Of course, Luo Yue did not dare to underestimate such a bandit force, because such a bandit force could still cause serious damage. So Luo Yue immediately organized troops to search in Mount Tai. However, after three days of search, he only found a secret stronghold of bandits, killed more than 20 of them and captured 17.

According to the confession of the captive bandits, they were sent by Lin Shenwang the day before the mountain village was captured. They evacuated the mountain village to hide and wait for orders. They did not know that there was such a secret stronghold here before. In addition, as far as they knew, there was more than one such secret stronghold, because the families of Lin Shenwang and other leaders were evacuated with them, but they did not go along with them. This once again proved that the escape of this bandit was completely organized, planned and purposeful, so they must be found and eliminated.

However, in the following search, the People's Army captured more than 10 scattered bandits and several small villages scattered outside Mount Tai, and no other hiding strongholds were found. After all, Mount Tai is hundreds of miles in a radius, and the mountains are high and dense, the People's Army has a small number of people and is not familiar with the terrain, so it is reasonable to find it.

Luo Yue's troops could not be stationed in Mount Tai for a long time. In addition, the damage to the Taishan Village was not serious. Most of the houses were intact, and there were hundreds of acres of land that had been reclaimed outside the village. It would be a pity to destroy the Taishan Village easily. Therefore, Luo Yue wrote all the situations in the report and forwarded them to the Military Commission by the Division Headquarters, and decided by the Military Commission or the Executive Yuan.

Two days later, the Military Commission replied to the division headquarters and Luo Yue that the Taishan Village could be retained, and the Qingdao garrison stationed a battalion of troops to guard the troops, slowly searching for Mount Tai, and then gradually immigrated here. After the first regiment completed the handover, it could return to Jinan to guard. In addition, the garrison work for each village should be strengthened to prevent revenge by bandits.

It turned out that after receiving Luo Yue's report, the Military Commission believed that although the fleeing bandits were not weak and should not be underestimated, they did not have to be too nervous. After all, if the bandits lost Dazhai, they would lose their foundation. Although the secret strongholds could be temporarily placed in the bandits, they could not replace the functional status of Dazhai. Therefore, the bandits who lost Dazhai could only decline. Of course, there is an important premise, which is to completely cut off the source of the bandits' materials and personnel. The land reform implemented by the East China government can basically cut off the source of the bandits. After all, most people have fields, who would still be bandits?

The main sources of materials for bandits are: one is plundering, kidnapping and other income; the other is plundering; the other is plundering; because the counterfeits must be maintained, grain, salt, cloth and medicine are essential products, but plundering may not necessarily rob these necessary products. The kidnapping is silver, so transactions are needed to exchange for the necessary products required by the counterfeits. Ordinary bandits will have several fixed trading channels. If the two sources of materials are cut off, the bandits will completely lose their source of materials and will naturally die without fighting.

After receiving the order from the Military Commission, Luo Yue and the troops who came to take over the Taishan Dazhai made a deal, and then led the army and escorted the prisoners and residents of the Dazhai to leave the Taishan Dazhai and return to Jinan Prefecture.

The troops caused a huge sensation along the way back, because the bandits on Mount Tai have existed for more than 50 years. Although the people with a radius of dozens of kilometers have been deeply affected, they have become accustomed to it. Many old people thought that this group of bandits would exist forever, but they did not expect that the overseas Chinese would be destroyed as soon as they were destroyed. On the one hand, the people were amazed at the strong military power of overseas Chinese, while on the other hand, they were also celebrating that the bandits were destroyed, so they could feel at ease from then on. Moreover, most of the families have been divided into fields. It seems that the days of peace have indeed come.

Although the large army did not stop, Luo Yue still left Jiang Haidong's troops in Beiya Village and brought Sun Xianlu and his family who had helped the People's Army back to Jinan Prefecture.

As soon as the troops returned to Jinan Prefecture, Luo Yue received a notice from the Jinan Municipal Government to hold a meeting. It turned out that the municipal government also received a notice from the Executive Yuan, requiring local governments and the army to cooperate and coordinate to prevent bandit revenge. Therefore, Mayor Wang Shengcai invited senior officials from the Jinan garrison to participate in the discussion. Luo Yue was the military leader of this bandit suppression operation, so he naturally had to attend the meeting.

In fact, Luo Yue had already had a complete plan for how to prevent the invasion of bandits. Of course, the completion of this plan cannot be achieved by the army alone. It must be supported and cooperated with the local government. Now the local government has taken the initiative to propose military-civilian cooperation, so Luo Yue also revealed his plan at the meeting.

