In the early afternoon, when the fourth group of officers and soldiers arrived on the island, there were already more than 10,000 officers and soldiers on the island, but the thieves had already scattered and collapsed, and the large-scale battle was soon over.

In the evening, the search troops gathered on the large slope in the south of the island with groups of prisoners, but among the more than 10,000 prisoners, Liu Liu was nowhere to be seen, and Song Nan was a little puzzled.

Xu Tai found a dozen thief officers from the captives and questioned them, and easily learned that Liu Liu had left the island by boat a few days earlier, and Liu Hui, who had taken over, was identified as disappearing shortly after the battle began, apparently taking advantage of the chaos to escape.

Xu Tai was very angry, and the two thieves all slipped through the net, casting a shadow on this brilliant victory, and ordered people to take out hundreds of generals of the thieves, and ordered his soldiers to whip them fiercely, and for a time the sound of crying and shouting for mercy outside the tent of the large military camp shook the sky.

Song Nan was also very depressed, he planned to capture Liu Liu in one fell swoop, but he was unexpectedly slipped away by this guy one step ahead, this guy is not dead, it is the bane, this anti-thief rebellion is led by Liu Liu and Liu Qi, and now these two brothers have not been caught, I have to say that it is a big failure.

After calming down, Song Nan interrogated several major thieves and generals, and from their descriptions, Song Nan noticed a trace of strangeness; Liu Liu handed over the soldiers and horses to the thief leader Liu Hui in front of the thieves and generals, and he said that he would go to find the thieves scattered in Zhaoyang Lake and bring them to the island, which was obviously unreasonable.

To lure the scattered thieves to this island, you only need to send ordinary people, Liu Liu personally went to make a fuss, saying that Liu Liu cared about the safety and life of the scattered thieves, that is nonsense, I am afraid that Liu Liu has already had the idea of escaping, because he knows that the imperial army is definitely going to keep an eye on the large army, and he will leave on a light boat alone, and the chance of escaping alive will be greatly increased.

Song Nan had to secretly give Liu Liu a thumbs up, this person was not only treacherous, but also brave to make trade-offs, he probably knew that this island could not be defended, and he did not hesitate to throw off 20,000 soldiers and horses in exchange for his escape, this kind of action is not something ordinary people can do; Normal people will always hold on to these 20,000 thieves, because these 20,000 thieves are his capital, and he will not give them up lightly no matter what.

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Wan, who led the troops to find the remnants of the 3,000 thieves in the north and south of Dushan Lake in Zhaoyang Lake, sent a news that the 3,000 thieves who had fled to Dushan Island surrendered voluntarily, but except for a few thieves who led the troops, Liu Liu was not among them.

At this point, after nearly a month of continuous campaigning on the East Road, it can be regarded as an end, and the army of Liu Liuyang Hu, which was rampaging through dozens of counties in Gyeonggi Shandong, was finally exterminated, and the bandit army once developed to nearly 60,000 horses, occupying more than a dozen cities, but in the end, it was like a sand tower, rising quickly and collapsing faster; Of course, this was the reason for the fierce strangulation of the officers and soldiers all the way, but it was also the timely change of course of the imperial court that caused the internal turmoil of the righteous army, so that it collapsed in an instant.

After withdrawing the troops and horses from Weishan Lake, Song Nan issued several military orders, using tens of thousands of prisoners as civilian husbands, and scattered the state capitals as coolies to rebuild the city houses under the escort of some officers and soldiers, and at the same time ordered the three guards and horses of Xuzhou to be temporarily stationed in the area of Dongchang Mansion in Gunzhou, on the one hand, to eliminate the fleeing thieves, and on the other hand, to stabilize the shape of the shì to prevent the resurgence, and wait for the imperial court to send officials to take over these cities, and then decide to stay in accordance with the instructions of the imperial court.

Hou Dabiao also stayed, and the thieves also brought a devastating blow to the Jinyi Wei Yamen in the state capitals of western Shandong, three thousand households and more than ten hundred households have been destroyed, Hou Dabiao is responsible for rebuilding these yamen, and these state capitals were placed under the jurisdiction of the Jinyi Wei Yamen earlier, and it is also a good thing for the Jinyi Wei Yamen to occupy an active position in the reconstruction.

Arrange and dispatch this qiē, the time has reached the beginning of November, a heavy snow from the south to the north has fallen, bringing great difficulties to the relief in various places, Song Nan does not want to stay here to watch the situation after the chaos, he fulfilled his promise, the master will be captured by the thieves and soldiers to loot hundreds of thousands of stone grain entrusted Hou Dabiao to distribute relief, his own with Zhang Yong, Xu Tai, Lu Wan and others, led an army of 30,000 straight to the west.

