Chapter 1085

The timing of the emergence of the Han army was not perfect for the war, but it was not the worst time. It can only be said that it did not play a key role?

He said that it did not play a key role, but that Sasan's uniformed commander was firm enough.

In terms of the normal state of the city's offensive and defensive war, once the defenders have reinforcements, most of the attackers will choose to suspend the siege or even withdraw temporarily, so as to avoid the dilemma of being attacked by the reinforcements outside the city and the defenders inside the city.

As the siege side, commander Sassan wanted to destroy Peshawar, and had no confidence in winning the battle with the Han army. It could almost be seen that he was fighting with the mentality of destroying Peshawar together.

The four thousand Sassanian cavalry who turned around again were still placed in the front of the whole army array, followed by about 2500 chariots and nearly 7000 cavalry of various types who had arrived.

When there are tens of thousands of people, it is all over the mountains. With war horses and some spare horses, it seems that it has become more widely distributed.

There are two kinds of chariots in sassanne. One is a small chariot pulled by two horses with a driver and a shooter on it. When necessary, the shooter will become a Spearman; The other is pulled by four horses. In addition to the driver, there are archers, shield men and spearmen.

The wheels of the chariot are crossed with a toothed tower shaped sharp object. When the wheel rotates, it will rotate at high speed. You can imagine what it would be like if it was twisted to the human body.

The horses pulling the chariot are equipped with necessary shelves and rope sleeves. The horses' foreheads and chests generally have either iron or leather armor, but they don't wear armor. Obviously, the armor on the foreheads and chests is out of a consideration of impulse cushioning?

Sasan had about 11000 cavalry, of which about 6000 were light cavalry without armor, about 2000 were bow cavalry, and the rest were divided into two types: knights wearing leather armor and horses and knights with iron armor.

Without exception, no matter what kind of cavalry Sassanian is, the war horses are equipped with stirrups and high bridge saddles. There is no change in style, that is, they simply imitate the style of the Han Empire.

The Persian nation has never lacked cavalry. Due to their geographical location, they do not even lack high-quality war horses.

Their local war horse is a kind of horse with very large skeleton and developed muscles. It has strong short-distance charging power, but its endurance is really not good.

In the north of Persia, which is part of Europe, there are also two kinds of high-quality horses. One is also a horse with large bones but longer body, and the other is a horse that looks thin and small but really good.

In the period of Sassanian Empire, the Persians bought war horses from various tribes in the north again and again, and with their own cultivation and improvement, they produced several new horse breeds.

A new breed of horse looks neither tall nor strong, but its endurance has been greatly improved. The disadvantage is that it is not fast, but it is very suitable for loading light cavalry.

The rest of the abandoned breeding can no longer be regarded as horses, but only animals such as mules and donkeys.

There is a legend that when Li Tang established diplomatic relations with SA Shan, Li Tang purchased war horses from SA Shan, but SA Shan delivered some beautiful and useless war horses?

Later, Li Tang also had a war horse deal with the emerging Arab Empire. Was it also a pit?

In fact, it may not be the Persians or Arabs who deliberately pit Li Tang, but the war horses they think are excellent... For example, the horses of hot-blooded horses are not suitable for the local climate in the East, or the Tang people don't know how to raise and feed them?

The Sassanian army stopped and watched the approaching Han army.

In front of the Han Army, which came out of relatively complex terrain, were scattered cavalry teams, but they were not the top group of the whole army.

As scouts, the Han Army either withdrew from the array long ago or took a detour to the rest of the place. Those scouts who took a detour to other places were the farthest forward of the whole Han army.

The two thousand or so Han troops coming from behind were all light equipment at a glance, but even if they were light, they would also have a suit of leather armor.

If we compare the war horses of the Han army with those of the Sassanian army, we will find that there are obvious differences.

The war horses of the Han army were generally shorter than those of Sasan, even compared with Sasan light cavalry. If compared with Sasan Armored Cavalry, the gap would be even greater.

