Chapter 81
Li Laoer successfully attacked Hongshankou without any effort, captured more than 800 surrendered soldiers from the Ming army and more than 200 Tumotes. After the Ming army surrendered soldiers were brought back, because they shaved their hair and reduced the Jin Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty could no longer go back and could only join Li Laoer's army. As for the 200 Tumotes who were captured again, Li Laoer was useful to keep them.
In the battle of Hongshankou, more than 400 war horses were seized, the Ming army's eight-pound wide-eaves and 50 sets of iron helmets and mountain armor, more than 100 sets of Mongolian leather armor, countless swords, guns and shields, more than 200 Ming army's bird guns, four 40 kilograms of tiger squat cannons, four 100 kilograms of Folang machine cannons, and a twenty-four pound sky cannon. The warehouse was opened and nearly 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder, countless bullets, and more than 500 stones of food were seized.
Among the captured bird guns, there were fifty high-quality bird guns, the captured tiger squat cannons, the Folang machine and gunpowder were all excellent weapons that Li Lao Er himself could not produce. As for a twelve-pound sky-storm cannon, it was Li Lao Er's favorite weapon.
Why is the sky-rushing cannon called Li Laoer's favorite weapon? Because with the artillery technology of this era, no matter the Red Cannon, the Folang machine cannon, or the Tiger Squat Cannon, there is no technology to fire flowering artillery shells. The sky-rushing cannon is actually a large-caliber short-barrel mortar cannon. With this kind of cannon, it means that flowering artillery shells can be fired.
In historical books, the power of the Red Barbarian cannon has been seriously exaggerated. The range of the cannon is seven to eight miles, and one cannon is ten miles apart, which is an exaggeration. It was impossible to fire a cannon with a cannon before it was invented back then.
However, because the barrel of the sky-storm cannon can fully fire flowering shells. Because the barrel is short, the fuse for the flowering shells can be lit from the muzzle, and then the fire door can be ignited from the tail of the cannon. The shells fired cannon can explode after they land. Moreover, because the chamber pressure of the sky-storm cannon is small, the flowering shells will not explode in the barrel.
Li Laoer killed Li Fengze and seized the top armor: a phoenix-winged helmet and a set of Mingguang armor.
The phoenix-winged helmet and the bright light armor are typical symbols of Han generals. From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, the typical armor of Han generals was a phoenix-winged helmet and a bright light armor. When wearing this outfit, the whole person immediately became different.
The seized weapons, armor, gunpowder and food were loaded into a large cart with the prisoners, and Cao Lei took a hundred people to escort the prisoners and the captures back to his castle.
Li Laoer brought 600 cavalry into the pass from Hongshankou. He made an appointment with Cao Lei for the time and place: after escorting the prisoners and seizing them back, he set off immediately, and arrived five miles east of Jizhou City on November 15th to meet with him.
After explaining the precautions to Cao Lei, Li Laoer immediately took 600 horses, one man and two horses to Jizhou.
After a day of marching, Li Laoer and his brothers arrived at a village 120 miles away from Hongshankou before evening. It was only more than 100 miles away from Zunhua, but the village here was peaceful and peaceful. The villagers had no idea that the Jin army had invaded the Jingji area more than 100 miles away, and the Later Jin army was attacking Zunhua City.
"Tartars! Tartars!" The villagers suddenly saw a group of cavalry suddenly appearing at the entrance of the village, immediately breaking the tranquility of the village. The village was in chaos and everyone was competing to escape.
"Friends, we are not Tartars! We are the army that comes to the capital to serve the king!" Li Laoer shouted loudly, trying to dissuade the villagers who were in chaos.
In order to show that he was a Han Chinese, Li Laoer took off his helmet and exposed his hair: "Friends, look, I am Han like you, we are not Tartars!"
But the people were still scared to escape because in the eyes of the people, where are there such good officers and soldiers? The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not necessarily better than thieves. As the saying goes, thieves are like combs, soldiers are like combs, and bandits plunder the people are like combs, and they survive afterwards, but officers and soldiers plunder the people are like combs with bamboo combs, and then rob them all. These officers and soldiers harm the people even more than thieves! Moreover, officers and soldiers not only plunder the people, but even kill good people!
Seeing that he could not dissuade the people, Li Laoer had to shout: "Friends, Jiannu is coming, you can run to the capital quickly! Only by hiding in the capital can you be safe!"
Afterwards, Li Laoer led people to pass by several villages. The villagers saw Li Laoer and the others coming from afar, and they all escaped from the village with their families. Even if Li Laoer took off his helmet and showed the villagers that he was a Han Chinese, it would be useless.
"If these foolish people were really Tartars or officers and soldiers who killed good people, how could their legs run past us on horseback?" Han Dashan shook his head helplessly and sighed.
When the villagers saw Li Lao Er and the others not catching up, they shouted loudly from behind: "Groupes, all of them are going to the capital, Jiannu is coming! It is safe to go to the capital."
"Dad, mom, they should be good people." A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl said to her parents.
A middle-aged man said, "Dad knows that they are not Jiannu! But even if they are not Jiannu, they are not good people! The officers and soldiers are even more fierce than the bandits! Daughter, let's leave quickly, otherwise those soldiers will change their minds and borrow our heads to ask for me."
After all, it was not the first time that the Ming army killed Liang and took advantage of their merits. People in border areas such as Jizhou and Datong were deeply harmed. From the Oirat to the Tatars, in addition to the good military discipline of the Qi family army, when the Tatars attacked the border, the defeated Ming army had never done anything to kill Liang and took advantage of their merits in order to reduce their crimes?
We were educated in later generations, and we were the soldiers of the people and did not exist in this era.
Although Li Laoer did not have the expected effect this time in the Jingji area, it is not that it has no effect at all. He just told the people in advance that the Jin army was coming, so that the people could know how to hide in the capital to take refuge.
"Brother, the people here are so afraid of us. Where are we going next?" Zhang Wei asked.
"Go to the capital, find a way to find someone who can speak, tell him that we have tokens from the head of Jiannu and Manguertai in our hands, and ask him to help us lead the conversation and find a way to recruit the Ming army." Li Laoer replied.
Although Li Laoer also knew that because of the few days he had won, Yuan Chonghuan might have arrived in Jizhou, Li Laoer knew that Yuan Chonghuan's fate would never be able to seek peace with Yuan Chonghuan. Even if history changed, Yuan Chonghuan was not scattered by Chongzhen, Li Laoer would not dare to find Yuan Chonghuan. After all, this person could not tell whether he was loyal or traitor. Li Laoer was afraid that he would be chopped off his head inexplicably like Mao Wenlong, which would be too unfair.
In the capital, three hundred miles away, in the Forbidden City, the young emperor Chongzhen, who was only 18 years old, sat on the dragon chaise under the eaves. The eunuch Wang Chengen stood respectfully beside him, and the ministers at the steps stood on both sides of the square outside the gate.
Chapter completed!