Chapter 923: Battle of Great Generals! II (1/2)
Chapter 923: Battle of Great Generals! (II)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”You've come at just the right time! Let's decide who's the better of us once and for all!”
Dusong Mangpoje's cold and unyielding voice resounded over the battlefield.
Gao Xianzhi said nothing, allowing his actions to answer for him.
Boom!
With a single slash of his sword, Gao Xianzhi cleaved apart the air, a majestic stream of Sword Qi forcing Dusong Mangpoje's black Buddha ten-some zhang back. But with a howl and rumble, Dusong Mangpoje lunged forward once more. In a flash, the battlefield was quaking with their thunderous collisions.
Wang Chong versus Duwu Sili, Cheng Qianli versus Huoshu Huicang, Gao Xianzhi versus Dusong Mangpoje… in the blink of an eye, the Talas battlefield was playing host to a fierce melee of six experts of the Great General level, with destructive torrents of energy running rampant.
But this was not even the end of it!
Roooar!
A heaven-shaking roar came from the first defense line as a third god appeared on the battlefield, equipped with shining golden armor. The enormous being immediately forced countless Arab soldiers back in fright, their horses so frightened that some of them even threw off their riders.
But Wang Yan's Mighty Miracle God did not enter the fray, only stared at the distant Abu Muslim and intimidated the Arab warriors.
On the Great Tang side, there were only four people who could raise their strength to the Great General level, and Wang Yan was one of them. Battles between Great Generals were incredibly impactful battles and not to be taken lightly, which was why Wang Yan had not actually entered the battle.
Meanwhile, the battle in the east was continuing to intensify.
While Wang Chong, Duwu Sili, and the other Great-General-level figures were fighting and Li Siye was staving off the Mutri Great Cavalry, the rest of the Tibetan and Turkic cavalry had gone around the area where the six Great Generals were fighting and begun to charge at the line formed by Sun Zhiming, Zhuang Zhengping, and the other officers.
At the same time, the nearly one hundred thousand soldiers led by Xue Qianjun and Xu Keyi were continuing to constrict the encirclement, cutting down more and more of the encircled Tibetans and Turks.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Thick ballista bolts howled through the air, and countless Tibetans and Turks screamed as they were cut down by Xu Keyi's ballista teams. By now, nearly thirty thousand Tibetans and Turks had fallen, their blood flowing like rivers through the battlefield.
”Brat! I don't believe that I can't kill you today!”
In the sky, Duwu Sili's furious roar was like a peal of thunder. His enormous black steed was shuttling through the air like a thunderbolt, attacking Wang Chong's Godking Yama from every direction. Thunderclouds formed from Stellar Energy had gathered around it, hiding Duwu Sili within them. His black halberd that was thicker than a child's arm was constantly jabbing and thrusting, moving as if it was as light as a feather, but every strike contained enough power to sunder mountains.
As one of the best Great Generals, Duwu Sili made each move with extreme proficiency, none of them made with excessive strength and all of them lethal. But no matter how fast Duwu Sili was, how crafty the angle of attack, or how much power was contained in the strike, the four arms of the Yama blocked them all.
Duwu Sili had never encountered this sort of situation. Wang Chong had barely met the strength requirements of the Great General level, essentially occupying the lowest level, while Duwu Sili was far above him, someone who had even defeated Beiting Protector-General An Sishun.
However, despite using all his techniques, Duwu Sili could not win against this young upstart.
Wang Chong's strength was not large, but every one of his moves struck Duwu Sili's blows at their weakest points. At times, Wang Chong would nullify a technique before it had even been fully expressed. Duwu Sili was the Celestial Wolf Great General, one of the three strongest Great Generals of the Western Turkic Khaganate, a powerful existence that even Ishbara Khagan treated with great regard, but in what should have been an easy battle, he found his strength completely sealed.
Boomboomboom!
One stream of destructive energy after another exploded in the air. Duwu Sili gave a superb display of skill, his attacks enough to topple any ordinary Imperial Great General, but Wang Chong managed to neutralize every single one of them.
”Duwu Sili, it's not that I'm looking down on you. You just don't have the ability!”