanian army shot at them, killing them to the ground.

Immediately, Liang Jun's explosive shells soared into the air, fell into the crowd of Sassanid soldiers and exploded.The Sassanid soldiers had already prepared to cover the whole prepared fire spreader, and put out the flames in an instant.

However, one of the hot bombs fell into the bamboo basket full of hot bombs without deviation.A huge deflagration was caused, and the two slingers next to them were instantly engulfed by the flames, and the surrounding people scattered like flies, and many people were still burned by the flames.Then the two fire men ran out from the sea of ​​flames, staggered two steps and fell to the ground.

The general of Liang Jun saw that a dozen ballistas of the Sassanids were almost set up in the distance, and then calculated the time, which should be more than enough time for Shangfeng to stick to it.So he quickly ordered: "I can't wait any longer, retreat quickly! Withdraw!"

As the military order was issued, Liang Jun retreated down the cliff in an orderly manner from back to front and from inside to outside.Going down this steep slope is far easier than going up.Liang Bing only needs to wrap the rope with the prepared linen, hold it tightly, and slide down the steep slope.A soldier named Liang Jun quickly slid down hundreds of ropes.

The Sassanid army quickly discovered that they were evacuating, so they were not allowed to leave whenever they wanted, and they stopped throwing incendiary cans, and rushed up directly shouting.Liang Jun was able to repel one or two of their charges at first, but when Liang Jun withdrew to more than half of his troops, it was impossible for the remaining soldiers and horses to withstand such a turbulent crowd.Some Liang Jun were even ready to jump off the cliff directly.

However, at this moment, the attack of the Sasanian army came to an abrupt end. For some unknown reason, they retreated towards the city of Persis like a tide.Feng Yu, who was standing in the basket of the hot air balloon in the distance, naturally knew in his heart that this must be the surprise soldier from the west.He calmly ordered: "Pass down our military order, the whole army will launch an offensive against the east gate, south gate, and north gate at the same time!" Following his military order, the two Liang troops who had just retreated from the high ground climbed up to the high ground again and go.In front of the big slope outside the east gate, a large number of Liang troops also gathered, preparing to advance along the slope to the high ground.

On the west wall of Persis, the corridors are full of black soldiers and horses of the Liang army.Dian Wei also climbed to the top of the city after Gao Shun, but more than 4000 soldiers were still climbing up the city.According to the plan, the attack on the city was not launched until all the soldiers and horses had arrived.

However, both Gao Shun and Dian Wei knew that the Sasanian army would soon concentrate their forces and launch a fierce counterattack.The defense has already begun. In addition to setting up the portable crossbows in advance on the passage, and lining up the shield spearmen and individual crossbowmen, they also occupy an unguarded tower next to the passage as the commanding height.

Chapter 912 The Heart of Death

Persis city, west wall.

When Gao Shun and Dian Wei were almost ready, they heard shouts like a sea tide coming from far and near.Numerous Sasanian soldiers rushed up to the top of the city from different stairways on the city wall, and then gathered together to attack Liang Jun along the corridors from the north and the south.

Liang Jun didn't respond at all, and squatted on the ground like wooden stakes.Even when the arrows of the Sassanian army hit like a torrential rain, they still didn't understand while holding up their shields.Until the frontmost Sasanian soldiers were less than ten battles away from them.Gao Shuncai roared, "Kill!"

The "turtle shell" behind the shield wall suddenly cracked a gap, and three rows of Liang Jun stood up and fired a row of crossbow guns in unison, and after two breaths, there were three rows.At the same time as the crossbow guns fired by individual ballistas, there were also javelins thrown by more than ten rows of Liang Jun in the rear.Dozens of hundreds of fireballs also soared into the air, hitting the Sasanian army.These portable catapults had been precisely set up for landing, and they all landed accurately on the city wall corridor where the crowd of Sassanian soldiers were.

Since almost all the sword and shield soldiers were transferred to the battlefield outside the city, few of the Sasanian soldiers who first came to reinforce the western city wall were equipped with shields.Their casualties can be imagined under the continuous intensive direct fire of individual ballistas at close range, the dense throwing of javelins, and the sea of ​​​​flames formed by the hot bombs.

The Sasanian soldiers gathered on the passageway of the city wall fell down in piles like dominoes.Countless burning men who were burned by the flames jumped off the city wall in a panic.

The crackling sound of the ballista's twisting crossbow arm colliding with the baffle, the cries and howls of the Sasanian soldiers, the hunting sound of burning flames, and the whistling sound of crossbow arrows passing through the air merged into a sound of death.

When the flames gradually died down, corpses were piled up on dozens of city wall corridors.The Sassanid soldiers behind were already dumbfounded, they didn't dare to rush forward, they all ran backwards.The generals didn't stop them either, because the generals themselves were also running.

