Liu Mang went to Gaoliu to see the county guard of Daijun, but Daixian received an urgent military information from Lingqiu Town, and there were bandits attacking!

Su Dingfang immediately sent someone to Ban's to urgently report to the young master Liu Mang, and ordered Mulan to garrison Dai County, and Su Dingfang bit the gold belt with 500 elites to support Lingqiu.

Liu Mang returned to Banshi from Gaoliu, and the scouts from Dai County just arrived.

Liu Mang ordered Fu Youde Mangui and others to garrison Ban's family, and he and Liu Bowen's eldest grandson Wuji and the Su guard led by Gao Chong rushed to Lingqiu.

When they returned to Lingqiu again, the siege of Lingqiu had been resolved.

This time, it was a small group of bandits of several hundred people who invaded Lingqiu.

Su Dingfang and Li Xiucheng joined forces to disperse the bandits, and from the captured bandit captives, they learned about the situation of the bandits on the Taihang Mountain in the east.

Entrenched near the Flying Fox Ancient Road, there were originally three remnants of the Yellow Turban Army. They are Zhang Leigong, Li Damu and Yu Yigen.

It is perennially active at the root of the Flying Fox Road at the southern end of the Flying Fox Ancient Road, in the Guangchang area of Jizhou. Last year, he invaded Zhongshan and was defeated by Liu Mangsu Dingfang.

After Yu Digen was killed, Zhang Leigong and Li Damu gathered the remnants of Digen and merged them into a large unit, totaling more than 40,000 people.

Such a big share?!

When I first arrived in Daijun, I encountered such a large group of Yellow Turban remnants.

Although Daijun is only a transit place for the strategic transfer of westward expansion and annexation of states, the foundation of this team is Zhongxing Dahan, and the slogan of external propaganda is to protect the territory and the people.

If a large number of thieves are allowed to violate the situation and disturb the country, they will inevitably lose the hearts of the people and lose the righteousness.

Moreover, the area around Daijun Daixian, although it is a temporary place to settle, is also its own territory. How can the side of the so-called couch allow others to snore?

Besides, thieves are sleeping here!

The Taihang Mountains, stretching for thousands of miles, run through the north of the Yellow River, and are bounded by the etheric line of Jizhou. The next strategic goal is to occupy the annexation of the state, and if we do not solve this yellow turban remnant party now, it will also become a trouble for the annexation of the state in the future.

This remnant must be dealt with!

The strategy has been set, but the implementation needs to be cautious. After all, this remnant bandit force is too big and there are too many people.

Su Dingfang's hometown is in Jizhou, and the Su family has been the leader of the township for several generations, fighting against the Taihang bandits all the year round, and knows the situation of the bandits very well.

Although there are more than 40,000 people in Zhang Leigong and Li Damu's group, most of them are women, children and the elderly.

The Yellow Turban Army believed in Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao, and often the whole family and even the whole village worshiped it devoutly.

In the first year of Zhongping, that is, seven years ago in 184 AD, Zhang Jiao Uprising, the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army swept through most of China, known as millions of people.

In fact, at that time, far less than half of the Yellow Turban Army really had combat effectiveness. Most of the Yellow Turbans were poor people, landless, and pious, one joined the Yellow Turban Army, and the whole family followed.

Therefore, although the Yellow Turban is powerful, its combat effectiveness is not strong.

The same is true of the Yellow Turban remnants here. There are only more than 10,000 people who really have the ability to fight.

As long as there is proper planning and proper scheduling, it is not impossible to defeat or even completely exterminate this remnant of the Yellow Turbans.

Liu Ji's eldest son and grandson Wuji all agreed.

"I don't approve of it!"

Li Xiucheng suddenly spoke, and everyone was stunned.

He has been in the army for a short time, and he has not been seriously used, and he is even more silent on weekdays, so why did he suddenly raise objections at this time?

"The subordinates are not in favor of solving the problem of Taihang bandits, but they just feel that it is better to deal with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, and it is better to caress them, and it is better to recruit them."

Li Xiucheng, who was staring at Liu Mang, suddenly realized a problem!

Li Xiucheng, in his previous life, was a loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Yellow Turban Army were separated by more than 1,600 years, both of them gathered people's hearts with some kind of teaching, gradually formed a huge group, and finally armed uprising.

