Chapter 1860: The Bane of All Peoples Halo!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Bang! Bang! Bang! A s.h.i.+eld soldier on the left flank immediately became the target of concentrated attacks. While he was used to the frequency of such attacks, this time was completely different.
Each Arab horseman was clearly much stronger than before.
Plus.h.!.+ The s.h.i.+eld soldier vomited blood. He clenched his teeth and tried to hold, but blood was beginning to appear across his arm. Those were ruptured blood vessels. The excessive pressure in so little time had broken open his blood vessels, and soon, blood was spraying everywhere.
But even worse…
A few seconds later, his giant s.h.i.+eld was like a small boat in the middle of a storm, shuddering and swaying so much that it seemed like it could overturn at any moment.
“Not good! Hold!”
The officers immediately sensed that something was wrong and exhorted their men to hold fast.
There were far too many Arab soldiers, and the area that needed to be defended was far too great. At Talas, the Great Tang had been able to use steel walls to block off avenues of attack, but here, they needed to use s.h.i.+eld soldiers to hold the gaps.
If the s.h.i.+eld soldiers could not hold, not only would the G.o.d’s Ordained Cavalry penetrate into the central army of the Great Tang, the left flank and right flank would also collapse, and the entire army would be routed!
No one could bear the responsibility for this result!
“Ballista army, release!”
The first to realize the danger and respond was Su Hanshan. With a swing of his arm, the air thundered. Tens of thousands of ballista bolts howled through the air, and a row of Arab cavalry was instantly slain.
But none of this was capable of stopping the maddened tide of Arab cavalry.
“For His Majesty!”
“For Arabia!”
“Conquer the east!”
Frenzied war cries resounded through the air. The appearance of the Moon G.o.d Tree had sent a surge of majestic energy into their bodies. It had not only made them stronger, it had also influenced their mental state.
The Arab cavalry cast aside any thought for their own bodies and heedlessly threw themselves into battle. It was like there was nothing that they could not overcome!
This is bad!
Gao Xianzhi’s heart sank. He could see that there were many places on the front line where the s.h.i.+eld soldiers could no longer hold and were beginning to retreat or fall. And in the center, with the boost from the Moon G.o.d Tree, the G.o.d’s Ordained Cavalry had also gotten rapidly stronger and was beginning to suppress the Nine Dragon Army!
The Nine Dragon Army was a collection of the elite strength from all of the Great Tang’s protectorates. If not even they could hold out, the morale of the army would be destroyed, and the army would collapse like a line of dominoes.
“Hmph!”
w.a.n.g Chong’s expression chilled. Thump! As if it had sensed his thoughts, the White-hoofed Shadow suddenly stomped forward. Boom! A dazzling light erupted and swept over the battlefield like a storm, ignoring the Tang army but swiftly attaching itself to the vast sea of Arab soldiers. A few moments later, the halos under hundreds of thousands of Arab soldiers instantly dimmed and began to flicker like candles.
“Aaaah!”
The Arabs began to cry out in alarm. After surging forward unstoppably with the power of the Moon G.o.d Tree, they dissolved into chaos. None of them understood what was going on, why their strength had suddenly plunged so much.
“It’s the commander!”
“The commander took action!”
Cheers came from the Great Tang side, as the pressure they faced instantly decreased. More importantly, after w.a.n.g Chong’s numerous victories and many feats, even the soldiers of the various protectorates had come to understand that the King of Foreign Lands possessed two halos that could weaken his enemies.
From the scene before them, this was undoubtedly the legendary Bane of the Battlefield Halo!
“King of Foreign Lands!”
“King of Foreign Lands!”
The cheers resounded across the battlefield!
On the other side, w.a.n.g Chong continued to coldly stare at the battlefield.
Bang!
Without the slightest hesitation, the White-hoofed Shadow took another step forward.
Clang! As the White-hoofed Shadow’s hoof stomped, another, even more dazzling light swept out like a ma.s.sive wave and pa.s.sed over half the battlefield to engulf the Arab army.
This time, it was not targeting the ordinary Arab hors.e.m.e.n, but the numerous Arab generals!
