Yang Dongli, who was lying half under the eaves of a house with his eyes closed all the time, suddenly asked a hunchbacked old man not far away after opening his eyes.
The old man called Huo Tuozi was originally a watchman in Haiyang City.
Originally, before the war started, Hu Biao and the others saw that this lonely old man was quite old and his health seemed to be in poor condition.
Even if you stay in the city, it won't have much effect.
So we arranged for this old man to retreat to Pingzhou City along with some women and children in the city.
And in the following time, he will be given priority to board the warship of the Dengzhou Navy to Dengzhou, which is now a safe place in Yantai.
But this old man said that he was getting older now and he didn't want to leave his hometown and become a ghost in a foreign land before he died.
So I stayed here so that I could help Hu Biao and others during the day.
In addition to helping to cook and cook, and doing whatever he can, the more important thing is that he is a watcher and has an antique dripping pot that can keep time.
Under his careful supervision, everyone in the city can know the relatively accurate time.
So, after hearing Yang Dongli's voice, Huo Tuozi didn't even need to look at his dripping pot and answered directly:
"Yang Yuhou, it's going to be an ugly moment soon~"
It's the quarter of the hour, which is fifteen minutes past midnight.
After hearing such an answer, Yang Dongli, AT, Yu Hanfeng, Lao Hei, five soldiers, and 20 other soldiers from the Xuange camp.
There were a total of 25 operatives dressed as Jurchens. One by one, they all opened their eyes and sat up straight from the state where they had closed their eyes to relax.
Because according to their breakout plan, it has reached such a point in time.
It was already time for everyone in their team to officially start taking action.
"Old Hu, let's go~" After getting up, Yang Dongli was finishing his clothes and armor and said to Hu Biao who was not far away.
After hearing this, Hu Biao stood up and nodded. He originally wanted to say something else.
For example, brothers, be careful along the way and be sure to come back alive.
But everyone knows that with a mere 25 people, they not only have to successfully get into the Jurchen camp all the way; they also have to create enough noise and chaos to delay these people from chasing the large breakout troops.
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It is already extremely difficult to accomplish the above points.
Even after struggling to complete it, it was impossible to escape under the heavy siege of the Jurchens.
In short, the 25 people in their group were already destined to be a group of dead soldiers when they accepted this mission.
It was precisely this realization that made Hu Biao not know what to say for a while.
The words obviously came to my lips, but I suppressed them back forcefully, and finally turned into a sound "Hmm~" that came out of my nasal cavity.
When other people in the city saw this, the same situation happened.
I wanted to say something, but I didn't know what to say. I could only watch silently as these people helped them leave at the cost of their own lives.
But before leaving, Yu Hanfeng saw the inexplicable heaviness in the atmosphere, rolled his eyes, and began to recuperate.
Facing Yang Dongli beside him, he asked:
"Lao Yang, where are we going now?"
"Jurchen camp, cut off the head of Wanyan Lou's dog~" After Yang Dongli opened his mouth, he easily caught such an old joke.
Yu Hanfeng: "If I leave and never come back~"
Yang Dongli: "I will never come back~"
After saying that, he gave a cross-hand salute to everyone and took the lead in striding towards the south city wall; Lao Hei, AT, Yu Hanfeng, Wu Zu and others did the same one by one.
After a relaxed farewell as if he was going to a banquet, he followed Yang Dongli's footsteps.
So much so that the soldiers and civilians who survived in the city, even after many years.
I still clearly remember that Yang Dongli, the Marquis of Xuange Camp, and his party, plunged into the night, with their extremely free and heroic backs...
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A few minutes later, Hu Biao withdrew his sight from the direction where Yang Dongli and his group left, and now could not see anything in the night.
I took a deep breath in my mouth to calm down the emotions in my head that were being manipulated by those guys, which actually made me feel a little bit superior.
It was then that he spoke solemnly to Yue Fei, Niu Gao and others who were looking south silently:
"All soldiers and civilians in the city listened to the order and took action immediately, ready to set off at any time.
