The two teams confronted each other from a distance, and after waiting for a while, Zhang Zhongjun waved his hand, and immediately a cavalry, riding a camel, rushed towards each other. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 At the same time, a camel rider rushed over on the other side.

Two camel riders made contact in the middle area, then turned around and ran back.

The camel rider on Zhang Zhongjun's side turned over and knelt on the ground to report: "Family master, the other party is the caravan of the empire, the caravan of the Li family in Tunshi County, and it has just purchased a batch of supplies from the Wante Alliance to return to China. ”

"The Li family, is it the Li family of Tunshi County, Bicao Pengshi, Li?" Zhang Zhongjun quickly guessed the identity of the other party.

After all, in the border counties, only merchants supported by officials can do a good job in foreign trade. The empire forbade officials from doing business, and many officials made some money from it.

Knowing that the other party was not a sand thief, the two sides lifted their guards, and the two sides also had a friendly conversation, exchanged gifts, and then took their leave, and put the matter aside.

Night fell quickly, and the Li family caravan, which was accustomed to such a life, methodically prepared for the overnight work.

After settling down, they ate and drank over the bonfire, and entered Maruyama Township in less than ten days, and everyone was in a relaxed mood.

Not noticing, the moonlight that could have shone on the desert for thousands of miles was blocked by the clouds, making the desert less visible at night, and after a certain distance, the slightest situation could not be seen at all.

In the darkness outside everyone's eyes, only a few hundred meters away from here, a man with a hideous expression spat and muttered: "Damn! obeying the order from above to let go of the team of the real nobles made Lao Tzu suffocate and bleed internally, and now he finally met a fat sheep again, Lao Tzu must vent well!"

With a wave of his hand, one by one camel riders followed him and rushed towards the noisy firelight not far away.

"The sand thieves are coming!" The Li family caravan reacted quickly, and the two sides started to fight, but the strength of this group of sand thieves who came to attack was very strong, even if the caravan resisted desperately, it quickly fell behind.

After a few goods in the caravan were killed by the sand bandits, the rest of the guards all dropped their weapons and surrendered. It's just that everyone didn't have a sad look, but they all stared at the sand thieves indignantly, and they didn't look like prisoners at all.

The leader of the caravan opened his voice and shouted: "My Li family's caravan has been planted this time, who is here?

"Hahaha, I didn't expect it to be the caravan of the Li family, I'm sorry Lao Li, let's take revenge with one arrow, right?" The sand thief leader with a hideous face walked out with a laugh under the crowd of his subordinates.

"It turned out to be your Tang family!Hmph!" The caravan leader was stunned for a moment, but in the end, he just hummed twice and stopped talking.

"Hahaha, sons, hurry up and count the spoils! Let's celebrate tonight!" As soon as the hideous man's voice fell, all the sand thieves cheered, counting the spoils, and no one bothered with the prisoners.

Although the people of the caravan were indignant, they did not dare to resist, and only stood in place obediently.

Most of the sand thieves active near Baliting were supported by the powerful people in the county and county seats, and they plundered caravans completely according to officialdom factions.

In other words, everyone will rob the caravan of other colleagues, and their own caravan will also be robbed by other colleagues, so they will generally not tear their faces, and if the robbery is successful, they will not kill the caravan man, and will send the caravan manpower back to Maruyama Township.

It's just that it was okay to follow the rules, but it changed with a series of screams that sounded at the same time on the periphery.

"What's the matter? someone wants the yellow finch behind?!" the hideous-looking leader of the sand thieves shouted directly with his sword, and the sand thieves who were counting the supplies also surrounded them with fierce knives, and then disappeared from the range of the firelight and disappeared into the darkness.

Those caravan personnel gathered by the fire gloatingly, waiting for the ending to appear, for them, whoever wins and who loses is the same, anyway, they are defeated, just watch the excitement.

Several skilled sand thieves outflanked both sides, and the leader of the sand thieves scattered his men and met them head-on.

There were one terrible scream after another in the darkness, and the caravan personnel gathered around the fire couldn't help but tremble.

Several caravan leaders couldn't help but rub the goosebumps on their arms: "Damn, who is this from? It's so cruel, it actually makes the people of the Tang family so miserable, it can't be the Zhong family who has a grudge against the Tang family, right?"

"I guess so, otherwise you can just kill it when you fight, where would it be so miserable. ”

"But does it feel like this is a bit excessive? The people of the Tang family are obviously defeated, they should be willing to surrender, how can they still make such a dead move?" Listening to the screams one after another, one of the caravan leaders couldn't help frowning.

"Indeed, we are all just pawns of the master's family, although we act according to orders, but we can't go too far, and the cheap lives of our people are only to be pitied by people like ourselves. The leader of the caravan nodded with emotion, and then opened his throat and shouted: "I am the caravan of the Li family, which one is here?" The Tang family's hunting team has also died a lot, although everyone has their own grudges, but the broken bones are still connected to the tendons, don't go too far!"

He was answered by a few screams, and then there was silence.

"What's the matter? Why is there no sound at all, are the people of the Tang family still alive?" The leader of the caravan shouted hesitantly, but he didn't get any response, his face immediately changed drastically, he threw himself on the weapon on the ground, and shouted: "Quick! Hurry up and pick up the weapon!"

The members of the caravan were hunting teams when they were on vacation, that is, sand thieves, and his feelings told him that the sneak attackers had probably exterminated the Tang family's hunting team, and they didn't mind exterminating the Li family's caravan as well!

Everyone got their weapons and gathered in horror and guarded, cursing inwardly, damn it, is there a need to be so fierce? What kind of company is this going to unify this trade route? This kind of offending a colleague is only an idiot would do this, right?

The group of caravans were nervously guarded for a while, but there was still no sound, and for a while everyone couldn't help but look at the caravan leader, but they quickly looked away, fearing that the leader would order them to go to the dark to investigate.

Just as the leader was about to give the order, the sound of feet stepping on the sand was heard, which was very deafening in the silent night where only firewood had exploded.

All the members of the caravan clenched their blades and watched carefully at the place where the sound came, and after a while, footsteps sounded in all directions, apparently surrounding them.