The battle plan for the night attack on Kunlun Pass was discussed at the guard camp.
Unlike Di Qing, Zhao Xi put the handsome tent and the meeting hall together. Zhao Xi specially set aside a room and placed a rather large low table in the middle of the room.
The terrain of Kunlun Pass created by Xi playing with mud.
At first, everyone thought that His Royal Highness was interested in the mud from Guangnan, which was different from the mud from the Central Plains in that it contained a lot of sand.
After some prototypes were formed, everyone started to knead the mud, but the things they kneaded out were not useful at all. Only then did Zhao Xi remember that the visual inspection method that he thought was very common, at this time, even the veteran soldiers did not understand.
I had to give a special lecture on the visual inspection method. Not only the escort battalions, but also the generals of the Western Army also taught it... I couldn't teach them all.
Some rough guys are real, pure military men. Apart from dancing with guns and sticks, they don't know the Chinese character Douda.
A group of people gathered around the sand table and looked at the sand table... In fact, the terrain of Kunlun Pass was basically formed in their minds. The reason why they gathered around the sand table was to have that feeling. This is called a sense of ritual, which can make people immersive.
The situation... well, that's a big deal.
On the sand table, from the foot of the mountains around Kunlun Pass to the top of the mountain, just insert a few leaves symbolically to show that they are trees.
The key is that the patrols on Guancheng are marked accurately.
"Patrol here, move about thirty feet each time, turn around when you get about five feet closer to the enemy tower..."
"There has been a slight laxity in the past two days, and the frequency of patrols has decreased. After midnight, until Yin hour, the patrols were almost stationary, and they were all in the enemy tower."
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They are all talking about the situation in Guancheng, that is, making final arrangements for the night attack on Kunlun Pass tonight.
Zhao Xi accompanied him accordingly, but it felt boring.
He wanted to personally lead the night attack, but it failed! No matter it was the escort camp, or the generals of the Western Army, including Yu Jing and Sun Mian, even Di Qing said directly: he would rather attack by force than agree with His Highness the Crown Prince to take risks!
He didn't dare to say he didn't agree, he just said he didn't agree.
And Yu Jing said directly that if His Highness leads a night attack, he will force the king's division to attack Kunlun Pass.
Alas! I can't make a sneak attack in person, and the discussion... the discussion is boring.
How big of a deal is it? Based on the equipment and quality of the guard camp, or if the opponent is lax, if they can't take Kunlun Pass, Cao Lin and the others should be killed on the sand table.
"Looking at the sky, there are no clouds tonight and the bright moon is in the sky. Have you ever considered how to sneak in?"
Do you still watch the sky? Well, it seems that the scholar-bureaucrats of this era all have this ability.
Zhao Xi originally thought it was mysterious, but after talking to Su Song, he realized that it was just that. To put it bluntly, it was a mysterious application of experience.
"No problem!"
This sentence is enough. Let alone a bright moon in the sky, even if it is sunny for a hundred days, if you want to sneak into Kunlun Pass, you should be able to do it, but it will be more difficult.
"Remember! The purpose of the escort battalion entering the pass is not to kill people, but to open the door and welcome the main force to enter the pass! Everything is fought silently first."
"The other thing that is most important is that you must not make inaction sacrifices and put survival first."
It was agreed upon, and Zhao Xi made a concluding speech, just this sentence.
The subjects of daily training are already aimed at this kind of sneak attack. The Wanyinshan exercise involves repeatedly going in and out of the imperial guards on Jingxi Road. As for Kunlun Pass, it is still a ragtag group of soldiers and so on. There really shouldn't be a problem.
That’s it! Everything has been arranged and the New Year’s Eve activities have begun.
In order to provide cover for the sneak attack, the civil and military officials currently on the front line in Pennsylvania, including His Royal Highness, had to go to the theater to take advantage of the situation... This was also the main reason why Zhao Xi was unable to conduct the sneak attack in person in the end.
"Who did it?"
After everyone had dispersed, Zhao Xi was originally planning to chat with the soldiers of the Yidu Guard Battalion who were leaving, but he forgot that there were two followers...
Zhao Xi was stunned for a moment, watching Su Yan pointing at the sand table, and then pointed at her nose with her finger blankly... Forget it, stop talking, and immediately didn't even want to talk nonsense about mobilization.
When Zhao Xi went out, the other people in the guard camp also went to do what they were supposed to do. Wang Zhongzheng was grabbed by Su Yan...
"Why is Your Highness unhappy?"
Zhao Xi heard it...this girl is so troubled in the film.
"Because His Highness cannot personally lead the troops to attack the city..."
After saying this, Wang Zhongzheng broke away and quickly followed him out.
He didn't have to say anything about this, but looking at the situation these days, he was afraid that these two would become his masters one day... His Highness seemed quite used to these two.
Now His Highness does not need him to be close to Li Xian when he is washing every day. His Highness has no objection...
If you follow me closely like this, maybe you really want to be your own master, so why would you dare to neglect me? Besides, this doesn't seem to be a major matter that should be kept secret.
The celebration in the city was coming to an end, and the west gate of Pennsylvania creaked open.
The soldiers of the guard battalion who attacked Kunlun Pass quietly left the city. The vanguard was waiting by the city gate... ready to attack at any time.
The moon was quite bright, and I could still see clearly when the guard camp left the city. It was only for a short period of time, and then suddenly it disappeared.
This is not the northwest, this is Guangnan. The so-called green trees seem to be everywhere here. It seems that here, the loess cannot see the sky.
With the yellow and green uniforms of the guard camp, as long as people enter the forest, from the city wall, it is impossible to tell which one is a person and which one is a tree.
Di Qing had asked His Highness the Crown Prince a long time ago. At that time, Zhao Xi just told him about the situation on the day of the selection of soldiers in the guard camp, and Di Qing understood.
But at this moment, he once again had the idea of asking the court to change the uniforms of the entire army.
It's very boring. Zhao Xi is not even a forward, he just stays far behind with Yu Jing, waiting for Master Wang to take Kunlun Pass, and then just slide in.
Since he can't lead his troops in a sneak attack, it doesn't matter whether he is a vanguard or not. Zhao Xi is also not interested in killing the soldiers under the covers... He is really not familiar with the random stabbing with swords, guns and sticks.
It's a good habit to follow the good ones, but the key is to take the two girls with you... Can't you just stay in Pennsylvania? You have to follow the army!
Zhao Xi tried to persuade her for a long time, but the girl was fooling around. She kept silent or shed tears, while the others just watched the fun... What's going on?
If it doesn’t work, take it with you!
Before dawn, word has already arrived: Di Shuai has entered the customs!
It's that simple, but Zhao Xi has not experienced it and has not seen the specific process. He just needs to follow the army.
This time it was a mighty march, not only the two to thirty thousand soldiers, but also the officials who did not belong to Pennsylvania and who had gathered in Pennsylvania because of the war also left.
Even Nong Zhigao would not give up after the natural barrier was captured. When news of the fall of Kunlun Pass reached Yongzhou, the Nong bandits would surely gather their forces and march eastward in a large scale.
In other words, the entire front line has moved forward.
Kunlun Pass is only that big. It is a gate city. Naturally, it cannot accommodate tens of thousands of people. It is just a logistics camp if it is too big. It is okay to store some food and grass.
When Zhao Xi arrived at Kunlun Pass with the army, except for a few guards and blood stains everywhere, the entire Kunlun Pass was empty.