The first night corridor run succeeded, and its success was the product of the specific precision that Haguk applied to every operation he designed.
Twelve riders entered the corridor at the third hour past midnight, moving in the silence that warg-mounted cavalry could maintain at low speed through terrain they had already surveyed.
Two pairs led, their mission the observation posts that Thaddeus had established at the three-mile mark and the eight-mile mark of the corridor's final approach, the positions that would make the supply wagons' passage impossible if they remained occupied.
Six riders flanked the wagon train through the corridor's full length, covering the approaches that a Threian cavalry probe might use and creating the early warning time that would allow the wagons to halt and the wargs to engage before a probe reached contact with the supply column.
