Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 318

The collection of bandits in Lingao started in full swing after the Political Consultative Conference ended. With the liaison officer system, the intelligence department can obtain first-hand direct information from the local aborigines, which is better than using the reconnaissance team in the past. Objective observation is much more in-depth.And the ins and outs are clearer.

In order to ensure the accuracy and objectivity of the information, the Intelligence Committee cross-summarized the information provided by each village and compared them with each other when collecting information.

Because bandits often have an obvious regional color, each village often shelters the local bandits because of the relationship between clan relatives or fellow villagers.Most of the bandits also follow the rule that rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests, leaving room for everyone in the local area, and specifically harming villages in other places.

Under this kind of social ecology, liaison officers are not exempt.Therefore, their reports will inevitably conceal or exaggerate based on the closeness of the bandits to their village.And between villages and between clans, there are still feuds mixed in, and it is not ruled out that some people deliberately mix false words in it, slander and slander.Therefore, it is necessary to compare the information of each village to see the clues.

After more than a month of research on the liaison officer, the intelligence department has learned a lot of information about Lingao's banditry.Another important channel is Wang Zhaomin.Although he is a foreigner, he has been living here for more than five years. He usually assists the county magistrate in handling government affairs, and knows a lot about various situations in the county, especially in terms of bandits. The yamen has a wealth of information.The intelligence department met with him several times alone and obtained a lot of useful materials from him.

"Although the bandits in Lingao are chaotic, the most important thing is the stubborn bandits of the party." Wang Zhaomin whispered in the box of the "Half the Sky" restaurant, "The others are small bandits, and they can't make any big waves. These two groups of bandits are deeply entrenched, and it is not easy to deal with them. As long as they are eliminated, the loose bandits in Lingao will naturally have no support. The surroundings of Lingao will be at peace."

Most of the bandits are "house bandits".After knocking down the copycats, eliminating bandit leaders and core troops, the "domestic bandits" lost their backbone and lair.Naturally, he has no intention of continuing to do evil, as long as he is appeased again, the banditry will be calmed down soon

"In suppressing bandits, the culprit must be dealt with, and the thugs should not be prosecuted." Wang Zhaomin said, "You must know the four words of leniency and strictness."

"Yes, yes," Luo Duo just said yes, and asked again, "Why do you say this is the most difficult to deal with?" Filling him with a glass of wine, "Please teach me, sir."

"It's a long story." Wang Zhaomin was already a little fuzzy, but his mind was actually very clear.He knew the intention of these Australians, most likely to clean up the "side of the couch", but that's fine, anyway, the government can't deal with the bandits and can't eliminate the Australians, let them bite each other, maybe even take advantage of the fisherman Woolen cloth.Then he pretended to be drunk and said:

Dang Namen, named Dang Guodong, is a native of Daolu Village.After the death of both parents, I thought that the people in my village lived by herding cattle, and when I grew up, I lived as a small trader.Because there are no relatives in the village, he has been bullied in the village for a long time.His homestead was also taken over by a family in the village.

Later, the party's family often engaged in petty theft. In the last years of Wanli, they were turned away by the villagers and sent to the county government, where they were imprisoned.In the second year, he escaped from prison, gathered a few like-minded brothers, returned to the village and killed more than a dozen villagers who had feuds with him, then looted their belongings, and went to Baopang Mountain on the border of Lingao and Danzhou to fall grass .

"Don't think that Dang Namen came from a mud-legged background, but he can read and read since he was a child. Unfortunately, no one helped him. A good seed of reading has fallen into evil ways." Wang Zhaomin sighed, "After reading, he fell into evil ways." It is even more difficult to deal with ordinary bandits who have gone on an evil path."

Because Dangmen can read a few words, although he has never read serious military books, he has read a lot of novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin, and learned strategies from them, so he often brings bandits by surprise. With such a move, the general Xiangyong in the county is not his opponent at all.

"Let's say he attacked Longbo village," Wang Zhaomin said excitedly, "Dangmen led dozens of people, pretending to be farmers going to the market, and brought goods into Longbo village. Taking the opportunity to pay taxes at the market Infiltrating the regiment bureau, several people guarded the door, and several people set off firecrackers outside. He led people to rush in and killed the Xiangyong teacher in the regiment bureau. The 100 people who brought him were ruined. You say they are powerful or not."

