Gu Chengyu pondered for a while, "You and Ming Yan should also go and take a look. Look carefully to see if there are any footprints."
If you want to go up the mountain to ambush, you have to climb up the mountain. You may try to cover up your footprints on a flat road, but there are always things you miss on the mountain.
"Yes!" The two of them got off the carriage as ordered, and Gu Chengyu watched Ming Mo and the others quietly go up the mountain.
Although their light kung fu is not as good as Gu Chengyu's, compared to the bodyguards who only know hard kung fu, they are still great martial arts masters.
The motorcade had stopped. Sun Xian and the others didn't know what happened, so they got off the carriage and asked Gu Chengyu.
"What happened? Why don't you leave?" Sun Xian climbed onto Gu Chengyu's carriage and asked.
"Maybe the escort agency has sent spies to investigate ahead. Don't worry, they should be able to leave soon."
Gu Chengyu had good eyesight and had already seen the people from the escort agency running towards the motorcade, waving their hands as they ran. It must be okay.
If there is an ambush ahead, there should be other signals so that the convoy can prepare. But why haven't Mingmo and the others come here yet?
The motorcade started to move forward again. Sun Xian jumped off the carriage and walked back.
After walking for a while, Gu Chengyu saw Ming Mo running towards this direction from a distance.
"Sir! There are bandits ambush ahead." Ming Mo no longer hid his figure, passed the coachman, and got on the carriage with a tap of his toes.
"Oops!" The coachman was startled. He didn't realize when Ming Mo left.
Gu Chengyu's eyes narrowed, "How many people are there on the other side?"
"The younger ones took a few glances, fearing that they would come back first if they found out. There should be about twenty of them, but those people didn't look like ordinary bandits."
Mingmo frowned, thinking deeply as he spoke.
Ming Yan also came back from the mountain, "Sir! Those people are definitely not right. I don't think they are just a mob. They all have knives in their hands, some have bows and arrows, and their faces are all covered."
"Oh? Without further ado, come with me to the front and make it clear to Head Guard Wu."
Gu Chengyu was afraid that if these people came towards these boxes, wouldn't they suffer a terrible disaster?
He quickly took Mingmo and the others out of the carriage and flew towards the head of the five escorts in front.
"Second Officer Wu, please don't go any further." Gu Chengyu said in a low voice. He was also afraid of disturbing the situation.
Before Wu Wu could see what was going on, he heard Gu Chengyu's shout and quickly reined in his horse. Gu Chengyu happened to be standing in front of the horse.
"Master Gu?" He was very shocked. Did the three masters and servants fly over from behind?
No, that's impossible. He must have been dazzled. Maybe he didn't notice that Mr. Gu and the others were just running faster.
"Teacher Wu, please listen to me. There is an ambush ahead, and we cannot pass it. The terrain ahead is dangerous. If we enter the canyon, we will be attacked from both sides."
After hearing Gu Chengyu's words, Head Guard Wu felt even more incredible.
He had already sent people to investigate, and there was nothing unusual at all. It was freezing cold, and the bandits must have been hibernating in the village for the winter!
The winter in the North is very cold. Not to mention bandits, there are very few traders out there. How could there be bandits coming out to intercept darts on such a day?
Captain Wu didn't see Gu Chengyu and the others' movements clearly just now, and thought he was running from behind.
"How did Mr. Gu know that there was an ambush ahead? I just sent spies from the escort agency there, but no one was found."
Head escort Wu was a little dissatisfied with Gu Chengyu's delay in the trip, and thought that Gu Chengyu was a weak scholar, but he wanted to give advice to the escort agency?
Gu Chengyu knew that without some evidence, Head Guard Wu would not believe him.
"Boss Wu, my followers are good at martial arts. They just went to investigate and found that there were about twenty people ambushing in front of them."
Gu Chengyu winked and asked Ming Mo to demonstrate Qinggong.
"I'm sorry to see you, Mr. Gu's follow-up skills are really not weak."
Captain Wu was overjoyed. He yearned for Qing Gong very much, but it was a pity that they were not martial arts people, and they wanted to learn Qing Gong but did not inherit it.
I didn't expect that Mr. Gu's follower skills were so good, so it seems that Mr. Gu is not simple either.
"Now is not the time to talk about this. We should do our best to deal with the bandits now."
Gu Chengyu was a little speechless. Is now the time to envy good kung fu? In the face of a powerful enemy, shouldn't his life be at stake?
Wu's escort leader then became serious, "Then our convoy can't go in. Now it's too late to turn around, so we can only resist. Our escort agency travels all over the country and leaves its name on the road. These bandits may just want to get
Please give me some money and wait until I send someone to negotiate peace."
When escorts are escorted by escorts, they will not immediately start a fight with those who have robbed them. They have walked this road dozens of times. As long as they tell their names and pay some money, the bandits will not make things difficult for them.
Gu Chengyu felt that Wu Biaotou took it for granted. According to what Ming Mo and others said, these people were holding bows and arrows in their hands, and their faces were covered. They didn't look like ordinary bandits. I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to settle the matter if they were given some money.
"Teacher Wu, these people have bows and arrows in their hands, and some of them have knives in their hands. We'd better be fully prepared."
Hearing this, Captain Wu frowned. Apparently he also thought that the bandits' purpose was to make money, and they generally would not bring bows and arrows, and ordinary bandits should not have bows and arrows.
The convoy just stopped halfway along the road, and the bandits hiding in the mountains couldn't stand it any longer.
"Sir! What's going on? Why don't they come over?" One of the masked bandits shouted towards the leader.
"I don't know, have they discovered us?" The leading bandit also felt very strange. It had already been a while since he burned incense, and he didn't come down to rest, so why did he stop halfway along the road?
"We are hiding so secretly, how could they find out? Besides, a spy just came and obviously didn't find us."
The convoy was still some distance away from them. The bandits only saw the convoy stop. As for the reason why the convoy stopped, they were far away and could not see clearly.
"Maybe they have suspicions. Let's wait. In this way, let Zhang San and two others pretend to be businessmen and ride over here to see if their suspicions can be dispelled. They can also communicate with us inside and outside."
The leader thought of a way. Since the convoy was suspicious, let someone pretend to be a businessman and pass by. When the convoy met, the suspicion should be eliminated.
"According to me, what are the skills of those people? It's a small escort agency, I guess there are only a few good people. If we just rush in, they will definitely not be able to resist, and they still want to keep the money? So we found such a shabby escort agency,
Aren’t we already at our fingertips?”
A bandit was very disdainful of the escorts in the escort agency. In his opinion, those people had no real ability at all.
"Li Si, the master of this mission has told us that we must ensure that nothing goes wrong. Naturally, we must deal with it carefully and we must not take it lightly."