Chapter 241
When the northern suburbs of Qi County was set off, Mingyue personally inspected everyone: the lineup of the 100-county soldiers led by Zhao Kuo was bright, with flags waving and spears like a forest. The county soldiers were a little worse, but they were also in line and equipped with basic weapons in the county arsenal. Ding Zhuang was a little worse. Although he had been training one after another for nearly two months, he was only a little army and could follow the level of shaking flags and shouting.
When he set off, all the people of Qi County came to see him off. The audience was blocked. As the representative of the nobles, Qi Weng also trembledly said that the Lord of Chang'an would be able to win the flag. He and the elders in the county came together with the elders of Jinghou Jiayin.
By this time, Qi's plan to lose both Chang'an Jun and the thieves had failed, and Qi even secretly thanked that his family had not been too late to take the team.
Because I picked a good day in advance, the sun shone brightly when I set off. Although there was a little muddy on the ground in June, it was unhindered by the marching steps. Against the good weather, the morale of each department was high, especially the county soldiers and the raiders and disciples raised by Chang'an Jun were ready to show their skills.
After arriving in Nanxiang, the situation here was also very good. With the publicity of Feiping's ulterior motives, the news of Yangtou Mountain robbing life-saving food spread farewell and spread throughout the township. Some fugitives who had been favored by the bandits were already feeling guilty of leaving without saying goodbye, but then they were a little ashamed again. Instead, they joined the crowd cursing the thieves and hid the bandits and robbed the rich to help the poor. Instead, they emphasized their vulgarity and rudeness. They were welcome to the Lord of Chang'an and Zhao Kuo led their troops up the mountain to attack the bandits.
Under this propaganda offensive, fugitives from the thieves around the forest continued to move out, and even the thieves on the mountain came down to seek refuge.
"Since the red-faced thief was captured, people's hearts were already in chaos on the mountain. Some people proposed to abandon the mountain and escape, some people proposed to go down the mountain to fight, and some people suggested to keep an eye on the verge of defending the dead..."
Feiping reported truthfully, and there were many more escaped people and bandits who were willing to go up the mountain to be guides.
"This is really awesome to beat the dog..." Mingyue sighed. Maybe this is human nature.
Wei Jian made the choice from beginning to end, but he probably didn't expect that Chang'an Jun would gather the power of Qi County so quickly for his own use and brought rescue soldiers from Taiyuan County. In recent years, although there have been several times when county soldiers cleared the thieves, they have been hasty and have never been as serious as this time.
In this way, Mingyue has more confidence in sweeping away the only remaining mountain force in Qi County.
But people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. When they spent a night in Nanxiang, they set off again the next day to arrive at the foot of the mountain, they learned from the place where the bandits were flocking to South Korea, which was inquiring about the news at the foot of the mountain...
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The mountain is steep and rocky, and the mountains are lush and lush, with pine and cypress, and the road is not easy to walk. The moon slowly walked up under the escort of everyone. It took more than two hours from the foot of the mountain to reach the empty thief's nest.
This place has been occupied by county soldiers. Under the guidance of the fugitives, they searched for the houses and caves one by one. Looking at the mess in front of them, the bright moon silently said.
It can be seen that the thieves ran in a hurry, and many beddings in the houses were not taken away. Only half of the food piled up in the caves were taken away. The thieves did not even set fire to the fire. Perhaps half of the thieves and their families did not escape with Wei Yan. They either fled into the nearby mountains and forests to continue exile, or simply surrendered to the county soldiers who went up the mountain.
"Two hundred surrendered, more than three hundred rushed into the deep forest, and only five hundred followed Wei Jiannan."
After the county soldiers interrogated the surrendered person, Feiping and Wuxin came to report.
Zhao Kuo was unwilling to give up and sent people to chase south along the mountain road to see if he could catch some thieves who ran slowly. Unfortunately, he had gained very little, so he only caught some old and weak people who were sprained when he went down the mountain.
"I thought I could fight a good battle, but I didn't expect the thieves to run away first." Zhao Kuo was very unwilling to accept it as he went to the thief's nest in the sky.
Mingyue smiled and comforted him, "At least the thief has been expelled from this county, and our purpose has also been achieved."
