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Chapter 76

More than 300 Jin soldiers, except for fifteen Mongolians surrendered, all of the remaining more than 100 Jurchen soldiers and more than 200 Mongolian soldiers were killed or committed suicide. Li Laoer's 400 troops lost only sixteen, which was undoubtedly another big victory.

Fifteen prisoners were interrogated and learned that the two hundred Mongolians were all Korqin people.

However, Li Laoer was very sad when he looked at the incomplete bodies of the people on the outskirts of the Jin army camp. He roughly estimated that at least more than 600 people died in chaos. Among them, he accidentally killed three Ming people while he was stepping on the camp. Although it was to save more people, he felt very uncomfortable when he saw the innocent Han people dying at his hands.

"Simply clean the battlefield and count the results of the battle. The action must be fast! Ajige's camp is more than ten miles away, and it only takes half an hour for the Jiannu army to come!" Li Laoer gave an order to his brothers.

After a stick of incense, the bodies of more than 300 Jin soldiers were stripped into white pigs, and all the valuable things on them were searched, and the bodies would be thrown into abandoned camps and frozen into frozen pork. Li Hong came back to report the results: "Brother, we seized 100 sets of Jurchen Eight Banners armor, and after deducting those that were broken by the axe, there were still 89 sets of usable. Most of the lost Tartar war horses were also recycled. More than 400 war horses were retrieved. After deducting scrapped, we seized more than 300 more. We also found more than 5,000 taels of silver, more than 600 taels of gold and a box of jewelry, and more than 300 livestock, more than 2,000 poultry, and more than 1,000 stones of food."

"How is the loss of the people?"

"More than 700 people died in the melee, and we rescued more than 1,300 people."

Li Laoer nodded gently: "The loss is smaller than the budget, Han Dashan! You took He Xing and the 100-investors and immediately took the rescued people on the mountain path and returned to our village through Da'ankou!"

"No!" Han Dashan came up and clasped his fists and replied, then stepped back.

"Slow down!" Li Laoer called Han Dashan again, "Brother Dashan, when you are about to arrive at Da'ankou, you can send a scout to check first to see if Da'ankou has been taken back by Jiannu. If it has been taken back by Jiannu, you can explode one end of the city wall from a little far from Da'ankou, and be sure to send the rescued people back!"

Among the more than 1,300 people rescued, there were more than 700 strong men, and the rest were women and children. The elderly and babies were killed by the Jin soldiers.

Originally, among the more than 2,000 people captured by the Jin soldiers, there were only more than 800 strong men, and women and children accounted for nearly two-thirds. However, the attack on the camp last night caused more than 700 people to die in chaos. Most of the dead people were women and children. Most of the strong men knew how to avoid the collision of war horses. Women and children reacted slowly, and many people died.

Han Dashan escorted the rescued people away. He found that the girl in green in the crowd was still there last night, and he was happy. However, Han Dashan had never spoken to other women except his relatives since he was a child. He did not dare to step forward, but just looked at the girl from afar.

When Han Dashan recalled the incident of saving the girl last night, he hugged the girl, and he felt his heart beating faster.

A lot of food was seized, because the truck could not walk on the small road, Han Dashan asked the rescued people to help transport the food together. More than 700 strong men each carried a bag of food on their bodies. These foods were originally the food of the people of the Ming Dynasty. They were stolen by the Jin soldiers before, but now Li Laoer and the others have helped them snatch it back.

"My gentlemen, where are you going to take us?" A man found that these "Ming Army" were not going to take them back to their village, but went outside the pass, so he stepped forward and asked.

"Take you to a safe place where you won't encounter Tartars." Han Dashan replied.

Seeing Han Dashan and the rescued people disappear into the mountains, Li Laoer led 300 cavalrymen, one man and two horses, and set out along the road beside the mountain toward Santun Camp.

The sky was slightly cool, and the explosions from Zhaojia Village in the early morning alarmed Ajige. At this time, Ajige's 15,000 army had surrounded Zhao Shujiao, who had come to serve the king. The four thousand Ming troops could only defend against nearly four times the Jin army. After learning that the Jin army had invaded from Da'ankou, Zhao Shujiao immediately set out from Liaodong and entered Santun Camp for only three days and nights. However, the Ming army of Santun Camp refused to open the door and let him in, so he had to continue traveling west, but was ambushed by Ajige and surrounded by the group.

The soldiers and horses of Zhao Ruishu were all cavalry, which was not conducive to camping and defense. They could only retreat to a small high ground. When the Jin army launched an attack, the Guanning Iron Cavalry charged from high to low, and with the help of the war horses, they repelled the Jin army's multiple attacks.

After nightfall, the Jin army approached the Guanning Army and shot arrows continuously with strong bows, killing many Ming troops, and causing heavy losses to the war horses. At this time, most of the troops under Zhao Shujiao had been lost, leaving only less than two thousand horses.

However, the explosions from Zhaojia Village in the early morning made Ajige dare not look down on him, because Zhaojia Village was halfway from Santun Camp to Zunhua City. Now Huang Taiji is leading 15,000 Jin troops to attack Zunhua City. If a Ming army attacks Zhaojia Village and builds a solid camp there, the connection between Ajige and Huang Taiji can be cut off.

Therefore, Ajige assigned a cavalry of 500 people to go to Zhaojia Village to check the situation.

Because Li Lao Er's 300 cavalry were walking close to the mountain, the Jin soldiers did not find Li Lao Er and the others. When the Jin soldiers arrived at Zhaojia Village, they found that the more than 300 people they sent had been wiped out, the barracks were burned, and all the bodies were lost.

"Where did the Ming dog that attacked us come out?" Niu Lu, the Jin army, was very surprised. Because in his impression, the Ming army only knew how to defend the city and did not dare to take the initiative, even if they did not dare to attack the Jin army.

Huang Taiji, who was leading his army to attack Zunhua City, was also very confused. He had obviously installed a lot of insiders in Zunhua, but he had been attacking the city for three days, but there was still no insider in the city to help him. He originally planned to set fire in the city as a number, and the inside opened the city gate, and the Jin army attacked the city. However, in the past three days, there was no movement in the city.

"It must be something happened to Aha who was infiltrated into the city!" Dorgon judged.

"Without an inside line, we can't conquer the city? I can't conquer a Zunhua City with 15,000 elite Eight Banners?" Huang Taiji sneered.

Zunhua's city wall is tall, with a three-meter-high city wall and a three-meter-wide moat of two meters deep. It is not easy for the Jin army to break through in a short period of time. Those who are responsible for the siege in front are unstable Tumot Mongols and surrendered Han people. They will not feel sorry for the loss of some of these cannon fodders.

The Tumotes and Han people carried ladders to attack the city. The Jurchen soldiers and the Korchin Mongols suppressed the defenders at the city with bows and arrows, which also caused considerable casualties to the defenders.
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