Chapter 50: Ambush
One morning after the twelve, the gate of the Ma family's compound opened, and Ma Ming, the head of the Ma family, who was about to shake Rongwan City when he stomped his feet, sat in the luxurious and luxurious carriage of the head of the family, and began his monthly patrol under the escort of many Qi refining period monks and ordinary warriors.
There were three carriages for the head of the family, and each car had five or six people seated, one of which was sitting the head of the house and four Qi refining end stage cultivators, and the other two were sitting ordinary family members for cover. Outside the car, there were also two late-stage Qi refining monks, four mid-stage Qi refining monks, five early Qi refining monks, and seven or eight warrior family members riding horses.
The strength of this team is strong enough in Rongwan City, and in the countless attacks in the past, it has saved the head of the family from danger. The head of the family also saw the monthly patrol as an opportunity to show off his strength and deter his enemies. The head of the family usually lives in a simple place, only this monthly Lingtian patrol, it seems to be prepared, the weather is fine, the whole clan is on alert, timely transmission, and retreat at any time.
The carriage drove slowly, and the road outside the city was not wide, just over a zhang, almost enough for two carriages to pass in parallel. More than ten miles away, a little more than half an hour to arrive. Ma Ming and his entourage, greeted by the Lingtian guards, got out of the car, entered the Lingtian through a gate between the Lingtian fences, and began to patrol.
There are many kinds of spiritual valleys in the spiritual field, including spiritual rice, spiritual millet, spiritual millet, spiritual wheat, spiritual beans and so on. Unlike the five grains in the mortal world, different regions are suitable for cutting different grains, as long as the cultivation realm is a spiritual field and provides spiritual power, different spiritual valleys can be planted, and the growth and season of the spiritual valley are also different from those of the mortal grain.
The ancestor of the Ma family was a big landowner, who started by merging a large number of fertile fields, and was familiar with agricultural affairs is the ancestral teaching, even if he was a cultivator, he still liked planting.
Ma Ming shuttled and inspected the spiritual field, stopping and stopping, occasionally bending down to take a closer look at the ears of grain, the mud or something, and a large group of people in front and behind waited carefully. In this way, after Ma Ming walked into the Lingtian, he spent more than two hours inspecting the Linggu Field and the Lingyao Field, and embarked on the road home.
On the way home, the same people and horses were still the same, and the samurai family was no longer as energetic as when they came, and the accompanying monks were still on full alert. Beside the road are patches of farmland, interspersed with sparse farmhouses, with occasional wisps of cooking smoke and the occasional passer-by and carriage passing by in and out of the city.
The group walked about six or seven miles, seven or eight miles away from the way back to the city and home, and passed a farmhouse thatched hut three zhang away from the left side of the road, with one door and three windows closed, and it was estimated that there were three or four huts inside. Just a few zhang road, there is a farmhouse thatched hut four zhang away on the right side of the road, which is similar to the thatched hut just now, facing the road.
As soon as he passed by this thatched hut, Ma Ming's face changed, and the secret path was not good.
I felt two strong spiritual power fluctuations on both sides of the road, and then I heard a few "bang, bang, bang". Ma Ming glanced out of the window, only to see that the grass roofs on both sides of the road were lifted, and the walls quickly collapsed outward, and ten ** monks on each side jumped out and surrounded the convoy in a semicircle from behind, leaving only the direction on the way back to the city.
Just when the face of the monk riding outside the carriage changed drastically and he hurriedly met the enemy, Ma Ming, who was sitting in the first carriage, shouted anxiously: "Return to the city quickly." ”
The coachman was a veteran of the imperial horse, a monk in the early stage of qi refining, and when he heard the sound of the grass house collapsing, he immediately tightened the reins, and the horsewhip slammed into the legs of the two horses in front of the car, and the horses were in pain, and rushed out.
The four Qi Refining Terminal Cultivators in the same car reacted at the same time, one flashing from one side window to the roof of the car, and one from the other to the bottom of the car. The two Qi Refining Terminal Stage Cultivators in the car sandwiched Ma Ming in the middle, each facing out of the window on one side, their eyes and divine sense wide open, scanning the situation outside the car, beware of sneak attacks.
These four people have been working together for a long time, and when they are attacked, they are only responsible for guarding the next wave of assassinations and closer pursuits, and protecting Ma Ming to escape is the most important, and they did not take action immediately. I saw that the sword qi behind the convoy was vertical and horizontal, and there was a roar, and all kinds of spells, swordsmanship, spiritual weapons, and mysterious weapons were bombarded with all their might.
Since there were only two Qi Refining Late Stage Cultivators and other Qi Refining Beginning and Middle Stage Cultivators left in the Ma family's convoy, under the full surprise attack of the ten Qi Refining Terminal Stage Monks in Baishamen, four or five of the Qi Refining Beginning and Middle Stage Monks who were resisting behind the convoy were quickly killed.
