This martial saint's health bar is too thick

Chapter 190 Interception
3 month 29 day.

Poplar City.

In addition to the prefectural capital, Datong Prefecture has a total of three cities, namely Xingcheng, Mingqicheng and Baiyangcheng.

Among them, Baiyang City is located at the southernmost part of Datong Prefecture and is the city closest to the border.

Starting from the day before yesterday, people from Qingyuan Urban Management Company began to arrive in Baiyang City secretly one after another.

These people were all transferred by Li Fei from Xingcheng to Datong City. They included eleven warriors in the Body Breaking Stage and two martial artists, as well as more than fifty elite gunners.

They are here to pick up the goods.

There is no direct train from Baiyang City to Xingcheng, so the goods can only be transported over long distances by trucks and require escort along the way.

In a house, two martial artists from the Qingyuan Urban Management Company were gathering people for a meeting.

"In another hour, everyone go to the freight station in the north of the city."

A martial artist who led the team said.

"Will Master Ghost come this time?"

Someone asked.

"That's not the question you should ask."

The leading martial artist glared at the other party.

"But, if the Beast King really sends people to kill us, we probably won't be able to stop them with just the people around us, right?"

Someone else couldn't help but speak.

"Our operation this time was very secretive, and the seller also cooperated with us to create a sleight of hand to mislead the 'Beast King', so there will definitely be no problem."

The leader encouraged everyone, "Okay, let's go."

Soon, everyone in the yard dispersed to contact their team members and prepare to gather at the North City Freight Station in an hour.

Compared to the nervousness and anxiety of those below, the two martial artists leading the team looked relaxed and confident.

When the people in the house dispersed, a figure came down from the roof of a nearby building, entered a room, picked up the phone and made a phone call:

"They may be about to start taking action, everyone get ready."

An hour later, at the freight station in the north of Baiyang City.

All the people from Qingyuan Urban Management Company came to the vicinity of the freight station.

Because arrangements had been made in advance at the freight station, all these people entered the freight station smoothly, and the gunmen also brought their guns in.

Not long after the people from Qingyuan Urban Management Company entered the freight station, a group of people came to the vicinity of the freight station.

These are all the people of 'Beast King' Yu Longqing!

The Qingyuan Urban Management Company and Luo Yifu from the provincial capital cooperated and did so many tricks, but they were eventually discovered by Yu Longqing, who sent people to chase them all the way to Baiyang City.

"Wait until the convoy leaves the city before taking action."

The leader of the Beast King gave the order.

If they took action directly in the city, the noise would be too loud and would soon attract the intervention of the Inspection Office and the Office of Stopping War, so they had to wait until the convoy left the city before intercepting it.

But this wait lasted more than two hours.

"Fuck, why are these people so slow? Why don't they come out?"

The leader of the Beast King's team was getting impatient.

At the same time, inside the freight station.

All the people from Qingyuan Urban Management Company were resting in the lounge on the second floor of the freight station.

"Aren't we going to ship the goods? What are we waiting for?"

Many people have such doubts in their minds.

But the leader above didn't say anything, so they didn't dare to ask more questions.

In the hall, the two leading martial artists sat together and chatted:
"It has been confirmed that the people from the Beast King did follow us."

"Ghost master is very smart."

"I originally thought that this mission would be very dangerous, but unexpectedly it turned out to be the easiest one."

"Haha, I followed the right person."

The two martial artists looked relaxed.

On the surface, they were here to pick up the goods, and Luo Yifu did send a batch of goods over, and it was done secretly and covertly.

But in fact, the batch of goods sent by Luo Yifu was not food for exotic beasts. The people from Qingyuan Urban Management Company who secretly rushed to Baiyang City were just pretending to receive the goods.

Of course, currently only two team leaders know that this operation is fake.

In order to receive the goods smoothly, Li Fei used two layers of deception.

The first layer of deception is a normal cover-up, and the second layer of deception is the fake receipt of goods by Baiyang City.

Even if Yu Longqing had discovered the first layer and sent people to Baiyang City, he was doomed to fail to intercept anything.

Gushi Town is the northernmost town in Datong Prefecture.

Due to its geographical location, this is a transit station, and many materials transported from outside to Datong Prefecture will pass through here.

Refueling, staying in a hotel, and eating out are the main livelihoods of Gushi Town.

The town's streets are wider than those in many cities, with heavy trucks driving down the middle of the road.

In addition, there are many horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts and hand-pulled carts on the streets.

