Chapter 1362 - 1038: Heavy Cavalry

Wo Xue’s heart suddenly stirred, as if she sensed something, but before she could think it through, she felt a tremor beneath her feet.

She instinctively tightened her grip on Shang Ruyi’s hand, feeling that it was somewhat cold, while her palm was covered in cold sweat. When their hands clasped together, they felt slippery, making Wo Xue more aware that Shang Ruyi was trembling.

This trembling quickly merged with the tremor beneath them, and Wo Xue clearly felt that the ground was truly shaking!

Almost simultaneously, the surrounding people felt it too.

The two sides fighting fiercely, eyes red from the battle, suddenly stopped, whether they were Western Turkic soldiers or Dasheng Dynasty guards, great confusion and panic showed in their eyes.

What’s happening?

This situation—could it be another earthquake?

They had heard about the past earthquake at Skytop Mountain, which had torn the entire mountain apart, dramatically changing the terrain, deeply burying Left General’s Tomb underground. And now, would they experience it again?

A sudden gust of wind, carrying dust and sand, blew towards them.

While everyone was somewhat flustered, Ashina Zhuxie, who was originally holding Lei Yu tightly, suddenly stepped forward at this time, looked at the pitch-black night, and said in a deep voice, "No."

Lei Yu looked up, her eyes red, looking at him, also a bit bewildered: "What’s wrong?"

Ashina Zhuxie frowned tightly; he was experienced and knowledgeable. Though he had never personally experienced it, he vaguely felt that the current situation was definitely not an earthquake. On the contrary, the tremor on the ground seemed all too familiar to him.

"That is—"

As everyone was somewhat confused, the ground’s tremor became more and more obvious. But it did not sway them like a real earthquake. Instead, aside from the tremor, they heard in the night wind familiar sounds of human shouting and horse neighing, like rolling thunder transmitted along the ground’s tremor.

Ashina Zhuxie’s eyes narrowed: "It’s the Heavy Cavalry!"

Just as he finished speaking, a massive shadow, like a cloud formed in the sky, suddenly blew towards them with the chilling wind, only to see in the night a troop of soldiers carrying torches charging towards them. Indeed, it was a neatly lined, well-disciplined, orderly advancing, and fiercely intimidating Heavy Cavalry!

In the blink of an eye, this troop had already dashed in front of them!

This was indeed a Heavy Cavalry. All the soldiers were brawny, donned in armor, their figures reflected brilliantly in the firelight against the night. And mounted beneath them were carefully chosen Kui Dragon Horses, each robust as an ox, with roaring breaths, armored in fine steel.

People like tigers, horses like dragons!

Banners flying, flames blazing, such a troop suddenly charging into view quickly surrounded the camps on both sides and encircled the group, leaving everyone in shock.

Ashina Zhuxie instinctively pulled Lei Yu into his arms.

Before tonight, he only knew there was such an invincible Heavy Cavalry under his command. But when the news from Xiazhou arrived, aside from their defeat, the point that shocked him the most—and he cared about the most—was whose Heavy Cavalry it was?

Unexpectedly, so soon, he would meet them.

Leading them were two robust, young men, one holding a torch high, the other resting a hand on the sword at his side, scanning keenly over all those taken aback, finally focusing their gaze on Shang Ruyi.

The two simultaneously saluted her: "Princess, we guards apologize for arriving late; please forgive us!"

"...!"

Everyone present gasped in shock.

Not just the dark-faced Ashina Zhuxie and the utterly surprised Lei Yu, not just the Western Turkic soldiers stunned with wide-eyed disbelief, even the guards who had just been through a fierce battle were incredulous, especially Li Miao and Gao Chen, standing beside Shang Ruyi. They seemed unable to believe their ears or eyes, instinctively wanting to ask, but once turned, they saw Shang Ruyi calmly nodding, appeared not surprised at all.

However, Wo Xue, relieved and delighted, looked at the two leaders: "Jiang Kesong! Gao—Gao Feng, elder brother?"

Jiang Kesong was the captain of the team Yu Wenquan left for Shang Ruyi while they were still in Luoyang. This team was raised and trained by Shang Ruyi, and after undergoing training, its numbers doubled. When Yu Wenye asked her for her dowry to train the Xun Xuan Armor Army, Shang Ruyi had a condition: her team must participate and receive the same training, equipped with the same weapons, but this team would listen solely to her command.

For money, Yu Wenye naturally agreed.

However, after the numbers increased and the training doubled, Jiang Kesong found it challenging to manage the team, so Shang Ruyi, taking the opportunity of returning to the Shen Family, requested Gao Feng from Shen Shiyan. He was born on the border and had traveled extensively with Shang Ruohong since childhood, more familiar with cavalry combat and heavy armor combat than others. During training, Shang Ruyi also had him take charge of half the troops.

Thus, this Heavy Cavalry became her private force, led by her trusted commanders.

This time, to resolve Xiazhou’s crisis, Shang Ruyi openly brought Lu Xiao and others taking their time towards Skytop Mountain, meanwhile released news about Left General’s Tomb to lure Ashina Zhuxie and Wang Shaoqiu and others. Simultaneously, she had Jiang Kesong and Gao Feng lead the team that had just "graduated" swiftly to Xiazhou, striking the Western Turks with a heavy blow while they were overconfident enclosing the city, then cooperating with the Eastern Turks to clear surrounding enemy forces.

Now, with Xiazhou’s crisis resolved, Shang Ruyi knew she would surely face Ashina Zhuxie’s revenge—even though she didn’t foresee such news would come from Xiaopingjin Pass. But Ashina Zhuxie would surely not let her return safely, so she commanded Jiang Kesong and Gao Feng to come to Skytop Mountain and rescue her immediately after dealing with the crisis.

Looking at it now, the timing was perfect.

Neither too early nor too late, they had arrived at just the right moment!

Wo Xue felt joy and relief, but after extreme tension, rapidly felt a wave of weakness, her legs about to give out. Instead, the hand she was holding onto gripped hers tightly, preventing her fall. Turning back, she saw Shang Ruyi stepping forward calmly: "You have arrived."