The soldiers gathered the bandits and bandits' families in the house, as well as the bandits and bandits' families who had been captured in other parts of the village and had not escaped, into the open space in front of the house.
At this time, Wu Shigong's face was livid when he looked at these prisoners. He was not ashamed of being crushed to the ground by the guards just now. He was deeply blaming himself.
When he attacked the house just now, Wu Shigong could have been fully prepared. He let his soldiers be protected by firecrackers and carts before launching an attack. However, because Wu Shigong underestimated the enemy, he rashly let his soldiers attack directly, which made
The arrows fired by the bandits in the house knocked down several of his soldiers. Such casualties should not have occurred at all.
Looking at the gathered prisoners, Wu Shigong felt a surge of hatred in his heart. He narrowed his eyes. However, he then closed his eyes again, shook his head, and tried to get that thought out of his mind.
Just at that moment, Wu Shigong had the idea of killing the prisoners. But fortunately, he was still somewhat sane and knew that the consequences of killing the prisoners were really serious.
Of course, Wu Shigong does not think that killing prisoners will be unknown, nor is he afraid that killing prisoners will be attacked and impeached by other officials. Wu Shigong feels that if he kills prisoners, then when he faces the enemy in the future, the enemy will not know because he has killed prisoners.
They will no longer surrender, and the losses of their own soldiers will increase.
However, not retaliating at all could not relieve the hatred in Wu Shigong's heart at this time. So Wu Shigong ordered: "Select all the people who used to live in this house."
Under Wu Shigong's order, the soldiers quickly selected the people who used to live in this house from the captive crowd and rushed them to one side to form a group.
There were more than thirty people, mostly old, weak, women and children, and they were all relatives of Li Yaozi and his bandit leader. Because Li Yaozi and his bandit leader escaped so fast, there was no time to arrest them.
Their families fled with them.
After these people were driven out, they all knew that something was wrong. Some collapsed on the ground, and some knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and cried and begged.
"Kill them all." Wu Shigong ignored the pleadings and directly ordered He Fei, the officer beside him.
After hearing Wu Shigong's order, Hefei looked at those people again, put his head in front of Wu Shigong with some doubts, and asked in a low voice: "Sir, there are still children nursing here. Do you want to kill them all too?"
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After Wu Shigong heard He Fei's words, he could no longer hold back the anger in his chest. He slapped He Fei with his backhand, knocking He Fei around in circles.
Not to mention the reason of cutting the grass and roots. Just He Fei's behavior of expressing doubts about Wu Shigong's order only added fuel to Wu Shigong's fire at this time.
Wu Shigong's slap in the face was actually an answer, so He Fei covered his red and swollen face, staggered to the soldiers surrounding these people, and issued an order. The soldiers immediately thrust out the spears in their hands...
Lei Ying on the side looked at the corpses in the pool of blood, and his eyelids jumped. It was too cruel. Even if the bandits fought with each other, it was very rare to exterminate a family like this. In Lei Ying's heart, Wu Shigong immediately
The devil level has been raised to the devil level.
But Wu Shigong didn't care at all about killing Li Yaozi and his relatives of the bandit leader. After Wu Shigong took Li Yaozi's mountain stronghold, he and Li Yaozi had been fighting to the death. Now if he kills his relatives, he will not die at most.
No matter what happens, there will be no change in the consequences. So, there is nothing to hesitate about.
The next step is nothing more than some aftermath work. How to transport the wounded back to Qianhusuo Fortress for rescue, search for loot, let these prisoners rebuild the gate of the stronghold, etc.
In the end, Wu Shigong left 200 soldiers in the stronghold with the gate repaired, and asked Qian Qi to lead them. Then, after Wu Shigong left some provisions, he escorted other trophies back to Qianhusuo Fortress.
Before going back, Wu Shigong dispersed all the captured bandits and bandit relatives. Wu Shigong would definitely not keep these prisoners anymore. As for how these people would survive the winter, Wu Shigong didn't have time to worry about that.
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When breaking up with Lei Ying, Wu Shigong told Lei Ying: "Go and notify all the big bosses in this mountainous area and ask them to come to Qianhusuo Fortress to discuss matters in half a month. Whoever fails to do so will suffer the consequences."
It’s the same as Li Yaozi’s today.”
Thunder Eagle quickly agreed.
After returning to Qianhusuo Fortress, Wu Shigong went to visit the injured soldiers as soon as possible. Fortunately, except for one soldier who was seriously injured and is still unconscious, the other soldiers had no vital injuries and were recovering.
It will take some time to regain health.
