Sweep the World

Soldiers engaged in night battles usually need to set aside one hand to hold the torch.

A torch is a piece of wood wrapped around the top of a cloth, and it will be soaked in grease. When it burns, it will not only provide light and illumination, but also continuously drip sticky sparks.

Regardless of whether it is only a cloth ball or whether it is soaked in grease, in fact, even if only the cloth ball is burned, it will drip sticky sparks. Soldiers holding torches usually need to tilt their hands holding the torches far away, slightly closer to themselves. Some accidentally will be dropped on Mars.

Being dripped by sparks will not just be hot, it will be sticky and hot for a long time.

Many people will have the experience of being scalded by boiling water. A scald of just a few seconds is hot. If it takes at least tens of seconds to burn, what kind of pain should it be?

If it is the clothes dropped by sparks on the body, the clothes are ignited again, and if they are not taken off in time, they should become a human-shaped torch.

Many of the Sassanid soldiers who charged with torches in their hands were running to throw away the torches and slapped the places burned by grease and sparks. There were even burning people who were ignited and rolled or scurrying all over the floor.

The 10,000 Sassanid soldiers who fought in the night battle hadn't even ran to the side of Peshawar's city wall or even encountered an attack from the Peshawar garrison. Hundreds of them had already left the effective combat range.

The Sassanid soldiers running forward carrying the ladder, after they hold the torch in one hand, they need to hold the ladder in the other hand, so naturally they don't have any hands to hold the weapon.

What is very common and not funny at all is that many Sasanian soldiers carrying the ladders together, it is estimated that there will be about three groups out of ten groups, and half of the ladders are thrown aside.

The defenders at the head of Peshawar, they stayed in the dark and saw that the enemy hadn't approached, they were all embarrassed everywhere, all "hahaha" laughed.

The impact of night battles with torches on the combatants is far more than that.

"Prepare!"

"shoot!"

The sound of bowstrings and the sound of arrows being shot out of the air rang out densely in an instant.

The Sasanian soldiers running forward exposed their positions in the dark with torches in their hands. After the Peshawar wall defenders started shooting arrows, there were more casualties than during the day.

In fact, a shooter shooting a bright spot in the dark is far more accurate than looking at the target during the day.

The wall defenders of Peshawar obviously increased the number of archers, and the density of arrows shot out was greater than during the day.

After a salvo, the next step was to shoot free arrows. The sound of bowstrings on the city wall did not stop, and arrows were constantly being fired.

There were no torches or braziers on the walls of Peshawar. The Sassanid soldiers who launched the charge looked at the city’s head in darkness. In the darkness over there, life-threatening arrows were being shot, and people around them kept shooting arrows. Pain or groan afterwards.

Some Sassanid soldiers looked at the robe where the arrow fell to the ground by the light of the torch, and were surprised to find that it was not a bamboo arrow. The arrowhead was not visible, but the arrow shaft was made of wood.

Of course, there are still bamboo arrows shot, but the number of arrows with wood poles is not a lot.

Ordinary Sassanid soldiers probably don't know what it means to have wood pole arrows, but officers can have new judgments.

"Their elite archers are also on the wall!"

Jidoruo is an alliance force that has been fully assimilated by Asan. While being assimilated, it also obtained Asan's basic technological crystallization, including popularized smelting technology and some military systems.

Using bamboo bows and arrows does not mean that you are a garbage archer, it is usually just to be able to shoot farther. Secondly, the production of bamboo arrows is simpler, and simplicity means that it is fast to manufacture and can store more.

The lethality of using wooden arrows is greater than that of bamboo arrows, which does not mean that Peshawar defenders do not have wooden arrows.

However, in Asan's military system, soldiers with hard bows are not necessarily worse than soldiers with bamboo bows, but archers who use hard bows are indeed treated better than those who use bamboo bows in all aspects.

The war is definitely killing people. As the Sassanid soldiers who launched the charge, they fell in pieces, and some people started to shoot back with bows and arrows. Because they couldn't see the situation of the city head, they didn't know if they shot arrows. Hit the defender.

