A rain in the middle of the night cooled the temperature, and the rain washed away the blood at the foot of the mountain.

By daylight the next day, there was no trace of blood in the air.

If it weren't for a protruding earthen bag in the distance, no one would know what had happened here.

Father-in-law Wei is a man who speaks, a man can live if he comes, and a man can't live if he doesn't come.

How can the superior be powerful?

Only words must be done!

"The purpose of this operation is completely different from the previous battles, which is to seek the complete annihilation of the Shengfan Savages and their bases, so that Taiwan can be completely stabilized and regarded as the permanent territory of our Ming Empire! ... Therefore, the necessary means, even if cruel, are tolerable. ”

At the emergency operations meeting held in Pingpufan, Wei Gonggong put forward specific guidelines for the recent clean-up operation.

The focus of this policy lies in the four words "to make a fan".

Gonggong Wei asked all localities to actively send envoys to the nearest Fan Society, entrust them with important tasks, give heavy money, divide and win over, in the hope that these Fan Societies can act as assistants to the imperial army and jointly eliminate those savage tribes that are hostile to the emperor.

Combined with the gains and losses of the First Brigade since the Pingpu Clean-up Campaign, Gonggong Wei even set the Taiwan Sanwei Clean-up and Suppression Campaign into two stages.

The first class is to co-opt and divide; The second estate is a complete sweep.

"In the first stage, we must not seek everything but seek more, but step by step and move forward steadily. Although the combat effectiveness of the Shengfan savages is inferior to that of the imperial army, their proficiency in the terrain is ten thousand times stronger than that of the imperial army, so the officers and soldiers of all departments must not advance rashly and increase unnecessary losses. ”

According to the request of Wei Gonggong, the General Staff Department divided Taipei, Tainan, and Taichung into "base areas," "public security areas," and "clearance areas."

The so-called "base areas" are areas dominated by Han Chinese and new Han Chinese, which are completely under the rule of the Emperor Ming, and the imperial army can enjoy the full support of the people in the base areas.

The "security zone" refers to the barbarian area bordering the base area, some of which are hostile to the Imperial Army, but some are not.

According to the order of Wei Gonggong, the military operations in the security area should be mainly carried out by the township security forces, and the imperial army only mobilized small units to assist.

Following the principle of "helping the weak and subduing the strong, pulling in less and fighting more," after completely eliminating the hostile Shengfan Societies in the region, the public security zone can be completely converted into a base area, and townships and villages can be established under the command and jurisdiction of Taiwan's pro-military capital.

The "Clearance Zone" mainly refers to the Savage Fan Societies in the mountainous areas of Taiwan, which have many tribes and are also the main enemies of the imperial army.

According to the order of Gonggong Wei, the main force of the imperial army will be concentrated on the periphery of the clearance area, but at this stage, it will mainly blockade and will not fight in depth.

The two tactical plans of "see-sawing and suppressing" and "encirclement with an iron wall" were personally put forward by Wei Gonggong and handed over to the General Staff for implementation. At a secret operations meeting at the brigade and regimental level, Duke Wei openly declared that the imperial army should use iron-fisted means to fight in the area of clearance in the future.

All the places of residence of the Shengfan tribes in the area of the clean-up should be burned down. All the grain that can be transported is taken away, and everything that cannot be transported is burned. Even pots and pans must be broken, streams must be cut off, and if necessary, corpses must be thrown into small pools to pollute them.

"Gold, silver, and copper coins, not one of them is missing, and you can take as much as you want!"

"Pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs, none of them can be dropped, and we can catch as many as we have!"

"Iron, salt, oil, seeds, in short, everything that can be used will be destroyed by us!"

“......”

Father-in-law Wei was so murderous that the settlement of the Taiwan issue, which was originally scheduled to be resolved in three months, was now postponed until next year, which made it difficult for his father-in-law to explain to His Majesty the Emperor.

The prolongation of the war also seriously depleted the small grain reserves of the imperial army, and Wei's father-in-law's private account was now in a serious deficit.

If we fail to end Taiwan's security war by June next year and establish trade points along the coast, the officers and men of the imperial army will have to go on a diet.

The only recent amount of money was 100,000 taels from the Catholic Church in Macau, which Grandpa Wei was originally going to pay filial piety to His Majesty the Emperor, but now had to be temporarily embezzled.

The Combined Fleet is conducting drills and preparations for the Ryukyu Operation, and because of the wind direction, the Combined Fleet will not be able to start the "Tiger Tiger" operation plan until March next year at the earliest.

In desperation, his father-in-law wrote a letter to Shou Ning in Beijing, hoping that Her Royal Highness the princess could give humanitarian assistance. Zhao Quan, who was in charge of the Treasure Committee, also received a secret letter from his father-in-law, asking him to recruit as many wealthy people as members as possible to alleviate his father-in-law's financial crisis.

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Just when my father-in-law was busy settling the remaining Pingpu people in Pingpu, there was a disturbance in the SAR. Because of the cooperative relationship between the father-in-law and the various prisons, departments, and bureaus, the two major yamen did not dare to offend these people, so they had no choice but to quickly spread the news to Taiwan with their demands.