One of the Sasanian generals had just run down a stairway of the city wall in a daze, when he was blocked by a person in front of him.Then he saw a flash of the knife, and his head fell to the ground.It was none other than Sulehar who stopped him.

Sulehar calmly ordered to his personal guards: "Anyone who dares to retreat in fear of the enemy will be executed on the spot."

Afterwards, his personal guards became the supervising team, and they tried their best to contain the rout.Then they regrouped the Sasanian soldiers who had fled from the western city wall in the open space below the city.At this time, the troops with sword and shield soldiers as the main force outside the city also returned to the city and assembled here.Several generals under Sulehar's command took another quarter of an hour to make some arrangements, and then charged towards the west wall again.

This time they took the sword and shield soldiers as the forerunner, and the Syrian archers and slingers attacked the Liang army behind.When they stepped on piles of corpses and approached Liang Jun again, wave after wave of crossbow guns attacked them again, and javelins and explosive bombs were thrown at them as before.The double-layered large shields of these sword and shield soldiers were thrown outside the city because they were in a hurry.

Therefore, their shields are still easily pierced by the opponent's crossbow or javelin, causing casualties.It's just that they were able to move forward step by step by relying on the crowd tactics.Because the ground was full of corpses, many explosive bombs failed to explode after they hit the ground, and the Sasanian army could use fire cloth to put out the fire.So the killing effect of the hot bomb this time is not as good as before.

In the end, the Sassanid army approached Liang Jun's formation with hedgehog-like shields.To the north of Guan Dianwei, he shouted "stab!", and Liang Jun in the first two rows all thrust out their spears.

Dian Wei originally used a halberd, but under the current situation, short-handled weapons were really hard to use, so he chose a long spear to use.At this time, the long spear had also been mixed in the forest of guns like a rabbit, and stabbed towards the shield wall of the Sassanian army.These long spears were not intended to directly kill people, but to stab at the gap between the shields.After Dian Wei's spear tip passed through a gap, he flicked outwards forcefully.The Sasanian sword and shield soldier who was facing him had already felt his arms numb because of the arrows and javelins on his shield.Being thrown by this, they couldn't hold the shield firmly, the shield was overturned to the ground in an instant, and then a crossbow shot from close range pierced his chest.

In addition to Dian Wei, a total of more than [-] soldiers in the first two rows also broke through the opponent's shield wall, and the individual ballistas in the rear fired rows of crossbow guns in succession.Although the casualties of the Sasanian army were not as exaggerated as last time, they fell to the ground row after row.

At the same time, another round of fireballs fired by Liang Jun's portable ballista fell into the crowd of the Sasanian army.A Sasanian soldier holding a fire cloth was about to cover the blazing flame with the cloth blanket in his hand, but with a muffled bang, he was crushed by iron nail fragments and fell into a pool of blood.It turned out that this wave of Liang Jun fired explosive bombs.Although countless Sasanian soldiers were not killed immediately by the explosion, they were all covered in blood, and some were even blinded.

The Sasanian army was defeated again.Gao Shun from the south asked the captain of the battalion beside him, "How many brothers have not come up yet?"

"Back to the general, there are probably less than two thousand left."

Gao Shun nodded and said: "Wait, let's take advantage of the situation and kill the Sasanian army. We will definitely defeat the Sassanid army. Go, report to General Dianwei, and we will fight out and enter the city of Persis!"

Half a quarter of an hour later, the Liang soldiers on the west wall shouted in unison, and under the leadership of Gao Shun Dianwei, they went down the stairway to kill the retreating Sasanian army.The Sassanid army was immediately defeated, rushing desperately towards the city, people scrambling to stampede on them.

Sulehar shouted loudly: "Don't retreat, stand up to me, stand up!" However, his voice was quickly drowned in the din of the battlefield.His personal guards couldn't stop the rout soldiers who poured in like a flood, and many of his personal guards were rushed to the ground by the rout soldiers, trampled to death.

At this time, there was an explosion like thunder from the East City Gate.It turned out that a large number of crossbowmen and other guards on the east wall were transferred to reinforce the west wall, resulting in an empty defense.This allowed Liang Jun to easily push a giant naphtha vapor bomb transformed from a four-wheeled cart up the big slope, and was brought to the city gate.After detonating, the city gate was blasted open.Liang Jun's heavy cavalry, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, rushed into the city of Persis like a torrent.

After a while, the south and north gates of Persis City were also opened, and Liang Jun soldiers and horses could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of the city.Although the resistance of the Sasanian army continued, Sulehar, who had retreated to the governor's mansion, knew that the situation was over and it was impossible for him to hold the city.

He calculated the date, and it just happened to be the date he promised to Ardashir, he laughed wildly and rushed out of the mansion with the remnants of the soldiers, with the heart of death...

