Since the merchant group dared to move forward with twenty thousand bandits following them, the bandits had no choice but to have a real fight with the merchant group.
Hua Xing watched as the five thousand bandits slowly approached two hundred meters in front of him and formed a formation to attack. He ordered everyone to pay attention, a fight was inevitable.
Not long after, the bandit group organized everything and began to charge towards Hua Xing and the others. When the distance between the two sides was only 100 meters, the merchant group knew that the bandits were really going to attack this time. Only then did they begin to stop the carriages and set up a defensive formation. At this time, Hua Xing and the others also began to attack the enemy.
Two thousand bandits clashed with one hundred bandits, but the expected scene of the merchant group being drowned did not happen.
Only the leader of the bandits was at Mortal Realm Level 2, and he was killed by Hua Xing's [Moon Spear] in the blink of an eye. In order to shock the bandits by killing them quickly, Hua Xing did not defend himself at all. When the Rank 4 broadsword hit him, Hua Xing's body only trembled a little, and the [Golden Silk Soft Armor] blocked ninety percent of the damage for him.
The merchant group led by Hua Xing was like a huge rock that blocked the flood of horse bandits. In just one exchange, the horse bandits had lost more than a hundred people. Although the merchant group had fewer people, their strength, weapons, and armor were much better than the horse bandits. The horse bandits did not approach the merchant group very quickly. At this time, the merchant group had already formed a defensive formation. In the distance, 15,000 horse bandits were approaching the merchant group from the other side. When Hua Xing saw this, he ordered his men to retreat.
Eight Mortal Realm warriors were holding back the bandits, while the rest of the people took the opportunity to retreat to the carts. Soon, they would have to face a big fight, a fight that would decide everyone's life and death.
Hua Xing's Mortal Realm warriors were drowned by thousands of bandits, but because the bandits did not have any Mortal Realm warriors, in order to kill them all, they would have to exhaust all of their Zhen Qi. It was unknown how many lives the bandits would have to sacrifice in order to exhaust all of their Zhen Qi.
On the merchant group's side, the fifteen thousand bandits had already started to clash with the carts. Countless horses crashed into the long spears of the carts, causing chaos in front of the carts. Spears kept coming out of the carts, and the bandits kept dying.
"Father, the Chen family's caravan formation can't hold on for much longer!"
After fighting for more than half an hour, everyone was filled with blood. The chariot formation had become a line of death. Countless horse bandits had died in front of the chariot formation. Although the merchant group had suffered casualties, they were still able to keep the horse bandits outside the chariot formation.
"Xue Pan, you and Huang Guangwen return to the formation to provide support. Protect the chariot formation from being broken through."
Hua Xing shouted. At this time, they could not hold on any longer. In this high-intensity battle, the eight of them could not remember how many horse bandits they had killed. However, these horse bandits had been trying to trap them and give the main force an opportunity to break through the caravan's defensive line.
Although Xue Pan was an archer, with a long spear, even if he did not use any martial arts, normal Qi Transforming Realm warriors would not be his opponent. Hearing Hua Xing's order, he quickly joined up with Huang Guangwen and began to approach the caravan.
The two Qi Refining Realm warriors returned to the caravan to provide support. The Chen family quickly stabilized the battle. They had been keeping an eye on the enemy's Qi Refining Realm warriors. However, after fighting for more than an hour, the enemy's Qi Refining Realm warriors did not appear. At this time, the horse bandits finally could not hold on any longer. Some of the horse bandits could not see any hope of breaking through the defense of the chariot formation. However, Hua Xing and the rest had been killing for an hour. The more they killed, the more energetic they became.
The horse bandits relied on their spirit. As long as someone had the intention to retreat, it would spread to the rest of the horse bandits. They began to deliberately slow down the pace of their attacks so that others would die. Gradually, some of the horse bandits began to retreat. In less than half an hour, the remaining 10,000 horse bandits began to retreat. Guang County Business Group also suffered heavy casualties. With less than a thousand men, they did not have the strength to chase after the horse bandits. Hua Xing led a hundred elite members of the caravan and gathered a thousand war horses and watched the horse bandits leave.
Although the battle seemed intense, the casualties were not high. The horse bandits suffered a total of 3000 casualties. More than half of them were the result of Hua Xing's elite team. The caravan also suffered close to a hundred casualties. There were more than 200 injured people. It could be said that the caravan's combat power had been reduced by half.
Fortunately, the eight Qi Refining Realm warriors did not suffer any injuries. Hua Xing's injuries could not even be considered light. This time, they had killed their way out of the caravan's morale.
The horse bandits who tried to sound out the Guang County Business Group knew that they were not to be trifled with. However, they were not willing to let them go just like that. They still had more than 15,000 men left.
Hua Xing looked at the horse bandits in the distance and smiled. The caravan had already defeated the horse bandits and he believed that they would not dare to attack him again.
In fact, all caravan's reputation was slowly built through battles like this. Today, the Hua family led the Guang County Business Group to resist the attack of 20,000 horse bandits. This news would soon spread among the horse bandits. In the future, anyone who wanted to attack them would have to consider their own strength. This was also the reason why old caravans rarely encountered any danger. The more new faces a caravan had, the easier it was for them to be attacked by the horse bandits.
