In Jeju City, Shi Luosheng was introducing the situation in the city to Guo Xu, who had just arrived, and Guo Xu concluded: "In this way, we are now facing three important problems. The first is that the Jeju City Defense Army has no combat effectiveness, mainly because the military funds were embezzled by Jang Tae-shou. The second is that there are undercover mountain bandits in the government, and in the past, small-scale encirclement and suppression were always ambushed by mountain bandits, and large-scale military operations could not find the shadow of mountain bandits. The third is that the relationship between the people in the city and the mountain bandits is not clear, and most of the mountain bandits in the mountains have relatives in the city, and the relatives in the city rely on the bandits in the mountains to receive help, and the mountain bandits in the mountains rely on their relatives in the city to inquire about information. ”

Shi Luosheng saw that Guo Xu's analysis of the problem hit the nail on the head, and secretly praised his father-in-law that there were really no weak soldiers under him: "Mr. analyzed it very well, it is these three problems that make it a lot more difficult for us to suppress bandits." The first problem is easy to solve, I just received a letter from Zixuan, they have exterminated the bandits in Pengcheng and Xianghu, and recruited more than 8,000 people. These people will be able to have a certain combat effectiveness after two or three months if they stay in Pengcheng for training in Yuqing, and counting our original 3,000 forbidden troops, the problem of the number of troops and combat effectiveness can be regarded as solved. ”

Guo Xu said: "That's great, as for the second question, there is no doubt that the undercover agents in the government are Zhang Mancheng and his henchmen, although we can't completely solve them now, but the undercover agents are also a double-edged sword, as long as they are used properly, they can also be used by us." Putting fake news at a critical moment to confuse them, just like the last time you destroyed Ao Lai Feng, General, so the second problem is not very big. ”

"I also have an idea for the third question." Guo Xu thought for a moment and continued: "We put the people in the city into a group, every ten households as a group, select a team leader, and then let the team leader register all the information of these ten households, the more detailed the information, the better, the team leader has to go door to door every day to inspect these ten households, we also send people to check from time to time, once we find out which family suddenly has more or less people we have not registered, the team leader and other team members must report immediately, if they do not report, these ten families will be punished." If there are more or fewer people in this family, there is a high probability that there will be mountain bandits in the family. ”

Shi Luosheng thought about it carefully and said with great joy: "This method is good, everyone is worried that they will be affected by others, in this way, without our orders, they can exert their subjective initiative to spy on others, even if the mountain bandits are the family members of one of their families, they will also think that for the sake of one of their relatives, they will have a disturbed conscience and have a disturbed conscience for the sake of their own relatives, so that they can completely cut off the connection between them and the mountain bandits, without the intelligence in the city, the mountain bandits will become deaf and blind, and it will be much easier to exterminate them." ”

Guo Xu said: "It will take two or three months for this method to be effective, and at that time, Yuqing has also trained Pengcheng's troops, and it is just in time to start the next round of suppression of bandits." ”

Shi Luosheng said: "Zixuan, they will be back in two days, and this time they have made a great contribution." ”

Guo Xu echoed: "Yes, I heard that this time General Liu also surrendered Wang Lun from Pengcheng, this person has a slightly outstanding army, and it will be a great help to the general in the future." ”

Shi Luosheng said with a smile: "Speaking of this Wang Lun, I also plan to give him a gift, but now the gift is not ready, and the matter of setting up the team leader system will be handed over to Mr., and I will prepare a gift for Mr. Wang." ”

Guo Xu was a little confused: "What kind of gift does the general need to go in person?" ”

Shi Luosheng smiled and did not answer.

The news that Liu Zixuan took Pengcheng and Xianghu in one fell swoop also reached Zhang Mancheng, "Pengcheng and Xianghu were wiped out so quickly? Zhang Mancheng was shocked, you must know that today is only the first day of the official arrival of the bandit army, and two of the five mountain bandits have been destroyed, and Li Ming, the most powerful, has been seriously injured.

