Chapter 241: Wandering
When he started from the northern suburbs of Qi County, Mingyue personally inspected everyone: Zhao Kuo's 1,000 county soldiers had a bright lineup, waving flags, and spears were like forests. The county soldiers are a little worse, but they are also neatly lined up, equipped with the basic weapons in the county arsenal, Ding Zhuang is a little worse, although he has been training for nearly two months, but he is only a little ranked, and he can follow the level of waving the flag and shouting.
At the time of departure, the people of Qi County all came to see each other, the spectators were blocked, Qi Weng, as a representative of the chief, also trembled and said that Chang'an Jun would be able to win, and he waited for good news with the county fathers.
At this time, Qi's plan to hope that Chang'anjun and the thief would lose both had failed, and Qi Weng was even secretly glad that it was not too late for his family to stand in line.
Because I had chosen a good day in advance, the sun was shining brightly when I set out, and although there was some June mud on the ground, there was no hindrance to the march. Against the backdrop of good weather, the morale of all departments is high, especially the county guards and those rangers raised by Chang'an Jun, who are gearing up and ready to show their skills.
After arriving in Nanxiang, the situation here is also very good, under the propaganda of Feiping's ulterior motives, the news that the Yangtou Mountain thieves went down the mountain to loot the life-saving food has already spread and spread all over the township. Some fugitives who had received the favor of the bandits were still a little guilty for saying goodbye, but now they were a little ashamed again, and instead joined the crowd of people who cursed the thieves, hiding the bandits from robbing the rich and helping the poor, and instead emphasizing their vulgarity and rudeness. Chang'an Jun and Zhao Kuo led their troops to the mountain to fight thieves, and they all welcomed them.
Under this propaganda offensive, the fugitives from the thieves around the mountains and forests continued to move out, and even the thieves on the mountains came down to defect.
"Since the capture of the red-faced thief, there has been a great deal of confusion on the mountain, some propose to abandon the mountain and escape, some propose to go down the mountain to fight, and some advocate to defend the danger to the death......"
Feiping reported truthfully, and there were many fugitives and bandits who were willing to go up the mountain as guides.
"This is really a great beating of water dogs......" Mingyue sighed, maybe this is human nature.
Wei Yao's choice from beginning to end was not wrong, but he probably didn't expect that Chang'an Jun would gather the strength of Qi County for his own use so quickly, and also moved rescue troops from Taiyuan County.
In this way, Mingyue has a little more confidence in sweeping away the only remaining mountain forces in Qi County in front of her.
But people are not as good as heaven, and when they spent the night in Nanxiang, and the next day they set off again to arrive at the foot of the mountain, but from the post office that inquired about the news at the bottom of the mountain, they learned that the bandits had swarmed out and fled south to Korea......
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The mountain is steep and rocky, the mountain is lush with trees, pine and cypress are the majority, the road is not easy to walk, the bright moon slowly went up under the escort of everyone, and it took more than two hours from the foot of the mountain to arrive at the empty thief's lair.
This place has been occupied by the county soldiers, under the guidance of those fugitives, searching the houses and caves one by one, looking at the mess in front of them, Mingyue is silent.
It can be seen that the thieves ran in a hurry, and many of the bedding in the houses were not taken away, and only half of the grain piled up in the cave was taken, and the thieves did not even set fire to the rest—perhaps because half of the thieves and their families did not flee with Wei Yao, they either fled into the nearby mountains and forests to continue their exile, or simply surrendered the county soldiers who went up the mountain.
"There are two hundred people who descend, more than three hundred people who run into the deep forest, and only five hundred people who follow Wei Yao to run south."
After the county magistrate interrogated the descendant, Fei Ping and Mail came to report without a letter.
Zhao Kuo was not reconciled, and sent people to chase south along the mountain road to see if he could catch some thieves who were running slowly, but unfortunately he got very little, and only caught some old and weak people who were left alone when they went down the mountain.
"I thought I could fight a good battle, but I didn't expect the thieves to run first." Watching people go to the thieves' nest in the empty mountains, Zhao Kuo was very unwilling.
Mingyue smiled and comforted him: "At least the thieves have been expelled from this county, and our purpose has been achieved." ”
Having said that, there is still unstoppable worry in his eyes.