Luo Duo nodded, this party and that sect really have some tricks.The tactic of attacking the snake and attacking the head is quite beautiful.No wonder Master Wang wants to say that the gangsters of Dang Na Sect are very powerful.

"And he also knows how to win people's hearts!" Master Wang tapped on the table, "This party and other sects have always advocated 'strike the rich instead of the poor' outside, which has attracted a group of ignorant fools. The noise in Calais, the United States The villagers in several places in Taiwan resisted the rent and refused to pay the rent, and the landlords complained endlessly. They often went to the county government to file a complaint. Finally, a few years ago, Mr. Huang helped him and took the courage to severely injure the Dang gang. Their arrogance is not so arrogant gone."

"Master Huang?"

"It's Huang Shoutong from Huangjiazhai, Master Huang." Wang Zhaomin noticed Luo Duo's reaction, "He is very brave, and the party is no match for him. It's a pity that the villagers are ignorant, and many of them cover up for a while, and finally let him He ran back to Baopang Mountain, but he couldn't do it all! What a pity..."

"So Mr. Huang is still a man who is anxious and righteous."

"Naturally, naturally," Wang Zhaomin vaguely knew that the Australians wanted to take root locally, but the bravery of Huangjiazhai was the only force that County Magistrate Wu could rely on, and the Australians could not be pulled over or consumed in the name of suppressing bandits. , "It's a pity that Master Huang was injured last time, and his health has been bad. I'm afraid I can't help you with the bandit suppression."

Luo Duo was noncommittal, just nodded.

"...According to information, the gangsters of the party are mainly entrenched in the Baopang Mountain area at the junction of Lindan. This is their old camp." Luo Duo held a pointer and pointed to the map for introduction, "The bandits in the village Guys, there are more than 300 people all year round. There are firearms."

The officers below looked intently at the marks on the map.Luo Duo continued: "But their base is in Calais, the 'Thirteen Villages' area at the junction of the United States and Taiwan. Whether it is supplies or personnel, they all get supplements from this area. If something happens, they can pull four more from here. A team of 500 people."

There was a murmur of discussion among the crowd.Someone raised it: "Doesn't this mean that there are no good people in Hongdong County, and all the young and strong in this area are suspected of being bandits?"

"That's right." Luo Duo nodded, "The gangsters of the party regard this area as their own forbidden area, and they never do harm to them, and they also don't allow other bandits to intrude, which is very popular."

"It's like separatist forces!"

"No, we can't talk about separatism. According to Mr. Wang, the tax in the 'Thirteen Villages' area has never been less. It's just that the county has no benefits."

"Actually, the thinking of the party is similar to ours. There is a lot of money in the regular payment, but no money in the floating income. With guns as the backstage, the county has nothing to do with them."

"Did the 'Thirteen Villages' region attend the CPPCC meeting this time?" He Ming asked.

Luo Duo said: "I have been here. I checked the relevant records of the meeting. The representatives did not speak, and they basically just followed the trend. All the food collection, dispatch, and liaison personnel were promised."

"Does the party know the strategy of struggle?"

"That's right." Luo Duo replied cautiously, "There are some ideas in the strategy of the struggle."

"Most of the party's gang are poor people, and he himself was born as a persecuted poor. He also knows that 'the rich are not the poor', so he should be regarded as having a revolutionary consciousness." Someone said, "Actually, it is wrong to define them as bandits? It should be a spontaneous peasant resistance organization. We can fight for it."

"It's relative not to disturb the people." Luo Duo said, "It's just that the Shisancun area is a little better, but other places are very intrusive." Things like robbery, murder, kidnapping, and rape of civilian women, this bandit gang Did a lot of the same thing.It's not just the rich who suffer, the poor are just as unlucky.To insist on calling it a "peasant revolt" or "uprising" is to deceive oneself and others.

He Ming explained: "The reason why the Bandit Suppression Headquarters chose to take them first is because they are the most powerful, and destroying them will have the effect of shaking mountains and shaking tigers; second, this group of people is very angry. We are famous for our division."

Luo Duo went on to say, "In the area of ​​'Thirteen Villages', this gang has two important henchmen with 30 people stationed permanently to control the situation. The leaders are Xin Nari and Wang Wushu."

