By mid-December, after arriving in Pengzhou, he resorted to the plan of the golden cicada to get out of the shell and returned to Shunqing with great fanfare, while Yang Lin secretly took a boat to Yilong County upstream to take measures to launch a final blow against Yao Huang, who was entrenched in Bazhou.

Considering that next year (AD 1646) Zhang Xianzhong was shot by the Barbarian Qing Tartars in Phoenix Mountain, Xichong County, considering that the Great Western Army may attack Shunqing Mansion before the collapse, and the whole Sichuan will suffer a catastrophe after the Barbarian Qing enters Sichuan, in order to be able to change history, it was decided to expand the territory first, enhance the strength, and first expel the local tyrants from northern Sichuan.

The escort battalion, the cavalry battalion, and the 3rd battalion all Si Long Zhiframe, and the 6th battalion rushed to the headquarters of Jing Keqin and the right garrison of the 7th battalion, Feng Youqing, and joined Liao Qifang's 4th battalion and Wang Shuji's 8th battalion. (At present, the maximum establishment of the Volunteer Army is the division, and the battalion officers who exceed the division are promoted to the capital division, of which the battalion officers of the 1st to 4th battalions and the 7th battalion are the metropolitan division.)

For the battalion officers of the full division division, they are uniformly appointed as the general general, and now the battalion officers of the 5th and 6th divisions are the general general.

For divisions that are not yet full, the battalion officers are appointed as deputy generals, of which the battalion officers of the 8th and 9th divisions are deputy generals).

In order to test the transport capacity of the navy, the ministries arrived by different means.

The guard battalion and the 7th battalion arrived on foot, although the military horses were mobilized locally, but there were more than 250 miles from Fucheng to Yilong, and everyone walked for five days, which can be said to be a fast march in ancient times.

The cavalry battalion and the 6th battalion arrived by naval transport ships, and one ship deliberately carried 80 loads of grain and was crowded with more than 50 people.

However, the waterway transportation was relatively fast, and it only took two days to follow the winding waterway for more than 300 miles, and the people and horses were rested, and it was not as neighing as the land route, which was easy to keep secret.

In order to keep secrets, everyone did not take the avenue, and did not stop at the county seat after arriving, but came to the foot of Fuyu Mountain in the north of the city to assemble, and then rushed to a manor at the foot of the mountain.

The staff officers who arrived early were divided into two rows, and after a brief inspection, everyone came to a huge sand table, where Liao Qifang, Jing Keqin, and others held wooden sticks in one hand to introduce the situation of the local rioters in Bazhou.

Jing Keqin came from the side of the local tyrant and was quite familiar with the situation, and in the past month, he has sent three detailed works to Bazhou, so he has a good understanding of the local situation.

The local rioters went deep into Pengzhou, Dazhou, and Guang'an Prefecture many times, burning, killing, looting, kidnapping, and extortion, and doing all kinds of evil. But what is surprising is that the local thugs not only did not loot in the local area, but even assumed the role of the local government.

But this is also very easy to understand, as the saying goes, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, and in order to survive, of course, they won't do anything wrong in the nest.

Just like the end of the Ming Dynasty, the most troublesome is northern Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng were all born in northern Shaanxi, but after making a name for themselves, everyone often ran to Shanxi, Henan, and Huguang to run around, and did not harm Shaanxi.

Except for a few core backbones of the Yao and Huang families from other places in Hanzhong, most of the local scoundrels who joined later were local scoundrels, local poor and helpless refugees, and even those scoundrels, many of them did not completely lose their conscience.

Everyone mainly couldn't survive, so they went out to loot with the head of the family to support their families.

In the time of slack farming, under the leadership of the bandit leader, everyone gathered together, went out to grab some food, and worked in the fields to support the family when the farm was busy.

In this way, although these local thugs are particularly brutal in other places, they are honest farmers in their hometowns, and they do very little harm to the local area.

In this way, although Yao Huang often gathers tens of thousands of brave soldiers, he is mainly the personal soldiers of the major masters in Bazhou and other old nests.

