When the eastern sky turns fish white, the sun has not appeared in the field of vision, and the first sunrise will not appear for a while.
When Peshawar's siege side arrived in the second half, it became a small fight, especially after the two siege towers were damaged, the Sassanian army on the siege side did not climb the city on a large scale.
The Peshawar garrison, as the defensive side, tried to relax several times. It may be that the commander of Sasan side noticed and instigated new big movements, forcing the Peshawar garrison to pay attention. The problem is that Sasan just made big movements and did not take practical actions.
The Peshawar garrison naturally dare not take it lightly.
The Sassanian side can make dozens of false movements, but as long as the Peshawar garrison dares to really relax, the Sassanian side can break the city once and seize the opportunity.
Another reason why the Peshawar garrison dare not relax is that there are a large number of Sassanian soldiers under the city wall. Although these Sassanian soldiers are no longer desperate, there is no doubt that they are a real threat.
After the sky began to have a bright color, the first sunshine appeared on the battlefield. With sufficient light, the traces left by the battle last night were clearly seen.
The battle site is about 200 meters away from the city wall. Scattered corpses lie 150 meters away from the city wall. They are all dead soldiers belonging to Sassanian side. The number of corpses will increase as they get closer to the city wall.
What looks most tragic is that on the edge of the city wall, the war dead are stacked together, and there may be undead wounded buried.
Too much blood flowed to a piece, became blood, gathered to a low-lying position, and became a pool of blood. Countless flies move on the blood and can hear a very obvious "buzzing" sound.
What can really be called miserable is that in some fire areas, the bodies were burned so that they could not recognize the enemy and us, and many were directly burned into ashes. Some parts are burned, leaving some places that are not scorched, which makes people look more disgusting anyway.
With enough light, there was the sound of gongs in Sasan.
A burst of relief like cheers was cheered from the Sassanian soldiers on the edge of the wall. They were given the signal to retreat and didn't have to stay in this place full of corpses and stench.
When the sound of the Gong was sounded, the Peshawar garrison was also cheering. They thought they had won the phased victory of this offensive and defensive war, and there was enough reason to cheer.
"The city gate itself is blocked..." Zhou Bian looked at the Sassanian troops without retreating formation: "otherwise it would be a good opportunity to go out of the city to pursue."
Although there was no bright spot in the attack and defense in the second half, Zhou Bian and Ma Bin still stayed up all night, but luhemalu I sent it too much and went to rest late at night.
Ma Bin's focus is not on the retreating Sassanian soldiers. He pointed to Sassanian's camp and said: "at night, he began to make a fire and cook food. The soldiers who finished eating have begun to assemble."
They have brought binoculars to see the distance more clearly.
Sassanne is indeed organizing new troops, or the camps around him are preparing. It seems that he doesn't intend to give the Peshawar garrison more breathing time.
After the day comes, there is enough light to see things. Even without a telescope, you can see that there are many siege devices on Sasan, especially the siege towers that are not difficult to build but seem to be very useful. At a glance, there are 17 in the West alone.
"There are seven in the north and six in the south. We can't see them in the East." Ma Bin visually measured the number of soldiers being assembled: "no less than 5000 in the west, no less than 2000 in the north and south, and it should be the same in the East."
The Sassanian army at the foot of the city looked like 60000 or 70000. The number of people lost before was about two or three thousand. For an army with a total number of 60000 or 70000, the loss of two or three thousand people was not great.
"Is that a catapult?" Zhou Bian pointed to an instrument being pushed. It was covered with cloth, but he could see some contours: "those are stone catapults?"
Ma Bin looked through a telescope in the direction Zhou Bian knew and said, "it's really a catapult. But why do they hide and don't put it into siege?"
To be honest, Ma Bin was a little surprised that the Persians could make so many siege equipment in one day and one night, especially the catapult.
They have been paying attention to Sassanian army. They are sure that Sassanian army did not bring siege equipment when it came.
