Actually, this kind of escort task is not very hard.

Because all but the leader of Bappa rode a black horse alone, everyone else sat in the carriage. The proprietor sat alone in a beautiful carriage, while the rest of the caravan and the mercenaries sat in the seats at the front of the carriage.

This two-seater carriage is drawn by two horses, with a person in front and a cart full of goods pulled behind.

Naturally, the speed of the carriage was not much faster, but only slightly faster than a pedestrian walking on his feet.

However, it is already a good thing for the mercenaries to be able to walk without their own feet and travel in a horse-drawn carriage. Although the seats in the carriage were a little bumpy and uncomfortable after sitting for a long time.

Ryan sat in a carriage in the middle of the caravan, and next to him sat a strong man who was driving a caravan for the caravan. According to Bapa's previous request, Ryan, who was sitting in the carriage, only needed to keep an eye on his surroundings at all times to prevent anyone from approaching the convoy or disadvantageous to the convoy.

The strong man who drove the car was very talkative, and he talked to Ryan almost non-stop along the way, so that Ryan did not feel lonely at all.

Ryan still liked the strong man's speech, and he listened quietly, occasionally answering a few words. The strong man talked a lot about it, the most important thing is his experience of going south and north in the past few years. This allows Ryan to know more about this world, although the content of the strong man is a bit exaggerated, and the real situation needs to be discounted.

The convoy had been walking for a long time, and it was already far away from Kata City, and Ryan could no longer see Kata City when he turned around.

According to the strong man, the caravan would always walk on the official roads built by the principality. The first two or three days of the trip was very safe, because the places that were walked were close to the town, and no robbers dared to rob them.

After that, the journey is a bit dangerous, because the distance is in the middle of nowhere, and there are even days to cross a forest. This requires a sense of resonance to avoid accidents.

The last two or three days of the trip are also relatively safe, also because of the proximity to some towns.

Ryan asks the strong man, Rafsky, about the robbers. Speaking of robbers, Loughski spat even more.

From the conversation, Ryan learned that there are many robbers in the barren mountains and mountains of this world, and these robbers range from single to group, to small gangs, and even to several large gangs.

The strength of the robbers is uneven, most of the robbers are ordinary people who can't even reach the swordsman, but you can't underestimate these non-swordsman robbers, some robbers have rich combat experience, and a level 1 swordsman is not careful, it is easy to be defeated.

There are also some robbers who have the level of swordsmen, and these robbers either flee the city after committing a crime, or are forced by the enemy, so they become robbers. Of course, there are inevitably some people who are willing to degenerate and are willing to do this lucrative industry. Among them, the vast majority of robbers are low-level swordsmen, and the number of robbers of middle-level swordsmen is very small, and the number of high-level swordsmen is not clear, and it is estimated that the number should be less.

The robbers have a very strong eye, and when they look at the condition of the passerby, they can judge the strength of the other party and decide whether to rob or not. In general, walking alone, or in small caravans, were the targets of these robbers. Of course, this is not absolute.

Like the caravan that Ryan is escorting now, there are as many as forty or fifty caravan members plus mercenaries, which is something that those robbers who are gangs of less than ten people dare not provoke. As for those large bandit gangs, it is estimated that they do not look down on the goods of this caravan, and generally do not surrender their identities to rob them.

I'm afraid of those gangs of dozens of people, they are specialized in robbing such caravans. Usually when encountering such bandit gangs, the caravan will first offer and give a sum of gold to the robbers in exchange for their release. But if the situation can't be negotiated, then the mercenaries will need to work hard.

However, Rafsky also reminded Ryan not to worry, the strength of the mercenaries in the caravan is still very strong, and the robbers do not dare to fight with the mercenaries, they value their lives more than anyone else. Therefore, this mission is generally thrilling and dangerous.

The day passed quickly, and night began to fall, and the caravan walking on the official road did not continue to hurry, but chose to camp and rest on a large flat land next to the official road.

