Chapter 1078: A Battle Between Top-Class Armies IV (2/2)
Bang! As the twin scimitars of a Fearless Army soldier wreaked havoc through the battlefield, a black sword bearing the fierce image of a white tiger slashed down like a blazing flame.
Bang!
Both scimitars immediately swept up to block this heavy strike. Not only that, the Fearless Army soldier wielding these two scimitars waved both arms and exerted tremendous strength to jolt this Roaring Tiger Army soldier back.
Similar scenes occurred all across the battlefield as the more than four thousand Roaring Tiger Army soldiers were thrown back by the Fearless Army.
Gao Xianzhi shot another glance at Wang Chong, his eyebrows rising, but he remained silent. Wang Chong had said that the Roaring Tiger Army could stop the Fearless Army, but it now appeared that the Roaring Tiger Army was at about the same level of strength as the Divine Martial Army and Iron Wall Army. It was simply incapable of overcoming the higher-level Fearless Army.
”Wang Chong, should we… send in another army?” Gao Xianzhi hesitantly asked.
”That's not necessary. Believe in them,” Wang Chong said lightly.
As if in response to Wang Chong's words, the Roaring Tiger Army soldiers once more lunged forward and began the second round. But the results of this clash were completely different.
As the four thousand soldiers of the Fearless Army gripped their scimitars and went to meet them, a cracking and groaning began to rise from the bodies of the Roaring Tiger Army soldiers. As others looked on in disbelief, the bones of the Roaring Tiger Army groaned, their energy swelled, and even their bodies grew larger.
Bang!
A heavy black sword once more slashed at the two scimitars. The same technique and same attack resulted in a completely different result. Bang! The scimitars blocked the black sword, but the tremendous power within the sword had the Fearless Army staggering backward several steps.
”Impossible!”
In the distance, Aybak's eyes went wide in shock. No one understood the power of the Fearless Army more than he did. He had once personally witnessed the four thousand soldiers of the Fearless Army use their dual scimitars in the capital of the Sassanid Dynasty, carpeting the grounds of that city with the strongest soldiers of that ancient empire and drenching the streets in their blood. The last bits of courage in them had been utterly annihilated.
The strongest warriors of the Sassanid Dynasty had been filled with despair.
Aybak had never seen any force in the world that was able to drive back the soldiers of Abu Muslim's Fearless Army.
But now, everyone had seen Abu Muslim's strongest soldiers being sent staggering back by these infidel warriors. A second ago, the Fearless Army soldiers had been wreaking havoc through the battlefield, suppressing the strongest soldiers of the enemy army, but in the blink of an eye, they were now being pushed back.
They still didn't even know what had happened.
How had those soldiers wielding black swords been no match a second ago and then so powerful in the next moment!
Abu Muslim said nothing, but his complexion was extremely gloomy. He had already sent the two strongest forces under his command, the Ironblood Army and the Fearless Army. He had no more elite soldiers to dispatch.
……
”Hahaha…”
No one was happier than Gao Xianzhi at this moment. After overcoming his initial shock, he immediately understood what was going on.
”Prefectural Duke of Nanyang, you truly are a deep schemer. Gao Xianzhi truly admires this clumsy act of yours!”
The Prefectural Duke of Nanyang was a noble title that the Sage Emperor had bestowed upon Andong Protector-General Zhang Shougui. Gao Xianzhi had never interacted with the Andong Protector-General before, as the two were on opposite ends of the empire. In addition, both of them were border commanders who needed to preside over their garrisons, making a meeting even more difficult.
In the court, Gao Xianzhi had once heard that this influential figure of the Great Tang, the number two figure of the military who was only second to Crown Prince's Junior Guardian Wang Zhongsi, was an extremely shrewd and farsighted man. Gao Xianzhi had never understood what it was about, but now, he finally understood.
In this clumsy act, though perhaps it was done to protect himself, he had placed a seal on each soldier of the Roaring Tiger Army that restricted their cultivation. At a glance, the Roaring Tiger Army appeared on par with the Divine Martial Army and Dragon Stallion Army.
But once they encountered danger or an opponent that was hard to overcome, such as Abu Muslim's Fearless Army, the soldiers of the Roaring Tiger Army could unlock the seals on their own and reveal their powerful cultivation.
This was the elite force trained by Zhang Shougui. It wasn't just on par with Abu Muslim's Fearless Army, but even a little stronger.
Boomboomboom!
The heavy black swords hacked and slashed with astonishing speed at Abu Muslim's Fearless Army. Explosions rang through the air as the bright Arabian scimitars were wholly suppressed by the black swords of the Roaring Tiger Army.