"Buzz!"
The air trembled as a Halo of Thorns began to spread out from the White-hoofed Shadow's feet, pouring out like a torrent of water to cover the entire army. The strange Halos of Thorns began to strengthen the shieldmen, axemen, and archers, instantly increasing the strength of the Annam Protectorate.
Even Dalun Ruozan could see that the Great Tang army was clearly exuding a completely different aura, a completely different spirit, stronger than before.
One was weakening the enemy while the other was strengthening itself. At this moment, even Dalun Ruozan couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"What sort of halo is this!"
Dalun Ruozan's mind was in a different state.
A normal halo with strength, dexterity, or speed would already be quite decent, but Wang Chong's halo was different. It had three aspects that could simultaneously strengthen all three.
In this situation, the eighty to ninety thousand soldiers of the Annam Protectorate combined with the terrain was enough to make this mountain impenetrable.
"Send my order to Duan Yangyan. Have him mobilize the elephant army and immediately break the formation!"
Dalun Ruozan's pupils constricted as he issued the order.
Wang Chong had many secrets, and in Dalun Ruozan's understanding, only a Great General possessed such a massive halo. And Wang Chong was clearly no Great General.
Not only that, a halo that increased strength, dexterity, and speed was no ordinary technique. It was extremely rare in any empire, and not even the supreme Great Snow Mountain Temple of the Ouzan had many.
"In addition, the Giant Army that the Arabs have trained for us should be arriving soon. Have them move out! "
With these final words, Dalun Ruozan's eyes turned extremely gloomy.
The Ouzan and the Arabs had been working together for a very long time, and their cooperation had not been as simple as black kerosene. The Giant Army was one of them.
"Roar!"
An earth-shattering roar suddenly came from afar. The roar contained a strong sense of brutality, brutality, wildness, and bloodlust. The voice was as loud as thunder, and it even drowned out the sounds of slaughter and the roar of the giant elephants on the battlefield.
The earth rumbled and shook, as if thousands of soldiers and horses were charging over from afar.
This huge movement instantly attracted everyone's attention. It also attracted the attention of Wang Chong, who was at the top of the mountain.
"This is …"
Wang Chong closed his eyes slightly, and a trace of doubt appeared in his pupils. The war between the Tang dynasty and Mengshe Zhao and Ouzan had been going on for some time now. All the military branches basically had some understanding of each other.
However, Wang Chong was sure that he had never felt such an aura before.
"Buzz!"
When he saw what had appeared in the distance, even Wang Chong couldn't help but widen his eyes.
In the distance, a group of massive figures had appeared on the horizon. The reason why he called them figures and not warriors was because Wang Chong had never seen such a massive 'human' before.
The bodies of these 'creatures' were thick and muscular, and even more astonishing was their height. Each of them was six to seven meters tall, three to four times the height of a normal human.
Their skin was pitch-black, their expressions savage, and they were grotesquely ugly. Moreover, their bodies were covered in thick plate armor, making one shiver in fear. But there was no doubt that they were humans.
"Ah! — "
"Get out of the way, get out of the way! Get out of the way! "
Cries of alarm came from not the Tang soldiers on the mountain, but the distant Ouzan soldiers. When these giants appeared, the wild, savage, and brutal aura they exuded caused even the highland steeds of Ouzan's well-trained steeds to yelp in fear and begin to gallop away.
Wherever these giants ran, the Ouzan soldiers parted like a wave, herding a flock of sheep. Although they were covered in plate armor that weighed nearly one thousand jin, these giant warriors wielded thick spiked clubs, sticks, spears, and shields, and all of them seemed to be flying. Not even warhorses could compare to them.
"What sort of monsters are these?"
Chen Shusun's eyes widened. In his month of fighting with Ouzan, he had never seen such monsters appear in Ouzan. They were not human, but humanoid monsters.
Although these monsters were still very far away, the brutal and bloody aura they exuded was so strong that even Chen Shusun couldn't help but feel his heart thump. This had already surpassed the scope of regular warfare.
"Sindhi!"
Although these monsters were very far away, Wang Chong could tell at a glance from their pitch-black skin that these people had originally been the impoverished and destitute Sindhi.
Connecting this to the massive bodies of these giants, a name immediately appeared in Wang Chong's mind.
"The Skyquaking Army!"
Wang Chong muttered to himself as he called out this name.
In the history of the human race, whether it was in this world or in other parallel dimensions, humans were restricted by their own bloodlines and bones, so no one would ever be taller than two meters.
