Chapter 402 Turn to the West

In the afternoon, when the fourth batch of officers and soldiers arrived on the island, there were already more than 10,000 officers and soldiers on the island, but the thieves had fallen and collapsed. The large-scale battle soon ended. The next step was to search for the thieves hiding in the forest trees in the whole Weishan Island.

In the evening, the search troops everywhere gathered a batch of prisoners on the slope of the south of the island. However, among the more than 10,000 prisoners, Liu Liu was not seen. Song Nan was a little puzzled.

Xu Tai found more than a dozen thief officers from the prisoners to inquire. It was easy to learn that Liu Liu had set sail off the island a few days ago, and Liu Hui, who took over, was accused of disappearing shortly after the beginning of the battle and apparently fled in the chaos.

Xu Tai was very angry, and the two thieves all missed the net, casting a shadow on the glorious victory. He ordered hundreds of thieves to take out hundreds of generals and soldiers, and ordered his soldiers to beat them fiercely with whips. For a moment, the sound of crying outside the military camp was shocking.

Song Nan was also very depressed. She originally planned to capture Liu Liu in one fell swoop, but she was still slipped away by this guy. If this guy is not dead, it is the root of the disaster. This anti-thief rebellion is led by Liu Liu and Liu Qi brothers. Now one of the two brothers has been captured, and it has to be said to be a big failure.

After calming down, Song Nan interrogated several major thief generals, and Song Nan sensed a little strangeness from their description. Liu Liu handed over the soldiers and horses to Liu Hui, the leader of the thief, in front of the generals, and he said that he would go to find the thief soldiers scattered in Zhaoyang Lake and bring them to the island, which was obviously unreasonable. Of.

To attract scattered thief soldiers to this island, they only need to send ordinary manpower. Liu Liu went there in person and made a big fuss about it. It was a story to say that Liu Liu cared about the safety and life of the scattered thief soldiers. I'm afraid Liu had already had the idea of escaping, because he knew that the imperial army would definitely stare at the large troops, and he rode away alone. If you go, the chances of escaping will be greatly increased.

Song Nan had to secretly raise a thumbs up at Liu Liu. This person is not only treacherous, but also has the courage to choose. He may have known that the island could not be defended, and did not hesitate to throw away 20,000 soldiers in exchange for his escape. Such actions can not be done by ordinary people; normal people will always catch these two thousand thieves. Because these two thousand thief soldiers are his capital, and they will not be easily abandoned in any case.

The next morning, Lu Wan, who led the troops to look for the remnants of 3,000 thieves in Dushan, Zhaoyang Lake, sent a message about the army pigeons. The 3,000 thieves who fled to Dushan Island voluntarily surrendered, but except for a few thieves who led the troops, they did not see Liu Liu among them.

So far, after nearly a month of continuous war, the suppression of bandits on the East Road has come to an end. Liu Liu and Yanghu's army in dozens of prefectures of counties in Beijing and Shandong Province were finally wiped out. The thief soldiers once developed to nearly 60,000 horses and occupied more than a dozen cities, but finally collapsed faster like sand towers; this is certainly an officer and soldiers all the way. Because of the fierce strangulation, the court changed its strings in time, which shook the inside of the Rebel Army, so that it collapsed in an instant.

After withdrawing the soldiers and horses from Weishan Lake, Song Nan issued several military orders and used tens of thousands of prisoners as civilian husbands. Under the escort of some officers and soldiers, he scattered state governments to work as a hard force to rebuild the city and houses. At the same time, he ordered the three guards of Xuzhou to temporarily be stationed in the area of Dongchang Prefecture, in Gunzhou, to eliminate the escaped thieves, and on the other hand, stabilized them. The situation is to prevent the resurgence, and wait for the court to send officials to take over these cities, and then decide to stay according to the instructions of the court.

Hou Dabiao also stayed, and the thieves also brought a devastating blow to the Jinyiwei government offices in western Shandong. Three thousand households and more than a hundred government offices have been destroyed. Hou Dabiao was responsible for rebuilding these government offices and placed these state governments in the management of Jinyiwei government offices earlier. Under its jurisdiction, taking the initiative in reconstruction is also a good thing for Jinyiwei Yamen.

Arrange the dispatch of all this. It's already the beginning of November. A heavy snow from south to north has brought great difficulties to the relief in various places. Song Nan doesn't want to stay here to watch the situation after the chaos. He fulfilled his promise to take charge of hundreds of thousands of stone grain plundered by the captured thieves. He entrusted Hou Dabiao to distribute the relief, and he took Zhang Yong, Xu Tai, Lu Wan and others, and led 30,000 troops straight to the west.

