"It's not the first time you've joined forces with the Liaodong cavalry, do you still think it's strange?"

Xiao Ruxun smiled.

"I've never seen such an over-the-top scene, it was all petty fights before, no more than 10,000 people, but this time 30,000 or 40,000 people died here, and it was full of corpses as far as the eye could see, and I couldn't get used to it anyway."

Wang Hui shook his head silently.

"It's a good thing not to get used to it, Ziheng, you have to insist, once you get used to it, you can only join the army for the rest of your life, and there is no possibility of returning to normal life."

Xiao Ruxun said this, which made Wang Hui a little surprised.

Xiao Ruxun went down the hillside and found Li Rusong, who was asking his subordinates to wash his armor, he was still washing at this moment, Li Rusong's armor was full of blood, and his face and hands were full of red marks, he looked like a bloody man, which showed how fierce the fight was.

However, looking at Li Rusong's vigorous appearance, this should be all the blood of the enemy.

"Mr. Li's majesty has not diminished back then!"

Listening to Xiao Ruxun's voice, Li Rusong turned his head to look at it again, and hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted.

"The last general will meet the governor!"

Xiao Ruxun stepped forward to help Li Rusong.

"General Li led the Liaodong cavalry to kill many thieves, this time, it is deservedly the first merit, and this governor will definitely ask the court for General Li and his subordinates."

This is what Li Rusong and his subordinates are most willing to hear, so they will be able to touch the joy of the Liaodong Army, and 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 a message in the Liaodong Army that Li Rusong and Xiao Ruxun have reconciled with their previous suspicions, and Xiao Ruxun has continued to ask for credit to the Liaodong Army during this time, and the generals of the Liaodong Army have changed a lot from the previous hatred and fear of Xiao Ruxun.

This is a good thing, if you can drive this strongest cavalry force of the Ming Dynasty, it will be somewhat beneficial.

"This time the big break of the northern captives, the gate of Yanghe City suddenly opened, I don't know how many tens of thousands of northern captives are waiting for us to take it, brothers can make persistent efforts, kill more enemies, this governor hereby announces, the five old and weak women and children killed on the battlefield can be worth the head of a northern captive soldier!"

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

The difficulty of killing the old and weak women and children is much lower than the difficulty of killing a soldier, although it is five to one, but compared to before, there is no doubt that it is earned.

In the past, there was no reward for killing the old and weak, women and children, but now there is a reward, which is naturally much better than no reward, these red-eyed soldiers were originally a little tired, but after hearing this reward rule, the desire to fight suddenly rose again.

So Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the whole army to reorganize, 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.

After another hour, the battlefield was roughly cleared, and 41,261 captives were counted and killed, and 4,678 beheaded, and no captures were taken, and all the enemy troops were killed, but more than 10,000 horses and a large number of weapons were obtained.

Xiao Ruxun then ordered all the heads of the northern captives to be cut off and placed with the army, and when the time came, he planned to go to the grassland to set up a Jingguan, and the corpses were divided into dozens of piles and burned on fire.

It is said that after the army left, the fire in this valley burned for three days and three nights without stopping, and when the people were extinguished, the valley was full of dust, which was not ordinary dust, but ashes, but in the following decades, the woods and shrubs here grew very well, and it once became an excellent place for people to travel and visit.

After the main force of the northern captives in Yanghe City was killed, the subsequent military operations were much easier, and more than 50,000 Ming troops defeated all the 150,000 northern captives around Yanghe City in one day, and more than 20,000 young men who stayed behind were easily defeated.

The remaining more than 100,000 family members of the army have fallen into blood mold, under Xiao Ruxun's strategy that the heads of five old and weak women and children can reach the first level of soldiers, and when Yanghe City is finally recovered, the number of old and weak women and children who surrender alive is less than the number of young and strong men and women captives.

This area of more than 30,000 old and weak women and children was still kept alive because the Ming army had been fighting for a whole day and couldn't kill it, and many Ming soldiers vomited because they had killed too much, so they chose to leave these useless prisoners.

Xiao Ruxun ordered these old and weak captives and young and strong captives to be detained separately, and the next morning he ordered Nurhachi's Jurchen cavalry to kill all the 30,000 old and weak captives, and not a single one was left.

Xiao Ruxun said that he wanted to make these people regret their behavior in the south, and to make them tremble when they read their names, so when he ordered the massacre, he also selected a hundred Lao Suo who were not killed, and let them observe the whole process.

After the killing was over, Xiao Ruxun gave each of the hundred frightened old men two oil cakes to eat on the road, and then tied two heads to their bodies, one person and one horse, and let them go back.

Xiao Ruxun told them with full malice that if they could go back alive, they must not forget to tell the Beiyu they met their names and what they had done, so that they could remember their names and deeds and take revenge later.

If only they dared to come.

The remaining 30,000 young and strong northern captives and male and female captives were given a whip or wooden stick to the more than 10,000 Han Nu who were rescued and survived according to the old rules, and asked them to supervise these captives to start repairing the checkpoints of Yanghe City, especially the Great Wall.

Xiao Ruxun asked Li Rumei to lead the army to drive directly to the Yanghekou Great Wall checkpoint as soon as he recovered Yanghekou, and got a report that more than 500 Beiyu were killed in Yanghekou, and Yanghekou was seriously damaged, and there were signs of a large number of people entering and leaving, indicating that the 200,000 Beiyu in the Yanghecheng area should have entered from Yanghekou.

Then repairing Yanghekou is the primary purpose, who knows if there will be more northern captives coming over later, when there is no preparation for the Northern Expedition, Xiao Ruxun will have to rely on the Great Wall to guard Datong for a period of time.

At the same time, Xiao Ruxun got the military report that Chai Guozhu and Dong Yiyuan led the army to successfully enter and kill Hukou, and the two were lucky, and they fought three major sneak attacks along the way, destroying three large northern captives.

But the two of them did not have Xiao Ruxun's strong consciousness and enough troops, so they could only chase and kill all the way, drive all the northern captives out of Kill Hukou, and then occupy Kill Hukou and start repairing, with few beheadings and not many enemies.

But all in all, the strategic goal of the Ming army to go 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.