RHE - Chapter 869: Suiye City!

Chapter 869: Suiye City!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Rumble!

On the road to Anxi, the earth shook and rumbled as large transport carriages galloped along the cement road, each of them holding eighteen to nineteen people and pulled by four horses. Unlike normal carriages, each of these had been fitted with a white collapsible sail. This sail was around six feet high and eight feet wide, and when the wind was right, the sail would be unfurled so as to hasten the speed of the carriages.

If the wind was going in the wrong direction, the soldiers in the carriages could quickly collapse the sails. Zhang Shouzhi had built these sails according to Wang Chong's specifications in the hopes that they would be able to get the Qixi Protectorate army to Talas as quickly as possible.

As they proceeded through the Western Regions, Wang Chong had unwittingly begun to furrow his brow.

The war had affected the Western Regions more strongly than he had thought. When he first came to the Western Regions to see Hulayeg, the Western Regions had been thriving. The merchants of the Nine Tribes of Zhaowu, the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions, and the Abbasid Caliphate and Charax Spasinu had all gathered here, and all sorts of pearls, agate, spices, and other goods were to be found here. It was precisely the gathering of all these merchants that made the Western Regions so prosperous.

But as Wang Chong's army marched through the Western Regions, all the markets it passed by were desolate and deserted, all the cities practically emptied out, and tension was rife in the air.

"It seems like this war between the Great Tang and the Arabs has had a far more serious effect on the Western Regions than anticipated. All the Hu merchants have sensed the danger and have already withdrawn."

Wang Chong rode his White-hoofed Shadow as he looked around at the soaring buildings. Despite the vast size of this city, the streets were empty, and Wang Chong had only spotted a few people. In addition, these people only looked wa

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Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 869: Suiye City!

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