Chapter 1087: Suppressing Bandits

In a dilapidated house with air leaking on all sides, more than a dozen generals gathered, Jian Fang stood in front of a broken table with only three legs, dismounted in his robe, and stared at the map in front of him.

This is a big house with three entrances and three exits, it can be seen that the previous owner's family background is still good, but now, the whole house has been abandoned, the weeds in the house are half a person high, and the green tile roof has also broken several big holes, a miserable scene.

The situation of the rich is already like this, and the situation of ordinary people is even more miserable.

The tiger camp that Jian Fang brought with him has been out for more than ten days. Suppressing bandits has become the main task of Qingzhou County during this time. The wild dog took the blue wolf battalion to Danyang County, and the Yulin battalion was stationed in Qingzhou County to stabilize the form and suppress the bandits, and the Huben battalion took on the task of suppressing bandits in Qingzhou.

Speaking of Qingzhou, there were originally no bandits, and during the reign of Lu Must, several bandits were chased by the soldiers and horses sent by Lu Must, and there was no way to enter the ground, either their heads were cut off, or they surrendered, and Lu must have become a member of the Qingzhou army. As Lu must have driven the people to Qingzhou County and its left side, some of them became the townspeople in the city, and the other part became the tun households in the military tun, and the bandits in Qingzhou also lost the soil for survival, and the places were barren everywhere, who do you rob when you are a bandit?

Now the bandits who appear on a large scale in Qingzhou County are, to put it bluntly, bandits.

When Lu must have decided to surrender to the Ming Dynasty in Danyang County, there was a large-scale escape of the Qingzhou army, in addition to the 5,000 people led by Cai Qiang, the general of the Ministry of Liberation, there were more than 7,000 people who were scattered, most of these people fled in a group of more than 100 people and hundreds of people.

Cai Qiang fled to Xintong County, which was controlled by the Qin court, while the other fugitive soldiers were aimless and scattered.

These people have war horses and weapons, and once they lose the restraint of military discipline, their tyrannical side will immediately become apparent. Danyang is a barely reasonable county in the territory of Qin, at least the people can still live, the appearance of these bandit soldiers immediately caused the people of Danyang County to suffer a lot.

Within a day, dozens of bandit lootings were reported from various places, and the people were killed and wounded, and the loss of property and food was innumerable. All of a sudden, the whole Danyang people were panicked.

Min Ruoxi, who was stationed in Danyang County, was furious. Danyang County has just been annexed to the Ming Dynasty, and a stable environment is what the Ming Dynasty needs, not to mention that in the next battle against Qin, Danyang County will be an important battlefield. If the rear is unstable, this battle will be difficult to fight.

After he decided to surrender, in the face of a large number of soldiers fleeing, he did not take any measures but let it go, so that half of his 30,000 elite soldiers escaped, so that today's predicament was caused, but now, it is obviously not the time to hold this guy responsible, if he takes this handle and pursues Lu must be desperate now, I am afraid that the remaining nearly 20,000 Qingzhou troops will also be in chaos.

But Lu must not be sure, and he can't send Lu Ding's troops to suppress the bandits, so Min Ruoxi can only use the Ming army. Yu Chao's wind-chasing battalion took on the task of suppressing bandits in Danyang County.

Min Ruoxi's task to Yu Chao was to restore stability in Danyang County, and it was a bloody order to kill those bandits.

The fleeing Qingzhou soldiers may have become more ferocious, but there is no order and organization, in the eyes of the Ming army, but it is even more unbearable, between the ten days, these fugitives scattered in Danyang County, but more than 3,000 people under the super chasing wind battalion horse lance, chasing the wind battalion Danyang, chasing the dead and chasing the north, after continuous battles, those fleeing Qingzhou soldiers finally understood that the Ming people were going to kill them quickly, leaving no room for life. None of the bandits who fell into the hands of the Wind Chasing Battalion survived. Whether it is killed in the battle array, or surrendered when the situation is not good, it is all a reward.

Danyang has no place to stand, they really can't beat the wind chasing camp, and the remaining bandits see that the situation is not good, so they pull their legs and run to Qingzhou. They were originally from Qingzhou and were very familiar with Qingzhou County.

In the process of being chased and killed by the Wind Chasing Battalion in Danyang County, these bandits had already gathered into a relatively large scale, but as the war developed, they found that the larger the scale of the gathering, the more vulnerable they were to the attack of the Wind Chasing Battalion. As soon as there were many such things, they also learned to be obedient, and in the process of fleeing to Qingzhou County, they split into more than a dozen groups of men and horses, and the largest group was only a few hundred horses.

After these bandits fled into Qingzhou County, the task of exterminating these bandits fell on Jian Fang's Tiger Camp. It is impossible for Yu Chao's Wind Chasing Battalion to leave Danyang County, because the Wind Chasing Battalion will also be used to deter the more than 18,000 Qingzhou soldiers who surrendered with Lu Must. Any vigilance is necessary in between not completing the adaptation of them.

These Qingzhou soldiers are different from the Tiger Prison defenders, and they have a strong sense of self-reliance. In order to make sure that in case, the wild dog personally brought the blue wolf camp to Danyang. But the Blue Wolf Battalion and the Tiger Prison New Army led by Yang Zhi are both foot soldiers, and without the cavalry of the Wind Chasing Battalion, there are always huge loopholes.

