Chapter 895 - The Second Defense Line! (1/2)
Chapter 895: The Second Defense Line!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
es like ants as they went to carry out wang Chong’s orders Upon arriving on the eastern side of Talas, they ignited the furnaces, and black s metal soon filled the air The round and soldered together to for had prepared for today’s battle for more than two months, and he had been assisted in this venture by all the s clans and other smiths of the Central Plains The endless strea had been precisely in preparation for any unforeseen events like this
The greatest advantage modular construction had over ordinary ’s order, the vacant and open land in the rear of the Qixi Protectorate arht steel wall, a fir soldiers
This was just like hoang Chong had built a nine-zhang-high steel wall at Wushang in the space of a single night Only he could perfor s solder, but they were only a fewtheir work On the other end, theto o!”
In front of the first line of steel defenses, Chen Bin, wearing a suit of Meteoric Metal ar order after order The ballista corps, holding three thousand ballistae and fifteen thousand an to board the transport carriages and set up ballistae in three rows, five hundred ballistae to a row, each of them aimed at the empty spaces between the steel walls
The steel walls were the best barrier against the charge of cavalry If the Arabs wanted to get through, they would need to break fors between the walls, exactly where the ballistae could maximize their firepower
As the fifteen hundred ballistae were being set up, rows of infantry carrying shi+elds began to arrive, lining up to also face the openings The soldiers of Greater and Lesser Balur were also mobilized for this defense
The soldiers of these two kingdo, and in this era dominated by cavalry, Greater and Lesser Balur were practically nonexistent But their spear the best, and they were far more skilled in their use of pikes than the pikemen of any other faction
This was one of the pri had hired their soldiers The pikemen of the Balurs were al This was an inti cavalry
Rumble! As the soldiers of Greater and Lesser Balur and the infantry and shi+eldke King rode forward on a large brown horse, leading the Gangke and the othertheir positions
“Everyone, hear my order! There will be no retreat until I say so! Those who disobey will be executed!”
The Gangke King’s eyes blazed like stars as they fiercely swept past the steel walls to fall on the surging black waves of the Arab arht in a neat square, their eyes vicious and bri! This was a clash of lion versus elephant
In this war, everyone had to make clear where they stood, who they had chosen
There was no question that the Gangke had chosen the Great Tang
“Corets!”
The Gangke King’s eyes were bright, and his black cape flapped in the wind His entire body see was one of the few Saint Martial experts under wang Chong’s coer than the Invincible Great General Li Siye
The Gangke King had always been proud, and in the Western Regions, there was no one who couldhad chosen to lower his head to wang Chong
The once-ions, had finally been able to wash their bodies clean of sha to offer his death to repay the Great Tang and wang Chong for their aid!
“Coripped his Barbaric God Axe, all the blood in his body seething
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ht to the death, the rest of the Tang aring river on the plains around Talas, but though it appeared turbid, it was actuallyin a disciplined and orderly fashi+on
Only wang Chong was capable of so quicklyan army of more than one hundred thousand soldiers in such an orderly fashi+on