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Chapter 1073 How can it be useless (Happy New Year!)

The Sasanian army that marched into Peshawar didn't seem to have any intention of resting?They assigned a large number of people and began to cut down the surrounding forests, no doubt to make siege equipment.

Peshawar is said to be a city, but it is an urban area not much larger than the county seat of the Han Empire. Even before the walls of the counties of the Han Empire were not demolished, the height and thickness of the city walls were higher and thicker than it.

"My lord, don't panic." Ma Bin looked very calm, and said, "As the lord of a country, if the lord panics, what will happen to the rest of the people?"

Although Luhmaru Jido is the lord of a land turtle country, it is impossible for him not to know that truth.The problem is that he doesn't want to panic, he just can't control it!
Peshawar is a city wall made of mud, straw, gravel and stones. The height is about four meters, and the thickness is three meters.

The height of the city wall determines the advantage of defense, and the thickness determines the strength that can be deployed in each city wall section.

Judging from the city wall of Peshawar, 25 people can be arranged every ten meters.This kind of troop composition is too thin for a city wall that is only four meters high!

"Messenger, when will your army arrive?" Luhmaru Jido said almost pleadingly, "Can you send someone to hurry?"

Ma Bin was looking at the defenders defending the city wall. Compared to the lord's unbearable situation, the defenders did not show any obvious panic.

Before he came to Peshawar as an envoy to Jidoro, Ma Bin still knew some history of Jidoro, and what he saw was that Jidoro repeatedly defeated the Sasanian invasion.

Since Jidoro was able to defeat Sassan many times, shouldn't it be so useless?

The problem now is that [-] to [-] Sasanian troops broke into the territory of Jidoluo, and it only took eight days to attack the city of Peshawar. The facts are seriously inconsistent with the rumors.

"It's different." Luhmaru Jiduo heard Ma Bin's question and explained: "We, Abhiro, and... Hunnit and the two Satraps have been fighting against Sassan. Before Sasanian marches on one country, and the rest of the country will respond, and now..."

Ma Bin understood as soon as he heard it. It turned out that Sassan had to be prepared to face the siege of multiple countries if he wanted to send troops. At the same time, the positions of those countries were still different, which meant that Sassan would fall into multi-faceted warfare as soon as he made a move.

So, Sasanian not only had to face Rome, but also a multinational alliance?It was the emergence of the Han Empire that changed the international situation of Sasanian. Rome, the two Satraps, and Hunnite, who were once enemies, became Sasanian allies. It is estimated that Jidoro has not had time to make a decision. As a result, the Western Expeditionary Army of the Han Empire came.

To replace the Sasanian Empire with the Han Empire, you have to face an empire that is not weaker than yourself or even stronger, and then face several enemies and a few minions who are regional powers.Under such a situation where one hair affects the whole body, what should the Han Empire do?
Ma Bin had the answer in an instant. The situation faced by the Han Empire in the early days was much worse than that of Sassan. It had to face the direct pressure of the Shijie Zhao State, and the Murong Yan State, Li Shicheng State, and the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were watching from the sidelines. , but there is only a seemingly friendly Tuobadai country left, and the Han Empire has not cleared all obstacles.

Of course, Ma Bin didn't know that the Han army with Liu Yan didn't have to think about the transportation of grain and fodder at all, otherwise...

"Xiao Wang has always wanted to be a big man, so he has today..." Luhmaru Jiduo is actually still waiting for a price. Seeing the army of the Han Empire approaching, Xiang is out of the way, and has never thought about the two empires. How could the audience be left behind during the battle: "The big man can't be ignored!"

"This envoy is still here." Ma Bin didn't need to guess too much what Luhmaru Jiduo's original intention was. Anyway, Jiduoluo had no other choice now: "The request letter was sent out eight days ago. , according to the footsteps, the great Han Tianbing will arrive in a few days."

The people sent by Sassanid to cut wood are slowly gathering, and soon a large group of people can be seen busy making various siege equipment.

Before that, other Sasanian armies began to form their troops and gradually gathered outside the four walls of Peshawar.

The place where the first battle started was not where Ma Bin and Luhmaru Jiduo were. It was heard that the north side fought first.

Sassan must have its own style of siege equipment, but there is one that is nothing special, and it is the climbing ladder.

If the city wall is high, the difficulty of making the ladder will naturally be greater.

