Five thousand, seven thousand, nine thousand … In the distance, the casualties of the Ouzan Mountain Army had reached an inconceivable level, and this number was still climbing. When the five thousand Ouzan cavalry charged together in the Arrow Formation, their efficiency was far greater than the three hundred from before.
But even so, the battle was far from over.
"Ready!"
A loud voice resounded through the heavens and earth. In front of the steel walls that were scattered all over the place like fish scales, a Chen Bin raised the sword in his hand high up in the air. Cavalry would not stop in their high-speed charge. Although the Wushang army led by Li Siye had pierced through the enemy formation and split the army in two, the two halves had already reached the steel walls.
Now, after Wang Chong's five thousand Wushang cavalry had left, only the fifteen hundred-some elites from the southwest and the experts from the great clans were left behind. Sixty zhang, fifty zhang, forty zhang, thirty zhang … the distance was getting shorter and shorter. If they did not stop the charging Ouzan cavalry, the craftsmen who had been transferred from the eight thousand-some steel walls to help with the construction of the walls would all be trampled to death under the hooves of the Ouzan horses.
Twenty-five zhang, twenty-four zhang, twenty-three zhang …
When they were about 200 feet away, Chen Bin, who was at the forefront of the team, finally gave the final order.
"Release!"
"Buzz!"
With a loud boom, tens of thousands of sharp arrows suddenly burst out from the steel city wall at the very front like a torrential rain, covering the sky and covering the earth.
"Aaaah!" Screams filled the air as countless Tibetans and their horses were pierced through by the arrows. They fell to the ground, their numbers grievous.
The beehives were heavy weapons that Wang Chong had set up in the steel walls, and he had also set them up on the plateau. Against cavalry, they were extremely lethal.
"Release!"
Chen Bin swung his sword again, and another volley of arrows shot out. Another few thousand Ouzan cavalrymen fell in front of these steel walls. The operation of the beehives was very simple. The 1,500 cavalrymen led by Chen Bin could control more than 3,000 beehives.
In each "beehive", there were at least forty to fifty arrows.
A volley of one hundred and fifty thousand arrows. This was something that only Wang Chong could do. Even though the Ouzan Iron Cavalry was fully armed and wore thick armor, they still suffered heavy casualties when faced with this kind of attacks that had no blind spots and were as dense as a locust rain.
"Be careful!"
"Dodge the rain of arrows!"
Shouts in the Ouzan language resounded throughout the battlefield. Such a terrifying attack caused all the Ouzan commanders to tremble. No one had expected that after losing the five thousand Tang dynasty cavalry, the remaining soldiers would still have such a frightening fighting force.
In just a single clash, seven to eight thousand cavalry had fallen in front of the silver-white steel walls. The horse corpses and human corpses had already formed another obstacle for the Tang people.
"Just what's going on here? They're definitely not from the Qixi Protectorate. How could they have such a powerful Tang army? "
Everyone was deeply shaken by this sight, but even more than that, they felt fear. The five thousand inconceivably powerful cavalry and the terrifying rain of arrows had already surpassed their imaginations.
The entire army was in chaos.
Roooar!
At this moment, everyone suddenly heard a heaven-shaking roar. This roar was like a thunderclap, splitting the sky and shaking the plateau.
Just as the entire battlefield descended into chaos, the commander of the five thousand Wushang cavalry, Li Siye, finally made his move. A powerful sword aura shot up into the sky like a storm, cleaving down at the densest concentration of Ouzan soldiers.
"Ah!" With a blood-curdling scream, the sword aura swept across the ground, leaving a pitch-black, twenty-foot-long crack in the vast plateau. At the same time, it also cleaved Buluhu, the commander of the Ouzan Mountain Troops.
Buluhu's eyes were wide open as his body, which had been cleaved in two, fell heavily to the ground.
Although he was a famous general in the northern Ouzan region, Buluhu was still no match for Li Siye, the future "Invincible General" of the Tang dynasty.
In the face of Li Siye's all-out attack, he had still died under his sword.
With Buluhu dead, the remaining Ouzan army was like a group of dragons without a leader, and they were even more disorganized.
"Run!"
The first to flee were Buluhu's bodyguards. Faced with the five thousand terrifying Wushang cavalry and the mountains of corpses around them, even Buluhu's most elite bodyguards felt fear and cowardice.
No matter what the origins of this Tang dynasty cavalry were, they were definitely not something they could fight against.
Their escape was like a signal. In that instant, all the Ouzan Mountain Troops collapsed, all their confidence vanishing.
In the face of this unprecedentedly powerful army, this Ouzan Mountain Troops that had conquered many countries, all of their fierceness and bravery turned to nothing in the face of this even more powerful army.
"Run!"
"Quickly report this to the generals!"
All the Ouzan cavalry fled in all directions like birds and beasts. An army that had lost all will to fight would only die faster in the face of the five thousand Wushang cavalry.
