Chapter 15: This is the way of the gods

In fact, if it weren't for Xue Rengui acting as a sharp arrow, stabbing the Tartar soldiers who dared to resist to death, most of the dozen or so war horses of the young and strong people would have been killed by the Tartars, let alone trampled to death.

"Leave it here to General Li, let's go and besiege the camp, Li Rui remembers that there are wounded soldiers in the Tartar camp, don't let them escape."

Xue Rengui saw that Li Rui led the young Zhuang to follow, so he and the young Zhuang went straight to the Tartar camp.

"Strip them all of their armor and tie them up!"

Li Rui gave an order, and the auxiliary army Qingzhuang immediately rushed up, pressed the eight surrendered Tartars to the ground, stripped the clothes, and tied the clothes.

"Hangou~!"

When one of the surrendered Tartars saw that Li Rui was giving orders, he suddenly roared, knocked away the three young men who had stripped him of his armor, pulled out a knife from his boot, and pounced on Li Rui.

Capture the thief and capture the king first, this routine is the same in ancient and modern times!

"Bang bang, all arms are broken."

Li Rui raised his gun and blasted the Tartar's Heavenly Spirit Gai away, and ordered in a cold voice.

Although he came from later generations, at this time and that time, the current Manchu Tartars are undoubtedly of different races, and the words that non-Li Rui people must have different hearts are appropriate at this time.

If it weren't for the usefulness of keeping these tartars, he would have ordered them to be killed!

"No~!"

The young men were also frightened into a cold sweat, gritted their teeth, and directly broke the arms of the remaining seven Tartar soldiers.

"You stay in custody, and the others follow Li Rui to break through the Tartar camp."

Li Rui heard the sound of shouting and killing coming from the Tartar camp, and hurriedly led Qingzhuang to rush over.

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When people are afraid, they can do anything, such as seeing that after most of the men and horses were killed in battle, more than 20 Tartar soldiers fled for their lives.

But when people are calm, they are afraid of many things, such as the fact that there were about fourteen wounded Tartars in the camp and did not run away.

Because they are still sober-minded, they know that Niu Lu Ezhen Aobai died in battle, and if they can't recover the corpse, even if they escape from Shandong and join the large army of Azig, they will be beheaded in the end, and their families will be used as slaves.

In this case, it is better to simply die in battle, or surrender to the Ming army!

When Li Rui led the young Zhuang to the outside of the Tartar camp, Xue Rengui was shooting at each other with a bow and arrows and several wounded Tartar soldiers hiding in the camp, and in the middle lay a young man who was struggling with arrows, obviously being attacked by the Tartar bow and arrow when he was storming the camp.

Several young men with shields immediately rushed over to save people and dragged back the young man who was hit by the arrow!

"The bird squirrels hit them hard, and the tiger squatted and bombarded them to death!"

"Bang ......"

"Bang ......"

With Li Rui's order, more than a dozen bird gunners immediately fired a volley at the Tartar soldiers in the camp, and after shooting a round, they exchanged the loaded bird guns with the loader behind them, and fixed the fire rope on the dragon head to shoot again.

"Boom~!"

The tiger squat cannon that was carried by the two old military households also followed suit, and the bullets were shot out all over the sky, and the cowhide tent in the camp seemed to be swept by the strong wind, and it was overturned in an instant.

Several stubbornly resisting Tartar wounded soldiers, in the face of such fierce hot weapon firepower, held out for less than a moment, and all of them died!

The young men rushed into the camp to search, and found five wounded Tartars in a cowhide tent, and three seriously wounded Tartars who had lost their lives.

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The entire Niu Lu of Ao Bai was buried outside the Big Reef Fort, and no one escaped.

After counting, a total of 16 Tartar soldiers were captured, and those with minor injuries broke their arms, and those with serious injuries were directly repaired.

And the seizures before and after the end add up, a total of 529 intact war horses, nearly 28,000 taels of silver, more than 1,100 taels of gold, not counting jewelry and jade!

What made Li Rui amused and speechless was that the old and weak women and children in the fort came out to help clean up the battlefield, and actually handed over all the gold and silver found from the corpses.

When asked why they didn't keep it for their own use, an old man replied: It is thanks to General Li that you can defeat the Tartar soldiers, and how dare Li Rui and the others hide your old man's spoils, it will be thundered by the sky!

Being called an old man by an old man, it feels so weird, especially when the old man is talking, he looks as pious as he is, so he sent Li Rui three sticks of incense......

Li Rui couldn't cry or laugh, and immediately asked Xue Rengui to summon all these people who handed in gold and silver, and then doubled the reward in front of everyone.

Well, the starting point of these people may be because of ignorance, but in this chaotic era of the late Ming Dynasty with no food and clothing, if they can not be tempted by gold and silver, they are undoubtedly simple and kind people to the bones.

These people deserve to be treated preferentially!

The people who received the double return were overjoyed, and they respected Li Rui like a god, and even knelt down and kowtowed on the spot.

"Look, this is the way of the gods, blessing the good people in the world...... You are wolf-hearted and dog-hearted, Li Rui asked you to hand over the gold and silver, but you refused, now you are blind. ”

In the crowd, some villagers were convinced, and loudly reprimanded the old and weak women and children in the same village next to them.

There were villagers in the crowd who were convinced, and loudly reprimanded the old and young women and children in the same village next to them.

The old and young women and children were reprimanded, their faces were flushed, and they did not dare to speak.

After completing these trivial matters, Li Rui spent a hundred prestige points to exchange the knowledge of the Manchu language from the system, interrogated the captured Tartar soldiers, and finally learned that there were no other Tartars in Shandong, and the nearest brigade of Tartar soldiers was also in the area of Hejian Province, and would be withdrawn to Guanwai in a few days.

In this regard, Li Rui was not surprised, he only hated that he did not have more power in his hands, and he could not take the initiative to attack the Tartars!

This time, the Manchu Tartars entered the Central Plains, and they would plunder hundreds of thousands of people and bring them back to the customs to be used as slaves, and countless gold and silver treasures were robbed.

And compared with the previous two raids, this time the Manchu Tartars really entered the Central Plains, saw the wealth of the Central Plains, and tasted the huge sweetness, and they will enter the raids again the next year!

As future generations, you may wonder, where did the wealth come from at the end of the Ming Dynasty?

But the fact is that the common people of the late Ming Dynasty may have been poor, but the literati and gentry were very rich, owning 99% of the land and controlling commerce, but they did not have to pay taxes.

Chongzhen broke his head every year for money, desperately squeezed oil and water from the poor people, when Li Zicheng hit the capital, the hard-working emperor, he couldn't even afford to pay the military salary, and begged the civil officials and gentry to donate, only to get a ridiculous few thousand taels.

But when Li Zicheng really broke the city and put the knife on the necks of civil officials and gentry, he instantly made tens of millions of taels of gold and silver!

Therefore, the rampant nature of the privileged class is the main culprit in the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Rui, three days later, truly realized this!

More than 1,000 people, eating horses and chewing, ate everything that could be eaten in the fort in three days, and he would not have any more news of the Tartar soldiers coming, and told the farmers who had come to take refuge truthfully, but not many of them were willing to leave.