Mo Chuhan left, and Mo's brothers also began to be on high alert here, waiting for him to bring back the news.
In the anxious wait of everyone, Mo Chuhan finally rushed back when the sky had just darkened.
Judging from his outfit, he still maintained his original appearance, so it was evident that he had not fought with anyone.
Mo Chuhan quickly approached the brothers.
"Those people are indeed not far from us, hiding only eighty li away from here. I waited until they moved before rushing back to deliver the letter.
It is estimated that it won't take more than two time periods before they get here.
Also, their outfits are not the black clothes and masks that we imagined, but are disguised as ordinary commoners, and they are hiding in multiple places. If it weren't for me seeing that their physiques were strong and mighty, and not as weak as ordinary commoners, I would really have been fooled by them.”
Mo Jiuye turned his head towards his subordinates and commanded: "Everyone get into position and prepare to resist the enemy."
As his words fell, Mo's brothers took their respective teams of people to ambush according to their previous plans.
Mo Jiuye stood at the highest point, using night vision binoculars to check the situation in the distance.
Two hours later, a group of people did indeed appear on the official road, with at least two hundred people estimated.
The assassins sent by the Empress were all top masters, so their hearing was naturally not going to be bad.
Mo's brothers brought their soldiers to hide separately. Mo Jiuye could not shout loudly to remind them that someone was coming. He took out the signal flares that had been prepared in advance, and when those people were about two li away from them, he launched it.
After the signal flare was launched, its shape was very special. There was no sound at all, only a thin ray of light, just like a meteor streaking across the night sky.
If you don't know, you would indeed think it was a meteor.
Although this was in ancient times, this was a very common natural phenomenon and would not arouse any suspicion from those people.
Sure enough, the leader of the assassins just glanced at the quickly disappearing ray of light, and then gestured for the people to keep moving forward.
"Everyone walk faster, we have to arrive at Xi Ling Village before midnight."
As the voice fell, he had already taken the lead in using qinggong, and the speed was raised to the extreme. The assassins closely followed him at this speed.
Soon, the assassins came to the encirclement set up by Mo's brothers.
Mo's brothers and their subordinates were all people who had rolled around on the battlefield, and they were very experienced in ambushing enemies.
The only difference today was that the enemy all had internal energy martial arts, not like those soldiers on the battlefield who only knew some fist and foot skills and were easy to deal with.
So what if they have internal martial arts?
They would still be left with no way to return.
Mo's brothers each commanded their squad of soldiers to take action.
Countless arrows flew across the night sky and shot towards those assassins.
The leader of the assassins reacted extremely quickly. Feeling that something was wrong, he shouted loudly to warn, "It's an ambush, be careful!"
However, his voice was simply not as fast as the continuous crossbows. As soon as his voice fell, he could hear the sound of people falling down one after another.
It was too late to warn again, because the second batch of arrows had already shot towards various parts of his body.
The assassins quickly drew out the soft swords hidden at their waists to resist the dense arrows.
The leader of the assassins suddenly felt that things were not good, knowing that resisting like this was not a long-term plan. Who knows when someone might get careless and get hit by an arrow.
Like those subordinates behind him - at this time, many of them had already fallen.
Under these circumstances, the best way was to find the hiding place of the archers and counterattack.
However, how could Mo's brothers possibly give him such an opportunity?
The arrows were like rain points, shooting at those assassins without stopping, showing no sign of stopping at all.
The assassins could only desperately resist, and they had no chance to find the location of the hidden people.
In the blink of an eye, half of the assassins had fallen, and screams were endless.
Fortunately, this place was remote with continuous mountain ranges around it and no villages or pedestrians.
No matter how loudly they screamed, it would not attract anyone's attention.
Mo's brothers had come prepared for the ambush, and they had also considered that the number of people from the capital would not be small. Before leaving, they had brought enough arrows.
Those soldiers had not experienced the thrill of killing enemies for a long time either. Especially when they saw the increasing numbers of fallen assassins, they also became more and more brave in battle.
According to the pre-planned strategy to prevent assassins from quietly escaping, Mo Jiuye led a team of people to secretly flank the assassins from behind.
Now the assassins could be said to be attacked from both front and back, and it was impossible for those timid ones who wanted to take the opportunity to escape.
In ten minutes, all the assassins had completely fallen to the ground, even if some of them were still alive, they had also been shot full of holes by the crossbow arrows.
Regarding the origins of these people, Mo’s brothers already knew it well, so there was no need to ask for any confession.
Mo Jiuye shouted loudly, "Stop!"
With this order, the soldiers all stopped their actions, and orderly surrounded the assassins from all directions.
At the same time, the eldest brother had ordered someone to light the torches.
The torches were lit and the surroundings instantly brightened.
Looking again at those fallen assassins, they were indeed dressed in ordinary people’s clothes as Mo Chuhan had said, and they were all strong men.
Without Mo’s brothers ordering them, the soldiers took the initiative to go up and check if they still had any breath - any that were still alive, they would finish off with another knife, ensuring that none survived.
In the past, after Mo’s brothers and their men had dealt with these assassins, they would have secretly disposed of the corpses and cleaned up the battlefield, making it look like nothing had happened here.
However, considering that the Empress had gone too far in deceiving people, Mo Jiuye was the first one who did not want to do so anymore.
He deliberately left the corpses of these assassins here.
The corpses could be left here, but Mo Jiuye was not careless enough to leave the crossbow arrows shot here as well.
And most importantly, the money and tokens and other things on those assassins were all taken away.
The soldiers also understood this reason. They did not need Mo’s brothers to order them. After killing all those assassins, the arrows they shot out were collected without exception.
Although this place was not far from Yun City, it was under the jurisdiction of the local government.
It was believed that the next morning, the Prefect would receive the news that there were more than two hundred corpses here.
There was no live mouth among the assassins to investigate further even if he wanted to, he could only report the matter to the imperial court.
By then, the people behind the scenes would surely know what was going on with these assassins.
So many assassins were wiped out overnight without knowing it, if they wanted to make another move against the Mo family, they would have to carefully weigh their own capabilities.
Of course, those behind the scenes could only speculate that this was done by the Mo family, but they could not do anything openly without any evidence to prove that the Mo family had killed them.
In short, Mo Jiuye did this to warn Empress and her party.
