Chapter 1075

Soldiers who fight at night usually need to set aside one hand to hold the torch.

The torch is a piece of wood, the top of which is wrapped with cloth. It pays attention to some and soak in oil. When it burns, it will not only provide light, but also drip sticky sparks.

Whether there is only cloth or soaked with grease, in fact, even if only the cloth is burned, it will drop sticky sparks. Soldiers holding torches usually need to tilt their hands away from them, and they will drop to Mars if they are a little closer to themselves.

Being dropped by Mars is not just scalding, but sticking and scalding for a long time.

Many people will have the experience of being scalded by boiling water. The scald for only a few seconds is hot. What kind of pain would it be if it was scalded for at least dozens of seconds?

If the clothes dropped on the body by Mars are ignited again, they will become a human torch if they are not taken off in time.

Many of the Sassanian soldiers who charged with torches lost their torches in place, slapped the places scalded by grease sparks, and even appeared firemen who were ignited and rolled or ran around.

Ten thousand Sassanian soldiers engaged in night fighting have not run to the wall of Peshawar, or even been attacked by Peshawar defenders. Hundreds of them have been out of the range of effective combat effectiveness.

The Sassanian soldiers running forward with a ladder. After holding a torch in one hand, they need to hold the ladder in the other hand. Naturally, they have no hands to hold weapons.

What is very common and not funny is that many Sassanian soldiers carrying ladders forward together. It is estimated that about three of the ten groups will appear, and the ladder will be thrown aside when they run to half.

The garrison at the head of Peshawar City, when they stayed in the dark and saw that the enemy had not approached, they were all in a mess. They all laughed "ha ha".

The impact of night fighting with torches on belligerent soldiers is far more than that.

"Ready!"

"Shoot!"

The banging of bowstrings and the breaking sound of arrows being shot out of the air sounded intensively in an instant.

The Sassanian soldiers running forward exposed their position in the dark with torches. After the garrison of Peshawar city wall began to shoot arrows, there were far more casualties than during the day.

In fact, a shooter shooting a bright spot in the dark is much more accurate than looking at the target in the daytime.

The city wall garrison in Peshawar has obviously increased the number of archers, and the density of arrows is higher than that in the daytime.

After a volley, the next is free archery. There was no pause in the sound of the bow string on the wall, and the arrows were continuously fired.

There were no torches or braziers on the wall of Peshawar. The Sassanian soldiers who launched the charge looked into the darkness at the head of the city. In the darkness there, lethal arrows were being shot all the time, and the people around kept shouting or groaning after being hit by the arrow.

Some Sassanian soldiers took advantage of the light of the torch to look at the robe where the arrow fell to the ground. They were surprised to find that it was not a bamboo arrow, what the arrowhead was, but the arrow shaft was a wood structure.

Of course, bamboo arrows were shot, but there were not many arrows on wood poles.

Ordinary Sassanian soldiers probably don't know what it means to have wood poles and arrows, but officers can make new judgments.

"Their elite archers are also on the wall!"

Jidoro is an alliance force fully assimilated by a San. While assimilated, it has also obtained the basic scientific and technological crystallization of a San, including popularized smelting technology and some military systems.

The use of bamboo bows and arrows does not mean that they are garbage archers. They are usually just to shoot farther. Another is that the production of bamboo arrows is simpler, and simplicity means that the manufacturing speed is fast and more can be stored.

The killing power of wooden arrows will be greater than that of bamboo arrows, which does not mean that the Peshawar Garrison has no wooden arrows.

However, in a San's military system, soldiers with hard bows are not necessarily worse than those with bamboo bows, but archers who use hard bows are indeed better treated than those who use bamboo bows in all aspects.

War must kill people. As Sassanian soldiers who launched the charge, they fell in pieces. After someone began to bow and shoot back, they didn't know whether their arrows hit the defenders because they couldn't see the situation at the head of the city.

