Since the Qianlong period, the bankrupt people from the Inner Mongolia have been coming to the Guanwai Mongolian region to choose land for cultivation, and they have made outstanding contributions to the development and construction of the local area.

Coupled with the deliberate suppression of the Qing court, the nobles of various banners increased their dispatch to repay the debts of the imperial court, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the local Mongolian people, which led to the continuous uprisings of the low-level herdsmen, which spread to a wide range, leaving legends such as Taoke Taohu and Gadamerin, which are still sung on the grassland.

These low-level herdsmen may have had to revolt, but Tsarist Russia also saw an opportunity to help them with arms and other help, to make the chaos worse, and to try to reap the benefits of it, and the future division of Outer Mongolia was also inexplicably related to these uprisings.

Shen Long was still more sympathetic to the plight of these low-level herdsmen, but Shen Long couldn't accept the consequences caused to them, so it became imperative to exterminate the bandits.

On the way from Yuanbao Town to Guoerros Qianqi, Sun Liechen introduced the difficulties of suppressing bandits to Shen Long and others, "To say that there are three difficulties in suppressing bandits, one is that there are many grasses and mosquitoes on the grassland, and even if it is summer when you enter the grassland, you have to wrap your head with cloth, otherwise, it will be difficult to move an inch, and there are many wolves, and the runbars (sentinels) sent out are often eaten by wolves." ”

"Second, those horse bandits are all one-man and two-horse, equestrian and fast, and accurate marksmanship, often run when they hit, and we can't catch up; Third, the local herdsmen are all their people, and it is even more difficult to find them if they are tipped off as soon as there is news. ”

"We don't have that many horse teams, so it's really troublesome." Guo Songling frowned when he heard this, the enemy's mobility is stronger than his own, his intelligence gathering ability is better, and if he has guns and ammunition, they have the assistance of Lao Maozi, and they have to defeat themselves, such an enemy is indeed not easy to deal with.

Zhang Zuolin adopted the strategy of sending people to infiltrate the horse bandits, obtain their traces, and then send troops to encircle and suppress them.

Shen Long was a little disgusted that this method was too laborious, we can have people who plug in, no matter how these horse bandits run, they can't escape their eyes, "Don't worry about mosquitoes or anything, I've already asked Xia Dongjia to help collect a batch of medicinal materials, just sprinkle some potions around you when the time comes." ”

With Shen Long's current medical skills, it is easy to prepare some medicine that can repel mosquitoes, "Oh, by the way, Zhanao, do you say that this medicine has a market in the grassland?" Can't do this business? ”

Zhan Ao is Sun Liechen's word, and after hearing it, he immediately replied, "If it can really drive away mosquitoes, those Mongolian people will definitely rush to ask for it, let's just go in and suppress the bandits, but they stay on the grassland every day!" ”

"In that case, then we may be able to use this medicine to divide those herdsmen, and the horse bandits can get news from them, can we also get the news of the horse bandits from them?" Guo Songling drew inferences from one another.

When he arrived at the place, Shen Long was not in a hurry to march, so he took his men to station on the edge of the nearby county seat, debugging the mosquito repellent potion, while training the army and collecting news; Then he secretly used the somersault cloud to probe the traces of the horse bandits, and only after making all preparations did he lead the troops into the grassland.

All the way to the potion to open the way, won the favor of the local herdsmen, reduced their resistance, and then according to the situation detected from the sky, quickly locked the location of the local horse bandit leader, surrounded and exterminated, and completely solved this group of horse bandits that had been a disaster for a long time in a war.

In the south, the old pimple has not yet opened, compared with the two, Xu Shichang attaches more importance to Shen Long, and replenishes him with a batch of manpower and guns, so that he can make persistent efforts to continue to clear the surrounding horse bandits.

After the first time, Shen Long did not personally lead the troops to fight, he was specifically responsible for analyzing intelligence, reviewing the battle plans reported by Guo Songling, Sun Liechen, and Zhu Chuanwu, and assigning tasks to them according to the intelligence.

To deal with these horse bandits, Shen Long is not only suppressed, but when he encounters those who really can't get by, he will also appease them, clean up some local greedy nobles, so that those poor herdsmen can have a way to live.

If you encounter someone who has slaughtered Lao Maozi or Little Japan, as long as they don't have too much evil, Shen Long will surround them and send people to subdue them, these people have good riding skills, and they are good materials for forming a cavalry army.

However, as long as it is involved with Lao Maozi, Shen Long is by no means ambiguous, even if he captures a prisoner, he will directly pull it out to shoot a target, and such a person can only become a scourge if he stays there.

After staying on the grassland for a whole year, through differentiation, suppression, and suppression, the horse bandits in the north were basically cleaned up by Shen Long, and occasionally he even went south to help Zhang Zuolin, which made the old pimple very faceless.

Shen Long also accumulated meritorious service and was promoted to the commander of the Heilongjiang patrol battalion, and his subordinates expanded to more than 2,000 people in five battalions, which is not a small number in today's northeast.

After being promoted, Sun Liechen, Guo Songling and others came to say goodbye, but Shen Long didn't care at all, the Qing court only had three or two years to go, even if it was a big official, what was the use? Only the barrel of the gun under the hand is real.

In the process of suppressing bandits, Shen Long seemed to find that Guo Songling and Zhu Chuanwu were spreading the idea of the revolutionary party in the army, Shen Long pretended not to see it, and when the incident happened in Wuchang, there was no need for them to persuade him, Shen Long would take the initiative to discuss with them to raise the flag, and we could also mix the identity of the Xinhai veterans.

This identity is useless, it is really useless, many Xinhai veterans will not have any influence in the future, but sometimes it can be of great use, as long as you have this identity, you can speak louder in the future, and many things will be much easier.

By the time of the Chinese New Year in 1908, the banditry on the northeast border had subsided earlier than in history, and Shen Long and Zhang Zuolin returned to Fengtian to receive the award, but Shen Long declined Xu Shichang's invitation to keep him in Fengtian and insisted on returning to Heilongjiang.

However, with his current official position, the small Yuanbao Town can no longer accommodate it, and Xu Shichang arranged for him to be stationed in Harbin to be responsible for cleaning up the bandits in Heilongjiang.

So Shen Long returned to Heilongjiang with his men and horses, settled down in Harbin, and then took Zhu Chuanwu back to Yuanbao Town, Sanjiangkou, planning to take Zhu Kaishan and Zhu Chuanjie over and let the family reunite in Harbin.

He plans to open the new map in advance, and now his status is very different from when he was in Yuanbao Town, and he can break free of some shackles a little and do something bigger, such as the Shanhe Coal Mine in Jiazigou, such as building his own factory.