The attic of the Yamen in Puli County blew up.

Ying Ming, who had eaten at the time of the explosion, was lying on the bed on the second floor taking a nap, when suddenly an earth-shattering explosion sounded from his head, and the sleeping commander Ying was frightened into the standard posture of the Beiyang infantry to dodge the shells, crashed through the window and flew out, and fell heavily on the grass like a cannonball.

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

Even so, he was covered in mud and bleeding, and he looked extremely embarrassed.

After being helped up by the family who rushed to hear the news, the commander didn't understand what was going on for a while--I slept in bed, why did I go outside as soon as I woke up?

Looking back, the stained glass windows of the three-story attic were all shattered, and an old man with a smoky face fell from the window before he could speak.

There was a mess in the yamen for a while, some people shouted to go to the water, some people ran to call the doctor, and two teams of Muye soldiers who rushed to the street outside the yamen heard the news with swords and guns, and the following teams led by the Ailan cavalry rushed to support.

Ying Ming, who came to his senses, instinctively wanted to scold, looking at the old man's embarrassed appearance, but he couldn't say anything about the evil words in his throat...... He felt that his appearance was miserable enough, but he didn't expect that the old Taoist priest's appearance was much worse than him.

The Dao Hat didn't know where to fly, it looked like he fell from the upstairs and broke his arm, and his feet were twisted, especially the Dao robe behind him looked like it was burned in large pieces, and even his buttocks were burned black.

"Now I know that hum, who let you play with a grenade by yourself upstairs, it's crazy!"

Ying Ming got closer, but the anger in his heart still couldn't come down, he always thought that the old Taoist priest was pondering alchemy upstairs, although it was a little strange but he didn't care, alchemy was alchemy, and it didn't hurt if he didn't refine gold.

Who knew he was getting a grenade upstairs, and what the hell, gold could still blow up from the grenade? Then the richest person in the world should be Chen Dashuai!

Ying Ming, who had no way to vent his anger, suddenly paused when he thought of this with a disdainful smile on his face...... Isn't the richest person in the world Chen Dashuai?

Thinking about it this way, maybe the direction of alchemy is right.

The commander originally wanted to get closer and blame Lao Dao, but when he got closer, he heard Lao Dao humming and chirping on the stretcher repeatedly, so he pricked up his ears and listened.

"Shock, drunkenness, silver shock, fire and explosion, ouch butt hurt...... Shock, drunkenness, silver shock, fire and explosion......"

Turning over and over these few sentences, and he didn't understand it, Ying Ming was very annoyed, and said: "What is this shocking and that shocking, tell you the old Taoist, now I should suppress the surprise the most - you quickly get him into the carriage and send him to the military medical camp, don't die, Xiaosi, take the two of you to the second floor to take down my things." ”

"It's going to burn out later."

The old Taoist priest also said that his buttocks hurt, shouldn't the buttocks of the commander hurt anymore, and he jumped out of the broken window on the second floor in a dream, and it turned out that his combat skills were superb and sometimes not so good.

The whole Puli County was alarmed by the big action of the governor, but fortunately, they were still in the midst of the war, especially after the incident that the city army outside the city had shot a catapult and smashed into the city, the people directly and automatically took military control as soon as they heard any noise.

The armor guards who blockaded the neighborhood were not completely removed, but they reduced their personnel after the battle, and they had sufficient emergency response plans, and as soon as the explosion sounded, although the Makino soldiers on duty on the street corner did not know what was happening, their first reaction was to enter a combat state and restrain the people to stay in their houses.

Of course, there is a disadvantage in being too nervous, and people are rumbling that the royal army of England is coming again, and the people's hearts, which had tended to be calm, are restless again.

As a result, people found that except for the smoke from the attic of the yamen, there was still nothing to do in other places, and even the salt, grain, and boxes of money brought back from outside the city did not stop...... It's disappointing.

Salt and grain, it was Joseph, the righteous son of Li Yuxi's caravan, who was talking about ransom with the captive English nobles, no matter what country they were in, more people died in the war were the children of the common people, and the nobles had better protection so that even if they were pursued, they could get away with stealing a life.

Even if the Ming army did not have the concept of capturing prisoners, they would not always kill all those who laid down their arms and surrendered, and most of the plate armor soldiers who were injured and fainted in battle would be disarmed and imprisoned.

Except for the unlucky Earl Charles, who was stunned by Ying Ming's salt to measure his value and showed off his wealth, the normal nobles all passed the news to their castle after Joseph negotiated the ransom, and was released after preparing a sum of money to buy his life.

The ransom is not only money, basically as long as it is produced by their manor and subordinate farms, the Plimin army wants it, even living creatures such as cattle, sheep and horses.

Of course, the cost of life is not limited to paying real money, I don't know what method Joseph used, the Spaniard, in short, every English nobleman who was released by the Ming army would swear that no matter what the conditions, as long as the kingdom recruited them to fight against the Ming army, they would refuse.

They really can't refuse, they will follow the example of their ancestors who were reluctant to serve overseas in the past, bring a bow and an arrow, shoot this arrow on the battlefield and return home.

However, the battle that ended on the sea did not capture many nobles, and when the ship surrendered except for two ships with broken masts, the rest of the crew took advantage of the darkness to drive the ship to the east bank of the Prim River, abandoned the ship and fled by land.

What's more, to tell the truth, the Ming army was not keen on capturing prisoners, and the Muye soldiers recruited from the ten tribes of Iroquois and Hurons were originally prepared by Yang Zhaolong to deal with European pirates attacking the coast.

Therefore, he can do a clean job, and he can be killed with one knife and never cut a second knife.

If it weren't for the fact that too many enemies surrendered in land battles, Puli County would not have had to accept so many prisoners, and this less than 1,000 prisoners, or the Makino soldiers regarded those enemies who were poisoned by the crossbow and incapacitated as the result of not surrendering and executing.

Otherwise there will be more captives.

Ordinary soldier prisoners were not of so much value to the Ming army, and after being disarmed, they worked outside the city for half a month, built a few camps, moved some goods, and reclaimed some wasteland.

And welcome them back next time they are better armed.