Chapter 33: The Pretty Rich Spoils of War (Three Watches)
After Li Zicheng fled, there was no suspense in the remaining battles.
Di Qing and Shanjia took the iron horses around the battlefield to harvest the lives of those Dashun troops who were thrown in the corner and resisted.
The rout of the Dashun army ran everywhere, and many people were already kneeling on the ground and raising their hands and began to surrender. Most of them are just the kind of exiles who are coerced by the Dashun army, and they have no will to fight at all, and they have no psychological burden for surrender.
The infantry of the Jiang family army shouted the slogan of "surrender and not kill" all the way, and then more soldiers of the Dashun army laid down their weapons and surrendered on the spot.
Part of Li Zicheng's Imperial Forest Army fled with Li Zicheng, and although the remaining part was brave, they didn't support it for long when the general trend was gone, and they were all killed.
However, these people do have a bloody nature, and none of them surrendered until they were finally killed in battle.
Jiang Jiajun has now changed from a combat mission to a mission to capture prisoners.
Those captives of the Dashun army were casually tied on their hands by the soldiers of the Jiang family army, let them stay where they were, and then arranged for a few soldiers to guard them.
Sometimes, even if there is a shortage of manpower, no one guards them, and none of these captives run away, they all sit obediently in place and wait, and some even reprimand those who speak in low voices, for fear that they will anger the Jiang family army and cause everyone to suffer.
In the battle just now, the Jiang family's incomparably fierce artillery fire and strong combat effectiveness made these prisoners frightened for a long time. Seeing that Jiang Jiajun had no intention of killing the prisoners, they didn't dare to escape one by one.
The matter of cleaning up the battlefield does not need to be commanded by Jiang Chuan, and Jiang Jiajun has its own set of regular procedures for dealing with it.
In this big battle of hundreds of thousands of people, in fact, the actual battle took less than two hours, but it took more time just to capture prisoners, clean up the battlefield, count the results, and count the casualties.
It wasn't until it was getting dark that everything was basically done.
In Jiang Chuan's royal tent, Di Qing was reporting the results of this battle to Jiang Chuan. The White Mountain and the Mountain Armor arranged other aftermath matters outside.
"My lord, after statistics, we annihilated more than 56,000 enemies this time, captured more than 107,000 people, and the rest were scattered because of our insufficient troops."
"After a preliminary count, more than 10,000 bows and crossbows and more than 400,000 arrows were seized this time. There are more than 100,000 pieces of knives and guns, more than 30,000 pairs of armor, more than 1,000 firearms, and more than 50 cannons such as tiger squat cannons. There are others such as flags, war drums, horns, tents, etc., which are still being counted. ”
Di Qing looked at the list in his hand and said.
Jiang Chuan nodded, not paying much attention to these loot. In his eyes, these things in the hands of Da Shunjun are basically some rags. After taking care of the high-quality products produced by the base, who can still look down on these.
Jiang Chuan cared about other things: "Li Zicheng's camp has been searched, right?" Li Zicheng's gang had been robbed all the way since the army was raised in Shaanzhou, and it is said that they would carry a large amount of money and goods with them on the march. Li Zicheng is a royal driver, and he must have a lot of goods around him. ”
Di Qing smiled and said, "I was about to report to the lord." After the last general led people to break into Li Zicheng's camp, and after defeating an elite small army, he found a large number of mahogany chests in a camp tent. These boxes are locked on them. After the last general smashed open the lock, he found that these chests were full of silver ingots, and there were also the marks of treasury silver on them, which were obviously the treasury silver of the various prefectures robbed by these rogues.
Each silver ingot in it was ten taels, and one box contained a hundred silver ingots. There were sixty-eight of these chests of silver, or six hundred and eighty-eight thousand taels of silver alone.
Several of the smaller iron boxes were all gold bricks, and each gold brick should be ten taels, and the last general counted them, and there were fifty gold bricks in one box. And there were ten such gold chests, and the total was five thousand taels of gold. ”
Di Qing's words immediately aroused Jiang Chuan's interest, which was what he really cared about.
Only if you have money, no matter how much sophisticated equipment you have, who is still rare in the tattered Dashun Army.
"Six hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver, five thousand taels of gold? That's not much. Li Zicheng robbed so many treasury treasures, as well as several Ming palaces such as the rich King Fu, can't he be worth so much? ”
After being happy, Jiang Chuan said suspiciously.
Di Qing said with a smile: "The last general also thought so at the time, so I asked a few prisoners who served by Li Zicheng's side, and they said that these were just the military salaries that Li Zicheng brought with him, and the real big heads were in Tianjin Weifang."
According to the captives, when Li Zicheng came from Jinan, there were hundreds of ships carrying goods alone. Moreover, the last general also found a large number of silk, silk, jewelry and other items in another tent, the specific value of which is not yet known. ”
Jiang Chuan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "It's about the same." Li Zicheng and these people all have mouse noses, and no matter how good the treasures are, they can find out. They love money so much that it is impossible not to carry these things with them. Fortunately, with these things to compensate us, our battles were not in vain. ”
Speaking of this, Jiang Chuan remembered something again, and explained to Di Qing: "Let people search the bodies of those prisoners, it is said that these soldiers of the Dashun Army like to hide the spoils of war privately, and it is said that a lot of goods fell out of those soldiers when the mountain armor beat Hao Shaoqi last time. ”
"The last general obeys the order, these captives will be screened and searched when they turn back, and even if they hide, they won't be able to hide for long." The ground crew laughed.
Jiang Chuan nodded, and asked again: "How many big fish are in the captives this time, and have they been screened now?" ”
Di Qing said: "There are a few big fish, and the last general will let people detain them alone." However, there must still be a lot of people hiding among ordinary soldiers, and it will take time to sift through them. Now the big fish that can be determined has a name called Li Guo, and there is also a bull Venus, and a He Jin. These people are all generals under Li Zicheng, and this Niu Jinxing seems to be some kind of military advisor. ”
Jiang Chuan had heard the names of these people, but he really didn't have a deep impression of these people. Especially that bull Venus, it doesn't seem to be a serious person.
What he cared about was another person: "Isn't there that Gu Junen?" ”
Di Qing shook his head and said: "I haven't found it for the time being, and I don't know if I died in the battle formation, or I escaped, and it is possible that it has not been identified among the captives." The lord values this person very much? ”
"This man is not a great talent, but he is also a usable person. If you find him, bring him directly to me. ”
Suddenly, Bai Mu's voice came from outside the tent: "Lord, the last Bai Mu will come back to restore his life." ”
As he spoke, the curtain of the king's tent was lifted, and Bai Mu, who was covered in blood, strode in.