At this moment, the outer city of Peshawar is already the appearance of a burning city The siege of the Sassanid army was very ferocious, not only were all kinds of long-range equipment constantly throwing or shooting out of the altars and jars, but some of the Sassanid soldiers who killed them came with a suicidal attack, which was the reason why the fire could spread so quickly.
Since many places are already raging in the midst of fires, those places are naturally no longer suitable for fighting, and one side is still throwing black oil and jars into the fire, and the other side is frantically bringing water to extinguish the fire.
Not all the places were burning fires, and the Sassanid soldiers and the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar were still fighting bloody battles in these places where there were no fires, and people were falling all the time.
In some of the most tragic battles, the alleys were simply blocked by piles of corpses, but the soldiers on both sides did not give up, but stepped on the corpses to attack and counterattack back and forth, contributing to the corpses under their feet.
There was too much blood flowing out of the human body, and the red blood flowed down the lower ground, and once it really couldn't flow, it would converge into a heap and become a puddle of blood.
The incomparably fishy smell of human blood is an irresistible temptation for some insects such as flies that like this taste.
I don't know if all the flies in the city were attracted, and they didn't care that so many people were killing each other with hideous faces, just "buzzing" and stopping on the blood, if you zoomed in, you could see that the mouthparts were constantly sucking blood into the stomach, and the two forelimbs were happily rubbing.
If you can read the expression of the fly, you will definitely see that each fly is smiling and satisfied.
Not only does the blood make them drink, but it also serves as a nest for laying eggs, and in a few days each pair of flies should have thousands of offspring.
How many flies are there and how intoxicated they are on both sides of the war, they can always kill some flies when they step on them, and splash sticky red blood, which is simply a "creaking" sound step by step.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry" "Over here" The Sassanid soldiers were really unfamiliar with the traffic in Peshawar, and after entering the residential area, they were all kinds of uncomfortable, as if they had entered a labyrinth, not to mention, they were in a narrow alley, and stones would fall from their heads at any time and anywhere, and what was even more terrifying was that there would be spears stabbed out of the walls.
A group of twenty Sassanid soldiers had just been chasing seven soldiers and civilians in Peshawar, but they had only turned two corners and lost the pursuit.
The Sassanid soldiers who were at the front saw a hole in the courtyard door in front of them, which could pass through the buildings in the courtyard to another alley on the opposite side, even if it was not to continue the pursuit of the previous Peshawar soldiers and civilians, they now saw the road and had to walk, if they were trapped in a winding alley.
"Be careful" Needless to say, the Sassanid soldiers who entered the city and weren't dead were cautious people, because the unscrupulous ones were basically dead.
The city of Peshawar is really too chaotic, there is no straight passage of more than 30 meters, it is rare to find an alley with a width of more than 2 meters, but the narrowest alley is only 40 centimeters wide, and people have to lean sideways to pass.
What left the Sassanid soldiers speechless the most was that some of the alleys were simply blocked as they walked, or that they needed to pass through one building to get to another, which was still not very good.
"The people inside, we found that you couldn't come out, so I set fire to it directly" A Sassanid soldier was just to scare him, but he didn't expect that a dozen or so soldiers and civilians from Peshawar would really pour out, and the result was another bloody fight in this alley about one meter and two wide.
In this kind of alley, the difference between the number of people is only which side can afford to die, otherwise each time there is a fight, at most only the two people in front of them, and the rest of the people can only shout and watch the play when they are blocked.
In a small alley with a width of one meter and two, two groups of people from different camps howled and rushed up to each other, and in a moment there was the sound of weapons clashing and bumping, and from time to time there was a sound of sharp blades entering the flesh and the ensuing screams or muffled snorts.
The fight is that the people in front of them fell, and the people behind did not hesitate to continue to enter the state of fighting, because they did not have the relationship of hiding space at all, they were hard-hitting, and even if they wanted to surrender, they would not have a chance, and if they wanted to kill the enemy, they would continue to move forward, and if they wanted to retreat, they were squeezed by the people behind them and had to continue to move forward.
