Let us pull the timeline back to late May. When Zhu Youjian just received the news that Lin Danhan led 100,000 Mongolian cavalry to invade Datong, he issued an order to select one from the Military Affairs Office to go to Datong first and lead the Datong military affairs.

Yuan Chonghuan was bound to win this task, believing that he was the only candidate to command the military affairs of Datong. Most of the ministers in the court believed that this was the case. Sun Chengzong strongly recommended Yuan Chonghuan as the successor.

But unexpectedly, this arduous task fell on Lu Shanji, the staff officer of the Military Affairs Office, who had never been revealed.

Zhu Youjian once again made arbitrary decision. When everyone was strongly recommending Yuan Chonghuan, he still ignored Yuan Chonghuan and only refused to say that Xishan Military Academy still wanted Yuan Chonghuan to take charge of the overall situation. He ordered Lu Shanji to take on this important task.

Before Lu Shanji took office, Zhu Youjian pulled him to talk for half an hour, but he didn't know what the monarch and ministers were talking about. He only knew that after Lu Shanji left the palace, he selected twenty students with excellent character and academic performance from the Xishan Military Academy, brought more than 40 horses, and quickly left the capital and rushed to Datong City, more than 700 miles away.

Lu Shanji is fifty-four years old this year. Although he is still healthy, he did not expect to take on the heavy responsibility at such an old age.

However, there is no doubt that Lu Shanji's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty is. Historical records: In the seventh month of the lunar calendar in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers attacked Dingxing. The county magistrate was sick, and the town gentry asked Lu Shanji to enter the city to plan to defend. Lu Shanji said passionately: "In the past year, the gentry and officials of the Central Plains did not leave after seeing the wind, but they would have surrendered, which is really shameful!" So he left Lu Taigong. Before he could talk to his family, he went to the trouble with the gentry. He fought with the enemy for six days and died. At that time, the Qing soldiers surrendered with swords, but Shanji could not. The soldiers angrily cut off Gong three swords and shot one arrow and died at the age of 62.

Lu Shanji was still able to die on the battlefield for the country at the age of 62. Now he is only fifty-four. He is naturally full of passion for Chongzhen's special use and wishes to repay Chongzhen's trust.

Therefore, even though Lu Shanji was fifty-four years old, he still rushed to Datong City day and night, and his energy was even more abundant than his students.

From the capital to Datong for more than 700 miles, one man and two horses galloped for seven days and nights, and the rest time was only two hours a day.

When Lu Shanji felt that he could not support himself, he finally saw a towering city on the vast northwest land, which was Taitong, one of the important towns in the border areas of the Ming Dynasty.

However, when Lu Shanji and others saw through the telescope that the sun and moon dragon flag that once fluttered high on the head of Datong City disappeared without a trace, and replaced by the sun flag representing Mongolia, a hot heart suddenly became cold.

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Datong Town, one of the nine border military towns in the Ming Dynasty, has eight guards, seven places, and five hundred and eighty-three forts. It is the northwest barrier of the capital. It is one of the important gates to prevent the invasion of foreign races in the northern grasslands. When the troops were at its peak, it had 100,000 troops and 60,000 horses. It is said that Datong soldiers and horses are in the world.

However, with the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national power and the general false reporting of military personnel to get empty wages, in fact, the total number of troops in Datong Town could not even be collected for 50,000 people, and the horses were only 5,000.

Therefore, when Lin Dankhan led 100,000 Mongolian cavalry toward Datong, all the people from Datong Town, from Liu Chong, to the common people, were panicked and scared.

Fortunately, Liu Chong's aides were still somewhat capable and knew that Datong's troops were not enough to resist the 100,000 Mongolian cavalry, so he suggested that Liu Chong ask the court for help as soon as possible.

After Liu Chong reacted, he was very kind and immediately agreed to the advice of his staff and sent a messenger to ask for help from the capital at a speed of 800 miles.

After asking for help from the capital, what Liu Chong had to do was very simple. As long as he led the Datong military and civilians to defend Datong Town and supported the imperial army to come to rescue, it would be a great achievement.

However, fortresses are often breached from the inside. Although there are more than 40,000 troops in the border town of Datong, if they stick to their support, they can support them for ten days and half a month.

But when the military and civilians of Datong worked together to block the first day of the Mongols' offensive, the seven major families, led by the gentry and Jiang clan in Datong Town, sent two thousand guards to attack the city gate at night.

The defenders of Datong City Gate were caught off guard and were caught off guard by their servants, and they held off the gate, raising torches as their horns, and letting the Chahars into the city.

Datong Town fell after only one day of persistence. Nearly 10,000 people were killed in battle in the city. The remaining 30,000 border troops and 100,000 people in the city all became prisoners of the Chahar people.

