The army and civilians of Peshawar failed to fight back into the residential area, and it was only a matter of time before the city was lost Lukhmaru's hands were shaking, and his lips were shaking, and he used his binoculars to see many Sassanid soldiers with jars hanging from their bodies, and he didn't have to think much to know what was inside, especially those Sassanid soldiers with torches in their hands.
"It's over" Lu Hemaru turned around and looked at it, the princes and ministers on the side of Ji Duo Luo were all panicked, and the faces of the people on the Han Empire side were not very good: "I can't hold it for too long, the good news is that the other party has no intention of attacking the palace at all." ” The Sassanid army has already begun to set fire to the residential areas of Peshawar.
From the heights of the palace fortress and looking out over the city, one fire after another had begun to burn, but thankfully the fire did not spread immediately because Luhma had ordered the removal of flammable materials in advance.
"Angel" Luhe Malu walked quickly to Ma Bin, and asked with a humble attitude: "The Great Han Heavenly Soldier, when will it be able to arrive?"
"My lord, I must solemnly explain one thing again."
Ma Bin said very seriously: "Zai Xia is only an envoy sent by the Lord of the Shogunate, not an envoy sent by the Ministry of Rites. ” Although it represents the Han Empire, there is really a big difference in this, and it can't be accepted indiscriminately, otherwise it is difficult to say what the result will be later, not only Ma Bin, but even Xie An has to be leisurely.
After listening to the translation, Lukhmaru smiled awkwardly and asked repeatedly.
"The flag has been raised, and the army must be on its way."
Ma Bin said very firmly, but then he said: "The army is coming, how long will it take to arrive, the lord of the country should not think that Sasanian has no movement."
Lukhmaruda himself seemed to have good military talents, and he had just used his telescope to see the Sassanid camp sending troops to the north, and it was estimated that there were about 3,000 chariot troops and nearly 10,000 cavalry of various kinds.
How many Han troops are approaching the battlefield, not only Ma Bin and others don't know, but Lu Hemalu, who is an outsider, can't guess it.
Lukhmaru is now worried that the number of Han troops is not enough, and they will be dragged and even defeated by the Sassanid army that went to war, so that the entire Jitaro will be hit to the brink of destruction, and whether they can hold it depends on how thoroughly they can kneel and lick after the war.
Eighteen miles northeast of Peshawar, Li Tan, who was riding on horseback, had already received information from the scouts.
The situation of the offensive and defensive battle in Peshawar is one of the information that Li Tan is very concerned about, and he must know what kind of state the battle on Peshawar's side is, once Peshawar falls, it is necessary to save it at all, and it should be to change the combat goal to annihilate the Sassanid army with all his might.
With the change of combat objectives, there is no need for Li Tan to rush to Peshawar with his troops, and he can have more time to make relevant trade-offs and arrangements.
If Peshawar is still insisting on resisting, Li Tan needs to make his own judgment according to the situation of the offensive and defensive battle in Peshawar City.
As the attacking side of the Sassanid army is firmly blocked outside the city, Li Tan will slow down the speed of rescue, mainly attacking the logistics line of the Sassanid army, and at the same time will take the necessary military action to cut off the Sassanid rear route to increase the success rate of completely annihilating the Sassanid army.
If the defenders of Peshawar could not stop it, that is, in the current situation, Li Tan would not have to think about anything, and directly led the army to attack Peshawar and attack the camp of the Sassanid army, even if he could not attack the camp of Sasani, he would also force the Sassanid army to slow down or give up the attack on Peshawar.
Li Tan also received information that Sassanid had sent chariot troops and various types of cavalry to intercept the attack, and he had ordered the troops to slow down as necessary and ordered a new advance formation.
In the vast wilderness, about 30,000 Han troops were divided into three echelons and different formations.
At the forefront are about 5,000 scattered light cavalry and archers, but if you pay attention to it, although they are scattered, there are about three horses that will be linked, and then under the linkage of one three-person group after another, it can be seen that there is a tactical arrangement.
The troops at the front were an irregular straight line, with a total length of more than two thousand meters, and the thickness seemed thinner.
