Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1260 Anping Falls
The voice behind the curtain grew louder, and Xue Ziliang could hear heavy panting. He raised his rifle and put the butt of the gun to his shoulder—there was no one to capture alive, and he would rather use bullets to interrogate when there was a potential threat.

The Hokkien translator yelled again, this time adding a sentence: "If you don't come out, shoot!"

Finally, a woman's trembling voice came from behind the curtain: "Don't shoot!" A woman in her 30s came out from behind the curtain, and she looked like a servant girl in her clothes.Probably because he was afraid to hide in the house when he heard the sound of gunfire.

Seeing Xue Ziliang and his party, she quickly knelt down and begged.Xue Ziliang couldn't understand what she said, so the Hokkien translator said a few words to her, and the translator said: "She said she is a servant here, hiding here, please don't kill her..."

"Take her out to the captive team." Xue Ziliang said.However, the slanting eyes of his wife when he was taken out made him feel that something was wrong. Xue Ziliang put the gun to his shoulder and signaled the team members to go to the next step of the search.

The team members lifted the curtain, and there was a couch behind, empty and empty, but when the couch was opened, there was a child hiding under it.

"There's a boy!"

Xue Ziliang glanced at the boy brought in front of him—about six or seven years old, with a handsome face and well-dressed clothes. Although he was in a sudden catastrophe, he was still able to remain calm and not cry or make trouble. Obviously, he was not a child of ordinary people.

Xue Ziliang looked carefully, and suddenly called out in Japanese: "Fu Song!"

The boy was taken aback, his eyes widened, and he responded unconsciously.

"Immediately report to the headquarters, I have captured Zheng Sen." As a banana man, Xue Ziliang didn't know the historical status of the boy in front of him in the history of the late Ming Dynasty in the old time and space, but the Senate attached great importance to "Zheng Sen". is very clear.The boy's information was included in the identification manual for the important figures of the Zheng Group issued before the operation-the photo was blank.

"Send a few people to take him to the boat. Take good care of him." Xue Ziliang knew that this child is Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, and its importance is self-evident. He pointed at the woman just now, "Send this woman too."

At this time, the news that the entire mansion had been cleared came from everywhere, and the team leaders of each team came to report their search results.The damage to the entire mansion was not too serious. Although there were many places where damage was found, most of them were well preserved.They also found the accountant's bank in the mansion, which had been sealed.There is a large granary, which stores a large amount of grain, wine, oil, salt, dried meat and fish, enough to feed hundreds of people for a year.There is also an arsenal of weapons ranging from traditional swords to Japanese iron cannons and European muskets - and some very rare ones.

"We picked it up from the door." A corporal handed over a strange pistol.From the appearance, it looks like a revolver, but it is ornately decorated and exquisitely made. Xue Ziliang has a little understanding of antique weapons and knows that it is a revolver made in Europe. Skilled craftsmen take a lot of time to make it.

"I didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to hide such a good thing." Xue Ziliang tried to aim, and fired again, a little bit fond of it.He handed the pistol back to the corporal anyway:

"Go to the warehouse and wait for the people from the Planning Institute to receive it."

Ying Yu also came into the mansion—he came to evaluate the effect of the shelling. Seeing Xue Ziliang smoking a cigar thoughtfully, he asked, "Old Xue, the defense has been arranged. The troops heading to Nan'an and Jinjiang also It was sent out—I guess the Ming army on both sides will not respond. What else do we have to do now?"

"Now wait."

"Wait for what?"

"Wait for the people from the planning institute to come." Xue Ziliang said.

"We need to set up a headquarters." Ying Yu said, "This is not suitable."

Xue Ziliang also felt that there were so many houses here that it was inconvenient for people to come in and out.Besides, cleaning up the mansion is a matter for the Planning Institute and the Intelligence Bureau, so it is meaningless for them to stay here.So he took people to set up a headquarters on the tower.

Army and navy soldiers conducted a comprehensive search of Zheng's mansion under the command of intelligence agents.Every corpse in the mansion was identified and registered one by one by intelligence officers and prisoners in the empty field.Important people will also be photographed and fingerprinted.

All the captured prisoners were sent to Kinmen Island for detention-a temporary camp has been established there to house the prisoners.The special search team of the Planning Institute and the Action Team of the Intelligence Bureau led soldiers to search and seize the homes of key members of the Zheng Group in Anping City one by one.

