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Chapter 1087 See the result soon
At this moment, the outer city of Peshawar is already on fire!
The Sasanian army attacking the city was very ferocious. Not only were all kinds of long-range equipment constantly being thrown or shot out of the altars and pots, but also some Sassanian soldiers who entered the city had a suicide attack, which was the reason why the fire could spread so quickly. .

Since many places are already raging with fire, those places are naturally no longer suitable for fighting. One side is still throwing black oil and jars into the fire, while the other side is frantically getting water to put out the fire.

Fires were not burning everywhere. In places where there were no fires, the Sassanid soldiers and the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar were still engaged in bloody fights without mercy, and people were falling every moment.

In some areas where the fighting was extremely brutal, the alleys were simply blocked by piles of corpses, but the soldiers on both sides did not give up. high.

There is really too much blood flowing out of the human body. The dark red blood flows along the lower ground, and once it really stops flowing, it will gather into a pile and become a blood pool.

The incomparably stench of human blood is an irresistible temptation for some insects who like this smell...such as flies.

I don't know if all the flies in the city are attracted, and they don't care about so many people with hideous faces trying to kill each other, they just "buzz buzz" and stop on the blood. If it is enlarged, it can be Seeing the mouthpart continuously sucking blood into the stomach, the two forelimbs kept rubbing happily.

If you can understand the expressions of the flies, you will definitely see that every fly is smiling and satisfied.

The blood not only makes them drink, but also serves as a nest for laying eggs, and within a few days each pair of flies should have thousands of offspring.

How many flies are there?To what degree of intoxication did they drink blood?It was people from both sides of the war, and their big feet could always crush some flies to death, and splashed thick red blood, it was like a "creak" sound with every step.

"Hurry up!"

"This way!"

The Sasanian soldiers are really unfamiliar with the traffic in Peshawar. After entering the residential area, they feel uncomfortable. It seems that they have entered a maze. In the narrow alleys, stones will hit their heads anytime, anywhere. Come down, what's even more frightening is that there will be spears stabbing out of the wall.

A group of about twenty Sasanian soldiers was chasing seven Peshawar soldiers and civilians just now, but they lost them after turning two corners.

The Sassanid soldier who was running at the front saw an open yard gate in front of him, and he could pass through the buildings in the yard and go straight to another alley on the opposite side. If you see the road, you must go, if you are trapped in a winding alley.

"Be careful!"

Needless to say too much, the Sassanian soldiers who entered the city and were not dead are all cautious people, that's because most of the careless ones died.

The urban area of ​​Peshawar is really too chaotic. There is no straight passage over 30 meters. It is very rare to find an alley with a width of more than two meters. The narrowest alley is only [-] centimeters wide, and people have to sideways Only with the body can we pass.

What left the Sasanian soldiers speechless the most was that some alleys were simply blocked when walking, or they needed to pass through a certain building to get to another alley that was not very good.

"The people inside, we found you! If you don't come out, I will set it on fire!"

A Sasanian soldier was just trying to scare people, but a dozen soldiers and civilians from Peshawar actually came out. As a result, another bloody fight broke out in this alley about 1.2 meters wide.

In this kind of alley, the difference in the number of people is just which side can afford to die, otherwise, every time there is a fight, at most only the two people in front will fight, and the rest can only roar and watch the show when they are blocked.

In the small alley with a width of 1.2 meters, two groups of people from different camps howled and rushed towards each other. In a moment, there was the sound of weapons clanging and bumping, and from time to time there was the sound of a sharp knife piercing into the flesh and the subsequent screams Or hum.

Fighting means that the people in front fell down, and the people behind entered the state of fighting without hesitation at all. Because they had no room to hide, they were head-to-head, and they would not even have a chance to surrender. Killing the enemy Keep moving forward, if you want to go back, you are being squeezed by the people behind you and you have to keep moving forward.

"If you don't breastfeed your child well at home, what kind of battlefield will you learn from others!"

