"The second benefit..." Yan Yingyuan looked around and continued with a sneer, "The second benefit is that after surrendering to the Jiannu, you need to go to Liaodong and no longer experience the pain of war in a short period of time."

"The downside is that people die easily. Liaodong is freezing cold, and most people die of starvation and cold. The old, weak, sick and disabled can hardly survive to the Great Wall."

"You guys, are you willing to go?"

"No!" The soldiers present were outraged.

Yan Yingyuan paused for a moment, and when no one in the parade ground spoke, he raised his voice: "The last benefit is that after surrendering to the Jiannu, you will have the opportunity to become a bannerman's baoyi aha."

"The downside is that you have to follow the Jiannu to Liaodong and be a slave for generations. The harvested food is eaten by the bannermen, the houses are built for the bannermen to live in, and your own wives and daughters are used by the bannermen."

"Would you...like to?"

Baoyi means household slaves and belongs to the lowest class in the Eight Banners.

The domestic slaves were mainly composed of captured Han people. Most of the Han people captured by the Jiannu during their several invasions of the country were killed, some became bondservants, a small number joined the Eight Banners of Han, and a very small number escaped back to the interior.

"No!"

"No!"

The soldiers present opened their eyes wide in anger and roared one after another.

The military and civilians of Xuanfu suffered greatly from the looting and pillaging of the Jiannu. Some of their relatives and friends were killed by the Jiannu, and some were abducted by the Jiannu to Liaodong and their whereabouts were unknown.

More suffering comes from starvation after food is taken away.

These pains gradually accumulated and finally exploded at this moment.

Yan Yingyuan stood there, waiting for the soldiers to vent their emotions.

After a long time, the training ground finally returned to peace.

Yan Yingyuan said seriously: "Everyone, I am trusted by the court and His Majesty to come to Xuanfu to govern."

"However, the Jiannu are cruel and have entered the pass again to massacre the people of the Ming Dynasty. As an official appointed by the court, I, Yan Yingyuan, have decided to defend Xuanfu Town to the death and give an explanation to the court, His Majesty, and the people of Xuanfu Town!"

"Since we are going to defend to the death, either the Jiannu will die, or I, Yan Yingyuan, will die!"

"There will be casualties in defending the city. As the saying goes, do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you. Everyone has their own aspirations and cannot be forced. For those who are afraid of death and want to surrender, I will never stop them."

"If you want to leave, you will have one night to pack your bags. Tomorrow morning, I will personally escort you out of the city outside the West City Gate."

"If you say something wrong, you will be punished by heaven and earth! Everyone, go away and think about it carefully when you go back!"

Yan Yingyuan said this and turned away.

Guerrilla General Ding Yi hurriedly followed Yan Yingyuan and walked out of the parade ground.

"Lord Yan is in need of people right now, why don't you stop the people from leaving the city, but instead..."

"I know what you want to say!" Yan Yingyuan said without turning his head. "Fortify the city, cut off the water supply, poison, all these signs tell the Jiannu that I, Yan Yingyuan, will defend Xuanfu Town to the death, right?"

"Yes." Ding Yi nodded.

"If you were the Jiannu, what would you feel if you met the people escaping from Xuanfu Town when your army was about to attack the city? Would you accept their surrender?" Yan Yingyuan sighed helplessly.

"Are these people... spies?" Ding Yi opened his mouth and muttered, "If I were a Jiannu, I would definitely not take such a risk."

He instantly understood Yan Yingyuan's thoughts.

Yan Yingyuan wanted to teach all the people in Xuanfu Town a lesson: surrendering to the Jiannu would mean death, but not surrendering to the Jiannu would give them a glimmer of hope.

"But... Lord Yan, are you just going to watch those people go to their deaths?" Ding Yi felt a little reluctant.

Yan Yingyuan turned around and stared at Ding Yi: "General Ding, I gave them a chance. What I said just now on the parade ground is also true. Whether they believe it or not is not up to me."

"Besides, this is their own choice, you can't blame others!"

Ding Yi was stunned for a moment, sighed, and followed Yan Yingyuan to the warehouse.

......

Duoduo rode on his horse, holding a clairvoyance in his hand, looking at Xuanfu Town bathed in the morning light.

Hauge's horse rode side by side with Dodo, and he shouted behind him, "Did you find it?"

"Your Majesty, we found it," said a general.

"read."

“Yeah.”

The general took out a book and read: "In the 24th year of the Hongwu reign of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's 19th son Zhu Sui was named Prince of Gu and stationed in Xuanfu Town."

"Zhu Sui felt that the city was too small, so in the 27th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, he expanded the Xuanfu Town. It took a year to build the city into a large city with a radius of 24 miles and seven gates."

"In the sixth year of the Zhengtong reign of the Ming Dynasty, the city wall of Xuanfu Town was eroded by water and soil. The Ming court spent six years to build the city wall of Xuanfu Town with blue bricks. After the repair, the city wall was 45 feet thick and 36 feet high. There was an urn city around the city gate, and a moon city outside the urn city. There were corner towers at the four corners of the city. There were trenches, moats, and suspension bridges outside the city."

"In the sixth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court established the Xuanfu Military Governor's Office in Xuanfu Town, and established two towns, Xuanfu and Datong, to divide its power, and took the opportunity to repair the city wall of Xuanfu Town."

After hearing the news, Duoduo and Haoge lost their previous arrogance.

The city wall is 45 feet thick and has three walls 6 feet high. Although it is not as big as the city wall of Beijing, its size is definitely ranked among the best among all the cities in the Ming Dynasty.

Furthermore, the city wall was repaired in the sixth year of the Wanli reign, which is only more than 60 years ago.

This Xuanfu Town is more solid than imagined.

Haoge looked at Duoduo and asked cautiously: "Uncle Ten, do you have a plan for attacking the city?"

Haoge called Duoduo the tenth uncle, not because he was the tenth. In fact, Duoduo was the fifteenth son of Nurhaci and was of the same mother as Ajige and Dorgon.

In the 48th year of the Wanli reign, after Nurhaci's eldest son Chu Ying was deposed as crown prince, the succeeding crown prince Daishan was also deposed as crown prince because he treated his own children harshly.

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