Zhang Lixin, who still had some experience and determination, saw the organized resistance of the opponent who had already broken up the fighting spirit, and immediately ordered Wang Wei, Cheng Hai, and Li Yi to take seven soldiers and about five people who were defeated at the head of the city and put down their weapons to block the four gates of the camp as quickly as possible.

If Yang Qianhu chooses to escape immediately and take the lead in escaping, maybe he can lead his henchmen to escape before the north gate is occupied. However, Yang Qianhu, who was somewhat suffering from gains and losses, actually asked some irrelevant people to go to test to see if there was any danger outside, and then decided whether to leave or not.

However, in this way, under the continuous impact of pottery bombs that were continuously projected from a distance of dozens of paces in the dark, the crowd that was about to flee was quickly trapped in the gates, mainly the north gate.

Under the circumstance that Cheng Hai, Wang Wei and others personally sent captured "representatives" to threaten and demand, more than 100 people trapped in the city who were not killed or injured and who planned to escape had to gather and light torches as requested.

Of course, more importantly, there are also the people who keep the weapons depot in the Qianhu Office, as well as the military craftsmen, which is the fundamental reason why the target is the Qianhu City, which is not necessarily inferior to the county seat. What made Zhang Lixin somewhat relieved was that there were at least a dozen military craftsmen, including four blacksmiths, two firearms craftsmen, a tailor, and two carpenters who could repair cars and wheels. In addition, there is also a Lang Zhong and a veterinarian who specialize in treating "Thousand Households" at any time.

Yang Qianhu and the two generals in the Qianhu Office were escorted up by the anti-water people, and after being carefully searched and inspected by the soldiers of the new life battalion, Yang Qianhu was escorted to Cheng Hai alone.

This is also what Cheng Hai himself took the initiative to request, because in the previous idea of "confrontational deduction", some people brainstormed all kinds of tricks and plots of the imaginary enemy, so they were still worried that Zhang Lixin might encounter any danger in the future if he was personally responsible for this kind of thing face-to-face.

When the men were escorted up, the large stove in the cart had been carried to the top of the city, and although the water in it had not yet boiled, the flames had already been lit.

"Haha, I think you smell a little bit, how long has it been since you took a shower? How about taking a bath in the stove if you don't? ”

At the beginning, Yang Qianhu also planned to put on a score to scare and scare these folk thieves. But as soon as he came up, before he could ask questions, he still felt a huge fear that he was about to be "cooked by Wuding", which made this Yang Qianhu unable to care about any face.

"Hero... Oh no, heroes of all stripes! It's good to discuss... ”

Cheng Hai didn't care about that, and directly trapped this Yang Qianhu and threw it into the cauldron set up by the firewood and flames below.

Yang Qianhu, who knew that he was going to die, was just about to break the jar and scold, but after being thrown into the pot, he felt that the water was still a little cold, maybe there was too much water, and it would take a while before it was really hot, and he seemed to understand something at this time.

"Heroes spare their lives! Is there anything that needs to be served, or what is required, just ask... ”

"Your fate, or how you die, depends on how you usually accumulate virtue. On the other hand, it depends on your sincerity. If you can be satisfied with the land-floating wealth you hand, we may be able to give you a way to live in this regard. ”

In this way, for more than half an hour, as the water temperature continued to rise, although it was not yet hot. This Yang Qianhu shook out several places where buried land wealth and floating wealth were found.

Not counting the property, not counting at least a thousand catties of various copper coins, just silver and other yellow and white currency are worth more than 3,000 taels, which is almost equal to the annual military salary of two or three hundred men and horses. I also found a lot of accounts related to the store. Obviously, this money is not exactly obtained by drinking the blood of soldiers. After all, a large part of the interests in this tuntian must be handed over to the real "big guys" and their vassals. And according to Yang Qianhu's explanation, there are also thousands of taels of silver from outside the city.

Originally, Cheng Hai planned that even if this Yang Qianhu handed over the money, he would still get the end he deserved. However, under Zhang Lixin's instructions, in the end, he still spoke his mind and did not let this Yang Qianhu really suffer torture in the boiling water.