When the Guang County Business Group saw the horse bandits retreating, they packed their things and hurried on with their journey. Taking advantage of the fact that the horse bandits had just been defeated, the longer they traveled, the safer they would be.
Hua Xing's prediction was right. The horse bandits did not dare to come close to the caravan. Although they were not willing to accept such a defeat, no one would be foolish enough to send them to their deaths.
Just like this, the Guang County Business Group did not have time to rest. They walked all the way until evening. They had walked for more than 70 miles in a day and finally entered a rocky beach. This place was not suitable for war horses to charge. The horse bandits would not dare to attack the caravan here. Only then did everyone feel at ease.
The Hua family had lost three members this time. Among them, there were a few who were seriously injured. Hua Xing had secretly given the injured members the [Elixir Of Spring]. Now, all the caravans of the Guang County Business Group were burning the bodies of the dead members. A few caravan representatives came to Hua Xing's place.
"Old Master Hua, we have finally entered the rocky beach this time. I think it will be difficult for the caravans heading to the Xiongnu Grassland this year!" The leader of the Jia family said when he saw Hua Xing.
"Without the Xiantian Realm expert from Linzi City to lead the caravan this year, the difficulty of the caravan is many times higher. If it were not for our eight Qi Realm experts, the caravan might have been defeated by the horse bandits. There will not be many caravans entering the Xiongnu Grassland this year. The price of the goods will definitely be much higher than last year's." Hua Xing said.
The others nodded their heads. It was normal for caravans to lose members. As long as they could earn more than ten times the profit, and as long as the caravan did not lose more than half of its members, everything was worth it.
"I wonder how the Han family will cross this hurdle this time. The Han family only has one Qi Realm expert leading more than 20 small caravans. I'm afraid they won't be able to withstand a single charge from the horse bandits." Yue Jiateng said when he thought of the other half of the Guang County caravan.
"They have nothing to do with us. If they can't cross, then they can just go back to the Linhu Grassland!
I think this Han family is too much. Who in Guang County doesn't know the strength of the Hua family? Our county magistrate just can't see it. The Hua family's strength is not much weaker than the Han family, but they don't even have the status of an aristocratic family. This kind of Han family is hard to convince! "Huang Guangwen complained about the Han family, but his eyes were fixed on the leader of the Jia family.
When the head of the Geng family heard Huang Guangwen's words, he quickly expressed his opinion, "This year, the Han family has lost all face. It will be difficult for them to control the Guang County caravan in the future. I wonder how the battle with the Yan Kingdom is going. If the Han family loses too much this time …"
The Geng family's words were even more overboard, but everyone nodded their heads. This time, the Hua family withstood most of the pressure from the horse bandits. In the future, they would have to follow in the footsteps of the Hua family. The future of their family might depend on the battle between the Hua family and the Han family. Because of the return of the caravan, regardless of whether the Han family's business was successful or not, the Hua family's strength would increase greatly, and the conflict between the two families would be even more difficult to resolve.
"The Jia family and the Hua family are staunch allies. They will definitely stand on the side of the Hua family. However, the Han family has the support of the Tian family. We cannot go overboard. If we force the Tian family to take action, all of our families together will not be enough to be killed by a single Xiantian realm expert of the Tian family." The leader of the Jia family reminded.
Everyone was expressing their loyalty to Hua Xing. When they heard the leader of the Jia family's words, they could not help but nod their heads. When it came to the Han family, they could only slap them to death or bear with it.
Everyone looked at Hua Xing. It was very clear that it would not be easy for the Hua family to be promoted to an aristocratic family.
In the next three days, although there were often horse bandit scouts at the rocky beach, none of the horse bandits dared to attack the Guang County Business Group. Everyone had their new carriages, so the journey was not too bumpy. Last year, they could only travel about 30 miles a day. Now, they could travel more than 70 miles a day. Just as they were about to leave the rocky beach area, they found another group of horse bandits with over ten thousand people waiting for them not far ahead.
"Keep a distance between the merchant groups. The 'emergency team' will follow behind me. Xue Pan, you will stay in the carriage formation and focus on killing the horse bandits above the Qi Transformation Stage. Everyone be careful."
Hua Xing ordered the merchant group to shorten the distance between each other and advance slowly. They had the intention to fight if they wanted to. The entire Guang County Business Group was very confident when they saw the horse bandits. After all, they had already fought with a larger group of horse bandits.
The opposing group of horse bandits saw the merchant group's confidence and sent out a group of more than ten people to slowly walk towards the merchant group. It seemed like they wanted to negotiate.
The opposing group had four Mortal Realm warriors, the strongest of which was at the Great Completion of the Mortal Realm. He had been staring at Hua Xing the whole time. He wanted to test the strength of the merchant group.
Yu Jun saw this and wanted to fight. He was also at the Mortal Realm Stage Nine, but Hua Xing stopped him.
Hua Xing wanted to fight himself. He had the 【Flame】 and the 【Moon Spear】, so he was much stronger than Yu Jun. As long as the horse bandits could see his strength, they might be able to overcome this crisis easily.