Black oil doesn't actually burn immediately when it gets wetted with sparks, it needs to be hot enough.
The black oil that was contained in the jar jar, they had been heated in advance, and there was a violent shaking in the process of being thrown out by the catapult, and the mouth of the jar was sealed with a strip of cloth connected to the burning, and the moment it was smashed open was actually an explosive situation.
The people at the center of the explosion were not blown to pieces, but were first shot from the jars and then drenched in burning black oil.
The people around the epicenter of the explosion were splashed all over their bodies, and the extreme heat caused burns, which was an indescribable pain.
Burning pipes filled with black oil were constantly thrown into the city by Sassanid catapults outside the city, and some jars may have been thrown at the wrong angle, but they were directly smashed on the city wall, and the fire generated after the explosion engulfed the people in that section of the city wall.
Not only was one jar filled with black oil smashed on the city wall, but more Sassanid soldiers were injured by mistake, and some of them smashed into the part of the wall that was fighting, turning both the enemy and us into burning men in an instant.
Despite the accidental injury, the Sassanid catapult force had no intention of stopping, and threw out jars filled with black oil at intervals.
Most of the jars thrown by catapults still fell into the city, and the fire was distributed irregularly, and everywhere there were soldiers and civilians of Peshawar running around with their bodies on fire.
People who have fire on their bodies, they affect others when they run around, and everyone is afraid of being affected, and those who are not on fire naturally want to hide away from people who have become living people.
The trend of counterattack in some areas of Peshawar has been interrupted, and it has fallen into a state of self-confusion.
More of the Peshawar military and civilians, who, after being frightened, continued to charge in a hysterical mood.
The Persians literally fired jars of black oil into the city, proving that they were going to turn Peshawar into a sea of fire.
The Sassanid army did not intend to accept surrender and wanted to burn everyone to death There is no shortage of Peshawar soldiers and civilians who are afraid of mental breakdown, but there will also be no shortage of Peshawar soldiers and civilians who want to fight desperately for a chance to survive.
Peshawar soldiers and civilians poured out of the residential areas in a state of hysteria, almost rushing forward with a desperate charge.
If one person doesn't want to die, he can scare a large group of people stupidly, and if tens of thousands of people don't die, the energy that bursts out is beyond imagination There are still jars filled with black oil falling in the sky, and the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar who were hit should be what to do, and those who were not hit did not look at the miserable appearance of those who were hit, and continued to rush forward with their heads bored.
On the one hand, it is an occasional accidental injury, or a situation where dozens of people are engulfed by a single accidental injury.
On the other hand, the Sassanid soldiers were in the midst of a desperate counterattack by the Peshawar army and civilians.
Under their double pressure, some of the soldiers really couldn't stand it anymore and began to retreat.
If it weren't for the city walls, some of the passages that could go down would be constantly coming up, and then there would be a team of warlords waiting to kill deserters at any time and anywhere, and the timid Sassanid soldiers would not just retreat.
In the inner area of the city wall, the enemy and the enemy have been completely entangled.
In this situation, whether it was a Sassanid archer or a Peshawar archer, they were ordered not to stop shooting arrows as long as their hands could still open their bows.
Under the desperate counterattack of the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar, more and more sections of the city wall were recaptured, and even the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar had recoiled out of the city, but they were killed one by one by the Sassanid soldiers who had absolute numerical superiority.
"How far away is the Han army" Dospars Canandina looked at the battle on the city wall with a blank face, and his face changed when he got the answer: "What about our troops?"
When the Han army came out of the mountains, it was not the first time to advance, but it was definitely to be carried out as a whole team.
There were not many scouts arranged by Sasan, but they did not find the Han army at the first time, and it was only after the Han army finished and began to march that they saw the smoke and dust that were rolled up.
In fact, before Li Tan ordered the troops to leave the mountains, many scouts had already been sent out in advance.
The mission of these scouts this time is not to scout the enemy, but to find and kill the Sassanid scouts.
The sudden appearance of a large number of Han scouts made the Sassanid scouts sense that something was wrong.
