Chapter 587: The Decisive Battle! Ballistae Show Their Might! (1/2)
Chapter 587: The Decisive Battle! Ballistae Show Their Might!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Huoshu Huicang's assault arrived much earlier than anticipated.
Huoshu Huicang stared at the summit and suddenly ordered, ”Ciren Xiangxiong, you go as well!”
”Yes, General!”
A voice came from behind him, and armor clanged as a burly and fierce Tibetan general mounted his horse and quickly took off.
”Follow me!”
With this order, the stalwart figure of Ciren Xiangxiong charged forward, thousands of cavalry following behind.
”Young Master, the Tibetans have moved.” Chen Shusun turned his head and notified Wang Chong.
Once more, Chen Shusun felt an indescribable admiration. Wang Chong had once more predicted everything.
”Have all my orders been passed on?” Wang Chong said as he calmly surveyed the battlefield.
”All your orders have been passed on.”
”Then begin,” Wang Chong indifferently said.
Boom!
Sounds of fighting could be heard all over the mountain. Thousands of Tibetan cavalry were charging up the mountain, madly rushing up to the barricades, steel walls, and soldiers of the Annan Protectorate army. At the same time, waves of fireballs were continuing to crash down, cutting off the front of the Annan Protectorate army from the rear.
”Push aside the barricades! Use ropes to pull them aside!”
”Some of you, dismount and push aside the barricade!”
”Go over to where General Tumi Sangzha is and attack them from the rear!”
……
The Tibetan officers hollered out their orders, wanting nothing more than to tear open the Tang defenses. At the same time, the Annan Protectorate army soldiers on the lower half of the mountain were sacrificing their lives.
”Hold! Hold! Milord has ordered that no one is allowed to retreat!”
”Shieldmen! Shieldmen!”
”Guard the barricades—don't let them get dragged away!”
”If they're allowed to breach the defenses, we'll all be dead!”
……
The atmosphere was fraught with tension. One side was attempting to push its way to the summit and sweep away the final obstacle to the southwest, while the other side was doing all it could to defend and survive, and neither side was backing down.
As Huoshu Huicang viewed the intense melee, he suddenly furrowed his brow and ordered, ”General Zhajie! You go as well!”
”Yes, General!” another tribal general of the Tibetan Plateau quickly replied.
”Follow me!”
With this order, another plume of dust rose into the air as nearly ten thousand Tibetan cavalry charged toward the mountain like a bolt of lightning. With this, Huoshu Huicang had committed thirty thousand soldiers, a significant number.
Cavalry was a more powerful force than infantry, and thirty thousand cavalry was enough to deal with three hundred thousand infantry on flat terrain. But at this moment, their opponents were the approximately one hundred thousand soldiers garrisoned on the mountain.
Boomboomboom!
The slams and kicks of horses against clanging shields filled the air, as did calls to hold the line. A single shield of the Annan Protectorate army had at least two or three people holding it, sometimes even five or six.
All of them were packed behind the shields, using all their power to stop the Tibetan charge.
Huoshu Huicang frowned and issued yet another order. ”You go as well!”
In this mountainous terrain, the simultaneous charge of forty thousand cavalry was essentially complete saturation. Any more soldiers would not be able to insert themselves into the fight.
Not until they broke the first defensive line of the Annan Protectorate army!
”Kiiiill!”