The sudden turn of events stunned Li Chengfeng and the rest. Li Chengfeng stared at the stocky adjutant for a long while, thinking that this guy was a jinx. His words had come true!
Li Chengfeng and the rest were walking on the official road and were now at the side of the forest. When they heard someone shouting that there was an enemy attack, the soldiers immediately stopped the carriages and took down the huge shields from the carriages. Then, they took down their bows and arrows and quickly nocked them. At the same time, the soldiers beside the soldiers quickly urged their horses to surround the carriages. The eight carriages formed a square formation and the soldiers hid behind the carriages to avoid the enemy's attack.
Li Chengfeng saw that they were attacked in the middle of the night. Although they were terrified, they did not panic. They did not even need orders from their superiors to complete this task on their own. It was obvious they had been trained for a long time.
Li Chengfeng was secretly impressed by Long Tenghai's training methods. To be able to train these soldiers to be so capable and brave, one could only imagine how powerful these elite soldiers would be on the battlefield!
But thinking about it this way, he could not help but respect the Puppet Kingdom and Dijon Kingdom.
Against such a powerful combination like Long Tenghai and Gao Shenghan, they had fought back and forth for so long!
It was clear that they were not easy to deal with!
Li Chengfeng's courage stemmed from his skills. He flew up with a flight talisman, at the same time mobilising the hundred and three jade tokens to protect himself. They surrounded him like an emerald belt, ready to turn into a wall or a shield at any time.
Li Chengfeng looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of black figures a thousand metres away charging into the formation of wagons. Cries of pain could be heard everywhere. These black figures immediately picked up the torches on the ground and started burning the wagons. The burning wagons were extremely eye-catching in the night.
Li Chengfeng lowered his head to tell Han Tianxing and Xiaobao, "You guys guard here, I'll go take a look!"
With that, he charged forward. But just as he did, Han Tianxing caught up and shouted excitedly, "Senior brother, take me with you!"
Li Chengfeng glanced at him, secretly unhappy but did not explode. He only nodded. "Be careful, don't stray too far from me."
Han Tianxing agreed excitedly and followed Li Chengfeng to the front of the carriages. Xiaobao was left scratching his head, wanting to follow but unwilling to disobey Li Chengfeng's orders.
Li Chengfeng rushed to the front of the carriages to see more than ten black-robed men charging into the second carriage formation, wielding gleaming swords as they slaughtered madly.
Although these soldiers were well-trained, they were, after all, mortals. Since the other party dared to venture deep into the Soaring Dragon Sea to rob the grain burning team, they were definitely elites. Naturally, they were all killed in a short while. Corpses were strewn all over the convoy, and fresh blood dyed the sacks of grain red. Some of the sacks had been slashed open, and the white rice fell to the ground. Very quickly, the blood on the ground had seeped into it, turning it into thick and viscous blood rice.
After being taught a lesson by the four savage beasts and the Sword Enlightened Master, Li Chengfeng was much calmer than before. He did not charge forward immediately, instead observing them calmly from the side.
After a while, Li Chengfeng realised that these people did not seem particularly powerful. They did not use any spells despite fighting for so long, so they were probably not cultivators.
Li Chengfeng watched as they slaughtered the second carriages and burned this one's rations to ashes. Then, they raised their shields and charged towards the third carriages despite the arrows fired by the soldiers. In a flash, Li Chengfeng blocked the black-robed men's path.
Han Tianxing followed closely behind, yelling excitedly, "Senior Brother, leave these people to me!"
Li Chengfeng did not stop him. With a grunt of agreement, Han Tianxing pounced forward murderously, his Heavenly Dragon Sword slashing out with two rays of sword qi!
The two rays of sword qi slashed all the black-robed men to the ground. Blood splattered everywhere the sword qi passed, limbs severed.
Han Tianxing did not expect his two slashes to almost kill all the black-robed men. He stood rooted to the ground, staring at the sword in his hand in shock. So I'm this powerful?!
The remaining black-robed man dodged the attack. He looked at his companions who were still alive after being sliced at the waist. They were wailing and rolling on the ground, screaming in pain. Some even crawled towards him, trying to get him to save them.
This scene scared him out of his wits. He immediately turned to run but after two steps, he saw a figure flash in front of him. Li Chengfeng was already blocking his way.