The city wall of Peshawar is only four meters long, and the splicing of ladders is less difficult, so there is no need to worry about being too long and easy to break.

Anyone who understands physics will understand a basic principle, the longer the object is, the easier it is to bend, and the difference of one centimeter as a load-bearing structure is weaker.

The same is the ladder, only four meters, and six or seven meters or even longer, the difficulty of manufacturing is definitely not the same.

After the Sasanian army approached the city, they were divided into four parts and surrounded Peshawar from all sides.

The largest number of Sasanian troops deployed outside the city was in the west, and the remaining troops in the north, east and south varied in size, but never less than 5000.

The Sasanian army in the north gathered enough ladders, and after a loud horn sounded, the Sasanian soldiers in the front were carrying a ladder together by several people, and the group behind them was Hulala holding weapons.

The Sasanian army had just arrived, and there were too many insufficient preparations. The most obvious thing was that they didn't even make simple wooden shields.

The Peshawar defenders on the city wall have already started shooting arrows. Their bows and arrows have full Asan characteristics, and they use bamboo bows and bamboo arrows.

This kind of Ah San's characteristic bow and arrow has a long range, but how lethal it is depends on the authority.

The Sasanian soldiers who launched the attack, they saw that very few people were wearing armor. After the arrows on the city wall were shot, even though the bamboo arrows looked floating, they still knocked down one person for every shot.

Once the Sasanian soldier carrying the ladder was shot down, it didn't matter whether he died or not. The main thing was that the ladder would lose its balance and smack to the ground, and the rest of them would also fall down.

In fact, only a few of the Sasanian soldiers who were shot by the arrow died immediately after being shot, and most of the Sasanian soldiers who were shot by the arrow were only injured.

There were various injuries, and most of them were arrowheads entering the flesh without causing penetration. If the stronger soldiers pulled out the arrows directly from their bodies, they would still be able to continue charging forward.

The number of defenders on the city wall was too thin. Not everyone held a bow and shot again. If the arrows were not too dense, they probably killed or wounded a hundred or so Sasanian soldiers, and not many people died.

The Sasanian soldiers of the forward stormtroopers, who had bows in their hands, began to counterattack after coming into range.

Compared with the Peshawar defenders who are all bamboo bows, Sassan is not the case.

The history of Persians playing bows and arrows is too long, especially with their own ace cavalry archers. The research on bows has always been at the forefront of other countries in the same period.

The standard bows of the Sasanian army are divided into three broad categories: horn bows, hard bows, and riding bows, and the rest are non-mainstream extensions.

The bows equipped for Sasanian infantry are generally hard bows with different tensions. According to the calculation habits of Zhu Xia, they are roughly divided into tensions of one stone, two stones, three stones... until five stones.

Like all countries, Sassanian soldiers are generally equipped with hard bows of one stone.A hard bow with this kind of tension, if the arrows it matches are not too bad, can generally shoot up to 120 meters, but the accuracy will vary from person to person.

The same is archery. After the Sasanian archers counterattacked, once the Peshawar defenders at the head of the city were shot, unless it was scratched, or they would lose their combat effectiveness immediately.

Soon the first batch of Sasanian soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and the soldiers carrying the ladder worked together to erect the ladder up.

For the ladder that was erected, the defenders on the city wall immediately rushed to push it with a long fork. If one person couldn't push it, he hurriedly called for someone, and together they pushed the ladder without the locking device out.

When the ladder was erected, the Sasanian soldiers actually started to climb, but they fell back halfway through the ladder.

Many Sassanid soldiers found that the ladder jumped out by itself in the back, and the height of about one or two meters did not fall to the death.

Some Sasanian soldiers who failed to get off the ladder, they fell down with the ladder, and they might hit someone, and the injury suffered was much heavier than a fall.

The battlefield will never lack noise, the movement of various war instruments, the shouts and howls of countless people, the groans when people are injured, and the screams before death.After all kinds of voices come together, no matter how clear-headed people are, they will be dizzy from the noise.

After nearly [-] Sasanian soldiers attacked from the north, the remaining three sides began their own offensive as the number of ladders gradually became sufficient.

Ma Bin stood at the top of the city and watched the Sasanian army shouting and charging. Maybe the timing was inappropriate, but he still couldn't help but feel a sense of superiority because of what he saw.

