Chapter 312: Black Mountain Banditry

After saying goodbye to the horse thief, Mo Xiao hurriedly went up the mountain and told Mo Cong and Mo Min about today's situation, and when the two heard that Yu Linwei and the horse thief were fighting a table tennis battle for the purpose of protecting the black dragon top, their faces were immediately scorched as if they had been hit by nine thunders.

"What should I do, Jiang Bo took Yu Linwei back and said, the emperor must think that we are the spies of the Long Kingdom, and now we are colluding with the horse thieves to prepare to subvert the Rui Kingdom. Mo Cong said with a laugh.

"If he wants to do this, we will do exactly what he wants. "Mo Min is now very dissatisfied with the Rui Imperial Court, and feels that it is better to simply break the plate and clean it up again than now, and now the Rui Kingdom is going to have a spy or traitor incident every three or five times, hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have fought bloodily for the country say that they are suspicious and say that they will kill their heads, and the reason why there is such a large area of horse thieves in Rui is completely forced, just like they themselves were forced to go to Montenegro this time. Instead of letting this happen one after another, it is better to quickly cut through the mess and end it all at once, and directly replace someone who doesn't want to mess around as the emperor. Anyway, before the Rui Kingdom, this kind of thing has not happened in this land, and the current Rui Kingdom was established after overthrowing the previous chaotic dynasty, and the Rui Kingdom is now in chaos, and it is not a big deal to simply change the dynasty.

"I don't know how many people will die in this way, and the giant spirit pass is at war, in case of internal and external troubles, it will be ruined. Mo said with a smile.

"The eldest brother is right, the cost of changing the dynasty is very large, and the current Rui country is also unstable internally by the enemy on three sides, and the slightest carelessness is the internal and external troubles together, so the method of overturning and starting over cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary. Mo Cong said, "I have been in contact with Hang Xiao a few times, he has a wise voice or a wise demeanor, after the old man went down the mountain, Hang Lu died bizarrely, and Hang Xiao urgently ascended the throne, this matter is likely to be the old man behind his back." Since Hang Xiao may be the new emperor specially selected by the old man to clean up the situation, let's not act rashly. Otherwise, if you tear it down and start over at every turn, it will be no different from Hanglu's practice of killing all three guards and rebuilding the Central Army if you have the slightest suspicion. ”

He paused and said, "Of course, although Hang Xiao has the demeanor of a Ming Jun, he still has the so-called imperial heart or imperial problems such as the suspicion that the emperor should have, such as playing balance, so we still have to do many things quickly, and we can't let the situation deteriorate step by step, and eventually develop to the point of being out of control." From the current point of view, corrupt officials must be cured, and horse thieves cannot be allowed to transform into real horse thieves. If these two events are left unchecked, they will intensify and eventually collapse the situation. Since Hang Xiao resolutely does not govern Zhao Rong and other corrupt officials, we will take action to deal with it, and since Hang Xiao resolutely refuses to accept those soldiers who have fought bloodily for the country for many years but have been abandoned, we will accept it. My original plan was to deal with these two things together, but now it seems that the time is ripe, and we should hurry up and take action. ”

When Mo Xiao and Mo Min heard this, they all felt that what Mo Cong said made sense, and in the next few days, the three brothers and sisters discussed intensively, and action plans were formulated one after another.

Meanwhile. Hang Xiao had already received a message from Jiang Bo in the palace, saying that there were a large number of horse thieves entrenched in the Black Mountain area, and he had a deep friendship with the Mo family, so Hang Xiao immediately convened the ministers for an emergency court meeting. We discussed how to deal with such an unexpected situation.

"Your Majesty still remembers the meeting of the Military Aircraft Department a few months ago, Chen Ruoping and Mo Cong have always opposed the elimination of horse thieves in Shuanglong Mountain, and after the suppression of bandits began, the horse thieves suddenly disappeared and roamed freely in the round-up of the army. Moreover, many gendarmerie officers and soldiers disappeared mysteriously, and there was a big battle between the Central Army and the gendarmerie, and the imperial court suffered heavy losses. Now it seems that Mo Cong and Chen Ruoping have long been in contact with those horse thieves. The above situations are the result of their secret help to the horse thief, and now the truth is revealed, the two have fled to Montenegro, blatantly combined with the horse thief, or have gone up the mountain to become a horse thief, this situation is not severely punished and then will be raised for the tiger to gather armpits into a fur, the situation will one day be out of control, or quickly clean up. Zhao Rong pouted in the hall and bowed down.

