After the heavy artillery of the British army was in place, Wang Fangyi immediately ordered to launch an attack on the heavily guarded city of Ctesiphon, with the loud sound of "boom", the siege cannon smashed the stone bullets weighing five or six hundred catties into the city wall of Ctesiphon, and the stone bullets were driven by huge kinetic energy, and smashed one big hole after another in the thick city wall of Ctesiphon.Along with the cannons, the cannons loaded with flowering shells were the main targets of the Persian soldiers who were holding on to the walls, and the ancient city of Ctesiphon was soon shrouded in choking smoke.Under the cover of powerful artillery, tens of thousands of Mazdak fanatic soldiers of the Eastern Persian Imperial Alliance rushed forward with a roar, some carrying ladders, some rolling barrels, and rushing towards the moat.They set up the ladder above Ctesiphon's moat and threw the barrels into the water in an attempt to fill the moat.However, the river was too deep and buoyant for the barrel to sink.The British soldiers simply approached the city walls by walking on long ladders or even lying on wooden barrels.Although Massoud's Persian army suffered heavy casualties in the bombardment, many of the defenders survived hiding in the pillboxes, and they fired back with bows and arrows and ballistae filled with stone bullets, and many of the soldiers on the attacking side were broken in heads, broken hands and feet, and fell from the barrels, drowning many of them.Wang Fangyi saw that the strong attack could not be successful, so he thought of another way.He had his soldiers dig tunnels and pass under the moats to the city.In order to confuse the enemy, he continued to shell during the day, organized small units to feint, and at night, dug tunnels with all his might.The tunnel stretched rapidly, and the moat was almost dug before the Persians knew it.One night, a Persian sentry stumbled upon a noise under his feet.He began to think that the enemy had crossed the river to sneak attack, so he searched with his eyes wide open, and the moat was empty.He suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, and he was extremely tired from fighting day after day, and tinnitus and dizziness were common.But the noise grew louder and louder, and he finally heard the sound coming from underground.He hurriedly lay on the ground, his ears pressed against the ground to distinguish carefully, and there was the sound of digging and people talking underground.It dawned on him that the enemy was digging tunnels.He hurried to report to his superior.His commander, Gisti, was a brave and resourceful man, and he ordered his soldiers to find the sound and dig into the ground.Soon, the tunnel was dug through, and the British soldiers who were digging were taken aback and were about to retreat, but Gistie asked the soldiers to pour boiling water into the hole, and the boiling hot water poured in, scalding the skin and flesh of the British soldiers.The British soldiers in the tunnels howled and fled backwards, trampling on each other, trampling each other to death and wounding many others.Gistie threw poisonous cigarette cans into the hole, and because the retreat was not timely, many British soldiers were poisoned in the tunnels.Having thwarted the British army's plot to attack the city through tunnels, Massoud was so pleased that he wanted to reward the sentry.The sentry's name was Avro, an Azatan cavalryman, and he turned out to be a wealthy lord of the manor, who had lost his land and possessions because of the Mazdak revolt, so he was a staunch opponent of Mazdak.Massoud summoned Avro to the palace and gave him the best food and the finest wine.Avro was so hungry that he devoured all his food.Massoud asked the maid to take out a treasure box filled with pearl agate, and said, "Avro, your alertness has saved us all of Ctesiphon, and I will make you rich overnight!"
”Avro shook his head and said, "Your Royal Highness, the British are outnumbered, and besides, those Mazdaks and we have a common hatred, they will never give up.Ctesiphon is in danger of being breached at any time, and once the city is breached, we will all be killed, and all our wealth will be robbed by them.So, pearl agate is of no value to me!
If His Royal Highness must reward me with something, I would like to ask His Royal Highness for something!
”Massoud said, "Whatever you want, I'll satisfy you!"
”Avro said: "This thing is the courage of His Royal Highness, as long as His Royal Highness has courage, we have the strength, and we will definitely give up defending Ctesiphon!"
