Chapter 1872: Surrounding the Tongluo! (1/2)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Rumble! Dust churned through the air as the Tongluo Cavalry charged forward with shocking momentum.
This was the first time since the start of this battle that the Great Tang had left its defense line to take the battle to the enemy.
Let alone the sea of Arab cavalry on the steppe, even Khatabah couldn't help but slightly frown at this surprising development.
Sixty thousand feet, fifty thousand feet, forty thousand feet!
As the distance shrank, Abusi and his Tongluo Cavalry only got faster and faster.
The Tongluo did not exceed ten thousand, and they were invincible above ten thousand!
This was no mere saying, but a principle that had been established by the Tongluo through hard work, blood and fire, and the corpses of countless foes. No matter who their opponent was, even if it was ten times their number, the Tongluo would never retreat, never show fear.
This was the conviction of the Tongluo!
”Kill!”
With a heaven-shaking roar, the Tongluo Cavalry pulled out their swords, their bright halos booming and clattering, and charged into the steppe like a primordial beast.
The fabric of space itself shuddered, and the world dimmed.
As the Arab cavalry charged over, they spotted the twenty thousand Tongluo Cavalry and exploded with killing intent.
The Arabs had gone to great lengths to conceal this surprise attack, taking a long detour through the Turkic steppe. And they had done all this precisely to catch the Great Tang off guard.
At this moment, they were a tiger let out of its cage, at the peak of their power.
For them, the Tongluo Cavalry were nothing but lambs to the slaughter. Most importantly, in this war, the Tang had been hiding behind their layers of steel walls like a turtle in its shell.
In this sort of environment, the Arabs could display none of their invincible might. As a nation of riders, the king of the desert, they had been longing for an engagement like this, a simple and upright clash of cavalry without any tricks.
”Everyone, hear my order! Kill them all!
”Now is the moment to subjugate the eastern world!
”Let them witness the power of the Arab cavalry!”
Leading the army was a Governor from a distant province on the Arabian border. He unsheathed his savage scimitar and bellowed, and the two-hundred-thousand-some Arab cavalry roared in reply.
”Kill!”
The vast sea of Arab cavalry riding out from the Eastern Turkic steppe shot forward like a black lightning bolt, wrapped in killing intent as they charged at the twenty thousand Tongluo Cavalry.
Closer!
Even closer!
Boom!
Like a massive wave crashing against the shore, the starkly contrasting forces of the Great Tang and Arabia slammed together.
”Ah!”
Screams tore through the air as countless cavalry were knocked flying by the terrifying force of the collision, tossed around helplessly like bits of paper.
Weapon clashed against weapon while warhorse bashed into warhorse, making it impossible to distinguish friend from foe. One could see the enemy wherever one looked. Plush! Plush! The sounds of blades cutting into flesh also filled the air.
After a seemingly interminable second, one in which countless collisions occurred and large numbers of people were knocked off their horses, finally…
Neigh!
Boom! Countless cavalry screamed as they were knocked into the air, and the stalemate was broken.
With Tongluo Great General Abusi serving as the tip, the twenty thousand Tongluo Cavalry plunged like a sword into the two hundred thousand cavalry, piercing straight through their formation with horrifying force.
Rumble! Countless Arab cavalry were knocked away. In this direct clash of cavalry, the Tongluo Cavalry had displayed their formidable power, using overwhelming strength to pierce straight through the Arab cavalry.
Three thousand, five thousand, seven thousand, nine thousand… swaths of the Arab cavalry were cut down under the edge of the Tongluo Cavalry, none of them able to stop their mass charge.
Arab cavalry continued to fearlessly charge in, but they were all scattered and slain by the Tongluo Cavalry.
All resistance and attempts to counterattack were futile.
When the Tongluo Cavalry reached peak momentum, they were simply unstoppable.
Shock! Incomparable shock!
All the Arab cavalry were stunned by these bronze-armored cavalry, and also extremely afraid. They had never imagined that the eastern world could possess such powerful cavalry. There were clearly only twenty thousand of them, but they had more charging power than an army of two hundred thousand.