Chapter 304: 52 Chapter Ambush_2
The townspeople were used to this sight, seeing many heavy-duty trucks every day.
Xiang Du had good eyesight and could see the license plate number of the leading heavy-duty truck from a distance, so he made a hand gesture.
The dozen or so robust n in the tea house put down their teacups and ceased their chatting.
The goods have arrived!
In this era, heavy-duty trucks had a maximum load capacity of no more than five tons, and the Exotic Beast Food that Li Fei needed weighed over a hundred tons, which ant that more than twenty heavy-duty trucks were required for transportation.
Minutes later, the convoy slowly drove into sight.
Xiang Du stood up and waved from the roadside, then made a hand gesture.
Thereupon, the convoy began to slow down and eventually pulled over to the side of the road.
Xiang Du led his group over.
Besides the tea house he was at, many other people on both sides of the street also stood up and walked towards the convoy.
They were all people sent by Li Fei.
Besides the elite fighters from Qingyuan Fist Village led by Xiang Du, there were also mbers from Zhi Ge Court.
Shangguan Xiao had taken over Zhi Ge Court just half a year ago and hadn’t had ti to cultivate many of her own confidants; currently, the only one she truly trusted was the officer martial master Cao Mu, who had previously joined forces with her and Li Fei to deal with Zhang Shan (refer to Volu 1, Chapter 135).
This ti, Cao Mu brought a few of his trusted confidants on a secret mission and quietly arrived in Drum Stone Town.
Additionally, in the crowd was a tomboy wearing a hat and a brown leather jacket, looking very much like a man.
It was Zhao Yi.
This ti, Li Fei had sent her as well.
A Mage at the Divine Transformation Stage, she would have difficulty winning a one-on-one duel with a martial master, but in group combat, she might be more useful than several martial masters combined!
There were actually not many roads that one could use to transport goods to Xing City; going from Drum Stone Town to Xing City was one of the options, and Yu Longqing was bound to arrange for soone in Drum Stone Town to inspect.
Therefore, Li Fei did not expect to keep Yu Longqing in the dark forever. The arrangents in Baiyang City were to draw Yu Longqing’s forces there, and once the latter realized, moving hands from both north and south would definitely be too late, and the enemy would either have to give up or only be able to arrange a small number of people nearby for an ambush.
Xiang Du and his group were preparing for this.
To prevent the “Beast King’s” n from robbing the goods, they chose to destroy this batch of Exotic Beast Food.
The convoy stopped on the street for about an hour.
After Xiang Du’s group inspected the goods and completed the handover with Luo Yifu’s n, they filled all the vehicles with fuel.
Then the convoy was back on the road, this ti with Li Fei’s people on the trucks.
Not only that, but eight more cars joined the convoy, with four at the front clearing the way and four following behind at the end of the convoy.
Xiang Du sat in the lead car of the convoy, and Cao Mu sat in the very last one.
Zhao Yi took the passenger seat in one of the trucks in the middle.
The convoy moved forward steadily, leaving Drum Stone Town.
At the speed of the convoy, it would take about eleven hours to reach Xing City without stopping or resting along the way.
But the actual situation could never be so smooth.
The difficulty here does not an being intercepted, but rather the road conditions of this era do not allow for “smooth sailing.”
In the thirty-eighth year of the Hongguang reign of the Da Lan Dynasty, the Internal Affairs Pavilion promulgated the “Road Repair Ordinance,” which stipulated the roadbed width:
National roads at five zhang (about 17 ters), provincial roads at three zhang (about 10 ters), and city roads at 2.4 zhang (about 8 ters).
However, in practice, when the Central Cabinet sent down 100,000 yuan in funds, by the ti it actually reached the local level, there might only be 20,000 yuan left…
Lack of funds, subpar materials, unpaid worker wages, and other issues resulted in the so-called highways generally being only 5 to 9 ters wide.
The narrowness of the roads was not even the most serious problem; the worst was the road surface material.
For example, in Feng Province, only one-quarter of the roads had paved surfaces. And even this quarter of paved roads typically used coal slag and gravel, the rest of the roads were nearly all dirt roads.
Such roads were rough and uneven, causing great damage to the rubber tires of vehicles. On sunny days, the air was filled with dust, and on rainy days, the roads beca muddy and impassable, with so high-chassis vehicles getting stuck.
