one's door

But even if he felt the danger, the team leader didn't dare to take the team back immediately, because no matter how you look at it, the matter is not so sure. The leader of the guards definitely doesn't have to do it anymore.

But if you continue to move forward, you may lose your life. Money is more important than life.So I also thought of a compromise method, which is to rest early, prolong the trip for a day, and then send a few people forward to spy and fumble forward the next day, and turn back when it is almost the second pass.In this way, there will be something to say to the boss after going back and forth.It's not that I'm greedy for life and afraid of death, but I walked halfway in a row and found something was wrong before returning.This can be said to be cautious and adaptable.

Because according to the bandit reshuffle five years ago, it was an accident in the second pass, and this time it was also a reference for the team to consider.

Although Zhang Yan was eavesdropping, he didn't think about making public.He also agrees with the reaction of the team leader.If he knew that there might be danger ahead and rushed forward bravely, Zhang Yan would probably make a move to stir it up.Now, just follow the idea of ​​the team leader.When it dawns tomorrow, I will move forward a little bit, and I will be able to turn back when I have an excuse.

At that time, Zhang Yan would have to think of another way, anyway, he was not in a hurry to hurry.Whether to follow back and make a detour, or to steal it by yourself is a choice.

The team chose a relatively open place to camp.The horse was unhitched from the cart, and then led to the side to be fed and rested.As for the vehicles, they will be surrounded in a circle with two floors, and the personnel will concentrate in the circle to rest.When the weather is fine, they burn a fire and sleep on the ground.If the weather is bad, tarpaulins will be pulled up and tents will be set up.

The weather has been pretty good all the way out of the city for the past few days, except for one night when there was a strong wind, it has been going smoothly.Not too hard at night.

As for the food, Zhang Yan didn't prepare it himself, he paid for the team to eat with the team, usually three meals of dry biscuits and one meal of jerky.Don't even think about it being delicious, it's just enough to fill you up.

Zhang Yan sat on the edge of the fire, watching the leader and the head of the guards come back after discussing, both of them were quite calm and did not show any timidity, and they called their staff to set up guards for the night or organize the cargo in the convoy.After a while of busy work, the sky darkened, and everyone sat together and started eating around the nearby fire.

Zhang Yan baked the dry biscuits by the fire to soften them, making them easier to bite.

"Brother, why are you rubbing those beans one by one? It's like the rations for the horses in the team?" The driver surnamed Xiong has been getting close to Zhang Yan these days. As for the car, Zhang Yan is eloquent and the driver is talkative, so the two get along pretty well.From the first day, I saw Zhang Yan holding more than a dozen dried beans in his hand, and he was free to ask. It's just that he didn't know it well at first, so he couldn't ask more questions. Now that he is familiar with it, he can't help asking.

Zhang Yan didn't stop the movements in his hands. Holding twelve round beans in his left hand, he picked them up one by one with his right hand and twisted them a few times, repeating these movements over and over again.It is indeed strange for others to look at it.

"Hehe, Brother Xiong, there's nothing to do here. The day before yesterday, I saw people from the motorcade feeding the horses, so I grabbed some beans and threw them away. Hehe, I'm used to coiling them now." Zhang Yan He explained with a smile.

"Habit? Tsk, your habit is very special. By the way, don't sleep too deeply when you go to bed tonight, and be careful."

"Ah? What's wrong?"

"Hey, didn't you see that all the guards are guarding out today? In the past, they were guarding the night in threes and threes. And the place to rest today is not right. I always feel that something is wrong, and you should be careful."

The driver surnamed Xiong looked worried. He has been with the car for more than three years. He used to drive in other car dealerships. He has seen many things. Today's events are very abnormal in his opinion. Inexplicably, I always feel a little panicked in my heart.By reminding Zhang Yan, I can also vent my uneasiness.

"Huh?" Zhang Yan was sure that the coachman beside him would not have heard the conversation between the head of the convoy and the leader of the guards like him. Now that he reminded him, it should be a premonition.

So Zhang Yan looked at the other person's face intently, and tried to figure it out by means of physiognomy.As a result, I don’t know if I don’t know, I’m shocked.

The face of this coachman surnamed Xiong turned out to be an ominous omen, and he was full of blood!

A good face-to-face hexagram technique is generally impossible to use on yourself, but you can use the similarity of "peers" to find short-term fortunes that may be related to you from other people's hexagrams.

Undoubtedly, Zhang Yan and the coachman beside him in this barren mountain are absolutely "people on the same boat". The other side is the same, but it will definitely be affected.

What will happen so that the driver next to him will have blood in his eyes?Zhang Yan might not have guessed this at any other time.But now there is no need for him to guess, because there can only be one reason for the bloody disaster here.

