If you like a military career and accept the high salary of the army, you can also become a volunteer soldier, overserve for an extended period of time, and even be promoted to a junior officer, squad leader, platoon leader have a chance.

For military positions above the rank of company commander, you must have graduated from a military academy.

Now in addition to the most famous Lantian Central Military Academy, the Han Empire also has local junior military academies in various states to train junior officers such as company platoon commanders, after all, each state and county has its own local garrison brigade, and the demand for officers is still very large.

After occupying Mulu, the Han army underwent a short period of repair, and then sent the first division of the Haotian Army as the vanguard to go out of Damgan to inquire about the current situation of the rest army.

Ma Chao personally followed the first division to fight, Sima Yi and Fa Zheng stayed in Mulu City, and the reinforcements of the Han army were coming from China, and this time it was the crown prince Lü Kang, the king of Jin, who replaced Lü Bu.

The first division of the Haotian Army is a cavalry division, and all the officers and soldiers of the division are riding Ili horses from Wusun, Ma Chao is the husband of Queen Wusun, and he is also the Prince of Han of Wusun.

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Therefore, the marching speed is very fast, Mulu is three or four hundred miles away from Damgan, but for Ma Chao, it is a two-day journey, and even harder, one day is enough.

Ma Chao has always marched quickly, the army advanced at high speed, and the reconnaissance battalion exceeded the whole army by fifty miles, galloping on the Persian plateau.

The field of vision is good, the surroundings are unobstructed, and on a horse, good eyesight can see more than ten or twenty miles.

The officers and men of the reconnaissance battalion were advancing at high speed, when suddenly a group of cavalry appeared in front of them, and the riders were wearing bronze armor and high bronze helmets, which covered their ears up to their necks, revealing only their eyes and lips.

Their attire was very different from that of the cavalry of the Rest Empire, and at the front of the procession, a knight carried a military banner in a slender strip with a black eagle with its wings outstretched.

They all carried half-man-tall oval shields in their left and bronze daggers in their right, and a musket behind them.

"It's the Romans! Scout cavalry of the Romans! "Rest in peace," said the commander of the reconnaissance battalion.

The battalion commander immediately raised his right hand, clenched it into a fist, and gave the order to assemble, and a company of Han troops following him gathered behind him.

The other two companies were advancing at a distance of ten miles from each other to the left and right, so there was only one company of fighters at the side of the reconnaissance battalion commander.

The Romans on the opposite side apparently also spotted the oncoming Han cavalry, and they put away their short swords, removed the muskets behind their backs, and gathered their formations to slow down their horses.

The Roman scout cavalry numbered about fifty people, only half the number of the Han army, but they did not turn and flee, but bravely met them, and of course one of them quickly turned around and ran in the direction they came, presumably to deliver the letter.

The commander of the Han army admired the courage of the Romans, and he ordered the whole company to line up in two horizontal rows, separated by one person, and move forward slowly.

The Han army's rifle firing accuracy was higher than that of the Romans' front-loading flintlock pistols, so they could be arranged in a sparse formation, unlike the Romans, who had to rely on volleys in dense formations to shoot their opponents.

In order to ensure the hit rate, the Han army advanced to 200 zhang before giving the order to shoot, and the Romans were not slow to react.

When the Han army raised their guns to shoot, they raised their shields and blocked the front of the horse, and lowered their bodies to keep the war horse facing the enemy and reduce the area of bullets.

At this point, the Romans stopped advancing, their shields were not effective against bullets, but they also greatly weakened the lethality of bullets, plus they were lying on horseback, and in the first wave of fire, there were few casualties.

The Romans also raised their guns to fight back, and they skillfully placed their muskets on the sides of their shields, apparently carefully trained, and fought back at a distance of 200 zhang, and the Han troops also lay down on their horses to avoid the bullets.

It seems that the Roman flintlock pistols were rifled guns, not smoothbore guns, and could easily fire effectively at a distance of 200 zhang.

However, the Romans did not have stirrups, which were introduced to Central Asia from the east, and at this stage they only spread to the Kushan Empire and a small number of areas of the Sabbatical Empire.

Therefore, when they shoot, they must stop their horses before they can shoot steadily, but fortunately, their horses are all trained, and they do not panic when they hear the sound of gunfire close to their ears.

The Han army was much more calm than them, with the help of stirrups, they could even shoot on the march, and the veterans could also have a high hit rate.

Both sides have their own advantages, the distance of 200 zhang, under the cavalry's telling gallop, there is only one chance to shoot, after all, in the galloping horse, loading bullets is a difficult thing for both sides.

After a wave of fighting, only five or six of the Han army were wounded, one of them was seriously injured and had fallen from his horse, while the Romans fell eight or nine, and it was the Han army that had the upper hand.

Soon the two sides were close to a distance of thirty or forty feet, and the cavalrymen put away their muskets, took up sabers and bronze swords, oh, and grenades, and the cavalry of the Romans was also armed with grenades.

After the most courageous grenade throw, two of the world's most powerful cavalry collided, sabers and bronze swords stabbing at their opponents.

The quality of the sabers of the Han army was significantly higher than that of the bronze swords of the Romans, and it seems that the iron-smelting technology of the Han Dynasty was still superior.

However, the Romans' shields and bronze cuirass provided them with good protection, and even if the weapons were inferior to the Han army, the protection was superior, and there were few wounded.

The Romans saw that they did not have the upper hand, and that the Han Chinese were not inferior in horsemanship and horseback skills, nor were they in love with war, so the two sides hedged each other, and the Romans left only seven or eight corpses, so they fled back.

However, the Romans' war horses were mostly Gallic horses, Thracian horses, and better Andalusian horses, which were generally short in height, while the Han army was all Ili horses, much faster than them, and the weight was slightly lighter.

Fortunately, the Romans' war horses were nailed to horseshoes, which were very passable, and had a slight advantage in this semi-desert area.

The two sides fled and chased each other, and ran for more than 20 miles, when suddenly a horn sounded in front of them, not the trumpet of the Han army, it must be the troops of the Romans.

The commander of the reconnaissance battalion gave the order to stop the pursuit, only to see a large brigade of Roman cavalry appear in the distance, and there were many military flags, representing different formations.

Most of these Roman cavalry were light cavalry dressed up in the same costume as the scout cavalry, but there were also a small number of heavy cavalry.

The Roman cavalry was outnumbered, three thousand horsemen, and they had seen the Han cavalry chasing their companions, and the Roman light cavalry had already bypassed them far away, trying to outflank them.

The commander of the reconnaissance battalion decisively ordered a retreat, they retreated in the direction of their main force, and halfway through the reconnaissance company of the other two companies, they also encountered the Romans, but they were Roman infantry.

It seems that on the opposite side came a whole massive Roman legion, with cavalry, with infantry.