Transmigrated as Li Tan, Prince of Jianning and son of Emperor Suzong of Tang, he had just been appointed military governor of Longyou when he fell into a deadly trap on the way to take up his post.
Outside the carriage, battle cries shook the air. His guards had all been slaughtered, and a cold arrow pierced straight through his chest.
When he opened his eyes again, the bodies of his attendants lay all around him. An assassin was advancing with a blade to finish him off, while in the distance, clouds of dust from Tibetan cavalry blotted out the sky.
What he didn't know was that in Chang'an, the powerful eunuch Li Fuguo and Zhang Liangdi had already issued a secret order: Prince Li Tan must never reach Longyou alive.
At this desperate moment, the “Iron Cavalry of Every Province” System roared to life!
[Gift in the Hour of Desperation: Three hundred elite Black Armor soldiers are ready!]
[Core Rule: For every Tang province brought completely under your control, three hundred armored troops will be replenished automatically each month! Both infantry and cavalry, fully equipped with armor. Any battle losses will be fully restored the following month!]
From that day on, Longyou was transformed beyond recognition!
When a Tibetan prince led ten thousand cavalry to the pass, all he saw was a lonely city and, below its walls, three hundred Black Armor troops drawn up for battle.
The nobles in Chang'an mocked him as a lonely ghost and a tree without roots, but military reports poured into the imperial city like snowflakes:
“Report! Qinzhou has been recaptured. Three hundred new armored troops added!”
“Report! Weizhou has submitted. Three hundred more armored cavalry added!”
“Report! Liangzhou has been liberated, and the Hexi Corridor is now open from end to end. Our army... just keeps growing as we fight!”
Years later, the setting sun was red as blood.
Thirty thousand heavily armored cavalry stood in formation outside Chang'an. Not a sound could be heard, and the cold gleam of their armor colored half the sky screen red.
Li Tan sat astride his horse at the front of the ranks and looked up at the city where he had once been “killed halfway there.”
This time, he was no longer a prince at the mercy of false accusations, cast aside at will. He was the master of Longyou and Hexi, with a great