The black-robed man laughed bitterly and gritted his teeth. Soon, his face turned black and he foamed at the mouth. Blood flowed from the corners of his eyes and ears as he died from the poison.
When Li Chengfeng saw this, he immediately went forward to check his pulse, then rummaged through his clothes and found a ring with intricate patterns on it. He then kept the ring in his clothes.
Han Tianxing walked up and said disappointedly, "These people are so useless. How did they all die so quickly?"
Li Chengfeng looked at the corpses on the ground and furrowed his brows. "Yeah … did these people come here to die?
That can't be. "
Li Chengfeng had never been in a war but he was an intelligent man. Since they ambushed the convoy, they must have burned the entire convoy to achieve their goal.
But if they wanted to achieve this, why did they attack the convoy the moment they entered their ambush point?
Anyone who knew a thing or two about the art of war would know that they had to let the convoy enter their encirclement before attacking. That was the best way to gain the upper hand.
Plus, if these people wanted to attack the convoy, why did they only send so few people?
And they were so weak?
Long Tenghai had fought in wars his entire life, how would he not know the importance of food?
How would he not arrange for a large number of guards?
What was the use of sneak attacking them with such a broken toy?
Other than alerting the enemy, what else could they do?
Wait!
Wait wait wait!
When Li Chengfeng thought of alerting the enemy, his heart suddenly skipped a beat. Could … could this be a diversion tactic?!
Attacking the convoy on purpose to attract their attention? Did they have other intentions?
But … what other intentions could they have?
Ambushing Guangyuan City?
Luring reinforcements from Guangyuan City?
That was impossible!
If the Puppet Kingdom could send an army deep into Daqi's southeastern territory without Long Tenghai noticing, then Long Tenghai would be too useless. He should be beheaded on the spot!
How could a famous general like him allow the enemy to infiltrate this far?
Spies could infiltrate here but if they were spies, they would not pose a threat even if there were too few of them!
If they were here to assassinate Long Tenghai and Gao Shenghan, then they had obviously chosen the wrong target!
They should have created chaos in Guangyuan City and then ambushed them. Why did they choose them as targets?
Li Chengfeng's frown deepened. This man in black was a man of sacrifice, committing suicide when he saw there was no hope. He was decisive.
People like this should not be cannon fodder that could be sacrificed so easily. There must be a reason why they were sacrificing themselves like moths to a flame!
Think, think, what could it be?
Just as Li Chengfeng's mind raced, an eye-catching golden pillar of light shot into the sky two thousand meters in front of him. This pillar of light was about the thickness of a person's waist. It shot straight into the sky from the distant forest, piercing through the thick fog of war in the sky, then straight into the night sky.
Li Chengfeng was stunned when he saw the pillar of light. Then, he heard the soldiers behind him yell, "Look, look!"
Li Chengfeng and Han Tianxing turned to see another pillar of golden light shooting into the sky from the southeast. However, because it was so far away, it looked as thin as a strand of hair.
However, in this deep night, although it looked small, it was still clearly visible.
"Senior Brother, look!"
Han Tianxing quickly grabbed Li Chengfeng and pointed to the northwest. Another pillar of golden light shot into the sky, another golden thread connecting heaven and earth.
Han Tianxing and Li Chengfeng looked at each other, their expressions cold and nervous. The surrounding soldiers watched with their mouths agape, clueless as to what was happening.
Although Li Chengfeng and Han Tianxing did not understand either, they had a hunch that … this was not something good!
"It's too bright!"
The golden pillar of light grew brighter and brighter, forcing Han Tianxing to narrow his eyes. The other soldiers instinctively shielded their eyes with their hands.
Li Chengfeng shuddered. He looked up at the sky, then quickly turned to look at the positions between the three pillars of light.
The three beams of light formed an isosceles triangle at the moment!
Each pillar was tens or even hundreds of kilometres away from each other, but … the area covered by these three pillars … Wasn't that where Guangyuan City was?!
These pillars could break through the fog of war … which meant …
Li Chengfeng's face turned green as he yelled, "Quick!
Hide, watch out for air attacks! "
Everyone was confused by Li Chengfeng's shout, not knowing what he was talking about.
However, Li Chengfeng knew that these three pillars of light were flares and flares!
They broke through the fog of war from three different directions, and the area covered by these three directions was none other than Guang Yuan City!