After Cao Wenzhao gave the order, he immediately took the Chinese army headquarters through the camp where the fire had lost control and rushed to the south. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, Zhai Sang arranged for the old and weak soldiers who stayed in the old camp, especially with a group of herdsmen to resist at the southern entrance, and fought with the guerrilla Li Guoqi of the right battalion of the Wulie Battalion.

Cao Wenzhao brought the arrival of the new force of the Chinese army, and quickly announced the failure of the resistance of these old and weak men in Horqin, who stayed behind.

The old and weak soldiers and herdsmen who had been struggling to support them collapsed in an instant under the outflanking attack of the cavalry of the Wulie Battalion.

At this time, Niu Juming, who followed the coming, saw the herdsmen who were running away on their legs, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Those who descend will not die!" Surrender or kill! ”

Niu Juming did this not because he could speak the language of the Horqin people, but because he saw that some of the herdsmen had Han Chinese hairstyles.

During this period, the Horqin nobles and cavalrymen, because they had been taking refuge in the Jianzhou Jurchens for many years, no longer obeyed the Mongols' own baldness customs, but changed to the Jurchen money rat tail.

At the same time, for the herdsmen they captured in the war, these people were lowly and had not been forced to make money rat tails, so some of the herdsmen had the traditional bald and braided hairstyle of the Mongols, while some of them had unkempt and dirty hair, but they could still be seen to be Han hairstyles.

These herdsmen were usually oppressed and humiliated by the Horqin nobles, and they were unwilling to follow the old and weak men of Horqin who stayed behind to fight to the death against the invading enemies.

Especially the Han herdsmen among them, who had long heard in the night that it was the army of the Ming Dynasty, and most of them did not want to be enemies of their home country.

Sure enough, hearing the shouts of "those who surrender will not die" and "surrender and not kill", some of the fleeing herdsmen turned around and knelt on the ground, raised their hands high, and shouted: "I surrender!" Don't kill me! I give up! Don't kill me! ”

These shepherd slaves who knelt on the ground and surrendered spoke Chinese, although some of them spoke stumblingly and incoherently, but they were clear and unmistakable, it was Chinese!

Seeing this, Cao Wenzhao also ordered loudly: "Kneel and surrender!" Those who descend will not be killed! Surrender on your knees! Those who descend will not be killed! ”

All of a sudden, the Chinese army heralds beside Cao Wenzhao also began to shout loudly: "Surrender on your knees!" Those who descend will not be killed! ”

Among the herdsmen who had fled in all directions, those who could understand Chinese soon surrendered on their knees.

Including some herdsmen who kept the traditional French style of the Mongols, they also knelt down and surrendered with their companions.

In this way, the resistance to the south of the camp soon collapsed completely.

And those old and weak men in Horqin, who swore not to surrender and insisted on resisting with knives, were quickly killed.

The number of these old and weak who resisted was not large in the first place, and the number of those who had already existed, plus those who came in a hurry, did not exceed a thousand in total.

Some of them were armed with swords, some with bows, and most of them were on their horses, but most of them had no armor to protect them, some were even bare-chested, and some did not even have time to prepare their saddles.

In the face of the elite cavalry of the Wulie Battalion, who were equipped with plate armor, Qi knives, three-eyed guns, and iron helmets with eaves and eaves in addition to bows and arrows, these left wing Horqin who were not taken away to conquer the Karaqin Department were old and weak, and they did not have much capital to turn the tables at all.

Therefore, after the resistance to the south of the camp was crushed, the organized resistance in the entire camp basically disappeared.

Cao Wenzhao ordered Zhang Xiushen to lead people to collect the more than 1,000 herdsmen who had surrendered on their knees, and drove them to an empty fence nearby to concentrate on guarding them.

When Zhang Xiushen stepped forward with some of the sergeants of the Wulie Battalion, preparing to drive the surrendered herdsmen to the fence, a strong man suddenly stood up among the herdsmen who knelt on the ground. I only heard the strong man say in stumbling Chinese: "Adult, the little one has something to say, I want to say it to the general of the Han family!" ”

Zhang Xiushen didn't expect someone to stand up suddenly, and immediately pointed his bow and arrow at the man, and shouted: "Kneel down and speak!" Otherwise, an arrow will kill you! ”

At this time, Cao Wenzhao also saw the situation here, lightly clamped the horse's belly, and rushed over.

Cao Wenzhao saw that the man was tall and sturdy, although his clothes were dirty and messy, but he looked like he had a momentum, and seeing that the other party did not have any swords, guns, bows and arrows, he pressed his hand and motioned for him to put away the bow and arrow against the man, and then said: "The man has a name, what do you have to say?" ”

Seeing this, the man stood up from the kneeling crowd and took a few steps forward, knelt down in front of him, and said, "The little one is a Han person, and the Han name is Tang Kyushu. ”

After saying this, Tang Jiuzhou said: "The little one was originally from a military family in Tieling, and he was a pro-army general under the command of Ma Zongzhen. The little one happened to be out on patrol, and although he was lucky enough to save his life, he was caught alive and was arrested here as a slave, and now it has been more than ten years. ”

When Cao Wenzhao heard this, he quickly knew what the situation was. The so-called Tieling Ma General Town is the chief soldier of the year. And this Tang Jiuzhou, to put it bluntly, is just a deserter from Liaozhen.

Cao Wenzhao himself has been in the army in Liaodong Town for many years, so he also knows very well that people like Tang Jiuzhou are located in the Mongolian or Jurchen tribes around Liaodong.

In the several defeats of the Ming army in Liaodong that year, hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated successively, many of which were of course killed in battle, but a considerable number of them fled.

Some of these people were scattered and fled, and some of them escaped from the battle, and in any case, these people disappeared in the ranks of the Ming army.

The fugitives did not dare to go in the direction of Shanhaiguan, because every time Liaodong fought, the imperial court or the Jiliao Governor's Mansion would give Shanhaiguan an order, and anyone who fled to Shanhaiguan would be arrested and beheaded on the spot, and you would not be given a chance to escape into the customs at all.

Therefore, many of those who fled before or after the war fled to Mongolia, thinking of making a detour to Mongolia and returning to their hometown in Kannai.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many thieves in Shaanxi and Shanxi appeared and grew in this way. Because even after escaping back across thousands of mountains and rivers, these defeated soldiers or deserters could not legally make a living when they returned to their hometowns, and could only go up the mountains and fall into the grass and become bandits and thieves.

After understanding who the man in front of him was, Cao Wenzhao said: "Tang Jiuzhou, a captured soldier like you, how many of the herdsmen in Horqin in front of you are?" ”

When Tang Jiuzhou heard this, he immediately said: "As far as Xiao Jiuzhou knows, in addition to Xiao Tang Jiuzhou, there is also Li Wanqing, which is the same as Xiao. ”

Saying this, Tang Jiuzhou turned around and nodded into the crowd, and shouted at a sick black and thin man: "Brother Li, we are saved!" ”

I saw that the sick black and thin man stood up from the kneeling crowd, walked over, knelt down beside Tang Jiuzhou, and said in slightly stumbling Chinese: "The little Li Wanqing, who once served as a town guard in Yibao outside Guangning City, has been living here for seven years, and the little one has thanked the adults for not killing!" ”

After Li Wanqing said this, he kowtowed to Cao Wenzhao, fell to the ground and stopped talking.