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RHE - Chapter 1161: Breaching Khorasan!

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Chapter 1161: Breaching Khorasan!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Wang Chong turned his gaze back to the walls of Khorasan, smiling as he squinted at the two figures standing there.

"Abu Muslim, Ziyad, I've already given you a chance. Since you're not willing to surrender, then I'll do as you wish and have you live and die with this city!"

With these words, Wang Chong closed his eyes and became motionless. The two hundred thousand soldiers behind him were also like sculptures, none of them showing any signs of movement. But this only made the pair standing on the wall even more uneasy. No one knew what Wang Chong was scheming.

Abu Muslim turned to Ziyad. "Ziyad, check again. We can't allow Samarkand to be repeated. The gates must be kept under strict watch. If any Sassanid tries to approach, they must be killed without question! In addition, has the news reached Baghdad? When will our reinforcements arrive?"

Khorasan was the final gateway of the Arabian east. Once Khorasan was lost, the Arabian capital of Baghdad would be threatened. The two were only two-thousand-some kilometers from each other; only a few days would be needed to travel the distance. In the Arabian Empire's history of constant conquest and expansion, this was the first time an enemy had ever gotten so close.

This was the reason Abu Muslim had not continued to flee westward, instead choosing to remain in Khorasan.

"I've already checked. All the city gates are under heavy guard. No mishaps will occur. The news has already reached Baghdad, but all the nobles in the capital are in panic.

"In addition, in the previous battle, the forces of Cairo, Qutaybah's northern war zone, and our own forces were deployed, and the eastern half of the empire has been essentially emptied out. There are no soldiers behind us that can be deployed. Although there are still other governors with their own armies, they wouldn't be able to make it in time. The closest army would need at least half a month, and it doesn't have many soldiers. Even if it managed to make it, it's not guaranteed to be of much help," Ziyad frankly reported.

As he spoke, his gaze flitted over the vast sea of soldiers, a force of two hundred thousand soldiers made up of the Great Tang, Khorasan, and other factions. Every time he saw it, he felt a chill in his heart.

When Arabia and the Great Tang had first begun to fight, the Tang army had only been one hundred and ten thousand, but now, the ranks of their army had swelled to an astonishing two hundred thousand. And all of these soldiers exuded abnormal strength, their bodies seething with killing intent as they stood arrayed outside the city.

The rebels and survivors of old dynasties that he and Abu Muslim had failed to find were now borrowing the strength of the Great Tang to emerge from their hiding places. This was something Abu Muslim and Ziyad had never imagined.

Abu Muslim's heart sank upon hearing Ziyad's report. At this time, he could only depend on himself.

The only thought he had to comfort him was that as long as the gates stood, he still had time to wait for reinforcements.

"It's not right!"

As he stared out the enemy, Abu Muslim's eyes suddenly went wide, and a thought suddenly occurred to him.