Chapter 574: Pass
Fresh lives, under the fierce and ruthless explosives, turned into a ball of flames, and on average, within every five steps, there must be a brother who will pay for his life.
The last five miles of the road were almost the flesh and blood of the brothers, countless explosives, roaring sounds, and the voices of the brothers' generosity and righteousness, resounding back and forth in this passage, and could not be calmed down for a long time.
By the time the sound had calmed down and the fire had ceased to rise, it had been half an hour later. In the last five miles, nearly 400 brothers had been sacrificed, much more than the dangers of the previous ones combined.
Looking at the last remaining brothers of less than five hundred, Zilong's heart was full of guilt, but he also knew that the brothers sacrificed their lives and forgot to die and leveled this road, but they were just buying time for themselves and other survivors.
At the moment, he could only hold back the grief in his heart, and walked on this land with the remaining less than five hundred brothers, and passed this road of death with a heavy heart.
After passing through the death passage, he really came to the border between Ningxia and Hetao. Xu is Liu Jin is very confident that under his explosives, no one will survive, so there is no one near the border.
Zilong was going to let the brothers rest here for a while, and then make a detour from here to the south of Qingyankou to break the pass of Qingyankou.
It's just that as soon as he proposed the idea, he was rejected by his brothers. The brothers all said that the blood of those brothers who died in the death passage was not cold, and they had no intention of resting before they failed to break through the Qingyan Pass and welcome the army south.
Hearing that the brothers' willingness to fight was so high, Zilong couldn't refuse, so he let the brothers drink some water at the moment, and after repairing it, he rushed towards Qingyankou.
This place is not too far from the south side of Qingyankou, but because it is dark, it took a lot of effort on this road, and when I finally arrived at Qingyankou, it was already completely dark, and I could see the firelight of the people patrolling above the pass from a distance.
Ordered Lakshen to take his brothers to take refuge in a small forest not far from the Qingyankou Pass, but Zilong quietly took a dozen brothers with good light skills, carrying ropes, hooks and other objects, and touched towards Qingyankou.
The enemy at this Qingyankou obviously did not expect the enemy to attack from the south flank, so the inevitable pass wall was only one zhang high, and there were no other defensive facilities.
Thinking about it, the enemy of Qingyankou at this time should be the people of Ordos. According to what Xu Zixiong said before, the people of Ordos had already accepted Liu Jin's heavy bribes, and they colluded with Liu Jin to deal with Hetao and Ningxia together.
Now most of the people in Ordos have received the news that Liu Jin is leading various armies around Ningxia to expedite the annihilation of Ningxia's Anwang forces.
In this way, there should be no reinforcements to the south of the Hetao, so the limited forces of Qingyankou were not wasted on the defense of the southern side.
Therefore, except for a dozen or so sentry soldiers on the south side of this Qingyan Pass, it is a routine night patrol team, and they have never come. Zilong waited for a long time under the pass, and after not finding the night patrol team, he was also quite shocked in his heart.
At that moment, he did not delay any longer, let his brothers wait below, and like a phantom, he jumped directly on the earthen wall, and the dozen or so enemies on this earthen wall were asleep, and these sentry enemies were all knocked down.
Then he quickly untied the rope and picked up all the brothers. After the brothers began to climb, he looked to the north, and found that although the north side was brightly lit and many of the enemies in the pass had not slept, none of them paid attention to the south side of the pass.
Although the enemy was lax, Zilong did not dare to be careless. Now his brothers have not completely come up to the pass, if they are discovered by the enemy, even if their martial arts are strong, I am afraid that it will be a bloody battle, and the casualties paid by the brothers will be great.
So after the brothers came up, Zilong arranged for some of the brothers to deliberately pretend to be Ordos people who were sentry, and from a distance, as long as the enemy with low martial arts skills was not high, most of them could not be seen!
Under the slackness of the Ordos, a group of brothers climbed up the pass, and then lurked on the battlement. Zilong saw that there were about dozens of brothers on it, and when he could almost hold on, he took Xu Zixiong and a few brothers together and continued to touch the pass in the north.
This Qingyankou pass, but stuck in a canyon, the east and west sides are high mountains, absolutely impassable army, although there are openings on the north and south sides, but at this time it is built up two earthen walls.
The earthen wall on the north side is quite strong, and it is about two feet high, and there are many various defense facilities, so if you want to attack from the north, the losses will be quite heavy.
The earthen wall on the south side was not only low, but also the defense was obviously not manpowered, and it had been attacked by Zilong and others at this time.