"Are we being too polite to this man? His men had a lot of lives, and some of the soldiers in the team had passed through it back then. After Yang Qianhu was escorted down, Cheng Hai said with some doubts.

Zhang Lixin said: "As I have said before, we, as a new army of revolution, cannot be vulgar and unscrupulous for the sake of ends and immediate benefits: we can intimidate and frighten some people, or we can justify capital punishment when those people need to be punished. Or: let the activists of the people come to the referendum. But we can't go back on our word and not believe it, even if it's a white lie. Everything we do must be as morally ethical as possible. If we fail to do this, we will not be able to make ourselves the true integrity and cultivation of an innovative person ... ”

Such a reason and requirements made some people in the team just feel a little awkward and could not fully understand. However, more people are still willing to accept the prestige that this battle brings to Zhang Lixin.

However, when Zhang Lixin proposed to take only four percent of the more than 5,000 taels of silver that he had obtained from Yang Qianhu and the two generals who had been interrogated by the general manager, about 200 taels, into the daily expenses of the team in the next few months, and to leave some copper coins as a source of weapons materials, ninety and five percent of the points were given to all the lower-class people in the nearby Zhuangtian in the Qianhu House who looked thin and weak, had any old wounds on their bodies, and had calluses on their hands. It still caused a lot of discussion.

"What? Do you think we should be an ordinary gang of bandits and bandits, using the force in our hands to rob homes and houses? The big scale divides the gold, and the small scale divides the silver? That's good! Put it like this: I will take the five thousand taels of silver I have obtained here, except for me and Wang Wei and the other four people, how about you each take one hundred taels of silver and leave? A hundred taels of silver is not too much, but it is not too much to say less. At least there is a high probability that you will be able to stop starving for decades to come, and you will be able to live with a little work. Of course, in order to survive in this troubled world, only some surplus wealth can not be achieved, and there must be eyes and luck... If you don't dare to stand up, then the old house. Each team takes turns to leave for a quarter of an hour in eight directions, so that if you want to leave, you also have a chance to leave with this financial slipaway? I, Zhang Lixin, speak my word! ”

"We listen to the general in everything!" Many people said solemnly at this time. But Zhang Lixin still asked the teams to do what they wanted, giving everyone the opportunity to take the money and leave.

What makes Zhang Lixin happy is that the frequent political propaganda carried out for more than a month has finally not been in vain, although it is impossible to make all people forget their lives and die in such a short period of time and become people who do not hesitate to sacrifice everything. However, the most basic concept of righteousness and benefit has been initially established.

Subsequently, even if it was not yet dark, under Zhang Lixin's arrangement, he began to seize the time to count and prepare all kinds of weapons seized in these thousand households.

Don't say: a small military city, there are a lot of weapons and armor. There are at least hundreds of sets of armor that look very good on the surface, and there are hundreds of sets of armor that are quite old, which can be similar to the fully armed officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners.

However: under the temptation of Zhang Lixin to pick out a few pieces, he couldn't even resist his own five-bucket bow, and most of the protection power did not exceed the level of a cotton coat, and the iron sheet inside had long been rotten.

However: even with such a garbage armor, Zhang Lixin obviously did not intend to give up, took out the rotten iron in a piece of cotton armor that was disassembled, and asked the blacksmith who was quite cooperative after being captured, and his face looked poor: "Do you think there is any hope for these rotten irons to be forged and processed into good iron?" ”

Zhang Lixin's kind and even somewhat respectful attitude made the blacksmith who was accustomed to cold words feel a little relieved, so after a moment of silence, he did not shy away from saying: "If these rotten iron sheets still have the value of re-forging, and these: you have to rebuild the furnace and return to the furnace... ”

"Is there an iron furnace in a thousand households?" Zhang Lixin asked impatiently.

"This... There really is... ”

"How much iron can be smelted in a day?"

"There is a hand-pulled furnace in the office, which is still relatively cold and produces about four or five hundred catties of iron per day. . . ."

