Sighing and sighing, Gao Yuan still led the team, and after passing through the Great Wall of Qi, he continued to march towards Linzi. Although the Great Wall is passed, this is the border area of the Qi country, which is still very desolate, so I walked for two days in a row, and it was still in the wilderness, but the villages along the road gradually increased, there were some signs of human habitation, and I also walked on the official gallop road, and it seemed that I was about to reach my destination.

But the plateau still did not dare to be careless, and still according to the previous arrangement, the protective troops were stationed in the front and rear of the brigade, but the distance was not so far, only one or two miles away, and at night, it was still surrounded by vehicles as a barrier, and the strict guards did not relax at all.

However, just after crossing the Great Wall, Gao Yuan and the others encountered another caravan, which was not small, about four or five hundred people, and more than a hundred carriages.

Between the nations, the general width of the gallop is about three or four zhang, and four carriages can be parallel, and a few major gallops will be more than five zhang wide, or even six zhang, and can be six to eight carriages in parallel. And the current gallop road is the usual gallop road, only enough for four carriages in parallel, and the caravan on the plateau is a two-cart parallel, plus two knights guards, not enough for two caravans in parallel, so the plateau also ordered, let this caravan go first, keep a distance of three or four miles from them, but don't approach them, everyone goes their own way.

The caravan was not polite, and immediately walked in front of Gao Yuan and the others, and the two teams walked on the road one after the other.

Ling Feng and Gao Yuan walked side by side, and said: "What kind of goods are they connected to, it is so heavy, looking at the car marks on the road, it is much deeper than ours." Because they were walking behind, Takahara and the others could see the car marks left by the team in front of them.

Gao Yuan said: "It doesn't matter what kind of goods they are loading, we just need to be careful." Let the people in front of you pay attention, try to get around them a little, and don't clash with them. ”

Ling Feng nodded, and immediately passed the order to the soldiers in front.

Before I knew it, it was dusk, and I saw that the caravan in front of me had stopped in an open area by the side of the gallop, and was preparing to camp and rest. And when they saw Gao Yuan and other caravans coming, some people waved their hands to them kindly, greeted them, and shouted twice, "There is no village in front, just camp here and rest." Something like that.

In fact, it is very normal for several caravans to meet on the road like this, and sometimes the two sides will communicate with each other on the way, after all, everyone is in business, and one more friend can have one more way. If you talk well, you can walk together, because it's safer. However, Gao Yuan did not want to have anything to do with this caravan, so he ordered to cross this caravan and go to the camp in front of them, so that he could set off early tomorrow morning and go to the front, because the team of the plateau was almost all cavalry, and the speed of walking was faster than that caravan, and it was not fast to follow behind.

Just as the group of troops on the plateau crossed this caravan, they saw a burst of dust in front of them, and five knights galloped back with flying horses, and said loudly: "My lord, there is a robber ambush ahead. ”

Gao Yuan was also stunned, he didn't expect that when he passed through the border area between Qi and Yan, no robbers dared to attack them, and after entering the territory of Qi State, he encountered the attack of robbers, but now Gao Yuan didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for battle.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Wu'an Army who protected the caravan were all battle-hardened, and after hearing the order, they did not panic at all, and a cavalry army immediately rushed to the front of the convoy, all with their swords unsheathed and arrows wound, ready to fight. The other soldiers beckoned the drivers to rush the carts to the chariot at once, and locked the wheels to prevent the horses pulling the carts from running away with them in fright.

Then some of the soldiers were protected on the outside of the convoy, some soldiers also jumped off their horses, climbed on the roof of the car, and held bows and arrows on guard, and some gathered together on both sides of the convoy, and after the coachmen gathered the vehicles, they also picked up their spears and guarded the outside of the car, Lin Wenqing and her four personal maids were divided into two carriages, and Yun Na was also sent into one of the carriages, the doors and windows were closed, and she was surrounded by other carts in the middle. And Wu Hongya also commanded the female soldiers, surrounded and protected the two carriages, and in a short time, a defensive array was arranged.

At this time, at the front of the queue, the cavalry who opened the way in front of them rode their horses back, and behind them, there were countless people in Tsing Yi, each holding a spear and a short sword, rushing towards the convoy, a large number of people, at least seven or eight hundred people, blocking the entire gallop, and many robbers, rushing from both sides of the gallop road, but all the robbers were stepping down, no horses, no chariots. Gao Yuan also immediately ordered Ah Ran Shi Qimo to lead the Fan Yong army to meet the battle.

And such a big movement, of course, also alarmed another caravan, and they all took out their weapons, surrounded and protected their vehicles, and prepared for battle, and Gao Yuan did not dare to be careless, who knows if this caravan will be with the robbers. Therefore, he also ordered Ling Feng to closely monitor the movements of this caravan, and did not allow them to approach within two hundred paces of him.

