Chapter 749: Heaven Pillar Mountain, Secret Path to the Plateau! (1/2)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

”But, Milord…”

A general was just about to say something when a messenger rushed into the room like a gust of wind.

”Reporting! Two thousand warhorses have been discovered seven hundred meters to the rear! Those people claim that these warhorses are for our Big Dipper Army, and they are requesting that our Big Dipper Army come to receive them. The scouts have sent me to ask how they should handle the matter.”

The messenger kneeled on the floor, his eyes suffused with a deep confusion.

Everyone in the Big Dipper Army knew of the army's severe shortage of warhorses, but now these horses were here, and they had come from a completely unexpected direction. This left him extremely dazed and confused.

Buzz!

The messenger's words plunged the hall into silence. This news was like a fierce slap against the face of all the generals of the Big Dipper Army. All of them had complicated expressions as they looked toward Geshu Han.

”I was looking down on him!”

Geshu Han had an extremely solemn expression.

”In this round, I was far inferior to him. Public and private are two separate things, and this youngest son of the Wang Clan clearly had much more daring.”

Geshu Han had still not yet met this scion of the Wang Clan, with most of his information coming from the mouths of others. But to witness with one's own eyes was better than hearsay, and moreover, the events of the southwest had grown so exaggerated by now that only the participants actually knew just how much of a role Wang Chong had played.

Yet now, Geshu Han had to admit that he had truly been underestimating him.

Although Wang Chong knew that the relationship between him and Geshu Han was poor, he could look past that to consider the overarching situation and gift the two thousand horses for the sake of Longxi and the Great Tang… Only someone with an astonishingly open mind could do such a thing. In comparison, his own actions were clearly rather petty.

”Qing Ze, write a letter for me thanking the Young Marquis. Say that I've received the two thousand warhorses and that the Big Dipper Army owes him a favor,” Geshu Han said as he mentally sighed.

”Yes, General!”

With these words, Qing Ze quickly left.

……

Rumble!

At night, with dark clouds hanging low, the gates of the City of Steel thundered open. A group of black-armored cavalry slowly rode out with a vigorous momentum. They had black halos under their feet, clattering like steel and linked together like the rings of a chain.

At the front of the soldiers was a seventeen-year-old youth with sharp brows and bright eyes. Behind him was a strong man more than two meters tall, twice the size of an ordinary adult.

”Lord Marquis, where are we going?” Li Siye said.

In the more than half a month of training within the city, this was the first time Wang Chong was taking the Wushang Cavalry beyond its walls. But Wang Chong had never been one to clearly explain his plans, so not even Li Siye knew where they were going.

”Soldiers are trained for a thousand days to be used in a single moment. They've trained for long enough, so it's now time to proceed to the next part of the plan,” Wang Chong indifferently said.

Wang Chong's black hair danced in the light wind. Although he was barely over seventeen, Wang Chong was becoming more and more composed, his eyes more dignified and determined.

Unlike his peers, Wang Chong's eyes could see the most minute of details, could see farther than anyone else.

”Let's go!”

Wang Chong urged his horse forward, but not to the nearby Tibetan Plateau. Instead, he turned in the direction of the southwest, to Longxi.

Wang Chong said nothing over the course of the journey, so neither did anyone else. Under the starry night, several hundred li went by in a flash. The five thousand Turkic warhorses were showing their value here, as it took only around six hours for the Wushang Cavalry to cover a distant of seven or eight hundred li.

The scenery constantly changed around them, and gradually, the barren landscape turned into lush hills. They had galloped their way into the heartland of Longxi.

In the distant darkness, the massive silhouette of a mountain thrust into the clouds, spanning the gap between heaven and earth.

Li Siye finally couldn't suppress his worries. ”Lord Marquis, are we going to Big Dipper City?”

Longxi was under the administration of Big Dipper Great General Geshu Han. Given their current relationship, a conflict was highly likely to take place if five thousand cavalry appeared in front of the Big Dipper Army.

”Hahaha, we'll have to meet Geshu Han eventually, but not right now.”

Apparently seeing through Li Siye's worries, Wang Chong chuckled, but his gaze was on that looming mountain.

Heaven Pillar Mountain!

A thought flitted through Wang Chong's mind.

I finally found it.

Longxi shared a long border with Ü-Tsang. The massive difference in altitude meant that the vast majority of the border was untraversable for even apes and monkeys, much less humans.

Even the ambitious Tibetans who coveted the Central Plains would shrink away from these areas, much less other people.

Anyone who had tried to force their way through these areas ended up dead.