In the face of artillery fire and heavily armed soldiers, the people of Siming Mansion had no choice but to flee in a safe direction.

Most of them were wooden houses, and the fire broke out quickly.

People all hope to survive, so naturally they just run away without a head or a brain.

But when everyone fled from the town and ran to the sea, it became a sack, and they were like worms jumping into the sack, completely surrounded by real artillery and a musket team.

A few young men were about to try to rush out, but after being hit by a scattergun and a pile of minced meat, the beach fell silent for a moment.

The fire over there has been controlled, and the broken wooden houses on the periphery have been burned down, and the important thing is the interior, the wooden and stone houses where the rich really live, Mao Yijian arranged for the soldiers to have checked the entire city, and also began to search these places, just searching, but it is strictly forbidden for anyone to hide their property privately.

"Xiaobai, what are you looking for?" Mao Yijian followed Bai Minghe for almost an hour.

"Find what General Mao said, about the possibility of Jianwen's descendants." Bai Minghe continued to rummage, Mao Yijian's face was dark, and he also knew very well that the possibility of Jianwen's descendants here was infinitely close to zero, so close to Daming, if there were really Jianwen's descendants, the people here would have died ten times eight times.

Not to mention the descendants of Jianwen, even the relics of Jianwen can make the people here die ten times or eight times.

"Don't look for Xiaobai, these are just a low-level homeless people, plus some profiteers at most." Mao Yijian changed his story again.

"Yes, I believe it. Let's try it! ”

Mao Yijian was commanded by the white crane, and he had no way to refuse, so he could only nod.

"General Mao, I believe they sell smuggled salt, but when it comes to sin. Only private salt has never been sinned in my heart. A country can't even afford salt for the people, this is the fault of the imperial court, what was the price of a pound of salt in the capital before, I am afraid that General Mao also knew, the salt worth 180 million taels, how much salt tax received from the national treasury. So ......"

"Cheng, I will listen to you for everything." Mao Yijian doesn't fight with Bai Minghe, even if he is an elder.

Let the white crane go around again, and I guess I will start to be ashamed.

"It's almost noon, and five hundred men are sent to continue to search these houses, wherever anyone can hide. The rest of the armies began to cook and eat. The white crane commanded, and began to walk out as well. Less than five miles east of the town is the seaside, where more than 10,000 people are crowded in a mess.

This place. Gravel beach, no plants, no fresh water.

The soldiers surrounded the place in a semi-circular formation, there were ships on the sea, the cannon doors were hit, and anyone who dared to go into the water would definitely open fire. The person who was killed just now was already buried in the sand, and everyone was watching this scene. They were afraid, terrified to death. No one knows at all what will happen next.

The soldiers of the regular army had food to eat, and they had hot meals.

These besieged people don't even have a mouthful of water, let alone food.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the whole dry biscuits from Qinzhou were brought over under the command of Bai Minghe, and even the quantity was strictly required. Then several donkey carts carrying water also stopped in front of the surrounded men from the barracks.

"My lord, according to your orders, prepare the bread according to seventy percent, and the water is only two mouthfuls per person at most."

Shirakawa nodded, picked up a telescope and walked out of the tent. Walked to the arrow tower of the camp. Mao Yijian and Wang Cheng both came out, and the two looked at each other, but they didn't understand what Bai Minghe was doing.

The basket of bread and the cart with the bucket stopped, and the soldiers put down their things and retreated.

At this moment, hundreds of people who were close to each other rushed up at once, and then the people behind also rushed forward, trying to grab the food and water.

Mao Yijian said at this time: "According to their robbery method, I'm afraid that ninety and a half percent of the people can't drink water, and more than sixty percent of the people can't eat bread." As he spoke, a few strong men waved sticks and shouted and cursed there, and soon dozens of people were beaten, but they were still stuffing bread into their mouths, and more people were scattered.

"Someone is in charge, maybe you can divide it better!" Mao Yijian said again.

"Not necessarily!" Wang Cheng replied coldly: "This thing is eye-opening, thousands of young people are frightened, if they attack in groups, they are not defeated by such skills as the miscellaneous family, there is only a dead end." This is servility, and the miscellaneous family can see it clearly. ”

Let them see servility?

The answer is definitely no, and the white crane has no interest in taking people to prove this servile existence.

Bai Minghe didn't speak, he continued to watch, he just wanted to know whether this Siming Mansion was an ordinary person who had fled, or the kind of person Mao Yijian said. But for now, at least there's a gang of evildoers among them.

An old man, an old man in a Confucian shirt, walked out, judging from the way he walked, and the clothes on his body, it was similar to the one who was killed by the white crane. At least one kind of person, maybe even a gang in its own right.

The old man came out and looked around, and the eyes of the people around him were avoiding the old man.

Bai Minghe asked at this time: "Those who came to work, did they leave behind no family members in Siming Mansion, and those who left without exception had family members still in Siming Mansion?" ”

Mao Yijian couldn't answer, but Wang Cheng gave his subordinates a look, and someone immediately went to investigate.