Ah Ran Shi Qi led the cavalry of the Fan Yong Army, and rushed forward to meet the robbers who had killed them. Although the number of cavalry of the Fan Yong Army was far less than that of the robbers, because the robbers were scattered all over the gallop road, and even the gallop road was full of robbers, and the horizontal spread was six or seven zhang. However, the Fan Yongjun adopted a cone-shaped array, discharging an arrow-shaped. Ah Ran Shi Qi rode his horse to the forefront of the whole army, and at this time, he had already picked up his bow in his left hand, and held a total of four feathered arrows in his right hand, and shot these four arrows in one breath.

Such a stunt of arrows, even among the steppe peoples, is rare, and the four arrows are almost lined up in a straight line and shot at the robbers. Suddenly, four screams rang out in a row among the bandits, and the four robbers threw themselves or fell to the ground.

On both sides of Ah Ran Shi Qi, the other soldiers of the Fan Yong Army also opened their bows and arrows on horseback, shooting at the robbers, and immediately shot down a large number of robbers. The other robbers were all shocked when they saw it, although among the robbers, there were also a lot of bows and arrows, but just now in the running charge, they couldn't shoot arrows, and when they stopped, and then prepared to open their bows and arrows, the war horses of the Fan Yong Army had rushed to the eyes. Although the momentum of the war horse is not as good as that of the chariot, the power is also very amazing, so many robbers have instinctively retreated when they see it. Before the bowstrings of the few robbers could be opened, they were stabbed with sabers and spears by the cavalry that rushed in front of them, and they fell to the ground one after another.

The army of Qi still belongs to the traditional army, mainly in car warfare, supplemented by infantry, and the cavalry is only a very few, not used as a combat force, and the Qi country has not been in war for more than 40 years, so although the people of Qi have also heard that Qin Zhao and other countries have their own cavalry troops, they have basically not fought with the cavalry, and they do not know how powerful the cavalry is.

The soldiers of the Fan Yong Army were originally a nation on horseback, and they had long been accustomed to fighting on horseback, and now they have changed into a new style of horse furniture, which is like a tiger with wings, but they were rushed by the Fan Yong Army, slashing with knives and spears, and shooting arrows at the horses, and were killed and injured countless times, and the whole team was separated like a water wave, and in a blink of an eye, it was rushed through the bandits' ranks, and then went around in a circle, and killed back from the back of the robbers.

Just like this, back and forth, two waves of sprints, just these one hundred and fifty cavalry, the nearly 1,000 robbers rushed into chaos, although at this time the most front robbers were only more than a hundred steps away from the queue, but they did not have the energy to rush over.

When Gao Yuan saw this, he immediately sent a hundred cavalry to rush up to the robbers, and the Fan Yong army attacked back and forth, and the robbers couldn't parry it, and they were killed in a blink of an eye.

Although the Wu'an army was in an absolutely dominant position on the battlefield at this time, and the caravan on the other side did not move, Gao Yuan's heart still felt very strange, although this group of people were dressed as robbers, but the weapon style used was very neat and standard, basically a spear or short sword, and although the combat effectiveness of this group of robbers was not strong, but everyone waved a gun and sword The action was almost the same, and it looked more like an army with a certain amount of training.

Therefore, Gao Yuan's heart was also full of doubts, if it was a robber disguised by the army, then who instructed him? He is an envoy invited by the Qi State, of course it will not be the meaning of the Qi court, so will it be the minister of the Qi State, or the army sent by the clan forces in private, and the envoy he plays has nothing to do with the minister of the Qi State, why would they attack him?

Could it be that his identity was revealed, and the Qi State planned to kill himself, so he sent an army to disguise himself as a robber to ambush him, so that he could also shirk the responsibility of the Qi State, which is very possible. But thinking about it carefully, Gao Yuan felt that it was wrong, because it was impossible for his identity to be revealed so quickly, even if it was leaked, it seemed that there was no need for Qi Guo to kill himself, so what good would it do to Qi Guo? Although the State of Qi has been pursuing the national policy of friendship with the State of Qin for more than 40 years, it will not offend other countries, so it is unlikely that the State of Qi will use such an extreme method against itself.

Second, if you really want to ambush yourself, wouldn't it be better to do it outside the border of Qi and at the junction of Qi and Yan? There is no need to make a move in the territory of the Qi State, and the additional troops sent to ambush themselves are too small. There should be three or five thousand people.

At this time, Gao Yuan's eyes turned and he saw the caravan that was being prepared not far away, and his heart suddenly flashed.