Chapter 373: Clash of Troops! (1/2)
Chapter 373: Clash of Troops!
”It has finally begun!”
At the same time, the ”deserters” whom the military inspector had spoken about were surveying the situation from another hill.
From afar, they could see that the three hundred Tibetan armies had divided themselves into around a dozen echelons. Kicking up a huge cloud of dust, they charged down the mountain with alarming momentum.
It wasn't the first time Zhao Yatong, Fang Xuanying, and the others had witnessed this, so they were still able to keep their cool. However, the newcomers, Bai Siling, Xu Gan, and Huang Yongtu, were startled by the sight before them.
The charge of the three hundred soldiers felt like a force far beyond their grasp.
The Iron Cloak Highwaymen seemed nothing at all in comparison to them.
”How can they be so powerful?” Stunned by the sight before him, Huang Yongtu muttered under his breath.
This was the first time he had stepped onto a battlefield against the soldiers of a hostile nation. Even though the enemy was only three hundred strong, it had overturned the overly simplistic preconceptions he had held about war.
Xu Gan was a little calmer than him, but his complexion still showed that he was stunned by the sight before him.
Wang Chong was the only one who could retain his calm in the face of everything. He had none of Bai Siling's shock nor Zhao Yatong's apprehension.
To him, war was nothing more than a daily routine.
The three hundred Tibetan soldiers before him were just a walk in the park. He knew that the sight before him was just the appetizer.
The true might of the Tibetan cavalry was yet to be shown.
Weng!
As expected, from afar, as the three hundred Tibetan soldiers reached the halfway mark of the mountain, something suddenly lit up. It started with just a single glow, but before long, the second, third, and fourth one appeared...
Eventually, the entire Tibetan cavalrymen formation was shrouded in a white glow.
”What's that?” With twitching eyelids, Huang Yongtu asked worriedly.
”Halo of White Yak, the war halo of Tibetan soldiers!” Wang Chong replied.
The Tibetans had always revered the white yak, viewing it as a sacred beast. The Halo of White Yak was also one of the most famous war halos of the Tibetans.
The pair of white horns it had on its head were incomparably powerful and sharp in a charge, allowing them to overwhelm any opponent.
Weng!
As soon as Wang Chong said those words, an illusory image of innumerable massive white yaks appeared in the air, rushing toward the formation of the Great Tang soldiers at the bottom of the mountain.
With widened mouths, they roared furiously with a resounding MOOOOOOO!
Along with that earth-shattering roar, the cloud of dust kicked up by the cavalrymen suddenly grew tenfold larger. At the same time, the white halos beneath their feet resonated with one another, eventually forming a massive white formation.
In just an instant, the aura of the three hundred Tibetan cavalrymen surged to an astounding level.
In that instant, the group above the mountain paled in shock.
As the saying went, it is always the bystanders who has the clearest view of the situation.
This was the first time Zhao Yatong and the others were seeing a charge of the three hundred Tibetan soldiers from afar, and it looked completely different from how it looked like when they were on the opposite end of the charge.
”This isn't the end yet!” Looking at this sight, Wang Chong sighed deeply.
The greatest mistake of that Big Dipper Army commandant was to arrogantly choose to engage the Tibetans in such terrain.
He might have moved the defense line three hundred meters behind the foot of the slope, but how much difference could that make?
Under the continuous impact of the Tibetan cavalrymen's echelons, Wang Chong could already see the Great Tang soldiers' formation being dissipated, and the entire army falling into ruins.
”Prepare yourselves, we'll be setting off soon!” Just as everyone was stunned by the Tibetan cavalrymen's charge, Wang Chong raised his right hand and gave the signal for them to set off.
With the uproar the Tibetan cavalrymen had caused, as well as the deafening reverberation from the Halo of White Yak, it would conceal any noise regardless of what Wang Chong's group was going to do, making it hard to notice them.
In other words, this was the perfect timing to strike them!
Weng!
Leaping onto the back of his steed, Wang Chong took the lead and charged off the slope of the mountain. The others quickly followed suit.
Bai Siling, Zhao Yatong, Xu Gan, Huang Yongtu, and Fang Xuanying, along with the other two hundred Great Tang cavalrymen hidden amid the lush trees charged down the slope.
And at this moment, not a single person from either side had noticed them yet.
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Hong long long!
By the time the imposing charge of the three hundred Tibetan cavalrymen was just about to reach their frontlines, the Big Dipper Army commandant's face had already turned incredibly grave.
He finally noticed the crucial error he had made.