Chapter 207: Stress Heaping on the Ally’s Shoulders

Chapter 207: Stress Heaping on the Ally’s Shoulders

“What’s wrong, darned grandson?” Miazova asked. “What are you up to this time?”

It had noticed Shu Yichao staring blankly in mid-air, murmuring and howling to himself. This had happened so many times that it was no longer surprised by it.

“Those Uyghur bastards!” Shu Yichao’s eyes reddened. “The galls of them to burn my village!”

Shu Yichao could only see the cities he had conquered on the minimap, and it looked like he had just received a bunch of new territories. It looked like the area west of Jiayu Pass now belonged to him.

At the same time, the Uyghurs had turned from neutral to hostile, and they were plundering Beiting villages right now.

How dare they!

“I dare you to stay put! I’m coming over right now to mince you people!”

“Wait!” Miazova exclaimed. “You can tell what’s going on in Beiting from here?”

“Of course.” Shu Yichao nodded matter-of-factly. “Is there a problem?”

What? This is a huge thing!

Miazova thought that Shu Yichao’s ability was limited to raising buildings, but if he could remotely sense what was going on in those cities too...

Doesn’t this mean that he has started fusing with the consciousness of the world?

What kind of monster is this fellow?!

“...Forget it.” Miazova thought about it a bit more, asking, “So, you’re planning on heading to Beiting now?”

“Duh,” Shu Yichao replied without any hesitation.

Why else would I get flying troops if I don’t exploit their mobility at times like this?

As long as my army is fast enough, my enemies can only swallow dust behind me even if their firepower exceeds mine. I can choose to fight and flee whenever I want to.

And now...

Shu Yichao could just bring his terracotta warriors and ghost horsemen back to Beiting and recruit his undead army on the spot once he arrived.

However, Miazova had a different thought in mind. “We don’t have to fly back.”

“?”

Miazova took out the grimoire and flipped it open. A spell was scribbled on it—Teleportation.

“Is this a Town Return Spell?” Shu Yichao was overjoyed to see it.

This is a strategic-tier spell that allows me to teleport to any allied city. It’s one of the most useful spells in the game!

“Town Return Spell?” Miazova frowned, but he quickly nodded. “That’s an apt way to put it. Grandson, you know who to worship now, right?”

The Uyghurs had grown accustomed to getting their way when dealing with the Tangs.

They had once caused a commotion in Great Tang’s capital, Chang’an, and attacked the imperial palace. When their men were taken into custody for fraud and violence in the market, they gathered their soldiers to raid the prison, kill the wardens, and rescue the prisoners.

Back when Emperor Dezong of Tang was still the crown prince, he was once sent to Uyghur as an envoy and was nearly coerced into dancing by the incumbent qaghan. His aide tried to speak up on his behalf, only to be beaten to death.

Given how arrogant they had been, the Chongde Khan thought that he was being awfully magnanimous to the Anxi Protectorate-General by offering to send his troops as reinforcement. He was even planning to extort a hefty reinforcement fee after plundering Beiting.

Yet, the Anxi Protectorate-General rejected him?

What insolence!

The infuriated Chongde Khan decided to ignore Shu Yichao and first plunder Beiting a bit.

Hmph! When the Tangs finally arrive, they’ll be left with an impoverished Beiting and be forced to face the Tibetan garrison troops’ desperate counterattack!

That was what he had been planning, but...

Shortly after he plundered a few villages, the Tibetan garrison troops zoned in on him and confronted his army.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, he found that he wasn’t a match for the Tibetan garrison troops! His Uyghur cavalrymen failed to faze the Tibetans’ heavy footsoldier formation.

This put him in an awkward position.

“Tell them to continue their attack!” the Chongde Khan roared with eyes as red as a gambler, determined to push through no matter what happened.

“Khan, this won’t do!” one of his generals tried to dissuade him. “These troops are the foundation of our people. We can’t afford to lose all of them here!”

The troops the Chongde Khan currently had on hand consisted of his men, his big brother Baoyi Qaghan’s soldiers, and a few nomads who wanted to strike it rich. If they suffered a heavy loss here, the Baoyi Qaghan’s position might be compromised.

“B-but...” The Chongde Khan was reluctant to give in.

Is this going to be a wasted trip?

Just then, a few scouts rushed over on horseback.

“Khan!” they shouted aloud. “A Tang army has appeared in the west! Judging from their flags, it should be the Anxi army!”

“The Anxi army?” The Chongde Khan was first taken aback before he smiled in delight. “Quick, quick! Send an envoy there and order them to save me, or else I’ll punish them!”

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Starve’s Translation Note:

I’ll be using Anxi army to refer to Shu Yichao’s troops if there are multiple Tang armies.

For those who are confused, Shu Yichao thinks that Miazova is a game player like him because he summoned the latter through the ‘friend summon’ option.

But Miazova is actually a demon wandering different worlds (and he has been in this one since Shu Yichao’s grandfather’s era), and Shu Yichao summoned him through some ‘hero summon’ option, which happens to have the same interface as the ‘friend summon’ option in Beacons of the Otherworld.