Many Sassanid soldiers found that holding torches would be a very obvious target when they charged halfway through the charge. In fact, they had already lost the torches.

Many torches left on the ground were not extinguished. Some torches ignited the weeds on the ground or other combustible things.

Looking out from the city, a starry scene appeared on the ground and the sky together. The difference was that the light on the ground was fiery yellow, and the stars in the sky were bright silver.

There is also a clear difference. There is a large fire on the ground, which depends entirely on the amount of combustible material in that place, and how big the fire will be.

Almost when the Sassanid army rushed under the Peshawar city wall, fire slowly appeared on the Peshawar city wall. It was about to start hand-to-hand combat, and the defenders lit the brazier that had been prepared a long time ago, providing enough light.

There was light on the city wall. Some Sassanian officers looked and saw soldiers wearing iron or leather armor among the city wall defenders. They immediately realized that the situation was different from the daytime.

Any country... It should be said that with the exception of the unreasonable countries of the Han Empire, otherwise, in terms of current productivity, it will be the elite group of people who can be armored in the army of any country, especially those who can be clothed. Soldier in metal armor.

Jidoruo is not a powerful country. There is only one armored army in the whole country, that is, the guards belonging to the Jiduo royal family, the number is only 800.

There are about 10,000 standing armies throughout the country, and there can be 800 armored armies. This is because Ji Duo Luo is in a unique position, and then Ji Duo Royal attaches great importance to it.

During the day, the Peshawar garrison only threw stones at the city.

At night, the Sassanid soldiers who approached under the city wall found the difference again. Not only arrows and stones, but also large logs (oven) were frequently smashed down on the city’s head, and even hot liquid was poured down. .

The endless stream of screams sounded so sorrowful under the curtain of the night. Death on the spot may be a relief. If you don't die right away, you will have to endure a lot of pain before you die slowly.

The hot liquid can be boiling water, gold juice (feces and urine), or even some kind of grease. Once it gets drenched...

The boiled water instantly rotted the skin and flesh and blood. After a person uttered an extreme scream, he could still jump to indicate that the injury was not serious. More often, he rolled directly to the ground. After a few laps, he was shocked by the extreme pain. .

If it is gold juice or grease, the skin and flesh of the people who are exposed to it will be melted off in pieces, and the head or main trunk will die within a few seconds if that happens.

Being drenched in boiling water, gold juice, and grease did not die on the spot. In the future, it is almost impossible to escape the onset of various injuries. Usually, it will be pus when speaking. The process of death will definitely be very painful.

There are not many Sassanid soldiers holding torches anymore, they are pushing under the wall of Peshawar.

The Sassanid army engaged in the night battle is actually to be thankful. Their target of attack is a city, not a field battle in the vast wilderness. Otherwise, it is still a big doubt whether they can find the real target of the attack.

The siege ladder began to be erected...

In the daytime, due to the rush, it is impossible to grasp the height of the city wall before testing, and the siege ladder does not have a fastening device.

At night, after the daytime trial, the Persian craftsmen mastered the correct height of the city wall, which can be regarded as installing a fastening device on the siege ladder.

The so-called buckle device is not complicated. It is to have a support frame with a hook on the top of the ladder. When the ladder is set up to the top of the city, the soldier pulls back and the hook can be buckled down to the fixed point. , The ladder is not so easy to be pushed down again.

The siege ladder is only one of the simplest siege equipment, but because it is the most portable, it was the first batch to go to the front of the battlefield, and the other bulky siege equipment lag far behind.

This Sassanian army that came to attack Jidoruo needed to be fast enough and did not carry large-scale siege machinery, such as the catapults and stone dumpers that the Persians also had.

Why should the catapult and the catapult be discussed separately? Because they are not only different in appearance and structure, but also different in range and thrown objects (weight)!

A two siege towers that were manufactured in an intensified daytime, they were pulled by horses in front and pushed by people behind them, "crunching" turning wooden wheels to move forward.

The siege tower is about four meters and five meters in height. The whole body is made of wood nails. It seems that it is not too complicated, but it is made into four square frames and stacked, and then firmly fixed to each other. , And then got the skins of cows, horses or other animals, and the outer skins got wet.

