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(Every Monday, I inevitably ask the brothers for some red tickets!) Brothers jack up! ）

Of course, this does not mean that the local situation has completely calmed down, although relatively speaking, after the Xingtian Army strangled the three murderers of Yangcheng, it drove away or annexed some local small pole forces, and the local situation is indeed much more stable, but in the north of Yangcheng, there are still some small forces that are not eye-opening enough, and they are not used to seeing the Xingtian Army entrenched in the territory of Yangcheng all the way.

Naturally, some people had the audacity to sneak into the sphere of influence of the Xingtian Army, looting here and causing some trouble for the Xingtian Army.

Of course, there are also some restless and self-conscious ruffians in the local area, and after seeing that the local people are free of those bandits, they began to move, secretly gathered, and several people teamed up to do some bad things, stealing chickens and touching dogs, and did not dare to do big bad things, but small bad things also secretly did a lot.

Even a group of land reform teams under Fu Deming was attacked by a group of about 20 bandits in a marginal village, and several members of the land reform team were killed on the spot, which caused a certain obstacle to the land reform work.

But this kind of thing, there is no need for the Xingtian Army to ask the local people to do anything, and the common people also know who is more important to them, so as long as they find that someone is trying to wreak havoc in this area, even if they dare not fight back, at least they secretly dare to report to the people of the Xingtian Army.

As soon as the Xingtian Army stationed in Lotus Village received the news, they would immediately take the scouts first, and send a small team of soldiers to attack the place where the bandits appeared, and either drive them away or solve them on the spot.

To a certain extent, the Xingtian Army has also adopted a high-pressure posture for the bandits in this area, as long as they find that someone dares to loot in the local area, or enter the area under their control from the outside to do bad things, they will send troops and horses as soon as possible to quickly exterminate them, and for those ruffians who are captured, they will be assigned to mine and work as coolies, or they will be tied directly to the village entrance after showing the public, and their heads will be cut off to set an example.

After some of the bandits in the vicinity suffered a few big losses, they knew that the Xingtian Army was really not easy to provoke, like a frightened bird, and they didn't dare to set foot in this area anymore, picking quarrels and provoking trouble in this area, but this kind of thing was not cut off because of this, and some people would sneak into the area controlled by the Xingtian Army, attack the villages, burn, kill and loot.

And Xiao Tianjian after inspecting the local situation, also found this problem, when he inspected a small village called Yujiaao on the south bank of the Huze River, he saw that this place had just experienced a catastrophe, from they to Yujiaao Village, they began to see the corpses of two people here and a large area of bloodstains, seeing that the clothes should be local villagers, and then Xiao Tianjian and Tietou and other guards immediately became alert, and the guards immediately dispersed and protected Xiao Tianjian and Fan Yutong's carriage.

"Look at the corpses on the ground!" Xiao Tianjian pushed away the iron head that was blocking him, and said with a very ugly face, in the area controlled by his Xingtian Army, there would be people who died outside the entrance of the village in broad daylight, which was unacceptable to him.

So the soldiers immediately stepped forward to check the corpse at the entrance of the village, and immediately replied to Xiao Tianjian: "It seems that the villagers here were hacked to death with a knife from behind!" ”

The iron head immediately commanded: "Spread the vigilance!" Zhou Jian took two brothers into the village to check it out! If something happens, warn immediately! ”

A personal guard immediately nodded in response, ordered two of his subordinates, drew his waist knife and flew into the village, while Xiao Tianjian looked at the small village in front of him, quietly waiting for the news.

Not long after, the guard named Zhou Jian rushed out of the village, came to Xiao Tianjian, and immediately reported: "General Qiqi, there are more than 50 people in the village, and only one old man is still alive at this time, but he has also been stabbed, and it is estimated that he will not be able to hold on!" Others were taken captive instead of being killed! I didn't even let the children go! The old man said that they came here in the morning a group of more than 20 people, and they all spoke with local accents, but I don't know who assigned them, after these people entered the village, they began to kill people without saying a word, and after robbing a few girls and daughters-in-law in the village, they packed up the only soft things of the people here, and left here! It's been at least an hour since they've been out of here, and the old man is no longer good before I come out! The old man said when he was dying, please avenge them! ”

Xiao Tianjian's face was gloomy as if it was going to rain, and he strode into the village, and when he raised his eyes, there were corpses of villagers everywhere on the road between several houses in the village, regardless of men, women, old and children, and the whole village was slaughtered.

"! Who did this? Xiao Tianjian finally couldn't help but scold after seeing this scene, and in a hurry, he drew his knife and cut a small tree next to him into two pieces.

