With the village as a unit, Dingkou was inspected, the Baojia Law was established, and the entire Guide area was classified as a war zone. Roads were set up for local population movement, and the movement was based on the roads until the end of the war.

This move can limit the spies deployed by the Northern Army's Military Intelligence Department and the remnant bandits to the greatest extent, restricting their space for movement and making it difficult for them to move.

The clearing of land and the distribution of land to each household based on the number of people is the core content of the Jiangnan New Deal, and it is also the policy that can best win over the people at the grassroots level.

Outposts were set up in every village, and heavy rewards were offered. Anyone who caught an undercover Northern Army spy or a remnant of bandits in a village would be rewarded fifty taels of silver.

Anyone who harbors such people will be punished by the entire village. In addition to severely punishing the principal offender, the distribution of relief grains, land distribution, etc. will be downgraded by one level.

A series of effective measures were implemented vigorously and resolutely, and the counties around Shangqiu were in awe. Coupled with the concentrated attack by the garrison troops such as Luo Longyun and Xu Ji, the remaining bandits and spies of the Northern Army in the surrounding counties suffered heavy losses.

Song Yu, the former guard of Yucheng, fled to Kaifeng Prefecture with more than 10,000 remaining soldiers. Later, he was punished by the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, Duan Gong, and ordered him to lead the remaining Northern Army to the counties of Guide Prefecture to engage in destruction, smashing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil.

Xu Ji, the garrison general who returned to Texas, in order to show off in front of the new governor Cui Xiaotian, severely attacked Song Yu's remnant bandits without mercy.

Brothers in the past, now enemies.

He knew Song Yu and his subordinates very well. He knew that this guy had an acquaintance in Yucheng and often came over secretly to meet him.

One night, Xu Ji planned to capture Song Yu alive, handed him over to Cui Mingyi, held a public trial and executed him by hanging.

After the bandit leader Song Yu was hanged in public trial, it was a huge blow to the other troublemaking bandits. Most of the remaining bandits rubbed oil on their feet and dispersed one after another.

In a very short period of time, Gui Dezhou completely eliminated the remaining bandits and restored an environment for the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

At the top of Shangqiu City, a series of remnants of the Northern Army were hanged every day, at least dozens of them. These were captured by surrounding villagers and brought to the prefecture government office to receive rewards.

Cui Xiaotian's methods were extremely cruel. He understood that heavy punishments must be used in extraordinary times, so he ordered the garrison to tie up these stubborn bandits and hang them all in front of the city in public display without any possibility of pardon.

Such methods moved Xu Ji and others who were so prolific in murdering people. Soldiers were accustomed to hacking their enemies to death with one knife or shooting them to death cleanly.

Hangings with slow torture like this are more popular in Western countries, and what Cui Mingyi likes is Western-style criminal law.

In the entire northeastern Henan and northern Jiangsu areas, all garrison troops, garrison security forces, etc., were raided town by town, every river, and every mountain, leaving no remaining bandits behind to avoid future troubles.

The army suppressed bandits, and government work teams went to villages and towns to establish grassroots political power and carry out land reform so that the majority of farmers could have arable land.

Chen Tianhua highly recognized Cui Xiaotian's purge governance methods in northeastern Henan, and with his approval, they were promoted and implemented in northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and other areas governed by the Jiangnan regime.

"Kneel down!"

Guan Yu was pushed into Chen Tianhua's tent, and two guards shouted.

Guan Yu was the son of Beiyang General Guan Shan and was the garrison general of Huai'an Prefecture. After Song Xiaoniu was besieged for nearly a year, he led his army to break through and most of them were wiped out. However, he escaped with a thousand elites and entered the mountains.

Near the end of the year, a regiment of Feilai Brigade under Song Xiaoniu went into the mountains to suppress the bandits. Guan Yu's remaining troops ran out of ammunition and food, so they could only disperse and hide in various places, like frightened birds.

