Hongguang 49th Year, July 3.
A troop of iron cavalry, clad in golden armor from head to toe, charged out through Xuanwu Gate of Lanling City toward the Royal Hunting Ground beyond the city.
There were over a hundred cavalrymen in all. Every one of them was a martial artist, and their mounts were not ordinary warhorses but domesticated second-grade Flying Crossing Beasts! The Great Blue Dynasty had once swept across the world with two forces: the Imperial Guard Army and its iron cavalry.
Mounted on domesticated exotic beasts, such iron cavalry had battlefield lethality second only to the Imperial Guard Army!
These exotic-beast cavalrymen were even more mobile than the armored troops of the Western Continent. When the Western Continent's allied forces invaded the Great Blue Dynasty, there had been many battles in which exotic-beast cavalry charged the alliance's positions head-on and successfully routed them! The hundred-plus cavalrymen leaving the city today were known as the "Golden Flying Cavalry Army," and they were Household Troops under the First Prince.
As a prince qualified to participate in the struggle for the throne, the First Prince enjoyed the finest treatment among all the imperial princes in every respect.
Other princes could have at most a hundred or so spearmen as Household Troops, some of whom were martial artists.
The First Prince, however, could establish an exotic-beast cavalry unit.
Even with only a hundred men, they could match several thousand cavalrymen on the battlefield!
The First Prince had been exceptionally brave and martial since childhood, and loved hunting in the Royal Hunting Ground. Today, he once again brought the Golden Flying Cavalry Army from his residence to the hunting ground.
The Great Blue Dynasty had founded itself through martial might. To display military prowess and ensure that the imperial descendants never forgot