The remaining military households in the fort, as well as the women and children, saw that the battlefield was being cleaned outside, so they also came out to help, and brought everything that could be used back to the fort, even the dead horses.

The only regret is that the bones of Zhao Laosi's martyrdom and explosion are gone, but he can't collect the bones even if he wants to!

"Brother Rui, there is a pretending dead here!"

Li Rui was asking Wu Meiniang to treat the arrow wound in his back, but an exclamation suddenly sounded on the side, and then he saw several military households, carrying a tartar that had been stripped and only calf's nose pants were left, and came to the front.

"This bastard pretended to be dead, Li Rui was about to cut off his head, so he got up and begged for mercy." The soldier kicked the tartar to the ground and said with hatred.

"Begging for mercy? Brother Qiusheng, can you understand Manchu? Li Rui asked in surprise.

This military household named Qiusheng is the eldest son of Zhao Laosi, who just fought with the Tartars and stabbed two to death with his own hands, which can be regarded as avenging his father.

"Well, no, he said the same thing as us......"

Zhao Qiusheng replied in amazement, and immediately seemed to understand something, grabbed the tail of the Tartar's money rat, lifted him up, and asked, "You are also Han?" ”

At this time, the Manchu braids were not like a melon skin like in the TV series, but a small braid with a copper coin-sized hair tied into a small braid on the back of the head, as ugly as it was.

"Uncle spare his life, slave...... Li Rui is a Han Chinese, and Li Rui is a native of Dengzhou. The Tartar screamed and begged for mercy.

"Engong, when Chongzhen was four years old, Kong Youde rebelled in Dengzhou, burned and looted, and then voted for the Manchu Tartars, and it has been five years." Wu Meiniang leaned into Li Rui's ear and whispered.

Li Rui nodded suddenly, and turned to the traitor Tartar and asked, "If you want to live, tell me how many Tartar troops are there that broke into Wuding Prefecture?" ”

"I don't know how much Li Rui has, but the Niu Lu where Li Rui is is ...... There are less than 300 people, all of them are cavalry, you robbed the master, bah, robbed the booty of the Tartars, so these Tartars will be found, and there are more than 200 Tartars, waiting there in the Dragon King Temple, and if these Tartars don't go back at night, they will be killed......"

In order to survive, this clothed slave shook the bottom of the known Tartar to the bottom, and the surrounding military households heard that there were more than 200 Tartars who would kill them, and they all gasped.

Ao Bai was born in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the young man made many military exploits, and at the age of 26, he was already the job of Niu Lu!

This time with Azig into the Central Plains, Ao Bai led his subordinate Niu Lu as the vanguard, and the Ming army was invincible everywhere he passed, all the way through Hejian Mansion, and came to the territory of Wuding Prefecture, Shandong.

Ao Bai is not a reckless man with empty force, he knows that he has gone deep into the Han land, and he is to order his soldiers to loot, only bring gold and silver treasures when looting, and the rest of the population and livestock are slaughtered, but what he didn't expect is that the wounded soldiers still suffered a sneak attack by the Ming army, and half of the booty was also robbed!

Looking at the former robes that were stripped into bare pigs and cut off their heads, Ao Bai was naturally furious, and immediately asked his younger brother Zhuo Butai to lead fifty elite cavalry to chase down the traces of the retreat of the Ming army, and he led most of the men and horses to repair in the Dragon King Temple, ready to return to meet Azig at any time.

At this time, it was already nearly dusk, but the young brother Zhuo Butai's men and horses had not returned for a long time, which made Ao Bai have a bad feeling in his heart!

"Lord Ezhen, there are Zhuo Butai's men and horses coming back outside?"

A Tartar soldier walked into the ruined temple and knelt on one knee and shouted to Aobai.

Ao Bai secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said solemnly: "Let Zhuo Butai come in to see Li Rui." ”

"Zhuo Butai did not return, only a few wounded soldiers came back, and it seems that they fled back after defeat." The Tartar soldier said with a strange expression.

"What?!"

Ao Bai was shocked when he heard this, and he didn't care about the real shelf, and strode out of the temple.

Outside the temple, there were four wounded Tartar soldiers kneeling, who were Zhuo Butai's men who had escaped from the Great Reef Fort. ”

"Lady Emasa...... The Ming army was fierce...... Lord Zhuo Butai was killed in battle...... Li Rui and the others escaped by luck to report the letter......"

The Tartar soldier was carried in the air by one arm, and could only be explained intermittently.

Ao Bai probably understood, and threw the Tartar deserter on the ground with a pale face, and shouted to the soldiers on the left and right: "These four people are cowardly and avoid the war, and when they return to the outside of the pass, all their families are slaves, and now they cut off their heads and circulate the soldiers!" ”

"Lord Ezhen spares his life, spares his life...... Puff puff~! ”

Without any hesitation, the left and right soldiers cut off the heads of the four wounded Tartars in the midst of begging for mercy.

The Manchu Tartars were a semi-slave society, with about 300 households in a Niu Lu, and Niu Lu was really almost equivalent to the big slave owners, holding the power of life and death, while the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to rely on tens of thousands of semi-professional troops who 'had nothing to do to plow and hunt and serve as soldiers in wartime', so that the Ming Dynasty had no power to fight back, and even conquered Mongolia, relying on the extremely strict military law.

This is an example, one person is cowardly, and the whole family suffers!

Ao Bai walked outside the temple and saw that more than 200 soldiers under his command had already watched the heads of the deserters, so he ordered with hatred: "Gear up, after a quarter of an hour, go to the Ming Army's Dajiao Fort overnight, and hate Li Rui and others for the death of the robe!" ”

"Kill the Han Dog ~!!"

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At dusk, three or four hours had passed since the battle with the Tartars!

At least 1,000 people, men, women, and children, were gathered in the fort at dusk, carrying all the valuable belongings and food, all of them poor peasant families from nearby villages.

These people also learned from somewhere that the Great Reef Fort could kill the Tartar cavalry, so they flocked to seek refuge!

Li Rui wanted to persuade them to leave, and told them truthfully that there would be a large group of Tartar soldiers to kill them back.

But the peasants told him that last night the Tartars had broken through the nearby county town of Haifeng, and during the siege, they drove the people to fill the trenches, killing hundreds of people, and they would rather die in the fort than be captured by the Tartars to attack the fort.

Li Rui listened silently, and knew that if there was one more person to help defend the fort, there would be more hope for guarding, so he let them enter the fort.

Fortunately, Wu Meiniang helped to plan and gather all the women and children together, and the remaining young and strong were placed under the jurisdiction of Li Rui, and the arrangement was clear.

Let Li Rui sigh again, the lottery opportunity was not in vain!

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"Brother Qiusheng, the fourth uncle sacrificed his life to cover us, and there is no way to count how many Tartars were killed, and in the later battle, you stabbed two Tartars to death with your own hands, these gold are about fifty taels, plus this one hundred taels of silver, you can accept it!"

On the training ground in the center of the Dajiao Fort, Li Rui personally handed over the dazzling horseshoe gold and silver ingots to Zhao Laosi's eldest son in front of all the military households in the fort and the young and strong farmers from outside.

"Brother Rui, this ......"

Zhao Qiu has lived for more than 20 years, and he has never held such gold and silver with his own hands, and he is stunned to recycle it with both hands.

"What's this, you take it well, and the family will rely on you to feed you in the future!"