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Chapter 328 Departure
Xuanhe four years, June [-]th.

According to the emperor's calendar, it is advisable to: go out, get married, start work, set up a bed, enter a house, make a stove, open a market, build a tomb, offer sacrifices, and open a warehouse;

When the sky was only slightly bright, after everyone ate a meal of dumplings stuffed with pork and leeks, Xuan Ge Ying, including Hu Biao and other netizens, had a total of 305 people and officially started the trip to Pingzhou .

Dumplings on the bus, noodles on the bus, it’s normal to have a meal of dumplings before leaving.

In the faint 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 dense sound of horseshoes directly awakened the soldiers of the Western Army who were currently sleeping soundly in the surrounding camps.

It was just when they got up and looked outside with puzzlement.

I can only see the back of the army going away in the thin morning light.

But what they didn't know was that Hu Biao and his group of 305 people had traveled more than ten miles all the way to the front of the trot, when they passed a small forest.

It was Hu Biao who took the lead to stop the team, and one or two hundred men dressed as Song Jun, led by Yu Hanfeng, rushed out of the forest one after another.

They all knelt down on the ground with their hands clasped together, respectfully facing Hu Biao, and shouted in unison:

"Subordinate XXX, met Hu Xuanzan~"

"Everyone, you don't need to be too polite. After today, I will be brothers who stir food in a ladle. Everything can be done casually; why are you still stupid? Hurry up and give these brothers a meeting gift."

While drinking in Hu Biao's mouth, he explained to Lang Qing and the others behind him.

After Lang Qing heard the words, he didn't say much. He patted his horse with Cangguan, Erpang, Wuzu, Duizheng and others, and got out of 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 kneeling by the roadside.

Feng Rui, Xu Feng, AT, Lao Hei, Zhan Xiang and others drove a group of empty war horses over.

Those men dressed as Song Jun 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 and finding that it was worth at least twenty pennies, a look of surprise immediately appeared on his face.

After putting it in their arms and putting it away, they didn't talk nonsense, they just found a war horse and got on the horse one after another.

Let the team, who had been delayed for a while, move forward again.

However, there were only 305 people in the team, but now there are 516 people in scale; the strength of the Let Xuan Ge Battalion is finally full.

In fact, the scene in front of me can be said to be a reasonable and unexpected result.

After that day, a group of brave fighters from the Dang Xuan Ge camp started to move around with the money rewarded by Hu Biao, and they inadvertently broke Hu Xuanzan's reputation for being generous.

Coupled with the ferment of time, the record of that blocking battle has been rumored by everyone around Xiongzhou.

In the hearts of almost all Song soldiers, Hu Biao and Hu Xuanzan of the Xuange Battalion immediately had a recognition that they were quite capable of fighting.

So, in the two days before the departure, there were western troops and brave warriors in twos and threes, who kept coming to the camp of Xuange camp to vote.

In such a scene, Hu Biao's identity as a fan of the Xuanshuai government office also played a considerable role.

This means that Hu Xuanzan's backing is big enough and strong enough, and the trouble that they switched to the Xuan Ge camp must be easily resolved.

However, all of the above are not the most important issues.

One of the most critical reasons is that in this nation, there will never be a shortage of brave fighters who can risk their lives and fight to the death with other races.

In the previous time, they were all kinds of unbearable.

Either because of the uselessness of the Shangguan, or because of the worries and ties to the family's survival, they couldn't get out of it.

But now, as long as he joined the Xuan Ge camp, Shangguan would not run away as soon as he started a fight, and his daily salary and pensions were also available.

As long as these are satisfied, it seems that they don't have any worries, which allows them to sacrifice their lives for the country and at the same time gain fame and background for themselves.

In the end, there was a scene where Song Jun, who asked himself a little bit in twos and threes, took the initiative to come to the door.

However, because they were about to set off soon, Hu Biao was worried that absorbing them openly would arouse the various departments of the Western Army, which were originally in the eyes of opposition, and cause some troubles for their trip to Pingzhou this time.

On the surface, Hu Biao didn't obviously recruit anyone.

In fact, they were asked to come to this forest the night before, and Yu Hanfeng, who arrived early, organized them.

Now follow the team and set off together.

When the battalion leaders of the Western Army found out, they had already left a long way.

As for the money in that bag, it was nothing more than the 20 guan settling allowance that Hu Biao gave to each newly joined member...

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Talk!Don't look at the time before this departure, there is not much time for preparation.

After everyone in the team took action and took charge of different matters, after two consecutive days of hard preparations, Hu Biao and the others still completed some adequate preparations.

Specifically, it probably includes:
First, select the best quality batches from the captured armor and weapons.

Let even the most common soldier in the battalion not only have a good iron armor, but also have a silk underwear, a leather armor, or a chain mail.

As well as a step bow, or horse bow, long spears, sabers, short knives, throwing axes, iron bones and other weapons are basically available.

It can be said that while everyone has a strong defense, they also have perfect offensive weapons.

Second, although the above equipment is complete, the armor among them is basically damaged because they are all items after a battle.

It needs to be repaired properly in order to have perfect protection.

In order to achieve this, Hu Biao hired blacksmiths from almost the entire city of Xiongzhou after throwing out a lot of money, and it was only before dark yesterday that about one-third of the repairs were completed.

Fortunately, the remaining two-thirds of the unrepaired armor has also prepared repair materials such as cowhide strips and armor pieces.

In the first few days of this road, there should still be no wars, so when we camped at night, we mobilized everyone to do it, and the repairs could still be completed in time.

Third, Hu Biao has prepared a large number of medicinal materials for treating injuries, food and grass chewed by horses, horseshoes, nails, tents, and other consumables needed along the way.

There are even hundreds of sets of linen robes for ordinary people.

A small part of it was obtained from the Huanqing Army without spending any money, and more of it was bought from the city of Xiongzhou.

As for why?Even the clothes of ordinary people have to be prepared.

That was Hu Biao's plan. Once they entered the area of ​​Yanyun Sixteen States, they immediately took off their red Song army uniforms and disguised themselves as a caravan.

Even such a caravan seems suspicious.

Thinking about it, it's better than going straight ahead like Song Jun...

It's just that even with such a proper preparation, Hu Biao still had some headaches when he looked at the veterans behind him when he officially set off for only one morning.

What's the headache?It's not because of the riding skills in the team.

During the northern and southern Song dynasties, because of the loss of the north and northwest, a series of horse-producing areas, war horses have always been very scarce strategic materials.

Even in the famous Western Army, the main force is basically infantry.

Among the brave fighters under his Xuan Ge Battalion, the number of people who can ride horses can be said to be quite limited; but in order to maintain mobility, it is necessary for his subordinates to learn how to ride horses.

During the whole day yesterday, all the members of the Xuan Ge Battalion had collectively learned the art of assault riding.

Today, a group of people can only ride on horseback and move forward at a trot speed; every time they are on the road, they have to take a break.

Let these unlucky bastards whose tender meat on the inner sides of their legs have been ground to a pulp, take it easy.

In this way, the speed of the journey is really not fast.

In this way, more than 500 people from the Xuange Battalion passed the position where they had once blocked the Liao army as they kept walking and stopping.

It is also from here that everything is different.

On the side of the road, they saw a large number of Song Jun's corpses.

In the hot summer weather, these corpses had already become rotten; and the closer they were to the direction of the Baigou River, the more such corpses there would be.

While feeling inexplicably sad, Hu Biao and the others felt even more grateful for the death battle that day.

Because without them standing there, such a scene would be even more miserable...

(End of this chapter)