Despite this, due to the poor harvest for many years, especially the rise of righteousness in Pengzhou, he not only captured his big boss Yao Tiandong alive, but also drove the local rioters away from Pengzhou, Guang'an, and Dazhou.

The local thugs are controlling less and less territory, and it is becoming more and more difficult to supply food.

In the past, local thugs committed misconduct in other places, but in the base areas, discipline was strict, taxes were levied on the people under their rule, and robbery was strictly prohibited.

Just like Cheng Yanjin often shouted, I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave the money to buy the road.

In the old nest, the local thugs made up for the vacuum of the government, adopted ten taxes and one tax, and forced the surrounding people to hand over one percent of the land to the local thugs.

It is impossible for the local tyrants to clear the land and clean up the household registration like the government, and the ten taxes are a standard, and the leaders of each family act rashly in the process of implementation, and not all of them are ten taxes and one tax.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the local squires had very great rights, especially some wealthy families, not only thousands of acres of fertile land, hundreds of guards under their hands, plus slaves who came over, and the local power was also quite strong.

Some local squires and villagers dared to resist, mainly due to the local geographical environment and the living environment of the people.

Bazhou is at the junction of the Qinling Mountains and the hills in Sichuan, the terrain in many places is dangerous, many people live in the cottage, if the local riots come, everyone beats the gongs and drums of the early warning, one by one they are hiding in the cottage, the young and strong, the healthy women are defending in the mountains, although the local rioters are many and powerful, but to break through the cottage, it is more difficult.

(In this era, heavy firearms were very scarce, and the local rioters lacked heavy firepower, and they had limited means for the people entrenched in the cottages.)

Some people think that the Sichuan people were mainly slaughtered by the Barbarian Qing, mainly because when the Barbarian Qing and the Southern Ming Dynasty confronted, because of the requirement for the people to shave the tail of the money rat, the people naturally resisted, and the Barbarian Qing grain was mainly transported from Hanzhong and Shaanxi at that time, and the grain was even bought for more than ten taels and one load.

In order to force the people to obey, in order to solve the food shortage, they went out to collect grain for more than ten years, and so on, like the no-man's land created by the Japanese in North China, the local people were slaughtered).

Seeing the local rioters retreating, everyone left the cottage to cultivate the fields and support their families, and naturally enjoyed themselves. (Many cottages are very large, the east is from northern Sichuan, after the reform, some cottages have a permanent population of more than 1,000 people.) ）

When the government left, the local rioters came to collect taxes, and of course they were not happy one by one, and some even drove the leaders of the local tyrants who collected taxes out of the manor, so that fires often broke out.

Just like the underworld in the previous life collected protection money, if a family takes the lead in resisting the payment, other possibilities may follow suit after it spreads, and if this continues, the underworld that cannot receive protection money and loses its economic resources can only collapse in the end.

In order to deter the local gentry and the local people, the local rioters often use kidnapping and extortion, that is, gathering their subordinates to attack the cottage, carrying out brutal revenge, massacres and other means in an attempt to deter the locality.

Before the rise of the volunteers, due to the low combat effectiveness of the official army, and the large number of local tyrants, the soldiers were strong, and the local squires did not dare to resist.

However, after repeated setbacks, the territory was constantly compressed, and more pro-troops were fed, and the local fire continued unabated.

After being compressed in a corner of Bazhou, especially the establishment of local militia groups in Pengzhou and Dazhou, it was difficult for the local rioters to loot money and grain as easily as in the past, in order to survive, Yao Tiandong, Yuan Tao and others increased the amount of protection fees (taxes).

In the past, it was ten taxes and one, and in the middle of the year it was raised to eight taxes and one, and now it is five taxes and one tax, just like the underworld in the previous life levied protection fees, if the protection fees were raised without authorization, and the enterprises were difficult to operate one by one, so there must be some enterprises that really can't continue to operate, and are forced to rise up and oppose it.

Liao Qifang and Jing Keqin introduced that although there are only three counties in Bazhou (Ba County, Nanjiang County, and Tongjiang County), it is now in recent years, and the major chiefs have been preliminarily found out that the big leaders Yao Tiandong, Xing Wanli Hu Jiusi, Black Tiger Star King Gao Fangba County, Yuan Tao, King Nanjiang County, Huang Harrier, King Zhentian, and Long Jiao, King of Earthquakes, are stationed in Tongjiang County.

