Chapter 400: Poison Smoke Competition
These people are also the secret guards raised by the emperor.
It is certainly not an option to send out the Imperial Guards, and the people in the barracks cannot be moved. It is also difficult for those who can be exposed to the public to take action. After all, they are trying to rob Prince Jun's things. If their identities are revealed directly, the emperor will lose face.
So he sent out a group of secret guards that he had hired when he was still the crown prince.
But this time, these secret guards were also exhausted by Prince Jun.
When Prince Jun didn't want them to catch up, he simply threw them away, leaving them desperately trying to find someone else.
When Prince Jun was waiting for Fu Zhaoning in Yuheng Mountain, he often sent people down the mountain to give them some specious whereabouts, which led them to look for him all over the mountain. They wandered around here and there, unable to sleep or eat well.
The dry food and other things they brought with them were once stolen.
These days, we have been living on wind and dew, and everyone is exhausted.
Now they are almost reaching the capital, and this is their last mission of this trip.
"Only success is allowed, failure is not allowed."
The leader of the secret guards said it again, this time to encourage his men and also for himself.
"yes."
"Here I come."
"Look carefully, is it Prince Jun and his party?"
"Yes, there are still the same number of carriages and horses, and all the things are there."
The spy reported back excitedly.
"How many people?"
"The number of people is correct. We also saw Lu Tong and Zheng Yang. I guess these two young masters couldn't sit still in the carriage, so they sat outside." said the spy.
"Where are Prince Jun and Princess Jun?" asked the leader.
"Weren't they sitting in the carriage all the way? They are still in the carriage."
"Okay, wait until they reach the broken bridge and then take action."
They heard the sound of carriages and the sound of horse hooves.
Prince Jun and his entourage finally came into their sight.
The guard in front was riding a horse and when he saw the broken bridge, he immediately raised his hand to stop.
He took a look, turned his horse's head and walked to the front of a carriage, and said to the people in the carriage, "Your Majesty, the bridge has been dug up!"
The secret guards in ambush certainly couldn't hear the people talking in the carriage, but when they heard the voices of the guards, they subconsciously thought that they were indeed talking to Prince Jun in the carriage.
"The river is very shallow now and the riverbed is flat, so the carriage should be able to pass through." The guard said again.
"yes."
The guard turned to the front of the team again and shouted, "The prince has ordered us to go directly through the riverbank!"
The guards pulled the horses and drove the carriage, turned off the official road, and went down the river beach along the gentle slope.
At this moment, dense short arrows whizzed out from the slopes on both sides.
The palace guards shouted, "There's an ambush!"
"Protect the prince!"
There were also a few people who saw the short arrows coming towards them, and they instantly fell off their horses and fell to the ground, pretending to be shot.
Others immediately hid on the other side of the carriage.
Horses neighed and people screamed in panic.
The scene was chaotic for a while.
They didn't even bother to count the number of people to see if it was really the same as what the spies had previously found.
"Throw poison smoke!"
The secret guards were delighted when they saw this, thinking that now was the best time for them to take action. They immediately prepared the poisonous wood, lit it, and threw it towards the river bank.
"It's poisonous. Hold your breath! Hold your breath!"
"ah!"
“I can’t see it anymore!”
"Protect the prince, protect the princess!"
The poisonous smoke was thick and the scene was in chaos. Soon, the noises became smaller and people could be vaguely seen falling down one after another.
The hidden guards in ambush saw this and thought the time had come, so they immediately shouted, "Charge."
They all stood up and rushed down to the river beach.
This time their target was those things, and they wanted to transport all the carriages away, so the poison arrows and other things were designed to avoid the horses pulling the carriages.
They also covered their faces with scarves to avoid inhaling toxic fumes.
And he was also waiting until the poisonous smoke dissipated and rushed down.
After rushing down, they saw the guards of the palace lying in all directions on the river bank, and they were immediately overjoyed.
"Drive the horse, pull the horse, and hurry up."
Just as the leader of the secret guards gave the order, he suddenly heard something whooshing down, which sounded very much like the sound of the poisonous smoke they had just thrown.
He sensed something was wrong and turned his head sharply to look up the slope. Sure enough, he saw several objects that looked like grass balls and were emitting thick smoke being thrown down from the sky.
"Poisonous smoke, hold your breath!"
The leader was startled and immediately shouted.
Have they fallen into a trap?
But they were lying in ambush at that place just now, why are there people there now?
The smoke from these grass balls was thicker and stronger than the ones they had thrown down before.
When he shouted to hold his breath, it was too late. Many grass balls rolled down and thick smoke enveloped them all in an instant, which was thicker than the one they had just thrown.
They could barely open their eyes.
"Retreat quickly, everyone retreat!" The leader thought to himself that something was wrong and immediately retreated.
But after he took two steps back, he felt a chill coming from behind. He was startled and dodged quickly based on his intuition, stabbing with a long sword.
He turned around suddenly and saw the cold face of the White Tiger in the smoke.
Didn’t all these people faint just now?
Why did you stand up again?
Baihu swung his sword and stabbed at him again, "No need to retreat, you can't retreat."
All around them, the guards who had fallen to the ground jumped up and attacked them.
"They're pretending to faint!"
Not only that, some even faked their own deaths!
Now these people jumped up and blocked their retreat.
But they just threw poisonous smoke, why didn’t the other party get poisoned?
"Get out!" the leader of the secret guards shouted again.
But when he shouted, he had already inhaled several mouthfuls of poisonous smoke. As soon as he finished shouting, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes, his body went limp, and he could not hold the sword. The sword fell to the ground with a clang.
Baihu thrust his sword forward, hitting him right on the right shoulder, and with one thrust, he was unable to wield the sword with that arm.
Those secret guards also fainted one after another.
There is no need to fight now.
When the smoke cleared, they had all fallen down.
When Qing Yi and the others counted, there were actually twenty-two people.
"What a generous move." Qing Yi couldn't help but laugh, "It's a pity that so many people can't resist the princess's poisonous smoke."
"They also use poisonous smoke. No, I don't know. Compared to them, they really lose face. I don't know where the poisonous smoke comes from. They really laugh out loud in front of our Brother Ning."
Lu Tong laughed out loud.
In the poisonous smoke competition between the two sides, Fu Zhaoning was obviously the winner.
"It should be said that Brother Ning's detoxification pills are powerful. Didn't you notice? After we take the detoxification pills, the other party's poisonous smoke has no effect on us." Zheng Yang said.
That's why they were able to remain safe.
If it weren't for Fu Zhaoning's antidote pills, they would have all been poisoned and would have had a hard time fighting right now.
"Teach them a lesson and tie them up." Qing gave the order.
Xiao Lanyuan and Fu Zhaoning got the news and came here slowly.
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