After killing those Jurchens, Long Thirteen returned to the monastery again.

At this time, he smelled a foul smell.

Following the smell to a courtyard, the stench became stronger.

When the doors of every house in the compound were opened, the stench came to my face......

Long Thirteen saw these young men and women—the men were in a pile, at least fifty people were crammed into one room, and the women were also in a bunch, the same number in another house.

There were twenty houses in each courtyard, and there were several such courtyards, and there were at least fifteen hundred pairs of young men and women!

"Big Boss"

At this time, Long Xiaoshi came up.

"I asked clearly, these people were originally husband and wife, but they were all sold to the Jurchens for a price, and each team of couples was worth a fine mink"

"Mink?"

"Yes, these mink skins are piled up in another courtyard, either sable or white sable, and occasionally there are some white fox and red fox skins, such skins are extremely valuable in the Ming Dynasty, according to the people in the captured Fan family trading house, such a mink can be sold for fifty taels of silver in Hebei."

"If it is sold to Henan and Jianghuai, it will be at least one hundred taels, and if it is sold to Jiangnan, it will be two hundred taels!"

"However, according to the shopkeeper of the Fan family, who travels between Liaodong and Shanxi all the year round, they only need to send Dingkou to Zhangjiakou, and then the Jurchens will take over."

"These people were originally husband and wife, but the Jurchens dismantled them alive, and only hung a gruel every day, that is, to prevent them from escaping, eating, drinking, and Lazar were all in the house, and after arriving in Liaodong, they would be given to the bannermen as slaves, and if they behaved well, they would be given to their strong women."

"Reckless of humanity!"

Long Thirteen cursed in his heart.

"This is really a world of the jungle, ordinary people, thieves from the same source bully them, the government and the official army bully them, and the Jurchens don't treat them as human beings at all!"

In an instant, he had the idea of fighting guerrillas in this Shanxi and fighting with Jiannu who had entered the customs again after he had the strength.

Eventually, he shook his head.

In addition to his small and strong camp, there are dozens of thieves in Shanxi, and among them, except for a very small number of camp leaders such as Li Zicheng, the scourge of the people is not much worse than that of the official army.

What's more, just this year, they will go south to Henan, and then make the hinterland of China into a miserable appearance of "thousands of miles of uninhabited", although not all the scenes are caused by them, but after all, they are the initiators.

He couldn't sit back and watch that happen.

What's more, the land of Shanxi is too close to the capital, and at present, the imperial court is just putting the army in Dengzhou to encircle and suppress the rebels in Dongjiang Town.

Long Xiaoshi continued: "After the Jin merchants almost left Fenzhou, they could either go north through Yanmen Pass and then go out of Datong to the grassland, or they could turn to the northeast and exit from Zhangjiakou Fort in Wanquan Dusi at the same time as they arrived in Dazhou."

"They have completely opened up all the links along the way, and all the people have shared a lot of profits, and for these displaced people, about half of the heads have been cut off by the officials and soldiers as successful achievements and reported up."

"Half of them were kept for themselves, or as tenants and long-term laborers of their own farms, or sold to Jin merchants"

"In addition to these 1,500 pairs of young and strong men and women, there are also about 500 young and beautiful women, most of them are young ladies or maids of large families, and these people are also favored by the Jurchens, and it is obvious that they will be rewarded by their big leaders to their leaders as rewards."

"There are about 500 children, boys and girls, these are the property of the Jin merchants, they were sent to Taiyuan, Luoyang, Kaifeng, and the capital, as small servants and maids of large families, or were sold to Qinglou, most of these children are also children of large families, all of them have fine skin and tender meat."

"Naturally, it can be sold at a good price, according to the price of Taiyuan City, such a child will cost at least fifty two people, and five hundred people will be twenty-five thousand taels, and it is estimated that the Jin merchants can buy it from the officials and soldiers with 10,000 taels."

"Coupled with the young men and women, young women, they spent a maximum of twenty or thirty thousand taels, how to settle these people is a big problem for the imperial court, if they are left alone, they will become new thieves"

"So, it would be better if it could be sold to the Jin merchants for them to dispose of, and there would be twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver to earn, so it would be even better."

"This is only a part, it is said that they intercepted more people near Taiyuan City, and the total is estimated to be more than 100,000 taels."

"In addition to these populations, there are also a lot of rare furs, Dongzhu, and ginseng that the Jurchens used to exchange, and the Jin merchants also prepared iron, copper nails, grain, cloth, silk and other things for the Jurchens, which are densely piled up throughout the monastery."

“......”

"Such"

After a while, Long Thirteen finally spoke.

"Pick out dozens of the older and smarter of those children, and let them read and do things with you."

"Let those young men and women who were originally husband and wife be together, and let the children who have their children be reunited, otherwise let the remaining children recognize these couples as fathers and mothers."

"The young woman will wait until she arrives in Lingshi County, and then she will be assigned to my battalion soldiers."

"Among the young men and women, select the younger ones, limit them to 500 people, and let the men let them join the army, and the women are transferred to the old camp, and set up a small strong battalion to serve the battalion, so that they can sew clothes, make cotton armor, and make customized paper shells and bullets for the soldiers of our battalion."

Long Xiaoshi nodded, "By the way, big boss, this time our army also captured a large number of caravan guards and guys, you see......"

Long Thirteen secretly thought: "Although these guards have martial arts or strength, the more important thing is to deal with people, not to mention those guys, but these guys are obviously literate and can count, which is a scarce ......talent in this era."

