Chapter 1477.

Soon after the Qing An merchant caravan led by Wang Dust entered Yunze Province, some sneaky figures appeared around them.

Although it was said that the merchant caravan had encountered quite a few vermin along the way, the current situation was clearly different.

These sneaky people followed the merchant caravan from afar, never coming closer than a mile, and basically snooping in groups of three or five, in small squads.

And as the caravan went deeper into the Great Ze, the number of snoopers kept increasing.

Yunze Province is a vast area, rivers and lakes can be found everywhere, swamps and wetlands abound, although this place is also experiencing a drought, the situation is much stronger than Changyi Province.

But the intricate environment was also prone to unforeseen dangers!

This made the Qingan merchant caravan’s movements even more cautious.

At nightfall, the merchant caravan camped and rested next to a vast lake.

The dart company’s dart master, who acted as a guide, said to Wang Duan, “Mr. Wang, in another five days, we’ll almost arrive at Three Rivers County.”

Three Rivers County was a large county in Yunze Prefecture, and used to have a long history of commerce and trade with Qing’an County, with the latter purchasing a lot of grains and medicinal herbs from Three Rivers County every year through the waterways.

Now that the waterway was cut off, the Qing’an merchant fleet could only travel to Sanhe County via land, which was undoubtedly much more troublesome.

“Uh-huh.”

Wang Dust nodded and instructed, “Have everyone stay alert tonight, don’t be negligent.”

“Yes!”

The dart master led the order and left.

In addition to having three hundred guard soldiers to act as escorts, this caravan had also recruited the help of dart masters and trippers from the only dart bureau in Qing’an County City.

These dart masters and trippers had traveled extensively for many years, and were not only familiar with the environment of Changyi, Yunze, and several other prefectures, but also had a wide range of connections in the jianghu, which had played a very important role along the way.

They are also very experienced, exploring the road, camping, patrolling, guarding and other tasks are completed very well.

It greatly reduced Wang Duan’s burden.

But the situation that arose tonight was very different, when many members of the merchant team fell into dreamland in their tents, the cries of the night lords suddenly came from the surrounding area.

Hoarse, mournful and eerie, like a vicious curse, a sound drilled into everyone’s ears.

It made everyone wake up in a nightmare!

One after another, they broke into curses.

After only a few moments, the sound of the lord’s cry disappeared, and tranquility was restored around the campsite.

The group could only fall back and continue sleeping resentfully.

But after another half an hour, the same cries resounded, once again disturbing everyone in the caravan!

This time, even the most clumsy people understood that someone was definitely deliberately messing with the merchant group.

“Mr. Wang.”

A dart master said to Wang Dust, “Do you want me to take someone out to take a look?”

This dart master’s surname was Chen, he was the head of the dart firm, he was over thirty years old and was not weak, he had a lot of experience in leading a team, and had seen a lot of storms and winds in the jianghu.

Although this kind of jianghu trick did not do any direct harm, it was very disgusting, the intention was to make the people in the caravan unable to rest properly and then exhausted.

If there were no accidents, in the next few days, as long as the caravan hadn’t arrived in Sanhe County, then the same harassment would continue.

Those unseen enemies were like a vicious wolf, once they found an opportunity, they would immediately pounce on the caravan and tear it into pieces, then share the flesh and blood and eat it cleanly.

“No need.”

Wang Dust raised his head to look at the dark night sky and said in a deep voice, “Endure tonight and talk tomorrow.”

The moon was dark, the wind was high, and the people were unfamiliar with the place, so the probability of something going wrong would be too great if they went out to search for the enemy rashly in such an environment.

Wang Dust did not agree, so Bodyguard Chen had no choice but to stay put.

He also knew that it was dangerous to go out, but doing nothing would easily make the enemy think that they were weak and could be bullied, and would only become more rampant.

By the next morning, when the caravan pulled out of camp to continue traveling, many people were tired and yawning, and many of them had large dark circles under their eyes.

The speed of the caravan dropped quite a bit.

In the evening, the same situation arose again!

This time, in addition to the frequent ringing of the lord’s cry, also mixed with the sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling, the people in the caravan can only use cotton to tightly plug their ears, just barely slept through the night.

The third night, the enemy attacked the caravan not only greatly increased in number, and the means more unscrupulous.

They shot dozens of rockets towards the caravan camp from a distance, trying to ignite the wagons to frighten the mules and horses, with extremely sinister intentions.

Fortunately, the guards of the caravan reacted in time and did not cause much damage.

But once again, the disturbance caused the morale of the caravan to inevitably drop greatly.

Bodyguard Chen was all anxious: “Mr. Wang, it can’t go on like this, or everyone won’t be able to hold out.”

Sleeping poorly all night long, even an iron man would get tired, the rush was now much slower, and the enemy that was gathering could launch a deadly strike at any time.

The situation was really dangerous.

“I know.”

Wang Dust pulled out his own sword and gently wiped it with silk satin, “Tonight, you lead the men to guard the camp, and leave these unseen rats to me.”

Bodyguard Chen knew that Wang Duan was very strong, but he couldn’t help but worry: “Mr. Wang, they are many, and it’s best for your precious body not to risk your life.”

A tiger can’t beat a pack of wolves, Wang Chuan’s strength is no longer strong, if he is surrounded by dozens or even hundreds of outlaws, then it’s very normal for him to fall over in the gutter.

If something happened to Wang Duan, then this merchant group would really be finished!

So for Wang Dust’s decision, this bodyguard was very disapproving.

Wang Dust smiled and said, “The thing I’m not most afraid of is crowds!”

Near the evening, the merchant team chose a suitable place to camp.

Under Wang Dust’s orders, dozens of guards worked together to cut long logs from the nearby woods and used ropes to build a watchtower of arrows.

Although this sentry tower was only two or three feet high, there were no defense measures.

But when Wang Chen stood on top of the watchtower with his longbow in hand, those soldiers who had fought side by side with him on the wall of Qing’an County, all of them were greatly boosted in morale and even became excited.

When the unknown companions asked why, these veterans could not help but spit out Wang Chen’s deeds.

After that, they had to add two more sentences, “With Mr. Wang’s strength and battle results, it’s more than enough to reward the position of county minister!”

Previously, the Qing’an County side had already reported the battle results against the roving bandits to the prefectural city, but other than Ye Xiangming’s promotion to half a rank and total control of Qing’an County, Wang Dust, who was the biggest contributor, was surprisingly ignored.

There was no reward.

This is not Ye Xiangming deliberately hide his achievements, but the above do not know for what idea, hard to ignore!

This made many people angry for Wang Chen.

Fortunately, Wang Dust is Ye Xiangming’s son-in-law, and the two have a very close relationship, otherwise all kinds of rumors would have come out.