Everyone is in various places in peacetime, and they echo each other in wartime, just like in Bazhou, the big leader Yao Tiandong is stationed in the state capital of Ba County, and Hu Jiusi is stationed in the southwest of Erzhaizi, and Black Tiger Star Wang Gao is stationed in Yiyang Mountain.

Since Jing Keqin, Yang Bingyi and others were the leaders of Yao Huang and were quite familiar with the situation of the local rioters, this time in order to encircle and annihilate the local rioters in Bazhou, they even sent several groups of scouts to go deep into various places to once again confirm the distribution of the local rioters' forces and the relationship with the people in various places, so as to obtain such detailed information.

After everyone gathered in front of the sand table and reconfirmed the geography, road conditions, and the distribution of troops, Jing Keqin introduced: "In this troubled era, it is really the officials who force the people to rebel, and the people have nothing to eat, so they have to be bandits and local tyrants."

Nevertheless, now that the New Year is celebrated, many vassals from the past may return home for the New Year.

But even so, the strength of the local tyrant is particularly objective.

Let's take Ba County as an example, Yao Tiandong has more than 2,000 pro-army, Hu Jiusi has 300 elite cavalry, 500 infantry, and Wang Gao has more than 800 people.

Just as the adults said, this battle was mainly in a strange, fast, accurate, and ruthless manner, and our volunteer army not only launched an offensive on Chinese New Year's Eve, but also sent elite troops to directly capture the nest of the local tyrants.

Since Yilong bordered Langzhong and Bazhou, the local tyrants could not expect that we would launch an offensive based on this, and in order to achieve a surprising victory, our battalion decided to send a brigade disguised as grave visitors and cargo men to open the road in front, make a detour of more than 30 miles, contact the local squire, clear the stronghold of the local tyrants, and then blend into the city in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

In order to cooperate with the main force led by the adults to seize Bazhong City, and return everyone to a good man. ”

Yang Lin looked at the sand table in front of him again, then stood up and said, "Everyone, Yao Tiandong, Huang Long, Yuan Tao and others are brutal and cruel, robbing the people, and causing disaster to the township.

But it is impossible to overturn a boat with a rod, just like Jing Keqin, Yang Bingyi and others were honest farmers in the past, natural disasters and man-made disasters, everyone couldn't survive at all, or forced to Liangshan, so they became thieves.

Our troops entered Bazhou this time to relieve the distress of those who were coerced and to allow everyone to live and work in peace and contentment.

As you can see, we have implemented a new policy in Shunqing Province, and we will no longer levy taxes to the people, and only 6 liters of rice will be levied per mu of fertile land, and only 6 buckets of wheat will be levied per mu of dry land.

Ding Fu is only 1 cent and 2 cents, business Fu is only 3-5 cents, Guozhou County Customs is 3 cents, and Guofu Guan is 5 cents.

The military is very important to eradicate the rebellion of the local tyrants, but it is even more important to publicize and implement the new policy to everyone. ”

Thinking of the situation that day, Jing Keqin said with tears in the corners of his eyes: "My lord, you have implemented benevolent government, not to mention that the common people admire it in their hearts, even those who have been local rioters also know it, everyone says, why didn't there be such a clean official as an adult in the past?"

I know that in the past, everyone who was a local riot was hungry and full, and counted them carefully, and in the past few years, the number of people who died of hunger, disease, and war cannot be counted.

After everyone joined the volunteers, they lived like human beings one by one, not only were well fed and clothed, but also had military salaries, and there were pensions for the dead and wounded in battle.

When we saw that the people in the station were living and working in peace and contentment, and thinking that the villagers were still suffering, we swore to change the past, calm the local tyrants, and return the people to a bright future. ”

Seeing that everyone was moved by their true feelings, and there were tears in the corners of their eyes, Yang Lin was quite moved, and immediately issued a military order and decided to carry out a sneak attack on the local rioters.