When Su Tiancheng was about to rest, Wang Dazhi came to report that someone was visiting him outside.

He didn't care. It was normal for someone to come back to his hometown. In this era, someone came to visit, not to say that he had to know you. Some scholars can introduce themselves. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty was controlled by scholars. The superiority of scholars themselves also made many friends in this regard.

"Mr. Su, don't be fine. I once thought about going to Jiangning County to see him. I didn't expect that Mr. Su would come back to get married."

"Oh, it turns out it's Lord Sun. Please sit down quickly, please sit down."

Sun Chuanting's visit was indeed beyond Su Tiancheng's expectations.

A year ago, he met Sun Chuanting, and the two agreed that a year later, Sun Chuanting went to Jiangning County to see it. Unexpectedly, Sun Chuanting remembered so clearly. It seems that there is a reason why Sun Chuanting became one of the few powerful generals of the Ming Dynasty.

"I have long thought of going to Jiangning County to see it. Lord Su wiped out Zijinliang and fought against more than 10,000 bandits on the other side with less than 5,000 soldiers. I was able to capture Zijinliang alive. I admire him for his five bodies."

"Mr. Sun, don't say that, it's just a lucky thing. When I came back to Shanxi this time, I was still thinking that the bandits in Shanxi are rampant, and some are even moving nearby. I heard that some bandits have entered Beizhili, and have arrived in Zhaozhou, Xishan, Shunde, and Zhending. It seems that we should increase the efforts to invade the attack."

"Yes, bandits are rampant, and the court is difficult to be at peace. To eliminate bandits, it takes a lot of money to consume, and the bandits are also very destructive. When they wander to every place, the consequences will be unpredictable. If this continues for a long time, the consequences will be unpredictable."

"According to Lord Sun's wishes, what should we do to eliminate bandits?"

Su Tiancheng's question was profound. As a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, Sun Chuanting's main contribution was to destroy and suppress the peasant uprising army. He achieved great results and eventually fell into the hands of the peasant uprising army. According to the previous historical trajectory, Sun Chuanting returned in the eighth year of Chongzhen. Finally, he was defeated and died in Tongguan in the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

Sun Chuanting's tactics have a certain degree of advanced nature and are mainly based on the strength of extermination of bandits. He does not advocate surrender. In the process of conquest, he also paid attention to local development and constantly refurbished his own strength. It is also because of these correct propositions that he achieved some key victories in the battle to exterminate bandits.

Unfortunately, he was born at the wrong time, and the conflict between him and Yang Sichang eventually led to bad consequences. He once resigned from his post when he was sick and was thrown into prison. The results of his hard work were lost. He returned to Chongzhen in the eleventh year, and the bandits had become a climate.

"Mr. Su is really embarrassed to say this. I want to think that Lord. I have already become famous in the court. How to eliminate bandits is clear. If I comment on the matter, wouldn't it be a good example?"

Su Tiancheng shook his head helplessly. Almost all famous generals in the Ming Dynasty were from literati. Sun Chuanting was a Jinshi in the Wanli period. Needless to say, knowledge is understood by ordinary people. The generals in the army were all hot-tempered and straightforward. This is actually the biggest misunderstanding. There were many Confucian generals in the Ming Dynasty.

"Mr. Sun must not have such an idea. As the saying goes, three people must have a teacher. Although Mr. Sun is idle at home, we are all fellow villagers. I think that at the right time, I would recommend to the court that Shanxi is deeply affected by bandits, so that farmers cannot produce with peace of mind. Such a situation cannot last for a long time."

Sun Chuanting blushed. He was over forty years old, twice as old as Su Tiancheng. Thinking about Su Tiancheng as the magistrate of Jiangning County, he had made such great contributions in less than a year. Look at himself. During the Tianqi period, Wei Zhongxian was in chaos and resigned from his post and returned to his hometown. In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed, and he has not made any contributions.

"Mr. Su said this, I am not polite. In fact, I am in favor of Lord Su's tactics. To deal with bandits, they must eliminate their live forces. They cannot be pacified unless they have to. The greatest task is to eliminate their live forces. Moreover, to eliminate bandits and resume production, they must appease the people on one side."

Su Tiancheng nodded slightly. Only by doing this can one go once and for all. Unfortunately, everyone understands this truth. There are almost no civil and military officials who can do this. Either they are eager for quick success and instant benefits, and they wish to wipe out the bandits tomorrow, or they think that the bandits are forced to rebel, and as long as the court gives favors, they will definitely be wiped out.

Resuming production is not as simple as you say. It requires patience and more efforts. Especially after destroying the bandits, how can farmers be able to have enough food and not think of rebellion? For example, in the case of Henan, farmers do not support the bandits, so that the bandits have no place to survive and settle down.

