Even if the prefectures and counties have turned into small matters as much as possible and have forced many cases to be suppressed, it cannot change the fact that "thieves are scattered between Cao and Pu in the East Lu and Cao and Pu". Today, Caozhou and Puzhou are much more chaotic than Denglai before the rise of the Haibei Army.

There are many small bandits of seven or eight people, and there are also many bandits with dozens or even hundreds or eighty people per bandits, and there are even bandits with hundreds or even thousands of tribes.

Like Zheng Jiang, the bandit who robbed the canal ship this time, the Zheng Hai brothers could order nearly two thousand bandits, and the brothers had hundreds of core backbones who always followed them. Even if these people were not members of the Zheng brothers, they were very close friends of the Zheng brothers, and they often followed the Zheng brothers.

Moreover, the reason why Ding Gong said that the problem of Cao and Pu thieves was difficult to solve is that this was no longer a problem that he and Yanzhou Prefecture could solve alone.

After all, Caozhou is still in Yanzhou Prefecture, and Ding Gong can directly mobilize troops to combat bandits, but Puzhou is the jurisdiction of Dongchang Prefecture. Without Liu Peng's order, Ding Gong naturally did not dare to go deep into Dongchang Prefecture without authorization. What's worse is that many of the bandits' nests are not even in Shandong, but are close to Caozhou and Kaizhou Daming Prefecture in Puzhou.

In this way, the situation becomes extremely complicated, involving two provinces, three prefectures and more than a dozen prefectures and counties. This has exceeded the authority of the Dinggong and Yanzhou Special Office, and the actual situation is even more complicated.

Like Zheng Jiang and Zheng Hai brothers are the giant thieves in Kaizhou, Daming Prefecture, but they emphasize that rabbits do not eat grass on the nest, and have been operating in the Puzhou area of ​​Dongchang Prefecture for a long time. However, as long as it is profitable, they will join forces with a bandit in Caozhou to enter Yanzhou Prefecture to join forces to engage in several major cases. However, the real nest of the Zheng brothers is in Kaizhou of Daming Prefecture. However, outsiders do not know where their real nest is. Moreover, according to the information Ding Gong inquired, it is said that some great men from Guide Prefecture, Henan are supporting them.

Therefore, Ding Gong could only comfort Song Zhifu as much as possible: "General Song Gan, this was just a small frustration, and there was no need to worry too much. As long as Mr. Liu was there, no one would dare to touch a hair."

Liu Fei next to him was full of confidence: "Yes, this thief is desperate. If you dare to touch our Haibei Town, I will send two more companies to assist General Song to ensure that the horse will be successful!"

Song Zhifu immediately became excited: "This time in the Battle of Caopu, our Cao army, and the water patrol team and the Yanzhou Guard Corps jointly supported it, so it is definitely a sure thing!"

But Ding Gong shook his head and said, "Things are not that simple. Caozhou is the jurisdiction of our Yanzhou Prefecture. Although we were out of reach in the past, there is no problem now that we have taken action to eliminate the Tumen. However, Puzhou Prefecture is the jurisdiction of Dongchang Prefecture. As soon as the battle begins, these bandits will escape back to Kaizhou, which will be even more troublesome!"

The Haibei Army came to Puzhou Prefecture uninvited, and the imperial court and the province were definitely unhappy. Moreover, it was possible to pursue the country in depth, not to mention that there were a lot of enclaves formed by the garrison system that seemed more intertwined, and the situation would appear more complicated at that time.

But before Liu Fei could speak, Bai Siwen over there was already helping Liu Fei: "Can our battle in Cao Pu can only be limited to Caozhou? Is there no way to deal with the Puzhou thieves?"

Before Song Zhifu started speaking, Ding Gong had already said: "As soon as possible, come in and out quickly. Without Mr. Liu's order, you must go deeper without permission. I will be fully responsible for this battle of Cao Pu!"

Haibei Town originally had two core members of Liu Fei's water patrol team and Ding Gong's Yanzhou Administrative Office in Yanzhou Prefecture. Ding Gong has always maintained an extremely courteous attitude towards Liu Fei. However, with the prosperity of Yanzhou in all aspects, Ding Gong naturally had the confidence to completely suppress Liu Fei. He said without hesitation: "If any problem occurs, I will be responsible!"

However, this battle between Cao Pu was not as smooth as Ding Gong imagined. Although after a few days, the Haibei Army could be said to have won a great victory in the exchange of results. It had wiped out more than 300 enemies, and only 40 casualties were killed or injured on its own.

But the problem is that most of these battles were not real bandits, and most of them were local bandits. They often immediately surrendered when they saw the soldiers of the Haibei Army fighting to the point of killing, and those real large bandits caused the Haibei Army to suffer a lot.

Whether it is the Cao Army, the Water Patrol Team or the Yanzhou Guard Corps, they all use infantry as their main force, but these large bandits have a considerable number of horse bandits.

Although most of these horse bandits were riding donkeys and mules, and their riding skills were mediocre, and less than one-third of them could ride and charge, in this battle of Cao Pu, they could always inform the bandits of various bandits before the Haibei Army arrived. As a result, the Haibei Army failed to catch the main force of several large bandits after several pursuits.

Even though he was lucky enough to catch a small number of bandits, the luck of these bandits left a deep impression on Ding Gong. Moreover, as the troops went deep into the battle, Ding Gong found that he did not attach enough importance to Caozhou and the adjacent Puzhou, which led to a great loss now.

