Hua Duxiu finally came back and slept reassuringly after tossing, Lei Mingxi obviously found out but didn't bother to ask, the three of them slept all afternoon, and only got up in the evening.

I can't help it, it's too tiring to travel for days on end.

Although they did not walk fast, the wild was full of poisonous snakes, and they had to cheer up their spirits, and at any time they would pick up all kinds of poisonous snakes that were climbing on the ground and falling from the trees around them, and their attention could not relax at all.

I have to go back tomorrow, and I can't do it without getting enough sleep.

After waking up in the evening, the three of them ignored the noon affair and walked around the bustling neighborhood to buy supplies for the next few days.

Walking in the Valley of the Snake is different from other realms.

In other realms, you may come across a village if you walk a few miles or ten miles, and if you walk a few dozen miles, there will be a town of considerable scale, as long as you have money, it is enough, and you can solve anything with money.

But not in Snake Valley.

In the Snake Valley, let alone dozens of miles, sometimes even walking for more than ten days, walking for two or three hundred miles, you can't see a single figure.

When you meet people, they may still see you as a robber.

The only thing that will be by your side at any time is the dense poisonous snakes.

Therefore, for a long walk in Snake Valley, you must prepare enough food, enough drinking water, enough snake repellent powder, wear anti-snake bite leather boots and leather pants, and have a special guide to lead the way, otherwise, the terrain surrounded by layers of mountains and valleys in Snake Valley will make any passer-by crazy.

Early the next morning, the three of them arrived at a camp with two hired wagons.

This is the cargo transfer station of a chaebol, and this time the goods are tobacco, which is worth nearly 20,000 taels of tobacco leaves, which can be described as extremely valuable.

Tobacco is hard currency in Snake Valley.

One is because of the high demand for this thing, tens of millions of people in Snake Valley, especially many soldiers, warriors, and robbers.

Second, Snake Valley does not produce tobacco leaves, and can only be imported from the outside world, and the transportation difficulty of Snake Valley has led to the high price of tobacco leaves in disguise, and it has not been able to fall.

Therefore, tobacco is hard currency on the one hand, and tobacco trade is also a profiteering industry on the other hand.

On this trip to the south, the chaebol boss directly hired five hundred-man teams to escort it. These 500 people are not dart masters, but samurai from the Governor's Palace, fully armed and well-trained samurai, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

Five hundred people, and the cost of hiring them to escort them alone is more than three thousand taels of silver.

In addition, there are forty or fifty travelers in the team who spend money to anchor.

Most of these travelers are rangers, ronins, and warriors from the Jianghu sect from all over the world, and a small number are ordinary people.

These people are also very capable of fighting, their interests are tied to the caravan, and if they are attacked by bandit groups, the traveler will definitely have to fight the enemy with the samurai.

Ten carts of tobacco, plus the carriages of the travelers, plus the supplies of the five hundred warriors, more than fifty carriages lined up, leaving the city of Anlin and heading south.

This time, I don't have to walk on two legs, because Hua Duxiu directly hired two carriages, one to pull goods, one to pull people, and the three of them squatted in the carriage while eating and drinking while playing pai gow, as the carriage swayed, it was not too cool.

It's just that no one noticed that on a low building not too far from the South City Gate, Zhang Long and Fu Yuntong each held a clairvoyant eye and stared coldly at the convoy leaving the city.

Clairvoyance is a simple telescope made of lenses and bamboo tubes.

Zhang Long said: "Brother Fu, Hua Duxiu is out of the city, let's go too." ”

Fu Yuntong put down the clairvoyance in his hand and said, "This kid is very thief, he won't find anything abnormal, right?"

Zhang Long smiled: "What can be abnormal? Our people have neither stalked, nor tracked, and they haven't even investigated the inn where he is staying, what can he find?"

Fu Yuntong said: "Wait a little longer, wait a little longer, since he is on the road with the convoy, he will definitely not leave rashly if there is no accident." Let's take a detour, go around in front of them from other directions, and set up an ambush until they enter the urn. ”

Zhang Long said: "Brother Fu, this time not only have all the captains of Anlincheng come out, but Lord Wang has also hired an army of 1,000 robbers, not to mention a flower show, even if he attacks the entire caravan, it is not a big problem, can he be so highly regarded as such?"

