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Chapter 1312 Welcome back
The attic of the Puli County Yamen exploded.

Ying Ming, who had had his meal when the explosion happened, was lying on the bed on the second floor taking a nap, when suddenly an earth-shattering explosion sounded from above his head, and Ying Ming, who was in his sleep, was frightened and flew out of the window in the standard posture of a Beiyang infantry dodging shells. , He fell heavily on the grass like a cannonball.

Fortunately, Ying Ming didn't plan to sleep too deeply. He had to supervise the battalion drills in the afternoon, and it was still a little cold in the shady room after the rain, so he didn't take off his cotton jacket, so he didn't break his arms and legs.

Even so, his body was covered in mud and his head was bloody from the fall, and he looked extremely embarrassed.

After being picked up by the servant who rushed over after hearing the news, the commander did not understand what was going on for a while——I was sleeping soundly on the bed, why did I go outside as soon as I opened my eyes?

Looking back, all the stained glass windows on the third-floor attic were shattered, and an old man with a smoky face and a dizzy head fell from the window before he could speak.

There was chaos in the yamen for a while, some people shouted for water, some people ran to call for a doctor, two teams of Muye soldiers who heard the news came from the street outside the yamen, armed with knives and guns, and led by the Alan cavalry, came to support.

Ying Ming, who had come to his senses, instinctively wanted to yell. Seeing the old Taoist's distressed appearance, he couldn't say anything about the evil words stuck in his throat... He felt that his appearance was miserable enough, but he didn't expect the old Taoist's appearance to be worse than him. Much worse.

The Taoist hat flew to nowhere. It seemed that he fell from upstairs and broke his arm and twisted his foot. Especially the Taoist robe on the back seemed to be burnt into large pieces, and even his buttocks were burned black. He was still humming in pain on the stretcher, and he was still muttering something.

"Now I know hehe, who told you to play grenades upstairs by yourself, you are crazy!"

Ying Ming got closer, but his anger still couldn't subside. He always thought that the old Taoist was studying alchemy upstairs. Although it was a bit strange, he didn't care. Alchemy is alchemy. It doesn't hurt if you don't make gold.

Who knew he was making grenades upstairs, what the hell, gold can still explode from the grenade?Then the richest person in the fucking world should be Marshal Chen!

Ying Ming, who had no way to vent his anger, thought about this with a disdainful smile on his face, and suddenly stopped... Isn't Marshal Chen the richest person in the world?
Thinking about it this way, maybe the old way of alchemy is right.

The commander originally wanted to get closer to blame the old man, but when he got closer, he heard the old man on the stretcher humming over and over again, so he listened.

"Shock, drink, silver, fire and explosion, ouch, butt hurts...Shock, drink, silver, fire and explosion..."

Just these few sentences over and over again, but Ying Ming couldn't understand, which annoyed Ying Ming, and said: "What are you surprised by? Tell you, the old Taoist, it's time for me to suppress my shock—you hurry up and get him!" Take the carriage to the military medical camp, don't die, Xiao Si, take the two of you to the second floor and take all my things down."

"It should be burnt out later."

The old Taoist also said that his butt hurts. Doesn’t the butt of our commanding officer not hurt anymore? He jumped out of the broken window on the second floor in his dream. Facts have proved that sometimes superb combat skills are not so good.

The whole Puli County was alarmed by the Taoist chief's big move. Fortunately, they are still in the middle of the war, especially after the city army outside the city once missed the catapult and smashed into the city. Direct and automatic military control.

The Baojia soldiers who blocked the neighborhood were not completely removed, but only reduced their personnel after the battle. They had enough emergency plans. When the explosion sounded, even though the Muye soldiers on duty at the street corner did not know what happened, their first reaction was to enter In a state of battle, the people are restrained to stay in the house.

Of course, being too nervous has its disadvantages. People are panicking, thinking that the British royal army is coming again, and the people's hearts, which were originally calm, are agitated again.

As a result, people found that except for the smoke from the attic of the yamen, other places were still doing what they should do, and even the salt, grain, and money boxes brought back from outside the city did not stop. It was really... so disappointing.

Salt and food are the adopted son of Li Yuxi’s caravan, Joseph, who is talking about the ransom with the captive English nobles. No matter which country they are in, most of the children who died in the war are the children of ordinary people, and the nobles have better protection. Even if they are chased, they can steal a life by chance.

Even if the Ming army did not have the concept of arresting prisoners, they would not kill all those who surrendered with their weapons. Most of the plate armor soldiers who were injured and fainted during the battle would also be disarmed and imprisoned.

Except for the unlucky Earl Charles, who was stunned by Ying Ming's use of salt to measure his value, and wanted to show off his wealth when he was full, the normal nobles passed the news to their castle after Josepha negotiated the ransom, and prepared a sum of money. No more, no less money for life was released.

The ransom is not just money, basically as long as it is produced by their manor and subordinate farms, the Pliming army wants it, even animals such as cattle, sheep and horses.

Of course, the price of life is not limited to paying real money. I don’t know what method Joseph, the Spaniard, used. In short, every English nobleman released by the Ming army will swear that no matter what the conditions are, as long as the kingdom recruits They will refuse to fight against the Ming army.

If they really can't refuse, they will imitate their ancestors who were unwilling to serve overseas in the past, bring a bow and an arrow, shoot the arrow on the battlefield and return home.

However, the battle that ended on the sea failed to capture many nobles. Except for the two ships whose masts were broken, they surrendered. After landing, as long as they don't hold weapons, they look no different from ordinary people and are difficult to catch. Therefore, a large number of sailors took this opportunity to escape.

What's more, to be honest, the Ming army was not keen on capturing prisoners. The Muye soldiers recruited from the ten tribes of the Iroquois and Huron were originally prepared by Yang Zhaolong to deal with the European pirates attacking the coast. The goal is to kill all enemies.

Therefore, he does his work cleanly and neatly, and he can kill him with one knife and never do it again.

If it weren't for the fact that too many enemies surrendered in the land battle, Puli County wouldn't have taken so many prisoners. There are less than a thousand prisoners, and the Muye soldiers still regard those enemies who have been poisoned by the crossbow and have lost their ability to move. The result of surrender and execution.

Otherwise there will be more prisoners.

Ordinary soldiers and captives were of little value to the Ming army. After disarming, they worked outside the city for half a month, built a few camps, moved some goods, and reclaimed some wasteland. Later, they thought it was a waste of food. Ying Ming’s side He negotiated with the generals to release all the prisoners.

And welcome them to come back armed better next time.

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)