"The last rain delayed the trip for three to five days, and it may have also delayed the plans of the bandits. If the bandits really want to take the opportunity to rob a few more teams, then none of the nearby teams will be safe."
"Crow Zui, why don't you think about where so many bandits come from? There are at least a dozen teams and hundreds of martial arts practitioners nearby. Although they may not all be heading towards Dilong City, how can there be so many strong men? Dare the bandits attack us?"
"If those bandits really didn't dare, why would they deliberately put some corpses of ferocious beasts in the middle of the road to block our way?"
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Everyone was talking about what had just happened, and what everyone said was very reasonable. Lu Yunyou found that he could not refute what others said. Not only that, he also had similar thoughts to some people.
There are several roads to Dilong City, but each of them needs to pass by the Tianxuan Mountains in front. There are mountain roads and forest roads. There are many places suitable for bandits to ambush in each road section. If you hide in the dark, If the bandits here are willing to spend some effort, it is not difficult to separate the many groups and then target the lone group, so it is best for them to be careful.
"Yunyou, what do you think?" After a long discussion with no result, Zhang Yuan didn't want to continue arguing with Fang Ting and the others, so he looked at Lu Yunyou.
"What everyone said makes sense. No matter whether we are ambushed by bandits or not, we must always be vigilant about the situation around us and never take it lightly," Lu Yunyou expressed his personal opinion with a somewhat serious expression.
"Yunyou, you didn't say anything!" Shaking his head, Zhang Yuan only felt that Lu Yunyou didn't understand the situation better than them based on Lu Yunyou's answer.
"You'd better stop making random guesses. Brother, he has his own decision." After Zhang Yuan truthfully evaluated Lu Yunyou's answer, the woman named Xu Haiyan was worried that the content of their conversation would affect the morale of the staff, so she immediately interrupted several people. dialogue.
"Haiyan is right, let's just say less." The convoy's itinerary was completely decided by Hong Ying. Therefore, after Xu Haiyan interrupted their conversation, Zhang Yuan did not hesitate to consider that what they were talking about had a negative impact. After arguing with Fang Ting and the others again, it didn't take long before calm returned to the rear of the motorcade.
Half a day passed in a flash. After half a day, the convoy finally returned to the original main road thanks to the unremitting efforts of Ling Yun and others. Everyone felt more and more relaxed.
However, as the convoy continued to move forward, the road conditions changed again. Everyone gradually discovered that the ground had become much softer due to desertification, making driving more difficult. People had to push them sometimes, so the speed of the convoy naturally slowed down greatly, and the ruts left behind were also reduced. It was getting deeper and deeper. Fortunately, the current road conditions were still driving, so Hong Ying did not let the convoy stop.
"Stop," a quarter of an hour later, a person at the front of the team suddenly shouted: "Stop."
Immediately afterwards, the entire convoy stopped directly. Everyone looked at the front of the convoy with puzzled expressions. They saw that the two front wheels of the carriage at the front were completely sunk into the sand. As the mammoth struggled, it sank deeper and deeper. After a while, , half of the body of the mammoth pulling the cart was sunk into the sand and could no longer move.
The situation in Mammoth directly made everyone nervous. Although the road conditions were not good before, there was no problem driving. However, after arriving here, the road conditions deteriorated sharply, and it was impossible to even drive.
After careful observation, everyone found that the road in front of the convoy had obvious signs of being turned over. After stepping on it, the road became very wet. It seemed that someone had deliberately laid a layer of sand on the upper layer.
"Brother, what should I do?" Seeing that the car in front of him was about to sink into the sand, the man sitting on the Mammoth looked worried.
"First calm down the mammoth and let the mammoth settle down a little bit," he simply told the man. Then Hong Ying took a good look at the road. After confirming that a long section of the road had been deliberately destroyed and making it difficult for the convoy to move forward, he rushed directly to the side of the road. Zou Cheng ordered: "Zou Cheng, take a few people to test it with weapons to see how much area has been disturbed. The others will work together to pull the mammoth up."
"There was something about ten meters away that was disturbed," they split up. After a while, Zou Cheng, who was responsible for checking the road conditions, came back and reported the situation to Hong Ying.
