Boom! Boom!
As they drew closer and closer, the Xiya City cavalry could not help tightening their grip on the reins.
"Closer! Closer!"
The cavalry captain was muttering under his breath, ready to lead his men in flight the instant he discovered the other side making any unusual move.
It was not that he feared death, but that he did not want this thousand-odd elite subordinates of his to die outside the city walls for no reason at all.
Three li, two li, one li, seven hundred meters, five hundred meters...
"Huh!"
But when the cavalry captain led his men to within seven hundred meters of the Ice Legion, he suddenly discovered that there was not the slightest movement inside the enemy camp.
Forget the cavalry charging out—even the scouts who had originally been roaming the surroundings on alert immediately hid themselves the moment they saw their party.
Only after they had gone farther away did those scouts trail far behind them.
And just like that, the cavalry captain led his subordinates in a circuit around half of the Ice Legion's camp.
They could even see the faces of the enemies defending the arrow towers and wooden walls with perfect clarity.
"What is going on? Are these people really the Ice Legion invaders?"
"Or do they have some kind of scheme?"
The cavalry captain even lacked confidence enough to carefully observe the surroundings for a while.
He was afraid that the Ice Legion had some kind of plot, and that they had actually already surrounded him and the others.
But after carefully looking all around, he did not find anything of the sort happening.
"Let's... go back!"
By this point, he had already completed the task assigned by his own commander.
Although today's situation was somewhat impossible to understand, the