Sweep the World

After guessing that the Persians wanted to set fire to Peshawar, Ma Bin and Zhou Bian looked at each other for a while, and then ignored the city's offensive and defensive battles.

When they entered the room, they didn't pay attention to the salutes of passers-by, and they didn't even have time to say hello to some ministers who hadn't left.

"Please tell the lord of your country." Ma Bin will not show the fluctuations in his heart: "This messenger has something to tell."

Luhmaru Jido woke up early. He was busy commanding his generals. When Ma Bin brought Zhou Jian to look for him, he hesitated for a while and didn’t meet him in the war room. He found another one. place.

"I believe the Lord already knows that the Persians have thrown crossbows and catapults." Ma Bin didn't mean to talk nonsense, and said directly: "This messenger discovered that the Persians had prepared a large number of jars outside the city."

"..." Luhmaru Yudo didn't understand for a while, and asked in a puzzled way: "What does the messenger mean?"

"The catapult and the bed crossbow may not surpass some individual long-range weapons on the way, but because of their mechanical power, the objects that can be produced can be very heavy." Ma Bin said that the altar is already there, and the Peshawar garrison is not carrying it. Can the altar, canned kerosene go to attack? He was surprised that Luhmaru Jiduo didn't even guess this: "Your army uses kerosene, and the Persians are fighting the same plan."

Luhmaru Jieduo's face changed a little, but he hadn't panicked yet.

"This messenger didn't understand enough?" Ma Bin saw that Luhmaru did not understand, and took a deep breath: "The Persians prepared a large number of pots. This messenger thought it would be enough to burn the entire Peshawar to the ground. Up."

At this time, Luhmaru Jieduo's face changed drastically. He opened his mouth, closed his mouth and walked back and forth quickly, stopping abruptly: "Sassan has a kind of black oil, and the output is huge."

black oil? As one of the paintings of the Western Expedition Army Corps, Ma Bin still knows the existence of black oil. He knew even more that black oil was abundant in the Persian territory, and the center seemed to attach great importance to this black oil.

"It's over, they actually..." Luhmaru Jido was obviously panicked: "How dare they!!!"

Although war is the darkest kind of behavior, many times there are still some scruples, such as not killing civilians when there is no need, let alone doing things that will destroy the whole city.

Luhmaru Jieduo's cheeks twitched for a long time, and then asked Ma Bin more suddenly: "Emissary, how do you think the king should choose?"

Ma Bin understood.

Luhmaru Jidona was asking whether the soldiers and civilians in the whole city started fighting with the Persians regardless of casualties, or should they surrender quickly.

"This messenger thinks that in order to avoid the burning of Peshawar, the lord should surrender to Sassan." Ma Bin had thought about Luhmaru's attitude before coming: "It's just that the lord thinks... …After the surrender, the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar, as well as the ministers, may live. What will happen to the Lord?"

Even if it is a palace fortress, you can still hear the movement from outside.

Two different horns are sounded all the time.

The sound of the drums of war has never stopped since the start of the war.

The clamor and the call to kill were very intense.

The tragic fighting caused people to die every moment, becoming a corpse lying on the ground gradually becoming cold.

Surrendering or insisting on resisting things have always been that only the superior has the right to choose, and the leader generally can only passively accept the fate set by the superior.

The current situation is that once Luhmaru Jiduo chooses to surrender, it will not only be a group of soldiers and civilians in Peshawar, but because of his identity as the lord of the country, it is the entire country that surrenders.

When a country surrenders, it is inevitable for the military, civilians and ministers to pay the price, but it may not necessarily die.

However, the king is different. After the surrender, the king will pay far more than anyone. There is a great risk of the country's extinction. In order to better digest the results of the war, the invaders usually won't let the current king continue to live. Go down.

"Tell the country lord the truth." Ma Bin looked at Luhmaru Jiduo, who was constantly changing his face due to the fluctuating mood, and raised his head slightly: "The big guys have come to Peshawar long ago."

Luhmaru Jiduo should have guessed this earlier, and even guessed Ma Bin's subtext, Sassan can destroy Jiduo, and the Han Empire will not be difficult to destroy.