The shouting of "kill" has not stopped on the battlefield, even the trumpet has occasionally sounded, and the drums have been ringing continuously.

As the siege party, from the beginning of the offensive to reaching under the city wall, the Sassanian army produced hundreds of non-combat damages.

After the start of the battle, the defenders in the west of the battle on the four walls seemed to be the most elite. The Sassanid soldiers on this side also suffered the most losses, losing two to three hundred people before they even reached the city.

The Peshawar garrison on the wall kept shooting arrows and dropping all kinds of things, and Sassan under the wall suffered casualties unilaterally.

The wood that had been left behind was greased with grease. After they were ignited, a fire broke out in the corners of certain sections of the city wall.

The Sassanian officer urged the soldiers to put out the fire. Naturally, they did not carry water to pour them, but used all the methods they could. Using soil to cover them was obviously the most reliable kind of environment.

The front of Ma Bin's location is west, and the battle between the north and the south can be seen, while the east is blocked by buildings and cannot be seen.

With the strength of the Sassanid army, the west has the largest number of Sassanid soldiers, the north and south are small but not feigned, and the situation in the east is unknown.

"If it's just such a way of siege..." Ma Bin said to his colleague, "It's purely using human lives to fight."

Zhou Bian said: "How can there be so many tactics."

Many wars are indeed fighting for human lives, and the number of easy wins with tactics is too few and too few, and it is because there are too few to be widely praised.

"Will the Persians use the east we can't see as a breakthrough?" Zhou Pian said, but he shook his head: "Because I can't see it, the sending party will definitely pay more attention."

They can understand why the Sassanid army attacked the city overnight, nothing more than the advantage of time is not on the Sassanian side. Not only will the King Qin's armed forces sent to many places come to Peshawar at any time, the Han army may also enter the battlefield at any time. .

Until now, Peshawar’s defenders may have lost less than two hundred defenders in the city’s offensive and defensive battles, and Sassan’s four sides have lost more than 1,400 people in total.

This kind of warfare, despite the fact that the city wall is very low, the Sassanid army has launched a night battle, which is tantamount to allowing the Peshawar garrison as the defensive side to occupy the time and place.

"We will attack overnight." Ma Bin has never personally commanded the army. He is a commendable position in the army: "Many times, life is not more important than time."

Zhou Bian naturally agrees with Ma Bin's point of view. What he wants to say is: "Sasan has attacked Peshawar more than once. There is no reason to know that the end of the battle for the city wall is the beginning?"

Jiduo did not regard the city wall as the only defensive zone at all. The battle on the city wall was the winner, and the next street battle was the real start of the city's offensive and defensive battle.

"Maybe..." Ma Bin stroked his chin, thought for a moment, and said: "The Persians have won the city wall offensive and defensive battle and have their own means to deal with street fighting."

Those of them who are Chinese in Peshawar and those who are on the other side need to rely on guessing. As the offensive Persian generals, they have already had their own plans~www.wuxiamtl.com~ The black oil they carried has damaged a group, but there are still six. Cheng Zuo brought to the battlefield. "Dospals Canaandina is the leader of this Sassanian army: "Get ready for the sprinkler!" Pick enough warriors, once you occupy the city wall..."

Black oil is oil that has not been processed. It is not only a special product in Sassanids, but the world is the largest in Sassanids.

A long time ago, the Persians used oil as a tool of war, and it was often used in sea warfare. Unless the entire city was to be burned on land, it would not be put into use in large quantities.

"Occupy the city wall and drive the defenders into the city, our goal has been achieved!" Dospals Canaandina did not come to conquer this time: "Let Peshawar be the sacrifice of this war. , Warn those countries that dare to stand on the side of the Han Empire!"

In fact, just occupying the city walls is not enough, and the Sassanian army has to enter the city, otherwise there is not enough oil to water the city.

"The manufacturing speed of catapults should also be accelerated!" Dospals Canaandina said viciously: "The Han people have gunpowder, and we have black oil. The correct method can deter the Quartet!".