Chapter 309: It’s no use trying to be cautious, the damned will still die
“Second Master, should we first send a fast boat to the gap in the Great Wall at Jialu River, a hundred miles ahead, to inquire about the situation from those government troops?”

“This will give me some peace of mind.”

As the steward of the second branch of the Wang family, Wang Fu is able to manage such a large business of the second branch. Not only is he quick-witted, but he is also shrewd and capable.

“That’s fine too. It’s always a good idea to be cautious.”

Wang Dengfa thought about it for a while, and agreed with Wang Fu’s suggestion, saying, “In order to complete Huang Taiji’s mission this time, our Wang family has loaded most of the spiritual rice and beans of all levels in stock on this large fleet. It is too valuable.”

“In order to pay for the money needed for this transaction, Huang Taiji put in a lot of effort.”

“Not only will he use a large amount of natural treasures to trade with us, he will also use 5,000 dragon-scale horses as the remaining payment to trade with us.”

“If it weren’t for our Wang family’s spiritual plant garden, 90% of it would be in the Qinling Mountains, and it would be very difficult to transport it to Zhangjiakou. How could there be so many problems if we traded directly with the other party outside Zhangjiakou?”

“Zhangjiakou, an important border town, is the foundation of us Shanxi merchants. Everything within a radius of 3,000 miles centered on Zhangjiakou is under the control of us Shanxi merchants. When we complete transactions there, we don’t have to worry about the safety of the large fleet like we do now.”

There was helplessness in his words.

Like the Jiexiu Fan family, which has a profound family background, their Wang family has a long history, which can be traced back to the lineage of Wang Yun in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Among all the Shanxi merchants today, the Fan family and the Wang family have the strongest historical heritage.

Although their Wang family is only a branch of the Taiyuan Wang family which has been prominent for tens of thousands of years, it is still a remarkable family that has been able to pass down to this day.

At the end of Emperor Gaozong’s reign during the Tang Dynasty, the Wang family was almost wiped out by the ruthless Empress Wu Zetian, and the family fell into decline from then on.

After thousands of years, Wang Dengku’s Wang family has completely become a large merchant family with traveling trade as its main business.

It is precisely because of the Wang family’s profound heritage that several large spiritual plant gardens are still preserved deep in the vast Qinling Mountains.

The last time these big Shanxi merchants planned to artificially create a beast tide in order to destroy the Great Salt Lake Base of the Renaissance Army, the five monster-luring herbs they used came from the Wang family’s Qinling Ancient Spiritual Plant Park.

Otherwise, not to mention other big Shanxi merchants, who could not produce this rare spiritual herb that was apparently extinct, even almost all the thousand-year-old aristocratic families in the Ming Dynasty could not produce it.

Wang Fu was very capable and he quickly selected a group of elite servants, put them from the top-quality treasure ship onto the river, and quickly flew away towards the Guankou Water Fort a hundred miles ahead.

He immediately ordered the fleet to slow down, maintaining half the normal speed, and wait for the speedboat that had returned with the news to return before resuming the speed.

Wang Fu returned to Wang Dengfa and said to him, “Second Master, are we worrying too much this time?”

“Our fleet has a total of 3,000 caravan guards. Including you and me, there are eight Qi Refining Realm masters and hundreds of Level 3 warriors.”

“In addition, we brought tens of thousands of large horse-drawn carts on board according to Huang Taiji’s request. All the magical rice and magical beans were loaded onto the large carts, making unloading and transportation extremely convenient.”

“After our fleet leaves the border, we will unload the loaded carriages from the ships, lead 3,000 guards and servants, and drive the carriages along the Great Wall to the northeastern Yellow River, and then hand over to the fleet sent by Huang Taiji.”

“This whole process is quick and easy, and we won’t go deep into the Jialu River Basin outside the Great Wall. We shouldn’t be discovered by that little thief Li Dingguo and be intercepted.”

“Except for Li Dingguo’s Fuxing Army, who else would have the guts to attack us from outside the Great Wall?”

“We, the Wang family, hold the pass issued by Huang Taiji himself. As long as the forces do not want to die, they will not dare to attack our caravan.”

In order to ensure a smooth transaction with the Later Jin clan, they considered the entire transaction process very carefully.