Fu Yuntong said: "Be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship, you don't know how thief this kid is." Okay, let's go. ”

Zhang Long and Fu Yuntong led dozens of sticky pole captains out of the city gate on the front foot, and a few war horses roared on the back foot, Zhang Long quickly grabbed the horse's head, and when he looked back, it turned out that Wang Jiudan and Bo Yang chased after him with a few guards.

Zhang Long frowned: "Jiudan, what are you doing here?"

Zhang Jiudan's face was still wrapped in gauze, because the bridge of his nose was broken, and he spoke in an urn voice: "Uncle Zhang, let's go with you!"

Zhang Long frowned: "Nonsense! We are going out on business, not hunting and playing, what are you doing with it!"

Zhang Jiudan said: "Brother Bo and I are also very good at fighting! Besides, with so many of you here, we are both safe and sound, what are we afraid of? The surname Hua beats me like this, I don't beat him hard to get rid of the hatred in my heart!"

Zhang Long was speechless, this young master, his heart is too small.

"Jiudan, you stay in the city honestly, I'll catch those three boys and throw them in front of you and let you beat you half to death, I'll transfer them to the dungeon after you're angry, is this okay?"

Wang Jiudan said: "No! I have to go! Uncle Zhang, don't you say that there are so many of you, dozens of people can't deal with three young people?"

Zhang Long smiled: "How is it possible? Okay, you can go if you want to, but they ......"

Zhang Long looked at Bo Yang and the others beside Wang Jiudan, obviously, the Sticky Pole Division handled the case, and it was still inconvenient for these outsiders to know too much.

Wang Jiudan said: "The cooperation between the Bo family and us is getting closer and closer, and the business here in Anlincheng will be presided over by Brother Bo in the future, and he is not an outsider." ”

Zhang Long was a little embarrassed.

Almost all of the things done by the Sticky Pole Division are not visible to the table, and it is by no means child's play, how can a businessman's son be allowed to follow him?

But in the Snake Valley, the army of the Governor's Mansion can serve as a guard for the slave traders who trade in human beings, and the cooperation between officials and businessmen has reached a very deep point.

Wang Jiudan turned around and said, "You all go back!"

Several of the guards behind him immediately turned around and rode away.

Bo Yang also turned back to his guards and said, "You all go back." ”

Several black-clothed masters said, "Yes, young master!"

In this way, the guards and bodyguards brought by the two all left, leaving only Wang Jiudan and Boyang.

Zhang Long smiled apologetically at Fu Yuntong and said, "Brother Fu, let you see the smile, look at this ......"

After all, Fu Yuntong was fighting away, nodded and said: "As long as you get what the Admiral wants, Hua Duxiu can be handed over to Wang Gongzi to deal with, even if he is killed on the spot, it doesn't matter." ”

Zhang Long said: "That's not it. ”

Zhang Long turned around and said solemnly: "You two don't interfere, don't say much, don't ask questions, just watch from the side." You don't have to tell anyone about everything that happened today, you know?"

Bo Yang immediately said: "Don't worry, Uncle Zhang, I just went out of the city for a turn, I didn't see anything, I didn't know anything." ”

Zhang Long nodded and said, "Okay, let's go!"

Dozens of people rode out of Xicheng, raised dust in the sky, and roared away.

Zhang Long and the other lieutenants of the sticky pole division walked in front, and Bo Yang and Wang Jiudan followed behind.

Bo Yang asked in a low voice: "Brother Wang, it seems that this Hua Duxiu is not a simple character, the Sticky Pole Division actually sent so many secret agents out of the horse, too much to give him face, right?"

Wang Jiudan said: "This kind of battle is really rare, it is rare to catch someone in ordinary times, and it is rare to be able to dispatch ten captains at a time, and so many people are here today." ”

Bo Yang said: "Then we must be careful, don't make trouble for Uncle Zhang." Since Hua Duxiu and they are attached to the merchants to hurry, as long as Uncle Zhang and them report the name of the sticky pole division at that time, the caravan will definitely not dare to go against us. ”

Wang Jiudan said: "This is nature. ”

After noon, the horse team came in a circle and waited on the official road in the south.

