Facing the three Beilu soldiers tied up tightly, Xiao Ruxun sat in front of them with a smile and began to question.

"General Tong, let's start! Ask them why they are here."

Xiao Ruxun issued an order to Nurhaci. After Nurhaci received the order, he began to instruct his tribe members to question him.

Xiao Ruxun couldn't understand the Jurchens or Mongolians. Anyway, it was just a communication in front of him, but it could be seen that the three northern barbarians were very scared and showed fear from time to time and said a few words similar to begging for mercy.

Then Nurhaci communicated with his tribe for a few words, then turned to Xiao Ruxun and said, "Governor, these three people said that they were from the Tumote tribe and followed their king to the south. They were originally under the city of Datong, but now they were arranged to eat here for winter to escape the cold. Many people from the tribes were arranged to hide in various cities. This is how it is."

"I really don't treat myself as an outsider!"

Xiao Ruxun frowned: "Continue to ask, how is Datong Town Town now? But there are still the Ming army guarding?"

Then there was another chatter.

"Governor, what they mean is that Datong Town is still under the control of the Ming army!"

"oh?!"

Xiao Ruxun suddenly felt spirited: "Is Governor Mei and General Ma still guarding Datong Town? This is great! Ask them how many people have gone south in total?"

Nurhaci continued to ask, after a while of rumbling, Nurhaci said: "They said that the first ones were middle-aged men, and the strongest group followed the king to continue to move south. They were all relatively weak and did not go south. They lived here, and then waited for the elderly, weak women and children of their tribe to come south together and live in the city. Now the people have not arrived yet, but the plan is for the entire tribe to go south together."

"Ask them how many combat soldiers are?"

“The total is about 100,000.”

"Are there any other tribes other than the Tumot tribe going south to Datong?"

"They said that four other tribes have joined forces to go south, and other tribes probably have plans to go south to Datong. It's unclear if they have arrived yet. However, the Datong area is classified as the Tumote tribe. If other tribes go south, they should continue to go south. Finally, no one guards the Great Wall. They all want to go to the Han area to hide from the cold."

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"This is a plan to occupy the magpie's nest! Mr. Xu, what do you think?"

Xu Guangqi frowned and said, "In this way, there will probably be many northern enemies going south. It is definitely not just a Tumote tribe. The entire tribe goes south, with at least hundreds of thousands of people. Are they planning to stay here and not leave?"

Xiao Ruxun recalled the explanation of Tsulik before.

"Their king probably wanted to leave, but they hadn't received their king's orders for a long time, so they decided to go south by themselves. General Tong asked their entire tribe who was going south?"

"yes!"

Nurhaci ordered someone to ask, and he got the answer soon.

"They said it was a decision made by several tribal leaders who stayed in Datong."

Xiao Ruxun nodded and looked at Xu Guangqi.

"It's obvious that it's wise to snatch it. If you know you'll run away, you'll be away. But these people are afraid that they will not want to leave if they live a comfortable life. They lose their will and plan to treat our land of China as their sacred place to avoid the cold."

Xu Guangqi said angrily: "Absurd! How can the northern enemy occupy the nest of a magpies in China?"

"That's right. Seeing hundreds of thousands of people heading south, isn't that... not right?"

Xiao Ruxun's words were filled with cold murderous intent: "Stop my searching far away."

"What does the Governor mean?"

"Mr. Xu is just here, so I invite Mr. Xu to have a meal of dumplings, which is filled with Beilu."

Xiao Ruxun grinned.

"General Tong, interrogate any city they knew that was stationed in Beilu, show them the map, ask them to identify them one by one, and then kill them."

"yes!"

Nurhaci nodded in agreement.

Xiao Ruxun then left the military tent, and Xu Guangqi followed closely: "Governor, what should we do next?"

"Let's go and see the rescued people first, give them some food. When General Li brings the large army, he will send someone to escort them back to the south to take refuge first. Datong cannot stay for the time being, which is very dangerous. Then we go to Datong Town and rescue Governor Mei and General Ma. It has been two months since we took it, and I don't know how they have survived."

Xu Guangqi nodded.

“So very good.”

Afterwards, Xiao Ruxun took Xu Guangqi to visit the rescued Han people. These people were old, young, men and women, mostly weak people who were unconcealed and decent and flirted. They were obviously enslaved. Xiao Ruxun asked some old people with concern about their lives during the past few days, and they often cried and told their miserable experiences.

After being captured, he was not killed, but now he thought, he might as well be killed. He was not as safe as he could make cattle, horses, laundry and cooking for the Beilu. The relatives around him could be killed at any time. The young woman was even more dangerous. She would never come back after being captured. Most of the people who came back were naked and covered in wounded bodies, cold and cold.

In order to survive, most young women cut off their long hair and blackened their cheeks and pretended to be men, but this would be more often taken to work hard labor, chopping wood, making them a more comfortable and warm wooden house, making them a fire to keep warm at any time, and beating and scolding them at any time, either exhausted or beaten to death. If they were found to be their daughter, they would be humiliated by a group of people immediately, and life would be worse than death.

There were basically no children alive. When Xiao Ruxun rescued them, only six boys and three girls, aged about five, were alive. The survivors said that the first thing Beilu did to capture them was to kill all the children in front of them. Only these children were protected by everyone.

Xiao Ruxun asked them what else he needed to do, and said a thousand words. They were grateful to Xiao Ruxun for saving them. The only extravagant hope was to ask Xiao Ruxun to avenge their dead relatives and children, and there was nothing else to ask for.

Looking at these people with ragged clothes and garlic, Xu Guangqi, who had never seen such a scene, was already angry and cursed at the back. Xiao Ruxun became even more calm and arranged for soldiers to send the clothes found in the city to these refugees in the order of children, old men and women. If the number is not enough, use the clothes on Beilu, and if it is not enough, use the spare military uniforms for them to keep the cold.

Xu Guangqi has deep sympathy for these people. He not only expressed verbal sympathy, but also showed his sympathy and kindness with practical actions, helped distribute clothes and rations, and tried his best to help everyone he could.
Chapter completed!