Chapter 294: Hail is also coming
The impact of 'DUANG~' suddenly sounded on the top of Hu Biao's head, on the helmet shaped like a flying saucer.
At that time, Hu Biao, who was busy with a few brave soldiers, hurriedly erected a double-bow bed crossbow that had just been unloaded from the cart on the ground between two carts.
Because of this crash, instinctively, the thing raised its head and looked at the sky above it.
Immediately, you could see that in the large dark clouds in the dark sky, every white particle that was about to catch up with the size of a quail egg was falling towards the ground.
In a very short period of time, several grains fell on him.
After smashing on the iron armor on his body, in addition to the clanging impact sound, it also made him, who was wearing several layers of iron armor, also feel the position of the impact, and there was a slight faint pain.
"Special! It's hailing, it's hailing in June~"
Hu Biao, who reacted, immediately scolded such a sentence in his mouth.
The present time is actually less than twenty minutes before the first north wind suddenly blows; It wasn't even ten minutes before they arrived at this preset battlefield.
So, what can they do in such a short period of time?
The arrows, herbs, swords, tents, etc., loaded on the cart, have just been unloaded; The moving planks were installed on the side of the cart, but the timber for supporting and reinforcing was not yet ready to be installed.
The daring soldiers in the battalion, who have been busy with these things, naturally did not have time, and all the staff arranged a battle formation.
However, the sudden hail that fell meant that the Song soldiers behind him were about to be defeated in a blink of an eye, and a large number of routs and Liao chasing troops would soon appear.
The only benefit of this sudden hail is:
Because their formation was a complete obstruction and blockage of traffic, an unwitting ruler rushed over from the rear with more than a hundred sergeants.
It is estimated that he is preparing to question Hu Biao and others, and even directly the marching method.
As a result, there was still a distance of more than 300 meters from the car formation, and the hail fell down.
This cargo was riding on a war horse, and after being hit by hail several times in a row, it seemed that he could no longer care about the trouble with Hu Biao and them.
After quickly turning over and dismounting, under the escort of his own guards, he ran under a large willow tree on the side of the road.
Under the fists and kicks of the guards, they drove out the soldiers who had been hiding here, and after squeezing out a safe area, a group of people huddled in it.
Faced with the situation in front of him, Hu Biao took a deep breath.
picked it up and hung it on his waist, or let Lao Tie, the owner of a blacksmith shop, temporarily beat out the iron horn in the past two days, and roared out a new order in his mouth:
"Everyone obeys the order and wears armor~"
So such an order was shouted, and it was the people in the camp, although they had already done one piece of armor for each person.
However, for the convenience of the march and to maintain more physical strength, in the process of marching, except for a few people such as Hu Biao who acted in armor, the armor of others was now placed on the cart.
Hurry up and put it on now, on the one hand, to prepare for the battle that is about to begin.
On the other hand, it can also prevent the strong pain caused by hail hitting the body.
Special! As a southerner born in Hunan Province, it is the first time that Hu Biao has seen such a large hailstone in his more than 20 years of life.
This thing is so thick, if you don't do some protection, a bad luck can really kill someone.
As for Hu Biao's command method of shouting with an iron horn after going through so many missions, there is not much to say.
They are not ignorant of the command methods of flags and drums.
The key is that this is not due to the limited time, and it is too late to train the various flags and drums they are used to to the brave warriors under them.
In desperation, he could only use the way of commanding and roaring.
Fortunately, such a way, although it is a little rustic, seems to be quite easy to use......
In Hu Biao's roar, a group of daring soldiers who were almost stunned by the hail immediately reacted one after another, and quickly put on their armor with each other's help.
Wait until the full set of armor is successfully put on behind you.
The hailstones that suddenly fell bigger and bigger, although they were still a little uncomfortable after falling on their bodies, they could no longer pose a fatal threat to them, and their panicked emotions gradually calmed down.
After seeing such a situation, Hu Biao, with a hint of ease, issued a new order again:
"Xu Feng, put up the flag for me~"
After hearing such a simple order, Xu Feng's whole person seemed to be overpowered, and a big spirit came to his body.
After the spirit was finished, he had an abnormal flush on his face, and quickly removed a oilcloth package that he had been carrying behind him.
He took out one of the blood-red battle flags, and in a few movements, he tied the flag to a wooden pole that was five or six meters high.
A little later in the formation, hold it up high.
I saw that on the red flag, three golden traditional characters were embroidered in regular script: Xuange Camp.
A group of temporarily recruited and cannon-fodder warriors are a ragtag infantry battalion, and naturally there is no prefix for the name of the battalion head.
But this did not affect Hu Biao, and arranged for Ah Fen, who is said to have good 'cross-stitch' skills, to work overtime at night and process such a banner of 'Xuange Camp'.
And now that it's played, the only thing I can tell everyone on the team is:
This battle, not a single retreat! The heroic spirits of the Xuange Battalion of the Anxi Army, Guo Xin, Wang Xiaowei, Zhang Tiezhu, Liang Daya, One-Eyed Dragon, Xiucai and others, are watching you from the sky.
It is indeed so, when such a banner is raised and hunted in the north wind.
Whether it is Yang Dongli, AT, Xu Feng, Cangguan, Fengrui, Wolf Qing, these senior veterans who really participated in the mission of Qiuzi City, or the new tenderness who joined the team such as Team Zheng, Wu Pawn, Er Fat, War Elephant, etc.
The mouth was whispering, and after not knowing what to scold, the determination to fight to the death on his face was so firm.
And the so-called upward and downward effect, although the brave warriors did not understand, why they had to rush to form a formation here; But after seeing the expressions of the officials, they instinctively became serious.
It's a bit amazing that I don't know if it's the battle flag of the 'Xuange Camp', which has an effect similar to that of exorcism.
After the battle flag was raised, the north wind, the hail, and soon all of these ceased; It's a pity that all this stopped a little late......
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The appearance of the Liao soldiers seemed to be faster than the time Hu Biao expected.
Or to put it another way, the elite Western Army soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were defeated faster than they imagined.
From the time the hail falls, the time is at most twenty minutes later.
Boy! In this way, I am afraid that if the hail falls for a maximum of two or three minutes, the Song army after the break will be defeated.
The problem is that such a sudden hail fell down the same way for both sides, and there was no Liao soldier who was not affected, but why was the Song soldier defeated so quickly?
At that time, Hu Biao and others were the generals who made all the preparations for battle.
Suddenly, the soldiers of the Song Army, who were resting in place and hiding from the hail because they had formed a formation, were stopped and rushed towards the side of the car formation.
It was as if a great terror was coming behind them.
What else could it be? It was nothing more than the appearance of the defeated soldiers, and by the way, the news that the old Xianggong was defeated and the Liao soldiers were chased and killed.
Let these people also join the ranks of the rout.
Seeing these people spread their legs along the dirt road, they rushed straight towards the front of the car formation.
Hu Biao knew clearly in his heart that these people must not be allowed to disrupt their formation, otherwise they would lose this battle if they didn't fight.
picked up the iron horn in his hand, and shouted to the outside:
"The right side and the right side all walk from the forest on the right, and those who dare to charge head-on will ......be killed."
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