Zhang Lixin, who has common sense before crossing over and military experience in this era, certainly knows the importance of iron armor, iron shields, and various qualified iron weapons. Especially in the era of firearms, if there is no protection, only cloth clothes, the iron sand made by other people's three-eyed guns is thirty or forty steps away, or the soft bow of one or two fighting forces that is not the door of the layman archer door can make people suffer a lot of injuries, and those kinds of cotton armor are of course valuable in Zhang Lixin. Even the protection of the level of thick cotton clothing is sometimes different.

In this way, in addition to seizing all the time, giving the craftsmen the necessary deposit wages and sending people to supervise the preparation of armor and other weapons in a hurry, Zhang Lixin of course also noticed the captured firearms and gunpowder.

There is no need to measure it, Zhang Lixin, who had experience in army building in the Weiyuan Battalion in Dengzhou, knows that these so-called "non-flowing gunpowder" are compared with black powder in the real sense: the difference in the quality of gunpowder in these guards is somewhat insightful. Often with more than three times the standard charge, it is impossible to play the effect of the mainstream standard black powder of the Ming Dynasty that does not meet the quality standards of modern black powder. And there is a possibility that the lead may be burned out.

This is not the most important thing, more importantly, the power and quality are extremely uneven, and anyone who dares to use this kind of gunpowder to close the mouth with live ammunition will be quite dangerous if it exceeds ten rounds. It can be said that there is no value of guns or even shotguns at all.

Of course, for Zhang Lixin's newly established "freshman battalion", which was not much better armed than the ordinary peasant army that had just started an incident, except for a few trebuchets, these junk gunpowder were also usable in Zhang Lixin's view: at least it was a relatively effective arson incendiary. Therefore, before the team set off, Zhang Lixin spent some money to prepare a lot of "nozzle mechanisms" as an important auxiliary for melee weapons. Of course, no arquebuses and gunpowder are in vain. This time the problem was solved.

Zhang Lixin selected a total of more than 600 catties of iron materials that can be used or can be made in a short time, more than 1,000 catties of various buckshots, "cotton armor" with a total weight of more than 200 catties that can at least be used as cotton materials, and more than 40 pieces of spears, knives and other weapons that Yang Qianhu and his core subordinates are still qualified. There are also some ash bottles, silk and other things in the camp, which are also useful in Zhang Lixin's opinion.

In addition, hundreds of "layman's bows" with two or three buckets, as well as hundreds of barrels of the same poor quality, totaling thousands of chicken feather arrows, are still useful in Zhang Lixin's opinion. If you put a little effort into the trebuchet, you might be able to shoot a lot of arrows at close range. In the case that the opponent's protection is also not considered an elite soldier, it is still very useful.

In this way, from the thousands of households, in Zhang Lixin's opinion, the useful materials, even excluding the scrap iron that needs to be remelted, there are as many as five or six carts.

Don't look at the seizures, because there are too few qualified things. Even if we use these captured craftsmen and use various methods to maximize their effectiveness in a short period of time, I am afraid that it will take five or six days to completely rebrand the "equipment strength" of the entire contingent and completely break away from the level of the peasant army or even the ordinary officer army.

According to Zhang Lixin's estimate: in this Gyeonggi land, even if there is no radio, from the perspective of anticipating the enemy, it will take about three days or so for the Ming court to react with a certain probability, and send thousands of villagers, including hundreds of "elites", to encircle and suppress. It may be later, but Zhang Lixin does not intend to put the plan on the side of luck.

Of course, if you only stay here for a day, it should be safe for a day. This was often the case in ancient times when there was no wireless or even wired telegraph bucket.

Therefore, while busy preparing and seizing ordnance and property, Zhang Lixin also began to send some captured locals to the Tuntian military households in the four places under the supervision of his own people to carry out the initial mobilization. Although the effect of such a groundless mobilization is doubtful, as long as someone comes, they can pass the news back during the day, and they themselves can believe that there will be a way to carry out education and mobilization from opening the warehouse to releasing grain through public trial.