Chapter 2168 - City Defense Battle! (IV) (1/2)
Chapter 2168: City Defense Battle! (IV)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The people had been extremely enthusiastic about this recruitment drive. As the Great Tang’s War Saint and Supreme Marshal, Wang Chong was not one to just sit back and ignore all these excellent recruits.
The Hell Wheel!
This was the name of the formation used by Wang Chong’s forty thousand soldiers, one of the top-class formations of the apocalyptic era. In terms of strength, it could enter the top four, but unfortunately, it was not ranked amongst the top ten formations.
The reason was very simple. The Hell Wheel had very rigorous requirements. It needed thirty thousand soldiers at the very minimum, and all of them needed to be heavy soldiers that possessed prodigious levels of strength.
But in the apocalyptic era, the strength of the continent had been greatly reduced. It was simply impossible to gather thirty thousand elite heavy soldiers.
As it was impossible to use and verify, it could not be ranked.
The ten formations of the apocalyptic era had all been used in real battle.
Now that the Great Tang was at its apex of power and had an abundant supply of soldiers, Wang Chong was finally able to gather enough soldiers and realize the Hell Wheel.
The Hell Wheel, the wheel of hell!
This army was placed at the entrance to the steel fortress, making it none other than the gates of hell.
Wang Chong used this to let the alliance know that when they entered the range of the steel fortress, they would be walking through the gate of destruction!
Wang Chong slowly raised his right hand and said, “All soldiers, prioritize destroying the shield carts!”
“Yes!”
A messenger swiftly departed.
Though the Hell Wheel was formidable, for Wang Chong, Su Hanshan’s ballista army remained his most powerful and terrifying asset. Once the shield carts were destroyed, Su Hanshan’s ballista army would once more be usable, and the enemy side’s fatalities would accelerate.
Through this war, Wang Chong wanted to let all the other countries know that the Great Tang was not a country that could be offended lightly. To carelessly challenge it, one had to be ready to pay a most gruesome price.
Horses neighed and weapons clashed, and the screams of the dying merged together into a wail that resounded throughout the battlefield.
At this moment, the forty thousand soldiers were unstoppable.
The alliance army had originally believed that it would be able to easily take care of the forty thousand Tang soldiers now that order had been restored to the front, but to their shock, the situation had not changed at all. But when it seemed like their vast army would be held down by the forty thousand Tang soldiers forever, that their losses would continue to climb, a new development occurred.
“Out of the way!”
A furious roar swept over the battlefield in a wave of sound. A moment after this explosive wave of sound, the earth began to rumble with the pounding of hooves.
Whoosh!
The center of the alliance army parted, allowing a force of several tens of thousands of cavalry seething with killing intent and cold energy to charge out, the soldiers arranged in a special formation.
Bang!
Some of the alliance soldiers were slow to react, and one of them ended up being struck by a hoof. The explosive force from this incidental collision instantly sent the soldier flying through the air.
At the location of the hoof’s impact, the armor had crumpled inward.
Meanwhile, the horseman continued at the same speed as if he had run into a leaf.
Roooar!
A Tang captain in front of the steel fortress spotted this and instantly paled, his eyes narrowing.
Strong!
Very strong!
This force of cavalry coming out of the rear had a mountain-toppling momentum that was far above that of other cavalry.
This was an elite force!
Roooar!
The several tens of thousands of cavalry moved in unison, and as they accelerated, the energy above their heads condensed, upon which a roar that was half-human and half-beast resounded through the world.
A moment later, the space above this army began to shift, and then a sinister world appeared, a landscape of bone piles and rivers of blood in which the countless ghosts wailed. And in the depths of this world, a black river raged.
On this surging black torrent floated countless bodies and limbs.
This was a sight that could strike terror into any heart.
The Underworld Cavalry!
This was a special force that An Lushan had secretly trained.
Zhang Shougui originally had the elite Roaring Tiger Army under his command, but the Roaring Tiger Army had been too loyal to Zhang Shougui. An Lushan could not trust them, so in the war of the northeast, he had arranged it so that the Roaring Tiger Army was wiped out.
And if a large faction did not possess a special force like the Roaring Tiger Army or Divine Martial Army that could go one versus ten, or even one versus one hundred, it would never be able to stand tall in the world. Thus, once the Roaring Tiger Army was gone, An Lushan had to train up another force.