I want to be emperor

Chapter 88 The idiot who suddenly appeared
At this time, there were not many remnant soldiers who were still stubbornly resisting, and most of them surrendered directly when the Baoxiangying came in.

Only a very small number of people are stupidly still resisting, and the stubbornness of these very few people has not been able to resist for a long time under the purge of the Baoxiangying, and it has not caused much loss to the soldiers of the Baoxiangying.

Because these recalcitrant Song family members would not even have the chance to fight hand-to-hand with the soldiers of the Baoxiang Battalion.

Once the soldiers of the Baoxiang Battalion found someone trying to resist, they would seldom rush over foolishly, but would shoot them with muskets or bows and arrows. If the enemy was hiding in the house, they would even pull out a hundred-jin light cannon to bombard the house !
Basically, it's over with a bombardment.

If it's not over yet, give it another shot!
Simple and crisp!
After breaking the village, in order to reduce the casualties of eliminating the remnants of the enemy after entering the village, the Baoxiang Battalion brought in all four [-]-jin light artillery pieces.

Anyway, this thing is very light, and there is a gun mount, so short-distance maneuvers don’t require any mules and horses. It can be pushed by two people, and even under special circumstances, one person can pull this thing.

After using it, many soldiers in Baoxiangying felt that this light artillery was really a sharp weapon for them.

With this kind of light cannon on hand, you don't need to go up to fight in a stupid way when facing a stubborn enemy, you can completely bombard them from a distance.

By the afternoon, the Baoxiang Battalion had fully controlled the entire Song Family Manor and wiped out all the remnants.

At this time, Guo Quanshu from the grain collection department also brought the people from the grain collection department to the stage.

According to Luo Zhixue's regulations, although many of the seized grains will be used as military rations later, the loot must still be registered in the grain requisition office first, and then distributed later.

After all, many of the captured trophies are not just food. In fact, in addition to food, there are also a large amount of gold, silver, cloth, livestock, ironware, and other messy materials. It is impossible to say that all of them belong to the military as trophies.

And when Guo Quanshu arrived at the warehouse of the Song family with his people, he was stunned to see the four granaries slowly moving.

Guo Quanshu was not born as an ordinary person. After all, the Guo family was also a landlord with hundreds of acres of land, but he still had never seen so much grain in his life.

The Song family's so much grain storage is probably not only produced by the fields around Songjiazhuang, it should be that the grain produced and purchased in other manors is also transported here for storage.

And when Guo Quanshu was shocked not only by the food, he also saw a whole warehouse of cloth and cotton wool in the Song family's warehouse. In addition to the grain business, the Song family also had a business of selling cloth and cotton.

There are also a lot of other messy materials, and there are even a lot of various farm tools in reserve, which are obviously used for their own farms, or sold or loaned to tenants.

In the end, he took people to the more closely guarded bank vault.

The Song family bank is not in the same place as an ordinary warehouse, but an inner house, or a cellar.

The cellar is divided into two parts, one of which is a relatively large warehouse, in which there are many wooden boxes piled up. When you open it, you can see that they are all copper coins. Guo Quanshu estimated that there is no way to count so many copper coins one by one if he wants to count them. , can only be weighed directly, and then a rough figure can be obtained.

If it is said that Guo Quanshu can calm down with the mountains of copper coins, then the next scene in a small room makes him unable to calm down.

This smaller room also had a large number of wooden boxes piled up, with more boxes on one side and fewer boxes on the other side.

Guo Quanshu walked in and took a look, good guy, there are a lot of boxes full of silver ingots.

And another pile of less boxes, all of which are gold ingots.

Picking up a gold ingot and feeling the coldness of gold in his hands, Guo Quanshu couldn't help sighing: "The Song family is indeed a famous family in Ruzhou!"

"So much gold and silver, it's unheard of!"

In Guo Quanshu's life experience, let alone seeing so much gold and silver, he could never have seen so much gold and silver even in his dreams.

After a simple inventory, Guo Quanshu found that the gold and silver plus copper coins here are worth at least 13 taels of silver, most of which are contributed by gold and silver. As for the amount of copper coins, although it seems a lot, the overall value is far inferior to those gold coins. silver.

In fact, the Song family's wealth is far more than this little cash. Among other things, the grain and cloth in many warehouses are of great value.

In addition, Song Jiaming has tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and hundreds of shops.

And as one of the largest grain merchants in Ruzhou, the Song family’s grain reserves are not limited to their own manor, and a considerable part of grain is stored in Ruzhou, Lushan, and other cities with grain stores. .

How much wealth the entire Song family owns, Guo Quanshu and the others can't count it at all, let alone Guo Quanshu, even Song Ange, the eldest son of Song, can't tell.

Guo Quanshu was astonished, and began to arrange manpower to carry out a detailed inventory, and registered them one by one.

It is not just the materials in the warehouse and the gold, silver and copper in the cellar that need to be registered and recorded. In fact, there are other things in the huge Song family manor that are of high value, and these also need to be counted and recorded one by one.

It took Guo Quanshu an entire afternoon to come up with a rough figure just for the preliminary statistics, but if he wanted to make a comprehensive statistics and get more accurate data, it would probably take him several days to make an inventory.

That night, Guo Quanshu brought the account book to Luo Zhixue: "General, this time we got quite a lot!"

"Just the grain captured is enough to feed us for two years!"

"Gold, silver and copper coins, together with some seized gold, silver, jewelry and bronze wares, are estimated to be worth 18 taels."

