Ma Bin and Zhou Wei, who guessed that the Persians wanted to set fire to Peshawar, first looked at each other for a while, and then stopped looking at the offensive and defensive battles of the city.

They entered the room and didn't pay attention to the salutes of the passers-by along the way, and they didn't even have time to greet some ministers who had not left.

"Please tell the lord of your country." Ma Bin will not show the fluctuations in his heart: "This messenger has something to tell you." ”

Lukhmaru. Ji Duo woke up early, he was busy commanding his generals, and when he heard that Ma Bin came to look for him with Zhou Wei, he hesitated for a while and didn't meet him in the war room, but found another place.

"I believe the lord of the kingdom already knew that the Persians threw in bed crossbows and catapults." Ma Bin didn't mean to talk nonsense, and said directly: "This envoy found that the Persians had prepared a large number of jars outside the city. ”

"......" Luhmaru. I didn't understand for a while, and asked in confusion, "What does the messenger mean?" ”

"Catapults and bed crossbows may not have the same range as some individual ranged weapons, but they can shoot heavy objects due to mechanical forces." Ma Bin said that the jar is over, didn't the defenders of Peshawar go to attack with jars of canned fire oil? He was amazed at Luhmarau. Ji Duo didn't even guess this: "Your army uses fire oil, and the Persians are fighting the same plan." ”

Lukhmaru. Jiduo's face changed a little, but he didn't panic yet.

"This messenger didn't understand enough?" Ma Bin meets Luh Maru. Ji Duo really didn't understand, and took a deep breath: "The Persians have prepared a large number of altars and jars. The messenger thought that it was enough to burn the whole Peshawar to the ground. ”

This under Lukhmaru. Ji Duocai's face changed drastically, he opened his mouth, closed his mouth and walked back and forth quickly, and stopped suddenly: "Sasanian has a kind of black oil, which is extremely prolific. ”

Black oil? As one of the praise paintings of the Western Expeditionary Corps, Ma Bin still knows the existence of black oil. He knew better that the Persians were rich in black oil, and that the center seemed to attach great importance to this black oil.

"It's over, they ...... it" Luhmaru. Jiduo was obviously panicked: "How dare they!! ”

Although war is one of the darkest acts, there are still some scruples in many cases, such as not killing civilians when it is not necessary, let alone destroying the whole city.

Lukhmaru. Jiduo's cheeks twitched for a long time, and he asked Ma Bin more suddenly: "Messenger, how do you think this king should choose?" ”

Ma Bin understood.

Lukhmaru. He was asking whether the soldiers and civilians of the city began to fight with the Persians regardless of casualties, or whether they hurriedly surrendered.

"This messenger thought that the lord of the kingdom should bow his knees to Sassanid in order to avoid the burning of the city in Peshawar." Before Ma Bin came, he had thought about Luhe Malu. What kind of attitude will Jiduo have: "It's just that the lord thinks that ......, after surrendering, the soldiers and civilians of Peshawar, and even the ministers, they may live." What happened to the lord of the country? ”

Even if it was a palace fortress, you could still hear the movement coming from outside.

Two different horns are being sounded all the time.

The "thump" of the war drums has not stopped since the beginning of the war.

The clamor and shouts of killing were intense.

The brutality of the war has caused people to die every moment, and they have become corpses lying on the ground that gradually become cold.

Surrender or insist on resistance or something, it has always been only the superior who has the qualification to choose, and the leader can generally only passively accept the fate set by the superior.

Now the situation is that once the Luhmaru. Jiduo chose to surrender, not just a group of soldiers and civilians in Peshawar in one city and one place, but because of his identity as the lord of the country, it was the entire country that surrendered.

When a country surrenders, it is inevitable that the military, civilians and ministers will pay the price, but they may not die.

However, the king is different, the price he has to pay after surrender is far greater than anyone else's, not to mention the great risk of the country's destruction and national extinction, the invaders usually do not let the current king continue to live in order to better digest the results of the war.

"Tell the Lord the truth." Ma Bin looked at Luhe Malu, who was constantly changing his face because of his mood fluctuations. Ji Duo, raised his head slightly: "The strong team of the Han Dynasty has already come to the vicinity of Peshawar. ”

Lukhmaru. Jiduo should have guessed this a long time ago, and even guessed Ma Bin's subtext, Sassanid can destroy Jiduoluo, and it will not be difficult for the Han Empire to be destroyed.

