It's underestimating Wen Yanbo to say that he didn't expect the Imperial Guard to launch a night raid, and it's overestimating the Imperial Guard to say that Wen Yanbo is concerned about their night raid.

  The Wei Guard Camp was ambushed and nearly 20% of the Imperial Guards were injured... which is almost three to four thousand people.

  How is this possible?

  The mountain search troops set up camp, indeed setting up camp by unit, but the distance between each unit will not exceed one mile. In other words, when a certain unit is noisy, in less than a moment, there are three to five units that can quickly approach, forming a considerable situation, and thus gaining time for other imperial guards to arrive...

  Feng Yibao endured his astonishment and continued to eat slowly, savoring each bite, then rinsed his mouth with a calm demeanor... This was the epitome of pretending to be refined.

  "To be honest..."

  See? This is the demeanor of a husband.

  What Su Xun and Su Shi said: Mount Tai collapses in front of him, yet his expression does not change; a deer leaps up on the left, yet his eyes do not blink - this is a description of Wen Gong's demeanor.

  "Report to the Minister, last night at around 1 am, the guards' camp was attacked in three directions: Gongyang, Xiang County and Yuzhou. The attackers escaped to the top of the mountain and then ambushed the tracking team."

  "Divide the guards?"

  "Reporting to Your Excellency, the Imperial Guard has not divided its troops, and several times of sneak attacks were all made by the whole team..."

  This... is fine, within a radius of twenty miles, such a chaotic attack would be valid. The question is, isn't there any formation of encirclement at all?

  Then what? Wen Yanbo didn't ask any questions and waited for the other person to continue...

  The final guard battalion was routed by the tracing search troops and fled in all directions... The guard battalion currently has seventeen known casualties.

  After two thousand people raided and fled, although it's not as if they were all over the mountains and plains, there should be some trace of them.

  No way, really can't think of any other way to deal with this hide-and-seek game, Wen Yibo is really at a loss.

  Two thousand people, thrown into a mountain as big as this, and they're still in formation. If they were scattered, there would be no way to search for them.

  The mountain is not high but dense with trees, just climb a tree or lie in a hole and you can easily hide.

  Now... even if the guards don't launch a surprise attack, holding out for two more days will ensure victory.

  "Bring back the damage of the guard camp... Let's continue searching according to plan."

  After being stunned for a moment, Wen Yanbo had racked his brains, but apart from this all-encompassing and foolproof search method, there was simply no other viable strategy.

  Concentrated search efforts may enable the guard battalion to break out of the encirclement.

  Fortunately, with today's push and compression, by tonight, even if we set up camp, it will be almost enough to reach the point of mutual connection and response.

  ……

  "Reporting to you, sir, according to the imperial court's practice of writing documents, I am now a dead man..."

  Before Wen Yanbo could even ask, the soldier, who was wearing clothes that were almost the same color as the grass, directly reported back to him, which meant he directly blocked what Wen Yanbo wanted to ask.

  Uh... after all, there were a thousand things to say, but Wen Yanbo couldn't ask them. Coercion or temptation? Forget it, Fuyan Guo was just here to watch the excitement, and he didn't want to add to the excitement himself.

  Fumihiko waved his hand...

  One day without a word, really nothing to say, the Imperial Guard is sleeping soundly in the Forbidden Army's camp, while the Forbidden Army is searching for the Imperial Guard all over the mountains and fields. Each doing their own thing, no one bothering anyone else.

  The only ones who got the news were those on the imperial court's side. This time, the report from the Imperial City Guard didn't avoid the officials in the imperial court.

  Pang Ji listened to the report, his fingers sliding back and forth on the temporary map of Wan Yin Mountain... It had to be said that this raid by the East Palace Guard was truly a manifestation of "speed is precious, surprise is victory".

  Wen Kuan's husband... Alas, encountering the Crown Prince who is such a scoundrel, it's likely that this exercise will end in utter defeat.

  "Where is the Guard Regiment now?"

  "Report to General, should rest in the forbidden army camp."

  "Camp?"

  "When the Forbidden Army gathered, they set up a temporary camp and had not yet dismantled it when they entered the mountains. The Imperial Guard brought their own bedding and yesterday broke out of the encirclement to rest in the camp."

  Pang Ji thought of the time when they were selecting soldiers and the Imperial Guards had demonstrated that tofu-like quilt...

  Just thinking about it again, the prince's tactics are only suitable for a small team to infiltrate, but if it's a large-scale battle... However, the strategy displayed by the prince during this period is indeed top-notch.

  His Royal Highness has merely verified that he can retreat with his whole body intact from Guangnan.

  Pang Ji had thought about it before, and wasn't too surprised... If Zhao Xi knew about this idea, he would definitely spit in his face.

  Zhao Zhen listened to the report and looked at Pang Ji's hands moving back and forth, really didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

  His son had such a wonderful performance, as his father, he should be happy. But thinking that in a few days, Xi'er will go on an expedition to Guangnan, he couldn't help but worry.

  As for the outcome of this exercise, it should be as Pang Xianggong said: At this time, even if the guards are hiding like this, it will not affect the result.

  Zhao Xi did not stop there, he said that the Imperial Guard's casualties were five times those of the enemy, so they had to try their best to make it happen.

  So when the second night came, another massacre began.

  "Tonight, the whole team disperses to launch a surprise attack. You can form teams or act alone, but you must enter the encirclement circle first and launch a silent attack from within. Do not alarm them. If there is no absolute certainty of success, it's better to retreat without doing anything than to expose ourselves."

  "Survival is the top priority, avoiding losses in battle is now the core tenet of the Guards. For now, even if it's just holding on for two more days, the Guards are already in an unbeatable position. Don't be greedy for merit and advance recklessly, resulting in too many casualties."

  "Four of you, head out tonight without participating in the sneak attack. You need to rush to the top of the mountain at the fastest speed and create chaos at the Imperial Army camp where we encountered yesterday... As for whether or not to carry out the sneak attack, it depends on your individual abilities. Everyone must slip out of the encirclement by the end of the hour of Ox. Action!"

  The battle plan must change, tonight will not be as easy as last night.

  If Wen Yanbo didn't prepare for the team's night raid, he really wouldn't be worthy of being a Zhongshu.

  Zhao Xikuo didn't want to rely on his opponent's foolishness or negligence to win. So, he decided to divide the troops and play a game of scattered flowers and wildfire.

  Any tactic can be scaled up or down.

  If we consider Mount Wan as a territory, last night's battle belonged to the large-scale warfare, and tonight's will be guerrilla tactics.

  So in the barracks of the Imperial Guard, behind the sentries gazing out at the mountain tops, every camp had its soldiers gagged and dragged away from the bushes.

  At this time, the so-called camp was just a big group of people gathering around, leaning against tree trunks at will, or simply lying down on the spot... I was really exhausted for almost two days and couldn't hold on anymore. No matter what posture it was, as long as I stopped my legs and feet, I could fall asleep casually.

  Feng Yanzhong had planned to use his leisure to await the enemy's labor, and after a day and night, the entire situation of fatigue and ease was directly reversed.

  The imperial guards, originally the elite troops, are now all exhausted, while the guard battalion unexpectedly rests in the temporary camp of the imperial guards every day, hiding during the day and emerging at night to take advantage of their opponents' fatigue.