Chapter 913

In Persis City, the sound of fighting all over the city has gradually weakened.The streets and alleys in the city are full of corpses, of course most of them are Sasanian soldiers.The Sasanian army began to kneel down and beg for surrender in groups.Sulehar's body also fell on the street not far from the Governor's Palace.He was killed by Dian Wei's halberd. For the Sasanian Empire and its monarch Ardashir, he was dedicated to his duty and benevolent.

When the sky was bright, Liang Jun took control of the entire city of Persis.In the evening of that day, the Sasanian army assigned by Sulehar to set up ambushes at the north and south ends of the highland got the military order issued in the early morning, and when they hurried dozens of miles back to the city, they were ambushed by the Liang army.On the high ground, they had no way to escape, they were either killed or captured, and almost none of them slipped through the net.So far, Liang Jun has completely controlled the city of Persis and the highlands.The [-] Sasanian troops stationed here were almost wiped out.

In the city of Bosis, Liang Jun was still posting safety notices all over the streets and alleys.A group of more than a dozen of them led an interpreter, while patrolling, they beat gongs and shouted to appease the hearts of the people.At this time, Feng Yu and the generals were already standing on the west wall and looking out.Feng Yu poked his head out to look down the mountain, even though he was not afraid of heights, he became dizzy.He sighed to Dian Wei and Gao Shun: "Climbing this wall is more difficult than climbing to the sky. No wonder Sulehar completely ignored the defense here. This move by you and the soldiers under your command can really be said to have captured the sky and fortified the city."

Then, he praised the other generals who participated in the various battles, and then he looked into the distance and sighed: "Today, this stumbling block that hinders our westward advance has finally been opened. Zhu Qing listened to the order and rewarded the three armies from now on. After the army rested for three days, the army marched westward."

Everyone made a promise.Feng Yu went on to say: "Zhang Liao listened to the order and ordered you to lead [-] elite soldiers to sweep away all the Sasanian cities north of Zhashan. You will temporarily take the post of the governor of the Persian government and have full authority over the entire Sasanian territory north of Zhashan. Soldiers and horses. In case of accidents and shortage of troops, you can borrow troops from the Beifu, and there is no need to report to me."

The generals were shocked when they heard this, and they knew how vast the Persian mansion Feng Yu had designated was.Zhashan in Feng Yu's mouth is the abbreviation of Liang Jun's Zagros Mountains.It is a mountain range that separates the Mesopotamia from the Persian Plateau.This unexpectedly means that the territory of the Persian government is thousands of miles wide.The position of the governor of the Persian government can be described as a feudal marquis. Even if it is only a temporary title, everyone is envious of Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao hurriedly kowtowed to thank Feng Yu, and Feng Yu laughed loudly and said, "Thank you, don't think it's a fat job. On the contrary, it's a hard job. The Sassanid Army should not have many troops north of Zhashan. They are all The conscripts in each city and county are vulnerable, but there are hundreds of cities, large and small, to surrender them one by one, keep them unchanged, and stabilize the rear of our Western Expeditionary Army. It is not an easy task either. Knowing that [-] elite soldiers is enough for you, Wenyuan?"

Zhang Liao patted his chest and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will never take the order of my Majesty. Twenty thousand elite soldiers are enough. It's just..." Zhang Liao paused hesitantly when he said this.

Seeing this, Feng Yu joked: "Wen Yuan has something to say, if you hide it, it is a crime of deceiving the emperor. What difficulties do you have?"

Zhang Liao hurriedly added: "I don't have any doubts about fulfilling my holy order. I am worried that our army will suffer a lot in this battle. If we deploy [-] troops, the strength of the Holy Majesty will only be around [-]. And I have checked the documents in detail. The Mesopotamia of the Sasanian Kingdom is their most densely populated area and their richest grain-producing area. It is expected that the Sasanian king has gathered a large number of troops. What I am worried about is the Holy Majesty These [-] soldiers and horses are not enough."

Feng Yu put away his smile and said: "Wen Yuan is right, that's why I want you to temporarily serve as the governor of the Persian Mansion. Because you are thoughtful, far-sighted, and strategic. I haven’t read any Western history biographies written by me.”

The western history biography Feng Yu spoke of was actually based on his own memory, and he wrote a brief history about the history of the West from Greece to Rome before and after AD. The ministers read it.

Zhang Liao blushed and said, "Returning to Your Majesty, I have been studying hard day and night, but there are so many volumes in the book view. Even if I only read the books written by Your Majesty, it is difficult to read them all. I have taken this western history biography and read it, but I still have to read it." After reading two chapters, I received an imperial order to march west, but I had no choice but to let it go. So I don’t know the content after that.”