Riding a chopping horse and stepping into the world

Chapter 204 Unexpected Mission
On the official road fifty miles away from Hongyang County, the caravan stopped at the edge of the woods beside the official road, and the servants of the Deng family were lighting a fire and cooking.

Beside the carriage, Wudang disciples are feeding their horses. Feeding them in person can gradually improve the ability of horses and Wudang disciples to cooperate.

The archers were hiding on the branches, looking around vigilantly.

Under Jiang Jianhua's teaching, the archers not only improved their bows and arrows, but also improved their detection and hiding skills.

The current new batch of archers is already developing in the direction of scouts.

In fact, in terms of investigation, Zhang Tie really has a very powerful unit, and that is the Wudang disciples.

Among the attributes of Wudang disciples, there is a skill that is easily overlooked, and that is investigation.

The growth of Wudang disciples' scouting attributes is not low. With the addition of their own mounts and precise throwing knife skills, they can already be a powerful scout.

Outside a tent in the temporary camp, Jiang Jianhua opened the curtain and entered the tent. Zhang Tie and Deng Wei were chatting and laughing, sharing today's harvest.

Seeing Jiang Jianhua come in, both of them stopped discussing. Zhang Tie poured a glass of wine and waved to Jiang Jianhua.

"Jianhua, come here, sit down and have a glass of wine first."

Jiang Jianhua was not too polite, and he had spent a lot of time with Zhang Tie's body, so he was quite familiar with Zhang Tie.

"call."

Picking up the wine on the table, Jiang Jianhua raised his head and drank it in one gulp.

"Master, I have inquired about the distance to Taigu County, the next town. With our current footsteps, we can reach it before the sun sets. However, there is a small town not far in front of us. I wonder if we should go there?"

"Oh? I wonder if this town is big?"

Zhang Tie directly asked if the next town was big. If it was big, he would definitely stay there temporarily for trading, but if it was just a small town, it would not be very appropriate to stay for trading, and it would be a waste of time.

Jiang Jianhua shook his head, "Master, this town is very small. I heard from people here that it is just a little bigger than an average village."

Zhang Tie and Deng Wei looked at each other and nodded.

"Since this is the case, there is no need to stay in the small town anymore, just go directly to Taigu County, inform everyone, and go straight on the road after eating."

"Ok."

While Zhang Tie and the others were resting, two inconspicuous traveling businessmen passed by on the official road.

The two traveling merchants took courage. When they passed by the caravan, they sized them up 'curiously', then continued to carry the goods, and slowly disappeared from the eyes of the soldiers.

……

In a small mountain forest ten miles away from the caravan's temporary camp, more than [-] people were ambushing in it, armed with various weapons, including knives, guns, sticks, bows and arrows.

These people are the servants and guards led by the drug dealers in Hongyang County.

Because they were empty-handed, and they were familiar with the terrain, they came to the front of Zhang Tie and others by walking a small path, and lay in ambush on the only way Zhang Tie and others must pass.

In the mountain forest, two people dressed as traveling businessmen appeared in front of Jin Dongwan and others, reporting what they saw on the road.

"Patriarch, the Deng family's caravan is just ten miles away. They are living and cooking. Now that they think about it, they have already set off. They should arrive here soon."

Jin Dongwan nodded and waved his hand, "Well, I understand, let's go down."

"Yes."

The two 'walking businessmen' responded, then took a few steps back, walked into the forest, and set up an ambush with others.

Jin Dongwan thought for a while, and said to the other six businessmen beside him: "Everyone, the fat sheep are coming, get ready, when the time comes, everyone will charge directly and take them down in one fell swoop."

"Okay, no problem, let us collect the goods of this caravan together."

"Okay, haha, I like fat sheep the most."

“Come on everyone, wait for the fat sheep to come.

A group of businessmen are sharpened and eager to confront the Deng family's caravan now and rob their finances.

……

On the official road, after lunch, the caravan packed up and set foot on the official road again, heading towards the next stop, Taikoo County.

Along the way, Zhang Tie checked the system map from time to time to prevent accidents.

After so long of exploration, Zhang Tie has basically figured out some aspects of the system.

For example, the application of the system map. On the map, the color of the characters is changeable. One moment is a gray point, and the next moment it will become black.

This change was discovered while walking in the mountains and forests. At that time, more than a dozen gray spots were far away from Zhang Tie and others, 500 meters away.

But when the distance was less than 50 meters, those gray dots instantly changed color and turned black, and they launched an attack on Zhang Tie and others. These attacking things were wolves in the forest.

The color can not only change from gray to black, but also from black to gray, but this can only be changed outside the mission.

After Zhang Tie knew this at the time, he finally knew why the assassin at that time disappeared.

It turned out that instead of walking out of the map range, the color changed.

Moreover, if Zhang Tie hadn't been the first to discover the enemy himself, the system would only give a reminder and launch a sudden mission when the enemy launched an attack.

If found early, the task will be given in advance.

Going all the way, we soon arrived at a place 3000 meters away from the place where Jin Dongwan and others were ambushing.

Zhang Tie, who was looking at the system map again, was taken aback when he found more than 700 gray points, and then came to his senses.

I'm afraid it's not animals, it can only be people, because there can't be seven hundred animals, and they are still so concentrated.

From the map, Zhang Tie could clearly see that none of these people were on the official road, but were hiding in the jungle.

"Could it be bandits? But how come there are so many bandits?"

As soon as Zhang Tie's doubts arose, on the system map, in the jungle beside the official road, the color of more than 700 gray dots suddenly changed to black. At the same time, a system task prompt appeared on Zhang Tie's retina.

【Ding!Task reminder! 】

[Sudden mission! 】

[Mission content: There are enemies in ambush ahead, trying to snatch your goods, repel them, and protect your goods, so that the goods will not be robbed. 】

[Task rewards: experience +100000, system currency +20000, reputation +50. 】

[Penalty for failure: Honor -20, Reputation -100. 】

There is no option of yes or no to the task, this is another mandatory task, and this also let Zhang Tie know that the other party is obviously coming for them.

(End of this chapter)