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At this moment, on a green grass several miles away in Datong City, ten thousand captured Ming officers and soldiers were tied into two long columns, and were driven here by a thousand Chahar cavalry like sheep driving, from the prisoner-of-war camp in Datong City.

Behind a small hill hundreds of meters away, Lu Shanji and eighteen military cadets stared at the ten thousand prisoners ahead.

After they discovered that after Datong changed ownership, they only sent two military academy students back to report to the court, and the others decided to stay and inquire about military information.

"Teacher Lu, what are these Chahar people planning to do?" Military Academy student Li Mingda asked curiously.

Lu Shanji was knowledgeable and had a deep understanding of the cruelty of the grassland people. Seeing the situation ahead, an unknown guess came to his mind.

He looked ashen and said in a deep voice: "If I guess correctly, the Chahars may have to kill prisoners."

"Kill prisoners?!"

"Oh my God! This prisoner stretches thousands of meters long, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of people, how can they all be killed?"

"It's impossible. Killing prisoners will hurt Tianhe. The Chahars shouldn't do this."

Most of the military academy students at Xishan Military Academy were young men of seventeen or eighteen years old. They didn’t know enough about the cruelty of the world, so when they heard Lu Shanji say that the Chahars were going to kill tens of thousands of prisoners, they all let out incredible low voices.

However, a military academy student who came from a military family and had experience in combat formation asked Lu Shanji: "Teacher Lu, what should we do if the Chahars really wanted to kill prisoners? Should we watch the prisoners be killed, or risk saving them?"

"Teacher Lu, let's go and save them, they are so pitiful!"

"Yes, Teacher Lu, there are only one thousand Chahar cavalry. We will rescue tens of thousands of prisoners. Maybe we can fight back and destroy one thousand Chahar cavalry."

"Yes, yes, yes, Teacher Lu, let's go!"

As a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, he still has justice and passion in his heart. At this moment, almost all the military academy students asked Lu Shanji to rescue the tens of thousands of prisoners.

Lu Shanji didn't want to rescue the tens of thousands of compatriots, but they only had nineteen people, but there were 1,000 Chahar cavalry. How to save them? Is it going to save them? It's just seeking death.

Lu Shanji shook his head and said slowly: "The next scene you see must be remembered for the rest of your life that it is useless to demand the kindness of your enemy. If you want to survive, you can only temper yourself stronger than the enemy."

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On the grass hundreds of meters away, Ezhe, the prince of Chahar tribe, rode on a tall horse. He was wearing a gorgeous robe and a young face, showing a cold look, and his eyes were like wild wolves, staring at the two long strings of Ming prisoners.

Next to Ezhe, the one who led the horse for Ezhe was a gentry dressed in silk and satin, with a total of at least 200 kilograms on his body. This gentry was the sinner who caused the fall of Datong overnight, Jiang Yunkai, the patriarch of the Jiang family, the gentry of Datong.

Jiang Yunkai looked at Ezhe with a flattering look and said in confusion: "I wonder if your highness brings the villain here, but do you have any instructions?"

Ezhe glanced at Jiang Yunkai casually and said, "The reason why our Chahar army was able to break through Datong Town so smoothly this time is that it must be remembered by Mr. Jiang!"

Jiang Yunkai did not dare to take credit, so he quickly bowed and said, "Your Highness is really a villain. The Khan is 100,000 heavenly soldiers coming to the city. How can Xiaodatong resist the heavenly soldiers? This time, the villain helped the Khan to break the city because the villain admired the Khan's majesty and wanted to join the Khan's disciples as a lackey. Thanks to the Khan and His Highness, the villain can make the Khan work hard for the Khan and His Highness. The villain is already very grateful."

"Hahahaha!" Hearing Jiang Yunkai's self-deprecating words, Ezhe couldn't help laughing. He nodded and said, "Our Chahar tribe is the most loyal and will never let his own people suffer losses. His father Khan has the fate and decided to hand over all the rare treasures and antique jewelry he obtained in Taitong City this time to Mr. Jiang. As long as Mr. Jiang can get enough food and fodder for our Chahar tribe, he will do it."

Jiang Yunkai was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately knelt down to Ezhe, kowtowing while saying gratefully: "The kindness of the Khan and Your Highness to the villain is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. The villain will do his best to raise enough food and weapons for the Khan and Your Highness."

Ezhe nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, Mr. Jiang is so knowledgeable and tactful. If our Chahar tribe can seize the Ming Dynasty, he will be rewarded with the title of Duke and Marquis."

