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Although the Zhou army had also launched several attacks before, because they were not familiar with the trails in the Wagang Mountain, although the army was vast and endless, they were often led by the Wei army to a fork and a dead end, and they could not get out of the mountains for half a day, and while they took advantage of this, the Wei army's troops had already escaped without a trace. and the attacking Zhou army played a game of hide and seek in the mountains. They even sneak up behind them and attack the low-protected baggage troops, or appear in the cottage that they have already breached, turning it into a stronghold and resurrecting it.

However, in this attack, it was difficult for the Zhou army to be led to a fork and a dead end by them, and the chance of being ambushed was greatly reduced. The channels through which the Wei army could get the news had long been blocked, and even those mountain people in Wagang Mountain, who were extremely familiar with the terrain in the mountains, could not find out the information outside, and they couldn't help but panic in their hearts.

Some of the mountain people who fled back said that the Zhou army in this attack and suppression operation changed the previous image of a benevolent and righteous teacher, and adopted ******** measures, so that their fathers and villagers could not help but be terrified after hearing about it.

They secretly thought that if these murderous demons rushed up the mountain, even if they could defeat the Zhou army, they were afraid that the mountain people of Wagang Mountain would also suffer heavy casualties.

As a result, the resistance in many places weakened considerably, and often after a slight attack, the local surname chose to surrender, or abandoned the village and fled to the mountains.

One month after the launch of the offensive and suppression operation, convenient reports were frequently reported in various places in the periphery, and the Zhou army in all counties continued to achieve victories, capturing more than 10 villages and cottages on the periphery of Wagang Mountain, killing more than 8,000 people, and more than 40,000 mountain people in Wagang Mountain who were originally attached to the Wagang Army expressed their willingness to surrender and no longer attached to Li Mi.

Six years ago, when Zhang Xutuo led the Sui army to attack the Wagang army, because of the heavy casualties during the attack on the mountain, he burned down the cottage after breaking the village. The walls of those simple thatched huts are all wooden structures, which are easy to burn and not difficult to erect, and after the Sui army withdrew, the mountain people of Wagang Mountain returned to their hometowns and rebuilt the villages.

However, the method of the Zhou army's attack was very different, and every time they captured a village and village, they did not set fire to it, but strengthened the construction of the occupied cottage. Bunkers, sentry posts and other facilities were added, stone walls were built, and the battalion marched into the mountain step by step.

Every time he conquers a village, he turns it into a base of attack.

You must know that these villages are either located in a relatively gentle and fertile place in the mountains, or in the dangerous passes in the Wagang Mountain, and their strategic positions are very important.

After the Zhou army took control of these villages, it naturally compressed the living space of the Wei army and the mountain people of Wagang Mountain.

Moreover, whenever they encountered the kind of mountain people who fled from the village and entered the deep mountains, the Zhou army left soldiers and horses here, arranged for local officials to govern here, and at the same time moved the obedient Wagang Mountain refugees, as well as the hungry people recruited from the plains to come to the tuntian to cultivate, and divided the fields, and announced the exemption of taxes and conscription for eight years, so as to attract them to settle here, and then took the village as a unit, imitated the management method of Liaodong, and established the armor protection system.

Of course, the Zhou army also encountered a lot of immigrants who disobeyed the yang and the yin, and even secretly engaged in sabotage, and even the Wagang Mountain mountain people who faked surrender and then fanned the flames. In response to these spies who destroyed the division of land among immigrants and hindered the re-establishment of the village armor protection system, Hu Sizheng ordered the garrisons and officials in various localities to adopt iron-blooded means to resolutely suppress them, and to adopt the method of killing to stop the chaos without mercy. In exchange for long-term peace and stability in the future, bloody means for the moment.

Such an iron-blooded approach really dealt a heavy blow to the mountain people who had illusions and wanted to revive the Wagang Army and secretly sabotage. A new order was quickly established in the Wagang Mountains.

These landless displaced people, and the tenants under the mountain who originally rented the landlord's field, as long as they sign up, they can get more than ten acres of fertile land for nothing, and they can also let their grandchildren inherit it, naturally they are all happy, anyway, they are also poor, barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes.

Although some people were worried about being counterattacked by the Wei army in Wagang Mountain, they saw that every village was garrisoned by heavily armed Zhou troops to protect their safety. However, the Wei army rarely came back from a counterattack, so they gradually settled down. Not only did they stay in the local area with all their hearts, but they also took the initiative to set up an escort team to assist the Zhou army in catching hidden spies and stabilizing the local order.

At the same time, Yu Ming also incorporated the private soldiers sent to support the major families around Wagang Mountain, which were inextricably linked with the Wagang Army, into the militia group, and then let them patrol the occupied places to clear out the hidden spies and internal responses, and stabilize the peripheral situation as soon as possible.

