There were no surprises in the outcome of this battle.
Su Ze even thought that if future history books record this battle, more than twenty words will be the number of words used by historians.
In order to express himself, the Portuguese gunner fired as fast as he could, changed the barrel, and fired again.
Under the storm of steel, the personal ferocity of those Japanese became meaningless.
The faster you rush, the faster you die.
The power exerted by the Folan cannon not only confused the enemy, but also our own troops.
It was not until Su Ze gave the order to march that the soldiers of Changning Guards reacted and excitedly killed them.
With such a magical weapon behind you, why not rush forward!
The mining pirates led by Deng Dai had never seen such a scene before. They were overwhelmed by the mandarin duck formation.
Su Ze ordered everyone to shout: "Only kill the first culprit, surrender but not kill." The mining thieves put down their weapons one after another and squatted on the ground with their hands raised to express surrender.
Deng Dai knew that the situation was over, so he could only retreat with a few diehards.
But Lin Mojun didn't give him a chance to escape at all. The Changning Guard's cannon team came out from behind. After two rounds of volleys, Deng Dai, a tycoon who had been a gangster in Nanping for five years, died in the battle.
Su Ze counted and collected the surrendered mining bandits, while Lin Mojun led the people to identify the key members and rescue the injured. The two cooperated tacitly, and the battlefield was cleared by noon.
The Changning Guards captured 420 mining thieves this time, and also captured a man dressed as a Japanese alive. They also uncovered 20 key members of the Deng Dai Group. Other miners identified these as being involved in murder cases.
Immediately afterwards, Su Ze escorted some of the surrendered miners to the mountain stronghold where they gathered.
Deng Dai took all the men who could fight out, leaving only a few female family members in the stronghold. Su Ze appeased the families of the mining thieves and led others to inspect the stronghold.
Deng Dai is also ambitious. He has been in the mountains for four or five years and has already taken root here. Su Ze saw that the areas with slightly gentle terrain have been cultivated into terraces.
In addition to the fields, there are many mines behind the village, and a large amount of ore is also accumulated in the village.
Lin Mojun followed Su Ze, and the two of them climbed a hill near the village. Su Ze looked into the distance and said:
"There is something about Deng Dai. The location of this mountain stronghold is very critical. It is the gateway to the entire mountain. If they had not taken the initiative to go down the mountain, they would have paid a high price for a forced attack."
Lin Mojun also pointed out that the mountain stronghold was built at the end of a rugged mountain road. This road alone was enough to bring down most of the army's formations. There were also long-range weapons such as bows and arrows in the stronghold. Deng Dai also used wood to build the stronghold gate and city walls.
If we attack head-on, I'm afraid Changning Guards will have to pay a certain price to capture it.
Su Ze added: "The fields in these mountains are too thin. If you grow rice and wheat, you can only feed two hundred people. But if you grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, you can feed three or four hundred people."
Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and said, "Are you planning to open up wasteland here?"
Su Ze shook his head and said: "Of course it's not me, it's Changning Wei who wants to open up wasteland here."
"What?"
Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and heard Su Ze say:
"War is about to break out in the southeast. Doesn't Changning Guard need a stable rear?"
"This cottage is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it's not far from Changning Guard, just upstream of Jianxi River. Wouldn't it be a good place to house the elderly and the weak?"
Su Ze's words moved Lin Mojun's heart. Many of the fields in Changningwei were also mountain fields, and they were not much better than the fields in the village.
Deng Dai has been operating in the mountains for many years and has built many houses. He can definitely transfer some of the old, weak, women and children from Changningwei.
"What about these mining thieves?"
Su Ze said: "The backbone will naturally be sent to the prefecture and county to be handed over to the officials. The accomplices can stay in Changning Guard, like Xiong Wu, Zhu Qi and others, and train while opening fields in the village."
Lin Mojun said with some worry: "These mining bandits are no better than Zhu Qi and Xiong Wu. They have been bandits for many years and are wild and untamable."
Su Ze said: "Of course we can't let them gather together. We can separate them. Some of the unruly ones will be brought back to Changning Guard for training, and some of the honest ones will stay here and be divided into several groups to open up wasteland and practice."
Lin Mojun nodded and said, "What did the government say?"
Su Ze said with a smile: "It's not easy for the government. As long as you file a case in the household and register these fields, it will be regarded as the land reclaimed by our Changning Guard. The land of our guard's military camp does not need to be reported to the county government.
Tax."
Lin Mojun nodded and agreed to Su Ze's plan. The wasteland near Changningwei has been almost reclaimed and cannot accommodate so many mining thieves.
Su Ze's method can give Changning Guard a stable rear area and a large area of mountainous land. My grandpa will definitely agree.
Next, Su Ze came to the Juyi Hall in the village and began to interrogate the prisoners.
