The soldiers driving the carts immediately turned them around to form a circle, then took out breastplates and helmets from within. They helped each other don the Wan Guo Brand armor, which indeed provided some protection.
Next, five men with loaded crossbows took positions on the platforms protruding from the carts, using the cart bodies as cover, ready to shoot. The remaining five picked up spears and extended them through the gaps to fend off bandits trying to charge the wagon formation.
In a short time, the convoy had turned into an armored porcupine—a typical tactic for merchant caravans to deal with bandit raids.
Yet this situation did not concern the leader; he had devoured too many such merchant caravans already.
A few feigned attacks and the death of one or two men would trigger a mutiny among them.
Could they outrun horses after that?
It struck the leader as strange that the Knight hadn't joined the others inside the cart circle.
What was going on?