When many Sassanian soldiers charged halfway, they found that holding torches would become a very obvious attack target. In fact, they had already lost torches.

Many of the torches discarded on ground were not extinguished. Some torches ignited weeds or other combustible things on ground.

Looking out from the top of the city, there are stars on the ground and in the sky. The difference is that the light on the ground is fire yellow and the stars in the sky are silver.

Another clear difference is that there are lots of fires on the ground, which completely depends on how many combustibles there are and how big the fire will be.

Almost as the Sassanian army rushed under the Peshawar city wall, flames slowly appeared on the Peshawar city wall. It was about to start a hand to hand battle. The defenders lit the fire pot already prepared to provide enough light.

There was light on the wall. Some Sassanian officers looked and saw the soldiers wearing iron or leather armor in the wall garrison. They immediately realized that it was different from the day.

Any country... It should be said that except the unreasonable country of the Han Empire, otherwise, in terms of current productivity, the troops of any country who can wear armor will belong to the elite group, especially the soldiers who can wear metal armor.

Jidoro is not a powerful country. There is only one armored army in the country, that is, the guard army belonging to jidoro royal family, with a number of only 800.

The standing army of the whole country is about 10000, and there can be 800 armored troops, which is the unique position of jidoro, and the attention of jidoro royal family.

During the day, the Peshawar garrison only threw stones at the bottom of the city.

At night, the Sassanian soldiers who came close to the bottom of the city wall found the difference again. There were not only arrows and stones on the head of the city, but also big wood (mahogany) were frequently smashed down, and even some hot liquid was poured down.

An endless stream of screams is so bleak under the night. Dying on the spot may become a relief. If you don't die immediately, you have to suffer a lot of pain before you die slowly.

The hot liquid can be boiling water, gold juice (excrement and urine), and more likely some kind of oil. Once it is drenched

Boiling water will instantly burn and rot the skin and flesh. After uttering extreme screams, people can still jump, which means that the injury is not serious. More often, they roll directly to the ground. They are shocked because of extreme pain after a few rounds.

If the gold juice or oil is drenched, their skin and flesh will fall off in pieces as if they were melted in an instant. If that happens to the head or main trunk, they will die in almost a few seconds.

Being drenched by boiling water, gold juice and oil and not dying on the spot, it will almost be a disease that can not escape all kinds of injuries in the future. It will usually be pus, and the process of death will definitely be very painful.

There were not many Sassanian soldiers holding torches. They pushed under the wall of Peshawar.

In fact, the Sassanian army in the night battle should be thankful that their attack target is a city, not a field battle in the vast wilderness. Otherwise, it is still a big question whether they can find the real attack target.

The siege ladder began to be erected

During the day, due to the hurry and the inability to grasp the height of the city wall before trial, the siege ladder has no buckle device.

At night, after the temptation of the day, Persian craftsmen mastered the correct height of the city wall, which can be regarded as installing a buckle device on the siege ladder.

The so-called fastening device is not complicated, that is, a support frame with a bite hook is made at the top of the ladder. When the ladder is set up at the head of the city, the soldiers pull back, and the bite hook can buckle the fixed point backwards, so the ladder is not so easy to be pushed down again.

The siege ladder is only one of the most primitive siege equipment, but because it is the lightest, it was the first to go to the front of the battlefield, and the other heavy siege equipment is far behind.

This Sassanian army came to attack jidoro. They need to be fast enough and do not carry large siege machinery, such as stone catapults and riprap trucks... Also owned by the Persians.

Why should we talk about the catapult and the riprap separately? Because they are not only different in appearance and structure, but also different in range and thrown object (weight)!

Two siege towers were built during the day. They were pulled by horses in front and pushed by people in the back. "Creak - creak -" turned wooden wheels and moved forward.

The siege tower is about four and a half meters high. The whole body is nailed with wood. It doesn't seem too complicated. It's just made into four square frames, stacked and firmly fixed with each other. Then it is made of cattle, horses or other animal skins, and the outer skin is wet.

