For Gao Shiwei and Lu Yonggui, who were hidden in the depths of the mountains, the most painful time came.

Since Gao Shifu was suddenly defeated and became a bandit, he was not prepared at all. However, he suffered several defeats in succession, several of his cronies died, captured prisoners, and escaped, and only a dozen half-crippled guards of hundreds of people followed. If it weren't for the old Lu Yonggui who had always been taken in, he had no experience as a bandit, I was afraid that he would have been discovered and dealt with by the bandit army a long time ago.

Thinking about the fact that he was originally a prince, but now he is about to become the leader of the bandits under the fence, he can't help but feel regretful.

Lu Yonggui, who is accustomed to the life of falling grass, suffers from the fact that there is not much food in storage, and the ammunition is one shot and one less round. As for medicine, needless to say, when the bandits encounter illness, they can only resign themselves to fate, and they can't get through it, so they can only count their own fate.

I have been a bandit for so long, and it is my duty to dig deep holes in my nest and build a wide wall, so how can there be a shortage of food? The reason is that most of the bandits in various places have collapsed after this round of encirclement and suppression by the bandit army, and some of the desperate bandits have "admired" and defected to the Hu bandit gang; The other part purely felt that the enemy was no match for the powerful bandit army, and partnered with Lu Yonggui with the idea of enjoying the shade of the tree.

In this way, there are several times more people at once, in the spirit of righteousness in the rivers and lakes, Lu Yonggui can't drive them away, otherwise if it spreads, who will follow him in the future? However, the grain has been controlled by the bandit army, and the area has simply choked the bright and dark lines that originally sent grain to the bandits. There are countless gold and silver jewelry that have been looted, but they cannot be eaten! I knew that I would store more, and I always wanted to wait for the autumn harvest to grab some from the people from all over the country. The people take food as the sky, and the bandits are also people!

At this time, Lu Yonggui stayed in the Changbai Mountains on the border of China and North Korea, on the bank of the Yalu River, and his old nest was still 100 miles away from Linjiang County. The transportation here is inconvenient, the population and language are mixed, and the safety factor is larger, but it is not a food production area. In the past, small batches of daily grain came from robberies in Sixiali, and large quantities of grain were secretly provided by a new big family surnamed Huang in Linjiang County. Of course, bandits are not a good reputation, but the big family surnamed Huang has become one of the most wealthy families in Linjiang County in less than two years by relying on his dealings with him.

Following the complete victory in the Battle of Tonghua, the Guards Division led by Zhang Hanqing successively took control of Baishan, Jiangyuan, and Fusong counties, trapping Lu Yonggui firmly in this wedge-shaped mountain area embedded in a radius of 100 miles. It is not cost-effective to go into the mountains to suppress bandits at present: there are many bandits, and they occupy a favorable geographical position, and the important thing is that the mountain roads are very unsuitable for the use of artillery. And without artillery as a force to attack the fortification, the cost of forcibly attacking the mountain can be known. The Guards Division is the foundation of Zhang Hanqing, and he is reluctant to sacrifice these talents who have been cultivated with great difficulty.

No need to fight, just sleepy, will starve nearly 5,000 bandits to death, unless they cross the Yalu River to Japanese-controlled Korea. It is true that the Japanese once funded Lu Yonggui and others, but that was to harm China, and when their outlaws entered the Japanese-occupied Korea, it would be another possibility.

Therefore, Zhang Hanqing issued an order, "Those who collude with internal and external parties, collaborate with bandits, especially food, medicine, and ammunition, will be shot directly once discovered!" "The reason why it is so murderous is because the success of the bandit suppression is at hand, and if Lu Yonggui's gang is solved, there will basically be no big beards in the whole territory of Jilin, and this critical moment cannot fall short.

Under heavy pressure, although the Huang family had accumulated a lot of grain before, they did not dare to risk killing their heads to trade with the bandits. Money is a good thing, but it also has to be spent on life!

Zhang Hanqing set up bayonets on several necessary routes to enter the bandit area, prohibiting the entry of any military supplies. Not far away, a regiment of troops was stationed, with a few cannons, although there were many bandits, but to break through this line of defense, it was impossible to do without huge casualties, after all, it was the difference between the regular army and the miscellaneous army. This was confirmed by Lu Yonggui through several unsuccessful battles. Moreover, there are many cavalry posts between the garrison and the county seat, which can transmit the news as quickly as possible, and the speed of the reinforcements is definitely faster than that of the bandits, although the bandits are skilled in horsemanship.

In the name of deputy commander-in-chief of the suppression of bandits and supreme commander of the suppression of bandits in Jilin, Zhang Hanqing intensified the control of the grain of the bearded people at the county and township levels under the control of all parts of the province: In the mountainous areas and forests where the beards are infested, he did not care about it, but he intensified propaganda in the administrative jurisdiction, implemented the joint guarantee system, and strengthened the control of grain in the beard-prone areas---- and often as soon as the grain was collected, the government forcibly collected the vast majority of the grain in addition to ensuring the grain of the local population.

Although the government is a fair trade, money for food, but the blow to the beards is a major ---- the number of people is small, it is not easy to survive, the number of people is too large to grab food, the amount of food can not meet the requirements, and the goal is also large. Even if a large amount of money is grabbed, it is still difficult to exchange grain: At present, I heard that all the grain purchased by the government has been transported to Harbin, Fengtian, and other big cities for foreign exchange, and the control over grain is very strict.

Orders were sent from the remote county town of Linjiang to all parts of the province, and the momentum of one after another made it impossible for the bandits to gain a foothold. Zhang Hanqing demanded that after eliminating a large number of bandits, the army should be resolutely placed on the situation of settling down the localities, and that all regions should form a huge militia contingent accordingly, which should be subordinate to the people's armed forces in various localities; The police department should set up a police station, that is, a police station, in each township. In order to supplement the shortcomings of these two forces, which focus on people's livelihood, paramilitary units have also been set up in various county towns and important strongholds in rural areas---- and the idea of armed police forces has also appealed to their minds. In this way, the main combat forces will be freed up and will not be reduced to local security forces. In the future, these paramilitary forces could also be used to form a first line of defense, which would serve as a buffer against the Japanese-occupied territory in the northeast.

Zhang Hanqing, who is far away from the rivers and lakes and still cares about the whole situation, naturally will not let go of the largest group of bandits under his nose. He anxiously judged the bits and pieces of the news, and then thought about his next move.

The effect of the siege was obvious: according to the intelligence officers of the "Fengqi Bureau" who had penetrated into the bandits' army, the Hu bandits, who were short of food, had already begun to kill their horses and relieve their hunger. Horses are the second life of beards, especially on the shore of white mountains and black waters, without horses, it is almost impossible to walk on two legs. At this point, it means that the living conditions of the bandits have reached a critical point.

There are many stories of careless loss of Jingzhou in history, and Zhang Hanqing does not dare to guarantee that the bandits who have been entrenched here for many years do not have a few effective helpers. At this critical time, it is difficult to ensure that someone jumps over the wall in a hurry, and does something for the sake of profit, and there are a few roads leading to the mountain.

He squeezed some troops from all over the place where he had been secured, and sent more than a dozen cavalry detachments to patrol around, just for peace of mind, but he didn't want to really find out what was going on.