After the interrogation, Zhuang Shaoyou waved his pen and ordered the most heinous criminals among the more than 2,000 captives to be beheaded for public display, a total of more than 600 people! The remaining 1,500 people trembled with fright, and they all expressed their willingness to be good and promised never to commit it again in the future! Zhuang Shaoyou didn't plan to cut them all down, so he selected more than a dozen clever guides to be the guides, preparing to uproot the stockade of Tieshan!

Knowing Zhuang Shaoyou's plan, Huang Zhong was overjoyed, and took the initiative to ask Ying to lead troops into the mountains to suppress bandits! Tai Shi Ci was not to be outdone, the two dismantled each other and lowered each other's prices, but in the end, Huang Zhong only asked to bring five hundred elites.

Zhuang Shaoyou couldn't cry or laugh, and immediately let the two soldiers divide into two roads, each with a brigade into the mountains to suppress the bandits, and repeatedly ordered five times, the two must not be eager for quick success, but also have to cooperate with each other, to eradicate the iron mountain bandit village as the first priority! Violators are engaged in military law!

Of course, Zhuang Shaoyou's mood can be understood, he was in a high position at first glance, and he didn't have the merit of size, and now the Wenpin who came in at the same time has been one step ahead and has been promoted to brigadier general, so it's no wonder that Huang Zhong is not in a hurry!

And Tai Shi Ci has taken refuge in Zhuang Shaoyou for three years, the infantry has fought bloody battles repeatedly, and the cavalry has been recuperating in southern Liaoning, and has long held back a momentum, and now the opportunity is rare, of course Tai Shi Ci is not to be outdone. It is hoped that through this battle, the cavalry will always be the most elite force under the general, even if it is not ridden, it is stronger than the infantry!

On the 10th day of November, Huang Zhong led the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division, while Tai Shici led the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Cavalry Division. There are still more than a thousand bandits left in the Iron Mountain Cottage, and they just take the opportunity to experience it.

The remaining 1,500 captives, Zhuang Shaoyou sent them to repair Fenggao City, because Zhuang Shaoyou had made up his mind to occupy this piece of Wenping Plain, 60,000 hectares of fertile land, and the land of the nearby three counties, including Fenggao, Yingxian, and Mu County, was each other's horns, and the Wenping Plain was controlled, with a total population of 80,000 in the three counties.

After exterminating the bandits, as long as a small number of soldiers are stationed in these three counties, you can control this grain production area, which is different from Liaodong, which can only grow one season of grain a year, and here you can have three seasons in two years! Plant a round of millet in the spring, harvest millet in the autumn, then plant winter wheat, harvest the wheat in the summer of the next year and plant millet again, harvest millet in October, and wait for the spring of the next year. This year, after the millet harvest in October, the fields were bare and there was nothing!

After arranging everything, Zhuang Shaoyou and Xun Yu and Wen Ping continued to discuss the plan to suppress the bandits.

Now that it has entered the middle of November, the next snow will come again, but it will not be as weak as a few days ago, it will definitely be a heavy snowfall, and it will be impossible to talk about going into the mountains to suppress bandits at that time! Therefore, time is very tight, and the remaining two mountains must be eradicated in the shortest possible time! It's not easy! Xun You doesn't have a good way to do this, so he can only take one step at a time!

After some deliberation, Zhuang Shaoyou decided that the eggplant in the pot should be picked up and pinched first!

When Tai Shi Ci and Huang Zhong came back, they moved to Mu County in the east, mobilized troops and horses to enter the east of Mount Tai, and exterminated the cottage of Jiangyang.

After making a big plan, everyone started to prepare while waiting for the good news of Tai Shici and Huang Zhong.

Two days later, Tai Shi Ci and Huang Zhong did not return, but Bao Xin's messenger came, bringing two heads and a letter. After reading the letter, Zhuang Shaoyou smiled helplessly.

It turned out that when Tieshan attacked Fenggao on a large scale, Bao Xin's men and horses had already entered the mountain, Bao Xin's Jibei country was close to the west foot and southwest of Mount Tai, and it rubbed with the bandits of Tieshan all the year round, so it was very familiar, taking advantage of the emptiness of the Tieshan cottage, Bao Xin took three thousand elites to uproot the cottage, and also waited for work, and captured the three masters who escaped back.

As for the two heads sent, one is the third master, and the other is the fifth master of Onozawa Water Village! After the five masters escaped, they took 300 remnants of soldiers with gold and silver treasures to take refuge in Tieshan, but as a result, before their buttocks were hot, they were served by Bao Xin.

After receiving the news, Zhuang Shaoyou immediately ordered Tai Shici and Huang Zhong to withdraw and prepare to move to Mu County, and Bao Xin's letter listed the list of cottage seizures, with a total of 2,000 catties of gold, 60,000 pieces of grain and grass, and a number of other baggage.

Zhuang Shaoyou immediately ordered someone to draw up a commendation order, appeased Bao Xin, and generously handed over the seized materials to Bao Xin for disposal, which was regarded as a reward for rewarding the soldiers.

A day later, Tai Shici and Huang Zhong returned in vain, Zhuang Shaoyou appeased the two and ordered them to move to Mu County to prepare for war against Jiangyang.

On November 15, after leaving Wen Ping to lead the First Brigade of the First Division to garrison Fenggao to continue to rest, Zhuang Shaoyou led a large army to Mu County.

