Chapter 153: Fated Enemy, Encounter in Advance
At the same time, there was a large caravan base about seventy or eighty miles away from this medium-sized Tartar tribe.
Liang Hetang, the commander of the Qilin Camp, was assigned the task of encircling and suppressing this mysterious caravan.
As soon as midnight arrived, he personally led a team of elite soldiers, first eliminated the hidden sentries around, and then led the soldiers to charge directly into the enemy's base surrounded by several earth mounds.
"Wang Wang..."
As expected, there were also several smart dogs in this large garrison. They immediately noticed the enemy's attack and kept roaring.
This mysterious caravan that dares to station outside the Great Wall must have a very powerful background and is not short of money. They must have guard dogs, and there are quite a few of them.
"Who are you?"
"I advise you to retreat immediately and pretend this incident never happened!"
"We are the foreign trade caravan of the Shanxi merchant Fan family. We have a powerful background and you guys can't afford to offend us!"
A young man in a brocade robe reacted very quickly. Just after the dog barked, he flashed out from a nearby exquisite wooden house, holding a top-grade spiritual spear, and shouted loudly to Liang Hetang who had just rushed up to him.
His name is Fan Defu, the eldest son of Fan Maocai, the chief steward of the Fan family. He has been gifted and extremely intelligent since childhood, and has a natural ability to remember everything he sees.
He grew up with the eldest son of the Fan family and was highly valued by the Fan family.
After he came of age, because of his outstanding talents, he was sent to the Fan family branch in Qin, responsible for all of the Fan family's business transactions in Qin.
Three days ago, he personally escorted a batch of heavy-weight supplies, which took three mid-grade magic ships to transport, along the Jialu River and arrived near the secret base of his own business.
This very secret base is not far from the Fan family’s exclusive large wharf on the Jialu River, less than three hundred miles away.
After the fleet docked at the big pier, Vanderford, with a family guard team, arrived at the family business residence at a leisurely pace, waiting for the agreed guests to arrive.
Only after the two parties have reached a formal transaction agreement will they take each other to the place where the three treasure ships are docked on the banks of the Jialu River to conduct a major transaction.
He left the country by boat from the Jialu River, and had no idea that Li Dingguo and his new army would leave the country along the official road along the Wuding River, a thousand miles west of the Jialu River, and arrive at this vast grassland at the same time as their caravan, one on the left and one on the right.
I have to say that many things happen by accident and coincidence.
What Fan Defu could not have imagined was that on the second night after Li Dingguo led a large army out of the border, he began to issue orders to eliminate all hostile forces within the area of 100 miles!
By an unexpected coincidence, the two forces that were destined to become sworn enemies confronted each other ahead of time.
Fan Defu was at the middle third level of martial arts, and this time he came to the family business to await the arrival of distinguished guests, and he brought with him a group of a hundred servants and guards.
Liang Hetang, the leader of the Qilin Camp, recently broke through to the middle third level of martial arts and possesses a special agility talent that is no worse than Li Dingguo's.
Liang Hetang is the second warrior in the current Fuxing Army who has practiced the Yunlong Nine Turns Technique to perfection.
In terms of talent in this area, even Xiao Douya and Hongmei cannot compare to Liang Hetang.
Now that he was facing Vanderford, although he was a little shocked, he was not panicked at all.
Liang Hetang could not have imagined that the number of enemy warriors in the caravan’s base was twice as much as the original intelligence said, reaching about two hundred people.
The warrior battalion he now leads has expanded to over 300 men, and with dozens of talented warrior generals under his command, he is not afraid of the other side at all.
The other party is just a business guard team. Even if the Fan family, a large merchant in Jin, is very famous, as long as there are no masters in the Qi Refining Realm here, they will not be a match for his elite soldiers.
The well-trained armies fighting on the battlefield are not on the same level as the servants and guards of this kind of merchants.
If the two sides fight with each other at similar levels of cultivation and with equal numbers of people, there is no doubt that the military will win.
The gap between a professional killing army and an amateur killing business guard is just that huge.
"The Fan family, a great Jin merchant?"
Liang Hetang was stunned when he heard this, but then he immediately reacted and sneered, "It's just as the commander-in-chief said, as long as there are Tartars, you will be there!"
"Ha ha……"
He sneered disdainfully, "It's good enough if it's the Fan family."
"I was still a little reluctant at first, worried that I might have killed the wrong person this time, but now I can finally put all my worries aside."
"For people like your Fan family who are collaborators and traitors, the best way to deal with them is to exterminate all nine clans of yours!"
"Soldiers, kill me!"
"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
After finding out the other party's identity, Liang Hetang immediately issued a kill order!
"The Five Elements Rotate!"
"Five Elements Formation, activate!"
The energy in his body surged, and he instantly activated the military formation composed of soldiers!
"Woooo..."
Lines of energy and blood power rose from the bodies of the soldiers of the Qilin Camp, and then transformed into a huge blood and energy smoke screen, enveloping all the soldiers!
This kind of blood and qi wolf smoke stimulated by the basic military formation cannot defend against the attacks of spiritual weapons and sharp arrows, but it is enough to defend against all attacks from ordinary weapons before the blood and qi wolf smoke dissipates.
The most powerful feature of this special basic military formation is not its defense but its attack.
By operating the formation, you can launch continuous rotating attacks on all enemies trapped in your own army.
Soldiers can even use military formations to share the enemy's attack power and significantly reduce the enemy's lethality to their own side.
This is the biggest difference between a professional army and a business guard.
