By the time the light wrapped around Lan Haolin gradually disappeared, he was already three hundred miles away. Although he escaped from danger and temporarily saved his life, Lan Haolin looked quite embarrassed now, with a pale face and a trace of blood on the corner of his mouth, which was far less energetic than when he had made a fight with Xia Fan on Yunhuan Lake.

When he ran away before, Lan Haolin was anxious, afraid that he would be captured by Xia Fan, so he just wanted to leave as soon as possible. Now that he calmed down, he realized that he shouldn't have rushed to escape at that time, because he had the spiritual jade given by his master, and it would not be too late to escape even when danger was in danger. Then he could stay with the water army of Yunhuanhu to fight with Xia Fan to the end. Even if he was defeated in the end, he could still make Xia Fan lose more troops.

Thinking of this, Lan Haolin couldn't help but feel a little regretful, but immediately he cheered up and prepared to implement what he had just thought of.

After the previous head-on confrontation with Xia Fan and the loss of the Lan Yu National Seal that he had worked hard to refine, Lan Haolin no longer had the courage to fight Xia Fan head-on. After all, he no longer had the spiritual jade to save his life at the critical moment of life and death. Therefore, based on the principle that the son of a daughter cannot sit in the hall, Lan Haolin decided that it would be better to be far away from Xia Fan, but what he should do still have to do.

Although Lan Haolin is three hundred miles away from Yunhuan Lake, it is still located in the Yunhuan Lake basin. There is a river connected to Yunhuan Lake passing by. The water transportation is convenient here and there are also many troops stationed. Because Lan Haolin's defeat was too sudden, the news had not yet been reached, so the market here is relatively quiet.

Lan Haolin first found the garrison, revealed his identity, and ordered the garrison to gather troops and load various military supplies to ship and retreat to the north with him. At the same time, he also burned the things that he could not take away, such as rice, weapons and other objects. In addition, Lan Haolin also ordered the army to spread the news of the enemy's upcoming attack. At the same time, he met some influential local gentry and told them that the enemy was coming soon, so that they would not surrender. When they regrouped and summoned the troops, they would soon kill them to save them.

Lan Haolin did this to create a panic atmosphere and disrupt the market, so that even if Xia Fan leads his troops to capture the place, he will not be able to quickly win over the people's hearts. He will inevitably consume a lot of energy to rectify the market, so that he can have the opportunity to accumulate strength and fight him to the end.

After that, Lan Haolin retreated northward while doing the same thing. Not only did he transfer the defenders from all over the country, but he also ordered the local gentry and people to strengthen the walls and clear the fields and must deal with the enemy to the end.

Lan Haolin actually knew in his heart that not everyone would obey his orders, but as long as 30% of them did as he said, it would be enough to cause Xia Fan to cause considerable trouble. If 50% or even more people could fight Xia Fan, then Xia Fan would definitely be unable to move forward. As for whether this would cause Xia Fan to slaughter the people who resisted in anger, Lan Haolin would not care at all.

Lan Haolin seems to be a gambler who has lost a lot now. Although he still has some chips in his hand, he has no chance to be a banker. So he simply gave up and had the idea of ​​taking a gamble. He even thought about if he lost again and was unable to turn the table.

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The battle on Yunhuanhu did not end because of Lan Haolin's escape, but became no longer tragic because of his escape. As if both sides were just walking in a motion, one side put down their weapons and surrendered, kneeling aside and waiting for the incorporation, while the other side made rapid progress, forcing more and more places to abandon their weapons and surrender.

Such an attack was naturally refreshing and relaxed. The vanguard troops almost marched from one victory to another. This made the vanguard battalion headed by Ge Changhe feel extremely happy, and felt like they had taken a big advantage, because it was all credit. However, when they took a boat to enter the river connected to Yunhuan Lake and entered the towns along the coast, they found that the local defenders had left and threw them a mess.

No military rations or weapons are not a problem. What really makes Ge Changhe feel a headache is that the local people and gentry are full of hatred for their side, and there is even an incident of someone poisoning the wells of their base. Although they caught the murderer afterwards, they caused encirclement by the local people and strongly demanded that they release the murderer.

Ge Changhe had been in the army for many years before practicing, and after his cultivation, he even joined the army in order to accumulate blood and evil spirits. Of course, he had encountered similar things and had a solution to how to deal with such things. However, he had just defected to Xia Fan and still couldn't figure out how Xia Fan was dealing with this matter, nor did he know whether it was lenient or strict, so he did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so he ordered someone to send a message to Xia Fan to ask him for advice.

Not long after, the soldiers who were ordered to send the message came back, and Xia Fan and Uncle Qi came together.

