After the Han army that rescued Peshawar approached within ten miles, Dospars Canaandina was no longer willing to gather the army attacking Peshawar.
It was only less than two days after arriving under the city of Peshawar, and Dospars Canaandina, when he counted the number of troops urgently, the original 70,000 people were lost in less than two days, but nearly 20,000 were gone.
The battle against Peshawar looked very tragic, and the losses on the Sassanid side were only four or five thousand men, and the key was that Dospars Canaandina sent out to block the chariot troops and cavalry units of the Han army.
Within a radius of ten miles, it can be roughly identified with the naked eye, and the several groups of troops that were being chased and fled on that side would not exceed 5,000 people combined, which means that more than 13,000 people were lost with charioteers and cavalry in just half a day's effort If the cavalry fights, and one side really doesn't want to fight, then the progress of the war will seem to be very delayed.
But if the cavalry units of both sides want to fight, the process of engaging will be extremely short, and the results will be much faster than that of the infantry engagement.
After all, the speed of the cavalry was there, and the infantry did not want to be killed or dispersed in the front before the rear could engage the enemy.
The cavalry played in a way that staggered against each other, and it didn't take long for almost everyone to have the opportunity to fight the enemy at least once.
The more we fight, the more casualties we have, and then the attrition is extremely fast.
"Don't worry about Peshawar" Dospaers Canaandina turned his head to look at Peshawar in a cloud of smoke, and looked in the direction of the north again: "We rely on the city wall, focus on the defense of the north side, and do not relax on the other two sides" Dospars Canaandina has always been extremely wary of the appearance of the Han army, but he really didn't expect the Han army to come so quickly.
This Sassanid army did not set up the camp for a long time, and it can even be said that it really didn't put much effort into the camp at first, but it was to hurry up the time to build siege equipment, thinking about conquering Peshawar before the Han army arrived.
They really started to go crazy to consolidate their camp today, or when they were facing the onslaught on Peshawar, they were mobilizing manpower to build fortifications and set up obstacles.
The camp was not so well consolidated, especially against the various obstacles of the cavalry.
The Sassanid army is stepping up to create horse rejection, and as for digging trenches or anything, it is simply too late, and it can even be said that the number of horses resisted is seriously insufficient.
"Don't be afraid, what we are waiting for is the Han army" Dospars Canaan Dina smiled with confidence and the Han army had been hit: "This time it is to attract a Han army to come, and then destroy them Here we have reinforcements, as long as you can hold out for five days, the Han army will definitely be destroyed here" It wasn't just Dospars Canaandina who was shouting, but he had sent several men to the camp to preach the message.
The Sassanid soldiers, who had learned that the Han army had arrived, were panicked with self-doubt because Peshawar did not conquer it in the end, but they ushered in a Han army.
When they heard that the original attack on Peshawar was to attract the Han army to come to the rescue, and that they had set a trap to eat the Han army who came to the rescue of Peshawar, they calmed down regardless of whether they believed it or not.
"General" Nil Budogaro lowered his voice: "There is such a plan, but the reinforcements will take seven days at the earliest.
If the Han army in Kurumpur sends troops to intercept" "Shut up" Dospales Canaan Dina expected too many things to be wrong, and knew very well that even one mistake in commanding a war would be fatal, not to mention that he had made so many mistakes, and he was somewhat annoyed and angry: "If you shake the heart of the army again, General Ben will behead you" Neil Budogaro's eyes blinked, but he chose to shut up.
They didn't know about the attack of the Yulin Army, and if they knew, they wouldn't have hoped for any reinforcements.
The current situation is that it is necessary to believe that reinforcements will come, not only small soldiers, but also generals and officers including Dospars Canandina, who must be convinced of this, otherwise this war will not have to be fought at all.
The Sassanid army, whose morale had been slightly boosted, prepared to deal with the approaching Han army at a faster speed, not only hurried not only to resist obstacles such as horses, but also to speed up some long-range attack equipment that was originally built to deal with Peshawar.