The old man walked to the waterwheel, first washed his hands in a bucket, then cleaned the dust on his face, and then sat aside, a strong man with a stick held a piece of bread in both hands, the old man just bit it and threw it aside, the strong man quickly took another piece, tore both sides apart, and picked the soft one in the middle.

The old man was eating, only the fluffy one.

Bai Minghe opened his mouth and asked, "Where is Siming Mansion, have our people sent over to inquire about anything?" ”

"No, in the eyes of Dongchang, Siming Mansion can't even compare to a grass mountain, at most it is a refugee camp. According to General Mao, Dongchang may have sent someone to check thirty or forty years ago, but it certainly hasn't been in the past ten years, and it is not worth checking there. Wang Cheng gave Bai Minghe an affirmative answer.

Bai Minghe stretched out his hand and pointed: "I'm wondering, what kind of big man is that." ”

"Do you want to ask?" Wang Cheng asked.

Bai Minghe shook his head slightly: "I'm not interested, arrange for two soldiers to go over, set up a wooden frame, tie his hands and hang there, and half of his feet can touch the ground." Don't let him die, I'm going to ask something. ”

"We're good at this kind of thing!" Wang Cheng smiled and snapped his hand, pointed to one of the people downstairs, and after a few words, the man hugged his fist and walked over with a few people. This kind of old thing soldiers are not comfortable to look at, what is the point of this, and it is still a score, let you taste the dragonfly water of Dongchang today.

A few strong men also planned to protect, and in the face of the absolute force of Dongchang, several people were immediately taken down, and they were sent to the barracks, while the old Confucian was hanged up.

The white crane continued to observe.

There will be no one to rob it anymore, and more than a dozen people who are old or strong have poured out, and one of them is a woman, not to say that she looks like her, but that her figure is not worse than that of a man.

They were negotiating, and then they divided the water with the bread.

How to divide the small group that went back, the white crane was also observing. "It seems that at least they still have a human side."

"What adults say is that those who can take care of pregnancy and hold a child before the moon are always kind." Wang Cheng also looked at it, the people in Siming Mansion were not pure evil people, but there must be some evil people among them.

Only Mao Yijian's face was embarrassed, in his eyes, at least seventy percent of them were evil people, but now it seems that at least seventy percent of them are still people who guard the moral low, and they dare not say that they are definitely good people, but at least they are normal people.

"Order, men and women separate camps. The women's camp sent 500 blankets, 300 coal stoves, 5,000 briquettes, some firewood, 3 liters of purified water per person, 100 catties of milk powder, 10 catties of snow sugar, 10 catties of rice, 10 catties of snow salt, and 10 catties of pickles. The men's battalion had one liter of water per person, no coal, and bread was distributed at the rate of one and a half pieces per person. ”

"Yes!" Wang Cheng responded and immediately passed on the order.

Bai Minghe got down the arrow tower, and the kidnapped people were brought to him, Bai Minghe nodded, and Wang Cheng asked, "Who is that old horseman?" ”

"There is someone behind Dong Weng, the king of Annan County is married to his daughter, and the concubine of Fuzhou Buzheng is his granddaughter, see that you are only a five-grade official uniform, you will take this Siming Mansion, you had better be respectful of my Dongweng, it's not something you can offend, it's just a little five-grade official."

Shira-nae smiled, and everyone around him laughed.

Wang Cheng smiled and asked, "What is the name of that political envoy in Fujian?" The king of Annam. ”

The one who reported a name, Mao Yijian's face sank, and if he could report his name, it was definitely not fake, and he became popular at the moment: "I was going to impeach ......"

"It's useless!" Wang Cheng responded with a smile.

Mao Yijian was surprised: "What is the way this came from, is it deeper than Xiaobai's roots?" In Mao Yijian's opinion, this one has a backstage, otherwise how could Wang Cheng even say that it was useless.

Wang Cheng looked at the strong man who was very tough, and then at Mao Yijian: "He died, his home was also raided, and there were any concubines or the like who got to the Nanjing Jiaosifang, and now whether he is alive or dead has to be checked to find out." It's General Mao, don't you usually read the imperial court's newspapers? This was before we went to Europe. ”

"Really? So what was Ben going to do at that time......" Mao Yijian recalled.

"Then what he said about the county king of Annan is probably true." Bai Minghe probably had the impression that Mao Yijian should have cared about the affairs of the steel mill at that time, and he definitely didn't care about these little things. For him, it's just news, so Bai Minghe didn't plan to continue, but changed the subject.

Wang Cheng thought for a while: "My lord, I guess you have seen it, it is in Da Nang." Now it is estimated that the whole family is dead, and there may be a few daughters alive, but they will not live long. According to the holy order of Banzai, no prisoners of war are allowed this time, especially the nobles of Annam, so they must be executed in the end. ”

"Nonsense......," the strong man yelled.

Bai Minghe waved his hand: "Take it down, and try it well!" (To be continued......)