Sweep the World

The soldiers and civilians in Peshawar failed to counterattack but were beaten back to the residential area. The battle was fought to such a degree. In fact, it was only a matter of time before the city fell!

Luhmaru Jieduo was shaking his hands violently, and his lips were also shaking. He used his binoculars to see many Sassanid soldiers hanging jars on their bodies. It didn't take much to think about what was in the jars, especially Those Sasanian soldiers had torches in their hands. x.

"It's over..." Luhmaru Jieduo turned around and took a look. The princes and ministers on Jiduo's side were all panicked, and the faces of the people in the Han Empire were not very good: "It won't last long, okay. The news is that the other party has no plans to attack the palace at all."

The Sassanid army attacked the residential area of ​​Peshawar and started to set fire.

Looking from the heights of the palace fortress to the city, one fire after another has already begun to burn. Fortunately, Luhmaru Jido ordered the removal of combustibles early, but the fire did not spread immediately.

"Angel!" Luhmaru Jiduo walked towards Ma Bin and asked in a humble manner: "When will the big man heaven soldiers arrive?"

"Lord of the country, Xia must once again sternly explain one point." Ma Bin said very solemnly: "Zei Xia is only an envoy sent by the lord of the shogunate, not an envoy sent by the Ministry of Rites."

Although the same represents the Han Empire, this is really a very big difference. It can't be accepted indiscriminately. It is difficult to say what will happen afterwards. Not only Ma Bin, but Xie An will have to relax.

Luhmaru Jiduo smiled awkwardly after listening to the translation, and asked repeatedly.

"The semaphore has been played, the army must be on the way." Ma Bin said with great certainty, but then said: "The army will come, how long will it be..., the lord of the country should not think that Sassan is not moving, right?"

Luhmaru Zhido's own military talents seem to be good? Furthermore, he had just used the telescope to see the Sassanid camp sending troops to the north, and visually it was about 3,000 chariot troops and nearly 10,000 cavalry.

Not only Ma Bin and others don’t know how many Han troops are approaching the battlefield, but Luhmaru Jiduo, who is an outsider, can’t even guess.

Luhmaru Jiduo is now worried that the number of Han troops is not enough, and they are dragged down by the Sassanid army who went into the battle... and even defeated. Then the whole Jiduo will be beaten to the edge of subjugation, can it? It depends on how thoroughly they can kneel and lick after the war.

Eighteen miles northeast of Peshawar, Li Tan, who was riding a horse, had received information from the scout.

The situation of the offensive and defensive battle in Peshawar city is one of the intelligence that Li Tan is very concerned about. You must know what the state of the battle on Peshawar is. Once Peshawar falls, it is absolutely unnecessary to save it. It is to change the combat goal and destroy it with all your strength. The Sassanian army is the master.

With the change of combat objectives, Li Tan does not need to rush to Peshawar with his troops, but he can have more time to make relevant choices and arrangements.

If Peshawar is still resisting, Li Tan will need to make his own judgment based on the situation of the offensive and defensive battle of Peshawar city.

As the offensive Sassanian army is firmly blocked outside the city, Li Tan will slow down the speed of rescue and focus on attacking the Sassanian army's logistics line. At the same time, he will also take necessary military operations to cut off the Sassanid back road. Increase the success rate of annihilating that Sassanian army.

If Peshawar’s defenders could not stop it, in this situation, Li Tan would not have to think about anything, and he would directly attack Peshawar and attack the Sassanid camp, but he could not attack the Sassanid camp. , But also to force the Sassanid army to slow down or abandon its attack on Peshawar.

Li Tan also received information about the Sassanian sending chariot troops and various cavalry to stop him. He had already let the troops slow down as necessary and ordered the formation of a new advancing formation.

Above the vast wilderness, about 30,000 Han troops were divided into three echelons and different formations.

At the forefront are about five thousand scattered light cavalry and archer, but if you pay attention, although they are scattered, there will be a linkage between three cavalry and three groups. Below, it can be seen that there is a tactical arrangement.

The foremost unit becomes an irregular straight line, with a total length of more than two kilometers, and it seems that the thickness is relatively thin.

