※The bandit situation of the narrow set of Lingao was unfolded after the end of the Political Consultative Conference. () Heart. The liaison system allows the intelligence services to obtain first-hand direct information from the local natives, which is much more in-depth than in the past when reconnaissance teams were used to conduct objective observations that were unfamiliar with the area. And the context is clearer.

In order to ensure the accuracy and objectivity of the information, the intelligence committee cross-aggregates the information provided by each village and cross-checks it with each other when collecting information.

Because bandits often have obvious regional color groups, each village is often shielded by local bandits because of the relationship between clan relatives or fellow villagers. Most of the bandits also follow the rule that rabbits do not eat grass on the edge of the nest, leaving room for the locals, and specifically harming villages in other places.

Under this social ecology, liaison officers are not exempt from vulgarity. Therefore, their reports will inevitably be concealed and exaggerated based on the bandits' kinship with their own villages. And between villages and between clans, there are still enmities, and it is not excluded that some people deliberately mixed false words into them, slandering and slandering. Therefore, it is necessary to compare the information of each village in order to see the clues.

After more than a month of investigation of the liaison officer, the intelligence department has learned a lot of information about the bandits in Lingao. Another important channel is Wang Zhaomin. He is a foreigner though. However, he has been living here for more than five years, and he usually assists the county magistrate in handling government affairs, and knows a lot about the various situations in the county, especially in terms of banditry, and there is a wealth of information in the yamen. The intelligence services met with him several times individually and obtained a large amount of useful material from him.

"Although the bandits in Lingao are chaotic, the most important thing is the party's stubborn bandits." Wang Zhaomin whispered in the box of the "Half the Sky" restaurant, "The others are all small bandits, and they can't make any big waves." These two bandits are deeply entrenched and are not easy to deal with. As long as they are eliminated, the Lingao bandits will naturally have nothing to rely on. The four realms of Lingao are too peaceful. ”

Most of the bandits are "home bandits" to destroy the cottages, eliminate the bandit leaders and core people, and the "home bandits" have lost their backbone and nest. Naturally, they have no intention of continuing to do evil, and as long as they are appeased again, they will soon be able to calm down the bandits

"Suppressing bandits has always been the first evil that must be dealt with, and coercion will never be prosecuted." Wang Zhaomin said, "The four words of leniency and severity must be known. ”

"Foot, yes" Luo Feng just said yes, and then asked, "Weishenme said that this is the most difficult to deal with?" "Pour him a glass of wine," please teach me, sir." ”

"It's a long story." Wang Zhaomin was already a little smoky, and his mind was actually very sober. Ran knew the intention of this group of Australians, most of them were to clean up the "couch side", but this was good, anyway, the government couldn't deal with the bandits and couldn't eliminate the Australians, so let them bite each other, maybe they would take a light profit. Pretending to be drunk, he said:

The party gate, the daimyo dang guodong, is a local Daolu villager. After the death of his parents, he thought that the people in his village would herd cattle for a living, and when he grew up, he lived as a small trader. Because there are no relatives in the village, he has been oppressed by others in the village for a long time. His homestead was also occupied by a family in the village.

Later, the party often engaged in petty theft, and in the last year of Wanli, he was sent to the county government by the villagers, and his mother was locked in prison. The next year, he escaped from prison, gathered a few like-minded brothers, returned to the village, killed more than a dozen villagers who had a holiday with him, and then plundered his property and went to the Baopang Mountain on the border of Lingao and Eas.

"Don't look at the party, he was born with mud legs, but he can read and write, and he has been good at reading since he was a child, but unfortunately there is no one to support him, so he is a seed of reading and has fallen into the evil way." Wang Zhaomin sighed, "After reading the book, I took the evil path again, which is even more difficult to deal with than ordinary bandits." ”

Because of the few words that the party recognizes, although I haven't read the serious military books and the like, I have read a lot of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and the like, and I learned the strategy from it, so he brought bandits, and often had unexpected moves, and the general townsmen in the county were not his opponents at all.

"Let's just say that he fights Longbo Village," Wang Zhaomin said, "the party has dozens of them." people, pretending to be farmers rushing to the market. Brought the goods into Longbo Village. Taking the opportunity to pay taxes to the market, he blended into the regimental bureau, several. People guard the door, and several people set off firecrackers outside. He led people to rush in and killed the Xiangyong teacher in the regiment bureau. Xiangyong was in chaos, and Longbo Village, which had more than 100 Xiangyong, broke the thirty people he brought. You say it's not amazing. ”

Luo Shi nodded, this party is really a little tricky. This hand should be combined with the outside, and the tactics of hitting the snake and hitting the head are still quite beautiful. No wonder Master Wang wants to say that the bandits of the party are powerful.

