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Chapter 332 Going Further

Time: June 29th in the fourth year of Xuanhe, around 09:30 in the morning.

Location: A dirt road seven or eight miles outside the cities of Pingzhou and Runzhou in the Liao Kingdom.

After looking up at the large black cloud above his head, the warehouse manager asked worriedly:
"Old Hu, it seems that it will rain soon~"

"Just let it go, it's a big deal, and you don't have to hurry up to pack your clothes, and you can cool down a bit."

While answering like this, Hu Biao was wearing a linen jacket full of patches, with a wooden shoulder on his shoulders, carrying Hu Biao with two rabbits and a few pheasants.

He lifted the hem of his dirty clothes and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

In fact, at this moment, it is not only Hu Biaoshi who is dressed like this, but also 8 people including AT, Xu Feng, Yu Hanfeng, Lao Hei, Er Fatty, Big Yu, Fengche, and Qian Fu.

They are all changing into some patched clothes, which look like poor people's clothes in Yandi.

In addition, they carried a variety of common prey on their bodies; even two people joined forces to carry a wild boar weighing more than 100 kilograms, and appeared here.

The reason why at this moment is to dress up like a hunter.

The plan in Hu Biao's mind, of course, is to think about sneaking into the city without revealing his identity first, and then talk about raising the banner of the Great Song Dynasty after he secretly contacts Zhang Jue.

As for the army of the Xuange Battalion, they are currently hiding in a dense forest several miles behind them.

For these prey such as hares and pheasants, they dispatched hundreds of people early in the morning to successfully hunt some trophies for camouflage.

So in comparison, whether it is going to rain soon, or whether it is raining or not, is really not a big deal.

Because as long as Zhang Jue is successfully reduced, the first stage of the system is considered to be successfully completed.

Next, they will be able to return to the Northern Song Dynasty and find a way to develop and strengthen the Xuange Camp, and then they will deal with the "Shame of Jingkang~" in the last link of this mission.

What Hu Biao didn't know was that at the same time, some things closely related to them were happening.

Some of them belonged to the things that happened in the original history, and some of them were changed after the arrival of the traversers and caused various changes...

For example: near Baishui outside Xijing in Liao Kingdom.

The Jurchens' army against Liao was finally led by the commander Wulu, and successfully reached such an area.

At this critical moment, Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom finally ushered in his own rescuers, who were Xixia who had a nephew-uncle relationship with the Liao Kingdom.

Under the order of Li Qianshun, the fourth emperor of Xixia, general Li Liangfu led 3 troops to rescue Liao.

At present, there have been several battles between the two sides, but because of the limited strength of the Jurchens, they are currently at a disadvantage.

This is what has happened in history.

And there seems to be a lot of things that haven't happened.

First, in Bianliang City, more than 1000 miles away from Hu Biao and the others, the achievements and contributions of Hu Biao and others in the Battle of Baigou River were finally sent to Song Huizong Zhao Ji, the painter emperor. before.

Of course, it would not take such a long time to send back a merit document from the front lines such as Hejian Mansion.

It took such a long time, but it took a considerable amount of time for Tong Guan to reach a series of deals and compromises with Xi Jun and other court officials.

Finally, after such a long delay, it was finally delivered.

Compared with Hu Biao, the original report of merit has changed a lot now; fortunately, after Hu Biao and the others, the credit for shooting Yelu Dashi was still in their place. on the head.

So after reading such a meritorious document, under the great joy in Zhao Ji's heart, Hu Biao was more or less in the emperor's heart.

At least Zhao Ji remembered that there was a guy named Hu Biao in the Shengjie army, who seemed to be quite capable of fighting.

Whenever the emperor is happy, he always wants to reward him with something, so Wailang, a member of the right division of the Ministry of War from the fifth rank, became Hu Biao's latest official title.

It's a pity that only officials of the fifth rank and above in the Song Dynasty can wear scarlet official robes.

