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Chapter 14 Daankou Defenders

Li Laoer was really guessed correctly. Da'ankou was under the jurisdiction of the Ji Liao Governor's Office and responsible for the defense of Da'ankou. He was the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, the right assistant censor, and the Prime Minister of the Military Affairs of Ji Liao. This person was also a member of the Donglin Party. He was a Jinshi in the 29th year of Wanli. He was an aide to Ye Xianggao, the chief assistant of the cabinet during the Tianqi period. Needless to say, Ye Xianggao, the leader of the Donglin Party.

The upper beam was not straight and the lower beam was crooked. The Later Jin army broke through Xifengkou. Longjing Pass arrived at Da'ankou. The defender Zhang Shixian abandoned the pass and fled. Only more than 300 temporary recruits were left to resist the Later Jin army. Naturally, they could not resist. The Later Jin army invaded from Da'ankou and arrived in the capital and robbed the capital.

If Yuan Chonghuan was killed and wronged, it was indeed a bit unfair. He had already reminded Emperor Chongzhen that the defense in Jizhou was weak and he should be careful of the Later Jin army breaking through there, but it did not attract Chongzhen's attention.

Li Laoer didn't know this historical knowledge very well. He came here just to inform the Ming army and remind the Ming army stationed in Da'ankou to be careful of Jiannu's invasion.

But whether the Ming army can defend it depends on their own luck. Li Laoer's castle is located in the mountain between Xifengkou and Da'ankou. It just stuck Huang Taiji's throat and could cause some trouble for the Later Jin army, but it was because there was too little manpower. At that time, Li Laoer hoped to save a group of young and strong people and bring them to the castle to assist in defending the city.

Arriving at Da'ankou, the situation of the Ming army here disappointed Li Laoer: the city gate of Da'ankou was wide open, and several soldiers guarding the gate slept soundly against the city gate hole, and there was not even a soldier standing guard on the city wall.

The two arrived at the city gate and woke up the sleeping soldiers.

A sloppy Ming soldier, who looked bearded and wearing a mandarin duck war jacket with no color, woke up and saw Li Laoer and Li Hong, shouted like a dog who was stepped on his tail: "Tartar! Tartar! Tartar is here!"

"We are not Tartars! We are Han people!" Li Laoer shouted to defend himself.

More than a dozen Ming soldiers rushed out of the city gate. These soldiers were wearing unscathed mandarin duck war jackets, so dirty that they could no longer see their original color. They were wearing yellow soft hats that had turned black and gray on their heads. No one had armor on them, and they were even older and younger. The oldest seemed to be in their fifties, and the youngest was only a half-year-old child of twelve or thirteen years old. If they hadn't seen them holding all kinds of messy weapons in their hands, they would have thought these people were a group of farmers who had just returned from the fields.

Seeing these Ming soldiers, Li Laoer felt sad: It would be no problem to kill twenty soldiers by himself. Such soldiers are already rotten to the point, so how can they fight?

"Well, that man? What's the point of coming to my Da'an mouth?" asked a soldier with a small flag-shaped appearance.

The little flag looks better equipped, at least it is not a soft felt hat on its head, but a six-petal round wide-brimmed iron helmet. It is wearing an 80% new blue mandarin duck battle jacket and a waist knife around its waist.

"Dear soldiers, Caomin is a businessman outside the Great Wall. A few days ago, I have obtained important military information about Jiannu's invasion from Da'ankou. I will report it now." Li Laoer did not dismount, but sat on the horse's back and arched his hand at the small flag.

"Jiannu invaded? Hahaha!" The little flag laughed, "Jiannu is far away in Liaodong, how could he invade this? You and other unlucky people are here to play with me, right?"

Li Laoer said: "Dear soldiers, how dare you lie about military affairs? This is a serious crime to destroy the nine clans!"

Li Hong, behind him, opened the package on the horse's back, took out a white-armored Bayala head, and threw it over: "The head of Jiannu is here. My brothers and I met Jiannu scouts on the road. After a hard battle, they killed Jiannu scouts and obtained the top secret military information!"

Seeing the head of Jiannu thrown on the ground, a group of Ming soldiers were shocked: "It's Jiannu's head!"

"The two are indeed heroes!" Someone bowed to Li Laoer and Li Hong.

Li Laoer said again: "There are people in Zhangjiakou who have an affair with Jiannu, and they have long leaked the military information in Xifengkou and Da'ankou to Jiannu! The captain Huang Taiji decided to invade this way in October."

The head of the white-armored soldier is the best way to open the door. When seeing the head, the Ming army would no longer think that Li Laoer and the others were here to lie about military affairs, and would not treat the two as Jiannu’s detailed works.

After hearing what Li Lao Er said, he saw the head with a rat-tailed braid of money. The little flag did not dare to neglect it, so he bowed his hands and said, "The two heroes are waiting here, so I'll report it now."

Although the little flag had already said it, it was unwilling to take a step forward.

Li Laoer turned over and got off the horse, walked to Xiaoqi, and stuffed the broken silver in his hand to the Xiaoqi: "June took it to drink tea."

The little flag squeezed the amount of silver, and then said, "The two heroes are here for a while, and they will come back." After that, the little flag lifted the head of the white-armored soldier on the ground and ran into the city quickly.

Li Laoer took out a large handful of copper plates from his arms and divided the soldiers several copper plates: "Thank you all for your hard work to guard the border for the country."

General Zhang Shixian received Xiaoqi's report and was shocked when he saw the head of the white-armored soldier brought back by Xiaoqi.

"Jiannu wants to attack our Da'ankou?" Zhang Shixian opened his mouth so hard that he couldn't believe this fact. You must know how the old, weak and disabled soldiers at his hands could withstand the attack of the Later Jin army.

Zhang Shixian did not dare to neglect and personally rushed to Liu Ce's mansion to report the matter with his white armored soldiers.

"Jiannu is about to invade from Da'ankou?" Liu Ce didn't believe this at all. He carefully identified the head and knew it was the real slave's head, so he asked, "Which heroes are the two who reported the news?"

"If you go back to Du Xian, these two men seem to be righteous men outside the pass, who killed the scouts of Jiannu and obtained military information. In addition, they also learned that someone in Zhangjiakou had an affair with Jiannu and sold all the military information in Jizhou to Jiannu."

Liu Ce's face changed. Although Li Laoer was careful and did not say that it was Fan Yongdou's doing, Liu Ce also guessed that the two people were talking about it was Fan Yongdou. In fact, many people like Liu Ce had a relationship with Shanxi merchants and were involved in the enemy and treasoning the country. These Donglin Party civil officials also made considerable efforts.

It was Li Laoer who knew very well that the Shanxi merchants had a considerable force in the court. If they spoke Fan Yongdou by name, they would probably die without a place to bury themselves, so they did not say their name.

However, Liu Ce was greedy but insatiable, but he also knew that if Da'ankou was captured by the Later Jin army, his head would be difficult to protect.

"This matter is quite serious, so I'll report it to Wang Futai immediately." Liu Ce said.

Liu Ce and Zhang Shixian then took the heads of white-armored soldiers to the mansion of the governor of Jizhou Wang Yuanya to report the matter.
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