Ping'an Town is about 1,000 miles away from the state capital Mingcheng, although there are still more than three months before the opening of the martial arts academy, Wang Hong still chose to leave early in order to prevent accidents at the grain store.

However, Wang Hong couldn't ride a horse, and he was a complete road idiot, so he had to go to Menglin County, where Ping'an Town belonged, first, and prepare to find a large-scale caravan and go to Mingcheng with them.

Menglin County is the second largest city in Jinghong County, and most of the goods received by Ping'an Town will be sent to Menglin County, gathered and then sent to various places through caravans.

In recent years, relying on the production of the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, the county seat has been built quite prosperous.

Of course, this is only compared with other counties in the county, once the relatively poor Jinghong County comes out, Menglin County can only be named a poor county in the border area.

Some of the medicinal herbs of the Ten Thousand Demon Forest are unique to the local area, and they can't grow at all without that special environment.

Therefore, the entire Tiannan Kingdom, and even the surrounding countries, would buy these medicinal materials at a high price.

Therefore, a large number of martial artists enter the Ten Thousand Demon Forest every year, although the death and injury rate is extremely high, but the resources brought out are also piled up.

Menglin County, as a transit place, has hundreds of caravans in the city, including more than 20 caravans that specialize in running the state capital Mingcheng.

Some time ago, all the families and factions in Yunzhou joined forces to return to the state, but they were defeated by the ambush soldiers, and the elite men suffered heavy casualties.

The vitality of the local snakes in the counties was greatly damaged, and the control of the local area also declined, which made the Yunzhou Green Forest forces, which did not participate in the war, quickly become active.

When they found that the families and sects in various places had no time to take care of anything else, the bandits became more and more unscrupulous.

Extortion and the like are trivial matters, and robberies and caravans are repeated in broad daylight.

Therefore, when caravans travel now, they are basically assembled by several families and hire a large number of warriors to accompany them.

Otherwise, as soon as they leave the county, they will probably be robbed by bandits and horse bandits.

Therefore, Wang Hong showed off his physical strength a little, claiming that the iron cloth shirt was well forged, and it was easy to blend into a caravan heading to Mingcheng.

The iron cloth shirt is different from other basic exercises, Wang Hong looks like he is just over twenty, but he can forge the iron cloth shirt to perfection.

If such a person is either from a wealthy family, he has a master who is willing to spend money for him.

Therefore, although Wang Hong is a face, no one suspects that he is a spy of bandits and bandits.

In the past half a month, there have been seven or eight caravans in Menglin County, which have been intercepted and killed by bandits and horse bandits, which makes the merchants in the county town particularly cautious.

Therefore, most of the caravans that were preparing to go to Mingcheng waited for seven or eight days, and they had enough thirteen caravans to set off together.

These caravans smashed a large amount of dart silver, causing the Quartet Dart Game of Meng Lin City to pour out.

Coupled with the spontaneous gathering of the caravans, there are two martial artists in the team alone, and there are more than ten who have completed the forging body.

As long as such a lineup does not meet the three major bandits in Yunzhou, if the other bandits and bandits dare to come to ask for wildfire, they will definitely die quite miserably.

"Crunch, squeak......"

More than a hundred huge wagons, caravans of seven or eight hundred people moved forward in the snow.

The convoy had to stop for a moment from time to time, and the snow on the road did not melt completely, making the road muddy, and the wheels got stuck in mud puddles at every turn, and it took time to push them out.

"This year's weather is really abnormal, we are located in the south of Yunzhou, it is rare to see snow once in more than ten years, and this year it has just started to fall in winter, which really affects the itinerary!"

Another truck fell into a mud pit, and the leader of the caravan where Wang Hong was located couldn't help but curse.

This person's name is Liu Xuan, who has been in business for nearly 20 years, has rich experience in the rivers and lakes, and his vision is quite old-fashioned.

In the past few days, from Wang Hong's food, clothing, housing and transportation, I have noticed that he is by no means an extraordinary person, and he has taken good care of him along the way.

In addition, Wang Hong himself also has the heart to seek advice, and often invites Liu Xuan to drink, and the two get along quite well.

