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Under hushed breath, the ambush party waited as the Fire Nation army began to pass by them. There were armored soldiers on the flanks, a tactic that would matter little against Qin's technique. Then some of the troops walked over the traps. They fell in screaming as the bamboo shoots stabbed into their bodies. Then the soldiers sent the volley of poisoned arrows into the fray of panicked soldiers. Finally the earth benders twisted the plates in the trees to fall in diagonal directions from each side of the road, cutting off the army in several small groups.

The Shadow Palms divided first into the fray in the direction of where the volley hit from both sides of the road. The volley that had been aimed at the supplies. They blocked the chi of each soldier coming to face them, knocking them down without much contest. It was obvious that none of them have come in contact with Qin's chi blocking before. When the benders became distracted with the Shadow Palms, the other Earth Kingdom soldiers stormed in with their spears to fight the foreign army toe to toe. With time bought, Qin began to leap over the large fallen trees to where the supplies were.