Seeing that the general trend had gone, the bandit leader led dozens of henchmen to run to the back mountain, and he planned to rely on these henchmen to make a comeback in the future and continue to be a bandit.

Seeing the bandit leader fleeing to the back mountain, Hua An smiled indifferently at the corner of his mouth, and did not chase after him, but led his soldiers to continue to encircle and suppress the bandit Xiao Luo who fled in all directions, and constantly persuaded them to surrender to avoid death.

The encirclement lasted for half an hour, except for a few hundred bandits who resisted to the end and were killed by the Northern Expeditionary Army, most of the remaining bandits surrendered or fled, and most of the escaped bandits were captured by the cavalry camp hidden in the woods, and only a few escaped from the cottage.

The leader of the bandits who escaped through the secret passage of the back mountain was brought by the king with three hundred warriors. None escaped.

The king caught this gang of bandits and bandits, and through the secret channel, he escorted all these heinous bandit leaders into the bandits' lair and handed them over to Hua'an.

"Big brother, in this battle, our army killed more than 300 enemies, captured more than 1,500 people, killed less than 20 soldiers, and wounded less than 100, a great victory!" Tie Niu looked at Hua An and said happily.

Wang San personally escorted the bandit leader, walked in front of Hua An, and said loudly: "Big brother, the pro-soldier brigade caught more than 80 bandits in the back mountain, and the big leader is one, it is him, kneel down." With that, he kicked the bandit leader in the back of his knee.

Hua An glared at the bandit leader who was kneeling on the ground, and scolded: "Occupy the mountain as the king, fish and meat the people, and rob the army of food, what crime should be committed!" ”

"If you want to kill, you will kill, what so much nonsense." The bandit leader is very tough.

"The bones are quite hard." Hua An snorted and ordered: "Come on, drag this villain down and cut him down." ”

"Yes, General." Two soldiers escorted the bandit leader down.

The bandit leader was a cowardly guy, he deliberately pretended to be tough just now, and when he saw that Hua An really ordered to cut him, he immediately trembled.

"Wait, wait, I have something to say." The bandit leader's tone softened much.

Hua An nodded and said, "If you have anything to say, say it!" ”

The bandit leader bent his knees and moved in front of Hua An, bargaining with Hua An on the premise of providing the secrets of the bandits' lair elsewhere, making Hua An raise his noble hand and let him go, and said that he would never do evil again in the future.

Hua An pretended to agree, and when the bandit leader told the general situation of the other bandit nests in Maoshan, Hua An made a face, and beheaded him under the pretext that what the bandit leader said was inconsistent with what he investigated.

As for those coercion elements who surrendered, Hua'an seriously criticized and educated them, so that they could be divided into human beings in the future and not do evil things.

Naturally, these coercs resigned themselves to being human beings again, and after an hour of education, Hua'an collected all the bandits' weapons, burned them, and then let these coercs leave on their own and go to their respective hometowns.

In order to completely destroy the nest and prevent the bandits from gathering here in the future, Hua'an not only asked the soldiers to burn down all the houses in the nest, but also cut down and burned the nearby trees, making it completely invisible.

After doing this, Hua An led the army to continue running towards the next bandit's lair.

Along the way, Hua'an summed up the battle against bandits, although there are still many unsatisfactory places, but on the whole, it is a successful large-scale military training, at least let the recruits who have never seen bloody scenes realize what bloody is and what is a battlefield.

Of course, the scale of the battle against bandits is small after all, and the bloody battle between the Northern Expedition and the army of Zhao in the coming year, the tension and bloodiness must be several times that of the bandits.

Because they had a certain understanding of the bandits' lair, the next few battles were carried out very smoothly, and wherever the Great Jin Dynasty King Shi went, the bandits were all terrified and fled with abandonment of their armor.

It only took Hua'an a month to defeat the more than 10,000 bandits in Maoshan, but the soldiers under his command suffered very few losses, and less than 100 people were killed, which can be described as brilliant results.

Of course, Hua An didn't care about these military exploits or anything, what he was most pleased with was that Tongguò suppressed bandits for a month in a row, and the 3,000 soldiers of the whole army had been greatly tempered, and their combat effectiveness had been raised to a higher level.

The suppression of bandits is for the benefit of the people, is for the court to stabilize the country, Hua'an's act of suppressing bandits, so that the people of several states and counties near Maoshan do not have to worry about the bandits to disturb, in the hearts of these people, Hua'an is the savior of life, is their savior.

The local officials also went to a big stone in their hearts, and the officials of several prefectures and counties not only warmly entertained the officers and soldiers of Hua'an and the Northern Expeditionary Army, but also played the emperor Sima Yan by name, first of all, greatly praised the deeds of Hua'an's bandits, and at the same time, for the sake of the people's peace of mind, begged for Hua'an's 3,000 men and horses to be stationed near Maoshan all the year round to deter frequent bandits.

On the imperial court, when they first received the battle report from Hua'an, most of the ministers expressed doubts about such a brilliant victory, thinking that Hua'an had falsely reported the results.

