224 Kill a batch, suppress a batch, and win over a batch

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Seeing that the White Dragon Army was in good order, he left Caojiazhuang.

Cao Xing stood at the gate of the village and sighed, he didn't know if the path he chose today was right.

But just for now, for them Caojiazhuang, this is the best choice.

"Dad, you said that this group of white dragon bandits, can they really keep their promises?" Cao Xing's eldest son supported him and asked.

Cao Xing looked at the back of the White Dragon Army and said, "If people really want to attack us, do they still need it?" Your father has lived most of his life, and it's the first time I've seen such a bandit.

To tell you the truth, my intuition tells me that the leader of this group of white dragon bandits definitely has the posture of a hero, and their plans are not small!

We have all seen it these days, this White Dragon Army is by no means a rabble, the military discipline is strict, and the equipment is well-equipped, if it is not said that they are bandits, I really think that our elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have arrived.

And this group of white dragon bandits is said to have only appeared for half a year, and they can train the exiles into such elite soldiers with a prosperous military appearance in half a year.

I really want to see this big boss of the White Dragon Bandits, this person is by no means an ordinary person, maybe they can really achieve something great.

What's more, I did this time out of helplessness, if we fight hard, how can we be their opponents.

Once the face is torn, I am afraid that the hundreds of people in our Cao family will be wiped out.

So the only expedient way to do this is to listen to them, and see how they do later.

But I warn you, since I have agreed to their terms, I must do it, and don't give me anything to disobey them.

This group of white dragon bandits is not good at stubble, I don't know how many of the big heads they cut off in their hands, if they catch the handle, it will affect our entire Zhuangzi. ”

These Caojiazhuang clansmen all hurriedly nodded and agreed.

Cao Chong has lived for half a lifetime, and his vision of seeing things is still very poisonous, and Cao Jiazhuang has lived a good life under his leadership.

Therefore, Old Man Cao's Cao Jiazhuang is full of prestige, and since he has spoken, the people below dare not listen.

Because in the past two days, although they have resisted very tenaciously, they are still a little frightened in the face of these White Dragon Army troops outside the fort.

They knew that they could resist for a while, but after a long time, sooner or later their Caojiazhuang would be broken by them.

At this time, they didn't expect the imperial court to send officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress them, at least for a few months, it was estimated that the government would not be able to deploy officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress the White Dragon Army.

So at this time, Caojiazhuang can only protect itself and can only rely on itself.

So now that the matter can be solved in this way, they are honestly very satisfied and glad in their hearts, and no one dares to provoke this terrible white dragon bandit.

"What's the matter, Lao Tzu's subordinates lost more than a dozen people in Caojiazhuang, so let them go, it's really cheap for them."

Zhou Dazhu was riding on the horse, still looking unhappy.

"Haha, Lao Zhou, this is the meaning of the big boss, do you dare to disobey?" Luo Chao on the side laughed and quipped.

"It's because it's the meaning of the big boss that Lao Tzu endures it."

Wei Hong shook his head and said, "Old Zhou, although our White Dragon Army has always robbed the rich and helped the poor, it is the way for heaven. But we also have to act in a measured way.

Anyway, I am very supportive of the big boss's treatment of Caojiazhuang and other landlords and old wealth this time.

For these big landlords, we can't all beat them to death with a stick, there are actually good people in the world.

This time, we attacked Caojiazhuang because we didn't know about the situation of Caojiazhuang in advance, their Cao family has no notoriety in the local area, and its village is also full of their Cao family.

If we attack brazenly, although we may not be able to defeat his Caojiazhuang, I am afraid that we will also suffer heavy losses, and even if we defeat Caojiazhuang at that time, it will be worth the loss for us.

Since the Cao family's family business is earned by people who have worked hard, then if we still rob it, what is the difference between it and ordinary thieves and bandits.

The Cao family has a good reputation, if we do things absolutely well, we will lose the hearts of the people, and it is estimated that in the future, regardless of all the big rich people, they will completely become the mortal enemies of our White Dragon Army.

Therefore, if we do this today, it will only be beneficial to our White Dragon Army's future actions, and there will be no harm.

The big boss does this with deep meaning, and the big boss wants to treat these big rich people differently.

For a big family like the Cao family, we don't have to kill them all, as long as they are willing to obey our control and give us food when it is time to pay it, why can't we keep them?

If we had to exterminate them, even if we immediately divided their fields.

With our current practice, within two years, the Cao family's more than 1,000 acres of land, I am afraid we will not be able to harvest a single grain.

