The siege and defense of Peshawar began to become extremely fierce as the Sassanid forces on the besieging side pushed up many siege engines.
"The walls can't be held."
Zhou Wei saw that the defenders of Peshawar were suppressed first, waiting for multiple siege towers to be put on the top of the city, and the defenders of Peshawar, despite desperate resistance, gradually lost their numerical advantage: "The correct thing to do now is to withdraw the soldiers on the city wall to avoid more casualties and save more resistance." ” It didn't take long for the bell to ring on the side of the palace fortress.
That was a signal for the Peshawar defenders on the city wall to withdraw into the city, but the number of Sassanid soldiers on the city wall was increasing, and they were entangled with each other, not that they could retreat if they wanted to.
"They probably expected that they wouldn't be able to hold it during the day."
Ma Bin said that the ironclad army had already been withdrawn to the city: "The defenders on the city walls are just making necessary attempts. ” Peshawar's walls are too low, if the height is seven or eight meters or even higher, even if the Persians come over and build siege equipment, it will not be so easy to build.
Building a four-meter-high siege tower and building a siege tower of seven or eight meters or even higher, in terms of physical conditions, the higher the difficulty, the more difficult it is, that is not the end of the pile, how to nail it firmly, to ensure that it will not tilt, and so on Some aspects are the difficult places.
The Sassanid troops, pushing the siege towers up, were pouring up the walls like a tidal wave, and then pounced on the nearby Peshawar defenders.
Some of the Peshawar defenders really had nowhere to run, and some extremely fierce people chose to jump off the city wall and limp towards the city before they died.
In addition, the defenders of Peshawar, who had lost their courage, abandoned their weapons and wanted to surrender, whether they surrendered standing or kneeling, but they were killed by the Sassanid soldiers without any hesitation.
The city was not completely safe either, and the Sassanid archers who had reached the walls were free to shoot arrows at the enemies below the city from the beginning.
Most of the Peshawar soldiers and civilians who didn't run, or didn't have time to run, were shot in the back, and they died cleanly, and they didn't know if they could have a good time when the Sassanid soldiers came down.
The western wall was the first to fall, followed by the northern wall, and the remaining two walls were also lost.
The Sassanid army occupied the city wall and did not immediately press the soldiers inside the city, but cleaned the debris on the wall and the bodies of both the dead in battle, and killed the wounded and not dead defenders of Peshawar.
"What do they want to do" Ma Bin can look more carefully with a telescope: "Cleaning up things on the city wall, they are also digging holes in the city gates." ” Shouldn't you take advantage of the panic and morale fluctuations of the defenders to attack the city walls?
Zhuxia is playing like this on the other side, but it's different here "The Persians have been attacking Peshawar one time at a time, and they should have figured out the usual means of defense of the defenders."
Zhou Wei only had this answer: "They know that the capture of the city wall is only the first step, and the battle in the city will be more fierce in the future." ” The Sassanid soldiers were busy cleaning up, and the catapults that had been built in the rear and the bed crossbows that had not been put into use were brought up.
Catapults are relatively large, and there is not enough space in the gate to allow them to enter, and the bed crossbow is no problem.
"They want to install long-range siege equipment on the city wall" Ma Bin has already seen Sassanid soldiers installing hanging towers, the first bed crossbow has also been hoisted on the city wall, and some Sassanid soldiers are arranging the pedestals: "Catapults can't fit on the city walls. ” The Sassanid catapult is not small, with a single length of five meters, a width of three meters, and a height of more than five meters when erected.
Peshawar's walls are only three meters wide, and they certainly can't fit such a huge catapult.
"They're fixing bed crossbows."
Zhou Wei also judged that there was no catapult on the city wall, and pointed to the pile of buildings with complex terrain: "The defenders are preparing to counterattack." ” There is a clearing between the city wall and the inhabitants, about 200 meters long When the buildings in Peshawar were built, I didn't know if they had been planned, it was far more than just chaos, there was almost no interval between one building after another, the road inside was not more than two meters wide, and some small alleys even allowed only one person to pass, I really don't know how they usually move things.
Ma Bin has personally walked through it, and it can be said that the most surprising thing is that some people's houses are regarded as roads at all.
So it's not that there is no wider passage, but you need to pass through some houses, but the houses will close the door and the road will not pass.
