Started as a thatched house and ended up as a female figure

Early the next morning, the fully armed Cheng Wan led the convoy carrying food and fodder out of Jiangxin County and headed south.

"Master Cheng, the road ahead is relatively safe and generally there won't be any accidents.

However, once you pass the capital and head south, there will be small groups of rebels and bandits roaming around, so we need to be more careful."

Lieutenant General Zhang, the adjutant who was escorting the grain this time, said to Cheng Wan.

Cheng Wan nodded to show that he understood.

In fact, if King Rui had not released all the troops he could mobilize, each with their own tasks, and there was a lack of suitable personnel to escort the grain and fodder, King Rui would not have transferred Cheng Wan, a civil servant, to serve as a military officer.

But no matter what, since King Rui has assigned this task to Cheng Wan, he must do it well.

She doesn't want to die yet...

The team escorting the grain and fodder consisted of laborers pulling and pushing carts, soldiers protecting the grain and fodder, leading generals, and carts of grain and fodder.

The line is unusually long.

Deputy General Zhang is a steady person and works seriously. Cheng Wan just rides his horse in front every day and has not played any role so far.

Cheng Wan is very self-aware. She is just a tool responsible for killing people when the enemy attacks. If she relies on her position as the team leader to give orders blindly, everyone will probably be doomed before they even meet the enemy.

Just as Lieutenant General Zhang said, the journey from Jiangxin County to the capital was indeed very smooth.

However, Cheng Wan could clearly feel that ever since the team passed the capital and continued to head south, Lieutenant General Zhang began to become very nervous.

Out of trust in King Rui, Deputy General Zhang took the initiative to propose that he and Cheng Wan would each be responsible for half of the team's safety.

Cheng Wan naturally agreed.

Cheng Wan is responsible for the first half, and Lieutenant General Zhang is responsible for the second half.

It doesn't matter which part has more pressure, no one knows which part of the team will be attacked if the enemy appears.

After the first day of traveling south from the capital, everything was fine.

However, the smooth progress of the first day did not allow Cheng Wan and Lieutenant General Zhang to put their minds at ease.

You know, at their speed, it will take at least another month to reach where Mu Yao and the army are.

The night is dark and bonfires are lit.

In a tent, Cheng Wan lay in his clothes, listening to the movements of the night watchmen outside, and chatting with Jin Jin in his mind.

"Jinjin, I miss home."

Cheng Wan calculated the days since he left home, and it had been almost a month.

She had never been away from home for so long.

"Owner……"

Jinjin didn't know how to comfort Cheng Wan. He could feel that Cheng Wan missed his family very much.

"Jinjin, I can't wait for my second aunt to give birth to a baby at home?"

Ms. Kobayashi found out she was one month pregnant in September last year, and now she is almost ten months pregnant.

"Owner……"

Jin Jin tried to comfort Cheng Wan: "Master, maybe you can meet your elder brother or Gu Yan this time?"

Cheng Wan blinked his eyes and clenched his hands into fists: "That's right, so I must escort this batch of food and grass to the destination smoothly. Whoever dares to cause trouble, I will kill him..."

"Master, my detection and monitoring range has changed!"

Cheng Wan started and sat up.

The soldier outside saw the figure suddenly sitting up in the tent, and approached Cheng Wan's tent slightly, and asked in a low voice: "Master Cheng?"

"Nothing, I just thought of something."

Cheng Wan lay down again, his eyes sparkling: "Jinjin, you continue."

"The detection and monitoring range is now 50 meters, but the number of express delivery grids has been reduced from five to two. Previously, the delivery was randomly copied once every five days, but now it can only be randomly copied once every ten days."

"Great!"

Cheng Wan clenched her fist excitedly. What she needed most now was to expand the monitoring range so that she could detect enemies hiding in the dark and at a distance in advance.

After getting the good news, Cheng Wan closed his eyes and forced himself to fall asleep and rest.

We have to continue our journey tomorrow.

From the second day to the fifth day, nothing happened and everything was peaceful.

But on the sixth day, something changed.

"Master, there are nearly a hundred people ambushed on the hillside ahead."

Cheng Wan, who was riding a horse at the front of the team, suddenly raised his hand and clenched his fist, and the team, which was rushing on its way, stopped instantly.

"What's the matter, sir? Do we need to stop and wait for the scouts who went out to explore the way to come back?"

A team leader beside Cheng Wan swallowed and asked Cheng Wan in a low voice.

Cheng Wan stared at the hillside in the distance and solemnly ordered the people around him: "Give the order and rest on the spot."

The team did not move forward, and Cheng Wan rode his horse quietly to the end of the team.

Deputy General Zhang came forward immediately when he saw Cheng Wan, his expression serious: "But did any scouts find anything wrong?"

"I'm afraid the two scouts won't be able to come back. There are people on the hillside ahead. Lieutenant General Zhang, you guard the team. I will lead the men around to the back and deal with them."

The team was too long and Lieutenant General Zhang didn't know the situation ahead, but he chose to trust his partner.

but……

"Master Cheng, I'll take the people with me."

Lieutenant General Zhang felt that if given a choice, it would be better for men to do things like fighting and killing.

Cheng Wan shook the knife in his hand and smiled at Deputy General Zhang: "Deputy General Zhang, if my knife was just for show, the prince would not have sent me to escort the grain."

Deputy General Zhang did not argue anymore, but quickly gathered a hundred soldiers, twenty of whom were archers.

Cheng Wan led a hundred soldiers from the end of the team and went around to the back of the hillside in front, and stopped a little further away from the hillside.

Cheng Wan raised his right hand, and twenty archers instantly spread out and drew their bows towards the backs of their chosen targets.

"Boss, why aren't they leaving? Have they discovered us?"

"We are so far away, and the scouts we sent out were killed by us. How could they possibly find us? They should be resting normally."

Scout?

Cheng Wan narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard Jin Jin relaying the other party's words.

Bandits don't usually say scouts, right?

"Wait, why do I feel a chill on my back?"

Cheng Wan raised the corners of his lips, put down his hands, and shot arrows. People kept screaming and tumbling down the hillside, wailing everywhere.

"They're coming from behind!"

"Kill! Kill them! If we can't steal their food, we can still fill our stomachs by using them as food!"

Cheng Wan drew his knife, his eyes were fierce, and his voice was cold: "Kill!"

As soon as the voice fell, Cheng Wan took the lead and rushed over.

Cheng Wan and his men already had the advantage in numbers, and they caught the other side off guard, so it didn't take much effort to defeat the other group.

While the others were cleaning up the battlefield, Cheng Wan put a knife on the neck of a man who was still breathing: "Are you rebels?"

"You are...you are the rebels! Bah!"

The man spat a mouthful of blood-mixed saliva at Cheng Wan.

Cheng Wan dodged in time, then stabbed the knife into the man's heart without blinking.

Cheng Wan pulled out the knife and walked towards the other person who was pinned to the ground with the bloody knife in hand.

"Don't... don't kill me! I'll tell you everything. I'm willing to tell you everything!"

"very good."

Cheng Wan squatted down, smiling and speaking softly: "Are you rebels?"