The city was filled with terror, the four gates were guarded by army and navy soldiers with bayonets, and typewriters were set up on the gates of the city. The civilian husband who carried the corpse and the wounded.Squads of soldiers from the White Horse Squad and the Volunteer Squad who could not understand the words, carrying big sticks and Japanese knives, ran in a hurry under the command of the naturalized civilians, carrying out search and arrest work.For ordinary people in Anping, although the shelling began in the early morning, they were terrified, but except for a few unlucky ones who were killed by stray bullets, most of them were not in danger.Australians don't kill or rob, they just focus on searching and catching big households.

Boldly lying in the cracks of the windows and doors, looking outside, all the big households related to the Zheng family in the past, all of them were arrested. "High-class people", "upstarts", "relatives of so-and-so's family who can't be offended", the dead are thrown on the cart, and the carloads are dragged to the empty field to expose the corpses, and the living ones are used by the thieves. The rope was wrapped around the neck, dragged away one by one like catching rats, the rich and precious big wives, young wives, young masters, young ladies, like the most humble servants, barefoot, with loose hair, walking on the road crying— ―Whoever walks slower, the soldier who is being escorted is a big stick.Such a happy scene has never been seen by ordinary people who have been living in obedience. Some people have slapped themselves, some have bullied their wives and daughters, and some have been robbed by them and exploited wages Yes, each of them cried and laughed in their hearts, secretly saying: You also have today!
There are also those who ate leftovers from the rich and powerful in the past, those who pretended to be pretentious, and who were proud of being so-and-so diners, so-and-so's servants, and people who said "You also deserve the surname Zheng". This disturbance by the thief ruined the foundation of the Zheng family. They will not be able to eat leftovers in the future, and they are afraid that the thief will come to liquidate their past.

Xue Ziliang and Ying Yu didn't know what the people in the city were thinking about. What they were more concerned about was how much loot could be found here - after all, this was the main purpose of this battle.The elders sent by the Planning Institute to preside over the work brought a large-scale special search team.

Each team of the special search team is equipped with two translators who can speak Hokkien and are familiar with the situation in Anping. Many leading parties who wanted to get revenge or make a fortune emerged, and they all took the initiative to express their willingness to "lead the way to search for wealthy households."

The special search team has maps and registers in their hands-this is the result of the efforts of the intelligence personnel of the Foreign Intelligence Service for more than half a year-the role of the leading party is nothing more than to make the whole process more rapid and accurate.However, the search team of the Planning Institute has received strict orders, only to search for clues and arrest people by name, and not to act according to the revelations of the Leading Party.

The results of the search were remarkable. In Anping City, there were many mansions of middle and upper-level figures in the Zheng Group. Although many people were not in the mansions, their family members were all caught up.

Zheng Zhiwan, the Anping guard who was supposed to protect them, escaped alone: ​​as soon as the shelling stopped, he immediately took his family and servants, loaded the gold and silver treasures in his mansion into the car, and took his own soldiers with him. Ding escorted Caibao and his family members to escape from Kaesong, and fled directly to Jinjiang County.

Almost all the family members of many generals, treasurers, and stewards were captured, and their property also fell into the hands of the Senate.Zheng Zhilong's own mansion was not spared either. Not only was all his family property seized, but his wife Yan, eldest son Zheng Sen, Zheng Sen's biological mother Tian Chuan and other family members in Anping City were also captured.

All these captives were sent to prisoner camps for screening—there are leading parties everywhere who prostitute themselves or take revenge. They uncovered.

The public and private properties confiscated from various large households and warehouses piled up like a mountain, and they were counted one by one and packed away.Preliminary inventory: More than 80 taels of silver and more than 1 taels of gold were seized in Anping City, and more than 40 taels of silver were confiscated from the Zheng Mansion alone—this is still the result of not digging three feet into the ground. According to the traditional Chinese treasure According to the model, rich families are likely to hide more gold and silver treasures underground or inside the walls.

Xue Ziliang and Ying Yu, as the military commanders in the direction of Anping, are not responsible for the specific search operations in the city. The task given to him in Operation Overlord is very simple: to occupy Anping, and at the same time ensure Anping until the headquarters issues an order to retreat.For this reason, he sent multiple security teams to the Jinjiang and Nan'an counties, and at the same time sent a reconnaissance platoon from the army to the Nan'an and Jinjiang counties to carry out harassment operations to test the reaction of the Ming army in these two counties.

As a result, the cities of the two counties were closed, and almost all the troops stationed in the county remained motionless.The two groups of soldiers sent from Xiamen to pick up their families were defeated in a short battle.

(End of this chapter)