After destroying more than 30,000 bandits from Wang Jiayin's army, Hong Chengchou distributed the merits. According to convention, Hong Chengchou naturally assigned the merits of Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao and Li Guodong to the generals of each tribe, and gave him a lot of merits and reported to the court.

Originally, the army led by Li Guodong and Cao Bianjiao beheaded more than 2,000 levels, Cao Wenzhao beheaded more than 1,000 levels, captured more than 20,000 people, and was killed more than 8,000 prisoners by Hong Chengchou, beheaded more than 1,200 levels, dismissed more than 14,000 refugees, and fled more than 3,000 refugees. Li Guodong recruited two thousand refugees. Such great achievements made Hong Chengchou also gave the unscrupulous generals such as Ma Ke, Li Bei, and gave himself the greatest contribution.

Although Li Guodong was dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou's actions, he could only hold back his nose. Now his strength is still weak, and it is not yet time to turn against the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, he had a quarrel with the Ming Dynasty at this time, and he could only afford the thief and Jiannu.

After allocating the credit, Hong Chengchou decided to lead his troops to Qingyang in person to pursue Huntianhou and the lone wolf bandit thieves.

Li Guodong did not follow Hong Chengchou to chase and kill the bandits of Huntianhou and the lonely wolf tribe, but instead proposed to send a group of officers and soldiers to cooperate with him to block the bandits such as Wang Ziyong, Wang Zishun, and Ma Shouying who were entrenched in the Pingyang Prefecture.

Hong Chengchou gestured on the map with his finger: "Although our army wiped out more than 30,000 troops from the thief leader Wang Jiayin, there are still more than 300,000 bandits in Shanxi and Shaanxi! There are even more than 300,000 bandits in Pingyang Prefecture, and the king of giant bandits themselves use more than 30,000 elite old thieves, and the main force of Huihui Iron Cavalry is probably not easy to deal with."

"After Wang Jiayin was executed, Wang Ziyong became the leader of the thief. As the saying goes, capture the king first. Since the thief uses Wang Ziyong as the leader of the thief, then we will kill him again." Li Guodong replied.

"Why did General Li say that Wang Ziyong is the leader of the thief? Now that Wang Jiayin has just suppressed, the thief may not have introduced the leader of the alliance."

"Di Chen Hong, the last general was in Hequ and Pianguan and talked with the bandits. Wang Ziyong was the second leader of the bandits. Wang Jiayin was the leader of the bandits and was killed by me. The second leader was the most likely to come."

"Wang Ziyeng's bandits have strong troops and a large number of people and power, and they occupy the strong city to defend. If our army encircled and suppressed the city, it is probably impossible to enter Pingyang Prefecture and fight against the bandits in the wild. If it is difficult to win. To destroy the bandits, they need to defeat each one, first take the weak enemy, and then seek to attack the strong enemy." Hong Chengchou raised his eyebrows slightly and shook his head.

"Director Hong, if our army is the same as the bandits, who can win the battle between the two armies?" Li Guodong asked knowingly and guided Hong Chengchou.

"Of course our army is stronger than the thief army!"

"Why don't that be? Since our army's combat power is stronger than the bandits' army, then our army will first break into pieces and use its reputation to attack the enemy from the east to the west to disperse the enemy. When the enemy is dispersed, our army will turn into pieces and surround the enemy, surround a bandit, and force other bandits to come to support. Our army can set up an ambush halfway and wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop."

Although Hong Chengchou in real history has a very firm attitude towards eliminating the bandits, his fighting style is not flexible, and he adopts a protracted siege method. Even when Wang Jiayin was killed and the bandits' army was disintegrated and his morale was low, Hong Chengchou still took the siege method to wait for the rabbit. When Zhang Cunmeng killed two generals, he came to surrender; Huntianhou and the lone wolf tribe broke through in the direction of Qingyang, so Hong Chengchou led his troops to chase him, killed Huntianhou and lone wolf, and surrendered Bai Guangen.

But soon, Zhang Cunmeng rebelled again; and when Hong Chengchou was chasing Huntianhou and Loose Wolf tribes, Wang Ziyong, Wang Zishun and Ma Shouying tribes got a chance to breathe, and it lasted for another two years before Hong Chengchou annihilated most of the main forces.

After that, Hong Chengchou had been circling in Shaanxi, and was rushed into the Central Plains by Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, and was also captured by Fengyang. Finally, Sun Chuanting set up an ambush to deal with Gao Yingxiang.

Hong Chengchou killed Cao Wenzhao when he was fighting against the bandits. Therefore, Hong Chengchou had good strategic level, but his tactical level was unsatisfactory. The biggest nemesis of the bandits were Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng.

Although Hong Chengchou felt that Li Guodong's plan was feasible, he was still reluctant to give up chasing Huntianhou, Lonely Wolf and Bai Guangen, a group of thieves, so he said: "General Li, since that's the case, then I ordered General Cao to lead 3,000 troops to cooperate with you to block the way for the thief head king to escape, and block the rest of the other bandits' rescue routes. I led General Cao, General Li Bei and General Ma Ke to pursue the bandits. When I returned from chasing Huntianhou, I would participate in the encirclement and suppression of Wang Ziyong?"

Li Guodong quickly saluted and said, "The last general will definitely fulfill his mission. Even if he fights to the last person, he will not let a bandit go!"

At this time, Li Guodong recruited 2,000 refugees from the refugees in addition to the 500 people he brought from the Great Wall. After obtaining Hong Chengchou's consent, Li Guodong transferred 1,000 cavalry from his Shabeigou and Dadongyugou, leaving only 5,000 infantry guarding his home. In this way, Li Guodong's troops reached 3,500.

The two thousand refugees were all strong Shaanxi people. As long as they were trained a little, they would be a strong army. Yang He recruited the bandits but ignored them, which led to the bandits' rebellion again. Hong Chengchou advocated the extermination, massacre, and then dismissed the refugees on the spot, but it still had no effect. This was because the Ming Dynasty had no food and silver to support the victims, so neither Yang He nor Hong Chengchou could cure them.

The method Li Guodong adopted was to resettle the captured refugees on the spot by using the same method as Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng.

From Xiangling County, Jizhou to Pingyang Prefecture, southern Shanxi, which suffered from drought and locust plague, was originally barren with thousands of miles of land, with cracked land and uncultivated fields everywhere, and production labor was severely damaged. These uninhabited lands can be used to station troops.

Sun Chuanting's strategy of garrisoning was very successful. He raised an elite Qin army of hundreds of thousands of people by suppressing the bandits and turning the prisoners into garrisoning. Sun Chuanting's troops were getting bigger and bigger, and Li Zicheng was almost destroyed. Unfortunately, Sun Chuanting had disagreements with Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, and was cheated and imprisoned. By the time he was released from prison, Li Zicheng had become a giant that could not be defeated by the Ming army, and the last elite of the Ming army was defeated by Hong Chengchou in Songjin.

In fact, Hong Chengchou's persistence was effective in dealing with the Qing army. Unfortunately, Emperor Chongzhen's micro-job finally ruined this elite force.

Speaking of which, Emperor Chongzhen is a bit similar to a certain transportation team leader, chairman of the logistics company, and master Weicao. He is both blindly commanding and cheating on his own people, which ultimately leads to failure.

Li Guodong also wanted to learn from Sun Chuanting's army, and the place where he chose to station the army was in the Fenhe Valley in Shanxi.
Chapter completed!