The cry of "kill" never stopped on the battlefield, even the horn sounded occasionally, and the drum sounded continuously.

As one side of the siege, from the beginning of the attack to approaching the wall, the Sassanian army made hundreds of non combat casualties by itself.

After the battle began, the defenders in the west of the four walls seemed to be the most elite. The Sassanian soldiers on this side also lost the most. Two or three hundred people were lost before anyone boarded the city.

The Peshawar garrison on the city wall is constantly shooting arrows and dropping all kinds of things. Sasan under the city wall bears casualties unilaterally.

The previously dropped wood was watered with grease. After they were ignited, fires broke out in the corners of some wall sections.

Sassanian officers urged the soldiers to put out the fire. Naturally, they did not carry water, but used all the methods they could. It was obviously the most reliable one in their environment to cover it up with soil.

Ma Bin's position is in the West on the front. He can see the battle in the north and south, and the East is blocked by buildings, so he can't see it.

The number of Sassanian soldiers in the west is the largest, the number in the north and south is small, but it is not a feint, and the situation in the East is unknown.

"If this is the only way to attack the city..." Ma Bin said to his colleagues, "it's just to fight with human life."

Zhou argued, "there are so many tricks."

Many wars are indeed fighting with human lives. The number of times they use tricks to win easily is too few. It is because there are too few that they will be widely praised.

"Will the Persians take the East we can't see as a breakthrough?" Zhou Bian said, but he shook his head: "just because he can't see it, the sender will pay more attention."

They can understand why the Sassanian army attacked the city overnight, but the advantage of time is not on Sassanian's side. Not only do the king's armed forces from many places come to Peshawar anytime and anywhere, but the Han Army may also break into the battlefield at any time.

Up to now, the loss of Peshawar's Garrison may be less than 200, and more than 1400 have been lost in the four directions of sassanne.

In this kind of war, although the city wall is very low, the Sassanian army launched a night war, which is tantamount to allowing the Peshawar garrison as the defensive side to occupy the right time and place.

"We would attack overnight." In fact, Ma Bin has not personally commanded the army. He is a painting praise position in the Army: "many times, human life is not more important than time."

Zhou Bian naturally agrees with Ma Bin's point of view. What he wants to say is: "Sasan has attacked Peshawar more than once. It's unreasonable not to know that the battle of the city wall is the beginning after the end?"

Jiduo didn't regard the city wall as the only defense zone at all. The battle on the other side of the city wall was decided. The next street battle was the real beginning of the attack and defense of the city.

"Maybe..." Ma Bin touched his chin, thought for a moment and said, "the Persians won the attack and defense of the city wall and have their own means to deal with the street war."

These Han people in Peshawar and those who send more than one side need to guess. As the offensive side, the Persian general has long had his own plan.

"Some of the black oil carried was damaged, but about 60% was brought to the battlefield." DOS pars Canaan Dinah is the chief General of this Sassanian Army: "prepare the sprinkler! Select enough warriors, once you occupy the wall..."

Black oil is untreated oil. It is not only a specialty in sassanne, but it is the largest in sassanne in the world.

Long ago, Persians used oil as a tool of war, which is often used in sea operations. Unless the whole city is set on fire on land, it will not be put into use in large quantities.

"Occupy the city wall and drive the defenders into the city, and our goal will be achieved!" DOS pars Canaan Dina did not come this time to conquer: "let Peshawar be the sacrifice of this war and warn those countries that dare to stand on the side of the Han Empire!"

In fact, it's not enough to occupy the city wall. The Sassanian army has to kill into the city area, otherwise there won't be enough oil to water the city.

"The manufacturing speed of the catapult should also be accelerated!" DOS pars Canaan Dina said fiercely, "the Han people have gunpowder and we have black oil. If we use the correct method, we can frighten the four sides!"