"Just say that the Zijinliang was wiped out, I have analyzed it below. Lord Su once provided disaster relief in Henan and spread the reputation of the court. The peasants were grateful to the court, but they thought of stability and were unwilling to rebel. Zijinliang left Shanxi and entered Henan, but did not receive support. In helplessness, he entered Huguang and wanted to go to Huguang and enter Sichuan. In this case, people's hearts were unstable and they must be in panic. Lord seized the opportunity and wiped out Zijinliang in one fell swoop, and made an extraordinary contribution."

"Is Zijinliang the convener of the 36th Bandits. Is it the convener of the 36th Bandits. I led more than 10,000 people? It was completely wiped out by the adults in Yingshan County, Luzhou Prefecture. This incident caused a great response in Shanxi. The bandits were a little panicked. In addition, the court increased its efforts to expedition and suppression, and most of the bandits fled to the northern Zhili area."

"However, Shanxi is still unstable. You can know that there are still several bandits of bandits operating in Fenzhou, Qinzhou, Lu'an Prefecture, Zezhou and Pingyang Prefecture, wandering around and living in no fixed place. The imperial army is difficult to wipe out."

"In dealing with these bandits, I think that we must unify the command, take steady steps, and do not be led by the bandits. The court army is stationed in a fixed place, gradually compressing the space for bandits to move, and ultimately leaving them with no way out."

The tactics proposed by Sun Chuanting are traditional ideas and the idea of ​​regular army combat. They seek to face the frontal decisiveness with the bandits, maximize the vitality of the bandits, compress the bandits' activity space, and make the bandits uneasy and exhausted, and eventually be defeated and dragged down.

This tactic cannot be said to be incorrect, but in the late Ming Dynasty, such ideas were a bit naive.

The governors and governors in various places have different ideas. As long as they are not harassed by bandits in their own territory, they will not care about other places. At the same time, unifying the command of the army is even more taboo. Not only the court is worried, but I am afraid that Zhu Youjian will mutter that if there are too many commanders of the army, everyone's opinions will be even more difficult to unify.

In fact, in the tenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang proposed the plan to eliminate bandits in the Four Directions and Six Corners and Ten Sides Network, which was based on unified command power, and all regions had to participate in the combat plan to eliminate bandits. This practice of unified command power had achieved good results, but did not fundamentally solve the problem.

But if you do this and persist for a long time, it will be difficult for bandits to grow.

But there is a big problem in doing this, that is, the large amount of silver consumed, and the court will find it difficult for a long time to support it, but if it does not persist and relax, the bandits will eventually rebound, which will be even more harmful.

Su Tiancheng disagrees with this kind of combat method.

In fact, he asked the soldiers of Jiangning Camp to train hard, with a clear purpose, that is, to train an invincible army, which can not only fight the bandits and the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty, but also be able to attack for a long distance. Can you bandits run? I run faster than you. Once you bite you, you have no place to hide, and even run to the sky, I will chase you and pull you down. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was defeated in the Battle of Tongguan and hid in the Shangluo Mountains in southeastern Shaanxi with seventeen people. Unfortunately, the imperial army did not continue to work hard, leaving the biggest hidden danger, which led to the loss of the stables and the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps because he saw Su Tiancheng not speaking, Sun Chuanting looked a little serious and even more focused.

"Mr. Sun's tactics are very good, but I think that under the current conditions, we are still seeking breakthroughs. The court has great difficulties. It is quite difficult to mobilize troops from multiple parties. The amount of silver consumed is also astronomical. If an army can be trained to fight the bandits head-on, and can also chase and suppress the bandits who fled everywhere, it is a better choice. Such an army will consume relatively less."

"I understand. Jiangning Camp should be such a unit."

"I dare not say that, the Jiangning Camp is under construction. The last time the bandits led by Zi Jinliang was an unexpected attack. It is not that the Jiangning Camp is invincible in the world. The main force of the bandits is still there and has not suffered much damage. Besides, the Jiangning Camp is mainly responsible for the patrol of Jiangning County, and is not a regular force of the court."

"Mr. Su is modest. On the battlefield, victory or defeat is the best consideration. No matter what method is adopted, as long as you can win, it is known that if you wipe out more than 10,000 bandits at one time, the Yingshan victory is probably the only time and the most enjoyable time to win."

Su Tiancheng smiled, without saying anything, and some achievements did not need to be concealed deliberately. The Yingshan victory has spread all over the place, and concealment has no effect. The reputation of Jiangning Camp has also gone out. It is precisely because of this situation that Su Tiancheng asked Jiangning Camp to expand its army, train more strictly, and mature completely in the shortest time.
Chapter completed!