The county seat of Surabaya is only 60 miles away from Qufu City, and the fast horse can arrive within an hour, when the good news is transmitted back to Qufu, the whole city is boiling, the people are running to tell each other, and some people even set off firecrackers to celebrate.

It can be seen that the thieves are not popular with the people, and it is no wonder that the bandit leaders Meng Lun and Zhao Zhi led the thieves to attack Qufu from Surabaya County, burning and looting along the way, coercing the people to participate in the rebellion, and the villages and towns along the way were burned to the ground.

After Xu Jin received the good news, he immediately rushed to Surabaya County with a hundred brocade clothes, and arrived about an hour later.

At this time, the battlefield outside Surabaya City had been almost cleaned, but dozens of thick heavy arrows were still nailed to the bloodstained city wall, and the head of the city was also smashed into thousands of holes, which showed the fierce battle at that time.

"See Chincha-sama!" The generals who had been waiting at the gate of the city for a long time saw the arrival of the guard of honor and immediately greeted them.

Xu Jinhan said: "You soldiers have worked hard. ”

The commander made Huang Qi unable to hide his excitement, and said loudly: "It is our duty to kill thieves and serve the country, and the last general is fortunate not to be dishonored, and has recovered Surabaya City, and the soldiers have beheaded more than 2,000 people in total, captured more than 1,000 people, and seized a large number of various materials. ”

Although he won the battle outside Qufu by luck last time, he won very badly, and Huang Qi himself was embarrassed to brag, but this time it was different, this time it was definitely a beautiful victory, so Commander Huang was full of confidence.

Xu Jinlang said: "Very good, the merits of the soldiers will be recorded for the time being, and the official will play the emperor and then discuss the meritorious deeds!" ”

As soon as these words came out, all the soldiers thundered with joy!

It is said that in the last battle of Qufu City, the little emperor Zhu Houxi obviously wanted to boost morale and ordered to give rich rewards to the soldiers of the Guide Guard. Xu Jin distributed all the rewards to every soldier in real money, without any deductions, and in addition, the war dead also received extremely generous pensions.

Because of this, today's soldiers of Gui Dewei and Yanzhou Wei fought very bravely, and it only took half a day to take Surabaya City in one fell swoop. Of course, the superiority of weapons is also one of the main reasons.

Next, Xu Jin entered Surabaya City surrounded by a group of generals, and the screening of prisoners was immediately launched. If the people are coerced into rebellion, they will be released after a little punishment, provided that they have not killed officers and soldiers, and if they have killed officers and soldiers, they will be punished by beheading for the crime of rebellion; If it is a horse thief and a member of the White Lotus Sect, regardless of whether they have killed or injured officers and soldiers, they will all be beheaded for the crime of treason.

Two days later, more than 1,000 captives were screened, and about 600 were released after receiving rods, while the remaining nearly 500 were immediately taken to the West City Gate to be beheaded and displayed to the public to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers.

At the time of the execution, the people of the whole city were asked to be present to watch, and with the order of the prison officer, more than 500 heads fell to the ground at the same time, and the real blood flowed like a river, and the sky and the earth changed color.

This move undoubtedly had a great deterrent effect, and as soon as the news spread, the number of strongmen from all walks of life who defected to the thieves was significantly reduced, and those White Lotus Sect members hated and feared "Xu beheading".

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Since receiving Xu Jin's order, Lin Qingwei and Tai Anwei, who were stationed in Feicheng, began to send troops to encircle and suppress the mountain of the horse, but the number of the horse thieves in Tang Jing was small, and they rode fast horses like the wind, and the mountains of the mountain were high and dense, so the officers and soldiers did not even catch half of the thief's hair for many days.

In desperation, the officers and men had no choice but to adopt a stupid method to divide their troops to block the roads leading into the mountains in an attempt to trap the horse thieves to death in the mountains, which was exactly the same as the practice of Sun Sui, the governor of Jiangxi, to encircle and suppress the lead mountain bandits.

In fact, in the era of cold weapons with backward transportation, the suppression of bandits has always been a long-standing problem that plagues the government. The bandits gathered in the mountains and forests, relying on their familiarity with the terrain, and played hide-and-seek in the mountains with the officers and soldiers.

Therefore, it is the safest way to block the road around the mountain, after all, no matter how slippery the bandits are, they will have to eat and drink, and when the stored grain is eaten up, sooner or later they will have to venture out of the mountain to forage for food. However, this method of suppressing bandits took a long time, and the officers and soldiers themselves could not bear it for a long time, and at the most critical time, the military supplies were consumed enormously.

Today is the fifth day of the tenth month, the sky is gloomy, it is cold, it looks like it is going to rain, and the wind blows through the dense forest of the mountain across the horse, making a howling sound like a ghost crying.

On a mountain road north of the mountain horse, nearly 100 Ming soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets are patrolling, and there are two rows of rejecting horses in the middle of the road, and they have also pulled up the tripping horse rope, which is heavily guarded.

At this time, in the nearby mountains and forests, several horse thieves were leading their horses cautiously, their mouths were caged, their hooves were wrapped in cloth, and they walked very lightly.

The thieves were all very athletic, and walked on the rugged mountain forest as if they were walking on the ground, and at the head was a strong man, who led the horses and cut down the vines and thorns that stood in his way. This big man is the third master of the horse thief, Mu Man, nicknamed Manniu.

It is said that this Mu Man is addicted to alcohol, and the officers and soldiers closed the mountain for eight days, and it happened that the wine in the cottage was drunk, and the goods finally couldn't hold back after two days, so today they brought a few brothers who were also addicted to alcohol, and secretly sneaked down the mountain from the big boss Tang Jing, preparing to go to the nearby town to get some wine to satisfy their hunger.

Mu Man and the others were all local snakes in the mountains of the mountain, and they were very familiar with the roads in the mountains, so they easily bypassed the heavy checkpoints of the Ming army and touched the periphery of the horses in the mountains.

Mu Man and several other horse thieves walked through the dark dense forest for a while, and finally bypassed the last checkpoint of the Ming army and led the horses out of the woods.

Mu Man glanced back at the Ming army's outpost at the mountain pass, and spat proudly: "A group of idiots, let's go, let's drink!" ”

It's just that as soon as Mu Man's words fell, a chord suddenly sounded from the opposite woods, and a sharp arrow shot at the throat of a bandit accurately.

Burst......

The arrow went straight through the neck, and the thief rolled off his horse before he could scream, blood gushing down his throat, and he died of exhaustion after kicking his legs.

"It's not good, there's an ambush, retreat into the forest!" Mu Man shouted in horror, and the two horse thieves under his command hurriedly led the horses to retreat into the mountains and forests.

Boom ......

Two sharp arrows followed, as if they had eyes, and knocked the two thieves to the ground, but apparently they missed the point, and the two thieves fell to the ground and let out a heart-rending scream.

"What a great archery!" Mu Man gasped, he was so frightened that he lay on the spot and didn't dare to move, and he regretted it even more in his heart, regretting that he shouldn't have dived down the mountain to find a drink.

At this time, a small group of Ming soldiers silently drilled out from behind the bushes on the opposite side of the mountain road, searching and killing here in a staggered manner, Mu Man couldn't help but feel a big heart, although this small group of Ming soldiers was only ten people, but they were all sharp-eyed, and there was an invisible murderous aura all over their bodies, which was obviously not something ordinary soldiers could have!