Since the capture of Xichuan County, Xixia County and Fancheng, due to the perennial unfrozen Han water, the Nanyang Prefecture area north of the Han River and west of the turbulent water has actually become the rear of the small and strong brigade, and it can be safely and boldly cultivated.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Long 13 decided to re-divide the two old camp young men to the above places, mainly Nanyang County (west of the Baihe), Zhenping County (the whole territory), Dengzhou (the whole territory), Neixiang County (the whole territory), Xichuan County (near the county seat), and Xixia County (near the county seat).

Originally, they wanted to settle a large number of people in Nanyang County, Zhenping County, and Neixiang County, which were mainly in the plain area, but although there were few landed peasant households in these places, and the vast majority of them were tenant farmers of Tang King and King Lu, if they were divided according to the average household of 20 mu, there was not much land left for Laoying.

Now, with more parts west of Baishui in Dengzhou and Xinye County, we can better balance the contradiction of more people and less land.

In Long Shisan's mind, once a large number of enemy troops are killed, they must come from the eastern plains, although the official army may also come from Yunyang Mansion in the west, but first, there are old Hui troops there, and second, because Xichuan County and Xixia County are deep in the mountains and beside the big river, it is enough to hold the dangerous place with a small number of troops.

In addition to the Han River, there are several rivers in the west, including Junshui and Danshui, and it is not easy for the officers and soldiers to come from the west.

In addition, if they set out from Kuizhou Prefecture, there were mountains and mountains along the way, and it was not easy to transport grain, so they could not lead too many troops and enough grain and grass to come over.

But the east is different, except for Yuzhou, there are endless plains, whether it is a large army or a grain can be easily come.

What's more, with the transportation capacity of the Huai River and the Han River, the grain and materials in the south of the Yangtze River can also be easily transported to the Central Plains battlefield.

Therefore, after basically occupying the entire territory of Nanyang Mansion, Long 13 immediately arranged three lines of defense in the territory, the first was set up relying on the white water flowing through Nanyang Mansion City, the second was turbulent water, and the third was naturally Han water.

I believe that with the ability of a small and strong brigade, it is possible to hold the first line of Baishui, and it is the most basic requirement to hold the turbulent water.

As for Hanshui, it was prepared for the enemy who came from the south and west.

But west of the turbulent waters isn't easy.

As mentioned earlier, there are three mountain bandits near Nanyang Prefecture, and Jin Buchang, who is entrenched between Neixiang County and Xixia County, has been annihilated, but Zhang Youcai, the "clay pot" near Xichuan County, and Zhou Jiali, the "black-hearted wolf" entrenched near Nanzhao County, still exist.

In particular, Zhou Jiali, near Nanzhao County, is said to be accepting the recruitment of the governor of Henan, and it is becoming more and more rampant.

Zhou Jiali is a native of Nanzhao County, almost with Jin Shenghuan originated in the mountains of western Henan as a thief, and Jin Shenghuan and Zhang Youcai are different, Zhou Jiali was originally a slave of a large family in Nanzhao County, because the woman defiled the master's mother and fled to the nearby mountains as a thief.

Because this guy is infinitely powerful, he quickly gathered a group of people and horses, and almost captured all the castles belonging to Nanzhao County except for Nanzhao County.

This person has the demeanor of the cannibal Qin Zongquan during the Ten Kingdoms, and after he captured the castle, he immediately killed the old, weak, sick and disabled inside, and then let the young and strong men kill each other, and the survivors were included in his team.

As for the women and children, some of them were used for his pleasure, and some of them were killed by him as dry food, and the cruelty of the methods was outrageous.

But this is such a person, and later Li Zicheng was included in the bag, Li Zicheng finally fell short, in addition to the accidental factor of Shanhaiguan, his own problems are naturally great.

With the existence of such a person, Xiaoqianglu naturally cannot farm in peace.

In addition, although Zhang Youcai near Xichuan County is less ferocious than Zhou Jiali, he occupies a dangerous area in the west of Xichuan County and Xixia County after all.

