Chapter 766: Buluhus Mountain Army (1/2)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Putting aside the movements in the Qixi Protectorate headquarters, on the Tibetan Plateau, wang Chong's Wushang Cavalry and the experts he had brought fro for battle
Neigh!
The excited cries of horses ca the calm of the plateau The Tibetans had reacted round began to quake Thousands of Tibetan cavalry began to gallop out from the horizon in a dense black tide
Theirdread into every heart
The winds suddenly began to rage, and the atmosphere on the steppe instantly turned tense
”Ready!”
wang Chong raised his sword and pointed it forward, his voice cal's face at the sight of these thousands of charging Tibetan cavalry, only endless anticipation If he wanted to change the fate of Qixi, the Western Regions, the entire e! Arave the order, the five thousand Wushang Cavalry behind hi like loo mountains 'Strike as quickly as fire; be as ih the ary lurking underneath the calht li, six li…
As the Tibetans drew closer and closer, it beca fro in their hands
”It's the Mountain Ar's camp, but fro away They often fought with the Tibetans, so they were very falance they had seen the symbol of a mountain peak on the left side of these Tibetans' chests
The Tibetans had different ar their army into the Plains Army, the Steppe Army, and the Mountain Army Of these, the Mountain Army was the hting on flat terrain, so one could easily i on the coth of the Mountain Arreater than that of the other ar The horses that they rode had undergone special training Not only were they hland steed, they could run even faster, and their flesh was tougher, able to endure intense pursuit and collisions
Most importantly, all the soldiers of the Mountain Army had participated in attacks on other countries They were all richly-experienced veterans
Everyone in Qixi knew that the Mountain Ar had once detoured around Qixi and entered the steppe, where they defeated a force of Western Turkic cavalry that far outnuarrisoned in a cohout the year In comparison to the armies of the interior, the Qixi Protectorate army was definitely one of the finest
When encountering a Tibetan army, it was often able to hold the line and launch a counterattack, forcing back the ene
But when fighting the Mountain Army, the Qixi Protectorate arht to ten To put it another way, for every eight Tibetan deaths, at least ten Qixi Protectorate soldiers would have to accorave
Of the armies of the Tibetan Plateau, the Mountain Army was the one that made the Qixi Protectorate army most apprehensive Even if Pulan He or Heba Ye encountered the Mountain Arthen the fortifications and put everything into defense If necessary, they ht even pull out of the plateau to tee
”It's over! They ran into the Mountain Army! They're dead for sure!”
The scouts appeared nervous and concerned Although they were not supporters of wang Chong, they were still all Tang They would also be affected if wang Chong and his forces were killed
”We can't do anything General gave the order forbidding us froainst the Tibetan Mountain Arht have time to withdraw from the plateau,” said a Qixi scout with a centipede-like scar on his neck
”It's too late,” another Qixi scout said ”Once they retreat, the Tibetans will keep charging down the slope, and have evenacross flat land Retreat would just make them die more quickly No matter what they do now, they're doomed No one can save them”
Only experienced and veteran elites of the army could be made scouts, and when these elites saw the Mountain Ar's forces
In the distance, the vast Tibetan are forward Rather, it stopped around two thousand zhang away, the horses neighing as countless gazes looked toward that triangular gap in the northeast corner
”These Tang barbarians are truly stubborn One base is enough, but they even dare to expand here Do they think the plateau is theirs?”
At the front of the arlared viciously ahead, holding a strange spiked staff ular gap is a vital path that we use to enter Qixi, Longxi, and the Turkic steppe We cannot let theh this gap on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau wasn't large, it was one of the shortcuts in the north of Ü-Tsang used by the Tibetans to enter and exit the plateau This hy the Tibetan cavalry had reacted so quickly when they discovered that wang Chong antonly constructing a base there
Buluhu, the swarthy-faced Tibetan general, viciously shouted, ”Pass on e and kill theer quickly left, but before he could go far, he was called back
”Wait!”
The sight of those steel walls gleaave Buluhu pause As a well-known general of northern Ü-Tsang, Buluhu was e officer
Those scale-like steel walls aroused his instinctive suspicion
”Let's hold for a roup of cavalry to probe them If there's no problem, then we'll kill them all!” Buluhu sternly said
”Yes, General!”