But it didn't take long for them to see the joint performance of the officials of various states and counties near Maoshan and compare them with each other, only to find that what Hua'an wrote in the war report was the truth, and even somewhat depressed their own military exploits.

Hua'an has achieved brilliant results, and all the ministers in the court are naturally very happy, Sima Yan has repeatedly praised Hua'an as a talent for leading soldiers, and Wang Dao, who is his father-in-law, naturally has a few kind words from time to time.

Sima Yan's head was hot, and he said in court that he would reward Hua'an, in addition to rewarding money and goods, he also said that he would select six palace maids with outstanding appearance in the palace and reward them to Hua'an.

Seeing that Sima Yan's reward was too rich, many ministers said that the reward was too much, and it was easy to incur Hua'an's complacency.

As the father-in-law, Director Wang also made a statement, asking Sima Yan to take back the six palace maids with outstanding appearance, so as to prevent Hua An from coveting women and going astray.

Seeing that Director Wang only rejected the six palace maids, Sima Yan smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, took back his fate, and doubled the gold and silver rewarded to make up for the palace maids who had recovered.

However, Sima Yan did not agree to the officials near Maoshan who asked Hua'an to garrison Maoshan, because the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army was near the capital, and it seemed inappropriate to let Hua'an's 3,000 men and horses garrison Maoshan.

However, Sima Yan replied to the officials near Maoshan that as long as there were any more bandits in Maoshan, he would definitely send Hua'an to exterminate them again, reply to the letters of the county officials, and send them to the vicinity of Maoshan together with the letters ordering Hua'an's class teachers.

After receiving the edict of the class teacher, Hua'an bid farewell to his father and fellow villagers near Maoshan Mountain, gathered 3,000 troops and horses, and marched in the direction of the capital along the road he came.

Before leaving, the people near Maoshan all helped the old and the young, sent each other for ten miles, and kept stuffing some hard-boiled eggs, roasted potatoes and other dry food that could satisfy hunger into the arms of the retreating soldiers.

The 3,000 army, under the leadership of Hua'an, returned to the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army in only one day, rested for the night, and continued training the next day.

In the days of training recruits, Hua'an naturally stayed in the barracks eighty percent of the time, but every half a month, he would take three days off and go home to reunite with his family, after all, he was a newlywed Yan'er, and Han Qian did not stop it.

Soon another three months passed, Hua'an's 3,000 army was trained to be stronger, at this time the autumn harvest has passed, the weather has become gradually cooler, in the battalion after the number of real exercises, Hua'an again asked for help, asked to go to Moshan to suppress bandits.

Moshan is in the southeast of the capital, twice as far as Maoshan Mountain, the reason why Hua'an chose here, in addition to the infestation of nearly 10,000 mountain thieves here, more importantly, the strangeness of the region and the distance of the road, can train the willpower of soldiers.

The banditry in Moshan has always been a stubborn disease, and the imperial court has not completely eradicated the bandits here many times of encirclement and suppression, since Hua'an took the initiative to ask for help, the imperial court will naturally not stop it.

With the permission of the imperial court, Hua An led 3,000 heroes to Moshan, this time he was ready to train new tactics in actual combat to test whether the new ideas he had realized in the ancestral art of war were feasible.

The deeds of Hua'an's suppression of bandits in Maoshan have long been spread, and the officials and ordinary people near Moshan all celebrated when they saw Hua'an leading the troops.

And the bandits hidden in the depths of the Mo Mountain, as soon as they heard that Hua'an led the troops to come, they were all frightened, panicked, and even deserters appeared in the cottage, which made the bandit leaders of each mountain headache, they contacted each other and discussed the strategy of confrontation together, while sending a large number of spies to blend into the people and explore the reality of Hua'an.

Hua'an's 3,000 troops were stationed at the foot of Moshan Mountain, and they did not enter the mountain for three consecutive days to encircle and suppress, and the soldiers trained except for rest.

The local officials did not know what kind of medicine was sold in Hua'an's gourd, and went to the military camp to greet when they would enter the mountains to suppress the bandits, Hua'an only said that the army came from afar, and the soldiers were tired, so they had to rest for at least ten days and half a month, and then they could enter the army to capture the thieves in a battle.

On the surface, Hua'an seems to be stationing the army at the foot of Moshan as if nothing happened, looking relaxed and leisurely, but secretly he is speeding up the preparation for the suppression of thieves.

During these three days, Hua'an sent at least 100 soldiers every day, dressed as woodcutters, into the mountains to explore the roads, and sent dozens of subordinates to help the nearby people work, secretly investigating the situation of the bandits' nests from the mouths of these people.

Also, the climate of Moshan is different from that of the capital, so that the army can stay at the foot of the mountain for a few days, which can well adapt to the climate of Moshan, so that the soldiers will not have dizziness and other ** reactions.

In the end, traveling all the way from the capital to Moshan, it is needless to say that the soldiers are tired, and it is also necessary to recuperate.

However, Hua'an will not really rest at the foot of the mountain for ten days or half a month, it is just a trick to confuse the enemy, so that the thieves in the mountains are not guarded, after greeting several local officials left, Hua'an has decided to act that night and fight at night to destroy the thieves.