Li Yi looked at the messy hungry people below, as if he had returned to the time when he took the refugees to escape. His eyes were covered with mist, and he said to Song Tongyin next to him: "Is there nothing the Ming Dynasty can do?"

"There is no other way. The Ming Dynasty cannot protect itself and cannot save them at all." Song Tongyin lamented.

The hungry people below were all shouting, and the noise became louder and louder, but the Ming army was ordered to guard the city. If these hungry people dared to rush up, they would all be killed.

Soon, more and more hungry people lost hope. They knew that the Ming government would not care about them, but going back would be a dead end. Their master Taiji had abandoned them, and their only hope was to rush into the Great Wall.

The desire to survive made the herdsmen more and more excited. Some herdsmen who still had some strength began to climb the Great Wall. The Great Wall was in disrepair and a gap could be opened with one foot. Dozens of hungry people climbed up the Great Wall amidst the cheers of other hungry people.

But they were soon forced down by the Ming army's spears.

The Ming army also knew that these hungry people were suffering. They still had two bowls of porridge to drink every day, but the hungry people outside could only eat grass to satisfy their hunger. Now that they had no grass to eat, they wanted to rush in.

Song Tongyin yelled at the hungry people below, telling them to all go back to find their Taiji and ask their master to help them, but the hungry people didn't listen. Now they just wanted to attack the Great Wall.

The conflict broke out, and more and more hungry people couldn't bear it any longer. They began to climb the Great Wall and fight with the Ming army who blocked them. The contradiction between the two sides became more and more serious. The Ming army no longer pitied these hungry people, and they slashed with sharp blades.

On the human body, the scalding blood and the screams of pain kept reminding me of the brutal fighting taking place on the Great Wall.

The hungry people without weapons and physical strength were no match for the Ming army. More and more corpses were thrown outside the Great Wall. The hungry people who were frightened by the killings fled back in panic, but they did not go far because they knew the hope.

Where is the direction.

It was getting dark, and herdsmen kept taking advantage of the darkness to secretly cut the flesh on the corpses. By the next morning, most of the corpses that died tragically at the root of the Great Wall had had their flesh cut off, leaving only the white bones exposed.

Being eaten by fat black crows.

In the first month of the second year of Chongzhen, the hundreds of households responsible for guarding the Great Wall reported one after another that hungry people were crossing the border one after another. Song Tongyin ordered each thousand households and hundreds of households to strengthen their vigilance without any mercy. Anyone who dared to enter the country to rob must be eliminated. At the same time, he also

When writing letters and sending people to Chahar and other Mongolian tribes, you must take care of your own people.

Li Yi followed Song Tongyin to inspect the Great Wall every day. As hungry people continued to be killed trying to break through the Great Wall, every section of the Great Wall was stained red with blood and gave off a stench.

But this phenomenon did not stop because of the killings. More and more hungry people were going crazy with hunger. This time they no longer begged for mercy, but became robbers. First, they came in in groups to rob, and then in groups.

They formed a team and developed into hundreds of people. The origins of these people were very complicated. They were from almost all tribes, including Chahar tribes, Tumut people, Yongshaobu people and Ordos people. Some of these people held grounded weapons.

They used stone knives and stone spears to rob the people in the Great Wall, and some even ran to farmers' homes and knelt down to avoid food.

The Ming army couldn't tell the difference between bandits and beggars. When they encountered hungry people sneaking into the Great Wall, they killed them all. The large pits in the Great Wall were filled with corpses, and dark red blood stains surrounded them.

The soil was dyed red, and swarms of black crows were constantly circling in the sky, like hell.

Li Yi couldn't stand this, so he led his men and horses to tie up those hungry people who only begged for food but did not rob them, and brought them back to the Mongolian tribes outside the Great Wall.

Taiji was unwilling to come out and only asked his personal guards to come out to deal with these people. The way they dealt with their own people was to kill them in front of Li Yi and other Han people. Li Yi sat on his horse and looked at the Mongolians tied with ropes.

They knelt on the ground and desperately begged for mercy, but the Taiji guards cut off their heads mercilessly, and cursed at the hungry people while killing them.

Li Yi could no longer look at it and stepped forward to cut off the rope. The hungry people all ran out with a roar. The guards looked at these fellow tribesmen and shouted loudly, waving their swords and killing them all if they dared to come back.

Seeing this scene, Li Yi never sent the hungry people back to the tribe again. These Mongolian Taijis were more ruthless than the Han people. All the tribesmen who dared to come back were killed directly. No wonder these hungry people would rather go to the Ming army on the Great Wall.

, not far back.

In just a few days, the Ming army on the Great Wall killed more than 2,000 hungry people, but there were still about 5,000 to 6,000 hungry Mongolian people guarding outside the Great Wall, and the number was increasing.

They could not enter the Great Wall, nor could they return to their tribes. They had no food, clothing, and no livestock or property. They could only chew hay. They froze to death every day and died of starvation. Their condition was so miserable that the defenders of the Great Wall had no choice but to

You can watch them and let them go.

The letter written by Song Tongyin to Chahar Khan finally came out. The leader of the Mongols did not mention anything about relief for the hungry people, but instead asked the Ming army for food several times. Chahar Khan said that there was a famine in his place.

