Zhang Xu asked urgently, "Out with it. Where's Ning Chen's baggage train?"

The scout said, "To answer the general, their baggage train is passing through Peak Forest Gorge."

Bai Yixian and Zhang Xu looked at each other.

Bai Yixian gave a cold laugh. "This Ning Chen really is as sly as a fox."

Zhang Xu nodded in agreement. "If we hadn't held out one more day, we'd probably have missed Ning Chen's baggage train altogether.

That sneaky, slippery bastard Ning Chen didn't have his baggage train stay right behind the army."

Bai Yixian kept laughing coldly. "Ning Chen has outsmarted himself with his own cleverness, and handed us our chance.

Ning Chen's baggage train is six miles from his main force now. Even if we kill every man in it and take every grain of the supplies, Ning Chen is too far away to do a thing. All he can do is watch."

Zhang Xu asked the scout, "How many men does Ning Chen's baggage train have?"

"To answer the general, about ten thousand."

Zhang Xu was overjoyed. "Heaven is on our side! Pass on this general's orders: get ready to attack!"

Bai Yixian gave the order too: his men were to assemble and get ready to attack Ning Chen's baggage train.

Night came down thick and dark.

Ten thousand men were escorting the supplies, weapons and other materiel through Peak Forest Gorge.

From behind the hills beside the road, eye after eye was watching like a tiger.

The officer commanding the baggage train was named Zhuo Chi.

The army's younger officers these days had all been recommended by Yuan Long and the others and promoted by Ning Chen.

Zhuo Chi had been recommended by Qi Yuanzhong. He came from a family of generals and was very capable.

He sensed danger by instinct. He swept his gaze over the distant hills and couldn't shake the feeling that greedy eyes were spying on him.

Zhuo Chi shouted, "Everyone, stay alert! It's hard to march in the dark. We'll make camp a mile and a half up ahead!"

The words were barely…