There is no suitable formation, no clear attack echelon, and no wide variety of siege equipment. Some of them just squeeze together and rush forward in a "Waaaaal" manner.

This kind of situation would not have happened to the Han Empire at all. It can even be said that unless it was the initial stage of the uprising when the Zhuxia dynasty was about to collapse, it was also rare in the history of Zhuxia wars.

Zhu Xia is not only good at defending the city, but also has rich experience in attacking the city.

It is the leaders of the rebel army who will mess around at the beginning. After fighting a few times, they will also find out the way to attack the city, and gradually have sufficient Zhuxia siege characteristics.

Was Sassanid an empire after all?Ma Bin didn't know what the situation was like for the Sasanian army that came to attack Jitoro, but he was surprised that it behaved worse than many of the rebel armies in Zhuxia.

Still using arrows as the "speech" to start the war, Ma Bin saw that the Peshawar defenders were using bamboo bows, so he couldn't help asking Luhmaru Jiduo curiously: "Do you have any other kinds of bows?"

"Of course there are." No matter how stupid Luhmaru Jiduo was, he could see Ma Bin's expression full of surprise: "The defenders of the city walls are an exception. Equipped with other types of bows, they will be used in street fighting."

In fact, Ma Bin had another accident. The Luhmaru Jiduo he saw was very afraid of death, but he did not leave the city after the Sasanian army launched an attack.

"I'm waiting for the messenger!" Luhmaru Jiduo smiled wryly, "If you don't leave, how dare Xiao Wang leave."

"..." Ma Bin had no intention of staying in the city for a long time, and signaled Luhmaru Jiduo to leave, and asked as he walked, "Did you just say street fighting?"

"The city wall of Peshawar is too short, and it has never been able to support it for a long time. This is not the first time we have been captured by the Persians." Luhmaru Jiduo is not fat, even a little thin, and his actions are fine. Inconvenient place: "The envoy has entered the city and saw those intricate alleys and layers of earthen walls."

Of course, Ma Bin had been to the city before. When he saw those appearances before, he thought that this group of Xiaoyue people didn't understand order at all, and that a good royal city was built in a mess.

To some extent, Ma Bin is actually restricted by fixed thinking.

The offensive and defensive battles of Zhuxia's cities have always been determined by the fall of the city walls. There are almost no cases where the defenders are ready to fight street battles from the beginning.

Ma Bin now also understood why the palace was built like a fortress. It turned out that Luhmaru Jido had no extravagant hope that the city wall could block the intruders, but regarded the palace as the last line of defense.

There is no straight avenue connecting the two city gates in Peshawar, some are winding trails, and even the road will be blocked by buildings when walking, and you need to pass through some buildings whose purpose is not known. Only then can we continue to move forward.

It was not in a state of war before, and what Ma Bin saw was two different situations from now.

Buildings whose purpose was unknown before became defensive checkpoints or fortresses in a state of war.

Along the way, Ma Bin began to look squarely at this group of little Yueshi people, and understood that these guys who had fled from the old land of Zhuxia were not useless, and had even developed their own war ideas.

"The whole city has become a complex fortress!" Ma Bin even saw men, women, and children serving the war: "It's still a fortress that serves the war for the whole people!"

Ma Bin thought about it for a while. If a city of the Han Empire faced invasion, the answer he came up with was that no matter how united the city was, it would not be as tacit as the cooperation between the army and the people in Peshawar.

The soldiers and civilians in Peshawar seemed to have faced such a situation more than once. They looked chaotic, but everyone seemed to know what they should do.

Just looking at the city walls of Peshawar, anyone would think that this is a city with paper city defenses.

From the perspective of a bystander and then analyzing the defenses in the city, Ma Bin suddenly became a little unhappy.

Jilongpo must have dispatched an army to rush to Peshawar. Based on the distance, Ma Bin can confirm that the army has arrived within [-] miles of Peshawar. He probably found a place to hide, maybe waiting for Peshawar to be captured. Break through and wait for Jiduoluo's most desperate moment to reappear.

Doing that can not only show the importance of the Han army, but it is actually a kind of psychological warfare, so that the appearance of the Han army is regarded as a savior, not a dispensable existence.

Now, Ma Bin felt that it was necessary to send someone out to find his own army and reveal the situation here.

(End of this chapter)