Hearing some panicked voices outside, Lao Li and Han Tian glanced at each other, quickly opened the car curtain, and looked out.

"What's wrong? What's up? Han Tian raised the curtain and asked.

"The palm, the shopkeeper, big, the big thing is not good, there is an army in front, there is an army....."

The pathfinder jumped off his horse, holding on to the carriage and gasping for breath, talking as if he were pulling a bellows.

"The army? What army? ”

The shopkeeper Han Tian was stunned, he has been walking this trade route for more than ten years, although there has never been a shortage of bandits, bandits, but the army, he really has never encountered it.

Although this is the junction of the three kingdoms, and the three kingdoms of Wu, Chu, and Zhao will deploy a large number of troops along the border to defend them, no country will send troops here. Because this place has penetrated deep into the Three Regions of Independence, the presence of the army of any one country here may cause misunderstanding between the other two countries, and a chaotic war will occur.

So under normal circumstances, there will be no army here, and no country will risk the possibility of fighting with two other countries at the same time, unless a new round of chaos is about to begin.

"I don't know, but the other party is wearing uniform black clothes, the array is quite neat, and there are red flags, and they definitely won't be bandits." The guy who explored the path said with great certainty.

"Black clothes? Could it be the Mojia Army of the State of Chu? Impossible, the Ink Armor Army has always protected the Imperial City, so it will not appear here, and the military flag of the Ink Armor Army is black, could it be the ..... of the Wu Kingdom" The shopkeeper Han Tian frowned and shook his head to analyze.

He didn't suspect that the pathfinders were lying or misreading, because the pathfinders were well-informed and clever guys, and they were also people who the caravan trusted very much, so this kind of problem would not arise.

"Shopkeeper, should we go over and have a look?" On the side, Lao Li, who was in charge of the caravan's security issues, hesitated for a moment and asked.

"It's okay, Lao Li, let the caravan prepare for defense, let the guys be on alert, let's go to the front and see what the situation is."

The shopkeeper Han Tian pondered for a moment, and quickly made a decision, no matter what, the other party blocked their way, and it needed to be dealt with.

"Okay."

Lao Li nodded and quickly jumped out of the car, organizing the caravan to bring the tall caravan together as fast as possible, leaving some small gaps in the middle for defense. And the guys of the caravan stood behind the caravan with bows, arrows, knives and guns, ready to meet the enemy at any time.

This kind of work, for them, I don't know how many times to run a trade route, everyone is very familiar with it, all the movements are smooth and smooth, before and after only ten minutes, the original narrow and long dragon-like caravan has been shortened by nearly half of the length, and the defensive formation has been set.

And the shopkeeper Han Tian took Lao Li and dozens of sturdy men to ride forward on horseback.

.......

In the distance, Ji Liang trotted all the way with 2,500 town guards, carrying a shield and a sword and carrying a bow, and saw someone riding a horse from a distance.

Suddenly, Ji Liang, who was walking in the front, immediately stopped, took out the long knife he was carrying, and gave an order.

The commander holding a red flag immediately waved the flagpole in his hand and passed on the order.

In this era, there was no radio, no loudspeaker and the like, and the transmission of military orders generally relied on military flags, and the town guards were not excluded.

As for the military flag, it is used with a piece of red cloth for the time being, and it will be designed later, including the name of Sanzhi Town, Xu Chuan is also ready to change it.

Sanzhi Town, this sounds too awkward, and in the future, the Sanzhi area will not need the three major countries to manage, so it needs to be renamed again.

"Stop advancing, change formation, battle formation, fast, fast, fast!"

The military flag gave the order, and the battalion commander, company commander, and captain below roared one after another.

Under the leadership of the squad leader at the grassroots level, the formation that was originally conducive to moving forward like a long snake quickly merged together. At the front are shieldmen holding half-human heights.

Behind the shield men were snatchers with bamboo spears and triangular spears, and the archers at the back also attached their arrows to the iron embryo bows, ready to shoot at any time.

In two or three minutes, a rectangular army nearly 100 meters wide was arrayed, and pressed forward with neat steps.

"Huh~", Han Tian, the shopkeeper of the caravan who rushed over, pulled the reins of the horse hard, and the black horse under him stood up, and stopped after screaming a few times.

"Who is the brother in front? Below is Han Tian, the shopkeeper of the world merchants of the Chu State. I don't know if you've ever heard of a name? Han Tian rode on his horse, looked at the town guards not far away, and shouted loudly with his hands arched.

For those of them who are traders, a loud voice is a necessary skill, and in these years, for businessmen, when they meet strangers on the road, no matter who they communicate with, they have to rely on yelling, and it is unlikely that the other party will come closer.

"Listen to those in front, please back off immediately, or you will be dealt a fatal blow."

Beside Ji Liang, a soldier raised a makeshift iron horn and shouted loudly, while the town guards did not stop, still pressing forward.

Han Tian also had to retreat backwards, until he retreated into the caravan, and the strange army also reached less than two hundred meters in front of the caravan, and finally stopped.

Han Tian was a little dissatisfied, no matter how he shouted and asked, the other party just asked him to retreat, but in this situation he was helpless, the perennial experience of running merchants told him that they were not the opponents of the other party at all, and they could only retreat again and again.

"Shopkeeper, what should we do next?" Beside him, Lao Li leaned over and asked in a low voice, with his experience,

"Don't move yet, let's see." Han Tian frowned and replied, he couldn't figure out the situation on the other side, but fortunately, the other party didn't have any other actions at the moment except for pressing it over.

On the other side, Ji Liang led the guards in front of the caravan and gave an order.

"Bow ready, one hundred and eighty meters, prepare for a salvo!"

Ji Liang shouted in a low voice with a straight face, and the order was passed down one by one, and the archers standing behind the spearmen raised their iron-tired bows one after another, put their bows on their arrows, and waited for their commander to confirm the order.

"One hundred and eighty meters, twenty-five degrees of arm raising!"

The leader of the archer's squad used a simple wooden horn made by Xu Chuan to stand it on his chest, and then raised his arm at a twenty-five degree angle, and the other bows and arrows around him immediately adjusted their bow angles.

For this method to determine the range of the bow and arrow, everyone admires the town guards, simple methods, simple training can basically make the town guards form a roughly uniform range, greatly enhance the combat capability.

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