The speed of the transport team was severely slowed down by the wheelbarrows, and it was halfway by sunset.

"Everyone prepare, let's set up camp today in the leeward part of the hillside in front, and the leaders of each team will come to my camp tent after sunset." Cody shouted loudly, then looked at Lu Cheng, "Mr. Arbiter will also come to my tent at night." ”

"Okay." Lu Cheng nodded and agreed.

In the game, as in reality, there is a difference between day and night, and the night in the wild is very lively, and the sounds of various insects, birds, and nocturnal animals converge into a continuous symphony, which disappears with the last rays of sunset. The convoys carrying supplies, setting up tents, and patrolling the camp gradually subsided after a long period of busyness, because candle oil was not something that ordinary people could consume casually, so only a few dim flickering lights of candles or kerosene lamps lit up after nightfall.

Lu Cheng, led by the patrol, soon came to Cody's tent.

Simon, who had already greeted him in the morning, was already in the tent, and when Lu Cheng walked in, he was talking to the team leader Cody.

"Mr. Arbiter, I have you to thank you today." Simon hurriedly greeted Lu Cheng when he saw him.

"Yes, I also thank you for your care along the way, but I did my best." Lu Cheng also said politely.

"Mr. Arbiter, you are here just in time, we are discussing some things in the next transportation, and we want to hear your opinion." Team leader Cody said.

"Please."

"That's right, we have a total of 52 wagons and 125 wheelbarrows, most of the materials transported this time are food, cloth and all kinds of production materials, but there are more than 3,000 pieces of weapons and equipment, and we have just received a report that the Kandi Kingdom has launched another attack on our village of Lorraine, and the materials on the front line, especially weapons, are very urgent, and Sanglai City learned that there are so many weapons and equipment in the materials we are transporting, and informed us that we must deliver this batch of military supplies before noon tomorrow."

"I discussed with Leader Simon just now, we have two choices, the first is to take a short rest, set off overnight, and strive to deliver it before noon tomorrow, and the other way is to divide the team into 2 teams, and transport all the weapons and equipment and necessary food to Sanglai City by horse-drawn cart as soon as possible. Personally, I prefer the second method, and Team Leader Simon is more inclined to the first method, I don't know what you think, Mr. Arbiter? ”

Cody illustrates the cause and effect of the matter.

This is the system giving me a problem! Lu Cheng thought depressedly. Obviously, both options are risky.

Needless to say, the first plan is not to mention that no one can say whether the people and horses in a state of fatigue can arrive in time, and besides, there will be an ambush halfway to delay the time, and if it is not delivered in time, the system will want to cry again because the weapons and equipment were not delivered to the front line in time, resulting in the loss of Lorraine Village.

The second plan is even more cheating, Lu Cheng is very sure that the ambush is already nearby, if it is separated, the strength of the guards will be dispersed, then the consequences will be even more terrible, not to mention that it is not delivered in time, it is likely that even this batch of materials and manpower will be lost, which is obviously a more pitty choice.

But Lu Cheng didn't have much time to think about it, because Cody and Simon were still waiting for his reply.

Lu Cheng thought about it quickly, and gradually a better plan came to mind.

"I have a better suggestion, I wonder if you would like to hear it?"

"Mr. Arbitrator, but it doesn't hurt to say that."

"My plan is this, tomorrow at 2 o'clock in the morning, the team will leave on time, and then let 30 of the civilians continue to rest in the carriage, and at the same time arrange for 20 of the carriages to carry no more than 20 groups of goods, keep the light load to save the horse's physical strength and energy, and after 6 o'clock in the morning, all the lightly loaded horses are loaded with weapons and equipment and necessary provisions, and leave the team and run at full speed to Sanglai City." Lu Cheng said simply.

Cody and Simon looked at each other, not understanding why Lu Cheng had arranged it this way.

"Lord Arbiter, why don't you just split the team now or leave early? If you arrange it this way, we will not have enough capacity to pull all the supplies, and I estimate that we will lose more than 200 sets of supplies. Simon wondered.

"First, if you set off early, you are likely to walk slower and slower, and you will get twice the result with half the effort. Second, if we were to separate now, the escort would have to be separated, which would make the potential danger much higher, and it would be undesirable. Lu Cheng explained.

"But according to your plan, they will still be separated in the end, and there is also a danger." Simon asked.

"Otherwise, because at that time we will be closer to Sanglai City, the danger situation will be much lower, and at the same time, we will now arrange someone to notify Sanglai City overnight to arrange for people to pick up, it will be safer, if possible, it is best to let Sanglai City send a transport team to pick up."

