My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 669
Under the city of Peshawar, Ulugh Beg's [-] troops were stationed ten miles away, facing the Han army in the city.

At the beginning, neither side took the initiative to attack. According to common sense, the side with Ulug Beg as the main attacker should have launched an attack as soon as possible.

However, the previous disastrous defeat, coupled with the Jingguan on the Qingshui River, had a great impact on their morale. Besunhu wanted to lead his troops to attack the city, but was suppressed by Ulugh Beg.

After a few days of stalemate, Ulugh Beg finally launched an attack. After all, he traveled all the way to the city of Peshawar. If the stalemate continued like this, it would not be a problem, not to mention that they have so many troops on expeditions and consume every day. The amount of food and grass is not a small amount.

So under the command of Besunhu, the [-] Timur army took the lead in launching an attack on Peshawar City. The densely packed soldiers carried various siege equipment and desperately approached the city wall against the rain of arrows from the Han army.

After suffering a lot of casualties, Timur's siege army finally reached the bottom of the city, but what greeted them was an even more violent attack. Rolling logs, rocks, grenades and other firearms continued to pour down from the top of the city.

Under such a high-intensity attack, the first wave of attacking troops did not even have time to use siege equipment. They even fled back. Apart from leaving corpses on the ground, they did not achieve any results at all. .

After losing the first battle, Besunhu was a little upset. After all, he had been strongly demanding to fight in the past few days, but he finally convinced Ulugh Beg and ended up like this.

So Beisunhu once again organized his troops and sent additional troops to attack the city from another direction, hoping to use this method to disperse the Han army's strength and bully the few with more troops.

It has to be said that Beisunhu is indeed a man who knows soldiers, and his method did have an effect. The city walls on both sides were attacked, and the counterattack intensity of the Han army at the top of the city was indeed reduced.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Besunhu personally commanded an army and successfully reached the city wall again. Some people even successfully climbed to the top of the city, but they were quickly pushed back by the Han army, and the second attack failed again.

Unwilling to be reconciled, Beisunhu organized the third and fourth attacks, but they failed to achieve much results. At most, some people climbed to the top of the city, but it was more like they were deliberately put up by the Han army. , and then were surrounded and killed by them with superior force.

Besunhu also used various large-scale siege equipment, such as cannons and firearms, but the city wall of Peshawar was made of mountain rocks and was very strong. These equipment did not have much effect at all.

Instead, the Han army installed crossbows and artillery on the top of the city, causing huge casualties to Besunhu.

In the end, Ulugh Beg saw that the successive attacks did not make any progress, but suffered heavy losses, and finally ordered the withdrawal. Besunhu's objection was useless, so their first attack on Peshawar City ended hastily.

But what Ulugh Beg and Besunhu didn't expect was that instead of entering Peshawar, the Han army in Peshawar would come out to attack them.

That same night, the entire Timur camp fell into a deep sleep in the second half of the night.

As a result, at this moment, a group of Han cavalry suddenly came out of the city of Peshawar and rushed towards the military camp of Timur's army.

However, this cavalry did not attack the military camp. Instead, they fought to the front and rear of the camp gate. They used the riding and shooting skills they learned from the Mongolian cavalry to shoot waves of rockets into the military camp. There were also throwers, Throw grenades, fire bottles and other objects towards the military camp.

Along with the explosion of grenades, rockets and fire bottles also caused fires in the military camp, and even the door of the military camp was burned.

Although the patrolling soldiers warned in advance, the entire military camp had fallen into a deep sleep at that time. Even if it was a warning, there was no time to organize troops in the military camp.By the time Besunhu organized a cavalry group to fight out, the Han cavalry had already withdrawn into the city, leaving only a camp in flames.

Faced with this situation, Besun suddenly flew into a rage and chased him to the gates of Peshawar City to curse. However, he was shot back by a hail of arrows from the top of the city.

Ulugh Beg had also woken up early. Seeing the military camp in flames, he could only direct his soldiers to put out the fire.

Fortunately, the opponent's cavalry did not rush into the camp, so not many tents were set alight, the losses were bearable, and there were almost no casualties. It can be said that this was just a harassment battle by the Han army.

After the fire in the camp was extinguished and the sky was already bright, Besun suddenly launched an attack on Baisha City again with endless anger. However, it was almost a replica of yesterday. Apart from paying huge casualties, he failed to achieve anything at all. Results.

In the following period, Beisunhu often organized sieges. Although there were no results, at least they were able to consume some of the strength of the Han army.

The Han army also went out of the city to harass them from time to time. Ulugh Beg stepped up patrols at night, but they could not stop the Han cavalry at all, because the other party did not bother with them at all. They would retreat immediately if they encountered resistance. There were still troops in the city to support them. Therefore, Ulugh Beg could not take any advantage at all.

So the tug-of-war between the two sides lasted for nearly a month. Ulugh Beg and his friends were still blocked outside the city of Peshawar. Because they could not attack for a long time, and they were harassed by the Han army from time to time at night, Ulugh Bet's army was Not getting enough rest.

The combination of these factors led to a visible decline in the morale of Ulugh Beg's army, and even the morale of the army began to weaken. Every time Besunhu organized an attack on the city, his soldiers were unable to work hard, because the people who worked hard had previously All have died in battle.

In the city of Peshawar, Chang Wei suggested to Zhu Gaoxu with excitement: "Your Majesty, Ulugh Beg's army is exhausted. I think it's time to give them a fatal blow!"

During this period of time, they stayed in the city during the day and went out to harass the city at night. In fact, they had only one purpose, which was to deplete the enemy's morale. When the opponent was exhausted mentally and physically, they would launch a surprise attack to determine the outcome of the battle.

Zhu Gaoxu seemed very calm. After pondering for a moment, he asked, "How sure are you?"

"As long as your Majesty gives me fifteen thousand soldiers and horses, I am [-]% sure that I can win in one battle!"

Chang Wei clasped his hands in a salute and said, 100% certainty is already very high. After all, on the battlefield, no one dares to say that he is [-]% sure.

"Okay, then I will give you soldiers and horses. I hope you will not disappoint me in this battle!"

Zhu Gaoxu also agreed decisively.

If it were in the past, Zhu Gaoxu would definitely lead the charge in person, but now that he is the emperor, he is no longer suitable to do this. Even if he is personally conducting an expedition, he usually stays in the rear. Unless there is something unexpected on the battlefield, he will Go to the battlefield yourself.

(End of this chapter)