After his subordinates counted the loot captured in this battle, Su Yan personally came to the place where the loot was stacked to inspect.

In this battle, because Su Yan ordered the whole army to attack, there were a lot of casualties in the Chinese army camp and the Shenji battalion, and the whole army participated in the battle with a total of 2,744 people, killed more than 600 enemies, captured more than 800 prisoners, and many routs fled into the surrounding mountains and forests.

And Su Yan's command also killed more than 300 people, although the morale of the Qing army was low, but it still caused a lot of casualties to the rebel army, which made the already small number of rebels even worse.

All of this was worth it after seeing the loot piled up in a hill, but Su Yan soon discovered a problem, he had now become armor with more weapons than soldiers, and there were so many armors and not enough soldiers to equip them.

In the case of only having two county seats, if he only relied on soldiers recruited by the system, he would not be able to raise an army that could compete with the Qing army head-on until the Year of the Monkey, so he really had to rely on recruiting the Qing army to quickly expand the team.

After counting the surrendered troops, Su Yan drove them to dig a trench outside Xianjia Village overnight to block the Qing army from breaking through, and cut down the surrounding trees and pulled up a wooden fence.

The next day, these 800 soldiers were sent to the former Qing army camp on the south bank of the river, and together with the more than 700 soldiers there, they were escorted by the militia to Yongchun County and sent to the army barracks for training.

After sending off the surrendered troops, Su Yan ordered twelve falcon cannons to continue to bombard Xianjia Village, and at the same time asked Lin Xingzhu to take some of the rattan soldiers to the surrounding mountains and forests to search for the fleeing Qing army's routs - if the rout soldiers were allowed to stay in the mountains and forests, it was likely to turn into bandits and be a disaster.

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"My lord, the thieves have been shelling for two hours, and the soldiers are about to lose it!"

In Xianjia Village, Chen Shitai, the only remaining member of the staff, knelt on the ground and said to Tong Guoqi with a painful expression.

From the time he retreated into Xianjia Village to the present, he has not slept soundly, listening to the noise outside at night, and like most of the soldiers, he is worried that the rebels outside will attack at any time.

Finally waited for daylight, he stared at a pair of dark circles and got up from the bed, and just walked out of the room, there was an artillery bombardment outside, and one of the shells even hit the house behind him directly, if he hadn't come out early, he would have been buried in the rubble of the house.

Since the first round of exploratory shelling, the rebels outside have been bombarding intermittently for two hours, and their shells and gunpowder seem to be inexhaustible, so that there is hardly a single intact building in the village, and even Tong Guoqi has to hide in the cellar in embarrassment.

How could Tong Guoqi not know that his army was on the verge of collapse, but he didn't want to become a prisoner of the righteous army, as a dignified governor of Fujian, if he became a prisoner of the righteous army, then his entire family would be humiliated, and he might even be imprisoned by Zhu Lian.

Therefore, he said in a stiff tone: "If you are here to persuade this official to surrender, then there is no need to say more, this official swears not to surrender." ”

"Your Excellency...... You also have to think about the lives of the soldiers outside, if we continue to be besieged, we will all die here! Chen Shitai knocked his head heavily and said.

"Can't you understand what this official is saying? If you dare to surrender again, this official will kill you now!" Tong Guoqi said sharply, he took out the saber at his waist at the same time, slashed it on a chair in the cellar, split the chair in half, and shouted: "Let's talk about surrender, there is such a chair in the end!" ”

Chen Shitai saw Tong Guoqi's eyes showing a fierce light, and he trembled for a while and didn't dare to say more, so he had to get up.

"Slow, wait for the sound of the artillery to stop, you go outside to inspect it, if there is anyone who surrenders and disturbs the morale of the army, he will be killed immediately!" Tong Guoqi took the saber back and ordered.

"Huh!" Chen Shitai lowered his head and promised, because he replied with his head down, so Tong Guoqi didn't notice the hatred flashing in his eyes.

Outside, after two hours of shelling, Su Yan stopped shelling, his artillery was not infinitely ammunition, these two hours of non-stop shelling consumed a lot of gunpowder and shells, he estimated that the Qing army in the village should have reached the verge of collapse, so he decided to stop the shelling.

After the cannon fire was over, the embarrassed Qing soldiers came out of their hiding places in twos and threes, looking at the villages that were almost in ruins, and then looking at the corpses everywhere, everyone couldn't help but shed painful tears.

"Otherwise, let's descend, we can still live if we descend, and if we continue like this, we will all die."

"Gan Linniang, I knew that I wouldn't have run so fast yesterday, and I didn't have to be so tormented to surrender to those thieves."

"Be careful! If they hear it, your heads will fall to the ground! ”

Several Qing soldiers were talking, and one of them suddenly found the staff general Chen Shitai and his personal soldiers standing behind him, his face changed instantly, and he knelt down with a bang without thinking about it, and said, "General, I'll wait...... I'll wait ......"

The words he wanted to defend were stuck in his mouth and didn't know what to say, and several other people also quickly knelt on the ground in a panic, Chen Shitai looked at them with a straight face, looked around again, and said in a low voice: "Get up quickly, while the governor hasn't come up yet, don't say anything about surrender in the future, otherwise I won't be able to save you." ”

"Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Several people thanked each other, hurriedly got up from the ground, and scattered away.

Chen Shitai looked at their backs as they left in a hurry, his eyes were slightly condensed, and he seemed to be thinking about something in his heart.

At this moment, the pro-soldier behind him asked with a complicated expression: "My lord, didn't the governor want you to kill these people who disturbed the morale of the army, why did you ......?"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Shitai interrupted him, he turned to look at his own soldiers, and said, "Ah Niu, how do I treat you on weekdays?" ”

"The general treats me like a parent, and it is difficult for Ah Niu to repay the general's kindness in this life." The soldier knelt on the ground and said with his fists clenched.

Chen Shitai personally pulled him up from the ground, stared into the eyes of his own soldiers, and said, "Then I can trust you." ”

The soldier met Chen Shitai's gaze, he faintly felt something in his heart, and nodded heavily.

"Well, go and gather some trustworthy brothers, put on your armor in the evening, and come to my side with weapons, and remember, don't leak out."

"You ......"

How could the soldiers not hear what Chen Shitai meant, he was shocked in his heart, gritted his teeth, and nodded in response: "Obey, unless Ah Niu is dead, the news will never leak to outsiders!" ”

"Okay, then you can go." Chen Shitai put his hands behind his back, looked at the Qing soldiers who were looking for the wounded in the ruins, and said.