Behind them was a large formation in the shape of an inverted "pin" in the two "mouths" of the same second echelon, with archers in front of them and commandos of considerable thickness behind them; The "mouth" of the last echelon is composed entirely of light cavalry, and Li Tan is also in this position.
The area was vast, but unlike the Hungites or eastern Sassanids, it looked like a flat plain with little vegetation.
The vegetation of this place is quite dense, and the woods of various sizes are irregularly distributed, and some dirt slopes that look like mountains and do not look like mountains abound.
Since Li Tan chose to pull out, he must have been aware of the terrain on the marching route.
The Sassanid army also has charioteers, which are not fully flat terrain, and it is not suitable to dispatch charioteers at all.
It's just that Sassanid charioteers shouldn't be stupid enough to rush into areas with difficult terrain, and they will stay in a relatively flat area with a lot of weedy and vegetation Because there are still woods on the road, the advancing Han army will of course have a distortion of the overall formation from time to time, and they will move forward about five miles or so, and in front of them is a relatively empty area of about seven or eight miles.
In this open area, the faster Sassanid cavalry had arrived.
The Sassanid light cavalry, of about 4,000, came to a halt for the time being, and their officers sent out a considerable number of scouts, but received little in return.
Even if they sent scouts, but they didn't get much feedback, then there was actually only one explanation, and their scouts must be in a fierce confrontation with the Han scouts.
These Sassanid officers received little information, which showed that no large force of the Han army had been found for the time being, and the experienced scouts were judged by the number of Han scouts, and it was speculated that the number of Han troops would not be less than 30,000.
It should be said that no one who can be a scout is a simple fool, and elite scouts can indeed infer the total number of enemy troops from the number and law of scouts sent by the enemy.
It's a very simple thing, every army will have an upper limit on scouts, but not just anyone can be a scout, whether the other party is a scout can basically figure it out as soon as they fight, ordinary soldiers just want to pretend that they don't know how to pretend to be a scout.
The Han army has not yet arrived, and the speed of their march before is slightly faster, even if the people can hold it, the war horse should also recover its state, otherwise if it starts to fight on horseback, the lack of physical strength of the war horse under the crotch will be too much of a loss.
Another reason for not going into the complex terrain is that the position they are in now is the most beneficial to themselves, and the geographical advantage between their own side and the Han army is very different, and it can even affect the victory or defeat of the battle.
The final reason is that their follow-up troops have not yet kept up, and they are only 4,000 light cavalry to face at least 30,000 Han troops.
Now most of the Sassanid cavalry began to feel weak in their hearts, but they knew that they had only 3,000 charioteers and about 12,000 cavalry of various kinds, and they originally thought that they could not defeat them, and they did not have an absolute advantage in numbers, so they only thought about delaying the Han army for a while, and victory was an extravagant hope that they could not imagine.
Due to the lack of confidence in victory, the morale of the Sassanid cavalry was really not high, and it was dead before the battle really began.
It was not without Sassanid officers who wanted to boost their morale, and some of them tried to do so, but it was good not to say anything, but to say it only made the unease and panic on the soldiers' faces even worse.
"It's coming" In the part of the front that was not obscured by the woods, seven Sassanid scouts were fleeing on horseback, and four Han scouts were chasing them behind.
The two groups of people who were fleeing and chasing, due to the uneven terrain, and then there were taller grasses, which would occasionally disappear from the sight of the many Sassanid cavalry who watched from afar.
After a short time, only five of the Sassanid scouts, who had seven of them, fell from their horses when they reappeared in view of the Sassanid cavalry.
Obviously, it's another battle between scouts, but the Sassanid scouts are clearly at a disadvantage.
"Go to a cavalry team" About fifty horsemen were separated from the Sassanid cavalry brigade, and they controlled their horses in a hula and did not even carry out buffer acceleration, but drove the horses to accelerate as fast as they could at the beginning.
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The remaining three Sassanid scouts had already seen their own reinforcements, and they began to shout.
The four Han scouts who were chasing and killing did not hesitate to speed up, putting on a posture of not giving up if they did not completely destroy the Sassanid scouts who were chasing and killing.
