After a few seconds, the Imperial Guards reacted and divided into two groups. One group rushed towards the boat on the canal, while the other group ran to Xia Houfeng, chattering.
"Your Highness, Huangfulian and the others have escaped, what should we do now?"
"Your Highness, do we want to pursue him?"
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."
"Your Highness the Crown Prince..."[
The Imperial Guards here are chirping, you and I keep shouting.
As for the Imperial Guards on the other side of the boat, because they had no one to lead them, they were completely in disarray, and they all crowded into the boat.
The pitifully small boat could not carry many people.
When many Imperial Guards swarmed up, it was no surprise that the boat sank before it even sailed!
The Imperial Guards "plop plop", one after another, all fell into the canal and fell into drowned rats, looking very embarrassed.
Just as they were scrambling to jump onto the small boat to catch up, the big boat on the canal had already sped up and sailed into the distance quickly, and soon disappeared before their eyes.
On Xia Houfeng's side, the imperial troops surrounding him were still clamoring, arguing about whether they should chase Huangfulian, and if so, what tools should be used to chase him.
This grand canal was dug a hundred years ago. Standing at one end, you couldn't see the other end. They didn't prepare any ships, so there was no way they could catch up with Huangfulian.