Ryan and his group of mercenaries don't need to help set up camp, they just need to spread out around and be responsible for guarding and guarding. These tasks were done by the hired men and coachmen of the caravanserans, which they had done many times, and those who walked in the wilderness were too familiar to do it.

Ryan hadn't seen these camping scenes, but he had seen them with relish.

The caravan coachmen formed a circle of all the wagons, unloaded the horses, pulled them into the circle, and let them drink and eat feed to rest.

The hired men set up more than a dozen tents at intervals around the carriage and formed a circle around it.

The tent is a square with a spire, about three or four meters long and wide. The tent was covered with a thick cloth on all sides, leaving only a small hole for people to burrow into and rest.

"It's too much like a tent from a previous life." Ryan's first impression when he saw it.

When the coachmen and hired men had finished their work, they gathered together and began to prepare dinner.

They first hung a number of oil lamps on the wagon, planted more than a dozen lighted torches on the ground next to the tent to illuminate the surroundings to facilitate cargo guarding and patrolling, and then lit a bonfire in an open space between the tents.

Then they prepared supper, and first hung up a large cauldron, and lit a small bonfire under the cauldron, in which water was boiled, and when the water was boiled, a large piece of chopped jerky was put in, and a large pot of broth was boiled.

On the way, everyone's staple food is pancakes and jerky, which are soaked in a thick soup and then roasted on a campfire before eating.

When it was almost time for dinner, the leader of Bucka gathered all the mercenaries together and began to assign vigil tasks.

The task is very simple, divide all the mercenaries into two groups, one group eats first, and then goes to replace the other group of mercenaries responsible for guarding to eat. Similarly, the vigil is divided into two groups, one group goes to bed first, sleeps until midnight, and then gets up to replace the other group of vigil.

The way of the vigil is also very simple, spread out and stand outside the tent to prevent outsiders from approaching. Once an abnormal situation is found, it is enough to stop and warn you.

Ryan was assigned to the first batch, eating first and keeping vigil first. With the thick broth, the first time he ate the fluffy pancakes and jerky, Ryan felt that there was something special.

After gobbling it up, Ryan thought it would be a good dinner, and he went to replace one of the other mercenaries.

According to the arrangement of the leader of Bapa, Ryan has to keep guarding the tent more than 20 meters away until midnight, this kind of work may be a very tiring job for others, but for the extremely energetic Ryan, it is a trivial matter.

Before, the mercenaries had already planted more than a dozen lit torches at intervals in the outermost circle, so that the mercenaries who were keeping vigil could see the scene ahead. So Ryan doesn't need to do anything else when he changes shifts, he just needs to be silently guarded.

The night on the plain was a little frozen, and there was also a slight cool breeze, which blew the lit torches flickering and flashing, and the area illuminated by the torches was suddenly dark and bright, which increased the difficulty of the vigil.

Ryan had already added an extra coat and lit a small bonfire at the vigil to keep warm.

Perhaps because of its proximity to the town, Ryan, who was keeping vigil, did not notice any unusual characters, and soon the vigil time passed.

Ryan, who was replaced to sleep in the middle of the night, tossed and turned for a long time before falling asleep in a daze.

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For the first two days, the caravan went smoothly, and there were no long-sighted robbers who came to harass them.

By the third day, things started to be different.

At the end of the day, several bandits tried to approach the caravan, but the number was small, and the largest group was about ten people.

But as soon as they approached, the caravan's mercenaries immediately warned them.

The leader of Baba quickly rode up to meet him, and he didn't say anything else, but raised the long sword in his hand, and a sword more than a foot long burst out.

In this way, seeing that the caravan had intermediate swordsmen, the robbers did not dare to step forward, and hurriedly retreated.

This made Rui An, who was originally planning to fight a big battle, secretly scold, the robbers were too spineless.

At night, the caravan was even more on full alert, in addition to the mercenaries keeping vigil on the periphery, the caravan also arranged for more than a dozen hired workers and coachmen to keep vigil in the inner circle. It was so hard to keep the night safe.

Fortunately, no robbers came to attack for several nights.