Chapter 196: Consolidating Taihang Mountain (3)

From the intelligence returned from the intelligence officers, the influx of too many refugees brought management troubles to Yang Huaiyu and other upper echelons of the Yang family's army, but did not cause panic in the shortage of food.

Therefore, Jin Wushu and Wanyan Xiyin were not dead, and from mid-September, a large number of secret spies were sent into the Taihang Mountains to spy on the specific situation inside the Dahang Mountains, and carried out assassinations, poisoning, arson and other terrorist activities.

In order to cooperate with the master's actions, Qin Hui also lobbied around, claiming that this was the best time to bring down the Yang family's army. Otherwise, once the Yang Jiajun gets through the difficulties, it will inevitably become a big problem for the imperial court.

Therefore, under the arrangement of Wang Huang, Yang Jian, Qin Hui and others, the Song court was specifically responsible for Qin Hui, recruited a large number of unemployed vagrants, ruffians, hooligans, and gangsters, and incorporated them into a forbidden army.

Therefore, although the grain problem in the Taihang Mountain base area has been solved, the real test is actually the problem of public order. It is a question of allowing refugees to settle down in peace and take root in the Taihang Mountains after they come.

By the twentieth day of the twentieth lunar month, the spies of the Jin Song Dynasty had created countless canvas activities in the Taihang Mountains.

According to incomplete statistics, there were 11 refugee settlements where fires broke out, causing hundreds of casualties.

There were more than 20 cases of assassination and intimidation of village chiefs and deputy village chiefs of newly built villages, with five village chiefs and three deputy village chiefs dead.

The newly built town of Zhangjiaba was attacked on the night of the 15th day of the lunar month, three staff members were wounded, and Liu Zuxing, the newly appointed mayor of the town, was seriously injured and died.

At the same time, two newly dug wells in the town were poisoned, killing 20 people and poisoning more than 100 people......

In response to the spies of the Song Dynasty and the Jin people, under the leadership of Zhao Chongyang, the Taihang Mountain Headquarters established the Taihang Mountain Anti-Traitor Corps, with Wu Song as the captain, Shi Qian and Qiu Qionghu as the deputy captains, with five detachments and one directly subordinate detachment, each detachment consists of five brigades and one directly subordinate brigade. Each team has 10 squads, and each squad has a total of 20 people, including the chief and deputy captains.

Li Yun was the captain of the first team, Shi En, Di Lei, Shi Zhongyu, and Luo Yanqing were the leaders of the second, third, fourth, and fifth detachments respectively, and Dai Zong was the leader of the subordinate detachments.

Such a brigade has 200 people, a detachment has 1,200 people, and the entire corps has more than 7,000 people.

The team members are based on 2,000 special combat soldiers, and the rest are drawn from the Yang family's army. An important county town is stationed at a brigade headquarters, with three squads at each brigade headquarters, and a small team is stationed in important townships, towns, refugee resettlement sites, and newly built large villages, and together with the village chiefs of each village, they will jointly do a good job in the work of hoeing, raping, and opposing special forces in various localities.

Three days later, the leaders of the detachments led people to various places and began to carry out the work of eliminating traitors.

Qiu Qionghu personally brought 200 people to Zhangjiaba Town, where the problem was most serious.

Zhangjiaba Town is located on the northern edge of the Taihang Mountain Base Area. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and in the middle is a small basin in the mountains, with a radius of more than 20 miles.

Since the first inhabitants of this place were two brothers of the Zhang family, they fled here with their families a hundred years ago, and saw that the terrain here was flat and there were many prey in the surrounding forests.

It was here that the family hunted and cultivated grain. It is far away from the government, there is no need to pay taxes, and there is no need to serve forced labor, and life is very comfortable.

Later, the two brothers called some of their relatives and friends to settle here. Because there is a rare large flat dam in the mountainous area, everyone calls it Zhangjiaba.

