Chapter 1727 Long-term planning
There were also fifty people sent by Meng Wanfu, all of whom were from the military. Meng Wanfu was grateful to Shao Yunduan and Qiao Xuan, so the people he sent were the best among them.
These people, together with the existing yamen runners, were divided into two groups, each escorting the rice seeds to a town. There were people arranged both openly and secretly, and there were also professional scouts sent out to explore the way.
How could we be opponents of those ragtag troops and bandits with no rules or discipline?
Moreover, Hutouzhai tasted the sweetness at the beginning, and seeing that Shao Yunduan was all talk and no action, they believed that the prefect was a pedantic, sour and incompetent person. They did not take him or the government seriously at all and were very careless.
How can you gain an advantage by advancing and retreating?
Those bandits were lying in ambush among the dense forests and rugged mountains, and before the convoy carrying rice seeds could pass by, they were attacked inexplicably.
Sun Bai, Sun Qian and others were well aware of the principle of capturing the leader first, so they hid in the dark and took action, targeting the leaders they had guessed based on what they had seen.
If Shao Yunduan had not given the order in advance to spare those people's lives for the time being and just seriously injure them, I'm afraid that few of those leaders, big and small, would have been able to escape unscathed.
Shao Yunduan had his own reasons for planning this.
It was the spring ploughing season, and farming was the most important thing. He didn't want to make the situation too tense by causing casualties with the bandits.
If someone dies, the bandits will inevitably be angered and the situation will most likely get out of control.
Now he has not yet completely taken control of the Anze Prefecture government, nor has he subdued those big families, so naturally he does not want to cause more trouble.
Those bandits need to be dealt with, but not now.
This time, many of the people who led the robbery from the three major mountain strongholds were big bosses such as the second-in-command and the third-in-command. Without exception, they were all injured, and some of them were seriously injured.
Not to mention the little Luo Luos, who saw arrows raining down and hidden weapons coming like locusts. They had no time to react and fell to the ground one after another, screaming in pain.
If the other party had not shown mercy, it is hard to say whether they could escape with their lives!
The bandits knew that they had been exposed and had lost most of their fighting power, so it was basically impossible for them to gain anything.
All the people who took action were masked and dressed in blue clothes, so their faces could not be seen, and many of them did not even reveal their figures. But there was no need to guess, these people must be the foreign aid invited by the nerdy prefect.
It turns out that money really can do whatever you want!!
Look at this prefect, he is extremely pedantic and knows nothing, but he has a wealthy family and he invited such powerful helpers to defeat them all.
Fortunately, the nerdy prefect still had some sense of right and wrong. He knew that these mountain kings were not people he could easily offend, so he did not kill them but only injured them.
The bandits returned to the stronghold in a state of disgrace, feeling extremely ashamed...
Until this time, the bandits still did not take Shao Yunduan seriously.
I believe he is still afraid of them from the bottom of his heart, otherwise, why didn't he dare to kill them when there was such a good opportunity? Isn't it because he is afraid of them?
Minjiazhai weighed the pros and cons and decided that since the prefect was so sensible and had helpers, he should be let go this time. There were so many wealthy families in Anzezhou, and they would not have to worry about starving.
I don't believe that this prefect has so much money to hire so many skilled helpers for a long time.
You have to know that those people are very skilled, so their prices must be very expensive.
(End of this chapter)
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