Even all the spiritual food had been loaded onto the carts. As soon as the fleet left the customs and docked, the large horse-drawn carts loaded with spiritual food would be driven off the ship, along the Great Wall in the east, directly to the Yellow River outside the customs, and quickly complete this major transaction with the Later Jin clan.

After obtaining the one thousand top-grade dragon-scale horses and more than four thousand mid-grade dragon-scale horses that Huang Taiji agreed to trade, the elite cavalry guard team that their Wang family has been looking forward to for a long time will be officially formed, which will bring a qualitative improvement to the family’s armed forces.

In the past few years, all the wealthy merchants and aristocratic families in the Ming Dynasty have been trying every means to improve the armed forces of their families.

This has caused the prices of strategic weapons such as psychic cannons, psychic crossbow carts, treasure ships of various levels, and psychic beasts and war horses to continue to soar.

These large Shanxi merchant families, who have a strong sense of crisis, are naturally no exception. They try every possible means and spare no cost to vigorously enhance the family’s armed forces.

This is also the reason why Huang Taiji was able to quickly reach a bilateral trading agreement with these big Shanxi merchants.

To put it bluntly, it’s just a matter of each taking what they need.

The Later Jin clan had a large number of spiritual beasts and war horses, as well as natural treasures, and these big Shanxi merchants had a large amount of spiritual food, which formed a perfect complement that was beneficial to both sides.

……

“not good!”

“Boss! A big golden bird came from the sky!”

“It’s a big golden eagle!”

“Could it be the golden eagle that destroyed the Jiexiu Fan family’s nest as rumored?”

“It’s over! How can we defeat such a powerful golden eagle? No! We can’t even run away!”…

The speedboat released by the Wang family had just gone upstream for about fifty miles when a large golden eagle flew a hundred feet above their heads, overlooking them.

Although they did not attack the men immediately, they did not leave either.

How could the Wang family’s elite team, which only had one fourth-level warrior, dare to take the initiative to attack such a huge golden eagle?
They were all so frightened that they were out of their wits and were talking about it.

“Captain, should we turn around immediately and go back to reunite with the large fleet?”

A middle-aged guard hurriedly asked the leader Zhou Weijun.

“Turn around! Turn around now!”

As one of the leaders of the Wang family’s retainer guard, Zhou Weijun was undoubtedly a die-hard member of the Wang family. His divine sense could of course clearly sense the presence of the giant golden eagle so close. He did not even have the thought of resisting and only wanted to return to the fleet as soon as possible to report the news.

This small speedboat immediately began to draw an arc on the river, preparing to turn around and leave.

At this time, a large fleet appeared from upstream, sailing downstream at a very fast speed!

“Chirp!”

The big golden eagle screamed and suddenly swooped down. With just one encounter, its pair of sharp claws exploded Zhou Weijun’s head!
Under the attack of the Great Jin at the peak level of level five, this warrior at the late stage of level four didn’t even have the ability to resist.

“Ah! My head was killed by this big golden eagle!”

“Don’t kill me, I surrender!”

“puff!”……

Da Jin is now as intelligent as an ordinary person. After discovering the large fleet going upstream from the south, he immediately went back to inform Li Dingguo.

When Li Dingguo personally led the fleet of the Xuanwu Battalion to arrive, it took a step ahead and happened to encounter the speedboat sent by the enemy.

As long as he is not stupid, Da Jin will certainly know that how could an ordinary speedboat have more than a dozen warriors, and even a late-level fourth-stage warrior leading the team?
Seeing that the other party wanted to turn the ship around and leave, it immediately launched an attack.

I only saw its figure flashing quickly on the small speedboat. In just a few blinks of an eye, only one enemy was left on the speedboat, squatting on the ground and shivering. All the other enemies had been killed.

It just stood on the speedboat drifting downstream, waiting for its own large fleet to arrive.

A moment later, the speedboat was taken control by Huang Zhanglong who had arrived quickly and immediately began an emergency interrogation of the frightened enemy.

After a while, Li Dingguo, who had obtained detailed information, smiled coldly, “This Wang family is really haunting. You can meet them everywhere.”

“This time, there are actually ten large treasure ships, including a top-grade treasure ship, carrying tens of thousands of large carriages filled with spiritual grains of various levels. They are preparing to go along the northeastern Great Wall to the Yellow River to conduct a big trade with the Later Jin Tartars after leaving the customs.”

