"Total, our people went up to shout and were shot back with arrows by the people of the cottage." Xiong Anwen reported back to the next time.

"Toast and don't eat and drink, and immediately order the organization to prepare for a strong attack." Xiong Anwen commanded.

"Generally, this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it is attacked, I am afraid that the brothers will be killed and injured a lot."

"Company Commander Li, what do you say?" Xiong said impatiently. Today was the first time he led his troops into battle, and he encountered a bone that was not easy to gnaw.

"The Admiral once said that you can do whatever it takes, this place is densely wooded, and we can set fire to the mountain with fierce fire oil, but it will take a little longer, but it can be guaranteed to be foolproof." Company Commander Li suggested. An army without the constraints of a moral bottom line is no different from the legendary demons.

"How long is this going to burn?" Xiong asked calmly.

"It's hard to say, I've burned in the countryside, according to my observation, once this burns, this mountain fire will stretch for dozens of miles, as long as the mountain fire is together, always send people to guard the passage down the mountain, I guarantee that none of the people in this cottage can escape, and there is also an advantage of arson, the thieves hidden in the mountains will be burned out." Company Commander Li said.

"Burn, many of the thieves in this Mubang have fled to the mountains, maybe we can burn from Hanlong Pass to Mubang, so that there is not a single tree left in the entire Mubang." Xiong An said calmly and fiercely. Xiong Anwen was influenced by Zhu Youxiao, and in his eyes, he was either the people of the Ming Dynasty or the enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

"Okay, I'll go and prepare the mountain to burn with fierce fire oil at once." Company Commander Li said happily.

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Company Commander Li's prediction did not deviate too much, the current forest coverage rate is high, and his burning really caused a mountain fire, the mountain fire is so fierce that once it burns, it will be uncontrollable, and even the people in the Longteng Army garrison more than ten miles away can see it. Xiong Anwen was also beaten with 20 military sticks because of this incident, and it burned to the town of Kangzhou only two days after the mountain fire.

But Xiong An's steady move also gave Xiong Tingbi the idea of dealing with Mu Bang, Xiong Tingbi then kept using the strategy of setting fire to the mountain, and by the end of the battle, Xiong Tingbi not only used up his fierce fire oil, but also used up all the fierce fire oil in Yunnan's inventory, burning the entire Mu Bang sky for half a year.

July is on fire, and August is not young. Under such a ferocious mountain fire, the temperature in the cottage can be imagined, and even caused a fire in the cottage. After the mountain fire burned, most of the people in the cottage lost the ability to resist.

In order to be foolproof, Xiong Anwen also bombarded with artillery for a while before a full-scale attack. Before the mountain was burned, the cottage occupied a geographical advantage and could not get closer, and now the cottage has lost its resistance, and the artillery can easily get closer.

When he rushed in, Xiong Anwen found that there were not as many dead people in the cottage as there were unconscious people, and of course Xiong Anwen didn't know if he was dizzy from heat or was bombarded by cannons.

"All that can be used, what can be eaten, and all the valuable money is taken away, and the young women are arranged in a separate team, and the rest are arranged in another team. These are military feats, and there should be no omission. Xiong An'an commanded loudly.

The Long Tengjun became bandits in the blink of an eye, and there was no need to teach such things as smashing, looting, and burning, just like human instinct. And anyone who dared to resist in the cottage was executed on the spot. After a killing, all the people are honest.

Xiong An'an's 300 men came empty-handed, returned with a full load, and burned down the entire stockade before leaving. Robbery is also an important source of food for the army. In addition to the cattle and people, Xiong Tingbi's army almost ate all the living things that Mubang saw that could be eaten.

As soon as Xiong Anwen returned to the barracks, the first thing he did was to declare his military merits. The implementation of a brand-new military merit policy in the new army is completely different from the previous policy of rewarding military merit. All seizures in the Forces nouvelles must be surrendered, and any possession is punishable by military law.

As soon as Xiong Anwen brought his booty to the side camp, someone began to count his military exploits. In the new barracks, the secretary who is in charge of military merit statistics is called.

"Sixty-one women of appropriate age, two hundred and thirty-three others in the rest of the Dingkou, two hundred and sixty-four taels of Burmese silver, seven cents of silver, a total of twenty-one stone and nine buckets of grain (all livestock and poultry are converted into grain), eleven ploughing cattle, jewelry and jewelry, bear total, you can see the number is right." said the person in charge of statistics.

"Secretary Ma, yes, yes, how much reward are there for these military functions?" Xiong asked happily. The military exploits in this new barracks can only be exchanged for a reward of silver, and of course, it is also used as one of the reference credentials for promotion.

"We'll find out until the jewelry statistics come out." Secretary Ma said.

Xiong Tingbi hired a special person from Yunnan Prefecture to be responsible for the valuation of the jewelry, and after the jewelry was calculated, it was sold to Zhang Guoji's people at a 7% discount to deduct the payment for cement. The Burmese silver will also be handed over to Zhang Guoji, and the part that is not enough to pay for the cement will be filled by Zhu Youxiao's silver from Neinu.

In fact, Zhang Guoji was able to get more than double the profit from the resale of jewelry, and at this time, the price of jewelry from Yunnan to Beijing had already increased several times. Zhang Guoji has been running this cement workshop for several months and finally saw the money, and the speed of this money is dozens of times faster than he imagined, he expects that when the battle of Mubang is over, he will not only be able to recover all the investment, but also earn tens of thousands of taels.

All the women and cattle of appropriate age will be sent back to Longchuan for immigration, and the rest of the personnel will arrange to build a fortress on the spot.

Soon the statistics of jewelry ended, and now for the valuation of jewelry, everything is evaluated according to the lowest market price, there is no dispute, and it is naturally very fast.

"The women of appropriate age will be rewarded with sixty-one taels of silver, the rest of the Ding kou will be rewarded with twenty-three taels of silver, Burmese silver will be rewarded with fifty-two and twenty-eight silver dollars, grain will be rewarded with ten hundred and twenty-nine silver dollars, ploughing cattle will be discounted with one hundred and ten taels of silver, and jewelry will be discounted with thirty-seven and twenty-five silver dollars, making a total of two hundred and ninety-five and twenty-five silver dollars. Bear put total, please check, if yes sign here. Secretary Ma finished reading it aloud, and after reading it, he pointed to the place where he signed and said.

"Come to Xiucai, come and see, the numbers are right?" Xiong Anwen shouted loudly. Xiong Anwen can't read a single big word.

Lai Xiucai is not really Xiucai, but he is the only literate person in Xiong Anwen's entire camp, so the whole battalion calls him Laixiucai, just because he is literate, Xiong Anwen takes him with him wherever he goes.

"All in all, the numbers are right." Lai Xiucai looked at it carefully and said.

"Secretary Ma, borrow the pen and use it, and I will sign." Xiong said with a steady smile.

"Give." Secretary Ma handed the bookkeeping brush to Xiong Anwen.

Xiong Anwen licked the tip of the brush in his mouth, and then drew a big circle where he signed.

"Silver dollars, after the class teacher returns to Beijing, you can go directly to the Imperial Bank to withdraw it." Secretary Ma emphasized.

"Yes, yes." Xiong said with a steady smile.

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