Soldiers who fight at night usually need to set aside one hand to hold a torch.
The torch is a piece of wood with a wrap wrapped around the top, and some of it is soaked in grease, and when it burns, it not only provides light, but also constantly drips slimy sparks.
Regardless of whether it is only the cloth ball, or whether it is soaked in grease or not, in fact, even if the cloth ball is burned, it will drip slimy sparks, and the soldier holding the torch usually needs to tilt the hand holding the torch far away, and if you are a little closer to yourself, it will be dripped to the spark.
Being dripping by Mars is not just a scald, it is a long time to be glued and scalded.
Many people will have the experience of being scalded by boiling water, just a few seconds of scalding are hot, if a scalding is at least dozens of seconds, it should be so painful If the clothes dripped on the body by the sparks, the clothes will be ignited again, and if you don't take them off in time, you should become a humanoid torch.
Many of the Sassanid soldiers who charged with torches ran and threw their torches on the spot, slapping wildly on the places where they were burned by grease and sparks, and even people who were burned all over their bodies and rolling or scurrying all over the ground.
None of the 10,000 Sassanid soldiers who fought at night had yet to reach the walls of Peshawar, or even encountered an attack from the defenders of Peshawar, and hundreds of them were already out of the range of effective combat effectiveness.
The Sassanid soldiers who ran forward carrying the ladder, after holding the torch in one hand, needed to hold the ladder with the other, so naturally they had no hands to hold the weapon.
It is very common, and not at all funny, that many of the Sassanid soldiers who are carrying ladders forward together are estimated to be in about three out of ten groups, and halfway through the ladder is thrown aside.
The defenders at the head of Peshawar, they stayed in the dark and saw that the enemy army had not approached or was embarrassed everywhere, and they all laughed "hahaha".
The effect of holding torches at night on the warring soldiers goes far beyond that.
"Ready" "Shoot" The sound of bowstrings rattling and arrows breaking through the air rang out in an instant.
The Sassanid soldiers who ran forward, their torches revealing their position in the darkness, suffered far more casualties after the defenders of the Peshawar walls began to shoot arrows than during the day.
In fact, a shooter will shoot a bright spot in the dark of night and will shoot more accurately than looking at the target during the day.
The walled defenders of Peshawar had apparently increased their archers, and the density of arrows fired was greater than during the day.
After a volley, the next step was free arrows, and the sound of bowstrings rattling on the walls never stopped, and the arrows continued to be fired.
There were no torches or braziers on the walls of Peshawar, and the Sassanid soldiers who were charging looked at the darkness at the head of the city, where deadly arrows were being shot all the time, and the people around them kept screaming or snorting in pain after being hit by the arrows.
Some of the Sassanid soldiers took advantage of the light of the torches to look at the robe where the arrow had fallen to the ground, and were surprised to find that it was not a bamboo arrow, and the arrow shaft was a wooden structure.
Of course, there are still bamboo arrows being shot, but there are not many arrows from wooden poles.
The average Sassanid soldier probably didn't know what it meant to have a wooden pole and arrow, but the officer was able to make a new judgment.
"Their elite archers are also on the walls" Jitara is an alliance power that has been fully assimilated by Ah San, and at the same time, it has also obtained the crystallization of Ah San's basic technology, including the popularized smelting technology, as well as some military systems.
Using a bamboo bow and arrows doesn't mean you're a junk archer, it's usually just about being able to shoot farther.
Then there's the fact that bamboo arrows are easier to make, and simplicity means that they can be made faster and more can be stockpiled.
The fact that arrows with wooden poles will be more lethal than those of bamboo arrows does not mean that the defenders of Peshawar do not have wooden arrows.
However, in Ah San's military system, soldiers with hard bows are not necessarily worse than soldiers with bamboo bows, but archers with hard bows are indeed treated better than archers with bamboo bows in all aspects.
The war was sure to kill people, and as the Sassanid soldiers who launched the charge, they fell in pieces, and some began to shoot arrows with bows and arrows to fight back, because they could not see the situation at the head of the city, and did not know whether the arrows they shot hit the defenders.