"It's not good to nurse the child at home, what battlefield do you learn to go to" The battle in the alley was won by the Sassanid soldiers, who fell seven men and one soldier hacked to death the last woman in Peshawar.
The woman on the Peshawar side who was hacked to death with a scimitar had a bloody mark cut from her left shoulder to her right chest, and her clothes were naturally cut, and the side without the wound could be seen to be swollen while breastfeeding.
Although it is a hostile state, unless it is really indifferent or perverted, no one will feel happy to kill a lactating woman, but there will be no guilt.
On the battlefield, it was not you who killed me, I killed you, and when I went to the battlefield with weapons in hand, no one would be innocent.
There were only sixteen Sassanid soldiers left in this group, and they took a breath and set off again, stepping on the blood stains and corpses without taking a few steps forward, but there were many stones on their heads, and new Peshawar soldiers and civilians appeared in the courtyard ahead.
Under the premise of a metal helmet and shoulder armor, a small stone will actually rattle the head, and a larger stone will cause the neck to be twisted.
The point is that this group of Sassanid soldiers not only did not have metal helmets, but also did not have armor on their bodies, they were smashed by small stones and were in pain all over their bodies, and their heads were even more bleeding when they were smashed to the head.
Eight of the twelve men who appeared in the courtyard were women or girls, and only four were men, with a variety of weapons or no weapons at all, and they met the charge of the Sassanid soldiers with expressions of despair.
This city attack and defense battle has not taken a long time until now, especially for the city attack and defense battle that is going on for a year or two or even longer, and it is only the next day.
However, the fire spread everywhere in the city, and the piles of corpses and pools of blood that could be seen everywhere were enough to show that this attack and defense battle of the city was very cruel and bloody.
The men in the outer city of Peshawar were almost dead in several counterattacks, and then their mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters had to resist under double persecution.
They had seen the Persians set fire to the city, their own men died at the hands of the Persians, and the hatred of the country and the family was entangled.
They were also persecuted by various people on their own side, and if they did not resist, they would either die under the raging flames of the enemy, or they would be burned to death by their own people later.
Maybe they have another way, to survive and then be sold to the Han Empire as slaves and maids by the old men In the outlying residential areas of Peshawar, scenes of tragedy and cruelty continue to emerge, still under the dense smoke.
In fact, the thickened smoke can also kill, and both sides don't have to fight so hard, and the damned residents will choke to death in the smoke.
Then the Sassanid soldiers continued to spread under the fire, even if they killed it, what if they waited for the fire to spread completely, and there would be no follow-up troops when they rushed in, they would also die in the city.
But there is no reason in war, and the red-eyed sides are blindly moving or waiting until they choke to death in smoke or encounter the enemy.
Ma Bin, who was standing on the edge of a balcony in the palace fortress, saw that the western city wall ranged from 200 meters inward to 500 meters deep, and a raging fire was burning on each side.
"They don't have the confidence to break the city."
Zhou Wei chuckled: "The Persians are burning too eagerly, in fact, as long as they attack hard for half a day, Peshawar will not hold on at all. ” In the end, the regular garrison of Peshawar was only about 10,000, but it was necessary to defend the four walls, and the troops in each direction were insufficient.
If the commander of Sasanid was really smart, he would have invested absolutely superior forces in all directions to attack at the beginning, with the height of the city wall of Peshawar, coupled with the speed of building siege equipment on the Sassanid side, desperately killing and wounding 10,000 or 20,000 people, the defenders of Peshawar would have been forced to take the initiative to retreat to the city, instead of defending the city wall all the time.
"Actually, there is almost no difference."
Ma Bin looked at the already foggy residential area and said, "The environment of this city is simply terrible, and it will be a nightmare for any army that has been coming to attack. ” Ma Bin's subtext is that even if the Han army comes, it will be the same.
"How can we go to alley after alley and fight building after building."
Zhou Wei touched his chin and said, "Of course, it was violently demolished and all razed to the ground."