"And he also knows that the cage gives people's hearts!" Master Wang tapped on the table, "This party and that door have always advocated "fighting the rich and not the poor" outside, which has attracted a group of ignorant fools. The villagers in Calais, Meitai and several places resisted their ancestors, and the landlords complained bitterly.

Every time I go to the county office to complain. Finally, a few years ago, Master Huang helped and led Yong to hit the party gang hard. Their arrogance is not so arrogant. ”

"Master Huang?"

"It's Huang Shoutong of Huang Jiasai. Master Huang. Wang Zhaomin noticed Luo Feng's reaction, "He is very strong with Yong, and the party is not an opponent." It's a pity that the villagers are ignorant, and there are many people who hide for a while, so Zuihou still let him run back to Baopang Mountain. I can't do it all! It's a pity

…”

"So Master Huang is still a person who is anxious for justice and righteousness."

"Naturally, naturally" Wang Zhaomin vaguely knew that Australians wanted to take root locally, but Huang Jiasai's Xiangyong was the only Liliang that Wu County Ling could rely on, and he couldn't let Australians pull over or consume it in the name of suppressing bandits, "It's a pity that Master Huang was injured last time and his health has not been good." I'm afraid I can't help with the bandits. ”

Luo Feng was noncommittal, just nodded.

Only,, according to intelligence. The party's bandits are mainly entrenched in the Baopangshan area at the junction of Linxi, which is their old camp. Luo Feng took a whip and pointed to the map to make an introduction, "The gangsters in the plug." There are more than 300 people all year round. There are firearms. ”

The officers below looked intently at the markings on the map. Luo Shi continued: "But their base is in the thirteen villages on the border of Calais and the United States and Taiwan, and the area, whether it is supplies or personnel, has been replenished from this area. As soon as something happens, another team of four or five hundred people can be pulled up from here. ”

There was a whisper of discussion from the crowd. Someone mentioned it: "This doesn't mean that there are no good people in Xingpeng County, and Ding Zhuang in the Wenyi area is suspected of being a bandit."

That's the case, Luo Feng nodded, "The party's bandits regard this area as their own forbiddenness, and they never cause harm, and they don't allow other bandits to intrude, which is very popular."

"Waiting for the hand is to cut the shili!"

"No, it's not about separation, according to Master Wang's words, "Ten: villages, regional taxes are never paid. It's just that the county doesn't do much good. ”

"In fact, the party's thinking is similar to ours, and there is a lot of positive endowment, but there is no floating income. There are guns in the background, and the county has nothing to do with them

"This CPPCC meeting," Thirteen Villages. Did the district come to the meeting? He Ming asked.

Luo Feng said: "I've been here." I checked the relevant records of the meeting, and we didn't speak on our behalf, so we basically just followed the crowd. Grain requisition, dispatch of missions, and dispatch of liaison officers should all be undertaken.

"Does the party know how to fight tactically?"

Luo Feng replied cautiously, "In terms of the strategy of struggle, there are some ideas

"Most of the party's gang are poor people, and he himself is from a poor background who has suffered real harm. Someone who also knew that "fighting the rich but not the poor" should be regarded as a revolutionary, and someone said, "Actually, it's not right to characterize them as bandits, right?" It was supposed to be a spontaneous peasant revolt. We can fight for it

"Not disturbing the people is relative." Luo Feng said, "It's just that the Thirteen Villages area is slightly better, but other places are very harassing, such as robbery, murder, kidnapping, robbery of people's daughters and other things, this bandit gang has done a lot of things." It is not only the rich who are suffering, but the poor are also unlucky. To put it in any way is to "peasant revolt" or "uprising" to deceive oneself.

