Nine dragons fight for the throne, I don't want to sit on this throne

"These two people are really not fools!"

Chu Ning squinted his eyes, stood on the top of the mountain, letting the night wind blow on him, but there was no worry on his face.

This made Shen Zhengqing very anxious, and he quickly said, "Your Highness, if we don't send someone to chase them, we will never catch up!"

But Chu Ning smiled slightly: "Don't worry, you will know soon."

The moonlight shone on Chu Ning's face, revealing a face full of confidence.

Shen Zhengqing was slightly stunned, not understanding why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not nervous at all.

If those two people escape, wouldn't this plan be in vain?

And this time.

As the waning moon disappeared into the clouds, Zhang Qian's horse's hooves were breaking the thin ice by the stream.

The remaining thirty or so Han troops galloped northward along the valley beside the official road like an arrow shot from a bow.

He tore off his blood-stained cloak and let the cold wind pour into the cracks in his chain mail - the Tang army led by Du Ruhui almost beat him to death on the spot.

"Sir, there are no pursuers behind us. We will be out of the Chu capital city in just one hour." The deputy general's shout was torn apart by the strong wind.

Just as Zhang Qian was about to whip his horse, he suddenly heard a dense sound of breaking air.

Dozens of white-feather arrows were driven into the snow ahead, forming a hideous word "prisoner" under the moonlight.

"Why is the Han envoy in such a hurry?"

Zhao Yu rode his white horse out from the woods, his silver armor reflecting the cold light of arrows all over the ground.

The two-foot-long steel spear in his hand was pointed diagonally at the ground, and the red tassel on the spear head looked particularly bright in the moonlight:

"My Highness has prepared a banquet and invites the Han envoy to return to the city to drink together."

Zhang Qian's sword hummed in its sheath. "Just your three hundred cavalrymen?"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly jumped into the air, and the sword light like a galaxy rolled back and slashed towards Zhao Yu's face.

Amid the neighing of war horses, the steel spear was raised like a venomous snake, and the tip of the spear was pressing against the three-inch weak spot on the blade - that was the gap that had been caused by the battle with the Tang army last night!

At the moment when sparks flew, Zhang Qian spun in the air, and the blade of the knife slashed towards Zhao Yu's fingers along the gun barrel.

Zhao Yu sneered, but suddenly let go of the gun and pulled out two pistols from the side of the saddle. He held the ring-handled sword with one gun and aimed the other gun directly at Zhang Qian's throat.

In a flash, Zhang Qian clamped the tip of the spear with the copper ring on the knife handle, and wrapped his legs around the horse's neck to use the force to flip back onto the mount.

At the moment when the two horses kicked against each other, the thin ice by the stream suddenly burst.

Twenty riders on white horses leaped out of the formation, their flying ropes weaving into a silver net. Three Han soldiers were dragged off their horses, and red plum blossoms suddenly bloomed on the snow.

Zhang Qian roared and cut off the two flying ropes, but saw that Zhao Yu's steel spear had pierced the deputy general's chest, and the tip of the spear was swaying in front of his eyes with the bloody organ.

"A trapped beast will still fight." Zhao Yu flicked his wrist and the corpse flew away, and the steel spear drew a bloody arc under the moonlight.

Zhang Qian suddenly switched the knife to his left hand, and shot out three willow-leaf darts from his sleeve. He turned over like a kite and pounced towards Zhao Yu's empty door.

Zhao Yu narrowed his eyes, leaned forward against the saddle to avoid the hidden weapon, and swept the spear across the horse's legs, but in the sound of metal clashing, he discovered that there was an iron blade hidden in the sole of Zhang Qian's boots!

After twenty-seven clashes of swords and spears, all the reeds along the stream were broken.

There were seven more cracks on Zhao Yu's silver armor, and Zhang Qian's shoulder armor was torn off by the tip of the spear.