As soon as he spoke, not only his henchmen, but even some neutral people began to talk about it, and a very small number of people said that the fact that there were horse thieves in Montenegro did not mean that Chen Ruoping and Mo Cong were horse thieves, and that the horse thieves must be eliminated, and it was best not to turn over old accounts for the spy incidents that had finally calmed down, so as not to completely anger Chen Guo. Because Chen Ruoping has a respected status in Chen Guo, it is impossible for Chen Guo not to go back to Montenegro to be a horse thief, this kind of thing absolutely does not make sense.

"It definitely makes sense, otherwise why didn't the Montenegrin horse thieves appear late and didn't appear sooner, it was precisely after they arrived in Montenegro that they appeared. Zhao Rong and his minions said righteously, "After their identity as a spy of the Long Kingdom was exposed, they absconded to Montenegro, and blatantly combined with other spies, that is, those horse thieves, with the intention of subverting the Rui Kingdom, and when they sit down, they will cooperate with each other inside and outside the Long Kingdom, and the Rui Kingdom will soon be exhausted both internally and externally, Your Majesty Mingjian, you must not give them a chance to sit big!"

"Your Majesty knows that you can't raise a tiger for trouble, and you can't regret it. A group of henchmen said one after another, and there was a seemingly loyal echo in the hall.

"Yan Tao, what do you think?" asked Hang Xiao after thinking for a while.

"I'm in favor of the purging of the horse, of course, just the horse thieves. Yan Tao said.

"Let's talk about the specific plan. Hang Xiao said.

"There is no way to implement the specific plan now, because the Giant Spirit Pass is fighting, and many troops cannot be deployed, so they can only launch a surprise attack when the various armies withdraw to the country after the Battle of the Giant Spirit Pass, so that the most unprepared to attack it will be taken by surprise, and things such as spying on intelligence can also be used to arrange calmly during this time. Yan Tao said.

"I don't think it's so troublesome, because the local army should be responsible for the occurrence of banditry in the local area, and there is no need to use the central army every time. Zhao Rong said, "Montenegro Province is located in the northwest, and even if there is a battle at Juling Pass, the Montenegrin army will not be mobilized, so the Montenegrin local army can go directly to the mountain to suppress bandits." ”

"Montenegro is so big, relying on hundreds of thousands of local troops in Montenegro Province to suppress bandits, can they complete the task?" Hang Xiao hesitated.

"It should be no problem, although the local army is not as elite as the central army, they also have their advantages. Zhao Rong said, "First of all, they were originally stationed in the local area, and their actions had the effect of attacking them unprepared, secondly, they had been stationed in Montenegro for a long time, they were relatively familiar with the terrain, and they occupied various local choke points, although they could not all surround the mountains, but they could also achieve the effect of preliminary blockade, and third, they had a close relationship with the local government, and the encirclement and suppression operations could be coordinated with the local government to organize the government and send the township soldiers to cooperate with them, so that those horse thieves fell into the vast sea of Montenegro and had nowhere to hide. Of course, many things must be done well in propaganda and public opinion, and try their best to exaggerate the evil deeds of horse thieves, so that the people can spontaneously organize themselves to deal with horse thieves without organization, with these three advantages, they don't need to use more than 100,000 people to suppress bandits, only about 50,000 troops can completely eliminate the bandits, after all, those horse thieves will not exceed 5,000 people, ten to fight one, even if the fight is bad, they can win. ”

"In this case, it is true that the local army should be used to suppress the bandits. Hang Xiao nodded, "In view of the defeat of the bandits in Shuanglong Mountain last time, this time the bandits will no longer mobilize troops on a large scale, and many operations must be carried out in top secret, and the intelligence department must also collect information on the activities of the horse thieves as soon as possible, and confirm the general location of the horse thieves, so that the local army can have a target, and don't let the army look for it like headless flies like last time." ”

"Yes. Yan Tao took the order.

That night, the Montenegro Branch of the Swiss Intelligence Department received an order from Shangfeng to urgently collect information on the location of the Montenegrin horse thieves and provide intelligence support for the upcoming anti-bandit operation. At the same time, Ding Xiaofeng also received an urgent summons from Dai Zhengxiao, and set off from Shuanglong Mountain to Montenegro overnight to urgently arrange anti-encirclement and suppression deployment, and at the same time arranged eyelines all over the country to pay attention to the movements of the Swiss army. (To be continued......)