Ma Ming and his entourage quickly roughly determined the situation of the attackers, Baishamen attacked with all its might, the number of monks more than doubled, three more monks at the end of Qi refining, and more than twice as many monks in the middle and early stages of Qi refining.
The situation was very unfavorable to Ma Ming, judging from the experience of previous attacks, Baishamen would often invite five or six Huatian Sect's Qi Refining Terminal Stage cultivators to intercept and kill, and he didn't know where they were ambushed.
In the past few years, the monks of Huatianzong and Fenglingzong have not interfered in the dispute between the two families, and the Ma family has long been without the monks of Fenglingzong to help. Today, in this formation, the masters of Baishamen have all been dispatched, obviously coming prepared.
If the people and horses are dragged by Baishamen to fight, when the Ma family is exhausted, the people and horses of Huatianzong will rush out again, I am afraid that there will be more and less luck today. Ma Ming and his entourage barely thought about it, so they rushed to the way home with all their might, and at the same time sent a note from the car, asking the Ma family courtyard and Lingtian monks at the front and rear to come to receive reinforcements with all their might.
After chasing for less than a mile, the Baishamen monk rode on the horses that had been prepared on both sides of the road and continued the pursuit. One or two miles of Qi refining period monks can completely exceed the speed of the horse, but they are blocked by the Ma family monks, and the other party is defeated and retreated, and Baishamen is in hot pursuit.
If Baishamen adopts the method of intercepting and killing by intercepting and killing by beginning and end, it will definitely provoke the Ma family to fight to the death, and will not hesitate to leave the lives of most of the monks, and will also try to ensure that Ma Ming breaks through.
If this is the case, after Ma Ming is left alone, out of fear that there will be another interception and killing on the road ahead, it is likely that he will flee in all directions and disappear, until he sends someone to find out the situation and find strong reinforcements from Fengling Sect, and he will not be able to return. At that time, trying to catch him again will inevitably be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the result will be half the effort.
Ma Ming saw that most of the monks of the Ma family were still following closely, fleeing while fighting, and the main force was still there. It's just that at the beginning of the attack, the three early-stage Qi Refining and two mid-Qi Refining Stage cultivators who were in the way were killed by Baishamen, and two Qi Refining Terminal Stage cultivators were killed or injured. This strengthened his determination to speed up his escape home.
At this time, after killing a few people, Baishamen did not fight with all his strength, but just rode a horse to pursue at full speed, and from time to time used spiritual weapons and low-level mysterious weapons to force several monks who were blocking behind the Ma family's convoy. After the Ma family was broken, the monk saw that there was no interception in front of the head of the family, so he mainly defended, fled while blocking, and had no intention of fighting.
Soon, the Ma family's convoy arrived two miles away from the west gate of the city. At this time, the monk who came to meet the Ma family courtyard had already arrived.
The Ma family has six early and middle Qi Refining monks stationed in Lingtian to patrol, and four Qi Refining Early and Middle Stage monks go out of the city to run errands and escort the Linggu elixir. When the Ma family courtyard heard that the head of the family had been attacked, in order to prevent being attacked at the same time, three more Qi refining early stage cultivators were left in the clan courtyard.
Not counting the five monks who were killed just now, there were only two Qi Refining Terminal Stage Cultivators left, and a dozen or so Qi Refining Beginning and Middle Stage Cultivators, after joining the convoy, the total was only twenty-one. Among them, two late Qi Refining Stage and three Qi Refining Early and Middle Stage Cultivators were injured after the break, while the thirty-seven people in Baishamen had no casualties, a difference of nearly twice the number.
What's even worse is that the five or six Qi Refining Terminal Stage cultivators of Huatian Sect who used to appear have not yet appeared. After Ma Ming joined the team, he felt a little relieved, knowing that the Ma family courtyard was still intact, and no trace of the enemy had been found on the way to the road, so he had no intention of fighting at all, so he hurried to the Ma family compound, and at the same time sent a note to inform the Lingtian monks and the grain monks to rush back to the compound to help in the battle.
Pedestrians on the streets of the city were already surprised when Ma's family sent people out of the city to answer, and at this time, seeing the two teams of people rushing into the city in hot pursuit, they even avoided one after another. The four small soldiers stationed at the city gate knew that the Ma family was not easy to mess with, and as long as it was not a blatant rebellion, they would not dare to stop it. Even if you block it, it's useless, and you can still climb through the city after closing the gates.
Zhu Renzhi of Baishamen saw that the members of the Ma family had met, and he didn't want to fight and kill on the street, so when he entered the city, he asked the monks in the door to stop attacking, put away the magic weapons, and drove the convoy to the Ma family compound to chase them.