After hearing Tan Fei's report, Tenglong's face was filled with shock.
He had never expected that the other party would be able to snatch away the smelted ore in such a short time.
When he first arrived, he did not see any enemy and thought that the guards were resisting stubbornly and the fireworks sending out for help scared the enemy away.
"This is terrible. How are we going to explain this to the Lord?!"
Tenglong felt a little anxious.
However, something even worse than what happened to him was happening to a large group of people transporting ore who had just left the manor.
Relying on his connections, Ding Si contacted another lord, Ishihara, who had a mineral vein. He exchanged peacock corundum and mixed iron lapis lazuli with Ishihara for thick earth condensed gold.
This was also what Ye Li meant, because after a period of thinking, Ye Li decided to use his two thousand men to build a powerful shock corps.
All members of this shock corps must use monsters as mounts, wear heavy armor with extremely strong defense, and use special talismans and spiritual weapons.
Of course, it is definitely not easy to build it, and the cost will be extremely huge.
Thick earth condensed gold is an important raw material, so Ye Li asked Ding Si to find a way to exchange some with another lord Ishihara.
The elite troop of 500 men he sent out to transport materials had not yet left the scope of Dongfang County when they were attacked by an unfamiliar troop of 700 men.
This strange army was very organized and disciplined, and the location they chose for the attack was also very clever, right at the mouth of a valley.
After they blocked their way like this, the guard army was unable to break out at all, and was instead caught off guard by the strange army's commanding attack.
After leaving behind over 200 bodies and killing over 100 of the enemy, the guards knew they were defeated and could only flee with a small amount of valuable peacock corundum. The mixed iron lapis lazuli was left behind and was snatched away by the enemy.
The losses here are greater than those in the mine. After all, the mine only has five days' worth of ore in stock, while here there is half a month's worth of stock.
When this group of people, led by Gu Meng, the third leader of the Yellow Clothes Bandits, all returned to the manor, they happened to coincide with Tenglong's report.
The series of bad news finally shocked Ye Li.
"How could this happen? Do you know who the other party is? "
Ye Li asked with a frown, his eyes full of anger.
Tenglong glanced at Ye Li and said, "Tan Fei described the appearance of these people, saying that they were strong men wearing heavy armor and wielding huge axes.
Among them was a group of mobile teams that were lightly equipped and surrounded by wind-like spiritual energy.
But after all, we are all new here and don’t know these guys.”
Hearing his words, Qian San's expression changed and he said, "I know who they are, they are the elite troops of the Peacock Clan.
The ones wearing heavy armor are the Shining Gold Team, the ones surrounded by the Wind Spiritual Aura are the Wind Spirit Team, and they also have the Explosive Flame Team, all of whom are extremely powerful elites. "
Hearing Qian San's words, Ye Li was shocked and said, "It seems that this peacock clan member is really here to cause trouble.
But didn’t you say that they are currently attacking Juxin City? How can they spare time to deal with us?!
Could it be that Juxin City has been captured?"
Qian San shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be that fast, but they are basically suppressing Juxin City now, so they can barely spare some manpower to attack us."
Tenglong glanced at Ye Li and said, “Sir, Tan Fei said that these people are fully aware of their defense distribution and know exactly where the materials are stored, which means that they are very clear about the situation on our side.
The materials being transported out have also been hijacked, most likely by the Peacock Clan. In other words, these guys are fully aware of our movements and have formulated relevant action plans against us.
I suspect... there must be a traitor in our mine or within our ranks!"
Hearing Teng Long's words, Ye Li nodded and said, "It must be so. If no one provided the information, the other party would not be able to succeed so easily."
After hearing Ye Li's words, everyone around began to look at each other, wondering who the traitor was.
Ye Li glanced at them and said, "Don't be suspicious. There can't be any traitors among us. After all, none of us has anything to do with the Peacock Clan.
It will do you no good to harm me."
After hearing this, everyone let down their guard.
Ding Si thought for a moment and said, “I guess the traitors are the miners we recruited before, and some farmhands.
We found these people from various villages and towns. There is no guarantee that there won’t be people from the three mayors among them…”
Hearing his words, Tenglong said, "Brother Ding Si, do you think those mayors are behind this?"
Ding Si nodded and said, "It's almost certain. They are the only ones who have direct conflicts with us. We have damaged their interests, and they want to retaliate against us. This must be their motive.
What's more, the people who can clearly know the distribution of our defense personnel in the mining area must be people in the mining area.
The 1,500 people in the mining area are basically the elite troops who followed you here. They were recruited by His Majesty the Emperor himself. How could they be in collusion with the Peacock Clan
Moreover, they had no chance to pass the message to the Peacock Clan.
The only possibility is that the miners we recruited, during their break, used the excuse of going home to inform the three mayors of the situation here.
If these three mayors want to assassinate us, they can pass the news to the Peacock Clan.
These three people have been disappearing recently. I asked some people to secretly investigate their movements. They did leave Dongfang County collectively recently. Maybe they went to the Peacock Clan. "
"These damn guys, you should have killed them all at the beginning!!!"
Qian San was so angry that his teeth were itching.
Ye Li frowned for a while and said, "It seems that the Peacock Clan will list us as their next target. The minerals here are very attractive to them. If they solve the Juxin City, they will definitely attack us.
We must prepare in advance, because in a head-on battle, we are definitely no match for them!"
Upon hearing this, Ding Si said, "Master, should we contact Juxin City? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Peacock Clan is our biggest enemy now. The attacked Juxin City may become our ally."
Ye Li thought for a moment and said, "Do you know the origins of the people in Juxin City?"
After he said that, he glanced at Qian San.
Qian San immediately understood and said, "Master, the people in Juxin City are quite mixed, and they are all formed by some small families and clans.
Their individual strength was relatively weak, and they were gradually swallowed up in the confrontation with the Peacock Clan. In order to curb this phenomenon, they formed an alliance and united to form the current Juxin City. "