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Chapter 68 Final Preparations
After being stared at by everyone, Hu Biao became inexplicably angry.

In the end, this bachelor slapped the thigh of the wolf next door, and cursed: "His grandma is a leg, starving to death the cowardly, supporting the courageous, this ticket is done~"

However, after this guy yelled aggressively, the following series of arrangements sounded quite organized:

"Lao Yang, Huang Yizhi, AT, you bought a lot of things today, and the money is almost used.
So the three of you don't continue to purchase tomorrow, switch to the no-collect mode, and go to the surrounding area to find out the whereabouts of those Tartar cavalry.

I know it's hard, but you have to find out where they camp for the night.

Whether this ticket can be successful, and whether the subsequent tasks can continue, all depends on the investigation of the three of you, so be careful on the road.

As long as it is done, the night attack on the three of you will be the first success.

Langqing, Fengrui, Xufeng, you guys prepare the combat supplies, and you must have a serious weapon, the more rattan armor, the better.

At the very least, the sword and shield fighters and pikemen rushing to the front should be equipped with this thing to increase their combat effectiveness.

The others will only train for half a day tomorrow, take a good rest after having a full lunch, and after Lao Yang and the others have found the Tartars' camp, they will set off to raid the camp at night.

Don't be too nervous, we still have an advantage.

Tartar would never have thought of the night raid.

On the one hand, because the Ming army has always dared not take the initiative to leave the station, let them come and go freely these days, I am afraid that they have long been used to being arrogant with their nostrils turned upside down; no matter how strong the original vigilance is, it will also be reduced?

No one would have thought that someone would take the initiative to attack them.

On the other hand, those of us who are modern people have one of them without any night blindness, which is definitely a huge advantage that they cannot understand. "

In Hu Biao's mouth, these reasons sound more or less true, and a group of netizens gradually gained a little confidence.

Then, they began to discuss some details of this operation in detail one by one, and their expressions were still a little dignified.

Because they know that if the night attack misses this time, the price will be too severe for them to bear...

Before the early morning of the next day, Hu Biao and the others had already started to act.

In fact, when the meeting was over, Lao Yang, Huang Yizhi, AT and the other three took action overnight; they were uniformly not wearing armor, but only wearing a temporarily processed black cloth cloak.

He didn't bring a long gun that was more than three meters long and was in the way.

He just brought a long knife over one meter long and a short knife as his self-defense weapon.

In addition, they also brought some dry food, emergency medicine, etc., and set off in a hurry overnight; with the worries and expectations of Hu Biao and others, they stepped into the vast night.

Even though the three of them brought torches and lanterns, none of them lit up.

When rushing on the road, the only light I can rely on is the bright starlight in the sky tonight.

There was nothing Lao Yang and the others could do about the reason why they set off overnight under the threat of wild beast attacks, poor vision, and so on.

The task of these three old birds can be said to be the most dangerous and important part of the entire operation.

Because they don't have war horses, their maneuverability is far inferior to those Tartar soldiers. If they are found by those Tartar cavalry, they can't run fast or fight, basically it's tantamount to confessing.

So taking advantage of the cover of night to go out is the best time.

Not wearing armor, just wearing a black cloak is also convenient for them to escape and hide quickly in case they are discovered.

Anyway, relying on the strength of the three of them, they never thought about fighting the Tartar cavalry head-on...

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In the early morning of the next day, the group of people who stayed on the Fire Road started training as planned.

Because a night attack was about to start, the huge pressure on their hearts made everyone inexplicably tense; the training attitude was also unprecedentedly serious.

After the weapons were issued, they became familiar with them immediately.

Although speaking, this kind of long gun with a gun head temporarily installed does not seem to have much to be familiar with.

And after Yang Dongli and the others went to Huangtubao yesterday, although in the process, there was a situation where Lao Yang was misunderstood and had an abnormal orientation.

But after a busy day, I really brought back a lot of things.

In addition to a stone of rice, [-] catties of pork, [-] eggs, a sheep, some vegetables, and a large gourd of vegetable oil, these essential foods.

