Chapter 376 Someone comes in the middle of the night
The dead silence in the middle of the night was broken until Xu Feng suddenly spoke.
The reason that made Xu Feng speak was not because he thought of some good ideas, but because he faintly heard something in his ears.
With a look of surprise on his face, he suddenly shouted:
"What the hell! Is it because I haven't slept well for so long that my head is a little confused now? Listen carefully, is it possible that there seems to be a sound of horse hooves coming from the north outside the city?"
After hearing this, everyone cheered up.
Not daring to delay at all, he immediately pricked up his ears and began to listen carefully.
Even Hu Biao, Yu Hanfeng, and Smelly Old Fart simply lay down on the ground, put one of their ears to the ground and started listening.
During such a process, everyone looked quite nervous.
The main reason why these guys behave so badly is because whether this thing is true or not is too important to them.
Because if it is true, this means that a group of reinforcements have arrived from Pingzhou City.
If this is the case, they believe that as long as they can get 500 reinforcements into the city, with the help of these people, they can rely on street fighting to confidently wear out the Jurchens until they retreat.
What was surprising was that when they listened carefully, they actually heard the faint sound of horse hooves approaching the north city gate.
Even as time goes by, the sound of these horseshoes becomes closer and closer and becomes clearer.
Then we can really put the hammer down, this must be the reinforcements sent by Zhang Jue of Pingzhou City; with the arrangement of the Jurchens, they might still be chasing the reinforcements, and they are frantically chasing them.
It is precisely because of this that such a news reached their ears.
After realizing all the above, these people immediately had no hesitation in their minds. After Hu Biao greeted them, all those who could act at the moment ran towards the north wall.
As he started to trot all the way over, Hu Biao did not forget to shout loudly:
"We are saved, reinforcements have finally arrived.
Peng Ju, Niu Gao, and Tang Huai took some archers with me to the city wall to meet them; Wang Gui and Zhang Xian took people to quickly remove the things blocking the north gate for me, so that they could quickly enter the city.
, you must move quickly."
The reason why Hu Biao shouted these words out of anger.
Those were the only north and south walls of Haiyang City. Because they were worried about being opened by the Jurchens, they let the cavalry rush in and then copied the routine they used to capture the city.
So on the 28th, these two city gates were completely blocked by them.
Now there is no need to suppress some pursuers with bows and arrows, and at the same time quickly open the city gate. There is really no way for those precious reinforcements to rush in from the north gate.
Of course, Haiyang City now has gaps everywhere on the east, west, and south walls, and the city can also be entered from there.
The crux of the problem is that the gaps are full of collapsed city walls and the remains of burned corpses. People can walk over slowly, but their horses may not be able to get in and they will have to take advantage of the Jurchens.
With the above thoughts in mind, Hu Biao and others hurried up the city wall.
Then, they could see that under the dim moonlight tonight, the actual situation that occurred was somewhat beyond their expectations.
Indeed, just as they expected, there were two groups of people on the road outside the city, one behind the other, whipping their horses and galloping towards them.
The distance between the two sides is now only seventy or eighty meters.
Therefore, during the pursuit, the group of people at the back kept shooting sharp arrows in their hands, so that many arrows were inserted into the backs of the people in front.
It is estimated that these people were all wearing at least one piece of good iron armor, which prevented them from being shot to the ground.
According to the analysis of the current battlefield situation, the group of people in front are naturally their reinforcements; the group of people in the back are Jurchens.
But the number of reinforcements they came from earlier seems to be a little too small, right?
I glanced over, but there were only five or six riders chatting; what the heck! In the current environment, what role can such a few people play?
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But then again, the number of these reinforcements is still small.
This is not the reason why Hu Biao and the others did nothing and allowed them to be overtaken and killed by the Jurchens.
Soon after, the group of people in front had already entered a distance of fifty meters below the city, and the Jurchen pursuers behind them were about to enter within a hundred meters.
At this time, it will take a long time before the blocked north gate is completely cleared. It is obviously too late.
Seeing that the situation was so critical, Hu Biao shouted: "Shoot arrows and shoot those Jurchens to death."
In such a sentence, Yue Fei, Lao Hei, and about a hundred others all fired their bows and arrows, or yellow birch crossbows, at the pursuing soldiers below the city.
Although after being a hundred meters away, the power of the crossbow arrows that was summoned had been greatly reduced, and it was impossible to shoot through the iron armor of the Jurchens.
But in the dense rain of arrows, there were still five or six people who were hit by arrows in the face.
Or maybe it was because the horses were frightened by the arrows, so they all fell off their horses on the spot. In fact, more than ten people fell off their horses at once.
What's more important is that under the suppression of the arrow rain on the city wall, these Jurchens did not dare to get closer; they could only slow down their horses and shoot at the reinforcements with bows and arrows.
In the blink of an eye, two unlucky reinforcements were shot off their horses.
However, at this moment, Hu Biao, Yang Dongli, Xu Feng, AT and other personnel who had not picked up their crossbows and fired them had already thrown a rope out of the moat under the city.
He also shouted: "Grab the rope, we will pull you up~"
Just like that, the remaining four people hurriedly grabbed the war horses before they rushed into the moat, and immediately fell down.
After grabbing the rope on the ground, several people on the city worked together to pull a rope up.
In the short time it took for these four people to be pulled onto the low city wall, two more reinforcements were hit by arrows in their arms under the precise archery skills of the Jurchens.
After losing his grip on the rope, he fell directly into the moat.
Wearing heavy iron armor, they immediately sank to the bottom of the moat like a heavy stone.
Because there were many sharp wooden thorns inserted at the bottom, the two people did not float at all.
But at this moment, the remaining two people were finally pulled onto the city wall.
It was only after arriving at such an extremely close place that they saw clearly that one of the leading figures was actually an acquaintance of theirs through the dim moonlight tonight.
Another Xuanzan of the Xuanhuai Mansion, Hu Biao’s friend: Ma Kuo...
After seeing Ma Kuo and others successfully ascending the city, the Jurchen pursuers outside the city had no intention of continuing to attack the city; amidst the sound of bone whistles, they decisively turned their horses and left.
Thinking about it, the previous siege battle had already left enough psychological shadow on them.
Now I don't think about it at all and continue to attack the city risking my life.
"Bah! These grandsons who bully the weak and fear the strong~" Hu Biao spat, cursed in his mouth, and called Yue Fei, asking him to arrange a group of men to stand guard behind the four walls and gaps.
He took Ma Kuo and walked together towards the barricade in the city.
I hope to know as soon as possible what the situation is like in Pingzhou City and Yanjing City after they have been cut off from the outside world for several days.
More importantly, Ma Kuo risked his life this time to break through the Jurchens' interception and rush into the city. Did he bring some good news...
