"That's nature."

"By the way, I'll leave you with all six thousand cavalry."

"With these 6,000 cavalry, if the mountain people and thieves dare to walk out of the old forest, it will be 100,000, and I will slaughter them."

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

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

It is to induce them to complain and complain that they were bullied by the eighteen villages in the old forest. You can rest assured that the rule of the mountain people is primitive and brutal. Eighteen Villages absolutely bullied other mountain people, so that those mountain people have a huge hatred for Eighteen Villages, and even have the hatred of killing their fathers and wives. ”

"Wonderful!" Hu Zongxian couldn't help but stroking his palms and said: "In this way, let them draw a clear line on the Eighteen Villages, they used to just hate the Eighteen Villages in their hearts, but now they are saying it." ”

"Yes, and then instill in them an idea, that is, if the anti-thieves do not enter the old forest, if the anti-thieves do not collude with the eighteen villages, the court will not have a war with the mountain people, and they will not suffer this disaster, all of this is brought to them by the anti-thieves and the eighteen villages. Finally, let them expose each other, who has done evil deeds, who has done good deeds, and who is a thief hidden among them. ”

"We'll kill those who have been exposed, and we'll be appeased by the rest." Hu Zongxian's eyes gradually lit up.

He failed at the last moment of the suppression of bandits this time, but if he can solve the problem of mountain people that has not been solved in the history of the Ming Dynasty, even if he can't make the blame, he can reduce the guilt, right?

"Dude, so it's important that you stay outside."

"I see!" Hu Zongxian waved his hand and said: "I'll stay outside, don't worry, I guarantee that none of those who escape from the old forest can escape from my palm." ”

"Good!" Luo Xin said happily: "With my brother sitting outside, I am relieved." ”

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

"No!" Luo Xin shook his head and said, "I have been in the capital for all these years, and I am not a fool in vain. ”

Hu Zongxian nodded, even if Luo Xin wanted Hu Zongxian to help him, in fact, he couldn't help much, his forces were all in the south, and he really didn't have any power in the capital.

"Then you transfer 10,000 people to me, and we will each go and do our own business." Hu Zongxian said dryly.

"Good!"

After Luo Xin assigned 6,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry to Hu Zongxian, he returned to the big tent and wrote four letters, one for Emperor Jiajing, one for Zhang Xun, one for Wang Cuiqiao, and one for Huang Jin, and asked people to rush to the capital in 800 li.

Next.

Luo Xin led 80,000 people into the old forest, and with Hu Zongxian's lesson, Luo Xin naturally would not make the same mistake again. The 80,000 men were divided into the front, left, right, rear and middle armies.

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

However, this time Luo Xin was very well prepared, and the food was also sufficient, and the speed of the march was not fast, step by step, according to Luo Xin's words, it didn't matter if the speed of the march was slow, safety first. Don't give thieves and mountain people a chance to attack the army.

He doesn't believe that the eighteen villages will easily give up the operation of the cottage for I don't know how many lifetimes, once he gives up, he will become a nomad in the old forest, without the protection of the cottage, not only the lack of food, but also the loss of the protection of the cottage. At that time, Luo Xin burned all the eighteen villages with a few fires, and the rest of the time was to slowly search for these mountain people in the old forest. Luo Xin believes that his army will eventually force these people into nowhere.

Luo Xin believes that he knows this, and the eighteen villages also know this, so they will never give up the cottage unless they have to.

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

The locations where these cottages were established were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and even if Hu Zongxian uprooted the three villages, he also lost a large number of soldiers. But Luo Xin was convinced that he wouldn't, because he brought a bag of explosives made of black powder. At this time, they were all on the bodies of Wan Daquan's family.

Luo Xin's army did not walk a line and spread the ranks apart. When they saw the mountain, they must send people to go to the ridge first and occupy the commanding heights, so along the way, there was no chance for the thieves and mountain people to attack the army.

Three days after entering the old forest, Luo Xin's army was also attacked by mountain people and anti-thieves, but it could not cause any harm to the army. Although some were killed by cold arrows, they were all shot at the outermost soldiers, they could not get close to the interior of the army, and those mountain people also suffered casualties.

Even if they ambushed in advance, because of Luo Xin's carefulness, every time they move forward, they will first occupy a favorable position, such as a commanding height, etc., and those thieves and mountain people are also ambushed in these places, so every time before the army arrives, those who are in ambush are driven away by the vanguard, or they see that they can't do anything, take the first step, and quietly retreat.

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

When he entered the old forest on the first day, the mood of those soldiers was very unstable, and Luo Xin could see fear in their eyes. Tens of thousands of people were left here at the beginning, and this fear could not be eliminated in a short period of time, and even became a nightmare for their whole life.

Unless they are able to get back up where they fell.

However, after five days in a row, these soldiers saw that Luo Xin was marching step by step, and there were no casualties in their army, and their frightened hearts gradually calmed down. And in these five days, Luo Xin gathered those generals on the first day, analyzed the reasons for the last defeat, and told them that as long as we do not rush to achieve success, step by step, we will definitely be able to achieve the final victory. Then let these generals pass these words to the soldiers layer by layer, so that the soldiers' emotions were further stabilized.

In five days, remarkable results were 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, it will not be defeated immediately.

Luo Xin relaxed slightly!

Not bad!

It's just a little relieved, after all, there is still fear in the hearts of these soldiers, even a hint of it. Once encountering a mutation, and Luo Xin is not able to win in a short time, that trace of fear will be magnified in people's hearts.

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