Through these battles with bandits, Luo Yue also summarized several characteristics of bandits. First, the bandits are basically an army with cold weapons, and their military quality is not high. They have no tactics in fighting, and their ability to attack is not strong. However, since they have lived a long-term career of licking blood from the knife and are also unfair, the bandits still have certain combat effectiveness, but they are only good at fighting against the wind, but are not good at fighting against the wind. In addition, bandits have relatively strong athletic ability, familiar with the terrain, and have strong mobility.

In response to the situation of these bandits, Luo Yue believed that each village must build certain fortifications, not necessarily very strong. It is OK to rammed earth, wooden fences, and mixed civil and wooden structures. The height does not need to be too high, and it can be between 4-5 meters. In addition, each village must build a beacon tower for use as a warning for the alarm. In addition, each village must also improve the organizational structure and training of the militia, and do a good job in guarding the villages, because it is a guarding work at night, so that it can ensure that when the bandits attack, they have a certain resistance and can stand for assistance. Even if they are lost, it can cause large casualties to the bandits, and the bandits cannot withstand such consumption.

In fact, many villages have built facilities such as village walls and earthen enclosures. At the same time as land reform, the East China government has also formed militia organizations in each village, so it only needs to carry out a certain amount of strengthening and improving activities.

The second is to make good defense division points for the People's Army, and distribute the People's Army as much as possible. There is no need for too many troops. Just one platoon is enough to ensure that after receiving the alarm signal, the nearby People's Army garrison can arrive for rescue within two hours. And as long as it can defeat the bandits, it is enough, but catch as many prisoners as possible, find the bandits' stronghold from them, and then dispatch large troops to fight for expedition.

Some people also asked Luo Yue whether it was necessary to provide guns and ammunition to militias, but Luo Yue believed that this was not necessary at the moment, because the quality, organization and thought of militias were not sufficient, and it was not necessarily beneficial to provide guns and ammunition to them, and it was easy to cause weapons to fall. Therefore, militias must be trained for a certain period of time, and a group of personnel with good quality and reliable thoughts were selected from them, and they were formed according to the model of a reserve army to equip them with regular weapons.

After listening to Luo Yue's plan, Wang Sheng and others thought it was feasible, so they decided to adopt Luo Yue's plan. Then the two sides discussed some details, as well as the division of labor and cooperation between the two sides, and other matters. The bandit prisoners and family members captured this time were all moved to Dongying Farm and settled on the farm in a semi-incarcerated and semi-working mode.

So the next day, the Jinan Municipal Government formally ordered the strengthening of vigilance work in each village. After the village wall was built, the villages surrounded by the earthen wall were further strengthened and reinforced. However, the villages surrounded by the earthen wall were not built, and construction started immediately. At the same time, a beacon tower was built in the center of each village.

Now is the slack season after the autumn harvest. At this time, villagers will go to the city to do short-term work and earn some income to supplement their family's life. However, this year, they obviously cannot go to the city to do short-term work. However, since the land reform has just been carried out in Jinan, farmers not only have their own land, but also have no exploitation from landlords, nor do they have too many lijin taxes. Therefore, the income of every household has increased somewhat, so they do not have to go to the city to do short-term work to subsidize their family income. Moreover, the construction of village walls and earth enclosures is also to protect their own safety. Everyone is naturally very hard-working and working hard, just thinking about repairing the village walls and earthen enclosures one day earlier, so that the village will be much safer.

Villages that have built village walls and surrounded by soil cannot be idle. They are all undergoing training from the People's Army. Although they cannot equip villagers with guns and ammunition, they need to provide sufficient cold weapons such as long spears and big swords.

Although the peasant's cultural quality is not high, he has been engaged in labor for many years and after land reform, he can basically ensure full meals. Although the nutrition is not balanced, it is much better than before, so his basic physical fitness is still acceptable. In addition, farmers also have the advantages of hard work and strong obedience. Especially now, farmers are very convinced of the East China government and the People's Army. Moreover, this is for self-protection, so they are very hard-working and serious in training. Because they are young people around 20 years old, they have not been eroded by life and have fantasies about the future. Especially when they hear that they are well trained, they can also sign up for the People's Army and become a real soldier. Of course, they have a strong interest and work hard during training.

In fact, it was common to build villages to protect themselves and fight against bandits and robbers in ancient China. The villagers were used to it. No one blamed the government for being ineffective. Moreover, the government organized it and provided weapons. This was very good. Therefore, almost all farmers were full of gratitude to the government.

As a result, during this slack season, the villages of Jinan Prefecture are busy. At the same time, the Jinan government also issued an order to strictly prohibit anyone from dealing with bandits, and those who violate the bandits will be dealt with. At the same time, it also rewards the bandits' quiet resignation, information, and group defense. Once a suspicious situation is found, they will immediately report to the garrisons of each village and reward those who provide quiet resignation and report the situation.
Chapter completed!