People like the Invincible Great General Li Siye, who was around 2.2 meters to 2.4 meters tall, were already extremely rare.
But this did not mean that there were no monsters taller and larger than Li Siye. At the very least, in the history that Wang Chong knew, a special army had briefly appeared.
The Skyquaking Army!
In Wang Chong's memories, in the barren land of Sindhu to the west, the Abbasid Caliphate and the Ouzan that bordered Sindhu had once worked together to carry out a plan.
They sent people into Sindhu to pick out talented and young orphans who wandered the world. The Abbasid Caliphate and Ouzan had raised these orphans from a young age, feeding them all kinds of medicine and feeding them the meat of eagles, tigers, lions, and elephants.
They had obtained an ancient technique from a declined ancient sect for them to cultivate. At the same time, they had used a special method to stimulate the acupuncture points in their bodies and stimulate their potential.
In the end, they had raised a group of incredibly powerful and massive creatures that they called the 'Skyquaking Army'.
It was rumored that each soldier of the Skyquaking Army was seven to eight meters tall, with some even approaching ten-some meters. The Abbasid Caliphate constantly used special and ancient techniques to stimulate them and increase their strength.
Later on, the soldiers of the Skyquaking Army were trained to the point where they could rely on their physical strength to contend against Profound Martial realm experts, even Imperial Martial realm experts. They had apparently been trained using a method completely different from the current martial arts system.
Wang Chong had never seen these so-called soldiers of the Skyquaking Army, but he had heard many rumors about them. Moreover, the entire continent had laughed off the legend of the 'Skyquaking Giants', believing it to be a complete joke.
After all, how could a person be so tall?
But Wang Chong was different. Many years after the Battle of Talas, he had gotten close to a deserter from the Anxi Protectorate army under Gao Xianzhi's command. According to this deserter, when Gao Xianzhi was fighting with the Arabian Empire, the Skyquaking Army had appeared in the Arabian army, and the Annam Protectorate had even fought with them for a short time …
Because Gao Xianzhi had already been defeated at the time, the Skyquaking Army and the Skyquaking Giants raised by the Arabs had only appeared for a brief moment, and not many people knew about them.
The deserter from the Annan Protectorate army that Wang Chong had encountered had also quickly disappeared, so there was no way for him to determine the truth.
Thus, Wang Chong could not reveal any more information.
But Wang Chong had never imagined that the Skyquaking Army would appear here.
The Ouzan really did collude with the Arabs to create the 'Skyquaking Army', and the mastermind behind this collusion was actually Dalun Ruozan!
Wang Chong's mind was in turmoil. He had never imagined that he would encounter the embryonic form of the Skyquaking Giants so early on. This was even earlier than the legends said.
As expected, Dalun Ruozan is just like Gelofeng, both ambitious and prepared. Even without the matter with Gelofeng, Dalun Ruozan would still have sent his soldiers. These soldiers of the Skyquaking Army are the reinforcements they prepared on the plateau. The Annam Protectorate of the Erhai was completely wiped out, but in this life, it's completely different …
Standing on the summit, Wang Chong muttered to himself.
Because of his interference, the war in the southwest had taken a completely different path from the one he had taken in his last life. First, a sturdy Lion City had appeared on the shores of the Erhai, and then a month of siege battles had been added.
Soon after, he had established yet another steel fortress on this flat land, yet another 'mountain' that the Mengshe – Ü-Tsang army could not cross.
Now that matters had developed to this point, they had completely deviated from their original trajectory.
The Arabs' black kerosene had appeared, and the initial Skyquaking Army had also appeared, as had the siege vehicles … Not even Wang Chong had any idea how the war of the southwest would develop.
More importantly, Wang Chong knew why Dalun Ruozan had sent out these things.
This was because whether it was the elephants of the Erhai Forest or the Skyquaking Giants that the Tibetans and Arabs had trained using secret arts in Sindhu, they all used pure physical strength.
Wang Chong's Bane of the Battlefield Halo was completely useless against these Erhai elephants and the Skyquaking Giants.
Roar!
With a heaven-shaking roar, the first to charge was not the distant and terrifying Skyquaking Giants, but the nearby Erhai elephants with their two abnormally long tusks.
"Boom!"
The two massive steel walls and the Annam Protectorate behind them were thrown into the air. Two Erhai elephants, eight to nine meters tall and clad in thick white plate armor, led the army of elephants and Ouzan soldiers toward the summit.
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