The timing of the emergence of the Han army was not perfect for this war, but it was not the worst time, and it can only be said that it did not play a key role It is said that it did not play a key role, because the Sassanid commander was resolute enough.
In terms of the normal situation of city attack and defense, once the defender of the city has reinforcements, most of the besieging side will choose to postpone the siege, or even temporarily withdraw the army, so as to avoid the dilemma of being attacked by the reinforcements outside the city and the defenders inside the city.
As the besieging party, the Sassanid commander wanted to destroy Peshawar, and he was confident that he would not win the battle against the Han army, and it could almost be seen that he was fighting with the mentality of destroying Peshawar together.
The 4,000 Sassanid cavalry, which had turned around again, was still at the forefront of the entire formation, followed by about 2,500 charioteers and nearly 7,000 cavalry of various types.
When there are 10,000 people, it is all over the mountains, and with the addition of war horses and some spare horses, it seems that the distribution has become more widespread.
There are two kinds of Sassanid chariots, one is a small chariot drawn by two horses, on which there is a driver and an archer, and the archer becomes a spearman if necessary; The other is drawn by four horses, and in addition to the driver, there are archers, shieldmen, and spearmen.
The wheels of the chariot are horizontally shaped with a toothed tower-shaped sharp object, and when the wheels turn, they will rotate at high speed, and you can imagine what it would be like if it were twisted into the human body.
The horses pulling the chariot were equipped with the necessary shelves and rope sleeves, and the forehead and chest of the horses were generally either iron or leather armor, but they were not covered with armor, and it was obvious that the armor on the forehead and chest was for a kind of impulse cushioning The Sassanids had about 11,000 cavalry, of which about 6,000 seemed to be unarmed light cavalry, about 2,000 were archers, and the rest were divided into two types: knights wearing leather armor and horses and knights with iron armor.
Without exception, no matter what kind of cavalry the Sassanid was, the war horses were equipped with stirrups and Takahashi saddles, and the style did not change, that is, it simply imitated the style of the Han Empire.
The Persian nation has never lacked cavalry, and due to their geographical location, they are not even short of high-quality horses.
Their native war horse is a horse breed that looks like a very large skeleton and has well-developed muscles, and it has a strong short-distance charge, but the endurance is really not good.
In the northern part of Persia, which is part of Europa, there are also two high-quality horse breeds, one is also a large skeleton but more slender body, and the other is a skinny but really good horse.
By the time of the Sassanid Empire, the Persians had repeatedly purchased war horses from various northern tribes, and with their own breeding and improvement, they had created several new horse breeds.
A new breed of horses certainly doesn't look tall or strong, but its stamina has grown extremely high, and the disadvantage is that it's not fast, but it's already very suitable for light cavalry.
The rest of the bred ones can no longer be regarded as horses, but can only be regarded as mules, donkeys and other animals.
There is a legend that when Li Tang established diplomatic relations with Sasan, Li Tang purchased war horses from Sasan, but Sassanan delivered some good-looking war horses Later, Li Tang also had a war horse transaction with the emerging Arab Empire, and he was also cheated In fact, it is not necessarily that the Persians or Arabs deliberately cheated Li Tang, but that they thought that the best war horses, such as the hot-blooded horses, were bred in the East, but they were not suitable for the local climate and were scrapped, or the Tang people simply did not know how to raise and feed them The Sassanid army stopped where it was, watching the Han army approaching as it drew closer.
The Han army that came out of the relatively complex terrain was a scattered cavalry team in front, but they were not the highest group of people in the whole army.
The Han army, as a scout, either retreated back to its own camp long ago, or took a detour to the rest of the place.
The scouts who took a detour to other places were the ones who advanced the farthest of the entire Han army.
The 2,000 or so Han troops who came behind looked like they were all light equipment at a glance, but no matter how light they were, they would have a body of leather armor.
If you compare the war horses of the Han army with the war horses of the Sassanid army, you will find that there is a clear difference.
The war horses of the Han army were generally shorter than the Sassanid horses, even the Bissanian light cavalry, and the gap was even greater if the Bissanian armored cavalry was even greater.
