Chapter 858: News on the Hyderabad Ore! (1/2)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”Bastard! Never have any of the leaders of the Great Tang dared to say such words. You will regret them!”
The Saka leader was so angry that his entire body was trembling. His face darkened as he spat out these words, and then he immediately turned his horse back around.
”Kill!”
The thousands of Saka cavalry immediately began to roar, their eyes scarlet and the air seething with killing intent as they charged. The times had already changed. In the past, the Saka would have never dared to recklessly attack a Tang army, at least not with such resolve.
But with the fearsome Anxi Great General Gao Xianzhi besieged in Talas with his thirty thousand elites and forty thousand allied foreign soldiers, the map of the Western Regions had changed. This was a generation of revolution, and a single Qixi Protector-General was not worth the Saka's fear.
After all, this was their home.
Rumble!
The warhorses got closer and closer, the thundering hooves placing a heavy pressure on every person's heart. All the Gangke had just about finished putting on the armor that Wang Chong had given them. Taking up the weapons, they gathered behind the Gangke King.
Nearby, the five thousand soldiers of the Qixi Protectorate army stood on guard, a lofty and immovable mountain.
Winds would precede a storm, and all of them understood that they were about to confront a foe of unprecedented power, fight a battle in which they were greatly outnumbered!
Two hundred paces, one hundred paces, fifty paces…
The distance was growing smaller and smaller.
”Kill!”
The thousands upon thousands of Saka all had vicious expressions, all of them roaring, but when they were at the height of their power, Wang Chong faintly smiled and finally took action. Boom! Halos clanged and clattered in the air, and in the blink of an eye, they had burst blazing brightly out of Wang Chong's body to sweep over the battlefield.
The Bane of the Battlefield Halo!
In a flash of light, Wang Chong had unleashed three Bane of the Battlefield Halos, which engulfed the Saka like a storm. As everyone looked on in shock, the Saka cavalry began to deflate like punctured balloons, their cultivation levels plunging at incredible speeds.
At this moment, the Saka had faces the color of paper, while all the Gangke were invigorated.
”Kiiill!”
In a flash, like a mountainside giving way, the Gangke and the Qixi soldiers suddenly surged forward, charging into the Saka ranks. Other than the best cavalry of the world, no one could defend against three Bane of the Battlefield Halos, and the Saka were no exception.
”Ah!”
Under the combined assault of the Qixi Protectorate army and the Gangke, the thirty thousand Saka instantly collapsed, blood and screams filling the air as corpses covered the earth.
……
Three days later, a piece of shocking news spread through the Western Regions.
The infamous Saka, one of the strongest mercenary tribes of the Western Regions, had been defeated by the Great Tang's Qixi Protectorate army together with the Gangke Tribe. With the Great Tang's ardent support, the Gangke had swept through the Saka tribes. The men were killed while the women and children were dragged away, and all the cows, sheep and warhorses were taken away by the Gangke.
The Gangke that the rest of the Western Regions had called filthy pigs had displayed enormous strength in their battles with the Saka. They were fierce, tenacious, and fearless of death, presenting a completely different Gangke from the ones that they knew. A Gangke with armor, weapons, and a horse could even defeat a Saka in a one-on-one battle.
All the mercenary tribes of the Western Regions were stunned by this news.
But the most shocking of all was the proclamation made through the death of the Saka by the Qixi Protector-General backing the Gangke.
The Saka were exterminated because they were fickle and went back on their oaths. In the Western Regions, any mercenary tribe that went back on their mercenary contract and casually betrayed their employer would end up just like the Saka!
The news left the countless mercenary tribes quivering in fear, with many of them thinking back on their past conduct in panic. The originally chaotic mercenary situation in the Western Regions was given a massive blow by this event. Meanwhile, the rise of the Gangke made some other mercenary tribes see an enormous chance.
After the Saka were exterminated, their wealth, women, cows, and sheep were not taken by the Tang, but given to the Tang's helpers, the Gangke!
Danger and opportunity went hand in hand, and the mercenary tribes of the Western Regions could see that with Wang Chong's appearance, things were changing.