After the matter of the military tun fields was resolved, under the constant urging of Lin Fan, the grain, grass and ordnance allocated by the military department and the Daoli were also quickly in place.

At this time, it had been nearly a month since Lin Fan arrived, and the training of the soldiers had already achieved initial results.

Although he was very confident in the effect of the training, it was only after he was equipped with these ordnance that Lin Fan dared to pat his chest and say that the battalions in Shenzhou had formed a preliminary combat force and had the confidence to carry out the next move.

There are many criteria for testing the combat effectiveness of this army, and there are many ways to do so. For Lin Fan, the most intuitive thing is, of course, to pull out and fight a few battles.

And Lin Fan did exactly that, after giving the soldiers a few days to get used to the things they had just put on their bodies. Lin Fan began to pull out the battalions in a planned way, intending to train the troops.

The best goal of military training is to suppress bandits, and there are quite a few outlaws among the bandits, and the number is often small, and the maximum number is only a few hundred.

This ensures that they have a certain amount of combat power, but not too high. Therefore, the suppression of bandits can play a role in military training; It will not pose too much threat to the officers and soldiers and avoid causing excessive casualties; At the same time, it can also maintain local law and order, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

So Lin Fan divided the army into three, and each battalion was dispatched separately, and the respective generals were responsible for commanding to encircle and suppress the big and small bandits in Shenzhou.

For each battalion, the individual targets are easy to find. Because since Zhang Feng'er's thief rebellion, there are simply as many bandits and bandits as many as cattle in the left and left of Shenzhou.

Especially during this period of time, because the battalions of the Shenzhou soldiers have not recovered their combat strength, this has led to the fact that the government does not have enough troops to suppress bandits.

In this way, the bandits in Shenzhou are extremely rampant, except that the county towns are relatively stable because of the protection of the city wall.

The local government, which was beyond the reach of other places beyond the city walls, has now completely lost control over the territory outside the city.

The bandits' strength is insufficient, so they don't dare to pay attention to the counties for the time being. But as soon as they got out of the city walls, the vast countryside became a territory for them to roam.

In this way, the people outside the city are unlucky, and they may encounter all kinds of robbers and bandits at any time and at any time.

Due to the shrinking power of the government, these thieves are no longer just cutting paths and robbing passers-by.

Villages and towns scattered throughout the countryside were also the targets of their raids, especially those with only a hundred and ten people, and they were their favorite prey.

In the face of the ubiquitous threat of bandits, larger towns and villages can have the financial resources to build protective walls around them. Moreover, they have enough manpower, like the previous Chenjiazhai, to gather the young people in the village, cultivate during farming time, and organize training in leisure time to protect themselves.

Even so, the thieves are not necessarily afraid of them because of this. In any case, they are just a group of farmers who can only farm the land, and even if they have a walled wall, they will still be afraid of these thieves who rob their homes and houses, and they will naturally be in a weak position in the confrontation between the two sides.

And the bigger the village, the more the harvest, how can the thief not worry.

It's just that although attacking such a stockade is profitable, it also has to pay a lot of casualties, and thieves are usually unwilling to take such a big risk.

In the eyes of the thieves, although everyone caught up

When a robber is good, it's not easy to pull a trustworthy person into the gang. If you do this every day, the manpower may not be damaged quickly! Even if you are a bandit, you will not do such a stupid thing.

So for such villages, the thieves can only wait and look for an opportunity, and when those villages relax their vigilance, they can occasionally vote for him.

If the large villages still have some self-preservation power, then the many small villages are not so lucky, and they are also the worst bullied by the thieves.

These thieves often poured into their villages, taking food, money, cloth, and everything else that could be used, and killing anyone who dared to resist. For those beautiful women in the village, they will not let go, and they all snatch back to the village for the bandits to have sexual pleasure.

The village was powerless to resist, and it was difficult to scrape together enough money to go to the county government to ask the government to send troops to suppress the bandits.

The garrisons in the county are also poor, and there is no benefit, who wants to fight with the bandits. The bandits are all outlaws, can they be easy to suppress? Maybe in the end, the bandits will not be suppressed, but they will take their lives for nothing, how worthless it is!

The officials and soldiers could not count on the bandits, and there were only a few roads left in front of these villagers, either they were robbed of food by the thieves and starved to death, or they tried to resist and were killed by the thieves.

If there are people who do not want to starve to death or be killed, then they have only one way left, and that is to go into the mountains and become robbers, and maybe they can still live.

In fact, this is how many bandits in the mountains and forests came. This is the way of the world, if you want not to be bullied to death, you have to bully others to death.

Although there are many bandits in Shenzhou, they are too scattered, and their strength is not strong.

