After the rest period, the army escorted the supplies forward. The ironclad rule for soldiers is obedience. No matter what adjustments their superiors make, they simply follow orders.

This time, Su Luo disguised herself as a coachman, sitting on the deck of her carriage and driving it. She even deliberately darkened her face to conceal her feminine features, making her look like an ordinary soldier.

Upon entering the hilly area, the entire army became alert, and Su Luo was no exception.

The army was focused and quiet, with only the sounds of wagons carrying provisions and footsteps breaking the silence. The deeper they went into the hills, the clearer the signs of an ambush became.

Cheng Yimin rode at the very front, raised his hand to stop the entire army, and turned to give orders to the army behind him.

"Great army, listen to my command! Send an additional hundred men to the center to protect the rice."

"yes!"

The army was arranged in an orderly fashion, and a hundred people came to the center in an instant. Su Luo's carriage was also in the middle of the procession.

They pulled the hay in front and behind, with more than a dozen horse-drawn carts pulling hay in front, grain in the middle, and hay in the back. The rice in the middle was the main crop to be protected.

Su Luo looked around, unsure whether these people wanted to steal the grain or destroy it.

There was no sign of smoke in the bushes on the hill, so these people wouldn't use fire to steal their supplies.

If they use fire, the smoke will immediately reveal their location, which will make it easier for the army to capture them.

But these people also knew this common sense. Looking at it now, it was more like ordinary bandits robbing grain. If that was the case, they would be much easier to deal with.

A moment later, an arrow broke the silence as it flew through the air, and Cheng Yimin shouted, "Protect the grain supplies!"

Su Luo got up and leaned against the wooden door of the carriage, picking up the crossbow that Cheng Yimin had given her. At this moment, she would rather use her gun.

Suddenly, a volley of arrows flew out from the bushes, and the army used shields to block the incoming arrows.

Cheng Yimin also ordered his army to fire arrows in the direction where the enemy was lying in ambush.

"Everyone protect the grain supplies. Anyone who dares to steal the imperial grain supplies will be killed without mercy."

Looking at the archery technique and angle, Su Luo realized that the ambushing enemy was definitely not an ordinary bandit. Bandits are almost always scattered, and it's impossible for so many of them to be so well-trained.

It seems that, just as she predicted, this was indeed a spy army that had infiltrated Beichuan City.

"Vice Envoy Cheng, proceed according to plan," Su Luo shouted to Cheng Yimin.

Cheng Yimin immediately understood Su Luo's meaning; they had just made up all the possible scenarios they might encounter.

The fact that Su Luo was so eager for him to act according to the plan meant that she must have discovered that these people were no ordinary individuals.

"All troops, listen to my command: move the supplies to both ends and load up the smoke bombs."

After hearing this, the soldier took out a bamboo tube, lit it, attached it to an arrow, and shot it into the enemy's area.

This smoke bomb was just made by them. The substance inside was prepared and put in by Su Luo. As long as it is lit, it will emit a strong smoke from the bamboo tube.

The smoke was very irritating to the eyes, so the deputy minister of agriculture gave them a medicine to put in their eyes.

Even if they don't need the smoke bomb, the medicine is harmless to their eyes, but if they do use it, it can relieve the irritation of the smoke to their eyes.

The bushes filled the air with smoke, and soon a group of about two hundred people emerged from the fumes. They were dressed in coarse linen clothes to disguise themselves, but their daily training habits could not lie.

"Pull the wagons apart at both ends and evacuate, while protecting the grain in the middle."

Su Luo spoke, and the well-trained escorting army moved the vehicles at both ends away, leaving the largest number of people in the middle to protect the batch of rice.

After the bandits were driven out by the smoke, they could no longer see the arrows and all rushed out to fight Cheng Yimin's escorting army.

In an instant, dust rose up, and sparks from clashing swords could be seen through the smoke.

Dressed in men's clothing, Su Luo raised her crossbow and aimed, shooting one after another. Her arrows were very accurate, killing with a single shot.

Suddenly, several carriages approached Su Luo, carrying long swords. Su Luo was unable to dodge in time and was almost injured.

The crossbow was still too slow. Su Luo grabbed the protruding wooden plank on the roof of the vehicle and used it to jump, thus avoiding the enemy's attack.

She dropped the crossbow in her hand, flicked her wrist, took out a silenced gun from her spatial storage, and fired several shots at the group.

The gun moved with incredible speed; none of them saw how Su Luo made her move before they were shot dead, their eyes wide open.

"Guards, protect the princess."

Amidst the smoke, Cheng Yimin's words made a tall man stiffen, then he turned to look at Su Luo.

Their eyes were filled with murderous intent. In the fight, Su Luo and her group clearly had the upper hand, and the smoke had cleared up a bit.

Nevertheless, Su Luo still sensed a strong killing intent, which was not from soldiers fighting each other, but was directed at her.

She hadn't felt this way in a long time; she only felt this way when she was dying in her previous life.

Turning to look at the source of that murderous aura, the blurry figure in the smoke looked somewhat familiar.

Before Su Luo could react, an arrow shot straight at her, its speed demonstrating the archer's immense strength.

He wanted to kill her with a single arrow.

Su Luo raised her pistol, and a bullet accurately struck the arrow that was coming towards her. With the resistance of the bullet, the arrow instantly broke into several pieces and fell to the ground from the air.

Su Luo fired two shots in that direction, but judging from the sound, she missed.

The man didn't seem to intend to let Su Luo go so easily. He fired three arrows with one bow, confident that Su Luo could block one arrow, but definitely not three.

With smoke in the air, Su Luo saw the arrows very close by the time she saw them. Just as she was about to raise her gun again, a flying arrow snapped all three arrows in two.

Such precise arrows and force are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Among the people Su Luo knows, only Nangong Chiyu possesses such archery skills.

Before she could finish her thought, a tall, familiar figure swept her up in his arms and, with a slight twist of his strong arms, carried her onto his horse.

She didn't even need to turn around to know who this person could be but Nangong Chiyu.

"I'm late, are you hurt?"

The all-too-familiar voice rang out from behind her, and a wave of grievance welled up in Su Luo's heart but vanished in an instant.

"I'm fine!"

Nangong Chiyu led her out of the encirclement. They were surrounded by reinforcements with crossbows. In just a few rounds, they wiped out the bandits.

"All Red Feather Army soldiers, listen to my command and protect the grain supplies."

Su Luo and Nangong Chiyu rode on the same horse, turning back to look at the person who had just tried to assassinate her.

The man waved his cloak, turned and fled, leaving behind a silhouette that Su Luo thought looked a lot like Shuang Shuo.

Everyone thought the matter was over, but Su Luo felt something was wrong. The withered grass had not yet sprouted new shoots, and the sound of crickets crawling came from the bushes and grass.