The fight in the alley was won by the side of the Sasanian soldiers. Seven of them fell down, and one soldier hacked to death the last Peshawar woman. This was the end of the battle.

The woman from Peshawar who was hacked to death with a machete had a bloodstain on her body from the left shoulder to the right chest. Naturally, her clothes were also cut open. The breastfeeding bulge can be seen on the side without the wound.

Although it is hostile, unless it is truly indifferent or perverted, no one will feel happy when killing a breastfeeding woman, but there will be no guilt.

On the battlefield, it looks like you kill me or I kill you. When you go to the battlefield with a weapon in your hand, no one will be innocent.

There were only 16 Sasanian soldiers left in this team. They took a breath and started again. They stepped on the blood and corpses and did not take a few steps forward, but many stones were thrown on their heads. There are also new Peshawar soldiers and civilians.

On the premise of having a metal helmet and shoulder armor, hitting a small stone will actually make your head jingle, and if the stone is larger, your neck will be in danger of being twisted.

The key point is that this group of Sasanian soldiers not only did not have metal helmets, but they did not actually wear armor on their bodies. They suffered from pain all over their bodies when they were hit by small stones, and their heads were even bloody when they were hit on the head. There was no other way, but the soldiers who hadn't fallen roared and rushed forward.

Of the group of people who appeared in the courtyard, eight of the twelve were women or girls, and only four were men. They had all kinds of weapons in their hands or had no weapons at all. They faced the Sasanian soldiers with desperate expressions. Charge followed by hedging.

This battle of attacking and defending the city has not taken long, especially for the battle of attacking and defending the city, which usually lasts for a year or two or even longer, it is only the second day.

However, the fires spread everywhere in the city, and the piles of corpses and puddles of blood that can be seen everywhere are enough to show that this battle of attacking and defending the city is very cruel and bloody.

The men in the outer city of Peshawar almost died in several counterattacks, and then their mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters had to resist under double persecution.

They had already seen the Persians setting fire to the city, their men dying in the hands of the Persians, and the hatred between the country and the family being entangled.

They were also persecuted by various people on their own side. If they didn't resist, they would either die under the raging flames of the enemy, or be burned to death by their own people later.

Maybe there is another way for them to survive and be sold to the Han Empire as slaves by the elders?
In the outlying residential areas of Peshawar, scenes of tragic or cruel scenes continued to appear, and they were still carried out under the dense smoke.

In fact, the thicker smoke can also kill people. The enemy and the enemy don't have to go so hard, the damned residents will be choked to death by the smoke.

Then what if the Sassanid soldiers went in as the fire continued to spread?Waiting for the fire to spread completely, there will be no follow-up troops rushing in. They will die in the city as well.

However, there is no reason to speak of in war. The two sides who are red-eyed are just moving or waiting blindly until they are choked to death by smoke or encounter the enemy and die in battle.

Ma Bin, who was standing on the edge of a certain balcony in the palace fortress, saw a place ranging from 200 meters inward to 500 meters inward of the western city wall, where raging fires were burning on each side.

"They don't have the confidence to break through the city anymore." Zhou Bian chuckled and said, "The Persians are burning too eagerly. In fact, if they attack hard for half a day, Peshawar won't be able to persist enough."

After all, Peshawar's regular defenders only look like [-] or so, but they need to defend the four walls, and the troops in each direction are insufficient.

If the commander of the Sassanian was really smart, he would have invested an absolute superior force in all directions from the beginning. With the height of the city wall of Peshawar and the speed of building siege equipment on the Sassanian side, he would have killed or injured 2 or [-] people It will force the defenders of Peshawar to retreat to the urban area instead of guarding the city wall.

"In fact, there is almost no difference." Ma Bin looked at the already foggy residential area and said, "The environment of this city is simply terrible. It will be a nightmare for any army that keeps coming to attack."

Ma Bin's subtext is that even if the Han army comes, it will be the same.

