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The Sui Nation of this world had once fought a long and long war with the Qin Kingdom. And because of this war, the people of Qin Kingdom and Sui Nation could not bear the heavy burden and started to revolt one after another.

In this large-scale uprising, the Sui Nation had perished, and the Tang Kingdom had been born from its ruins.

It could be said that the Tang Kingdom and the Han Empire had something in common.

Along the way, Xiao Wen passed through the Corner of Corner and walked out of Guanzhong region and arrived at Guandong region.

Then, they passed by the Donwu County where Sun Shangxiang's father worked, even though it was bustling with activity and was filled with prosperity. However, because Sun Jian was following Liu Bang in the Liao Kingdom for the war, she did not see her father Sun Jian or Sun Ce Sun Quan.

However, Xiao Wen still stayed in Dong Wu City for a few days, allowing Sun Shangxiang to be a little bored by his mother's side.

After that, Xiao Wen led the group from the east to south, heading straight for the Tang Kingdom's capital.

Because of the decreasing latitude and the time of summer, it was already very hot when their convoy reached the border of the Han and Tang dynasties.

"This weather …" Zhuge Liang looked at the sky resentfully and said, "It's only the beginning of summer, yet it's already hotter than the middle of summer in the clouds."

However, Shangguan Waner, Xiao Wen, and the others who were accompanying them were very calm.

Shangguan Waner didn't say anything else. Since she was young, she had lived in the southern region of the Tang Kingdom and had never been unaccustomed to the climate of the Tang Kingdom.

Compared to the Tang Kingdom's summer heat, she was more afraid of the winter in the clouds of the Han Empire.

But Xiao Wen was not at all pleased. In the past, his soul had stayed in the Huaxia province for a long time, and the degree of heat here was even more exaggerated than the one in Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he could resist the heat by willpower alone.

His body was also born in the Southern Tang. The Southern Tang of this world was located in the southeast of the Tang Kingdom, it belonged to the flying land of the Sui Nation which was originally in the east. It was just that after the destruction of the Sui Nation, the Southern Tang and Tang Kingdom had split into two countries.

It was just that Xiao Wen, who had lived in the Southern Tang Region since childhood, was also physically accustomed to this kind of scorching heat.

As for Sun Shangxiang, who had long lived in the waves, she had naturally endured the hot weather in the south. Although she didn't carry the heat like Xiao Wen or Shangguan Waner, she was still able to endure it.

As for Anthony, he was expressionless as he took care of everything.

In fact, as the Centurion of the Eastern Roman Empire, had once fought in wars with the Emperor in Damascus, and also fought in the Great Caucasus. In the cold Eastern Europe and the hot Middle East, which was even hotter than the Tang Kingdom, he did not feel that there was any problem.

Even though Guan Yu was born within the clouds and grew up within the clouds, his body's quality was not bad. Even though he wasn't adapted to the climate here, it shouldn't be too big of a problem overall.

However, when Xiao Wen looked at Zhuge Liang and Yang Xiu, he realized that they had a dispirited look, like salted fish.

"You guys!" Xiao Wen helplessly looked at the carriage, and said with the two salted fish that was bare-chested: "At least pay attention to your appearance and appearance! If people were to see you like this, I'm afraid they will lose face for the Han Empire! "

Hearing this, Zhuge Liang forced his eyes open. He looked at Xiao Wen and said: "Sir, can I make some ice now? "It's hard to be thin, lentinus edodes …"

Xiao Wen curled his lips helplessly, threw a bottle of medicine at him and concocted it. He chilled it to the brim this morning with Patchouli's righteous water, then said, "Right now we still have a long way to go to Luoyang, we don't have anywhere to replenish our saltpeter. Ice, etc., daily limit! "

Hearing this, Zhuge Liang revealed an expression like a bitter gourd. Still, he took the bottle from the gourd, opened it, and took a sip from the bottle.

The refreshing feeling instantly moistened his throat and made him feel much better. And the composition of Patchouli's righteous energy also restored Zhuge Liang's spirit.

He looked at Yang Xiu, and threw the bottle gourd over.