Many Sassanid soldiers found that their armed torches would be a very obvious target when they were halfway through the charge, and they had already lost their torches.
Many of the torches that were discarded on the ground were not extinguished, and some of them were lit by weeds or other combustible things on the ground.
Looking out from the top of the city, the ground and the sky are full of stars, the difference is that the light on the ground is fiery yellow, and the stars in the sky are silver.
There is also a clear difference that there are large fires on the ground, and it all depends on the amount of combustibles in that place, and how big the fire will be.
Around the time when the Sassanid army rushed to the bottom of the walls of Peshawar, a fire slowly appeared above the walls of Peshawar.
Hand-to-hand combat was about to begin, and the defenders lit the braziers that had been prepared long ago, providing enough light.
There was light above the walls, and some of the Sassanid officers looked at the soldiers in iron or leather armor in the defenders of the walls, and immediately realized that it was a different situation than during the day.
Any country should say that except for the unreasonable country of the Han Empire, otherwise, in terms of current productivity, the people who can wear armor in the army of any country will belong to the elite group, especially the soldiers who can wear metal armor.
Jitara is not a powerful country, and there is only one army equipped with iron armor in the whole country, that is, the guards belonging to the royal family of Jita, and the number is only 800.
There are about 10,000 standing troops in the country, and there can be 800 ironclad troops, which is the unique position of Jidora, and then it is the attention of the royal family.
During the day, the Peshawar defenders were only throwing stones at the city.
At night, the Sassanid soldiers, who approached the city walls, found that there were not only arrows and stones on the city, but also large wooden sassals that were frequently smashed down, and even hot liquids were poured down.
The endless screams sounded so terrible in the night, and dying on the spot might be a relief, but not dying immediately would have to endure a lot of pain before dying slowly.
The hot liquid can be boiling water, gold juice feces and urine, and more likely some kind of oil, once it is drenched The boiling water instantly burned the skin and flesh, and after the person let out an extreme scream, he could still jump to mean that the injury was not serious, and more he rolled directly to the ground, and he went into shock because of the extreme pain after rolling a few times.
If the gold juice or grease is drenched, the skin and flesh of the person who is drenched will fall off in pieces as if they were melted in an instant, and the head or main torso will die almost within seconds if that happens.
Being drenched in boiling water, gold juice and grease without dying on the spot, it is almost impossible to escape the onset of various injuries in the future, usually with pus in the speech, and the process of death will definitely be very painful.
Not many Sassanid soldiers were armed with torches anymore, and they were pushing under the walls of Peshawar.
The Sassanid army that fought at night was actually to be glad that the target of their attack was a city, not a field battle in the vast wilderness, otherwise it was doubtful whether they could find the real target of the attack.
Siege ladders began to be erected During the day, due to the rush and inability to grasp the height of the city wall without testing, the siege ladder did not have a fastening device.
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At night, after the day's trials, the Persian craftsmen mastered the correct height of the walls, which can be regarded as installing fastening devices on the siege ladders.
The so-called fastening device is not complicated, that is, at the top of the ladder to get a support frame with a bite hook, when the ladder is put up to the head of the city, the soldier pulls it back, the bite hook can buckle the fixed point upside down, and the ladder is not so easy to be pushed down again.
The siege ladder was only one of the most rudimentary siege machines, but because it was the lightest of the first to be brought to the front of the battlefield, the rest of the bulky siege engines were far behind.
The Sassanid army that came to attack Dotara needed to be fast enough and did not carry large siege machines, such as catapults and catapults that the Persians also had.
Why should catapults and catapults be talked about separately, because not only are they different in appearance and structure, but also have different ranges and the weight of the objects thrown out Two siege towers, made in a hurry, were pulled by horses in front and pushed by people behind, "crunching" and turning wooden wheels forward.