It's just that the Sassanid scouts didn't find a large Han army, or even a Han army with a number of more than a hundred, so they really couldn't give a warning.
The Han army waiting for Li Tan's personal leadership was discovered, and there were actually not many Sasanian scouts left.
In the days when there was no radio, the scouts on the Sassanid side relied on lighting wolf smoke to make alarms.
After they lit the wolf smoke, it didn't take long for a large number of Han scouts or cavalry squads to arrive, and they were about to face a one-sided slaughter if they didn't leave.
Then, regardless of whether there were Persians left behind or not, the wolf smoke would be extinguished by the Han army.
Dospars Canandina's side got the news a little late, waiting for the Han army to approach Peshawar for about twenty miles, and only when they saw the wolf smoke did they know that the Han army had appeared.
Each streak of wolf smoke didn't appear for long, but it was enough for the Sassanid army to carry out the most basic messaging.
"There will be no less than 30,000 Han troops" Dospaers Canaan Dina did not confirm whether the information was accurate: "It should be counted more, not so" The lack of clarity is not a good thing for any of the generals who command the army, but those generals never mind thinking and speculating in more serious directions.
"Twenty miles."
Dospars Canandina's hands kept clenching into fists and then released and clenched again: "Twenty miles will not exceed an hour for a cavalryman. ” At present, all countries in the world, as long as they have produced culture, basically have their own timekeeping units, but compared with the timekeeping method of the Han Empire, the rest of the countries are more backward.
At present, only the Han Empire reduced the unit of time to the second, for example, the smallest unit of time of the Persians was converted to the quarter hour of the Han Empire, that is, fifteen minutes.
Because the Han Empire had the most advanced timekeeping unit, those countries that had contact with the Han Empire naturally adopted the Han Empire's timekeeping method.
The Sassanid had a friendly period of two or three years with the Han Empire, and a large number of Persians went to the Han Empire.
In the history of the Persians, there are records about the Han people, they actually have an endless longing for the Han people, there is an impression of "the Han people are awesome, the Han people are high", and when they went to the Han Empire, they found that many places were far stronger than the Sassanids, so they naturally studied without any psychological burden.
"It's too late" Dospaers Canaandina saw that many sections of the city wall had been recaptured by the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar, and his own troops had already partially collapsed, the expression on his face changed, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Catapults, bed crossbows, no matter what, even if people go up, I want to see the whole Peshawar engulfed in fire" The Han Empire's army rushed to Peshawar's aid, and their traces have been discovered.
Predicting how long the cavalry units of the Han army would arrive would not have taken more than an hour to draw.
It was only an hour, and Dospaers Canaandina did not think that his soldiers would suddenly rise to strength, and there was almost no hope of defeating the counterattack against the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar, but he was unwilling to give up.
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"It won't be just an hour" Dospales Canaan Dina took a deep breath: "Did our charioteers and cavalry meet the cavalry units of the Han army?"
Before that, Dospals Canaandina had already sent troops, three thousand charioteers and thirteen thousand cavalry of various kinds.
This Sassanid mobile force did not move in the wrong direction, they were straight towards the Han army that was approaching Peshawar, and if there was no accident, it would have collided with the Han army head-on in about half an hour.
It was foreseeable that the Han army would definitely engage the Sassanid chariots and cavalry units.
Then it depends on how long the Han army can reach the Peshawar battlefield, and whether the Han army will win, and how long it will take to win.
Dospaers Canandina's own estimation was that the own troops sent to meet the Han army were not miscellaneous soldiers, and even if they could not win, they should hold off the Han army for at least three or four hours or even longer "General" Erbredas Schals hesitated: "The situation is unknown, just stop the siege, or withdraw the army" Dospers Canaandina knew that Erbredas's suggestion was very steady, but he drew his knife and directly hacked Erbredas Shals to death, and roared angrily: "If there is anyone who shakes the heart of the army, it will end like this."
The Sassanid generals subconsciously took a step back.
