Sulehar looked up at the banks of the Amu River and saw a large number of warships transporting troops from the east bank of the river to the west bank. Those warships were a very strange style of convertible dhows. There were also a large number of round shields hanging on the side of the ships on both sides.

Sulehar secretly wondered that the upper reaches of the Lan City were traveling through the mountains and ridges of the Hindu Kush Mountains, and it was difficult to sail. So where did these ships come from? He didn't have time to think about it, and urgently ordered the soldiers to use crossbows to try to shoot the Liang army warships in the waterway.

Unfortunately, Lan's city is two or three miles long and wide. The ferry locations of these warships are facing the middle of the city wall near the water of Lan's city. So at this distance, the arrows on both sides can reach the warships five or six hundred steps away. Even if the warships on the side can reach them, the arrows are already at the end of their strength, and they are soft and weak on the shield on the ship's side, and then the bomb falls into the water.

Only then did Sulehar regret that he should have crossed the Amu River earlier or built a bamboo raft to completely seal the Lan family city on the waterway. Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world, so he could only watch these warships leaning on the wall of the Lan family city on the waterside and unloading troops on the dock at the foot of the city.

At this time, a Sassanian general asked: "Master General, the enemy reinforcements have entered the city. Do we still need to continue attacking the Lan City?"

Sulehar snorted coldly and replied: "Of course we have to continue the attack, otherwise our previous efforts will be wasted. What's more, I don't see many reinforcements from the enemy. They have crossed more than a hundred ships in total. Although they can't see what is in the cabin, each ship is loaded with at most more than ten infantry and cavalry based on the size of the hull. Such a full battle is only about two thousand people. Our 10,000 army still has an absolute advantage in military strength."

As soon as Sulehar and others rode their horses back to their original position, they heard a loud roar. All those standing on the ground on foot could feel the earth trembling. The wall of the Lan City, which was bombarded by concentrated, suddenly collapsed, and dust soared into the sky and covered the sun. Sassanian's trenchers did not mean to stop, and they continued to throw stones one after another. However, this time they focused their targets on both sides of the collapsed city wall gap, intending to expand the gap wider.

As time went by, the gap in the entire city wall expanded larger and larger until the gap in the city wall was widened to six or seven hundred steps, one third of the width of the original city wall. Sassanian's counterweight trenchers stopped shooting.

But those human-powered catapults were still operating. Driven by the Sasanian generals wielding whips, the prisoners and laborers captured by the Sasanian soldiers sweated and pulled the ropes over and over again, and the big rocks crossed the gap and threw them into the city of Lan's city, which was shrouded in dust. In fact, this did not have much killing effect on the Liang army defenders. However, the Sasanian generals believed that the labor force of these prisoners was not in vain, and throwing an extra large stone could have some effect on defeating the enemy.

After a quarter of an hour, the dust gradually dissipated and the scenery in the city could be vaguely seen. Sulehar waved his hand and shouted, "Attack!" The Sassanian army formation, which had already been lined up in the attack formation, began to move towards the gap, and the speed was getting faster and faster. When it approached the gap, it surged like a tide.

When the Sassanian soldiers in the front rushed to the ruins of the gap, Sulehar found countless fireballs rising from the sky. Liang army concentrated all the crossbows in the city near this gap, and proofreaded the landing points of the projectiles on the ruins of the gap. Nearly two hundred large and small fire bombs fell into the gaps of hundreds of steps at almost the same time. A fire wall rose into the air, and at the same time, there were javelins covering the sky and the sun continuously flying out from behind the fire wall.

The Sassanian army was cut off by the fire wall in half. Sulehar could not see the situation inside the fire wall, but he could see some Sassanian soldiers who were burned into firemen screaming and wailing and running away. The Sassanian infantry behind fell to the ground like autumn leaves under dense javelin projections.

Seeing this, Sulehar understood that if he persisted, he would only lose more, and might even worsen the situation. He hurriedly ordered: "Retreat! Let them retreat quickly!"

The sound of Sassan's retreating horn sounded, and there were already many casualties. When the panicked soldiers heard the sound of the horn, they hurried back. At this moment, Sulehar found that the dust on the gap ruins had become thicker again, and then he vaguely saw a row of war cavalry rising up on the top of the ruins in the smoke. His face turned pale and he said to the left and right: "Let the cavalry on both wings advance and block the gap!"

However, it was too late. The Liang army cavalry arranged in rows and in parallel had already rushed down the ruins like a tiger going down the mountain. The leader was a general with a black horse, white robe and silver spear. This person was not someone, but Ma Chao, the general of Daliang. The troops who reinforced Lan's city from the water of the Amu River were the troops he personally led.

It turned out that after receiving Feng Yu's edict, Ma Chao, who was stationed in the Pamirs, came with his troops across the mountains and rivers. In order to arrive at Lan's City as soon as possible, he divided his troops into two. He took the heavy combat cavalry of the three battalions of the headquarters to Lan's City first, and the rest rushed to Lan's City as quickly as possible.

When Ma Chao first entered the city, he had just met the defenders in the city. Before he could hand over the command, the walls of Lan's city collapsed. He immediately led the cavalry he brought to deploy inside the city to prepare for battle. Finally, when Liang's army used concentrated bombardment and concentrated javelin projection to force the enemy to retreat, Ma Chao felt that this was an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Sassanian army, and perhaps he could force the Sassanian army to retreat in one battle. He led the three battalions of heavy-armed cavalry to attack the Lan's city.

No one expected that the Liang army would fight back when the troops were weak, and all the heavy cavalry were dispatched. The ordinary Sassanian soldiers who were retreating were caught off guard. Ma Chao and his cavalry raised their rifles and swept away like a huge broom.

Sasanian soldiers were stabbed to the ground in rows with rifles, and some were simply knocked down by the iron cavalry and trampled by them. The already crowded Sasanian soldiers immediately ran away in screams and howls. Ma Chao, who was rushing in front, quickly drilled through the military formation. When he looked up, he happened to see the command carriage that Sulehar was riding in the back, and led dozens of personal guards to rush towards Sulehar. Seeing that the situation was not good, Sulehar urgently ordered his husband to retreat.

In fact, there were a large number of Sassanian soldiers and horses on both sides of his side and on the other two walls. Two teams of their own cavalry were coming on both wings. If the middle-level generals commanded properly, they could still stabilize the situation. However, these Sassanian generals were not mentally prepared. Seeing the unexpected attack of Liang's army, they were at a loss for a short time. In addition, Sulehar's retreat, the morale of the army was even more turbulent, and they couldn't help but retreat.
Chapter completed!