Ten miles is about an hour for the cavalry The sun in the sky has reached the center, and the sunlight sprinkles on the earth to provide light and heat to the living beings, but part of the sunlight cannot penetrate the dense smoke to continue to shine.
Black oil is unrefined oil, and once it burns and spreads to other flammable materials, it is not so easy to extinguish.
In the past, the Peshawar defenders used water to extinguish the fire, which was actually a bit stupid, not that the oil would burn more intensely when it encountered fire or anything, but that it was not easy to extinguish unless there was the water rush of modern fire trucks.
At present, it is not modern, there are no modern fire trucks, Peshawar military and civilian fire extinguishing only rely on buckets or smaller things to hold water, a bucket of water does not look very effective at all, even if the fire in that place is slightly reduced, but soon it is no different from other burning areas.
In order to extinguish the black oil fire under the current conditions, the best way is to cover it with sand.
There were not many wars between Totara and Sasani, and it was impossible for Sassanid not to have used black oil on Totara once, and many of the soldiers and civilians in Peshawar had relevant experience, but it was difficult to pass on the correct way to extinguish the fire in a state of chaos.
From the outside, Peshawar now looks like a city burning with a raging fire, and the city is full of smoke.
However, from the inside, it was only the outer residential areas that were burning the fire, and in some places, the fire did not reach the inner city, and it was the barrier that was cleared out by the fate that played a role, so that the fire did not spread more.
However, there are still some urban areas that are on fire, not because the fire is burning in, but because some of the burning sparks are blown up by the wind and float to the flammable materials, and too many people are just concerned about the raging fire and do not pay more attention to other places, so that the small fire becomes a large fire, and the fire spreads again.
Fortunately, although many people died in Peshawar, the population base in the city is still there.
Where there is a fire, a group of people rush over, in order to survive, no one is afraid of hardship and tiredness to get water, more people are constantly digging and sprinkling soil towards the fire, that is, slower and eventually extinguish the fire.
On this side of the palace fortress, it was already foggy when you looked out, and the line of sight was shortened to less than fifty meters away, and even if you could see farther, it was the scene of the fire that was yellow and yellow.
"The Persians have retreated" After Lukhmaru Jiduo completely relaxed, he felt weak, and he forced himself to pick up his spirits and found Ma Bin, and said gratefully: "It must be the heavenly soldiers of the Han Dynasty who are coming." ” "Willing to follow the big man, the big man will never stand by when the country is in trouble."
Ma Bin didn't lie, that is the credibility maintained by the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, provided that the subject country is really obedient: "The lord of the country should also step up the extinguishing of the fire, be prepared to send troops to respond, and be prepared to destroy the enemy army outside the city in one fell swoop." ” "Naturally, the little king has urged many times."
Luhe Malu's attitude towards Ma Bin has changed again and again, from the beginning of the reserved to the current undisguised kneeling and licking, promised: "We must quickly extinguish the fire, go out of the city to watch the majestic posture of the Han Heavenly Soldiers, and follow the power of cattle and horses." ” Translated into that kind of statement, he didn't even mention it as a friendly force to help the war, obviously he didn't dare to put the two sides on an equal footing, and he didn't really want to watch.
There was a truce on Peshawar's side, and the sound of the trumpets outside the city was repeatedly blown, but the crunchy drums ceased; The city was still noisy, shouting for help in putting out the fire, saving people, etc., and the Sassanid army no longer attacked, and there was time to mourn the cries of the death of their loved ones.
For a day and a half and a night, Peshawar did show extraordinary courage and determination to resist the siege of the Sassanid army, but the casualties were really heavy.
As a regular army, the defenders of Peshawar had less than 6,000 effective combat strength left from 10,000 to the end of the Sassanid attack, about 3,000 were killed, and nearly 1,000 were seriously wounded and incapacitated.
The citizens of Peshawar, who were called up to resist the invaders, joined the battle in large numbers after the battle in the city began, and when they launched a counterattack, they suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and the number of casualties accounted for six or seven thousand, and the rest were wounded.