"The Sassanid madness will surely cause public outrage!" Luhmaru Shiduo yelled angrily, but randomly changed his face, and said to Ma Bin flatly: "Emissary, can inform the army of your country, Attack the siege army immediately?"

Luhmaru. I still know a little bit more. He heard that Sassan thought that he could not defeat the Han Empire, so he went to form an alliance with the millennium enemy, the Romans, and brought in a large group of younger brothers.

Even if the hatred of the millennia-old enemies was thrown aside, Luhmaru Jiduo didn't know that the Persians thought that the Han Empire was far more terrifying than Rome.

Since they have to choose to stand on the side, they naturally stand on the strongest side.

Then, Luhmaru Jiedo knew too well that no matter what choice he made, he would be invaded. Either the Persians would kill them or the Hans would kill them. There was no difference.

Seriously speaking, Luhmaru knows that no matter how he chooses, there will be a large army to attack. He is more willing to compete with his old opponent Persians. Anyway, these methods are used to fight, but it is not like facing a stranger. The military has to go from blank to familiar experience accumulation process.

"This messenger will naturally notify the army to kill." Ma Bin stopped talking nonsense, raised his hand in salute, and refused to give Luhmaru a chance to speak. He turned and left. After walking some distance, he argued to Zhou. Said: "He seems to have made up his mind now, waiting for the Persians to make big moves will surely be shaken."

The Han people in Peshawar are only fifty or so people. Except for Ma Bin, who is a civil servant, the rest are escorts.

However, even if Ma Bin worked as a civil servant, he was not an old, weak, sick or disabled man, even though he was a martial artist, and he was even more capable of fighting and killing than some soldiers.

They didn't think about breaking through or anything. Once there is the intention to break through, it is to force Luhmaru Jiduo to not be elected, so he can only discuss the terms of surrender with Sassan.

"Will they arrest us as a sincere surrender?" Zhou Bian doubted Luhmaru Jiduo's actions if he was forced to do so. He also said: "We didn't have an agreed signal when we came. How can we remind the possible army to kill?"

"Eleven days have passed, counting by distance..." Ma Bin silently counted: "It is the infantry, which is no more than 60 miles away from Peshawar. The cavalry must have come nearby early. Just how Communicating with it... is indeed a problem."

In fact, it is possible to go to the highest point to take the flag and play semaphore. The problem is that someone needs to be seen by the army outside.

"Since it's here, it must be sent to keep an eye on the movements of Peshawar." Zhou Yan said decisively: "Whether it is to increase Luhmaru's confidence or to try, it must be done. It's just... the timing. Still wrong."

Only at the most precarious moment in Peshawar, the Han army suddenly appeared and defeated Persia can be regarded as the savior.

Before Peshawar had encountered enough danger, the appearance of the Han army was just icing on the cake.

"Luhmaru Ji had long guessed that the great man was out there." Ma Bin was not afraid of being burned to death, but told the truth: "It is impossible to get his sincere gratitude."

That said, Ma Bin would not immediately try to summon the Han army outside the city to attack.

Luhmaru Shido is really grateful, and it will only be a short period of emotional fluctuations. As a country, there are so many emotions.

What the Han Empire does not need is just Luhmaru’s gratitude and gratitude. It appears at the right time to make its debut as the savior, and it is more aimed at ordinary Jidala people.

Zhou Bian communicated with the guards of the palace fortress, and again with the strong support of Luhmaru Jiduo, he began to go to the highest place, holding a big flag and starting to play semaphore.

Outside the city, probably in a pile of grass 14 miles away from the highest point of the palace, Jiao Cheng held a telescope to observe the progress of the war.

There have always been Han scouts observing the offensive and defensive battles in Peshawar. There is no major change. One person is dispatched to report to the rear every two hours. Of course, if there is a new situation, it is of course to report to the rear immediately.

The scout team is usually more than three people, and no more than ten people at most.

Some scout teams encountered Sasanian scouts while they were moving. Naturally, it was a small-scale fight or chase.

"That's..." Jiao Cheng actually watched the same place a few times back and forth, and didn't notice at first: "It's our banner, right?"