"Ten meters," he muttered silently. Hong Ying was already sure that the convoy could not pass through this area normally, so he said to Zou Cheng and others: "Zou Cheng, you and Chen Guang go and call Ling Yun and the others back. I and the others Let’s discuss whether to move forward.”
"Okay," he agreed, and Zou Cheng and the man named Chen Guang left the team directly. The others continued to use ropes to pull up the front car and the Mammoth under Hong Ying's instructions.
The whole process was extremely troublesome, and it also greatly affected everyone's morale. Now many people are worried whether they have been targeted by a group of bandits.
The facts were no different from their suspicions. Regardless of whether they were going to Dragon City or not, as long as they were going in that direction, they all encountered similar situations. Some teams directly changed to other roads, and some teams stayed where they were. Waiting to team up with other teams.
But in fact, walking with other teams halfway is actually a taboo for the escort agency. This has always been the case. Unless it is absolutely necessary, the average escort staff will not choose to go with other teams halfway. Hong Ying was not willing to wait for a while before. It is for this reason.
When everyone was worried about whether they were being targeted by bandits, hundreds of people were camping in a valley two hundred miles away from them.
Judging from the attire, those people were all dressed in different styles and were not particular about it. They gathered together in groups, gearing up and eager to try. Without exception, these hundreds of people were good at highway robbery. Bandits, today they are hiding in the valley just waiting.
In a tent in the middle of the valley, there were three bandit leaders with different temperaments gathered around a map to discuss matters.
There are more than twenty black dots of different sizes scattered on the map. From large to small, they represent three different sizes of escort agencies: large, medium and small. The locations of those black dots are exactly the various places near the valley. The location of the escort agency.
Intuitively, the distribution of black spots is relatively dense, and most of them are on several routes from the inn to Dilong City. However, several of the black spots are obviously in isolated positions, separated from other teams by a large distance.
"Commander Lu, how long do you think it will be before the brothers officially take action?" After looking at the map for a long time, a middle-aged man wearing a tiger robe smiled and turned to ask another sinister-looking man.
"In order to separate these escort agencies, we have dispatched many brothers. Those brothers are very busy, but we still have to wait a little longer until those teams actually enter the Tianxuan Mountains area before we can really get busy." With a flash in his eyes, the sinister-looking man named Lu sneered and directly stated his plan.
"Indeed, it will take at least a day or two for those teams to arrive near our station, so there is no need to worry." Then, another hateful-looking bandit leader also expressed his opinion.
"There are quite a few escort agencies rushing to Dilong City at the moment. If we can successfully rob a few of them, then this operation will be over and our harvest will be enough for our brothers to be happy for a while."
"Of course, this time we have tracked the whereabouts of twenty or thirty teams, including more than a dozen medium-sized teams, and each of them is a target we can attack."
"Don't worry, in two days, those medium-sized teams will be completely isolated, which will keep us busy for a while!"
"There are only a few hundred brothers in the valley. Relatively speaking, there are more people from the escort agencies. Time is tight, so we'd better do our best!"
"It seems I can only use more despicable methods!"
"Where, where, we don't have enough manpower, of course we can't just take it by force."
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The three people in the tent are all leaders of bandit gangs, but they are not from the same bandit organization. This time they are working together, and the total number of people is not large. Due to the large number of escort agencies, they can only Target some of these targets.
"In the final analysis, those large escort agencies are the fat ones. Not only are the personnel themselves rich, but the goods they are escorting are also valuable. I think it's better for us to join forces and rob a few large escort agencies?"
"Those large teams are naturally fat, but we have to be able to swallow them. If we swallow them forcefully, we might choke."
"Commander Lu is right. Although we have the ability to intercept large escort agencies, if we suffer too much damage, we might as well focus on those small and medium-sized teams."
The three commanders kept discussing with each other. Now the exact locations of many escort agencies are under their control. By sending spies to monitor, they can obtain information related to those teams at any time. The team Lu Yunyou is in naturally Not an exception, but also one of the isolated black spots on the map.