Li Hai, Zhan Shiqian and Ma You were all killed by Liu Zixuan, Wang Lun surrendered, Gu Hou also committed suicide, and these two Dazhai were all taken by Liu Zixuan. Unexpectedly, this Liu Zixuan is also as loyal as Shi Luosheng on the outside, but he is extremely treacherous on the inside. Steward Yu began to be a little afraid of these two young people.

Zhang Mancheng asked with a gloomy face, "Has there been any movement in Shi Luosheng recently?" ”

Steward Yu replied: "He didn't do anything, but Guo Xu, his marching master, made a team leader system, and organized every ten households in the city into a group, and then reported the situation at home every day to see who had mountain bandits." ”

Zhang Mancheng snorted coldly: "They have quite an idea, but they think that if they cut off the connection between the people in the city and the mountain bandits, the people on the mountain don't know the movements in the city?" It's ridiculous. ”

Steward Yu also smiled and said, "That is, even if they don't pass through the people, their dynamics will be clear on the mountain." ”

Zhang Mancheng said: "Don't underestimate the enemy, you have to send people to monitor several of their main figures every day, and report to me if there is any movement." ”

As soon as Liu Zixuan returned to Jeju, he asked Shi Luosheng with great interest: "The rest of Li Ming, Dong Liang and An Zhihai, who do we deal with first?" ”

Shi Luosheng smiled and said: "It's still early, don't be in a hurry, let's prepare for a while longer, Li Ming is related to Zhang Mancheng, we may have to deal with it last, let's choose one from Dong Liang and An Zhihai first." ”

Wang Lun listened on the sidelines and said, "General Shi, then choose An Zhihai first, right?" ”

Liu Zixuan asked curiously: "Why not Dong Liang, An Zhihai is not weak, and there are nearly 20,000 people in his hands." ”

Wang Lun smiled and said: "General Liu doesn't know, An Zhihai and Dong Liang have always been at odds, An Zhihai has long regarded Xiaqiu as his own bag, relying on his own strength to send troops to Xiaqiu several times, Dong Liang is weak and can only passively defend every time, now we release news to the outside world to fight An Zhihai, Dong Liang must be happy in his heart, we can also win him together." On the contrary, if it is to beat Dong Liang, An Zhihai will feel that we are going to rob him of his things, but he will hinder him. ”

Shi Luosheng nodded and said, "What Mr. said makes sense, we will target An Zhihai in the next step." As for Dong Liang, can Mr. find a time for me to ask him out, I want to have a good chat with him. ”

Wang Lun said: "Okay, I'll arrange it." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Shi Luosheng shouted: "Sir, please wait, Luosheng still has a gift for Mr., please come with me." ”

Wang Lun felt a little strange and followed Shi Luosheng into a hut. Shi Luosheng opened the screen, and there was a person lying behind the screen, and the person saw Wang Lun's face suddenly full of horror.

"This is? Dongshan County County Order? Wang Lun was surprised.

Shi Luosheng said with a smile: "Luosheng originally wanted to take down his head directly for Mr., but after all, he was a county magistrate, and he died in a place under his jurisdiction, and the impact was not very good, so let him disappear." This will have some impact, but it will not be so sensational. Besides, a dog official like him, the people would have suffered one more day in any given day, and he should have disappeared a long time ago. Now I will leave this man at the disposal of the gentleman, and the gentleman will do his own thing. After speaking, Shi Luosheng walked out of the room alone.

Half a month later, Shi Luosheng took Wang Lun and Liu Zixuan to a tea shed at the foot of Xiaqiu Mountain, Wang Lun was a little worried: "General, I can just come with General Liu, why do you come in person, in case Dong Liang's mind can't turn around and does something out of the ordinary, how will it end." ”

Shi Luosheng smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay, Zixuan's martial arts are strong, it's no problem to keep us safe, besides, I just want to put a little pressure on Dong Liang and let him stop going to the twilight, now there is only one way to surrender to us." ”

Wang Lun had already decided to follow Shi Luosheng with all his heart since the last time Shi Luosheng helped him avenge him. When I came to see Dong Liang this time, I persuaded him many times along the way, saying that he would just let him go. But Shi Luosheng has always insisted. Wang Lun proposed to change places and let the other party surrender on the other party's territory, in case the talks collapsed, his own lives would be in danger, Shi Luosheng still did not agree, but thought that only he could give Dong Liang enough pressure to let Dong Liang know that he was not worth mentioning in his eyes.

