"Haha, well said! Whether it's the Turks, Ouzan, Arabia, or any of the surrounding countries, when has the Tang Dynasty ever feared them? Lord Protector-General, no matter what you want to do, we will do it according to your wishes. Be at ease and do it. I will do my best to cooperate with you! "
Gao Xianzhi said, his eyes flashing. In the seventeen-year-old Wang Chong, he could faintly sense the passion that he had lost for so long.
So what if it was Ouzan? So what if it was Arabia?
In the past, hadn't he relied on his fearless drive to carve out a path through the complex environment of the Western Regions, ultimately earning the favor of the Holy Emperor and becoming Anxi Protector-General, the War God of the Western Regions?
"Haha, good!"
Wang Chong's confidence swelled at these words. One was the War Saint of the Apocalypse, and the other was the Anxi War God. Perhaps in terms of elite fighting power, the Tang Dynasty could not compare to the Arabs, Ouzan, or the Western Turks, but this combination was already extremely astonishing. When had the Tang Dynasty ever used such an overwhelming force when conquering its borders?
Moreover, the art of war was based on the principle of 'using the head-on to achieve victory through surprise'. On the battlefield, there would never be so many 'surprise soldiers' that one could rely on. A qualified commander had to be able to use his outstanding commanding ability to crush and kill his foe in a one-on-one, one-on-many battle.
There was nothing fancy about this sort of battle. This was the ultimate embodiment of a commander's ability and talent in the art of war!
This was a war of commanders!
"Zhang Que, have you found out how many people there are on the other side?"
Wang Chong indifferently said as he gazed at the distant Ouzan and Turkic army.
"Replying to Marquis, the Ouzan have sent out their vulture army. We don't have enough rock eagles to get close, so we can only make a rough estimate. The Ouzan have more than seventy thousand while the Turks have more than forty thousand, all of them elites! "
A young and childish voice came from behind him. Zhang Que was kneeling behind the four Tang commanders, the Rock Eagle King Xiao Sha perched on his shoulder, his expression respectful.
The Ouzan's vulture army was extremely large. Flocks of vultures blotted out the sky, and it was a terrifying sight to behold. Coupled with the hunting falcons of the Arabian Empire, the birds of the Tang Dynasty were in an extremely difficult situation. They could only rely on the master archers on the ground to intimidate the enemy birds and buy some space for the rock eagles to move.
Even the number of forty thousand Turks had been obtained through Zhang Que's Xiaosha's aerial reconnaissance.
"Seventy thousand Ouzan soldiers and forty thousand elites of the Western Turkic Khaganate add up to around one hundred and twenty thousand. That's enough! Since the Ouzan and the Western Turks aren't willing to move for the time being, let's force them to fight! "
Wang Chong held his hands behind his back as he gazed at the distant hills, his body naturally exuding a powerful aura. The War Saint of the Central Plains that had once dominated the world was gradually fusing with his current status as Qixi Protector-General. The current Wang Chong did not seem like a seventeen-year-old at all. On the contrary, he exuded the aura of a dignified and domineering commander, causing Wang Yan and Go Seonji's eyelids to twitch uncontrollably.
"Old Senior Zhang, let's begin!"
Wang Chong said without turning his head.
"Zhang Shouzhi, obey! Order! "
With this order, the carriage began to move. As the leader of the tens of thousands of craftsmen, Zhang Shouzhi quickly boarded the carriage and rode away.
Bang!
With an earth-shattering boom, the two long steel lines of defense seemed to have a life of their own as they spread forward at an accelerated speed. Boomboomboom! One massive steel wall after another crashed to the ground, followed by a second, a third, a fourth … Thick plumes of smoke soared into the sky, immediately attracting the attention of the Arabs and Tibetans.
"What are these Tang people doing? Don't they already have two defense lines? Do they have some other trick up their sleeve? "
Dusong Mangpoje couldn't help but widen his eyes at this sight. Although he had only encountered Wang Chong's steel fortress once, Wang Chong's steel walls and fortress had left an indelible impression on this Ouzan Imperial Great General. Dusong Mangpoje had suffered the greatest defeat of his life there.
Dusong Mangpoje had instinctively become deeply wary of Wang Chong's steel defense line, and he had been traumatized by it.
Dalun Ruozan said nothing, but his brow slightly creased.
"He wants to completely separate us from Abu Muslim."
Dalun Ruozan squinted as he looked forward.
If there was anyone in the world who understood Wang Chong's plans like the back of their hand, it was probably him. In the southwest campaign, although Dalun Ruozan had lost, he had also forced Wang Chong to the end of his rope. And in the few months he spent in the dungeon of the Royal Capital, he repeatedly reviewed, analyzed, and studied the battle in his mind.
Dalun Ruozan was well aware that Wang Chong would never do anything without a reason. His every move had to have a special goal.
