In order to survive, some Han people in the north began to deliberately conceal their ethnicity, and the Han people north of Taiyuanfu, Xing, Cang and other prefectures were somewhat similar to the Khitans, changing into Hu clothes and posing as Hu people. In turn, it was used by the Liao government to control the Han with Han, and bullied the Han people more ruthlessly than the Hu people, as a way to show their loyalty.

But these people are only a minority, and too many Han people have lost hope after becoming slaves of the country, and can only endure the oppression of the Hu people.

When the Ming army's Bian Hao and Liu Rengan's troops broke through the sixteen states of Yanyun for the first time and went north to the south of Dadingfu, countless Han people knelt on both sides of the Ming army's marching road, praying that the Ming army could take them back to their homeland.

It's a pity that their homeland, the Later Jin Dynasty, has perished, and the Ming army is not capable of taking them back to their hometowns.

This time was different, the Ming army captured Dadingfu, and the army used the Huanghe River as a barrier to confront the Liao army for several months, which greatly stimulated the hope of the Han people around the Huanghe River who were still under the rule of the Liao people to return to China.

At first one or two, then a few families, the Han people sneaked through the gap in the Liao army to the bank of the Huang River and swam across to the south bank. When there were successful examples, countless Han Chinese abandoned their dilapidated tents in the Liao State and swam in groups to the south bank of the Huang River at night.

For several days in a row, nearly 10,000 Han people have fled south, and more and more are growing day by day. It is precisely because of such a large crowd that it is impossible to hide the Liao army scouts. And so, tragedy happened.

In fact, at the beginning, dozens and hundreds of Han people fled south, and they were already discovered by the Liao army scouts, and when they told Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Xiuge did not care. He was busy thinking about his strategy for attacking south. The flight of hundreds of Han people to the south was just a trivial matter for him, and it was not enough to distract him.

Jeruxiugo's inaction. So that the Liao army scouts were resigned to the Han people's southward flight.

But in the next ten days, when the Han people, who thought that they had the acquiescence of the Liao army, fled south, Yelu Xiuge woke up to the fact that if he could win this battle, I was afraid that the Liao State would also die.

As a result, the Liao army began to prepare for this tragedy.

Baili Wuji was actually very troubled, and hundreds of thousands of Han people fled south at the beginning. Baili Wuji placed them very enthusiastically, and even personally met and encouraged them, so that the governments of the sixteen states of Yanyun could properly settle down for these Han people. and give them the fields, and so on. But when tens of thousands of Han people in the occupied areas fled, and there were more and more of them, Baili Wuji was a little overwhelmed, and there were many of them. Baili Wuji is afraid that it will be mixed with Liao army spies. The small number of people can allow the Yanyun government to carefully screen it, but if the number of people is large, I am afraid that the heart will be weak.

But if these Han people are refused entry, Baili Wuji will not bear it, and he is afraid of breaking the hearts of the Han people. Therefore, Baili Wuji ordered Peng Xiao to gather every 5,000 people and transport them south to the coastal states of the Ming Kingdom to be concentrated. Rations are provided by the government.

The intention of Baili Wuji is to build thousands of miles of official roads from north to south after the war. There are more than 100,000 Liao army prisoners in the north, presumably there will be more after this battle, so there is no need to stay in the north anymore, but there is still a shortage of people to build roads in the south, so these Han people who fled south were used by Baili Wuji to build roads, and it will take at least two years to build roads.

Peng Xiao's fleet was originally going back and forth between Jinling and Jinzhou every few days to deliver supplies and ammunition for the Ming army, and now it was also convenient to transport the Han people.

Unfortunately, Jeruxiu didn't agree.

That night, the Han people gathered more than 20,000 people to swim across the river, because the Liao army ignored it a few days ago, and the people became very bold, and even many people lit torches for lighting.

When the people went down the river one by one and swam to the south bank, the Liao army, which had already been ambushed, launched a salvo on the people in the river, and in an instant, the water of the Huang River was stained red with blood, and the people who stayed on the river beach were all captured by the Liao army that was swarming in.

After dawn, Yelu Hugo did one thing, so that Baili Wuji made an oath in front of the Ming army soldiers that he must kill Yelu Hugo.

In order to kill chickens and monkeys, Yelu Hugo gathered all the men in the captured 20,000 infiltrated people, young and old, on the north bank of the Huang River, made them kneel south, and cut off their heads under the eyes of Baili Wuji and the soldiers of the Ming army. Blood flowed into the river again, making the already blood-red water even redder and blacker.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Ming army were heartbroken, and Baili Yi even wanted to use artillery to punish the Liao army, but was stopped by Baili Wuji.

Baili Wuji didn't want to waste the cannonballs that had traveled thousands of miles from the Ming Kingdom, looking at the angry Ming soldiers, Baili Wuji made an oath that he would punish Yelu Hugo to comfort the souls of the people in the river.

And the heavens seemed to have sensed it, and the next day, Peng Xiao, who was transporting supplies from Jinling Mansion, brought a few people and three carriages of goods for Baili Wuji.

These people were some of the guards who were sent to Jinling Mansion that day to participate in the hot air balloon test.

These three truckloads are three new works that have been improved by the Ordnance Workshop based on the concept and test results of Baili Wuji.

Baili Wuji was overjoyed, but the joy only stayed on his face for a short moment.

The guards who came back reported that the armory workshop only increased the airbag and changed various materials, such as replacing the rope with cow tendon, thinning the rattan of the rattan basket, changing the number of passengers from two to one, and even letting the passengers only wear underwear to reduce the weight as much as possible, so that the hot air balloon could carry 100 catties of gunpowder to rise to more than 30 zhang.

The most "bad" thing is that the hot air balloon has been fixed on the ground by ropes during the test, and when it wants to descend, as long as the burning wax oil is extinguished, the air gradually becomes colder, and then slowly falls, and the safety of the passengers is basically guaranteed. But if it is to be used in actual combat, once the hot air balloon is lifted into the air, it is completely uncontrollable, and can only let the wind drift with the waves, and if the passengers want to come down, all they can rely on is a small steel crossbow, shoot through the airbag, and let it slowly leak and land.

According to the assumption of 100 miles of Wuji, the hot air balloon is to float to the enemy camp in actual combat, and the enemy position will be lowered if it is allowed to fall freely with a small crossbow, even if it is lucky not to be killed, I am afraid that nine times out of ten it will fall into the position of the Liao army, that is to say, whether it is successful or not, the hot air balloon will be a meat bun to beat the dog, and there is no return.

And the most important thing is that even if you pay the sacrifice, the gunpowder thrown may not be able to hit the intended target, in Baili Wuji's opinion, the probability of three hot air balloons going out to hit the military tent of Yelu Hugo is definitely not more than one percent, or even impossible. (To be continued......)