RHE - Chapter 895: The Second Defense Line!

Chapter 895: The Second Defense Line!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Buzz!

Thousands of craftsmen piled on carriages like ants as they went to carry out Wang Chong's orders. Upon arriving on the eastern side of Talas, they ignited the furnaces, and black smoke and the sound of banging metal soon filled the air. The massive modules of steel were quickly hammered into the ground and soldered together to form a sturdy wall on the east.

Wang Chong had prepared for today's battle for more than two months, and he had been assisted in this venture by all the smithing clans and other smiths of the Central Plains. The endless stream of steel modules arriving at Wushang had been precisely in preparation for any unforeseen events like this.

The greatest advantage modular construction had over ordinary methods was its speed.

With Wang Chong's order, the vacant and open land in the rear of the Qixi Protectorate army was soon covered by a long and straight steel wall, a firm line of defense for the more than one hundred thousand Tang soldiers.

This was just like how Wang Chong had built a nine-zhang-high steel wall at Wushang in the space of a single night. Only he could perform such miraculous feats.

Amidst roiling smoke, the thousands of craftsmen were still pouring solder, but they were only a few moments away from completing their work. On the other end, the more than one hundred thousand soldiers were beginning to move according to Wang Chong's orders.

"Go, go, go!"

In front of the first line of steel defenses, Chen Bin, wearing a suit of Meteoric Metal armor and gripping a Wootz Steel sword, was issuing order after order. The ballista corps, holding three thousand ballistae and fifteen thousand men, cleanly divided into two. Seventy-five hundred men began to board the transport carriages and set up ballistae in three rows, five hundred ballistae to a row, each of them aimed at the empty spaces between the steel walls.

The steel walls were the best barrier against the charge of cavalry. If the Arabs

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Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 895: The Second Defense Line!

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