The sound behind the curtain became louder, and Xue Ziliang could hear heavy breathing. He raised his rifle and put the butt of the gun on his shoulder. There were no people to be captured alive here. When there was a potential threat, he would rather use bullets to question.
The Hokkien translator shouted again, this time adding: "If you don't come out, the gun will be fired!"
Finally, a woman's trembling voice came from behind the curtain: "Don't fire the gun!" A woman came out from behind the curtain. She was in her thirties and looked like a servant girl. Probably because they were afraid of hearing the sound of gunfire and hid in the house.
Seeing Xue Ziliang and his party, she quickly knelt down and begged. Xue Ziliang couldn't understand her words. He saw the Hokkien translator saying a few words to her. The translator said: "She said she was a servant here and was hiding here. Please ask the military master not to kill her..."
"Take her out and hand her over to the prisoner team." Xue Ziliang said. However, the sideways look in his wife's eyes when she was taken out made him feel something was wrong. Xue Ziliang put the gun on his shoulder and motioned for the team members to go over and conduct the next step of the search.
The team members opened the curtain, and there was an empty bed behind it, but when they opened the bed, there was a child hidden underneath.
"There's a boy!"
Xue Ziliang glanced at the boy he brought to him - he was about six or seven years old, with a handsome face and well-dressed clothes. Although he suffered a sudden disaster, he was still calm and did not cry or make trouble. He was obviously not an ordinary child.
Xue Ziliang looked carefully and suddenly shouted in Japanese: "Fusong!"
The boy was stunned, his eyes widened, and he responded unconsciously.
"Report to the headquarters immediately, I have captured Zheng Sen." Xue Ziliang, as a banana man, did not know what historical status the boy in front of him had in the history of the late Ming Dynasty in the old time and space, but the Senate valued "Zheng Sen" It's very clear. The boy's information - the photo was missing - was included in the identification manual for important figures in the Zheng Group issued before the operation.
"Send a few people to take him to the boat. Protect him well." Xue Ziliang knew that this child was Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, and his importance was self-evident. He pointed at the woman just now. "Send this woman along too."
At this time, news came from everywhere that the entire mansion had been cleared, and the leaders of each group came to report their search results. The damage to the entire mansion was not too serious. Although damage was found in many places, most of it was well preserved. They also found the accounting room and bank vault in the mansion, which had been sealed. There is a large granary in which a large amount of grain, wine, oil, salt, dried meat and fish are stored, enough to feed hundreds of people for a year. There is also a weapons depot containing many weapons. There are everything from traditional swords to Japanese iron cannons and European muskets - including some very rare weapons.
"We picked this up from the door." A corporal handed over a strange pistol. It looks very much like a revolver, but it is gorgeously decorated and exquisitely made. Xue Ziliang has some knowledge of antique weapons and knows that this is a revolving flintlock made in Europe. It was quite a high-tech gadget at the time - it required skilled craftsmen and a lot of time to produce.
"I didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to hide such a good thing." Xue Ziliang tried to aim, and then falsely fired. He couldn't put it down. However, he still handed the pistol back to the corporal:
"Go to the warehouse and wait for people from the Planning Institute to receive it."
Ying Yu also came into the mansion - he was here to evaluate the effect of the bombardment. He saw Xue Ziliang smoking a cigar thoughtfully and asked: "Old Xue, the defense has been arranged. The troops heading to Nan'an and Jinjiang have also Sent out - I don't think the Ming troops on both sides will react. What else do we have to do now?"
"Now wait."
"What are you waiting for?"
"Wait for the people from the Planning Institute to come." Xue Ziliang said.
"We need to set up a headquarters." Ying Yu said. "This is not the right place."
Xue Ziliang also felt that there were so many doors overlapping each other that it was inconvenient for people to get in and out. Besides, cleaning up the mansion is a matter for the Planning Institute and the Intelligence Bureau, so there is no point in them staying here. So he took people to the city tower to set up a headquarters.
Army and navy soldiers conducted a comprehensive search of the Zheng Mansion under the command of intelligence agents. Every corpse in the mansion was identified and registered one by one by Intelligence Bureau personnel with prisoners in the empty field. Important people will also be photographed and fingerprints taken.
All the captured prisoners were sent to Kinmen Island for detention - a temporary camp has been set up there to accommodate the prisoners. The Special Search Team of the Planning Academy and the Action Team of the Intelligence Bureau led soldiers to search and seize the homes of key personnel of the Zheng Group in Anping City one by one.
The city was in a state of solemnity. The four gates were guarded by army and navy soldiers with bayonets. Typewriters were set up on the city gate building, and all personnel were strictly prohibited from entering or exiting. In addition to the soldiers coming and going, the only people on the streets were those who had been ordered to put out fires, clean up the wreckage, and carry the dead and wounded. Civil husband. Team after team was having trouble understanding the words. Soldiers from the White Horse Team and the Standing Team, armed with big sticks and Japanese knives, hurriedly ran around under the command of the naturalized civilian personnel, carrying out inspections and arrests. For ordinary Anping people. Although they had been frightened since the early morning bombardment, except for a few unlucky ones who were killed by stray bullets, most people were safe. Australians do not kill or rob, they only focus on raiding and arresting big business owners.