That's something that there is no way to do at all, there has never been any high-quality war horses on the Zhuxia side, and even the best war horses are also imported from the Western Regions.
And the war horses of the Western Regions are really inferior to the war horses of the Persians in terms of physique and physique.
After discovering that their mounts were more powerful than the Han army, the Sassanid cavalry regained a little bit of self-confidence, and then compared the respective equipment of the two sides, and their hearts sank involuntarily.
The Sassanid light cavalry generally had only one weapon, either a short scimitar or a long weapon and a short spear, and there was really no other weapon.
In terms of archers, the Sassanid archers were armed with horned bows, a scimitar that looked like the length of a dagger at their waist, and two pots of arrows.
The Sassanid knights in leather armor look quite simple in leather armor, and then there is usually only a riding spear about four meters in his hand, and few people will have a scimitar at their waists.
The most luxurious thing to look at is the heavy cavalry with iron armor, not only are they wearing armor, but the war horses under their crotch are also wearing iron armor in front of them, and their weapons are not only a cavalry spear of about six meters, but also a cavalry spear of about four meters and a scimitar hanging on the side of the horse.
A riding gun is a riding gun, that is, a style that does not shatter on its own after being stabbed.
Riding spears are the ones that stab an object and the rod shatters on its own.
On the other hand, on the side of the Han cavalry, whether it is light cavalry or assault cavalry, all of them are armored, not to mention, they will not have less than two kinds of weapons, and the exaggerated knights look like they even carry more than five types of weapons.
The cavalry of the two camps, about three miles apart, constantly heard the sound of horses whistling and neighing from each other's formations, and at the same time watched the flags on both sides waving densely.
A trumpet of the sound of a loud sound was sounded first from the side of the Sassanid army.
The four thousand Sassanid light cavalry, who had always been placed at the forefront, shouted loudly and did not know what the slogan was, but the Han people did not understand it anyway, and began to advance slowly.
The first batch of Han troops to arrive was only about 2,600 people, which was about five times less than that of Sasanian.
When they saw the Sassanid light cavalry begin to move forward, a strong trumpet sounded in the formation.
Several Han cavalry hundred-man teams that had been in a state of slow cruising were slowly spreading out in motion, while some knights who looked special accelerated to the front of the queue.
The Sassanid light cavalry, which had already begun to speed up, could see some people in the eyes of the Han army suddenly appear on the side of the Han army, wearing heavy leather armor, not holding a spear or a spear, but each holding a knife with a curved range, gradually forming an inverted "V" formation every twenty or so.
These newly emerged Han knights say that the heavy cavalry is actually a bit similar, but the knights are not wearing iron armor, and the war horses under their crotch are not wearing armor.
The left and right flanks of the mounted cavalry are slightly backward Han light cavalry, and the Han light cavalry not only has melee weapons, but will choose to equip a cavalry bow or a horn bow according to their archery skills, and they form an attack formation and charge forward.
"Han Army" "Mighty" In addition, the light cavalry of the Han army who began to move slowly, before they drove the war horses to move, they shouted out the battle horn to cheer up the robes in front.
The four thousand Sassanid light cavalry that have begun to accelerate, their number is actually too much for this battlefield, resulting in the horizontal being squeezed, the thickness becomes larger, and the distance between each other does not want to be too close, so that the speed can only be controlled in front and rear, so that the gap between their own people who charge at the front is larger.
After the cavalry enters the charging state, there must be a gap of at least three meters in the front and back, left and right, not only to drive the agility of the war horse, but also to avoid the long weapon in the hand from hurting their own people when dancing, and even the collision between their own cavalry.
Wearing thick leather armor and holding two weapons, the knights of the Han army, they have a very professional name called "Xuanfeng", in addition to the thick armor that can be seen, there is also a chain mail inside, and even everyone is wearing more than two layers of silk underwear.
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The weapon in their hands is an improved long-handled saber, and the blade of an ordinary saber will not bend too much even if it has a bending amplitude, and the bending amplitude of this kind after being modified is slightly larger.
The knights of the enemy and the enemy were constantly approaching each other in a noisy environment, and when they could clearly identify each other with the naked eye, the Han knights could see the faces of the Sassanid cavalry clearly, and the Sassanid cavalry could only see the eyes behind the Han knights' masks.
