At the beginning, Du Ren and the Liu brothers didn't care much about this matter. They felt that sneaking away was always the case. It was not important. Just run away. One or two are not worth fighting.

It was not until their confidants reported in surprise that more than a thousand people had already escaped by the way, that they were very surprised to realize that the problem was a bit serious.

Then they were angry.

I can't give you food, but you can't give me your life. I can abuse you at will, and you can't resist me.

It’s okay if one or two, one thousand?

You want me to die!

Then I will let you die first!

This full sense of ownership made even the Liu brothers who started the rebellion decide to use harsh and tragic means to deal with deserters to maintain their status.

Methods such as hanging up and whipping, single-sided barbecue, stabbing one person, and killing them by sticking them all were also used.

Du Ren has actually gotten used to it.

The superiors and inferiors are clearly distinguished. Shangguan is beaten and scolded soldiers, but in fact everyone is used to it.

However, the Liu brothers still have some past relationships. Some of the old brothers in the same village as them were arrested and punished with extreme punishment. They just like being possessed, they didn't care about the old brothers' thoughts at all. They killed many people and completely tore the last veil of warmth.

This ruthlessness and determination temporarily affected people's decision to escape, but when the basic physiological requirements cannot be met, no matter how fierce it is, it is useless.

On the one hand, they were fighting against deserters fiercely, while people were still running away. Even the guards who were responsible for the supervision and did not allow the soldiers to escape were secretly assisting the soldiers to escape, escape from this demon cave, and the faster they escape, the better.

I won’t talk about the soldiers at the bottom. Even some middle-level commanders felt that the Liu brothers were obsessed with each other and would be finished sooner or later, so I quickly brought my confidants to get connected and it was so moist.

Seeing the increasing numbers of escape, the Liu brothers were anxious, so they treated deserters more and more severely, which stimulated the original team.

So he fell into a vicious cycle.

In just half a month when the Ming army rectified its troops and prepared for the next stage of the offensive, Du Ren fled six or seven hundred people, and the Liu brothers fled more than two thousand people, which could not be controlled at all.

So on the fifth day of the first lunar month of the eighth year of Hongwu, when the Ming army, who had enough food and drink to raise energy during the New Year holiday, went south in two groups, whether it was Du Ren or Liu brothers, they had no way to face the sharp military attacks of the Ming army.

Du Ren at least made some resistance. After the field battle failed, he defended the city to death. After the Ming army captured the city, he committed suicide after he died.

And the Liu brothers were directly defeated.

They personally led their own soldiers who thought they were powerful to the battlefield to supervise the battle but failed. When they encountered some setbacks, the entire army collapsed instantly and fled in scattered. The Ming army could not even chase after them, so they could only surround the Liu brothers and attacked violently.

Both Liu brothers were captured and the entire Domineering Shu army was wiped out. After the war, when Su Haisheng interrogated the Liu brothers and some officers, he accidentally learned about the transformation of the Liu brothers and felt very hated.

"As farmers, they revolt with the peasants, but in the end they killed the peasants in the most cruel way. You are really guilty and hopeless!"

Su Haisheng then ordered the public trial of the two people and finally hanged them to death.

The two men were still stubborn before being put on their necks with thick ropes. They scolded the Ming army political cadres who interrogated them. When the ropes were put on their necks and prepared them to hang them up, the two men finally collapsed and spared their lives.

Of course, they were still hung. After struggling with powerlessness, they were hung in endless fear.

The soldiers of the Ba Shu army who could not escape were crying as they watched this scene, not knowing whether they were missing the days of the past or celebrating that the two human-shaped devils were finally dead.

The bankrupt landlords and gentry who were subsequently executed were also executed by public trial.

They and the senior officials of the rebel army were all tried publicly, and then all were executed. They hung on the southeast branches and fluttered in the wind. None of them survived and were handled cleanly.

Compared to Du Ren's simple and thorough solution, the rebel army's handling made Su Haisheng feel more heartbroken.

He said a lot to his old partner Han Wei.

"When I saw the peasant uprising, I couldn't help but think of ourselves at that time. Didn't we just peasant uprisings? We also brought a group of peasant uprisings that didn't know a lot about them. We also beat the local tyrants and divided the land, we also wanted to equalize the rich and the poor, and punish the landlords and the powerful.

So when I looked at them, it seemed like I saw us back then, remembering that we were transforming the countryside while fighting with the Jin soldiers with huge disadvantages. How dangerous was it? How many people died at that time? Didn’t they all survive? Why did they…”

Looking at Su Haisheng's frustration, Han Wei also sighed a little.

"Think about it now, our success back then may not be because of how hard we were and how much we wanted the landlords and powerful people to pay the price. Aren't they the same? And the real reason why we can get to where we are today is not because of whether we are born or not, but because of our chairman and our revival meeting.

I have also thought about what kind of country the Ming Dynasty would be without a chairman, or if there was no Revival Society. I think, maybe the Ming Dynasty is no different from any past dynasty. The reason why we can reach this point today is that Revival Society is really important."

Su Haisheng was silent for a moment and sighed long.

"Think about it, when Shandong's uprising was in chaos, many people rose up and turned against each other, but in the end, only we were left, and countless of them rose up to resist.

Later, they themselves became people who oppress others, just like Zhao Kaishan and his tribe members. It is really not easy for us to get to this point today."

Su Haisheng left a deep sigh, so he rectified the army and rushed south again.

In Longyou County, Jiading Prefecture, Su Haisheng personally directed the army to destroy the mainland. The main force in his army was more than 20,000.

Lu? escaped alone and was chased by cavalry general Chen Qixian. Finally, he was shot by a horse with an arrow and fell off the horse and broke his neck and died.

After Lu?'s death, Su Haisheng's military operation was declared successful, and the three warlords were easily wiped out by him, and Longzhou, Meizhou and Jiading Prefectures were declared pacified.

The landlords and powerful people who followed the landlords and powerful people who resisted the Ming army were then completely liquidated by the Ming army.

The Ming army launched a massive liquidation campaign and a land reform movement in the three prefectures, confiscating their property, indicting their families, burning all the land contracts, redistributing land, etc.

Through the complete liquidation of the landlords and powerful people, the Ming army broke the original social relations network in the local area and rebuilt the order belonging to the Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, Su Haisheng received news and learned that Xu Tong had also completed the task he should have completed.

The two former rebel troops in Fushunjian and Xuzhou, and the current enemy troops, were destroyed by him.

Although the number of revolutionary troops led by Xu Tong was not large and the combat effectiveness was not that strong, Xu Tong also had an advantageous firearm unit.

Speaking of which, the Shenji Camp has experienced many wars since its establishment.

From the earliest quelling of rebellion in Guanzhong, to the Hexi Battle, to the Xiangfan Battle and the Second Ming and Song War, to the current Sichuan and Shu Battle, the Shenji Camp has not missed any major military operation of the Ming army since its establishment.

The excellent performance of the Shenji Battalion in previous battles has basically been trusted and recognized by all the Ming army. More and more senior officers have reported to the Privy Council, hoping to equip their troops with a combat-capable Shenji Battalion.

However, firearm manufacturing is still the absolute high-end technology of Ming Dynasty, and it is difficult to fully expand and achieve mass production in a short period of time.

Now we are still slowly cultivating talents, accumulating technical experience, and overcoming technical difficulties, in order to achieve mass production and launch in the future.

Now we can only accumulate manpower and scale to increase the output.
Chapter completed!