Xingning County, Heping County, Changning County, Huilai County, and Puning County have just been captured by the People's Army not long ago, and they are seizing the time to completely control them.

The capture of a place often starts with the capture of the county seat, the county seat is the center of a county, and the vast majority of officials, gentry and businessmen in the county live in the county seat, and it is only a matter of time before the county seat is captured and the entire county is controlled.

In order to quickly control and digest the entire county, the People's Army has its own set of plans.

After capturing the county seat, the big families who do evil in the city will be raided as soon as possible, and even those ruffians/hooligans who bully the common people will not be let go, and they will all be arrested.

If there are ordinary people who have been bullied in the past, they may also get some compensation, which comes from the property of the person who was confiscated.

In this way, the common people living in the city will accept the existence of the People's Army as soon as possible, and there is no need for the common people to immediately support the People's Army.

The People's Army has just captured the city, and the people in the city support the People's Army, which is a very unrealistic problem, no matter how bad the rule of the Ming Dynasty is, it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, no matter how good the People's Army is, the people will think that it is a "thief" at first sight.

The People's Army will adopt one measure after another to benefit the people in the city to win the support of the people in the city.

After the affairs in the city are settled, the People's Army will quickly dispatch manpower, with the county seat as the center, and spread to the entire county.

Most of the landlords have manors outside the county, and the landlords can live in the county mansion on weekdays, or they can live in the manor outside the city, in order to guard against the chaos and bandits, there will be more guards in the manor, less than dozens, and more than 100.

Such landlords' estates were the first targets of the People's Army's extermination.

During the crackdown on the landlords' estates, the People's Army Government sent working groups to the villages to quickly accept the People's Army through measures such as distributing farmland to the common people, and then there were measures such as public trials of the evil landlords and dogs, and the establishment of schools in the villages to teach children to read and write, so that the People's Army won the support of the common people.

At this time, the People's Army can recruit new soldiers from the common people, and there is no salary for temporarily joining the People's Army, but because the People's Army can get farmland, there are many young and strong people who participate in the People's Army, and the People's Army has recruited more than 10,000 recruits in Yongan County and Haifeng County.

The People's Army did not stop its actions after exterminating the landlords' manors outside the city, and the Ming Dynasty was not peaceful under its rule, and there were often chaotic people and bandits, which had a great impact on public order in various places.

In April of the first year of Wanli, Yin Zhengmao led 40,000 troops to suppress Lan Yiqing and other departments, breaking more than 700 large and small strongholds in total, capturing more than 20,000 people, and the mountains of Hui and Chao were all extinguished.

In March of the second year of Wanli, Admiral Liangguang Yin Zhengmao besieged and annihilated Nanyang Village, the stronghold of the pirates Zhu Liangbao and Lin Daoqian of Chaozhou Prefecture, with more than 1,200 people, none of whom were spared.

In November of the fourth year of Wanli, the governor of Liangguang Lingyunyi asked for permission to transfer 200,000 troops to attack Luo Panyao in the west of Zhaoqing Prefecture, and in the spring of the following year, Lingyunyi suppressed Luo Panyao, breaking a total of 564 villages, capturing and surrendering more than 42,800 people.

In September of the ninth year of Wanli, Liu Yao, the governor of Liangguang, exterminated the "thief" Bao Shixiu of Longchuan, Huizhou Prefecture, and captured more than 4,000 people.

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The thieves are inexhaustible, the thieves here are exterminated, and new thieves appear over there, and in the eyes of the Ming army, the People's Army is also a thief.

The government, the landlord and the thief are the objects of the people's most disgust, and the people living in the city are better, at least stay away from the thieves, but the people living outside the city cannot avoid it, even if they rob the people of their food, it is like their own lives for the people.

Before the People's Army, if the common people met a better official, they would be quickly sent to exterminate the thief, and if they encountered a bad official, as long as the thief did not make a big deal and did not cause a big incident, the officials would not care, but the common people suffered.

It's a pity that even if the thieves are exterminated, under the oppression of the government and landlords, thieves will still appear in a steady stream, and the common people who were bullied by thieves will one day become thieves.

The People's Army wants to completely control a county, and after capturing the county seat and destroying the manor houses outside the city, it will also exterminate all the thieves in the county, and the extermination of the thieves will also make the People's Army win the support of the common people.

In fact, when the county was first occupied, the People's Army did not immediately eliminate the thieves, and after discovering that the county town was occupied by powerful "thieves", those thieves thought that the opportunity had come, and immediately went out to the mountains to plunder the villages, and some of the thieves actually found the People's Army and wanted to join.

In this case, the People's Army set the steps to eliminate the landlord's manor and began to eliminate the thieves, and when recruiting new soldiers in each village, the recruits will be trained on the spot, and the young people in the village who have not joined the army must also follow the training, and form a village protection team on weekdays to guard against the attack of thieves.

For a small number of thieves who have never bullied the common people, the people's army mainly persuades them to surrender, and most of these thieves become thieves because of the oppression of the government and landlords, and they often only attack the government and large landlords, but most of these thieves are weaker and most of the time they stay in the mountains and farm.

As long as the thieves surrendered and did not bully the common people, the People's Army dealt with them very leniently, running them back to their former homes, allocating farmland to everyone, and starting a new life.

Those thieves who have bullied the common people, even if they take the initiative to join the People's Army, the People's Army will carefully examine them, and those who have done evil will be punished, and those who have done evil will be punished, and those who have done evil will be sent to the mines to mine, or they will enter the Xiandeng camp, and those who have not done evil can choose to join the People's Army, or they can choose to return to their hometown to farm.

When the thieves were cleared, the People's Army also encountered trouble with the Ming army, and the thieves' cottages were in the mountains, which were often easy to defend and difficult to attack, and when they saw the enemy attacking, they would quickly flee to the mountains, and it was difficult to clear them.

Fortunately, the People's Army was originally composed of a large number of mountain people, who were very familiar with the mountains and forests, and most of the People's Army's clothes were shabby, which was very different from the official army.

Of course, the main force of the People's Army to eliminate bandits is still the firearms unit, and there is no need for much, as long as a platoon of firearms troops cooperates with hundreds or hundreds of cold weapon troops, most of the cottages can be taken.

If it encounters a large number of bandits, then the People's Army will gather most of the troops in a county to clear them.

In the newly occupied five counties of Xingning, Heping, Changning, Huilai, and Puning, the First and Second Mixed Brigades of the People's Army quickly took control of the five counties and quickly accepted the People's Army.

After digesting these five counties, the People's Army should also develop its own strength as soon as possible, the scouts of the People's Army went deep into the activities under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and have found that many Ming troops are gathering, and it is expected that the target of these Ming troops will be the People's Army, and it will not be long before the second major battle between the People's Army and the Ming Army will come.