These Dragon Stallion Army soldiers were completely different from what they remembered.
Chapter 1100 - The Remolded Great Tang Army!
Chapter 1100: The Remolded Great Tang Army!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
“Kill!”
The heavens resounded as more Arab cavalry who did not know the truth of the situation charged forward. Everyone came back to their senses and the fighting once more became cruel and callous.
“This is impossible! Absolutely impossible!” Ziyad muttered to himself from beneath the fluttering black war banner, completely dumbfounded by what he had seen. The Fearless Army had built up its reputation on vicious battlefields through the terrifying skill of its soldiers. Those powerful foes that had long ago been turned into departed souls served as proof of the Fearless Army’s power.
But now, the Fearless Army was being completely suppressed, and this was while they outnumbered their foe. No one had ever imagined that this could be possible.
Almost instinctively, Ziyad looked to Abu Muslim.
Abu Muslim was silent. His back was as straight as ever, but Ziyad could sense that the shock in his heart was no less than his own.
Abu Muslim turned to Governor Osman and said, “Osman, send your Beheader Army and Tiber Army!”
“Mm!”
Osman immediately nodded. After working with Abu Muslim for so many years, he had developed a keen understanding of his old friend. The Arabs never worshiped individual courage, but placed utmost priority on defeating the enemy. These Tang top-class armies were inconceivably powerful. In this situation, they could only rely on numbers to overcome their opponents.
Osman turned his head to a deputy and ordered, “Pass on my order! Deploy the Beheader Army and Tiber Army!”
“Yes!”
The deputy bowed and quickly left. A few moments later, dust billowed into the air as the two armies surged toward the front.
Once the Tiber Army and Beheader Army had been deployed, Abu Muslim fell quiet for a few moments, and then he turned his eyes to the Governor of War, Qutaybah.
Tap! A moment later, as Osman, Aybak, and Ziyad solemnly watched, Abu Muslim strode forward and began to walk toward Qutaybah.
“Lord Qutaybah, can I trouble you to deploy your Blood Beast Army and Death Army?”
To everyone’s surprise, Abu Muslim gave Qutaybah a respectful bow.
Everyone knew about Qutaybah’s relationship with Abu Muslim, and it certainly was no genial one. Not long ago, the two had even quarreled. No one had expected that Abu Muslim would actually bow to Qutaybah at a time like this. He was clearly indicating that he was conceding and submitting himself.
Even more surprising was Qutaybah’s attitude.
“Very well!” Qutaybah said as he looked at the battlefield, his voice abnormally gentle. Unexpectedly, he did not use this opportunity to taunt Abu Muslim.
Behind him, Osman, Aybak, Ziyad, and everyone else were dumbstruck.
Rumble!
No matter how shocked they were, the Blood Beast Army and Death Army quickly went into motion and charged off into the battlefield.
Wang Chong immediately noticed when the Beheader Army, Tiber Army, Blood Beast Army, and Death Army moved out, and issued his own order.
“Roaring Tiger Army, Divine Prison Army, Ultimate Martial Army, Xuanwu Army—all of you, get ready!”
“This subordinate will go!”
A string of replies came from behind him, and the earth rumbled as these armies began to head for the front.
The battle came far more quickly than expected. A few moments later, the third top-class Arab army arrived on the battlefield. The Tiber Army was one of the best forces under Governor Osman’s command. Last time, their opponent had been the Mo Saber Unit, but their opponent would be different this time.
Bang!
As the Tiber Army appeared, an army rapidly marched out from the first defense line.
Clangclangclang! Countless weapons clashed in the air, producing innumerable sparks. The third army Wang Chong had sent was the most offensively-oriented one, the Divine Prison Army. Sword Qi ran rampant and they immediately began to inflict serious and unexpected losses amongst the Tiber Army.
The Divine Prison Army had always had extremely fierce and swift attacks, but its weakness had been its insufficient defense. Thus, in yesterday’s battle, the Divine Prison Army had taken more losses than were to be expected. But now, the Divine Prison Army was bolstered by six halos that filled in this weakness.
Boom!
