"There's no need to worry!"
On the summit, Wang Chong looked down in Tumi Sangzha's direction. From a distance, he could see that Tumi Sangzha was exuding an astonishing aura. His Halo of Black Iron Thorns enveloped the earth, and wherever it pressed down, countless bits of metal would emerge from the ground and quickly condense into metal soldiers.
Tumi Sangzha's Halo of Black Iron Thorns was even more powerful than Fengjiayi's, so he was able to summon more metal soldiers. In the blink of an eye, nearly one hundred metal soldiers had appeared around Tumi Sangzha.
Not only that, a group of Tang people infantry formed into a square formation and charged at Tumi Sangzha. Before they could get close, their armor twisted and broke out of their bodies, transforming into metal soldiers.
Their limbs transformed into swords, sabers, or spears as they swiftly began to battle with the Annam Protectorate soldiers.
These metal soldiers did not have Stellar Energy to protect their bodies, but their advantage lay in their unpredictability. Their attacks were impossible to defend against, and they could not be killed.
In a few short moments, before Tumi Sangzha had even attacked, the 'metal soldiers' he had summoned had thrown the battlefield into chaos.
But most frightening of all was the damage that Tumi Sangzha's Halo of Black Iron was doing to the steel walls.
Under the effect of Tumi Sangzha's halo, the towering steel walls began to warp and transform into massive steel giants that charged up the mountain.
Boomboomboom!
Giant metal fists smashed down from the sky, each fist carrying the weight of one thousand jun, causing dust to roil and the earth to quake. After the Battle of Erhai and the Battle of Lion City, the remaining Tang elites could not even take a casual blow from these metal giants.
A casual blow from these metal giants, a smash, a fling, or a collision, would cause all the Annam Protectorate soldiers in front of them to scream and fly into the air.
Not a single person on the mountain was a match for them.
And Tumi Sangzha was still summoning even more of these metal giants, working with the massive fireballs descending from the sky to suppress the Tang soldiers. It appeared that Wang Chong's painstaking preparations were about to be destroyed.
But even so, Wang Chong still had a smile on his lips, his expression calm.
"… Although I don't know the origins of this Ouzan general or how he managed to cultivate such a powerful Black Metal Halo, if he thinks that this is enough to destroy the steel walls I brought from the capital for this battle, then he's far too naive."
"Ah?!"
Chen Shusun was dumbfounded, his face blank.
To a certain extent, he had watched Wang Chong grow up. But at this moment, as he gazed at the smiling youth at his side, his every movement composed and imposing, Chen Shusun felt somewhat unfathomable.
Although he was much older than Wang Chong.
"These steel modules have sturdy inscriptions on them. Every steel wall has sturdy inscriptions of various sizes. There are at least thousands of them. If that foreign general only wanted to transform four steel city walls, it would be fine. But if he wanted to twist all the steel city walls into his iron men, that would be wishful thinking. He's too naive! "
Wang Chong indifferently said as he looked down the mountain.
Although he was young, Wang Chong's experience, vision, and knowledge left even a veteran general like Chen Shusun in the dust. If Chen Shusun knew that the body of this youth next to him contained the soul of the most powerful and revered War Saint in the history of the Central Plains, he would probably be so shocked that he wouldn't be able to speak.
The war of the southwest was the empire's first war, and also its most important.
This was the place where the first domino would fall. This war concerned the future of the Tang dynasty and the Central Plains, so Wang Chong had no path of retreat and had to put all his strength into it.
In this war, Wang Chong had not expected to encounter experts with Metal element halos like Fengjiayi and Tumi Sangzha, especially Tumi Sangzha, whose Black Iron Halo was far superior to Fengjiayi's, posing a massive threat to Wang Chong's strategy of turning defense into offense. But these steel modular walls were related to the life and death of the one hundred thousand Annam Protectorate soldiers and the safety of the nearly millions of civilians of the southwest.
Thus, when building these steel modular walls, Wang Chong had spent almost all of his wealth. Wang Chong had invested everything he had gained from the Hyderabad ore and the WuZi Steel swords.
Not only that, in order to obtain enough money, Wang Chong had even sold the majority of his spirit vein mountain, causing all the great clans of the capital, the rich and powerful, and even the scions of the imperial household to go crazy.
The enormous wealth accumulated from these things was enough to make Wang Chong one of the wealthiest people in the empire. He had more than enough money to build a few cities like Lion City.
But in the end, Wang Chong had invested all of it into these steel modular walls.
Inside each seemingly ordinary steel city wall, each inch of narrow steel was added with a large number of inscriptions of various sizes when it was cast. Almost all the inscription masters of the capital had been summoned by Wang Chong to participate in this unprecedented operation.