When the ring-handled sword hit the same position on the gun barrel for the ninth time, the gun body made of fine iron remained as stable as a rock, but a huge gap appeared on the ring-handled sword.

Zhang Qian was furious, his eyes were filled with murderous intent, and he chopped down with his sword as powerful as a mountain.

But Zhao Yu suddenly jumped up from the saddle, swung his spear violently, and wrapped around Zhang Qian's wrist like a poisonous snake.

As blood splattered, twelve flying ropes simultaneously entangled Zhang Qian's limbs.

He fell heavily on the ice and watched the last three Han soldiers being nailed to the dead tree by spears.

Zhao Yu's spear tip lifted his shirt and pressed against his throat, saying coldly, "Now, you can go back obediently!"

Just as Zhang Qian was about to speak, a cavalryman on a white horse stepped forward and blocked his mouth with a towel.

Amid the angry curses, Zhang Qian was carried onto the warhorse, and then the team headed towards where Chu Ning was.

And this time.

Twenty miles away was a black pine forest. Du Ruhui was riding his horse and leading his troops past this place. Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and he saw three hundred riders on white horses standing on both sides of the official road like ghosts.

"No, we fell into a trap!"

Du Ruhui's face changed drastically: "Chu Ning has already seen through Zhang Qian and I's plan!"

"Master Du has a good plan."

Zhao Yu's deputy general Chen An smiled and raised the crossbow: "I deliberately took the opportunity to fight Zhang Qian, but I actually wanted to leave secretly."

"What a pity! Your plan has already been discovered by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Before he finished speaking, twelve crossbows fired at the Tang army.

Du Ruhui was horrified and didn't care about his identity. He rolled to the ground, letting the dust stain his Xuanniao official uniform.

However, the Tang army soldiers behind him were not so lucky. They were either shot or killed by the white horse soldiers who rushed up.

The whole thing took less than a quarter of an hour.

By the time Du Ruhui reacted, he was the only one still alive at the scene.

"It was I who harmed you!"

Du Ruhui roared: "How can I live alone!"

After he finished speaking, he drew out the sword from his waist and slashed it towards his neck.

But at this moment, Chen An's spear blocked his sword and said calmly: "Want to die? Have you asked my prince?"

"Come here, arrest him and hand him over to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for punishment!"

The white horse soldiers rushed forward, captured Du Ruhui, and then escorted him to where Chu Ning was.

An hour later, at the peak.

Zhao Yu and Chen An escorted Zhang Qian and Du Ruhui here respectively.

"Your Highness, I have fulfilled my mission and captured these two men!"

Chu Ning nodded slightly when he heard this: "Thank you for your hard work, generals."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Qian stared at Chu Ning with his ferocious face and roared, "Is this all your evil scheme?"

"What do you say?"

Chu Ning asked back: "I didn't do anything, how can you say this is my evil plot?"

"I still want to make excuses!"

Zhang Qian roared, "You deliberately summoned the envoys from the three countries and put us under house arrest in the posthouse, just to make us think you were going to kill them!"

"Once we have this idea, we will definitely find a way to get out, and killing each other is the best way at the moment."

"And you, in fact, have seen through their plan, but deliberately waited until we killed each other before taking action!"

Chu Ning raised the corner of his mouth slightly. He did not refute, but did not admit it either.

Du Ruhui, who was standing by, stared at Chu Ning and said coldly, "Did you arrange the Hongyufang case on purpose?"

"You actually want to use this incident to make the three of us feel your murderous intent, so that we have to use a trick to escape from here?"

At this moment, Du Ruhui reacted and even felt that the Hongyufang case was arranged by Chu Ning himself.

He was eager to know the answer!

But Chu Ning shook his head and said calmly: "The Hongyufang case was not arranged by me!"

"If it's not you? Then who could it be?"

Du Ruhui looked confused and puzzled.

If the Hongyufang case was not committed by Chu Ning, could there be a third force in Kyoto that wants to deal with Chu Ning?