Peshawar has been surrounded by the Sassanid army, and Ma Bin just thought about it a little, if he really sent someone out, he would be sent to death.
On the first day, the Sassanid army carried out a wave of attacks on all sides of the city walls, and it was seen that the strength of the battle and the siege equipment used were merely a test, not a real move.
Night soon fell, and the whole city was lit up as if it were daylight because of the preparations for war, and there were bonfires and torches everywhere in the city.
The Persians outside the city were not idle, they cut enough timber during the day, and the craftsmen who accompanied the army worked overtime to make siege equipment.
In the same way, under the bonfires and torches everywhere, there is a very obvious picture from a high altitude looking downwards.
The city was full of fire, and it was pitch black about fifty to two hundred meters outside the city wall, but it was fire two hundred meters away.
The fire of this city is so obvious that the clouds in the sky are reflected in a dim light, and even from dozens of miles away, you can clearly see this area that is still like day in the dark night.
"I'm sure it's not a broken city" Li Tan led a team up a hill and looked at the direction of Peshawar from a distance: "With this bright color, they are all desperately preparing for battle."
It is conceivable that no matter what the final outcome of the siege and defense of Peshawar is, there will not be much left in the surrounding woods, and even some bushes, grasses, and vegetation will be greatly damaged.
There is no way, some of them can be used as materials for siege equipment, and others will be used for burning, and large-scale consumption in a short period of time will definitely cause serious damage to the natural environment, and I don't know how long it will take to recover.
Thankfully, this area of Jidoro is much better than the eastern part of Sassanid and even the western part of the original Hunite border.
In eastern Sassanid and western Hunnite, the main camp of the Western Expedition, it is difficult to see patches of greenery, more of a dry, soft vegetationless surface.
In many cases, it is not specifically used to describe killing, in fact, there are too many people in a piece of land, even if it is just for the need to cook and boil water, the consumption of combustibles is beyond imagination, not only trees will be cut down in large numbers, but also dry grass and the like will not be spared.
After nine days of travel, Li Tan and his army arrived yesterday on the northeast side, fifty-five miles away from Peshawar.
The army was stationed in a mountainous area, for the purpose of facilitating concealment, of course.
In an area where fighting is taking place, the necessary scout patrols will be placed within fifty miles of the area, and some sentry posts will also be arranged.
Li Tan would not read that the Persians had no military knowledge or were sloppy, and responded with the Han Empire's habit of marching and fighting.
He left his army fifty-five miles away, and he himself took twenty horsemen to a place about thirty miles from Peshawar, and went up the hill to look at it from afar.
They didn't encounter the scouts of the Sassanid army all the way, and it is really difficult to judge whether they were discovered by the secret sentry or not, given whether or not the Sassanid came out to chase and kill.
"How long can Peshawar last" Li Tan is not asking left and right, even he doesn't know about things, how can the soldiers know, it is purely a kind of weighing and thinking: "Peshawar has more than 10,000 defenders, and defending the city is also needed by the citizens, and more than 20,000 people can be mobilized to defend the city together."
According to the description of the intelligence sent back by Ma Bin, Peshawar is a city with 40,000 or 50,000 inhabitants, that is, the city wall in the description is short and narrow, and there are no noteworthy city defense equipment.
According to the habits of Zhuxia, to see whether a city is easy to fight, the first thing to see is how many soldiers and civilians are in the city, and the number of soldiers and civilians is large, and the available troops, manpower and material resources in wartime will naturally be relatively sufficient.
The second is to see whether the city wall is majestic, without a high and thick city wall, it will generally not be regarded as a male city, let alone a military town.
What Li Tan knows is that the walls of Peshawar are only four meters high and three meters thick, which is definitely not called a heroic city, and it is even worse than some of the Han Empire's city walls before they were demolished.
Now the Han people are at least the Han army under the Western Expedition, and they already know what the situation is like in Jidoro.
It is probably an alliance of forces such as the Rouran Tribal Alliance or the West and East Mountains, and the difference between Jitara and those countries mentioned above is that the alliance forces with the Otsuki clan as the ruling class, they are living in a settled farming way, not a herding lifestyle of wandering and changing pastures.
