At this time, there were not many remaining soldiers still resisting, and most of them surrendered directly when the Baoxiang camp came in.
Only a handful of people were stupid enough to still resist, and the stubborn resistance of these handful of people could not resist for long even under the purge of the Baoxiang Battalion, and it did not cause much damage to the soldiers of the Baoxiang Battalion.
Because these stubborn Song family members would not even have a chance to come into contact with the Baoxiang camp soldiers.
Once the Baoxiang camp soldiers find someone trying to resist, they will rarely rush over stupidly. Instead, they will shoot them with muskets or bows. If the enemy is hiding in a house, they will directly pull out a hundred-jin light cannon and shoot at the house. !
Basically, just bomb it and it's over.
If it's not over yet, let's give it another shot!
Simple and crisp!
After the village was broken, the Baoxiang Battalion brought in four hundred-jin light cannons in order to reduce casualties in clearing out the remaining enemies after entering the village.
Anyway, this thing is very light, and it also has a gun mount. It doesn't require any mules or horses for short-distance maneuvers. It can be pushed by two people. Even under special circumstances, one person can pull this thing.
After using it, many soldiers in the Baoxiang Camp felt that this light cannon was really a weapon for their big-headed soldiers.
With this kind of light cannon on hand, when facing a stubborn enemy, you don't have to stupidly form a formation to fight up close. You can directly blast them from a distance.
By the afternoon, the Baoxiang Battalion had taken full control of the entire Song family manor and wiped out all the remaining soldiers.
At this time, Guo Quanshu from the Grain Recruitment Office also came on stage with the people from the Grain Recruitment Office.
According to Luo Zhixue's regulations, although many of the captured grains will be used as military rations in the future, all trophies must still be registered in the grain collection office before being distributed.
After all, many of the captured trophies were not just food. In fact, in addition to food, there were also large amounts of gold, silver, cloth, livestock, iron tools, and other miscellaneous materials. It was impossible to say that all of them were treated as trophies and belonged to the military.
And when Guo Quanshu and his people arrived at the Song family's warehouse, they were stunned when they saw the four slowly-moving granaries.
Guo Quanshu was no longer an ordinary citizen. The Guo family was a landlord with hundreds of acres of land, but he had never seen so much food in his life.
The Song family's so much stored grain is probably not only produced in the fields around Songjiazhuang, but also the grain produced and purchased from other manors is transported here for storage.
What shocked Guo Quanshu was not just the food. He also saw a whole warehouse of cloth and cotton wool in the Song family's warehouse. In addition to the food business, the Song family also had a business of selling cloth and cotton.
There are also a lot of other miscellaneous materials, including a lot of various farm tools in storage, which are obviously used for their own farms, or sold or loaned to tenants.
Finally, he took people to the bank where the security was tighter.
The Song family's silver warehouse is not located together with the ordinary warehouse, but in an inner house or a cellar.
The cellar is divided into two parts. One part is a relatively large warehouse with many wooden boxes stacked inside. When you open it, you will see that they are all copper coins. Guo Quanshu estimates that there are so many copper coins that he cannot count them one by one. , we can only weigh it directly and get an approximate number.
If Guo Quanshu could still calm down after being piled up like a mountain of copper coins, then the scene in the next small room made him unable to remain calm.
There are also a large number of wooden boxes piled up in this smaller room. There are more boxes on one side and fewer boxes on the other side.
Guo Quanshu walked in and took a look. Good guy, the piles of boxes were all filled with silver ingots.
The other pile of smaller boxes were all filled with gold ingots.
Picking up a gold ingot and feeling the coldness of gold in his hand, Guo Quanshu couldn't help but sigh: "The Song family is indeed a prominent family in Ruzhou!"
"Such gold and silver is unheard of!"
In Guo Quanshu's life experience, let alone seeing so much gold and silver, he had never 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 were worth at least 130,000 taels of silver, most of which was contributed by gold and silver. Although the number of copper coins seemed to be much larger, the overall value was far less than those. gold and silver.
In fact, the Song family's wealth is far more than this little cash. Not to mention anything else, the grain and cloth in many warehouses are valuable.
In addition, Song Jiaming owns 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 only stored in their own manor, but also a considerable amount of grain is stored in Ruzhou, Lushan and other cities with grain stores. .
How much wealth the entire Song family has, Guo Quanshu and others cannot calculate at all. Not to mention Guo Quanshu, even Song Ange, the eldest son of Song, cannot tell.
While Guo Quanshu was shocked, he began to arrange people to conduct a detailed inventory and register 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. In fact, there are other things in the huge Song family manor that have quite high value, and these also need to be counted and recorded one by one.
Just preliminary statistics, it took Guo Quanshu an entire afternoon to come up with a rough number. If he wanted to make a comprehensive statistics and obtain more accurate data, I am afraid it would take several days to conduct an inventory.
That night, Guo Quanshu brought the account book to see Luo Zhixue: "General, we have gained a lot this time!"
"The grain captured alone is enough to feed us for two years!"
"The gold, silver and copper coins, plus some gold, silver, jewelry and bronze items seized, are estimated to be worth 180,000 taels."
