The Mongolian army's large-scale invasion ended in a disastrous defeat. The attacking army of a total of 1,500 people lost 1,100 people, of which more than 100 were killed, more than 200 were wounded, and more than 600 were captured. After this battle, the new auxiliary army of Dayi and Qingcheng County, totaling 1,000 people, was basically wiped out. Except for those who were killed and injured, only a dozen people fled back to the two places, and the rest were made prisoners. Xiong Ben's troops suffered minimal losses of less than a hundred casualties, including dozens of guards at Hengyuan Village. He didn't care about this, but he lost his most elite men in the sneak attack on the back gate of Wanjiazhai, which greatly damaged his strength. . Although the Mongolian centurion led by Jiagu Longgu was the focus of the Pili Army's attack, only more than 30 people were killed or injured because of the new attached troops.
After all the captured soldiers of the New Affiliated Army were screened by the counter-espionage company of the Internal Guard Battalion, their hard labor sentences were determined through judicial trials and then sent to various mines to serve their sentences. Now the Perak Army is increasing the mining of lime mines, coal mines, and iron ores. Li Shuang and others are worried about the shortage of labor. The addition of this new batch of free and strong labor will definitely greatly increase the production capacity of industrial products. As for the wounded in the newly attached army, the Perak Army has no obligation and cannot support disabled people. After being given water, the disabled and lightly wounded were ordered to take the seriously injured and all were driven out of the mountain. As for the more than one hundred corpses, they were buried in crop fields by mountain people from nearby villages for winter fertilizer. It can be predicted that these lands buried with fertilizers will definitely have a bumper harvest next year.
Among the trophies seized, the one hundred thousand kilograms of grain that Ouyang Xuan valued the most was. Although there was no shortage of grain in the mountains, the more strategic materials like grain, the better. The boxes of coins seized were not made of copper but of iron, and were of little use. The entire Song Dynasty was short of copper, especially Sichuan. In western Sichuan, only Pengzhou and other places produced a small amount of copper, which could not meet the needs of coining coins, so coins were all made of iron. This also gave birth to Jiaozi and Huizi, the world's earliest banknotes. Ouyang Xuan saw that the quality of the iron seized to make money was far inferior to that produced by the Pili Army, so he had people go back to the furnace to melt the iron again. As for the three thousand taels of silver, Ouyang Xuan is useful. He plans to use it to trial the production of mercury fulminate. Now that sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid have been developed, the conditions for researching mercury fulminate fuses are already available. However, this kind of thing requires him, a professional, to take the lead personally. Do.
Compared with the captured money, grain and free labor, the most important thing about this battle was that it greatly expanded the space for activities of the Perak Army. Previously, the Pili Army could only stick to Wanjiabao. Except for the reconnaissance personnel who could sneak into the mountains in small groups to carry out intelligence activities, the rest of the personnel did not dare to go out of the mountains at all. Even the field camps did not dare to openly go out on the plains outside the mountains. Activity. This victory not only crippled the Mongolian forces in Dayi and Qingcheng County, but also weakened Xiong Ben's strength. He was so frightened that he gave up Hengyuan Village completely and only dared to huddle in Yongkang City and wait to die. Although it is still very risky for Pili Army personnel to move outside the mountains, they no longer encounter enemies everywhere and are surrounded by dangers as before.
Another major result of this battle was the capture of Zhao Shicai alive. Some people think that Zhao Shicai's rare goods can be used to obtain ransom from the Mongols. Some people propose to surrender Zhao Shicai and then bring Dayi County under the jurisdiction of the Perak Army. Of course, some people are resentful of Zhao Shicai's stubbornness and want to kill him on the spot. Ouyang Xuan did not adopt the above opinions. He wanted to put Zhao Shicai on public trial and behead him for treason, and hang his head in Hengyuan Village. In addition to declaring the Perak Army's determination to resist the Mongols, this was also intended to frighten the traitors who had surrendered to the Mongols and the Southern Song officials who wanted to surrender to the Mongols. Historical knowledge told Ouyang Xuan that in the subsequent Song-Mongolian war, a large number of Southern Song officials would surrender to the Mongols and become traitors due to the Mongolian military attacks and political offensives. After these traitors became the pawns of the Mongols, in order to gain performance in front of their new masters, they slaughtered their own compatriots without mercy, and even became more brutal.
