sweeping the world

Chapter 1075
Soldiers who fight at night usually need to leave one hand to hold the torch.

A torch is a piece of wood with a cloth ball wrapped around the top, and if you pay attention to it, it will be soaked in oil. When it burns, it will not only provide light for illumination, but also continuously drip sticky sparks.

Regardless of whether there is only the cloth ball or whether it is soaked in oil or not, in fact, even if only the cloth ball is burned, it will drip sticky sparks. Soldiers holding torches usually need to tilt their hands holding the torch far away, and get a little closer to themselves. Some accidentally will be dripped to Mars.

Being dripped by sparks is not just scalding, it is sticking and scalding for a very long time.

Many people have the experience of being scalded by boiling water. The burn is hot for just a few seconds. If the burn lasts for at least tens of seconds, what kind of pain will it be?
If the clothes on the body are dripped by sparks and ignited again, they will turn into a human-shaped torch if they are not taken off in time.

Many of the Sassanian soldiers who charged with torches ran and threw away their torches on the spot and slapped the places scalded by grease sparks.

Among the ten thousand Sassanid soldiers engaged in night fighting, none of them had yet reached the city wall of Peshawar, and they had not even encountered an attack from the Peshawar garrison. Hundreds of them had already fallen out of the effective combat range.

The Sassanian soldiers running forward carrying the ladder, after they hold the torch in one hand, they need to hold the ladder with the other hand, so naturally they have no hands to hold weapons.

What is very common and not funny at all is that many Sasanian soldiers carrying ladders forward together, it is estimated that there will be about three groups out of ten groups, and halfway through the run the ladders are thrown aside.

The defenders at the top of the city of Peshawar, who stayed in the darkness and saw that the enemy troops were in a panic even before they got close, all started laughing "hahaha".

Carrying a torch in a night battle has far more than that on the fighting soldiers.

"Prepare!"

"shoot!"

The sound of the bowstring twitching and the sound of the arrow being shot through the air resounded densely in an instant.

The Sassanid soldiers running forward, their torches revealing their position in the night, after the Peshawar city wall defenders started shooting arrows, there were far more casualties than during the day.

In fact, a shooter will be far more accurate shooting a bright spot in the dark than looking at the target during the day.

The defenders of Peshawar's city wall obviously increased their number of archers, and the density of arrows fired was higher than during the day.

After a volley, free archery followed. The sound of bowstrings on the city wall never stopped, and arrows were continuously fired.

There are no torches or braziers on the city wall of Peshawar. The Sasanian soldiers who charged looked at the darkness at the top of the city. In the darkness there, arrows that killed people were constantly being shot, and the people around them kept shooting arrows. Then scream or grunt.

Some Sassanid soldiers used the light of the torch to look at the arrow that fell to the ground. They were surprised to find that it was not a bamboo arrow. The arrowhead was invisible, but the arrow shaft was made of wood.

Of course, bamboo arrows were still shot, but there were not many arrows with wooden poles.

Ordinary Sasanian soldiers may not know what it means to have wooden arrows, but officers can have new judgments.

"Their elite archers are also on the walls!"

Jiduoluo is an alliance force that has been fully assimilated by Asan. At the same time assimilated, it also obtained the basic technological crystallization of Asan, including the popularized smelting technology and some military systems.

Using bamboo bows and arrows does not mean that you are a junk archer, usually just to be able to shoot farther.Furthermore, the production of bamboo arrows is simpler, and simplicity means that the production speed is fast and more can be hoarded.

The lethality of using wooden arrows will be greater than that of bamboo arrows, which does not mean that the Peshawar defenders do not have wooden arrows.

However, in Asan's military system, soldiers equipped with hard bows are not necessarily inferior to soldiers equipped with bamboo bows, but archers who use hard bows are indeed treated better than those who use bamboo bows in all aspects.

War must kill people. As the Sasanian soldiers who launched the charge, they fell in pieces. After some people started to shoot back with bows and arrows, because they couldn't see the situation at the top of the city, they didn't know whether the arrows they shot were there or not. Hit the defenders.

