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The timing of the emergence of the Han army was not perfect for this war, but it was not the worst time. It can only be said that it did not play a key role?

Saying that it did not play a key role, it was the Sassanid commander who was determined enough.

In terms of the normal state of city offensive and defensive warfare, once the defending party has reinforcements, most of the attacking party will choose to suspend the attack, or even temporarily withdraw, to avoid being attacked by the reinforcements outside the city and the defenders inside the city. Dilemma.

As the siege party, the Sassanian commander wanted to destroy Peshawar, and he was confident that he did not win the battle with the Han army. He could almost see that he was fighting with the mentality of destroying Peshawar together.

The four thousand sassanian cavalry who turned around again are still placed at the forefront of the entire army formation, behind them are the 2,500 or so chariots who have arrived and nearly seven thousand cavalry of various types.

There are thousands of people and there are mountains and plains, and with the addition of war horses and some spare horses, it seems that the distribution has become wider.

There are two types of Sassanian chariots. One is a small two-horse-drawn chariot with a driver and a shooter on it. When necessary, the shooter will become a spearman. The other is a four-horse-drawn chariot. In addition to the driver, there are also archers, shields and spears.

The wheels of the chariot are all traversed by a tooth-like tower-shaped sharp object. When the wheel rotates, it will rotate at a high speed. You can imagine what it would look like if it were twisted to the human body.

The horses that pull the chariots are equipped with necessary frames and nooses. The foreheads and chests of war horses usually have either iron or leather armor, but they are not equipped with armor. Obviously, the armor on the forehead and chest is driven by a kind of impulse. Buffer considerations?

The Sassanian has about 11,000 cavalry, of which about 6,000 are all unarmed light cavalry, about 2,000 are archers, and the rest are divided into knights wearing leather armor and horses. There are two types of iron armors and knights.

There is no exception. Regardless of the type of cavalry Sassan is, the horses are equipped with stirrups and Takahashi saddles. There is no change in style, just imitating the style of the Han Empire.

The Persian nation has never lacked cavalry, and due to their geographical location, they do not even lack high-quality horses.

Their native war horse is a kind of horse with a very large skeleton and well-developed muscles. It has a strong short-distance charge, but its endurance is really not good.

In the northern part of Persia, which is part of Europa, there are also two high-quality horse breeds. One is also a horse with larger bones but a longer body, and the other is thin and small but really good. Horse breed.

By the time of the Sassanid Empire, the Persians repeatedly purchased war horses from various northern tribes, and coupled with their own breeding and improvement, they produced several new horse breeds.

A new horse breed is certainly not high or strong, but its endurance has been extremely improved. The disadvantage is that it is not fast, but it is already very suitable for placing light cavalry.

The rest of the breeding and disuse can no longer be regarded as horses, but can only be regarded as animals such as mules and donkeys.

There is a legend that when Li Tang established diplomatic relations with Sassan, Li Tang purchased war horses from Sassan's side, but Sassan delivered some good-looking war horses?

Later, Li Tang also had a war horse deal with the emerging Arab empire, so he was also pitted?

In fact, it is not necessarily the Persians or Arabs who deliberately cheated Li Tang, but they thought it was an excellent war horse... For example, when the blood horse breeds in the east, they are not adapted to the local climate and are abandoned, or the Tang people simply don’t know how to go. Feeding is abolished?

This Sassanid army stopped in place, watching the Han army approaching.

Coming out of the relatively complicated terrain, the Han army is in front of scattered cavalry, but they are not the top group of the entire army.

As a scout, the Han army either retracted back into the main formation a long time ago, or detoured to other places. Those scouts who detoured to other places were the ones who made the farthest advancement of the entire Han army.

The two thousand or so Han troops who came from behind were all light equipment at a glance, but even no matter how light they were, they would have leather armor on them.

If you compare the war horses of the Han army and the war horses of the Sassanid army, you will find that there is a more obvious difference.

The horses of the Han army were generally shorter than those of the Sassanids, even in comparison with the Sassanian light cavalry, and the gap would be even greater if they were compared with the Sassanian cavalry.