The bandits are coming!

Zhang Yan had to pay attention to this.Calmly, he calculated the faces of the other coachmen beside the fire. It would not take much effort to calculate the short-term fortunes of these ordinary people based on his current cultivation base of profound veins. I can count it all over.In the end, there were no exceptions, all of them were the same as the driver surnamed Xiong, a sign of great evil and bloody eyes!

The so-called "current" word, in fact, seems to be vague but it is not the case. Generally, the word "current" refers to "within the day".

At this time, it was already night, and it should have just passed Xu Shi, and there was not much left for this day.

In other words, the danger is imminent, and it is possible to fall head-on at any time, smashing blood and blood!

Zhang Yan had to make quick calculations in his mind.It's not a big problem for him to get away by himself, but what about the dozens of people in the convoy?Watch them die?

But if it is to save people, I have no idea at all.That's not one or two bandits, but maybe hundreds of thousands of people, even if there are only [-]% warriors, it's not a huge force that Zhang Yan can resist today.

Zhang Yan thought about the solution quickly, and finally he set his eyes on the twelve beans that he had been holding in his hand.

perhaps……

Chapter 52 Bean Soldiers

The beans in Zhang Yan's hand are not just something he used to pass the time when he was bored as he explained to others just now, but actually it is another new method he has learned now.

But there is one thing that Zhang Yan did not lie, that is, he did grab these twelve beans from the grain and grass bags of the motorcade. Before they entered his hands, these beans were no different from ordinary beans.

But now these beans have a new name: Doubing.

Dou Bing is actually very famous in Taoism.There are countless related legends.It belongs to a spell with high growth rate and low threshold.

It is also because of the high growth type and low threshold, so there are many users, which makes it famous.

In fact, "Doubing" is not only a magical method, but also a divine method. It is a representative spell formed by the combination of Taoism and divine method.Moreover, the threshold for the practice of "Doubing" is the same as that of alchemy, which is the Profound Vein Realm.During the few days when Zhang Yan was consolidating his foundation, he searched for the detailed method of "bean soldiers" in the tower of Wanxiangzhu. If there is nothing to do along the way, it is better to try the method of "bean soldiers" first, so there is his strange behavior of holding a dozen or so bean dishes along the way.

This is the reason why Dou Bing has a low threshold. It only needs to meet the cultivation level of Profound Vein Realm, and there is no obstacle at all in terms of materials.The most common beans will do.

Dried beans, of course, but not fried beans.

And Zhang Yan's non-stop "pan beans" in the past few days is actually transferring his aura into the beans bit by bit through a special method, and depicting subtle lines inside them to meet the mysterious changes later. need.

This process is called "raising soldiers".The longer the soldiers are raised, the more powerful the "bean soldiers" can carry.This is also the growth of "Doubing".

Generally, the height of "bean soldiers" can be seen from the color of the beans raised.The original color of ordinary beans is the lowest level of "bean soldiers", and then the so-called "copper bean soldiers" become brass, and then the bright gold is "golden bean soldiers", and there is also the legendary white jade color "sacred bean soldiers".

The bean soldiers in Zhang Yan's hands only made him trade for four or five days. Although he successfully turned the beans into "bean soldiers", they were only the lowest-level "bean soldiers".

But the lowest level does not mean useless.

As I said before, "Dou Soldier" is a Taoist spell that combines the magic of Shuxiu and the method of the Divine Dao.Therefore, art is the foundation, and it is the method of the divine way that truly explodes the power.

Some are like a simplified version of "God's Arrival".Use beans to carry a small portion of divine power, without the need to lose a portion of lifespan as a price like the "God's Arrival Technique" once used.

Perhaps the monk who created this spell thought out this second-best spell based on the rejection of the price of "God's Arrival"?

Take the twelve beans in Zhang Yan's hands as an example. Although they are only the lowest "bean soldiers", they still have the most basic ability of "bean soldiers", that is, the ability to carry the power of the divine way.The difference is only in how much power it can withstand.

Taking "God's Subduing Technique" as a comparison, Zhang Yan can bear a fraction of the power of the heavenly soldiers and gods, so what the "bean soldiers" in his hand at this time can only carry is a bit stronger than ordinary people's divine power, and Zhang Yan needs to consume spiritual energy to maintain the activation state of "Dou Bing".

According to Zhang Yan's deduction, he believes that the twelve "bean soldiers" in his hand can now maintain the strength equivalent to that of a warrior in the early or middle stage of Body Tempering Realm, and the up and down errors will not be too large.

Even so, if you encounter hundreds of bandits swarming in, you still can't resist it, not to mention that the warriors among the bandits are not vegetarians, so it is rare to be able to protect some people from escaping.