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The Han army can really do this, and the efficiency is not too low, that is, the time used to build the equipment in advance will be a little long, or it is a crazy use of gunpowder.
The city where the fire was burning was still very far from the palace side, and even if it spread repeatedly, it would take at least a day or so to burn to the edge of the palace fortress.
Peshawar is not watching, they know how to quickly clear out the space, I don't know how many people are trying to demolish houses.
In fact, the Sassanid army besieging the city did not penetrate enough depth to set fire, and they really lost confidence in the progress of the war.
This kind of arson will have an effect, but the effect is to arouse the desperate resistance of the soldiers and civilians in Peshawar throughout the whole process, and it is really difficult to gain anything from the rest.
Fires were burning on all sides of the city, and the smoke obscured the view of the outside of the city, otherwise the height of the palace fortress could actually be seen through a telescope for about twenty miles.
Fifteen or sixteen miles northeast of Peshawar, the Han army and the Sassanid Blocking Army were in the final stages of the battle.
The Han army, which was stronger than the Sassanid army in its own right, was also in an advantageous position in numbers, and in less than an hour and a half after the start of the battle, most of the Sassanid charioteers who were incapacitated had been wiped out, and they entered the process of pursuing the fleeing Sassanid cavalry.
Li Tan was quite satisfied with this battle, especially after getting the approximate data on the casualties of both sides, the bright smile on his face did not stop. 32,000 cavalry of all kinds against 3,000 chariots and 12,000 cavalry of all kinds, the Han army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, completely destroyed 3,000 Sassanid chariots, and destroyed more than 6,000 Sassanid cavalry.
In terms of the number of casualties, the number of soldiers killed on the spot by the Han army was about 1,600, while the Sasanid side was more than 13,000.
There are two types of Sassanid chariots, one for two people and the other for three or four people.
This class was responsible for the large proportion of Sassanid casualties.
The Han army, which was pursuing all the way, kept encountering small groups of Sassanid cavalry on the way, whether it was a reinforcement from the main Sassanid camp, or it basically made no difference, and it was crushed with the momentum after the great victory.
The battlefield after the Great War was very widely distributed, in terms of width and length, the width must be more than 5,000 meters, and the length is still increasing, and there are corpses or wounded people and horses all over the place after the Great War, and the rest of the miscellaneous items are also all over the place. 32,000 cavalry was not all the troops at Li Tan's hands, and there was also an infantry of more than 18,000 people in the rear.
The cavalry units of the Han army, which had already entered the battle state, all continued to advance towards Peshawar, and the battlefield would be handed over to the rest of the robes that would follow behind.
On the battlefield after the battle, not everyone is actually dead, and the immediate mortality rate of the cavalry battle will be higher, but there will inevitably be casualties who are not dead.
However, even if they fall off the horse and survive in the riding battle, most of them will have problems with their limbs, some of them will be broken, and some of them will be sprains and abrasions, and it is difficult to be counted as combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
The closer you get to Peshawar, the simpler the terrain becomes, and it is difficult to see the woods, and most of the plants are harvested.
The woods and plants were cut down and harvested by the Sassanid army, otherwise where would the materials for the siege equipment come from, and what would they have taken to make fires for cooking and boiling water.
The only thing that remains unchanged is that there will still be small dirt slopes undulating with each other, and there will even be small hills of one or two hundred meters, that is, the route is not blocked by small hills, and it is still generally a flat terrain.
Li Tan, who was galloping, looked at Peshawar with smoke rising in the distance, and kept thinking.
Dospars Canaandina, who was in the main camp, didn't have to wait for the battle report ahead, but used his eyes to see the black line on the distant horizon.
Dospars Canaandina did not let the own troops who went to block the Han army retreat, and a large number of troops would approach, either their own side had broken and fled, or the Han army had already been killed, which meant that there was no difference at all.
Now Dospars Canaandina needs to think about what to do with their demoralized army if Peshawar is not defeated and the Han army has been killed again
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