“Even if a large carriage is only loaded with a thousand kilograms of spiritual rice and spiritual beans, it would weigh tens of millions of kilograms in total!”

In view of the fact that various spiritual foods are becoming increasingly scarce in this world, in fact, the daily food needs of most warriors are ordinary grains.

Under normal circumstances, it was good enough for ordinary body-refining warriors to eat spiritual food once every half a month. Even for the body-refining soldiers of the Renaissance Army, they could only eat spiritual food every three days or so, which was already a high welfare treatment.

Only warriors at the Qi Refining Stage, in order to prevent the quality of their true Qi from deteriorating, rarely eat ordinary food, and their daily diet mainly consists of various spiritual foods.

However, for warriors in the Qi Refining Realm, it is very easy to eat spiritual food every day.

The problem can be solved by simply hunting a few monsters.

In this vast world, the number of warriors in the Qi Refining Realm is far less than that of warriors in the Body Refining Realm.

Even with the current large-scale Renaissance Army, there are only a few hundred Qi Refining Realm warriors in total.

If the Wang family reaches a deal with the Later Jin Tartars, with Huang Taiji’s means, he will definitely be able to use these tens of millions of kilograms of spiritual food to solve many problems.

For example, shutting up those Qi Refining Realm generals and stabilizing the military morale.

“Huang Zhanglong, the Wang family’s large fleet is dozens of miles ahead and will be here soon!”

“You lead the soldiers over there as soon as possible. Wan’er and I will go and capture the Wang family’s top-grade treasure ship first, so that the spiritual cannons and spiritual crossbow carts on the treasure ship will not pose a huge threat to our soldiers!”

Li Dingguo thought about it for a moment and made a decision. He said something to Huang Zhanglong who was on standby beside him, and together with Wan’er, he jumped up and sat on the backs of Dajin and Dameng respectively.

“Chirp!”

“Chirp!”

The two big golden eagles screamed, flapped their wings and flew high, turning into two golden streams of light, shooting towards the sky above the river downstream.

How fast is the golden eagle in the Qi Refining Realm?

Just a moment later, they arrived above the Wang family fleet.

The two golden eagles, Da Jin and Dameng, which had been instructed by Li Dingguo long ago, swooped down from the sky and arrived above the deck of the huge high-quality treasure ship before the Wang family fleet had time to react.

“Two large golden eagles are attacking!”

“This is a level five spirit bird!”

“No!”

“ah!”……

The enemies of this high-quality treasure ship suddenly discovered that they were attacking on two golden eagles. When they screamed in surprise, Li Dingguo and Wan’er jumped from the backs of the two golden eagles and attacked Wang Dengfa and Wang Fu who were terrified!
“Bang Bang!”…

The phantom of the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, the dharma form of his own life, flashed in an instant, and the deafening sound of the bell continued to ring, covering all the enemies on the top-grade treasure ship!

The pervasive bell sound had a terrifying killing power on these low-level warriors who were caught off guard.

If the Wang family members here were protected by a military formation or a formation, they might be able to put up some resistance, but now these enemies who were attacked by surprise had no time to react, so Li Dingguo’s attack using his innate Dharma image was extremely effective!
Except for a few Wang family warriors in the middle and late fourth level who were still able to hold on for a while, all the other body refining realm and early fourth level warriors on this treasure ship had their souls shattered by the pervasive bell sound, and fell dead on the deck with blood gushing from all seven orifices!

So far, this is the time when Li Dingguo has killed the largest number of enemies and at the fastest speed since he personally took action.

There was no way. The enemies were too densely gathered and had no defensive preparations. The golden eagle came too fast. The group attack launched by Li Dingguo would naturally reap huge results.

“Golden Eagle?”

“Such a young fifth-level expert? You are Li Dingguo, the leader of the Renaissance Army!”

“It turns out that the old house of the Fan family in Jiexiu was destroyed by you!”…

Wang Dengfa, who had a splitting headache due to the attack of the bell that penetrated his soul, saw the two level five spiritual beasts, the golden eagles, and then saw the appearance of the attacking young man. He immediately guessed that the enemy who suddenly descended from the sky and launched a surprise attack on him was none other than Li Dingguo, the leader of the Restoration Army outside the Guanwai!
He cried out in horror.

“Humph!”

