Sixty miles away from the Bird Mouse Valley, scouts surveyed the Malay newspaper, and thieves gathered in the Bird Mouse Valley.

The generals were inspired by Li Yuan to fight.

Li Yuan instructed the generals, "Don't be anxious, I will make my own arrangements at that time, you must follow the order, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law."

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On the second day, the officers and troops only marched forward for thirty miles, and Li Yuan immediately ordered to set up camp.

At this time, there were still thirty miles away from the mouth of the Bird Mouse Valley, and Li Yuan ordered his subordinates to be on strict guard to prevent thieves from coming to steal the camp at night.

At dawn the next day, Li Yuan ordered the whole army to set off.

Ten miles away from the mouth of the Bird Mouse Valley, scouts and Malay reported that there were about 20,000 thieves, and they were rushing towards the official army.

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Li Yuan summoned all the generals and ordered the baggage vehicles to be gathered together, put up in formation, and plant flags.

Wang Wei led 2,000 cavalry to wait for the enemy in front of the battle.

The infantry retreated to the rear of the formation, ready to shoot their bows and arrows.

Ying Yanglang Jiang Baoyi and Zhang Pinggao, the captain of Ying Yang Mansion, each led a thousand elite cavalry to guard the two sides.

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After arranging the positions of each department, Li Yuan arranged the strategy of attacking the thieves,

"When the thief is two hundred paces, stop the thief with his bow and arrow. When the thieves stop when they are hindered, they will gather together and wait for the thief's command."

"The leader of the thieves ordered him to charge, and the troops were not allowed to fight. The front is to pretend to be afraid, and flee to the rear. The cavalry on both sides will flee outside."

The generals listened to Li Yuan's arrangement, and when the thieves charged, all the officers and soldiers scattered and fled, and they couldn't help but feel strange in their hearts.

A soldier asked Li Yuan, "Tang Gong, I have run away, how can I kill the thief?"

Li Yuan's face was serious, "I'm not asking you to really escape, if there is a real escape, military law will do it."

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Then, Li Yuan continued to deploy,

"When our army has fled, the thieves will come and fight for the wagons."

"When the thieves gathered around the baggage vehicles, our infantry fired arrows from behind; The cavalry, flanking forward from both sides, surrounded the thieves in the middle, and slew with their bows and arrows."

"After a rain of arrows, the cavalry took advantage of the chaos of the thieves and slaughtered into the formation."

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After explaining, Li Yuan asked the generals, "Have you ever understood my intentions?"

All the generals said, "Understood."

After receiving the order, all the generals returned to set up their formations and conveyed to their subordinates the strategy of fighting the thieves.

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Not long after the formation was set, the thief cavalry was already approaching.

Wang Wei sat on a horse at the front of the formation, and when he saw that the thieves were about to reach 200 steps, he ordered his subordinates to release arrows.

The thief cavalry stopped its advance and waited for the rest of the group to follow.

After a while, the follow-up troops of the thieves arrived one after another and formed a confrontation with the official army.

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At this moment, a heavily armed and mighty thief stepped forward, sat on his horse and looked at the side of the official army. Several thieves gathered around him to talk.

Li Shimin decided that this person must be Zhen Zhai'er, the leader of the thieves, and he had already made up his mind in his heart that after the war broke out later, he would shoot this person first.

After the mighty thief had spoken to a few of them, the people with whom he had spoken spread out to the left and right, presumably having been ordered to give an account to his subordinates.

Sure enough, within a few moments, the thief cavalry rushed towards the official army.

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Wang Wei asked his subordinates to pretend to shoot a few arrows sporadically, that is, he turned his horse's head and fled behind the formation, and his subordinates also turned their horses and fled.

When the officers and soldiers on both sides saw the thieves and cavalry rushing over, they also pretended to be afraid of the battle and fled to both sides.

The thieves and cavalry, the elite of the enemy, saw the officers and soldiers fleeing in all directions, and thought that they had won as easily as usual, so they all rushed to the baggage carts, dismounted and fought for the supplies on them.