This sort of operation had never appeared in the capital before, and no one had ever done it before.
One could say that the price of these steel modular walls was far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. This was an operation of wealth. Wang Chong did not have the manpower to change the course of a war, so he could only work from the aspect of wealth.
If Tumi Sangzha wanted to deal with Wang Chong, if he wanted to turn this mountain of steel walls into ash and create the steel army he desired, he first had to overcome the countless toughening inscriptions of various sizes that Wang Chong had added to the steel walls.
Although this was no problem for someone of Tumi Sangzha's abilities, it was impossible to accomplish this without paying a price!
"Buzz!"
The air twisted and blurred. Wherever Tumi Sangzha's halo passed, the steel walls at the base of the mountain would twist and deform as if they were alive. This time, Tumi Sangzha's Halo of Black Steel had enveloped at least ten steel walls.
If he could do this, not only would the mountain gain ten steel giants of boundless strength that could never be killed, a massive hole would also be torn in the Annam Protectorate's defenses.
But a moment later, Tumi Sangzha's face paled as if he had been dealt a heavy blow, beads of sweat appearing on his forehead. And to his left and right, the steel walls that were on the verge of being deformed by Tumi Sangzha's halo instantly returned to normal, as if their connection to Tumi Sangzha had been severed.
The process of transforming the steel giants had been severed!
Although they were still a distance away and massive fireballs were crashing down, Chen Shusun quickly understood that Wang Chong was correct when he saw Tumi Sangzha's pale face turn to the summit as if he had seen a ghost.
He really can't transform them!
Chen Shusun's mind trembled as he suddenly understood.
"Not even a Great General of Huoshu Huicang's level might be able to transform all the steel walls I brought into Metal element metal men, much less this foreign general. With his abilities, four steel giants was probably his limit. In the future, each additional steel giant he summons will consume a vast amount of Stellar Energy. … If an expert of his level is willing to do this, I would welcome him with open arms! "
Wang Chong smiled.
In front of the mighty War Saint, no one could be so calm and relaxed. Not even Dalun Ruozan could do such a thing, much less these foreign generals. War had to be fought step by step. If Ouzan and Mengshe Zhao hoped to defeat him like this, it was impossible.
On the other side, Tumi Sangzha clearly understood this principle and quickly changed his strategy.
Roooar! — —
With a heaven-shaking roar, pitch-black halos exploded from beneath Tumi Sangzha's feet. All around him, the steel men fiercely fighting on the front lines seemed to be attracted by a magnetic force, rising into the air and sucking toward Tumi Sangzha's body.
Clangclangclang! With a shrill clattering of metal, countless steel men and metal scraps drifted out of the ground and attached themselves to Tumi Sangzha's body. These steel men and metal scraps rapidly melted, transforming into a thick armor that wrapped around Tumi Sangzha.
Tumi Sangzha's figure continued to rise higher and higher. In just a few short moments, Tumi Sangzha had vanished, replaced by a stalwart steel giant that was ten-some zhang tall and seemed like a demon god.
Dust roiled around him, soaring into the sky as a massive aura exploded from the steel giant's body.
"This, this, where did this fellow come from! Isn't he too powerful? "
"Not even Jiao Serro is as powerful as him?"
"Ouzan actually had such a powerful expert!"
… …
At this moment, no one was more shocked than the people of the Mengshe Zhao Empire. After fighting side by side with Ouzan for several months, they were most familiar with the Five Tiger Generals under Huoshu Huizang's command.
As for the man before them … although they had seen him a few times, the Five Tiger Generals were the ones leading the charge. But when they charged and broke through enemy lines, the Five Tiger Generals were the ones leading them, so none of them had any impression of this valiant general.
"Of the Five Element Halos, the Metal element is the least cultivated and also the most difficult. Its success rate far surpasses the other elements. For this Ouzan man to be able to use the Halo of Black Iron to this level, he should have reached, or perhaps even approached, the higher level of the Bronze Halo. For this general to be able to think of this method, in terms of defensive power, he has already surpassed Jiao Serro. "
"Your Highness Crown Prince, you cultivate the same Halo of Black Iron as him. You should pay special attention to this person's next actions and learn from him. Perhaps he will be of great help to you. "
A voice came from behind them. It was Mengshe Zhao's Great General Duan Gequan.
"Jiayi understands. Many thanks for Great General's guidance."
Fengjiayi sincerely said.
Fengjiayi had always treated this Great General who had always been hiding behind the scenes, hiding in his father's shadow, with great respect.
The surroundings quickly fell silent.
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