Chapter 97: Yan Danchen
On the training field the next morning.
The chilly spring air hovered over the training field as numerous cavalry units huddled at the front gate. The sight of the seemingly endless sea of blackness within the cavalry battalion was like looking into a deep black pool. Many felt a suppressing aura, forcing themselves to hold their breath..
“Commander, all of my battalion’s soldiers have arrived,” said Bai Qi while wearing heavy cold-steel armor and wielding a one Zhang (3.3 meters) long pitch black spear. He sat on top of his lively crimson horse, which stood taller than nine Chi (3 meters).
“You may depart!” The silver-haired old man in a black gown, the first commander Lord Yi Hong, said emotionlessly.
“Depart!” Lieutenant Bai Qi ordered.
Behind him the numerous cavalries moved.
All five hundred soldiers wore high-quality heavy armors, held long spears in their hands, and sat on their black-marked horses that were each worth a thousand taels of silver.