The 5,000 thieves of Liu Qi and Zhao Yu on the West Road are still hiding in Taihang Mountain and Wuhui Mountain. After this heavy snow, they should also take action. This is the best time to find them and annihilate them. Moreover, although the bandit leader Liu Liu fled from Weishan Island, he had nowhere to go. All the state governments have been captured. This person has nowhere to hide. His only place is to go round with his brother Liu Qi. Although the thief on the West Road is small, the capital of important thief capital is among them. Of course, Song Nan cannot be neglected.

In order to eliminate evil, Liu Liu and Liu Qi can be regarded as a complete victory against bandits.

The army set out on the seventh day of November, walked all the way to the west with white snow, went all the way north through Kaifeng Mansion, passed through Zhangde Mansion and went straight into Zhending Mansion, which lasted more than 700 miles, which lasted nearly 20 days.

On the way, Song Nan received a commendation order from the court. Zhengde sent Yang Tinhe, a cabinet scholar, and the special envoy of the Ministry of War, to commend the labor forces and commend Song Nan for suppressing the chaos of the thieves on the East Road. However, Song Nan also knew from the words and deeds of Yang Tinghe and others that many people in the court complained about the bandit leader Liu Liu because they did not catch. . Song Nan was speechless to these people who stood and spoke without back pain. These guys were helpless when they were in chaos. When the situation calmed down, they were full of energy. They were patient for the time being and settled the general account with them when the class teacher returned to court.

Li Daniu escorted the prisoner and thief Yang Hu in Gunzhou and returned to Beijing. He fought with Song Nan in Zhending Mansion, and also brought several letters of his wife and children.

On the night of the rest of the army in Zhendingfu, Song Nan picked out to read a family letter under the lamp. The little princess's letter was a series of words 'I love you and want you to wait for you', while Lu Qingli's letter was to show off that she had designed some things according to Song Nan's requirements, eagerly hoping that Song Nan would go home and show it to him.

It is still Ye Fang's aunt's style of being a housewife. She told Song Nan about everything in the family. At the same time, she told Song Nan to think about her body, not to be tired, not to get involved in danger, and Song Nan's heart was warm.

Dai Suer's letter is different from everyone's style. A sad long word is full of lingering meaning, and even a wisp of green silk attached, which makes Song Nan sigh. In comparison, I still miss Dai Suer more, not only because she meets her aesthetic taste, but also because Dai Suer is deeply pregnant. In a few months, she will be in labor; this is the first woman to conceive Song Nan with a child, and Song Nan is also more emotionally biased.

Various clothes and food were also brought at home. Song's mother ordered the cow to bring the amulet sought from the temple. The rest were warm clothes and shoes and socks. Among them, a pale yellow knife spike attracted Song Nan's attention, which was extremely exquisite and cute. Song Nan installed it in the embroidered spring knife. On the handle, it is extremely suitable.

Song Nan asked Li Daniu, "Who made this knife spike?"

Li Daniu took a casual look and said, "Oh, this is what Miss Yang asked me to bring to my brother."

Song Nan said in astonishment, "Miss Yang? Which Miss Yang?"

Li Daniu was stunned and said, "Yang Koer, Miss Yang Yiqing, you won't forget him, will you? The young lady made a knife for you, but you don't even know who he is."

Song Nan suddenly realized that a round, charming and lovely face appeared in front of her. Yang Keer still lived in her house. Her parents were both in the northwest, and she stayed alone in the house and did not often care about it. This girl is also interesting. Baba made up this thing and sent it to her. Is it possible that she is interested in herself?

That night, Song Nan slept very sweetly, pillowed in a lot of gifts from home, slept in the dark, and slept until dawn.

The next morning, the army left Zhendingfu and went to the inverted horse pass in the north. Two days later, they arrived in the south of the inverted horse pass and looked north. The continuous mountains were covered with snow. To the north of this series of peaks was the Shanxi boundary, where Jiang Bin led the two guards guard the north mountain pass. The inverted horse pass in the south is the only pass where the thief soldiers go out of the mountain from Wuhui Mountain to the south. More than 3,000 officers and soldiers are ordered to strictly guard it, which is also the weak area where Song Nan is most worried about the thief soldiers knocking on the pass.

Hearing the arrival of the army, Wu Ke, the general who guarded the customs, came all the way to welcome him. Before dark, the army entered the customs to camp.

The news of the governor's arrival had notified the Maguan Guard Institute, which besieged the thief soldiers on the West Road, and the Jiang Bin army stationed in the northwest of the mountain. All armies have sent deputy generals to wait for Song Nan in the Maguan to bring back the Dadu governor's strategy to encircle and suppress the thief soldiers in the mountains.

In the morning of the next day, the military meeting to deal with Liu Qi's thieves hiding in the mountains on the West Road was held in the hall of the Maguanwei Institute.