In the narrow alleys and in the backyards of some houses, armed men are constantly gathering, and they are rushing in small groups to the periphery of residential areas.
At this time, the Sassanid army was stepping up the installation of hanging towers, and some bed crossbows were hoisted, but if they wanted to get catapults into the city, the requirements for hanging towers were much higher than those for hanging bed crossbows.
The catapult built by the craftsmen of the Sassanid army will definitely not be less than 1,000 catties in terms of volume, and may even reach 1,500 catties.
A lot of Sassanid soldiers and craftsmen got wood that looked very thick at first glance, and they also got very heavy objects.
Wood is of course the support frame for the crane, heavy objects are the necessary lumps, and a large number of iron chains are used.
A catapult is definitely not a single crane tower can be hung on the city wall, and even hung on the city wall to continue to hang good in the city, once the crane tower is unqualified, or the operation is improper, so heavy catapult smashed down, it is indispensable to a big accident.
"The Persians do have what an empire should be."
Zhou Wei looked at the scene of the ongoing operation: "The small country doesn't even know what the hanging tower is, but the Persians can build a hanging tower with a load of about 2,000 catties on the battlefield. ” It is the same thing, the more technical machinery is needed, the more it is not possible for small countries and widows to study it.
In many cases, it is useless for a nation to exist for a long time, and it is necessary to have enough territory and population, and even the geographical environment of survival also accounts for a crucial factor.
There are some ethnic groups, obviously with a vast territory and a large number of people, but they have not yet entered the Bronze Age for hundreds of thousands of years, and some ethnic groups have entered the age of firearms, and they are still playing with bone arrows.
The palace fortress was blown with the sound of strong bull horns.
The neighborhoods on the fringes were already crowded, the sound of bull horns was blown, and a large crowd of people shouted "waaaaaaa" and rushed out of the buildings and alleys.
Some of the defending archers, who went up to the roof, stood firm and began to shoot arrows.
"Bamboo bows and arrows have a range of up to 160 meters," Zhou Wei said contemptuously: "It just looks soft and fluttering, and it has almost no lethality." ” The bamboo bow is a type of longbow with an overall length of almost 1.8 meters, and Jitara chose a tall man to serve as this type of archer, and most of the height is on the top of his head when he holds it flat.
"Totara doesn't have a crossbow."
What Ma Bin knows is that there is a people who also use bamboo bows: "The bows and arrows of the Japanese people are also bamboo, but the style is different from that of Ah San." ” The bow of the Japanese people is relatively small, and the tension itself is not very good, and then using bamboo arrows, even if it is thirty meters, it is lethal and even the leather armor cannot be broken.
The Han army was equipped with a large number of crossbows, so naturally they looked down on the long bamboo bows that had a long range but had no lethality.
Ah San's side will use a lot of bamboo bows and arrows, probably because of the lack of weapons with a long range of individual soldiers, and then there are few people wearing armor on the battlefield, or they only want to play a harassing role If a large number of bamboo bows and arrows were used to harass them, it seems that the purpose of this battlefield has been achieved The Sassanid soldiers who entered the city, they were first startled by the sudden surge of Peshawar soldiers and civilians, and subconsciously prepared to fight, but the sky made a "boom" sound and shot a large number of arrows.
It doesn't matter if it's a bamboo arrow or an arrow, as long as it's an arrow, the instinct of people is to dodge or block it with something.
The Sassanid soldiers who made different choices on the ground in the city naturally looked chaotic because of their different choices.
The Sassanid soldiers on the city walls, who saw so many soldiers and civilians pouring out of the city, were not much better, the crossbowmen began to shoot arrows at the shouts of the officers, and the melee soldiers began to prepare for defense at the shouts of the officers.
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In this wave of counterattacks, the military and civilians of Peshawar on the side of Jidora seem to have more people, and there are no elite troops.
In addition to various types of weapons in their hands, many of them had an altar jar tied with a rope in their hands.
The Sassanid soldiers on the ground in the city continued to retreat to the base of the wall, and some of those who were shot by the bamboo arrows quickly rose even if they fell, and only a few of the unlucky soldiers were killed or fell into a shock-like coma due to the excessive pain.
