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Chapter 36 Late Night Crisis
On March [-]th, Zhou Bai and his caravan had already left the county for a day and a night, and the distance to Pingcang County was only half the distance.

The mild and colorful mid-spring sunny day changed quietly on this long journey, and the night fell, the wind whistling was particularly sharp, and the clouds were heavy.

The weather is getting warmer in this season, and the tribes on the grassland have tried their best to survive the cold winter of last year. The cattle and sheep have lost fat, the salt in the tents of the herdsmen has been exhausted, and the furs that have accumulated throughout the winter are urgently needed. Daxu mutual market.

The powerful and frontier generals in Cangbei County made a lot of money, but their supplies could not satisfy the huge market of the grassland at all, so they could only give up part of the profits to the south of Cangshan Mountain.

Pingcang County is an important material transfer point, even caravans from other states and counties come here, and a large number of mutual markets are set up in the flat area at the foot of Cangshan Mountain.

Seeing that their peers are dumping goods in the market, the caravan also wanted to rush to Pingcang County as soon as possible, so they discussed with Zhou Bai to go on the road overnight.

As a friend of the young master of the Qi family, this status is enough for Zhou Bai to have a part of the right to speak. After all, another important task of the caravan is to escort him.

It's not a bad idea to drive all night, because this is a common thing in the process of doing business, but considering the existence of that black doom, Zhou Bai insisted that he can only go along the official road.

Bei'an County belongs to the northern frontier, and military transportation is very important, so the post stations along the official road are extremely dense, and each post station has a small number of post soldiers stationed there.

Coupled with the caravan's own guards, even if there are large-scale bandits robbing the road, they can temporarily deal with it.

Just walking, looking at the dark night in front of him, Zhou Bai felt that something was wrong, and an inexplicable sense of crisis came to his mind, so he subconsciously used Xiaocheng Wangqi Technique.

Zhou Bai didn't forget why he was so eager to upgrade the level of the Qi Watching Technique, it was to detect the movement of Jie Qi in advance.

Looking at the uninhabited wilderness with quiet black eyes, I saw a black air mixed with blood appearing more than ten miles away. This is not a black cloud at night, but a calamity that Zhou Bai glimpsed under the influence of luck.

Was it for him, or for the caravan?Or be implicated.

Zhou Bai opened the book of luck, the black energy that he had been wary of all along, now unexpectedly rushed into the luck without making a sound.

But the floating luck from the Canglan water vein is dissipating, and most of the foreign luck still needs to protect the growing natal life, so this black catastrophe can actually rush Zhou Bai's foreign luck to pieces.

You must know that not long after he was hit at the head of the case, he was paid attention by the court, but he was able to be dispersed by unknown calamity. This disaster probably did not come from ordinary bandits.

Zhou Bai made a decisive decision and immediately called the caravan steward.

The chief manager of this caravan is Qi Hong, the son of the Qi family, who has been the deputy shopkeeper in the Qi family county for more than ten years, and this time he is also the person in charge of a store in any county in Pingcang County.

Qi Hong was a little dazed, and was called in front of Zhou Bai, and listened to his serious questioning.

"Treasurer Hong, tell me now that Qi Hua is asking you to be prudent, and is my safety the most important thing?"

"Yes, of course, your safety is the most important thing in this trip." Qi Hong didn't know why, but he still replied very seriously.

Zhou Bai pointed to the pitch-black spacious official road, and said sharply: "Well, I don't care whether you believe it or not, there is a large group of unknown enemies ahead right now, and the target is us. You must immediately order the entire caravan to take precautions!"

"This, this, unknown enemy?"

"Then I will immediately order the caravan to stop and station." Qi Hong was full of doubts, but ordered to station and rest in a responsible manner.

Zhou Bai shook his head and said: "Not enough, listen to me now, you can report all losses to your young master, understand?!"

Qi Hong gritted his teeth, and after a little comparison in his mind, he came up with the answer.

How could he offend the young master's friends with this little loss of time delay, and when it comes to doing business in Pingcang County, they still need the support of their Zhou family.

"Come on, follow the orders of Mr. Zhou, and execute all orders immediately!" Qi Hong made up his mind and immediately called the leader of the caravan and the captain of the guard.

"First, send a fast horse back immediately, and warn the post stations and inspection stations along the way, please send troops to support."

"Second, immediately gather the caravan guards, assign soldiers, and form a defensive car formation with large carts outside; the rest who cannot fight will retreat three miles away along the official road in the dark, and light torches after an hour. as reinforcements."

"Finally." After finishing the first two points, Zhou Bai looked around and paused.

"Send someone straight to the county seat. If we haven't reported safety tomorrow morning, please ask Qi Hua to collect our corpses for revenge."

Seeing Zhou Bai's frightening words, even if the leaders didn't think that any bandit was so courageous to attack the Qi family caravan on the official road, they all carried out the order.

"Don't drag the Lord down!" Chen Zhongbang accompanied the non-combatants to evacuate with a solemn face.

Zhou Bai was worried, and confessed that life-saving should be the first priority in times of crisis, so he sent two guards to go there.

"Move, hurry up, bandits are coming, push the cart outside and form a circle!"

"Team [-] and Team [-] stand behind the cart with swords and shields. Team [-] and Team [-] come to collect their bows and arrows and live in the inner circle. Team [-] protect Young Master Zhou and the most important salt cart!"

Accompanied by the hasty yelling, the caravan guards all started to move. They are worthy of being from the Qi family, and they acted in an orderly manner when they encountered sudden changes.

While Zhou Bai checked the defense loopholes in the old way, he also felt a little emotional in his heart. He could only say that Uncle Xingwu's legacy still survived.

Even if the Qi family switched from the previous generation to literature for the sake of honoring the lintel, the relationship with the army has not been completely lost.

In order to survive in Zhou Bai's previous life, he also learned the art of war and led his clan's soldiers.

From his eyes, it can be seen that there are many veterans among these guards, who may be injured and retired frontier soldiers, or simply the elite dug by the Qi family.

In less than a stick of incense, nearly a hundred guards formed a circle around the heavy cart, and there were a lot of iron and cloth on it, which was just used to strengthen the defense.

At this time, the experienced caravan guards also noticed that something was wrong. They lay on the ground and heard the sound of vibrating horseshoes.

"Mr. Zhou, shopkeeper, there are cavalry coming over, at least thirty or more." This made everyone look at each other in blank dismay, and they felt that there was a lot of mystery about Zhou Bai.

But with only thirty riders, although it can cause trouble to the caravan, it is not enough to form a caravan to fight against it.

Is it because Zhou Bai doesn't understand their strength?

Forget it, it would be best if a few guards died less, he was the old man raised by the Qi family, one died and one less, Qi Hong didn't think Zhou Bai made a fuss when he thought so.

After a while, the vibration caused by the sound of horseshoes became stronger, and the captain of the guard came to report again panting.

"There are more than thirty riders, there should be more than two hundred riders behind, one in front and one behind."

When the news came out, there was an uproar, and even these old servants became nervous. The number of cavalry was not as high as that of infantry.

They all looked at the small circle in the center of the car formation. Since they had expected it, they must be able to save this crisis, right?
(End of this chapter)