Half a month after Zhao Shicai was captured alive, a small team of Mongolian cavalry under the banner of an envoy appeared at the mountain pass. After interrogation by the Perak Army secretly, this small group of Mongolian soldiers came from Chongqing Fucheng and came to negotiate with the Perak Army on the orders of Jiagu Longgu. The envoy and translator were immediately blindfolded and taken to Wanjiazhai, while the rest of the staff stayed outside the mountain to wait. After hearing the news of the arrival of the Mongols, Ouyang Xuan had to put down the chemical experiments in his hands to listen to what the Mongols wanted to do. During this time, he was leading the people at the institute, busy researching and improving chemical products needed for the development of the military industry, which naturally required a large number of chemical experiments.
Although the Mongolian envoy still had an arrogant attitude, his attitude was still much better than that of the envoy sent last time. He told Ouyang Xuan through a translator that Captain Jiagu Longgu respected the strong and proved his strength by fighting the Perak Army. Now as long as Ouyang Xuan surrenders, he can ask Lord Liu Heima to make him the prefect of Chongqing Prefecture. As for Zhao Shicai and other captive envoys, they did not mention it. On the one hand, the Mongols did not know how many of the newly attached troops were killed and captured. On the other hand, in the eyes of the Mongols, Zhao Shicai and other demoted officials were nothing more than lackeys and expendables. Now, Those who are defeated are weak and not worth mentioning at all. In fact, when he heard that the envoy was coming to the mountain, Ouyang Xuan guessed the Mongolians' intention. He just didn't expect that the Mongols were discerning. In order to win over him, they spent a lot of money and even offered the position of prefect. He knew that the prefect was a proper prince no matter which dynasty he was in, but no matter how high the offer was, he would never surrender to the Mongols. After rejecting the Mongolian envoy in a few words, he hurried back to the chemistry laboratory of the institute. In the early stages of the Pili Army Chemical Industry, his personal presence was indispensable.
A few days later, the trial meeting of Zhao Shicai was held publicly in Wanjiazhai. At Ouyang Xuan's request, all villages, factories and mines in the mountains sent representatives to participate, and even prisoners from the labor camp sent representatives. He wanted to turn the on-site public trial into a patriotic education. A dense crowd of people sat around the open space in the center of the village, gathering and looking attentively at the wooden platform in the center of the open space. In the middle of the wooden platform sat the presiding judge Li Shuang. To his left and right were Lu Dezhi and Yang Xiucai, who were the deputy judges. Behind them sat seven members of the jury. The protagonist of this trial, Zhao Shicai, was disheveled and pale, and was stood on the ground in front of the wooden platform by several soldiers of the Perak Army.
The entire trial process was silky smooth and did not last long. This is not that Zhao Shicai has no objection to the two charges of killing the magistrate of Dayi County and surrendering to the Mongols and attacking the Perak Army, but that he simply cannot refute the testimony of witnesses, including his junior officers and soldiers. The strong desire to save life made him scream and defend himself. He said that he killed the magistrate and surrendered to prevent the Mongols from massacre. In fact, he saved the entire people of Dayi. He attacked the Perak Army because he was ordered by the Mongols, and he was only following orders. act. However, his defense caused the crowd to boo, and the seven members of the jury shook their heads. The final result was obvious. "Behead and decide". The presiding judge Li Shuang faced the crowd and announced loudly.
Zhao Shicai's head was beheaded and hung on a big tree outside Hengyuan Village. His crimes and public trial were carved on dozens of wooden boards, which were erected at traffic thoroughfares outside the mountain or thrown into the mountain. Go down the Wenjing River. In addition to warning the traitors, Ouyang Xuan also wanted to publicize the attitude of the Perak Army and the Mongols to fight to the death through this publicity campaign, thereby attracting anti-Mongolian patriots to gather under the banner of the Perak Army.