"It's not all bad, at least in this weather, there will be a lot less trouble along the way, and when you get to Mingcheng, the price of your goods can be sold higher." Wang Hong said with a chuckle.

Bandits are also human beings, and as long as they are not so poor that they don't even have winter food, most of them will not go down in such weather.

Coupled with the caravan of hundreds of strong men and a large number of warriors accompanying it, the probability of being attacked is small and small.

"The problem is that the speed is so slow, it is estimated that it will not be able to reach Simo City after dark, and it is uncomfortable and unsafe to spend the night in the wilderness." Liu Xuan complained.

After all, this world is an ancient society, and there are not only bandits and horse bandits in the wilderness, but also a large number of beasts and even monsters.

Although there are far fewer demon beasts in the wilderness area than in the Ten Thousand Demon Forest.

But these demon beasts will be followed by a large number of similar beasts, and once they encounter it, even if they are killed, their side will suffer heavy losses.

"I'm still on duty tonight, and you old man can sleep in peace." Wang Hong said with a smile.

Liu Xuan's caravan has two martial artists who have completed the forging body, one is Liu Xuan himself, and the other is Wang Hong, who claims to be the perfect forging body.

Therefore, if they spent the night in the wilderness area, the two of them would definitely have a vigil, which was also something that the thirteen caravans discussed together.

Others may not like vigils, but for Wang Hong, it's not a big deal.

Anyway, when he is tired and sleepy, he can return to the earth star to rest, and when he sleeps comfortably, he will come here to keep vigil, and by the way, he will practice the dragon body method that he has just arrived, and he will not delay time at all.

"How embarrassing is this, if you don't rest tonight, I'll keep vigil." Liu Xuan rubbed his hands and said with some embarrassment.

The two times he camped in the wilderness area before were Wang Hong's night, and Liu Xuan was not a person who relied on the old and sold the old, so he naturally felt that he couldn't go.

Wang Hong smiled, took out two pieces of pineapple cake from the baggage, threw one into his mouth, handed the other to Liu Xuan, swallowed it in three or two bites, and then said indifferently.

"It's okay, I'm in good spirits at night, you can go to sleep."

"Tomorrow, you will tell me about some Yunzhou martial arts, as well as the people and things that need to be paid attention to in Mingcheng."

"I just came out of my home and don't want to lose some experience."

What Wang Hong lacks most now is the experience of the rivers and lakes, although he has seen a lot of introductions from the book, but those are only general generalizations, and the places that really need to be paid attention to cannot be written in detail in the book.

Befriending an old Jianghu like Liu Xuan can save him a lot of detours, and he can know which people belong to the category that cannot be provoked.

Liu Xuan often walked the trade route to Mingcheng, and had stayed in Mingcheng for several years, so he knew a lot about it, and these were all information that Wang Hong needed very much.

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It's cold when the snow melts, and the chill in the second half of the night can pierce the bone marrow.

Wang Hong, who was well fed and asleep in Dixing, also tightened his mink coat at this moment, leaning on the campfire in the camp, listening to the chatter of other night watch warriors.

Wang Hong was not very good at communicating, but now he is honestly a qualified listener to broaden his understanding of the world.

But in the middle of the night, a group of men chatted and chatted and fell on the woman.

Those topics seem to them to be very exciting, but for an old Internet driver like Wang Hong, they can't hear any excitement at all.

After a while, Wang Hong, who felt bored, was about to find a quiet place to practice the dragon body technique.

Suddenly, a night watchman's expression changed suddenly, and he waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

It didn't take long for a slight and strange sound to come, and the night watchmen, including Wang Hong, sensed that something was wrong, but they couldn't tell what it was.

"I remember!"

A martial artist, who was nearly fifty years old, said with a little panic:

"This is the sound of a large group of war horses running with their hooves wrapped, and there are at least more than three hundred war horses!"

As soon as these words came out, the warriors on duty almost fried the pot, and some people even shouted.

