Xu Guangqi is also worried about this problem, Shengfan refuses to surrender, they can't concentrate on the development of Dongfan, but this problem is really difficult to solve, the Ming Dynasty in order to make Yunnan, Guizhou Tusi subjugated, it took hundreds of years with them, and in the end they still had nothing to do, so they could only maintain a de facto independent state. So Xu Guangqi couldn't give Guo Zhiyuan any good advice, just frowned and said nothing.

At this time, Zeng Qisheng, who had been standing on the side and had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "My lord, there is a strategy that may be able to make Shengfan surrender!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan has not arranged specific errands for Zeng Qisheng, and only kept him by his side to assist him in doing some miscellaneous tasks such as official document processing, which is equivalent to his own secretary, on the one hand, to observe Zeng Qisheng's talent, and on the other hand, to polish his arrogance. And Zeng Qisheng didn't get emotional because of this, he could learn a lot by following Guo Zhiyuan, on the other hand, he also knew that it was easier to be reused by Guo Zhiyuan's side, so he had been waiting for an opportunity and easily did not express his opinion.

Seeing that Guo Zhiyuan was worried about Shengfan's refusal to surrender, he knew that his opportunity had come, so he did his homework, and went to the Pingpu people to learn more about the living habits of the Atayal people, and went to the regimental training villagers who had fought with the Atayal people to learn about the situation of several battles, and he knew the bottom of his heart.

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, Guo Zhiyuan's interest was aroused, and he asked happily: "What is Mr. Zeng's plan?" ……”

Zeng Qisheng smiled confidently and said: "It's not difficult to make Shengfan surrender, the adults have won a lot of battles with the Atayal people several times, only because the Atayal people hide in the mountains and forests and refuse to fight with my Wang Shi head-on, then we can surrender them as long as we force the Atayal people to go out of the mountains and forests to fight with us!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan frowned and said, "But the Atayal people live in the mountains and forests, how can they be willing to go out of the mountains and forests to fight with us?" ……”

Zeng Qisheng continued to analyze: "If it is really impossible on weekdays, but now is a good time, the Atayal people live on hunting and mountain field burning, now the winter is coming, the birds and beasts in the mountains are about to enter the hibernation period, the Atayal people are difficult to eat only by hunting, and they are bound to rely on the rice produced by farmland cultivation to survive the winter, these days the rice planted by our tuntian has been ripe and harvested, the temperature in the mountains is lower than the plain, the rice planted by the Atayal people should not be ripe to harvest, adults can send a large army into the mountains again, this time there is no need to entangle with life, Directly smash its nest and burn all the fields it cultivates in the mountains and all the rice it harvests, the Atayal people have no rice to survive the winter, so they can only go down the mountain to grab grain, and then the adults can set up an ambush to wipe them out! ……”

"Wonderful!" Guo Zhiyuan excitedly slapped the case, pointed at Zeng Qisheng and laughed: "Mr. Zeng is really a blockbuster if he doesn't make a sound, with this wonderful strategy, why worry about not surrendering!" ……”

The soldiers were fast, Guo Zhiyuan immediately summoned the group to train the township soldiers to enter the mountain again, the Atayal people repeated their old tricks, and kept sending small units to harass, but this time Guo Zhiyuan changed his strategy, and did not pay attention to the harassment of the Atayal people, and ordered the regiment to train the villagers not to chase the enemy, and when they set up camp, they also built the camp like an iron bucket, and waited for the battle, not to give the Atayal people a chance to sneak attack, so that although the marching speed was very slow, it also made the Atayal people have nowhere to speak, so they could only send scouts to follow and stare at the actions of Guo Zhiyuan's army all the way.

After five days of marching in the mountains like this, the army finally found the Atayal people's cottage under the leadership of the Pingpu guide, of course, the Atayal people in the cottage had already been evacuated by the news, anyway, primitive tribes like them were in poor conditions, and there were no valuable things left for Guo Zhiyuan, but they didn't know that Guo Zhiyuan was eyeing the rice in their fields!

It is not easy to cultivate in the mountains, and it is much more difficult to open an acre of terraced fields than to open a field in the plains, so there are not many paddy fields of the Atayal people, and a cottage is only a few dozen acres of scale, the temperature in the mountains is low, and the rice in the paddy fields is not yet ripe at this time, and the ears of grain are only slightly golden, Guo Zhiyuan looked at the simple cottage of the Atayal people and sighed, but he knew that this was not the time to be soft-hearted, so he waved his hand and ordered the soldiers of the regiment to train the villagers: "Harvest the rice in the field and burn it all!" ……”

The regimental training township soldiers were all stunned when they heard Guo Zhiyuan's order, most of these regimental training township soldiers were born in the mountains, and they knew how difficult it was to solve the problem of food and clothing in the mountains, so they regarded rice as more expensive than life, and now Guo Zhiyuan ordered all these immature rice to be burned, which was really difficult for them to accept, you must know that the education they received since childhood is that a grain of rice falls on the ground and must be picked up and eaten, and wasting rice is to be sent by God!

Therefore, the regimental training villagers who had never carried out Guo Zhiyuan's orders without any discount hesitated for the first time, and Xie Erhu said to Guo Zhiyuan with a tangled face: "Big... My lord, I really want to be all... Is it all burned? This... It's going to be a curse... Damned! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan glanced at the same entangled regimental soldiers around him, waved his hand vigorously and said: "Brothers, I don't want to do this either, but if I don't do this, it will be impossible for Shengfan to surrender, and the mercy to the enemy is cruelty to his own people, leaving these rice, in the future, the brothers will need to exchange it with blood!" If there is a heavenly send, let the heavenly punishment be inflicted on me alone! It's my order, and you're just carrying it out......"

The regimental training township soldiers were enthusiastic when they heard it, Guo Zhi treated them like brothers, eating and sleeping together, and now in order to dispel their psychological barriers, he did not hesitate to curse himself, Xie Erhu gritted his teeth and roared with tears: "Burn!" ”

After a while, smoke rose from the cottage, and the unripe rice in the rice fields and the bamboo buildings in the cottage were burned. Then Guo Zhiyuan led the regiment to train the township soldiers to continue to advance, sweeping dozens of cottages in the entire Datun Mountains, including the cottages of the Atayal people, there are also the cottages of the Ami and Bunun ethnic minorities who did not directly fight with Guo Zhiyuan, but also refused to negotiate with the envoys sent by Guo Zhiyuan.

The Atayal people knew that all the rice they relied on for the winter was burned by Guo Zhiyuan, so they were naturally anxious and angry, and the head man Abu was even more angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, completely lost his mind, and made a desperate bet, and organized a force of thousands of people to go down the mountain to find Guo Zhiyuan for revenge, and also wanted to grab some food and materials to solve the problem of winter.

This is exactly in Guo Zhiyuan's arms, no matter how fierce the tiger out of the mountains is, it is not terrible, although this time the Shengfan tribal coalition organized by the Atayal people has a large number of people, but their rudimentary weapons want to fight Guo Zhiyuan's troops head-on, that is, to hit the stone with eggs, so the result is not surprising, the Shengfan tribal coalition was dumpled by Guo Zhiyuan as soon as he got off the mountain, and Abu was also captured by Guo Zhiyuan again!