Many Sasanian soldiers found that holding torches would become a very obvious target when they were halfway through the charge. In fact, they had already thrown away the torches.

Many of the torches abandoned on the ground were not extinguished, and some torches ignited weeds or other flammable things on the ground.

Looking out from the top of the city, there is a starry scene on the ground and the sky, the difference is that the light on the ground is fire yellow, and the stars in the sky are bright silver.

Another clear difference is that when there are large fires on the ground, it depends entirely on how much combustibles there are in that place, and how big the fire will be.

About the time the Sasanian army rushed under the walls of Peshawar, fire slowly appeared on the walls of Peshawar.It was about to start a hand-to-hand battle, and the defenders lit the brazier that had been prepared long ago, providing enough light.

There was light above the city wall. Some Sasanian officers looked over and saw soldiers wearing iron armor or leather armor among the city wall defenders, and immediately realized that the situation was different from the daytime situation.

Any country... It should be said that except for the unreasonable countries like the Han Empire, otherwise, in terms of current productivity, those who can wear armor will belong to the elite group in the army of any country, especially those who can wear armor. Soldier in metal armor.

Jidoluo is not a powerful country. There is only one army equipped with iron armor in the whole country, and that is the guard army belonging to the Jido royal family, with a number of only [-].

There are about [-] standing armies across the country, and there can be [-] armored troops. It is because of the unique position of Jiduoluo, and the attention of the royal family of Jiduo.

During the day, the defenders of Peshawar just threw stones at the city walls.

At night, the Sassanid soldiers who got close to the bottom of the city wall discovered something different again. Not only arrows and stones were falling on the city wall, but also large logs (wood) were frequently smashed down, and even scalding liquid was poured down. .

The endless screams sounded so sad under the night. It might be a relief to die on the spot, but if you didn't die immediately, you would have to endure a lot of pain before dying slowly.

The scalding liquid can be boiling water, it can also be golden juice (poo), it is more likely to be some kind of grease, once it is drenched...

The boiling water scalds the skin and flesh and blood in an instant. After a person makes an extreme scream, he can still jump up and down, which means that the injury is not serious. More often than not, he rolls directly to the ground. After rolling a few times, he passes out of shock due to the extreme pain. .

If it is gold juice or grease, the skin and flesh of those who are showered will fall off in pieces as if they are melted instantly. If the head or main body is like that, they will die in a few seconds.

Being drenched in boiling water, gold juice and grease without dying on the spot, in the future, it is almost impossible to escape the onset of various injuries, usually speaking pus, and the process of death will definitely be very painful.

There were not many Sassanian soldiers holding torches anymore, they pushed under the city wall of Peshawar.

The Sasanian army engaged in night fighting was actually lucky that their attack target was a city and not a field battle in a vast wilderness. Otherwise, it was still a big question whether they could find the real attack target.

Siege ladders began to be erected...

During the day, due to the haste, it was impossible to grasp the height of the city wall before testing, and the siege ladder did not have a buckle device.

At night, after testing during the day, Persian craftsmen mastered the correct height of the city wall, which can be regarded as installing a buckle device on the siege ladder.

The so-called fastening device is not complicated. It is to have a support frame with a hook on the top of the ladder. When the ladder is placed on the top of the city, the soldier pulls it back, and the hook can buckle the fixed point upside down. , the ladder is not so easy to be pushed down again.

The siege ladder is just one of the simplest siege equipment, but because it is the lightest, it is the first batch to be put on the front line of the battlefield, and the other heavy siege equipment is far behind.

The Sassanid army that came to attack Jidoro needed to be fast enough, and they did not carry large siege machines, such as the catapults, catapults, etc. that the Persians also had.

Why should the catapult and the catapult be discussed separately?Because they are not only different in appearance and structure, but also have different ranges and thrown objects (weight)!

A two siege towers that were intensively manufactured during the day were pulled by horses in front and pushed by people behind them, "creaking—creaking—" turning wooden wheels to move forward.

