Outside the city of Tongzhou, countless trenches were dug densely. Sheep and horse walls were built behind the front trenches. There were wooden fences on the rear trenches. There were many wooden towers between the crisscrossing trenches. For example, the tower where Li Laoer is standing now is two feet high. There are three feet high guard plates on all sides. There are wooden fences on the guard plates. The platform with a top cover on the top of the arrow tower can accommodate four to five archers.

All the best strong archers are arranged on the arrow tower, and the thick guardrails on the arrow tower can protect their archers well.

The people who were temporarily placed in the shack outside the city screamed, and the people were scared because Tongzhou City was already full of people, so they could not enter the city and could only be placed outside the city. There was no solid city wall outside the city, only two short sheep and horse walls, two wooden fences, and several trenches. Every distance, a wooden arrow tower that looked weak. Can this defense be used to keep the Jin army out? The people are very suspicious.

Huang Taiji's goal was not to break through the city of Tongzhou, where the city was high and deep. He just wanted to break through the fortifications on the periphery and plunder the more than 100,000 Ming people who temporarily lived outside Tongzhou City. Even if he had completed the plan, he entered the pass this time to plunder money and people, not to capture many cities.

The Later Jin army did not immediately attack the city. Huang Taiji issued an order, ordering Baoyi Aha to drive away the Ming people who had been looting in Jizhou and Jingji in the past few days, and to cut down wood in nearby woods and prepare to build a shield cart.

The ecological environment in this era was very good, and there were still many forests on the flat North China Plain. These forests provided sufficient materials for the Later Jin army to build shield vehicles.

The Baoyi Ahas and others held steel knives and whips, drove the Ming people who were captured by the Later Jin army and cut down wood in the surrounding woods. Those Baoyi Ahas, who were once Han people, treated the captured Han people even more fiercely than their masters. Seeing that some people were not working hard enough, Baoyi Aha waved the whip in his hand and beat them hard, and was very hard, for fear that the masters would not see their hard work.

They were originally Han people living outside the pass, but because the Ming army suffered repeated defeats outside the pass, lost cities and land, these Han people fell into the hands of the Later Jin. In addition to some of the massacred Han people, most of the Han people outside the pass were left by old slaves as slaves. After all, the Jurchens themselves were not good at cultivating land and needed slaves to work for them.

But it is not easy for these people to survive to this day. The Han people who fell into the hands of the Later Jin Dynasty were unwilling to be slaves, and people often fled. For this reason, the old slave issued an order to arrest and escape, "Anyone who catches the fugitive will be divided into half of the fugitive's property, and the fugitive will be punished."

In June of the eighth year of Tianming, someone reported that there were about 11,000 male men in Fuzhou. The number of people reported was investigated, but only 7,000 were reported. This shows that more than 4,000 male men in Fuzhou escaped. After Da Beile Daishan's inspection, he believed that the informant was true, so he massacred all male men in Fuzhou to serve as a warning.

In the ninth year of the destiny, the old slave also issued an order to kill people without food. As long as the family's food is less than five liters and there are no livestock, they are classified as people without food, and all people without food are arrested and massacred.

The old slaves forced Han slaves to farm for the Later Jin Dynasty to support them through cruel massacres.

Now these surviving Han people have become Baoyi Aha. For them, their biggest wish in their lives is to be able to carry the flag and become a bannerman. From then on, they will no longer have to be slaves and will be noble Jurchens.

The Han army flag had not been established at that time. If the Han people who made great contributions carried the flag to become naturalized, they would directly enter the Eight Banners of the Jurchens. The Han army flag would not be established two years later.

This time, Baoyi Aha, who followed the Jin army as an auxiliary soldier, invaded the Ming Dynasty, came with the mentality of making contributions and raising the flag, so he naturally wanted to perform well.

Huang Taiji, based on the strategy of attacking the heart, ordered a Han man to shout to the defenders in the city: "The Khan of the Jin Kingdom sent a letter to the commander Sun: The reason for my army's struggle: My two countries have always reconciled, but later they bullied us, which caused seven hatred. I told the heaven to fight against him. Wherever my soldiers were heading west of Xifengkou and east of Da'ankou, all the soldiers who resisted were killed. The surrendered city in the Hanerzhuang area did not violate anything, and only took food and grass, and returned with our soldiers and horses. If you surrender now, you will share your fame and wealth. I have heard that good birds choose trees to live in the west, and heroes move at times."

Sun Chengzong asked someone to reply: "I am a noble man of China, how can I be the slaves of the Di Yi?"

The Han man went back and told Huang Taiji, who asked the Han man to go outside the city and continue to shout to the Ming army.

The Han people came outside the city and shouted at the Ming army's position: "Is Li Laoer, a horse thief outside the pass?"

Li Laoer laughed: "It's me! Why are you kids so worried about me? If he really misses me, then Da Yuer and Hai Lanzhu are sent to me as concubines!"

The man's face turned pale and red. He knew that he did not dare to go back to report these words to Huang Taiji, so he continued to shout: "Li Laoer, the great khan of the Jin Kingdom values ​​wise and capable, and he is willing to reward those who are virtuous and talented. You are the master of a general, but Emperor Chongzhen cannot tolerate you. If you are willing to lead your troops to surrender to our Dajin, the great khan will not be jealous of past grudges. You can carry you into the flag and entrust the position of Er Dajin Meilezhen! The great khan has a heart of love for talent, so you should cherish it!"

Li Laoer shouted: "I, Li, was born as a Han Chinese, and would rather die in battle than be a slave! Let me tell you Huang Taiji and let him die of this heart! By the way, let me tell you Huang Taiji one more thing. Da Yuer, who was his favorite, was originally Dorgon's sweetheart when he was on the grassland. Now he has become Huang Taiji's concubine, but he is still dating with Dorgon."

Li Laoer's voice was very loud, and he was transmitted into the Jin army formation with the wind. Dorgon could hear the following words.

Dorgon recalled that he was ordered by the old slave to go to the Korchin tribe five years ago, and saw a beautiful girl there, who was dancing for Dorgon. Dorgon was moved at that time. Unexpectedly, Huang Taiji stole the girl later. Now Dorgon was still flirting with Da Yuer, but he didn't dare to do it too blatantly. Dorgon wondered in his heart: How did Li Laoer know about these secret things?

It was obvious that Huang Taiji also heard Li Laoer's last words and glared at Dorgon's back fiercely.

Dorgon turned his head and found that Huang Taiji was staring at him fiercely, so scared that he was sweating all over his body.

When Huang Taiji saw Dorgon turn, his anger disappeared immediately, and a smile immediately appeared on his face. Huang Taiji walked to Dorgon and patted him on the shoulder: "Fourth brother, don't worry too much, I will not fall into the traitor's plan to alienate him!"
Chapter completed!