The Shubutai gang did not surrender voluntarily, so they would not receive preferential treatment, and all their property would go to the public.
While collecting the property, a murder occurred. A boy of about eight or nine years old was killed by Wang Jinbao.
No one saw the scene at that time. Wang Jinbao's explanation was that he suddenly saw a figure rushing over and he stabbed him conveniently.
I really didn't expect that it was just a child who rushed over.
This is a war, and accidental injuries are inevitable.
Wang Jinbao was not punished.
Later, after verifying the identities of everyone in the cottage, Huang Yi began to pay attention.
Shubudai had three women who gave birth to five children, one boy, four girls, and the child who was accidentally killed was Shubutai's only son.
Wang Jinbao used to work in the beating business, beating people to death without leaving any injuries, and even beating people to ensure that they would not die on the spot, but would die after a few days.
A person like him is particularly calm. The enemy has surrendered and the danger is basically gone. How could he kill a child with a knife in a panic?
Huang Yi felt that Wang Jinbao should have done it deliberately to eradicate the root cause.
The armed forces in the base area must be a force of justice and must not kill innocent people indiscriminately, let alone women and children.
But anyone who can achieve great things does not stick to trivial matters and must be ruthless. They are all upright on the surface, but secretly...
Wang Jinbao was asked to talk to Huang Yi, and even the brothers Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, Zhang Dong, and Hu Xiaochuan didn't know what they talked about.
Then Wang Jinbao selected a dozen people to form an inspection team, whose mission was to investigate spies and clean up military discipline.
The collection and counting of gold and silver treasures are also under their supervision. Wang Jinbao has the right to approve the beheading of anyone found to have confiscated them.
The harvest from raiding the horse thieves' lair was not small. Not only did the population increase by 300 or more, but also precious metals worth more than 30,000 taels of silver were confiscated from the houses of the leaders and some old bandits.
The amount of food seized, mainly flour, wheat, millet, and beans, amounted to nearly one thousand dan, and more than two thousand bundles of hay.
They also seized 27 pairs of iron armor, more than 100 leather and cotton armors, more than 180 war horses and draft horses, as well as carts, tents, weapons and many daily necessities.
The horse thieves' horses are of high quality. More than 180 horses have been raised to be fat and strong, and more than 30 of them can be called good horses.
The Shubutai gang has been here for more than ten years and has built many houses. For the base area, all the items in the village are needed. The wood and stone used to demolish the houses will be removed, including the stone walls.
Building houses for the masses and building a strong city requires so much stone. Mining the stone is time-consuming and laborious. If there is any ready-made stone here, of course it must be transported away.
The base area has too many large livestock and vehicles and has strong transportation capacity.
The first job assigned to the surrendered horse thieves, including their families, was to carry out demolition. Those who worked hard were given dry food, and those who were passive and slow in work were starved for three days.
It is important to give people hope. Huang Yi is willing to give everyone a chance, and the horse thief who surrendered is no exception.
When he was formulating a plan to encircle and suppress Luo Buqi, the horse bandit gang, he ordered Yu Shaoshan, the third leader who had just surrendered, to participate.
It wasn't just him, he also brought the fifth and seventh masters who were still alive.
The Sixth Master was injured, and the gunshot wound was serious. He was being treated. Whether he could survive would depend on whether the wound would become infected.
The Luo Buqi tribe is the second most powerful horse thieves group within a radius of 150 miles. Of course Yu Shaoshan and the others are familiar with the old bandits in this area.
At this time, they already knew that Huang Yi was a military attache of the Ming Dynasty. They were secretly glad that they did not fight desperately and chose to surrender.
After seeing the sand table in Huang Yi's war room, which looked like a real mountain and water, Yu Shaoshan and others were stunned.
Because they discovered that the lairs of all the horse bandits were clearly marked on the sand table, and even the hidden escape route from their cottage was marked almost accurately.
There is no need to play tricks when you have overwhelming strength.
Therefore, Huang Yi did not send a small force to sneak attack, but continued to encircle and block all escape routes to encircle, suppress and annihilate.
In order to demonstrate justice, there must be persuasion to surrender before fighting begins.
This time the conditions offered were halved, and Luo Buqi was only allowed to take 500 taels of silver and leave with his family and belongings.
In order to show his loyalty, Yu Shaoshan volunteered to persuade him to surrender.
He told Huang Yi that not only was he familiar with Luo Buqi, but he had also teamed up to rob several caravans several times.
If he went to persuade Luo Buqi to surrender and told Luo Buqi that their first, second and fourth masters lost their lives because of their stubbornness, I think Luo Buqi would make a wise choice.
It is effective to use battle to promote peace and force to surrender!
When Luo Buqi discovered that his lair was surrounded by hundreds of armored warriors, he tried to escape through the back mountain path.
He left behind his family and belongings, and took only a few of his brothers to the back mountain. He was dumbfounded when he saw that there were dozens or hundreds of people waiting there.
You will definitely not be able to fight if you fight, and you won’t be able to escape if you run.
Just when Luo Buqi had nothing to do, Yu Shaoshan, the third leader of the Budai horse gang who came to report, shouted in front of the stronghold, asking to enter the stronghold for negotiations.
Luo Buqi, who thought he was dead, seemed to have grasped the life-saving straw. He immediately went to the wall of the village and put down the hanging basket in person, and invited Yu Shaoshan to enter the village.
The work of persuading surrender was easier to do. Luo Buqi knew that the location of Shubutai's mountain stronghold was more precarious, easier to defend and difficult to attack, and it was much stronger than his own mountain stronghold.
According to Yu Shaoshan, it only took a moment for the Ming army to seize the mountain stronghold, and he completely gave up his plan to resist.
After learning that surrendering would save the lives of himself and his family, and that he could also get 500 taels of silver and daily necessities such as bedding, he immediately agreed.
Several of his leaders and the minions, large and small, all saw rows and rows of armored warriors and had no idea how to defend the stronghold.
At least half of the people were thinking about how to surrender, and some of the brave ones were even thinking about rushing forward to catch the big boss and surrender.
Seeing Luo Buqi announcing his surrender, most of the minions cheered.
The next step in dealing with the other gangs of horse thieves was of course the same as before, but it was not just Yu Shaoshan who persuaded them to surrender, but also Luo Buqi who came forward.
The reason is very simple. The reason why Luo Buqi became a horse thief was because most of the young men in the tribe died in battle and were annexed by a large tribe.
Fortunately, he did not die in the battle, and began to quietly attack the herdsmen of the tribe who killed his father and brother, and gradually became a horse thief.
Losing his old nest, Luo Buqi had nowhere to go.
If he had the courage to wander on the prairie with his wife and children, he would either freeze to death of starvation, be bitten to death by wild beasts, or be robbed by horse thieves or Mongolian tribes who discovered them.
So when he met Huang Yi after the surrender, Luo Buqi knelt down and begged to be taken in, and received an answer that allowed him to live in the base area.
