Outside Luoyang City, a caravan composed of seven or eight people has just passed the strict inspection of the defenders and is slowly moving south along the official road, several ox carts are loaded with just some daily necessities from the capital, these things should be transported to Luoyang City, but there is already a panic, so these merchants decided to transport things to Xuzhou, after all, Xuzhou is relatively peaceful. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hehe, this young man, it seems that you are not merchants, I don't know what you are doing in Xuzhou?" An old man in brocade leaned over to a young man and smiled.

The young man was only sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a blue robe and a green silk scarf, although he was a little thin, he was very handsome with willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes.

"Hehe, we came from the capital, and we wanted to rest in Luoyang City for a day or two, but who thought that this Luoyang City was not peaceful, so we decided to go directly to Xuzhou to join our relatives!" The boy bared a mouthful of white teeth and smiled brightly.

After hearing this, the old man looked at the five strong men beside the young man, smiled, and said: "Shao Langjun was born with white and delicate skin, I think he must be from a big family, how can I rest assured that you will go to Xuzhou alone, these days are everywhere are county soldiers, although the road from Luoyang to Xuzhou is not dangerous, but there are often thieves who come out and plunder property!" ”

The young man smiled even brighter when he heard this, "That's why the kid borrowed your old light to go with the caravan!" But why don't you see the guards in the caravan? ”

"Hahaha, Shao Langjun doesn't know, the old caravan travels between Jiangnan and the capital all the year round, and the bandits and bandits have also encountered it, but just send some silver money and it will be fine, compared to the silver money of this guard, there is still a lot of money left!"

The young man nodded and smiled: "Yes, it has indeed been a lot more peaceful than before in recent years, and it will get better and better in the future!" ”

"I don't know how long it will take to get to Xuzhou?" The boy asked again.

"Hehe, it's not far, it's not far, according to our speed, it's about tomorrow!" The old man replied with a smile.

"Oh, do you know where the Dongdu Qi Defense Camp is?"

The old man thought for a while, then stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the left and said, "Since then, only a hundred miles to the west is the Ki Defense Battalion, what?" Does Shao Langjun know anyone there? ”

The young man shook his head and smiled, "No, just ask!" ”

The old man nodded and said, "That's fine, it's best not to go to the Ji Defense Camp at this time!" ”

"Why is that?" The boy asked curiously.

"I don't know the specific matters, but I've heard from other merchants, it is said that the Qi defense battalion is now surrounded by county soldiers, and the two armies are facing each other, so it's better not to go!" The old man replied.

After hearing this, the young man looked at the direction pointed by the old man and nodded slightly, but did not speak, but showed a look of worry on his face.

"Shaolangjun sit for the time being, the old man will urge them to hurry up, we won't rest tonight, no one knows if there will be any chaos at this time, it's better to get to Xuzhou sooner!" After that, the old man got out of the ox cart and walked towards the front of the convoy.

After the old man left, a big man beside the young man asked in a low voice: "Envoy, the Qifang camp is surrounded, and now we can only rely on the loyal army!" ”

The young man nodded and muttered, "Well, I just don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in the Zhongwu Army?" ”

Dahan thought for a while and replied: "According to the system, there should be at least 20,000 soldiers and horses, but now these feudal towns are secretly expanding their troops, although the loyal army does not dare to be as blatant as the three towns in Hebei, it should also have at least 30,000 soldiers and horses!" ”

"Thirty thousand soldiers and horses! That's a lot! I wonder how many of these Ki defense battalions there are? The boy asked again.

"There are far fewer Ki defense battalions, estimated to be 10,000 at most!" Dahan replied.

"Well, forty thousand in total, that's enough, that's enough!" The boy nodded and muttered to himself.

When night fell, the thin clouds covered the moon, and the official road was sometimes pitch black, sometimes white as day, except for the willow trees standing on both sides, and the caravan suddenly seemed abrupt and lonely.

The young man leaned on the goods on the ox cart and fell asleep, while the five big men walked slowly on both sides of the ox cart, their tiger eyes vigilantly observing any wind and grass around them.

At this moment, the five big men realized something at the same time, and only exchanged glances with each other, and then one of them walked briskly in front of the ox cart, one retreated to the back of the ox cart, one accompanied one side, and the other quietly jumped on the ox cart, stretched out his hand and drew five horizontal knives from the mountain of goods with unmistakable accuracy, and then gently patted the sleeping young man.

"Envoy, there's movement around!"

The boy rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked, "Can it be solved?" ”

Dahan nodded confidently.

"Well, remember, either you don't do it, and if you do, you must not leave your mouth alive!" The boy commanded and fell back to sleep, seemingly unconcerned of the impending danger.

The big man jumped out of the ox cart like a sparrow, and then threw the horizontal knife in his hand into the hands of the other four, while reaching out his palm in front of his neck and making a killing gesture.

The four of them comprehended, grasped the handle of the knife with their right hand, and followed each other step by step.

The boy squinted, he couldn't fall asleep again, this was the second time he had killed someone, and although these two times he didn't do it himself, it was undoubtedly his own decision.

Killing people is a test for the teenager, but also a means of tempering his own heart, he is very sober, if he wants not to be killed, then some people must die.

The young man's muscles were tense, and although he pretended to be asleep, his heart was already boiling like a sea.

His body was trembling slightly, and the pores around him were rapidly expanding, and sweat slowly seeped out from each pore.

Compared with the vigilance of the five big men, everyone in the caravan was unaware, except for two or three chauffeurs, everyone else was already drowsy on the ox cart, thinking about what kind of price these carts of goods could be sold for after arriving in Xuzhou tomorrow.

businessmen, profit-seeking; Soldiers, killing.

"Stop!"

At this moment, a sudden change occurred, and I saw more than a dozen strong men jumping out from both sides in front of me, all of them naked and holding scimitars, and the fierce light between their eyebrows was revealed.

The coachman exclaimed in surprise when he saw this, and then hurriedly stopped the ox cart, and in the face of this, even the ox pulling the cart seemed a little restless, and kept pacing in place with all four hooves, and let out a dull cry from his mouth.

Moo――

The old cow's cry suddenly woke the rest of the caravan from their dreams, and they jumped out of the ox cart, but then everyone's faces turned pale in an instant.

As the leader of the caravan, the old man must stand up and solve the disaster for the caravan, no matter how frightened he is.

I saw the old man take off his money bag, and then forced a smile and slowly walked towards the big man at the head.