Lu Liang nodded lightly and led everyone and He Shangming and others into the city.
Within the city.
There were many people standing on the side of the street watching.
As early as two days ago, news had reached the city that a bandit-suppressing army was coming here.
Most people have an indifferent attitude towards this. After all, for ordinary people, even bandits are extremely far away from them.
It is difficult to intersect between the two.
But those wealthy businessmen and traders are eagerly looking forward to this.
They were the ones who suffered the most from bandits.
Those who are slightly better can build some relationships with the bandits, and after being surrounded, they can escape by paying some property.
And if you can't get along with those bandits, or they are unwilling to give benefits, you can either take desperate risks, or you can only hire more martial arts masters with high salaries.
Even so, it often happened that entire caravans were robbed.
That is to say, things have been a little better recently. As the government announcements were posted, many bandits have ceased their activities.
But those large groups of bandits were even more domineering and unscrupulous.
Go to a restaurant in the city.
There are also some wealthy businessmen from Anren County waiting here.
Seeing He Shangming leading Lu Liang and others in, he quickly saluted.
The magistrate of Anren County introduced He Shangming and others.
Entered the private room.
A wealthy businessman from Anren County clapped his hands.
Then a group of beautiful maids came into the room, holding a plate in their hands.
The wealthy businessman smiled and said: "Thank you, my lords, the general has come all the way to help us people in Anren County to suppress bandits. This is some of our kindness, please accept it."
The magistrate of Anren County just looked on with a smile.
Probably because it was inconvenient for him to come forward, he arranged this move.
Everyone looked at Lu Liang at this moment.
Regardless of whether they are tempted or not, they have to see what Lu Liang does first. If Lu Liang doesn't take action, they will not dare to take these benefits easily.
Everyone knows what's on the tray.
The red cloth that was covered with it showed traces on it.
It's a silver ingot.
Lu Liang frowned slightly, waved his hand and said: "We are suppressing the bandits just under orders, you don't have to do this."
This obviously made him a little embarrassed.
If you take it, it will inevitably be true. And as long as there is a beginning, I am afraid that this kind of thing will not stop in the future.
But if you don't take it, it means that none of the people here will benefit from it.
Seeing the dissatisfaction in some people's eyes, Lu Fang smiled and helped Lu Liang out of the siege, saying: "Brother, this is all their good intention. I think so, after we suppress the bandits, if you wealthy businessmen are interested, then we can take these
The benefits are rewarded to the soldiers."
Anyway, as long as Lu Liang and himself don't take these benefits.
Lu Liang nodded lightly.
It's like opening one eye or closing one's eyes.
This made Lu Qian and others look much better instantly.
The atmosphere became less awkward instantly.
He Shangming said with a smile: "Master Lu really loves soldiers as much as his own son. I admire you so much, I admire you so much."
Then came one round of flattery after another.
Lu Fang couldn't help but sigh.
This Dayu officialdom is really...
Since Liang Hanmin usurped the throne and ascended the throne, from top to bottom, who are the people left?
Those who have some backbone and some righteousness will be squeezed out, right?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Zhang Zimo who was drinking again and didn't care about other people's words or behavior.
The atmosphere of the banquet was quite lively.
During the dinner, He Shangming and others told Lu Liang the specific situation of bandits in Hengzhou.
It seems that there is no shortage of homework during these days.
There are dozens of bands of bandits, large and small, in the entire Hengzhou territory.
After the government government issued an announcement to suppress bandits, there are still nineteen groups of bandits left. Among them, six groups are quite astonishing in strength, each with hundreds of people.
This kind of banditry is no longer something that a county government like Anren County can deal with. Unless the standing army of Fucheng Hengyang or the Chaling Army is dispatched.
But He Shangming obviously did not do this before.
First, there was no order from above to suppress bandits.
Secondly, he was worried that if he sent people to suppress the bandits, he would steal the chicken but lose the rice.
Not to mention the money and food needed to suppress the bandits, if the suppression of the bandits is successful, everything will be easy to handle.
But if the suppression of the bandits fails, it will be a great loss of face for the court. Then they will all have good fruits to eat.
This is why he knew that Lu Liang was leading his army towards Hengzhou, so he hurried to Anren County to greet him in person.
Lu Fang found it quite boring.
Six types of banditry.
There were only a few hundred people, which was far, far behind Xu Linzhi and his group.
Can it be easily wiped out by the Chaling Army?
Fortunately, the Guiyang army was dispatched, which felt a bit like using a cannon to swat mosquitoes.
But thinking about it again, it’s also a good thing.
The sooner the banditry is eliminated, the sooner he can return to Tanzhou and settle the business matters.
After the banquet, Lu Liang refused the arrangement of He Shangming and others asking him to settle down in the county government. He took Lu Fang, Lu Qian and others back to the military camp.
Inside the tent.
Someone has already placed a map of the entire Hengzhou on the table.
Fucheng Hengyang, then Leiyang, Chaling, Anren and Changning counties.
The six groups of big bandits are far apart.
Lu Qian still had some skills, and he quickly pointed out the places where the six bandits were entrenched on the map, "Sir, this is where the six bandits are entrenched. What do we plan to do?"
"
Lu Liang looked at Lu Fang.
Lu Fang said without thinking: "Destroy them one by one."
Because he has to earn hatred points!
If the troops are divided into several groups, the hatred points he has will not be earned.
Lu Qian frowned slightly and objected, "The strength of these bandits is only sparse and ordinary. If we defeat them one by one, wouldn't it be too much of a fanfare? Running around like this, the soldiers will inevitably get tired."
“It’s better to play it safe!”
Lu Fang said: "It is easy to defeat them, but we are worried that they will reappear after we leave. Therefore, we must encircle them together and kill them with one blow, and we cannot give them a chance to come back."
"this……"
Lu Qian didn't know how to refute for a while.
But I felt in my heart that even if we wanted to encircle and annihilate these bandits, there was really no need to defeat them one by one.
He just looked at Lu Liang and waited for Lu Liang to make up his mind.
As for the failure of the bandit suppression?
No one thought about it.
There are a total of five thousand Guiyang troops. If they can't even wipe out these bandits, they will just wipe their necks themselves.
"How about this!"
At this time, Lu Fang came up with a new idea and said: "General Zhang and I will lead the elite of the 800 troops to sneak attack on these bandit villages. Brother, you can lead General Lu and the others to wipe out these small groups of bandits, so that they will not be blocked by the large army."
, how about the birds and beasts scattering?"
Lu Qian was a little confused.
Just now you said you should be safe, why did you suddenly say you would take 800 people to suppress the bandits?
He didn't know that Lu Fang was really planning to be on the safe side. He was originally going to say five hundred.
Killing with one strike is the kingly way.
If you really want to scare these bandits into hiding, it will take a lot of effort.