With such speed and execution, it must be admitted that the Persians do have what they should have as an empire, which can even be said to be very surprising.
"Our words..." Ma Bin said not so sure: "maybe we can do this step, but we should not do better than Persians."
Zhou Bian, who has been a front-line officer for a long time, said: "according to the style of our catapult, the rush time will not be less than two days."
So the question is, what is the style of the Sassanian army outside the city, how far is its catapult, and how many objects can it project?
"Maybe it was semi-finished products that didn't go to war." Zhou Bian also made a personal guess: "otherwise, don't you build siege equipment to facilitate siege? It doesn't make sense not to put it into use."
Before there were no other ideas, Ma Bin agreed with Zhou Bian.
The group of Sassanian soldiers who stayed by the wall last night retreated, leaving a messy battlefield.
Some of the injuries found were evacuated Persians who were taken back. The bodies of the war dead were not cleaned up. In the current weather, if they were not cleaned up for more than two days, they would stink.
The horn of the decadent sound was sounded from the Sassanian camp, and a knight with a white flag slowly approached the wall.
Zhou argued, "do you want to listen to what you say?"
"No." Ma Bin guessed: "it should be a request for a temporary truce to clean up the battlefield."
Zhou argued, "I'm afraid xiaoyueshi won't agree."
The garrison of Peshawar responded with action. A figure who looked like a general opened his bow and arrow to shoot the Sassanian knight with a white flag off his horse.
With the sacking of the Sassanian knight, the Peshawar garrison erupted into enthusiastic cheers.
"They see very clearly." Ma Bin said with a smile: "the Persians come here because they are not good. Unless jidoro is willing to surrender, no amount of goodwill will change anything."
Whether to collect the traces after the war will have an impact on both the offensive and defensive sides, but it will have a greater impact on the offensive side.
The vast majority of the corpses under the city came from Sasan. The newly invested troops saw such a scene, especially some people died miserably and should be timid before fighting.
In addition to the psychological pressure, the other is that those traces have become part of the obstacles. Many wall sections are not cleared out, and even the siege ladder has no place to stand.
The knight with the white flag was shot to death, and there were bursts of roars from the Sasan camp.
A Persian who looked like a general rode out alone and galloped his horse about 200 meters outside the Peshawar city wall. He raised his voice and shouted a string of unknown words. He roared a few times and then controlled his horse back.
"If someone dares to do such a thing in a big man's city..." Zhou Bian glanced around: "without guns, bed crossbows can make him a corpse."
There are no bed crossbows on the wall of jidoro. On the contrary, there are several bed crossbows in several places of the palace fortress. Explain that jidoro is a bed crossbow, which is not easy to manufacture, or does he simply have no technology to manufacture it and import it from abroad?
The Persians were obviously angry. Not only the horn sound of the decadent sound was sounded with frequent movement, but also the crisp war drum sound was pounded, and then tens of thousands of people roared all over the world.
Among all kinds of movements, the Peshawar garrison is changing defense in batches at a rare gap, and they are also cleaning up the debris on the city wall.
The corpses left by the enemy's war deaths were not left behind in the city. They were collected. I don't know what to do.
Paoze's corpses killed in the war were roughly thrown into the inner city, and some people carried them, threw them into an ox cart and took them away.
"Send DORO..." Ma Bin looked at those conditions: "at least in the attitude towards war, we should be vigilant."
"Xiaoyue people are also an ancient nation." Zhou Bian did not comment on others, saying: "in their long history, they have survived in the cracks, can continue, and can grow again in this land. They have their own set of survival rules."
It can be seen that jidoro has its own survival rules. For example, the Lord knows how to stimulate the morale of the army, and even sends women to the battlefield.
If you look at it again, it is clear that you are surrounded by more than six or seven times your own strength. There is no obvious low morale in the garrison. I'm afraid there are not many such experiences.