Behind them is a large formation in the shape of an inverted "Pin" in the two "mouths" of the same second echelon. They are all archers in the front row, but they are followed by a thick assault cavalry behind them; the last echelon The "mouth" of Li Tan was made up entirely of light cavalry, and Li Tan was also in this position at the same time.

This area is vast, but unlike the territory of Hunet or the eastern Sassanids, it appears to be a flat plain and not many plants.

The plants in this place are quite dense, and woods of various sizes are irregularly distributed, and some soil slopes that look like but not like mountains abound.

Since Li Tan chose to open, he must be clear about the terrain on the marching route.

The Sassanian army also has the existence of chariots. It is not a comprehensively flat terrain, and it is not appropriate to dispatch chariots at all.

It's just that Sassanian chariot soldiers shouldn't stupidly rush into areas with complex terrain. Where would they stay in a relatively flat area with a lot of weed vegetation?

Because there are still woods on the road, the advancing Han army will of course distort the overall formation from time to time. They move forward about five miles, and the front is a relatively empty area about seven or eight miles.

In this open area, the faster Sassanid cavalry has arrived.

About four thousand Sasanian light cavalry came to a halt temporarily. Their officers sent a considerable number of scouts, but received little feedback.

The scouts were dispatched, but they didn't get much feedback. Then there is only one explanation. Your scouts must be in a fierce confrontation with the Han army scouts.

These Sassanian officers have not received much intelligence, which shows that no major units of the Han army have been found for the time being. The experienced scouts judged based on the number of Han army scouts, and speculated that the number of the Han army would not be less than 30,000.

It should be said that no one who can be a scout is a simple idiot. An elite scout can indeed infer the total number of enemy troops from the number and rules of the enemy's dispatch of scouts.

It’s a simple matter. Every army’s scouts will have an upper limit, but anyone can be a scout envoy. Whether the other party is a scout can basically figure it out as soon as they fight. Ordinary soldiers just want to pretend to be a scout. I don't know how to pretend to be a scout.

The Han army hasn’t approached for the time being. They marched at a slightly faster speed. Even if humans can hold it, the horses should be restored to their state. Otherwise, if they wait for a while, they will suffer too much from the lack of physical strength of the horses under the hips. Up.

Another reason for not entering the complex terrain is that their current position is the most advantageous to them. The difference in geographical advantage between their own entry and the Han army's exit is very large, and it can even affect the victory or defeat of the battle.

The final reason was that their follow-up troops had not kept up. They only had four thousand light cavalry to face the Han army of at least thirty thousand.

Now most of the Sassanian cavalry began to feel guilty in their hearts, but they knew that they only had three thousand chariots and 12,000 cavalry. , Just thinking of dragging the Han army for a while, victory is an unimaginable extravagant hope.

Without the confidence to win, the morale of the Sassanid cavalry is really not high, and it is lifeless before the fight has actually started.

It's not that there are no Sassanid officers who want to boost morale. Some of them have also tried, but it's okay not to say anything. On the contrary, it makes the anxiety and panic on the soldiers' faces even worse.

"coming!"

The front is not the part of the wood that obstructs the line of sight. Seven Sasanian scouts are running on horseback, and four Han scouts are chasing them behind.

The two groups of people who are fleeing and chasing are affected by the uneven terrain, and then there are taller grasses, which will disappear from time to time in the sight of many Sasanian cavalry.

After a short period of time, there were only five Sasanian scouts, but only five remained. When they reappeared in the sight of the Sasanian cavalry, two more fell off their horses.

Obviously, it is another contest between scouts, but Sasanian scouts are obviously at a disadvantage.

"Go to a cavalry team!"

About fifty riders left the Sassanid cavalry brigade. They hulled and controlled the horses. They didn't even perform buffer acceleration. They drove the horses to accelerate at the fastest speed from the beginning.

The remaining three Sasanian scouts had seen their own cavalry team, and they began to yell.

The four Han scouts who were hunting down did not hesitate to speed up, and put on a posture that the Sasanian scouts who were hunting down did not stop completely.