He Ming explained: "The reason why the anti-bandit command chose to be the first to open it. One is that their shili is the largest, and it has the effect of knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger when they are defeated; Second, this group of people is extremely angry. Our division is famous

Luo Feng went on to say the Thirteen Villages. Locally, this gang had two important henchmen with twenty or thirty men stationed to control the situation. The names of the leaders are Xin Nari and Wang Wushu. ”

"Xin Nari and Wang Wushu are two of the four heavenly kings under the party." Wang Zhaomin said to Luo Shi, "The so-called Four Heavenly Kings are just a number, but these two people should not be underestimated

Xin Nari has been an idle person since he was a child, and when he became an adult, because of his lazy and hard work, he became a "fast hand" in the county government. "To be a public servant" is not a formal official in the county government, similar to the income of supernumerary "temporary workers" is all based on various bad rules and extortion. These people are responsible for illegal activities that are inconvenient for the officials to come forward. In case something happens, these people will be guilty, but fortunately, there is collusion inside and outside, and even the county order is not possible. Once the limelight passes, continue to be "public."

Xin that day should be this. "Doing the public" is very active, bullying the people is not counted, zuihou actually made Zhizhi faint on Shi Shen's head, zuihou finally couldn't stay anymore, "Kuaishou." I don't want to offend Shi Zhong for him, after all, there are many "public officials", one more, no more, and one less, no less. Xin lost this job that day, and simply went up the mountain and fell into the grass.

This man is scheming and a little clever. is also good at tending to inflammation, and is very good at stammering people. So although the eye flat toilet is a bandit. But with many officials in the county government and local bad gods, there is a slight disturbance, naturally someone will report to him, Wang Zhaomin reminded, "Our Master Wu and Master Huang tried to arrest him several times, but he slipped away every time." ”

As for Wang Wushu, although he is not a flexible person, he is extremely arrogant and ferocious, and he is famous for killing people without blinking. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has some hard skills in platoons, and when he was young, he participated in fights, and he was not killed by a knife, and he was not injured by a gun. It's legendary. This Wen Yiwu is stationed in the boundary of the "Thirteen Villages" and controls this area very tightly.

After Luo Feng introduced the basic situation. The participants discussed how to eradicate this bandit. There are basically two scenarios. One is to first attack the "Thirteen Villages" to clear out the bandits, so that the bandits on the mountain will lose the supply of food and personnel, and will not fight and make trouble, and then besiege the cottage when the time is ripe.

The other is the idea of capturing thieves and capturing the king, advocating that they first attack the Pangshan area, eliminate the bandits' nests, and then force the bandits of the thirteen villages to surrender without a fight.

There are pros and cons to both options. After comprehensive consideration, it was finally decided to attack Shansai first.

"If we hit the Thirteen Villages first. It is difficult to deal with the local civil affairs problem, and as a member of the civil affairs commissioner and the anti-bandit command, "the local people have concerns and are unwilling to have more contact with us. The bandits have a nest to rely on, and they can attack us rampantly under the cover of the people. When our large army is stationed in it, it will be very passive, and it is likely that Zuihou will take indiscriminate retaliatory actions because of the endless attacks, and Zuihou will form a relationship antagonism, and it will be very difficult to clean it up later

The form of combat will be a raid battle with a powerful synthetic small unit. Suppressing bandits in mountainous areas and investing large forces outweighs the losses. It is difficult to keep the dispatch of a large army secret, and the bandits can transfer all the supplies and personnel in advance, leaving only an empty stockade. Don't say that one or two infantry battalions are dispatched, even if thousands of troops are searching the mountains. Bandits are also easy to dodge. After staying in the mountains for a long time, the supplies and transportation could not enter, and the large army could not live in the mountains for a long time. The time-consuming troops could only retreat. In the past, bandits dealt with the encirclement and suppression of officials and troops, and they always used this method to try and test.

Yang Zeng, the platoon leader of the first platoon of the Chasseur Company of the First Regiment, was marching in the mountains, and the forest in late spring was very hot. Sweat has soaked through the uniform. He carried his beloved rifle on his shoulder and two hundred rounds of ammunition on his body.

Behind him, followed by his platoon of chasseurs, and then a mountain howitzer and all its belongings: shells, gunpowder, running brushes, etc., all of which were transported by people, and it took forty "education soldiers" to be killed by soldiers who had not yet been officially awarded the rank of private. Behind them, there was an infantry company, and then more than a hundred educational soldiers, carrying a large number of heavy equipment on their backs. The name "military industry" is actually Xi Asia's "substitute for the animal." "Recruits aren't of much use. It's always okay to carry something. Behind the palace was the engineer platoon, led by the commander of the engineer company, Panda.