Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 108 Suppression of bandits (8)

The village of the Bai Gang was built on a short hill, the mountain was rather rugged, and the strength of the Bai Village made it look like one man was in charge of the others.There are stone bumps everywhere on the mountain, and there is not much loess, so this mountain is also called Geda Mountain.Due to environmental reasons, there are no tall trees and only a few weeds in a radius of one mile around Baibang village.Xu Qing looked at the terrain here, and said that a strong attack is not enough, and can only be outsmarted.

In terms of outsmarting, according to the previous format, that is: first assassinate the bandits who are scattered around the stockade, and then the army sneaks up to approach, and then sends a small army to sneak in and set fire to create chaos.This style of play has almost become a routine, and it was very effective in the first half month of the bandit suppression campaign.But now it doesn't work...

First, the outside of Baizhai was empty, and it was impossible to get rid of the sentinels quietly.Second, even if the guards were removed while the night was dark and the wind was high, it would be difficult to create chaos inside.Because the house inside is almost a brick structure, it is difficult to burn it.As for burning food and grass, Xu Qing said forget it, it's all my master's!Thirdly, there were a large number of bandits, 200 to [-] people, even if they became chaotic, they would be a great force, and their own side would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, which was not what Xu Qing wanted to see.

So Xu Qing denied the previous formula and ordered to be stationed in the encirclement.Geda mountain is rocky, and its water is bound to be lacking. You might as well be Sima Yi besieging the street pavilion once, and they will die of thirst.Xu Qing arranged for people to continuously harass the bandits who were standing guard outside the village, so that they had to give up patrolling outside and retreat to the village to garrison.

Sure enough, after a few days of siege, the bandit leaders in the village ran out of water to drink, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, and sent more than a hundred people down the mountain to find water.Since the bandits outside the stockade had already been beaten back inside by Xu Qing, they knew nothing about the enemy's situation outside the stockade.Trembling down the mountain to fetch water, nothing happened when they went there, but it was terrible when they came back. Qi Tai waited for them with 500 people!
They only shoot arrows and don't fight. After eating thousands of arrows, the bandits left seventy or eighty lives and went back with several buckets of water.More than a dozen barrels of water are not enough, and at night, the bandit leader sent people down to look for water.But this time, Qi Tai's army did not appear, as if they met by chance last time.

But who knows, this is Xu Qing's strategy.The whole Pida Mountain is under the strict supervision of Xu Qing. Where there are bandits looking for water, he is completely clear, but he wants to use the gambler effect, that is, to make the bandits think that they can take a gamble and get back the water. .In this way, the bandits kept sending people down the mountain to fetch water, and took the opportunity to kill their vital forces, without forcing the bandits to crash down the mountain and fight for their lives.This is a good strategy for boiling frogs in warm water!

It's a pity that the weather is not good, and the patter of rain began to fall.Not only did it solve the water shortage problem of the gangsters of the Bai Gang, but it also caused Xu Qing's morale to start to drop, because Xu Qing lived in a tent!
The walls of the Bandit Village are brightly lit, with a post at every five steps and a whistle at every ten steps, even a mouse will be found if it crawls over.

"Why?" Xu Qing asked himself, on the one hand lamenting the difficulty of attacking Geda Mountain, and on the other hand lamenting that he didn't have a strategist by his side.

"Cows eat grass, Qi Tai, each of you brings a drummer. Every night, you beat the drums and shouted in an awkward manner, as if to attack, but when you see the enemy coming out to check, you immediately retreat."

A plan to exhaust the enemy?Maybe it was one of the ideas, but Xu Qing's first thought was that a lot of firewood would be added every time the guards were changed on Geda Mountain, and he remembered that there were more than a thousand people in it. The strategy of spending firewood, and then thought of the strategy of exhausting the enemy.

As the saying goes, the right time is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the harmony of people. Xu Qing began to divide the enemy's interior.In the few small confrontations in the past few days, more than 100 people were killed. It can be seen from the equipment that the bandits who came out to fetch water were not members of the original Bai Gang, but must be newcomers or allies.Such an imbalance, I'm afraid there is a lot of resentment inside, right?
"The report said: This conquest was originally to avenge the Xia family, and only the Bai gang was hit. The rest of the green forests will not be blamed for the past. If they leave the village by themselves and promise not to pay or kill, they will not take any of their belongings. If there is a good one, I only wish, But the officials pay homage to the school lieutenant and lead the army as before. Xu Qing, the governor of Cangzhou, the military governor of Cangzhou, expresses his condolences."

Thank you for two hundred copies of a letter, and when the bandits in the village were exhausted from being harassed by Qitai cattle grazing, all of them were shot into the village.The noodles have been kneaded, and the yeast powder has been dropped, just wait for fermentation...

"Bastard! This is a way of alienation!" Boss Bai looked at the letter in his hand and said angrily.Bai Er also persuaded the other people present: "Everyone, don't believe it. This is a strategy of the officers and soldiers. Once you go out, you will be persecuted..."

"Don't worry, Boss Bai, don't we know the cunning of the officers and soldiers?" A leader of the alliance waved his hand and said frankly.

"This kind of thing can fool us? Isn't that what we did? Hahahaha...".The other leader spoke disdainfully, and after finishing speaking, he threw the letter in his hand into the fire, and burned it up with a puff.