”Massoud could not have imagined that an ordinary soldier would utter such sonorous words, and he was deeply moved.He said, "Avro, there is no way back, and I have the courage to join you in the fight against the British and those Mazdak traitors!"
”He immediately made Afro a centurion and guarded the east gate of Ctesiphon.Wang Fangyi couldn't make a plan, and he had another plan.Late one night, the moon was covered in dark clouds.Avro did not let his guard down, he stood in the watchtower, vigilantly observing the movement on the other side of the moat.He spotted the enemy on the opposite side lighting torches and pushing a house-like thing into the river.The thing floated in the water, like a fortress.British soldiers hid behind the movable fort.Avro hurriedly organized forces to shoot with bows and crossbows, preventing the movable fortress from approaching the castle.However, in the night, the archers had difficulty aiming and shooting, and most of the fiery arrows did not hit the target, and the movable fortress drove unscrupulously, and when it approached the walls, a ladder rose from the platform of the fortress.The ladder reached the top of the city, and more than a dozen British soldiers climbed up the ladder.Avro swung his sword and slashed at the enemy soldiers who climbed in front of him, knocking down the ladder.In his frustration, Avro noticed that the enemy's movable fortress had cowhide on the outside of the bread, and the cowhide was slippery, so even if a rocket hit it, it would not catch fire.He suddenly had a solution, and on the one hand, he ordered his soldiers to resist the attack of the movable fortress, and on the other hand, he sent people to quickly find boiling oil and torches.When the enemy's movable fortresses approached, he first asked the soldiers to pour boiling oil down, and then threw torches, which ignited boiling oil, and the cowhide immediately sneered and set fire, and soon these movable fortresses burned to ashes.Wang Fangyi, who was supervising the war, watched the mobile fortress on his side sink into the moat, or even burned to ashes, and he was so angry that he was furious, "If the old man can't take this Tessiphon, how can I explain to Your Majesty?"
Straight lady thief, the old man has made a military order with His Majesty....."
Wang Fangyi was in a hurry, such a difficult fortified city, even if he was experienced in a hundred battles, it was the first time to see it, and the tenacity of the Persian army led by Massoud also impressed Wang Dashuai, he gathered the generals and asked everyone what good plan they had.The generals who followed Wang Fangyi to participate in the Battle of the Two Rivers were also the first time to attack such a fortified fortified city, and they put forward a lot of whimsical plans, but they were all rejected, and finally Jiang Chen, the commander of the 13th Infantry Division of the British Army, said, "Marshal, as far as the last general knows, Ctesiphon's city defense is not as good as Constantinople, if we tear our faces with the Romans in the future, then the time will ......"
His words are very straightforward, because the fall of the Persians is imminent, as long as Persia dies, then the Eastern Roman Empire will instantly turn from an ally to an enemy, If you can't even take Ctesiphon, then how can you take Constantinople?"
The ..... of the Romans" Wang Fangyi frowned when he heard Jiang Chen mention the Romans, "Constans II is not stupid, after he learns that we are besieging Ctesiphon, he will definitely break the alliance with us and come to the rescue of the Persians......
We must take Ctesiphon before the Romans act, and let Constans II's plan die in the womb....."
At this moment, Zhou Zhenggang, the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, who followed Wang Fangyi to participate in the battle, walked in, "Marshal, my subordinates have just received news from Constantinople, and the messengers of the Persians asking for help have rushed to Constantinople......
But this Constans II did not give up, he actually came up with the idea of using mercenaries to aid the Persian ......"
"This Constans II is a person who understands, but he is also subject to many ...... constraints" Wang Fangyi pondered for a while after hearing this and said, "The old man admires this Roman emperor..... can come up with mercenary tricks........... but since he dares to participate in the war, the old man dares to fight to the death" After he finished speaking, he looked at the generals present, "Shi Xin, Guan Sai, Sphinx, listen to orders, Ben Shuai ordered the three of you to go to intercept the Romans, and beat Ben Shuai to the death, and the Romans who beat him did not dare to come and mix blindly......
""Oh!
”Shi Xin and the three of them immediately said, do the Romans, this task, the three of them like it.