Therefore, for these two bandits, Long Thirteen must be eliminated.

Because Li Zhong was guarding Xichuan County, the task of encircling and suppressing Zhang Youcai fell to him, and his suppression of bandits here was much faster than he imagined.

After learning that Long Thirteen had occupied most of Nanyang Mansion, Zhang Youcai couldn't help it

I thought of taking refuge in him, but I was unwilling to lose my independent status, so at the same time I showed goodwill to Ma Shouying, who occupied Yunyang Mansion, naturally depending on the conditions of that family.

After this information was learned by Long Thirteen, he immediately sent someone to contact Ma Shouying, speaking of which since Shanxi, this Ma Shouying, He Yilong, and Lin Yangcheng have always owed Long Thirteen favors, so the two sides hit it off.

Ma Shouying deliberately promised Zhang Youcai good conditions, and held a banquet in the Inspection Department of the Digging Mountain Temple to entertain Zhang Youcai and his leaders, so he naturally wiped them out.

At this time, Li Zhong's troops secretly infiltrated several of Zhang Youcai's lairs and uprooted them.

After the annihilation of Zhang Youcai's department, the remnants of the thief god Yikui, who had been between northern Shaanxi and the Yuan'er Division, moved to Zhang Youcai's territory, and its current leaders, Li Busi, and Red Army friends also owed Long Thirteen favors.

Guarded by the inspection department of the Dishan Temple (Siwan Town) and Dinghe Town in the western part of Xichuan County and Xixia County, Long 13 was very relieved.

But the "black-hearted wolf" Zhou Jiali was obviously much more cunning, and after learning of the fall of Zhang Youcai's army, he immediately fled into the hinterland of Bears Ears Mountain, and then continued to send small groups of men and horses into the vicinity of Nanzhao County and Neixiang County, and constantly used assassination and looting to deal with local households and the old farmers of the small strong brigade who had newly moved there.

Due to the new arrival of Xiaoqiang Brigade, the geography is naturally not as familiar as Zhou Jiali, and the mountains between Neixiang County and Nanzhao County stretch for hundreds of miles, the mountains are surrounded by small hills, and the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and it is not easy to find Zhou Jiali's hiding place.

Historically, after Gao Yingxiang's troops passed through Nanyang Mansion and escaped into the mountains of western Henan, and arrived in Hanzhong Mansion to cause the "Carriage Gorge Incident", Zhou Jiali took the opportunity to go out of the mountain and scourge the entire Nanyang Mansion.

At that time, the population of Nanyang Mansion was one million, and when Gao Yingxiang went west, he was coerced by 120,000, but no less than 300,000 people were killed and displaced by the scourge of "thieves" led by Zhou Jiali!

can imagine the ferocity of Zhou Jiali's house.

Nanzhao County.

The commander of the newly formed 8th Brigade, Ou Mubu, and the deputy envoy/pikemen commander Long Xiaohu are discussing the matter of suppressing bandits.

Yesterday, when the tenth case of thieves mutilating villagers occurred in Neixiang County, Long 13 gave them a death order.

"Extinguish this thief in ten days!"

This year, Ou Mubu and Long Xiaohu are only 17 years old, and they will face this tricky task as soon as they take charge alone.

However, since Long Thirteen put them here, not in the hinterland of Nanyang Mansion, it shows that these two people also have something extraordinary.

As mentioned earlier, Omubu is a descendant of the Golden Family, and when he followed the brigade from the Yuaner Dusi across the frozen Yellow River to Gujishan in Shanxi, there were originally tens of thousands of Dingkou, but when he arrived at Gujishan, there were only about 4,000 people left, which can be imagined.

What's more, there are plateaus and mountains along the way, and for Omubu and others, if they don't have a good body, they can't stick to Guji Mountain.

Long Xiaohu is a native of Lingshi County, and he grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and when he was studying martial arts in Lingshi County, he often let them go east to Mianshan to climb the mountain, so he also practiced a pair of iron feet.

