According to the emperor's calendar, it is advisable to: travel, get married, start construction, lay a bed, enter the house, make a stove, open a market, build a tomb, offer sacrifices, open a warehouse; inauspicious: bury, raise a beam, seek an heir, ship goods, and go boating.
When the sky was just getting slightly brighter, after everyone had a meal of dumplings stuffed with pork and chives, Xuan Geying, including Hu Biao and other netizens, had a total of 305 people and officially started their trip to Pingzhou.
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You get dumplings on the bus and noodles when you get off the bus. It’s normal to have a meal of dumplings before leaving.
In the dim light before dawn, a total of thousands of war horses, accompanied by a total of 37 carts with modified wheels, began to trot.
Good guy! The intensive sound of horse hooves directly woke up the Western Army soldiers who were currently sleeping soundly in the surrounding camps.
Just waiting for them to get up and look outside with confusion.
I could only see the retreating figures of the army in the thin morning light.
But what they didn't know was that Hu Biao and his group of 305 people were riding horses and trotting all the way for more than ten miles when they passed by a small forest.
Hu Biao took the lead to stop the team, and one or two hundred men dressed as Song soldiers, led by Yu Hanfeng, rushed out of the forest one after another.
With their hands clasped in fists, they all knelt down on the ground, respectfully faced Hu Biao, and drank in unison:
"Subordinate XXX, I have met Hu Xuanzan~"
"You don't need to be polite. After today, we will be brothers stirring food in a horse spoon. Just keep everything casual. Why are you still sitting around? Hurry up and give these brothers a meeting gift."
While Hu Biao drank it, he explained to Lang Qing and others behind him.
After hearing this, Lang Qing didn't say much, and he and the warehouse manager, the second fat man, the soldier, the team leader and others came forward and picked up a big bag hanging from the back of the saddle.
They took out some small bags one after another and threw one in front of everyone who was kneeling on the roadside.
Fengrui, Xu Feng, AT, Lao Hei, Zhan Xiang and others drove a group of empty war horses over.
The men dressed as soldiers from the Song Dynasty picked up the bag on the ground and opened it, and immediately saw a lot of white money in it.
After weighing it for a while, he found that it was worth at least twenty thousand dollars, and his face immediately showed a look of surprise.
After putting it in their arms and putting it away, they didn't say any nonsense, they just found a war horse and got on it.
Let the team, which had been delayed for a while, move forward again.
However, the team that originally had only 305 people now has 516 people, making Xuange Battalion finally full of troops.
In fact, the scene before us can be said to be a reasonable and unexpected result.
After that day, when a group of brave warriors from Xuan Ge camp began to move around with the money rewarded by Hu Biao, they inadvertently made Hu Xuanzan famous for his boldness and generosity.
Coupled with the fermentation of time, the record of that blocking battle has been widely known around Xiongzhou.
In the hearts of almost all the Song troops, there was an immediate recognition that Hu Biao and Hu Xuanzan from the Xuange camp were quite capable of fighting.
Therefore, in the two days before departure, there were Western troops and brave warriors in twos and threes, constantly coming to the camp of Xuange Camp to surrender.
When such a scene occurred, Hu Biao's identity as the Xuan Shuai Yamen who praised the painting also played a considerable role.
This means that Hu Xuanzan's backers are big enough and strong enough, and the trouble of them switching to Xuange Camp can be easily solved.
However, none of the above are the most important issues.
One of the most critical reasons is that among this nation, there will never be a shortage of brave warriors who can risk their lives and fight to the death with aliens.
In the past, they had been in all kinds of misery.
Either because of the Shangguan's uselessness, or because they were worried about and tied to their family's survival, they couldn't afford to let it go.
But now, as long as he joins the Xuange Camp, Shangguan will not run away as soon as a fight breaks out, and he will also receive adequate salary and pension.
As long as these are met, they seem to have no worries at all. They can sacrifice themselves for the country and at the same time gain fame and family status for themselves.