"I'm afraid that the thief of Wei will not die, he will hold a grudge against Qi County, and he will not be at ease after going to South Korea, and when the time is ripe, he will come back and kill him, and he will be a thief, which is much more difficult to cure than a thief in a fixed place."
Especially in this place where the borders of Qin, Zhao, and Han meet, thieves can come from left and right, and if one country can't get along, they will flee to neighboring countries. Although it is only separated by a mountain and a river, due to the division of the border, it is certainly impossible for Mingyue to risk destroying the diplomatic relations between the two countries and brazenly go to South Korea to suppress the thieves.
"Just south of the mountain, is the Shangdang County of South Korea?"
Standing near the top of the mountain and looking south, what appeared in front of him was a precipitous mountain with ravines and streams converging one after another, forming the source of the water.
The water flows southward, through mountains and mountains, to a slightly flattened plateau, where South Korea's Sangdang County will become the center of chaos in the coming years.
"Wei Yao, Wei Yao, Nan Ran to the Party, for you, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse?"
However, in a short period of time, let South Korea's Pingyang, the official of the party, Fengjun, have a headache for this group of thieves.
"Burn down the thieves' nest and return to Nanxiang with the capture!"
Mingyue ordered this, and at the same time thought that Wei Yao's southern flight might also be a good excuse to continue to keep the families in his hands......
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Although there was no fighting on this trip, when going down the mountain, Mingyue still made people make a gesture of returning with a big victory, and announced that the thieves had been cleared out, and from then on, the people could no longer be disturbed by the thieves and live in peace!
But after returning to Qi County, at the celebration banquet of Zhang Luo, the chief of the heroes, Mingyue changed her tone and sighed worriedly, saying that although the thief had been expelled, Wei Yao still took the remnants south to join the party, and he didn't know when he would come back.
"Therefore, the matter of preparing for the Kou must not be relaxed here!"
Mingyue solemnly set the tone for the governance of Qi County in the next six months, one is to strive to restore production in Xixiang and Nanxiang, and do a good job in summer planting and autumn harvest, and second, to continue to implement the policy of the past two months when the farm is slack, Hao Chang will continue to provide clan members, bring their own rations, and come to the county to gather for training, once a month, three days each time!
The elders naturally complained bitterly in their hearts, this Chang Anjun was really not polite to them at all, but what could they do? Seeing that the county guards have been firmly controlled by Chang'anjun's doormen, and the people are also full of reverence for this son, and there are a thousand county soldiers of Zhao Kuo eyeing them next to him, the heroes can only continue to choose to cooperate, after all, the thieves went and returned to rob their manor, that is, there is no return, although Chang'anjun is strict, but he will leave them a little benefit.
Moreover, Mr. Cai Ze, Chang'anjun's think tank, has recently been in contact with several wealthy companies, intentionally or unintentionally, hinting that they said that Chang'anjun may open some industries in Qi County in the future, and will share some benefits with each family at that time......
"I don't know what kind of industry it is, is it smelting iron and selling salt, or mining and panning for gold?"
The elders looked at each other, and they couldn't guess why.
Although Qi County is a little broken on the border, it is rich in resources, Zhaoyu Qi has endless fish, some dry Xiao Ze can also scrape soil salt, and the pines and cypresses of Zhener Mountain are good materials for building houses, and there are not only prey in the mountains, but also gold and jade, in the past ten years, thieves have occupied the mountains and forests, and the heroes can only look at these two treasure houses and can't start, and now the thieves are dead and fleeing, does it mean that Chang'an Jun is going to open Lin Ze to them?
Thinking of this, the elders also had an expectation in their hearts.
After setting these things, the time was already mid-June, and Mingyue had been here for nearly three months, and it was time to return to Handan to prepare for the wedding.
"It seems that I can't eat Chang'anjun's happy wine." Zhao Kuo also completed the task, and immediately led the troops back to Jinyang and returned to the national lieutenant Xu Li.
Mingyue still has one more thing to discuss with him.
"Brother Kuo, although the thieves are gone, but the Qin army is still on the side of Qi County, if there are no soldiers stationed nearby, not only will I not have a day to sleep, the flank of Jinyang, the throat of Taihang things, will also be threatened at any time!"
PS: The second chapter is at 12 o'clock