The siege tower is about [-] meters high, and the whole body is made of wood nails. It doesn't look too complicated, but it is made into four square frames and stacked up, and then firmly fixed to each other. , and then hide the cow, horse or other animal, and the outer skin gets wet.

The sound of shouting "kill" did not stop on the battlefield, even the horns sounded occasionally, and the drums continued to beating.

As the siege side, from the start of the attack to the approach below the city wall, the Sasanian army suffered hundreds of non-combat casualties.

After the battle began, the defenders on the west side of the four walls seemed to be the most elite, and the Sassanid soldiers on this side also lost the most, losing two to 300 soldiers before they reached the city.

The Peshawar garrison on the city wall continued to shoot arrows and drop various objects, and the Sasanians under the city wall suffered casualties unilaterally.

Fires broke out in the corners of certain sections of the walls after the logs that had been dropped were doused with grease.

The Sassanian officer urged the soldiers to put out the fire, not to carry water to water it, but to use the methods available. Covering it with soil is obviously the most reliable way for their environment.

Ma Bin's location faces the west, and he can see the battles to the north and south. However, the east side is blocked by buildings and cannot be viewed.

Based on the strength of the Sasanian army, the Sasanian soldiers are the most in the west, the number in the north and south is small but it is not a feint, and the situation in the east is unknown.

"If it's just this way of attacking the city..." Ma Bin said to his colleagues, "It's simply fighting with human lives."

Zhou Bian said: "How can there be so many tricks?"

Many wars are indeed fought with human lives, and the number of times where tricks were used to easily win the victory is too few, and it is because it is too few that it is widely praised.

"Will the Persians use the east that we can't see as a breakthrough?" Zhou Bian said, but shook his head: "Because they can't see it, the Jidu side will definitely pay more attention."

They can understand why the Sasanian army attacked the city overnight. It is nothing more than the fact that the time advantage is not on the Sassanian side. Not only will there be a large number of Qinwang armed forces from all over the country, but also the Han army may break into the battlefield at any time. .

So far in the city's offensive and defensive battle, Peshawar's defenders may have lost less than 200 people, and the four directions on the Sasanian side have lost more than 400 people.

In this kind of battle, despite the low city walls, the Sassanid army fought at night, which was tantamount to allowing the defenders of Peshawar to take advantage of the right time and place.

"If it were us, we would attack overnight." In fact, Ma Bin has never personally commanded the troops. He is a post in the army: "Many times, human life is not more important than time."

Zhou Bian naturally agreed with Ma Bin's point of view. What he wanted to say was: "Sasan has attacked Peshawar more than once. It makes no sense not to know that the battle on the city wall is the beginning?"

Jiduo's side did not regard the city wall as the only defensive belt at all. The battle on the other side of the city wall was decided, and the subsequent street fighting was the real beginning of the city's offensive and defensive battle.

"Maybe..." Ma Bin rubbed his chin, thought for a while, and said, "The Persians won the battle of the city wall and have their own means to deal with the street battle."

Those Han Chinese in Peshawar and those on the Jido side need to rely on guesswork, while the Persian generals who are the attackers have already had their own plans.

"The black oil I carried damaged a batch, but about [-]% of it was brought to the battlefield." Dospals Canandina was the leader of the Sasanian army: "Get ready for the sprinkler! Pick out enough Warrior, once you capture the city wall..."

Black oil is unprocessed oil. It is not only a specialty in Sasanian territory, but it is the most abundant in the world.

The Persians used oil as a tool of war a long time ago, and it was often used in sea battles. Unless it was to set the entire city on fire, it would not be used in large quantities on land.

"Occupy the city wall and drive the defenders into the city, our goal has been achieved!" Dospals Canandina did not come to conquer this time: "Let Peshawar be the sacrifice of this war , warn those countries that dare to side with the Han Empire!"

In fact, just occupying the city wall is not enough, the Sasanian army has to enter the city, otherwise there is really not enough oil to water the city.

"The manufacturing speed of catapults must also be accelerated!" Dospals Canandina said viciously: "The Han people have gunpowder, and we have black oil. Using the correct method can also deter all directions!"

(End of this chapter)