Pay attention to the movements of your hands and feet; lest the Jurchens outside the city hear the movement and take precautions in advance, causing their death to be in vain~"
Under Hu Biao's order, everyone followed the order one after another.
Soon after, everyone in the city who still had some mobility began to work as lightly as possible.
First, they took all the war horses they had on hand from the stables one by one.
Thanks to the Xuan Ge camp led by Hu Biao, when they came all the way from the Song Dynasty, they had the luxury of one man and two horses; in the subsequent night attack on Haiyang City, more than 300 horses were captured
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As a result, the number of war horses Hu Biao and others had on hand immediately reached an astonishing 1,326 horses.
On the contrary, after a large number of soldiers and civilians in the city were killed in the battle, there were only 1,106 wounded including those who were still breathing.
Now during the breakout, it has completely reached a situation where everyone can have a horse.
What needs to be explained is that, whether the war horses were captured from the Liao soldiers' far-reaching expedition, or the war horses captured from the Jurchens, they were all excellent horses without exception.
Endurance, load-bearing, speed, what are your qualities in these areas?
If transported to the territory of the Song Dynasty for sale, each horse would be worth more than a hundred guan; this was also one of the biggest confidence points in Hu Biao's heart for tonight's breakout operation.
As long as the horse is fast, it can forcefully break through the Jurchen cavalry and leave the pursuers behind.
Regarding the confidence of these animals to break through this time, everyone carefully brushed their fur and fed them some good soybean meal and clean water.
They were fed until they were about 60 to 70% full, which allowed these war horses to have a certain amount of reserves while not being too full, which would affect their subsequent running speed.
After feeding them, he did not forget to put a wooden stick into the horses' mouths to prevent their barking from attracting the attention of opponents outside the city and to know in advance their breakout actions.
After taking care of the war horse queen who is more important than people.
Every staff member began to be busy and put on various pieces of armor on their bodies.
A large part of these armors came from the bodies of our own soldiers and civilians who died in the battle, or from Liao soldiers and Jurchens.
So not only was it stained with blood, but due to the rush of time, many of the gaps on it were too late to be repaired.
However, no matter how dirty and tattered these armors are, they can still provide them with some protection after wearing them. In tonight's breakout operation, it can be said to be quite important.
After putting on their armor, everyone carried shields and even pot lids behind their backs.
Only then did they hang their bows, arrows, swords, and long knives on their bodies.
Soon after, everyone became fully armed.
But at this point, everyone still felt a little inadequate, so they carried a baggage weighing about five or six kilograms directly behind their backs.
In fact, there is nothing rare or valuable in this baggage.
It only had about three kilograms of steamed buns and pancakes, some medicine for knife wounds, salt, needles, thread, copper coins, etc.
The reason why such a burden appeared was that Hu Biao was worried that if someone got separated during the breakout process, he would flee to the huge Yanshan Mountains.
As long as you escape into Yanshan Mountain, you can survive with these supplies.
In the end, after preparing all the armor, weapons, and supplies, the last thing Hu Biao and the others did was to put the wounded on the horses one by one and tie them to the horses with ropes.
There is no way! Although counting, they have not fought for two consecutive days.
However, many of the injured are still far away from recovery.
In such a situation, if these people did not adopt the method of being tied to the horse's back, they might soon fall off the horse's back when they break through.
Among the wounded, the only thing that can be fortunate is...
The plague caused by Gram bacteria seemed to be under control after everyone drank a large bowl of soup every few hours.
Even after a day passed, many people who were diagnosed had considerable improvement in their symptoms.
In short, that's it. After Yang Dongli and the others left the city, everyone in the city was under Hu Biao's order and prepared in case Yang Dongli and the others were discovered.
You can mount your horse immediately and prepare for a forced breakout in advance.
Of course, if the actions of Yang Dongli and others go well, it will naturally be the best result...