Within a short period of less than 30 meters, there was only one Sasanian scout being chased down, but at this time the Han army scouts were roundabout, and the time for a big turn was to shoot arrows at the Sassanian cavalry galloping up into the shooting range. It took two shots to retreat so much.

That scene was seen by four thousand pairs of eyes. The originally timid Sasanian cavalry couldn't help but shiver, and some Sasanian cavalry who had the courage also became hesitant.

"Come! They are here! All over the mountains and plains, look at a large group!"

The surviving Sasanian scout was obviously on the verge of collapse, and he started yelling loudly before getting close to his army, which was not very good news.

An officer immediately opened his bow to shoot an arrow at his mentally collapsed scout. It was extremely accurate. An arrow hit his chest and instantly fell off his horse and rolled on the ground.

"The whole army!"

"Go on!"

As long as you have eyes to see, you can indeed see the Han army entering the field of vision from the gaps in the woods, and an experienced person will not be less than two thousand visually.

Listening to the sound of horseshoes becoming clearer and clearer, and a large cloud of dust and smoke behind the two thousand cavalry soldiers of the Han army, it is not difficult to judge that the large group of cavalry soldiers of the Han army are approaching quickly.

This group of Sassanid cavalry mounted their horses not to initiate a charge, on the contrary, they began to make a U-turn in place under the command of the commander, and then slowly retreated.

dash forward? It is impossible for the Sassanid commander on the scene to lead a charge far less than the Han army in his life. He thinks that he is very sensible, and to reconcile with his own troops in the rear is always more in line with the overall situation than rushing to make senseless sacrifices, and he must manually like it.

The fifty-something Sassanian cavalry sent out before was embarrassed. They were still chasing the four Han army scouts. First, they saw a large group of Han cavalry appear in front of them. They turned to look at their side. People turned their heads and ran away. Some of the people who had a poor bottom line in their hearts were directly thrown off their horses, and most of them hurriedly made roundabouts.

Chase? Also chasing a fart, and quickly keep up with the big army, whoever continues to chase is a fool.

The picture became a bit funny. The four Han army scouts were changing horses in a galloping state during the round and round turns. They became the frontline Han army chasing after the Sassanian cavalry, one by one they were proud and excited. .

From a high-altitude bird’s-eye view, the vanguard of the Han army seems to be about two thousand or three hundred. They are not gathered together. They are divided into seven large groups by the terrain, which can be as small as a few people or a small group of less than a hundred people. many.

Those small teams can be the scouts who were on the front line. They gathered and saw that most of their side came up and charged forward.

Some small teams around the centuries are cavalry squads sent out to respond to their own scouts, and they can also act as vanguards to harass the squad.

"They escaped without a fight?"

"Isn't this normal!"

"Right……"

"hehe!"

The Han army is not advancing fast, it is advancing at a speed of about thirty miles.

If you really speed up without encountering an enemy, it would be a stupid behavior. After all, they are not riding motorcycles, but horses that are also living creatures. The movement of living creatures will cause fatigue. Once you ride a tired horse to fight, you don't want to die fast enough.

Where the Han army went ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Some Sassanid scouts who had been hiding in hiding probably felt that the possibility of being trampled to death by horseshoes or being found and killed was infinite, so Sasanian scouts chose to leave the shelter To escape, if you really can't escape, you want to surrender.

The Sasanian scout who chose to surrender was extremely lucky, and the Han army needed some living prisoners of war to torture information.

The Sasanian scout, who continued to hide with a fluke, was either trampled to death by a horse's hoof, or was found out and killed directly.

The cavalry team of the first Han army came out of an area with relatively complicated terrain. They no longer moved too far forward, but stopped about a mile in front of the edge.

About four or five miles in front of the stalled Han cavalry, the 4,000 Sassanid cavalry who had been evacuated began to make a U-turn again.

Further behind, a mist of smoke was flying in the air.

That was the smoke and dust created by the Sassanid follow-up troops. Their chariot troops and the remaining cavalry were slowly advancing.

The two enemy forces, they are about fifteen miles northeast of Peshawar, and encounters are about to happen soon.