Of course, Long 13 asked the two of them to come to Nanzhao County to station, in addition to letting him guard one side and monitor the officials and soldiers of Ruzhou Mansion, he also had the task of training a small "mountain battalion". qs

However, as soon as the two of them had selected the 300 men suitable for mountain training from the 8th Brigade, and were only training, they received the death order from Long 13.

What made the two of them troublesome was that although there were also households in the Bears Ears Mountain, after being most plagued by Zhou Jiali, there was hardly a single household found on the mountains within thirty miles of the county seat.

As a result, even if they wanted to reconnoiter the enemy, they had no way to do it.

However, this did not prevent the two of them from thinking according to the method given to them by Long Thirteen.

"Xiaohu, I always think there's something weird in it."

"I also think that my Xiaoqiang brigade has been killing all the way from Shanxi to Henan, invincible, not to mention bandits, even the official army can't avoid it, Zhou Jiali is a thief, how dare you take the initiative to provoke us?"

"What do you mean......

"If it's not this madness, it's the instigation of someone with a heart."

"Someone with a heart? There are not many people who have the ability to instigate him, and such people must have a deep hatred with us, well, the government must be counted as one, and they wish that our ministry would not be at peace, so Zhou Jiali decided to accept Zhao'an? Or is it not a small official?"

"It is possible that now there is only one general soldier and two deputy generals in the entire Henan Province, and there is only one deputy general and one general in the place near Nanyang Mansion, and the deputy general does not dare to move in Luoyang City, and the general Chen Yongfu has been eliminated by us, and they dare not come to provoke us, so they resort to these three indiscriminate means."

"But the problem is that we are still thieves on the surface, Zhou Jiali is a thief, in the eyes of outsiders, it is naturally a family, why should Zhou Jiali wait with me, even the officials and soldiers dare not provoke things, he Zhou Jiali dares to do it?"

"Could it be Jin Shenghuan?"

"It's even more impossible, Zhou Jiali doesn't even pay attention to the government, and he harasses us and others, how can he accept Jin Shenghuan's arrangement?"

"Also, did you spot a strange phenomenon?"

"Oh?"

"Beyond the north of Nanzhao County is Lushan County, and Bear's Ears Mountain stretches between Lushan County and Nanzhao County.

"Little Tiger, what do you mean?"

"Now with the entry of our department, in the eyes of the locals, it can be regarded as a chaos, where are there any pilgrims to worship, although there are some farmland around the temple, and there are monks and laymen cultivating, but each temple is very large, there are many monks, without the worship of pilgrims, how can that little field alone feed those monks?"

"I understand, you think the temple must have colluded with Zhou Jiali."

"This is not necessarily, there are two large temples closest to us, one is called Danxia Temple, the other is called Wenshu Temple, that Danxia Temple is good to say, not far from the county seat, it is also on the main road, but the Wenshu Temple in the mountains and mountains makes me puzzled."

"The area around it is almost deserted for twenty miles, if it was in the Chengping period, I would believe that the Sao people and pilgrims came to worship, but at the moment, ......, besides, there are very few fields around it, and when I went to check it a few days ago, it seems that it has been barren for a long time, but there are still at least a hundred monks in the temple, and none of them are weak."

"I questioned them carefully, but they knew about Zhou Jiali, but they said that although Zhou Jiali was brutal, he believed in ghosts and gods, and he also respected monks and Taoist priests, never harassed them, and sometimes gave them some of the food they robbed."

"Even so, I don't know where Zhou Jiali's lair is, too, this Bear's Ears Mountain is hundreds of miles in circumference, and there are countless trails connecting it, and it is more difficult to find them than to climb to the sky."

"Wait"

Although Omubu is a Mongolian, he is also a Buddhist, and although he believes in Tibetan Buddhism, this does not affect his knowledge of the temple.

"You said that none of those monks were weak and couldn't eat?"

"Exactly, some people are still red-faced......

"What about Danxia Temple?"

"There are some dishes."

Omubu seemed to realize something, and there was a glimmer of brilliance in his eyes.