"There are also cloth and cotton batting. This amount of cloth is enough for us to make at least two thousand sets of high-quality winter military uniforms."

"In addition, 130 two carriages of various types and 220 mules and horses were seized, among which [-] high-quality horses were available for riding."

……

Because there are too many various things seized, and what Guo Quanshu said was relatively detailed, one by one, so after Guo Quanshu finished speaking, a full moment passed.

Luo Zhixue naturally didn't show any expression of ecstasy after hearing this, and he wasn't even excited when he heard the numbers.

Because at noon, Luo Zhixue basically knew the approximate figures of several major seized materials, and he was already happy...

Listening to the report again now is just to understand the various seizures in more detail and facilitate follow-up arrangements.

After Guo Quanshu left, Luo Zhixue began to arrange for people to send the seized iron, cloth, cotton wool and other production materials back to Songshan Village to make more weapons, clothes and other materials.

Other grains, gold and silver would also be sent back. After all, there were too many things. It was impossible for Luo Zhixue and the others to run around with enough grain to feed a thousand of them for two years, plus dozens of carts of gold, silver and copper coins.

And it's not good to put it in Songjiazhuang, because according to the plan, their rural protection battalion will continue to attack, and there are several big families nearby waiting for them to fight.

At the same time, once the main force of officers and soldiers comes to attack, the Baoxiang Battalion needs to resolutely abandon the captured places and retreat back to Funiu Mountain.

Therefore, a large amount of materials seized in Songjiazhuang needed to be sent back to Songshan Village, leaving only a part of the luggage consumed by the rural protection battalion during the battle.
It's just that even after leaving at least enough food for them for three months, there is still too much food and other supplies left.

At the same time, Luo Zhixue and the others didn't have many carriages at their disposal. After all, the number of captured carriages and their own carriages was limited. It was already very difficult to bring back all these things in a short time by relying on carriages alone, and another batch had to be recruited. The folks are here to do it.

Soon, Luo Zhixue ordered the recruitment of nearby civilians to transport supplies.

Luo Zhixue, who has food in his hands, will naturally not be like the government and the others, forcibly recruiting civilian husbands and asking them to bring their own dry food. When the rural protection camp recruits civilian husbands in the nearby countryside, although they will also be semi-mandatoryly recruited, they will only be given rations. Yes, there is no need for civilian husbands to bring their own dry food.

Because too many things were seized, the follow-up transportation would take time. To ensure safety, Luo Zhixue not only asked the sentries to expand the outer vigilance and put the cavalry posts on standby at any time, but also sent infantry to accompany the army to escort them.

He himself continued to lead the main force to sit in Songjiazhuang to protect the safety of the transportation team.

Songjiazhuang happened to be located between Funiu Mountain and Lushan County. If Ming officials and troops came from Lushan County, Songjiazhuang was the only way to go.

In order to station troops in Songjiazhuang, Luo Zhixue even asked people to rebuild the courtyard walls of Songjiazhuang, and even thickened several parts to deploy artillery.

It doesn’t matter if these thickened courtyard walls are a little shorter, but they must be thicker, so that they cannot collapse after being bombarded by artillery.

After all, officers and soldiers also have artillery, so he has to be more or less on guard.

However, when Luo Zhixue organized material transportation in Songjiazhuang and made a defensive posture at the same time, the officers and soldiers still did not come.

According to the sentry reports he sent out, the gates of Lushan County have been closed for the past few days, but the officers and soldiers in the city have no intention of attacking at all.

At the same time, the sentries in the north and south are also rewards, and no officers and soldiers have been found entering the territory of Lushan County for the time being.

The reaction of this officer and soldier was a bit abnormal. He knew that his group of thieves had come out of the mountain, so why didn't he react at all.

In fact, Luo Zhixue at this time overestimated the reaction of the Ming army!

Xie Liangcai, the magistrate of Lushan County, had only a few hundred county braves under his command, but he didn't have the guts to bring hundreds of county bravery to fight against the ferocious thieves. According to Xie Liangcai, it would be difficult to even keep Lushan County with such a small force.

Especially after Xie Liangcai learned that the Song Family Manor, which was garrisoned by hundreds of guards, had been breached by this group of thieves, he had no intention of sending troops on his own initiative.

Now Xie Liangcai has made up his mind, no matter how these thieves make trouble, anyway, he will never take the initiative to attack.

Xie Liangcai didn't have the strength to take the initiative to attack, but Chen Zhibang, who was stationed in Ruzhou City in the north, had a lot of troops under his command.

However, Chen Zhibang is also in a lot of trouble now. There are tens of thousands of thieves facing him. The troops defended Ruzhou, so Chen Zhibang did not have any extra troops to reinforce Lushan County.

That's why the officers and soldiers had already learned that it had been almost ten days since the bandits from Funiu Mountain came out of the mountain, but they didn't send a single soldier to intercept them.

But Luo Zhixue never imagined that after waiting for a long time, the officers and soldiers did not wait, but thousands of thieves came!
This group of thieves spoke very loudly, and sent people over as soon as they entered Lushan County, saying that their boss was Chuang Potian, one of the owners of the 72nd Battalion.

Chuang Potian also asked Luo Zhixue to take his troops to Lushan County quickly, obeying Chuang Potian's order Yunyun, and said that if Luo Zhixue made meritorious service in attacking Lushan County, he could accept Luo Zhixue as his adopted son Yunyun...

After Luo Zhixue heard the report, he almost couldn't react...

Where did this idiot come from?

(End of this chapter)