"The madness of Sassanid will surely cause public outrage!" Lukhmaru. Ji Duo yelled angrily, but he changed his face at random, and said to Ma Bin with a flattering face: "Messenger, can you inform your army to immediately launch an attack on the besieging army?" ”

Lukhmaru. I still know a little bit about sending more. He heard that Sassanid thought that he couldn't defeat the Han Empire, so he would form an alliance with the Romans, the thousand-year-old enemy, and he brought in a large group of younger brothers.

Even the hatred of the thousand-year-old enemy is said to be thrown aside, and the Luhmaru. How could he not know that the Persians believed that the Han Empire was a far more terrifying existence than the Romans.

Since they want to choose a side, they are naturally on the strongest side.

And then there is, Lukhmaru. Ji Duo knew too well that no matter what choice he made, he would be invaded, and it would be no different if the Persians would kill him or the Han Chinese.

Seriously, Lukhmaru. Ji Duo knew that no matter how he chosen, there would be a large army to attack, and he was more willing to compete with his old opponent Persians, anyway, fighting back and forth was those methods, but it was not like facing the unfamiliar Han army and the experience accumulation process from blank to familiar.

"This messenger will naturally notify the army to kill immediately." Ma Bin no longer talked too much nonsense, raised his hand and saluted, and did not give Luhe Malu. Sending more opportunities to speak, he turned to leave, and after walking some distance, he said to Zhou Wei: "He seems to have made up his mind now, and he will inevitably waver when he waits for the Persians to make a big move." ”

There are only about 50 Han people on Peshawar's side, except for Ma Bin, who is a civilian, the rest are there as guards.

However, even if Ma Bin is a civilian, with the martial arts of the Han people today, he is not an old and weak person who is powerless, and his fighting ability is much stronger than that of some soldiers.

They didn't think about breaking out or anything. Once there is an intention to break out, it is to force Lukhmaru. There was no choice but to negotiate the terms of surrender with the Sasanians.

"Will they arrest us as a sign of surrender?" Zhou Wei was very suspicious of Lukhmaru. What will happen if you are forced to do so. He added: "We didn't have an agreed signal when we came, so how can we alert the possible army to kill?" ”

"Eleven days have passed, counting the distance ......" Ma Bin silently calculated: "It is the infantry army, and the farthest distance from Peshawar will not exceed sixty miles." The cavalry must have arrived early. Just how to communicate with it...... A problem indeed. ”

In fact, it is possible to run to the highest point to take the flag and play the flag, the problem is that the army outside needs to be seen.

"Since you are here, you must send people to keep an eye on Peshawar's movements." Zhou Wei immediately said: "Whether it is for Lukhmaru. Send more confidence or try it, you have to do it. It's just ...... that the timing is still not right. ”

It was only at Peshawar's most precarious moment that the Han army suddenly appeared and defeated the Persians that it was a savior.

Before Peshawar encountered enough danger, the appearance of the Han army was just the icing on the cake, and there was no such thing as a gift of charcoal in the snow to gain more gratitude.

"Lukhmaru. Ji Duo had already guessed that the strong army of the big man was outside. Ma Bin is not afraid that he will be burned to death, but tells the truth: "It is no longer possible to get his sincere gratitude." ”

Having said that, Ma Bin would not immediately try to summon the Han army outside the city to attack.

Lukhmaru. Sending more is really grateful, and it will only be a very short period of emotional fluctuations, as a country, where do you have so many feelings.

What the Han Empire needed was not just Lukhmaru. Send more gratitude and gratitude to one person, appear at the right time, and make a shining appearance as a savior, which is more for ordinary Jitara people.

Zhou Wei communicated with the guards of the palace fortress, and got Lukhmaru again. With the strong support of sending a lot, he began to go to the highest place, holding a big flag and starting to play the flag.

Outside the city, probably in a pile of grass fourteen miles away from the highest point of the palace, Jiao Cheng had been observing the progress of the war with a telescope in hand.

There have always been scouts of the Han army who are observing the offensive and defensive battles of Peshawar, and there is no major change, but one person is dispatched every two hours to report to the rear, and of course the new situation is to report to the rear immediately.

Scout squads are generally more than three people, and no more than ten people at most.

Some of the scout squads encountered the Sassanid scouts while moving, and naturally it was a skirmish or chase.