The Sassanid army of 60,000 or 70,000 men barely encountered much resistance, and swept all the way to the northwestern part of Totara, and it took less than ten days for the army to reach the city of Peshawar.
Regardless of how many of the Sassanid army had wiped out the Tatara army in the process, or how much the Sassanid army had lost itself, the invasion of the country and the enemy's invasion of the border to the capital's city took less than ten days, and in any way it did not look like a person with the ability to defend himself.
What puzzled Li Tan was that what they knew was that Jitara had thwarted Sasanian invasions many times, so how did the people of the Xiaoyue clan do it "Let's go back" Of course, Li Tan will not continue to advance, and at the same time, as the head of the army, it is already considered a danger to personally approach thirty miles to observe: "Go" Of course, it wasn't just Li Tan who brought people over to observe, some scout teams had already been sent out.
Scouts are the eyes of the main general, if you don't send scouts to reconnoiter the dynamics of the war, is it because you can't let the main general give orders, Li Tan didn't send scouts on a large scale, too many scouts will only attract the attention of the Sassanid army excessively.
The scattered scout squads will naturally be discovered by the Sassanid army, but in view of the fact that the Western Expedition army has been killed, the Han army has been frequently exploring the terrain before, and the Sassanid army attacking Peshawar knows that there are Han scouts, and the number is not too exaggerated and will not cause an excessive reaction.
In fact, Li Tan also knew that it was impossible for the Sassanid army attacking Peshawar not to guard against the Han army's coming to help, but it was one thing to know about it, and it was another thing to grasp the movement.
In Peshawar at night, Ma Bin was invited to the grand banquet hall by Luhe Malu.
Ma Bin was naturally entertained when he came, it should be said that the specifications were very large and grand, but Luhe Malu did not personally greet him at that time, and it was greeted by their prime minister Mirumits.
After the main Sassanid army invaded Jidoro, Luhma Maru Jiduo urgently met with Ma Bin.
As if to make up for the lack of attention, even though it seemed that half of the city had fallen, and then the Sassanid army had fallen under Peshawar, Lukhmaru had a grand feast every night to entertain Mabin.
The banquet hall has plenty of Ah San's decoration features, in addition to not being like Ah San will deliberately show gold, all kinds of walls and load-bearing pillars carved with various patterns will also have a variety of painted walls, and then there are too many colors, especially very bright, in fact, it will look very messy to the senses of the Han people.
Many banquets are not considered grand because of the decorations or the richness of the food.
This group of Xiaoyue people has been on the run for hundreds of years, first fused with the Cypriots, and then stuffed into a large number of Asan culture and part of Greek culture, it stands to reason that the fusion of so many cultures will become very rich in food, but that is an illusion.
In terms of eating habits, they mainly focus on various barbecues, and then cakes, accompanied by some unappetizing rice categories.
I don't learn what the rice here is here, but I just learned that Ah San put some messy things, if it's like the salty rice or rice bowl over there in Zhuxia, it's just that, spices are added, and the main rice is not because of the relationship between the rice grains and looks yellow, but it looks yellow when the curry is added more.
Curry may be a delicacy for Ah San, and it is not excluded that some Han people will like it when they eat it, such as Ma Bin, who likes it, but most Han people are actually not used to eating it.
The reason why the banquet held by Lukhmaru is considered grand is that Peshawar's leading figures were invited.
As the lord of the country, Lu Hemalu is too embarrassed to slap Ma Bin's ass, which can't make Ma Bin feel enough enthusiasm, but the rest of the people don't need to be too embarrassed, and they will definitely be touted to make Ma Bin the protagonist of the banquet, feel unprecedented attention and gain enough vanity.
"Emissary."
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Lukhmaru held a golden cup, and after inviting him to drink, he asked: "Xiao Wang has a woman who has entered Chang'an, I don't know if the envoy knows what is going on now."
A few years ago, led by Sassanid and Rome, all the countries known to the Han Empire were selecting princesses and nobles to go to the Han family.
