Chapter 66
In Da'ankou City, there were not many left, both the Mongols and the Jurchens, and there were about one thousand surrendered soldiers in the Ming army.
"Homes! Horses!" A surrendered Ming army soldier shouted in horror.
Several Ming army surrendered soldiers heard the shouts and the sound of horse hooves behind them. When they turned their heads in horror, they saw hundreds of unowned war horses galloping in front, and more than a hundred cavalrymen in elite Ming army uniforms were riding horses, waving long whips, driving away the unowned war horses in front, and rushing towards them.
"Run!" someone shouted.
The Ming army surrendered soldiers scattered one after another. Several Ming army surrendered soldiers who had no time to run away were knocked to the ground by galloping war horses and trampled by the horses. Their bones were shattered, their intestines were rotten, and they were trampled into a pool of meat paste.
Han Dashan and others, riding on the horse, waved various weapons and galloped past the Ming army surrendered soldiers. When they cut down with one knife, they either smashed them with an iron hammer or chopped them with an axe, and the war horses roared past the Ming army surrendered soldiers, and the Ming army surrendered soldiers who were hit by the weapons successively twisted their bodies and fell down.
"They were wearing the same clothes as us, why did they kill us?" A surrendered soldier from Ming army asked in horror.
"Surrender and don't kill us! We are the Ming army!" Li Laoer, who rushed down the steps, shouted.
"Is it the Ming army? Then, those who ride horses are also the Ming army! No wonder they kill us!" The Ming army surrendered soldiers who were lucky enough to die only then realized this time. Hearing the words "success or not", the Ming army surrendered soldiers knelt on the ground to surrender.
Li Laoer drew his sword and pointed it at the remaining Mongolians: "Put down your weapons! Surrender and don't kill!"
There were only more than 300 Mongolians left, and they all left their weapons and knelt down and surrendered.
Li Laoer ordered that the three hundred Ming army surrendered soldiers get up and use ropes to tie the surrendered Mongolians. The three hundred Ming army surrendered soldiers knelt in front of him quickly got up, took the ropes, and tied the surrendered Mongolians tightly.
There were more than a hundred Jurchen Jin soldiers left, each of whom was injured and made a fuss all night. They were almost exhausted and had no ability to resist. They were surrounded by more than 300 Li Laoer's men, but these people were tough, and none of them kneeled down and surrendered like the Han and Mongols.
"Bah!" A Qing army Niu Luezhen snorted coldly, "Only the Great Jin warriors who died in battle! There is no Jianzhou coward who surrendered! Want us to surrender? Let's wait for the next life!"
"Yes! I would rather die than surrender!" The other Jurchen soldiers also agreed.
"The despicable and shameless Nikan Hangou! He can only sneak up on his face! He has the ability to fight us face to face!" The Niu Lue was still cursing.
Li Laoer did not want his brothers to rush in and fight with the remaining Jin soldiers. Although there were only more than one hundred people left and less than half of their combat effectiveness was left, the battle to ambush Yangguli made Li Laoer realize the terribleness of these Jurchen soldiers. If he ordered three hundred brothers to go up and kill these Jin soldiers, he would not know how many people would be lost. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, he turned to the surrendered Ming army soldiers kneeling on the ground and shouted: "Last night, you also killed a lot of Jiannu Tartars! I, Li, admired you as a hero! Then you should pick up your weapons and kill all the Tartars in front of you! Use practical actions to prove your sincerity!"
When the Ming army surrendered soldiers kneeling on the ground heard this, some people picked up their weapons, while others still knelt on the ground and did not dare to move, because those people knew the power of the Jin soldiers and took them up, not knowing whether they were killing people or being killed.
"Pick up all the weapons!" Li Laoer ordered that all three hundred of his subordinates would slap their bows and arrows. He then shouted at the surrendered soldiers, "Go and kill the Tartars!"
The knife in Li Lao Er pointed at a hesitant surrender: "Pick up your knife and go and kill the Tartars!"
"I, I, I..." The surrendered soldier stuttered and did not dare to pick up weapons on the ground.
"You don't dare to kill Tartars, then I'll kill you!" Li Lao raised his sword and slashed off the head of the surrendered soldier with one knife.
"Have you seen it all? If you bravely pick up your weapons to kill the Tartars, you are still good men! If you don't dare, you are useless cowards! A coward is not worthy of living in the world!" Li Laoer continued to yell.
Seeing that Li Laoer cut down one person without saying a word, the surrendered soldiers were also scared. They picked up weapons from the ground and shouted and killed the surrounded Jin soldiers.
Thousands of surrendered soldiers of Ming army killed more than 100 exhausted Jin soldiers. After a fierce battle, more than 100 Jin soldiers all fell in pools of blood, and more than 300 bodies of surrendered soldiers of Ming army fell around.
There are fewer Jurchen soldiers who have been injured and have been exhausted. If they were full of blood, all the more than a thousand surrendered soldiers of the Ming army were sent, they might not be able to keep them.
After all the Jurchen soldiers fell, Li Laoer said to the surrendered soldiers of the Ming army: "Everyone, some of you were originally military households in Da'ankou, and some were originally villagers from nearby villages. They were conquered as civilians! Although you once surrendered to the enemy and became Han Jian, you also killed Jin soldiers one night last night. You killed more than a hundred Jin soldiers just now, which was considered a loss! Now as long as you surrender to me and serve me, I will not pursue your past!"
"We are willing to surrender!" The remaining more than 700 surrendered soldiers of the Ming army knelt down and said.
"To be honest, I am not an official army of the Ming Dynasty, but just a horse thief outside the frontier! The thief in the mouth of your court! But you have already shaved your hair and braided it, and the court can no longer tolerate you! Going back to surrender to the court can only be a dead end! And you already have Jiannu's blood on your hands, and if you surrender to Jiannu, Jiannu will not tolerate you! You only have one way left, which is to surrender to us! Become my Li Laoer's soldier! I ask if you are willing!"
"I'm willing! I'm willing to serve the boss!" At this point, these Ming soldiers were surrendered. They had already shaved their hair and the court could not go back. Last night, they had just added that they had the blood of the Jianzhou Jurchens on their hands, so it was impossible to surrender back. Now the only way is to follow Li Laoer and survive, and the rest of the way has been blocked.
In fact, just now, Li Laoer asked the Ming army to surrendered soldiers to kill the Jurchen soldiers. On the one hand, it was to reduce the losses of his brothers, and on the other hand, it was also to completely block the retreat of these surrendered soldiers. Because last night's killing was a complete accidental kill, but now that they killed these Jin soldiers, they completely blocked the retreat of their surrendered soldiers.
The fire in Da'ankou City was put out. Fortunately, a fire in Han Dashan did not ignite the warehouse last night. The materials stored in the warehouse were intact. After inventory, Li Laoer seized more than 5,000 stones of grain, more than 5,000 kilograms of gunpowder, more than 600 intact war horses, more than 400 injured and dead horses, Jurchen Jin soldiers, better armor from Mongolia and better armor from the Ming army, and countless weapons were seized, and more than 700 surrendered soldiers from the Ming army were captured.
The reason why Li Laoer did not kill them was that many of them were civilians who were forced to be conquered by the court, and these people could still be used by themselves.
Chapter completed!