Fan Yubin then ordered several large pits to be dug and all the horse bandits and dead horses (the wounded horses were also killed again) into the pits, and filled them with mounds of earth. Then he ordered all the soldiers to mount their horses and gallop and trample on them. The mound grew smaller and shorter, and was eventually razed to the ground.

With the carcasses of these horse bandits as fertilizer, the grass should be lush next year. Fan Yubin thought secretly.

The habitual bandits who once dominated the rivers and lakes, crisscrossed the grasslands, and could stop children from crying at night disappeared and suddenly disappeared without a trace. This also leaves a mystery in history.

In the battle, Fan Yubin's troops eliminated and killed 392 Tianma bandits, and none of them escaped the net. Countless gold, silver, jewelry, goods, horses, and weapons were seized. However, Fan Yubin's troops were only slightly injured by the horse bandits' stray arrows, and none of them died.

After returning to Zhangjiakou, Fan Yubin's first military order was to issue a gag order to suppress the bandits, and if there was a leak of secrets, military law would be involved. Different awards were given to all the officers and soldiers, and the barracks cheered.

Fan Yubin asked Zhang Kai to secretly pull back some of the property that the Zhang family caravan had been robbed of. After Zhang Kai pulled it back, he pulled it back as it was. It turned out that Zhang Biao was lying in bed sick, and overheard his son report that the horse bandits had been exterminated, and none of them escaped the net, and the bandit leader was also chopped into pulp. The so-called heart disease also needs heart medicine. His illness was immediately healed. With red eyes, he smiled and asked his son to pull everything back. And asked Zhang Kai to bring a message to Fan Yubin: The revenge has been avenged, and he is satisfied. These things were to be given to the soldiers who went into battle.

Fan Yubin personally sent a silver ticket of 100,000 taels. The Zhang family's loss this time is not small, and the bereavement of more than 60 people alone is an extremely nerve-wracking thing, which is enough to make the Zhang family hurt their muscles and bones. But before he arrived at the Zhang family's compound, he was intercepted by the Fan family's people halfway. Because in the Fan family's compound, there is another tricky thing waiting for him.

In the VIP hall of the Fan Mansion Compound, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa gathered together.

Tian Lansheng sat on the chair, stroked his beard and cried, crying until his liver and intestines were broken, and he couldn't breathe. The others are also sad for the dead rabbit and the fox, and their faces are full of affection.

It turned out that after Li Zicheng's defeat in Taozhou this year, he led the army into the fortress and went to Minzhou, Xihe, and Lixian mountains. Hong Chengchou, He Renlong, and Cao Bianjiao pursued and suppressed Li Zicheng in the mountains. At the end of August, a group of thieves appeared out of nowhere, broke into the southeastern part of Shanxi, burned, killed and looted, and tried to persuade Li Zicheng to break through. The southern part of Shanxi was already empty, and the remaining garrison soldiers were killed by thieves to the point that they lost their armor and collapsed.

Later, it was Zuo Liangyu who led the main force of the official army to arrive to exterminate this gang of thieves. Although the thieves were destroyed, the southern part of Shanxi suffered heavy losses. The strange thing is that the walled fort in Tian Lansheng's hometown was also breached by a group of thieves of unknown origin and burned to the ground. Tianjiazhai has a dangerous terrain and is extremely strong to build, which can be said to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it cannot be shaken without large-scale siege facilities. Not to mention the fact that there are hundreds of well-equipped village soldiers guarding them. After the village was broken, more than 600 people in the village were wiped out, even the old and young women and children, and the children in infancy did not let go. Among them, there are more than 100 immediate family members of the Tian family. After the thieves slaughtered the village, they robbed the property in the house, and some of the treasures that the Tian family had stored in the Tian family village for several generations of hard work also disappeared. When this gang of thieves left, they also burned Tianjiazhai to the ground with a fire, destroying their corpses and destroying their traces.

"This is not done by thieves, they don't have siege equipment, and they don't have that ability, this must be done by the officials and soldiers under Zuo Liangyu!" Tian Lansheng cried and said.

The crowd was silent. Not to mention that there is no evidence, but there is real evidence. In the current situation, the imperial court can only pretend to be deaf and dumb, and dare not offend those feudal forces, and maybe they will be accused of slander and theft. Don't look at these businessmen, they usually want the wind and the rain, but in the face of real strength, they are just chickens and dogs.

"Brother Tian, please mourn." Guest Liang whispered that he usually has the most iron and dedicatedness to Tian Lansheng: "But this tragic incident has indeed sounded the alarm for us." Now are troubled times, and swords are everywhere. Originally, we thought that we had a little bit of this and that relationship with all sides, and no matter what the situation was, they would not do anything to us. As far as I know, this matter is indeed inseparable from Zuo Liangyu's army. We also have some friendship with Zuo Liangyu. But what about friendship? For the sake of money, they can destroy your whole people. If Zuo Liangyu can do this today, tomorrow there will be other people with soldiers and guns who will do the same. We are a big piece of fat in their eyes. And so on. We are all in danger of having our families ruined and dying without a place to bury! Brother Yongdou, we all came here today, just to ask you to take a charter, how to deal with it? We can't just sit still, can we? ”

"As the saying goes, if it collapses every day, it falls against the wall. Ask for others as for yourself. The best thing to do is for us to take our own destiny into our own hands! A loud voice came from outside the living room. The door opened, and Fan Yubin strode in, his eyes blazing and his expression calm.

Fan Yubin first made a circle and said respectfully: "Elders, please forgive Yubin for being rude. The younger generation took the liberty to come in and disturb because there were a few heartfelt words, like a fish in the throat, not vomiting and unhappy. ”

Fan Yubin glanced around at everyone, and continued: "There is a saying in the West: what does it mean that political power comes out of the barrel of a gun? That is to say, in troubled times, in the end, it is the fists and guns that have the final say. We now have some money and some power. It looks rich and majestic. But do we have status, security? No! In the eyes of those big people, we are just a dog for them, just a tool to make money for them. What is our current situation, it is a man-made sword, and I am a fish! Now a small self-respecting general can destroy you in order to seize your property. You can't resist yet, you can only knock out your teeth and swallow them in your stomach, tears flow into your stomach, you can only eat coptis dumbly, and you have to pretend to be deaf and dumb. Think about it, how many people are more ruthless than this thief general? There are so many! If we don't have the ability to protect ourselves, then all we have now is just a flower in the water, a moon in the mirror! ”