Therefore, under such a steady and steady approach, step by step, and encircled by an iron wall, the Wei army that fled into Wagang Mountain had less and less space to fight on the move, and they were completely unable to gain a firm foothold on the periphery of Wagang Mountain, so they could only retreat step by step and flee to the big villages in the deep mountains such as Wagang Village, Heifeng Village, and Baishui Village......

Of course, Yuming also knows that you can't just swing a stick, you have to have carrots. The blind bloody massacre will only force everyone in the mountain people in Wagang Mountain to go to Liangshan.

For those who are truly obedient to the mountain people of Wagang Mountain, and the Wei soldiers who are truly willing to surrender. Yu Ming ordered that the temporary officials appointed in the villages should be treated favorably, and their personal and family property, as well as the land they had cultivated, should be protected, and no one should be allowed to bully and seize them, even if the officers and soldiers of the Zhou army violated the interests of these people, they should also be punished.

And those mountain people who were really timid and afraid, for fear that they would be retaliated against by the Wagang army if they joined the Zhou army, they wanted to escape into the mountains, and Yuming also ordered the Zhou troops everywhere to let them go, but they must take away the food and weapons of these people. This can not only increase the living burden of the Wei army in the mountains, but also let the Wei army in the mountains know the preferential policy of the Zhou army for the surrender of the army. After these people entered the mountain, they could just preach among the Wei army in the mountain and the mountain people of Wagang Mountain.

In this way, the expected effect was achieved.

Slowly, one after another, some of the mountain people of Wagang Mountain, who were timid and afraid of death, or greedy for the preferential policies of the Zhou army, cautiously tried to slip out of the mountains and surrender to the Zhou army.

In accordance with Yuming's instructions, the officials of these newly established villages provided them with food, seeds, farm tools and other materials to help them rebuild their homes and distribute fields.

This time, there are more and more Wagangshan mountain people and Wei officers and soldiers who know the preferential policies of the Zhou army. Although most people still succumbed to Li Mi's pressure and coercion, and did not dare to go out of the mountain to surrender, there were always some unbearable people who ran out and surrendered with one heart every day.

Although the number of these people who came to surrender was not very large, it was not a small number over time. And every time someone runs away, it will affect the mood of his family and comrades-in-arms, making them a little restless, wondering whether they should also escape from this mountain where there is no hope of victory.

Of course, Yu Ming, Hu Sizheng, Niu Jinda and others also considered that among these people who came to surrender, there might be a possibility that the Wei army would deliberately release the probes, so they placed these people in specific villages and carried out strict control and control, so that they could not get any useful real information from the military, but deliberately released a large number of false news to them.

These fake news are far from the real situation, and even some of them are completely opposite, if there are really detectives sent by the Wagang army, I am afraid that their news will be transmitted back to Wagang Village, which will only make the Wei army even more confused.

The Zhou army gave preferential treatment to those who surrendered, severely cracked down on those who resisted, and implemented the policy of "using tile posts to control tile posts". It greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Wei army that fled into the Wagang Mountains.

There were about 200,000 Wei troops and people who had fled with Li Mi into Wagang Mountain. But after more than two months of attack, nearly 80,000 of them fled or died in battle. The local native Wagang Mountain mountain people escaped from Li Mi's rule, and more than 50,000 people were willing to submit to the Zhou army.

After Yuming spent more than a month encircling and suppressing and attacking, all the passes and strongholds on the periphery of Wagang Mountain had been controlled by the Zhou army.

The only places that the Wei army still mastered were Wagang Village, Heifeng Village, Baishui Village and the six passes on the periphery. All other places have fallen into the hands of the Zhou army.

At this moment, on a relatively flat mountain flat land on the periphery of Wagang Mountain, several camp tents are set up continuously, which is the front line command tent of the Zhou army.

On the sand table placed in the big tent, small black flags have been planted all over the surrounding mountains and valleys, and each small flag is a village that Zhou Jun now controls. Although the remaining nine small green flags are few in number, they are all planted among the mountains and mountains with the most dangerous terrain and the highest position.

Niu Jinda pointed to the nine small green flags and said: "The remaining nine small yellow flags represent the cottages and six passes that have not yet been broken by us. Although they are few in number, less than one-half of the captured villages, they are also the largest, most dangerous and most difficult places to conquer, and there are even the largest cottages in Wagang Mountain. This area is also the location of the main peak of Wagang Mountain, the terrain is the most dangerous and the most difficult to walk. Whether or not Li Mi can be eliminated in one fell swoop depends on whether these places can be successfully taken, otherwise we will fall short in the end. ”

Yu Ming also nodded and said, "Yes!" At the moment, our top priority is to break through the six passes on the periphery, and now there are two that can lead to Wagangzhai. One is from Heifeng Village, which has to pass through the Daoguan Pass, and the other is from Baishui Village, which also has to pass through the Daoguan Pass, but the Daoguan Pass of Baishui Village is much more dangerous than the Daoguan Pass of Heifeng Village. Which side to attack from, or both, please express your opinions and speak freely! ”

As soon as Yuming's voice fell, the generals of the Zhou army said a word, and I discussed it word by word.

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