After Song Yu was captured, because of his high rank, being the son of Guan Shan, and a graduate of the Tokyo Imperial Army Officer School, he was sent directly to Chen Tianhua.

This guy had an extremely tough attitude. He closed his eyes and looked up to the sky without saying a word.

That day they robbed Xiazhai Village and returned with a full load. When they returned to Qingshigang, they were attacked from both sides by the First Regiment of Feilai.

In the small space of the valley, almost none of his more than three hundred men survived, and he was also captured alive.

To this day, he still hasn't figured out how the other party broke into the cave and wiped out all three hundred soldiers in the cave, without any one being able to escape.

Military intelligence, this is Chen Tianhua's strength. Song Yu is a professional soldier and disdains these things, which he considers to be surreptitious activities.

But it was a subtle trick that caused his entire army to be destroyed, and he himself was injured and captured alive.

Each of the two guards kicked Guan Yu on the left and right knees. He could no longer stand still, and with a sound of "Boom...", he knelt down in front of Chen Tianhua's tiger case.

Opening his eyes, Song Yu saw this legendary figure for the first time. He was similar in age to him, but his achievements were both heaven and earth.

Chen Tianhua also looked at him with interest. He was a top student from the Tokyo Imperial Army Military Academy. He was a military talent after all.

The two people's eyes collided in the air, and Guan Yu's heart trembled, but she still did not flinch and glared at Chen Tianhua viciously.

"Surrender, or die?" Chen Tianhua asked calmly.

"Death!" Song Yu's answer was extremely straightforward, which shocked Chen Tianhua, and then made him angry and disappointed.

Looking at the corners of the other party's pursed lips, Chen Tianhua was silent for a long time, and finally gave up the idea of ​​persuading him to surrender.

Although from the bottom of his heart, he still admired this young general for being able to defend Huai'an for a year and break out of Song Xiaoniu's iron barrel formation. Moreover, when the enemy was almost out of ammunition and food, he could still control more than a thousand soldiers.

Subordinate for several months.

Without outstanding ability, these are impossible to achieve.

"Pull him out and shoot him!" Chen Tianhua waved his hand, looking quite depressed.

…

Kaifeng Mansion is the seat of the governor's office of Henan Province and the provincial capital city.

On the city tower, Li Chun, the Northern Army's garrison commander in southern Henan, looked at the heavily guarded Republican Army camp outside the city with a worried look on his face.

He did not expect that Chen Tianhua could calm the place in such a short period of time. He almost followed the footsteps of the Northern Army's defeat and sent his favorite general Luo Longyun to chase him to the gates of Kaifeng City.

For the first time, Li Chun saw Jiangnan's powerful and efficient bureaucracy and strong financial resources.

For half a year, Li Chun almost adopted an infiltration strategy, sending a large number of remnants of the Northern Army to the northeastern Henan and northern Jiangsu areas to carry out sabotage, burning, killing, looting, and attacking the basic organizations of the new regime, work teams, etc.

But the results were minimal, far beyond what he and his colleagues had imagined.

Chen Tianhua's various ministries were fully prepared, but they never stopped. As the army moved forward, huge logistics followed, taking over and pacifying the place, making all his hard work go in vain.

Now speaking of it, it was Chen Tianhua who took advantage of him. The common people in northeastern Henan, northern Anhui, and northern Jiangsu were all gnashing their teeth when talking about the Northern Army. But when talking about Marshal Chen of the Southern Army, they all burst into tears of gratitude.

If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place?

"Brother Guan, we still have 50,000 elite soldiers and 50,000 new troops in Kaifeng City. We have enough food, grass and ammunition. According to your estimate, can we defend Kaifeng Mansion?"

Li Chun asked a veteran around him. This man was the famous Guan Shan, the elder brother of Li Chun, Wang Yujia, and Wang Zhanyuan when they were studying at the Beiyang Military Academy.
Chapter completed!