With the beginning of the Ming-Sin Reform, the Da Lan Dynasty gradually had automobile and railway transportation, but the materials were transported to major cities, and the rest of the villages and towns still relied on human and animal power to transport materials.

In a roadside tea shop, a dozen strong men were drinking tea.

One of them had hands that were larger than those of ordinary people, with long, strong fingers that had a faint metallic luster.

His name is Xiang Du, and he has a nickname called 'Broken Gold Hand' in Xingcheng. He is from Qingyuan Fist Village and a capable subordinate of Shangguan Xiao (see Chapter 86 of Volume for details).

Later, Shangguan Xiao handed over Qingyuan Boxing Village to Li Fei, and Xiang Du began to work under Gui Ye.

This time, he brought a group of elite members of the Qingyuan Boxing Camp to Gushi Town to really take delivery of the goods.

After waiting in the tea shop for more than twenty minutes, another convoy drove over from a distance.

There are more than twenty heavy trucks in this convoy.

People in the town are used to this and see many big trucks every day.

Xiang Du had good eyesight and could see the license plate number of the leading heavy truck from a distance, so he made a gesture.

The other dozen or so strong men in the tea shop put down their teacups and stopped chatting.

The goods are here!
The maximum load capacity of heavy trucks in this era does not exceed 5 tons, and the batch of exotic beast rations that Li Fei wants exceeds tons, so a total of more than heavy trucks are needed to transport it.

A few minutes later, the convoy slowly drove over.

Xiang Du stood up, waved at the side of the road, and then made a gesture.

So the convoy began to slow down and eventually stopped by the roadside.

Xiang Du led his men over.

In addition to the tea shop where he was, many people on both sides of the street stood up and walked towards the convoy.

These were all people sent by Li Fei. In addition to the elites of Qingyuan Fist Village brought by Xiang Du, there were also people from Zhigeyuan.

Shangguan Xiao has only been in charge of Zhigeyuan for half a year, and has not had time to cultivate too many confidants. At present, there is only one person she can truly trust, and that is Cao Mu, the regular martial artist who had previously teamed up with her and Li Fei to deal with Zhang Shan (see Chapter 135 of Volume for details).

This time, Cao Mu brought a small number of his trusted confidants and secretly rushed to Gushi Town on a secret mission.

In addition, there was a tomboy in the crowd who was wearing a hat, a brown leather jacket, and dressed like a man.

It was Zhao Yi.

This time Li Fei sent her as well.

A magician in the Divine Transformation Stage would find it difficult to defeat a martial artist in a one-on-one duel, but if it were a group battle, she might be more useful than several martial artists combined!

In fact, there are only so many roads that can transport goods to Xingcheng. Transporting goods from Gushi Town to Xingcheng is one of the options. It is impossible for Yu Longqing not to arrange people to check in Gushi Town.

Therefore, Li Fei did not expect to be able to hide it from Yu Longqing forever. The arrangement in Baiyang City was to lure Yu Longqing's main force over there. By the time the other party reacted, it would be too late to mobilize manpower from the south to the north. The other party would either give up or arrange a small number of people nearby to intercept and kill them.

Xiang Du and others were preparing for this.

To prevent the Beast King's men from being able to rob the goods, they chose to destroy them.

The convoy stayed on the street for about an hour.

Xiang Du and his men inspected the goods, completed the handover with Luo Yifu's men, and then filled up all the cars with gas.

So the convoy was back on the road, and this time all the people in the car were Li Fei's people.

Not only that, eight more cars joined the convoy, with the first four leading the way and the last four following at the end of the convoy.

Xiang Du sat in the front car and Cao Mu sat in the back car.

Zhao Yize was sitting in the passenger seat of a truck in the middle.

The convoy moved forward steadily and drove out of Gushi Town.

At the speed of the convoy, if they do not stop or rest along the way, it will take about eleven hours to reach Xingcheng.

But the actual situation will never be so smooth.

The unsmoothness here does not refer to being intercepted by someone, but the road conditions in this era make it impossible for people to have a "smooth sailing".

In November of the 38th year of Hongguang, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Dalan Dynasty promulgated the "Regulations on Road Repair", which stipulated the width of the roadbed:

国道为5丈(约17米)，省道为3丈(约10米)、城道为2.4丈(约8米)。

But in actual implementation, when the central cabinet issues 10 yuan of funds, by the time it reaches the local level, there may only be 2 yuan left.
Due to problems such as shortage of funds, shoddy materials, unpaid wages for workers, etc., the so-called roads that were finally built were generally only 5 to 9 meters long.

The narrowness of the road is not the most serious problem; the most serious problem is the road surface material.

