However, the ammunition consumption of the Han army was also extremely fast, surrounded by the Guishan army, and the logistics supply was interrupted, and Zhang Xiu's situation was still relatively critical.

Sauter also noticed this, and the next afternoon, when the Kushan army attacked, the Han army's artillery was no longer so fierce, but only fired one cannon after another, and the gunfire was obviously not so dense.

Sauter understood that the Han army's ammunition was almost exhausted, and he rotated the army and charged forward without stopping.

The current charge has been able to rush to the position of the Han army and fight hand-to-hand with the Han army, but the fighting skills of the Han army fighting bayonets are very powerful, and there are more wins and fewer losses.

Zhang Xiu was also very anxious, his letter for help and messengers were sent, according to the speed, Sima Yi should send reinforcements, not more, come to two divisions, and he can easily break through.

But the reinforcements were delayed, and I didn't know what was wrong.

After dark the next day, Saute fought even more at night, anyway, he had ten divisions, and he attacked in turns, but he also rested.

On the contrary, the Han army fought continuously, was very tired, lacked ammunition, and had already had many hand-to-hand combat.

On the third watch, the last attack of Sote was finally repulsed, leaving thousands of corpses of Kushan people on the Han army's position, and the Han army also added hundreds of wounded soldiers.

Zhang Xiu and Zhang Yan discussed it, and felt that maybe they needed to break through, otherwise everyone would die here, and during the day tomorrow, they would definitely not be able to resist the attack of the Guishan people.

The encircled Han army has basically run out of ammunition and food, and hand-to-hand combat has also caused huge casualties, and the total casualties of the three divisions have exceeded 10,000.

Zhang Xiu decided to break through on the fourth watch, and he ordered the artillery battalion to be ready to destroy the artillery, and it was necessary to break through lightly.

And began to collect explosives and grenades, preparing to use them to blow up a way out.

Just when Zhang Xiu and Zhang Yan were preparing to break through on the fourth watch, the outskirts of the Guishan people's military camp suddenly sounded fierce gunfire.

And it was the sound of gunfire in all directions at the same time, followed by three green flares rising into the sky.

Zhang Xiu saw the signal flare and knew that his reinforcements had arrived, which meant that he wanted to cooperate with the outside world.

He immediately ordered to break through as originally planned, but the artillery did not need to be destroyed, and when the battle was over, he would come back and pull it.

By the time Zhang Xiu's army blasted open the Kushan camp with grenades and broke through to the Kushan camp, more and more Han troops also rushed in from the periphery.

Sure enough, Sima Yi's reinforcements arrived, and he dispatched the second division of the Haotian Army, the third division of the Haotian Army, the sixth cavalry division, the eleventh cavalry division and the third division of the National Defense Army.

The Han army was almost entirely dispatched, and there were only two divisions on the front of Mashhad where they were acting, pretending that all ten divisions were stationed in the camp.

The black uniforms of the Han army are the perfect cover in the dark night, not as conspicuous as the yellow uniforms of Guishuang.

Sauter quickly judged that the number of the Han army was no less than his own, but his subordinates fought for two days and two nights in a row, and they were extremely tired.

Of course, he knew that his opponents Ma Chao and Sima Yi were powerful, and in the first Han-Guizhou War, he suffered a big loss in the hands of Sima Yi.

Looking at Sima Yi's posture, this is to counter-encircle his own troops.

He hurriedly ordered a concentrated breakout to break through to Herat Province, but he couldn't ambush people by himself, but he was surrounded by the Han army.

The darkness of the night gives the attacker the benefit of cover, but it also creates opportunities for the breakout side.

In the end, Sauter's ten divisions basically broke through, but the attrition was serious, and the night of fierce fighting suffered at least 50,000 casualties.

The consumption of the Han army was much smaller, with a total of less than 10,000 casualties.

Hit hard by this, Sauter's forward corps did not dare to take the initiative to attack anymore, but waited for Guishan's large army to arrive.

Ma Chao and Sima Yi had limited troops, and they were unable to open up other battlefields, so they just defended Mashhad.

Mashhad, like most cities in Central Asia, was built of mud or gravel, and was heightened and fortified after the arrival of the Han army.

In mid-January 211, the second wave of reinforcements under Lü Bu's personal command finally arrived in Mashhad.

The inside and outside of the city of Mashhad immediately turned into a huge barracks, and the space inside the city was limited, and the vast majority of the Han army and the servant armies of various ethnic groups were camped outside the city.

Countless military flags were unfurled in the wind, the camp tents stretched for dozens of miles, three trenches were dug outside the camp, and a high wall was built.

And the military camp of the Kushan Empire, which was twenty miles away, was also full of people.

Reinforcements from various provinces and viceroyalties also arrived, and even troops from very remote areas came to join the battle.

Among them, the armies of the Kushan tribe have been reequipped with muskets, while the armies of many remote provinces are still mainly cold weapons, with only a small number of firearms.

The high-ranking generals of both sides know very well that this is absolutely a decisive battle that will determine the fate of the two countries, that there is no room for two tigers on one mountain, and that there can only be one voice in Central Asia.

Both empires are at their peaks, and both have put their main forces on the battlefields of Mashhad.

Lü Bu brought his Imperial Guard, and King Botiao also brought his own royal guard.

Both sides are determined to finish their work in one battle, and the victory or defeat will be determined in one battle.

General Lu Bu and all the high-ranking generals on the front line were anxious to their big tents and held a meeting to discuss specific strategies against the enemy.

Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Sima Yi, Gao Shun, Zhang Xiu, Chen Dao, Yu Ban, Wen Ping, Wang Quan, Huang Zhong and others gathered together, as the largest military operation since the establishment of the new dynasty of the Han Empire, which made everyone excited.

Lü Bu attached great importance to this battle, and this was the first confrontation with a foreign army under his personal command, and the opponent was a behemoth like himself.

You have no way of knowing how deep the other party's background is, although the intelligence department of the Great Han has already infiltrated all corners of the Kushan Empire, and all strata, even among the high-level of the Kushan Empire, have developed undercover agents.

However, it is impossible to know what the background of the Kushan Empire is, and how many troops have been mobilized this time?

The two sides have been fighting for many years, and they already know each other very well, and they also know the tactics they are used to.

Although the army of the Kushan Empire was not as well-organized as the Han army and had earnest teaching on ideological and political work, they also had the kind of bloody nature and tenacious fighting spirit that their own nation brings.

Moreover, the Kushan army is now mainly based on firearms, and the gap in equipment is far less than that of the first Han-Guizhou War.

Therefore, there is not much difference in troop strength and very little difference in equipment, and this will test the war wisdom of the commanders of both sides even more.

All of you here have basically participated in the wars in the Western Regions and Central Asia, and they all know more about the army of the Kushan Empire.

Yu Ban spoke first, "We must take me as the main thing, give full play to our advantages, and mobilize the army of the Kushan people. It is advisable to use the strategy of Tian Ji horse racing, attract the enemy's main force with a low-power army, and then use our main force to quickly crush the enemy's weak army. ”

"In the end, all the armies will strike at the enemy's main forces together to ensure the outcome of the battle."