On the way from Drum Stone Town to Xing City, more than eighty percent of the highway was dirt road, and the narrowest was only 5 ters wide. If there was oncoming traffic or problems with vehicles up ahead, there was bound to be a blockage.
So from the start, Xiang Du and his group had been ntally prepared for a traffic jam, but they had not anticipated it coming so soon.
The convoy had only been on the road for a little over an hour when the way ahead was blocked.
“Go and see what’s happening.”
From the lead car, Xiang Du instructed one of his subordinates.
The opponent was a Body Breaking Stage Martial Artist from Qingyuan Fist Village; upon hearing the call, he imdiately got out of the vehicle with a large knife strapped to his back and a pistol at his waist and hurried to the front to check the situation where the road was blocked.
A mont later, he ran back to report:
“Brother Xiang, there’s a car tire stuck in a pit ahead. I helped push the car out, but their tire is damaged, and their spare tires are all used up. They’re looking to buy one from us.”
Changing tires along the way was a common occurrence because the roads were indeed very damaging to tires. Anyone traveling long distances had to carry several spare tires.
“What about those people? Any problems?”
Xiang Du asked.
The person he sent was perceptive and observant, which is why he had specifically chosen him to check things out upfront.
“I asked in detail; they’re from Xinyang Prefecture, coming to Datong Prefecture for business. The accent is definitely from Xinyang, all ordinary people, no martial artists.”
“What about the other cars that are blocked?”
Xiang Du continued to inquire.
There were about a dozen cars blocked up ahead.
“As I passed by, I took a good look, and so of the cars seed to have martial artists in them.”
“Okay, sell them a tire.”
Xiang Du imdiately made a decision.
Not selling the tire could an a long delay; better to resolve the issue quickly.
Soon after, the Martial Artist left with a spare tire.
“Tell everyone to be on high alert.”
Xiang Du instructed again.
Consequently, the driver opened the window and extended an arm to make a gesture.
Seeing this, the drivers in the cars behind did the sa, passing it down the line, one after another.
This was to remind everyone in the vehicles: be on high alert!
Seven or eight minutes later, the Martial Artist who went to sell the tire ran back.
Seeing this, Xiang Du breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Then he saw the Martial Artist pass by a black car and get shot in the head by a bullet—
Bang!
Xiang Du’s eyes widened, and he imdiately pushed open the car door and got out, shouting loudly:
“Enemy attack—”
At the sa ti, about half of the people from the dozen or so cars blocked upfront got out, carrying firearms and shooting at the convoy behind!
Xiang Du charged decisively toward the assailants, his body radiating a dark golden glow that repelled all incoming bullets.
This was the Golden Tuo Force, condensed from the tallic Xin Jin Primordial Qi. Xin Jin is associated with Yin and defense, so Golden Tuo Force was one of the forces with excellent defensive power.
Originally, Xiang Du was only an Innate Qi Early Stage martial master, but during the battle when the Calming Sect invaded Xing City, he had a brush with death and, by good fortune amidst misfortune, comprehended the Heart Realm and broke through his realm.
Therefore, in this convoy, besides Cao Mu, a Refining Strength Martial Master at the peak of the Qi Change Stage, there was Xiang Du, who was also a Refining Strength Martial Master.
Protected by the Golden Tuo Force, Xiang Du withstood the hail of bullets and charged forward.
Behind him, seven or eight Body Breaking Stage Martial Artists from Qingyuan Fist Village carried heavy Bullet-Proof Shields forward, and there were also a group of gunn returning fire.
Crossing the distance of tens of ters in the blink of an eye, before he could charge into their midst, an opponent’s figure actively approached him.
Whoosh—
A stream of earthy yellow force, like a teor, crashed into Xiang Du. He was hit as if struck head-on by a speeding heavy truck and was knocked off the highway, tumbling into the wasteland beside it, kicking up a cloud of dust.
“Late Stage Qi Change?”
Xiang Du looked gravely at the person who had attacked him. Just now, the opponent had delivered a punch at him through the air.
“Kill—”
Just then, a thunderous battle cry ca from afar.
Xiang Du turned his head to look and saw that on a dirt mound a few hundred ters away, over a hundred people had appeared, and they were launching an attack on the convoy behind!
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Chapter two coming later
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