Between the two earthen walls, there was an open field in the canyon, and inside was a military camp of considerable size, after all, nearly 3,000 people were stationed here.
At this moment, there are few lights in this small barracks, except for the people who keep vigil. Zilong, Xu Zixiong and others were preparing to touch it, disrupt the enemy's military camp, and prepare for the capture of Qingyankou Pass.
Although the strength of Zilong and the others is uneven, they are all people with martial arts, and with a master like Zilong leading the team, the enemy thought that they were within the pass, and the defense was extremely lax, but they were easily touched by Zilong and others.
Fortunately, Zilong also knew that this camp could not act like the previous southern earthen wall, after all, there would be regular patrols in the camp.
If these patrols are brought down, I am afraid that the time for exposure will be too fast. At that moment, Zilong and the others found a hidden corner, slipped in, and then dispersed, each looking for their own targets.
Among them, Zilong and Xu Zixiong mainly went to the camp where the leader of the camp was located to implement the beheading plan. Although at the time of the Mengyuan Dynasty, the military establishment was relatively regular, and the overall combat effectiveness was also quite high.
But after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongols fled north, many systems and habits were slowly abandoned. For example, during the Mengyuan period, the Mengyuan nobles all learned Han culture, but after arriving in the grassland, they were all directly abandoned.
And among the things that have been given up is also the military establishment. Nowadays, the armies of the various Mongolian tribes are mostly like the steppe peoples before them, combining herding and warfare.
In times of war, the herdsmen were gathered together to form a large army. After the war, the herdsmen were dismissed and returned to their headquarters. This Ordos Department is naturally such a system.
Therefore, in this army, although there are also some thousand-sized commanders and centurions in name, but at the level of ten-commanders, there are none.
After Zilong learned about this situation, he understood that as long as the enemy's leader was assassinated, those thousand-suckers and centurions might not be able to quickly organize an army and form an effective large-scale resistance.
In this way, Zilong's army can break the enemy's pass as soon as possible at a very low cost, and then go south from this pass to rescue Ningxia.
As for the other dozen or so brothers who followed up, their tasks were different. Some people want to find the place where the grain and grass are heavy, and burn the camp where the grain and grass are located, which can cause confusion to the enemy, and second, cause the enemy's morale to decline.
Others, however, had to get their hands on the side of food and grass to fan the flames, blend in with the enemy, spread rumors, and even kill as many enemy officers as they could who tried to reorganize the army.
After separating from these brothers with their own responsibilities, Zilong and Xu Zixiong shuttled through the enemy's camp unknowingly, looking around, but finally found the camp where the enemy's leader was.
Maybe the days of this Qingyankou were too comfortable, and the leader woke up in the morning, and he was drunk again, even if he was still ten steps away from this camp, Zilong and Xu Zixiong could hear the snoring clearly.
And near this tent, the Ordos sentries who were supposed to stand guard for their leader were all far away at this moment, as if they were afraid of being disturbed by this deafening snoring!
Zilong and Xu Zixiong were speechless about this situation, and only felt that they were too careful. It's just that they are all here, and the two of them don't want to lose a big deal because of a small thing, so they continue to sneak and slip towards the camp tent.
But this time, God didn't stand on Zilong's side. Just when Zilong and Xu Zixiong had already touched a step away from the camp, a sky-high fire, accompanied by the panic of countless people, there were bursts of exclamations from the east side of the camp.
"What's the matter, what's the matter?" the sentinels, who had been hiding ten paces away from sleep, suddenly woke up in the midst of these exclamations, and they rubbed their sleepy eyes and looked around blankly.
"Big brother! "Big brother! " Zilong saw that the situation had changed sharply, and he knew that he couldn't delay any longer, so he said to Xu Zixiong, and the whole person had turned into an afterimage, and rushed towards the camp.
Xu Zixiong also knew that he was ready to send at this time, so he no longer hesitated at the moment, and was ready to keep up with Zilong's pace.
It's a pity that Xu Zixiong's martial arts are not as good as Zilong after all, and his reaction just now was half a beat slower, Zilong's words, although the voice was not loud, but it was not light, and the Ordos sentinel, who was at a loss, finally sobered up.
They saw that Xu Zixiong was so close to their leader's tent, and they were about to rush into the tent, how could these sentries be willing to give him such an opportunity.
At the moment, these good sentries all shouted in unison, and then each of them grabbed their weapons, and surrounded Xu Zixiong from all directions, and two of them rushed in the direction of the camp tent, ready to block Xu Zixiong for their own leader, and on the other hand, they continued to use Ordos language, making bursts of heart-rending exclamations.