The bandit infantry behind, seeing that the cavalry had succeeded, also swarmed up from behind and rushed towards the baggage vehicles.

Only the mighty and mighty thief

The thief and several cavalrymen stood still.

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At this moment, the officers and soldiers who had just scattered and fled came back and surrounded all the elite thieves in the middle.

When the thieves saw that the situation was not good, they wanted to get on their horses and fight, but they saw ten thousand arrows fired at the same time, and they shot at the middle of the battle together.

Most of the thieves who were surrounded by the formation were wounded by arrows, and those who were not injured had to hide behind the heavy vehicles.

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Li Shimin rushed directly at the mighty and majestic thief, and immediately used the wind-chasing arrow method from 300 paces away, shooting three arrows at him in a row.

On the other side, the eldest grandson Shunde concocted the same method, and also used the wind-chasing arrow method, shooting three arrows at it in a row.

Two people with six arrows, all shot the mighty and majestic thief, this person immediately fell off the horse, several people around him saw the leader fall off the horse, turned the horse and fled, and was also shot off the horse by Li Shimin and others.

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The thief infantry, who had not yet rushed up behind, saw that the elite cavalry in front of them was attacked, and knew that the general trend had gone, so they turned around and fled south.

The cavalry of the officers and soldiers outflanked them from both sides, and the two legs of the thief infantry were not as fast as the horses, and they were soon cut off by the cavalry of the officers and soldiers.

Next to the baggage vehicle, the elite thieves who were surrounded in the core had been killed or wounded, and the remaining thieves had to give up resistance when they saw that they had no chance of winning.

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The officers and soldiers shot and killed more than 3,000 thieves and captured nearly 20,000.

Li Yuan asked the leader of the thieves who surrendered, where was Zhen Zhai'er, the leader of the thieves? The leader of the thieves said that it was Zhen Zhai'er who was shot by Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Shunde.

Li Yuan asked the officers and soldiers to camp on the spot, bury the bodies of the thieves, treat the wounded, and appease the surrendering thieves. Officials from the three counties of Jiexiu, Lingshi, and Huoyi were summoned, and the thieves were registered and registered in the three counties, and they were divided into public fields as military households.

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In the middle of winter, the thieves had no way to make a living, so Li Yuan ordered the officials of the three counties to contact the local wealthy households to provide winter rations, and when there was a harvest in the coming year, the people who had settled down would return the money. He also ordered the local officials to send a message to the township to help the registered thieves build thatched huts to withstand the cold winter.

Li Yuan arranged it this way, and the thieves who belonged to him had a livelihood, and they were grateful to Dade one by one, and they had no thoughts of making trouble again, and brought tens of thousands of people from all over the family to join him.

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After Li Shimin left with Li Yuan to suppress the bandits, Guanyin waited for the news of their performance every day.

In the midst of anxious waiting, the days seem especially long.

In the past, when Guanyin persuaded the Don family and others, she always looked like she was winning, but when she was alone, she couldn't help but worry about Li Shimin's safety.

After all, no one is 100% sure of such a thing as a war.

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The eldest grandson Shunde's wife Dun's family, Liu Hongji's wife Cui's family, and Dou Cong's wives You and Xin'er didn't know that their family Langjun was going to suppress bandits this time.

They really thought that they were going to escort money and grain to Luoyang, so they were not as worried as they were when they attacked the Turks in the north last time.

In the hearts of several people, it is more of the lovesickness of the husband and wife who temporarily part.

When Lang Jun was not at home, Xin'er, Dun and others had nothing to do in their own courtyard, so they wanted to relieve the loneliness in their hearts.

The four of them took the children every day to the left-behind government office to chat with Guanyin, and the five of them talked and laughed together, which invisibly alleviated the pain of lovesickness.

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In front of the Dun clan and the other four people, Guanyin didn't dare to show the slightest anxiety, so as not to bring them unease. She would come up with all kinds of ways to enlighten and comfort the four of them, so that they wouldn't worry about Lang Jun who was out, but every day she privately asked Qin Lan to go to the front yard to inquire if there was any news coming back from the south.

