RHE - Chapter 1736: Strange Activity on the Border! (II)

In the distant Anxi, with Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing sent off to the capital and then dispatched to Mengshe Zhao by the First Prince, the elite Anxi Protectorate army had finally fallen under the control of the First Prince. Though the Iron Wall Army had been almost completely wiped out in the Battle of Talas, a starving camel was still larger than a horse. The support of the Bureau of Military Personnel and the various other parts of the Great Tang had allowed the Anxi Protectorate to once more gather a large number of elites, and so it still possessed considerable strength.

"The time has come. Wait for my order. Be prepared to move out at any time!"

In the night, two figures standing side by side within the Anxi Protectorate headquarters received the message and swiftly issued an order. A few moments later, the earth rumbled and dust churned as the armies began to gather.

In the space of a single day, Beiting, Big Dipper, and Anxi had begun to mobilize their forces.

Winds heralded a coming storm, and dark clouds had already begun to gather over the Central Plains.

……

As the First Prince's messenger birds flew out like bolts of lightning, on the lofty Tibetan Plateau, at the triangular gap that was like a pivot between Qixi, Anxi, and Big Dipper, gentle breezes were blowing and all seemed to be at peace.

Roooar!

"Ha!"

The shouts of drilling soldiers traveled far along the wind.

While the infantry drilled, nearby, rows of large ballistae set up on three-wheeled iron carts had been assembled in a single long line.

With a thunderous clacking of switches, long ballista bolts hurtled forward, striking their targets in the center and blasting them to pieces.

"Hyah!"

Behind the ballistae, cavalry were galloping across the plains. At times, they would jump up from the backs of their horses, and at other times, they would lower their bodies and then acrobatically travel under the bellies of their horses and out again like monkeys. They constantly practiced various maneuvers on the backs of their horses.

Not only that,

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Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 1736: Strange Activity on the Border! (II)

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