Beneath the feet of the Tiber Army soldiers, their black halos rapidly spun and trembled, shining with a metallic luster. These spinning halos suddenly struck the ground, and boom! The firm rock of the Talas battlefield split apart like it was tofu, and a Tiber Army soldier flew through the air at a Divine Prison Army soldier like a leopard lunging at its prey.
The Tiber Army did not have the best offensive or defensive capabilities amongst the Arab armies, but its soldiers could explosively increase their strength and speed for a few short moments, something that not even the Fearless Army could do.
More than half of the five thousand Mo Saber soldiers that had been killed in the previous battle had been slain by the sudden attacks of the Tiber Army soldiers. The explosive power of the Tiber Army soldiers was so great that when they struck, they shattered the armor of the Mo Saber soldiers into bits and pieces.
This time, however, when this Tiber Army soldier tried to explode forward and tear apart this Divine Prison Army soldier, a stream of Sword Qi suddenly through the air.
A moment later, the Tiber Army soldier’s head flew high into the air. Even at the moment of his death, he had no idea what had happened. His face was still frozen in the same expression as when he had lunged forward.
Bolstered by the power of the six additional war halos, the Divine Prison Army soldiers could strike with unfathomable speed. Not even the explosive speed of the Tiber Army soldiers could compare.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
At the incredible speeds the Divine Prison Army soldiers were moving, the long and thin swords in their hands became the most terrifying weapons in the world. Blood gushed into the air as six Tiber Army soldiers were beheaded, and the Divine Prison Army continued to rack up kills.
Bang!
As the Divine Prison Army engaged in a full-out offensive, a Tiber Army soldier drew back, the muscles on his body tensing like a beast preparing to lunge. When a Divine Prison Army soldier had all his attention placed on another foe, the Tiber Army soldier lunged forward, slashing out with his scimitar at the Divine Prison Army soldier’s back. This slash bolstered by the Tiber Army soldier’s explosive strength was enough to sunder steel.
But just as the scimitar was about to land, one of the six halos around the Divine Prison Army soldier suddenly expanded to protect the soldier. As the scimitar clanged against the halo, there was a low roar in the air. If one looked carefully, one could see the image of the dragon-headed turtle that was the Xuanwu on the soldier’s back.
At this sight, Dalun Ruozan, Duwu Sili, Huoshu Huicang, Abu Muslim, and Aybak all trembled. This was the Xuanwu Halo that only the Xuanwu Army could have possessed, but it had inexplicably appeared on this Divine Prison Army soldier.
Boom! The illusion of the Xuanwu shattered together with the Xuanwu Halo. The Tiber Army soldier’s tremendous strike shattered the Divine Prison Army soldier’s armor and sent him flying backward.
But this Divine Prison Army soldier only flew some twenty to thirty feet before stopping himself. Spitting out some blood, he turned and viciously glared at the Tiber Army soldier who had ambushed him.
“Die!”
Sharp Sword Qi immediately exploded forward to attack the Tiber Army soldier. A few seconds later, with a miserable scream, the Tiber Army soldier’s head went flying into the air, while his body was pockmarked with holes of various sizes.
This battle had dev
eloped in a way that the Arabs could have never imagined. No one knew what had happened, but all of them could clearly see that the strength of the Divine Martial Army, Dragon Stallion Army, and Divine Prison Army had greatly increased.
In the rear, Abu Muslim, Osman, and the others all had extremely nasty grimaces.
“For Arabia!”
Deafening roars shook the battlefield as more and more of the Arabs’ top-class armies arrived on the battlefield. Not long after the Tiber Army had arrived, the Beheader Army arrived to assist it.
“Xuanwu Army, move out!” Wang Chong ordered as soon as he saw the Beheader Army.
The Xuanwu Army and Beheader Army could now be considered mortal enemies. In yesterday’s battle, the Beheader Army had suffered heavy casualties, but the Xuanwu Army had come off even worse. Right now, the Xuanwu Army had far fewer soldiers than the Beheader Army, but Wang Chong still chose to send out the Xuanwu Army without the slightest hesitation.