"Those jars and jars cans can't be fire oil in them" Ma Bin saw some Peshawar soldiers and civilians twisting the jars and jars being shot down by arrows, and when they fell to the ground, they broke the jars and jars, and some yellow liquid flowed out of them: "There is a buffer zone of about 200 meters, and fire attack is indeed a good choice." ” "Look over there" Zhou Wei refers to the section of the city wall: "There is a cave in the city wall" The walls are neither high nor thick, but there is no problem in leaving some caves for hiding soldiers.
In fact, when every country builds the city wall, it will make some hidden caves, and I don't know that there are hidden caves in the city gate holes, which will lead directly to the top of the city wall, and there will also be under the city wall that connects to the ground.
If the defenders knew where the location of those hidden caves was, it would undoubtedly be a good breakthrough, and they didn't have to climb the city, and it wouldn't be too difficult to get a ram to hit them.
Although there were caves in the city walls, it seemed that the Peshawar defenders who had been hidden in advance were not too numerous, and their presence greatly disrupted the reaction rhythm of the Sassanid troops.
"Are you worried about being discovered?"
Zhou Wei commented: "Otherwise, it is obviously not cost-effective to participate in the attack this time." ” To be reasonable, the worry of hiding under the feet of the enemy and not being discovered should indeed be suddenly killed at the most critical time.
However, it is the practice of various countries to have hidden caves in the city wall, and the Sassanid troops will definitely check them, and sooner or later they will find those hidden caves.
The arrows in the sky are shooting back and forth, and the people who are hit by the arrows scream but they are not necessarily dead, but there are indeed people on both sides of the battlefield who are falling, and soon there are corpses and pools of blood on the ground.
There were about 3,000 Peshawar soldiers and civilians who launched a counterattack on the western wall alone, and they must have paid a price for rushing up against the Sassanid crossbowmen on the city wall, but it was only about 200 meters, and soon the first group of people who ran fast and the Sassanid soldiers below the city wall had a hand-to-hand fight.
"The people of Jitara are still quite strong."
Ma Bin repeatedly looked at the alliance of Jidora, which is not even a country: "I just don't know if the people of Jidora in other places are the same." ” Zhou Wei came to Peshawar from the border with Ma Bin and some other Han Chinese, but they were not parachuted.
Along the way, they really didn't find that the people of Jidora were so strong, and they didn't even look at anything special, and they had to say that they didn't expect the citizens of Peshawar to participate in the war even if they were not afraid of war after the outbreak of war.
"By the way" Ma Bin thought of something, and his face changed suddenly: "The Persians did not put catapults and bed crossbows into use before, but there is a tendency to occupy the city wall in a big way.
Look at what the Persian wagons were carrying outside the city. ” The terrain on this side of the palace is high, and the view from the top floor of the building is better.
If you use the naked eye alone, your vision is better than three or five thousand meters, and from a distance, you can really recognize things too clearly, and you can only recognize the vague outlines of some large objects.
Ma Bin and Zhou Wei both had a telescope, they didn't realize why the Sassanid army didn't put the catapult and bed crossbow into the battle early, seeing that the Sassanid army was so painstakingly preparing to place the catapult and bed crossbow, and then seeing the Peshawar soldiers and civilians charging with fire oil, Ma Bin, whose brain was turning relatively fast, immediately had a bad guess.
Even if the "clay pot" is a telescope, because of the distance, and whether the Persians covered the carriage with cloth, or happened to see the cloth of a carriage blown away by the wind, and struggled to identify: "What needs to be specially filled with clay pots" Ma Bin wanted to see that the carriage that had been lifted before had been re-covered.
He looked at the side of the city wall, and the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar who rushed up had already set fire, and then moved his gaze to the residential areas where the buildings were one building after another, and the traffic situation of the road was almost non-existent: "The soldiers and civilians are trying their best to clean up, but there are still too many debris."
Zhou Wei obviously guessed what the Sassanid army wanted to do, and said in surprise: "Even if there are combustibles, how much oil should they prepare to make the whole city fall into a sea of fire, and then there are squares around the palace, and there are moats, if you can't burn the palace, even if the city is on fire, it won't burn us anyway." ” As for how many people will die in the real burning of the city, Zhou Wei said that it is not the Han people who died anyway
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