Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 840: Sword Pointed at Arabia!

Chapter 840: Sword Pointed at Arabia!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

"Are the Arabs really this formidable?" Cheng Sanyuan muttered in shock.

"Arabia is even stronger than all of you can imagine!"

Wang Chong finally spoke.

"In a part of Arabia near Anxi, there is a place called Samarkand. Two hundred thousand Arabian soldiers have assembled there, all of them the most formidable cavalry. All of you have seen the Tibetan and Turkic warhorses. The Arabian warhorses are even taller, more muscular, and have an even greater charge. Not only that, although you've seen the Arab merchants, the majority of them plump and useless in battle, the true Arabs are natural warriors, honed by their environment to be tall and sturdy. Thus, once a war begins, the Arabs can summon its people to form an army without even needing to train them, immediately expanding their army to more than four hundred thousand, each of the soldiers on par with a regular soldier. And this is only the army the Arabs have stationed on their eastern border. If they need to undergo a full mobilization, the Arabs could probably command an army of nigh unimaginable size."

The entire room was quiet, everyone listening in shock to Wang Chong's words. This was their first time getting to truly know the Arabian Empire, and all of them felt an intense danger.

"…But that statement at the start was right. At the very beginning, the Arabian Empire was just a tiny country, even smaller than Goguryeo. They were only able to develop to such a massive scale, growing even larger than the Great Tang, because they spent many years training their soldiers for war and battling surrounding countries. All of you fought with Dayan Mangban's White Braves and know how powerful they were. The Arabs have their Mamelukes¹, a force even stronger than the White Braves of Ü-Tsang. In Arabia, all the Mamelukes start training at the age of seven or eight. From the very beginning, they are made to fight amongst themselves, with only the fiercest and most savage of the

…