It's a pity that people's mouths are two skins, and people's hearts are as deep as the sea. The letter in the hand is burned away, but the letter in the heart is still reappearing:

"Recruitment..." "If you don't pay, you won't kill..." "If you don't want anything, you won't take it!"

"The property should not be taken!"

"The property should not be taken!"

"Officials pay homage to the captain!" "Leading troops as before"

The contents of the letter appeared in the hearts of the gangsters, even if the boss of the Bai gang continued to roar, he couldn't get rid of the thought in his heart:
Take away the large sum of money from the Bai Gang!go out!Congliang!The official salutes the captain!Take the younger brother under him to spend the rest of his life in peace!Buy fields and houses, and live in the city!No more fighting and killing!

Isn't it a last resort to come out and fall into the grass?Aren't they all begging for food?Now is a better chance!Do you want to do it?Dry!
Three days after the letter was submitted, Xu Qing got what he wanted—there was chaos on Pida Mountain!And it was more than a little chaotic, it was a chaotic mess.

After Xu Qing's letter was shot in, all the robbers saw a condition on the letter that "no property should be taken".So some of the gangs who joined in were ready to move, coveting a large sum of money from the Bai Gang, thinking of going down the mountain to join Xu Qing after stealing it in a sneak attack. Tell the leader of the white gang.This triggered the white gang to clean up the stockade, the white gang alliance 800 VS alliance rebels 200.

After the rebels in the alliance, the Bai Gang themselves began to have conflicts again.Because the number of people in the village has been decreasing, there are even less than 700 people left after the fire, which makes some members of the Bai Gang feel the crisis. Knowing these battles have a high probability of failure, so some middle-level people The staff began to find another way out.

Fight again!
The middle-level members of the Bai Gang contacted their cronies, together with some new bandits from outside, launched an attack on the bandit leader of the Bai Gang.

White Gang Leader 500 VS White Gang Rebels 200.The leader of the white gang wins!
As expected of a person who has run the Bai Gang for so many years, the two fires did not end with the victory of the leader of the Bai Gang. After cleaning the stockade again, there were only more than 300 people in the stockade who could fight.Even with the three hundred soldiers sent by the Xia family, it would be enough.

What Xu Qing did was nothing more than a letter to make Gedashan grow from more than a thousand people to 300 people.A letter killed thousands of enemies, and Xu Qing was immediately rumored to be Crouching Dragon alive.Xu Qing smiled after hearing this, and thought: I didn't expect it!Xu Qing originally thought that if he could recruit 100 people and kill 100 people in a conflict, then the battle would be almost three to one, but he didn't expect, wow ha ha ha ha...

Feeling, I think it was not so simple when I was a soldier fighting Wang Heihu in Shandong.Back then, Wang Heihu's men had more than [-] people. If he hadn't come to attack out of stupidity, but relied on the stronghold to hold on, then Liu Zan didn't know how long he would fight.

Not at this time, when will it be?
Xu Qing gave an order to his two thousand soldiers: Get up at the third watch, cook at the fourth watch, and attack after eating!

The soldiers in Xu Qing's hands now are basically soldiers who have experienced a battle.Those who have seen blood are veterans... In addition, there are still a small number of recruits, some of whom have fallen into the grass for less than three months, or who have been taken captive to the mountains. They were all selected by Xu Qing to serve as state soldiers. The number is not large, only 100 No one is available.

The state soldiers are different from the government soldiers. The government soldiers are conscripted troops who participate in training, farming, and recruitment according to certain rules and needs.Fubing participated in tasks such as conquest of separatist forces and hostile countries, and they were also part of the border guards at ordinary times.This system can not only save military expenses, but also build a large number of troops in a short period of time.The state soldiers are a standing army, responsible for maintaining law and order in the state and general garrison tasks, and their nature is more of an armed police force.Generally speaking, the government soldiers are many and strong, and the state soldiers are few and weak.

But Xu Qing's group of state soldiers is not weak, there are 3000 people, and the morale of the equipment is as high as that of the government soldiers.Although the remaining members of the Bai Gang have the equipment of the Fubing, they do not have the morale of the Fubing, so it can be said that it is easy to take down the current Pida Mountain.

At daybreak, groups of soldiers on Geda Mountain quietly rushed to the Baibang stockade like tides.Due to the lack of firewood and the exhaustion of personnel in Baibang village, there are only a few sentinels, far from the previous formation.

Now the old method can be used, a small group sneaks in, seizes the gate, and the army enters.Qi Tainiu ate grass and led his soldiers to fight in. As for Xu Qing, he only needed to ride a horse and slowly stepped into the Baibang village.The body of the leader of the white gang was thrown on the side of the road. The first thing the flies knew was that it had turned into a cloud of black mist.

More than 300 taels of silver, 80 shi of grain, [-] bolts of untouched cloth, and enough knives and equipment to recruit another [-] recruits.There were also [-] large carts left by the Xia family, and the horses pulling the carts, were transported back to Cangzhou City by Xu Qing.As for the things belonging to the Xia family, no, they are dirty things, they have to be handed over to the public...

If someone can think more broadly, Xu Qing's extermination of the Bai Gang is a replica of the false way.

(End of this chapter)