Chang Bing took the binoculars from Jiao Cheng's hand and looked at it for a while and tried to recognize it: "It's our flag, he's playing the flag."

Given the productivity of the Han Empire, there is still no way to equip all scouts with binoculars. A small group of scouts has two scouts, one for normal use and the other for backup.

As scouts, they have basically learned semaphore. In many cases, they don’t have to travel too far to transmit information. They can use semaphore to transmit information to each other according to the situation, which can save a lot of time.

"Sasan... kerosene..." Chang Bing read it out as he read it, and after reading it twice, he understood what the semaphore over there meant to express: "Sasan is going to invest a lot of kerosene to siege the city, he asked us Prepare for the attack as appropriate."

Regarding the number of Sassanid troops attacking Peshawar, Zhou Jian naturally didn't need to remind him that the army who came to support would investigate clearly, or even conduct investigations in quite detail.

"You and Xiao San stay where you are." Jiao Cheng slowly changed from a prone position to a squatting position, his head protruding from the grass and looking around: "I'll report the situation."

Chang Bing naturally has no opinion.

The other person, called Xiaosan, was lying on the ground and sleeping.

Jiao Cheng didn't stand up straight and ran. He came to the place where he was observing just now, about three hundred meters away, and entered a small forest full of bushes.

This grove is just a few small trees whose trunks are not thick, and the trunks and branches are still curved, and if they are cut down, they can be used as firewood.

Four war horses were placed in the grove, all with muzzles. They have received relevant training, and if they are tied to one place, they will stay honestly.

Jiao Cheng didn't turn on the horse immediately, but led the horse along the long-planned route out of the small woods and into a wilderness with dense grass and a higher height of grass.

After turning on the horse, Jiao Cheng also didn't immediately drive the horse to gallop, but let the horse perform the necessary slow warm-up.

It’s just such a situation. It’s not necessary that the horses should not really be able to drive the horses to run wildly before they warm up. Otherwise, the horses will suffer invisible damage and reduce the service life of a horse as a horse. In the following, the horse will soon enter a state of fatigue, the faster the front, the slower the back, and even the tragedy of stumble and overturned or sudden death of the horse.

In fact, it wasn't just Jiao Cheng that the scout team found Zhou Bian's semaphore, it was the scout team that saw it as long as the sight was not blocked.

The scouts of the Han army could see that the Sassanian soldiers in the siege state were naturally not blind.

"That's... the battle flag of the Han Empire?" Dospars Canaandina did not go up to the walls of Peshawar. He stayed in his military tent, and he came out with a telescope to watch the station after hearing a report. Zhou Jian, who danced the flag at the highest point of the palace: "I heard that the Han people can use the flag to communicate."

This is no secret. Countries also have related semaphores, but no country has developed a set of semaphores as complicated as the Han Empire.

"We have the Han army around us." Dospars Canaandina didn't have any surprised expression on his face: "This is inevitable, but we haven't found it. We can't judge how many there are. It's coming again. What kind of arms."

It was not their scouts who discovered the arrival of the Han army~www.wuxiamtl.com~ It was Dospals Canaandina who made the judgment based on the situation.

The Han Empire was fighting for Jidara, so how could it be possible to watch Jidara fall? This is not the case, Dospars Canaandina will continue to siege the city after he arrives, and use harsh punishments to force the craftsmen to work overtime to build the siege equipment.

They would rush like that, ignoring casualties, that is, knowing that the Han Empire would not sit by and watch Sassan's destruction of Jidoruo, and would definitely send troops to rescue them.

"We need to postpone the offensive..." Abubadi Le asked, "Are you ready to deal with the arrival of the Han army?"

"There must be related arrangements." Dospars Canaandina couldn't help sighing in his heart. The Han Empire made a decision very quickly, and the army came too early. He thought they would have At least three days of siege time: "There is no need to suspend the siege, on the contrary, it should be stepped up."

For a little bit, Spars Canaandina can still confirm that there are no major soldiers of the Han Empire within twenty miles, so even if the Han army has been close, it will take at least an hour to approach the battlefield. , They still have one last hour, and they must strive to turn Peshawar into a city of flames within one hour!