Chapter 513: Major Battle (IV)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

"Everyone, heed my orders! a.s.sume Echelon Formation! All soldiers, charge! Those who retreat will be executed!"

Bachicheng's eyes were frigid, his entire body exploding with a chilling aura of dread .

"Yes, General!"

The beast-like calls of the Tibetan cavalry echoed through the skies .

In the Ü-Tsang Ngari Royal Lineage, Bachicheng's prestige was incomparable to Xiangyang Dalu . In both the internal conflicts within the tribe and in the battles against the Great Tang, Bachicheng had already proved his strength . In the fight against the 60,000 soldiers of the Tang army, Bachicheng had led the charge that had broken through the Tang center .

His very high status among the Five Tiger Generals was based on this ability .

With Bachicheng himself deciding to personally take part, the six thousand Tibetan cavalry once more exploded with an intense will to fight . The gloom brought about by Xiangyang Dalu's death was instantly swept away .

Whoos.h.!.+

His eyes spitting lightning, Bachicheng took from a subordinate the holy banner of Ü-Tsang, several zhang tall and as thick as an arm, emblazoned with a white yak over a black background . Meanwhile, his right hand held his scimitar .

"Kill!"

Like a bolt of lightning searing across the sky, Bachicheng urged his horse forward, scarlet-red flames bursting from his body and enveloping the entire army . He led them like a fiery cloud toward the summit, the aura and momentum of his six thousand cavalry completely different from Xiangyang Dalu's .

The ma.s.sive mountain trembled, sending rocks constantly rolling down from the summit . And at this point, Bachicheng had not even reached the foot of the mountain .

"Young Master, Bachicheng has committed his entire army!"

The officers on the summit were all nervous .

Bachicheng led his army in a completely different manner from Xiangyang Dalu . His army had a majestic momentum, a powerful and boundless storm . If one described Xiangyang Dalu's army as giant waves endlessly smas.h.i.+ng against the rocks, Bachicheng's army was a typhoon or tornado . It spanned the gap between heaven and earth, approaching with an unstoppable momentum . Comparing the two was like comparing a child to an adult .

"Milord, Bachicheng is not to be looked down upon . All the soldiers under him are elites with exceptional fighting prowess . It was they who broke General Li's Golden Fortress Formation," an officer cautioned .

None of the officers wanted to see the past repeated . Bachicheng's forces back then had been exactly like this as they broke through Li Zhengyi's defense: nimble as the wind, aggressive as a fire, steady as a mountain . Every person felt an enormous pressure as they attempted to recall those past mistakes .

"Milord, we should also commit our main forces ," another Tang officer nervously suggested . "Otherwise, the forces we have deployed at present won't be able to hold . If the front lines collapse, we'll all be doomed!"

w.a.n.g Chong raised an arm and lightly said, "There's no need to panic! Listen to my orders!" His calm tone carried a persuasive power, and as the officers looked at each other, they felt their anxiety fading away .

Rumble!

As the army approached, red Halos of Thorns began to appear, expanding over the soldiers of the army . As s.p.a.ce began to twist, a red flame seemed to engulf the army . Seeing that Bachicheng was moving out, the demoralized Tibetans on the mountain were stirred back into action and began to join Bachicheng's charge .

Like a rolling s...o...b..ll, the Tibetan army swelled, its momentum growing to astonis.h.i.+ng levels .

Rumble! When Bachicheng reached the base of the mountain, the mountain seemed to tremble at the weight of his army . The earth quaked and shuddered as if on the verge of collapse .

"It's this again!"

"General Li…"

"Bachicheng, he's coming!"

On the mountain, as the Tang soldiers saw that sacred white yak banner and that fully-armored Tibetan general cloaked in scarlet flames, fear began to show in their eyes .

Other than the forces that w.a.n.g Chong had initially led, almost all of the soldiers had taken part in that head-on battle against the Tibetans .

The flying white yak banner and the black-armored general covered in seething flames had become their most haunting nightmare!

"Careful!"

"Steadyyy!"

Xu s.h.i.+ping was worried, his voice tearing as his shouts resounded over the army .

Ten-some days ago, Bachicheng had used exactly this method to break through the center of the 60,000 soldiers of the reinforcement army . Now, history was repeating, and Bachicheng had come attacking once more . This was a division-level battle between the Great Tang and Ü-Tsang . The only paths were life and death . If they couldn't defeat this army before them, the Great Tang would have no more reinforcements to send south .

Not for a very long time .

"Raise s.h.i.+elds!

"All troops, stand ready!

"Spearmen, axemen, prepare yourselves!"

Order after order was issued . At this moment, the most composed was actually w.a.n.g Chong, who was experiencing his first campaign .

"He truly is a fierce general!"

As gales traveled from the foot of the mountain to the summit, w.a.n.g Chong could almost feel the heat and scorching flames . While his entire army was in an extreme state of tension, w.a.n.g Chong could be described as the calmest and most composed . But even after all the battles he had experienced, w.a.n.g Chong still had to admit that Bachicheng truly was an extremely formidable general .

w.a.n.g Chong had used several hundred ballistae to instantly slay an important general like Xiangyang Dalu, dealing a grievous blow to his army . But Bachicheng's order to charge had greatly minimized the effect and had even inspired fear in w.a.n.g Chong's army of eight thousand .

The advantages gained in the first half of the battle were basically nullified .

It was incredibly surprising for such an excellent general to arise from Ü-Tsang .

