Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 1601: Captured Alive! Returning to the Capital!

Chapter 1601: Captured Alive! Returning to the Capital!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Thwishthwishthwish!

At this moment, piercing whistles came from above, and Ashide looked up, only to see countless arrow tips gleaming in the fire as they engulfed the entire camp.

Plushplushplush! In less than the blink of an eye, dense rains of arrows descended on various parts of the Turkic camp.

The arrow tips burned with flames, and they set aflame any tent they struck. The camp was soon a sea of fire punctuated by screams.

Thud! One of the arrows flew through the sky and hit the ground only a few steps from Ashide, its shaft trembling from the force of the impact.

Ashide's pupils constricted as he stared at the arrow, his face paling.

Divine Meteor Arrows!

Ashide had seen this kind of arrow before. The Western Turkic Khaganate had once scoured the steppe for the meteors that had fallen from the heavens, mixing this Meteoric Metal with refined iron and making arrows.

These arrows were called Divine Meteor Arrows, and they possessed frightening toughness and sharpness.

Such arrows were limited in number, and Ashide had only seen them once before. But this force of four hundred Tang soldiers was clearly equipped with these Divine Meteor Arrows.

Even more shocking to Ashide was that at least a thousand Divine Meteor Arrows had been used in that volley. In other words, this force of four hundred had to be almost entirely made up of master archers.

This kind of force could no longer be judged purely on its numbers.

"Retreat! Retreat now!"

The camp was on fire and he had no idea where the Tang were hiding. Ashide panicked and finally gave the order to retreat.

This was the first time a force of twelve thousand Turks had ever been forced to call for a retreat against a force of four hundred Tang, but this order was only the first in a string of defeats.

There was less than an hour between the start of the battle and daybreak, but those minutes seemed to pass like centuries for the Turks.

The four hun

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