"What, three hundred war horses? Fast! Blow the trumpet! ”

The elder warrior immediately stopped the night watchman who took out the horn, and said hurriedly to the others:

"Don't blow the horn, go back to the camp tent and shout quietly, the other party must be trying to sneak attack, we pretend not to know to have a chance to win!"

When everyone heard this, they felt very reasonable, and they set off for their own tents.

With the addition of the big sea turtle template and the murder book, Wang Hong's running speed is far beyond that of ordinary martial artists, and he rushed to Liu Xuan's camp as soon as possible to wake up all the people inside.

They are all warriors who have been walking the rivers and lakes for a long time, and all of them are not bad in quality, and a large number of black shadows in the camp converged towards the open space in the middle, and in less than two minutes, more than 700 people all gathered.

Tong Huanqing, the head of the Quartet Dart Bureau, is one of the two acquired martial artists, and has rarely missed a dart for more than ten years, not only has rich experience in the rivers and lakes, but also has a wide range of contacts in Yunzhou.

Therefore, this time, the joint caravan elected him as the leader, and at this time, including another acquired martial artist, they would obey his arrangement.

"The sound of horses' hooves has stopped, they probably want to sneak attack us, Xu Dongjia, your light skills are better than mine, please go outside and quietly investigate the situation."

Tong Huanqing said to another acquired martial artist, it seemed that he wanted to make some targeted arrangements.

The acquired warrior's surname was Xu, and he was the owner of the largest caravan in the combined caravan.

Because the previous goods were robbed twice by the bandits, this time he had to personally escort the caravan, and the goods he brought accounted for almost a quarter of the caravan, and if he was robbed, he would definitely suffer heavy losses.

At this moment, Xu Dongjia didn't say a word, nodded and rushed out of the camp, his figure was like a shock, fast and light, and he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After Xu Dong's family left, Tong Huanqing arranged it for the others.

Liu Xuan's caravan was relatively strong, and was assigned to the left side of the camp, ready to wait for the cavalry to rush in, and then they would surprise from the flanks to inflict as many casualties as possible.

It didn't take long for Xu Dongjia to return to the camp and communicate with Tong Dart Head with a solemn expression.

Although because of the distance, I can't hear what they say.

But judging from the faces of the two of them, it is estimated that the enemy's strength is quite strong, otherwise the two acquired martial artists would not be so nervous.

Liu Xuan can naturally see the problem that Wang Hong can see, and he whispered to the people around him:

"Wait a minute, don't make a stupid rush, the enemy's strength is definitely not weak, but it shouldn't be too exaggerated, otherwise according to Old Ghost Xu's caution, it is estimated that he would have abandoned the caravan and fled."

Liu Xuan also deliberately looked at Wang Hong, in his opinion, Wang Hong, a rich child who is not weak, is the most likely to be self-righteous or hot-blooded, and he is likely to become cannon fodder during a scuffle.

In the past few days, he and Wang Hong have gotten along very well, and he feels that the other party should be quite promising, so he naturally doesn't want Wang Hong to die in this kind of place.

Wang Hong saw what Liu Xuan meant, smiled and nodded, but he didn't care much in his heart.

His physical defense is now difficult to penetrate even with a firearm, and he is the most afraid of this kind of night melee.

Moreover, the combined caravan does not have his interests, so there is no need to work too hard.

Just as the combined caravan was arranging a defensive counterattack, the enemy outside was also sharpening their knives.

To the surprise of Tong Dart and the others, his side had just been arranged, and in less than ten minutes, the enemy outside knew the distribution of personnel in the camp.

"Well done, you can take all the goods of your caravan with you."

"You can also take away the goods of the other twelve caravans."

"We wait for thieves to have a way, and we never break our promises!"

In the woods not far from the camp, hundreds of men in black gathered.

The leader was a bearded man, who was patting a young man on the arm at the moment, swearing to him.

The scale of the caravan in Menglin County this time was quite large, although it made many green forest forces daunting, but there were not a few people who were greedy.

After these days of tandem, the green forest forces of Jinghong, Simao, and Mengzi counties quickly reached an agreement.

Each of the five bandits took out a part of their men and horses, and gathered a full thousand bandits and horse bandits, ready to join forces to eat this piece of hard to bite fat.