Wanli 1592

Chapter 655 This war is far from over

"It's not the first time you have teamed up with the Liaodong cavalry, do you still find it strange?"

Xiao Ruxun smiled.

"I've never seen such an extreme scene. Before, it was a small fight, with a maximum of 1 people, but this time, 4 to [-] people died here. There are all corpses everywhere. I'm not used to it anyway. "

Wang Hui shook his head silently.

"It's a good thing if you don't get used to it, Ziheng, you have to persevere. Once you get used to it, you will only be able to join the army for the rest of your life, and there is no possibility of returning to a normal life."

When Xiao Ruxun said this, Wang Hui was a little surprised.

Xiao Ruxun went down the hill and found Li Rusong who was letting his subordinates wash the armor. He was still washing at this moment. Li Rusong's armor was covered with blood, and his face and hands were covered with red marks. He looked like a blood man. It can be seen how fierce the fight was just now.

But looking at Li Rusong's lively appearance, it should be all the blood of the enemy.

"Mr. Li is as powerful as he was back then!"

Hearing Xiao Ruxun's voice, Li Rusong turned his head to look again, and quickly clasped his fists in a military salute.

"The last general pays his respects to the governor!"

Xiao Ruxun stepped forward to support Li Rusong.

"Li Zongbing led the Liaodong cavalry to kill a lot of thieves. This time, it is well-deserved and deserved to be the first contribution. This governor will definitely ask the court for credit for Li Zongbing and his subordinates."

This is what Li Rusong and his subordinates are most willing to hear, and they can surely pinpoint the joy of the Liaodong Army. It seems that Xiao Ruxun's reputation in the Liaodong Army has recovered and improved during this period of time.

Moreover, there seems to be news in the Liaodong Army that Li Rusong and Xiao Ruxun have finally settled their feud and reconciled. In addition, during this period of time, Xiao Ruxun has continued to ask for credit for the Liaodong Army. few.

This is a good thing, if you can drive this most powerful cavalry unit of Ming Dynasty, it will be somewhat beneficial.

"This time the northern captives were defeated, and the gate of Yanghe City was opened. I don't know how many tens of thousands of northern captives are waiting for us to capture. Brothers, you can continue to work hard and kill more enemies. The governor hereby announces that the five beheaded on the battlefield The head of a Northern prisoner, old and weak, women and children is equivalent to the head of a Northern prisoner soldier!"

The surrounding soldiers suddenly became commotion, and the desire value in everyone's eyes was greatly increased.

The difficulty of killing the old, weak, women and children is much lower than that of killing a soldier. Although it is five to one, compared with before, it is undoubtedly profitable.

In the past, there were no rewards for killing the old, weak, women and children. Now that there are rewards, it is naturally much better than no rewards. These red-eyed soldiers were a little tired at first, but after hearing the reward rules, they immediately raised their desire to continue fighting. eager.

So Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the whole army to prepare, and immediately set off to Yanghe City to kill the enemy after cleaning the battlefield, and the morale of the whole army was greatly boosted.

Another hour later, the battlefield was roughly cleaned up. 260 northern captives were counted and killed, 670 were beheaded, and no prisoners were captured.

Xiao Ruxun then ordered that all the heads of the northern captives be beheaded and resettled with the army. At that time, he planned to put them on the grassland for observation in Beijing, and the corpses would be divided into dozens of piles and set on fire.

It is said that after the army left, the fire in this valley has been burning for three days and three nights without stopping. After everyone extinguished, the valley was full of dust. This dust is not ordinary dust, but ashes. However, in the following decades, The forests and shrubs here are growing very well, and it was once an excellent place for Cyprian people to go outing.

After the main force of the northern captive soldiers in Yanghe City was killed, the subsequent military operations became much easier. The more than 15 Ming troops defeated all the [-] northern captives around Yanghe City in one day, and the more than [-] remaining young and strong were killed. Easily crushed.

The rest of the more than [-] family members who accompanied the army fell into bad luck. Under Xiao Ruxun's strategy that the heads of the five old and weak women and children could reach the head of a soldier, when Yanghe City was finally recovered, the number of old and weak women and children who surrendered alive was higher than that of young people. The number of strong men and women captured was even smaller.

More than [-] old and weak women and children in this area were kept alive because the Ming army fought for a whole day and couldn't kill them. Many Ming soldiers vomited because they killed too much, and they couldn't kill them. Only then chose to keep these useless captives.

Xiao Ruxun ordered the old and weak prisoners to be separated from the young and strong prisoners for custody. Early the next morning, he ordered Nurhachi's Jurchen cavalry to kill all the [-] old and weak prisoners, leaving none behind. Of course, this is not counted as military exploits. , purely to add the head of Zhijingguan.

Xiao Ruxun said that these people should be made to regret their behavior of going south, and they should tremble when they read their own names, so when ordering the massacre, they selected a hundred old people who were not killed, and let them observe the whole process.

After the killing was over, Xiao Ruxun gave each of the hundred scared old men two pancakes to eat on the way, and then tied two heads to their bodies, each with a horse, and let them go back.

Xiao Ruxun told them with full of malice that if he could go back alive, he must not forget to tell the Beilu his name and what he did, so that they could remember his name and what he did, and come back later. revenge.

If they dare to come.

And the remaining about 1 young and strong male and female captives of the northern captives followed the old rules and gave the rescued more than [-] Han slaves who survived by chance a whip or a wooden stick, and asked them to supervise these prisoners and start repairing the male and female prisoners. Hecheng checkpoints, especially the Great Wall part.

Immediately after Xiao Ruxun regained Yanghe City, Li Rumei led the army to go directly to the Yanghekou Great Wall checkpoint. The report he got was that more than 500 northern captives were killed at Yanghekou. Yanghekou was severely damaged, and a large number of people entered and exited. The signs indicate that the 20 northern captives in the Yanghe City area should have entered from Yanghekou.

Then repairing Yanghekou is the primary purpose. Who knows if there will be more northern captives coming later? Before the Northern Expedition is ready, Xiao Ruxun will have to rely on the Great Wall to guard Datong for a while.

At the same time, Xiao Ruxun received the military report that Chai Guozhu and Dong Yiyuan led the army to successfully attack and kill Hukou. The two were lucky, and they fought three consecutive big raids along the way, destroying three large northern captive settlements.

But the two of them didn't have Xiao Ruxun's strong consciousness and enough troops, so they could only chase and kill all the way, drove all the northern captives out of the Shahukou, and then occupied the Shahukou to start repairing. There were not many beheads and not many enemies killed. .

But all in all, the Ming army's strategic goal of going north to recover Datong has been achieved. Datong has been recovered, all the northern captives have been expelled, and the task given by the imperial court has been successfully completed.

However, Xiao Ruxun felt that this war was far from over.

(End of this chapter)