In the end, there was a scene where Song Jun, who was in twos and threes and had some skills, took the initiative to come to the door.
However, since they were about to set off in the near future, Hu Biao was worried that absorbing them would cause trouble to the various departments of the Western Army, which were originally in the eyes of the opposing forces, and cause some trouble for their trip to Pingzhou.
On the surface, Hu Biao did not clearly attract anyone.
In fact, they were asked to come to this forest the night before and let Yu Hanfeng, who arrived early, organize it.
Now just follow the team and set off together.
By the time the battalion leaders of the Western Army found out, they were already far away.
As for the money in that bag, it was just the 20 guan settlement allowance given by Hu Biao to each newly joined member...
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Speaking of which! Don’t look at it, there wasn’t much time to prepare before setting off this time.
After everyone in the team took action and took charge of different matters, and after two consecutive days of hard preparation, Hu Biao and the others still completed some sufficient preparations.
Specifically, it probably includes:
First, the best quality batches were selected from the captured armors and weapons.
Even the most ordinary soldier in the camp can not only have a good iron armor, but also an underwear sewn with silk, a leather armor, or a chainmail armor.
There are basically weapons such as a foot bow, a horse bow, a spear, a saber, a short knife, a throwing axe, and an iron bone flower.
This allows everyone to not only have strong defense power, but also have complete attack weapons.
Second, although the above equipment is complete, the armors included are basically items that have been damaged after a battle.
It needs to be repaired properly to have perfect protection.
In order to achieve this, after spending a lot of money, Hu Biao hired almost all the blacksmiths in Xiongzhou City, and only about one-third of it was repaired before dark yesterday.
Fortunately, the remaining two-thirds of the armor that had not yet been repaired had been prepared with repair materials such as cowhide strips and armor plates.
In the first few days along this journey, there should still be no fighting, so when we camped at night, we mobilized everyone to complete the repairs in time.
Third, Hu Biao prepared a large number of various medicinal materials for treating injuries, food and grass chewed by horses, horseshoes, nails, tents, and other consumables needed along the way.
Even the linen robes worn by ordinary people were prepared in hundreds of sets.
A small part of them were materials obtained without spending any money from the Huanqing Army, and more were purchased from Xiongzhou City with money.
As for why? Even ordinary people’s clothes need to be prepared.
That was Hu Biao's plan. Once they entered the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture area, they immediately took off their red Song Army uniforms and disguised themselves as a caravan.
Even this kind of caravan looks suspicious.
Thinking about it, it is better than just taking the appearance of the Song Army and advancing aggressively...
But even though he was so well prepared, just one morning after the official departure, Hu Biao started to have a headache when he looked at the veterans behind him.
What's the headache? It's not because of the riding skills in the team.
During the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, due to the loss of a series of horse-producing areas in the north and northwest, war horses have always been a very scarce strategic material.
Even among the famous Western Army, the main force is basically infantry.
Among the brave warriors under his Xuan Ge camp, the number of those who can ride horses can be said to be quite limited; but in order to maintain mobility, his subordinates must learn to ride horses.
During the whole day yesterday, all members of the Xuange Camp collectively conducted some assault riding lessons.
Today, all the people can do is ride on horseback and move forward at a trot against the sky; every time they are on the road for a period of time, they need to take a rest.
Let the unlucky ones who have had the tender meat on the inside of their legs bruised to pieces, take a break.
In this way, the speed of the journey will be really slow.
In this way, a group of more than 500 people from Xuan Geying passed by the position where they had blocked the Liao army while constantly walking and stopping.
From here on, everything became different.
On the roadside, they saw a large number of corpses of Song soldiers.
In the hot weather of summer, these corpses have long since become rotten; and the closer to the direction of Baigou River, the more such corpses become.
While feeling inexplicably sad in their hearts, Hu Biao and the others became even more grateful for the deadly battle that day.
Because without them standing there, such a scene would be even more miserable...
