That "Han army mighty" for the Sassanid soldiers, it was a signal that a bloody battle was about to break out.
For the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar, it was different, and their thoughts for a moment were that "Daddy" could be counted.
The Han army shouted the battle horn, and they would not roar like that in the air, but nothing happened.
There were Han troops on both sides of the Sassanid camp, including the remnants of the cavalry that Dospals Canaandina had sent out and fled.
In the face of the attack of the Han cavalry, Dospals Canaandina had already made relevant arrangements.
The Sassanid camp was lined with thick infantry on all sides, leaning on fences and a varying number of repulsive horses.
The infantry in the front row either carried shields or spears, and the infantry with shields naturally formed a shield array, and the infantry with spears held the tail of the spear on the ground and lowered it diagonally.
Behind the dense infantry, about ten meters thick, there were a large number of archers, and there would be some space between them, and it would be impossible to room them if they were crowded together.
The thickness of the archers was about 30 meters, and from the direction of the north, it should have been more than 3,000 archers.
Behind them are the crossbowmen.
The Sasanian crossbow is imitated from the Han Empire, but the range is much lower than that of the Han Empire, and the longest range is about 260 meters.
One thing that must be noted is that although the Sassanid side imitated the crossbow of the Han Empire, because of the technology, a small winch was omitted, resulting in relying solely on manpower every time it was rewound, unlike the crossbowmen of the Han Empire who could easily use the winch to rewind it.
If the crossbowmen of the Han Empire could shoot about five crossbow arrows a minute, the Sassanid crossbowmen could shoot two crossbow arrows at most a minute.
The imitation is an imitation, or an abbreviated version, but the number of crossbowmen on the Sassanid side is not so much, and the army commanded by Dospers Canaan Dina is only about 800 crossbowmen, and the spare crossbows are only 200, and every bad one will be distressed for a long time.
"Woo woo" The sound of the horn was a reminder of the detour of the cavalry returning from defeat.
The collapsed Sassanid cavalry, some of them remained calm, and very obediently pulled the reins of the control mounts and made the necessary detours.
The problem is that not all of the collapsed Sassanid light cavalry can still keep calm, and many more Sassanid light cavalry have their faces twisted with fear, and their eyes are looking at the camp in front of them with endless anticipation, thinking about getting in as quickly as possible, as if they feel that only by entering the camp can they be safe.
"Knock Knock" A crisp drum beat was beaten.
"Woo woo" The sound of the horn of the sound The Sassanid archers received the order, and they stretched their bows and loosened their strings at the sound of the command, and in the dense rattling of the bowstrings, three thousand arrows were fired.
The arrows flew in mid-air, and their target was the Sassanid rout cavalry, who did not heed the advice and did not make a detour, and before they could fall from the sky, the second wave of arrows in the rear was once again fired by the archers.
The Sassanid light cavalry, who were in a state of mind, were galloping on horseback with the desire to survive, and some of them saw their own camp shoot a rain of arrows, and immediately let out a desperate howl when they shot or three waves, and they were so frightened that they wanted to control their horses to dodge in a roundabout way.
Although the war horse is a living thing, it really can't be pulled too hard by the rider pulling the reins at high speed, their heads are dragged to the side, their bodies are twisted, and the four hooves have no time to adjust, and the result is that they stumble in an instant, and they fall and turn over on their backs.
The first wave of arrows fell from the sky, and their sharp arrows could be shot into the ground, or they could have hit the flesh and brought blood flowers, contributing nourishment to the earth and taking away life.
The three waves of about 9,000 arrows were fired at nearly 3,000 or so Sassanid cavalrymen who had already broken down, and in fact, no more than 800 people fell under the rain of arrows, but nearly 1,000 fell in the subsequent stumbles and trampling, and about 1,200 were rushing forward at an even more frantic speed.
"Ready to prepare" "Hold the shield, shoulder to shoulder, chest to back, and form the tightest formation" "As long as the formation is tight, there will be no problems" "Deserters, anyone can be executed on the spot" The sound of horses' hooves was so loud that most of the Sassanid infantry hiding behind their shields knew this, and only a few Sasanian infantry could look through the gaps in their shields.
