These were, of course, flintlock pistols, and Sima Yi hid the musket brigade in this camp.

This is the first time that muskets have appeared on the battlefield in Central Asia, which has greatly promoted the development of the military industry in Central Asia.

Both the Persian cavalry and the prince of Bo Tiao saw the musket for the first time, and their brains were short-circuited all of a sudden.

The Persian cavalry was still charging along the inertia, while the Han army, having fired a shot, retreated, and immediately five hundred Han soldiers stood under the wall of the wall, armed with the same weapons, and fired another volley under the command of the officer.

There was another ping, another puff of smoke, and hundreds of horses falling to the ground.

And the mortars have been chasing their butts to attack them, and when the lucky ones who were lucky enough to not die rushed to eighty zhang, a large number of crossbowmen stood up on both sides of the Han soldiers with muskets.

These crossbowmen were so good at shooting with muskets that many of the Persian cavalrymen died with arrows in the face or throat.

Fortunately, the Persian cavalry were equipped with triangular shields, which could not protect against the lead bullets of muskets, but could protect against crossbow arrows.

Seeing that the Han army's archery skills were so accurate, their shields didn't dare to lower their shields at all, and tightly protected their upper bodies.

Even so, less than two thousand horsemen were able to rush to the vicinity of the trench.

And the musketeers of the Han army were a regiment of 2,000 people, divided into four teams, and the cycle was repeated, ensuring the continuity of firepower.

Just as the Persian cavalry threw the sandbags in their hands into the trench, thousands of grenades were thrown from the wall, and they fell into the crowd of Persian cavalry who were blocked by the trench and huddled together with white smoke.

These grenades are like small mortars, and they can blow up a piece.

The Persian cavalry had lost the courage to use their bows and arrows against the Han army at the head of the wall, threw sandbags and rushed back to their own camp.

The commander of the Khorasan cavalry sent a second wave of 3,000 cavalry to continue to fill the ditch, and he couldn't help but look back in the direction of the Chinese army's Bo Tiao Tai, hoping to hear the horn of withdrawal.

It's a pity that he is destined to be disappointed, how can Prince Bo feel sorry for these provincial legions? Especially in the disobedient provinces or viceroyalties of Khorasan.

Originally, Prince Bo Tiao had the intention of borrowing a knife to kill people, so he would not order the troops to be collected!

How good would it be to let these Persians probe the details of each other's army for the Kushan army?

Isn't this just the discovery of a firearm that the Han army has not exposed? The power is really not small, but it seems that the Han army itself is not equipped with many of these firearms, and it uses a rotation system, which means that it is similar to Guishuang's hard crossbow and requires reloading time.

I have to say that Prince Botuo is still very smart, and he is also a good hand at fighting, otherwise he would not have changed from the fourth heir to His Royal Highness the Prince.

Using the most taboo tactic of refueling, the Khorasan cavalry sprinted back and forth four times, even sandbags and corpses, before they were counted in the trench and filled out a few passages.

The open space in front of the camp was already filled with the corpses of Khorasan cavalry and horses, and occasionally the wails of men and horses wounded by buckshot could be heard.

It was only at this time that the Prince of Palazon ordered the Khorasan army to withdraw and rest.

In four waves of charges, the Khorasan army suffered seven or eight thousand casualties, and the Han army on the walled wall was probably unscathed, and the Persians had no chance to fight back.

The troops sent by the prince of Bo Tiao next surprised everyone, whether it was the Guishan army or Sima Yi who was watching the battle on a high platform in the camp.

Appearing is a group of behemoths, war elephants.

Prince Pocha ordered the elephant corps of the Western Viceroyalty to attack, and the Scythian cavalry from the Western Viceroyalty coordinated the attack.

The armor of the Scythian cavalry was much thicker than that of the Persian cavalry, and the horses under the crotch were also heavily armoured, making them complete heavy cavalry.

The Western Viceroyalty is the same as the Horasan Governorate, unruly and unruly, and does not listen to propaganda.

As a hybrid descendant of the Scythians and Greeks, they inherited the courage and agility of the Scythians as nomadic cavalry, and their armor inherited the smelting skills of the Greeks.

Therefore, the Western Viceroyalty had the upper hand in the battle between the Indian mainland and the indigenous tribes of India, and the Scythian cavalry was also invincible, and the traditional advantage of cavalry and archery was brought into full play.

The prince of Bo Tiao started a war with the Han Dynasty this time, but he promised a lot of benefits and sent a lot of money, so that they could coax them to send elites to go out with the army.

But at this time, the prince sent them out, hehe...

However, the prince of Bo Tiao has his reasons, the war elephant is the most rough skin and thick meat, and the strength is infinite, and at the moment when there is no siege equipment, it can be used to attack the wall, anyway, it is just a wooden wall.

The Scythian cavalry was heavily armored all over their bodies, presumably able to resist the firearms of the Han army, and they were all good at riding and shooting, so they should be able to suppress the Han army on the wall.

He also ordered a mounted cavalry division and an archery division of the Rawalpindi corps to be ready to respond.

Fifty neatly draped war elephants, as the first wave of attackers, rumbled out, and a war elephant corps in the Western Governorate had one hundred and fifty war elephants.

The charge launched by these behemoths together is very imposing.

Because the war elephants occupied a large space on the battlefield, they were accompanied by only fifteen thousand Scythian heavy cavalry.

None of the Han soldiers and Kangju soldiers in the camp had ever seen war elephants, they were all dumbfounded, and some of them even turned white with fright, these monsters are too big, right?

Fortunately, the officers at all levels of the Han army were very calm, they were all educated in military schools and well-informed.

"I'm afraid of a fart, no matter how big it is, it's flesh and blood, and I have to die if I shoot it!"

"Let's aim at the people above, and the guys who are so big below, don't fight, waste bullets!"

Sima Yi was staring at the elephant to consider countermeasures, when he suddenly heard the officers below shouting, and a flash of inspiration, "Order, all snipers enter the firing position and aim at the people above the elephant to fight!" ”

Immediately, dozens of figures appeared on the arrow tower behind the wall, each of them holding a flintlock pistol of similar appearance, followed by a soldier carrying two flintlock pistols on his back.

The Kushans were also very experienced, and they covered the elephant's eyes with black cloth and plugged the elephant's ears with strips of cloth.

In this way, the elephants will only run forward under the drive of the mahouts, and they usually choose the direction of progress by kicking the roots of their ears with both feet of the mahouts, which has no effect.

But this time, before the mortar could be fired, a sparse burst of gunfire rang out above the arrow towers.

The snipers of the Central Army used front-loading rifled guns, and the effective range was up to 400 zhang, far exceeding the range of mortars.

A group of two, the main shooter is responsible for shooting, the secondary shooter is responsible for loading bullets, and of course, the sub-shooter himself is also an excellent shooter, which is equivalent to a master with an apprentice.

And these main shooters all have the foundation of special operations division marksmen, and the bow and crossbow are replaced by rifled guns, and they can also shoot and hit every shot, this feeling is innate.

It's a pity that there are no scopes in this era, and their effective range can only be the limit of the naked eye, and within three hundred zhang, they can shoot headshots with guns.

(End of chapter)