After actual investigation, Lin Xu found that the quality of this shallow coal mine was very good, with a burial depth of only a dozen meters. Judging from the surface signs, the reserves should be large and extremely valuable for mining!
However, as long as it is coal mining, it has a certain degree of danger. Even in the 21st century, where science and technology have been very advanced, mining disasters cannot be completely avoided, let alone in today's era.
In addition, mining is an extremely physically demanding labor, and female workers will definitely not be able to sustain it, so they must rely on male workers!
However, because the phenomenon of more girls than boys has become more and more prominent in recent years, and the mining work is so arduous and dangerous, it is definitely not an easy task to recruit a sufficient number of miners.
Therefore, Lin Xu targeted the bandits in various cottages.
These bandits are all strong laborers. Although they are not good people, it would be a bit wasteful to kill them like this. It is better to "use the waste" and imprison them in the mines to dig coal!
At the same time, Lin Xu also used the reform-through-labor system for prisoners in the 21st century. That is to calculate the work points for these bandits. After a certain bandit's work points accumulate to a certain score, he will be punished.
After a comprehensive evaluation, if the evaluation result is that the person has been completely transformed and will no longer do anything harmful to society, he will be free.
The six people brought by Wu Feng were taken to Heishuigou by the Linshan Army officers and temporarily imprisoned.
Later, Lin Xu issued an order to Sun Chong. He asked him to lead 300 Linshan Army officers and soldiers to join forces with the government soldiers and Honghua to persuade Erlang Mountain to surrender!
If the bandits on Erlang Mountain are unwilling to surrender, then just set fire to the mountain and force them to surrender!
He believed that after Liang Yu, Wu Feng, the crazy monk, and Mr. Tao were killed one after another, the Erlang Mountain bandits no longer had a backbone and became a piece of loose sand!
At this time, they were suddenly surrounded by a large army, and they even set fire to the mountain!
Under such a situation, the Erlang Mountain bandits will never be able to organize a decent resistance. If they want to survive, the only way to survive is to surrender!
The development of the facts was just as Lin Xu expected!
After Sun Chong and others led the army to surround Erlang Mountain, the bandits of Erlang Mountain made some symbolic resistance at first. However, because these bandits were not of the same mind in the first place, they were unable to unite as one when the disaster was imminent.
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Some bandits who were afraid of death came down the mountain first and expressed their surrender!
With these bandits as examples, other bandits will follow suit!
Although there are a few bandits who are quite courageous and vow not to surrender to the government, but in front of the menacing army, these bandits can't do anything at all.
In the end, Lin Shan's army captured Erlang Mountain without any bloodshed!
The bandits on Erlang Mountain were all tied up and sent to Heishuigou to be imprisoned and prepared to undergo labor reform. The materials on Erlang Mountain were temporarily sealed by Sun Chong, waiting for Lin Xu to deal with them.
At this point, Erlang Mountain, Heishuigou and Paomapo, the three largest bandit villages in Jiangling County, have all been eliminated!
Thanks to the strategic plan of "fighting bandits with bandits" formulated by Lin Xu, in the process of annihilating the four major bandit cottages, his Linshan Army and the government soldiers basically did not suffer many casualties. They were all dog-eating dogs among the bandit cottages.
, were suspicious of each other and weakened each other, while he used powerful military power for psychological deterrence, achieving the effect of "conquering the enemy without fighting" many times!
Later, Lin Xu struck while the iron was hot and issued a notice in the name of the government to the several existing bandit villages, ordering them to surrender unconditionally within three days. The government would deal with them lightly!
Otherwise, it will be too late if they want to surrender when the soldiers are approaching!
The news that Erlangshan, Heishuigou, and Paomapo were successively cleared of large mountain villages has spread throughout Jiangling County!
Even these four major cottages have been wiped out, so how can those small cottages dare to fight against them?
Few people dare to hit an egg against a stone.
Therefore, within three days, except for one bandit village called Tieguang Mountain, where the leader really did not understand the current affairs and refused to surrender, all the other bandit villages surrendered to the government!
Lin Xu had nothing to be polite about this ignorant copycat, and directly asked Sun Chong to lead Lin Shan's army to encircle and suppress it. With careful planning and powerful weapon advantages, he easily defeated the copycat!
Except for the heads of each village who were thrown into prison and held accountable for their crimes, the rest of the bandits were all sent to Heishuigou and imprisoned to dig coal!
At this point, the banditry problem that has plagued Jiangling County for decades has finally been completely solved with Lin Xu's efforts! This chapter has been completed!