Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 720: Hulayeg, the Number One Turkic Horse Merchant!

Chapter 720: Hulayeg, the Number One Turkic Horse Merchant!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The grandiose Qixi Protectorate that protected the throat of the Great Tang had actually had no troops available. This sounded absurd, but it truly had been the situation of the Qixi Protectorate back then.

Wang Chong understood this fact more keenly than anyone else.

The critical area protected by Qixi Protectorate straddled the border between the Ü-Tsang Empire and the Western Turkic Khaganate. Every year, regardless of how all the other areas were doing, Qixi Protectorate would have to fight in battles big and small. And Qixi Protectorate's soldiers had been exhausted precisely through constant attacks by Ü-Tsang and the Western Turkic Khaganate.

Although the interior continued to dispatch troops to Qixi, these troops were not limitless.

In the period before the Battle of Talas, the attacks by the Tibetan and Turkic cavalry had been abnormally fierce, causing the forces of the Qixi Protectorate to truly be emptied out. And it was precisely this lack of soldiers that led to the defeat at the Battle of Talas.

Thus, in order to prevent the bitter defeat at the Battle of Talas, one first had to alter the fate of the Qixi Protectorate. This was one of the important reasons Wang Chong had established his fief at Wushang, though Wang Chong had never told this to anyone.

In order to change the fate of Qixi, he had to utterly vanquish the forces Ü-Tsang and the Western Turkic Khaganate had stationed here!

Building his City of Steel at Wushang to give himself a place to stand was the first step. The second step was to begin fending off Ü-Tsang to the west and the Western Turks to the east! Fumeng Lingcha would never be able to complete this second step.

In Wang Chong's evaluation of generals, Fumeng Lingcha was merely a general who could hold the fort, not one who could lead an assault. Admittedly, part of it was because he never had such plans, but he also lacked the ability.

Completion of these two

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