Slash, slash, slash …
The sound of blades slicing through flesh resounded through the battlefield. The five thousand Wushang cavalry chased after them, and more and more Ouzan Mountain Troops fell to the ground.
An hour later, when the battle ended, the entire plateau was covered in mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The Ouzan army had left behind more than twenty thousand corpses.
"There's no need to chase!"
Li Siye swung his longsword horizontally and drew an arc on the grass to stop the group from chasing after him.
"Don't chase a cornered enemy. Marquis's intention is to defeat them. Next, treat the wounded and prepare for the next battle! "
"Yes, my Lord!"
The sound of a gong rang out, and all the Wushang cavalry gathered and rushed back. All the wounded were also gathered and carried to the rear for treatment.
The intense battle had ended in less than two hours. And the result of the battle was that the side that had the advantage in numbers became the complete loser.
"This is impossible! How could Wushang have such a powerful army?! "
A cry of alarm could be heard, not from the scouts of the Qixi Protectorate, but from the commander of the Qixi Protectorate, Heba Ye. The moment he had heard the news, he had personally led his soldiers to this place, but he had never imagined that he would see this sort of scene.
"General, should we go over?"
A deputy general next to him asked.
"There's no need. Let's first report to Lord Protector-General and wait for his orders."
Heba Ye thought for a few moments.
There was no one in Qixi who didn't know of the relationship between the Protector-General and the second son of the Wang Clan, Wushang. Until the Protector-General gave the order, Heba Ye did not dare to rashly make a decision.
Moreover, the Qixi Protectorate had no intention of sending troops to Wang Chong and Ouzan's men. Thus, in this investigation, both Heba Ye and his deputy generals had been wearing the armor of ordinary soldiers. If not for the fact that they were from the Qixi Protectorate, they wouldn't have known, so meeting Wang Chong or not didn't matter.
"Let's go!"
Heba Ye immediately turned his horse around and rode off.
"Marquis, look! The Qixi Protectorate's men! "
Zhang Que suddenly pointed into the distance.
The group followed Zhang Que's finger and saw Heba Ye and the others turn their horses around and leave.
"Chasing Lightning, Soaring Pagoda, and Bronze Jue — what fine horses! When did the scouts of the Qixi Protectorate get to ride such fine horses? "
Cheng Sanyuan suddenly said with a smile.
"If they're putting on an act, they have to go all the way. It seems like Heba Ye's men are still lacking!"
Wang Chong also smiled as he looked into the distance.
Although he couldn't see the faces of these people, based on the quality of their warhorses, Wang Chong could more or less guess who they were.
According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, in order to ride such fine horses in the army, one had to be a general at the very least. In the Qixi Protectorate, the only people of this rank who would appear at a time like this were probably Heba Ye's men.
"Marquis, these fellows are really leaving us in the lurch! They're clearly right in front of us, but they're still unwilling to send troops. As their commander, Heba Ye even disguised himself and came here. Should we go and meet them? "
Su Shixuan said, his voice tinged with indignation.
The Ouzan were the Tang Dynasty's greatest foe, and they existed in Longxi, the southwest, and Qixi. By sending troops to sweep away the Ouzan, Wang Chong was actually helping the Qixi Protectorate.
But the Qixi Protectorate clearly had the ability to do so, yet it chose not to send troops. The thought of this made one feel cold.
"Forget it. There's no need to lower ourselves to their level. After all, they're just acting according to Fomonlința's wishes. Without Fomonlința's order, he wouldn't dare to send troops. "
Wang Chong waved his hand and faintly smiled.
This war had always been part of his plan, and he had never considered the Qixi Protectorate from the start. Whether the Qixi Protectorate participated or not was not important to Wang Chong.
"Get ready and speed up the construction of the city. In the upcoming war, this city will quickly come in handy. In addition, I have a feeling that Dayan Mangpoje should have received the news by now."
At the end, an enigmatic smile appeared in Wang Chong's eyes.
In this expedition to the plateau, Wang Chong's greatest target was still Dayan Mangpoje. To shoot a man, first shoot his horse, and to capture his followers, first capture their leader. The greatest threat to all of Qixi was Dayan Mangpoje.
If he hadn't attacked the Qixi Protectorate like a madman, disregarding all costs, the Qixi Protectorate would not have been forced into such a state.
In this aspect, Dayan Mangpoje was far more of a threat than Dusong Mangpoje, a Great General of the Ouzan Empire.
This was also why Wang Chong had placed him at the top of his priority list.
"Good luck! Marquis has ordered that anyone who can build the third level in four hours will be rewarded fifty taels of silver. "
The rear of the army was buzzing with activity, the more than eight thousand craftsmen dispatched from the City of Steel working as one, using every second to build the walls. One furnace after another was opened, sending waves of heat soaring into the sky.
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