() In the early morning of the second day, just after dawn, Qingniu Village became lively. For Qingniu Village, this is an annual event. The medicinal materials harvested in the previous year will be transported to Tiemubao through this escort
, in exchange for a large amount of silver coins from Ironwood Fort. This batch of silver coins will be used for various expenses in the next year.
In the central square of Qingniuzhuang, forty carriages were lined up, and the horsemen were ready to go. The carriages were filled with medicinal materials that had been sorted. Teams were dressed in uniforms.
Guards on horseback stood guard beside the carriage.
In order to ensure the safety of the medicinal materials escort, Fang Qingniu assigned four guards to each carriage. Including the leader, commander and squad leader, the total number of people reached one hundred and eighty.
Qingniu Village did not have so many guards, so Fang Qingniu spent a lot of money to recruit a group of temporary guards in the past few days. The elite mercenaries from the Lishui Town Mercenary Union also took this opportunity to mix among the temporary guards in order to hide their eyes from others.
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After worshiping the ancestors in the family ancestral hall, reading out the motto written by the elders of the village, and clarifying the rules and regulations on the road, Fang Qingniu gave an order, the leading old horse neighed, and the caravan braved the dust.
They drove out of Qingniuzhuang in a mighty manner.
Qingniuzhuang and Tiemubao are more than a thousand miles apart. At the speed of the convoy, it takes more than twenty days to reach them. Fang Ping read some books on human geography and knew that this area now belongs to the eight major worlds in the central world.
One of the worlds of living beings.
The world of living beings was once ruled by the Dawei Dynasty and was the capital of the Dawei Dynasty. After the fall of the Dawei Dynasty, various forces rushed in to compete for the relics, and they fought for hundreds of years.
Nowadays, those forces competing for the relic have themselves become relics that are fought over by the world. No one force can establish a dominant position here. After nearly a thousand years of evolution, the original capital of the Dawei Dynasty has become a human race, a monster
The world of living beings, where the demon clan and the underworld clan coexist, and all forces are mixed.
During the reign of the Dawei Dynasty, official roads and inns extending in all directions were built in this area. Although this great dynasty has perished for more than a thousand years, the official roads it built are still left to this day. Along the official roads, there are also some that are now in use.
They are privately run inns, hotels, etc., providing convenience for passing traders.
Qingniuzhuang's convoy traveled along the ancient official road most of the time during the past twenty days. However, in a few areas where the official road had been damaged, the convoy had to pass through some steep mountains and forests.
The desolate desert, including Black Crow Ridge.
The convoy basically travels during the day. Only when it encounters heavy rain and delays the trip, it will travel at night. However, in this season, rainy weather is very rare. Most of the time, they drive during the day and rest at night.
When traveling during the day, Fang Ping also needs to shoulder the responsibilities of exploring the road, patrolling, guarding, and clearing roads with other tribesmen. Although the escort team of 180 people is indeed a huge fighting force.
In this area where there is no unified dynastic management and various forces are mixed together, there still cannot be any laxity and carelessness.
Especially when the strongest people in the convoy are only in the early stages of the body tempering stage, you have to be even more careful. If you accidentally provoke a master-level strong person, it will be more than enough to kill a hundred and eighty people and escape unscathed.
. If you are a powerful person above the peak of a grandmaster, then these 180 guards will not be enough in front of others.
After nightfall, the convoy usually finds a nearby inn or hotel to rest. When the convoy stops to rest, the danger will be much less. Fang Ping leaves the security, inspection and other tasks to others, while he finds a place to concentrate on training.
Mind** palm.
Under the command of Fang Qingniu, the convoy walked unhurriedly for five days and finally traveled more than 400 miles. Because of the instructions and strict control, the entire convoy did not have any trouble with other passers-by and forces along the way.
What a conflict.
Day after day, Fang Ping's cultivation level is also slowly improving. Of course, for him, it is slow progress, but for ordinary people, it is already extremely fast.
On this day, the convoy had left the official road and entered a desert filled with yellow sand and thick bushes. Because a carriage wheel had a problem, Fang Ping and several guards stopped to wait for the driver to repair the wheel.
The large army continued to move forward slowly under the guidance of the guards.
Fang Ping had been vigilant beside the carriage for more than 20 minutes. Suddenly, amid the howling of the wind, the sounds of weapons clashing and shouting were heard. Fang Ping listened carefully and found that the sounds of fighting were coming from the west.
Outside a raised hill. The hill that was more than a hundred meters high and covered with some sparse shrubs blocked his sight. Among the sounds of the fight, in addition to the rough and powerful roars of men, there seemed to be
There was a woman's coquettish voice.
Fang Ping originally wanted to ride up to the hill to see what was going on. But after thinking about it, in this unfamiliar desert and being responsible for escorting the convoy, he decided not to meddle in other people's business, lest he
It's better to get into trouble.
At this time, the coachman had already repaired the wheels. Fang Ping hesitated for a moment, but his calm and cautious character still defeated the heroic spirit in his veins. He patted the horse's buttocks and followed the carriage in the direction of the convoy.
After walking for about a mile, the sound of fighting got closer and closer. After a while, several horses covered with dust came around the edge of a small hill and headed straight towards the carriage.
The horses came running. The horses looked quite tired. One horse had an arrow in its hip, and another horse had an injury on its leg and was dripping with blood. The people on the horse were five men and one woman, all wearing clothes.
She wears tight-fitting clothes and looks fierce and decisive.
