There is a river on both sides of the hills in the south of Alano Town. Huang Zheng and his team have been traveling back and forth on this road for three days.
After discussing for a long time, we finally decided to adopt the method of blocking the road.
Huang Zheng judged that according to the other party's way of thinking, they would rather sell the goods they had accumulated when the situation was tense. Avalo's escape was a trivial matter, and the other party's merchants would not easily change their familiar routes because of this.
Even if Janola is not intercepted, as long as any merchant transporting iron products here is intercepted, it is possible to find the location of the village.
The arrival of Huang Zheng's reinforcements greatly supplemented the manpower in the town. So Kalanda sent out six teams of ten people to block three possible roads.
Avalo followed the team led by Huang Zheng. Although he had little education, he was very agile. On the way with the team, he learned how to ride a horse. At the beginning, he still needed Garcia's care, but after half a day, he caught up with the team.
After three days of wandering around without any results, everyone's morale is not very high.
Garcia fanned his neck with his hand and said, "Captain, I think we should switch shifts with the brothers stationed in the town. It's too boring to wander around along this route every day. If they don't come for half a month, should we continue to wander around for the full half a month? I think it's better to send out scouts to take the initiative."
"Scout?" Huang Zheng rolled his eyes at him. "You have only received the most basic tactical training. Who dares to say that they can be a good scout? Going further south is the sphere of influence of Green Forest City. Do you think they will treat you to a meal if you run into their patrol? Moreover, we have penetrated too deep into the enemy's territory, which may break the current situation. By then, if we attract the Green Forest City troops in advance, wouldn't it be abruptly bringing the battle forward? Now that you are a deputy platoon leader, can you learn to use your brain?"
"Captain, this is nothing. We should have taught them a lesson. Although Uncle Chen fell, our team is not affected. We can fight!" Garcia said.
"Being able to fight and having to fight are two different things! Time is on our side. The longer we wait, the less damage and chaos we can avoid. Why not try to minimize the damage?" Huang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. "Besides, if we can save Lao Chen's body first, it will be good for everyone's morale."
When the team reached the river and prepared to turn back, Avalo looked up at the river. He suddenly exclaimed softly and reached out to grab Garcia beside him.
"What?" Garcia looked back. He saw Avalo staring at the river without blinking. There was a small wooden sailboat with its sails spread out, sailing upstream.
"There's a ship over there, and there's a man standing on the bow who looks like..." Avalor looked left and right, and as he looked, resentment appeared on his face, "That's him! The fat man leading the caravan is Janola!"
Huang Zheng, who was not far ahead, heard his voice, turned his horse over and asked, "Are you sure? This is the businessman who kidnapped you."
"My Lord, I will never admit my mistake."
"Interesting! It seems that those merchants are taking the water route instead of the land route." Huang Zheng said with a frown.
"Captain, what should we do? We don't have a boat." Garcia said.
"Go and tell them to dock first, otherwise they will bear the consequences!" Huang Zheng said to Garcia, then turned and said to a mage soldier behind him, "Send a signal now to let the surrounding teams move closer to us. Ji Yijun and the others are not far away on the other side of the river, they should be able to come over soon."
Garcia rode to the shore and shouted, "The ship ahead has to stop and dock! This is already the territory of the Tower of China. If you don't follow our instructions, you will bear all the consequences!"
From the beginning, Janola was wary of this group wandering on the shore. Such a large group of people with novel attire could only be Chinese.
He had long known that Baron O'Farrell's territory had been completely swallowed up by the Chinese. It was said that the Chinese had only sent a small team to defeat the Baron's own guards and reinforcements from nearby territories. This showed that the Chinese were very powerful.
Although the number of people in the team in front of him was similar to that of his guards, it put a lot of pressure on him. As a businessman, he certainly wanted to avoid these people. Everyone knew that there was only a golden shield difference between the army and the bandits.
He urged the boatman to speed up, but in the headwind environment, the sailboat had to zigzag and the speed was really slow.
However, just when he was about to ignore the Chinese and run away, one of their guards actually attacked the other party while talking to himself.
"Damn it, stop it!" Janola shouted.
"Boss, none of them are carrying bows and arrows, I'll scare them." The guard said nonchalantly.
Garcia on the shore quickly shot away the arrow, took out the air gun from his back, and turned on the enhanced attack mode. After a slight sound, the archer who had just answered fell into the water. Janola was so scared that he squatted on the side of the boat. But the guards around him also began to fight back with bows and arrows. The situation was out of control.
However, the soldiers on the shore could hide behind the tree trunks, and several of them had mastered fighting spirit and could easily knock down the arrows. However, the archers on the boat did not have many places to hide. After a few rounds of shooting, four of the eight guards on the boat had fallen.
Janola hid behind a box, watching the scene in fear. Those long tubes, are they the weapons they used to defeat the Baron
At this moment, he saw a fireball appear in the hand of a young man. Then, the fireball flew towards him, brushing his scalp and hitting the wooden box behind him. The box was ignited by the flames and began to burn.
"Quick, put out the fire."
The wizard cast a spell, and then a clear voice came over: "Stop the ship and dock now. This is your last chance. Otherwise, the next fireball will hit your sails. The next time it hits your ship's side, it will blow up the side of your ship."
"Boss, this won't work. That wizard will sink the boat!" the boatman said fearfully. "If we can't beat them, we'd better listen to them."
"Let's go, let's go to the other side and abandon the ship and take the land route."
"Boss, what should we do with that stuff?" asked a guy hiding behind a box.
"Pick up the light ones and move the important ones away."
Another fireball came and hit the mast, setting the lower sail on fire.
"Hurry, put out the fire and go to the other side!" Janola yelled at the boatman and the men.
"Boss, something seems to be wrong on the other side!" a waiter said. As he finished speaking, a group of horsemen rushed out from the woods on the other side, led by Ji Yijun. Behind him, there was also a female magician preparing a fireball.
Ji Yijun pointed at him from a distance and said, "Jia Nora, right? You'd better surrender, otherwise it will become a men's and women's doubles match."