On the morning of 26 August, after Xu Qingfeng took an oath in front of the Chenghuang Temple, he cut down two bandit leaders who had been imprisoned for a month to sacrifice their flags, and then set off with 50 people who had been trained for half a month.

The affairs of the county government were handed over to Master Chen, and he also specially sent two masters to help Master Chen.

During this period of time, there was nothing else to do, the main thing was to collect the grain, and then send the grain to the border gate, and the other was to sell the old grain in the granary and put in the newly harvested grain.

The sinners outside the city have long been prepared to be domesticated very obediently, and they will consciously send grain to the county seat, and what the county government needs to do is to compare their fields, calculate their surrender according to the normal annual harvest, check whether their grain is dried, and then weigh it and deduct the water.

To go to every field to collect grain, the labor cost is relatively large, and it is not something that the county government can afford to support, and it is necessary to bring the border army to collect it.

But as soon as the border army moves, it has to be paid.

That is, after the first few years, when the sinners were tamed, they were given an estimated amount according to the custom, and let them send their own food, which saved a lot of costs.

Of course, there will be concealment, but if the quantity is not large, they will not go to the field to verify it carefully - that also requires a relatively large labor cost, and sometimes the labor cost is much greater than the concealed grain recovered.

Then there is no need.

Only when the difference in the amount is relatively large, will they take the land and mu books out of the city and check them one by one.

Usually, it is to deduct more water and make up for the missing food.

This is a very simple matter, Xu Qingfeng has no need to delay his opportunity to enter the mountains to suppress bandits for such a thing.

In autumn, the weather has turned cooler, the rain is relatively less, the weeds on the mountains are slowly withering, and the road is easier.

This is the perfect time to crack down on bandits.

And the starling that Liu Qing came to accompany him all the way.

He chose to befall a starling in order to better convey the news and let the officers and soldiers better grasp the situation of the bandits.

Although he can now descend directly on an adult, the divine power consumed is still a relatively large load for him, and the detection of information is not as efficient as a starling who can fly.

The identity of the starling is a display of miracles, which can make more people feel the existence of the god Chenghuang.

The bandits on this side of Gumu County have been cleared, and this time they have to pass through other counties to suppress the bandits.

However, before leaving, Xu Qingfeng had already informed other counties of this matter, and it was agreed.

- Although those counties themselves are unwilling to send troops to suppress bandits, there are people who are willing to do so, and they do not object.

Anyway, if there is a loss, it is also the loss of others, and it has nothing to do with them.

They felt that it was impossible to succeed in going into the mountains to suppress bandits, but it was also a good thing that Gumu County could destroy a few bandits and make those bandits restrain a little.

Some time ago, Gumu County exterminated hundreds of bandits, and was praised by the state city, which made the officials in other counties a little dissatisfied, thinking that Xu was too fond of performance, which made them not look good.

If the bandit crackdown fails this time, it will become a joke in the officialdom of Xiaojinzhou, and it will ruin his career.

Then everyone will have fun.

In case of success, there is no loss to them.

In the future, without the intrusion of bandits, the local people can produce with peace of mind, and there are actually some benefits.

Success is a good thing, failure is also a good thing, then there is no need for them to stop it.

In the reply letters to Xu Qingfeng, they all expressed their admiration for his behavior, and then regretfully said that their situation was special and they could not participate in the grand event, so they could only wish him success.

They won't provide any support, but they won't stop Xu Qingfeng from crossing the border with his soldiers and horses.

Xu Qingfeng didn't need their support, so he wanted to rely on his own strength to exterminate all the bandits, and he would have the credit alone.

On this expedition, in order to lighten the burden, everyone only brought enough dry food for seven days, and then plunged headlong into the mountains.

Xia Qianhu persuaded Xu Qingfeng that this was too dangerous, and he had to bring more food, otherwise he might really stay in the mountains.

However, Xu Qingfeng vetoed Xia Qianhu's suggestion on the grounds that carrying too much material would interfere with their marching speed.

Seven days of dry food, then some tenting stuff, no more stuff to bring.

This was also proposed to him by Liu Qing.

It was certainly impossible for the bandit operation to succeed in seven days, and those bandits were not in one place, but the two farthest bandit dens were six or seven hundred miles apart.

And there are mountains of barriers, and it takes a long time just to walk through those dens.

Don't say that you can't complete the task of suppressing bandits in seven days, even if it is seventy days, you may not be able to complete such a task.

Only bring seven days' rations, that is because the bandits' dens have food, and if they are cleared one den after another, they will be eaten by the enemy, and they can completely cope with it.

The reason why he was able to make such a suggestion was also because Liu Qing had strong confidence in this crackdown on bandits.

It has been more than three months since he came here, and in such a long time, Liu Qing has already figured out the whereabouts of the bandits in the entire Little Golden State.

How to march, which den to start from, and push all the way through, he has a specific road map.

Now there are still 1,78 bandits in Xiaojinzhou, which is much more than the more than 500 people Xu Qingfeng brought with him.

When it comes to personal martial arts, it is also necessary to be stronger.

But the bandits were not in one den, but scattered into nearly a hundred.

This is not because they do not understand the truth that unity is strength, but because there are too many people in a den, it is easy to expose their whereabouts, be discovered by officers and soldiers, and fall into a dangerous situation.

At the beginning, the officers and soldiers went into the mountains to suppress bandits, and the few who were exterminated were bandit gangs with several hundred people.

Those small gangs are too easy to hide, and they are more secure.

This is also the best survival mode they have found after suffering losses.

Generally, there are more than a dozen bandits, and there are more than twenty or thirty.

And each den is far away from each other, and it belongs to the kind of shouting that the other party can't hear if you break your throat.

- They are wary of officers and soldiers, and they are also wary of their peers, so that their whereabouts will not be known by those colleagues.

This scattered situation also made it possible for Xu Qingfeng's more than 500 people to succeed in exterminating more than 1,000 bandits.

At Liu Qing's suggestion, Xu Qingfeng chose to go west of the middle line, first exterminate the bandits west of Gumu County, and then turn around and go east to exterminate the bandits on the eastern front.

Strive to be able to complete the task before the Chinese New Year, and return the small Golden State a bright future.