It is a bit excessive to use rockfall in the valley for a convoy transporting grain and grass. After all, in the vicinity of Xiaocang Mountain, there is only one valley suitable for this kind of ambush, and although the valley is full of strange rocks, there are only so many that can be used to turn into rolling stones. If you rashly use the Rolling Stones to attack the convoy this time, if you encounter the Principality's clearance in the future, it will be equivalent to one less big killing weapon. A big killer that has the potential to turn the tide once and for all.

Although the team is itching with hatred for the team, it is still sensible and can distinguish the pros and cons - it is important to avenge his team deputy and other leaders, but it is too unwise to use the foundation of Xiaocangshan as the price. To avenge the brothers is to better unite the whole group, not to bury them.

"No need to go to the third ambush circle. The team made a decision after a little consideration, "The whole team forced the march and immediately went to the second ambush circle. Don't try to annihilate all of them, but at least knock out five of them!"

The bandits of Xiaocangshan, who had received clear instructions, did not hesitate to turn their heads and run towards the second ambush circle. Judging by their decisive reaction, the salaries that Baron Tucson offered to Imperial officers were not in vain. It's just that the Imperial officers are accustomed to swaggering marching formations, after all, the Empire has always used those light cavalry in the wilderness as its biggest opponent. The march was all about speed and efficiency, but completely disregarding the concealment and suddenness of the march - that thing was really useless in front of the light cavalry.

For a time, the mountains and forests shook, and many perched birds were frightened. They hovered over the heads of the bandits in Xiaocang Mountain, protesting with the sharpest and most poignant screams against the bandits who had suddenly invaded their homes. Even if Yu Qian was blind, he could hear that something was wrong.

"My lord, there are sudden surprises in front of you, I'm afraid there is a large army marching in the mountains and forests!" A Duchy knight rushed over and found Yu Qian, who was sitting in a daze on the carriage, and smashed his chest with his right fist and said in a deep voice, "The captain sent me to ask for orders, are we going to defend on the spot, or do we take the initiative to go up the mountain to find the enemy?"

Yu Qian turned his head to look at the knight, and his eyes seemed to be focused on the knight for a long time. "Do you have a carriage?"

Yu Qian regretted it.

It was not difficult to drive a horse-drawn carriage, but it was too much of a drain to control sixty horse-drawn carriages at the same time. Even a divine servant can't stand it after a long time of doppelganger. More than a hundred slightly different perspectives suddenly flooded into my mind, and the feedback from each perspective had to be processed at any time. Yu Qian felt that his brains were about to boil.

"If it's just for a short distance, it's fine. Although the knight didn't know what the Divine Servant in front of him meant, the strict training made him completely give up the plan to find out. "But the horses that no one rides have to be tied to the back of the wagon, which will drag the line and slow down the whole procession. ”

"It doesn't matter. Yu Qian was overjoyed, "You go back to the team now and find someone to come and take over the carriage for me." ”

"Yes, my lord!" the knight bowed his head and asked again, "what about the order, do we need to take the initiative?"

Yu Qian waved his hand, he just wanted to get rid of the boring work of driving a carriage now, and then do something to change his mood. "Leave the leisurely work of attacking to me, and you send someone to inform Olinger so that they can return to the convoy with them. I'll take care of the rest. ”

In the mood of changing his mood, Yu Qian relieved himself of his mirror clone with a relaxed face and stood up from the leading carriage. Snapping his fingers lightly, with a soft "bang", two sparrows appeared in Yu Qian's hand out of thin air. The chirp landed on Yu Qian's shoulder.

"Keep an eye on the people running around in the woods. Yu Qian whispered, "Look where they are hiding." ”

Of course, Yu Qian also knew that it was absolutely impossible for the other party to rush down the valley in a swarm to attack the convoy - that was too amateurish. I'm afraid that before I can run to the bottom of the hillside, I will have to be trampled to death by the other bandits who lost their balance. Therefore, the other party will definitely launch an ambush somewhere, block the passage and then attack, which is the safe way to be a car bandit road rage.

However, the bandits in Xiaocangshan don't plan to be car bandits and road rages, others may be more interested in goods, and the bandits in Xiaocangshan only plan to kill people and take revenge. Then it doesn't matter if you intercept the carriage, it doesn't hurt to run. It would be nice to kill a few more people to vent their anger.

The whole convoy stopped and began to gather, and the knights of the principality turned their horses' heads and moved closer to the rear team, and sixty younger knights dismounted and took over the carriage driven by Yu Qian. After the knights tied their horses to their carts, the Assassins, who had stayed away from the convoy, received a clear order to retreat to the convoy to strengthen their vigilance. The Assassins were still a little far away from the convoy, a distance of more than a kilometer, and it didn't take long to ride their horses with all their might, but in the absence of an emergency, just a normal mobilization, the Assassins chose a normal speed.