From this point of view, Li Xiucheng, the general of the Taiping Army in the previous life, it is easier to understand what the Yellow Turban Army has done in the present life.

In solving the problem of the Yellow Turban Army, there should also be different views and methods from others.

Liu Mang attached great importance to Li Xiucheng's opinion, moved forward, and said, "Xiucheng will talk about it." ”

"Xiucheng's ancestors came to Youzhou to escape the war, and where they lived, most of the neighbors had joined the Yellow Turban. It is true that the yellow scarves are chaotic in the world, but most of the yellow turbans are not heinous! ”

Li Xiucheng was a little moved.

During the Zhongping period, the Han Empire had reached the twilight of its decline, the imperial court was **, the eunuchs were raging, and there was a famine, and the people were struggling to make a living.

The people threw themselves into the Yellow Turban, not only to be bewitched by Zhang Jiao's Taiping Taoist teachings, but also to survive.

In the first year of Zhongping, Zhang Jiao rebelled, but was soon exterminated by the imperial court.

Zhang Jiao and other major Yellow Turban leaders were killed one after another, and the imperial court only saw the benefits of the Yellow Turbans, but did not expect the harm of blindly suppressing them.

The leader of the Yellow Turban Army is a die-hard believer of Zhang Jiao, and he should be killed when he treats them.

But most of the ordinary yellow turbans are just trying to have something to eat and survive.

The remnants of the Yellow Turbans are hidden in the mountains, and like ordinary people, they mainly depend on farming for their livelihood.

However, the mountains are no better than the plains, and the food harvested cannot meet the needs of survival, so they will take risks and go down the mountain to rob.

The imperial court did not discriminate, and all of them were killed, which could only force the ordinary Yellow Turbans to a dead end of completely rebelling against the imperial court.

If you can distinguish between the leader of the thief and the coercion, and use the combination of capture, pacification, and recruitment, you can get twice the result with half the effort, not only to accelerate the disintegration of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, but also to minimize casualties.

"That's right!" Liu Mang slapped his thigh, "If you can really recruit some of the Yellow Turbans and properly resettle them, you can also increase the farming population!" ”

Liu Bowen and eldest grandson Wuji are different from Li Xiucheng because of their experience and status, and at the same time, for many years, they have been affected by the imperial court's consistent policy of suppressing and killing the Yellow Turban Remnant Party, so they are not as profound as Li Xiucheng in solving the problem of the Yellow Turban Remnant Party.

But both of them are extremely smart people, and Li Xiucheng proposed a parallel strategy of arresting, appeasing and recruiting, which was immediately echoed by the two.

Moreover, the spiritual leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, the great sage and mentor Zhang Jiao and others, have been dead for many years, and now the remnants of the Yellow Turban are far less devout to the Taiping Dao belief than they were back then.

Most of the Yellow Turbans are from poor people, and if they can be appeased, pardoned, and given land to cultivate, who would want to flee into the mountains to become thieves?

……

Liu Mang decided to immediately escort all the captives to Lingqiu Town, so that they could live and settle down, and they were not allowed to be tortured or tortured. Then, interrogate one by one, and first find out the situation in Taihang Mountain.

After several days of careful interrogation, I finally figured out the situation of the rest of Zhang Leigong and Li Damu's yellow scarves.

Zhang and Li's department, with a total of more than 40,000 people, were scattered and hid in dozens of places.

Zhang Li still followed the organizational method of Zhang Jiao's Taiping Daoist congregation, dividing the more than 40,000 people into nearly 100 "big squares" and "small parties".

There are more than 10 "generous" in total, ranging from hundreds to thousands of people on each side, most of them are Zhang Li's cronies, Taiping Dao diehards, and most of them hide in the mountains and forests.

There are dozens of "small parties", ranging from dozens to hundreds of people on each side. Most of them live in the middle of the mountains, or close to the foot of the mountain, and mainly cultivate their own crops.

"Xiaofang" is subordinate to "Dafang" and supports "Dafang".

The situation is basically clear, and he immediately studies strategies to deal with Zhang Leigong and Li Damu's gang of bandits.