Countless people and animals froze to death and starved to death. He was anxious every day, but he had no choice but to hope that the Ming Dynasty would allocate money and food to help them.

Of course, Song Tongyin would not allocate money and food to Chahar, and he had no money and food.

But what Chahar said is true. He was driven to the right wing of Monan Mongolia by Hou Jin. He could not graze with peace of mind. Also, there happened to be a drought. Most of the tribes were soon short of food. Some Taijis were trying to survive in order to survive.

, they drove the old, weak, women and children out of the tribe, and these abandoned people formed a team of thirty thousand hungry people and marched towards the Great Wall.

Li Yi and Song Tongyin stood on the top of the city, looking at the dark flow of people in the distance crossing the snow and rushing towards the south. They were naked and staggering. Except for a few pulleys and animals pulling the carts, they looked at each other.

No matter what belongings they had, the coughs of old people and the cries of children kept coming from the crowd. The young men tried hard to maintain the order of the team, but they were obviously extremely tired and could only maintain it with hoarse voices.

order.

Seeing the arrival of this group of abandoned people, nearly 10,000 hungry people outside the Great Wall looked at them with hostility.

They hated this group of Chahar people who came to invade them. The Tumut and Yong Shaobu people originally lived peacefully in this land, but Huduntuhan came over and killed their young people and occupied them.

They took away their land and robbed their women. They gloated that Chahar was defeated by Hou Jin. Now this group of abandoned people is God's punishment for Chahar.

The abandoned people also hate this group of Tumuts and Yongshabu people. This group of cowards are not worthy of being Mongols at all. They are just watchdogs of the Ming Dynasty. They only wag their tails and beg for mercy, but are unwilling to accept the great Chahar Khan.

rule.

But to the Ming army, they were all dangerous hungry Mongolians. When they saw tens of thousands of people gathering towards the Great Wall, they all raised their bows and arrows and looked nervously at the endless sea of ​​people.

Song Tongyin asked several generals to pass the message. Several officers wearing thick armor shouted at them: "Mongols, you have crossed the border. Go back immediately. If you go further, you will not be killed."

"Let's rush over, that's the only way to survive!" After a commotion in the crowd, some young men shouted and rushed forward with the crowd. A row of arrows were fired from the opposite side without hesitation, and the arrows were densely planted at their feet.

In the snow, several young men who rushed forward recklessly were shot. They kept wailing on the snow. The general shouted again: "Mongolians, go back immediately. If we go forward, we are really going to kill people."

Got it!"

The hungry Mongolian people finally stopped, but they were unwilling to retreat, so they were in a stalemate with the Ming army on the Great Wall.

"Let us go, we just want to live." someone shouted.

More and more hungry Mongolian people shouted, and for a while the Great Wall was enveloped in huge shouts.

The Ming army shot out the arrows in their hands mercilessly, knocking the hungry Mongolian people at the forefront to the ground.

The hungry Mongolian people began to get into chaos. Some young men took off their bows and arrows, raised their sticks, and strode to the front of the team to protect their own people.

"Don't even make a move, stop it!"

A monk wearing a yellow lama suit rushed out from the crowd. Most of the hungry Mongolian people next to him believed in the yellow religion, and they all obeyed and stopped shouting.

The lama in yellow shouted to the city: "Soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they are not robbers and bandits. You have seen them, they are just hungry people with nothing. You Ming Dynasty has a vast land and abundant resources, and you can't finish the food and throw it away."

Haili, why don't you take pity on us poor people who can't survive? Open your eyes and see, do you have the heart to kill them?"

Song Tongyin knew this lama named Zhuo Fan, an elder of the Tumote tribe and the spiritual leader of the right wing of Monan Mongolia.

He shouted to Lama Zhuofan below: "Master Zhuofan, it's not that we are cruel, it's that we can't help it. We in the Ming Dynasty have also suffered disasters, and the hungry people are also making trouble. Even the soldiers at the border can't have enough to eat.

, if you come in, we will all starve to death together, Lama Zhuofan, please, let your people go back."

"Can we go back? We have no way out. The Taijis don't want us, and you want to kill us, so let's die here," Lama Zhuofan shouted to the sky, sitting cross-legged on the snow and shouting

He said: "We are not a mob, nor are we robbers. Why does God send such disasters to torture us?"

More and more hungry people in Mongolia, like Lama Zhuofan, sat cross-legged on the ground and chanted sutras. Some hungry people covered their faces and started sobbing while chanting, shouting: "I don't want to die, I don't want to die."

Song Tongyin's thin face seemed to be frozen by the cold wind, and he looked coldly at the hungry people below.

Li Yi couldn't bear to say: "Is there really no way? You must know that if we can't save them, they may defect to Donglu at any time."

Song Tongyin looked at Li Yi with red eyes, pointed at the 30,000 to 40,000 hungry people below, and said in a deep voice: "There are so many of them, more soldiers than our entire Xuanda army. What can I do? Do you want me to kill them all?"

Will military rations be distributed to rescue them?"

Li Yi gritted his teeth and said: "Where is the court? Doesn't the court care about it? Master Wang and Governor Yuan want to appease Monan Mongolia. Are we just going to appease them like this and watch them all driven crazy by famine? In this way,
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