In less than thirty meters in a short time, there was only one Sassanid scout left who was pursued, but at this time, the Han scouts made a detour, and the time for a big turn was to shoot arrows at the Sassanid cavalry that galloped up into the firing range, and shot two before they retreated with a little swagger.
That scene was seen by 4,000 pairs of eyes, and the already timid Sassanid cavalry couldn't help but shudder, and some of the Sassanid cavalry who had still had courage also became hesitant.
"They came, they came all over the mountains, and they saw a large crowd" The surviving Sassanid scouts were clearly on the verge of collapse, and they were shouting before they could get close to their own army, which was still not good news.
An officer immediately opened his bow and shot an arrow at his own scout who was mentally broken, and the accuracy was extremely accurate, and an arrow hit him in the chest, and in an instant he fell off his horse and rolled on the ground.
"Whole Army" "Get on the horse" As long as there are eyes, it is indeed possible to see the Han army that enters the field of vision through the gap in the woods, and the experienced person will not be less than two thousand by eye.
Listening to the increasingly clear sound of horses' hooves, as well as a large area of foggy dust and smoke behind the cavalry of the Han army of about 2,000, it is not difficult to judge that the large force of the Han army is rapidly approaching.
The Sassanid cavalry did not want to charge, but began to turn around at the command of the commander, and then slowly retreated.
The Sassanid commander who rushed to the scene could not have led a charge far less than the Han army in his lifetime.
He thinks that he is very sensible, and it is better to cooperate with the overall situation than to rush up and make senseless sacrifices, and he must be praised manually.
The Sassanid cavalry of fifty or so people who were sent out before was embarrassed, they were still chasing the four scouts of the Han army, first saw a large force of Han cavalry in front of them, turned their heads and saw that their own people all turned around and ran, and a few of them fell off their horses directly with poor mental endurance, and more hurriedly made a detour.
Chase and chase a fart, hurry up and keep up with the big army, whoever continues to chase is stupid.
The picture becomes a little funny, the four Han scouts are in the process of turning and detouring, changing horses in a galloping state, they become the frontline Han army chasing the Sassanid cavalry, one by one proud and excited.
From a bird's-eye view from the sky, the vanguard of the Han army looked like about two thousand three hundred, they were not gathered together, but were divided into seven large groups by the terrain, and there were more small groups of several or less than a hundred people.
Those small teams, which could have been scouts who had been on the front line before, gathered and saw that most of their own men were coming up and charging forward.
Some small teams of 100 or so, they are cavalry squads that are sent out to meet their own scouts, and they can also be used as vanguard raiding detachments.
"They fled without a fight" "Isn't that normal?"
"Yes, too" "Huh" The advance speed of the Han army was not fast, it was advancing at a speed of about thirty miles.
It would be foolish to accelerate without encountering an enemy, because they were not riding motorcycles, but horses that were also living creatures.
And the movement of living creatures will produce fatigue, once riding a tired war horse to fight, it is disgusted that he will not die fast enough.
Wherever the Han army passed, some of the Sassanid scouts who had been hiding probably felt that the possibility of continuing to hide and be trampled to death by the horses' hooves or being found and killed was infinite, and the Sassanid scouts chose to leave the hiding place and escape, but they really wanted to surrender if they couldn't escape.
The Sassanid scouts who chose to surrender were extremely lucky, and the Han army needed some living prisoners of war to torture the information.
The Sassanid scouts, who continued to hide with a fluke mentality, were either trampled to death by the horse's hooves, or were directly killed by a search in the back.
The cavalry of the first Han army came out of the area with relatively difficult terrain, and they no longer moved too far, but stopped about a mile in front of the edge.
About four or five miles ahead of the halted Han cavalry, the four thousand Sassanid cavalry that had been evacuated began to make another U-turn.
Farther back, a foggy cloud of smoke and dust was flying in mid-air.
It was the smoke and dust produced by the Sasanian follow-up troops, whose chariot troops and the rest of the cavalry were slowly advancing.
Two armies of the enemy and ours, about fifteen miles northeast of Peshawar, were about to encounter each other soon
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