A night battle
At the beginning of the war, the scene was spectacular. Sashan's siege troops were still fierce. It took about an hour for the siege soldiers to climb to the top of the city, but they were hacked to death and thrown under the city before they could stand firm.
About an hour later, Sassanian soldiers went to the city, but they repeatedly failed to clear a section of the city wall. They were killed by Peshawar garrison with the advantage of quantity.
When sassanne's two siege towers were finally pushed up, the siege was a wonderful moment.
The garrison in Peshawar naturally knew the threat degree of the siege tower. When the two siege towers entered the range of bow and arrow shooting, the garrison fired rockets wildly. However, the Rockets either failed to nail or failed to ignite the siege tower.
After a "creak creak" sound, the siege tower was pushed to the side of the wall.
As the siege tower approached the wall, the Persians burst into loud cheers.
In contrast, Peshawar's garrison is constantly in panic for help.
At the top of the siege tower, two assembled boards were pushed down and built on the female wall of the city wall.
The two sounds were not too loud, and the collision of wood and soil opened the prelude to the most intense night battle.
The garrison of Peshawar naturally swarmed in, and the Sassanian soldiers also rushed out of the siege tower. The narrow fighting area was crowded for a time, and people in the front row kept falling down, and the people in the back may be pushed up in a dazed state.
On the other hand, Sasha's broken city hammer had been hitting the city gate for a long time, but they suddenly found that the city gate hole had been filled with sundries and had been specially brought with soil. The whole city gate hole was blocked at all.
A large number of Peshawar garrisons were attracted by the two siege towers, and the troops behind did not seem to be replenished in time, resulting in a shortage of garrisons in some wall sections. In fact, Sassanian soldiers who used ladders to attack the city did not catch up much. Even some Sassanian soldiers who had been in a state of stupor had been pushed up the siege tower. They just climbed numbly, When he went up the wall, he killed or was killed numbly.
More and more Sassanian soldiers went to the city wall. The Peshawar garrison in some sections of the city wall was killed, but the new Peshawar garrison was not in place.
The battle lasted about two and a half hours, and the battlefield to the west of the siege tower was dispatched. More and more sections of the city wall were controlled by Sassanian army, which had a great tendency to successfully occupy the west city wall.
This situation was changed as an armored army joined the battlefield.
The iron armor army of Jiduo royal family is very close to ah San in terms of armor style, but there are some more Greek styles. For example, it is clearly infantry armor but has armor skirt. At the same time, the protective plate of a pair of combat boots extends from ankle to knee, but there is no protection for thighs.
Their iron armor is scaly armor with two ribs, belly and shoulders, but their chest is iron plate, and their back is a leather sheath. This style of iron armor will not be like a sleeve like armor. Once it is put on, it has no flexibility.
The sleeve type iron armor is a human shaped tortoise shell. After wearing it, it can make the action of turning the upper body without moving the feet. Generally, only some joint parts can spring, and the rest parts can't be bent slightly. Whether this armor is strong or not, in other words, bulky is a matter of certainty.
For a small country like jidoro, it is extremely luxurious to have 800 armored troops. What is more luxurious is that this group of armored troops not only have an external layer of armor, but also wear a set of lock armor!
Three hundred armored troops went up the city wall from various channels. The armored troops in the front row were slow in one hand and held a short spear. The shields and shields were built on each other. The short spear was poked out with each shield slightly opened. The whole formation was to open the shield one step at a time and poke out a short spear. If someone who knew the Europa tactics was present, he would recognize that it was the Greek style of play.
There are also some people without armor in the iron armor army. They are usually short and lean. Everyone is carrying a bamboo basket with some short javelin inside. They are interspersed flexibly in the formation gap of the armored army, seizing the opportunity to throw the javelin in their hands.
The Sassanian army who attacked the city did not have Sassanian's ace arms, and even few people wore armor. It looked like an officer.
The remaining defenders supported by the armored army broke out and cheered. They seemed to be beaten with chicken blood. The original helplessness and hesitation were gone, and they were replaced with more ferocious strength than before.
The reinforcements are not only the armored army, it goes without saying that ordinary soldiers, but also a female army that specializes in playing with bows and arrows.
"We send Dora people. Not only men are brave and good at fighting, but women can also kill the enemy." Luhmaru Jiduo proudly said to Ma Bin, "look at them. Their skills are so flexible that every archery can kill a Persian!"
Ma Bin has long noticed the archer wearing a green robe. Seeing that the weapon is a small horn bow, it is very special in both physique and height.
Those women's armies did not only have small horn bows, but also a short knife with a handle and sheath of about 30 cm around their waist... Or a dagger?
Some women's armies drew out their daggers to fight Sassanian soldiers after they were close. Seeing that they can dodge the weapons waved by the Sassanian soldiers flexibly, and that they can always take a chill when running, jumping and rolling on the ground, and "pull" the Sassanian soldiers with a dagger, they should have received this kind of training for swimming and fighting.
Of course, not only the women's army can kill and kill Sassanian soldiers. In fact, if Sassanian soldiers can fiercely endure being struck by a dagger, a knife or a sword, even if they don't kill or stab a women's army, their heavy strength will make them retreat or fall down.
Ma Bin asked curiously, "how many troops like them are there in your country?"
Luhmaru Jiduo said proudly, "a thousand. They all choose when they are very young, and only thirty girls can leave one."
Ma Bin actually doesn't understand what to be proud of? The idea on the other side of the Han Empire was that unless all the men in the country died, which round of women would go to the battlefield to fight hard.
However, Ma Bin has nothing to despise.
Not every country is the Han Empire, or it should be said that not every country has a sufficient population base.
Some countries are small countries with few people. There is nothing to be blamed for training women to become soldiers on the premise that men are not enough.