The backbone of the mining bandits were uncovered, and under Su Ze's coercion, they quickly told the truth.
As expected, the dead Deng Dai colluded with the Japanese pirates, and the group of Japanese warriors who led the charge were the Japanese swordsman team under King Lu.
I don’t know how Deng Dai got in touch with King Lu. This group of Japanese warriors found Deng Dai and persuaded Deng Dai to rebel.
Deng Dai also had some ambitions for a long time. He claimed to be a descendant of Deng Maoqi. At that time, Deng Maoqi's uprising spread across three provinces, and the imperial court paid high-ranking officials with generous salaries and imperial edicts.
Deng Dai didn't have much ambition. He just wanted to make the rebellion bigger and then wait for the imperial edict.
The two sides hit it off immediately and planned to take down Eunuch Hu's mine supervisor first, and then attack Nanping County.
Unexpectedly, this mine supervisor was also a tough guy and could not be defeated after a long attack, but the officers and soldiers of the Yanping Guard arrived.
At first, Deng Dai wanted to retreat into the mountains, but the Japanese insisted on fighting. Deng Dai led his troops and hid far behind. When he saw the Japanese warriors charging into the Yanping Guards' formation, he led his troops to fight out.
Deng Dai did not expect that these Japanese were so brave and the Yanping Guards were so cowardly. After the Yanping Guards' army was defeated, Deng Dai no longer had any fear of the government troops.
So when the Changning Guard came, Deng Dai went directly down the mountain to set up a formation, preparing to annihilate the Changning Guard's troops in one fell swoop.
"Where are the captured Yanping guards?"
The backbone of the mining thieves looked at each other, and Su Ze said: "You are not guilty of surrendering yourself."
A smart mining pirate leader said: "They were all killed by Deng Dai!"
Su Ze stood up and said, "Kill them all?"
This backbone suddenly knelt on the ground and said: "Deng Dai said that officials should be killed to rebel. If we don't kill officials, how can we rebel with peace of mind? So he forced all of us to take action and kill the surrendered officers and soldiers."
Su Ze clenched his hands. Although he had experienced the killings on the battlefield, this kind of killing still made him angry.
Su Ze snorted coldly: "Deng Dai died so easily, it really gave him an advantage."
Su Ze pointed at the backbone again and said, "Can you write?"
The backbone shook his head. Su Ze looked around again and raised his hand smartly: "Sir, I can write."
Su Ze asked him to go out: "Write down the crime he just described and ask him to write it down. The two of you will stay, and the rest will set off immediately to escort him to Nanping City."
These backbones immediately understood their fate. They were all the backbones who followed Deng Dai. They would definitely not end well when they arrived at Nanping City, so they knelt down and begged for mercy.
Su Ze naturally did not relent and ordered his soldiers to escort him immediately and set off.
Su Ze asked someone to escort the surviving Japanese pirate up again.
This guy had a real Japanese bun. Su Ze's heart moved and he said something in Japanese.
As expected, the Japanese man raised his head and answered in Japanese.
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Lin Mojun was no longer surprised by Su Ze's various strangenesses. He could even speak the language of Xiyi, and it was not surprising that he could speak a few words of Japanese.
It's just that Lin Mojun is still very curious about Su Ze's origins. It doesn't matter that this guy is good at literature and martial arts. He knows everything about farming and water conservancy craftsmen, and he can speak several languages. Is there really anyone in this world who is born with knowledge?
Su Ze communicated with the Japanese word by word, and finally figured out his origin.
This Japanese man's name is Sojiro, and he is a wandering samurai who cannot survive in the Japanese country.
He was a ronin recruited by King Lu, who sent him to Fujian. His mission was to contact mining bandits like Deng Dai and disrupt the situation in the southeast.
Su Ze asked about the movements of King Lu again, and Sojiro said enthusiastically that King Lu had gathered troops offshore and would land in September. Guards such as Changning Guard would definitely be massacred by then.
Su Ze had nothing to say to this kind of Japanese, so he had him kidnapped and sent to the government office.
After the matter was settled, a sergeant suddenly came to announce that the mine supervisor, Eunuch Hu, wanted to see Su Ze.
It turned out that Eunuch Hu had received the news that Deng Dai had been annihilated by the army, and he immediately came over with money to reward the army.
Su Ze did not want to meet the eunuch. As a modern man, he naturally had no good impression of the eunuch.
However, when I thought that Changning Guard would open a "sub-base" here in the future, it would inevitably have to deal with the mine supervisor on the edge of the mountain, so I asked the sergeant to bring Eunuch Hu in.
After meeting him, Su Ze felt that Eunuch Hu was low-key and modest, which was different from the rumored reputation of being a treacherous person.