So he said: "According to the old rules, the guards still pick out the younger ones and let them kill the older ones, and as for the men, the young ones will stay whether they want to or not, and the old ones will ...... Forget it, let's let it go."

On that day, Long 13 had a hundred cauldrons set up in the monastery, fifty of which were constantly baked with corn cakes, and the other fifty were stewed with vegetables, meat pieces, and ginseng, so that his army and the families of the captured rebels could have a solid meal for a day.

Early the next morning, the Xiaoqiang battalion drove thousands of carts and took thousands of rebel families south.

......

Nothing to say all the way.

Because there are only 500 cavalry left in Fenzhou City, Zhang Yingchang's elite cavalry in Jiexiu County has been wiped out, and he himself has died under the city of Fenzhou, and there is no regular army in Xiaoyi County in the middle, only regimental training, so he can only watch the Xiaoqiang battalion go away.

Four days later, the team returned to Lingshi County without danger.

"Long Thirteen, congratulations, you have completed the task of rescuing the old battalion of the righteous army, killed Zhang Yingchang and Ji Shiha, the force value has risen to 92, you have gained more popularity, the commander value has risen to 88, your 'hidden knife in your shoes, a blow to the sky' is more pure, and the agility value has risen to 87"

And even bigger surprises are yet to come.

Li Zhanchun, who stayed in the county seat, couldn't wait to report as soon as he came back: "Big boss, on the fourth day after you left, Po Ximu of Fenxi County was dispatched, and he launched a fierce attack on Xiamen Town, but he was killed and wounded under the bombardment of our army's earth-shaking thunder, and finally returned with a feather."

The speaker had no intention of listening to the heart, and Long 13 asked, "How can you return to the law with a dead and wounded pillow?" ”

Li Zhanchun said with a smile: "Po Ximu's men originally had 1,500 steps to ride, but only 500 steps were left in Lingshi County before, and they were completely wiped out by our battalion, and those who stayed outside were only 1,000 steps to ride."

"Throwing away the four hundred cavalry, there are only six or seven hundred infantry troops under his command, and last time, because Zijin Liang and others occupied the county seat of Fenxi and took away all the Dingkou in the city, Po Ximu only occupied an empty city, so he couldn't drive the people to fill the ravines for him and the ants to attack the city."

"He attacked for three days in a row, and each time he sent a hundred people, all of them were regular infantry troops, and launched a fierce attack on Xiamen Town, but unfortunately, under the spurs of the pikemen on the wall of our army and the bombardment of the earth-shaking thunder, he did not even touch the city wall for three days."

"How many men did he lose?"

"There are at least 500 dead and wounded, and after this time, he will not have the ability to attack me again."

Long 13 said: "Black Harrier, you didn't expect that the generals of the Ming army cherished their regular men and horses, how could they leave so much in a small Xiamen Town?" ”

"The meaning of the big boss"

"There must be something in Xiamen Town that he doesn't dare to give up easily, or an important official person"

"This ......"

......

Early the next morning, Long 13 arrived at Xiamen Town with Long Xiaoshi and a hundred horsemen.

Xiamen Town is located in the middle of the Bird Mouse Valley is a mountain fort built by the mountains and rivers, used to be the place where the Qin King Li Shimin was stationed, there is the Qinwang Ridge on the mountain to the west, there is also a small fort on the ridge, and there are trails between them.

When the Fen River arrived here, it first went straight to the south, then turned northwest, and then turned south, so that a large river bay was formed near the town of Xiamen, and the fort of Xiamen Town was built at the bay.

On the opposite side of Xiamen Fort, there is Laosheng Village, which is the place where the Sui Dynasty general Song Laosheng garrisoned and confronted Li Shimin, which has been abandoned now.

Xiamen Town is built on the post road of the Bird Mouse Valley, and if you want to pass through here, you must first enter Xiamen Fort, and Po Ximu of Fenxi County wants to attack Lingshi County, and you have to take Xiamen Fort first.

However, Xiamen Fort is surrounded by mountains and rivers, quite similar to the appearance of the mountain city of Chongqing in later generations, it looks like a tall castle with a city wall as high as more than ten zhang, but in fact there is a fort in the fort.

The castle is actually divided into three floors, and the roads inside are also winding, sometimes you have to climb up, sometimes you have to go downhill, and if you are unled, you will definitely get lost.

Such a place is definitely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At the moment, the largest family surnamed Liang is here, and his mansion is built right in the middle of the Xiamen Fort, that is, on the second floor.

After Long Thirteen came here, he went directly into the Liang Mansion.

After Xiaoqiangying occupied Lingshi County, because Qiu did not commit any crimes, it didn't take long for many people to go down the mountain and accept the rule of Long Thirteen, but even this Xiamen Fort still resisted stubbornly.

In the end, he arranged for people to use the tiger claw flying rope to take the small fort on the Qinwang Ridge first, and then formed a condescending situation against Xiamen Fort, and the people in the fort surrendered.

At first, Long Thirteen didn't think that there was anything wrong with the people here, in the face of hostile forces with unknown circumstances, with such a steep mountain fort, it was strange to live up to the stubborn resistance, and never thought that there were strange things here.

Liang Weiping, the county leader of the former Lingshi County, after Long Thirteen took the county seat, this person happened to be not in the city, but in his hometown, and now he has naturally become the backbone of the fort.

However, since the Yindi Pass further south was also taken by him, if there were important people here, there would be no other way but to detour west to Fenxi County.