Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 864: The Last Step, the Meteoric Metal Arrives!

Chapter 864: The Last Step, the Meteoric Metal Arrives!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Given the fact that Li Zhengyi and his forty thousand reinforcements had been ambushed by the Tibetans, resulting in the loss of the soldiers that the Great Tang had barely managed to scrape together from the interior, the Imperial Court was extremely limited in the soldiers it could dispatch.

At this moment, Wang Chong very naturally thought about his father and big brother.

Together, Father and Big Brother should have around twenty thousand soldiers. Although they're infantry, they're very experienced elites tempered through blood and fire, and exceptional on the defense. In the war against the Arabs, they should be very useful. But this still isn't enough. This still isn't enough soldiers to deal with the Abbasid Caliphate's soldiers.

Wang Chong began to recall the information on the Battle of Talas from his last life. In that battle between Gao Xianzhi and Abu Muslim, the Arabs had gathered an army of at least three hundred thousand soldiers, and Arabs were even more fierce and pugnacious than the Tibetans. The soldiers of Qixi would be far from enough to deal with them.

Those auxiliary soldiers in the interior that have never experienced any sort of war won't be of much use. Bringing new recruits like them would be just sending them to their deaths. The Great Tang's soldiers are concentrated in the border protectorates. Zhang Shougui and I have had conflicts, so he definitely wouldn't help me, and besides, Youzhou really is too far to transfer soldiers from. In Beiting, even if An Sishun could help me, he could definitely make up some excuse. As for Longxi… Geshu Han doesn't even have enough soldiers for himself, so hoping that he could help me is simply unrealistic.

At this moment, the only place that I could get soldiers from is the Annan Protectorate. I've already vanquished the Ngari Royal Lineage, and Mengshe Zhao has already submitted itself to the Great Tang. There's truly nothing threatening the

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