Facing the three tightly bound northern soldiers, Xiao Ruxun sat in front of them with a smile on his face and began to ask.

"General Tong, let's start! Ask them why they're here first. ”

Xiao Ruxun gave an order to Nurhachi, and Nurhachi got the order and began to instruct his people to question.

Xiao Ruxun couldn't understand the Jurchen or Mongolian dialect, anyway, it was just a grunter in front of him, but it could be seen that the three northern captives were very scared, and from time to time they showed a look of fear and said a few words similar to begging for mercy.

Then Nurhachi exchanged a few words with his own people, then turned his head and said to Xiao Ruxun: "Governor, these three people said that they are from the Tumut tribe, and they followed their king to the south, originally under the city of Datong, and now they have been arranged here to eat and spend the winter to escape the cold, and there are many people in the tribe who have been arranged to various cities to escape the cold, all like this." ”

"I really don't think of myself as an outsider anymore!"

Xiao Ruxun frowned: "Continue to ask, how is Datong Town now, but there is still the Ming army guarding the town?" ”

And then there was another buzz.

"Governor, what they mean is that the town of Datong is still under the garrison of the Ming army and has not fallen!"

"Oh?!"

Xiao Ruxun suddenly came to his senses: "Are Governor Mei and General Ma still guarding Datong Town?" That's great! How many of them went south? ”

Nurhachi continued to ask, and after a while of grunting, Nurhachi said: "They said that the first men were in the prime of life, and the strongest group followed the king to continue south, they were all relatively weak, and they did not go south, so they lived here, and then waited for the old and weak women and children of their tribe to come south together to live in the city, and now the people have not yet arrived, but the plan is for the whole tribe to go south together." ”

"Ask them how many fighters there are?"

"That's about 100,000 in total."

"Are there any other tribes other than the Tumut tribe who have gone south to Datong?"

"They said that there are other four tribes united to go south, and the other tribes probably also plan to go south to Datong, and now it is not clear whether they have arrived, but the Datong area is assigned to the Tumut tribe, and if the other tribes go south, they should continue to the south, and finally the Great Wall is not guarded, and they all want to escape the cold in Handi."

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"This is going to occupy the magpie's nest! Mr. Xu, what do you think? ”

Xu Guangqi frowned and said: "According to this way, it is estimated that there will be a lot of northern captives going south, definitely not just a Tumut tribe, the entire tribe going south, the number of people is at least hundreds of thousands, are they planning to stay here and not leave?" ”

Xiao Ruxun thought back to the previous explanation.

"Their king probably wants to leave, but they probably haven't received orders from their king for a long time, so they go south by themselves, General Tong, ask them whose idea is the whole tribe going south?"

"Yes!"

Nurhachi ordered an inquiry, and the answer was quickly obtained.

"They said it was a decision made by several tribal leaders who stayed in Datong."

Xiao Ruxun nodded and looked at Xu Guangqi.

"Obviously, Pullic is wise, and he knows that he will run away if he robs it, but these people are afraid that they will not leave because they are comfortable, and they have lost their minds, and they plan to use our land of Shenzhou as their holy place to escape the cold."

Xu Guangqi said angrily: "Ridiculous! How can Huaxia Shenzhou allow the northern dove to occupy the magpie's nest? ! ”

"That's right, seeing that hundreds of thousands of people are going south, what ...... Isn't it just right? ”

Xiao Ruxun's words were full of Sen Han's murderous intent: "Save me from running all the way to find it." ”

"What does the Governor mean?"

"Mr. Xu first arrived, and I invited Mr. Xu to eat a meal of dumplings, which were stuffed in Beiyu."

Xiao Ruxun grinned.

"General Tong, interrogate any city they know of where the northern captives are stationed, show them the map, let them identify them one by one, and then kill them."

"Yes!"

Nurhachi nodded in agreement.

Xiao Ruxun then left the military tent, and Xu Guangqi followed closely: "Governor, what should we do next?" ”

"Let's go and see the rescued people first, give them some food, and when General Li brings the army, I will send someone to escort them back to the south to take refuge first, Datong can't stay for the time being, it's very dangerous, and then let's go to Datong Town and rescue Governor Mei and General Ma, it's been two months, and I don't know how they survived."

Xu Guangqi nodded.

"That's very good."

Subsequently, Xiao Ruxun took Xu Guangqi to visit the rescued Han people, this group of people are old and young, men and women, most of them are weak people who are not dressed and have good clothes, obviously enslaved, Xiao Ruxun asked some old people about their lives these days with concern, they often wept silently and told their tragic experiences.

After being captured, he was not killed, but now that he thinks about it, it is better to be killed, and it is not easy to do cattle and horses for Beiyu, laundry and cooking, and the relatives around him may be killed at any time, and the young woman is even more dangerous.

In order to survive, most of the young women cut off their long hair and smeared their cheeks and pretended to be men, but in this way, they will be more dragged to do hard labor, chopping wood, making them more comfortable and warm wooden houses, lighting fires for them at any time to keep them warm, beating and scolding at every turn, either tired to death or beaten to death, if it is found to be a daughter, they will be immediately abused by a group of people, and life is better than death.

The children were basically not alive, and when Xiao Ruxun rescued them, only six boys and three girls aged about five were alive among the 18,673 people, and the survivors said that the first thing Beilu did when they caught them was to kill all the children in front of them, and these children were still protected by everyone's desperate efforts.

Xiao Ruxun asked them if there was anything else they needed him to do, and said a thousand things and ten thousand, they were grateful to Xiao Ruxun for saving them, and the only extravagant hope was to ask Xiao Ruxun to avenge their dead relatives and children, and there was nothing else to ask for.

Looking at these ragged people with vegetables on their faces, Xu Guangqi, who had never seen such a scene, had already been angry and scolded at the back, while Xiao Ruxun was more calm, and arranged for the soldiers to send the clothes that could be found in the city to these refugees in the order of children, old people, women and men to keep them warm.

Xu Guangqi has a deep compassion for these people, not only verbally, but also with practical actions to show his sympathy and kindness, helping to distribute clothing and rations, and trying to help everyone he can.

When the sun set, he walked up to Xiao Ruxun's side and asked, "Governor Xiao, what else can we do for these refugees?" The subordinates only felt that they owed them too much. ”