Li Laoer returned to the castle with the horse thief and the seized spoils. After about an hour, Han Dashan, who was chasing the Jin army, came back: "Report! The Ming Dynasty has been lost in Da'ankou! Da'ankou was occupied by the Jurchens!"

"It's only three days passed, and Da'ankou has fallen? I really didn't expect that the main general who guarded Da'ankou was a pig?" Li Laoer was angry. He had already spoiled the Ming army in Da'ankou more than a month ago, but the Ming army, who had prepared for a long time, could not withstand it for three days. That only shows one problem, that is, the general and the officials left the soldiers and fled themselves!

In this way, the Ming Dynasty was really bad. According to the memories of his previous life, Li Laoer had some impression of Liu Ce, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War stationed in Da'ankou. This person was once aide to Ye Xianggao. When Wei Zhongxian attacked the Donglin Party, Liu Ce was dismissed. Later, as soon as Chongzhen came up, he eradicated the eunuch party. Liu Ce was re-activated as a Qingliu, and became the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War. He was also arranged to garrison in an important position like Jizhou. As a result, due to Liu Ce's incompetence, Da'ankou was lost.

Li Laoer also knew very well what Ye Xianggao was doing. During the Wanli period, Emperor Wanli sent a mine supervisor to collect mine taxes. Ye Xianggao jumped out and said that he was competing for profit with the people, petitioning for the people, stating the harm of the mine tax, and requesting the removal of the mine prison. His words were very earnest, and he looked like a righteous and upright clean stream.

But whose taxes are collected from the mine? Of course, they are collected from merchants who are tied to the interests of the Donglin Party. The so-called petition for the people is not willing to be the Donglin Party itself? The real ordinary people have no benefits at all. Instead, because of the reduction of the mining and commercial tax, all the taxes of the imperial court have been suppressed on the farmers.

Of course, Emperor Wanli was not Emperor Chongzhen, and Ye Xianggao's petition for the people failed. However, as a concession, Emperor Wanli still dismissed Gao Huai, Liaodong Tax Supervisor and Fujian Tax Supervisor.

Later, Emperor Tianqi came up and used the eunuch party to deal with the Donglin party. Ye Xianggao had to resign and go home.

Historical facts have proved that the Donglin Party members are harming the country and the people. They block the emperor from collecting commercial taxes and mining taxes for their own interests and preventing the emperor from opening the sea. For these reasons, most of the Donglin Party members are verbal, making them strong and incapable of this ability, and making them lead troops to fight wars are incompetent, but they are good at harming people.

If Emperor Chongzhen had not been blinded by the Donglin Party and had himself cut off the factory guards, the Ming Dynasty would not have perished so quickly.

Now is not the time to discuss the Donglin Party’s misunderstanding of the country, let alone Liu Ce committed a tremendous crime. What awaited him was the anger of Emperor Chongzhen. In real history, Liu Ce and Zhang Shixian were arrested by Emperor Chongzhen’s imperial edict, beheaded and abandoned the market, and received the punishment they deserved. Li Laoer did not need to worry about these things. At present, what Li Laoer had to consider is how to rescue more people under the iron hooves of the Jin soldiers.

To enter the pass to rescue the people, you must regain Da'ankou.

But Li Lao Er only has more than 1,000 people on hand, so how can he seize the Da'ankou? If he attacks for a strong force, this number of people is not enough for the Jin army to get stuck in the teeth.

"The Jin army's grain transportation channel is within our control range. We can attack the east and west, bluff and pretend to attack Hongshankou, and then take the opportunity to steal the city, so that we can take down Da'ankou." Li Laoer looked at the map and came up with a plan.

Only when a part of the defenders in Da'ankou was able to steal the city at night, for Li Laoer who had been trained in later generations, stealing the city was not difficult. He only needed to grab a few tongues, interrogate separately, ask for orders, and then put on the Jin army's uniform and sneak into the city, and he had a chance to succeed.

After making a plan, Li Laoer personally brought the carefully selected three hundred cavalrymen, one man and three horses, all wearing armor.

Now Li Laoer has collected enough armor for 300 people. There were 120 pairs of armor before. After attacking the Mongols of Dorji and Sonom and Jin Youguang's Ming army surrender camp, more than 200 pairs of armor were seized. In addition to some of the inferior quality, he collected enough armor for 180 pairs of armor, and the original one had 300 pairs of armor.

Before he led 300 cavalry to set off, Li Laoer came up with another plan and ordered Li Hong and Zhang Wei to lead 800 people, use cavalry as infantry, and ambush the mountain road between Hongshankou and Da'ankou.

Three hundred cavalry left the city, galloped on the grassland, and headed straight for Hongshan Pass, which was captured by the Jin soldiers a few days ago.

Before he arrived at Hongshankou, Li Laoer saw a huge Jin army camp appearing on the grassland ahead. Li Laoer had more than 300 cavalry on hand, so how could he dare to get close to this camp? So from a distance, he found that the camp was a camp with a red flag, and the banner above the tent in the middle was Yue Tuo's banner!

At the entrance of the camp, several Mongolian soldiers and Jurchen soldiers guarded the camp gate. Han people escorted by Jin soldiers drove in and out in big chariots. These Han people were ragged and depressed, like walking corpses, and seemed to be captives of Han people who were captured as tragic servants.

"The enemy is narrow! I met Yue Tuo again! It seems that this is the Jin army's baggage camp! It is guarded by Yue Tuo." Li Laoer said to the brothers around him.

"Brother, are we trying to steal this camp at night?" Han Dashan asked.

"It's impossible. We have too few people. The chief Yuetuo is not a simple person! This person is good at using tricks. If we steal his camp at night, wouldn't we fall into the trap?" Li Laoer shook his head, not planning to fight Yuetuo head-on, he can't afford to offend this opponent.

Through observation, Li Laoer estimated that there were about three thousand Jin soldiers here, and he also knew that most of the Jin soldiers in this camp were Korqin Mongols. Although the Korqin Mongols were not scary, Yue Tuo was here, and there were at least two hundred Jin soldiers around him. In addition, Yue Tuo was resourceful and had almost impeccable camps. Since this place was a large camp for the Jin army's food and supplies, with Yue Tuo's cautious personality, how could he be careless and give himself a chance?

"Master Beile! A team of horse thieves came outside!" A team of cavalry appeared outside, and someone had already reported to Yue Tuo.

Yue Tuo walked out of the central army's tent and found a team of cavalry standing far away on the grassland, with the flag typified by a "Li" flag.

"This horse thief must be the one who caused the Khan to suffer losses under the city a few days ago!" Yue Tuo said angrily.

Yue Tuo was so hated to the core of Li Lao Er: he first chased Fan Yongdou, and later colluded with the Chahar people to destroy the Shanxi merchant caravan, and then set up a castle near Da'ankou, which caused the Khan to suffer a lot of losses under the city. In addition, there was another thing that made Yue Tuo feel uneasy: more than a dozen large and small horse thieves on the Zhangbei grassland were actually swept away. It is estimated that this was Li Lao Er who did this.

More than a dozen large and small horse thieves operating in the Zhangbei grassland area were actually all intentionally raising and indulging. These horse thieves have long been bribed by the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants. Their mission on the grassland is to protect the safety of the trade routes of Shanxi merchants and Liaodong. At the same time, they monitor the Har people and also pay attention to the movements of Mongolia in Mobei. These horse thieves are the guardian gods of Shanxi merchants and Yuetuo's eyes. However, in just a few days, these horse thieves were destroyed.

Yue Tuo really couldn't remember who would do the things he wanted to lose, and in the end he analyzed that it must be done by Li Laoer.
Chapter completed!