The River Shahd Runs Red

From B13.6, Afrasiab Sends an Army to Piran. It illustrates B13.6.16–26:

B13.6.16
Then Tus arrayed his army on the plain,With elephants and koust in martial train.
B13.6.17
The lines, like mountains, crashed in wrathful fight,Iranian horse against Turanian might.
B13.6.18
The dust of armies rose and dimmed the sun;From river water flames appeared to run.
B13.6.19
Sword, zhupin, javelin filled the air with gloom,As though in night red tulips burst in bloom.
B13.6.20
Gold helms and shields flashed bright across the fray;Gold belts on jowshan gleamed beneath the day.
B13.6.21
A sandarac-hued cloud obscured the sky;Dust turned the earth to ebony nearby.
B13.6.22
Chiefs’ helms beneath the heavy gopal rang,Like anvils struck by smiths as hammers sang.
B13.6.23
The river like a winepress ran blood-red;A reed-bed of tall spears above it spread.
B13.6.24
Full many heads were caught in kamand snare,And honored bodies humbled everywhere.
B13.6.25
Jowshans their shroud, blood-dust their resting bed;The sword split pampered bodies where they bled.
B13.6.26
Earth bloomed like arghavan, air black as night,While koust filled heaven and stars with roaring might.