"That's ......" Jiao Cheng actually looked back and forth in the same position a few times, and didn't notice it at first: "It's our flag, right?" ”

Chang Bing took the telescope from Jiao Cheng's hand, looked at it for a while, and tried to identify: "It's us who is holding the flag, and he is waving the flag." ”

With the productivity of the Han Empire, there is still no way to equip all scouts with telescopes, and a squad of scouts has two parts, one for normal use and the other for backup.

As a scout, they have basically learned the flag language, and many times they don't have to run far to pass on information, and they can use the flag language to pass information between each other according to the situation, which can save a lot of time.

"Sasanian ...... The ...... of oil and oil" Chang Bing read it out as he read it, and after reading it twice, he already understood what the flag over there wanted to express: "The Sassanid side is going to invest a lot of oil to attack the city, and he asked us to prepare for the attack according to the situation." ”

Regarding the number of Sassanid troops attacking Peshawar, Zhou Wei naturally did not need to remind them, and the army that came to support them would investigate clearly, and even investigate in great detail.

"You and the mistress stay where they are." Jiao Cheng slowly changed from a lying position to a squatting position, his head peeking out of the grass and looking around: "I'll report this situation." ”

Chang Bing naturally has no opinion.

The other person, known as the little three, was lying on the ground and sleeping.

Jiao Cheng didn't stand up straight and ran with a big grin, he leaned low and tried his best to lower his position to move. He came to the spot where he had just been observing about three hundred meters away, and entered a small forest full of bushes.

This grove is a small tree with a trunk that is not thick, and the trunk and branches are still curved, and when they are cut down, they are also valued as firewood.

In the grove were placed four war horses, all of them muzzled, they had been trained to be honestly tethered in one place.

Jiao Cheng did not immediately turn over and get on the horse, but led the horse out of the grove from the route that had been planned long ago, and entered a wilderness with dense grass and higher grass height.

After turning over and getting on the horse, Jiao Cheng also did not immediately drive the war horse to run wild, but let the war horse warm up slowly as necessary.

It's just that kind of situation, it's not necessary to really can't drive the war horse to run wild before it warms up, otherwise it will make the war horse suffer invisible damage, reduce the service life of a horse as a war horse, not to mention, at the beginning of the wild gallop will also make the war horse quickly enter a state of exhaustion, the faster the front will run slower the back, and even the tragedy of stumbling over or sudden death of the war horse.

In fact, it was not only Jiao Cheng, the scout team, who discovered Zhou Wei's flag, as long as the line of sight was not obstructed, the scout team saw it.

The scouts of the Han army could see that the Sassanid soldiers in the siege state were naturally not blind.

"That's ...... The battle flag of the Han Empire, right? Dospars. Canaan Dina did not go up to the walls of Peshawar, he stayed in his military tent, and when he heard a report, he came out with a telescope to look at Zhou Wei, who was standing at the highest point of the palace and waving the flag: "I heard that the Han people can use the flag to communicate. ”

This is not a secret, countries also have relevant flags, but no country has developed a set of flags as complex as the Han Empire.

"We have Han troops around us." Dospars. Canaan Dinah didn't have a surprised expression on his face: "This is an inevitable thing, but we haven't found it, and we can't tell how many there are and what kind of troops are coming." ”

It wasn't their scouts who discovered the arrival of the Han army, it was Dospars. Canaan Dinah judged the situation.

The Han Empire was fighting for Jidoro, so how could it be possible to watch Jidoro perish? Not exactly, Dospars. After Canaan Dina arrived, he waved his army to attack the city without stopping, and used harsh punishment methods to force the craftsmen to work overtime to build siege equipment.

They will rush like that, regardless of casualties, that is, they know that the Han Empire will not sit idly by and watch the destruction of Sassanid and send an army to the rescue.

"To postpone the offensive......," Abu Badile asked, "are you ready for the arrival of the Han army?" ”

"There must be a relevant arrangement." Dospars. Canaan Dina couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the Han Empire made a decision very quickly, and the army came too early, he thought that they would have at least three days to siege the city: "There is no need to suspend the siege, on the contrary, it should be stepped up." ”

There's a little bit of Dospars. Canaan Dinah can still confirm that there is no large force of soldiers and horses of the Han Empire within twenty miles around, so even if the Han army is already close, it will take at least more than an hour to approach the battlefield, and they still have one last hour, and they must strive to turn Peshawar into a city of flames within an hour!