Chapter 1078

Naturally, sassanne also has a bed crossbow, which is a sharp weapon of war.

This was the Sassanian army that invaded jidoro. They didn't carry too heavy siege equipment. Although the bed crossbow is also large, it is not as bulky as other large instruments. It is still carried by an army.

DOS pars The reason why Canaan Dina did not put the crossbow into use immediately was very simple, but it was just not time.

The city wall offensive and defensive war began again as the offensive and defensive armies entered each other's long-range weapon range.

All kinds of arrows are fired by crossbow men. They will cross in mid air. Some arrows collide and fall down, and more arrows fly forward according to their own fixed trajectory.

When the arrow falls, the arrowhead falls first. The kinetic energy of flight and the sharpness of the arrowhead will produce penetration when they hit any object.

The arrowheads of sassanne and jidoro are both flat double inverted hooks. This type of arrowhead is actually lack of accuracy and penetration. However, this kind of arrowhead is generally used to shoot soldiers without armor. After entering the meat, they don't die and want to pull it out. The double inverted hooks must cause second damage when they are pulled out.

On the battlefield, soldiers fell down with arrows and screamed and groaned again and again.

In the advancing Sassanian army, the soldiers carrying ladders in the front row began to run as early as they entered the bow and arrow range on the side of the city. They themselves carried ladders and had no sensitivity. They could only run forward.

The defenders on the wall of Peshawar, of course, shoot arrows at Sassanian soldiers carrying ladders. The more dead they shoot, the fewer ladders they will take on the wall, and the less pressure they will have on their own defense.

Some people carrying ladders attracted the arrow rain on the city wall. The subsequent Sassanian soldiers began to make necessary arrangements. They formed a curved horizontal line with shield cars.

The sashan swordsmen who arranged the shield car began to rush forward. When they charged, they would try their best to lower their bodies, put the shield in their hands on their heads, feel the force of arrows on the shield, and listen to the knock of metal and skin in their ears.

Of course, it is not absolutely safe to rush against the shield. The shield only protects a large part of the upper body, and it is still exposed from the waist to the soles of the feet.

Some Sassanian sword and shield players ran and were hit by arrows in their thighs. At the same time of severe pain, they lost their balance, stumbled for a while, and then fell to the ground. Unfortunately, the shield had just moved away from the key protection position. The next moment, an arrow was shot and killed.

The Sassanian soldiers carrying the ladder approached the wall. Without breathing, they began to erect the ladder against all kinds of heavy objects dropped from the wall.

Before long, sashan's sword and shield hands also approached the wall and ran to those sword and shield hands on the side of the erected ladder. Naturally, they began to climb. They climbed on top. In the process, they had to endure the constant falling of things on the top. If the less exaggerated stones could be supported by shields, they would fall if they couldn't carry the big stones or logs at all.

When they ran to the Sassanian sword shield hands who had not yet erected the ladder, they had to join the operation of erecting the ladder. In the process, they also had to endure the constant falling of things on their heads. Many people were injured or died immediately in the busy process.

Both under and on the city wall are busy. The Sassanian soldiers who have arrived under the city wall want to go up. The Peshawar garrison on the city wall naturally wants to stop them. They are only an integral part of this huge battlefield.

Sassanne's Crossbow men set the position of the shield car before they arrived.

A small number of crossbow men started Stringing with a crossbow machine imitating the crossbow machine of the Han Empire.

Should it be in the 14th year of Yuanshuo that Sasha got the crossbow machine? They split and studied, and began to mass produce their crossbow machine when it was approaching the 16th year of Yuanshuo.

Some imitations are improved, and the performance is much better than that of genuine goods.

Some imitations are due to the lack of performance standards.

In fact, sassanne made a comparison. They must admit that they didn't seem to fully understand that the crossbow machine made by imitation was not only inferior to the crossbow machine of the Han Empire in range, but also damaged very quickly.

It always takes time to be familiar with a new thing, especially when it comes to scientific and technological creation. Without the precipitation of time, how can we produce any excellent scientific and technological creation, especially in imitation.

Persian craftsmen can confirm that there is no wrong installation of any parts, and guess that the difference in range should be the relationship between bow and string. As a result, they used bowstrings far more valuable than those in the Han Empire. The range reached the standard, but the cost also increased.