The 5,000 thieves of Liu Qi and Zhao Qi on the West Road were still hiding in Taihang Mountain and Wuhui Mountain, and after this heavy snowfall, they should also have to take action, this is the best time to find them and annihilate them. And although the bandit leader Liu Liu fled from Weishan Island, he had nowhere to go, all the state capitals had already drawn shadows to arrest him, and this guy had nowhere to hide, and his only place to go was to go with his brother Liu Qiyuan; Although the strength of the thieves on the West Road is small, the important thief capital is among them, and Song Nan certainly can't slack off.

Eliminate the evil, and only after capturing Liu Liu and Liu Qi can it be regarded as a complete victory against bandits.

The army started on the seventh day of November, stepped on the snowy all the way to the west, passed through the territory of Kaifeng Mansion all the way to the north, passed through the Daimyo Mansion and passed through the Zhangde Mansion to enter the Zhending Mansion, the journey was more than 700 miles, and lasted nearly 20 days.

On the way, Song Nan received a commendation order from the imperial court, and Zhengde sent Yang Tinghe, a cabinet scholar, and a special envoy of the Ministry of War to reward the labor army and reward Song Nan for exterminating the rebellion of the thieves on the East Road; But Song Nan also knew from the words and deeds of Yang Tinghe and others that there were many people in the court who complained about not catching the bandit leader Liu Liu. Song Nan was speechless for these people who stood and spoke without backache, these guys, when they were in chaos, they were helpless, and they were all full of energy when they calmed down, and they were patient for the time being, and when the class teacher returned to the court, he would settle a general account with them.

Li Daniu escorted the captives and thieves Yang Hu into Beijing in Gunzhou, and returned to Zhending Mansion with Song Nan, and also brought several letters from his wife and children to his family.

On the night of the rest of the army in Zhending Mansion, Song Nan read family letters under the lamp. The little county lord's letter was a series of words 'I love you and wait for you', and Lu Qingli's letter showed off that she had designed some things according to Song Nan's requirements, and was eager for Song Nan to go home and show him.

It is still Ye Fanggu who has the style of a housewife, and told Song Nan about the situation at home, and at the same time told Song Nan to think about his body, don't be tired, don't be in danger, and Song Nan's heart is warm.

And Dai Suer's letter is different from everyone's style, a long and mournful poem is full of lingering meaning, and there is even a wisp of green silk attached, which makes Song Nan play with sighs, in comparison, she still misses Dai Suer more, not only because she meets her own aesthetic taste, but also because Dai Suer is deeply pregnant, and she will give birth in a few months after the year; This is the first woman to conceive a child for Song Nan, and Song Nan is also more emotionally biased.

The family also brought all kinds of clothes and food, Song's mother ordered the big cow to bring the amulet begged from the temple, and the rest of the people were warm clothes and shoes and socks, among which there was a pale yellow knife spike that attracted Song Nan's attention, and it was extremely delicate and lovely.

Song Nan asked Li Daniu: "Who made this knife spike?" ”

Li Daniu glanced at it casually and said, "Oh, this is what Miss Yang asked me to bring to my brother." ”

Song Nan was stunned and said, "Miss Yang? Which Miss Yang? ”

Li Daniu was stunned and said: "Yang Ko'er, Miss Yang Yiqing, brother, you won't forget about others, Miss Baba made a knife spike for you, but you don't even know who they are." ”

Song Nan suddenly realized, a round and lovely face appeared in front of her, Yang Ko'er still lives in her own mansion, her parents are in the northwest, and she stays alone in the mansion and she doesn't often care about it. This girl is also interesting, Baba made up this thing and sent it, could it be that she is interested in herself?

That night, Song Nan slept very sweetly, pillowed in a lot of gifts from home, slept darkly, and slept until dawn.

On the morning of the next day, the army left Zhending Mansion and went to the north of the Douma Pass, two days later arrived at the south of the Fallen Horse Pass, looking to the north, the continuous mountains are covered with snow, and the north of this series of peaks is the Shanxi boundary, where Jiang Bin led the Datong two guards to guard the north mountain pass. And this south of the Fallen Horse Pass is a mountain pass that thieves must pass through from Wuhui Mountain to the south, and there are more than 3,000 officers and soldiers who are ordered to guard it strictly, and it is also the weak section of the thieves that Song Nan is most worried about.

Hearing that the army was coming, Wu Ke, the general guarding the pass, came to greet him with people from afar, and before dark, the army all entered the pass and camped.

The news of the arrival of the Metropolitan Governor had already been notified more than ten days before the siege of the bandits on the West Road, the Fallen Horse Pass Guard, the Bauhinia Pass Guard, and the Jiang Bin army stationed in the northwest of Shanxi; All the armies have sent their lieutenants to gather at the Fallen Horse Pass to wait for Song Nan, so as to bring back the Dadu Governor's strategy of encircling and suppressing the thieves in the mountains.

In the early morning of the next day, a military meeting to deal with Liu Qi's thieves hiding in the mountains on the West Road was solemnly held in the hall of the Fallen Horse Pass Guard.