But that was as far as it would go .

When facing w.a.n.g Chong, no matter how powerful Bachicheng was or how learned in strategy and tactics, he could never change that critical flaw of his . Battles were not won by one man's martial strength, so for w.a.n.g Chong, it didn't really matter how powerful Bachicheng was . That flaw was sufficient for w.a.n.g Chong to deal with him .

w.a.n.g Chong suddenly opened his mouth and gave his final order . "Pa.s.s down my order . The forward army should take up the Crane Wing Formation . The left and right wings should draw close to the central army and be four ranks deep, vacating their current positions . In addition, tell Lord Zhao to arrange his forces into Arrow Formation and prepare to charge!"

"Yes, Milord!"

Behind him, that messenger soldier who had seemingly been waiting for a long time to pa.s.s down this order seemed elated and quickly left .

"You should also go!"

w.a.n.g Chong suddenly turned his head to the ten-some Black Dragon Bandit elites that Li Siye had sent to guard him .

"But what about you, Young Master?"

"There's no need to worry . The decisive moment is here! There's no meaning in your staying here . Bachicheng won't be able to get here," w.a.n.g Chong indifferently said .

"Yes, Young Master!"

The elites had no more objections and left with their orders .

Boom!

Like a meteor cras.h.i.+ng into the Great Tang formation, Bachicheng's attack had come, far quicker and more violent than anyone had expected . The dense formation that had blocked the Tibetan waves earlier on, that had even managed to inflict a disastrous defeat on Xiangyang Dalu, was now as weak as an ant trying to shake a tree, crumbling away at Bachicheng's a.s.sault .

"Aaaaah!"

Screams filled the air as the s.h.i.+eld soldiers of the Great Tang were flung away like they were made of straw, many of them dead before they had even hit the ground . At the same time, hooks, axes, spears, and halberds came from all directions, but all of these attacks were stopped by the boundless Stellar Energy protecting Bachicheng's body .

Even though these thousands of Great Tang soldiers were focusing their attacks on Bachicheng, not one of them could stop him .

Bachicheng only had to stimulate the Stellar Energy in his dantian to cause screams in all directions and fling away countless soldiers .

"Kill them all . Anyone who kills a Tang soldier will be richly rewarded!"

Bachicheng's ruthless voice was like that of a vicious beast, emanating waves of almost solid killing intent that struck out like the tide .

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kiiiill!"

Behind Bachicheng, the Tibetan cavalry began to s.h.i.+ft from Echelon Formation to the piercing Arrow Formation . The Arrow Formation favored by the Great Tang was now being used in the hands of the Tibetans, and their proficiency was not one bit inferior .

Merely through this aspect, Bachicheng had exceeded the vast majority of Tibetan commanders .

When charging from high elevations, he used the Echelon Formation, striking his opponent with wave after wave until they collapsed . Charging from lower elevation, he used the Arrow Formation, personally taking the lead to thrust into the middle of the enemy army and burst it apart . In Bachicheng's hands, the army would never invariably follow a single strategy . As long as he could rout his foe, Bachicheng didn't mind using any method, including the formations of the Tang army .

"Trying to show a fish how to swim!"

w.a.n.g Chong stood on a rock, his lips curling into a smile of ridicule .

Bachicheng's tactics might have been useful in front of other commanders, but they were completely laughable in front of him .

Rumble! w.a.n.g Chong's Crane Wing Formation began to move, the dense ranks closing in from both sides .

"Hmph, naive!"

Bachicheng sneered . As long as he broke through the center of the Great Tang army, any further tactics were useless against him . The Tibetan cavalry were like carp surging through a river, and Bachicheng paid no attention to his sides as he continued to pierce through the Tang defensive lines, with no one able to slow him down .

But gradually, Bachicheng's complexion was beginning to change .

"d.a.m.n, why are there so many defensive lines!"

The Tang army's central army was seemingly endless . He had already broken through ten-some layers, but he still had ten-some layers to go .

"Plateau barbarian, take my saber!"

A vigorous and tyrannical voice yelled out, and right as Bachicheng raised his head to see where it was coming from, a giant of a man, his two hands wielding a ma.s.sive saber, jumped into the air like an eagle and slashed down…

Boom!

Bachicheng finally paled .

Layer after layer of Tang infantry poured in from all sides . Not even Bachicheng had noticed that as his army s.h.i.+fted from Echelon to Arrow, the front of his Arrow Formation was also being slowed, and a large crack had opened up between the front and back of his army . His six thousand troops had suddenly become two groups .

This change wasn't too big of a deal . Only a moment would be needed for the soldiers to rejoin, but for w.a.n.g Chong at the summit, this 'small flaw' was enough!

"Let's go!"

With a wave of a sword, the one thousand clan experts and the one-thousand-some cavalry under Xu s.h.i.+ping, a total of 2600 hors.e.m.e.n, charged down from the summit . The images of the Dusk Stallion entered their bodies, each one of them forming a Halo of Dusk Stallion .

It took only a few moments for this force to reach maximum speed .

w.a.n.g Chong had finally revealed his hidden cavalry!

There was only thundering and neighing as w.a.n.g Chong's cavalry cut into that crack like a sharp knife before anyone could react .  Swishswishswis.h.!.+ Wootz Steel swords shone with cold light as they swept through the air, leaving flying heads in their wake .

The Tibetan army was instantly thrown into chaos!

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