Chapter 59: Coerced Confessions
Xu Jinmei's pirate composition is very mixed, and it is the same as the composition of the Japanese pirates in various places along the coast, mixed with Ming, Japanese, Chao, Ma people, etc., and there are even a few Francophone people.
Hao Jingao was thrown into chaos by the First World War, and the four thousand-pound guns of the southern fort were dismantled, and I don't know how they were carried down; The granite exterior wall of the Fort in the Square was bombarded with potholes, and the thick wooden door of the city hall was shattered by artillery, all thanks to Chen Mu's fleet.
As for the surrounding shops, squares, and rocky ground being torn apart by shells, it was the matter of the old man of the cannon factory.
More than 100 pirates were caught, some of the fish escaped from the wild beach into the sea, and small groups of pirates got into the mountains, and Deng Zilong was leading people to pursue.
"Pick out Akito." Chen Mu didn't have a good face, and waved his hand impatiently: "The rest of the beheadings, together with these corpses, find a nearby and many reefs in the sea and throw them on, yes, there are also Ming people in the corpses, behead them and go to Xishan to dig a big pit and bury them, and send the heads to Guangcheng." β
"The order went down, and those who robbed the war profits and harassed the store went to Xishan as soon as possible and buried themselves, accusing them of rewarding and concealing the same crime."
Fu Yuan and a few other hundred households were ordered to go down to collect the spoils of war, and after taking two steps, Fu Yuan turned his head back and asked in a low voice: "Qianhu, what are the looted property?" β
"You say the booty of the pirates?"
The corners of Chen Mu's mouth turned up a little, turned to recover, and said: "Don't let people say that our military discipline is not good, distinguish those things clearly, and give them half to make up for the loss." β
With the support of artillery, the casualties of the banner army were still not large, but the casualties of Li Dan and Hua Yu were very large, and even Hua Yu himself was hit in the arm by the Japanese bird in the battle.
Chen Mu originally wanted Hua Yu to be treated at the nearby church hospital in Hao Jing O, but before Hua Yu was sent to the hospital in the east, Chen Mu sent someone to recall him quickly, and sent a ship to send him to Xiangshan to be treated by the military doctor Cheng Old Man.
For at the time of the execution of the captive, an Italian working for the Portuguese took a cup and made a request to Shao Tingda, who was in charge of the execution, in his less proficient Chineseβhe wanted to hold a cup of blood and, after the execution, obtain the skull of the convict to offer to his master.
In addition to him, there were several Franco-scarves who were eager to try, and these people were all nobles.
This matter is not exclusive to the aristocracy, those poor people who do things for the nobility are even more fanatical, but a bloody war has just ended, and they are also afraid of Chen Mu, the 'butcher' in their eyes, so they don't dare to make a mistake.
The human corpse has always been a good medicine in the Western world.
This not only reminded Chen Mu of the terrifying impression of a medieval doctor with a leg ache sawing his leg and a headache and cutting off his head, but the person killed by an excellent doctor in the West was afraid that Chen Mu would not be able to compare with the Japanese for another two years.
Hua Yu, who was sent to Xiangshan, didn't know that because a small lead pellet that had been punched into his arm and did not hurt his bones made him walk through the ghost gate.
Those Francois nobles were driven away by Shao Tingda's banner army, and the banner army surrounded the council square, so that the execution inside was properly carried out, and the living Ming pirates were bound and watched all this, and the long knife and sharp axe cut around the neck of the Fanyi pirates seemed to make them feel painful.
Some people are silent and trembling like chaff, some people are scolding and pretending to be bold, and some people are looking up and laughing to hide their cowardice, but when they are about to die, no one can really stop their hearts.
Chen Mu patted Wei Balang's brain, the little eighth master was wearing the armor of the Japanese Emperor, but the armor had been removed from all unnecessary things under Chen Mu's strict order, and it was worn under a thin military uniform. He didn't allow the eighth master to wear an iron pocket that looked very funny, and specially asked Guan Yuangu to give Xiaoba a certain iron flap helmet, which looked quite energetic.
It's right to give him the Japanese armor, when this dead child is growing up, he is eating well now, and the iron armor from the Japanese is a little small after only half a year, and now the size is almost close to Fu Yuan, and it is estimated that Wei Balang will be as tall as Fu Yuan next year.
"Go and tell the captives that I want all the news they know about the pirates at sea, and I will release three people, and whoever says first will die later, and whoever says more will live." Chen Mu said and pointed to Wei Balang and said: "If you are willing to say it, take it to the side for interrogation separately, ask it out and confess to the other party, the two copies are different, and both of them will be executed; If no one wants to say, take this. β
Chen Mu asked for a fire rope from the flag army who pulled out the guard, pulled out the short saber he carried and cut a few equal threads, and handed it to Hachiro, saying, "Burn one and send one to behead." β
"Where is Zeng Yiyi, how is he going to fight Guangzhou, what is going on with Guanghaiwei, and what other plans does the Japanese have yet."
Chen Mu didn't look over, "Go ahead, go ask about these." β
No matter how much life and death he has seen, he can't avoid the impact of physical injuries and other things on his state of mind, even if he knows that these people are dying to eliminate harm for the people, it can't avoid making him feel uncomfortable from the bottom of his heart.
But his banner army was happy, because they were going to get rich.
The spoils of this battle were extremely rich, and after Chen Mu ordered to punish several flag soldiers who hid and snatched the booties without authorization, he issued an order to the whole army to allocate hundreds of small boats of all kinds captured in the booty to their military surplus, in addition to the fact that when the booties were sold thickly, there would be two components for the flag army participating in the war.
Some of the rest are used as compensation for the death of the Xiangshan Office, and some are used as bureaucrats of the Guangzhou Prefecture, and Chen Mu estimates that there should be four to fifty percent of the people who can stay in the Xiangshan Thousand Households Office in the end.
This is a huge amount of money, not to mention that he also got two lucky ships that were devastated after being bombarded, as well as a large number of ordnance.
The centipede ship followed Huayu back to Xiangshan and refilled the gunpowder. Even if it is just a small cannon used for anti-personnel personnel such as the Franc machine, the result of the bombardment is devastating, but the consumption of gunpowder is also quite huge, and more than 400 catties of gunpowder were consumed in just one battle.
When I went back, I had to find the Guangzhou government to allocate gunpowder.
Discussed with the Francois nobles of Haojing to let them pay for the repair of the port, of course, there was a lot of fighting for the profits, but they really didn't have much strength, and their waists were not hard when they spoke.
Lao Duolu, the only one who had a good impact on the battle situation, did not suffer the slightest loss, and after Chen Mu privately asked him to build two 500-pound copper cannons for Xiangshan, he smiled from ear to ear.
Of course, the price is more favorable, especially in the case of Chen Mu's gunmetal materials.
He didn't know what to do with the copper in his hand.
When Wei Balang put the information he was forced to ask on the desk of Chen Mu, who was resting in the city hall, the dead child's face was unprecedentedly serious.
"Qianhu, the attack on Guanghaiwei was more than 600 widows who crossed the sea, all of them were widows, they were accepted last autumn, and they received a good book to attack Guanghai Acropolis, and did not fight elsewhere."
Wei Balang said: "Zeng Yi, no one knows where he is, Xu Jinmei came out of the island by himself, but they all know that Zeng Yiyi is sending people to recruit troops from all over the country to ask for help, and this thief still wants to fight Guangzhou." β
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Note: The idea of necropsy originated in the Middle Ages, flourished in the Renaissance, and continued to be practiced until the eighteenth century.