But what Zhang Yan wanted to save was everyone in the entire team.So even if "Dou Bing" is a good card in his current hand, he can't play it out to fight the bandits. He needs to talk about some rules and strategies.

If it is still futile in the end, then Zhang Yan will take some people to rush out, and he will have to try whether he can save him before he is reconciled.

"Brother Xiong, help me watch some pancakes so they don't burn. I'll put some water over there."

"Okay, let's go, don't go too far, maybe there are monsters here."

"Okay, don't go far."

Zhang Yan already had concerns in his heart, got up from the edge of the fire, said that it was convenient to go, but did not suppress his voice, deliberately let the people around him hear it.So no one was curious about his departure.What's so good about a big man going to pee?

But when Zhang Yan left, he only peed incidentally. What he had to do was to throw out the twelve "bean soldiers", so that he could clean himself up in case something happened.At the same time achieve the purpose of confusing everyone.

However, the bean soldiers can't be spread too far, based on the limit of Zhang Yan's current aura sense, close it a little, about [-] feet away.He can activate and control these bean soldiers within this distance.

After confirming that the arrangement was correct, Zhang Yan rolled up his trouser legs, and put a piece of magic amulet on each leg to hide it.Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case.The fact that Zhang Yan almost capsized in the gutter because of his agility when facing Li Gui before is still fresh in his memory. Although he can't improve his agility in a short period of time, he can rely on the magic amulet to increase his movement speed. You can make use of it.

"Brother! Are you ready? Your pancakes are all baked!"

"I'm coming!"

Zhang Yan laughed and packed up and trotted back to the side of the fire.He took the pancakes that were handed over by the other party and began to eat them.

Soon after Xushi passed, it was Haishi.The voices in the convoy also quickly fell.I have to get up early tomorrow, and Haishi is already very late for the people in the team.They each found a warm place, took out the quilt, wrapped themselves up, and then fell to the ground with their clothes on and fell asleep.

Some people did not sleep.For example, the guards who were told to be on full alert, the head of the convoy, and some people who felt something was wrong like the coachman surnamed Xiong.

Of course Zhang Yan was also included.

Slowly, only the crackling of the fire was left in the surrounding area, and the rest was quiet.

Suddenly, a piercing scream sounded, which was an alarm issued by the guards around the night, waking up the entire convoy that had already fallen into a deep sleep.

"Enemy attack!"

"Bandits! Bandits are here!"

The police whistle sounded once and twice, and soon it was ringing non-stop on all sides.It heralds the official arrival of the "big omen" calculated by Zhang Yan before.

Chapter 53

The guards in charge of guarding all around blew the whistles hanging around their necks one after another. The piercing sound broke the silence and made everyone in the convoy feel their hearts jump.

"Bandits! Bandits are here!"

The guards did not continue to stay at the high place to guard, but rushed back and announced the reason for the alarm whistle.

"What?! Bandits? Why did bandits appear at this time?"

"Bring it over? What, what does this mean?"

"Don't be afraid, our car and horse company has friendship with all the cottages in this mountain. Maybe it's the people from the wolf village. Didn't they show up before? Maybe they came here to collect the toll?"

When Zhang Yan heard the police post and saw the sentry guards rushing back, his first feeling was that these bandits were too arrogant.

What can the ten guards guard against?If the bandits wanted to be invisible, they could send powerful warriors in to kill the guards as sentries first, and then show their blades when they got close.These are all-too-common tactics in the military.But these bandits just came over loudly, without covering it up at all.

Perhaps as far as the bandits were concerned, they never thought that a convoy of just fifty people could have any resistance in front of them.It's like when you step on an ant, you never think about any strategy.

Although he looked down on these rabble in his heart, Zhang Yan felt a little more confident at this time. After all, it was easier to deceive a group of fools than a group of scheming villains.

The ten guards looked so thin at this moment, even if they were surrounded by the car formation, they could not bring any sense of security to the rest of the team.

And the most panicked ones were the convoy leader and the guard leader.They had exchanged opinions before, thinking that the bandit forces in this mountain were likely to be reshuffled as they were five years ago, and they also believed that once they were encountered by chaotic bandits, they would probably be close to death.So I planned to turn back to avoid the limelight tomorrow after putting on a show, but who would have thought that the danger would come that night.At this moment, I can only keep hoping that my guess is wrong, or that the bandits will not do the thing of killing them all this time.

run?Where are you going?There are mountains all around, and the mountains are the hunting grounds of bandits.Not to mention the convoy, even if the army of Nanyuan Kingdom enters the mountain to encircle and suppress, they can't clean it up, because the mountain road here is rugged and complicated. Once the bandits disperse and run away, they can hide in a cave for a month or two. Can the army afford it?As soon as the army left, they came out again.