That is something that there is no way at all. There has always been no high-quality war horse on Zhuxia's side, and the best war horse was also imported from the Western Regions. The horses of the Western Regions are really inferior to the horses of the Persians in terms of physique and posture.

After discovering that their mounts were a bit more powerful than the Hans, the Sassanid cavalry regained a little confidence. They just compared the equipment of the two sides, and their hearts sank involuntarily.

The Sassanid light cavalry generally only has one weapon, either a short-arm scimitar, or a long-arm short spear. There are really no other weapons besides this.

As for the archers, the Sassanid archers are equipped with horn bows, with a machete that looks like a dagger at the waist, and then two pots of arrows.

The Sassanid knight in leather armor looks very crude. Besides, there is usually only a lance of about four meters in his hand. Few people will have a machete on their waist.

The most luxurious look is the armored heavy cavalry. Not only are they wearing armor, the horse under the crotch is also wearing iron armor. In addition to a six-meter spear, the weapon is about four meters long. A lance and a scimitar hung on the side of the horse’s back.

A lance is a lance, which is a style that will not break by itself after being stabbed.

Riding a spear is the kind of rod that breaks by itself after piercing an object.

On the other hand, the cavalry of the Han army, whether they are light cavalry or assault cavalry, are all armored, not to mention that they have no less than two weapons. The more exaggerated knights look at and even carry more than five types of weapons. .

The cavalry of the two camps separated by about three miles continuously heard the sound of the neighing of horses in each other's formation.

A trumpet of depravity was blown first from the Sassanid army.

The four thousand Sasanian hussars who had been placed at the forefront all the time, they shouted loudly and didn't know what the slogan was. Anyway, the Han people didn't understand it, so they started to move forward slowly.

The total number of the first Han army to come was around 2,600, which was about five times less than the Sassanids. After they saw the Sassanid light cavalry start to move forward, a strong horn sounded within the formation.

The several Chinese cavalry centuries that had been cruising slowly, they were slowly dispersing in motion, while some knights who looked special accelerated to the forefront of the queue.

The Sassanian light cavalry who had already started to accelerate, some of them had good eyes. They could see that some heavy leather armor suddenly appeared from the Han army. They were not armed with lances or spears, but with their own hands. Holding a knife with a curved range, gradually forming an inverted "V" formation every twenty people.

These newly-emerged knights of the Han army are actually a bit like heavy cavalry, except that the knights don't wear iron armor, and the horses under the crotch are not armored.

The left and right wings of the mounted cavalry, which are like and not like, are the light cavalry of the Han army, which are slightly behind. The light cavalry of the Han army not only have melee weapons, they will choose to equip them with a riding bow or a horn bow according to their shooting skills. Formed an attack formation to charge forward.

"Han Army!"

"mighty!"

In addition, the Han light cavalry who began to move slowly, before they drove their horses to move, they roared out their battle horns to cheer for the robe in front of them.

The four thousand Sasanian light cavalry that have begun to accelerate are actually too many for this battlefield. The result is that they are squeezed in the lateral direction, and the thickness becomes larger. At the same time, the distance between each other does not want to be too close. It can control the speed back and forth, so that the gap between the people who charge in the front is larger.

After the cavalry enters the charging state, how can there be a gap of at least three meters between the front and the rear, left and right, not only to drive the horse's flexibility, but also to prevent the long weapons in the hand from injuring themselves when they dance, or even appearing among their own cavalry. Collision between each other.

Han knights wearing thick leather armor and holding two weapons, they have a very professional name called "Xuanfeng". In addition to the thick armor that can be seen on their bodies, there is also a chain mail inside. Even everyone Is wearing more than two layers of silk underwear. The weapon in their hands is an improved long-handled saber. Even if the blade of an ordinary saber has a curvature, it will not be too large. After being modified, the curvature of this kind of saber will be slightly larger.

The knights of the enemy and ours are constantly approaching each other in a noisy environment, and when they can clearly identify each other with the naked eye, the Han knights can see the face of the Sassanian cavalry clearly, while the Sassanian cavalry can see clearly. Only the eyes behind the Han knight's visor can be seen.