There is no way at all. There have never been any high-quality war horses in Zhuxia. Even the best war horses were introduced from the western regions. The war horses in the western regions can't compare with the Persian war horses in physique and posture.

After finding that his mount was more powerful than the Han Army, the cavalry of Sassanian regained a little self-confidence, just comparing their respective equipment, and their heart sank involuntarily.

Sashan's light cavalry usually have only one weapon, either short weapon machete or long weapon short spear. There are really no other weapons.

In terms of bow cavalry, Sassanian's bow cavalry is equipped with a horn bow, with a machete that looks like a dagger length at the waist, and then two pots of arrows.

The Sassanian knight in leather armor is actually very simple. In addition, there is usually only a four meter lance in his hand, and few people have another machete in their waist.

What looks most luxurious is the heavy cavalry equipped with iron armor. They not only wear armor on themselves, but also the war horse under the crotch is also the predecessor dressed in iron armor. In addition to a six meter riding spear, they also have a four meter riding gun and a machete hanging on the side of the horse's back.

A lancet is a lancet. It's a style that won't break after being stabbed.

Riding a spear is the kind of spear that will break itself after stabbing an object.

On the other hand, the cavalry of the Han Army, whether light cavalry or sudden cavalry, are all armored. They have no less than two kinds of weapons. Exaggerated Knights look at and even carry more than five kinds of weapons.

The cavalry of the two camps, about three miles apart, kept whistling from each other's formation, and looked at the banners waving on both sides.

A blatant bugle sounded first from Sassanian army.

The four thousand Sassanian light cavalry who had always been placed in the front shouted loudly. They didn't know what the slogan was. Anyway, the Han people couldn't understand it, so they began to move forward slowly.

The first batch of Han troops arrived, all of them about 2600, which is about five times less than that of sassanne. They saw sassane's light cavalry start to move forward, and there was a strong trumpet in the formation.

Several Han cavalry hundred people teams, which have been cruising at a slow speed, are slowly dispersing in the movement. At the same time, some special Knights accelerate to the front of the queue.

The Sassanian light cavalry, who have started to accelerate, can see some good people in the Han army suddenly appear in heavy leather armor, not holding a lance or a spear, but holding a knife with bending range in both hands, and gradually form an inverted "V" formation every 20 people or so.

These newly emerged Han knights are actually a bit like heavy cavalry, but the Knights don't wear iron armor and the crotch horses don't have armor.

The left and right wings of the armed cavalry are slightly behind the Han Army light cavalry, and the Han Army light cavalry not only have close combat weapons, but also choose to be equipped with riding bow or angle bow according to their shooting skills. They form an attack formation and charge forward.

"Han Army!"

"Mighty!"

In addition, the light cavalry of the Han army who began to move slowly roared out the battle horn and cheered for the paoze ahead before driving the war horses to move.

The 4000 Sassanian light cavalry who have begun to accelerate are actually too many for this battlefield. As a result, the horizontal is squeezed and the thickness becomes larger. At the same time, they don't want to be too close to each other. They can only control the speed before and after, so as to make the gap between their own people in the front of the charge larger.

After the cavalry enters the charging state, there should be a gap of at least three meters, not only to drive the flexibility of the horses, but also to avoid hurting their own people when the long weapons in their hands are dancing, or even collision between their own cavalry.

Han Army knights wearing thick leather armor and holding two weapons have a very professional name called "Xuanfeng". In addition to the visible thick armor, they also have a lock armor inside. Even everyone is wearing more than two layers of silk underwear. The weapon in their hands is the improved long handle chopping sabre. Even if the blade of the ordinary chopping Sabre has a bending range, it will not be too large. After the transformation, the bending range is slightly larger.

The Knights of the enemy and our side are constantly approaching each other in a noisy environment. When they can clearly identify each other with the naked eye, the Han cavalry can see the face of the visual Sassanian cavalry very clearly, while the Sassanian cavalry can only see the eyes behind the helmet of the Han cavalry.