After the Yang army was stationed in Taihang Mountain, it opened up a caravan to avoid commerce and trade, and came from outside the mountain to buy goods from the mountain, bringing salt, cloth and many other daily necessities, so that the counties and large market towns, the number of commodities increased, and the people of Zhangjiaba often went to the county seat and market town where the Yang family army was stationed to buy things.

After the number of refugees increased, Yang Huaiyu and others saw that there were only more than 20 households in this dam and that there was great potential for development, so they decided to build a town at the exit of the mountain in the southeast of the basin and develop all of Zhangjiaba.

At the beginning of September, 3,000 soldiers came out of the pass, uprooted weeds and trees, built simple houses for 1,000 or 2,000 people, and first installed 2,000 people in the newly built town.

Later, five villages were built around the town, ranging from seven or eight to more than ten miles away, and about 1,000 refugees were resettled in each village. In this way, Zhangjiaba, which was originally unknown, suddenly became a large town with more than 7,000 people.

After the town was built, the Yang family army built a military camp seven or eight miles below the entrance, stationed a thousand men and horses there, and officially included it in the protection of the Yang family army.

After Qiu Qionghu brought people to live here, he assisted the staff in the town during the day to re-register the refugees in each village.

Prior to registration, a thorough inspection of each household's rooms is carried out, mainly for the presence of weapons and poisonous medicines.

In the first three days, three bachelors who were found to be secretly hiding weapons in the town, after interrogation, confessed to being the spies of the Jin people, and confessed to two accomplices, and another leader. But they don't know who the leader is, because every operation leader wears a mask.

But the other two had already absconded to the mountains when they saw that their accomplices had been arrested. Qiu Wanquan immediately contacted the headquarters to seal off this mountainous area.

When registering, each household is required to tell their place of origin, neighbors, and baozheng, and send someone to verify them one by one, and if there is any lie, all are arrested.

Therefore, most people did not dare to lie and honestly registered. If any flickering or inconsistent language is found in the register, it will be immediately controlled and arrested and strictly interrogated.

The newly built villages in Zhangjiaba are named after Zhangyi Village and Zhanger Village respectively.

On this day, Qiu Qionghu took people to Zhangsan Village to register the population, and found a strange phenomenon: they walked to the entrance of the village and were just about to start registration. The four-year-old grandson accidentally fell from a ridge and scratched the skin on his forehead, the grandfather walked and hurriedly picked up the grandson who was hurting, and the grandmother and mother also ran over to check the injury, only the child's father turned a blind eye and watched indifferently.

Qiu Qionghu asked the accompanying medical staff to inspect the wound and detoxify the wound with alcohol. Qiu Qionghu pointed to the middle-aged man and asked the grandfather who was holding his grandson: "Uncle, is that your son?" ”

The old man hesitated for two seconds before nodding.

Qiu Qionghu said in his heart: "This matter is strange, how can my son be indifferent when he falls and is injured?" Is it ......?"

Qiu Qionghu walked over, and while the middle-aged man was not paying attention, he swept the middle-aged man to the ground with a sweeping leg, and the other team members rushed up and immediately restrained the person.

Qiu Qionghu pointed at the middle-aged man: "This person is pretending to be the son of that old man, and he is a spy." ”

The mayor of the town and the village asked Gao Laohan at the same time: "Old man, what's the matter, isn't he really your son?" The whole family will be implicated. ”

Old man Gao handed his grandson to his daughter-in-law, pulled the old woman to kneel in front of Qiu Qionghu and cried: "It's not that we deliberately hide it from you, but this dog thief who was killed by heaven threatened the life of his little grandson, and we dare not report it." ”

The young woman also knelt down with her son in her arms and cried: "Please Lord Qingtian must be our master, our family met this thief on the way to escape, and he stabbed the slave to death at night while the slave husband was unprepared." Then threaten his son's life, and ask the whole family to cooperate with him to pretend to be my husband......"