Mingshi

Chapter 1344
"That's natural."

"By the way, I leave all six thousand cavalry to you."

"With these six thousand cavalry, if the mountain people and rebels dare to walk out of the old forest, it will be one hundred thousand, and I will slaughter them all."

"Can't be slaughtered!" Luo Xin shook his head and said, "All those who are tough will be killed, and those who surrender will be educated first."

"What is ideological education?" Hu Zongxian asked curiously.

"It is to induce them to complain, to accuse them of being bullied by the eighteen villages in the old forest. Don't worry, the rule of the mountain people is primitive and brutal. The eighteen villages will definitely bully other mountain people, so that those mountain people have great feelings for the eighteen villages. Don’t be surprised if there is even hatred of killing one’s father and taking one’s wife.”

"Wonderful!" Hu Zongxian couldn't help clapping his hands and said, "In this way, let them draw a clear line on the eighteen villages. Before, they only hated the eighteen villages in their hearts, but now they say it out of their mouths."

"That's right, and then instill in them an idea, that is, if the rebels hadn't entered Laolin, if the rebels hadn't colluded with the Eighteen Villages, the court wouldn't have had a war with the mountain people, and they wouldn't have suffered such a disaster. All this was brought to them by the rebels and the Eighteen Villages. In the end, let them expose each other, who has done evil deeds, who has done good deeds, and who is the rebel hidden among them."

"We will kill those who have been exposed, and the rest will be very easy to appease." Hu Zongxian's eyes gradually lit up.

He failed at the last moment to suppress the bandits this time, but if he can solve the problem of the mountain people that has never been solved in the history of Ming Dynasty, even if he can't pay off the crime, he can also reduce the crime, right?
"Brother, so it is very important for you to stay outside."

"I know!" Hu Zongxian waved his hand and said, "I'll stay outside, don't worry, I guarantee that none of those who escaped from the old forest will be able to escape from my grasp."

"Okay!" Luo Xin said cheerfully, "With my brother sitting outside, I feel relieved."

"No, as for the leading public opinion you just said, do you need my brother's help?"

"No need!" Luo Xin shook his head and said, "I've been in the capital all these years, and it's not for nothing."

Hu Zongxian nodded, even if Luo Xin wanted Hu Zongxian to help him, in fact he would not be able to help him. His influence is all in the south, and he really has no influence in the capital.

"Then you allocate 1 people to me, and we each go to work on our own." Hu Zongxian said bluntly.

"it is good!"

After Luo Xin allocated [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to Hu Zongxian, he returned to the tent and wrote four letters, one to Emperor Jiajing, one to Zhang Xun, and one to Wang Cuiqiao Yes, one was for Huang Jin, and someone had to send it to the capital in eight hundred miles.

The next day.

Luo Xin led 8 people into the old forest. With Hu Zongxian's lesson, Luo Xin will naturally not make the same mistake again. The 8 people were divided into the front army, left army, right army, rear army and middle army.

Moreover, the most important reason why Hu Zongxian failed at the beginning was that Zhang Daoyuan and others were in front of him to lure him. Hu Zongxian was eager to pursue, and the team was too long and out of touch.Moreover, Zhang Daoyuan deliberately failed many times, which made Hu Zongxian chase him even more urgently, which eventually led to failure.

However, this time, Luo Xin prepared well and brought enough food. The speed of the march was not fast, and every step of the way. According to Luo Xin's words, it doesn't matter if the speed of the march is slow, and safety comes first.Don't give chance to the rebels and mountain people to attack the army.

He didn't believe that Shibazhai would easily give up running the cottage for countless lifetimes. Once he gave up, he would become a vagrant in the old forest. Without the protection of the cottage, he would not only lack food, but also lose the protection of the cottage.At that time, Luo Xin will burn down all the Eighteen Villages, and the rest of the time will be to slowly search for these mountain people in the old forest.Luo Xin believes that his own army will eventually drive these people to nowhere.

Luo Xin believed that he knew this, and the eighteen villages also knew this, so they would never give up the cottage unless it was absolutely necessary.

Since they are unwilling to give up the cottages, Luo Xin is naturally not in a hurry, as long as they approach these cottages step by step, they can pull them out one by one.

The locations where these cottages were established were easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even when Hu Zongxian pulled out the three villages at the beginning, he lost a large number of soldiers.But Luo Xin firmly believed that he would not, because he brought an explosive bag made of black powder.At this time, it was all on the backs of Wan Daquan's servants.

Luo Xin's army did not walk in a single line to disperse the troops.When they saw the mountain, they would definitely send people to walk the ridge first to occupy the commanding heights, so along the way, the rebels and mountain people had no chance to attack the army.

After entering Laolin for three days, Luo Xin's army was also harassed by mountain people and rebels, but they were unable to cause any harm to the army.Although some were shot and killed by cold arrows, they were all shooting the outermost soldiers. They couldn't get close to the inside of the army at all, and those mountain people also suffered casualties.

Even if they ambushes in advance, because of Luo Xin's caution, every time they go forward, they will occupy a favorable position first, such as the commanding heights, and those rebels and mountain people are also ambushing in these places, so every time they are in the army Before they arrived, those who were in ambush were driven away by the vanguard, or they saw that there was nothing to do, so they took the first step and retreated quietly.

In this way, Luo Xin led the army and approached the first cottage step by step.

When entering the old forest on the first day, the emotions of those soldiers were very unstable, and Luo Xin could see fear in their eyes.At the beginning, tens of thousands of people were thrown here and fled in a panic. This kind of fear cannot be eliminated in a short time, and it will even become their nightmare for a lifetime.

Unless they can pick up where they fell.

However, after five days in a row, these soldiers gradually calmed down after seeing Luo Xin's every step of the way, and there were no casualties in his army.And during these five days, Luo Xin gathered those generals together on the first day, analyzed the reasons for the last failure to them, and told them that as long as we don't rush for success and work step by step, we will definitely be able to win the final victory .Then let these generals pass these words to the soldiers layer by layer, which further stabilized the soldiers' emotions.

In five days, remarkable results have been achieved.Although Luo Xin could still see a trace of fear in the eyes of those soldiers, it was no longer obvious.At the very least, even if there is an emergency, the army will not be defeated immediately.

Luo Xin felt a little relieved!

Not bad!

Just a little bit of peace of mind, after all, these soldiers still have fear in their hearts, even if it is a little bit.Once encountering a sudden change, and Luo Xin cannot win in a short period of time, that trace of fear will magnify in people's hearts.

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(End of this chapter)