Boomboomboom!
The most defensively formidable Xuanwu Army marched onto the battlefield.
Six halos appeared on the Xuanwu Army, causing its strength to swell, and the two thousand remaining soldiers of the Xuanwu Army impacted with the Beheader Army like a storm.
“Kill!”
“For the Great Tang!”
“Exterminate these infidels!”
The two armies each gave their own roars as they madly attacked their foes. Scimitars and swords gleamed as they clashed, the noises of their impacts ringing out over the battlefield.
Boomboomboom! The halos were the first to clash, the shockwaves of energy causing dust to sweep outward.
But a few moments later, an enormous boom announced the contest’s outcome. The halos of the Beheader Army soldiers began to shatter, one by one.
Chapter 1101 - Unstoppable!
Chapter 1101: Unstoppable!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
In a single clash, the hundreds of war halos of the Beheader Army shattered in dazzling explosions.
The enormous number of halos the Xuanwu Army wielded was not something even a top-class Arab army like the Beheader Army could deal with. And with their halos shattered…
Squelchsquelchsquelch! Swords stabbed into the bodies of the Beheader Army soldiers, and when they were pulled out again, the ground was immediately covered in their corpses.
This terrifying casualty ratio had the eyes of Abu Muslim and Osman flying open.
We can only see how Qutaybah’s armies do!
With this sudden thought, four pairs of eyes turned to watch the Blood Beast Army and Death Army.
Of the three governors, Qutaybah’s armies were undoubtedly the largest and the strongest. Qutaybah’s Revelation Army had even managed to cut down the Xuanwu Army from eight thousand to two thousand as soon as it was deployed.
If they wanted to defeat the Tang army and shatter its defenses, they could only rely on Qutaybah.
“Get ready! The strongest opponent is coming!”
Behind the tall steel walls, Wang Chong’s eyes flashed.
Of all the Arab armies, Wang Chong had been paying the most attention to Qutaybah’s three top-class armies.
Amidst the vast sea of Arab cavalry, Wang Chong could pick out at a glance the Blood Beast Army and the Death Army. The soldiers of these stood out from the rest, their energies as vast as mountains and impossible to ignore.
As these two armies approached, the tension in the air rapidly increased. Qutaybah’s armies were the only ones that could alter this situation, and if not even these two armies could do this, then the Arabs would be facing complete defeat.
Not only that, if they could not gain the initiative in this battle, the Great Tang could use its own top-class armies to hold down Qutaybah, Abu Muslim, and the other Arab Great Generals. The top-class armies would slowly exhaust them while also creating opportunities for the Tang Great Generals.
If one were surrounded by these top-class armies and exhausted too much energy, even someone like Qutaybah who had touched upon the Subtle realm might be defeated and die.
There had never been a single Great General who could rely on his own strength to stand against an army of more than one hundred thousand people!
“Pass on my order! Deploy the Revelation Army!” Qutaybah suddenly ordered from beneath the fluttering Arabian war banners.
Aybak and Osman were at first confused, but then they understood, complicated looks appearing in their eyes.
Were these infidel soldiers so powerful that not even Qutaybah thought that he could overcome them? It wasn’t even the decisive moment, but he was already deploying his most powerful Revelation Army.
“This general will go!”
A voice came from behind Qutaybah, and one of his Brigadier Generals departed to deliver the order.
As Qutaybah was sending out his most powerful army, on the front line, the Blood Beast Army and Death Army had arrived like a vast tidal wave of steel.
“Ready!”
With this roar, the air clanged with metal as the soldiers of the Roaring Tiger Army and Ultimate Martial Army raised their swords in the air.
The soldiers were instantly surrounded by a still and somber air.
Across from them, the ground was trembling more and more as two powerful storms of energy approached. In the packed ranks of the Arab cavalry, one could see a bloody mist and a thick black mist rapidly charging at them.
“Charge!”
The twenty-six hundred Roaring Tiger Army soldiers were the first to charge forward from behind the steel walls, their swords held high.