Due to the constraints of distance and communication, many countries have not even had a single contact for several years after sending out their princesses and noblewomen, as is the case with Lukhmaru Jiduo.
"It's all good."
How can Ma Bin know the secrets of the palace, and he doesn't even know whether the princesses of various countries have been accepted, but he can't say that he doesn't know.
Before he came, he had obtained some information, at least he knew that he would send the name of the princess, and he would not arrange it, and said: "The life that Princess Aisia lived in Dahan must be understood by the lord of the country is far better than at home. ” Unless it was Aithea who made some mistake and was punished, otherwise a woman who was the Son of Heaven no matter how she was might not be very luxurious, but it was definitely not much worse, and in terms of civilization and living environment, it would not be a lie to say that it would be better than living in Jidora.
"That's good, that's good" Luhmarau Jiduo originally wanted to mention the matter of in-laws, but after thinking about it, it was not so appropriate, so he changed his words and asked: "The envoy is still used to it in Peshawar" Ma Bin just isn't used to it, he didn't come here for enjoyment, but to get merit.
To a certain extent, as long as Jidora plays his value in this war, the worse he lives here, and there will be extra points in the merit evaluation in the future.
The marriage between countries is not without effect, but it depends on the situation between countries.
The peace policy of the first Han cannot be said to have been unsuccessful, and it was indeed successful in making the Xiongnu no longer invade the south on a large scale, but that was because the first Han had the strength to resist and the ability to knock the Xiongnu's teeth away.
The same countries in the Western Regions that sent the princess to the Xiongnu, did the Huns care, and the Huns only knew that the countries in the Western Regions were too easy to fight, so they would not give up the invasion if they didn't care about their in-laws or something.
Rome, Sasha and other countries that are anti-Han Axis, which one cares that there are princesses on the side of the Han Empire Jidoro is not a special country, Lukhmaru Jiduo's IQ is still online, marriage is only effective under the premise of friendship, and even in the Han Empire, it is a plus point to think that its country is valuable, and if you want to rely on marriage to get special preferential treatment, dream The music in the ballroom was punctuated by war instruments, the Sasanian horns of the sassy sound of the sound first, and then the crunchy sound of war drums.
The royal palace in Peshawar was built in the style of a fortress, and it was also located on a hill or a high base, and the banquet hall happened to be the highest point, and out of the hall was a terrace without a roof and with a large area.
Lukhmaru Jiduo took the lead and Ma Bin followed, followed by a large group of magnates.
Because of the sufficient height, they looked out and saw a large sea of torches in front of the city, which was a great movement of 5,000 people running forward with their hands raised.
On the western wall alone, about 5,000 Sassanid soldiers attacked overnight, and if you look at the remaining three sides, the Sassanid army has invested at least 2,000 men.
This time there were not only ladders, but also some other siege equipment, such as towering siege towers, nailed wooden shield carts, and so on.
"The army of the Great Han should have arrived" Lukhmaru sent more to look farther away, but unfortunately there was only a large area of darkness: "Night battle, how could they attack the city overnight" Even in the modern age when science is sufficiently developed, there will still be more and greater casualties in the army's night battles, unless it is a last resort, otherwise the army will only fight under conditions with enough light.
This is a time when most people suffer from night blindness, there is no radio to command troops in a timely manner, unnecessary casualties from night battles can be very serious, and it is not uncommon for uncoordinated troops to kill each other by mistake.
"The lord of the country, there are troops left outside" Ma Bin shook his head when he saw Luhe Malu: "It's a pity" The problem is that Peshawar originally only had 10,000 defenders, and if there was less outside, it was to deliver food, and if there was too much to stay, the city defense could not be taken care of.
"Maybe there's already a leader bringing people to the periphery."
Lukhmaru Jiduo said about the local leaders in the occupied areas: "Messenger, the Persians are in too much of a hurry and do not have enough time to cleanse, and the leaders of various places will organize the soldiers and horses of King Qin, not the Han army is coming, it should be them." ” Ma Bin didn't know that Jidoro still had this kind of magical operation, and he was a little stunned for a while
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