"There are also cloth and cotton batting. This much cloth is enough for us to make at least two thousand sets of high-quality winter military uniforms."
"In addition, one hundred and thirty-two carriages of various types and two hundred and twenty-one mules and horses were seized, including twenty fine horses for riding."
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Because there were so many various things seized, and Guo Quanshu's description was quite detailed, one by one, so by the time Guo Quanshu finished speaking, a full moment had passed.
After Luo Zhixue heard this, he naturally did not show any expression of ecstasy, and even now he was not 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 return the seized iron materials, cloth, cotton wool and other production materials to Songshan Village to use them to make more weapons, clothes and other materials.
Other grains and gold and silver will also be sent back. After all, there are too many things. It is impossible for Luo Zhixue and the others to carry enough grain to feed a thousand of them for two years plus dozens of carts of gold, silver and copper coins.
And it would not be good to put it in Songjiazhuang, because according to the plan, their Baoxiang Camp will continue to attack, and there are several large households nearby waiting for them to attack.
At the same time, once the main force of officers and soldiers attacks, the Baoxiang Battalion must decisively abandon the captured areas and withdraw to Funiu Mountain.
Therefore, a large amount of materials seized in Songjiazhuang need to be returned to Songshan Village, leaving only part of the baggage consumed by the Baoxiang camp.
But even if they expected to leave at least enough food for them for three months, there would still be too much food and other supplies left.
At the same time, Luo Zhixue and the others do not have many carriages at their disposal. After all, the number of captured carriages and their own carriages is limited. It is actually difficult to bring all these things back in a short time with carriages alone, and another batch must be recruited. The civilian husband comes to do this.
Soon, Luo Zhixue ordered to recruit nearby civilians to transport supplies.
Luo Zhixue, who had food in hand, would naturally not be like the government and others, who forcibly recruited civilians and asked them to bring their own dry food. When the Baoxiang Camp recruited civilians in the nearby countryside, although they would semi-forcefully recruit civilians, they would only give them rations. Yes, there is no need for civilians to bring their own dry food.
Because there were too many things seized, subsequent transportation would also take time. In order to ensure safety, Luo Zhixue not only asked sentries to expand their peripheral vigilance and kept cavalry sentries on standby, 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 baggage transport team.
Songjiazhuang happens to be located between Funiu Mountain and Lushan County. If the Ming army comes from Lushan County, Songjiazhuang is the only way to pass.
In order to station troops in Songjiazhuang, Luo Zhixue even had the courtyard walls of Songjiazhuang rebuilt, and even thickened several parts for the deployment of artillery.
These thickened courtyard walls may be shorter, but they must be thicker to prevent them from collapsing under a single blast from artillery.
After all, officers and soldiers also have artillery, so he has to be more careful.
However, when Luo Zhixue organized the transportation of supplies in Songjiazhuang and made a defensive posture, the officers and soldiers still didn't come.
According to the sentry reports he sent out, the city gates in Lushan County have been closed tightly in the past few days, but the officers and soldiers in the city have no intention of attacking.
At the same time, sentinels from the north and south also reported back, and no officers or soldiers were found to have entered Lushan County for the time being.
The reaction of this officer and soldier was a bit abnormal. He knew clearly that his group of bandits had come out of the mountains, but why didn't he react at all?
In fact, Luo Zhixue overestimated the Ming army's reaction at this time!
Lushan County Magistrate Xie Liangcai only had a few hundred county warriors under his command, but he did not have the guts to lead hundreds of county warriors to fight against the ferocious bandits. According to Xie Liangcai's opinion, it would be difficult to even defend Lushan County with such a small force.
Especially after Xie Liangcai learned that the Song family manor, which had hundreds of garrison guards, had been breached by this group of thieves, he had no intention of actively sending troops.
Now Xie Liang has made up his mind, no matter how these thieves make trouble, he will never take the initiative to attack.
Xie Liangcai did not have the strength to take the initiative, but Chen Zhibang, who was stationed in Ruzhou City in the north, had many troops under his command.
However, Chen Zhibang is also in a lot of troubles now. There are tens of thousands of thieves opposite him. He himself is also under great pressure. In addition, Tan Zhengling, Wang Jida and others have repeatedly prevented Chen Zhibang from dividing his troops and must retain enough The troops were defending Ruzhou, so Chen Zhibang did not have any extra troops to reinforce Lushan County.
This is why the officers and soldiers clearly knew that the Funiu Mountain bandits had been out for almost ten days, but they didn't send any soldiers to intercept them.
But Luo Zhixue never expected that after waiting for a long time, the officers and soldiers did not wait, but thousands of thieves came!
This group of thieves had a very loud tone. They sent people over as soon as they entered Lushan County, saying that their boss was Chuang Potian, one of the leaders of the 72nd Battalion.
Chuang Potian also asked Luo Zhixue to take his troops to Lushan County quickly and obey Chuang Potian's orders. He also said that if Luo Zhixue performed meritorious service during the attack on Lushan County, he could adopt Luo Zhixue as his adopted son...
After Luo Zhixue heard the report, he almost didn't react...
Where did this idiot come from?