The above are the casualty data of Peshawar in a state of war.
Later, the Sassanid army began to set fires, and many of the Peshawar soldiers and civilians who were assembled in the outlying cities were engulfed in the fire before they could react, and probably six or seven thousand people did not play their role, but first became fire men, and then were burned to charcoal.
In some local street battles between the enemy and us, the Sassanid troops who attacked basically did not run back, and they killed more than 4,000 Peshawar soldiers and civilians at the cost of about 1,000 people, and the largest number of women.
Ma Bin and Zhou Wei, who had been staying at the height of the palace and watching the battle with binoculars, gathered their respective information and made a rough judgment, Peshawar lost about 18,000 people in two days and one night, and did not laugh at it, which gave birth to a great admiration.
The number of people in Peshawar will definitely not exceed 60,000, including the defenders and civilians, but with the base of 60,000, 20,000 or 30,000 people were killed and wounded in the tragic defensive battle, and more than 10,000 people died.
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That's one-third of the casualty data, what a resilient nation it should be to survive, Ma Bin also heard that it is not the first time Peshawar has encountered such a tragic situation, and when it was even worse, more than half of the people in the city were killed or injured, but they still persevered.
Zhou Wei gave a few examples, there are examples of resisting invaders in Zhuxia to the whole city, but there are only a few times in thousands of years.
How long has the Satsuki clan been in this land, and how many non-native populations have been integrated, it is really surprising that they can have that kind of centripetal force and unity in such a state.
Ma Bin was already thinking about how to report to Xie An about Jidoro's article, and his core opinion was only one, if Jidoro did not really submit to the Han, the country would still be destroyed as the best choice.
Ma Bin was even willing to add a paragraph, even if Doro showed great surrender to the Han, the Han should also suppress it softly, and not let it have any chance to sit on the throne.
There is nothing in a nation that can fight well, unless it can fight all the time, otherwise it will rise and fall quickly.
What really deserves vigilance is a united and resilient nation.
Such a nation, even if it is weak for a while, will gradually become stronger over the long years, and then become a hegemon.
Ma Bin's evaluation is still quite correct, and the Persians also have this view, if the history has not changed, the Persians have spent a long time to target Kidoro in particular, and the double suppression of military and diplomacy has not been able to develop Kidoro, and then the Persians united with a northern nomadic tribe to destroy Kidoro.
Of course, the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar are eager to extinguish the fire, but no matter how hard they try, the fire will not be extinguished in a short time.
Li Tan led his army to within seven miles of Peshawar, and he could see the smoke-filled Peshawar very clearly, and wondered if Peshawar was finished.
The remnants of the Han army's pursuit of the Sassanid cavalry unit did not give up until about seven miles, and at this distance, the vanguard cavalry of the Han army began to change horses.
The Han cavalry, who had completed the change of horses, changed the direction of their advance with the sound of a strong horn, and made a detour from the northeast to the west side.
The Han army approaching behind was also changing horses, and about 5,000 Han cavalry continued to advance at a speed of about 30 miles.
The arrival of the Han army already allowed the Persians to observe relatively clearly with the naked eye.
When the Sassanid army found that the number of Han troops exceeded 40,000, the confidence they had raised before was once again struck, and their faces were replaced with panicked expressions.
That's 40,000 Han troops, and they all look like cavalry.
The Sassanid army was not able to conquer Peshawar, and the camp layout was also a little hasty, and there was not much confidence in using the hastily arranged defense line to block the onslaught of the Han cavalry.
Countless Persians were praying that the Han army would not attack as soon as they came, so that they would have more time to set up their camps, and at the same time, they would also have more time for reinforcements to hurry.
"Woo woo woo woo" The Han army sounded a strong trumpet.
In an instant, a battle cry of "the mighty Han army" sounded above the wilderness.
The battle cry of the Han army was heard not only by the Sassanid army, but also by the soldiers and civilians in Peshawar.
The Persians shrank their hearts at the sound of the battle cry, but the Peshawar soldiers and civilians erupted in enthusiastic cheers
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