"Xin Nari and Wang Wushu are two of the Four Great Heavenly Kings under Dang Na's sect." Wang Zhaomin said to Luo Duo, "The so-called Four Great Heavenly Kings are nothing more than numbers, but these two people should not be underestimated." .”

Xin Nari was an idler since she was a child, and when she was an adult, because she loved leisure and hated work, she fawned on the "kuaishou" in the county government and became a "public servant". "Doing public work" is not an official yamen servant in the county government, but similar to a non-staff "temporary worker", whose income depends on various bad rules and extortion.These people are involved in illegal activities that are inconvenient for the yamen servants.If something happens, these people will take the blame. Fortunately, there are connections inside and outside, and even the county magistrate can't do anything about it.Once the limelight is over, continue to be a "public gain".

On that day, Xin was very active in "doing public affairs" and bullying the common people was not counted. In the end, he was fooled by the gentry. In the end, he couldn't stay any longer. There are many "public servants", one more is not too many, and one less is not much.Xin lost this job that day and simply went up the mountain and fell into the grass.

"...This person is flexible and a bit clever. He is also good at playing with power, and he is very good at currying favor with others. So although he is a bandit at the moment, he has connections with many subordinate officials in the county government and local evil gentry, and there is a little trouble Naturally, someone will tip off him." Wang Zhaomin reminded, "Our Master Wu and Master Huang tried to arrest him several times, but he slipped away every time."

As for Wang Wushu, although he is not a flexible mind, he is extremely brutal and brutal, and is famous for killing people without blinking an eye.He has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he has some hard skills. He participated in fights when he was young, and he was not killed by a knife or wounded by a gun.The civil and military personnel are permanently stationed in the boundary of the "Thirteen Villages", controlling this area very tightly.

After Luo Duo introduced the basic situation, the participants discussed how to eliminate this group of bandits.There are basically two plans. One is to attack the "Thirteen Villages" first to clear out the bandit forces, so that the bandits on the mountain will lose food and personnel supplies, and they will not fight themselves. When the time is right, they will besiege the cottage.

The other is the idea of ​​​​capturing the bandits and capturing the king, advocating first attacking the Pangshan area to eliminate the bandit nests, and then forcing the bandits in Shisan Village to surrender without a fight.

Both options have pros and cons.After comprehensive consideration, it was finally decided to attack the cottage first.

"If we attack Thirteen Villages first, it will be difficult to deal with the local civil affairs issues." As a member of the civil affairs committee, Wu De is also a member of the Bandit Suppression Headquarters. "The local people have concerns and are unwilling to contact us more. The bandits have The nest can be relied on, and it can attack us rampantly by using the cover of the people. Our army will be very passive when stationed in it. In the end, it is very likely that we will take indiscriminate retaliation due to endless attacks, and finally form a relationship confrontation. It’s very difficult to put it back together.”

The form of combat will be a surprise battle with a small and powerful synthetic unit.It is not worth the loss to invest a large force in the mountainous area to suppress bandits.It is difficult to keep secrets when large troops are dispatched. The bandits can transfer all the materials and personnel in advance, leaving only an empty stockade.Not to mention mobilizing one or two infantry battalions, even if thousands of troops searched the mountains, the bandits could easily escape.If you stay in the mountains for a long time, you will not be able to get in if you are supported and transported, and large troops cannot live in the mountains for a long time.After a long time, the troops could only retreat.In the past, the bandits have always used this method to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the government and army-it has been tried and tested.

Yang Zeng, a platoon leader of the First Infantry Regiment, a hunting company, was marching in the mountains, and the forest in late spring was very hot.Sweat has soaked the military uniform.He carried his beloved rifle on his shoulder and carried two hundred rounds of ammunition.

Behind him, followed his own hunting platoon, and then a mountain howitzer and all its belongings: shells, gunpowder, running brushes, etc., all these odds and ends were transported by people, and it took four days Ten "education soldiers"-soldiers who have not been officially awarded the rank of private and are undergoing training.After them, there was an infantry company, and then more than 100 education soldiers, carrying a large amount of luggage and equipment.The name "Military Industry" is actually Xi Yazhou's "replacing animals and soldiers". The recruits are not very useful, and it is always possible to carry things.In the back is the engineering platoon, led by Pan Da, the commander of the engineering company.

(End of this chapter)