Cao Liang was quite satisfied with Yang Hu's arrangements. He was calm and prepared everything in an orderly manner. Compared with the big fanfare of the North Road Middle Road, Yang Hu's South Road was very low-key this time, so low-key that there was no sense of existence, as if Yang Hu had never received a mission to go to the expedition.

What Cao Liang wanted was such an effect, not giving Shu people any chance to prepare. The route Yang Hu took should be the most difficult path among the three armies. Only when the Shu army was completely unprepared could he have the chance to succeed.

Once Jiang Wei and others realize the third offensive route of the Wei army and dispatch troops to block the Nanzhong area, the difficulty of Yang Hu going north will increase exponentially.

Only by surprise and unpredictable attacks will the chance of success be higher.

All the Southern Army's preparations were carried out in secret, and even most of the Wei soldiers did not know what the next combat mission of the Central Army was. They were stationed in various counties in Jiaozhou. Except for some sporadic clashes with some wild tribes and thieves, the Central Army was basically doing nothing in Jiaozhou.

Originally, there were many bandits and bandits in Jiaozhou. Whether during the rule of the Shi family or when the Wu State was under the jurisdiction of the State of Wu, these bandits and bandits have always been eliminated and killed. After all, Jiaozhou is vast and has many mountains and hills. These bandits and bandits have many hiding places and can deal with the government. Although the government has repeatedly sent to conquer, they often have little effect. These thieves have been repeatedly banned and have become a cancer and a stubborn disease in Jiaozhou.

After the Wei army pacified Jiaozhou this time, it did not evacuate from Jiaozhou at the right time, but stayed in Jiaozhou. Anyway, it was idle, so Yang Hu assigned tasks to various battalions and divisions, asking them to suppress bandits, eliminate bandits, and eliminate bandits.

Now the bandits and bandits who had been free and happy for decades have suffered. How terrible the combat power of the Wei army is? Only the opponents who have fought with them know that the regular army is not their opponents, let alone these bandits and bandits are a group of mobs.

The various troops of the Wei army fought very seriously. Even these small bandits did not look down on them. They were just idle training. Anyway, the daily training of the Wei army was also very hard and boring. Finding these bandits and bandits to practice their skills is also a kind of entertainment.

The Wei army was a pastime, and for the bandits in Jiaozhou, it was undoubtedly a huge disaster. What they encountered was a catastrophe. In just a few months, the bandits in Jiaozhou were basically eliminated.

The people of Jiaozhou applauded. The existence of these bandits has caused ordinary people to be bullied, and the business travelers are even more miserable. There are almost no roads in Jiaozhou that are safe. As long as you go out, you dare not say that the chance of encountering bandits is 100%, but there are always 70% or 80% of them. If the property is robbed, even your life is worrying. If you fall into the hands of those extremely vicious bandits, whether you can survive depends on luck.

The poor mountains and rivers are out of troubled people. The poorer the place is, the more bandits are rampant. After quelling the bandits in Jiaozhou this time, Yang Hu also focused on changing the social environment of Jiaozhou and strengthening the household registration management in various parts of Jiaozhou. In the past, refugees who fled could be naturalized, and the taxes they had evaded in the past were also written off. As long as these refugees could settle down, the public security situation in Jiaozhou would improve greatly.

Yang Hu knew that suppressing bandits would always be a way to cure the symptoms but not the root cause. Now that the army of the Central Army is in Jiaozhou, it is indeed easy to suppress bandit troubles. However, if the people's livelihood plans of the people of Jiaozhou are not solved, more people will become bandits, just like the wild grass all over the mountains. A fire burned and no grass will grow, but in a winter, it will be green all over the wild, and the spring breeze will grow again.

Therefore, if you want to truly eliminate bandits, you must first make a fuss about those refugees. In the past, refugees had no household registration. Without household registration, it means they have no legal identity and cannot obtain land and other living resources. In the end, their choice can only be to occupy the mountain and make a living by looting.

If these refugees can be naturalized and distributed to them to cultivate land, so that they can have food and clothing, then no one is willing to be bandits, and no one is willing to be bandits, and naturally the scale of bandits will become smaller and smaller until they are destroyed.

Therefore, this bandit was actually raised by the government. Without real poor people and without going to a desperate situation, no one would be willing to live a life of licking blood from a knife.

Yang Hu's purge of bandits in Jiaozhou this time was actually creating illusions for some of the Shu Kingdom's detailed works. Shu Kingdom is adjacent to Jiaozhou, and there has been earth-shaking changes in Jiaozhou, and Shu Kingdom cannot ignore it. To a certain extent, they are also worried that the Wei army will attack Shu Kingdom from Jiaozhou, so it is reasonable to send the Shu Kingdom to sneak into Jiaozhou to spy on military information.

Although the Wei army had checkpoints and posts in various parts of Jiaozhou, it was completely impossible to eliminate all the spies from Shu Kingdom. Therefore, Yang Hu needed to deliberately create illusions to achieve the goal of confusing Shu Kingdom.

The Central Army was scattered with troops, and various troops rushed to suppress the bandits separately. The entire Wei army seemed to be very busy. No matter from any perspective, the Wei army was not prepared to march to the south. The spies from Shu would naturally truthfully feedback the information they obtained in Jiaozhou.

After receiving this news, the senior leaders of Shu Kingdom naturally no longer had any precautions against Jiaozhou. After all, it was much more difficult to march from Jiaozhou to Nanzhong. The Wei army is now launching large-scale troops in Guanzhong and Xiling. There is no doubt that these two directions will become the main attack direction of the Wei army. As long as Shu Kingdom defends these two directions, it can ensure that the national border will not be lost.

The Wei army in Jiaozhou did not have a gathering trend, which proved that the Wei army had no action in this direction, and Shu no longer needed to strengthen its vigilance. After all, Shu's troops were limited, and Hanzhong and Yong'an alone had already concentrated more than 80% of the Shu's troops. They really had no extra troops to consider the defense issues on the southern front.

What Yang Hu wanted was such an effect that made Shu Kingdom unprepared. At this time, Yang Hu was also waiting for Cao Liang's order. As soon as Cao Liang's order arrived, all the troops of the Central Army would complete the assembly within a few days, and then they could rush their troops north to take the Nanzhong to launch a fatal blow to Shu Kingdom.
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