Chapter 500: ü-Tsang! Ksitigarbha Secret Art! (1/2)
Chapter 500: Ü-Tsang! Ksitigarbha Secret Art!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Clangclangclang!
Countless Tibetan scimitars flashed with cold light as they almost simultaneously attacked the Great Tang cavalry.
Sparks flew in this deafening clash, but the attacks of the Tibetans were almost completely stopped by the Meteoric Metal armor worn by the Great Tang cavalry.
”This…”
All the Tibetans were dumbfounded by this sight. The Great Tang soldiers had failed to break through the Tibetan fortress shroud, but the Tibetan scimitars had also been powerless against the Great Tang armor.
”We outnumber them. Hold them down and kill them all!”
It took only a split second for a ferocious order spoken in Tibetan to stir their cavalry into excitedly howling into the sky.
No matter how formidable the armor of these black-armored Tang cavalry was, one thousand were simply no match for three thousand Tibetan cavalry.
Thirty echelons, one wave crashing down after another, created an impact that no person could withstand, not even these strange black-armored cavalry.
”Hmph, I thought that they were actually strong! Dengba, lead the army and kill all of them. Don't let a single one escape!”
The muscular Tibetan commander coldly laughed, his mind completely at ease. At the start, he truly had been scared a little.
These Tang soldiers could not be understood with common sense, but they were still lacking. The middle-level fortress formed by one thousand Tibetan cavalry could block three or four thousand Tang soldiers, and he had three thousand elite cavalry with him.
He could already imagine those Great Tang soldiers being crushed into the dust.
”Once we kill this Tang army, we'll lead the army east and exterminate that Great Tang Commandant with the surname Xu, and then there will be no one left in the southwest who can resist us… I actually thought that these Tang soldiers were some big deal, but it's just a grasshopper trying to block a carriage!”
A sneer hovered on the commander's lips, yet this smile didn't last too long before quickly vanishing into a puff of smoke.
”Your thinking is too simple!”
In these brief seconds, no one had noticed the icy light in Wang Chong's eyes. If the Tibetans really thought that this was all he had, then they were gravely mistaken.
If he didn't have any confidence, he would have never risked having one thousand men face off in a contest of strength against three thousand Tibetan heavy cavalry.
Seconds flew by, and right when the Tibetans were howling and prepared to exterminate the Tang soldiers, Wang Chong suddenly put down a foot and unleashed the Bane of the Battlefield halo…
Boom!
Like a hurricane passing through, an invisible energy spread out from Wang Chong's body to everyone present. Although this energy couldn't be seen, everyone could instantly hear an earthshaking boom in their ears, as if the earth itself was sundering apart.
Crack!
There was nothing in the air, but the middle-level Halo of Fortress shrouding the Tibetan army was suddenly covered in countless tiny cracks, after which it shattered into pieces.
”Not good!”
In an instant, all the Tibetan soldiers felt this change and paled, their minds in turmoil.
Without any warning, they found their strength suddenly plunging. The fortress was still there, but its toughness and luster had fallen an entire level, going from a middle-level fortress to an initial-level fortress formed from only one hundred people.
To these Tibetans who had worked together to form this fortress and had grown accustomed to its strength, this change was like a magnitude 8 earthquake.
In the long history of Ü-Tsang, from ancient times up to the present age, it had fought against countless powers from the Central Plains, but it was possible to say that not a single Tibetan had ever encountered such strange circumstances.
”What's going on? Why did we get so weak!”
”The fortress! The fortress collapsed!”
”Impossible! This can't be happening!”
”How could the Tang men weaken our fortress? That's impossible! I don't believe it! I won't believe it!”
……
Though much time seemed to have passed, it actually only took a few seconds to deal the Tibetans a destructive blow and throw them into chaos.
”An excellent chance!”
The Great Tang soldiers immediately noticed this change and were ecstatic, Li Siye and Old Eagle especially so.
Tibetans were not horse bandits, and horse bandits were not as difficult to deal with as the Ü-Tsang regular army. But without the protection of that vaulted fortress, everything was different.
The initial-level Halo of Fortress was still powerful, but it was of no threat to their army.