"How could we go to one alley after another and compete with one building after another." Zhou Bian touched his chin and said, "Of course it was violently demolished, and everything was razed to the ground!"

The Han army can really do this, and the efficiency will not be too low, but it will take a long time to build equipment in advance, or use gunpowder crazily.

The city where the fire is burning is still very far away from the palace. Even if it spreads repeatedly, it will take at least a day to burn to the side of the palace fortress.

Peshawar is not just watching. They know how to clear out the gap quickly. I don’t know how many people are demolishing houses desperately.

In fact, the Sassanid army that was besieging the city did not go deep enough before setting fire to it. They really lost confidence in the progress of the war.Such arson will be effective, but the effect is to arouse the desperate resistance of the entire army and civilians in Peshawar, and it is really difficult to gain anything else.

The cities on all sides are burning with fire, and the thick smoke obscures the view outside the city. Otherwise, at the height of the palace fortress, you can actually see about twenty miles through the telescope.

Fifteen or six miles to the northeast of Peshawar, the battle between the Han army and the Sasanian blocking army has entered the final stage.

The Han army itself was stronger than the Sasanian army, but it was also in an advantageous position in numbers. Less than an hour and a half after the start of the battle, most of the Sassanian chariot troops who were inconvenient to move had been wiped out, and they entered the pursuit of the fleeing Sasanian army. In the cavalry program.

Li Tan was quite satisfied with this battle, especially after getting the approximate data on the casualties of both sides, the bright smile on his face never stopped.

3 cavalry of various types against 1 chariots and [-] cavalry of various types. The Han army suffered more than [-] casualties, and wiped out [-] chariots and more than [-] Sasanian cavalry.

In terms of the number of deaths in battle, the Han army killed about [-] soldiers on the spot, while the Sasanian side had more than [-] soldiers.

There are two types of Sassanian chariots, one for two and the other for three or four.This one arm bears a large proportion of the Sasanian casualties.

The Han army chasing all the way encountered small groups of Sasanian cavalry constantly on the road. Whether it was reinforcements from the main Sassanian camp, or what was basically the same, they were crushed with the momentum after a big victory.

The battlefield after the Great War has a wide distribution. In terms of width and length, the width must exceed 5000 meters, and the length is still increasing. There are corpses or injuries of people and horses after the Great War, and other debris. It's also all over the place.

The 3 cavalry is not the entire force that Li Tan has at hand, and there is an infantry force of more than [-] in the rear.

The cavalry units of the Han army that have entered the fighting state will all continue to advance towards Peshawar, and the battlefield will be handed over to the rest of the soldiers who followed behind.

In the battlefield after the battle, not everyone is actually dead. The immediate death rate in the cavalry battle will be higher, but there must be some undead wounded.

However, even if they survived the horse riding battle, most of them will have problems with their limbs. Some of them will be broken, and some of them will be sprained and bruised. It is difficult to be counted as combat power in a short period of time.

The closer you get to Peshawar, the simpler the terrain becomes. It is difficult to see stretches of forests, and most of the plants have been harvested.

The woods and plants were cut down and harvested by the Sasanian army. Otherwise, where did the materials for the siege equipment come from, and what should they use to make fire, cook and boil water.

The only thing that remains the same is that there will still be small slopes that undulate each other, and there will even be a small mountain of 200 meters, that is, the route is not blocked by the small mountain, and the terrain is generally flat.

Li Tan, who was galloping, looked at Peshawar with thick smoke in the distance, and kept thinking.

Dospals Canandina, who was in the main camp, didn't have to wait for the battle report ahead, but saw the black line appearing on the distant horizon with his own eyes.

Dospals Canandina did not let the troops of his own side who were going to stop the Han army retreat. There would be a large number of troops approaching. Either his side had fled, or the Han army had already killed them. It made no difference at all.

Now what Dospals Canandina needs to think about is what to do with their demoralized troops if Peshawar was not defeated and the Han army came to kill them again.

(End of this chapter)