Half a month later, Lin Haoming became the escort of a certain businessman and headed towards Jiang Wangcheng, the capital of Jiang State.
At this time, Lin Haoming was wearing a leather armor. This was because Lin Haoming deliberately wandered in the wild in the middle of the night, and then several robbers appeared, so Lin Haoming also had this outfit.
Qingfeng City is still very safe, and some villages and towns are also relatively safe, but the outdoors is not that safe. Many people who have lost their farmland and have no source of harvest have become bandits, making a living by robbing lone pedestrians. Viscount Qingfeng rarely sent people to exterminate murder cases, so this also gave Lin Haoming a way to gain a source of income.
The five robbers were not good people. Lin Haoming immediately felt the murderous intent on their bodies when he saw them. It was obvious that they had killed people and seen blood. Lin Haoming was naturally not polite and took care of them all in a few seconds. .
The leather armor belonged to the robber leader, and the 70% new size was suitable for him. In addition, the robber also had a well-made steel knife, which became Lin Haoming's main outfit.
In fact, except for the leader, these robbers were all very poor. Although they all had knives and the like, they were all chipped and they had little money on them.
Lin Haoming only found more than two gold coins from five people. It was really sad for the bandits to find them so poor.
After resisting the robbers, Lin Haoming came to Qingfeng City. With the identity certificate given by Old Man Zhang, he passed the assessment of a mercenary group and became a member of the mercenary group. Half a month later, He received this escort mission, which is why Lin Haoming joined this mercenary group.
The businessman was transporting some handicrafts, all of which were carved from stones, shells and even corals in the sea. Lin Haoming didn't know whether there were any more valuable ones.
The mercenary group sent out twelve people, including Lin Haoming, and the leader was Wang Xing. Lin Haoming learned that Wang Xing joined the Jiang army at the age of sixteen and was discharged from the army at the age of thirty. Before his discharge, he served as a battalion soldier. long.
Jiang Guo's army consisted of five men in a troop, five troops in a team, and five troops in a battalion. Therefore, Wang Xing also led more than a hundred people back then.
Of course, the businessman with the same surname Wang also maintained more than a dozen guards, so the total number of guards for the convoy reached nearly thirty.
The city of Xuefu is only three hundred miles away from Jiangwang City, so it is much easier to get there and then go there. Qingfeng City, where Lin Haoming is located, is nearly three thousand miles away from Jiangwang City. It takes more than three months to walk thirty miles every day, which is also No wonder Boss Wang hired so many people.
Boss Wang was riding in a carriage, and all the goods were placed on the carriage, but the guards could only walk. Horses were also very valuable in the Jiang Kingdom. Each hybrid horse used to pull goods cost more than ten gold coins, which was more expensive than Old Man Zhang. The family's annual expenses are even more.
After joining the mercenary group and carrying out this round-trip mission for more than half a year, Lin Haoming can get three gold coins, and the expenses along the way will be paid by Boss Wang. For the people in the mercenary group, this is not a good time, and it is not a good one. It's a bad task, but of course the precondition is that there should be no accidents.
In fact, having so many people escorting more than a dozen carriages is indeed very safe, especially since the things on the carriages are not very valuable, and Lin Haoming also knows from his peers that handicrafts are the least cost-effective for bandits. The loot, because there is no suitable sales channel for this thing, it really cannot be sold at a high price. It is definitely not cost-effective to fight with nearly thirty guards for some handicrafts.
However, the more this happened, Lin Haoming felt that this mission was a bit unstable, because since Boss Wang himself had more than a dozen guards, why would he hire people like himself? Especially when Lin Haoming later found out that Boss Wang and Wang Xing were of the same race. And it was a bit strange to ask this clan master to protect him by name.
Sure enough, there were no problems along the way. When they were about to arrive at Jiangwang City, they suddenly encountered a heavy rain and the team had to spend the night in an open space on the roadside.
Such a situation is bad for everyone, not only because of the harsh environment of sleeping in the wild, but more importantly, because they are easily robbed by bandits, so after deciding to spend the night, everyone was very vigilant.
But even so, what was supposed to happen soon came. In the second half of the night, Lin Haoming had been watching for the first half of the night. When it was his turn to rest, the sound of horse hooves woke up everyone in their sleep. When people picked up their weapons, more than thirty warriors on war horses had already surrounded the convoy.
War horses are different from ordinary horses. A good, strong and young war horse costs at least a hundred gold coins. The total number of handicrafts in the fleet can only be replaced by three such war horses at most, but now there are more than thirty. The war horse appeared in front of everyone. It felt like a rich man robbing a beggar's bowl of change, which made everyone feel a little weird.
At first, some people thought that the army was passing by, but after the warriors on horseback took action directly after the leader gave the order, no one had such illusions anymore, and no one had the intention to protect them, because they were not the opponent at all. opponent.
Faced with such a scene, Lin Haoming discovered that Wang Xing had snatched a horse immediately and then ran away, not even paying attention to his employer, Boss Wang, or his brothers.
Lin Haoming also discovered that the leader who gave the order ignored the others and chased after him with two people, while the remaining people began to massacre the people in the convoy.
Lin Haoming had long sensed that something was wrong, so he hid in the night before the cavalry came around. At this time, he directly chased after Wang Xing's pursuers.
Lin Haoming's body now completely exploded with its own strength, and his speed was not inferior to those of the war horses. He could even catch up quickly if he wanted to. On the contrary, what Li Xing snatched in front of him was an ordinary cart-pulling horse. After the horse ran a short distance, he was gradually overtaken, but it seemed that he only needed to run so far, because then he directly turned over and dismounted and went into the woods on the roadside.
In the dense woods, the war horse was completely useless, but the pursuer was also very decisive and quickly abandoned the war horse and chased into the woods.
Wang Xing ran very fast, but the pursuers behind him, especially the leader, were faster. When Wang Xing was finally about to catch up, he suddenly turned back and took out an iron box the size of a fist. Then it seemed that the mechanism above was pressed, and countless steel needles shot out from inside.
At such a close distance, the chasing leader couldn't dodge at all, and the leader didn't even dodge, but at this critical moment, a layer of golden light suddenly appeared on his body.
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