In recent years, due to frequent wars on the northwest border, as well as repeated droughts and floods, people in the northwest have been in dire straits!
Many farmers who could no longer survive left their hometowns and became refugees.
In order to have food to eat, these people fled to the relatively wealthy south of the Yangtze River.
Today's Jiangnan, although the development of industry and commerce is much better than that in the north, the amount of labor is still very limited after all, and these refugees are all refugees with unknown origins. It is difficult to find a job, and there is no land to cultivate. They are desperate.
, I have no choice but to turn the grass into the enemy!
In addition, there were some soldiers who were defeated at the border or who did not have the courage to fight. They were greedy for life and feared death, so they deserted.
It was also difficult for these deserters to find a normal livelihood, and many of them eventually chose Luocao.
Nowadays, banditry is very serious in the entire coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Because of the existence of Xu Nianmin, a county magistrate who treats bandits as his servants, Jiangling County has become a natural paradise for bandits to breed. Many desperate people come here because of its reputation.
, rooted in this hot land!
The common people in Jiangling are suffering from banditry!
I don’t know how many people died under the butcher’s knife of bandits, and I don’t know how many families were destroyed because of banditry!
Lin Xu already understood clearly that the main bandit gangs in Jiangling County were Erlangshan, Heigouzi and Paomapo. Among them, the Erlangshan family was the largest, with more than a thousand bandits. Heigouzi and Paomapo were equally powerful, and they were all on the four sides.
Between five hundred people.
There are also some small cottages, with the number of people ranging from dozens to more than a hundred. As long as the three bandit cottages such as Erlangshan are wiped out, these small cottages will not be a concern at all.
This time Linshan Village was besieged, and bandits from Erlangshan, Heigouzi, and Paomapo all came. Lin Xu happened to be settling accounts with them one by one!
Although now with Guo Nanxing's full help, Lin Xu will never force it, but will use the minimum cost to wipe out these bandit nests one by one!
Although Heigouzi and Paomapo are equally powerful, Heigouzi has a steep terrain and a naturally formed deep ditch as a barrier, making it more difficult to attack!
The Paomapo cottage is located on a hill. As you can tell from the name, the terrain of this hill is relatively gentle, and even horses can run away, so the difficulty of attacking is naturally much smaller!
Therefore, Lin Xu was ready to start from Paoma Slope!
However, he was not going to let Lin Shanjun directly suppress the bandits, but was going to devise a plan to make the bandits fight each other, and the dogs would bite each other!
After discussing with Guo Nanxing, Guo Nanxing was also very supportive of this plan!
So, Lin Xu began detailed planning.
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Erlang Mountain is located in the northwest corner of Jiangling County. The straight-line distance from Linshan Village is about twenty miles. However, due to the rugged and winding mountain roads, the actual distance is at least double!
This area is adjacent to Lu County and Baofeng County, and is an unattended area. Since the three counties are unwilling to spend manpower and material resources to suppress bandits, this area has become a natural bandit nest. In recent hundreds of years, this area has always been
I have never stopped the bandits!
At the beginning of the founding of Daning, with the efforts of the then Suzhou magistrate, they combined the efforts of three counties and spent a lot of effort to suppress bandits, but they never completely solved the banditry problem here!
Because the manpower and material resources of the government are limited after all, even if all the bandits on the mountain are wiped out, the government will not be able to station troops on the mountain for a long time. Therefore, after the government soldiers withdraw, other people will come here to occupy the mountain and become kings! This chapter has been completed!