Now that we are doing this, we can collect 30% of the grain from Caojiazhuang during the summer harvest, so why don't we do it?

According to the plan of the big bosses, our main target of raiding is only those who are rich and unkind, and we will only pick such a target.

In this way, we can win the hearts and minds of the people at the same time, and at the same time obtain enough money, food and materials.

At the same time, it is not necessary to let all the big rich people in the world regard us as mortal enemies, this is what the big boss said before, kill a group, suppress a group, and win over a group. ”

"Lao Wei's words, I agree with them, the big boss's approach this time is indeed worth our thought."

Luo Chao on the side also agreed and said.

After all, Luo Chao is a family of military generals, and his family business is not small, and Luo Chao did not support the practice of beating him to death with a stick from the beginning.

In fact, Li Zixiao at this time did not plan to carry out any comprehensive land reform like the later Taizu.

After all, the times are different from the times, although the practices of the later generations of Taizu can be used for reference, but at this time, they can't all move over.

In this era, some things still need to be flexible, otherwise, if the White Dragon Army makes too many enemies, it will not be a good thing.

In the era of the late Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to completely eliminate the landlord class, after all, this class had existed for thousands of years, how could it be so easy to eliminate.

In addition, the existence of the landlord class is, to a certain extent, also a certain positive significance for maintaining the rule of various localities and preventing society from falling into turmoil.

It's still the same old saying, you have to eat the rice one bite at a time, don't be in a hurry, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry!

Li Zixiao's deep meaning this time is to take Caojiazhuang as a model.

When the news of Caojiazhuang spread, Li Zixiao believed that for those small and medium-sized landlords who had some land and relied on self-cultivation, and did not do evil, they would be relieved when they encountered the White Dragon Army again in the future.

For this part of the people, as long as they are willing to obey the management of the White Dragon Army and ensure that they will pay food to the White Dragon Army on time in the future, the White Dragon Army will not kill them.

Subsequently, Wei Hong and the others carried out Li Zixiao's order very well, and swept south as quickly as possible, trying not to be dragged down by Yizhuang and Yibao.

In this expansion and sweep, Li Zixiao wants to be the territory, and the money and grain are secondary.

For the landlord Laocaizhuang Fort that could be easily attacked, they took it like a storm, and for the situation like Caojiazhuang, they also had a countermeasure at this time.

It is estimated that the White Dragon Army will encounter such a situation in the future, and for the time being, such a policy will be implemented for landlords like the Cao family.

And for those Zhuang forts that are deep, if they can't attack them for a while, they can choose to skip it for the time being, or negotiate with it, or even make concessions.

As long as the landlords of Dazhuang Fort are willing to hand over the land, the White Dragon Army can guarantee that they will not attack them again, so that they can continue to live in this land, and they can also choose to move away.

The White Dragon Army promised with its credibility that it would not attack them halfway, so that they could also take their property and live elsewhere.

For those stubborn landlords who were neither willing to hand over the land nor intend to compromise and move away, they could not be attacked for a while, and Wei Hong and others would not be polite to them.

The artillery bombarded, the bird guns suppressed, the infantry attacked, and after the three-plate axe came down, there was no Zhuang Fort that could not be taken.

Even if he encounters the kind of stubborn fort that is particularly strong and difficult to capture, the White Dragon Army will not care, and will leave directly, and wait for the White Dragon Army to sweep the surrounding forts, and then come to clean him up.

As long as he still keeps this land, the White Dragon Army will trap them to death.

In less than 20 days later, Wei Hong, Zhou Dazhu and Luo Chao led the White Dragon Army to attack Zhuang Bazhai along the two flanks of the official road south to Suzhou.

More than 30 Zhuang forts were pulled out one after another, and the rest of the small Zhuang forts were directly looked at the wind and fell, and they swept all the way to the city of Suzhou, and ran two laps outside the city of Suzhou before withdrawing their troops and returning.

In fact, at this time, in Suzhou City, except for five or six hundred temporarily formed villagers, there were really not many officers and soldiers.

It is no wonder that when the magistrate of Suzhou learned that the White Dragon Army had gone all the way south to the outside of the city, he was so frightened that he packed his bags and prepared to run away.

In the end, the White Dragon Army only left after demonstrating outside the city, which made the officials and men in Suzhou breathe a sigh of relief.

Through this month's sweeping operation, Wei Hong's White Dragon Army controlled the only official road north of Yongcheng County in the entire Suzhou Prefecture in the hands of the White Dragon Army.