Jiang Yunkai was even more excited when he heard this. The reason why these rich families in Datong dared to take the blame for the world and sneak attack the Datong city gate and let the Chahar people into the city was to imitate the routine of the eight major families in Zhangjiakou to support Jiannu to seize the world, thus turning from business to politics and gaining a huge improvement in status.

Over the years, seeing the eight major families in Zhangjiakou headed by Fan Yongdou become the top family of Shanxi merchants through transactions with Jiannu, this made Datong family headed by Jiang family jealous and wished to replace them.

In the eyes of Jiang Yunkai and others, although the Mongols led by the Chahar tribe were always at a disadvantage in the war with the Later Jin, it was because of internal discord in Mongolia. If Lin Dankhan could unite the Mongolian tribe, the strength of the Mongols would definitely be much stronger than that of the Later Jin.

So when Lin Dankhan led 100,000 Chahar cavalry to attack Dada, Jiang Yunkai led the seven major families to surrender to Lin Dankhan, making the first contribution to the Chahar people's breakthrough of Datong.

Although Lin Danhan was defeated by Huang Taiji in history, he was actually a talented and powerful hero.

Seeing that Jiannu embarked on the road to strength by absorbing Han talents, Lin Danhan also learned from the lessons of excluding Han people in the past and began to reuse the seven major families of Datong led by Jiang Yunkai.

However, before reusing it, according to the practice of the grassland people slaughtering eagles, Lin Danhan had to beat Jiang Yunkai up.

Ezhe pointed to the 10,000 Ming prisoners in the rear and said, "Mr. Jiang asked me why I brought Mr. Jiang here. Now it's time to uncover the answer."

Jiang Yunkai asked with a happier look: "Is Your Highness trying to let the villain tame these prisoners? Well, since the Later Jin Dynasty can establish the Han army flag to serve him, the villain can naturally establish a Han army unit that is completely obedient to His Highness and serves His Highness."

"Hahahaha, Mr. Jiang is really mean!" Ezhe glanced at Jiang Yunkai jokingly, and then said to the Qianhu officials beside him: "Send the order and kill them all!"

"What! Your Highness wants to kill them all?" Jiang Yunkai was shocked when he heard Ezhe's military order.

Ezhe nodded and said, "According to Mr. Jiang, my father Khan did intend to build a Han military flag, but to impress the Han soldiers, it is not enough to rely solemnly on being kind."

Jiang Yunkai's heart trembled and suddenly realized, "The villain understands that the Khan is going to draw three to kill one, leaving only 20,000 Ming captives to form the Han army flag!"

E philosophically said: "Yes, our Chahar tribe does not have the Confucian education of you Han people. If you want to tame the Ming people, you can only kill with a pure and iron-blooded killing. As long as you kill ten thousand Han prisoners, the remaining 20,000 Han people will naturally be impressed by the butcher knife of our Chahar tribe. After killing all these ten thousand prisoners, I will build a Jingguan outside Datong City so that the Ming people will never feel rebellious against our Chahar tribe."

What does kill people and kill people? The Chahar people’s actions are killing people and kill people and kill people!

They not only wanted to kill 10,000 Ming prisoners, but also killed the remaining 20,000 Ming prisoners, so that they could become walking corpses controlled by the Chahar tribe and could never resist the Chahar tribe.

Jiang Yunkai felt a chill on his back when he heard this. Looking at the ten thousand insensitive Ming prisoners behind him, he felt like he was in hell.

While speaking, as Ezhe's order was conveyed, the thousand Chahar cavalry all showed hideous smiles and began to take out arrows from the quiver behind them, and set off their bows to mount the arrows.

Many Ming prisoners had already had an unknown premonition when they selected thin people from prison camps. When they were driven out of Datong by a thousand Chahar cavalry, this unknown premonition became even stronger.

Until this time, the Chahar Iron Cavalry made the move of placing a bow and arrow, and these insensitive Ming prisoners finally let out panic and fled in all directions.

However, their hands and feet were strung together by a long rope. When they ran away in all directions, the rope tightened suddenly, and all the escaped people fell and fell.

"Puchi! Puchi! Puchi..."

Suddenly, the prisoners felt that the sky was dark and countless arrows fell like heavy rain, and the sound of arrows constantly entering their bodies came.

For a moment, the howling arrows roared into the body, the howlings of the Ming captives and the begging for mercy, accompanied by the crazy laughter of the Chahar people, formed an extremely cruel and bloody symphony.

Half an hour later, when the Chahar people smiled and cut off the heads of the Ming captives, Jiang Yunkai was so scared that he collapsed on the ground and shit out of his urine.

Behind a hillside hundreds of meters away, eighteen military academy students bit wooden sticks in their mouths and burst into tears.
Chapter completed!