Chapter 747: Eagle Team! I (1/2)
Chapter 747: Eagle Team! (I)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Wang Chong turned his head and said, ”Li Siye, I leave this matter to you.”
Li Siye hurriedly bowed and said, ”Yes, Lord Marquis.”
After taking care of a few miscellaneous matters, Wang Chong stood up and stretched while looking out the window.
”It's about time to take care of that other matter.”
Wang Chong stretched a bit more before leaving the room.
The City of Steel's outer wall was basically complete, and with the Wushang soldiers and the Turkic warhorses both having arrived, he could finally begin his plan.
Wang Chong had not chosen Wushang because it was a remote and peaceful place, but because he wanted to fend off the Western Turkic Khaganate to the east and Ü-Tsang from the west, completely altering the environment around Qixi. This was for the sake of the Anxi Protectorate army and to prepare for the Battle of Talas.
Now, everything was ready. Only one thing was missing.
Bang!
Sunlight poured in as the door opened, and Wang Chong, dressed in a blue gown, stepped over the threshold. After walking for a few moments, he began to hear deafening shouts.
After leaving the room and taking a left turn, he could see five thousand Wushang soldiers in the distance, mounted on stalwart Turkic steeds and performing harsh drills under the sunlight.
Thousands of wooden stakes had been placed on the ground in front of them. The distance between the wooden stakes varied, ranging from wide enough for a carriage to pass to so narrow that only a pair of horse legs could get by.
And there seemed to be no order to the arrangement of the wooden stakes.
'Disordered Horse Stakes' was a method that Wang Chong had developed in his last life to train top-notch cavalry as quickly as possible. In this life, however, he was using this method to teach the Wushang their first lesson: riding the horse.
Neigh!
With a cry, five or six Wushang leapt forward on their horses. In the midst of impassioned whinnies, these warhorses worked their way through the stakes, suddenly moving left or right as they navigated the dense forest.
The dexterity and swift reaction speed the Wushang had developed through their life in the mountains was proving incredibly useful here.
No matter how dense the stakes were or how narrow the paths between them, the Wushang would always be able to find a path through which they could easily maneuver their horses.
If one didn't know beforehand, it would be very hard to believe that this was their first time on horseback.
Neigh!
A few moments later, the five or six Wushang had completed the 'Disordered Horse Stakes' and emerged. Other than a minor scrape on a horse leg at the very end, the Wushang Cavalry were completely unscathed.
”Good!”
A burst of cheers and cries of praise rose from around them. The spectating guards and clan experts clapped enthusiastically.
At the beginning, none of them had understood the reasons for these thousands of wooden stakes in the ground. A few of the elite horsemen had tried their hands at it, but of the ten that tried, eight stumbled at the very beginning while the other two only managed to make it a bit more than halfway before being unable to proceed.
It was only after these attempts that the crowd finally realized that this forest of wooden stakes was not as simple as it seemed.
But these Wushang seemed to be natural horsemen. No obstacle or wooden stake could stop them. Though the crowd had been watching for some time, they had not seen a single warhorse ridden by a Wushang hit a wooden stake.
Their reactions and speed were so formidable that they made one's hairs stand on end!
As they gradually grew more familiar with the Wushang, the city guards and clan experts found themselves in complete admiration of these soldiers who had appeared out of thin air.
And their drills were far from restricted to just the Disordered Horse Stakes…
”Ready!
”Begin!”
Gallop! With the thundering of hooves and a cloud of dust, a Wushang cavalryman dressed in black armor and wielding a long spear shot forward, his body pressed against the back of his horse.
Boom!
Before the crowd could react to what seemed to be a blur passing them, there was a massive boom several dozen zhang away. A massive plate of steel more than half a foot thick had crumpled inward from the center, leaving two deep hoof impressions starkly visible.