What is very difficult is that all the soldiers and civilians in Peshawar, almost people who can move bullets, have joined in serving the war, and a considerable number of young men and women are ready to join in the city defense.
"The Jiduo family should be very loved." What Ma Bin doesn't understand is: "what's the reason why the invading Sassanian army came all the way into a deserted land?"
Zhou debated and said, "luhmaru Jiduo mentioned more than once that there would be king Qin's armed forces."
"I found it." Ma Bin thought deeply and said, "luhmaru Jiduo is looking forward to Han's reinforcements, but he doesn't show urgency."
It means, luhmaru In fact, Jiduo doesn't despair that Peshawar is under attack. It doesn't seem surprising that Sasan's invasion can attack Peshawar at once. In particular, he doesn't have an obvious sense of urgency. In any way, he seems to rely on it.
"According to our estimation, the total population of jidoro is about 400000..." Ma Bin said incomprehensibly: "it is to concentrate the young and strong who dare to fight, and the number will not exceed 60000 at most. If there is a king's army to Peshawar, it can really turn the situation around?"
There are no rivers around Peshawar, but it is not a large river system. At present, it is not a rainy season. It is obviously unreliable to make any water attack.
The city is on a plain, and the nearest mountain area is thirty miles away. The vegetation is more dense, but it seems that it is not so easy to attack fire!
Zhou Bian understood Ma Bin's meaning and said in the same confusion: "is it difficult for luhmaru to send more reinforcements from other countries in addition to the big man?"
Ma Bin didn't forget this, luhmaru As Jiduo said before, they joined forces with two satraps, apiro, hunnit, Kashmir... To fight Sasan.
Now hunit exists in name only, and the two satraps are simply one side of the anti Han axis. It is not wrong that apiro and Kashmir are neighbors of jidoro, but according to the information known to the Han Empire, apiro and Kashmir are not powerful countries.
In the intelligence data of the Han Empire, apiro and Kashmir belong to small countries and few people. Even if they tried their best to save jidoro, they would be willing to send more than 50000 coalition troops to jidoro.
Ma Bin and Zhou Bian exchanged more and more confusion. After thinking for half a day, they couldn't figure out what to rely on to send Dora.
Outside the city, Sassan's siege troops have begun to advance.
This time, the Sassanian army pressed the siege tower made at one time, and according to the attack situation, the troops selected to attack were obviously different from last night.
In other words, last night was a night battle, and Sassanian's commander was unable to carry out more control or regulation, resulting in the mess of the offensive.
The advancing Sassanian troops, no matter which side of the city wall, can see that it is a state of no hurry and no delay.
Of course, the infantry carrying wooden ladders will be at the front. They are not mixed with the rest of the soldiers. They are a single column.
A little behind, about five rows are swordsmen with shields and swords. They wear a kind of leather armor that looks simple. When they push forward, they can maintain the order of the queue, giving people a feeling that they should be elite. In front of them are rows of shield cars pushed forward, which should be used as a barrier for crossbow men in the rear?
Behind the five rows of sword and shield hands are ten rows of bow and crossbow hands. They hold bows or crossbows in their hands, but a sword is hanging around their waist.
The next thick layer is the melee arms. Because the weapons are not unified, it looks a little chaotic, but it still keeps moving forward in order.
Finally, there are heavy siege equipment. In addition to the siege tower, some are actually similar to the siege equipment in Zhuxia, such as the cart with something on the top and left and right sides, and the well stop that looks like the siege tower.
The Persians seem to pay more attention to siege towers. The number of siege equipment of other types is very small. Maybe it will be increased slowly with the time of war, or even new and more sharp siege equipment will appear.
"We seem to have overlooked one point." Zhou Bian thought something and suddenly said in surprise, "there are bed crossbows in jidoro. Why didn't you see the Persians use them?"
Ma Bin was obviously stunned. He didn't think of this before.