When these people saw that it was their own cavalry that rushed over, it was impossible not to feel confused and surprised.
Basically, they are speculating whether those people have defected to the enemy and become the vanguard of attacking their own military camps.
In fact, it doesn't matter anymore, whether those Sassanid cavalry have surrendered to the Han army or not, they are all doing the fact that they are acting as the vanguard of the Han army.
The first Sassanid cavalry to collapse crashed into it, some with shields, some with spears.
The Sassanid cavalry that collided with the shield array, they had already had a hideous and distorted expression, and when the impact occurred, the war horses under their crotches made a wail, and the people were pulled into the sky by a force, and then smashed on the heads of the dense infantry.
The crowded infantry saw something smashed down overhead, and they couldn't move if they wanted to, and some couldn't even raise their hands to block it, so they could only watch the object fall down in front of their eyes.
Against the backdrop of constant screams and roars, the Sassanid cavalry puppet head pads that fell down may not have happened, but the Sassanid infantry that smashed the cushion underneath had their necks broken and died, or the Sassanid infantry was smashed to a stun.
In this kind of crowded situation, even if the person is dead, he will still be squeezed to stand, and then move with the movement of the living.
"Alive, I'm still alive" A Sassanid cavalryman who did not die showed an ecstatic expression, as for how many of his own people he had killed and injured, he didn't care, it was silly fun: "It's good to be alive" The Sassanid cavalry that crashed into the spear array was a bit of a struggle, although not all of them were bumped into and pierced, but they were thrown up and fell in mid-air, usually by the spear pointed to the sky through the body, throwing blood down the shaft of the spear, or simply hanging in the air and becoming a human skewer.
Sassanid cavalry continued to gallop and collide with it, and the result was that the defense line of the Han cavalry was arranged, and the Han army had not yet come up, but it was rushed miserably.
The Sassanid cavalry who was not dead and shouted that he was still alive, he was crawling inward above the head of the Sassanid infantry, but he fell to the ground and stood on the ground, and before he could cheer again, a soldier in black rushed over, and with a wave of his scimitar in his hand, his cheers could not be held in his mouth forever.
If you see a Sassanid soldier dressed in black on the battlefield, you don't have to guess that it is the Overseer or the Law Enforcement Team.
They have preserved this tradition for thousands of years, even with the change of dynasties.
The Sassanid cavalry who thought he had saved his life was not the only one to be killed by the black-clothed overseers, but as long as any soldier dared to turn around and run backwards, beyond a line that had been drawn, there must have been a black-clothed overseer chasing after him and killing him.
Almost after the last defeated Sassanid cavalry collided, the Han army following behind also approached within 300 meters of the Sassanid camp's defensive line.
"Woo woo" At the sound of the horn, the Sassanid crossbowmen, who had not fired a single arrow, pulled the trigger and shot first, followed by the rest of the archers who drew their bows and fired arrows.
The cavalry of the Han army, which was in a state of charge, were the fastest runners, numbering about 2,300, all of them light cavalry.
The light cavalry of the Han army is actually the armored cavalry of other countries, and that is because every knight of the Han army has at least one set of leather armor on his body.
They have a variety of weapons, as well as a small round shield.
The two thousand or three hundred light cavalry of the Han army in the state of charge, each of them held a shield against the top of his head diagonally in front of him, but he only managed to protect his upper body in a small part, and the lower body, including the war horse under his crotch, could not be protected at all.
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The crossbow arrows fired by the Sassanid crossbowmen were the first to fall, because there were about five hundred Sassanid crossbowmen in the north, and the number of crossbow arrows dropped naturally would not exceed five hundred.
In such a vast battlefield, especially in the state of cavalry charge, five hundred crossbow arrows are actually very, very rare.
Lin Wen couldn't hear the collision of the crossbow arrows and the small round shield, but the hand holding the shield could feel that it had been shot, and one of the crossbow arrows also penetrated the shield and cut his wrist.
What he feared most didn't happen, although it hurt to be hit by an arrow in the thigh, but at least the war horse didn't have an arrow in the head, or it would have been bad.
