Chapter 911 Siege from all sides
City of Persis, Governor's House.
Sulehar walked around anxiously, and the Liang army on the edge of the two highlands in the east, north and south sides were unable to rush down for a long time, which made him anxious. But he had no troops to adjust now, and the defenders in the city of Persis were now a carrot and a pit. If they were adjusted outward, there would definitely be a defensive loophole.
At this time, he heard the noise outside and vaguely heard someone shouting: "No, Liang Jun... Go and report to the General Manager."
Although he didn't hear the key content clearly. But based on these few words alone, he knew that it was not a good thing. Sulehar was shocked and walked out without saying a word. As soon as he walked out of the door, he collided with the guards who were in a hurry to break in. Before the other party could speak, Sulehar asked anxiously: "Say! What's wrong!"
"Report to the chief executive, big things are not good. The defenders from the city walls in the west came to report the numbers, and the Liang army attacked from under the cliff."
Sulehar's face darkened and said, "Don't be so panicked. Explain clearly where the Liang army attacked from."
Because Sulehar did not believe that the Liang army would come down from the cliff in the west, he just thought that the soldiers were wrong. At this time, several defenders from the West City Wall who came to report the news also came to the door and said anxiously to Sulehar: "Master General, we are the defenders of the West City Wall. The Liang army climbed directly from the cliffs that were dozens of battles deep into the city without knowing it. When we found out, they had gathered hundreds of people on the city."
Only then did Sulehar realize that the Liang army had really attacked the west city wall, and murmured, "How is this possible! How is this possible!" After more than ten seconds, he recovered and shouted, "Hurry, send our military orders quickly, mobilize the troops from the other three walls to reinforce, and drive them down no matter what. By the way, he also needs to transfer the two soldiers and horses fighting on the battlefields in the east!"
Sulehar now doesn't care about the complete defense of Persis City, let alone whether Liang's army can gain a foothold on the Persis Highlands. The only thing he prays for now is to protect Persis City.
On the edges of the north and south cliffs in the eastern part of the Persis Highlands, the Liang army was still fighting hard. Although they had repelled many Sassanian attacks, the opponents gathered more and more, and the attacks became more and more fierce, and they gradually found ways to deal with the Liang army.
They began to fold the two shields together and use them as a shield. They also installed hard object protection in the places where the arms and the shield lining were in contact to prevent Liang Jun's arrows or crossbow guns from piercing the shield and then hurting their arms. Although this was heavy, it greatly increased the safety. They also transferred crossbows and were busy installing them in the frontier area.
But these are not the biggest threat to the Liang army in front of us. The biggest threat is a small pot with a strip of fire-washing cloth tied, which contains Greek fire and is wrapped in fire-torn linen cloth. This thing is used by stone throwers, and of course, before being thrown, the linen cloth outside will be ignited. In fact, it is a kind of incendiary bomb thrown by manual.
They lined up the double-layer large shields into a shield wall, and gradually pushed forward in the rain of Liang Jun arrows. The crossbow guns and arrows hit the shield wall like hail, but they could not penetrate them completely.
Even the crossbow gun fired by the individual crossbow cannon could only allow the spear head to pass through the shield slightly. When it was pushed closer to the opponent for less than twenty battles, the shields were shot like hedgehogs. The Sassanian stone casters hiding behind the shield wall began to ignite the burning can in their hands and then whistled. A fire ring appeared on their hands. Then, as soon as they let go, under the centrifugal force, a fireball roared towards the Liang army's position.
Greek fire pot hit Liang's shield "turtle shell", and suddenly shattered four pieces, and flames rose up on the "turtle shell". Greek fire flowed down the gap between the shields and dripped on the bodies of some Liang soldiers under the shield. These Liang soldiers burned by the flames panic and threw away their shields, yelling and thrusting at the flames on their bodies. At this time, the dense rain of Sassanian arrows shot on them, killing them to the ground.
Then several explosive bombs of Liang's army rose into the air, fell into the Sassanian army crowd and exploded. However, the Sassanian soldiers were prepared to cover the entire prepared fire cloth and put out the flames in an instant.
However, one of the fire bombs fell into a bamboo basket filled with fire bombs without tiltingly. It triggered a huge explosion. The two stone throwers next to them were instantly swallowed by the flames. The people around them scattered like flies, and many people were still burned by the flames. Then the two fire men ran out of the sea of fire, staggered and fell to the ground.
The general of the Liang army saw that the dozen or so of the Sasanians' crossbows in the distance were almost ready, and then calculated the time. The time to go up the peak should be more than enough. So he quickly ordered: "Can't wait any longer, retreat quickly! Retreat!"
As the military order was issued, the Liang army retreated from behind to front in an orderly manner from inside to outside to down the cliff. It was much easier to get down this steep slope than to go up. The Liang soldiers just wrapped the rope with the prepared linen, held it tightly and then slipped down the steep slope. A Liang army soldier quickly slid down hundreds of ropes.
The Sassanian army soon discovered that they were evacuating, so they could not let them go as soon as they wanted to leave, and they no longer threw burning tanks, and rushed up directly. The Liang army could still repel their charges one or two at the beginning, but when the Liang army retreated to more than half of the troops, the remaining troops could not withstand such a surging crowd no matter what. Some Liang army even prepared to jump directly from the cliff.
However, at this moment, the Sassanian army's attack came to an abrupt end. For some reason, they retreated to the city of Persis like a tide. Feng Yu, who was standing in the hot air balloon basket in the distance, naturally knew in his heart that this must be the surprise soldier on the west side. He ordered calmly: "Transfer my military orders, and the entire army will launch an offensive against the east gate, the south gate and the north gate at the same time!" As his military order was issued, the two Liang troops who had just retreated from the high ground climbed up the high ground again. In front of the large slope outside the east gate, a large number of Liang troops gathered together to advance along the slope to the high ground.
The city walls to the west of Persis, and the corridor was covered with black Liang troops. Dian Wei also climbed to the top of the city after Gao Shun, but there were more than 4,000 soldiers climbing upwards under the city. According to the plan, he had to wait until all the troops came up before launching an offensive into the city.
Chapter completed!