When Su Ze interrogated key mining pirates before, they also admitted that the mine supervisors oppressing the miners was just an excuse to raise troops. The imperial mine supervisors had been very low-key in the mountains in recent years, and they did not exploit the miners too much. Most of those who fled to become mine pirates were
Envious mining pirates make money, and it is not like Deng Dai said that they can't survive being oppressed by the government.
Since this mine supervisor Hu had done no evil, Su Ze originally just wanted to deal with him and not disturb each other as neighbors in the future.
But while chatting, Su Ze became interested in this mine supervisor Hu.
Originally it was just a few words of greeting, but since he was a mine supervisor, the conversation naturally turned to the mine.
Eunuch Hu saw that Su Ze was a scholar and had a very gentle attitude towards him, so he couldn't help but say a few more words:
"In this mine of Zajia, the grass is the best in terms of lead. There is more lead but less silver. Only nine points of lead can be smelted to get one point of silver."
Hearing the lead, Su Ze suddenly became energetic.
The projectiles of the blunderbuss are made of lead, and the shotguns of the Franco machine guns are also made of lead-iron projectiles. The gun sprays lead when it fires.
Nowadays, movable type printing only produces more than 2,000 movable types. To increase printing efficiency, more movable types are needed, which also requires more lead.
Su Ze is still worried about the source of lead.
Unexpectedly, it took no effort to obtain it. Unexpectedly, I heard the word lead in the upper reaches of Jianxi River.
Su Ze asked quickly:
"What is grass knot lead?"
Eunuch Hu thought for a while and described:
"The ore has lines that look like grass knots, which is called grass knot lead. There are ore samples where the Za family lives. This kind of ore can be obtained by calcining it with fire, but it is much more troublesome to smelt silver, which is why
The reason why Zajia has been mining for several years without any success."
Eunuch Hu said angrily: "These poor mines are still the remaining mines of the Song Dynasty. If the Za family hadn't discovered two more mines, the veins would have been exhausted long ago!"
Su Ze looked at Eunuch Hu with bright eyes, this guy is a treasure!
Su Ze changed his previous attitude and said enthusiastically: "It is indeed not easy to be a supervisor. Can you tell Su about the mine in the mountain?"
When talking about his professional issues, Eunuch Hu immediately became confused:
"Although silver mines are rare in this mountain, there are many other mines. The Zajia family discovered a lime mine a few days ago."
Lime, this is also a good thing!
Su Ze continued to ask: "Are there iron and coal?"
Eunuch Hu shook his head and said: "There is also hematite in the mountains, but the Za family has also built a blast furnace to smelt it. There is not much iron produced. It must be a poor ore, and it is not cost-effective to refining it."
"Coal is not available. The Dajian furnace at the Yanping Prefecture Iron Works uses Gan coal or charcoal."
After these few words, Su Ze knew that this eunuch Hu was a complete technical expert!
Su Ze's attitude was more respectful. He introduced himself and said: "Chang Ning Wei Su Ze, I don't know the honorable name of the mine supervisor."
"Are you Su Rulin from Changning Guard?"
Are you already so famous? Mine Superintendent Hu immediately said: "Hu Zhen, a disabled person who works in the palace is not worth mentioning. Hu has read Su Xianggong's articles. With his literary talent, he will definitely be able to go to high school and be in the palace in the future.
Pay homage to the Prime Minister!"
Hu Zhen? Su Ze has never heard of this name in history books. Maybe this eunuch Hu is unknown in history, or he simply died in Deng Dai's rebellion.
Just because someone doesn't have a name in the history books doesn't mean they don't have the ability. Just like Lin Mojun, he didn't have a name in the history books either.
I have to say that eunuchs are good at flattering people. No wonder the emperor loves to use eunuchs.
However, Su Ze was ready to rebel, but he was not interested in worshiping the prime minister.
"Eunuch Hu is too praised. Su is not even a scholar. How can he talk about becoming the prime minister?"
Su Ze added: "Eunuch Hu, just now you said that you collected the ore from the nearby mine? Can Su take a look? Also, can you take a look at the smelting workshop in the mine supervisor?"
Eunuch Hu did not expect that Su Ze, a scholar, would be interested in minerals. He said: "This is natural. Mr. Su is also interested in quarrying?"
Su Ze said: "The study of things leads to knowledge. The ore also contains great knowledge. Eunuch Hu worked for the emperor and mined for the court, and he also contributed to the country!"
Eunuch Hu was about to burst into tears. Ever since he left the palace, he had been scolded as a "quan eunuch" by scholars. The scholars in Nanping County did not look upon him well.
Su Ze, a famous scholar in Yanping Prefecture, praised himself so highly that Eunuch Hu even made him his confidant.
"Ms. Su, please come this way!"
The cottage was not far from the mine supervisor. Su Ze quickly followed Eunuch Hu to his storage room. Eunuch Hu pointed at the ore on the museum shelf and said:
"Ms. Su, this is the Cao Jie Lead Stone I just mentioned."
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