The Han light cavalry took the lead in playing a volley, but because there were not many people, the arrows shot out were not dense, but ten arrows shot over three or four Sassanian cavalry, and the hit rate was very impressive.

When riding a warrior archery shoot at most two rounds, there should be a collision...

The Han army's "choose front" knights lowered their upper body, the reins were bitten by the mouth behind the mask, and the two sabers of their hands were crossed from the left to the right. They did not make any swing or slash at all, just When crossing with the Sassanian cavalry, the crossed saber killed the Sassanian cavalry.

Every time their bodies skewed backwards, the long-handled saber hit the Sassanid light cavalry. The blade was originally extremely sharp, coupled with the speed of the horse, let alone no armor, unless it was wearing it. Iron armor, otherwise it will be cut open.

At the beginning of the charge, the Han army's "selection of the front" brought **** flowers and screams along the way, and Sassanian cavalry continued to drop their horses wherever they passed. And even if they were hit by a scimitar or stabbed by a short spear, the scimitar was able to break through the heavy leather armor and was blocked by the chain mail. Only when they were hit by the short spear would they be seriously injured or even directly killed. .

At the beginning of the front engagement, the remaining Han light cavalry that moved were divided into three brigade. The brigade in the center followed the route of Paoze's charge, and the other two brigade detoured from left to right.

If you take a bird's eye view of the battlefield from a high altitude, you will find that the tactics of the Han cavalry are very old-fashioned, nothing more than the trident formation once again. Each brigade is a cavalry charge that forms a frontal formation.

On the other hand, the four thousand Sassanid light cavalry who started the charge were just a long line. As the front continued to accelerate, the rear was forced to control the speed. It was an embarrassing state where the front line was thin and the rear was thick.

The Han army's "choosing fronts", who are constantly fighting forward, have discovered that the enemy forces they need to face are getting thicker and thicker. "Feng" loosened the rein clenched on his teeth. Due to the influence of the mask, the phrase "Mighty Han Army" was a little dull.

The first Han army "selected front" to roar, he had a broken spear inserted in his left rib. In fact, he was in a state of hematemesis just now, and his consciousness became increasingly unclear. He was completely relying on strength. His willpower supports his body not to fall down slantingly, holding the hilt firmly in his hand not to lose the weapon.

The "Han Army Mighty" was roared out, and the mouth and nose were left with only air in and no air out. The eyes could not be closed without control, and they were forced to open with the remaining willpower. The body is no longer depressed, but becomes The waist is in a straight state.

"Ping'er..." Zuo Wei saw a very young Sassanian cavalry, and the next moment the man became his wife: "Xi Jun..."

The last time Zuo Wei blinked, he never closed his eyes again, but his pupils had lost their focus, but the man was still carried by the horse, and he was still killing the enemy with the extended saber that went out from left to right.

The last "selected front" of the Han army ran into a intensive Sassanid light cavalry, and about 60 "selected fronts" all fought.

The rest of the Han cavalry who charged with the "selection of the front" were about two or three seconds later than the "selection of the front", and they all fell on the way to the charge.

The sacrifices of about three hundred Han cavalrymen were exchanged for at least more than 1,100 Sassanian cavalry deaths ~ www.wuxiamtl.com~ and the Sassanian light cavalry's assault formation fell out of order and was squeezed.

"call!"

"Ho!"

A strong horn was sounded.

The three front-line cavalry units that have become a trident formation. The knights in front have begun to level their spears or lances, and the knights behind have begun to shoot arrows.

About a mile or two away from the back of this battlefield, a cavalry unit of about 6,000 Han troops emerged from the back of a slope.

The earth trembled slightly because there were too many horseshoes trampling on it, and the animals in the wilderness ran away dazedly.

Farther to the rear and to the north of the side, two cavalry of about 13,000 Han cavalry appeared.

The Han knights who were about to collide with the Sassanid light cavalry, they shouted their battle cries in unison.

"The Han Army is mighty!!!"