In addition, what makes Shi Luosheng so confident is his own martial arts, and now the fire is also practicing to the peak of the eighth layer day by day. No matter how Dong Liang is, it is impossible to bring the whole village to see him, even if he brings a few hundred people, with his own martial arts and Liu Zixuan, there is no problem at all to kill him. Besides, within a distance of more than ten meters, Shi Luosheng wanted to kill Dong Liang, how could hundreds of thieves stop him.

Everyone felt that Shi Luosheng's martial arts were inferior to Liu Zixuan three years ago, and later he was trapped in Wuling Mountain for three years, and his martial arts must have been abandoned a lot. But who knows that Shi Luosheng has another encounter at the bottom of the valley, and now the people who know Shi Luosheng's martial arts are only Zu Qingzhi and Jiang Huanchu except himself.

While talking, the three of them had already walked to the tea shed, and Dong Liang was waiting outside the tea shed with two hundred people. Seeing that there were only three people coming, he was surprised, his face turned red and he felt that he had fallen behind, and he looked too small.

"General Shi, who has admired the name for a long time, is Dong Liang below." Dong Liang walked towards Shi Luosheng.

Shi Luosheng smiled slightly, and also greeted Dong Liang: "The prestige of the lord of Dong Zhai in this area is far above the general, and I have long admired the name of the lord of Dong Zhai. ”

Dong Liang was a little embarrassed and said, "General Shi, I am guilty in Xia, but I am also forced to be helpless in Xia." ”

The two sides sat down, and Shi Luosheng said: "Originally, I planned to exterminate all the mountain bandits in Dongshan, but after exterminating Pengcheng and Xianghu, I found that the real evildoers were only a few bandits, and most of the rest were persecuted. Thinking that I came to Jeju myself, I didn't send someone to have a good chat with you, so I raised a teacher to encircle and suppress, and almost killed without teaching, I really regret it in my heart, so I came to Xiaqiu in person this time to have a good chat with Dong Zhai, the master. ”

Dong Liang nodded yes, not daring to make a sound. Shi Luosheng continued: "I also know that some of you were forced by the government, and some of you were forced by the local rich businessmen, and they had the wrong idea for a while and went astray, and it is very pitiful to think about it. Take Mr. Wang as an example, you also know his experience, and he was also forced by the local county order to fall into the grass. Now that he has returned to the imperial court, he can not only live back to his old days, but also enter the official career. You work hard as bandits, live on the knife all day long, go out and avoid revenge, and when you enter, you are afraid of punishment and suppression, and in the end, you can't escape the destruction of your family like Li Hai and Zhan Shiqian, so why bother? It's better to surrender to us, you will also be an official army in the future, and no one will persecute you anymore, everyone will serve the country together, how good it is to defend the territory. If you are stubborn and force me to raise up an army to suppress you, then it is not that I will kill you, but that I will die myself. Master Dong Zhai, what do you think? ”

Dong Liang was a little moved after listening to Shi Luosheng's words, and said: "General Shi, we don't want to be bandits, but we have been here for many years and have committed a lot of crimes, so we are afraid of surrendering, even if General Shi doesn't care about our previous sins, others will not let us go." ”

Shi Luosheng said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this, since you have accepted Zhao'an, you will stay in the army in the future, in the army, except for Your Majesty, can General Deng still not be able to protect you?" If you still have concerns about this, then you can follow me to suppress An Zhihai and Li Ming, and then you will have military merits, and you don't have to worry that someone will settle accounts after the autumn. ”