On the other hand, the bandits of Xiaocangshan had just entered the ambush position. Since they did not pursue the hijacking and capturing of vehicles, they did not set up tripping horses, but rested in place and began to eat and drink to replenish their strength according to the regulations. The team and several remaining leaders are working on a final battle plan.

"Since you also said it, don't ask for money, just kill people. The leader of the firearms battalion scratched his head with a quill and pointed to the ridgelines on the map, "Then just let me and my brothers set up artillery in these locations." Six artillery guns bombarded the first round of the damn one, not with solid bullets, all with flowering shells. At most, two or three cars were damaged, and a dozen or so horses were damaged. But none of the knights who have dressed themselves in iron will be able to escape. ”

The team was looking at where the leader of the firearms battalion was pointing, and then at where the ridgeline was. The bandits of Xiaocangshan went out of the camp this time as an emergency operation, and it was impossible to bring any heavy firearms under the forced march, and the biggest guy was a rough copper cannon more than half a meter long. A cannon has to weigh three people. After the forced march, both the firearms battalion and the infantry battalion that could help lost a lot of physical strength. It was a bit reluctant to deploy six guns in one go in mountainous conditions. According to the spies' report, the wagon convoy would pass through the ambush circle in fifteen minutes, and the artillery would all be deployed, and time would not allow.

"Let's get out with three cannons. One door is placed in the main formation, and the remaining two doors are lined up on the flanks. The team pointed to the two closest firing points on the map, "Don't take anyone with you except the necessary manpower." Prepare three salvos of ammunition, and immediately abandon the gun and retreat after the battle. Beware of the opponent's counter-assault. ”

"Yes!" The commander of the firearms battalion wiped his forehead with his ink-stained hand, leaving five black marks on his bare head, waved at the bandits behind him, and drank until "Do you hear it?"

One hundred and twenty bandits rose in unison, two of them went straight to the firing point, and the remaining team took off a half-man-high shovel from their backs and began intense earthwork about twenty meters to the right of the team's observation position. In less than ten minutes, a trapezoidal flat-topped platform was dug up, and after being compacted with a shovel, the rubble scattered on the hillside was collected. Soon a low stone wall was built around the perimeter of the earthen platform with gravel. As a fortification for defense and a slope protection to increase the strength of the platform.

The firearms battalion, which was nervously adjusting the artillery at the end, didn't have time to pay attention to the situation on the road in the ambush circle, but the team leader, as the commander, first noticed that something was wrong, "What is that guy doing?

Yu Qian was wearing a purple python robe, wearing a crown of eight beams of gold thread, carrying a jade belt and a jade pendant around his waist, and holding a white mutton fat jade wat with a whole body. Slowly walk to the road in the center of the ambush circle and slowly stop. As soon as he turned around, he stood still facing the direction of the ambush of the bandits in Xiaocang Mountain. Bend your arms to chest height, shake your sleeves, and reveal your left hand and right hand holding the wat board. He straightened the eight-beam crown on his head with his hand, and said in a deep voice to the seemingly empty hillside in front of him, "Ladies and gentlemen, have you been waiting here for a while?"

The team was looking at Yu Qian, who was wearing a purple robe in the ambush circle, and originally thought that it might just be a passing business trip, but he didn't have any luggage on him, and he didn't drive. Just as he was about to raise his vigilance, the team saw that the suspicious guy turned to himself and the others, and then opened his mouth to speak.

The man obviously didn't use any high-level samurai's power skills when he spoke, let alone with the help of the subtle spells of the elemental user. With nothing to help amplify the sound, the sound effortlessly traveled hundreds of meters and reached the ears of the team members clearly. In a very calm tone, he politely said, "You've been waiting for a long time, haven't you?"

The team only felt that his whole body was shivering in an instant, and for a while he was as dynamic as a mouse targeted by a giant python. The person in front of him is definitely not a duchy knight or a mage, only those mysterious priests in the church can do this kind of thing. The team was instantly full of thoughts, and the commoners who were hanged by the nobles for offending the church had seen not a hundred but fifty. Thinking that the other party had already discovered their traces, and they were still lying in ambush on the hillside, they even set up copper cannons to pose as an attacker. No matter how you explain this situation, I am afraid that I and these thousand brothers will not escape death. Thinking of this, the team used all the courage that was squeezed out of their bodies, their eyes widened in anger, and their throats were hoarse because of the exertion, shouting, "Fire, fire, fire!!"

All three guns fired at the same time, and the gunpowder charged into the barrel was ignited instantly. A large amount of scorching gas was driven by the barrel of the gun, and gushed out towards the muzzle. drove the steel balls, iron nails and other sundries stuffed in the muzzle of the gun, and shot out towards Yu Qian, who was standing in the middle of the road!