The siege tower is about four meters five meters high, and the whole body is made of wooden nails, which is not too complicated to look at, but it is made into four square frames and then stacked up, and then firmly fixed to each other, and then the skin of cows, horses or other animals is obtained, and the outer skin is wet.
The shouts of "kill" did not stop on the battlefield, even the horn sounded occasionally, and the drums continued to beat.
As the besieging side, from the beginning of the attack to the time it approached the city walls, the Sassanid army itself suffered hundreds of non-combat casualties.
After the battle began, the defenders on the west side of the four walls seemed to be the most elite, and the Sassanid soldiers on this side also suffered the most losses, losing two or three hundred men before anyone could reach the city.
The Peshawar defenders on the walls were constantly shooting arrows and dropping all sorts of things, and the Sassanids under the walls suffered casualties unilaterally.
The previously dropped wood was doused with grease and ignited, and some sections of the wall caught fire in the corners.
The Sassanid officers urged the soldiers to extinguish the fire, naturally not to bring water for water, but to use the methods they could use, and to constantly cover up with soil was obviously the most reliable kind of environment in which they lived.
Ma Bin's position is in the west and can see the battle in the north and south, while the east is blocked by buildings.
With the strength of the Sassanid army, the west had the largest number of Sassanid soldiers, the north and south were few but not feints, and the east was unclear.
"If it's just this way of attacking the city," Ma Bin said to his colleagues, "it's just a matter of fighting with human lives." ” Zhou Wei said: "How can there be so many schemes." ” Many wars are indeed fought for human lives, and the number of times that they are easily won by using stratagem is too small and too few, and it is because they are so few that they will be widely praised.
"Will the Persians use the east side that we can't see as a breakthrough," Zhou said, shaking his head: "Just because they can't see it, the more than one side will definitely pay more attention." ” They can understand why the Sassanid army attacked the city overnight, it is nothing more than the advantage of time is not on the Sassanid side, not only will the Qinwang army from all over the country come to Peshawar in large numbers anytime and anywhere, but the Han army may also break into the battlefield at any time.
By the time the siege and defense of the city had been fought, the defenders of Peshawar had probably lost less than 200 men, and the Sassanid side had lost more than 1,400 men in all four directions.
This kind of warfare, despite the low walls, the Sassanid army fought at night, which was tantamount to giving the defenders of Peshawar as the defensive side the advantage of time and place.
"If we were to do it, we would have attacked overnight."
Ma Bin actually never personally commanded the troops, and he held a position in the army: "Many times, human life is not more important than time. ” Zhou Wei naturally agreed with Ma Bin's point of view, what he wanted to say was: "Sassanid has attacked Peshawar more than once, there is no reason not to know that the end of the battle on the city wall is the beginning."
The side of Jiduo did not regard the city wall as the only defensive belt at all, and the battle on the side of the city wall was divided into winners and losers, and the next street battle was the real beginning of the city attack and defense battle.
"Perhaps" Ma Bin touched his chin, thought for a while, and said: "The Persians won the victory in the attack and defense of the city wall, and they have their own means to deal with the street fighting. ” Those of them in Peshawar and those on the side of the Persian colonel had to guess, and the Persian generals who were the attackers had already had their own plans.
"A batch of black oil was damaged, but about sixty percent of it was brought to the battlefield."
Dospars Canandina was the chief general of this Sassanid army: "Prepare the sprinkler to pick out enough warriors once the walls are captured" Black oil is untreated oil, and it is not only a specialty of Sasansan, but it is the largest in the world.
The Persians have long used oil as a tool of warfare, often at sea, and not in large quantities on land unless the entire city is burned to the ground.
"Capture the walls and drive the defenders into the city, and our goal will be achieved" Dospals Canaandina did not come this time to conquer: "Let Peshawar be a sacrifice in this war, and warn those who dare to stand on the side of the Han Empire" In fact, it was not enough to take the city walls, the Sassanid army had to fight into the city, otherwise there would not be enough oil to water the city.
"The speed of making catapults should also be accelerated," said Dospars Canaan Dina viciously: "The Han people have gunpowder, and we have black oil."
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