In fact, it is related to the knowledge of material science. There is a gap in the performance of the same parts with different materials, but it is not only the relationship between bow and string, but also the materials used in some parts are different.

In addition, even as like as two peas artificially created the same material as the Han Empire, the Persian artificially created the crossbow machine. However, because of the difference in the specifications of the parts, the performance of the crossbow is still inferior to that of the Han Empire, and the damage rate is directly related to the parts specifications not reaching the standard.

"The Persians imitated our crossbow." Ma Bin has long known the news: "today is the first time to see them use it."

The Han army would try not to leave anything related to firearms on the battlefield, and the packing of other war equipment was not so strict.

Moreover, before the 17th year of Yuanshuo, there were not many troops equipped with firearms in the Han Empire, and they were sent to the battlefield only a few times, and the loss rate was much lower than that of other war materials.

Almost every field army of the Han Empire was equipped with a large number of crossbow machines of various styles, especially the most powerful crossbows used by infantry.

In fact, it is not only the army. Although it is forbidden for the people to own powerful crossbows, the history of the use of crossbows in Zhuxia has been so long. Not only are there people who can make crossbows, but also there are not few wealthy families who secretly store crossbow machines.

The Persians were far less difficult to get a crossbow than to get a firearm. They worked hard for three or four years to get very little gunpowder, but they got a little more styles of weapons such as crossbows.

Sassanian's Crossbow soldiers step on the bowstring directly, pull the bowstring to the trigger position, buckle it, and then load the arrow. They don't launch immediately when they are ready, but wait for the command.

"Shoot!"

The sound of the trigger and the bow string sounded almost at the same time. The crossbow arrows broke away from the slot and fired forward. At the moment they shot out, they actually made a broken sound.

"There are about 500 crossbow soldiers in the Western battlefield." Zhou Bian looked at it and said, "we see so much. Sasha should have imitated a lot."

Crossbow is the ultimate long-range weapon of cold weapon. The reason why it can shoot far is that some parts load the tension of pulling the bow string, otherwise it is very difficult to pull it simply by manpower. There is no doubt that the range is naturally far with great tension, but it also depends on the material of the arrow.

"The range is about 250 meters." What Ma Bin saw was that the crossbows and arrows fired by Sasan crossbow soldiers did not only reach the city wall, but a considerable number of Sasan crossbow soldiers did not control the elevation, but shot too far into the city: "our powerful crossbows have a range of 480 meters at most. Ordinary crossbows can basically reach 280 meters."

I don't know what style of crossbow was imitated by the Persians. Judging from the use on the battlefield, it should be that there is no good style, or that the Persians can't imitate too good style?

Whether it's a cold weapon war or a firearm war, it usually has an advantage over a long range. It's a dilemma that you can attack me, but I can't attack you.

"They don't have many crossbows, otherwise they should be covered with arrows and rain first." Zhou argued that Zhuxia had enough powerful crossbows and enough arrows, and the general tactics were: "take advantage of the range to continuously cover the arrow rain, which will suddenly frustrate the morale of the garrison. Over time, the Garrison's morale will be lax. If you attack the city again, you will get twice the result with half the effort."

In the history of Zhuxia, the Qin army gave full play to its long-range advantage most. Each time they attacked a city, they basically washed the land with arrows and rain for several days or even more than a month. In this way, when many cities met the Qin army, they could not manage the Qin army to launch a real siege. The city defenders could not bear the psychological pressure and surrendered first.

At the back, it is basically difficult to see the arrows of the Qin army washing the ground. First, the number of crossbows has decreased rapidly, and second, the consumption of arrows is difficult to maintain. It would be so embarrassing because the assembly line production technology mastered by the pre Qin Dynasty was lost. It was clear that the pre Qin crossbow was damaged and could be repaired by replacing parts, but the back crossbow was damaged but the parts did not match. The consumption of arrows is the same. The national strength has increased, but the production efficiency is low. Naturally, the production speed can not keep up with the consumption speed.

Zhuxia has been developing, but with each change of Dynasty, some technologies are lost in the war.

