Chapter 502: Six-Armed Ksitigarbha Vajra Guardian! (1/2)
Order after order was issued, but these orders did not come from Wang Chong. They came from the five-man and ten-man commanders.
Before the arrowhead of the Arrow Formation could be destroyed, a new one would be forming to take its place. Meanwhile, the cavalry that had been slowed from the impact with the Tibetan cavalry were quickly absorbed back into the main force.
Cold swords flashed through the air and Tibetan after Tibetan fell to the ground without a groan, cut into pieces by the Wootz Steel swords.
In the meantime, those Great Tang cavalry who had been slowed gradually began to regain speed, eventually adding on to the end of the Arrow Formation.
Everything happened swiftly and automatically!
Round after round, over and over, the Arrow Formation of one thousand soldiers worked like a fine-tuned machine. Before this precision, even Ü-Tsang's world-famous Echelon Formation felt like a grasshopper trying to stop a carriage.
Crash!
With a bout of painful and fearful screams, the last few Tibetan cavalry of the Echelon Formation were knocked flying like stray kites into the air. Wang Chong's Arrow Formation burst out of the Tibetan army, having cleared the entirety of the Echelon Formation.
By this time, the Tibetan army was in complete chaos.
”Now is the time. Kill!”
After piercing through the entire formation, Wang Chong led his army in a figure eight so that they could turn around and attack the Tibetans again. Once more like a sharp arrow, the army charged into the tail end of the Tibetan Echelon Formation, throwing it further into chaos.
”Excellent! Success!”
Seeing the Tibetans in chaos, their advance completely stymied, Old Eagle clenched his fists as he inwardly rejoiced. This entire battle had been carried out under Wang Chong's command, and even though he had been at his side this entire time, not even he knew what was going on.
He had been on the sidelines observing when Wang Chong was training this army and knew everything about the Arrow Formation, but he could have never expected this formation to be so powerful.
And this wasn't just about piercing through the army and inflicting casualties. Wang Chong had completely shattered the ability of the Tibetans to fight.
The most powerful aspect of an army was its ability to fight as a cohesive whole, and the more people there were, the more powerful it was. But if every person fought individually, this advantage would utterly vanish.
This was precisely what Wang Chong had managed to do!
Although this wasn't the first time Old Eagle had seen Wang Chong at work, none of the previous times had ever been as stimulating or as impactful to Old Eagle. This was his first time directly observing Wang Chong's talent, that brilliant and terrifying talent to command that far surpassed his age.
”Young Master!”
Old Eagle looked at Wang Chong, a deep respect in his eyes.
He had originally followed Wang Chong out of gratitude, but now, even without this reason, even if someone wanted him to leave, he would never leave. Wang Chong had a deep potential, one that did not lie in something as simple as strength.
Old Eagle felt that in another ten years, if nothing unexpected happened, this empire would gain another influential Great General on the level of Geshu Han, Fumeng Lingcha, Gao Xianzhi, and Zhang Shougui, perhaps one even more outstanding.
In his heart, Old Eagle no longer considered Wang Chong a junior, but a leader that he was willing to follow for the rest of his life.
Of course, no one knew of any of this except for Old Eagle himself.
”Congratulations to user for killing 617 Tibetan regular heavy cavalry!”
”Congratulations to user for killing 619 Tibetan regular heavy cavalry!”
Congratulations to user for killing 632 Tibetan regular heavy cavalry!”
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Message after message flew through his mind, but Wang Chong couldn't be bothered to pay attention to them. Each time his Wootz Steel sword slashed, another Tibetan would fall. The massive drop in Wang Chong's strength made it very difficult for him to deal with one Tibetan cavalryman alone, but this wasn't a problem.
A large number of experts had gathered around him, which he had requested from Li Siye. These experts had originally been elites of the Black Dragon Bandits in the Western Regions. When Li Siye killed their boss, he also subdued these elites.
Wang Chong had requested these Black Dragon Bandits elites to protect himself. Every time Wang Chong struck out with his sword, he needed three or four others to strike with him, and with this rain of blows… plop! Another Tibetan would drop to the ground. With each fallen Tibetan, another stream of refined energy would flow from the Little Yinyang Sword into Wang Chong's body.
The energy in Wang Chong's body had dropped down to Tier 1 of the True Martial realm, but by now, nourished by the blood energy of the Tibetans, it was rapidly rising.