Having said that, there was still unstoppable worry in his eyes.
"I am afraid that Wei Yan bandits will never die, and they hold a grudge against Qi County. They are not at ease after going to Korea. They will kill them when the time is right. The bandits are much harder to cure than the bandits in a fixed place."
Especially at the junction of Qin, Zhao and South Korea, thieves can get along well with each other. If a country cannot survive, they will roam to neighboring countries. Although they are only separated by a mountain and a river, due to the division of the border, Mingyue certainly cannot risk the risk of destroying diplomatic relations between the two countries and sternly run to South Korea to suppress the thieves.
"Journal of Lishan is the south of South Korea's Shangdang County?"
Standing near the top of the mountain, looking south, what appeared before him was a steep mountain with gullies and streams converging one after another, forming the source of the water.
The Qinshui flows south through the layers of mountains and ridges, and flows to a slightly flat highland, which is Shangdang County, South Korea, which will become the center of chaos in the world in the next few years.
"Wei Yan, Wei Yan, Nan Shangdang, for you, I don't know whether it is a blessing or a disaster?"
However, in a short period of time, let the officials of Shangdang, Fengjun, and the thief go to Pingyang, South Korea.
"Burn the thief's nest and take the capture back to Nanxiang!"
Mingyue ordered this, and at the same time thought that Wei Jiannan's escape might be a good excuse to continue to save the family members...
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Although there was no war on this trip, when going down the mountain, the bright moon still made people go back with great victory, and announced everywhere that the thieves had been wiped out. From then on, the people can no longer be troubled by the thieves and live a peaceful life!
But after returning to Qi County, Mingyue changed her tone at the celebration banquet organized by Zhu Haozhuo, and sighed worriedly, saying that although the thief had been expelled, Wei Yan still led the remnants of his troops to the south and did not know when he would come back.
"Therefore, we must not relax in the case of the enemy!"
Mingyue has seriously set a tone for Qi County's governance in the next six months. First, we will strive to restore production in Xixiang and Nanxiang and do a good job in summer and autumn harvest. Second, we will continue to implement the policies of the past two months during the slack season. The nobles will continue to provide family members, bring their own food, and come to the county to gather for training, practice once a month, three days a day each time!
The nobles naturally complained in their hearts. Chang'an Jun was really not polite to them at all, but what could they do? Seeing that the county soldiers were firmly controlled by Chang'an Jun's disciples, the people were full of respect for the young master. There were a thousand county soldiers from Zhao Kuo next to them, so the nobles could only continue to choose to cooperate. After all, the thieves returned to rob their manor, which would be a waste of money. Although Chang'an Jun was strict, they would at least leave some benefits for them.
Moreover, Mr. Cai Ze, the think tank of Chang'an Jun, has been contacting several wealthy officials intentionally or unintentionally, implying that they said that Chang'an Jun may open some industries in Qi County in the future, and will give some benefits to each company at that time...
"I don't know what industry it is, is it iron smelting and salt trading, or mining and gold hunting?"
The nobles looked at each other, unable to guess why.
Although Qi County is a bit broken on the border, it is because it has abundant resources. Zhaoyuqi has endless fish to catch, some dried ze can also scrape the soil and salt. Pine and cypress in the mountains are good materials for building houses. Moreover, there are not only prey in the mountains, but also gold and jade can be harvested. In the past ten years, the thieves have occupied the mountains and forests. The nobles can only watch these two treasure houses and cannot start. Now the thieves are dead and fleeing, does it mean that Chang'an Jun wants to open Lin Ze to them?
Thinking of this, the nobles also had some expectations in their hearts.
After deciding these things, it was mid-June and the bright moon had been around for nearly three months. It was time to return to Handan to prepare for the wedding.
"It seems that I can't afford Chang'an Jun's wedding banquet." Zhao Kuo also completed the task and wanted to lead troops back to Jinyang immediately and report to the State Guard Xu Li.
Mingyue has one more thing to discuss with him.
"Brother Kuo, although the thieves have left, the Qin army is still on the side of Qi County. If there are no soldiers garrisoning nearby, not only will I not sleep for a day, but the flanks of Jinyang and the throats of Taihang East and West will also be threatened at any time!"
Chapter completed!