Erbuledas Shals is not a cat or a dog, the Shals family is considered a middle nobleman in the east, just said a word, or a very pertinent suggestion, has been lying on the ground and has been convulsing, even if you hurry up, the wound on the left shoulder and neck is so big and deep, it is estimated that it will not be able to be saved.
"Hehehe" Dospars Canaan Dina looked at the generals with different expressions and said: "The Han army has appeared, and it seems that the escape is all cavalry, how do you want to die?"
No one said anything, but when they learned that the Han army was really approaching, they did fall into a panic for a while.
The main thing is that the record of the Han Empire is too terrible After the re-emergence of the Han people, they are moving from this victory to the next victory, and the countries or nations that oppose them are disappearing one by one.
The last time the Sassanids gathered so many allies that even the Romans sent three legions, they suffered a crushing defeat in the territory of Hunnit, which was not expected in advance.
In that battle in Hunnit, the allied army folded into nearly 180,000 people, the Sassanid side was excellent, fleeing back with 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the rest of the allies, the Romans, were completely wiped out.
At that time, the Han army only dispatched a lot, and I heard that it was not a particularly elite Han army.
This time, they knew that the Han Empire's Western Expeditionary Legion included the Yulin Army, and there were three standing armies on the front line.
They were assigned to fight the Han army, and before and after the departure, they actually felt lucky, thinking that it would be much easier to face the Sotara ruled by the Satsuki clan than to directly engage the Han army.
The early invasion made them feel that their thoughts were not wrong at all.
Even if the attack on Peshawar did not go well for a day and a night, and even if the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar showed a resolute will to resist, they still did not feel much pressure.
Now the arrival of the Han army has changed everything, and even because of Peshawar's resolute resistance posture, the situation has become even worse, and everyone's mood is bad enough.
"Can't beat the Han Chinese" Dospaers Canaandina didn't say any more, shook his head before continuing: "At least let Doro pay an unbearable price for their choice" No one present reacted much.
Dospaers Canandina was about to have a seizure, endured it, and said: "Solve Peshawar first, otherwise wait for the Han army to really kill him."
This time, the generals can be regarded as reacting.
They also have brains, and they know very well that it is definitely far easier to fight in only one direction than to face enemy forces in two directions.
It didn't take long for the Sassanid army besieging the city to burst out with unprecedented momentum.
The main thing is that some generals and colonels personally went to the front, most of them are nobles, and the nobility is still very deterrent to the Persians, many soldiers are born in the fiefdom of a nobleman, and if the soldiers do not fight hard, it will become not only that they may die in battle, but also their relatives in their hometown will be implicated.
The Sassanid army that broke out with momentum, a group of people among them who were explicitly threatened by the nobles, plus those nobles made heavy promises, under coercion and inducement, they had to fight hard if they didn't fight hard.
In the same desperate state, the Sassanid side is definitely much more "efficient" than the Peshawar army and civilians.
On one side are soldiers of the imperial level who have received at least some period of military training, and on the other side are small countries with a mixture of widows and civilians, and in the same desperate state, at least the soldiers of Sassanid know how to kill people.
The Sassanid side began to be ruthless, but the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar entered a state of hysteria and inevitably fell into a state of morale, and gradually the battle of the city walls began to turn around.
This time, the Sassanid soldiers were no longer just trying to occupy the city walls, but they went down to the city when they had the opportunity to catch and kill the Peshawar soldiers and civilians as much as they could.
After the momentum, the morale of the Sassanid soldiers was obviously rising, and some of them hung up clay pots, which were naturally filled with black oil, and they didn't take any weapons, and they just took torches and began to rush.
At the highest point of the palace fortress, Luhe Maru was watching the battlefield with a telescope borrowed from Ma Bin, his hands trembled, and his voice trembled: "I can't hold it" The repeated offensive of the Peshawar army and civilians who have repeatedly poured out of residential areas has been blocked, and even some of them have retreated, which proves once again that sometimes it is not enough to be afraid of death, and once you encounter a regular army that is also not afraid of death, you will be hammered to the ground: