The lives of Yu Shengjun's soldiers are very precious, and it is not worth the death and injury of too many people for the sake of a mere Qingpu and these hooligan bandits.

But the next result surprised Lin Zhe, only to see that the infantry company that entered the city soon poured into the gap in the city wall, and it didn't seem to encounter any resistance, and soon the infantry company waved a military flag, telling the friendly troops in the rear that they had effectively controlled the gap in the city wall.

"It seems that there really is no ambush!" On the side, Xu Pengan showed a trace of doubt.

Regardless of whether there was an ambush or not, since his troops had already stormed that section of the city wall, it was natural to expand the results of the battle, and he immediately ordered the first army to continue marching and expand the city wall that had been occupied, and at the same time he strictly ordered the troops not to go deep into the city until they received his order.

He didn't want his troops to enter the city and have a street fight with the thief army!

However, half an hour later, when Lin Zhe also entered Qingpu City on a high-headed horse, he looked at the empty Qingpu City and shook his head and smiled bitterly: It seems that he is still too careful.

After the main force of the first corps entered the city, it was found that the small knife army in the city had all run out, and a small part of them directly threw down their swords and mixed into the people's houses, and continued to be ordinary people, while most of them escaped from the north and east city gates, and not long ago the cavalry company had reported that a large number of enemy troops had escaped from the north and east city gates, and the number was at least five or six hundred.

After entering the city, Lin Zhe found that this Qingpu had not been conquered by the Knife Society for a few days, but it had been ruined, and a small number of officials and gentry in the city ran away before the Knife Society came, and the officials and gentry who failed to run away except for a few hidden, the others were either killed or committed suicide.

There are a lot of casualties among ordinary people, when the Qing army defended the city, they pulled a lot of strong men to help defend the city, and the knife would kill a lot after breaking the city, and then the knife would continue to pull the strong men to defend the city, and these temporarily pulled strong men had a chance to survive in the face of Yu Shengjun's dense firepower, and the city wall, which seemed to be empty from a distant telescope, was actually covered with corpses.

Coupled with the people who were robbed and harmed by the knife society in the past few days, the tragedy of family destruction and death can be seen everywhere in Qingpu City.

Lin Zhe looked at this small county town that had been damaged by the war, and felt a little complicated in his heart.

This is the first time he has seen a city traumatized by war, although he fought a few battles with the Taiping army in northern Zhejiang, but under the blow of Yu Shengjun, the Taiping army did not conquer Changxing or Guangde, and Lin Zhe naturally did not see the city that had been traumatized by the war.

Today, however, he saw it!

Although he felt a trace of pity for the death and injury of the gentry and people in the city, he did not show too much sympathy, in fact, after he led Yu Sheng's army into Qingpu, the first thing he did was to collect the spoils!

Of course, he didn't let the soldiers loot or anything like that, but let the troops find the county government's warehouse as soon as possible, and used some of the remaining finances and a large amount of rice and grain as trophies, and then took all the finances in the camp and mansion occupied by the original knife club for himself.

The finances occupied by the knife club were actually snatched from the homes of the gentry in the city some time ago, and in one of the courtyards, almost a yard of gold, silver, calligraphy and paintings and other valuable finances were piled up in the open air, and Lin Zhe naturally would not be polite and directly took possession of them.

In order to conquer this Qingpu, he was more careful, and the troops wasted a lot of ammunition, but the money had to be earned back.

As for who these finances originally belonged to, and whether the original owner would come back to ask for it, Lin Zhe didn't care.

Because these are all trophies, whoever dares to rob Yu Shengjun's spoils must first ask Yu Shengjun's guns if he agrees!

After sorting out the loot, Bi Yu, the battalion officer in charge of Yu Shengjun's small treasury, told Sù Lin Zhe:

"The amount of loot we have seized is not small, there are 8,000 taels of silver alone, 560 taels of gold, and a large number of valuable paintings and calligraphy, which are worth at least 30,000 taels of silver!" Bi Yutong's words startled Lin Zhe.

The cash silver alone is eight thousand taels, and the gold is worth at least eight thousand four hundred taels of silver according to the existing ratio of gold and silver, and the sum of the two is more than sixteen thousand taels of silver, not to mention a large number of treasures and paintings, although these are of different values, but even if they are calculated at half price, at least there are more than fifteen thousand taels of silver.

This is so profitable after taking the city? No wonder the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army like to siege cities, and feelings are such a lucrative business.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think again, he just captured some normal booty and obtained tens of thousands of taels of silver, if he said that the whole city was plundered like other armies, wouldn't it be extremely easy to get hundreds of thousands of taels?

As soon as this idea came out, it made Lin Zhe swallow his saliva, this money is really easy to make, if you loot a few more cities, wouldn't it be easy to get a million taels of silver, and then I am afraid that there will be no money to expand the army?

If I buy dozens of twelve-pound guns, and then buy tens of thousands of Mini rifles, and recruit tens of thousands of soldiers, I can't go to the world's big Yu Shengjun?

I have to say that the idea of ransacking the whole city is too tempting, and even Lin Zhe, who prides himself on being calm and calm, almost couldn't hold back and directly ordered the entire Qingpu to be robbed.

However, this kind of fact is hindering the conscience, and he came to Jiangsu to fight only as a guest soldier, and the army also followed Huang Yidian and several other officials of Songjiang Prefecture, these officials have begun to accept the affairs of Qingpu City, and are ready to restore their rule.

Endured the tempting idea of robbing the entire Qingpu, Lin Zhe set his sights on several other prefectures and counties on the map, and now several counties such as Jiading and Shanghai are still in the hands of the knife club, and he fought one after another, even if he did not loot the ordinary people after breaking through the city, but the normal seizure alone was enough to harvest tens of thousands of taels of silver, and if he was lucky, it was possible to get a hundred thousand taels.

Lin Zhe, who thought like this, found that the spoils obtained from fighting the enemy's city were not much less than the 80,000 taels of silver given by Xu Naizhao.

Thinking of this, what else did he have to think about talking nonsense to Huang Yidian and other officials in Songjiang Mansion, that night he gathered his generals and began to discuss that city next.

"We must act quickly, and we must take these cities before Xu Naizhao's Qing army reacts, so that we can justifiably enjoy these spoils of war!" Lin Zhe did not hide his desire for these loot in front of his subordinates in the slightest.

"You all know that our Yu Shengjun spends a lot of money every month, and now it is not enough to rely on the Huzhou Donation Bureau and some other pulls, and in the past few months, we have thought of countless ways to raise military funds, and even done some repugnant things!"

When Lin Zhe said this, Shi Langyi and other officers below also nodded frequently, although they didn't care about money, but as senior officers, they also knew how big Yu Shengjun's expenses were, and the monthly expenses of 20,000 taels of silver could not be maintained by relying on daily income.

In order to solve the military expenses, Yu Shengjun also did a lot of things, at the beginning, he extorted money from local big families every time he went to a place, and then he even made a donation bureau, and many officers believed that the reason why they came to Shanghai was because they took Xu Naizhao's 80,000 taels of silver and 300 war horses.

It's all about taking money to do things.

Lin Zhe worries about military expenses every day, in fact, the officers under his command are also quite worried about the lack of military funds, otherwise when he said that he would send troops to Shanghai, there would not be even one person who objected, because they all knew that there were 80,000 taels of silver for sending troops to Shanghai, and this 80,000 taels of silver was enough for Yu Shengjun to last for several months.

Now that the booty of 10,000 taels of silver has been seized in Qingpu, not only Lin Zhe, but even Shi Langyi and others have seen a large amount of silver beckoning to them!

And Bi Yutong also spoke: "Although Jiading, Baoshan, Nanhui, Chuansha, Shanghai and other counties are rich and rich, they are all Jiangnan prefectures and counties in any case, and they are rich in wealth, and referring to the actions of the thief army in Qingpu, when they occupy these cities, they will inevitably drive and slaughter the local gentry and loot their goods for military supplies, if we can conquer these cities one by one and seize these goods, I estimate that we will be able to harvest at least 100,000 taels!" ”

Hearing this 100,000 taels of silver, Shi Langyi, the commander of the First Infantry Corps, immediately said with a red face: "My lord, then what are we waiting for, immediately send troops and take them all down, 100,000 taels, this can keep us for at least five months." And you can continue to expand your troops! ”

"That's right, if we can really have this harvest, then we can expand the army by one or even two regiments, and the artillery unit can also be expanded by a part, and it is possible for my Yu Shengjun to support more than 5,000 troops at that time!" Shen Chiyun, deputy commander of the second regiment and commander of the third company, was also a fanatical army expander.

After seeing that Xu Yanqing, the former deputy commander of the First Infantry Corps, became the commander of the newly established Third Infantry Regiment, Shen Chiyun has also been looking forward to when Yu Shengjun will be able to expand the army by another regiment, because then he will become the commander of this new infantry regiment.

Yu Shengjun went up to Lin Zhe, and then to those middle and senior officers, all of them were excited by the many trophies, and that night they discussed the next offensive direction, that is, Jiading.

It's also funny to say that the reason why they didn't say that they turned south to attack Shanghai at the first time, but continued to move west to Jiading, was not out of military considerations at all, but out of spoils of war considerations.

Lin Zhe and a group of officers were afraid that Xu Naizhao's Qing army would take down Jiading first when they went south to Shanghai, in which case the spoils of war on Jiading's side would have nothing to do with Yu Shengjun.

And this is unacceptable to Yu Shengjun, who is extremely short of money and extremely eager for the loot, so everyone unanimously agreed not to go to Shanghai first, but to take Jiading first and get the loot in hand.

For this reason, Lin Zhe showed a cautious expression at the end of the meeting and said: "We are fighting this time for the future of our Yu Shengjun, and I hope that you will show the firmest will to fight in the follow-up battles, and show the qualities that an excellent soldier should have!" ”

So, Yu Shengjun, who had been blinded by money, opened early the next morning and pounced on Jiading's delicious fresh meat like a wolf.