Chapter 1167 - Wrathful Arabia! (1/2)

Chapter 1167: Wrathful Arabia!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

“Ah?!”

Even soeable as Bahra’s words, unclear as to why he was so confident

wang Chong grinned, and shot an imatic

“In addition, if Great General is still worried, I can reveal a certain e number of ballista and heavy ballista bolts sent over, and the Great Tang’s capital is also beginning to send reinforceroup should already be en route and should arrive at Khorasan in just a few es this matter to the leaders of the rebel armies This can at least help the’s resolve!” wang Chong sternly said

Bahrahed in relief

“General’s words are enough! I will personally allay their worries”

Bahrah walls of Khorasan, like the wailing of ghosts The weather was clearly much colder than it had been in the past No one except wang Chong knew that a crisis without precedent in history was silently approaching, and it would be far ine

“Heh”

With a soft chuckle, wang Chong departed the walls

……

Upon learning that the Great Tang was sending more soldiers, the rebel soldiers in Khorasan quickly ceased to worry Half a day later, a brief and fierce conflict broke out in Shandar, the city across the Tigris River closest to Khorasan Cheng Qianli’s ararrison, and destroyed several dozen buildings before withdrawing to Khorasan

This was an expression of ’s will If Arabia did not accede to the Great Tang’s request, this probing attack would beco

Several days later, when the news reached Baghdad, just as expected, it unleashed a storm of fury in all levels of Arab society

“bastard!”

Within his palace, the Caliph was so furious that he even accidentally throttled his favorite hunting falcon to death But even so, wang Chong’s plan had proved effective Arabian gold was shi+pped out froht, carried to Khorasan on the backs of more than one thousand horses A letter of much softer tone iftly dispatched to Khorasan

But at the same time, the speed at which the Arab army mobilized also increased Hundreds of thousands of soldiers werelike thousands of streaovernors, driven on by the wrathful Caliph, were surging to Khorasan This was an unprecedented ’s actions had fully provoked the supreold arrived ht of thousands of horses with s Khorasan had an i the soldiers to buzz with chatter

On the sa Qianli co and Gao Xianzhi, reporting this ht days later, the news arrived at the capital of the Great Tang As expected, it set off great waves

“This, how?! The Qixi Protector-General and Anxi Protector-General old fro Chong’s most ardent opponent, the Grand Preceptor, could not sit still in his chair War was a burden on the people, and each one would result in terrible losses and consuined that at the finaland the others would send back one billion taels of gold to the Imperial Court

Even someone as composed and steady as the Grand Preceptor, who rarely showed a happy expression, couldn’t help but drop his jaw in astonishold! How could this be! Not even ten years of ’s tax revenue could reach this sum!”

All levels of the Bureau of Revenue were in a similar state of shock; from the Minister to the lowest secretary, all of them were dumbfounded when they heard the news Every war had the Bureau of Revenue scratching its head and racking its brains for ways to scrape up enough money For this reason, of the Six Bureaus, the Bureau of Revenue opposed the old…

Heavens!

This was an astronomical number With this sum, the Bureau of Revenue wouldn’t have to co time

“This puny country was actually this wealthy?!”