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On the morning of the eighth day, Lu Zheng came to the backyard to find Qin Lan, and told her excitedly, "The fast horse gallop has just been sent back, and the news of the victory of the official army against the bandits."

Qin Lan asked Lu Zheng, "What does the good news say?"

Lu Zheng said, "I heard that it was the beheading of 3,000 people,

20,000 captives."

Qin Lan asked anxiously, "What else do you say?"

Lu Zheng replied to Qin Lan with a smile, "I'm not a county prince, where will I see the good news?" That's just what I've heard."

Qin Lan said angrily, "Then why don't you hurry up and inquire."

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Sending Lu Zheng away, Qin Lan trotted all the way back to the backyard, she couldn't help but be excited, and shouted loudly as soon as she entered the courtyard,

"Victory, victory, Lord Lang has just received good news."

The children playing in the courtyard looked at Qin Lan in amazement, and Qin Lan ignored them and ran straight to the main room.

Guanyin, Dun and others were talking on the kang in the house, and when they heard Qin Lan shouting excitedly in the courtyard, they didn't know what was going on, and several people hurriedly put on their shoes and got off the kang.

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Xin'er was anxious, so she ran to the door with her shoes on, and when she ran to the door, she bumped into Qin Lan who opened the curtain and came in.

Qin Lan helped Xin'er to stand firm, walked a few steps to the Guanyin maid standing in front of the kang, bent over, panted, and said to the Guanyin maid, "Lu Zheng said that he won."

Seeing her panicked appearance, Guanyin said with a smile, "You take a breath and then talk."

After that, she beckoned Dun Shi and the others to get back on the kang.

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Sitting down on the kang, Guanyin looked at Qin Lan, who had come to her strength, and ordered, "Say it."

Only then did Qin Lan remember to bow to Guanyin's crossed hands and bowed, and then said,

"Just now, Lu Zheng came to report that Lord Lang had good news, and they had won a big victory against the bandits, saying that they had beheaded 3,000 people and captured 20,000 people."

Guanyin and the others listened quietly, waiting for Qin Lan to say the following, seeing that she was no longer talking, Guanyin asked Qin Lan, "What else do you say on the good news?"

Qin Lan replied to Guanyin regretfully, "I asked Lu Zheng, and he said that he only knew this."

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Xin'er, Dun Shi and the others looked at Guanyin in a daze, full of questions.

You asked, "Didn't you say to escort Qian Liang to Luoyang?" Why did you run away to suppress the bandits?"

Guanyin smiled and said to the four of them, "This time, Grandpa led the troops to the battle, saying that he was escorting money and food to Luoyang, but in fact, he was going to suppress bandits."

You Shi complained to Guanyin, "It's going to war again, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Cui pursed his lips and smiled, "If you had said it earlier, you would have been unable to sleep every day."

When You heard Cui say this, he felt that this was really the case, and continued, "What Cui Niangzi said is also true, if I had known that I would have gone to war, I would have to live that fearful life."

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Xin'er's curiosity increased, and she urged Guanyin to say, "Sanniang, tell us quickly, what's going on?"

Guanyin told the four people in detail about Li Yuan's leading troops to suppress bandits in the name of escorting money and grain to Luoyang.

After listening to Guanyin's introduction with great interest, You sighed, "I didn't expect there to be so many coincidences in the war!"

Guanyin said, "Fighting a war mainly depends on strategy, so that you can get the greatest battle with the least loss."

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Hearing that the Lang Jun had won a big battle outside, Xin'er and the others smiled happily one by one, and there were new topics when chatting.

After a while, Qin Lan heard the news from the front yard of the official office, and came back to report to Guanyin, saying that there were no casualties among the official army, and the thieves who surrendered should be placed next, and it is estimated that it will take a few days to return to Jinyang.

There are still more than ten days to go to the New Year's Day, and with the quasi-letter, everyone's heart is put in the stomach.

In the next few days, Guanyin, Xin'er and others were busy preparing for the New Year, while happily waiting for their Langjun to return triumphantly.