King Saveh's Host Crosses the Jihun

From E5.4, The Realm Rises against Hormizd. It illustrates E5.4.2–9:

E5.4.2
King Saveh crossed Jihun to join the fray,With tabiras, stores, elephants’ array.
E5.4.3
Four hundred thousand soldiers filled his force;Their numbers darkened all the army’s course.
E5.4.4
Twelve hundred warlike elephants were led;The crowded earth could scarcely bear their tread.
E5.4.5
From Talaqan to Herat’s borderland,His troops lay packed like warp and woof in hand;
E5.4.6
Toward Marv he led his soldiers on their way;Their dust concealed the earth beneath the day.
E5.4.7
King Saveh sent Hormizd a written scroll:“Call up your powers; let caution rule your soul.
E5.4.8
Repair the roads and bridges for my train;Prepare provisions all along the plain.
E5.4.9
Remember how my sword can strike its blow;Through hill and valley shall my soldiers go.”