If we don't have enough troops, don't we find a way to increase our troops? Both men and women can fight on the battlefield, and even appreciate the resilience and bravery of this country (Nation).
"They......" Zhou Bian said without any emotion: "if we continue to fight, we will soon die."
The battle on the city wall is in a space only three meters wide. The women's army of jidoro is more suitable for training in open terrain, even in the complex environment of the forest, but it is not suitable for such a battlefield crowded with troops.
"Their death will arouse our greater determination to fight!" Luhmaru He said firmly on his face, "it has always been like this!"
Ma Bin and Zhou Bian looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
Whether admit it or not, men have the instinct to protect the weak. In the eyes of men, women belong to the weak group and need to be protected.
When a man is born to the national stage, he will never feel better when he sees his own women dying on the battlefield, especially when he is a soldier.
If luhmaru Jiduo sent female troops to kill the enemy and inspire his soldiers, so it can be said that he succeeded.
The garrison in Peshawar cheered the appearance of the women's army. They would be happy to see the women's army kill the invaders.
The picture changed into that the women's army was squeezed and retreated, one by one, the slender women's army fell under the butcher's knife of the invaders, and the garrison in Peshawar became a Jain.
"Exchange the death of 100 'SAMA' for those men to show greater determination to fight the enemy..." luhmaru Jiduo didn't have any guilt: "isn't that what a wise leader would do?"
Ma Bin remained silent no matter what his views were.
Zhou Bian's lips moved. He thought it was Peshawar. He was not Han on the battlefield and would not comment.
If any leader in the Han Empire dared to do such a thing, it was not the Han women who appeared on the battlefield for uncontrollable reasons, but were driven to die in order to inspire their soldiers' determination to die? Whether this is right or not, not only should public opinion fall on one side, but even if the result of the war is victory, it must also be held accountable by the court and even the son of heaven.
The garrison in Peshawar began to "breed violently". They shouted, as if they felt shame, or broke out with unprecedented courage and jumped at the nearby Sassanian soldiers.
Ma Bin saw a new armored army gathering in the inner wall and looked at the expressionless luhmaru without leaving a trace Jiduo concluded, "this Jiduo Lord... Is at least a lord who knows soldiers."
In the west, the Peshawar garrison, which entered the state of "riot", became stronger. They were supported by the armored army again, killing or squeezing the Sassanian soldiers who attacked the city wall bit by bit.
The defensive momentum of Peshawar has become stronger, and the morale of Sassanian soldiers as the attacking side has naturally fallen.
Just now, the soldiers of Sasan were excited. They once thought that their own side would win the battle for the city wall.
Morale can't be seen or touched. In fact, it changes again and again with the development of the situation. Once morale is high, the timid person will become brave, but once morale is low, the brave person will become timid.
In this battlefield, at least the battle of the western wall, a new situation is emerging on both sides because of the change of morale.
The Sassanian soldiers who went up the city wall earlier experienced excitement and believed that they would definitely win. When the Peshawar garrison fought back madly, they played dirty tricks, waited for the Peshawar garrison to start "planting" and doubted whether they could win. They were excited for a while and doubted themselves. The situation was obviously unfavorable. They were not only forced to retreat by the Peshawar garrison, but also retreated in hesitation.
The first Persian soldier who thought he couldn't win and didn't want to die on the wall jumped down from the four meter high wall. It doesn't matter whether he was killed or not. It's a very bad head for others.
When the Peshawar garrison cheered, the background was the city wall with seven horizontal and eight vertical corpses stacked in a river of blood. There were so many Sassanian soldiers who jumped off the city wall one after another in order to survive.
The battle intensity in the west is decreasing, and only a few Sassanian soldiers are still climbing ladders. What can be regarded as fierce fighting is in the two siege tower areas.
DOS pars Canaan Dina did not withdraw the siege troops, on the contrary, he sent more troops to various battlefields.
Without the order to retreat, it doesn't mean that there are no Sassanian soldiers to flee back. One after another, they are caught by the supervision team, crushed and executed in a place with sufficient light. In addition, the herald repeated the cry of "execute the fugitive". Sassanian soldiers just don't want to climb the city any more and have to stay on the battlefield.
Four hours have passed since the siege until the intensity of the war became smaller.
"The Persians can't organize a more violent offensive tonight." Ma Bin has his own judgment: "unless those defeated soldiers are withdrawn and replaced with new attack troops, the next is a bad battle."
Courage is contagious, so is timidity.
An army that has gone through bloody battles, those who really have courage and dare to fight, in fact, most of them have been consumed in the first attack echelon.
If there is no victory after the bloody battle, those who dare to fight will be consumed by a large number. The rest will not be all cowards. They are more like what others do. They lose the drive of those who dare to fight and lose the confidence to win. In fact, this army will basically lose its combat effectiveness as an army in a short time.
As Ma Bin judged, the most intense confrontation ended, and the long night War didn't stop. Just after the most passionate moment broke out, whether it was losing the confidence to win or for any other reason, except for the jidoro people who would destroy their home and country if they didn't defend, the soldiers on Sasan's side who really couldn't return began their own performance.
The so-called performance is that we roar loudly and can shoot arrows when we should, but we will never rush up. We still hold things that can block arrows in place and move when forced. We expect me to really go up and work hard with the garrison. Even if you kill me, I won't go!
"Do you think sassanne's general is stupid?" Zhou Bian asked, saw Ma Bin shaking his head, smiled and revealed the answer: "not only not stupid, but also very smart. Jidoro didn't leave troops outside the city. They can only defend blindly. They absolutely dare not take it lightly. Once a mistake is a loss."
Simply put, it's a war of fatigue. Anyway, it doesn't let the garrison idle