He boldly lay down in the crack of the window or the door, looking outside. In the past, every big family related to the Zheng family had been arrested. The rich and powerful people in the city: they used to show off their power, eat well and drink hot food. "High-class people", "nouveau riche", "untouchable relatives of such and such a family", the dead ones were thrown on carts, cart after cart was dragged to the empty yard to reveal their corpses, and the alive ones were used by thieves The rope was tied around the neck and dragged away one by one like catching mice. The noble ladies, young ladies, young masters and young ladies were like the humblest slaves, walking on the road barefoot, with their hair disheveled, crying - ―The one who walks slower will be slapped with a stick by the escorting soldier. Such a happy scene has never been seen by ordinary people who have been living a humble life. Some people have slapped themselves, some have bullied their wives and daughters, and some have been robbed by them, and their wages have been exploited. , everyone was crying and laughing in their hearts, secretly saying: You also have today!
There are also people who used to eat the leftovers of the rich and powerful, who pretended to be powerful, who were proud of being such-and-such's diners, who were so-and-so's slaves, and who said "You deserve the surname Zheng". All of them were heartbroken and scared, for fear of Kun. The thief's trouble has destroyed the foundation of the Zheng family. They will not be able to eat leftovers in the future, and they are afraid that the thief Kun will come to settle the past of eating leftovers, which makes their hearts feel like fried.
Xue Ziliang and Ying Yu didn't know what the people in the city were thinking. They were more concerned about how much loot could be found here - after all, this was the main purpose of this battle. The elders sent by the Planning Academy to take charge of the work brought a large-scale special search team.
Each team of the special search team is equipped with two translators who can speak southern Fujian and are familiar with the situation in Anping. Some of them are naturalized citizens, and some of them are directly members of the leading party who have just joined the party. As soon as the order in the city is restored, the city Many leading parties seeking revenge or getting rich appeared, and they all took the initiative to express their willingness to "lead the way to search for wealthy households."
The special search team has maps and rosters in hand - this is the result of more than half a year of hard work by the intelligence personnel of the Foreign Intelligence Service - and the role of the leading party is nothing more than making the whole process faster and more accurate. However, the search team of the Planning Institute received strict orders. They were only allowed to search for clues based on pictures and arrest people by name. They were not allowed to act based on the revelations of the leading party. All revelations had to be compiled into materials and reviewed by the elders before making a decision.
The results of the inspection were remarkable. There were many residences of middle- and upper-class people in the Zheng Group in Anping City. Although many of them were not in the residences, their families were swept away.
Anping guard Zheng Zhiwan, who was supposed to protect them, escaped alone: as soon as the bombardment stopped, he immediately took his family and servants, loaded the gold and silver treasures in his mansion into a car, and took care of himself with his family of soldiers. Ding escorted Caibao and his family members to escape from Kaicheng and fled directly to Jinjiang County.
Almost all the families of many generals, shopkeepers, and stewards were captured, and their property fell into the hands of the Senate. Zheng Zhilong's mansion was not spared. Not only were all his family property seized, but his wife Yan, eldest son Zheng Sen, Zheng Sen's biological mother Tagawa and other family members in Anping City were also captured.
All these prisoners were sent to the prisoner camps for screening - there were leaders everywhere who sold themselves to join the party or took revenge, and it was difficult to succeed in concealing their identity: many people tried to disguise themselves as servants or ordinary people, but they were quickly betrayed by the party. They revealed it.
The public and private property confiscated from various large households and warehouses piled up, and they were counted one by one, packed and shipped away. Preliminary inventory: More than 800,000 taels of silver and more than 10,000 taels of gold were seized in Anping City. More than 400,000 taels of silver were confiscated from the Zheng Mansion alone. This was still the result of not digging three feet deep. According to Chinese tradition, In treasure hiding mode, wealthy families are likely to hide more gold and silver treasures underground or inside walls.
As the military commanders in the direction of Anping, Xue Ziliang and Ying Yu were not responsible for the specific search operations in the city. The task given to him in Operation Overlord was simple: occupy Anping and ensure Anping until the command headquarters issues a withdrawal order. To this end, he dispatched multiple security teams to Jinjiang and Nan'an counties, and at the same time sent an army reconnaissance platoon to conduct raids under the city walls of Nan'an and Jinjiang counties to test the reaction of the Ming army in these two counties.
As a result, the cities in both counties were tightly closed, and almost all the garrison troops stationed throughout the county remained motionless. The two groups of soldiers sent from Xiamen to pick up their families were defeated in a short battle.