The light cavalry of the Han army took the lead in playing a salvo, but because there were not many people, the arrows shot out were not dense, but ten arrows shot three or four Sassanid cavalry, and the hit rate was very impressive.
Cavalry archery should collide with a maximum of two shots The Han army's "Xuanfeng" knights lowered their upper body, the reins were bitten by the mouth behind the mask, and the two swords of both hands were crossed out from side to side, they did not make any swing or chop movements at all, but when they staggered with the Sassanid cavalry, the sabers that went out killed and wounded the Sassanid cavalry.
Every time their bodies tilted backwards, it was the long-handled horse chopping knife that hit the Sassanid light cavalry, the blade was already extremely sharp, coupled with the speed blessing of the war horse, not to mention that there was no armor piercing, unless they were wearing iron armor, otherwise they would be disemboweled.
At the staggered beginning of the charge, the Han army's "selection of front" was a gallop along the way, bringing up blood flowers and screams, and the Sassanid cavalry continued to fall off their horses wherever they passed.
And even if they are slashed by a scimitar or stabbed by a short spear, the scimitar can break through the heavy leather armor but is also blocked by the chain mail, and only when they are hit by the short spear will they be seriously injured or even die directly.
At the beginning of the battle in front, the remaining Han light cavalry was divided into three brigades, the central brigade was moving forward along the route of the robe charge, and the other two brigades made a detour from the left and right.
If you take a bird's-eye view of the battlefield from above, you will find that the tactics carried out by the Han cavalry are very old-fashioned, which is nothing more than another trident formation, and each brigade is its own cavalry charging formation.
On the other hand, the 4,000 Sassanid light cavalry, who also launched a charge, looked like a long line, and as the front continued to accelerate, the rear was forced to control the speed, which was an embarrassing state of thin front line and thick rear.
The Han army "Xuanfeng" who kept killing the front had found that the enemy army that needed to face was getting thicker and thicker, and they didn't care to look at the robes on the left and right, and saw that there was no room for detours at all, the first "Xuanfeng" loosened the reins on his teeth, and due to the influence of the mask, the sentence "The Han army is mighty" was roared a little muffled.
The first Han army who roared out "Xuan Feng", his left rib was a spear with a broken rod, in fact, he was already vomiting blood just now, and his consciousness was becoming more and more unclear, completely relying on strong willpower to support his body not to fall crookedly, and he held the handle of the knife in his hand to prevent the weapon from being lost.
The sound of "the mighty Han army" was roared out, and the mouth and nose were only left with intake and no breath, and the eyes were uncontrollably closed, and they were forced to open with the only remaining willpower, and the body was no longer lowered, but became a state of straight waist.
"Ping'er" Zuo Wei saw a very young Sassanid cavalryman, but the next moment the man became his wife: "Xijun" Zuo Wei never closed his eyes in the last blink, but the pupils of his eyes had lost focus, but the person was still carried by the war horse, and he was still relying on the extended horse chopping knife that went out left and right to kill the enemy.
The last "Xuanfeng" of the Han army was to collide with the dense Sassanid light cavalry, and about 60 "Xuanfeng" were all killed.
The rest of the Han cavalry who charged with the "Selection" were about two or three seconds behind the "Selection", and they all fell on the road of the charge.
About 300 Han cavalry were sacrificed in exchange for at least 1,100 Sassanid cavalry killed, and the Sassanid light cavalry stormtroopers were disorganized and squeezed.
"Whew" "Ho" A mighty horn was sounded.
The three cavalry teams that have become the big formation of tridents, the knights in front have begun to put down their spears or spears, and the knights in the back have begun to shoot arrows.
About a mile or two behind this battlefield, a cavalry force of about 6,000 Han troops emerged from the back of a slope.
The earth trembled slightly because there were too many horses' hooves trampling on it, and the animals of the wilderness fled in confusion.
Farther to the rear and to the north of the flank, two armies of Han cavalry with a combined effect of about 13,000 appeared.
The Han knights, who were about to collide with the Sassanid light cavalry, shouted their battle horns in unison.
"The Han Army is mighty":