Yang Xiu looked at the bottle gourd but did not say anything. He immediately drank a mouthful of the medicinal liquid.

At this moment, a low rumbling sound echoed out. Xiao Wen immediately looked outside, and saw that on the hills on both sides of the road, some rocks had actually rolled down.

"This is bad!" Xiao Wen didn't need to think too much to understand that their convoy had been attacked.

He immediately ordered Anthony to command the vehicles at the back of the convoy and have them prepare their defensive formations.

This time, they only brought over fifty men and a dozen guards. Although these shop assistants all knew how to use crossbow, and Xiao Wen just so happened to have around thirty lever crossbow s. In addition, the guards were all riding war horses and wielding sabers. It was not impossible for them to defeat these attackers.

But Xiao Wen thought that it was best to be careful.

If there were too many people on the other side, Zhang Xuan wouldn't be able to defeat them head on. The fortifications built by the carriages could still give them some leeway.

The carriage fleet quickly changed formation, and all the carriages formed a defensive perimeter under Anthony's command.

On the way here, Xiao Wen had actually already assigned the tasks to be done during the battle, so the ten or so shop assistants did not hesitate at all. After the defensive circle was completed, they took out the thirty lever crossbow s.

The guards, on the other hand, soothed the horses one by one. As long as a fight broke out, the waiters would shoot down the enemy's formation, and after that, they would rush out and do what the modern cavalry was supposed to do — hunt the enemy.

"How many enemies are there?" After Anthony arranged the manpower, he also conveniently changed into a set of leather armour that was embedded with metal plates. And in his hands, was a brand-new round iron shield, he stood beside Xiao Wen and was ready to block any arrows that came flying at any time.

It had to be said that the Janissary Guard s of the Eastern Roman Empire were indeed a force to be reckoned with. If they formed a phalanx, it would be difficult for a single unit in their time to defeat them in close combat.

Thus, Anthony who held the round shield gave Xiao Wen some confidence.

Xiao Wen frowned, looked at the pile of stones in front of them, and said: "If we want to do this, there are at least 300 people!"

"Over three hundred?" Anthony had chased robbers in the Greek area before, so he knew about the law of survival of robbers.

In fact, the output of each region is limited. You couldn't expect hundreds of thousands of robbers to live within a mile.

Unless 99% of the bandits were left with food and supplies, otherwise, such a situation would not occur.

In fact, it was already rare for thirty to fifty bandits to appear within a hundred miles.

Even if the productivity of the East was higher than that of the West, and there were more people coming and going on this road, the number of robbers per unit of land could not be that much compared to the number he had encountered in Greece.

Therefore, Anthony made a judgment and said: "These fellows are obviously ganging up on us by a few bandit groups. They should have been following us for a while."

Hearing that, Xiao Wen frowned.

His trip this time had indeed made him mentally prepared for someone to rob him. After all, the ancient era's productivity was lagging behind, and many of the ancient era's evildoers made trouble for the common people.

Thus, the crime rate at this time was much higher than it was in the twenty-first century, when people with arms and legs could work, even if they sent leaflets through the streets.

In that era, robbery represented a person who was lazy enough to look for a job. In this era, robbery was often something you couldn't live through because you didn't want to rob.

However, those who could not survive without robbing others were obviously not intellectuals.

Thus, they often fought on their own.

There were very few situations where they could form a bandit group with hundreds of people.

And today, he, Xiao Wen, had actually encountered such a situation.

Vaguely, Xiao Wen seemed to smell a conspiracy.

"Rumble …" Another set of low and deep sounds rang out, and a rolling stone rolled down from the mountain, rolling straight towards Xiao Wen's convoy.

"Steady!" Don't let the rocks break the defense line! " Anthony roared. The waiters also ran to the defensive line, using their arms or backs to block the horse carriage that was about to be hit.

It was a good thing that the hill was short, so even if the rock was heavy, it would still roll down the hill. The gravitational energy of these stones could not be converted into a large amount of kinetic energy, and naturally, these stones did not manage to break the carriage.

Looking at the thieves' attacks that were not in his sight, Xiao Wen suddenly said: "If possible, capture their leader alive, I want to know what exactly happened."