Chapter 148: Dust Valley
Outside the Emerald City, four carriages walked leisurely.
"It's calm, it's really a little unsettling." Dowling said, leaning his head on the carriage.
"What's wrong with being calm, it's not interesting to be ambushed on all sides." Qu Jiu leisurely held the reins in one hand, and held the wine gourd in the other hand and kept shaking.
"I don't know, in short, my heart is always unsteady." Dowling shook his head and said.
"Don't worry, if there are any more people who don't have long eyes, I won't keep my hands outside the city, and I guess the master won't keep my hands either." Quit alcohol comfortingly.
"Then I hope no one will come to die." Dowling smiled after listening to the end of drinking.
At the same time, a mile behind them, a group of men in black was moving quickly, not on the official road, but through the woods by the roadside.
And Wang Tianfang also received the news at this time and had already begun to arrange tactics.
"Let's continue to the south, and another twenty miles will be the Valley of Dust, which is suitable for ambushes, otherwise this army of 10,000 people will be too conspicuous." Wang Tianfang swiped his finger across the strategic map, and finally dotted on the map.
"Dust Valley? Wouldn't it be too far to rule that place? The training staff officer asked in a deep voice.
"We have such a big move, we must ensure that nothing goes wrong, not only that, let's try not to make too much of a fuss, after all, we are imperial guards, not bandits and bandits." Wang Tianfang patted the map and said.
"The commander is really far-sighted, and his subordinates are ashamed of themselves." The training staff complimented.
"Nonsense, otherwise how would Lao Tzu be the commander!" Wang Tianfang patted the head of the training staff officer, just like a dog.
The training staff officer had a flattering smile on his face, but in his heart, he scolded Wang Tianfang's ancestors for all eight generations.
"Do you have what it takes to be the commander? That's not what your family paid for, how smart you are, it's just a big move to take off your pants and fart. ”
The training staff officer scolded in his heart, but he still had to have a smile on his face.
"Alright, stop laughing, gather the team and go." Wang Tianfang patted the head of the training staff officer again and said.
The training staff nodded and retreated, and after a while, the men and horses slowly moved, after all, they were well-trained imperial guards, and even if they were suddenly ordered, they were executed in an orderly manner.
In addition to the large troops, each squad also left one person responsible for cleaning up the traces, completely removing the traces of the army's overnight stay last night.
Everything was cleaned up, and the troops were speeding up to chase the big troops.
It was for this reason that Dowling and the others did not notice that there had been a large army stationed here as they passed by.
"How far have we come?" In the carriage, Taishi Xingwei asked lazily.
"It's about five miles away." Quit said, looking at the map.
"Wuli Road has not been intercepted, it should be fine, the old man is going to make up for sleep, and the Taoist boy drives steadily." Taishi Xingwei yawned and said.
"You sleep, I'll call you again if there's something." Dowling replied happily.
After a while, there was a slight snoring sound in the carriage, and Dowling and Qu Drinking looked at each other and smiled, there is an old man in the family who has a treasure, this old man is really interesting, where is he like a master of the creation realm.
The carriage moved at a steady pace, and the team of men in black behind them quickly caught up with them.
"Didn't you say that Wang Tianfang's escort army was around here? What about people? The man in black watched the four carriages move forward safely and wondered.
"Yes, the information I got from the escort team is that this is the vicinity, could it be that they have changed and haven't come to inform us?"
"Brothers, the carriage is far away in a while, let's look around and see if we can find the clues left by our own people."
The carriage quickly disappeared from view.
"There is a sign here, come and see." Suddenly, someone shouted, and the men in black quickly came over.
"The ambush site has been changed to Dust Valley." A man in black muttered.
"Why did you suddenly change the location, let's leave a mark for the hall master, hurry up and follow."
"Well, that's the only way, it's a twenty-mile leg, this Wang Tianfang is really damned!"
The men in black kept complaining, full of resentment towards the Guardian Commander.
"Let's go, we have to rest when we get to the Valley of Dust."
A group of men in black had no choice but to use their legs to start running wildly, and this time they did not follow behind Dolling's carriage but directly bypassed them to increase their speed.
At noon, Daolin and the others finally came to the Valley of Dust, this valley is the only way for the Emerald City to lead to the imperial capital, the whole journey is hundreds of miles, to cross the entire Mingchuan Mountain Range, and after this valley and then walk more than a thousand miles to reach the imperial capital.
At noon, Dowling parked the carriage on a meadow to allow the horses to rest and eat.
"We're about to enter the Mingchuan Mountains, so we are going to spend the night in the mountains tonight." Dowling said as he lit a fire.
The rest of the people stretched their waists to hear him, and after sitting in the carriage all morning, their bodies were a little tired.
"You don't need to spend the night in the mountains, there are many inns in this valley, so just find one to spend the night in." Taishi Xingwei climbed out of the carriage and said.
After a good night's sleep, his mental head looked pretty good.
"It's so nice to have a place to live, I thought I'd have to sleep in a carriage again." The three girls said with a smile.
"Originally, there was no inn in this valley, because it was not opened here before, and the so-called valley was all dense forests and meadows, and people had to go over mountains and mountains if they wanted to come over."
"Later, for the convenience of trade, the empire cleared this valley, and some smart people found business opportunities and built inns in this valley, and this valley also became a key trade route, so that some of the original mountain people also made a lot of benefits."
Taishi Xingwei sat by the fire and explained some of the things that happened here in the early years, and a group of people listened to it vividly.
"Do you say there are wild beasts in this mountain?" Chen Feng asked, looking at the towering mountain peaks in the distance.
"There must be, although this trade route is opened, there are still wild beasts, they often attack passing caravans, and some people who carry them become their rations." Taishi Xingwei sighed and said.
"That's scary, if you run into a jackal, tiger or leopard, you'll have to protect us." Bai Sakura said weakly.
"It's okay for others to say this, your exercises have no opponent in this place, and you make others lose face when you say this." Bai Luo touched his sister's head and said.
"Well, then I'll protect you." Shirakura grinned, looking very sweet.
"Okay, let's hurry up and eat, after eating, we should go on the road, or we can't find the inn after dark, we will really have to spend the night in the carriage, and if we really run into jackals, tigers and leopards, we will have to give them rations." Dowling said as he handed the boiled somen soup to the crowd.