"Snapped!"
Holding one hand on the inner wall of the carriage, Harvey regained his balance. After understanding Richard's words, his expression became slightly solemn, "Do you suspect there is a group of thieves? Then we should be really careful..."
The next moment, Harvey thought of something, looked at Richard, and said very "righteously": "But, you don't have to be afraid, I will protect you - I promised you before, so I will keep my word."
Richard smiled and said, "Okay, trouble."
"No trouble, just take a look at my strength when the time comes. I will easily kill all the thieves and let them know how powerful I am." Harvey said, slowly pulling out the sword from its sheath as he spoke. Holding the iron sword in his hand, he then lifted up the curtain of the carriage and looked outside seriously to observe the situation. Richard opened the curtain on the other side and looked outside as well.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."
Outside, the entire convoy was traveling at high speed in the middle of a forest. Not long after, a dead tree as thick as a person could hug appeared on the side of the road. It was the dead tree that the leader of the business group had mentioned before - it seemed that it did not wither and fall naturally, but was moved here deliberately. Now It was removed by the mercenary team and placed on the roadside.
The appearance of dead trees has a high probability of representing an ambush set by a group of thieves, which can be considered a relatively fixed routine at the current time. However, after the entire convoy passed through the dead trees quickly, they did not find any group of thieves rushing out of the woods on both sides of the road. After driving for several miles, there was nothing unusual.
The speed of the carriage did not slow down, but everyone in the convoy couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, thinking it was a false alarm.
Hard, who was in the carriage carriage at the end of the motorcade, lowered the curtain and withdrew his gaze. He put the unsheathed iron sword back into the scabbard inch by inch, turned to face Richard and said, "It's strange, I didn't see the bandit group. It seems that they were too timid and found that there were too many people in the caravan." , gave up the robbery."
"Maybe." Richard said without comment.
…
The convoy continued to move forward, but just after traveling a few hundred meters, a rope suddenly appeared on the road in front of the convoy and was pulled tight. The carriage at the front couldn't react at all and crashed into it.
With a "pop" sound, the rope broke under the huge impact, but the horse was also tripped, and the carriage behind it lost its balance and fell to the side of the road.
Many figures appeared in the woods, waving weapons and shouting at the people in the convoy: "Stop everyone, stop everyone! Anyone who dares to disobey will die!"
this!
Everyone was shocked!
It turned out that after many robberies, the thieves had completely figured out the thoughts of the passing caravans. They knew that too obvious traps would be guarded against, so they did not ambush near the dead tree at all, but ambush some distance behind the dead tree. Such a vigilant caravan can just relax and be killed by surprise.
In fact, this is indeed the case. For the people in the caravan, the appearance of the thief was too unexpected, and they couldn't help but stare wide-eyed and bewildered.
Fortunately, the mercenary team hired by the business group was not parallel imports. Although the price was a bit higher, it was playing its due role at this moment. The captain of the mercenary team stood on the roof of a carriage in the middle of the convoy and shouted to the people in the convoy: "Don't stop, don't stop! Rush, rush out! Don't slow down all the carriages, keep rushing forward, rush out It’s safe to go out. If you listen to the thieves, you will only be killed if you stay!”
Everyone's body shook, and they understood, and quickly controlled the carriage to accelerate forward.
Although the front carriage overturned on the side of the road, it only occupied half of the road, and the remaining carriages rushed through the other half of the road.
The thieves looked anxious and said fiercely: "Don't run, don't run, stop for me, otherwise you will regret it! You will regret it!"
The team paid no attention.
Seeing that they had no choice, the thieves quickly tried to pull up the rope on the road again, preparing to stop as many carriages as they could.
"Drive, drive, drive!"
"Pull up the rope and stop it!"
"Rush over!"
"stumble!"
"accelerate!"
"Tighten up!"
"Da da da!"
"Snapped!"
Everyone went crazy for a moment, and shouts pierced the sky.
The final result was that, under the command of the captain of the mercenary team, most of the carriages in the convoy rushed out of the siege of the thieves, but a small number of unlucky carriages were left behind.
Unfortunately, the four-wheeled carriage that Richard was riding in was among these few.
There was really nothing we could do about it. Because of its large size, the four-wheeled carriage that Richard was riding in was always at the back of the convoy. It was usually fine, but when it came to this kind of escape, it was extremely disadvantageous.
Several carriages in front were overturned by the ropes pulled up, and the driver of the four-wheeled carriage tried his best to dodge. I was about to escape the disaster, but what I didn't expect was that there were two carriages in front of me. In order to escape faster, they ran towards the already extremely narrow road at the same time. The next moment, they collided with each other, completely blocking the road. .
The carriage was left alone.
The escaping convoy showed no sign of returning for rescue. As they traveled further and further away, they soon lost sight of their shadow. The entire road, except for the carriages left behind and the injured caravan members in the carriages, were filled with many vicious thieves.
In the carriage, Richard remained basically calm in the face of this situation. Harvey gritted his teeth, slammed the wooden board of the carriage, and cursed: "Damn it, the caravan people are so unloyal and ran away like this! If I had known this, I wouldn't have given them a whole silver coin. Well, give them a dozen copper coins at most."
Richard: "..."
Harvey was obviously very emotional and wanted to continue to vent, but he saw the thieves walking towards the carriage left on the road, and started to attack the grooms and men who were injured because of the overturned carriage.
Perhaps because there were too few carriages left, the thieves were very angry and had no intention of leaving anyone alive, so they killed everyone.
"Ah!"
Screams continued to sound.
Harvey in the four-wheeled carriage was silent, holding the iron sword and his eyes were a little red.
The next moment, the thieves' footsteps approached, walking towards the four-wheeled carriage. There was a sound of "Ah", which meant that the groom outside the carriage was killed. In an instant, Harvey's eyes turned blood red.
"call-"
Taking a deep breath, holding the iron sword tightly, Harvey whispered to Richard: "I'm going to teach these thieves a lesson later! And you just follow me, and pay attention to the distance - I can't protect you if you stay far away. do you know!"
"good-"
At this time, the thief who killed the coachman walked to the front of the carriage and tried to open the door of the carriage, making a "crack, creak, creak" sound. Harvey heard the sound and stabbed out without politeness with an iron sword.
"puff!"
The long sword pierced the wooden board of the carriage door and entered the body of the unlucky thief.
"ah!"
A scream.
Harvey quickly withdrew his sword, and there was a "pop" outside, and the thief's body fell to the ground.
"boom!"
Harvey kicked open the broken wooden door of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage, followed by Richard.
After jumping off the carriage, Richard turned around and looked around. He saw that the entire road was in a mess. Many of the carriage's carriages were overturned on the side of the road and fell apart. The goods inside fell out and were scattered everywhere.
The jar containing red dye fell to the ground and broke into pieces, stained red like flowing lava. The bag containing high-grade salt powder was opened, and the salt particles were spread all over the ground, like a path of ice crystals. The box filled with duck feathers shattered, and the duck feathers filled the sky, as if it was snowing heavily. In addition, there are numerous glass mirrors, ink bottles, papyrus scrolls, dried fruits...
Among the many goods, there are the corpses of horsemen and laborers. Without exception, they were all killed.
Now, only Richard and Harvey are left in the entire business group. The thieves saw one of their companions killed by Harder and were surrounding him with extremely dangerous eyes.