A funny thing that is not funny. By the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Zhao Kuangyin bullied the orphan and widowed mother and founded the Northern Song Dynasty, but his skills in making crossbows were not as good as those of the Xiang party.

That's because the Xiang party inherited the crossbow making technology of Li Tang and made some improvements for a time, but the other forces did not obtain the crossbow making technology. For example, the Northern Song Dynasty, which nominally ruled the Xiang party, did not obtain it.

The latter Xiang party split from the Northern Song Dynasty and founded the country on their own. The Northern Song Dynasty was captured in the war with Xixia. After its own research and improvement, it can be regarded as a powerful weapon to surpass Xixia, that is, the divine arm crossbow.

The problem is that the manufacturing method of the divine arm crossbow was lost while waiting for the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. Since then, the position of crossbow in the war has declined again and again. The more it goes to the back, the more difficult it is to see a good crossbow.

Now, because the Sassanian army has a single weapon with a longer range than the Peshawar garrison, it has staged a unilateral bullying by relying on the range.

At first, the garrison on the wall of Peshawar was still shooting arrows at the Sassanian soldiers under the wall, but they couldn't reach the Sassanian crossbow 200 meters away.

Waiting for the Peshawar garrison to be covered by Sassanian crossbows and arrows again and again, they don't even shoot at the Sassanian siege soldiers under the city wall. They can only hide behind the women's wall or shield and wait for the Sassanian crossbow soldiers to enter the interval before they can show their heads and continue shooting.

In addition, the defenders who are responsible for throwing stones, logs and pouring gold juice, fire oil and boiling water to the enemy under the city wall actually want to avoid the cover of Sasan crossbowmen.

There were only crossbow soldiers with a longer range than the defenders, and their arrows were accidentally injured, but they repeatedly suppressed some wall sections, so that the assassin soldiers could climb the ladder in a relative environment.

"If the Persians had more crossbows, they wouldn't have to be four or five times, just two or three times..." Zhou Bian actually looked down on the accuracy of the Sassanian crossbow soldiers. It seemed that he didn't know the importance of shooting elevation. In that way, it was really far from the Han crossbow soldiers, But for the Peshawar Garrison who has no counterattack ability at all, it is enough: "it will be much easier to board first because they don't care about the ruthlessness of accidental injury."

Yes, Persians have crossbows in batches. They are still feeling how to use the rope crossbow. For the time being, they have not found the importance of shooting elevation, or they know it, but they don't have enough time to train the crossbow soldiers, which is a very normal thing.

The Han Army promoted culture and education in the army. It didn't plan to teach a group of top scholars. It just let the soldiers read.

Educated soldiers and uneducated soldiers are two groups. When educated soldiers are trained, the speed of mastering training skills must be much faster than those without culture.

In the pre-Qin period, it was recognized that crossbow soldiers needed to master mathematical knowledge. The Qin army did not popularize education, but the strict military law forced soldiers to concentrate on learning when receiving training. They dared to be careless or couldn't keep up with the training progress. The whip may still be light. It's nothing to punish them for hard labor or more serious punishment, and they will never spare it.

The attack and defense on the battlefield is not fierce, but the trend of victory and defeat has emerged. Only the emergence of crossbow soldiers has changed the trend. Once those siege instruments are pushed up, the war will be more unfavorable to the Peshawar garrison.

This time, Li Tan ventured to be within 15 miles of Peshawar, relying on the latest telescopes... That is, the one that is relatively large and needs a support to watch the development of the war in the distance.

"The Persians attacked the day all night last night?" The scouts who watched Li Tan responded and nodded: "they have great determination to attack the city!"

After an evaluation, Li Tan actually doesn't care whether Peshawar will fall or not, and even wants to fall quickly. Otherwise, the longer they hide, the more likely they are to be exposed.

"Attack on all sides at the same time, and the main direction of attack is the West." Li Tan left the telescope and rubbed his sour eyes: "his courage is still too small. His troops have an all-round advantage. If he doesn't attack from all sides, both sides are better than one side."

Li Tan guessed that the commander of Sassanian army was not enough.

With enough troops, we really need enough commanders, otherwise it's just a matter of more soldiers.

Li Tan was able to take charge alone and had the most basic judgment. He thought he should go back immediately and be ready to lead the troops to Peshawar at any time.