"It's so worry-free..."

My father-in-law had a headache when he received the news, but he had nowhere to attack, because he caused this incident himself. At the beginning, in order to reach cooperation with all prisons, departments and bureaus as soon as possible and establish a permanent strategic all-day partnership, my father-in-law generously gave all prisons, departments and bureaus the quota of "supervising the army".

Now, people have come to cooperate, and all aspects have started the actual production and operation according to the requirements of your father-in-law Wei. But your father-in-law Wei has put the candidates for the "prison army" sent by others in the special zone, and it is okay for a short time, but after a long time, those eunuchs and eunuchs who come to be the eunuchs of the prison army wholeheartedly will not be happy.

One by one, they wrote back to Beijing to complain about their grievances, accusing Wei Gonggong of his black state. One or two are okay, everyone sues together, the inner court is naturally dissatisfied with Wei Gonggong, and many people in charge of the supervision department inevitably think that Wei Gonggong is suspected of coaxing them, and they have sent people to deliver messages to put pressure, if Wei Gonggong does not implement the supervision plan as soon as possible, then everyone will break up.

What can Grandpa Wei do?

The cooperative unit that was finally brought in was able to let them run?

But this eunuch of the prison army is really not a casual person, the gang of supervisors sent by the sub-supervision bureau Wei Gonggong has noticed that most of them are illiterate in big words, but they have spent money on their respective bosses, and they all point to the prison army to take back the capital and make a fortune by the way.

If these people were to be immediately assigned to the various units of the imperial army to supervise the army, Gonggong Wei was sure that the fine style of the imperial army would be quickly lowered by them.

However, if you blow your own cowhide, you can't slap yourself in the face in reverse.

So, the father-in-law had an idea and issued a document to the two major yamen, ordering the establishment of the "Ming Emperor's pro-army middle and senior eunuch military and political training school" from now on, referred to as the imperial army eunuch training school.

The school was set up in Taipei, Taiwan, and all candidates for supervising the army of various prisons, departments, and bureaus were all sent to the school for study and training for half a year, and after the expiration of the six months, they were assigned to various units of the Imperial Army to serve as military supervisors.

The principal is personally served by Gonggong Wei.

In the official document, Gonggong Wei deliberately emphasized the importance of "middle and senior eunuchs supervising the army", and emphasized that all students must go to the school to study, and if they cannot report on the specified date, they will be dismissed and reinstated.

In this way, the father-in-law will be able to obtain a buffer period of half a year, and the students who are interested in the "eunuch supervising the army" should also be able to win the post of eunuch supervising the army after half a year of study. If you can't bear this hardship and don't want to come, your father-in-law will not accompany you.

After the official document was issued, the father-in-law put the matter aside and devoted himself to the sweep of the remnants of Pingpu.

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Thangka accepted the task of Wei Gongbus, and he organized the tribesmen who went down the mountain to form the "Taiwan Volunteer Army", although the number of this volunteer army was only 216, but in the subsequent Pingpu sweep operation, the volunteer army played a huge role.

In the words of Gonggong Wei, a thangka can top a squadron, and a volunteer army can top a wing!

The defection of the Taiwan Volunteers in the war exacerbated the demise of the Pingpu tribe, and these Pingpu people, who were also very familiar with the hunting ground where the ancestral spirit was located, for the sake of their wives and children, in order to have a better life, although they were extremely involuntary in their hearts, but also resolutely threw themselves into the battle against the clansmen.

The Pingpu people on the mountain had to move deeper into the mountain under the leadership of the leader Aganon, but the thangka and the Han army clung to them like poisonous snakes.

Whenever the Han Chinese army occupied a shelter for the Pingpu people in the mountains, they would use fire oil to burn down their living facilities, and then pollute their water sources. As a result, the range of activities of the Pingpu people on the mountain became smaller and smaller, and even the place where they worshipped the ancestral spirit totem was smashed by the Han army.

The two sides eventually engaged in hand-to-hand combat in a dense forest. After the battle, the wounded Aganon stepped into the dense forest with the few hundred remaining members of the tribe that they had not penetrated before.

In order to boost morale and eliminate the last Pingpu people in one fell swoop, Gonggong Wei personally went deep with the army and found hundreds of corpses floating on the water in a deep pool.

Judging from the degree of swelling of the corpses, the time of death is not long, and it is difficult to judge from the surrounding situation whether these corpses took the initiative to throw themselves into the pool or were driven into the pool.

"Thangka, Aganon has gone mad, if you can't kill him, he'll push all your people to hell!"

Gonggong Wei defined the tragedy in front of him, these old and weak women and children must have been forced by the evil Aganon to throw themselves into the pool, just to prevent these old and weak women and children from becoming a drag on the young and strong.

Thangka did not speak, and he did not dare to speak. His heart was painful, but he knew there was no turning back.

"Go, find them, kill them, and be a truly civilized person from now on."

After Father-in-law Wei said this, he casually grabbed a small handful of cinchona cream from the medicine bag tied around his waist and put it in his mouth. He is not afraid of medicine and more injuries.