The Mongol cavalry stationed in Dayi fled as soon as they fought, which made the new annexed army in the city panic immediately. The bandits with active brains began to pack up their soft and prepare to escape, and even more anxiously used ropes to tie down the city wall, and the city was in chaos for a while. Seeing this, Cao Ergou left one company to clean up the battlefield and prevent the Mongol cavalry from killing back the horse guns, and the remaining three companies went to block the three city gates in the northwest and south, preparing to catch turtles in an urn tomorrow.

Although this Dayi is the county seat, it is not much smaller than Chongqing City, and the name "Dayi" means big city. The four companies of the Thunderbolt Army could only block the city gates, but they could not hold the huge city walls. After nightfall, the defenders of the city fled down the city to the Heming Mountain, and by midnight they had escaped. Before dawn, the people in the city sent a few elders to Cao Ergou's tent to ask for surrender, and the Thunderbolt army took over the city without blood. After the Mongol cavalry and the new annex army fled, the city's rations were naturally taken over by the Thunderbolts. This batch of grain totaled about 150,000 catties, which could be eaten by an army of 300 people for half a year. Cao Ergou was not satisfied with this, he knew that Zhao Shicai only raised troops to attack Wanjiabao after the autumn harvest, and after his soldiers were defeated and died, the military rations stored in Dayi City would never disappear out of thin air. It was only after interrogating the people in the city many times that I learned that some time ago the Mongols sent a large amount of grain and grass to the city of Chengdu, which was obviously unsatisfactory, but it was also helpless.

With the current strength of the Thunderbolt army, it is obviously unable to divide troops to defend Dayi City. But according to Ouyang Xuan's usual style of acting, it is obvious that he will not leave the resources in the city to the bandits. The Thunderbolt army received all the assets left by the Mongols and bandits, and mobilized the people in the city to go to Wanjiaping, but although there were still more than 300 households in the city, only a dozen people came to sign up. To this end, he sent people to visit the craftsmen from house to house, especially the carpenters, blacksmiths, and leathermen who had built siege equipment for Zhao Shicai and the Mongols, and after repeated "persuasion", dozens of craftsmen "voluntarily" defected to the Thunderbolt army.

"To capture a person's heart, you must first grasp his stomach", in order to make the defector return to his heart, Cao Ergou asked people to take a large pot of stewed broth as a reward. In last night's battle, the Mongols lost more than 30 horses, and naturally they would not let go of these meat-eating thunderbolt troops, and after peeling off the skin, the meat was smoked, and a total of more than 4,000 catties of pickled horse meat were obtained. As for the soft rotten internal organs and bones stewed over high heat, they are also a delicacy that makes the craftsmen who belong to it smile and make the poor people who come to smell the fragrance salivate. Attracted by the broth, more than 100 people took refuge in the Thunderbolt army and joined the ranks of drinking soup and gnawing bones. These destitute people had no food to eat and nothing to worry about, so they simply joined the Thunderbolt army to eat.

After eating and drinking, in line with the principle of not raising idlers, Cao Ergou assigned the first task to these people - scraping the walls from house to house, and the Perak soldiers were responsible for counting the confiscated food and property. Unexpectedly, the development of this wall scraping was quite unsmooth, and it was frequently hindered by the owner of the house. In front of a huge mansion with dozens of wide houses, the person who scraped the nitrate expected to be able to scrape a lot of nitrate, but when he was about to enter the door, he was blocked, and in a dispute with the owner surnamed Liu, he was killed and injured. The owner surnamed Liu is called Liu Jue, who was originally a giant businessman in the county, and there was a clan brother who was an official in the Lin'an court, and he was attached to the Mongols after the Mongols occupied Dayi, and they were mixed up in the Southern Song Dynasty government and Mongolia. After Zhao Shicai was defeated and killed, the bandits of Heming Mountain were introduced to the Mongols through him. The bandits had also asked him to flee with him last night, but he thought that if he put on the name of his brother, the Thunderbolts would retreat. Today, I saw a group of poor people in ragged clothes breaking into their homes, saying that they were ordered by the Thunderbolt army to scrape the wall. This Liu Jue seems to be called Huazi, and he actually dared to see no one in his eyes, and took chicken feathers as an arrow, which made him angry, and immediately ordered the family to pick up a knife and stick and beat it randomly.

After getting the news that Cao Ergou brought people to the scene, Liu Jue still took dozens of family members to guard the house with high walls, and did not take the Thunderbolt Army in his eyes at all. Cao Ergou saw Liu Jue's unruly face at the head of the wall, and then looked at the dead and wounded on the ground, and waved his hand violently with a blue face: "Attack in, and those who resist will be killed." After the first shot, a large number of people at the head of the house wall collapsed. Before the smoke cleared, the gate opened, and the surrendered family knelt on the ground, and Liu Jue had been killed with one blow. On the one hand, this is because of the close shooting, the dense shotgun hit rate is very high, and on the other hand, because Liu Jue is not hiding at all, he thought that the Thunderbolt Army was just trying to intimidate him, but he lost his life because of arrogance.

After the Perak soldiers searched the house, Cao Ergou knew why Liu Jue resisted scraping the wall by force. It turned out that there was a lot of property hidden in this house, these are the wealth accumulated by Liu Jue who has been doing business for many years and even engaged in private salt trading, not to mention iron money, copper coins, and silver ingots, there are more than 50,000 catties of grain alone, and more than 2,000 catties of salt, which not only makes the Thunderbolt soldiers overjoyed, but also makes the onlookers gnash their teeth. Most of the people in this city lack food and clothing, and are poor, but Liu Jue has such wealth but does not give a trace of relief to the people, and sits and watches his neighbors starve to death from time to time.

As soon as Liu Jue died, not only did there be no resistance to scraping the wall, but more than 100 people were willing to go to Wanjiaping. The newly defected people also told Cao Ergou that it was Liu Jue's minions who threatened the people not to contact the Thunderbolt army. Cao Ergou also learned that there were several large families in the city who worked for the tiger and were willing to be Mongolian lackeys. Naturally, the Thunderbolt army was unceremonious to these people, confiscating all their family property, including food, and leaving only three months' rations for each person. Anyway, in May, the grain on the edge of the city will be harvested.

The rich booty made Cao Ergou very happy in his heart, now I'm not afraid that Brother Xuan will scold me for being a loser. Cao Ergou's fighting style is very fierce, often engaging in firepower suppression at any cost, not to mention the large consumption of ammunition, and blowing up a lot of available materials, which made Ouyang Xuan criticize him many times for not knowing that salt and rice are expensive, and often fighting at a loss. Roughly calculated, Cao Ergou harvested 250,000 catties of grain, more than 4,000 catties of cured meat, more than 3,000 catties of salt and 1,000 catties of crude nitrate, more than 100 taels of silver ingots and more than 300 catties of copper, a large number of cloth, cotton, vinegar and other daily necessities, as well as a small amount of silk and other valuables. After the grain, cured meat and some salt were transported to Hengyuan Town, they were used for the needs of the Hengyuan Fort under construction, and the rest of the materials were transported to Wanjiazhai. In addition to the strong laborers and craftsmen who participated in the construction of Yokohara Fort, the rest of the people also went to the villages in the mountains to settle down. Only the seized iron coins were distributed to the people in the city, these iron coins were not only impurities but also rusty, and Cao Ergou really looked down on these low-quality coins.