However, these spies who inquired about the news were not in a hurry, because if the salt wanted to be sold, it could not be stored in the guard forever! When they are transported, they will either take the land or the canal! If you take the canal, it is even more convenient for them to do it!

But they knew in advance that these people must be on their way, for a caravan had already arrived a few days before, and they had brought a large number of wagons, and the spies had come into contact with them, and although they did not ask what was going on, judging from the fact that they did not take the business of other merchants, they could guess that they must be caravans transporting salt.

So the day after it was unloaded, the caravan was moving! The spies watched from afar as they began to load the first bag of salt into the car and then turned away! These salt barons deal with salt all day long, and they have a very good idea of how much salt can be loaded in a truckload, so you can estimate it. As for the number of people in the caravan, I had already inquired about it in advance.

As for whether the guards sent someone to help transport it, he didn't care at all! The guard itself is not large, and not many people can be sent. It's useless to send people, those military households are busy loading and unloading ships all day long, and they have long since become professional porters, no different from waste!

But this spy is careless after all! If he had waited until the caravan had hit the road, he would have found that the men and guards in the caravan were completely different from the same kind in the past! They walk, sit and lie down extremely uniformly and quickly, indicating that they are from the army, and they are the elite kind!

This is also the other day when these people honestly stayed in their own camp, and did not give the spies much opportunity to observe. So the spies just felt that this caravan's camp was quieter than the others, and didn't think too much about it! He is not a soldier after all, and he does not understand what a real elite is like!

The caravan has been on the road for two days, and it can be said that the wind and waves have been calm and there has been no abnormality, and the people in the caravan have also performed their duties. The only people who really went back and forth were the leaders of the caravan and a few people dressed as dart masters. They often rode from the head to the end of the caravan on horseback, taking care of everything inside and out!

By the afternoon of the third day, the caravan had hurried after the lunch break, as was customary. But these people don't seem to be very comfortable with the heat of the south, and everyone is slumped! Even the caravan leaders and dart masters reduced the number of patrols. More often than not, he just stays at the front of the line.

As they were marching, the head of the man who had been watching the drowsiness, suddenly sat up straight on his horse, and then raised his arms high and shouted, "Stop!"

The whole caravan came to a halt in a very short time, and no one was running around, except for the occasional neighing of cattle, and the caravan became completely quiet! At this moment, a man dressed as a dart master rode up to him and whispered, "Sir, have you found anything?"

This person called the chief is Hwang Kook-jun, who rose to prominence in the battle of Kagoshima! He and another rising star were named and sent out to carry out this task, and Jiangnan and Jiangbei were each in charge of a team, which can be regarded as an experience.

I heard him laugh and whisper, "It's been nearly a quarter of an hour since anyone or the caravan came on the other side!"

The officer, dressed himself, immediately reacted and said, "Sir, you mean that someone in front of you has blocked the road? That means the saltlords are hiding in the woods in front of them!"

Huang Guojun stared at a small forest more than 400 steps away and said, "Nine times out of ten, it's there! I guess they still want to wait for us to get in and catch us off guard!"

The master smiled and said, "Then let's stop here now, it's them who are troubled!"

Huang Guojun also smiled and said, "That's right! It's up to them to leave the woods! Tell the brothers below to get ready and copy the guy at any time!"

The dart master nodded, turned his horse's head and walked back. However, he did not speed up, and let the horses kick and tap all the way to the back of the line, already carrying the news along the way. After receiving the news, many guards and men began to slowly move towards the center of the convoy.

There were four wagons in the center of the convoy, which were no different from other salt wagons in appearance, all of them were thinly wrapped with tarpaulin. The only strange thing is that these four carriages are guarded by at least two people at all times. Especially after the order to prepare was handed down, the number of men next to each carriage increased to four.

And the guy next to the car has put his hands on his waist! There's a knife there, so you can pull it out whenever you need it!

While the caravan was getting ready, there was an argument between the people in the woods! In the woods, a large group of people were scattering to cool off. But if you look closely, you can see that the people here are roughly divided into two groups.

The larger group was about 300 people, and they sat slightly closer together, and there was a clear class difference. These people are the salt lords who have gathered together. Since they are different from each other when they do distribution on weekdays, they also sit down according to this rule when they get together. Relatively speaking, the organization and discipline are better.

At the heart of these people there are more than fifty people who are dressed differently from the others. And they look so much tougher! What is especially surprising is that more than 20 of these people still carry bows on their backs and quivers around their waists!

These special people are the family members of the salt merchants. Each of them has produced a dozen or so people, which is already a lot of effort! These people were fed by the salt merchants, and they specialized in doing things that were unseemly. As for other things, they are not used at all, so the number is relatively small.

These salt merchants have their hands and eyes to the sky, and as long as they use silver to open the way, the general matter will be solved. So there aren't many times when you can really use your own force. So these dozens of people are already the essence of their family!

The other group of people looked like about sixty or seventy people, and they all sat in groups of three or five, very loose, and there was even a single person. These people are the outlaws invited by the salt merchant for money!

They don't trust each other at all, and they can't get along with the salt lords, so they get together alone, but hi they are still guarding against each other, and the distance between the gang and the gang is very large! So although this group of people seems to be in a group, they are actually at odds with each other!

Unlike the unified command on the Yangtze River, the commander here is a small team! The salt lord was quite good, and the largest salt lord in the area was launched, a strong man named Daniel Zhang. Behind him stood a dozen fierce thugs.