"What are you going to do?" Xia Fan did not chat with Ge Changhe about anything else, but asked him what he thought.

"The murderer and motive of poisoning have been investigated very clearly. The prisoner Xu Ermao was bewitched and wanted to poison our soldiers. The evidence was conclusive. It was logical that he should have killed him to serve as a warning. However, this would inevitably anger the locals, and might cause greater public anger and leave many hidden dangers for future rule..." Ge Changhe frowned and expressed his concerns.

"Don't worry about these things. Since someone incites behind this matter, we must have calculated that we will be afraid of the enemy. We are determined to fight against us to the end. If that's the case, why should we be ruthless?" Xia Fan said, looking around and said, "Some people want to inspire the people, just to incite public opinion to force us to submit. The more this happens, the more we cannot let the people behind us be satisfied. Some people poison, kill them, and some people bewitch and kill them. I promise those people who are willing to live under our rule with peace of mind. And those who are determined to follow Lan Haolin to fight with us to the end, I will never be ruthless. I will kill them without any mercy."

"Yes." Ge Changhe was waiting for Xia Fan's words and immediately ordered the murderer to be severely punished, investigated the envoy behind the scenes, and killed them together.

"Young Master, isn't this a bit too much? The killing is too ruthless, I'm afraid it will be unfavorable to rule in the future." Uncle Qi asked with some concern.

"We should use heavy sanctions in troubled times. Since someone jumped out, of course I can't be lenient. Let me let it go this time, what should I do next time? If this continues and keeps tolerating, it will lead to a disaster. Instead, it is better to kill a warning to those who have ill-heartedness and wake up." Xia Fan's eyes were calm, but his words were full of murderous intent.

If there is a way, of course he would not want to be so simple and crude, but the current situation cannot tolerate him to deal with such things slowly, so he simply did it more ruthlessly and acted like a rebellious destruction to shock everyone. As for how to win over the people in the future, it would not be too late to consider it after everything stabilized.

Ge Changhe quickly implemented Xia Fan's will without fail. The poisoned person was punished by Ming Zhengzhu. As for the bewitched person behind him, he was pulled out and destroyed directly, and at the same time it affected the whole family. Some people were encouraged to come and obstructed, and they were also suppressed neatly. The people who secretly fanned the flames were quickly caught out, and they first announced their crimes and then killed them.

Generally, most of these people are green-skinned gangsters on the market, and they are more or less involved with each other. Since Ge Changhe caught a person, he asked a little and pulled out a large number of them. Then one of them counted and the Tongtong system pushed them out and chopped them up.

If these people were of course guilty and never died, but as Xia Fan said, it would be not surprising that they would be punished more severely in troubled times. Moreover, Xia Fan's army was originally an outsider, and when he came here as a conqueror, he would inevitably be more hostile. Since he could not conquer the people's hearts in a short period of time, he would simply use ruthless means to make the people respect him. It would be better than to mix with the pain and mix. Therefore, Xia Fan did not object to Ge Changhe's actions of sending troops to search for the green scoundrels on the market and killing the rolling heads of the people. Instead, he felt that he was using waste, and those gangsters were also considered a cause for death.

A few days later, Xia Fan's army was still steadily capturing the Yunhuanhu Basin, but the speed finally slowed down. On the one hand, the territory it controlled was larger, the number of people in charge, and the number of things that were complicated would inevitably slow down the speed of advance. On the other hand, it was also related to the poisonous plan of Lan Haolin's order to take to clear the world.

Faced with such a place, the army first had to conquer the city spontaneously guarded by the local people, and then had to start solving the people's livelihood problems. After all, the solid walls and clearing the world itself was a vicious plan to hurt the enemy by one thousand and hurt themselves by eight hundred. The people also suffered heavy losses, so Xia Fan's army naturally could not sit idly by.

Although Xia Fan is not the kind of bad guy who is tolerant and is not a kind of tolerant person. After capturing the city, the first thing he does is to settle the matter. Those who take the lead in fighting against the army will not be tolerated, and those who take the lead in fighting against the army will not tolerate them. Although the people who are incited to fight against the army are innocent, Xia Fan will not give them the same precious military rations in vain. Therefore, he implemented the policy of labor-for-relief. It is not impossible to eat, but they have to work. What they need to do is to clean up the wells that were dirty or blocked by them and various water conservancy facilities that were destroyed by them.

It has to be said that at Lan Haolin's call, the local people carried out the implementation of the solid walls and clearing the fields well, and then they suffered a lot. You must know that construction is always much more difficult than destruction, so in order to have a meal, these people had to go out early and come back late every day, and they were all tired and had no time to think about rebellion.
Chapter completed!