When Yang Jiajun left Juyong Pass, it was already evening, and about half an hour later, the whole army decided to camp and rest. At this time, the scouts who had followed the horse thieves came back one after another, and they got the information that the horse thieves who occupied Juyong Pass during the day were not a group of people, but three horse thieves who were temporarily put together, the largest of which was about seven or eight hundred people, and the other two smaller horse thieves were about three hundred people, scattered on the mountains around the Great Wall outside the pass.

These horse thieves survived mainly by raiding passing merchant caravans, and occasionally attacked the surrounding villages and towns. After inquiring with the people nearby, I learned that the government had also organized many encirclements and suppressions, but because everyone had horses and horses, they acted quickly, and they had eyeliners in nearby towns. Yang Hongzhang knew that the main thing was that this area belonged to the junction of Xuanfu and Jizhen, and it was easy to cause three things, even if it was to suppress the bandits, no one was willing to do their best, so the horse thieves had enough room to survive.

Yang Hongzhang almost ended Juyong Pass this time, so he couldn't keep these horse thieves to continue to threaten Juyong Pass, otherwise if the Mongols went and returned, the defenders of Juyong Pass would be blind if they didn't have time to replenish supplies.

Therefore, after full research, Yang Hongzhang decided to let the two infantry battalions escort auxiliary battalions go first, and the cavalry battalion, the pro-soldier battalion and the infantry battalion of Luo Yidi went out overnight to encircle and suppress these three horse thieves.

The first group of horse thieves was on a mountain twenty miles west outside Juyong Pass, perhaps accustomed to coexisting with officers and soldiers and caravans, when Yang Hongzhang and others came to the bottom of the mountain, these horse thieves did not seem to have any abnormality, when the Yang family army surrounded the entire mountain at the foot of the mountain, the horse thieves found that something was wrong, and they went crazy and rushed out in the direction of the infantry battalion of the Luo Ke enemy. It's just that they are not facing the usual guards, but an infantry battalion that has been rigorously trained by Enrique, and at the moment when the scouts find the horse thieves, they set up a phalanx of Gustav, with pikemen in front, musketeers on both flanks, archers in the rear, and in the middle are sword and shield soldiers standing in a phalanx to support all directions.

The horse thieves wanted to turn around and flee when they found that the losses were too great to pass through the formation, but at this time, Xia Dongwei had already led the cavalry battalion to cut off all the way of the horse thieves, and the muskets rang out, and the three hundred horse thieves all became trophies in an instant.

Yang Hongzhang was not merciless, and asked Xia Dongwei to lead people to turn over the entire mountain where the horse thieves were entrenched, and finally found the lair of the horse thieves on the mountainside, as well as hundreds of old and young women and children who had no time to run, and in the face of thousands of champion cavalry, these people were obviously dumbfounded.

Yang Hongzhang was also dumbfounded, he didn't expect the horse thief to actually take his family to act, this is obviously their base for many years. In the face of unarmed old and young women and children, Yang Hongzhang had no choice but to order everyone to be released, and then a part of the food and silver money from the horse thief camp was given to these people to ensure that they could flee to nearby towns.

When the second relatively large horse thief was entrenched, Yang Hongzhang learned his lesson and asked the team to set up a formation at the foot of the mountain, and then let the cavalry detour to the other side of the mountain and set fire to the mountain.

Because the time of setting fire to the mountain was the second half of the night, it really caused a chaos among the horse thieves on the mountain, and it took half an hour for the first batch of horse thieves to rush down the hill with torches, but what was waiting for them was the Yang family army who was waiting for them.

Fei Zhenyong, the leader of the horse thieves, was a shrewd man in his forties, and when he saw the only side that was not burned, he immediately understood that today's officers and soldiers were not under pressure to go through the motions as before, and of course, they soon saw from the banner that it was the Ming army that drove them out of Juyong Pass during the day.

Almost like the first wave of horse thieves, they chose to break through from the infantry phalanx of the Roque enemy for the first time, but soon they were like kicking an iron plate, and the neat spears rushed forward, and the shouts that shook the sky and the sudden flintlock muskets and palm thunder made the right pair immediately fall into chaos.

Fei Zhenyong wanted to assault in the direction of the horizontal cavalry after the failure of the infantry phalanx, but this time he came to the cavalry very smoothly, the other party did not take a counter-charge in the middle of the night, but waited for them to approach, and then Fei Zhenyong was desperate to find that these people also had flintlock pistols in their hands, and the two rows of cavalry in the front were densely arranged at the first time to fire a salvo at the same time, and suddenly the horse thief became a live target. When Fei Zhenyong wanted to return to the camp and rely on the simple walled wall to resist, he was stunned to find that the mountain fire had completely surrounded the entire camp, and the cries of the old and young women and children who had not yet escaped down the mountain were also heard on the mountain.

Faced with such a desperate situation, Fei Zhenyong let out a long sigh, dropped the saber in his hand, jumped off the horse and prepared to surrender. Many horse thieves were shocked by this situation, and immediately found that they had no way out, so they learned Fei Zhenyong to jump off the horse and raise his hands.