Here is dozens of miles away from Anlin City in a straight line, there are not many pedestrians, Zhang Long and their forty or fifty people are all riding high-headed horses, wearing black clothes, holding sharp swords, murderous spirit.

Zhang Long suddenly took out a few hoods from his arms, threw them to Wang Jiudan and Bo Yang, and said, "Put them on first!"

Wang Jiudan and Bo Yang didn't know what they meant, but they saw that the rest of the Sticky Pole Division were all wearing hoods, so they had to put them on honestly.

After another half an hour, the official road in the south was suddenly crowded, and a large number of bandits appeared densely!

These bandits carried glittering machetes in their hands, with all kinds of armor on their bodies, and their faces were full of hideous colors, and they looked like fanatics licking blood from the edge of the knife.

And there are too many of them, and at a glance, the official road stretches out for dozens of feet, and they are all bandits.

Wang Jiudan and Bo Yang were startled and couldn't help but look at each other in horror.

Oh my God, how can there be so many robbers here?

What are they doing here?

Looking at their greedy looks, the two sides won't fight, right?

But seeing that Zhang Long and Fu Yuntong were not particularly panicked, and were still waiting on the road on horseback, Wang Jiudan and Bo Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

Obviously, the two sides know each other.

The leader of the bandit legion was a bearded and fierce man, with muscles pierced, a shiny iron hat on his head, and a giant hammer in his hand.

The door god strode up to Zhang Long and asked loudly, "Which one has long ears?"

Long ears? What does that mean.

Zhang Long said with a smile: "It is here, you are the big boss of Heiyun Village?"

The door god said: "It's me!"

Zhang Long said: "You all know the specific plan of action, right? As a last resort, you don't come forward, let alone make a move, if we catch the person we want to arrest, you will immediately retreat, and we will not pay a penny less." ”

The door god grinned and said, "I know!"

Zhang Long said: "Then please hide the black master and the brothers first, the rabbit will soon enter the urn." ”

The door god nodded, and then carefully looked at the dozens of people in the sticky rod division, and waved his big hand: "Brothers, they are all hidden for me!

The army of robbers immediately dispersed in all directions, killing snakes and finding a place to hide, and after a few breaths, the dense bandits dissipated and not a single one could be seen, as if they had never appeared at all.

Wang Jiudan and Bo Yang looked at each other, with deep shock in their eyes.

I'm afraid there are more than 1,000 people in this bandit army, right?

And at first glance, these 1,000 people are bandits who have fought and killed people a lot, and they are not good at stubble.

What are they here for?

And why did the leaders of the Sticky Pole Division hire them?

Is it going to be a head-on battle with the caravan for a while?

It shouldn't be, the Sticky Pole Division is also part of the ruling power of the Empire, and the caravan is protected by the Snake Valley Governor's Mansion, and they are protected by five hundred elite warriors, how could the Sticky Pole Division hire a powerful bandit army to ambush its own people?

Bohu didn't know, and Wang Jiudan didn't know.

As if sensing the strangeness in the eyes of the two, Zhang Long turned around and said:

"Don't think about it, these are all preparations that have to be made to prevent special circumstances from happening. You two just have to watch from afar, you know?"

Wang Jiudan and Bohu nodded hurriedly.

Zhang Long whispered to Wang Jiudan: "Don't worry, if the commander of the other party is smart enough, he will not refuse my request, and he will not provoke our sticky pole division." If he had to test whether his head was hard or not, these robbers would come in handy. ”

Wang Jiudan said nervously: "Okay, okay!"

My God, it's not as simple as the forty or fifty men of the Sticky Pole Division catching three thieves now.

The unknown big scene seemed to be coming, Wang Jiudan and Bohu were excited and worried, not to mention how nervous they were.

The forty or fifty people of the Sticky Pole Division just rode their horses and stopped on the official road, with no intention of ambushing or scattering at all.

The convoy was moving much slower than the horse convoy, and after more than an hour, the sound of dense footsteps could be faintly heard in the north.

Caravan, here!