“So what if it’s me?”

“You bastards who have betrayed your country and your ancestors do not deserve to live in this world!”

“Die!”

Li Dingguo saw Wan’er nearby, who had already destroyed the protective Qi of another late fourth-level Wang family warrior with a hammer, and then blew his head off with another hammer, so he shouted coldly.

He raised his gun and fired a few shots, breaking Wang Dengfa’s protective Qi, and then pierced his brow, throat, and heart, leaving several bloody holes that were transparent from front to back, killing him on the spot.

The two figures continued to flash for a while on this huge treasure ship, and quickly killed all the remaining Qi Refining Realm enemies.

After successfully capturing this high-quality treasure ship, Li Dingguo looked around and saw that Da Jin, with whom he was cooperating more and more tacitly, was leading Da Meng in launching a swift attack on the royal treasure ships on the nearby river.

The speed at which these two big guys kill enemies is faster than that of Li Dingguo and Wan’er.

The enemies on the four medium-quality treasure ships also had no time to react as their heads were torn to pieces by their claws one by one and they were quickly killed.

The speed at which a level five spirit bird can kill low-level warriors at full power is terrifying.

They had an absolute speed advantage, transforming into a beam of golden light that swept across the treasure ship. Wherever they passed, enemies fell one after another, just like mowing the grass.

This is also the main reason why Li Dingguo chose to kill the two level five peak Saker Falcons when he was on Lingshan Island, instead of attacking the two level five peak generals of the Later Jin Tartar.

There was no other reason. The two Saker Falcons with peak level five cultivation posed too great a threat to the soldiers of the Renaissance Army, far exceeding the two Tartar generals of the same level.

“Wan’er, let’s go and break the protective magic arrays that have just been raised by the remaining treasure ships, and kill all the warriors in this fleet!”

Li Dingguo had already seen the fleet of the Xuanwu First Battalion appearing upstream and would arrive in a while, so he shouted to Wan’er who had just finished the battle.

“Oh!”

Wan’er agreed, and she and Li Dingguo jumped from the big treasure ship to the river. They mobilized their powerful internal energy, flew over the waves, and quickly approached a nearby treasure ship.

The remaining five treasure ships are also all medium-quality treasure ships.

In order to ensure that the transaction with the Later Jin Tartars was foolproof, the large fleet dispatched by the Wang family did not include any low-quality treasure ships.

There were a total of nine medium-grade treasure ships and one high-grade treasure ship, which were estimated to account for at least half of all the high- and medium-grade treasure ships of the Wang family.

After all, the Fan family, which is stronger than the Wang family, only has three top-grade treasure ships and nine mid-grade treasure ships.

With Li Dingguo and Wan’er currently at the middle stage of level five, the protective light shield activated by the mid-grade treasure ship certainly could not hold out for long.

When the Xuanwu Camp fleet arrived here, the two medium-grade treasure ships that were violently bombarded by Li Dingguo and Wan’er respectively could no longer hold up their protective shields and shattered.

After Li Dingguo and Wan’er leapt onto the boat, a one-sided massacre began again.

There were no spiritual cannons on these mid-grade treasure ships, and there was no way that the few spiritual crossbow carts could hit Li Dingguo and Wan’er who were well prepared.

A wave of group attacks and killing moves launched by their martial arts methods will kill all the Body Refining Realm warriors who were operating the spirit crossbow cart. The remaining Body Refining Realm warriors will immediately become like grass to be harvested, and will be quickly killed without any resistance.

As for the ordinary people who came with the Wang family fleet, Li Dingguo did not kill them as long as they did not want to resist with weapons.

On this royal fleet, there were many coachmen to drive the large carriages, boatmen to steer the treasure ships, and sailors, more than 10,000 people.

Where had they ever seen the famous royal caravan, with all its warriors being slaughtered so easily by the enemy?
They were so frightened that they squatted on the deck obediently, trembling with fear, not daring to make any unnecessary movements, waiting for the other party’s decision.

Since the other party has not tried to kill ordinary people like them, there is a high possibility that they will survive.

This is indeed the case. When the battle here is over, the soldiers of the Renaissance Army will naturally conduct a round of interrogation and verification of these ordinary people.

Except for some evil people who will be cleared out, most of the remaining ordinary people will not have to worry about their lives.

(End of this chapter)