This is a caravan from the Central Plains to the west, and the owner of the caravan has nothing to do with the border army of Nasha City or Guo Qian'an, but Li Zheng, the escort leader of the caravan, happens to be a retired veteran of Shacheng, so with the help of Guo Qian'an, Xiao Suifeng easily contacted Na Li Zheng and mixed into the caravan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, whether it is in the Wangshan Plains or in the Northland, the guards of this kind of caravan are roughly the same composition.

Either the guards were the servants of the big merchants, or they were warriors recruited from the dart bureau or other places, and the third type was someone like Li Zheng who came from the army.

And many of the leaders of the guards are the same as Li Zheng, and there are veterans who have been in the army for many years.

This is not a coincidence, and there are reasons for it.

Not all veterans can become the leader of the guard, and those who can really become the leader of a caravan escort are generally veterans of the border army who have been in the border all year round. Such an old army is not only more familiar with the environment, situation and various rules of the border area, but also has a certain relationship in the border army, whether it is disturbing with the border army or with the horse thieves in the border area, it can bring great convenience to the caravan, so the owners of those caravans also like to recruit such people to act as the leader of the guard.

Just like Li Zheng, although Li Zheng used to be in Shacheng for more than ten years, he was only a team, but he was in the army all the year round, and the relationship was very strong and wide, so seeing that he brought the caravan into Shacheng, the border army was generally not only not embarrassed, but even within a certain range, it could also give it special protection and help, even in terms of taxes, it was slightly lighter than the rest of the caravans.

Li Zheng's existence has brought a lot of benefits to the caravan, and the owner of the caravan naturally values Li Zheng more and more as the leader of the caravan.

So, Xiao Suifeng followed the caravan out of Shacheng and went straight to the west.

Broken Forest Mountain is two hundred miles away from Shacheng, and the grassland road is flat, unlike Xiao Suifeng's difficult road from Gesang City to Shacheng, so if you are fast and fast, I am afraid that you can reach that Broken Forest Mountain in one day.

It's just that Xiao Suifeng is following a caravan at the moment, and there are more than a dozen slow-moving carts in it, and the forward speed is naturally greatly slowed down. In addition, the caravan was on the way, and for the sake of safety, it was all day and night, and the time was prolonged.

Xiao Suifeng made a rough calculation, in this way, if this caravan wants to rush to the broken forest mountain, I am afraid it will take three or four days. Of course, although the black fox's horse thief's nest was near the Broken Forest Mountain, their range of action was not limited to the Broken Forest Mountain, and they could be attacked by them within a radius of hundreds of miles.

Xiao Suifeng heard Guo Qian'an say that the unlucky caravan might have been suddenly plundered by horse thieves less than half a day after it left Shacheng. Although the defenders of Sand City will provide protection to the caravans around Sand City, it is impossible to cover everything, and there will always be omissions, and the speed of horse thieves coming and going like the wind is representative, once they are robbed by horse bandits, the army is simply too late to rush to support.

Of course, there is always a way to do things, and if you want to ensure maximum safety, it is not completely impossible. As long as they give more gold and silver to the defenders in Sand City, they will naturally be able to receive additional protection, and it is not a problem to let their cavalry team escort with the caravan.

Of course, it is impossible for such a special escort to escort too far, taking Shacheng as an example, the farthest distance is generally within two hundred miles. From this point, it can also be seen that the black fox's cunning and cunning is exactly at the edge of this range.

The raiding range of horse thieves is generally within a radius of hundreds of miles from the old lair, so, to be honest, as soon as the horse thieves followed by Xiao Suifeng leave Shacheng, they may be attacked by horse thieves, but it is also possible that even if Xiao Suifeng and his party completely walk out of the range of Broken Forest Mountain, there will be no trouble, which is also a matter of maybe.

The caravan that Xiao Suifeng followed, because of the presence of Li Zheng, gave more wine money to the defenders of Shacheng, so when they left the city, a cavalry team of more than 20 people also guarded the side.

From an outsider's point of view, this cavalry team was given extra care to the caravan by the Shacheng border army because of the wine money given by Li Zheng and the caravan owner, but only Li Zheng and Xiao Suifeng knew that this cavalry team was actually sent by Guo Qian'an to cooperate with Xiao Suifeng.

In Wangshan Plain, although the border army and the horse thief are natural opposites, but between the two, there is also a reluctant balance, unless the horse thief is facing the complete elimination of the border army, or is seriously threatened to their own survival range, otherwise, it is easy to be unwilling to confront the border army head-on.

At present, the initial contradiction between the Dakang army and the establishment of five military cities in the Wangshan Plain has long been eased, and now a delicate balance has been formed between the border army and the horse thieves. Although the imperial court is now taking advantage of the struggle between the righteous path factions and the Cold Moon Sect, and is preparing to sweep away the large and small forces in Wangshan Plain in one fell swoop, the 30,000 elite soldiers currently sent out are all trapped in the confrontation with the army of Fushan City, so that the current balance with the horse thief forces has not been completely broken for the time being.

Therefore, the caravan that Xiao Suifeng followed was escorted by this cavalry, although the number was very small, but the vast majority of horse thieves were unwilling to provoke. It's not that they don't have the strength to eat the twenty-man cavalry, it's just that they don't want to cause the defenders of Shacheng to clean up.

Of course, Xiao Suifeng's original purpose was to lure out the black fox, so this cavalry team would eventually withdraw.

According to Guo Qian'an's arrangement, this cavalry team will leave when it is one hundred and fifty miles away, at this time, because it is close to Broken Forest Mountain, it is actually within the range of activities of the black fox, so at that time, either it will not be able to attract the horse thief, or it will definitely be the black fox.

Xiao Suifeng's purpose is to lure out the black fox, not to say that there are other messy horse thieves, so he naturally has no opinion on Guo Qian'an's arrangement.

Day and night, soon, it was the third day, at this moment, the caravan had gone out of the range of more than a hundred miles outside Shacheng, the cavalry team according to the original plan, in the morning of the third day, was to leave and return early, only Xiao Suifeng followed the caravan, continued to go west, step by step, into the black fox's sphere of influence. (To be continued.) )