A rescued middle-aged man cried and said, "General, you don't know. My young brother just refused to shave his hair, and his head was chopped by Jiannu! Jiannu plundered us and told us: Those who keep their hair but not their heads, those who refuse to shave their hair but not their hair. Those who refuse to shave their hair are considered to be those who refuse to surrender and surrender, and their heads are chopped!"

"How many people in Gu'an City have their heads cut off because they refuse to shave their heads!"

A young man who looked like a scholar said, "General, my father just refused to shave his hair, and they pulled him out and chopped him."

"The Tartars killed more than 10,000 people in Gu'an! In addition to those who refused to shave their hair, there were also elderly people who thought it was useless and were killed by them. Caomin's parents were killed! Caomin's wife was captured by them, refused to submit, and was ravaged to death by a group of Tartar soldiers!"

"There is also the daughter of Cao Min!" A middle-aged man cried in tears, "Bu Wenhuan's dog! It's not enough to surrender to Jiannu. He also wants to propose to the chieftain that in Gu'an, my daughter was selected by Bu Wenhuan and forced to take away! I heard that she was sent to Jiannu's camp and died in a few days!"

A scholar said angrily: "As a guerrilla in the Ming Dynasty, Bu Wenhuan did not serve the court, but instead surrendered to the enemy and treason, and proposed to the captive chief that twenty beautiful women were selected in Gu'an. The poor daughters of the Gu'an people were ravaged by them. Twenty of them were picked out and sent to the Later Jin camp. Huang Taiji rewarded all these girls to the Mongolian Tartars!"

"The treason county magistrate Zhu Jiantai is not a thing either! He is greedy for the people on weekdays. When Jiannu came, he actually accepted Jiannu's surrender and was the first to shave his hair and surrender to Jiannu!"

"Not mentioning that dog official, who was the first Ming officer and soldier who surrendered to Jiannu, who was unhappy in shaving his hair? Before Jiannu entered the city, they shaved their hair first and tied a rat-tail braid with money!"

On the way back to Xianghe, all the rescued people were accusing the numerous crimes of the Later Jin army and Han jian, especially the former Ming officers and soldiers who surrendered the rebellion. They had killed good people and bullied men and women, and did all the bad things. When the Tartars came, they not only did not resist, but instead surrendered to the Tartars. After surrendering, they also gave advice to the Tartars, leading the Tartars to loot the surrounding villages and selecting beauties for the Tartars. This was a bad thing.

The people mentioned that Bu Wenhuan and Zhu Jiantai were both surrendered by Bao Chengxian. Bao Chengxian entered the pass this time, and together with Gao Hongzhong, surrendered Han officials and generals everywhere.

"Dear brothers, have you seen it? Jiannu captured the people of the Ming Dynasty and was forced to shave their hair styles!" Li Laoer shouted loudly, "You know why Jiannu forced the people of the Ming Dynasty to shave their hair styles?"

The officers and soldiers under Cao Wenzhao were not sure why, and everyone looked at each other for a while and shook their heads.

Li Laoer used all his energy in his dantian and shouted loudly: "Brothers! Because Jiannu wants to turn China into barbarians! They have captured our Ming people and forced them to shave their hair in order to make the Ming people become their slaves! And they have been slaves for generations! They have been to destroy our Chinese clothes! Let our descendants forget that they are Han people, and let our descendants be willing to be slaves for them! This is Jiannu's sinister intention! If one day we are defeated, our descendants will be shaved with such hairstyles and be slaves for generations, do you agree?"

"Don't agree!" All the Ming soldiers yelled angrily.

Li Lao Er took off his helmet and pointed to the hair tied on his head: "I, Li Lao Er, would rather die in the battlefield than shave his Jiannu's hair style! Look at those traitors who voluntarily shave their hair. They shave such ugly hairstyles. When they get underground, their ancestors can't recognize them! My brothers, each of them has a gunpowder bag on their bodies. If they are defeated, they would rather ignite the gunpowder bag and die together with Jiannu than surrender! Even if they die, they will have to take some Jiannu's back!"

All the Ming soldiers, including Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, were filled with blood and roared: "We would rather die than surrender to slaves!"

The army returned to Xianghe County with the rescued people. Li Laoer and his brothers moved into Xianghe to assist the Xianghe County Magistrate to defend the city, but Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao returned to Tongzhou.

After Li Laoer arrived in Xianghe, he immediately selected strong men from the rescued people, conducted simple training on them, formed them into civilians, and strengthened the defense power of Xianghe County. At the same time, he assisted the local defenders in Xianghe and strengthened the defense fortifications outside the city, laying a large number of wooden stakes and deer forts outside the city to delay the Jin army's siege weapons.

In addition, Li Laoer also took people outside the city to cut down wood, build seven-shot cannons, ten thousand enemies and other weapons to defend the city.

In the following period, the Later Jin army, who suffered repeated losses in Li Laoer's hands, did not come to attack Xianghe. In mid-January, Li Laoer received news from the capital: Yuan Chonghuan was arrested and imprisoned, and Zu Dashou was so scared that he fled back to Jinzhou with his deputy general He Kegang. The Ming army and the Jin army fought fiercely outside Yongding Gate. Man Gui and Sun Zushou were killed in battle, and Heiyunlong and Ma Dengyun were captured.

After Heiyunlong and Ma Dengyun were captured, Heiyunlong would rather die than surrender and was imprisoned by Huang Taiji. Later, he found an opportunity to escape back to the Ming Dynasty. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, he was killed by Li Zicheng; and Ma Dengyun surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty.

Sun Chengzong, who was in Tongzhou, received an imperial edict and sent You Dai to lead 3,000 cavalry to the capital to support him, Liu Guozhu led 2,000 troops to assist You Dai, and then transferred 3,000 Miyun troops to garrison Dongzhimen and 5,000 Baoding troops to garrison Guangningmen.

"The army in Tongzhou City has been almost transferred. If Jiannu attacked Tongzhou, we will be in danger after finally rescuing the people. It seems that we have to rush to Tongzhou." Li Laoer summoned all his brothers and rushed to Tongzhou to reinforce.

Then, Li Laoer called Xianghe County Magistrate and told him: "Xianghe City is now solid. If the Tartars dare to come to Xianghe, they will definitely be bleeding! What I am worried about is whether Jiannu has mixed in the city. Before I leave, I must identify everyone in the city and not let Jiannu enter in."

The county magistrate said: "Please rest assured General Li Xiao, I will swear to live and perish with Xianghe City! Jiannu wants to break Xianghe City unless he steps on his body!"

Li Lao Er nodded: "As long as no one opens the city from the inside, the Tatars will never want to break through Xianghe City!"

After explaining the matter of defending the city, Li Laoer selected 300 strong men from the rescued people, temporarily incorporated them into his own army, and returned to Tongzhou with his five hundred brothers.

These 300 strong men who were temporarily incorporated into their own army, after the Later Jin army withdrew and when Li Laoer left the pass, these people could only let them return to their hometown first, and could not take them out of the pass, so as not to be impeached by ministers in the court and say that they recruited soldiers privately and had bad intentions towards the court.
Chapter completed!