Sometimes, safe routes are actually not that safe.
Especially in times of war.
The front lines of Dashi and Dali are not two parallel straight lines, but intersect with each other.
There is no airtight line of defense, which is the biggest reason why the small teams of Dashi and Dali can always sneak into each other's backs.
Of course, Di Xin's convoy was ambushed after approaching the frontline battlefield.
However, the team that can infiltrate naturally cannot have heavy firearms.
As for Di Xin, in order to rush on the road and this was his own territory, he did not deploy artillery.
In the absence of heavy firearms, even a musket can cause huge casualties.
However, the enemy forgot that there were three great innate masters on Di Xin's side.
Facing the array of firearms, even a great innate master needs to avoid the edge temporarily. However, a great innate master has an advantage that ordinary people don't have.
Martial Arts Intuition.
A martial artist's intuition is very sensitive to malice directed at him, especially when the enemy is close.
The uneasiness in his heart, as well as the same warnings from Zeng Hongshen and Song Qianwei, made Di Xin issue the order one step earlier.
Although he didn't know at the time that this uneasiness was an upcoming ambush, it was one of the possibilities, so the guards were prepared early.
Therefore, when the enemy launched an ambush, they encountered resistance as expected.
Dashi's team guessed that there was a big shot from Dali in the convoy, so they took this action, but after all, they were in the rear of Dali's territory, and they were not allowed to act recklessly.
The sound of muskets will soon attract the Dali army from nearby strongholds.
Therefore, when the initial ambush did not yield the desired results, the commander of Dashi's team issued the order to retreat without hesitation.
They spent a lot of effort to sneak into this place, and it was not in vain.
The current situation could no longer kill the big shots in the convoy, so naturally the priority was to protect oneself.
However, there is no truth in this world that you can come and leave as you please.
"Stop them and kill anyone who resists!"
As Di Xin's order came out in the carriage, the guards immediately turned from defense to offense and rushed out viciously.
As the Xiantian Grand Master, Zeng Hongshen took the lead and rushed into the enemy's ranks.
Being thrown into a trap, Dashi's team had no choice but to use cold weapons to deal with Zeng Hongshen's attack.
Although muskets were used, the inherited combined attack formation was a weapon for the army to deal with the innate grandmaster, so it was not at a disadvantage at the beginning.
However, Zeng Hongshen's purpose was not to kill the enemy.
He is not a knight wandering the rivers and lakes alone.
As the former leader of the rebel army and now the chief steward of His Highness the Crown Prince's residence and the commander of the residence's bodyguards, Zeng Hongshen has never been afraid of relying on external forces.
He who doesn't use help and takes risks is a fool.
Although Zeng Hongshen's technique is not focused on defense, it is good at speed.
In the world of martial arts, speed is the only thing that cannot be defeated.
This speed not only refers to the time of attack, but also the time of defense.
Those weapons that seemed to attack at the same time also had front and back distinctions in Zeng Hongshen's eyes.
When he does not seek to kill the enemy, but instead blocks the incoming weapons at an extremely fast speed, even if there are one enemy and many, he can still be invincible.
Even relying on the advantages brought by his cultivation, he can still find time to attack one or two while defending.
And when the enemy commander finally calmed down and prepared to shoot at the risk of accidentally injuring his men, he also found that it was difficult to aim at Zeng Hongshen's vitals.
The commander of the team even had a feeling about the figure that was constantly flashing.
If they hadn't been outnumbered, they might not have been able to react when the man had his throat cut.
"Why are there so many monsters in Dali!"
At this moment, he suddenly realized that although the emergence of firearms marked the end of the era of second-level strong men, it was only for ordinary second-level strong men.
For those beings who are already at the top, it does not mean that they can be looked down upon just because an era has passed.
And if you consider that these top experts also use firearms, then they are still the top people in this world.
But soon, the commander of the Dashi team had no time to think about all this.
Under Zeng Hongshen's delay, the guards in the Dali motorcade had already caught up.
Perhaps because they were worried about accidentally injuring the innate grandmaster who rushed in first, these guards did not use firearms, but also drew the weapons from their waists and attacked him.
The originally stalemate battle turned into one-sided in an instant.
The guard quickly disrupted the formation of Dashi's team and then got entangled with each other.
At the same time, the innate great master was liberated.
The commander of the Dashi team finally saw what it was like when an unfettered innate grand master appeared on the battlefield.
At this moment, the movements of the innate great master were finally able to be seen clearly.
However, seeing clearly does not mean being able to react.
While walking in the courtyard, he saw that the great innate master just raised the sword in his hand casually, and then the people around him fell down.
And the blood only spurted out from the separated throat after the person fell.
Able to organize a rebel army, Zeng Hongshen was never an indecisive person.
But after confirming that all those in front of him were enemies, the soft sword in his hand did not tremble for a moment, and he even calmly avoided the blood that might spray on him.
After successfully dealing with many enemies, Zeng Hongshen's heart suddenly moved and he subconsciously looked up.
I saw a Western firearm pointed tremblingly at me across a pair of fighting men.
A flash of disdain flashed in Zeng Hongshen's eyes.
In the fight just now, he had already discovered that the man was the commander of the enemy team, but the psychological quality of a commander was too poor.
His trembling appearance was even worse than that of a squad leader in the rebel army.
However, Zeng Hongshen didn't know how terrifying his calm look of killing people without bloodshed was under the ferocious faces of the murderers around him.
The commander suspected that he was not facing a person, but a demon rising from hell.
But being able to become the commander of a infiltration team, he naturally cannot be scared to death. After the moment of fear, it is replaced by madness.
"Go to hell, devil!"
Facing the old man walking towards him, the commander of the Dashi team suddenly pulled the trigger.
Then there was a flash before his eyes.
The bang of a gunshot caused a moment of silence on the fighting battlefield.
Everyone subconsciously glanced at the defense line where the gunshots were heard.
An old man with clean clothes put the long sword in his hand on the neck of the shooter.