The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Speaking of absolute confidence is just a word to comfort Su Ya.

In fact, although Xu Lai was very confident, after all, he had even killed Serron.

But this time, after all, he didn't bring the cavalry troops he was used to, not even his divine royal horse.

In order to easily annihilate the incoming horse thieves, Xu Lai only brought the angel guards who flew into the sky.

His Archangels and Seraphs have not been exposed to the public yet.

Seraph had been staying underground with him during this time.

As for the archangel, he had just brought it back. Apart from Su Ya, not even Luo Mingru had seen it before.

Angels, less than a hundred, flew thousands or tens of thousands of meters into the sky, as small as dust in the air.

If Bello had the ultimate eagle eye technique, even if Xu Lai was unlucky, he would admit defeat and just lie down as if he was traveling.

Anyway, the business development in Qingfeng City during this period was not going smoothly. There was also a lot of goods accumulated at home, and we needed to find an opportunity to sell them.

Moreover, even if there were less than a hundred angels, even if they were seen, Bello would not necessarily flinch.

In order to avoid being exposed, Xu Lai simply disguised himself, put a beard on his face, and put on a cloak to cover up the luxurious-looking equipment on his body.

Even the Holy Light Knight, who always stayed with him, didn't bring it with him this time, but he still kept the golden body and magic immunity potion with him.

Xu Lai was recruited by Su Ya into the two merged mercenary groups as a free mercenary.

These two large mercenary groups were also organized by several small mercenary groups, as well as free mercenaries like Xu Lai.

Many people here were not familiar with each other. Su Ya just found the two largest mercenary groups and asked them to manage them on their behalf.

In such an environment where everyone is unfamiliar, it is very easy to sneak in a few spies, let alone Xu Lai.

No, it cannot be said that it was easy, but Xu Lai could conclude that there must be spies in these two mercenary groups.

As a recruited soldier, the Holy Light Knight has no sense of autonomy. Even if Xu Lai can help disguise and cover up, it will be easy for others to see something fishy.

Two mercenary groups, one responsible for opening the way and the other responsible for the rear, Qingfeng City's own escort team moved forward with the caravan.

Xu Laijiu stayed in the mercenary group behind the palace. In addition to the mercenaries, there were also other small caravans who had paid tolls and wanted to travel.

In order not to attract attention, Xu Lai lied that he was a shooter, so that he would not have to move around like those hard-working soldiers, nor would he be responsible for making fires and cooking along the way.

The only thing shooters have to do is patrol and clean up nearby wild monsters.

Xu Lai only used an ordinary level 5 heavy bow, but even if he didn't use the phantom bow, the bones on the roadside would still be one for each arrow.

High-level long-range weapons allow him to basically hit the target with perfect accuracy, unless he encounters a huge skeleton that can run at high speed.

Therefore, Xu Lai's identity has never been suspected.

In addition, he restrained all attributes, did not extend any blessings, and the large team marched slowly.

Therefore, although the decision was hasty and the goods and mercenaries were prepared quickly, enough time was still wasted on the road.

In fact, Bello got the news earlier than Xu Lai expected.

Xu Lai didn't dare to spend too much time in Qingfeng City, lest Bello would see the flaw.

Bello did not have any doubts. He only thought that Xu Lai and the others were setting off in a hurry to avoid being targeted by him.

From preparing the goods and team to the official departure, Su Ya and Wei Yihong worked together, each responsible for one piece, and it only took two days in total.

However, the news had just been announced in the big market, and Bello got the news.

As Xu Lai expected, Bello arranged for his own people to disguise themselves as businessmen and lurk in Qingfeng City.

As soon as the news spread, Bello's spies sent information to Bello through magical communication.

However, two days were so short that Bello couldn't concentrate his strength for a while.

He could only take the two horse thieves who stayed behind in his hometown and hurried over to meet the two horse thieves near Qingfeng City.

However, even with four groups of horse thieves consisting of more than a thousand people, Bello still had little confidence.

There was no way, Bello had collected information in order to deal with Xu Lai.

Xu Lai thought that Bello was the king of horse thieves, so he would naturally not deal with the nobles. However, in fact, Bello's biggest partners were the nobles on the grassland.

Among them was the nominal lord of Pingfeng Grassland, Count Aini.

Count Aini himself had no good impression of these advent heroes. Due to the situation, Count Aini originally wanted to win over Xu Lai.

But who would have thought that Xu Lai did so well that he aroused the anger of the Beast King.

The empire's rear was in a state of panic, and Aini knew that if the stronghold camp really led a large army to attack, even if it gathered the power of the entire grassland, it would be impossible to defeat the opponent.

In desperation, Count Aini had to compromise and sacrifice Xu Lai, whom he didn't like in the first place.

But he didn't expect that Xu Lai was so powerful that he even defeated the troops who attacked the stronghold in the past.

