Between Taiyuan city and Tianyu8n city, there are many small city and Forest, in Forest traveling is very hard because of the danger of being robbed so they employ some mercenaries. Mercenaries duty is to safeguard its client's goods and their lives they fight the bandits.
When Tang Jiang convoy was traveling the small bandit's groups wouldn't dare to fight the army of 5 thousand soldiers on there own so they would attack the convoy. But there are some bandits den which has many qi refinement cultivators. The bandits have enmity with the imperial army because they would kill the den members because to protect their kingdom's good King would order them to eliminate bandits dens. The Taiyuan city and tiny city has a major trade route, so there are some major bandits dens.
When Jiang's convoy passed through the road, nearby big bandits den got the news they were Shushan bandits they have 2 late-stage qi condensation experts, so they decided to lay an ambush for the imperial army and sent the decree to lower bandits group to gather in for an ambush.
They also sent to some major bandits group invitation by this they would give the army major losses. The top experts quickly gathered and started their meeting.
Shushan Bandits one of the leader said "The army convoy has new war minister who is going to take command and what I heard he is mortal or early stage qi condensation but due to his exceptional skills in strategy and leadership quality and support from 2 major family he was able to become minister of war, if we were to land an attack on him or kill him it would be our long cherished will of dead bandits in the hand of army."
There was another Shixin bandit den leader said "if we were to attack the war minister it would be our greatest calamity. King would deploy his army to remove all the bandits from the area. This would be a major catastrophe for us bandits. And if war minister were not killed it would be huge trouble that he would also send his army to eliminate us.."
Shushan bandit head said "You don't have to worry about that, this is a golden opportunity this is the secret, the one of the major clan, Chen clan has put the huge amount of bounty for the head of the war minister and said that he only has 5 elemental mixed roots. And in the army, there is only 4 late-stage qi condensation realm expert. They want to let the king know that such a low cultivator can't become the leader of this much army. We just have to make sure that war minister is not dead. If the new war minister dies the tang family and Zang family will not put less effort to remove all of us bandits."
The leader of Shixin bandits said "S that's the case you decided to attack the convoy. Since that's the case I also support you, my dead bandit's brother we are going to take revenge for you. With Shushan bandits, my shixin bandits will set up an ambush who will support us."
many small bandits den leader agreed with them their army contains 6 late-stage qi condensation expert to take command. They decided to make attack morning of next day.
On the other hand Jiang and company set up camp at night the soldiers were on guard to any enemy attack. The horses are to rest in area not for and late-stage qi condensation with tang Jiang in the tent discussion about the path and other things. At the moment the bird came to tang Jiang, it was messenger bird. Jiang took the message out the message was "Bandits will attack at dawn."
To be continued...