Hwooosh! As they charged out, the black-armored guard in the rear wildly waved the Nine Dragon Blood War Banner. The earth quaked as invisible ripples of energy spread out and attached to the bodies of the Roaring Tiger Army soldiers.
Clangclangclang! The Roaring Tiger Army were quickly encased in seven halos. This army that had already been able to suppress the Fearless Army with its own halo now had six additional ones, and its strength climbed to nigh unimaginable levels.
“Ah!”
There was a scream as an Arab rider and his horse were thrown more than a hundred feet into the air by a Roaring Tiger Army soldier.
More soon followed as the Roaring Tiger Army’s attacks tossed them into the sky.
Each of these Arab horsemen weighed several thousand jin when accounting for their horse, but they were as light as a feather to the twenty-six hundred Roaring Tiger Army soldiers.
Moreover, the Roaring Tiger Army soldiers had sent their fierce and tyrannical Stellar Energy through their swords into the bodies of these Arab cavalry.
By the time they had been thrown into the air, they were truthfully already dead.
Boomboomboom!
The Roaring Tiger Army brought chaos wherever it went, slaying innumerable Arab cavalry.
This time, the Roaring Tiger Army had adopted a completely different strategy. Rather than waiting, it was heading right for the Blood Beast Army and Death Army.
There were only twenty-six hundred of them, but that unstoppable momentum made it seem like there were twenty to thirty thousand of them.
“Hear my order! Until we kill these Arabs, no one is allowed to retreat!”
The Roaring Tiger Army Commander, Du Wuwei, gripped his sword with both hands as his body exploded with killing intent. As an extremely experienced old general who had followed Zhang Shougui through many campaigns, Du Wuwei had not encountered such a powerful opponent in a very long time.
The Goguryeons, Khitans, Western Turks, and even the Tibetans had only been able to lower their heads and concede to the Roaring Tiger Army.
But these Arabs had allowed the Roaring Tiger Army to finally understand what a strong foe was. They had also stimulated the pride and killing intent of Zhang Shougui’s finest soldiers.
“Kill!”
The more than two thousand men simultaneously roared, deforming the air as their murde
rous intent soared.
In the midst of this roaring, all the Roaring Tiger Army soldiers charged at the Arabs.
“Kill them! Leave not one alive!”
Meanwhile, the approaching Blood Beast Army had also sensed the aura of the Roaring Tiger Army, and its several thousand soldiers swiftly began to ride toward it.
Two hundred feet, one hundred feet, fifty feet…
Rumble!
Like two massive waves, the armies collided against each other. No one was able to describe this impact. It appeared like a clap of thunder had exploded right in the middle of the battlefield, drowning out the sounds of fighting, the clashing of weapons, and the neighing of horses.
Heavy sword met scimitar with heavy collisions so terrifying that it felt like mountains were ramming into each other.
The two powerful armies of the Great Tang and Arabia fell into a stalemate that seemed to last for both a second and for endless epochs. But a moment later, there was a massive roar as countless soldiers and horses were flung into the air.
Thudthudthud!
The bodies of the Blood Beast Army soldiers rained down from the sky and the battlefield exploded into cheers.
“Great Tang!”
“Great Tang!”
“Great Tang!”
The names of the Great Tang and the Roaring Tiger Army filled the skies as all the Tang soldiers who witnessed this clash rallied.
The Arabs, on the other hand, were deeply stunned.
“Follow me! No matter what, we must hold them down!” A Death Army officer saw this sight and his eyes flashed as he immediately ordered his troops to charge at the Roaring Tiger Army.
“Everyone, hear my order! Follow me!”
Behind the steel walls, the more than one thousand soldiers of the Ultimate Martial Army had been closely watching the Death Army. The moment the Death Army began to pick up speed, the Ultimate Martial Army soldiers raised their swords and surged out from the defense line.
Rumble!
As the Death Army impacted against the Roaring Tiger Army, the more than one thousand soldiers of the Ultimate Martial Army charged with terrifying speed into the Death Army.
Clangclangclang! For a moment, it was not possible to see anything, only to hear the clashing of weapons. Countless men and horses were thrown into the air while countless more fell to the ground in pools of blood.
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