More than 700 horse thieves were surrounded by 5,000 people, even if Yang Hongzhang was a horse thief in a different position, it was estimated that there would be no chance to break out of the encirclement. So for these horse thieves to choose to surrender, Yang Hongzhang still expressed his understanding.

However, Yang Hongzhang doesn't plan to let them go, first of all, the first part is that all the sycophants are confiscated, and the current Yang Jiajun lacks everything. Then he sent someone to clean up the thief's camp again. Finally, Yang Hongzhang came to the horse thieves squatting in rows and said: "You can also be regarded as trusting to live inside and outside the wall here all the year round, this Shuai is the new Datong General Soldier, I see that you are well received, I don't know if you are willing to join the army, if you are treated well, if you are unwilling, this Shuai will let them out, but in the future, they will not be allowed to gather in the mountains and forests." ”

Hearing this, there was a brief silence among the horse thieves, and then someone began to chatter. In the end, more than 200 horse thieves expressed their willingness to join the Ming army, and more than 300 stood still.

The team of horse thieves of more than 700 people lost more than 100 people in the confrontation, and Yang Hongzhang was obviously not satisfied with this result.

So he came to the crowd of horse thieves who were willing to join the imperial army and asked: "You see if the other party has any of your relatives and friends, if there are nine people who help Ben Shuai, go and do their work, as long as someone is willing to join, Ben Shuai will reward you with two taels of silver each." ”

Hearing that the horse thieves group was in a commotion again, but for the sake of the silver, someone really started to help Yang Hongzhang do the work, but it didn't seem to be very effective, about thirty people followed the lobbying team and walked back, and the rest of the horse thieves seemed to become indifferent and looked at the horse thieves who were willing to join the army in western Zhejiang.

Yang Hongzhang pondered the meeting and asked these horse thieves: "If you still have relatives and friends on the other side, please stand up." ”

So a dozen more people slowly stepped forward. Yang Hongzhang pointed to the horse thieves who were unwilling to join the Ming army and said, "If you are willing to follow them, you can choose again now." ”

More than a dozen people hesitated for a while, and soon divided into two groups, one group walked towards the horse thief that Yang Hongzhang said, there were angry people, and the rest stood in place.

Yang Hongzhang smiled when he saw it: "Okay, stand back, you can follow Luo Yingguan for the time being in the future." ”

Hearing this, Luo Kedi stood up and waved at the two hundred people and led them back, and then Yang Hongzhang waved his hand, and the encirclement immediately opened a button, and those who were unwilling to join the team walked out on foot one by one.

The task of cleaning up Shanzai was still handed over to Xia Dongwei, and Yang Sheng and Luo Kedi led the team towards the third horse thief camp, and on the way, Yang Sheng left the team with a few hundred people.

Then the sound of muskets was heard, and it was neither the location of the previous horse thief's camp, nor the direction of the horse thief's camp to which he was about to go. Soon Yang Sheng and the others returned to the marching army and smiled mysteriously at Yang Hongzhang.

The two successive operations can be said to be quite smooth, and there is no effect at all that Yang Hongzhang wants to concisely train the results.

And when the team was about to arrive at the third horse thief entrenched in Shanzai, it was already dawn, and before Xia Dongwei and others took a few steps to surround and set fire to the mountain, the horse thieves on the mountain had already lined up towards the Yang family's army, just when Xia Dongwei and others were about to strike first, all the horse thieves jumped off their horses for the first time, knelt on the ground in unison, and then a leader-like person came to Xia Dongwei with a few steps on his knees: "This general, spare your life, we are willing to surrender and join the imperial army." We were forced to fall into the grass and were helpless, the plague that began last year lasted for half a year, and then there was a great drought, and the villagers could not survive to do so, but I assured the Bodhisattva that except for yesterday's attack on Juyongguan, we have not done anything for the ordinary people of Shanghai. Most...... That is, to blackmail the caravan in the past, we have already learned that we are wrong, and we hope that the general will be successful. ”

Hearing this, Xia Dongwei smiled, how can I believe the words of these bastards, but in this way, the entire cottage surrendered without a fight, but he couldn't be the master whether to accept the surrender of all, so he had to ask Yang Hongzhang for advice.

Yang Hongzhang was very surprised when he heard the, the first wave of these three waves of horse thieves was the closest to Juyong Pass, and it was indeed the most tenacious, almost all of the three hundred people resisted to the end, and they didn't say anything about surrender in the end, the second wave was hurt and forced to be helpless, and in the end, only one-third joined the Yang family's army, this time it was good, and all of them were willing to join.

After careful interrogation, it turned out that this horse thief had really not been gathering for a long time, and there was no so-called old and young women and children's families, which made Yang Hongzhang tempted, and finally decided to let these horse thieves go back to the cottage to tidy up their belongings and come back, who knew that the leader said that they were all poor eggs, and all the belongings were on him.

Yang Hongzhang was both surprised and relieved, the less belongings means the shorter the time to be a horse thief, so he arranged for someone to burn down the cottage and began to meet with the auxiliary barracks.