What Hu Yousi member Wailang can currently wear is still the kind of green official robe; he wore this thing once in Hejian Mansion, and it looked as funny as a toad.

After being mercilessly ridiculed by other netizens, I no longer plan to wear it.

Second, on the south bank of Baigou, the Yang Shike Department of the Western Army appeared here again.

Under the background that they began to desperately build the pontoon bridge, it was Guo Yaoshi who had mastered Zhuozhou, led a group of soldiers of the ever-victorious army under him, and finally raised the banner of the Great Song Dynasty.

Compared with the original history, it is about two months earlier.

At the same time, other departments of the Western Army were also rapidly mobilizing food, grass, and supplies, and quickly marched towards the Baigou River. This battle of the Song Dynasty against Liao finally regained its momentum.

Third, Minister Qishui of the Jurchen, Wanyan Loushi, a famous general in the Kingdom of Jin.

It is not like in history, currently in the Baishui area of ​​​​Xijing; under the command of Wulu, it is fighting hard with the 3 troops led by the Xixia general Li Liangfu.

Instead, he led a partial division of 3000 people and fought all the way from Zhongjing in Liao Kingdom.

At present, it is not far from the Pingzhou area where Hu Biao and the others are located.

In short, in this age when the best means of communication was only relying on fast horses, Hu Biao and the others knew nothing about the above.

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"Damn it, why are there so many refugees outside Runzhou City; if they don't stay at home and farm well, what will they eat in the future?"

After walking all the way to the outside of the city, Hu Biao and others were immediately taken aback, and Lao Hei immediately spit out such a sentence.

It's not this Runzhou City, it's such a majestic city, and the defense on the city is so strong.

Just outside such a small town, there are at least [-] to [-] refugees, men, women, old and children, all living in a large open space under the city wall.

A considerable part of them are now as thin as skeletons. They lie outside all kinds of dilapidated shacks, and there is no trace of expression in their numb eyes.

That is, the slightly rising and falling chests proved that they were still alive.

In addition, many women and children fell to their knees when they saw the group of nine people, begging them to give them a bite to eat.

The problem is, what Hu Biao and the others learned through the journey.

It can be guessed that these refugees, who are mainly Han people, have fallen into this step completely because of man-made disasters.

Otherwise, as long as the abundant land here in Yiyan Land is cultivated carefully, it can support many people; it's just that the war-torn environment makes everyone have no intention of farming.

It's just that Hu Biao can't help them now, and he doesn't even dare to give a little dry food on his body.

Because as long as one or two is given randomly, they can be surrounded by more refugees.

In desperation, I can only hope that Pingzhou will return to Song Dynasty as soon as possible, so that the rich Song Dynasty can support some of them to grab food, so that more people can survive and let them return to their hometowns to farm again.

With this in mind, Hu Biao and others walked towards the city gate.

It was only when we reached the gate that a small school with thirty people guarding the gate yelled at them:

"What are you doing, what are you going to do in the city?"

After hearing the words, Qian Fu immediately spoke with a Yandi accent.

He replied in his mouth: "Master Jun, we are all some hunters in Yanshan Mountain. We plan to sell these prey and buy some salt and grain to go back."

After the little school heard what Qian Fu said, the guard on his face relaxed a bit, and he said another sentence:
"According to the Deputy Envoy Zhang Jiedu's order, if you want to enter the city in the near future, each person needs to pay 10 Wen for entering the city."

Upon hearing this, Qian Fu delivered several rabbits and pheasants over without Hu Biao's orders, and said with a haha:

"The villains really don't have any money, why don't these military masters use it to replenish their bodies."

After the little school heard what Qian Fu said, he immediately took the prey swiftly and put it in a pocket behind his back.

Let Hu Biao wait for a group of 9 people to easily sneak into the city.

It seems to be one step closer to the completion of the first phase of the task.

(End of this chapter)