Just as Zhao Xi estimated, the fifth team of Pathfinders entered the west of Qingtang and established contact.
The front team will leave a message for the back team.
For example, if the current discount is feasible, he is speechless looking at the materials Wang Shunchen left for him.
He could imagine Wang Shunchen grinning widely.
Compared with Wang Shunchen, Zhe Keke is a son of aristocratic family and thinks more than Shunchen. Let’s talk about the order of their five teams. Wang Shunchen is in the first team, he is in the second team, followed by Zhou Tong, and then Zhong Jian.
In the middle, last is Gao Jingting.
Di Qing, Ouyang Gong, and Han Zhen, the leader of the martial arts hall, seemed to be the first to adopt the method of competing in the school field. In fact, even if there was no competition, the final ranking would be like this.
Even this simple ranking carries with it the wisdom of being an official in the imperial court.
Zhe Ke knew much more than Wang Shunchen. He knew that there were road thieves and horse bandits at the border between Guochao and Xixia. There were even thieves gathering in the various state capitals of Guochao.
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It's just that these thieves have had no way to survive because of the New Army's garrison in the state capitals over the years.
There are actually rules for bandits. Basically, no one else will get involved in whoever is the fat sheep.
Similarly, bandits also have regional and time intervals when doing business.
After seeing the message left by Wang Shunchen, Zhe Xing really didn't know if he could have a fighting chance like Wang Shunchen and leave supplies for the rear team.
The merits of the five exploration teams will not be much different. But he, Zhong Jianzhong and Gao Jingting, according to the habits of bandits, are undoubtedly relatively safe.
It's okay to fold, but I don't want to do this.
After seeing the message left by Wang Shunchen, he directly took control of the guide.
In the water source area is the stronghold of the bandits that Wang Shunchen killed. Zhe Keke tried every means to torment the guide in order to get him to contact the bandits he was familiar with...~
He only brought a small amount of the supplies that Wang Shunchen left for him. After all, he had not yet obtained the animals, so he could not be as arrogant as Wang Shunchen. He also needed to leave supplies for the rear team...~
There are grape wine, naan bread, green salt, Persian blankets, spices, including Annan rice brought by the imperial dynasty. The goods are really all available, and there are even things for the herdsmen who built the camp to set up their tents. They really have occupied this place for a long time.
equipment.
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The same situation is the same here with Zhou Tong. Going west from Qingtang, there is no need to consider exposing your identity. The key is that the front team has eliminated the danger...
"Brothers, it seems that we can't find a horse bandit. We are really going to finish this road like this. Let's see if our guide can give us any surprises..."
Zhou Tong arranged for someone to look for information from the guide, and he looked westward... I hope the two people in front of him could leave some for themselves.
This time on the mission, none of the five of them thought it was very dangerous. It was just tiring and exhausting.
The pack horses and camels were all prepared from Bianliang, and the equipment was carried by two hundred people in wartime.
Regardless of the fact that each of their teams has fifty men, as long as they cross Qingtang and are not blocked by Dong Xiang of Qingtang and most of Gui Zhang's cavalry, and they do not provoke Uighurs, and they do not have three to five hundred men, they will not be able to capture even one of their teams.
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Therefore, what the five teams are thinking most about is how to complete the official task of clearing this road. This requires them to fight.
In fact, for their five teams, the situation is the same. There is not only one team of horse bandits on this road, nor is there only one stronghold. Every team that the first team has experienced has experienced it. The difference is that the first team
It was the guide who took the initiative to contact the horse bandits, and the rest were contacted passively after they had trouble.
This is not to open up a trade route at all, it is purely to occupy territory. Of course, there are also guides who think too much, but what if they think too much?
Another difference is that the personalities of the five team leaders determine the issues they consider.
Wang Shunchen is a fierce general, warlike, with outstanding personal abilities, leading by example, and is suitable for making sharp swords. Charge is the best reflection of his ability.
Zhe Kexing is moderate in all aspects and has a certain overall view, so he is the best candidate for the vanguard officer. Zhou Tong, on the other hand, is prudent and indifferent, but relatively gentle in his work, so he is the best candidate to take over.
Zhong Jianzhong is the most handsome person, which is why he ranks fourth.
For example, now, Zhong Jianzhong not only checked the traces of Wang Shunchen's battle, but also went to the water source to check in detail. He also asked the soldiers to check the traces with the water source as the center and a radius of ten miles to determine where this gang of horse bandits often walked.
route.
Zhong Jianzhong is not only considering this path, he is also comparing it with Huangtou Huihe...
According to the information collected by the Imperial City Department, Zhong Jianzhong combined with the general direction given by the officials and read a lot of information. With the help of Gongfang City, he basically formed a map of the Song Dynasty, Xixia, Tubo, Xizhou Uighur, and Huang
A rough demarcation map of Touhuihe.
In fact, Zhao Xi could simply draw a topographic map, but the problem was that he only relied on memory, which was very inaccurate. On the one hand, he misguided the exploration team, and the most important factor was that he could not ask for permission.
Giving the general direction to the pathfinder can also be said to be the information heard by the Imperial City Detective. If the map of the new land is drawn directly, it will be impossible to explain clearly.
Zhao Xi has seen the general terrain map drawn by Shen Kuo, Su Song and others based on relevant information, and it is generally applicable. The rest depends on the pathfinder team's adaptability.
Zhao Xi also agrees very much with the arrangement of the five teams of pathfinders by the Jiangwu Hall. Judging from the order of the teams, Wang Shunchen is like the assaulter, Zhe Kexing is the vanguard, Zhou Tong is the coordinator, and Zhong Jianzhong is the commander in the middle.
After Gao Jingting was cut off, the battle sequence was very reasonable.
What Zhao Xi is worried about now is also what Zhong Jianzhong is thinking about now.
This section of the journey is basically within the control of the Tubo tribe. After the split of Tubo, the tribes fought against each other. Although this section of the journey is within the Tubo's sphere of influence, in fact, the Tubo cannot take care of it at all. It is said to be a terra incognita.
Fit.
This section of the journey is not dangerous for any team. As for the horse bandits and road thieves, Zhong Jianzhong does not think that the fifty-man elite guard cannot handle them.
The real danger lies next...
If you want to complete this mission, penetrate and clear a passage, you must pass through the sphere of influence of the Huangtou Uighur. However, there is too little information about the Huangtou Uighur. I don’t have an accurate understanding of the Huangtou Uighur. I only know that in the previous dynasty,
At that time, I had the experience of being defeated by the previous dynasty, and I also knew from sporadic information that the Yellow-headed Uighurs and the Xizhou Uighurs were originally the same clan...
What is their combat power? Are they related to each other? What is their relationship with Tubo? What is their relationship with Xixia? These questions cannot be sorted out in a short time. This also makes the pathfinder team more difficult.
Zhong Jianzhong knew that as the fourth team, the chance of encountering road thieves and horse bandits was very low, and he had to consider how to deal with it after entering Huangtou Huihe.
Judging from the time and the information left by the former team, I am afraid that the second team has already entered the sphere of influence of Huangtou Huihe.