The rampant bandits between Cao and Pu are related to the fact that they are originally poor and bad waters and are repeatedly attacked by the Yellow River. In another time and space, Caozhou is Heze, which is the most economically backward among the fourteen prefecture-level cities in Shandong. Puzhou is Juancheng County, Shandong, Fan County, Henan, and Kaizhou in Hefu is Puyang City in Henan. They are all standard far-reaching military prefectures. If there is a slight disaster, the corpse will be everywhere.

In addition, Cao Pu was originally a tough person, and many villagers could not survive in many famines and became bandits and desperate people. Some local gentry and even lower-level officials acted as protective umbrellas for these bandits, so Cao Pu had been thieves for a long time.

On the other hand, it is because Ding Gong focuses on Hedong. Of course, this is not just a problem for Ding Gong. The strategic layout of the entire Haibei Town revolves around Hedong.

A Grand Canal divides the entire Yanzhou Prefecture into two parts: Hedong and Hexi, and Hedong is close to Qingzhou Prefecture, making it easier to penetrate and control nearby Haibei Town.

Although the Haibei Army once fought in Hedong after entering Yanzhou Prefecture, after the end of the Yanzhou Battle, Haibei Town invested most of its resources in Hedong, and most of the Hexi area except the canal along the canal was ignored by Haibei for a long time. Even most of the students of Yanzhou Industrial and Mining School came from Hedong.

However, although the Haibei Army ignored Hexi prefectures and counties, they neither allowed Hexi prefectures and counties to maintain too close contact with the provinces and the court, nor allowed the Hexi prefectures and counties to have too strong prefectures and county officials and local forces.

However, since the Yinxiang Sect was pacified, the entire Yanzhou Prefecture was in a stage of rebuilding order for a long time. Dinggong made many prefectures and counties in Hexi live on their own and did not allow strong prefectures and county officials to appear directly, causing the control ability of prefectures and county officials and top gentry to decline over the local area. Many prefectures and counties could only control the order near the prefectures and county towns. The end result was that thieves flocked, and even hundreds of people and thousands of large gangs appeared.

Once these bandits form several larger groups, they will naturally choose to develop in the direction of the canal, and strive to do a big deal on the canal without opening it for several years.

After all, whether it is Caozhou, Puzhou or Kaizhou, they are far-fried military states, but the canal is a real world of flowers. They can do a lot of money on the canal for a whole year. As a result, there are more and more cases of big and small cases along the canal, and the result is that this kind of decay is now formed.

However, Ding Gong also came up with a strategy to suppress bandits. He told Song Zhifu confidently: "In the future, we must manage the prefectures and counties in Hedong well. Now this chaos cannot continue!"

Song Zhifu knew the principles of being a man and an official, and he immediately praised: "What's the point of saying by Commissioner Ding? Caozhou is also the territory of our Haibei Town. How can we tolerate these little thieves doing things randomly and even dare to rob the canal of the canal? We have to get the opportunity to clear Cao Pu and talk about it!"

However, Ding Gong and Song Zhifu's ambitions were quickly poured into cold water by reality. Xiao Ye's envoy rushed over from Jining immediately and informed him of the latest information about Liu Xingzuo and Guanning Army deserters. Ding Gong was also shocked: "Does Liu Xingzuo still want to live? He dares to seek death!"

However, although Ding Gong felt that Liu Xingzuo did this purely to seek death, the threat Liu Xingzuo to Yanzhou Prefecture was much greater than that of these Cao Pu thieves. You should know that Liu Xingzuo now has at least 3,000 combat soldiers, especially the Liaodong army with thousands of people, with war horses and armor. Once it is transformed, Yanzhou Prefecture will be the first to be affected.

Therefore, in a panic, Ding Gong immediately took action: "Hurry to support Yao Zheng. He now only has one and a half brigades of troops, so let him expand into two brigades immediately!"

Although Liu Fei and Ding Gong had high hopes for Yao Zheng, although Yao Zheng had gained a foothold after arriving in Xuzhou, compared with the rapidly expanding Liu Xingzuo army, Yao Zheng's Xuzhou Guard Corps seemed very weak. So far, there was only one and a half brigade, and the total force was only two or three hundred people to more than four hundred. He could not confront Liu Xingzuo head-on, but only acted as the leading party.

Now that Liu Xingzuo has been troubled by this, Ding Gong immediately decided to send the batch of equipment to Yao Zheng to the scheduled reinforcement of Yao Zheng in advance: "Notify Yao Zheng and let him strengthen the troops as soon as possible, and quickly organize the two brigades and two squadrons according to the scheduled two brigades and two squadrons!"

As long as Yao Zheng could block Liu Xingzuo's first wave of offensive and prevent the riot from affecting Yanzhou Prefecture, then Ding Gong felt that he could handle the situation in the future without further reinforcement from the Haibei Army. He and Song Zhifu quickly reached a further consensus: "In addition to a group of troops staying in Caozhou, most of them moved south and were ready to enter Xuzhou along the South Canal at any time!"

As for the current battle of Cao Pu, it can only come to an end for the time being. At least Haibei Town has wiped out more than 300 bandits in this battle, and all the bandits dare not confront the Haibei Army head-on, which is enough to teach them a lesson.

But Ding Gong didn't know that it was almost the first time the Haibei Army was transferred, and the Zheng Jiang and Zheng Hai brothers also received news.
Chapter completed!