Chapter 26: Your Highness, Take Care

ang Liyang immediately understood that Empress Yuan had finally succumbed and passed away.Looking at Princess Huacheng weeping incessantly by the bedside, Zhang Liyang's heart ached as well. The joy h...On the wasteland, five figures stood there. Beneath the cold wind, the corpses surrounding them were rapidly stiffening, and even the blood was turning into bloody ice.

"Humph, soldiers from the Pan Shan Camp of the Great Qianyuan Dynasty!"

A figure with bare arms, blood dripping from their body, is the person who initially fell from the sky and landed among the cavalry.

Although blood was dripping from his body, they were all just superficial wounds, mostly caused by arrows grazing him at the time.

"No wonder he's so fearless, ten of them managed to delay us for nearly twenty minutes!"

Among them, a figure approached a soldier pierced by a long spear, speaking as they went.

Even at his final moment, this soldier held onto a figure's leg with all his might, refusing to let go despite being pierced through.

In the end, he was dragged across the ground for tens of feet, his belly scraped open, his intestines spilling out. He finally breathed his last.

Worse still, to prevent these five from seizing their warhorses and pursuing Mu Yinghua, they would stab the blade in their closest battle comrade's chest right before dying!

Swoosh~

He stomped down, crushing the skull of the already dead soldier. It was only then that he felt a sliver of satisfaction. He kicked the corpse far away.

"Alright." The bald man, their leader, stood in the middle of the five figures and watched his men's movements with a frown. "Don't waste any more time, keep chasing!"

The leader spoke, and the others naturally had nothing to say. They didn't clean up the battlefield and continued to chase after Zhang Liyang's direction.

Two hours, even if a warhorse ran madly it couldn't travel far, so after half an hour Zhang Liyang saw those five figures appear behind him again.

"Take care, sir!"

Without Zhang Liyang needing to speak, the ten cavalrymen automatically slowed their pace and performed a military salute to Mu Yinghua. "Your Highness, we cannot protect you on the road ahead. Farewell!"

Tears swirled in Mu Yinghua's eyes, but she stubbornly held them back from spilling.

This was Mu Yinghua's first taste of what it meant to fight on a battlefield, what it meant to be loyal to one's country, what it meant to die with honor in battle, and he finally understood what it meant to die heroically!

These are not just four words from a book that can express, only by personal experience to understand, the content contained in these four words how earth-shattering!

The howling wind sent shivers down Mu Yinghua's spine. She could only lower her head slightly, daring not to turn back or let the wind blow away her tears.

The sound of hooves continued to thunder forward, but Mu Yinghua could also hear another set of steeds growing ever fainter, along with the shouts of cavalry charging into battle and the sounds of weapons piercing flesh and blood splattering!

After another half hour, ten cavalrymen broke away from the ranks once more. After performing a final military salute to Mu Yinghua, they charged headlong towards the rear without hesitation!

After an hour had passed, five more figures appeared at the rear of the column. Consequently, ten more cavalrymen once again detached themselves from the ranks.

Two hours later, the last ten horsemen left the ranks and bowed to Mu Yinghua. "Your Highness, sir, we can no longer protect you on the road ahead. Be careful!"

When all the cavalry around him had left, Mu Yinghua finally turned back, tears streaming down her face as she watched their departing figures.

"Zhang Liyang, they all died because of me, right"

"It's not because of you," Zhang Liyang looked at the disappearing figure with red eyes. "They are doing this for their beliefs, for the Great Qi Dynasty, and for their families."

Whew~!

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Liyang looked at Mu Yinghua and suddenly smiled, "Your Highness, I might not be able to accompany you on the road ahead."

"Zhang Liyang, what do you want to do"

"Your Highness, we can't shake those five."

"To shake them off, someone needs to hold them back and buy time for Your Highness."

But...

"With a slight wave of her hand, she interrupted Mu Yinghua's words. Zhang Liyang took a deep breath, "Your Highness, we are at our limits now, and they are also at their limits. The best time to hold them back is now."

"Your Highness, keep running forward. You'll be safe once you reach a populated area."

"I won't go..."

Mu Yinghua didn't want to leave. In this world, the only person closest to Mu Yinghua was Zhang Liyang. At this point, everything about her royal status and royal face had been forgotten by Mu Yinghua.

"Still needs more training!" The sentence, meaning nothing to anyone else but Zhang Liyang, was uttered. Zhang Liyang slapped the battlefield beneath Mu Yinghua with a resounding palm, "Your Highness, please be careful!"

"Zhang Liyang!!"

The warhorse, in agony, ran wildly, carrying Mu Yinghua farther and farther away. Only the sound of Mu Yinghua's screams remained in the wind.

"Go!"

After Zhang Liyang could no longer see Mu Yinghua's figure, he turned his horse and began to run frantically toward the back.

Soon, Zhang Liyang's gaze fell upon the battlefield. However, what Zhang Liyang saw was a massacre, a slaughter of cavalry!

However, Zhang Liyang's guess was not wrong. Long hours of running and tracking, coupled with the obstruction of five waves of cavalry, had exhausted most of the energy and strength of these five people.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have taken two hours to catch up now from just half an hour at the beginning.

If Zhang Liyang had another fifty cavalry, he would have been able to escape the pursuit of these five men. However, he didn't, so the final wave of defense would have to be handled by Zhang Liyang himself.

Click~!

A cavalryman's throat was crushed instantly under a hand like an iron vise.

Though the cavalryman, his mouth full of blood and his strength flowing out like a burst dam, desperately wanted to plunge his blade into the enemy's chest.

Bang!

Under the iron fist, cavalry heads burst open. One figure among them wore a look of impatience on his face, “I hate these people the most, they should all die!”

The continuous pursuit coupled with five waves of blocking made these people increasingly agitated, and the cavalry's frenzy drained them of much of their strength and energy!

Now their patience has been worn almost to nothing. If it weren't for the leader keeping them in check, they would probably go crazy.

But they couldn't stop, after all their mission was to eliminate the target.

"Huh Someone else is coming!"

At this time, the five figures also discovered Zhang Liyang who rushed over. "This time it's not cavalry, could it be that they ran out of people"

"Look at that person's clothes, they seem to be the attire of a eunuch from the Great Qin Dynasty, don't you think"

"Really."

After discovering that Zhang Liyang was an eunuch, everyone's eyes lit up.

They all knew that eunuchs were specially assigned to serve the royal family. The fact that a eunuch appeared to block them now meant that there was no one left around their target!od and his strength flowing out like a burst dam, desperately wanted to plunge his blade into the enemy's chest.Bang!Under the iron fist, cavalry heads burst open. One figure among them wore a look of...