"Lord Gu is an expert of the Dragon Guard, after all. Those three are naturally no match for him," Huang Xiao said with a slight smile.
"Indeed!" Zhao Yuankan nodded.
But immediately after saying this, his expression shifted slightly before returning to normal. He smiled. "It seems nothing escapes your eyes, Lord Huang. That's right, Lord Gu is indeed a member of the Dragon Guard. This time, he was ordered to protect me openly."
"You flatter me, Your Highness," Huang Xiao said. "It seems this was probably a probe by those people. There are no other experts."
"Are there really no others?" Zhao Yuankan asked.
"If there really are other experts, even if your humble subordinate failed to discover them, the experts protecting Your Highness in secret should be able to sense them, shouldn't they? They don't seem to have given any signals," Huang Xiao said with a smile. "So these should be all of them-nothing but insignificant shrimp soldiers and crab generals."
Hearing this, Zhao Yuankan had no doubts. After all, Huang Xiao was right.
Huang Xiao watched Lord Gu battling the three men. Although his martial power overwhelmed theirs, deciding the outcome in a short time did not seem so easy.
But after the three joined forces to drive Lord Gu back, they swiftly fled into the distance.
Meanwhile, casualties had already appeared among the guards caught in the melee. The ambushers had suffered casualties as well, of course.
The guard commander beside the carriage also saw how things stood. After judging that the enemy probably had no other reinforcements or experts, he left only one squad behind and sent the other two charging in. The guards' numbers immediately swelled, and the ambushers naturally fell back steadily.
"It looks like they're retreating!" Zhao Yuankan said.
"Your Highness has