"What do you mean? Weren't we working with the Arabs to attack the Tang Dynasty from the east and the west? What meaning does he have in doing this? "
Duwusili asked in confusion.
Long before he had set off, Ishbara Khagan had sent a large amount of information on Wang Chong to his desk. But information was information, and the real person was the real person. Duwusili still didn't have a very good understanding of this Qixi Protector-General who had extorted two hundred thousand high-quality Turkic warhorses from the Western Turkic Khaganate.
"This is different."
Dalun Ruozan shook his head, his expression turning grave as he gazed at the roiling smoke in the distance.
"We are working with the Arabs to attack from the east and the west. This is an alliance formed by the forces of our three sides merging into one. We are one side, and the Tang Dynasty is the other. If we allow them to use steel walls to separate us, the Tang Dynasty will be in the middle to deal with us, and this war will become a three-way war. We will be one side, the Arabs will be another, and the Tang Dynasty will be the third.
"Moreover, if we allow the Tang Dynasty to stand in the middle and separate us, our ability to communicate with the Arabs will be affected, which is extremely disadvantageous to us. At the very least, we will have to use carrier pigeons to communicate with Abu Muslim."
Dalun Ruozan said.
"So you originally hoped to immediately change your strategy and ally with the Arabs to attack the Tang people as soon as the battle turned for the worse?"
Duwusili asked.
"I did have this thought, but it's no longer possible."
Dalun Ruozan indifferently said, his eyes fixed on the distance.
Wang Chong always had a way to use the simplest of methods to complicate a situation that should have been clear at a glance. Even his enemy, Dalun Ruozan, was filled with admiration for this.
"In the entire Central Plains, no one is stronger than him in the art of war. Everyone says that Wang Zhongsi is the War God of the Central Plains, but not even Wang Zhongsi can compare to Wang Chong in the art of war! "
Dalun Ruozan mentally sighed.
In his many years as Prime Minister of the Ngari Royal Lineage, in a stalemate with the fierce tiger of the Tang Dynasty, Zhangchou Jianqiong, in the southwest, Dalun Ruozan had never felt such an intense threat from a single person. This sort of dazzling talent was worthy of praise, and it was also the sort of person that Dalun Ruozan had sworn to destroy.
With this sort of person around, Ouzan would never be able to rest in peace.
"Is it really impossible to circle around?"
Huoshu Huicang reluctantly said as he looked into the distance. The more than one hundred thousand Western Turks and Tibetans and the two hundred and seventy to eighty thousand Arabian soldiers had been easily separated by a few of Wang Chong's steel fortresses. East and west had been separated, each fighting their own battles. This didn't sound like a three-way attack on the Tang Dynasty, but a three-way attack on the Tang Dynasty. It was rather difficult to accept.
"No!"
Dalun Ruozan shook his head, his eyes shooting a glance at the distant towering City of Talas.
"The terrain determines it. He's just taking advantage of the situation and using it."
"The geography of Talas is extremely complex. Although the entire region is a vast plain, it's actually quite difficult to deal with. Although the entire region is a plain, this plain is surrounded by thousands of ravines, barren mountains, and many deep ravines. The terrain is steep and difficult to climb. This was also the reason the Shi Kingdom chose to build their city here. "
Dalun Ruozan calmly said. Talas was the battlefield he had chosen to crush the Tang Dynasty and completely disintegrate the structure of the Western Regions. Dalun Ruozan had once carefully studied this place and knew it like the back of his hand.
"Behind the City of Talas are those dangerous cliffs, and there is only a very narrow path between the city and these cliffs. If we want to get through, we can only get through the plain in front of us. Now that Wang Chong has divided that area with two steel defense lines, he has completely cut off the path between us and the Arabs, turning passivity into initiative. If my guess isn't wrong, he will definitely leave a gap in those two defense lines and not build them to the end. "
"Why?"
"Surround three and destroy one!"
Dalun Ruozan indifferently said, giving the answer in a single sentence.
In the distance, as if in response to Dalun Ruozan's words, the two steel defense lines that had been madly expanding slowly came to a stop, leaving a narrow gap between them and the plain.
"That's enough!"
At almost the same time, Wang Chong stood in the middle of the army and waved his hand, giving the order to stop.
"Surround three and destroy one! Leave a path for them. "
"Little Brother, that Dalun Ruozan isn't easy to deal with. By using this method to surround three and destroy one, you probably won't be able to fool Dalun Ruozan. "
The clattering of footsteps and the clattering of armor came from the rear. Wang Chong's big brother, Wang Fu, had at some point walked up from the rear. The war of the southwest.
"It's not that we can't fool him, but that he will definitely know."
Wang Chong indifferently said, his eyes focused on that scholarly figure on the hill, his expression confident and confident.
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