I also bought two step bows, four shields and waist knives, some spear heads, a bird gun and other weapons.

These weapons and equipment are all the standard equipment of the Ming army. They belonged to Lao Yang who found a middleman and bought them privately from the warehouse of the Huangtu Fortress officer with a little money.

Among them, the gun head and the waist knife have long been rusty, and they look a little poorly kept; but fortunately, they can still be used after being polished.

The four shields are all rattan plates, which are specifically woven with processed rattan.

However, Yang Dongli tried it out, and the defense power used to defend against arrows and knives is quite good, and this thing is a one-handed shield, which is relatively light in weight, but its area is not small at all.

If a person squatted down with a shield, after bowing his head and bending over, he could actually cover his entire body.

As for the blunderbuss, it was actually a matchlock gun, imitating the style of the blunderbuss of the Qi family army back then, and it was made by local craftsmen in Datong Town.

It's just that according to everyone's understanding, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have always been low-status, and it is difficult to even eat enough.

Because the superiors deducted the cost, the quality of the produced equipment has always been quite doubtful.

Other cold weapons are okay, but the bombing rate of the bird gun is frighteningly high.

Therefore, among the many bird guns in the warehouse, Yang Dongli selected the one that looked relatively sophisticated and thicker in terms of barrel and components after a long period of selection.

In addition, what they brought back was a large bag of lime powder and a small barrel of black powder weighing about ten catties.

Originally, Lao Yang wanted to buy some armors back, but he couldn't afford the iron armor for seven or eight taels of silver, and it would be nice to bring back a few pieces of leather armor and cotton armor.

After all, fighting only in DIY rattan armor, they really had no idea.

It's a pity that they consumed the two silver bricks brought by AT just for the above equipment and supplies.

In addition, they didn't know that Xie Gui was planning a conspiracy against them at that time; they didn't even make the decision to take the initiative to attack at night and go to the Tartars for a vote.

There are one or two gold ornaments and five catties of pepper powder left, which they plan to use to buy raw materials and DIY some combat supplies.

So there are only so many materials on hand.

What needs to be explained is that the five catties of pepper powder are still in Yang Dongli's hands and have not been sold.

The main reason is that after asking around, I don't know that those stores intend to lower the price, and the selling price is really too low.

According to the combined knowledge of netizens, the pepper weight of 590 grams per catty brought back by the Sanbao eunuch during the Yongle period was considered by the court to be worth 10 to 20 taels, and the officials were paid wages.

After so many years, with the continuous introduction and import of more pepper, everyone is mentally prepared that the price of pepper has been greatly reduced.

But the purchase price of five catties of good pepper is only 10 taels of silver. Aren't those shops cheating?
In desperation, the pepper powder can only be put on the body, and wait to see if there is a better way to get rid of it.

As for the bag of lime powder, it is going to be divided into small cloth bags, and each person is going to share a few; when fighting, find an opportunity to throw it at the heads of the tartars, and give these beasts first. Let's talk about being blind...

In this way, relying on the equipment brought back above, the three combat teams under Hu Biao's command were finally armed.

Each combat team consisted of nine people, among which two swords and shields were led by AT, Huang Yizhi, and Feng Rui, respectively, and three thicker rookies including corn.

They are all armed with a shield in one hand and a long knife in the other.

It's a pity that only AT and Fengrui have iron armor, and the others are unreliable DIY rattan armor.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lang Qing, who was an archer at the back of the battle formation, contributed his iron cotton armor with gauntlets for Huang Yizhi to wear.

In addition, there are two archers in each group, and now each has a step bow.

It's a pity that apart from Lang Qing, an old bird, and Lao Snake and Singer, two rookies with some archery foundation, the accuracy of the remaining three rookies is really not good.

The rest of the people, of course, all have a spear in their hands.

correct!That blunderbuss is now handed over to Lao Hei for a simple reason, this guy is from the ground guidance unit of the PLA, and he has more foundation in shooting guns than other rookies.

In short, the preparations for arming and combat formation were thus completed.

But the specific effect will only be known after one fight.

(End of this chapter)