"Rumble!"
The rings of light rumbled with a metallic clatter as they enveloped the army. At this moment, the battle had finally entered the crucial moment to decide the outcome of the battle!
Wang Chong had hidden those two thousand six hundred cavalry for who knew how long. Only now did they begin to move. Their momentum was like an exploding silver vase or a thousand-foot waterfall, completely unstoppable. And the one thousand WuZi Steel swords had become the best weapon to break through the encirclement.
Roooar!
"Kill!"
… …
The clash of flesh against flesh, the clanging of sabers against swords, resounded through the mountain.
Under normal circumstances, Wang Chong's two-thousand-some cavalry would have never been able to contend against Bachicheng's army of six thousand.
But Bachicheng was being held back by Li Siye, the Eagle, and Xu Shiping. His attack was thwarted, and the defensive line that Wang Chong had set up in the center was preventing the central army from breaking through. This gap in strategy and strategy was fatal to a War Saint like Wang Chong.
Cavalry had never been invincible!
Wang Chong had known this for a long time.
Without speed, cavalry was just infantry, perhaps even inferior to infantry!
Wang Chong's two-thousand-some cavalry formed a high wall that cut into the center of Bachicheng's cavalry, making it difficult for the Ouzan cavalry to defend their front and rear. And the resulting chaos also made the Ouzan soldiers their own obstacles, nullifying the advantage of a high-speed assault. Wang Chong didn't even need to personally participate. All he needed to do was stand at the peak of the mountain and spread the Bane of the Battlefield to his entire army.
"Congratulations to user for killing three thousand six hundred and ten Ouzan regular soldiers!"
"Congratulations to user for killing three thousand seven hundred and twenty-three Ouzan regular soldiers!"
"Congratulations to user for killing three thousand eight hundred and forty-five Ouzan regular soldiers!"
… …
"Congratulations to user for killing six thousand five hundred and sixty-one Ouzan regular soldiers!"
"Congratulations to the host for killing 7,831 Ouzan soldiers!"
"Congratulations, Host, for killing 8,843 Ouzan soldiers!"
…
Countless voices boomed in his mind. On the mountain peak, the wind howled. Wang Chong's' Bane of the Battlefield 'halo had broken through to rank 2 in a short period of time. And Wang Chong's strength had also risen from the 5th level of the True Martial Realm to the 6th level. This was completely an additional benefit of the upgrade of the halo. Ever since his reincarnation, this was the war that Wang Chong had participated in with the greatest number of people and the greatest harvest.
Looking at the chaos on the hillside and the Ouzan people who were surrounded by his army, Wang Chong knew that he had won this battle.
The battle ended after an hour.
When the sounds of battle disappeared, not a single battle cry could be heard. Finally, a world-shaking cheer erupted from the foothills.
"We won, we won!"
"We really won!"
"Hahaha …"
… …
After surviving a calamity, the exhausted and sweating soldiers stared at the corpses of the Ouzan soldiers and highland steeds, all of them excited. Countless soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had died in this war in the southwest. From the founding of the Tang Dynasty until now, it had never suffered such a defeat. Longxi, Beiting, Anxi, Andong — the entire empire, its vast territory, its population in the tens of millions, was actually unable to spare a single soldier!
At a time like this, a battle of strength like this was truly needed to inspire the hearts of the people.
"Unbelievable, unbelievable …"
On a large rock halfway up the mountain, Commandant Xu and the other officers looked at the mountain of corpses and sea of blood on the battlefield, all of them extremely excited.
Although they had personally participated in this battle, they were still completely bewildered by it. Eight thousand against twelve thousand fierce Ouzan cavalry. In Xu Shiping's impression, being able to keep their lives was already quite impressive. And they had actually won! And it had been an overwhelming victory.
If one considered that their opponent was a formidable foe like Bachicheng, this victory was even more unbelievable.
"The son of a famous general, a true son of a famous general! No wonder the Imperial Court sent him here! "
Xu Shiping almost subconsciously turned his head to look at Wang Chong on the summit.
In terms of contribution to this victory, it was unquestionably Wang Chong alone. In his hands, these eight thousand soldiers had probably only been able to flee and die, but in Wang Chong's hands, they had been able to display an inconceivable strength.
At this moment, Wang Chong's not-so-imposing figure was like a god in the hearts of the soldiers.
Gallop!
Just when Xu Shiping was looking at the summit, a messenger flew over. Upon reaching the summit, he dismounted and kneeled at Wang Chong's feet.
"Milord, we've won! Of the twelve thousand-some Ouzan cavalry, we've killed all but a thousand-some! "
The messenger kneeled, his voice suffused with irrepressible joy.
"How many of our men died?"
Wang Chong indifferently said, his voice almost emotionless.
"Two thousand seven hundred!"
The messenger knelt on the ground and said. Eight thousand men against ten thousand Ouzan cavalry, but only two thousand seven hundred had died. This was simply inconceivable. Not even the Big Dipper Army of Longxi had such a casualty ratio. If he hadn't personally participated, he wouldn't have dared to believe it. And all of this victory was thanks to this scion of a prestigious clan.