Lu Cheng continued to explain.

He added another reason in his heart, the people who laid the ambush must have come to reconnoiter the situation of the convoy, and after discovering that the convoy had set up camp, the interceptors either launched a night attack or rested on the road and waited until tomorrow to launch an attack, and if there was a night attack, it should have already started, which means that it is the second situation. And they definitely didn't expect the convoy to suddenly set off at 2 a.m., so the enemy who was already resting near the ambush point was likely to be caught off guard, and it was difficult to say how much combat effectiveness a person would be able to exert in a sleepy and hazy state.

"But what about the 200 sets of supplies we lost?" Cody is still struggling with that.

"It can't be said that it will be lost, you also said, if this route is safer, just find a place to hide the supplies, and arrange for people to pick them up after a while." Lu Cheng said.

Cody and Simon discussed for a while and felt that what Lu Cheng said was also reasonable, so he decided to follow Lu Cheng's method.

That must listen to me, this is the exam question given to me by the system, Lu Cheng burst into tears.

"Iron pillar, now you rest immediately, and when you hurry, you should be vigilant, if nothing happens, it is likely that you will encounter the enemy."

After returning to the camp, Lu Cheng commanded.

"Yes." Li Tiezhu replied.

While the people and horses of the convoy were still asleep, somewhere in the woods, a team of more than 200 people was still busy.

"Captain Barry, the brothers will be settled in a moment, and tomorrow I will be sure to surprise the enemy."

"Bastard! How many times have you said it, don't call me Captain Barry, we're 'bandits' now, you know. Barry scolded angrily, having said it I don't know how many times, and his deputy, Baker, just couldn't correct the title.

Barry and Baker are two junior officers subordinate to the Kandi Army, after Kandi was ready to attack Sanglai, he and dozens of other people had infiltrated the territory of Sanglai country, and after a series of means such as bribery and coercion, they gathered a group of local bandits and robbers behind enemy lines, specializing in the task of sabotaging the transportation lines in Sanglai country.

After harassing several Sanglai's convoys and causing huge losses to Sanglai, their superiors were very satisfied with their work, promising that they would be able to go back and be promoted to army squadron leader and command a squadron of 300 people.

Barry waited very anxiously for a long time, and this morning the news suddenly came from his superiors that there would be a large transport team passing through this transport channel that Sang Lai Guo thought was secret, and asked them to find a way to intercept this transport convoy, and they must definitely pretend to be an accident of bandits and robbers, and not reveal that they had obtained the news in advance.

"Phew! This group of damn officials always makes some strange requests for us! Baker said unhappily.

"What are you scolding, when we finish this time, we will be not big or small officials when we go back." Barry teased.

"Hey, hey!" Baker smirked and touched his head.

Barry couldn't help but despise in his heart, he wasn't a fool who climbed up by connections.

"Brothers, you pay attention to it, and you can't say what you can't say, you know?" Barry commanded.

"You know, you are so long-winded, you have said it a hundred and eighty times, I will not tell them that we deliberately ambushed the Sanglai convoy here, we are just looking for treasure nearby." Baker waved his hand impatiently.

"If you can remember, I'm going to say it so many times!" Barry said angrily, "You forgot what you did last time you drank too much? ”

Baker immediately stopped doing it when he heard Barry mention it again: "I didn't know about it anymore, and the only person I heard was not killed by me!" ”

"That's because I happened to be bumped into it, otherwise our identities would have been exposed!" Barry was also furious, and his voice was much higher.

"Okay, okay! It's always you who have a point, and I'll listen to you. Baker didn't want to argue anymore, he never said Barry, so he had to pat his ass and leave first.

Barry watched Baker walk away coldly, and muttered softly, "I hope you won't die in an accident tomorrow, huh!" ”

The good times are always short-lived, and before the convoy has enough sleep, the convoy wakes up the sleeping people one by one, and no matter how reluctant they are to warm the bed, the civilians can only obey the order to get up and prepare.

The night still shrouded the whole world like a pitch-black cauldron, with the help of faint starlight, the civilians quickly completed the shipment of materials under the urging and assistance of the escort team, according to Lu Cheng's requirements, some of the carriages only carried the general amount of goods, and the more than 30 strong civilians who were selected were also settled in the carriage to continue to rest.

"Mr. Arbiter, we are all ready, there are 237 sets of items that cannot be transported, and someone has been sent to hide them." Cody saw Lu Cheng coming over and informed the situation first.

Lu Cheng nodded, the system should not have a serious consequence if it lacks such a few materials, well, probably not.

"Let's go!"