After some searching, Tietou and the others did not find any clues, the people who did this were obviously ruthless, they didn't plan to stay alive at all, and they did it very cleanly, and they fled from this place immediately after a blow, through careful observation, Xiao Tianjian determined that these people should not be people in his jurisdiction, when these people left, they were going in the direction of the north of the county, even if they chased at this time, it was already too late.

In his jurisdiction, there was suddenly such a tragedy, which was undoubtedly another blow to the local situation that had just stabilized, and if it could not be eradicated, it would definitely be a great threat to the future spring ploughing.

Xiao Tianjian ordered a few people to be left here to collect the corpses of the villagers here, and took Tietou and others to search along the way for a period of time, and there were no more seizures, but they also found that the territory controlled by them and the territory controlled by the government had no obvious boundaries in some places, and there were even some places between them. The Xingtian Army either sent troops out to pursue them, or they could only take a defensive position and go out to pursue, and now their forces are scattered, without accurate intelligence support, they have no way to start, it is like being slapped hard, but they can't see the enemy, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

At present, he has to divide his troops to go out to collect food, and on the other hand, he has to leave half of his troops to be stationed in Lianhua Village, Shuangfeng Village, Dongye Town, and other places, and at the same time he has to train his troops and prepare for war.

Xiao Tianjian was searching for clues about the enemy who had committed such a big crime, and he had to think about this problem at the same time, but on the way, he still came up with a way, before the country militia was organized, he had to draw out some people from the limited force and garrison them at these intersections to prevent the outside bandits from entering his jurisdiction to cause chaos.

This kind of garrison did not require much troops, each group of 20 men, only five groups of men, who took turns to patrol the area of each major crossing leading to their jurisdiction for a period of three days, and rotated every three days, drawing from among the remaining soldiers of each team, so that the problem of patrolling the local area could be initially solved.

If a large group of more than 50 people is found, then the patrol team will temporarily avoid the battle, raise the smoke as a signal, and gather other nearby patrols to deal with these bandits together, and at the same time can also play the role of checking passers-by. Second, it can prevent the detailed work of the government and other forces from entering their local area to inquire about the news of their Heavenly Army.

In this way, the consumption of troops is not much, but it greatly expands the effective control area of the Xingtian Army, and at the same time, it will not affect the normal training and rest of the Xingtian Army.

After thinking about this, he was not in the mood to continue the search, so he hurried back to the lotus village without stopping, gathered the generals who stayed behind, and told the generals their thoughts.

After hearing the Yujiaao bloody case, Yan Chongxi and the others were all furious, there were actually people in this situation, and they dared to come to their tiger whiskers of the Xingtian Army, this person simply ate the courage of the ambitious leopard, and they didn't think so of Xiao Tianjian's method, in their opinion, as long as someone dared to enter their territory to cause trouble, then it would be better to punch them and beat them to death completely.

And Xiao Tianjian shook his head and said: "Although what you said is not bad, but at the moment we don't know who did this at all, we are going to send troops to fight, and who are we going to fight?" What's more, we are very busy everywhere here at the moment, and the existing forces are not suitable for a large-scale attack, so our top priority at the moment is to get a good grasp of dividing the fields and land to welcome the arrival of spring ploughing.

Sending out patrols is also a last resort, so that on the one hand, we can protect the land division plan from being affected, and at the same time, we can also protect the local people from spring ploughing, and the patrol team can also guide the displaced people who are gradually entering our jurisdiction to the resettlement sites for resettlement!

Of course, for those who infiltrated our territory to attack and disturb, I don't want to let them go, Li Lingfeng, you have to find a way to find out the origin of this group of people who washed Yujiaao as soon as possible, and there are also surrounding forces hostile to us, this matter is not a trivial matter, you have to speed up a little! Once we find out who did it, then I, Xiao, will never let him go! I will make him pay with blood! ”

After listening to this, the generals had nothing to say, but they felt that this time the incident was really embarrassing, Zhao Erdonkey suddenly said: "Could it be that Fan Laocai sent someone to take revenge on us because he didn't save his daughter, and deliberately blocked us to find us trouble?" ”

"Impossible! This will never be done by our shopkeeper Fan! As soon as Zhao Erdonkey's words fell, Wang Chengping, who was sitting on the lower hand, immediately jumped up and said angrily.

It turned out that after Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng escorted Fan Xi back, he rushed back to Lotus Village with Li Lingfeng on the fifth day of the first month, and when he heard Zhao Erdonkey pointing the finger of suspicion at Fan Yaoshan, he jumped up.