Take Feng Province as an example, only one-quarter of the roads in the province are paved with road materials. And even this one-quarter of the paved roads are generally made of coal dust and gravel, and the rest of the roads are almost all dirt roads.

Such roads are rugged and uneven, which is extremely harmful to the rubber tires of cars. On sunny days, the roads are full of dust, and on rainy days, they are extremely muddy, and even some cars with high chassis can get stuck in them.

From Gushi Town to Xingcheng, more than 5% of the roads along the way are dirt roads, and the narrowest road is only meters wide. Once you encounter oncoming vehicles or there is a problem with the vehicle ahead, the road will definitely be jammed.

So from the very beginning, Xiang Du and others were mentally prepared for traffic jams, but they didn't expect it to come so soon.

The convoy had been driving for just over an hour when it was blocked ahead.

"Go see what's going on."

In the front car, Xiang Du gave instructions to one of his men.

The other party was a body-breaking stage warrior from Qingyuan Fist Village. He got out of the car immediately after hearing what was said. He carried a big knife on his back and a pistol on his waist. He quickly ran to the blocked area in front to check the situation.

A moment later, he ran back to report:

"Brother Xiang, there's a car in front of us whose tire is stuck in a pothole. I went to help push the car out, but their tire is broken and they've run out of spare tires, so they want to buy one from us."

Changing tires along the way is very common because the roads are really damaging to tires, and people who go out on long distance trips must carry several spare tires.

"Where do those people come from? Are there any problems?"

Xiang Du asked.

The person he sent was smart and observant, so he specially sent this person to the front to check the situation.

"I asked carefully. They came from Xinyang Prefecture to Datong Prefecture to discuss business. Their accents are indeed from Xinyang Prefecture. They are all ordinary people, not warriors."

"What about the other cars that were stuck?"

Xiang Du continued to ask.

There were about a dozen cars stuck in traffic ahead.

"I looked carefully when I passed by, and I felt that the people in several of the cars were warriors."

"Okay, sell him a tire."

Xiang Du made a decision immediately.

If we don’t sell the tires, we don’t know how long the traffic jam will last. It’s better to solve this problem as soon as possible.

Soon, the warrior left with a spare tire.

"Let everyone be more vigilant."

Xiang Du gave another order.

So the driver opened the window, stretched out his arm and made a gesture.

When the car behind saw it, the driver also made the same gesture, and then passed it on one after another.

This is for the driver to remind the people in the car: Be vigilant!

Seven or eight minutes later, the warrior who went to buy tires ran back.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Du breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he saw the warrior being shot through the head by a bullet as he passed by a black car.

boom!
Xiang Du's eyes widened, he immediately opened the door and got out of the car, shouting:
"Enemy attack——"

At the same time, people in half of the dozen or so cars that were blocked in front had gotten out and shot at the convoy behind with guns!
Xiang Du decisively charged towards the enemy. His body emanated a dark golden light, which deflected all the bullets.

This is the Jin Tu Jin, which is condensed from the Xin Jin Yuan Qi. Xin Jin is Yin, which is good for defense. The Jin Tu Jin is one of the best defensive forces.

Originally, Xiang Du was just a martial artist in the early stage of Qi transformation. In the battle when the Anshen Sect invaded Xingcheng, he narrowly escaped death, and eventually turned a disaster into a blessing, comprehended the state of mind, and broke through the realm.

So in this team, in addition to Cao Mu, a martial artist at the peak of the Qi transformation stage, there is also Xiang Du, who is also a martial artist.

Relying on the protection of the Golden Tuo Power, Xiang Du rushed forward under the hail of bullets.

Behind him, there were seven or eight Qingyuan Fist Village warriors in the Body Breaking Stage, holding heavy bulletproof shields and rushing forward, and there was a group of gunmen firing back.

Xiang Du covered a distance of dozens of meters in the blink of an eye. Before he could rush into the group, a figure on the opposite side took the initiative to greet him.

歘——

A yellowish-brown force hit Xiang Du like a meteor. Xiang Du seemed to be hit head-on by a speeding heavy truck. He was knocked off the road and fell into the wasteland beside him, raising a cloud of dust.

"Late stage of Qi transformation?"

Xiang Du looked solemnly at the man who attacked him. Just now, his opponent punched him from mid-air.

"kill--"

At this moment, deafening screams of killing were heard from afar.

Xiang Du turned his head and saw hundreds of people appearing on a slope a few hundred meters away. These people were attacking the convoy behind!
Chapter 2 Later

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