The Bane of Generals Halo!
The tens of thousands of Arab generals immediately felt their energies plunge. Not only that, the cavalry that were being boosted by the halos of these generals also weakened, the halos at their feet flickering like candles in a storm.
Panicked cries swept across the army. Even Lucis, all the way at the back, was affected.
“How could this be? What power is this? A war halo that can attach itself to the enemy!”
Lucis was stunned.
The Moon G.o.d Tree was a precious military treasure and was one of the important moves they had for conquering the eastern world, but w.a.n.g Chong’s two halos, while not instantly extinguis.h.i.+ng the Moon G.o.d Tree’s power, had greatly weakened it. The power of its halos had become so thin that it could vanish at any moment.
Lucis had never experienced this sort of thing in all his life.
“Hmph!”
A cold snort came from the back of the elephant Behemoth. Khatabah’s sharp and narrow eyes instantly descended on the distant w.a.n.g Chong.
As the Moon G.o.d Tree’s power weakened, Khatabah immediately stepped forward.
Boom! Like a raging waterfall, golden and viscous energy poured out from the back of the elephant Behemoth, transforming into an enormous golden halo that swept over his entire army!
Clangclangclang!
Those halos that had been flickering on the verge of nonexistence were suddenly invigorated, power pouring in and causing them to blaze and resonate once more.
The energies of the million-man army became blazing bright once more!
w.a.n.g Chong’s two halos were rapidly nullified!
As a legend of the Arabian Empire who had lived for more than one hundred years and who possessed more authority than the Caliph himself, Khatabah was far stronger than any Great General, having reached a transcendent state that only a few people could even hope to glimpse. Even after so many years, old subordinates like Saleh and Lucis had not seen Khatabah intervene in a battle.
While w.a.n.g Chong’s two halos were powerful, they were still in a range where Khatabah could deal with them.
The situation was reversed once more. Crown Prince’s Junior Guardian w.a.n.g Zhongsi frowned, and he prepared to step forward, a dazzling and firm energy gathering within his body.
Khatabah had undoubtedly exceeded the peak Great General level, and few on the battlefield could contend against him. Not even Zhangchou Jianqiong and the others were capable of this feat.
The halos of Great Generals could nullify each other, but the Great Generals needed to be on the same level.
“Lord Junior Guardian, please wait! It’s not time for you to act!” w.a.n.g Chong suddenly said, stopping w.a.n.g Zhongsi.
The halos of Great Generals could boost the strength of an army, but this did not come for free. If a Great General released their halo at the start of the battle, they might be able to gain the early advantage, but as they weakened, if the enemy forced their way through and chose to ‘cut off the head’, defeat would become inevitable.
If the Great General were killed, the army would naturally collapse, and the early advantage would be for nothing!
Thus, when battles reached a certain scale and a certain level of importance, the Great Generals on both sides became much more cautious about releasing their halos.
“…I can still deal with that Khatabah!”
As w.a.n.g Chong indifferently spoke, he stared at Khatabah and had his horse take another step forward.
w.a.n.g Zhongsi fell silent for a few moments, but the energy in his body began to scatter.
w.a.n.g Chong was still young, but he was certainly not immature. Although he didn’t know what sort of trick w.a.n.g Chong had, w.a.n.g Zhongsi trusted in him.
w.a.n.g Chong locked onto Khatabah, and as the Arab cavalry swelled in strength under Khatabah’s halo, w.a.n.g Chong’s eyes flashed, and another storm of energy burst out from his body.
Clang!
With a resounding clatter, a halo brighter than the sun expanded from w.a.n.g Chong’s body and landed on the ground.
“Bane of All Peoples Halo!” w.a.n.g Chong softly muttered. A moment later, that blindingly bright light exploded outward, the earth groaning and shuddering.
At this moment, Khatabah’s war halo had swept over the battlefield in a great tide, the immense energy coalescing into a white war halo that was as pure as the crescent moon.
But when w.a.n.g Chong released his own immense energy in response, the millions of Arab cavalry seemed to suffer a ma.s.sive blow. The intense white light released by Khatabah began to flicker, and the strength of the energy instantly plunged.