The Khorezm cavalry, who had never seen firearms, had a grenade for the first baptism of firearms.

All of them were stunned, and those who were not stunned were the dead and wounded lying on the ground.

The cavalry of the Central Army had long been accustomed to seeing the expressions of their opponents, and the sense of superiority from the Celestial Empire seeped into their marrow, and they looked at these enemies with idiotic eyes.

They raise their halberds and stab them in the chest, or they slash their halberds through their necks and remove their heads.

The screams and splatters of blood awakened the enemies in the circle, and they turned and fled one after another.

However, there are not many enemies left who can or escape, so there are only six or seven hundred horses.

And before they had run far, they were desperate to find that at some point, more Han cavalry, at least two thousand horsemen, appeared behind them.

With a hideous smile on their faces, the Han cavalry raised the kind of crossbow that could fire dozens of crossbow arrows in a row and greeted them.

There is no suspense, the 3,000 cavalry led by Ma Dai easily annihilated the 5,000 Khorezm cavalry, and only a few officers escaped.

While Ma Dai's men were cleaning up the battlefield, 5,000 cavalry from the Sogdian province arrived.

All they saw were corpses scattered all over the ground, many of them killed by grenades, and their flesh was blurred and they couldn't tell each other.

And those corpses that can still be identified, but most of them are Khorezm.

They didn't meet the few officers who fled, so they thought that Khorezm's 5,000 cavalry had been defeated by the 3,000 Han cavalry in front of them.

What a bunch of waste, the Sogdian generals cursed happily in their hearts, and they urged their soldiers to form up and work for a long time.

The Han army just watched them quietly, and Ma Dai carefully looked at the Sogdian cavalry.

The Sogdian cavalry wore half-body chain mail, and the lower half of the body was as unprotected as the horses under their hips.

Everyone carried bows and arrows and spears, and it seemed that they were nomads again.

When the Sogdian cavalry worked hard to arrange their formation and bravely attacked the Han army, Ma Dai's 3,000 cavalry calmly dealt with it.

Soon, the tragedy of Khorezm was repeated again by the Sogdian cavalry, and the defeat was even faster.

This time, with 3,000 repeaters and 3,000 grenades, only one wave of grenades crushed them.

Just as the Sogdian cavalry was about to be annihilated, suddenly, a large herd of camels roared into the battlefield.

Herat's camel cavalry arrived at the critical moment, and although the camels were not as fast as the horses, they were larger and the momentum of the impact was very terrifying.

The camel cavalry of Herat could be regarded as heavy cavalry, with both riders and camels wearing armor, and the riders using a spear more than two feet long.

Their appearance at the critical moment saved the Sogdians, prevented them from being annihilated, and disrupted the formation of the Han cavalry.

At the cost of nearly 3,000 men, the Sogdian cavalry escaped with the help of camels.

The lethality of the repeating crossbow to the camel is obviously much smaller, and the camel cavalry does not fight with the Han army, but directly crosses the battlefield.

Therefore, Ma Dai's final result was to successfully annihilate the 5,000 cavalry of Khorezm with his bait, severely inflict 3,000 cavalry on Sogdia, and wiped out most of the mobile forces in the city of Malakanda in one battle, making the Sogdian governor Amp anxious.

After the Kushan's cavalry was heavily damaged, the cavalry of the Han army became more active, and even began to attack some small towns, killing the defenders in the city, looting the grain, grass and supplies in the city, and burning everything that could not be taken away.

Along the logistics supply line of Guishan, wolf smoke was everywhere, which caused a very bad impact.

Amp was only able to send his strongest force, the infantry regiment from the province of Bactria, to recover the important towns along the lines of communication and ensure that the lines of communication were open, and at the same time sent messengers to ask His Highness the Crown Prince for help.

The Bactrian infantry is a typical inheritor of ancient Greek culture, inheriting the essence of their ancestors, the Macedonian infantry, who are brave and disciplined.

The infantrymen wore long hair, pointed bronze or iron helmets, metal and leather half-body armor, round or oval shields in their left hands, and sharp spears in their right hands.

There were also a small number of archers, but their archers turned out to be unprotected and running naked.

The most distinctive feature of the Bactrian infantry is that they have a red mane on their helmets, from front to back, longitudinally, and it is unknown what material they are made of.

It's a bit like the helmet of the Han army, it's pretty and beautiful.

The current Han army has all been replaced with new helmets, pursuing practicality, and the appearance is not beautiful, and the aesthetics of ancient people are very different from modern people.

Fifteen thousand Bactrian infantry marched from the city of Marakanda to Kabul.

They didn't go far before they received the latest information that Kunduz, an important city on this communication line, was surrounded by Han troops and was in critical condition.

I really didn't expect that the Han army, which was not superior in numbers, would dare to take the initiative.

According to the backward intelligence of the Kushan military, the Han army in Dawan had only three Han troops called divisions, less than 60,000 people, and their reinforcements were still in the far east.

In addition to the Han army, there were also 40,000 to 50,000 allied troops from the Western Regions, and their ally Kangju also sent 50,000 reinforcements, but I heard that they did not reach Dawan.

I heard that from the capital of the Han Dynasty to Dawan, the distance is more than 5,000 miles, which is too far away.

Although the territory of the Kushan Empire is also very large, it is not such a long distance.

Although Ampu and others in Maracanda had already received reports of two battles between Khorezm and the Sogdian cavalry.

I heard that the crossbow that the Han army was equipped with and fired continuously, it was called a repeater, and there was also a long-handled guy that could emit fire and smoke and was extremely lethal, and I heard that it was called a grenade.

It is said that this is a new type of weapon invented by the Han people, which belongs to firearms, and it can ignite, but it is also worthy of its name.

However, they believe that the main reason for the fiasco is not only the new weapons of the Han army, but also because these two cavalry are light cavalry, and the protection is weak, especially the war horses, which have no protection.

Wait until the main forces of the empire arrive, let's see, the hoplites will definitely not be such a scene.

So they sent Bactrian infantry with a reputably strong defense against them, as long as they regained the towns on the lines of communication and waited patiently for reinforcements to arrive.

The Han army used firearms that no one had ever seen or heard of, so it was not an unforgivable sin to lose a few battles.

The commander of Bactria's infantry regiment was called Osidmos, an ancient, glorious, and great name, once one of the greatest rulers in the history of the kingdom of Bactria.

It ushered in a glorious era, and even if it was reduced to a vassal of the Kushan Empire today, his family remained one of the largest families in Bactria, with a high degree of autonomy.