With that thought in mind, the messenger felt even more admiration for the young man on the boulder.
"Two thousand seven hundred?"
Wang Chong didn't notice the messenger's worshipful gaze. He only slightly frowned at this number. In a battle against a powerful foe like Ouzan, they had killed more than ten thousand men while losing only two thousand seven hundred. This was nearly a four to one casualty ratio. In any other place, the other commanders would find this inconceivable.
But Wang Chong imperceptibly frowned.
The casualty ratio is still a little high!
Wang Chong quietly said to himself, his head lowered.
He only had eight thousand men. Now that two thousand seven hundred had died, he only had five-thousand-some left. To Wang Chong, who was desperately short of soldiers, this number of casualties was still rather difficult to accept. However, when one considered the valiant general of Bachicheng's caliber and the fact that the shieldmen had faced the brunt of the charge, the majority of the casualties were concentrated in the early stages. This wasn't something he couldn't accept.
After all, it's the reserve army, not the regular army. Otherwise, if it were the elites of the Annan Protectorate, they would at most have lost a thousand or so people! "
Wang Chong quietly said to himself.
Almost all the soldiers assigned to Li Zhengyi this time were the reserve soldiers of the Imperial Court, with only a small portion being the regular army. They were completely different from the regular army that had been on the battlefield for a long time. In terms of strength, they were still a little lacking.
If it had been the Annam Protectorate, it would have been a completely different story.
At the very least, the fact that the Annam Protectorate had been able to last so long against the combined army of Mengshe Zhao and Ouzan was already a testament to its strength.
In terms of the quality and strength of an individual soldier, without considering factors like warhorses, the combined strength of the regular army of the Tang Dynasty actually surpassed that of the other foreign empires.
"Milord, we've already captured Bachicheng. What should we do next?"
At this moment, familiar footsteps could be heard. The Eagle, his face covered in blood, walked over. His steps were unsteady, and he seemed exhausted.
This battle had been extremely bitter!
The Eagle had the help of Batunlu's golden gauntlets, Li Siye, Xu Shiping, the other generals, and the surrounding soldiers to surround Bachicheng. Even though he had the advantage in numbers, he had still managed to kill or injure many of his men. The Eagle had almost run out of strength.
If it weren't for the fact that Li Siye, a supreme general with a massive Wootz Steel sword on his back and the Meteoric Metal armor Wang Chong had forged for him, and that fearless Bachicheng was putting his life on the line, they would have long since died.
But the true fatal blow had actually come from the WuZi Steel cavalry that Wang Chong had hidden at the very end.
When the army behind him fell into chaos and died, even a valiant general like Bachicheng couldn't help but panic.
Bachicheng had been unstoppable in his descent from the Ouzan Plateau to the east, invincible. Even Li Zhengyi, a rising leader of the younger generation of the Tang dynasty, a general who had made a name for himself in Anxi and Beiting, had died to his blade. One could easily imagine Bachicheng's confidence.
But this confidence had been easily shattered by Wang Chong!
Even someone as valiant as Bachicheng couldn't help but panic when he heard the screams of the army behind him.
In a battle of this level, this was fatal.
"Hmph! Take me there! "
Wang Chong didn't think too much about this. His eyes flashed as he heard the Eagle's words.
For Wang Chong, the greatest harvest of this battle was about to come.
From the very start of the operation, Wang Chong had privately told The Eagle and Li Siye that in every battle, if possible, they should do their best to capture the enemy alive. If they could keep them alive, they should do their best to keep them alive. Of course, this was when the enemy had lost the ability to resist and could no longer injure them.
As for the reason, Wang Chong had never explained it.
The Eagle and Li Siye had also never asked.
There were some things that one didn't need to know.
… …
"You are the highest general of this army?"
In the rubble of the mountain, Bachicheng was covered in wounds, his body stained with blood. He was tied up tightly with ropes made of ox tendons and an iron chain. But what truly bound him was the towering giant behind him, the oppressive Invincible Great General Li Siye.
His expression was cold, his hands gripping his massive WuZi Steel sword, the tip of the sword pointed to the heavens, ready to slash down at any moment.
Li Siye didn't dare to be careless against a powerful foe like Bachicheng.
Even though he had sealed his vital acupuncture point, Li Siye still didn't dare to relax. If Bachicheng made the slightest strange move, Li Siye wouldn't mind instantly beheading him.
"I am!"
Wang Chong walked over with a calm smile, his expression calm. His first words left Bachicheng dumbfounded.
"You can speak Ouzan?"
Bachicheng almost didn't dare to believe it.
His first words were spoken in Ouzan, mixed with a few half-baked Chinese words, doing his best to make the Tang people general understand his meaning. But Bachicheng hadn't expected that this unfamiliar Tang people youth, not even half his age, could speak Ouzan's language.
The Tang people had always had a high opinion of themselves and never learned the languages of other empires.
The number of people in the Tang dynasty who could speak Ouzan's language was few and far between, and Ouzan was happy to see this happen. The less the Tang people spoke, the less they understood Ouzan, and the better it was for them.
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