Zhuang Shaoyou read the briefing of the investigation of the Intelligence Department and knew that this person had also collaborated with bandits, but this was the unspoken rule of Wen Pingyuan, and he couldn't live without thieves as backers, and the county magistrate's reputation was still so-so, not too bad, so Zhuang Shaoyou didn't criticize him and ordered him to continue to be in charge of county government.

The county magistrate took refuge in Jiang Yang in the mountains in the east, and was pardoned by Zhuang Shaoyou, and the county magistrate directly poured out all the information he knew. Jiangyang's strength range is the southeast of Mount Tai, the northeast is Qingzhou Qi and Beihai, and the southeast is Xuzhou Langya.

Yishui, an important river in the north of Xuzhou, originates in the southeast of Mount Tai, and Jiangyang occupies the large and small valleys of the source of Yishui, and there is a small plain, and the fields in the mountains add up to 7,000 hectares, and it is not much pressure to feed 30,000 people, so the life of Jiangyang among the three thieves of Mount Tai is the best.

But Jiang Yang has a problem, that is, he is lustful, although women are a common hobby of men, which is understandable. But Jiang Yang's hobby is obviously a little special, he likes to collect beautiful women. raised 500 beauties in the cottage, and canonized the most favored beauties, three palaces and six courtyards, seventy-two concubines, etc., as if it were the real thing. Under the influence of Jiang Yang, the bandits under his command are also the same hobby, big and small bosses take pleasure in collecting beautiful women, every time they go down the mountain to loot, the women in the vicinity suffer first, but Jiang Yang's subordinates rarely kill people, so the reputation is not bad to the family.

After listening to the county magistrate's description, Zhuang Shaoyou immediately decided that there would be no mercy for killing! As soon as Zhuang Shaoyou expressed his position, Tai Shici and Huang Zhong became alive again, and they asked for their lives to fight!

The next day, a person came to the county seat of Mu County, claiming to be Jiang Yang's envoy, and handed Zhuang Shaoyou a surrender table, expressing his willingness to return, and promised to give January a month to arrange the aftermath, Jiang Yang will lead his troops down the mountain to surrender before the year, and listed a lot of conditions.

Xun You suggested: "The general might as well make a plan, paralyze Jiang Yang, and then raid overnight, forty miles east of Mu County is Jiang Yang's territory!" Moreover, this section of the mountain road is not too difficult, and the cavalry can barely pass through. ”

Zhuang Shaoyou frowned when he heard this: "Military advisor, will you lose your trust in doing this?" ”

Xun You shook his head: "General, this is called treating others in the way of others!" How can Jiang Yang's move be sincere? It will definitely snow heavily in less than ten days, and there will be no troops in the next few months, and Jiang Yang's conditions are simply a lion's big mouth, which is extremely unreasonable! He's stalling for time! For this kind of vicious criminal, the general does not need to be merciful at all, as long as the general can exterminate this thief, the nearby people will definitely applaud, and will never say that the general is not a word! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou was stunned when he heard this, and immediately replied to Jiang Yang's envoy with a tough attitude:

Jiang Yang was appointed as the commander of the Third Infantry Division, with the rank of brigadier general;

The mountain thieves in the village need to be reorganized, but promise to keep at least 5,000 men and horses for Jiang Yang's commander;

The 30,000 people in the mountains were taken over by Zhuang Shaoyou;

Jiang Yang, the property in the mountains, can keep half of it, and the remaining half will be confiscated!

It is necessary to go down the mountain and surrender within seven days!

The envoy returned to the cottage with the conditions offered by Zhuang Shaoyou and reported to Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang received the news and laughed: "This Zhuang Shaoyou is really not stupid!" And the price is not low! But well, how can this bullshit brigadier general be free to be the king and hegemon here? Someone came, sent someone to tell Zhuang Shaoyou, and said that the king agreed to his conditions! But seven days is not enough, at least half a month! ”

The two of them went back and forth, and after two more days, the final surrender was set for 10 days later, that is, on November 28.

The conditions were negotiated, and Zhuang Shaoyou ordered his subordinates to strictly guard against the county seat of Mu County, looking like they were sticking to the county seat.

Jiang Yang received the report and said disdainfully: "Zhuang Shaoyou is really cautious!" But this king won't gnaw hard bones like the two goods of Tieshan! Brethren, pack your things! ”

The second master next to him asked curiously, "Big brother, what are you doing packing up?" Do you really want to take your brothers down the mountain and surrender? ”

Jiang Yang stretched out his hand and knocked on the head of the second master, and scolded: "Second brother, can you have some brains?" Surrender down the mountain? You got kicked in the head like you were by a donkey? Packing up things is to make a show for Zhuang Shaoyou, so that he thinks we are going to go down the mountain! Seven days later, we'll be running away, you know! ”

The second master pondered for a long time before he suddenly realized: "High! That's a high wow! Big brother, little brother, my admiration for you is like a surging river, and it is like the Yellow River flooding...

"Bang!"

The second master was hit again on the head, and Jiang Yang scolded: "Pack your things!" ”

For five days in a row, Zhuang Shaoyou was really stationed in the county seat of Mu County, without the slightest move to raise troops into the mountains, Jiang Yang sent countless spies to monitor the movements of the county day and night, and saw that Zhuang Shaoyou had not moved, and finally relieved himself a little.

On the evening of November 24, Xun You hurriedly came to Zhuang Shaoyou's study and said:

"General, my subordinates watch the sky at night, and there will be heavy snow tonight!"

Zhuang Shaoyou immediately made a decision and ordered:

"Pass my military order, seal the city tightly, and not a single bird will let it fly out! The whole army will reorganize the army and go into the mountains tonight to suppress the bandits! ”