Chapter 878: The Arabs, Defeated! III (1/2)
Chapter 878: The Arabs, Defeated! (III)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”An excellent chance!”
Li Siye's and Huang Botian's eyes brightened at the same time as they sensed Umar's sudden weakness, and the two launched their attacks almost simultaneously. Meanwhile, the thunderous galloping of hooves came from all around. Bangbangbang! The five thousand Wushang Cavalry had arrived like a furious storm, striking at Umar's Stellar Energy barrier from all directions.
Umar's energy dwindled away at an astonishing speed, weakening him to a nearly inconceivable level.
Ten Charges Ten Victories!
When the five thousand Wushang Cavalry used this formation, famed in another timeline as being one of the Ten Great Formations, on a single person, not even a renowned Arab general like Umar had any chance of survival.
”No!”
Umar, known for his cold-heartedness and firm resolve, was now ghastly pale, an intense fear seizing his heart. His martial arts were fierce and majestic, capable of blocking the combined attacks of Li Siye and Huang Botian at the same time. However, when five thousand Wushang Cavalry were charging at him, not even Umar stood a chance. In his military career, this was his first time seeing so many cavalry attacking one person.
One person, no matter how powerful, could not simultaneously fight against five thousand people. In this moment, he could finally smell the stench of death. He wanted to ride his horse and flee, but Huang Botian was controlling the terrain through the Stone General, causing rocks to bulge out of the ground and block his exits, with the dense ranks of the Wushang Cavalry taking care of the rest.
”Aaaaah!”
In the final moment, Umar only had time to gather up all the strength in his body and raise up his illustrious Arabian saber to stop the attack coming from overhead! But then there was a boom and an explosion of energy as a sharp and massive sword slashed down. This slash cleaved the clouds, cleaved the heavens, cleaved Umar's pitch-black barrier of Stellar Energy, and cleaved apart that divine Arabian scimitar that had accompanied Umar throughout half his life.
Neeeigh! With one last whinny, Umar's Arabian steed was cut in half along with its rider in an explosion of blood.
”Thus are the enemies of the Great Tang punished!”
Li Siye used his sword to raise Umar's corpse high into the air while Stellar Energy seethed from his body, transforming it into a burning flame that captured the attention of half of the battlefield. In that moment, Li Siye was as imposing as a god of the high heavens.
Bang!
Although none of them could understand what Li Siye was saying, the death of Umar completely shattered the will of the Arab forces on the eastern front.
”General is dead!”
”General Umar has been killed by the Tang!”
”Everyone, run!”
All the Arabs were now frantically scrambling to flee, the defeated army surging like a tide to the main army in the rear. So abrupt was this sight that the Arab army that had just about finished adjusting its formation and was preparing to attack instantly fell into turmoil.
”Kill!”
”All those who offend the Han will be executed, no matter how far away they are!!”
”All those who offend the Han will be executed, no matter how far away they are!!”
”For the Great Taaaang!”
Roars echoed over the battlefield as the one hundred thousand soldiers of Qixi charged red-eyed toward the fleeing Arabs like fierce tigers lunging down mountains at their prey. At this stage, tactics were no longer necessary. The entire Arab line had collapsed, and the Tang soldiers were rushing in like a massive wave to fill the gap.
The Wushang Cavalry, the ballista army, the Gangke King, the soldiers of Greater and Lesser Balur, the Annan Protectorate army, the Qixi Protectorate army… all of these people melded into a single flood that surged toward the army of three hundred thousand Arabs. Although the Arabs far outnumbered the Tang, and although the Arab soldiers in the rear tried to put up some resistance and get to the front to battle, the panicking army in front of them made it impossible to reverse the trend.
”Milord!”
”Look over there!”
”The Arabs have actually been beaten back!”
”How could this be!”
In the distance, on the walls of Talas, countless eyes looked on in astonishment at the fleeing Arabs. They had long ago noticed the arrival of the reinforcements, but the frenzied Arab assaults made them incapable of caring. Moreover, after two months of unending battle, no one understood more than the Anxi Protectorate army just how formidable the soldiers of the Abbasid Caliphate were.
These were soldiers far more powerful than any other army they had encountered. A mere one hundred thousand reinforcements, with a significant portion being mercenaries, defeating three hundred thousand fierce and doughty Arab soldiers was a story that belonged only in fairytales. But to their surprise, this army of reinforcements had not only won, but had achieved an overwhelming victory.
The walls were quiet as those Arabs that had been constantly scaling the ladders receded like the tide. The cries and shouts of that army of reinforcements fighting with the Arabs in the distance had given the Tang soldiers an unprecedented shock, but also an unprecedented hope!