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Chapter 354 The Second Stage Task
That night!It was not until two o'clock in the middle of the night that Hu Biao and his party returned to Haiyang City.

The main reason was that they spent too much time discussing with Zhang Jue, Li Meng and others how to deal with the Jurchen army's attack.

But in this discussion that took quite a long time, they failed to negotiate too many better solutions.

There are not many things that can be settled, only a few points.

First, it has reached this point, and it is impossible to surrender, so I can only bite the bullet and fight the Jurchen army to the end.

Therefore, Hu Biao led the Xuange Battalion to defend Haiyang City up and down; in addition to these, he should be able to mobilize 300 or [-] civilian husbands to help with the harvest.

Zhang Jue led his troops to guard Pingzhou City, and of course they had more troops.

There are about 5000 serious troops alone, and civilian husbands can mobilize as many as 7000 to [-].

Just don't look at the number of troops, these former Liao soldiers have been frightened by the Jurchens, and they are not very optimistic about their combat effectiveness.

Moreover, Pingzhou City is much larger than Haiyang City, and naturally needs more troops to defend, so it is impossible to deploy troops to support Haiyang City for a while.

The two sides can only agree to be each other's horns, and as long as there is a chance, they must try their best to help contain the Jurchens' troops.

Of course, the most important thing right now is to immediately ask for help from the Liao army under the city of Yanjing, and Tong Guan, who is still commanded by remote control in Hejian Mansion.

Let them dispatch some troops to come to the rescue.

It doesn't take much, even if there are only [-] elite Western troops, they can beat the Jurchens back.

Second, implement the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields immediately. Try to cut down the trees around the two cities as much as possible. If you can't cut them down after a while, you can just set them on fire and burn them all. The Jurchens can't easily build siege equipment.

Based on the same principle, those uninhabited villages were also burned down, and the wells were filled, or some cattle and horse carcasses were thrown in, polluting the water.

In short, these Jurchens who came from afar couldn't find anything to use.

Third, send messengers to tell the people in Wuzhai all over Pingzhou to start running for their lives while the Jurchens are still two or three days away.

Those who can ride horses, drive carts, and have the ability to maneuver quickly, it is best to evacuate directly to the territory of the Zhuozhou Ever Victorious Army.

If there are no people who can only rely on walking, it is probably a little too late, then quickly evacuate towards Pingzhou City.

Pingzhou City is actually not big, and it simply cannot accommodate so many people; but the Dengzhou Navy is still there, and it is entirely possible to leave on a navy ship and evacuate directly to the border of Shandong.

Helping to transport some refugees to Dengzhou and other places, this is the only thing Li Meng, the commander of the navy, promised to help.

This is what Zhang Jue and Hu Biao privately agreed to give him a large sum of money. As for letting the sailors under his command go ashore to fight, no matter how much the price is paid, Li Meng is the only one who agrees. In any case, he refused to agree.

In this way, after discussing some specific details involved in the above three points, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

So when Hu Biao and others rushed back to Haiyang City overnight, it was already midnight.

Fortunately, after entering the city, Hu Biao received good news. The team of scouts led by Yu Hanfeng had already returned before dark...

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"What the hell! These grandchildren are finally here~"

When standing at the north gate of Haiyang City, a group of netizens at the top of the city saw an infantry army with a large number of mules and horses appearing behind them under the protection of thousands of horsemen.

In the mouth of the stinky old fart, with a very complicated tone, he said such a sentence slowly.

At this time, it was already July 28.

Compared with the expected time, Wanyan Loushi's army was about two days behind, allowing Hu Biao and the others to make more preparations for war.

For example: A batch of food and ordnance transported by the Dengzhou Navy was urgently transported to Haiyang City.

In this way, even if they are besieged for two or three months, the city will still not be in danger of running out of food; the premise is that they can hold on for that long.

In addition, the moat will be completely completed, the river water will be drawn to fill it, and the work of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields will be completed in the surrounding areas.

The problem is, being able to spend two more days of preparation time can't be said to be a good thing at all.

Because Wanyan Loushi's army slowed down for so long, it was entirely because they had destroyed all the Wuzhai they saw along the way.

All food and goods were robbed, all the old and young were slaughtered, and only some young men and women were left to march with them.

The specific method is like those Tartars who regarded the Jurchens as their ancestors hundreds of years later.

Originally, for these Wuzhai, Hu Biao and the others definitely sent a messenger to notify them that they were in place, and let them run away as soon as possible to avoid being poisoned.

It's a pity that these people didn't believe Hu Biao's kind reminders at first.

After hearing the relevant rumors from other sources, it was too late to run away.

Because the Jurchens' vanguard cavalry came, they not only drove back all the horse scouting troops of the Xuange Battalion, but also cut off all possibility of escape for these people in the Wuzhai.

So now, the Wanyan Loushi army before many netizens appeared, not only has the strength of nearly [-] people on foot and horses, but also has seven or eight thousand captives.

With the cruelty of the Jurchen, once the siege battle is a little bit unsmooth.

These young and strong captives will definitely be driven to attack the city, and use their lives to take the lead in consuming the defensive strength of their city...

A group of netizens stood at the top of the city, observing silently.

After arriving, the army of Wanyan Loushi set up a large camp at a position about five miles outside the city; Toss what.

In such a process, he had a total of more than 4000 cavalrymen, galloping on horses outside the city, after showing off their might.

Among them, there are about 3000 cavalry troops, that is, 1000 Jurchen cavalry, leading 2000 Liao cavalry who surrendered.

Directly bypassed Haiyang City from the right and set off in the direction of Pingzhou City.

It's not like the show on TV, with a loud messenger rushing to the city and letting go of his voice, yelling, "Just lay down your weapons, open the city gate and surrender, that's all."

Seeing such a posture, Hu Biao and others understood the Wanyan Loushi tactics.

This is to use 3000 cavalry troops to hold the troops of Pingzhou City first; the rest of the infantry and cavalry will first capture Haiyang City.

They didn't even try to persuade them to surrender. When they captured Haiyang City, the fate of the soldiers and civilians in the city was already very clear. Few people would survive.

Thinking of this, Hu Biao and others, who had already made some psychological preparations, were fine.

However, the soldiers of the Xuange Battalion on the city wall, as well as some civilian husbands who mobilized to help on the city wall, all had obvious panicked expressions on their faces.

It was also at this time that the unique mechanical sound of the system rang in everyone's ears.

"Congratulations to Master Hu Biao, the commander of the Xuange Battalion, and to all the personnel involved in this mission. The second phase of this mission is officially triggered.

Everyone, please pay attention to the following task requirements.

First, before midnight on August [-]th in the fourth year of Xuanhe, Pingzhou City and Haiyang City must be controlled by the Song Dynasty.

If any city is lost, the task of this stage will be regarded as a failure.

Second, before zero o'clock on August [-]th in the fourth year of Xuanhe, the number of people successfully evacuated through the Dengzhou Navy should not be less than [-] refugees.

Third, after the specified time, the number of surviving members of the Xuan Ge Battalion and netizens must not be less than ten.

If any of the above three points are not completed, the system will randomly kill five people as a punishment; if all three points are not completed, the system will increase the punishment and directly judge the mission as a failure.

All members of the Xuan Ge Camp team, as well as the netizens who only participated in the mission this time, will be collectively wiped out.

Fourth, after the number of evacuees exceeds 5000, the more the number exceeds, the higher the evaluation and rewards given by the system will be after the mission is over.

In the end, I wish you all the best of luck and successful completion of your mission~"

(End of this chapter)