Chapter 1291: Sweeping All the Way (Part I)
This crackdown on bandits made Yang Huairen feel deeply, and he saw that the water bandits in Badger Island were just a local evil force gang, and the number was not very large.
But the local people in Suzhou are really suffering, hundreds of innocent families are so miserable, their family members are killed, and the death of one person really brings the sadness of the whole family.
And for those merchants whose goods have been robbed, the loss of a shipload of goods may not be large, but for some small merchants, it may be all their possessions, because the loss of goods has caused them to lose their wealth and their lives have become miserable.
Therefore, Yang Huairen felt that ordinary people might think that those little evils such as bandits and bandits, as long as they didn't provoke them and didn't suffer themselves, then they could ignore them.
But this is not the case, there are many similar small evils and small harms, and they also have a great impact on the stable and happy life of the people.
Yang Huairen pondered that since his current identity is Qincha, he can't control the atmosphere of officialdom, and he can still do it to exterminate a few bandits or bandits' nests.
Anyway, the officers and men of the two guards have been brought out, and they must not be allowed to be idle, and giving them the opportunity to participate in some actual combat operations is also a good opportunity for them to accumulate experience.
In fact, the soldiers thought the same way. At the beginning of this year, in the Song and Xia Wars, the soldiers of Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei went to perform tasks with Yang Huairen, although they also had merit after coming back, and the rewards they received did not have to be less than the forbidden army that participated in the Song and Xia Wars.
But in terms of reputation, they can't compare at all, look at the soldiers of the forbidden army who came back from the war, now they are all coaxing, and they all feel like they are big heroes.
Although the soldiers of Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei didn't say it, they were still holding back the fire in their hearts, obviously they usually trained harder, and their military ability was much stronger than that of the soldiers of the forbidden army, but they didn't have the opportunity to participate in a decent battle to win a decent reputation.
Today, Yang Huairen went to exterminate the water bandits in Badger Island, and a total of three or four thousand people were dispatched, which seemed to be a big fuss, and the whole process of suppressing bandits was simply a game played by abusing water bandits.
After these people returned to the city, they were welcomed by the people of Suzhou, and such treatment and honor were even more important in their hearts than the gold and silver they were rewarded.
Soldiers have a sense of honor, and this sense of honor cannot be replaced by money.
The soldiers who participated in the suppression of bandits went back and told them about today's events, and the remaining 16,000 or 7,000 soldiers who stayed behind were greedy. No one will be convinced.
I don't know who initiated it, the literate soldiers began to write love letters to Yang Huairen, the meaning was concise and to the point, they just wanted to fight, they didn't care if they were water bandits or bandits, they could do something practical for the people, they were willing, and asked Yang Huairen to give them a chance to show their abilities.
Yang Huairen looked at these love letters, as well as the dense bloody finger prints behind him, and his heart surged up somehow.
No matter what the other forbidden troops were, Yang Huairen knew that the soldiers under him were cute.
He was very pleased that his method of training the soldiers, both physically and mentally, had trained the soldiers of the two guards into an army that could be called the people.
Yang Huairen immediately anxious about the generals overnight, and discussed this issue.
Yang Huairen explained the matter thoroughly at the beginning, he did go to Jiangnan this time to see a doctor for Princess Anguo, but as a messenger, he was ordered by the emperor to inspect Jiangnan.
In addition to supervising and supervising the administration of officials in various parts of Jiangnan, this inspection also has the task of dealing with bandits from all walks of life in Jiangnan.
So after today's extermination of the water bandits in Badger Island, he felt that he could reorganize the soldiers of Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei, break them into pieces, and sweep the bandit cottages, water bandit strongholds and thieves' dens all over the country along the road.
Yang Huairen's opinion was unanimously agreed by all the generals, and Yang Shihu said everyone's thoughts, "The soldiers are almost unable to hold back now, since they have been training for so long, they really need some actual combat to test their training results." ”
Yang Huairen nodded, "Since that's the case, let's do it." However, I don't know how many bandits and bandits there are in the south of the Yangtze River, and what kind of situation they will face in the future, so the generals must also be cautious and not careless. ”
It's not that Yang Huairen's worries are a bit redundant, but the fact is that Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei's combat ability now far exceeds that of the ordinary forbidden army, and the extermination of several groups of bandits and bandits is simply killing pigs with a knife.
In terms of intelligence, Fengshenwei's work has been very good, and the bandit situation in various parts of the Jiangnan has long been mastered by them, and almost every bandit camp and bandit den, as well as some decent characters among the bandits, they have all found out clearly.
The only thing left for the soldiers of Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei was to exterminate these bandits and bandits in one fell swoop with the power of thunder.
Yang Huairen only left his own guards to protect the dragon boat and continue to go south, while the 20,000 soldiers of Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei were divided into ten routes, and the generals each took one road, and scattered out according to the intelligence information sent back by Fengshenwei, each fighting for the bandits.
Since it was an opportunity for everyone to make meritorious contributions, Yang Huairen didn't have to bow down to everything, repaired and prepared overnight, and the next day as soon as it was dawn, Yang Huairen was going to leave Suzhou and continue to go south.
But the people didn't know how to get the news that they were going to leave before dawn, and once again brought snacks and buns and eggs at home to see off Yang Huairen and the soldiers, and many people shouted with tears "Thank you for your great kindness".
Yang Huairen was proud to be recognized by the most simple hungry people, and he stood on the boat and said goodbye to the people. And the soldiers of the two guards had already completed the division and reorganization, each assigned a task, and left Suzhou, and went straight to the destination.
In this way, for a time, the green forest boundary in the south of the Yangtze River was in chaos, and all the famous bandits and bandits on both sides of the Grand Canal could not escape the encirclement and suppression of the two guards.
Before they were surrounded and suppressed, it was not that no one did not take Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei in their eyes at all, they felt that their cottage had existed for so many years, and the government had suppressed it many times, didn't they still stand?
They had heard of Yang Huairen's name, but they still had a fluke mentality in their hearts, and felt that Yang Huairen was named Qincha when he went to Jiangnan this time, so of course he had to make a show to the emperor.
The suppression of bandits is just a gesture, and they will not really move the real character, offending the entire green forest in the south of the Yangtze River, not to mention that the reputation of the forbidden army was not very good, and they all feel that the strength of the forbidden army is not good, so there is nothing to fear.