When the caravan stopped and began to build fortifications, Leo's pack cart became part of the fortifications under his command, and its location was right next to the convoy where the child was.

After the packer had set up the pack beast, he jumped into the cart and hid in the tent, and erected the planks used to defend against arrows in the tent to add a little defense, and took up a pair of old crossbows hidden in the cart, and sat nervously near the entrance, looking out.

While nervously checking the situation outside, he also told Leo the news he had discovered, and was worried that Leo didn't know about the sand thief, and also told some information about the owl in detail.

This owl is both the name of a group of sand pirates and the name of a person, and no one knows what this person's original name was, but it can be seen from the imprint on his body that he was supposed to be a slave.

The outside world does not know how the Owl went from a slave to the leader of the Sand Pirates, and the various tribes of Savile only knew that the Owl was very bold in his first move, and he led his men to plunder the taxes paid to the kingdom by the various western city-states.

This raid alarmed the kingdom, and the kingdom immediately sent troops to cooperate with the rangers of various western city-states to encircle and suppress their gangs, but they were led by the owl to play a lot of tricks, not only the soldiers were lost, but even the kingdom's envoys died in the Great Gus Desert.

Since then, the reputation of the owl has spread throughout the kingdom of Savile, and the owl has become a representative of the sand pirate group in the Great Gus Desert. In the following ten years, he escaped countless encirclements from the kingdom and tribes, and grew stronger and stronger, almost becoming the uncrowned king of the Great Gus Desert.

It's just that the owls rarely come to the side of the Little Gus Desert to plunder, because the Little Gus Desert is too small, only one-tenth the size of the Big Gus Desert, in case they encounter the king** and the rangers of the city-state, they have no place to hide.

After recounting the information of the owl, the owner of the pack car analyzed: "I guess this may not be the main force of the owl, but just a detachment of theirs who came out to hunt wild food, with our numbers and defenses here, as long as we don't mess around, there won't be much danger." ”

"Looks like you're not a simple packer driver!" Leo said with a smile as he listened to the other's words.

"You're not a simple hire either. The driver of the packer smiled and said.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside, and then a group of neatly armored cavalry appeared on the sand dunes where they were, most of these cavalrymen were armed with bows and arrows and spears, and only a few of them had mechanical crossbows in their hands, although they seemed to be a lot of people, but if you counted them carefully, you can find that their number was only a hundred people, only one-third of the number of caravans.

"Sure enough, it's a detachment. The driver of the packer stepped forward, looked carefully at the scene outside, then retracted and said, "However, it is not easy to deal with! These guys are the detachment that has been given the flag." ”

"The detachment that awarded the flag?" Leo looked at the packer driver with some confusion.

"That guy is worried that his men will be too big, so when the number of men and horses under his command increases to a certain number, he will forcibly divide the extra people, award the flag, and become an independent detachment. The packer replied earnestly: "These guys are different from those who have just joined the detachment and have been incorporated into the detachment, they are veterans who have really seen blood and know how to catch prey. ”

Leo smiled and said, "You shouldn't have been a man before, right?"

The packer driver did not answer Leo's words, as if he had not heard.

At this time, the sand thieves outside stood on the sand dunes and overlooked the caravan's camp, turned their horses' heads, and left the sand dunes one after another, feeling as if they could not take the caravan, so they gave up the raid.

In the caravan, many people had the same idea after seeing this scene, and then breathed a sigh of relief, and some people even cheered quietly, as if they had won a hard battle.

"Fools, those guys are just playing with their prey!" said the packer driver with a look of disdain when he heard the whispered cheers outside.

Although the vast majority of the caravan thought the crisis was over, there were still people who knew that it was not that simple.

I saw that the caravan leader ordered two of his men to go out to inquire about the situation, and the two had just left the camp and rode up to the sand dunes on pack beasts, when they saw more than a dozen arrows shot from behind the sand dunes and instantly pierced the two people, killing them on the spot.

Then he saw a sand thief emerge from behind the dunes on a pack beast, casually looked at the caravan's camp, and then took the two pack beasts that had lost their owners away, leaving only two corpses lying on the dunes.

At this moment, the camp was instantly silent, and everyone did not say anything more, and an almost frozen atmosphere surrounded the caravan.

"It's really a bunch of fools, since you already know the number of opponents, you should concentrate your people and rush out to fight with the other party, like this kind of passive defense, the longer it drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be. The packer driver looked at the situation inside the camp and couldn't help but curse, then he turned to look at the small group of tailgators outside the camp and whispered, "I hope the worst doesn't happen!"

"Do you think there are fellow sand thieves among those people?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

The driver of the pack car said with a solemn expression: "I hope not." ”

"It's a pity that your hopes are going to be disappointed. Leo shook his head, he had already sensed all the movements around him through the spirit net, and naturally he was very clear about what was happening in that small team now.

When the driver of the packer heard Leo's words, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand the meaning of Leo's words for a while.

Leo didn't explain, saying, "Get ready! ”

Almost as Leo's words fell, the sound of pack beasts stepping on the sand came from the direction of the dunes, and then the sand thieves reappeared, quickly approaching the caravan camp, and then when they reached the limit of the caravan camp's bow and arrows, they split in two, moving quickly around the caravan camp, and when they moved again, they kept pulling their bows and shooting arrows at the camp.

As the packer said, these sand thieves were veterans, and the same was true of the use of bows and arrows, and several rounds of bows and arrows suppressed the caravan so that it was impossible to fight back, and a few people tried to fight back, and as soon as they appeared, they became the targets of arrows, and with such a precedent, others did not dare to emerge from hiding.