Sasanian's 500 or so crossbowmen shot a wave of arrows, and the result was probably that thirteen Han troops turned on their backs in a galloping state, and then tripped over the twenty or so Han cavalry galloping up at high speed behind them, and then there was nothing else.
The Sassanid archers, of about 3,000, did not shoot until the Han army approached about 160 meters.
There is nothing wrong with their firing range being up to 100 meters, but the Han cavalry is in a state of galloping at high speed, advancing about thirteen meters per second, and the arrows shot will fly in the sky for a period of time.
In general, the rate of fire of the archer is faster than that of the crossbowman, and the archer shoots about three shots, and the crossbowman is ready to shoot the second shot.
The Sassanid archers did not like to use bamboo bows and arrows as much as Ah San, and were more normal bows and arrows.
Normal bows and arrows are much more threatening than bamboo bows and arrows, at least they don't happen when the arrows they shoot become too soft and fluttery at a certain distance, and they will still have enough lethality.
One hundred and twenty meters is a matter of six or seven seconds for a cavalry galloping at full speed, and elite archers can shoot about three arrows in such a short time, but many archers only have time to shoot one.
About 2,300 light cavalry of the Han army, about 145 cavalry fell on the road of the charge, which seemed very normal.
About 500 of them crashed into the formation of the Sassanid infantry in a state of invincibility, but they did not blindly rush, but chose as much as possible the position where they had been hit by the Sassanid crushing light cavalry, and when they collided, they did not have any movement to swing their weapons at all, but on the contrary, they tried their best to adjust their posture at the moment when the collision was about to occur, so that their bodies that were thrown out because of the force of the collision would not be too miserable.
The remaining 1,600 or so Han light cavalry approached about 60 meters from the Sassanid defensive formation and began to make a detour, no longer shooting arrows at the Sasanian formation in the process of moving.
This kind of action of theirs has a professional terminology called "Rush Shot", but professionals prefer to call it "Wave Shot".
To put it bluntly, it is not to take the collision as the main goal, but to use one's own speed to kill one or several waves as much as possible under the premise that the enemy can't even react, and then choose to evacuate, and also continue to carry out continuous archery actions around the enemy.
There will be about 500 Han light cavalry rushing up, which is an inevitable move in the military, it is nothing more than an attempt to use the impact to break up the Sasanian formation, and it would be better if the Sassanid soldiers who formed the formation collapsed.
While the first batch of Han light cavalry was inserted into the battlefield, the cavalry in the rear was also rapidly approaching.
Dospars Canandina was standing on a device similar to the Zhuxia Nest Car, his face was expressionless, but his cheeks were trembling slightly: "Mrs. is decisive" The Han army fought first, it was impossible to have no battle damage, and it was easy to chase and kill after a long-distance attack, so it would consume the physical strength of people and horses Dospars Canandina originally thought that the Han army would at least pause and rest before launching an offensive, and it was not that he did not judge that the Han army would attack immediately, but he really did not expect that all the large groups would enter the attack sequence.
"How is the second line of defense organized?"
"Back to General.
Already trying to speed things up" When Sassanid came, there were more than 70,000 people, and no matter how small the camp was, it was not that there was no room for foothold if it collapsed in front, and there was a vast camp area behind.
Dospaers Canaandina held up the binoculars and looked at the battlefield, and his hand seemed to shake when he saw something, and he almost didn't let the telescope fall off.
On the battlefield, the roar of horses' hooves is the main theme.
In the midst of the smoke and dust, a cavalry brigade wearing iron armor and the front half of the war horse with a horse armor appeared with even greater smoke and dust.
Of course, they belong to the Han army, and they are considered assault cavalry in terms of their troops.
Dospals Canaandina just saw the cavalry of the Han army, and it was protruding from the smoke and dust from the north and west at the same time, although he had been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but twitch his heart.
In the Han Empire, cavalry dressed like that was counted as assault cavalry, and the Sassanid side was always counted as heavy cavalry.
"Can you hold it" Dospars Canaandina looked at his first front, and wanted to deceive himself but couldn't: "Can't hold on":