Tang Qi didn't know about the secret door because there was no one familiar with the Jiannu Palace, so Tang Qi just generally ordered the Han slaves to surround the palace. When the Jiannu people came out, under their accumulated power, only a few of the Han slaves rushed forward to stop them, and most of them fled in a swarm. When Tang Qi led his men out, the more than a thousand Jiannu people who came out of the secret door fled far away without any hindrance.
Tang Qi knew that many of those who escaped were important figures among the Jiannu people, so he naturally could not let them escape easily. He immediately took his men and chased after these Jiannu people in the direction they fled.
It must be said that Huang Taiji was a very cautious person. Although he seemed fine at the time, he had already secretly arranged the escape route and equipment. Huang Taiji also did this to leave a way to survive, but he didn't expect that his concubines would take advantage of it today. After the more than a thousand people came out of the secret door, they took out a group of prepared horses from another hidden place, and then rushed out of the city along the wide street West Street.
On the way, they also encountered Tang Xi's soldiers for the second time, but these soldiers were few in number and could only rely on the buildings on the street to block the attack. Although hundreds of Jiannu people were killed, they were ultimately unable to stop the team from rushing out of the city. The Jiannu people did not care about casualties at this time, and protected some important figures in the palace and rushed out of the city at all costs.
The big city gate in the west of the city had been opened earlier by the Jiannu people who fled from here. Later, when Tang Qi's men arrived, they immediately fought for this city gate with the Jiannu people who wanted to escape from the city. At this time, a flag of Tang Qi's soldiers was confronting thousands of Jiannu people. Although these Jiannu people were all old and weak, Tang Qi had never taught these soldiers to massacre civilians, because Tang Qi always left the massacre to the Japanese auxiliary army. As a result, these soldiers recruited from the refugees of Da Qi were mostly kind-hearted and could not bear to carry out the massacre, which led to a confrontation between the two sides.
Tang Qi came from later generations. In later generations, both the Jiannu and the Han people grew up under the red flag of the Tang Dynasty. Among the brothers Tang Qi had made, there were many people of other ethnic groups, including descendants of the Jiannu. Although Tang Qi hated the Jiannu people's massacre of the Han people at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Qi knew that everyone in later generations was a citizen of the same country and could never raise his butcher knife to kill the civilians of the Jiannu people. Therefore, Tang Qi's education included the massacre of the Japanese, the South Sea monkeys, and the Westerners, but not the massacre of the Jiannu and the Mongols. It's just that at this time, no Jiannu people would be grateful for Tang Qi's kindness.
Tang Chen was not a wise politician. He did not know that the integration of two nations had always been carried out in blood and fire, with one nation slaughtered by the other. However, Tang Chen had technology and knowledge that were hundreds of times more advanced than that of this era, and he did not need to rely on slaughtering civilians to promote the integration of the two nations.
However, when the two sides were confronting each other at the west gate, the Jiannu people who escaped from the palace did not care whether there were thousands of Jiannu civilians at the gate. Nearly a thousand strong horses rushed to the gate like a whirlwind. Many Jiannu civilians who could not dodge in time were trampled to death by the horses' hooves amid screams of pain.
Tang Qi's men were caught off guard by the sudden arrival of the Jiannu army. They were unable to effectively stop them because of the Jiannu civilians. They left behind less than two hundred Jiannu soldiers and let the rest of the Jiannu army escape successfully. However, more than half of the Jiannu civilians were killed or injured by horses' hooves and stray bullets, and less than half of them were able to escape from the city.
When Tang Qie chased them to the west gate, the Jiannu people had already gone far away. Tang Qie had no way to deal with this outcome. He captured some of the Jiannu ministers and had some hostages.
Tang Qi was depressed because he failed to capture the most important hostage, but he did capture quite a few palace maids, more than 400 in total. Many of these palace maids were Han people captured by the Jiannu. As for Han women, Tang Qi would never give them to his subordinates as prizes. If his subordinates wanted one, Tang Qi could only let them marry her. As for whether she was his wife or concubine, Tang Qi did not care.
After screening, Tang Qi accidentally discovered Bumbutai among the palace maids. Speaking of the name Bumbutai, perhaps few people would know who she is, but when it comes to Empress Xiaozhuang, there must be more people who know her. This kind of woman was a very important figure in the history of the Qing Dynasty. She was a very strong woman. However, the now twenty-year-old Bumbutai had a look of fear on her face. Her well-defined and extremely beautiful face also had a feeling that made men pity because of this fear. She looked at Tang Qi with a trace of mist in her slightly blue eyes. With her were her two daughters.
Tang Qi was not the kind of person who was beastly, but he had no intention of leaving such a top-notch woman to others to enjoy. Moreover, in the original history, the policy towards the Han people was relatively moderate and kind. At that time, this woman was also an extremely outstanding politician. Tang Qi also wanted to conquer her and make her his helper. Tang Qi thought so because Bumbutai was a Mongolian. Tang Qi believed that such a smart woman would never be loyal to Huang Taiji of the Jiannu.
A lot of treasures were also looted from the Jiannu palace, and with the help of the Han slaves, they were all transported to the riverside. However, because the treasures looted from Shengjing City were so much, even two trips might not be enough to transport them all. Tang Qi simply asked his men to transport a batch first, and then let his men lead the tens of thousands of Han slaves to build battle fortifications on the riverside to deal with the Jiannu people who came to support Shengjing.
The fleet did not return to Daliang with these things, as it would take too much time to go back and forth. Instead, they temporarily abandoned these things on an uninhabited island on the seashore, and then rushed back to where Tang Xianzu and his men were. A military base had been established here, and the Jiannu reinforcements had arrived in Shengjing a few hours before the fleet returned.
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