The sound of horse hooves sounded, and soon, another horse team with more than ten people appeared from behind the hill and quickly chased after them. This group of people looked even more vicious. Moreover, some people were chasing with arrogance.
He used obscene language and cursed several people in front of him. Seeing the arrogant and despicable faces of those people, Fang Ping couldn't help but frown.
When the two men whose horses were wounded saw the pursuers approaching, one of them shouted loudly and said, "Master, Miss, you run away quickly. Heisan and I will stop them."
While talking, the two men turned their horses and charged towards the cavalry of more than ten people with weapons in hand. Among the cavalry, someone bent his bow and arrow and shot one of them in the shoulder. But the man was unmoved.
Still holding the long knife in his hand, he slashed viciously.
The two men rushed over like sheep among tigers. They didn't last long before they were knocked off their horses by weapons and died of wounds all over their bodies. Although the origins of these two men were unclear, they rushed into the enemy's formation without hesitation to fight for their master.
Fang Ping felt a bit of approval in his heart for his generous act of dying.
The few remaining people galloped past Fang Ping and fled forward. The direction they fled was exactly the direction the convoy was heading. The female knight with a voluptuous figure and long hair flying in the wind,
When he passed by Fang Ping, he glanced at Fang Ping. His eyes were extremely bright, wild, fierce, full of resentment, but also had a faint prayer, as if he wanted Fang Ping to save him, and was full of a heart-stopping feeling.
the power of.
Fang Ping paused on the horse, his fingers brushing the long bow on his back, but did not take action. Although the dozen or so people chasing him were not masters, their skills were not weak. With Fang Ping
Coupled with the power of the four guards, it is impossible to suppress him. Moreover, the origin of the opponent is unknown. What if he offends a powerful force?
The dozen or so knights from behind quickly approached. The carriage driver turned pale with fright and asked Fang Ping nervously, "What should I do?"
Fang Ping said calmly, "Just drive normally." To prevent accidents, Fang Ping took off the long bow on his back and took out an arrow from the quiver, but did not put it on the string.
The cavalry team behind saw Fang Ping's intention and obviously did not want to cause additional trouble. The leading knight spurred his horse away from the direction of the carriage and galloped over from a few feet away.
The two groups of people quickly crossed a small hill in front and disappeared from Fang Ping's sight. The complicated look in the female knight's eyes was always deeply engraved in Fang Ping's mind and was difficult to erase.
Fang Ping said to the four guards, "You escort the carriage slowly. I'll go to the front to take a look first." After saying that, Fang Ping hurried forward and ran forward.
After running five miles ahead, Fang Ping caught up with the convoy. The two chasing teams were galloping on the desert next to the convoy. At this time, there were only two people escaping in front. The man named Changfeng
The flying female knight is still alive.
The two of them tried to rush into the convoy to seek shelter. However, the group of pursuers behind them stood between them and the convoy, giving them no chance.
"My dear heroes, our brother and sister are in misfortune and are being hunted by our enemies. Please show mercy and save my sister's life." The young man on horseback swung his sword to cut down the arrows that shot around him.
He forced himself to get angry and said loudly.
All the guards in the caravan have received strict orders not to meddle in other people's business or cause trouble. Xiao Shiying and the people from the mercenary union are the ones who have been fighting for their lives all year round. What kind of tragedy has not been seen?
However, there was even more indifference on their faces, as if they had not heard what the young man said.
Fang Ping's heart was struggling fiercely. Originally, when he was escorting such a large convoy, he would never get into trouble. But those people bullied others, and judging from their words and deeds, they were not good people. Fang Ping
Ping then had the urge to help.
Fang Ping's fingers were tightly clasped on the arrow, and he weighed it in his mind. After all, he did not shoot the arrow, but rode up, caught up with Xiao Shiying, and walked side by side with him.
Xiao Shiying saw the struggle in Fang Ping's heart and said, "Master, if you have traveled in the world a lot, you will know that there are countless tragedies in the world. If you are too compassionate, you will not be able to survive in the world.
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Fang Ping sighed and said, "Maybe similar tragedies are happening in other places at this moment. But the fate of these two people in front of us can be changed if we take action."
Xiao Shiying said, "If I were not on a guard mission now, I would be willing to face injustice with the master, draw a sword to help, and do a good deed of chivalry. But if we take action and cause trouble for the convoy, then this is what we will do
More than two hundred people are guilty."
Fang Ping nodded, "That's right. The situation forces us to put the overall situation first and have to stand aside and watch."
The young man shouted for a while, but seeing no hope of rescue, he saw a forest a few hundred meters away on the right. After careful consideration, he no longer tried to approach the caravan, but ran towards the forest with his sister. Trying to
Use the cover of the woods to get rid of the pursuers behind you.
The female knight seemed to sense that Fang Ping was riding her horse to catch up. As she was leaving, she turned back and looked at Fang Ping deeply.
Xiao Shiying noticed her gaze and said, "Master, do you know this woman?"
The look on Fang Ping's face was slightly lost, "I don't know them. It's just that I fell behind and they passed by me."
Xiao Shiying scratched his head and said, "That's strange. Why do I feel like her eyes are familiar to you? She penetrated the crowd and found you in one go."
Fang Ping remained silent and rode forward. The woman's look back always flashed in his mind. After a while, Fang Ping suddenly raised his head and said, "Shiying, bring a few people with me."
Go and see what’s going on.”
Xiao Shiying immediately called over several elders, all of whom were archery masters above An Jin level, and followed Fang Ping towards the woods.
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