Chapter 303: Chapter 52 Ambush
Aside from the city of Datong Prefecture itself, there are three cities, Xing City, Mingqi City, and Baiyang City.
Among them, Baiyang City is located at the southernmost edge of Datong Prefecture and is the city closest to the boundary.
Since the day before yesterday, people from Qingyuan City Management Company had secretly started to arrive in Baiyang City.
These people had all been transferred by Li Fei from Xing City to Datong Prefecture City before, including eleven martial artists at the Body Breaking Stage and two martial masters, along with more than fifty elite gunmen.
They were here to pick up the goods.
There was no direct train from Baiyang City to Xing City, so the goods had to be transported by truck over a long distance, which required an escort.
In a mansion, two martial masters from Qingyuan City Management Company were gathering people for a meeting.
“In an hour, everyone go to the freight station in the north of the city.”
A leading martial master said.
“Will Ghost Grandpa be coming this time?”
“That’s not for you to ask.”
The leading martial master glared at the speaker.
“But… if ‘Beast King’ really sends someone to intercept, just the people we have might not be enough to hold them off.”
Another person couldn’t help speaking out.
“Our operation has been very covert the whole time, and the seller has also cooperated with us by using deception to mislead the ‘Beast King’, so there definitely won’t be any problems.”
The lead encouraged everyone, “Alright, disperse.”
Soon, the people in the courtyard dispersed to contact their own team members, preparing to gather at the northern freight station in an hour.
Compared to the nervousness and apprehension of the people below, the two leading martial masters looked relaxed and confident.
After the people in the mansion dispersed, a figure went downstairs from a nearby building, entered a room, and made a phone call:
“They might start the operation over there, everyone be ready.”
An hour later, at the northern freight station of Baiyang City.
Everyone from the Qingyuan City Management Company had arrived near the freight station.
Since arrangements had already been made at the freight station beforehand, these people all entered the freight station smoothly, and the gunmen also brought their guns inside.
Not long after the people from Qingyuan City Management Company had entered the freight station, a group of people arrived near the freight station.
These were the people of ‘Beast King’ Yu Longqing!
Qingyuan City Management Company, in collaboration with Luo Yifu from the provincial city, had created many deceptive strategies, but still, Yu Longqing found out and sent people all the way to Baiyang City.
“Wait until the convoy leaves the city before making a move.”
The lead person from ‘Beast King’s’ side instructed.
Making a move within the city was too conspicuous and would quickly draw the intervention of the Inspection Bureau and Zhi Ge Court, so they needed to wait until the convoy had left the city to start the interception.
But this wait took over two hours.
“Damn it, why are these people dawdling? They still haven’t come out!”
The lead person from the ‘Beast King’s’ side was already becoming impatient.
Meanwhile, inside the freight station.
Everyone from the Qingyuan City Management Company was resting in the rest hall on the second floor.
“Aren’t we supposed to pick up the goods? What exactly are we waiting for?”
Many were harboring such doubts in their minds.
But since the leading figures above had not spoken, they did not dare to ask too much.
In the hall, the two leading martial masters sat chatting:
“It’s confirmed, people from the ‘Beast King’ really did here.”
“Ghost Grandpa is truly ingenious.”
“I initially thought this task would be very perilous, but it turned out to be the most relaxed.”
“Haha, we sided with the right people.”
The two martial masters were relaxed.
On the surface, these people came to pick up the goods and Luo Yifu did indeed send a batch of goods over clandestinely and securely.
But in reality, the goods Luo Yifu sent over were not Exotic Beast Food, and these secretly arrived people from Qingyuan City Management Company were only pretending to pick up the goods.
Of course, currently only the two leading figures knew that this operation was a feint.
Li Fei had created two layers of deceptions just to smoothly pick up the goods.
The first layer was the normal diversion, and the second layer was the fake goods pick-up at Baiyang City.
Even if Yu Longqing penetrated the first layer and sent people to Baiyang City, they were bound to capture nothing.
Drum Rock Town, this is a small town at the northernmost edge of Datong Prefecture.
Due to its geographical location, it serves as a transfer station, with many goods transported to Datong Prefecture passing through here.
Refueling, lodging, dining… these are the main livelihoods of Drum Rock Town.
The streets of the small town are wider than many cities, with several heavy-duty trucks driving through the center of the road.
In addition to that, there are also many horse carts, mule carts, and human-powered pushcarts on the streets.
With the start of the reforms in the Da Lan Dynasty, there gradually were automobile and railway transportation, but the goods transported were all to major cities, the rest of the villages still relied on manpower and animal power for transportation.
Inside a tea shop by the roadside, a dozen robust men were drinking tea.
Among them, one had hands that were larger than average, with long, powerful fingers that glowed faintly with a metallic sheen.
His name was Xiang Du. He had a nickname in Xing City called ‘Golden-breaking Hand’ and was a member of Qingyuan Fist Village and a key subordinate of Shangguan Xiao (see Volume 1, Chapter 86).
After Shangguan Xiao handed over Qingyuan Fist Village to Li Fei, Xiang Du also began working under Ghost Grandpa.
He had brought a group of elites from Qingyuan Fist Village to Drum Rock Town, truly to pick up the goods.
After waiting for more than twenty minutes in the tea shop, another convoy of vehicles approached from the distance.
This convoy consisted of more than twenty heavy-duty trucks.