The person who diagnosed and treated these soldiers was Zhizhi. He not only learned Buddhism and martial arts in the Shaolin Temple, but was also very proficient in the treatment of external injuries. In order to rescue the unconscious soldier, Wu Shigong did not hesitate to come to another hospital from the county.
We invited famous doctors for consultation and did not hesitate to use good medicine.
In the end, the soldier was finally brought back from the dangerous period. However, because the injury was so serious, the soldier basically lost his ability to work in the following days.
So when the soldier woke up, he was very worried about his situation. This soldier was a bandit with a horse who later surrendered to Wu Shigong. In the Ming Dynasty, once a soldier became disabled, the military attache could give him a life.
With a large sum of money as severance package, it can be said that this military attaché is very benevolent and righteous.
Therefore, when he saw Wu Shigong coming to visit him, the soldier looked at Wu Shigong with pitiful eyes and begged Wu Shigong: "Sir, please don't abandon me. I will do a good job under you in the future."
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Wu Shigong grabbed one of the soldier's hands, put it in his own palm and patted it, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will support you for the rest of my life. Look, after you recover from the injury, come to my house and be a steward."
How is it?"
The soldier was very excited after hearing Wu Shigong's words. He struggled to get up from the bed and salute Wu Shigong. Wu Shigong hurriedly stopped the soldier's reckless behavior and then said: "Now you can rest in peace and recover from your injuries. The injuries will be healed quickly."
, I will find you another marriage."
Wu Shigong's arrangement for the injured soldier once again caused a huge sensation among all the soldiers. Especially those bandit soldiers who surrendered with their horses, which also increased a lot of sense of belonging to Wu Shigong's army.
Before the Chinese New Year, Wu Shigong also made arrangements with the bandit masters in the mountainous area to sell the salt products provided by Wu Shigong throughout the mountainous area. Wu Shigong also divided the mountainous area into regions, allowing these masters to take responsibility in their respective areas.
The sales of salt products also allowed them to make some small fortunes.
After receiving the news sent by Wu Shigong, Lu Jianchen also rushed over from Yangzhou. Of course, he did not mainly discuss business with Wu Shigong, because the two parties had basically reached an agreement on the previous agreement. Lu Jianchen mainly
It was necessary to coordinate with Lu Yunhuan, give some benefits to Lu Yunhuan, and determine the amount of additional salt products.
Finally, Lu Jianchen and Lu Yunhuan hosted a banquet for Wu Shigong again. At the banquet, the three of them formally reached an agreement on the supply of salt. Moreover, Lu Jianchen and Lu Yunhuan each gave Wu Shigong a new year gift. It was funny.
However, Lu Yunhuan actually proposed at the banquet that he would give a young girl from Wu Shigong's clan as a concubine.
Of course Wu Shigong declined politely. Not to mention that his three wives were still pregnant, and he could not do such a thing to affect their mood. Just this kind of political marriage without any emotion, as a modern person, Wu Shigong was more
He had a cold. He had already been a son-in-law once, so he didn't want to harm that little girl again.
After finishing all this, Wu Shigong distributed the trophies as usual and summarized the battle experience. In this summary, in addition to reaffirming the great role of the firecrackers, everyone felt that the power of the artillery was too small and the attack force was too weak.
For a strong city, the power of these artillery may not be enough.
Therefore, Wu Shigong specially allocated 800 taels of silver to Yang Goudan to start developing a three-pound artillery piece. If the funds were insufficient, more money would be added in the future.
In addition, since there will definitely be a battle for the city in the future, Wu Shigong began to conduct city attack and defense training for his soldiers. All officers also conducted city attack and defense drills on the map.
Unexpectedly, the person with the best results in this exercise in the picture was Shu Mo. It seems that this kid has a lot of tricks to save his life, and he is willing to use his brain on the methods to save his life. This timid person does have the advantage of being timid.
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Therefore, Wu Shigong officially took Shu Mo out of the inner house, and appointed him as an officer without a single soldier, regardless of Shu Mo's objections. As for the housekeeper of the inner house, Wu Shigong asked the loser Chang Meng to be the steward.
Before the New Year, under the care of his master Zhang Xuebin, Wu Shigong's documents and annual gifts were delivered to the superior Yamen and various officials as usual. Even the county magistrate Yu Zilian's share was not withheld.
The only irritating thing was that the money sent to old man Zhao Ming was even more, because old man Zhao Ming took another concubine. Wu Shigong complained in his heart: "This old man can't live without one concubine a year!"
Soon, after Wu Shigong happily celebrated the New Year with his pregnant ladies, he ushered in the second year of Chongzhen.