These bandits who fled into Qingzhou County had at least more than 3,000 horsemen. It's a bitter one, and Jane let it go. These bandits are all cavalry, coming and going, out of nowhere, and the Tiger Ben Battalion is adapted from the original Yuejing City Gate Army, with a total of 5,000 people in the whole battalion, and only equipped with cavalry with two sentinels, that is, 1,000 people.

The infantry-based Tiger Battalion is not ordinarily difficult to exterminate these cavalry bandits.

The combat effectiveness of the Tiger Camp is much stronger than that of the Yulin Battalion, mainly because in the Tiger Battalion, there are not only some grassroots officers with rich combat experience transferred from foreign armies at the time of the reorganization, but also hundreds of soldiers brought back by Jian Fang in Longyou City at that time. The worst can be mixed with a guy to do it.

The Tiger Camp is now temporarily under the command of Chen Zhihua, in order to train this army and make their combat effectiveness improve rapidly, Chen Zhihua did not hesitate to send the Tiger Camp to suppress the bandits. This kind of small-scale, but definitely not low intensity battle, is indeed a good training ground for a new army.

In fact, it has been two years since the Huben battalion was formed, and it is not a new army, but in the eyes of a general like Chen Zhihua, an army that has not been on the battlefield, no matter how long you have been in the army, is a new army. Only if you have fought a few battles, splashed with the blood of the enemy, and shed your own blood, then you can be considered an old army.

The Tiger Army is a new army, but Jian Fang is an experienced veteran. The Tiger Ben battalion, which is dominated by foot soldiers, wants to exterminate the bandits who are all cavalry, and the difficulty is naturally not small, and the key is that people can run if they can't beat them. And if the cavalry wants to run, you really can't stop it, the key is that the cavalry in Jane's hands is insufficient.

Naturally, he would not let his foot soldiers compete with the other party's four legs with two legs, which would not only be fruitless, but would even allow these bandits to find an opportunity to bite him back. Jian Fang took the step by step method to compress the activity space of these bandits, forcing these bandits to gather together on their own initiative, and then he annihilated them in one fell swoop.

Although Qingzhou is large, the area where these bandits operate is actually limited, without him, these people also have to eat, really to those deserted places, what do they take to survive, war horses can temporarily gnaw grass, those bandits can eat grass? Even if it is a war horse, if it only eats grass and does not eat food for a long time, how much strength does it have?

Therefore, Jian Fang was very tolerant and steady, forced on three sides, and drove one after another of these cavalry bandits to Xinxiang County. Because he only gave these horsemen a way out.

Xinxiang County is not far from Qingzhou County, it is an important county seat to settle the people of Qingzhou after Qingzhou County returned to the Ming Dynasty.

As for whether the cavalry bandits will harm the people who have just moved to Xinxiang when they arrive in Xinxiang, it is not within the scope of Jian Fang's consideration, this is something that the new county warden Han Kun has to consider. All he had to do was to wipe out all these bandits.

Now it's basically time to close the net.

"General Jian, according to the information sent back by our spies who had hidden in the city in advance, there are more than 1,500 of these cavalry bandits who have fled into Xinxiang, and their condition is not very good, and a considerable number of them are already weak. As soon as they entered the city, they looted all the food in the city and prepared to flee again." A general reported.

"Run, where else can you escape? This is the execution ground I have prepared for them." Jian Fang sneered, pointed to the map on the broken table, and said: "The east of Xinxiang is Fengshan, it is impossible for these cavalry bandits to go up the mountain, if they go up the mountain, it will really be dead. And to the north is Gexi, and now it is the season of abundant water, and they can't get by. To the west is the county seat of Qingzhou, and it is impossible for them to go to death, and the only way to go is to the north. How's the battlefield to the north being laid out?"

"Back to the general, the three thousand soldiers and horses in the north have been arranged in place. All kinds of traps have been prepared, just waiting for them to die." One of the generals said with a smile.

"Tomorrow, with our cavalry as the mainstay, supplemented by 2,000 infantry, we will approach Xinxiang from the west with great fanfare, remember, 2,000 foot soldiers, to give me the momentum of 5,000 men and horses. In order to make these cavalry bandits think that we were worried that they were going to storm Qingzhou County, we arranged the main force in the west and forced them to flee from the north. It's right in the middle of our trap."

"Yes."

"Don't despise the enemy, fifteen hundred cavalry, this is not a small number, the momentum of more than a thousand cavalry charging, that is not fun, our soldiers have not fought a big battle, seeing such a scene, it is very likely that the army's heart will be shaken, this is a key battle to test our tiger battalion, after surviving this battle, the tiger battalion dares to say that it is really an army. You're all veterans of a hundred battles, so you don't need me to say more." Jian Fang glanced at the generals in the room, he was not worried about these people, but about those ordinary soldiers.

"General rest assured." The generals took orders in unison.

"Stop them, trap them, and wait until our cavalry comes around from the northern city, that is, when their whole army is destroyed, the queen mother said, there will be no one left behind these cavalry bandits."