The army is about the whole, while the business guards are about individual combat effectiveness. There is an essential difference between the two.
"how is this possible?"
"You are not ordinary bandits? You are a well-trained army?"
"Whose general are you serving under?"
When Fan Defu saw that the enemy had launched an attack without saying a word after learning of his identity, and saw that the enemy had launched their military formation in an orderly manner, he was immediately shocked and shouted, "There is no government army in Qin and Jin provinces that would not respect our Fan family!"
"You soldiers, think it through! Behind our Fan family, not only do we have business dealings with all the military forces in Qin and Jin provinces, but more than half of the high-ranking officials in the court are backers of our Eight Great Shanxi Merchants!"
"Once you choose to take action, the consequences will be something you soldiers can't afford!"
"Even your people will be implicated!"
He simply couldn't believe that the Fan family, a large Shanxi merchant family that expanded freely and unimpeded in Qin and Jin provinces, would one day encounter an army that did not give them face!
The enemy that broke into their own caravan’s base, with their uniform uniforms and neat formations, showed that they were not a gang at all, but a well-trained army!
Fan Defu could never have imagined that Li Dingguo's new army was not any of the official troops he was familiar with, but a veritable volunteer army, the kind of rebels that Fan Defu disdained!
The fundamental reason why Fan Defu had such a wrong perception was that although the five battalions of the Fuxing Army were formed not long ago, they were actually the prototype of a strong army that obeyed orders and even looked more regular in all aspects than any official army of the imperial court.
"Hmph! You are talking too much nonsense, dying man!"
Liang Hetang looked at the furious Fan Defu and shouted coldly, "Five Elements Gather and Disperse, surround all the enemies here. Don't let any of them go!"
His aura surged, and as soon as he finished speaking, the three hundred warriors and soldiers behind him began to leap and move quickly, spreading out like a big net!
In the blink of an eye, all the enemies gathered on the slope were surrounded without a single one left!
"kill!"
"Nine Turns of Cloud Dragon!"
"Moves like thunder!"
The Thunder Spear Technique and the Cloud Dragon Nine Turn Technique, which were popularized throughout the army, were guided by the aura of Liang Hetang, the man in charge of the formation. The soldiers were divided into groups of five, with a large formation within a small formation, and began to ruthlessly encircle and kill the Fan family warriors and guards who were trapped by the formation!
With the rapid operation of the military formation, any enemy will have to face the siege of five Qilin Camp soldiers at the same time!
The soldiers attacked and left without stopping for a moment. The next attack was replaced by another five-man team, who continued to surround and kill the enemies that had not been killed before!
This is the terrifying thing about this special five elements formation. It rotates as one, and each five-man team is on the move all the time, striking and moving at once, without any pause!
Under an attack of this intensity, as long as the attacked enemy's cultivation level is not more than one small realm higher than the soldiers launching the siege, basically no one can withstand even one round of siege!
As the formation keeps running, repeating itself endlessly, the enemy just faced an attack from the previous group of five soldiers, and the next encirclement attack comes!
"No! I don't want to die!"
"We can't stop them! We can't stop their attacks at all! Even if we block one of their combined attacks, their next one will come again. We are no match for them at all!"
"Boss! We have no chance of defeating them! We should find a way to break through the enemy formation and run away immediately!"
"That's right! As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood. Let's evacuate here temporarily. After we find out the other party's identity, we will retaliate against them!"
"Boss, I...ah!"...
Under the siege of the army personally led by Liang Hetang, more than half of the guards of the Fan family business who were surrounded by the army were killed or wounded in less than a cup of tea!
The remaining servants and guards who were barely surviving were completely panicked. They were struggling to resist the siege of the warriors and soldiers of the Qilin Camp while wailing non-stop.
They are just some caravan guards. If they fight alone, they are not afraid of these enemies.
The problem is that the enemy will never fight you alone, but will use skilled military formations to besiege you, leaving you no chance to even breathe and always in danger!
This is because their cultivation is one level higher than most warriors in the Qilin Camp, which is why they have been able to hold on until now.
"What are you shouting for?"
Vanderfu tried his best to resist Liang Hetang's attack, and finally forced the enemy back with one blow, giving him time to catch his breath.
He heard the remaining soldiers of his caravan escort team shouting in fear and panic, and he was immediately furious. He cursed, "If I could break out of the formation, I would have rushed out long ago. Why would I wait until now..."
Even as he was cursing in anger, Liang Hetang had already summoned the four strongest officers among the Qilin Camp's combat soldiers to his side through the operation of the formation.
The five of them formed a small five-element formation and suddenly started to attack!
"Whoosh!"
Four generals whose cultivation was at least at the peak of the second level of martial arts, led by Liang Hetang, suddenly launched an attack. Five spiritual spears came out at the same time, and countless gun flowers burst out in an instant, leaving a trail of afterimages, covering Vanderfu's entire body!
"No!"
"what!"
“Puff!”…
Vanderford was caught off guard and never imagined that the enemy's attack this time would increase its attack power by more than three times in an instant!
In an instant, Vanderfu was pierced through by five spiritual spears from five different angles!
"You...you just wait!"
"I... our Fan family will never let you go..."
Vanderfu's body was stiff, and the top-grade spiritual spear in his hand fell to the ground weakly.
He stretched out a hand with great effort, pointed it tremblingly at Liang Hetang, said this sentence with all his might, then fell to the ground, losing all life.
His body was lying on the ground in a spread-eagle position, his eyes still wide open, as if he had died with his eyes open.
(End of this chapter)
