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Chapter 57 Killing prisoners

"Don't kill me! I am Buhe's third son, and my aunt Zhezhe is the queen of Khan!" Looking at Li Lao Er who was walking up with a knife, Sonom knelt on the ground and begged.

When he heard that he was Zhezhe's nephew, Li Laoer was a little stunned. Buhe also had two daughters, Hai Lanzhu and Da Yuer, and later they all married Huang Taiji. Buhe's eldest son Wu Keshan had been caught by him and gave it to Lin Danhan. This guy is Buhe's third son. If he captured him alive, it would be useful to keep him in his hands.

So Li Laoer turned around and ordered to his brothers: "Bind all the Mongolians!" After that, he put the tip of his knife to the surrendered Ming army who were kneeling all over the ground and said, "It's useless to keep those wastes that forget their ancestors, they're all cut off!"

Just one sentence determines the life and death of more than a thousand prisoners.

"Damn the horse thief! You have no faith! You just said that you would not be killed by surrendering, but now you are going to kill prisoners again!" Jiang Jinqiao, who knew that he would definitely die, cursed.

"Thief! You deceived us to surrender, and then broke our promise to kill prisoners! Such a villain who went back on his word! You must not die well!" Several surrendered officers knelt on the ground cursed.

Most of the surrendered soldiers were ashamed and trembled all over, and some were so scared that they peeed their pants.

No matter how the surrendered soldiers and generals cursed, Li Laoer did not sympathize with the surrendered soldiers who knelt down and begged for mercy, but instead ordered all the surrendered soldiers and generals of the Ming army to be beheaded.

"The prisoner is unknown." Li Hong stepped forward and said.

"If we don't kill these sacred ancestors, do we still have food to support them? We don't have enough food to eat. If we keep those Mongolian dogs, we can exchange some gold, silver, treasures, cattle and sheep. What benefits can we bring to keep these Chinese snorted?" Li Laoer snorted coldly.

There is indeed no way. These Han jian can only cut them all. The food on Li Lao Er's hand is very precious and it is impossible to waste food to support these people. When he has the strength in the future, he will be captured by Han military flags, Baoyi Aha, Wu Zhenchaoha, and Green Camp soldiers. They can still stay and be coolies, or be sent to the front as cannon fodder during wars, which can allow them to atone for their sins and use labor and cannon fodder to clean up their crimes. But now Li Lao Er has no conditions to raise prisoners.

"Kill!" Li Laoer squeezed out a word from his mouth ruthlessly.

"You erratic villain! You will not die well! When the Dajin army comes back, the thieves will die without a place to die!" Jiang Jinqiao cursed, cursing non-stop.

Zhang Wei kicked Jiang Jinqiao down with a swearing knife, swung the tiger-toothed knife in his hand high, and slashed Jiang Jinqiao's neck like a piece of dead wood. A head rolled down from his neck, and dirty blood spurted out several feet away.

The horse thieves took action one after another, and the unarmed prisoners kneeling on the ground were cut off their heads. In a blink of an eye, more than a thousand fake Tartars who surrendered to the Jin soldiers were killed.

"These fake Tartars' heads are kept. When we join the officers and soldiers in the future, the fake Tartars' heads will be rewarded." Li Laoer pointed to the captive heads all over the ground and said.

As for the captured Sonom and more than 200 Mongols, it was a condition used by Li Lao Er to bargain. If the Korqin Mongols wanted to redeem cattle, sheep, gold and silver, as long as the ransom was satisfied, Li Lao Er would not mind cutting off the thumbs of these people and returning them to the Korqin people.

"Brother, I know that you keep these Tartars and are planning to blackmail the Korqin people." Zhang Wei asked.

"Yes, these hostages can be used for money, and it's not in vain that we're wasting some food to raise them for a while."

"But what if the Korqin people refuse? Or if we are not satisfied with the conditions?"

"If the Korqin people refuse to give us ransom, or the conditions do not meet our requirements, we can hand them over to Lin Danhan. I believe Lin Danhan will definitely be willing to spend gold, silver, cattle and sheep to redeem these people. After all, Huang Taiji will soon attack Lin Danhan! At that time, the Korqin people will definitely help Huang Taiji. As long as Lin Danhan has these hostages in his hands, it will make the Korqin people afraid." Li Laoer replied with a smile.

Anyway, these Mongolians have useful things to keep. No matter who they are given, they can exchange them for a batch of gold, silver, treasures, cattle and sheep.

"Brother, even if they fall into Lin Danhan's hands, they are likely to be redeemed by the Korqin people. What should we do if these people come back and beat us again?" Zhang Wei asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, we'll cut our thumbs off before letting them go back."

As for the secret of cutting off the thumb, others don’t know it. Li Laoer knows very well that if a person cuts off the thumb, his hands will lose strength, he cannot pull a bow and shoot arrows, nor can he hold a knife to fight, and he will become a useless person.

But Zhang Wei didn't understand this truth: "Is it useful to just cut off your thumb? They should have cut their hands."

"As long as you cut your thumbs down, they will be ruined." Li Laoer said with a smile.

On the other hand, Han Dashan led 300 cavalry and one and two horses to chase the fleeing Mongolians and Ming army surrendered soldiers. He chased them for about ten miles. Most of the Mongolians and Ming army surrendered soldiers could not escape. How could the two legs of a man run beyond the four legs of a horse? What's more, one man and two horses chased them tightly. The Jin soldiers who were chased by the chase, whether they were Mongolians or Ming army surrendered soldiers, were ordered to be chopped and killed by Han Dashan.

More than 200 remaining Jin soldiers fled into Da'an's mouth in a panic and escaped by luck.

Li Laoer ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up and the results were counted.

Zhang Wei and Li Hong led the soldiers to a group of three, one holding a spear and two holding a knife to clean the battlefield. Seeing that there were moving Jin soldiers on the ground, they stabbed them with one spear, and the other cut off their heads with a knife, stripped naked, searched their bodies, and searched for weapons and gold, silver and jewelry on their bodies.

About half an hour later, the results of the battle were counted: the two thousand Mongolian soldiers and two thousand Ming soldiers were almost destroyed, with only more than two hundred remaining soldiers fleeing, and more than two hundred Mongolians, including Sonom, were captured.

There were not many armors seized. Most of the Mongolian soldiers and the Ming army surrendered soldiers did not have good armor. The ordinary Mongolian soldiers only had a cotton coat, and the better ones had a leather armor; the ordinary Ming army surrendered soldiers only had a tattered battle jacket, and only a few officers and servants had good armor.

Although there were not many armors seized, there were many weapons and gold and silver treasures seized. There were countless Mongolian scimitars, bows and arrows, Ming army's goose feather swords, bows and arrows, long spears, spears and other weapons, and more than 200 bird guns were seized.

"After taking these bird guns back, check them carefully. If the quality is good, stay. If the quality is poor, take them back to the furnace." Li Laoer said, pointing to the more than 200 bird guns seized.

Since these bird guns will be used by the Ming army, most of the quality will pass, otherwise they would not dare to use them with confidence.

In addition to the seized armor and weapons, more than 4,000 taels of silver, more than 300 taels of gold, and more than 60,000 copper plates were seized. There were countless jewelry, fur, ginseng and other treasures found from the corpses of Mongolians.
Chapter completed!
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