All the landlord forts north of Suzhou to Yongcheng County were uprooted, and even the seven or eight forts left behind were all landlord forts that had no notoriety and were willing to accept the conditions of the White Dragon Army.

And just when Wei Hong, the southern route army, was sweeping in the north of Suzhou, Liu Chong and Qi Wei in the north also waved their troops north and launched an attack on the southern area of Xiayi County.

The original calm of Xiayi County was also broken at this time.

These old wealthy households, who are adjacent to Yongcheng County in the south of Xiayi County, knew that a great disaster was coming after they learned that the official army's attack had failed.

The reputation of the White Dragon Army is good among ordinary people, but among these large landlords, these White Dragon Army are notorious!

Many of these landlords also had properties in other places, and after learning that the White Dragon Army had sent troops to attack their Zhuangzi, they immediately took their belongings and abandoned Zhuangzi overnight and fled.

These landlords, who have the courage to survive with their broken tails, will soon be wise in their choice.

And those landlords who were still reluctant to rob the land and property that their ancestors had snatched over in the open and secret, and who were holding on to resist, immediately hurriedly recruited Zhuang Ding to prepare to resist the White Dragon Army.

But they soon learned that what they were doing was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Facing the attack of the White Dragon Army, which was basically armed to the teeth, these landlords Zhuang Bao, who were fighting separately, could not resist the onslaught of the White Dragon Army at all.

Coupled with the fact that the White Dragon Army sent people to publicize everywhere, many poor people in the southern part of Xiayi County were not willing to give their lives to these old landlords at all.

And the government in Xiayi County is too busy to take care of itself at this time, where can they afford to care about the life and death of these big landlords outside the county, let them ask for more blessings.

Therefore, after Liu Zhong and Qi Wei led their troops to carry out sweeping operations, the large forts in the south of Xiayi County were quickly conquered under the command of the White Dragon Army.

Those landlords and old fortunes who were reluctant to flee before, those who were killed and killed, and their Zhuangzi land was also pocketed by the White Dragon Army.

The White Dragon Army's expansion and sweeping operation for more than a month basically came to an end at the end of May.

That is, in just over a month, most of the areas adjacent to Yongcheng County to the north of Suzhou in the south, and Xiayi County to the south and Yongcheng County to the south, basically fell under the control of the White Dragon Army.

In the same way, Li Zixiao made Wei Hong and Liu Chong very sensible, and after sweeping the first line of the two county seats, they stopped attacking.

Even those two county towns didn't mean much to the White Dragon Army, and besides, they conquered such two large areas of land, which almost doubled the territory controlled by the White Dragon Army.

Such a large territory, with the thousands of people and horses of the White Dragon Army at this time, is enough for them to digest.

If they take more land, they won't be able to digest it, and the snake will swallow the elephant, and the biggest chance is to be strangled to death, and the rice will have to be eaten in one bite.

After the people from the north and south completed the set goal, Li Zixiao finally issued an order to collect the troops, suspended the expansion and sweeping operation that lasted for more than a month, and withdrew the White Dragon Army to the White Snake Village to rest.

And during this period, what was Li Zixiao doing, hungry, at this time Li Zixiao was already standing in the county office of Yongcheng County.

There was also an old man who was nearly sixty years old next to him, it was Wang Yong, the magistrate of Yongcheng County, who was respectfully introducing the situation in Yongcheng County to Li Zixiao.

Outside the county office, the whole city has long been under martial law, and the people have been hiding in their homes one after another.

And Zhao Zilong is leading a group of teenagers in the youth battalion, as well as a large number of soldiers of the White Dragon Army, who are raiding the Cai and Liu families.

As for how the White Dragon Army captured Yongcheng County, it's really simple to say.

The White Dragon Army did not spend a single soldier to attack the city, but those villagers in the city opened the city gate themselves and let the White Dragon Army enter.

The reason is very simple, they are also looking forward to the White Dragon Army entering the city, destroying the Cai and Liu families, and waiting to divide their fields.

In fact, the people in the city have long known a lot about the White Dragon Army, and they have long known that the White Dragon Army has committed no crimes against the poor people.

Even if the Cai and Liu families have been sending people to vigorously discredit the White Dragon Army, but the people are not fools, there is no impermeable wall in the world, not to mention that they are so close.

The people in Yongcheng County have long heard about the policies implemented by the White Dragon Army in various villages in Yongcheng County

They have been excited for a long time that the people in the villages outside the city can get their own land.

It's a pity that the White Dragon Army has not come to attack Yongcheng County for a long time, and there is the suppression of the Cai and Liu families in the city, and the people are also powerless.