At this point, Count Aini not only got to know Xu Lai again, but he also verified Xu Lai's latest information with the orcs regardless of his face.

If we want to say who is most familiar with Xu Lai's attributes, then in addition to the troops Xu Lai himself led, it must be Xu Lai's enemies.

Compared with the failed sneak attack on the city, what the orcs remember most is Xu Lai's cavalry unit.

These cavalry are so fast and tough that even the orcs' wolf cavalry cannot catch up. Even if they catch up, they are no match for them.

Count Aini revealed all the relevant information about Xu Lai to Bello without reservation.

Bello, who was a horse thief, knew the speed of cavalry, especially high-level cavalry.

What's more, Xu Lai is said to have talents in logistics and speed, so even if he is sure, he can prevent nearby nobles from coming to support him.

But if Xu Lai receives the message in time and personally leads the high-level cavalry to support him, it won't take long even if he is hundreds of kilometers apart.

As far as Bello knows, this guy named Xu Lai has always loved taking risks since he established himself in Qingfeng City, and he even took risks himself.

Therefore, he cannot expect others not to take risks, but should be fully prepared.

Therefore, Bello summoned the other three horse thieves in the name of the Prairie King.

Although these three horse thieves groups have surrendered to Bello, they are not his direct subordinates after all, so it is not easy to mobilize them.

For this reason, Bello directly promised to tell the three horse thieves that he would not take any of the looted goods and that they would share them equally.

The three horse thieves commanders did not care about the feud between Bei Luo and Xu Lai, but as the king of horse thieves, Bei Luo's credibility could still be guaranteed.

Fortunately, Xu Lai had given the order early, and Su Ya kept suppressing the speed of the caravan.

Every time you advance for a period of time, the mercenaries must go out to conduct reconnaissance to ensure that there are no enemies nearby before continuing.

Therefore, with the full cooperation of both parties, the caravan marched for two days, and finally encountered each other when they were about to arrive at Conaston Castle.

At this time, the mercenary group responsible for exploring the path at the front was only more than a hundred kilometers away from Fort Kaunaston.

If we don't avoid wild buildings, large groups of wild monsters, and nearby towns, the straight-line distance is already within a hundred kilometers.

In the town affiliated with Kaunaston Castle, the soldiers standing on the watchtower could even see the smoke and dust gathered by the numerous horse thieves.

This time, Bello tried his best. After sending a message to the outgoing commander, only the old, weak, women and children were left in the lair, and all the young and strong horse thieves were brought out.

Not counting the one that Xu Lai destroyed, and another latent team that deliberately bypassed the caravan and came to join them from the side.

There were two horse thieves groups brought out by Bello from his lair, and one of them was a bodyguard horse thieves group that he personally controlled. There were more than 600 commander-level horse thieves of level 5 or above.

In addition, they also carried two recruited level 4 elite thieves, with a total of more than 8,000 people. After the merger, the Bello tribe alone had nearly 10,000 people.

Outside of Bello's tribe, there were also extremely elite groups of horse thieves rushing towards the rear of the caravan, and on the left and right sides.

Their quality is much worse than that of the Bello Division. The majority of them are still level 3 recruited thieves, but their numbers are all above 2,000.

Nearly 20,000 cavalry troops surrounded the caravan.

Xu Lai didn't know what was going on ahead, but behind him, a group of small businessmen had despair on their faces.

From Su Ya's side, the order to assemble came.

Before the horse thieves get close, the caravan can use cargo trucks, supply trucks, as well as baffles, shields and other items to protect themselves first.

However, the small businessmen did not follow the mercenaries.

Not only did they not follow the mercenaries to gather with the large army, on the contrary, they also took their own goods and carriages and rushed in the direction of the horse thieves.

In order to reduce resistance, horse thieves have a rule that is made public.

As long as the horse thief gives up resistance before the horse thief takes action, the horse thief will only take things and not kill anyone.

But if you resist the plunder of horse thieves, you usually have to kill all the people and then get the goods.

Of course, if there is enough time, the horse thieves will also take everyone away.

The men are taken back to be used as slaves, or sold to black market merchants, who then resell them to other camps as hard labor or slaves, such as strongholds.

The stronghold doesn't like women, but in the empire it's easier to sell them at a higher price.

Sure enough, when the horse thieves' team approached in a mighty manner, these small businessmen knelt down on both sides of the goods and raised their hands high above their heads.

Xu Lai sighed secretly, but he didn't blame them.

Under this situation, no normal person would think that they can fight against these horse thieves.

Surrendering early, although the goods were lost, at least one life could be saved.

Maybe they would also blame Xu Lai for not knowing what he could do and insisting on offending the horse thief, causing them to be implicated.

These small businessmen thought very clearly that only Prairie King Bello could make such a big movement. (End of chapter)