Lishan Pass, which was the strongest at the beginning, also lost a lot of strength in the internal fighting after the death of the original big leader Wu Qing, which was far less than before. The rest are even worse, with two or three hundred of them as many as there are a few dozen or even a dozen of them.

A thief of this level is naturally not the opponent of the officers and troops under Lin Fan's command. In less than a month, the soldiers and horses of the three routes together have eliminated a total of 17 major bandits. As for some that were too small, Lin Fan didn't count them for the reason that it was difficult to count.

This includes several bandits who have been entrenched in the mountains for several years, such as Lishan Pass.

Especially Lishan Pass, which Lin Fan values the most, because this group of thieves involves the death of Gao Wensheng.

Although the people in the bandits, including the leader, should not know that Lin Fan is the one who sent someone to deliver the letter to them, it is unlikely that they will be found out.

But Lin Fan didn't know how many of those people had guessed, if they were allowed to bite indiscriminately, Lin Fan might not be able to get rid of it. Therefore, Lishan Pass must not be left and must be exterminated.

And although the local government has been unable to suppress bandits before, everyone remembers this group of thieves who dare to rob and kill the officials of the imperial court.

There are a lot of bandits in Shenzhou, but there are really not many who dare to oppose the government on the surface, especially those who dare to kill officials at all levels.

Such thieves are also what the magistrates are most afraid of, if such a bandit is not eliminated for a day, they will not even sleep steadily, who knows if it will be their turn next.

If Lin Fan wants to send troops to suppress bandits, the first thing the Shenzhou magistrates think of is who is Lishan Pass, and he didn't run away.

Sure enough, several county commanders jointly wrote a letter to Lin Fan. The letter asked Lin Fan to completely exterminate this gang of bandits and return the people to a prosperous future.

And this is exactly what Lin Fan wants, with this letter as a cover, it is logical for him to send troops to Lishan Pass. Not only did he comply with the local request, but he also did his own thing.

Because Gao Wensheng's death was too strange, it was not clear that no one had doubted Lin Fan's possible role in this matter. It's just that there is no evidence, and suspicion is just suspicion.

And if Lin Fan behaves too actively in the process of exterminating Lishan Pass, it will inevitably make some people more suspicious.

Now that they have a letter from the local government, it means that they are covering up, and to a certain extent, it can also dispel some people's doubts.

In order to train the troops, and also to avoid suspicion, in this anti-bandit operation, Lin Fan did not directly command any battle. Instead, he chose to let go and let the military attachés of each battalion lead the troops alone, while he led the overall situation in the back.

However, he was not at ease to let those people outside his team lead the troops into the Lishan Pass. If some damned people didn't die, and they didn't die and said something that shouldn't be said, then what Lin Fan did would be in vain.

If it really makes people know that there are people in the official face who came forward to collude with Lishan Pass, which led to Gao Wensheng's death, it will be troublesome.

In officialdom, it is tolerable for two people or groups of people with completely different political views to attack each other. It is not impossible to secretly stumble on the opponent's tricks, or even frame them. If your methods are clever enough, even the framed side will have to pinch their noses and confess the crimes you have planted.

You can do that, that's what you do, and no one is going to make a fuss about it. At most, they will write to impeach you and scold you for being a traitor and villain.

Even if the winning side uses these tactics to make the opponent kill all the door, there is no problem.

Because everyone is acting within the same framework at this time, you can use this method against them today, and tomorrow others can use this method against you.

But colluding with thieves to assassinate colleagues is obviously no longer on the list, and no one wants to be killed in such an unknown way, and in the end they don't even know who they died in?

This is also the reason why Lin Ruxian's assassination caused an uproar in the court.

This is a taboo for everyone in the officialdom, and the court will definitely investigate it thoroughly. With Tsing Yiwei's methods, the devil knows if they will find out something? At that time, Lin Fanke was in danger.

Therefore, Lin Fan sent Chen Fangshu, who had nothing to do with this matter, to serve as the chief general of the extermination of Lishan Pass.

In the face of the encirclement and suppression of the absolute superiority of the official army, the thieves in Lishan Pass had little power to resist.

After the First World War, the four chiefs who had just sat in the position of the head of Shangli Mountain Pass for less than a year were ambushed on the spot. The rest of the people involved in the incident have also disappeared, and the rest are people who have no knowledge of the matter.

Even if someone could find out something through these people, it would not be possible.

And because of these remaining living mouths, there was no sign of Lin Fan intentionally killing people, and those people actually dispelled their suspicions about Lin Fan to a certain extent.

A hidden danger that may adversely affect Lin Fan will be eliminated.