Wushang

Wushang is a large range of mountains, located in the northwest of the Great Tang Empire, south of the Qixi Protectorate and west of the Longxi Protectorate, the Wushang Mountains are a land, barren, barren and desolate, without natural resources , made up of a few poor and isolated villages, the Wushang Mountains are a place forgotten by the world, the populations of these mountains are rebellious and riotous populations, poor and socially marginalized populations, the inhabitants of these mountains are poor or semi -barbaric ...

*This remote and mountainous land was covered in shabby houses. That they were willing to cross this rugged terrain to recruit them as soldiers was already a favor to these people, but not only had these people refused to obey, they had even dared to attack them.*

*(Chapter 694)*

the inhabitants of the Wushang Mountains are called ***Wushang People*** or ***Wushang Tribe***, a semi-tribal and semi-primitive population, adept at climbing mountains and trees, making the Wushang People, both agile people and a warrior people, who had learned agility, imitating the monkeys of those mountains ...

*Before they were formally made into soldiers and trained, the Wushang had maintained their primitive traditions. This primal and steep geography had trained the Wushang into the most agile of people. They shuttled through the mountains like apes and used these short and sharp cries to communicate with each other.*

*Wang Chong had tested their speeds once, and the most formidable Wushang villager could even outrun a warhorse!*

*(Chapter 695)*

the Wushang People, they live in Wushang Village ...

*Wushang were courageous and pugnacious, filled with hostility toward outsiders.*

*And the place they lived in was also full of dangers. The first line of defense was the steep mountains, where the slightest misstep would lead to a long fall and shattered bodies. The thick fog was the second line of defense. In his last life, when the Wushang killed many of the invaders, many people had wanted to recruit them, but the majority of them had been defeated.*

*Many of them had failed to even get past the first line of defense, much less the second.*

*Wang Chong had been the only one to succeed.*

*(Chapter 695)*

## Wushang Cavalry

In the Central Plains from his last life, when the calamity was imminent, the Great Tang Imperial Court made a massive error in judgment. It determined that the otherworldly invaders were not as strong as the legends had claimed.

This was because those foreign invaders had encountered stiff resistance at a place called Wushang. Before they had even stepped into the Central Plains, they had suffered a significant number of casualties.

As a result, the Great Tang did not view those otherworldly invaders with much regard, electing instead to focus on Goguryeo, the Turks, Mengshe Zhao, and Ü-Tsang.

It was only when the Tang army finally clashed with the foreign invaders and crumbled away, utterly shattering before that otherworldly army, that the Great Tang learned just how powerful those invaders were.

When Wang Chong became the Grand Marshal of the world, he gathered up the remaining soldiers from Wushang, a total of six thousand people, and trained them into the most elite, most powerful, most courageous, and most loyal of his subordinates. They were hailed as the ‘Wushang Cavalry’, the strongest soldiers of the Central Plains.

Whether mounted or unmounted, the Wushang Cavalry were a formidable fighting force. Moreover, the Wushang people had unique meridians innately suited for cultivating martial arts. Not even the famous Tongluo could compare in this aspect.

Alas, by the time Wang Chong had brought his attention to this matter, only six thousand Wushang people remained. Wang Chong had inquired and learned that at its prime, the Wushang village had fifty thousand people.

Even if one subtracted the women, elders, and children, there were still around thirty thousand strong men.

Unfortunately, these people had all died in battle against the otherworldly invasion!

This was one of Wang Chong’s deepest regrets from back then!

Six thousand Wushang Cavalry had been enough to prop up the war effort in the late phase of the great calamity, and if he had had thirty thousand, everything would have been different.