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219. Chapter 219 Sworn to serve the country

In the afternoon, more than a hundred Jianzhou veterans took all the remaining ordnance guards from Jianzhou City and the last two hundred thousand taels of silver to the Huajiahe Work Camp in Saibei Town. These ordnances were stained with the blood of their compatriots and enemies.

As of today, the Hua family has gathered six thousand strong men. Hua Chenluo and everyone knelt in front of the blood-clad compatriots who died on the battlefield and swore a strong oath to protect the land of Saibei to the death and never give up any land to the Tatars, even if

Even if we die in battle in the end, we won’t give in!

The city of Jianzhou was destroyed, people in the northern part of the country were panicked, and the people had nowhere to go. Most of the people chose to move back to the Central Plains with their children and old, but the Shanhaiguan guards did not open the door to the Central Plains for the people, and even shot arrows randomly at one time.

Shooting these poor homeless and defenseless people even more aroused the people's hatred towards the Celestial Empire.

The refugees crowded through the city gate of Anjun. The city was full of ragged refugees. They were helpless and only asked the county guard to take them in to escape the war. The county guard was also a fatuous and incompetent man. When he heard that Jianzhou

After the city was defeated and the news of Zhang Xiaotian's death in battle was heard, not only did they send out government officials to drive away the refugees, but they also sent messengers to contact the King of Nahe of the Tatar Kingdom to present the city and beg for surrender.

The refugees were helpless. In Jianzhou City, because of the money and food given to them by Governor Zhang Xiaotian, they were able to go to Anjun with their families. Instead of being hunted down by the Tatars, they were beaten with sticks by the government officials in Anjun. Those tens of thousands

The refugees hated the governor of Anjun and the Tatars to the core, and they only regretted that they had no weapons to fight with them.

When the refugees heard that the richest Hua family in Saibei was recruiting laborers and giving them more money and grain than farmland, they naturally came here with great joy. For a time, Saibei Town became the largest town in the whole north after Ji'an County.

Population gathering place.

The population in Saibei Town is booming. The refugees bought various daily necessities in the shops in the first month after being brought to Huajiahe Work Camp. This also changed the economic depression of Saibei Town in the past.

As of today, Hua Chenluo's camp has accommodated tens of thousands of river workers, and everyone has unanimously submitted a letter asking Hua Chenluo to take the livelihood of the people in the north of the Great Wall as his own responsibility and temporarily put aside the huge project of digging river channels.

What is urgent is to support Anjun to resist foreign enemies. Once the city of Anjun is breached, the last natural barrier in the northern part of the Great Wall will also be lost, and the consequences of the Tatar cavalry's advance will be disastrous.

"Madam, what should I do now? Our river workers are not sergeants who have been trained for a long time. They don't know how to fight at all. If we let them fight with the Tatars' wolves, tigers and leopards, wouldn't it be like hitting an egg with an egg against a stone? But if we don't send troops, then what will happen if we don't send troops?"

How can Anjun with only a thousand defenders and more than a hundred government officials cope with the thousands of Tatar troops who have just won a victory?" Hua Chenluo was hesitant and had to let his wife be the temporary military adviser.

"My lord, don't be melancholy. What is supposed to come will come sooner or later. Our battle with the Tatars will happen one day earlier and one day later. But you are right. Now our river workers are not as effective as the enemy. We should let Huali take them temporarily.

Everyone is training troops. My sister Xuan and I will go to Anjun first to see what the situation is like there. My analysis shows that the Tatars may not be so quick to launch troops against Anjun. Just imagine, my husband has already defeated them by capturing Jianzhou City.
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