The archers were ready. Lou Qing raised his hand and made a gesture of releasing the arrow, then looked at Jin Ting'an proudly.
Concubine Shu controlled the mechanical bird and came to Concubine Xian's side. "Sister Concubine Xian, this person must have thought that the mechanical bird we are riding can only fly, so he is so proud of it."
Empress Xian chuckled, "I guess so. Then let us help him open his eyes."
The two of them spoke in high voices, and all their words fell into Lou Qing's ears.
He sneered, "You're about to die and you still dare to speak so shamelessly. Shoot."
"Wait."
Yu Yiluo's childish voice sounded, and Lou Qing's expression became more disdainful.
"Why, you want to beg for mercy?"
"That's not the case," Yu Yiluo said, and then said to everyone, "Quick, throw the weapons."
As soon as those words were spoken, the people sitting on the mechanical bird took out the smoke canisters they had prepared and threw them down.
"Everyone be careful, retreat quickly."
Lou Qing looked at the smoke canister that rolled to his feet. It did not explode as he had imagined, so he snorted coldly.
He comforted his panicked retreating men, "Don't panic, this thing won't explode. Quickly fire arrows and fight back."
The smoke canisters around were constantly releasing smoke, and the men began to lose their balance, let alone hold bows and arrows.
Realizing that something was wrong, Lou Qing shouted.
"It's poisonous smoke, everyone, get inside quickly."
"It's too late," Jin Ting'an looked at the anxious Lou Qing below and flipped the switch of the mechanical bird. "Enjoy the attack of the mechanical bird."
As soon as Jin Ting'an said this, Lou Qing only heard the "click" sound of a switch, and then saw the wooden bird they were riding opened its mouth, and an arrow shot out of the bird's mouth, piercing through the air and coming towards them.
His pupils shrank and he turned around and wanted to retreat into the room behind him.
However, because he inhaled the drugged smoke, he felt weak all over, as if there were heavy weights tied to his legs, and he could not move at all.
Seeing the rain of arrows getting closer and closer to him, Lou Qing began to sweat anxiously and scolded the men around him, "You bunch of trash, why don't you come and protect this young master?"
The only responses he got were the sounds of arrows piercing flesh and his men falling to the ground.
"Master, we can't do anything, please come into the house quickly."
The weak voice of his subordinates was heard, and the smoke dissipated at this time. Lou Qing barely stood firm by holding the pillar, looking at the corpses lying on the ground, and his bloodshot eyes looked up at Jin Ting'an above.
"You are despicable."
Jin Ting'an looked indifferent and looked down upon him.
"Despicable? Not even as despicable as you testing the medicine on the common people. You are so ignorant. Didn't Min Qiu tell you about Tianqi's mechanical skills?"
Lou Qing was so angry that his chest kept heaving. The man had talked to him, but he only talked about bows and crossbows.
He thought this wooden bird was only used to carry people, but he didn't expect it could also attack people.
"Young Master, stop talking to them and go inside."
The subordinate, with an arrow stuck in his back, crawled towards Lou Qing and urged anxiously, "Come into the house quickly."
"You don't think about me?"
Lou Qing's face was terribly gloomy. "I can't do anything right now."
If he could walk, he would have run into the dark room long ago. Why would he stand here stupidly waiting to die?
As the two were talking, an arrow fell on the pillar next to Lou Qing. He stiffly turned his head to look at the arrow that had passed by his ear and penetrated the pillar, his face pale as a trace of blood.
Just a little bit, just a little bit and he would have died.
His hands that were holding onto the pillar were shaking, and he looked up at the people above.
"You think you'll win by killing me? You've all come to the border, aren't you worried about your emperor?"
"You're talking about Min Qiu, right?" Yu Yiluo said with a harmless smile. "Don't worry, his every move is under our control, including the people he brought with him."
"You know all this?"
Lou Qing widened his eyes in shock, and the last glimmer of hope in his heart was shattered.
He finally couldn't bear the blow anymore, stumbled and fell to the ground, and said dejectedly: "It's gone, all gone."
"Of course I know. Min Qiu brought six people to the capital, and they disguised themselves as beggars."
"Thinking about failing and taking Daddy hostage to escape unscathed? But you'd have to have a chance to get close to Daddy to do that."
At this moment, Lou Qing could no longer hear anything. He only knew that they had lost.
All the beautiful future that I had imagined before has turned into a bubble.
Lou Qing calmed down and looked at Li Yunhe.
"Li Yunhe, can you really bear to watch your master die?"
Li Yunhe looked at Lou Qing coldly, "You don't have to worry about that. Where did you put the gold you transferred?"
"I'm about to die, do you think I'll tell you?"
"You don't need to tell me, I know."
Qian Zhong met everyone's puzzled looks and explained, "They put the gold under the secret room where I was imprisoned, but there shouldn't be much left now."
In fact, Qian Zhong was not sure either. He just wanted to trick Lou Qing. When he saw his expression change slightly, he realized that he had guessed right.
When he was first tricked here, he often heard noises coming from the bottom of the dark room. At first, he thought it was where the special forces were imprisoned, but later, when all the special forces died, there was still noise.
After hearing the conversation between several people, he realized that the noises that occasionally occurred in the dark room were caused by Lou Qing going in to get gold for the people below to purchase.
Lou Qing didn't say anything, just sat on the ground, waiting for death to come.
"Now that he's useless, can I send him on his way?"
Qian Zhong asked Jin Ting'an with a smile, and when Jin Ting'an nodded, he pressed the mechanical bird and the arrow shot towards Lou Qing.
The arrow penetrated his chest, and blood quickly dyed the collar of his shirt red. Lou Qing fell to the ground with empty eyes.
…
The soldiers who were waiting for their return at the camp were waiting outside, getting ready. As the sun reached mid-sky, some of them became restless.
"Afeng, are we really not going to help?"
The deputy general who was familiar with Afeng asked anxiously, "General, they've been gone for so long, what if..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard a cheer.
"It's the general and the others who are back."
The soldiers looked up at the sky and saw Jin Ting'an and his group landing in front of them.
"Your Highness, was it successful?"
Afeng walked quickly towards the Fourth Prince, his voice filled with undisguised excitement.
"We succeeded," the Fourth Prince patted him on the shoulder, "and we found the gold."
"Very good."
The soldiers cheered when they heard this. This was the easiest battle they had ever fought.
They thought this would be a tough battle, but who would have thought that the criminals would be wiped out so easily.
Not a single soldier was wasted.
"Everyone has worked hard. Take a rest and get ready to go."
…
The emperor, who was far away in the capital, asked Eunuch Cao about the date every day since he received Yu Yiluo's letter.
Eunuch Cao has also become accustomed to the emperor's daily questions.
Today, the ministers found that the emperor seemed very happy and guessed that the border issue must have been resolved.
Sure enough, before they could ask, they heard the emperor say, "I have received a letter from the border. We have won a great victory without losing a single soldier."
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