After a few rounds of attacks, the sand pirates regrouped and returned to the sand dunes, overlooking the caravan already filled with arrows, and turned and descended to the other side of the dune.

Although it was already known that the sand thieves had retreated, no one in the caravan camp dared to take the lead to check the situation, and even if only a few people died, the caravan itself was not injured, but the overall morale of the caravan was hit to the bottom.

At this moment, the small group of people who were following on the other side suddenly moved towards this side, and those who noticed this immediately became vigilant and warned the others.

Although the caravan men were a little powerless to deal with the battle-hardened sand thieves, they were still heroic in dealing with the small caravans that followed behind, shouting for them to stop, and aiming their bows and arrows at them.

However, soon the guards of the caravan felt that their strictness was really too much, because the group of people they faced were some old, weak, sick and disabled, and they saw that many of them were hit by arrows, and they could only be carried by their companions, dying, thinking that the group of sand thieves just now saw that they had not been able to break through the caravan's camp, and vented their anger with these people.

"Stop!" a guard on the roof of the car shouted as the group approached the camp and aimed his weapon at the men.

"We ask for asylum, and I pray for asylum according to the law of asylum. The man leading the group lowered all his weapons, then took a few steps forward and shouted loudly into the camp.

Hearing the shout, the leader in charge of the guard also knew that this matter was not up to him, so he motioned to the people to stay and stay still, and then go to someone who could take care of things.

In one of the pack carts, which served as a fortification, Leo sat leisurely on the soft velvet blanket, looked nervously out at the pack car, and asked, "What is the law of asylum?"

The driver of the pack car said: "The law of shelter is that if you encounter a danger of life and death in the desert, you can ask for help from other tribes passing by, and the passing tribes cannot turn a blind eye. ”

"And what does the caller have to pay?" asked Leo again.

"Quite simply, all the belongings of the helper will belong to the helper, and the helper must also be a slave under the helper for three years, and if he dies within those three years, then the helper will not be held responsible. The packer explained: "This is a very harsh law, and if it were not really on the verge of life and death, no one would ask for the law of asylum." With that, he turned to look at Leo and asked, "Do you think there is something wrong with those people?"

Leo smiled and didn't answer.

However, the owner of the packer had already guessed Leo's thoughts, so he asked suspiciously, "Since you already know that there is a problem, why didn't you remind them?"

Leo replied indifferently: "Why should I remind them? If I am not mistaken, I have already paid the money, and I have given up the car to transport the goods for them, I should have fulfilled my duty, and now it is they who have fulfilled their obligation to protect us." ”

By this time, the caravan director had also arrived at the edge of the defensive position, and he was hesitating whether he should accept these people.

Because of the attack of the sand thieves just now, the caravan leaders who were originally confident that they could survive the next round of attacks were at a loss, and now someone joined them to replenish their manpower, no matter what, it was a good thing, but they were a little worried that these people were actually those sand thieves, once these people entered the camp, then if the sand thieves should cooperate with the outside, the defense of the camp would collapse, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

And just as the caravan master hesitated to accept them, the sand pirates reappeared on the dunes, only this time they were not heading for the caravan's walls, but for the small caravan survivors who were praying for shelter.

Spotting the sand thieves attacking, the survivors of the small caravan panicked, they tried to escape but couldn't run far, and a large number of arrows were fired at them.

At this time, some of the people who carried their wounded companions on their backs had to use their companions as shields, blocking the incoming arrows, and surviving the rain of arrows from the sand thieves.

The sand pirates also seemed to be prey to the small caravan survivors lying on the ground as some kind of play, and after shooting the first round of arrows, they turned their horses' heads back up on the sand dunes and disappeared to the other side.

At this time, the survivors of the small caravan got up from under the corpses of their companions full of arrows, and after a round of slaughter, there were only less than forty survivors left, and half of them were wounded, and it seemed that they had no combat effectiveness.

Seeing that these survivors were already like this, the caravan director felt that it would not be a problem to contain these people, and decided in his heart that after these people came in, he would disperse them all into different teams, and when the war with the sand pirates officially began, he would send these people out first.

Just as the caravan supervisor was about to have a hole open in the convoy's fortifications and let these people in, the packer driver hired by Leo hurriedly ran over and shouted, "Don't let them in, they are all sand thieves!"

Hearing the shouts of the packer driver, the caravan director didn't believe it at first, but the survivors outside the car, thinking that they were exposed, took out a delicate small bow and crossbow from under their robes, and shot at the guards on the carriage.

The caravan leader bore the brunt of the attack, being shot by nearly ten arrows, only to see one of them even shot into his brain, killing him instantly, and several of the guards were only slightly injured because they instinctively became vigilant when they heard the warning and made a hiding.

The movement here also alarmed the other people around, those guards came to support, and the sand thieves disguised as survivors outside the convoy had no time to re-line the bow and crossbow after a round of attacks, loaded the arrows, and they were all completely exposed in front of people, there was no place to hide, and after the guards on the car scattered below zero, nearly forty sand thieves all fell to the ground.

As soon as the battle here was over, the sand thieves who had retreated before reappeared on the sand dunes over there, and they looked at the corpses of their companions lying on the ground, all of them remained motionless.

The atmosphere suddenly froze, and everyone in the convoy thought that these sand thieves had finally become angry because of the death of their companions, and launched the most violent attack.

But after a while, something surprising happened to everyone, only to see one of the leading sand thieves suddenly, wave his arm, and then the entire sand pirate team turned around and disappeared into the sand dunes again.

Although there were no clues at the moment, everyone in the convoy agreed that the sand thieves should have left and that they were all safe.