Chapter 40: The Attack Comes
"Master, one of my subordinates has come back and made a major discovery!" Ali Baba in the City of Light said to Ouyang Yu with an excited look on his face.
It has now been three days since Alibaba's men were sent out to inquire about the news, and the news that hundreds of thousands of gold coins are about to arrive in the City of Light has been widely known, and many people are happy but also secretly worried about whether the gold coins will be robbed halfway.
Those who are worried are not mistaken, since the news of the gold coins was spread, the bandits who have been a little resurgence on the border between Higra and Vigel, the lone thieves who think they are highly powerful, and some nobles who are hostile to Andy are indeed eyeing this huge amount of gold coins, and each of them has sent spies to keep an eye on this convoy.
Ouyang Yu was pretending to sleep, and when he heard Ali Baba say that he had made a major discovery, he immediately sat up from the bed, blushed and put his left hand on his chest with a sheet, picked up the pillow with his right hand and threw it in his face and roared: "Get out of the house!
Ali Baba, who patronized Happy and ran directly into Ouyang Yu's bedroom without knocking on the door, carefully withdrew with a smile on his face, and it didn't take long for Ouyang Yu to get dressed and walk out, glaring at him first before saying, "What did you find?"
"You say. Ali Baba pushed the man out, and the thief said, "That's the master, we were ordered to go out to investigate, first found the convoy escorting gold coins, the convoy consisted of twenty-two carts, in addition to the six carts that carried food and baggage, there were sixteen carts left, and then measured the depth of the wheels of these carts pressed into the ground, and then calculated the load of the carts according to the method you provided, and came to the conclusion that the carriage was not gold coins at all!"
"Good job!" Ouyang Yu heard the news and confirmed that his guess was right, the convoy escorting gold coins was really just a smoke screen, and there was also a convoy quietly transporting gold coins in the shadows.
The thief continued: "After discovering that something was wrong, we left one person to continue to monitor the convoy, while the others spread out to the vicinity and observed all the convoys leading to the City of Light, and finally two days ago a brother discovered a convoy with major suspicions, this convoy numbered about a hundred people, twenty-five carts, of which twenty carts were loaded with heavy items, and according to the calculation of the wheels sinking into the ground, there were eight layers of possible gold coins. β
"Really, great, keep talking!" Ouyang Yu stood up excitedly.
"Yes, according to the observation, the convoy was full of elite soldiers with fighting spirit, and the leader of the convoy was a young girl, and there was a fifth-level warrior and third-level magician by her side to protect her. β
"Girl, is it Ruobing, what color hair is that girl?" asked Ouyang Yu in surprise.
"I don't know what to do, the girl can't see her hair and face when she wears a robe, and she can only know from her voice that she is not very old. β
"I know, you go down and have a good rest. β
"Yes. β
Ouyang Yu sat on the chair and knocked on the armrest, thinking quickly, and after about ten minutes, she said to Ali Baba, who had been waiting for her order: "Tonight, we went out of the city overnight, found the convoy, and intercepted it!"
"Yes!"
On the northwest border of Vigel, Andy disguised as an ordinary soldier walking in the convoy, from the departure to the present, in the past few days, there has been a constant discovery of the intelligence of a certain force spies, according to intelligence analysis, there are about a dozen forces of all sizes are eyeing the convoy, and he has not made a move before because he is observing whether he himself is in the convoy, yesterday the intelligence officer disguised as a bandit sent a message, there is a general force that integrates all the forces, ready to attack today, it seems that the stand-in who stayed in Red Leaf County successfully deceived all the people, making them think that they are really still thereγ
The convoy is now walking on a plain, and the road is far as the eye can see, which is also a specially chosen route to ensure that the convoy is not attacked by people.
As the sun went down in the evening, Bradley, the leader of the convoy, was looking for a place to camp, and a scout rode up to him and said, "My lord, we have found an army of mixed equipment and clothing approaching us from the north, numbering about five thousand men!"
"Sure enough, herald, convey my order at once, order everyone to prepare for battle, to form a large circle of cars, and everyone to defend behind them!" Bradley immediately gave instructions according to the plan.
A convoy of 1,000 elite soldiers moved quickly, and in less than ten minutes the sword was unsheathed, the bow was wound, and the battle was prepared under the arrangement of their respective commanders.
Soon there was a puff of dust from far to near, and an army of 5,000 men stopped less than five hundred meters away from the convoy, this army included mercenaries in leather armor and long swords, bandits in ragged clothes with nail rakes, and noble cavalrymen equipped with bright full-body heavy armor and armed with spears and shields.
The strange army stopped and straightened its ranks, and then the four thousand five hundred infantry divided into a dozen phalanxes, with five hundred cavalry behind, slowly approached the convoy.
"Three hundred meters...... 200 meters...... One hundred and fifty meters...... Seventy meters, release the arrow!"
The five hundred soldiers in Andy's convoy all took up their bows and arrows, and began to attack the enemy who was approaching with obvious bad intentions under the orders of the commander, and the archers' main targets were those bandits who were in the front, the bandits were the poorest equipped, the worst disciplined, and the worst will to fight, and the first strike could effectively weaken the morale and deployment of the opponent.
"Whoosh...... Poof, poof, aaa...... Yes...... Ahhh......h
In the face of the blow of the regular army, there was confusion after two rounds of shooting, some dropped their weapons and wanted to run away but were cut off by the overseer's mercenaries with a sword, and some lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, and were also found by the mercenaries to become real dead people with a sword.
The rain of arrows continued, and nearly half of the more than 1,000 bandits were killed and wounded, and finally approached less than twenty meters of the convoy, and the supervising team behind shouted at the same time: "Kill an enemy soldier and reward a silver coin, kill an enemy officer and reward a gold coin and you can get the opportunity to join the regular army, kill!"
"Kill!" the cowardly bandits screamed and rushed towards the convoy with their tattered weapons as if they had been beaten with blood.
"The first row changes swords and shields, the second row and the third row change spears and prepare to meet the enemy!"
Andy's outermost soldier immediately put down his longbow, bent down to pick up his melee weapon, and attacked the enemy who climbed on the roof of the car or ran through the gap between the two cars at the command of the commander.
The huge difference in strength gave the bandits a head start, and the bandits who climbed on the roof of the car were shot by bows and arrows as soon as they showed their heads, and only two people could pass side by side in the gap between the two cars, as long as the bandits dared to come in, three or four spears could instantly stab the intruders into blood gourds.