What's more, it is surrounded on all sides now, and there is no place to run.He could only stand behind the car formation and wait for his fate.

Even the people in the convoy panicked to this point, those people who spent money to follow the car like Zhang Yan were even more frightened, their faces were green and black, and they hid in the innermost trembling like frightened chicks.

Zhang Yan didn't panic, but silently took out a short knife from his bag. In fact, it was transformed by Wanxiangzhu, and it also fit his identity as a soldier who returned home from Yubeishan Fortress.It's just that he lacks the evil spirit that the soldiers of the Yubei Mountain Fortress have always had.

People who practice Taoism pay attention to peace of mind, and evil spirits cannot stay on him.So Zhang Yan should be the only one who has stayed in Yubei Mountain for more than two years but has no evil spirit at all.

"Brother, if, if there is something wrong later, can you, help, help me?" The driver surnamed Xiong saw Zhang Yan with a calm face and a knife in his hand, and found it immediately. one to rely on.He knew that Zhang Yan, who had just come out of Yubeishan Fortress, a place where people die every day, was much more reliable at this moment than someone like him. Maybe he could rely on him to save his life .

"Brother Xiong, don't worry, stay by my side, I will try my best to help you. But it shouldn't be necessary to do it, right?"

"Thank you, brother! But brother, don't be careless. Bandits never attack the camp in the middle of the night. I'm afraid today will be difficult!" At this time, the uneasiness in his heart came to his heart, making him terrified.

After only a few words, Zhang Yan felt a lot of fast approaching breath in his perception.The breath is strong and weak, but it is not the strength that ordinary people should have. It is a warrior, and the master of bandits is here first!

With the light of the fire, you can see that there are suddenly many figures on the nearby trees on the surrounding mountains, standing or squatting on the branches of the trees, holding long and short weapons, and looking at the people trapped in the middle of the car formation with a playful expression. These dozen or so people.

"That seems to be the third head of the wolf village! The second head of the Heidao village next to him? Why did they come together?"

"There are still some people I don't know!"

"The ones over there are people from Huanshanzhai!"

"Well, people from Bad Wolf Village, Heidao Village, and Huanshan Village are all here? But why didn't you see their master? It's strange!"

Seeing some familiar faces, some team members were slightly relieved.But people who had guessed in their hearts like the head of the convoy and the leader of the guards were on the contrary. Seeing this mixed face, they fell straight to the bottom of their hearts.

Although the three big bandit forces on this mountain road are not hostile, they are definitely not in a relationship that can be mixed together for business.Now that the people are mixed, and the big bosses of the cottages have not been seen, the problems here are basically obvious.

The village of the three bandits was in chaos.

You can't wait for bandits to attack, at least you have to figure out the other party's intentions first.And it seems that the bandits who came here should not come out in full force, there were only about twenty warriors who arrived first and showed up, and the rest of the bandits who followed should not exceed two hundred.

"Heroes! We are the convoy of the Shunji Chariot and Horse Company in Xuanhua City. We are connected with all the villages in the mountains. Everyone in charge is here. If there is any shortage, you can open up. Although our owner is not here, we can We can also take back the words of the masters and let the masters know.

Hehe, it is unnecessary to put up such a big battle. "

The back of his head was already soaked in cold sweat, but his face was really calm. He climbed onto a carriage and stood on it and shouted loudly at the bandits surrounding him not far away, hoping to keep them safe. They all agree first, and then they can go back alive.

"I know you are Shunji, but do you know who we are?"

"I know, you are from the wolf village..."

"Wrong! The wolf village is gone! Now it is Qingyue village! So what does your Shunji car and horse shop have to do with me? How dare you come to make friends with me? Now that so many people have come here, you just want to rely on three Send me away with two sentences?"

"No, no, no, everyone in Qingyue Village, please don't get me wrong. Our car and horse business is always here, and it's not a one-time transaction. If you have any requests, please ask, and we will definitely bring them to you. And the toll fee this time I won’t short everyone, you can let it go..."

"Okay, okay, you are the leader of the team, so I don't bother to tell you."

"Then I will definitely bring the words..."

"Hey, don't talk too much, I'm here today to collect things, not only your goods, but also your lives, as well!"

Chapter 54 Suspicion

In the eyes of bandits, reshuffled the cards and changed their identities, which means that the rules in this mountain need to be re-established. How can they gain prestige if they don't kill them first?

Besides, the former three villages have now been disrupted and reorganized into a large village. How can the road purchase cost not be increased by three or five times?