The light cavalry of the Han army took the lead in launching a volley, but because there were not many people, the arrows were not dense, but ten arrows shot over three or four Sassanian cavalry, and the hit rate was very considerable.

Riding and archery can shoot two shots at most, and there should be a collision

The "front selection" Knight of the Han Army lowered his upper body, the reins were bitten by the mouth behind the mask, and the two machetes in both hands were crossed out from left to right. They didn't make any waving or cutting action at all, but when they crossed with the sashan cavalry, the crossed machetes killed the sashan cavalry.

Every time their bodies tilted back, they were hit by the Sassanian light cavalry with a long machete. The blade was extremely sharp. Coupled with the speed blessing of the war horse, let alone not wearing armor. Unless they were wearing iron armor, they would be ripped open.

At the beginning of the interleaving of the charge, the Han Army "selected the front" brought blood flowers and screams along the way. Sashan cavalry fell off their horses everywhere they passed. Even if they are cut by a machete or stabbed by a short spear, the machete can break through the thick leather armor and is blocked by the lock armor. Only when they are hit by a short spear will they be seriously injured or even die directly.

At the beginning of the front battle, the remaining Han light cavalry were divided into three brigades. The brigade in the center was moving forward along the paoze charging route, and the other two brigades made a detour from left to right.

If you take a bird's-eye view of the battlefield from a high altitude, you will find that the tactics of the Han cavalry are very old-fashioned. It is nothing more than another Trident formation. Each brigade forms its own cavalry charge formation of forward arrow array.

On the contrary, the 4000 Sassanian light cavalry who also launched the charge looked like a long line. With the continuous acceleration in the front, the rear was forced to control the speed, which was an embarrassing state of thin front and thick rear.

The Han Army "electing the front" who kept killing the front had found that the enemy needed to face was getting thicker and thicker. They couldn't care to see how many robes were on the left and right. Seeing that there was no detour space at all, the first "electing the front" loosened the reins clenched on his teeth. Due to the influence of the mask, the sentence "Han Army's power" was roared a little stuffy.

The first roaring Han Army "selected the front", his left rib was inserted with a broken spear. In fact, he was in a state of vomiting blood just now, and his mind was becoming more and more unclear. He completely relied on strong willpower to support his body, not to lean down, and held the handle of the knife in his hand so as not to lose his weapon.

The "Han Army's power" was roared out, leaving only air in the mouth and nose but no air out. The eyes could not be controlled to close, but also forced to open with the only remaining willpower. The body was no longer depressed, but became a straight state.

"Ping'er..." Zuo Wei saw a very young Sassanian cavalry. The next moment, the man became his wife: "Xijun..."

Zuo Wei blinked for the last time and never closed his eyes, but his eyes had lost focus, but people were still carried by war horses and still depended on the extended horse chopping saber going out from left to right to kill the enemy.

The last "selected front" of the Han army hit the dense Sassanian light cavalry, and about 60 "selected front" fell into the sky.

The rest of the Han cavalry charged together with "Xuanfeng". They were about two or three seconds later than "Xuanfeng", and all fell on the road of charging.

The sacrifice of about 300 Han cavalry in exchange for the death of at least 1100 cavalry in Sasan, and the charging formation of Sasan light cavalry was disorderly and squeezed.

"Hoo!"

"Ho!"

A trumpet was sounded.

Three front arrow cavalry teams of Trident formation. The knights in front have begun to level their spears or lances, and the Knights behind have begun to shoot arrows.

About a mile or two away from the rear of the battlefield, a cavalry force of about 6000 Han troops constantly emerged from behind a slope.

The earth trembled slightly because there were too many horseshoes trampling on it, and the animals in the wilderness fled aimlessly.

Farther back and to the north of the side, two Han cavalry troops of about 13000 combined appeared.

The Han knights who were about to collide with Sassanian light cavalry shouted the battle number in unison.

"The Han army is mighty!!!"