Chapter 480: Winter Has Descended

"إِذَا رَأَيْتَ نُيُوبَ ٱللَّيْثِ بَارِزَةً فَلَا تَظُنَّنَّ أَنَّ ٱللَّيْثَ يَبْتَسِمُ"

"When the lion bares his teeth, do not fancy that the lion shows to you a smile."

-        Abu at-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Mutanabbi al-Kindi, Arab poet

The three hundred plus cavalries kept up their pace to catch up with their leader, the men on the back fluently took out their bow, loaded it with an arrow and flung it right into the enemy formation, before the cavalries in the spear head came into a violent clash with the infantries.