On March 6, Zhou Bai's entourage caravan had left the county town for a day and a night, and the distance from Pingcang County was only half a distance.

The mild and colorful mid-spring sunny day quietly changed during this long journey, and the night fell, the wind howled extremely sharply, and the clouds were heavy.

At this time, the weather is gradually warmer, and the tribes on the grassland have tried their best to survive the cold winter, the cattle and sheep have lost their fat, the salt in the herdsmen's tents has been exhausted, and the fur has accumulated for a whole winter.

The Haoqiang and border generals of Cangbei County made a lot of money, but their materials could not meet the huge market of the grassland at all, so they could only give up part of their interests to the south of Cangshan.

Pingcang County is an important material transit station, and even caravans from other nearby states and counties also come here, and a large number of mutual markets are set up in the flat area at the foot of Cangshan Mountain.

Seeing that his peers were dumping goods in the field, the caravan also wanted to rush to Pingcang County as soon as possible, so he discussed with Zhou Bai to rush overnight.

A friend of the young master of the Qi family, this identity is enough for Zhou Bai to have part of the right to speak, after all, another important task of the caravan is to escort him.

It's okay to rush overnight, because this is a common thing in the process of business, but considering the existence of that black calamity, Zhou Bai insisted that he could only go along the official road.

Bei'an County belongs to the northern borderland, and military transportation is very important, so the post stations along the official road are extremely dense, and each post station is garrisoned by a small number of post soldiers.

Coupled with the caravan's own guards, even if there is a large-scale bandit robbery, they can deal with it temporarily.

Just walking, Zhou Bai looked at the dark night in front of him and felt that something was wrong, and a sense of crisis came to his mind inexplicably, and he subconsciously used the Xiao Cheng Wangqi technique.

Zhou Bai hadn't forgotten what he was so eager to raise the level of the Qi Hope Technique, just to find out the movement of the Qi Tribulation in advance.

The quiet black eyes looked at the uninhabited wilderness, and saw a black gas mixed with blood appearing more than ten miles away, this was not a black cloud at night, but a catastrophe that Zhou Bai glimpsed under the influence of luck.

Is it against him, or for the caravan? Or be implicated.

Zhou Bai opened the Book of Qi Luck Heavenly Book, and the black qi he had been guarding against was now quietly rushing into the foreign fortune.

And the floating luck from the Canglan water vein is dissipating, and most of the foreign transportation still has to protect the growing nature, and it is this black catastrophe that can actually wash Zhou Bai's external transportation to pieces.

You must know that he has just been hit by the first case, and he has the attention of the imperial court, and he can still be scattered by an unknown robbery, and this catastrophe may not come from ordinary bandits.

Zhou Bai immediately made a decision and immediately called the caravan steward.

The head steward of this caravan is called Qi Hong, the son of the Qi family, who has been the deputy treasurer of the Qijia county for more than ten years, and this time he is also the person in charge of any county shop in Pingcang County from the county seat.

Qi Hong was a little dazed, and was called to Zhou Bai to listen to his solemn question.

"Shopkeeper Hong, now you tell me if Qi Hua is for the sake of your stability, is my safety the most important?"

"Yes, of course, your safety is the most important thing on this trip." Qi Hong didn't know why, but he still replied very seriously.

Zhou Bai stretched out his hand and pointed to the spacious official road that was pitch black, and said sharply: "Okay, I don't care if you believe it or not, there is a large group of unknown enemies in front of us right now, and the target is us, you must immediately order the whole caravan to be on guard!" ”

"This, this, unknown enemy?"

"Then I will order the caravan to stop and camp at once." Qi Hong was full of doubts, but he ordered to be stationed and rest in a responsible manner.

Zhou Bai shook his head and said, "It's not enough, listen to me now, you can report all losses to your young master, do you know?!" ”

Qi Hong gritted his teeth, compared it a little in his heart, and came up with the answer.

This loss of delayed time, how could he offend the young master's friends, and when he came to Pingcang County to do business, he had to have the support of their Zhou family.

"Someone, listen to Zhou Gongzi's orders next, and all orders will be executed immediately!" Qi Hong made up his mind and immediately summoned the leader of the caravan and the captain of the guard.

"First, immediately send a fast horse back, and send a warning to the post stations and patrols along the way, please send troops to support."

"Second, immediately gather the caravan to escort it, assign the armor, and form a defensive chariot formation with a large chariot; The rest of the people who could not fight retreated three miles away along the official road in the dark, and after an hour lit torches and pretended to be reinforcements. ”

"Finally." After saying the first two points, Zhou Bai looked around and paused.

"Send someone straight to the county seat, if we don't report our safety tomorrow morning, ask Qi Hua to collect our corpses to avenge us."

Seeing that Zhou Bai said something terrifying, even if several team leaders didn't think that any bandit was so bold and dared to attack the Qi family's caravan on the official road, they all carried out the order.

"I won't drag down the lord!" Chen Zhongbang's face was solemn, and he accompanied the evacuation of non-combatants.

Zhou Bai was not at ease, and explained that saving his life at the time of crisis was the first priority, so he divided two guards to go over.

"Move, hurry up, there are bandits coming, push the cart outside, form a circle!"

"The first and second teams guarded the back of the car with swords and shields, the third and fourth teams came to receive bows and arrows to live in the inner circle, and the fifth team protected Zhou Gongzi and the most important salt car!"

With the sound of hurried shouting, one caravan escort after another moved, they were worthy of being from the Qi family, and they acted in an orderly manner when they suddenly changed.

While Zhou Bai was checking the defense loopholes everywhere with a veteran style, he also felt a little emotion in his heart, and he could only say that Xingwubo's legacy still exists.

Even if in order to glorify the lintel, the Qi family changed their careers from the previous generation, but the relationship between the army has not been completely lost.

In order to survive in his previous life, Zhou Bai also learned the art of war and led the soldiers.

From his eyes, of course, he could see that there were many veterans among these guards, who might be wounded and retreating border soldiers, or simply elites dug up by the Qi family.

Before a stick of incense, nearly a hundred guards surrounded the baggage cart in a circle, and there were a lot of iron and cloth on it, which was just used to strengthen the defense.

At this time, the caravan guards, who had enough experience, also sensed that something was wrong, and they were lying on the ground and heard the sound of vibrating horses' hooves.

"Zhou Gongzi, the shopkeeper, there are cavalry coming, at least thirty or more." This made everyone look at each other, only to feel that Zhou Bai had a lot of mystery on him.

But with only thirty horsemen, although it can cause trouble to the caravan, it will not be able to fight against each other.

Is it that Zhou Bai doesn't understand their strength?

It's just that, it's best to be able to die a few fewer guards, he is an old man raised by the Qi family, and one less to die, Qi Hong doesn't think Zhou Bai is making a fuss when he thinks about it like this.

After another moment, the tremor from the sound of the horses' hooves grew louder, and the captain of the guard came again out of breath to report it.

"There are more than thirty riders, there should be more than two hundred riders behind, one in front and one behind."

When the news came out, there was an uproar, even these old men became nervous, and the number of cavalry was not like a foot soldier.

They all looked at the small circle in the center of the car formation, since they had expected it, they must be able to save this crisis, right?