Chapter 254 Tracking
Jiang Bin secretly marveled at Jiang Jiangong's ideas. He never thought that Jiang Jiangong would go to the Ministry of War and the Imperial Household Department to check so many things in order to suppress the bandits, and he managed to accomplish them all. This was something he would never have dared to think of before.

The civil servants of the Ministry of War and the eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department will not serve you at all. I don't know how Jiang Jiangong did it.
Jiang Bin looked at the densely packed marks on the map. He had to admit that this method was really useful. With the support of a large number of records, the location of the legendary and very secretive Xiongfeng Village had been narrowed down to a small area.
"My colleagues and I also analyzed the eyewitness records of bandits sent by the surrounding villagers to the Royal Group. We preliminarily assessed that the number of bandits dispatched by Xiongfeng Village each time was more than 400. They were all strong and equipped with a large amount of leather armor, a small amount of cloth armor and zipper armor, and a large number of bows and arrows, but no firearms." Jiang Jiangong continued.

Jiang Bin stared blankly at Jiang Jiangong who was talking. He suddenly understood the significance of the General Staff. He always looked down on this department in the past, thinking that a group of people who had never fought a war could not deduce anything from their constant deduction.

But now he felt a little slapped in the face.

He also suddenly found that as the chief officer of this operation, he had no idea what to do.

When he led troops to fight in the past, his biggest headache was logistics. As a military officer, he had too little say in front of local civil officials, and all kinds of supplies would be withheld, and he never received the full amount.

Now he no longer has to worry about this most troublesome problem.

Then there is the issue of military intelligence, which is now in front of him. Although there is still a lack of intelligence directly observed by scouts, the current intelligence can already enable him to make some military decisions.
The most important thing is that all this information has been analyzed, filtering out a lot of useless information, which can save him a lot of energy.

After removing these two most energy-consuming tasks, he suddenly found that he was now much more relaxed. It seemed that he only needed to concentrate on making military decisions.
He suddenly remembered that the second son of the Chengguo family had told him a few days ago that Jiang Jiangong was very capable, and now it seemed that what he said was true.
Although the various systems of the General Staff are still imperfect, Jiang Bin has begun to reap the benefits of the staff system.

After Jiang Jiangong and twenty attendants from Qizhou joined the General Staff, the speed of setting up the General Staff became much faster.

Because these people entered the General Staff, Zhu Houxuan used them to easily influence the development direction of the General Staff, and gradually turned the General Staff into what it was in later generations.

At this moment, the sentry on guard in the new army suddenly discovered a group of people coming this way, and blew the whistle immediately.
The new troops who were resting on the spot immediately went into alert and formed a battle formation under the orders of the officers.

There were more than a hundred people in that group, carrying all kinds of weapons, and they looked at the new soldiers warily.
"Are our luck so good? We encounter bandits as soon as we arrive?" Jiang Bin said happily.

Jiang Jiangong took out a telescope and looked at it, then said, "No, they don't have armor. This is inconsistent with the intelligence. I'll go ask."

After saying that, he threw the telescope to Jiang Bin and walked towards the Royal Group's rest stop.
After a while, Jiang Jiangong came back from the rest stop with a young man. He looked a little strange and said, "That team is a railway protection team spontaneously organized by local people. In order to protect the railway from being attacked by bandits, I suggest lifting the alert first."

"Just them? And they're protecting the road?" Jiang Bin sneered as he looked at the group of people through a telescope. Then he suddenly thought of something, narrowed his eyes and looked at the group of people with a dangerous look, with murderous intent looming on him.
Jiang Jiangong looked at Jiang Bin's expression, thought about Jiang Bin's reputation, and suddenly understood what Jiang Bin was thinking.
He thought Jiang Bin was planning to kill a good person and take credit for it.
After he was suddenly transferred to the General Staff a year ago, in order to better carry out his work, he learned a lot of military knowledge and was very familiar with some of the habits of the Ming army.
Many of the current Ming army generals, especially those on the border, have the bad habit of killing innocent people in order to gain credit.

Jiang Bin was originally a frontier general and had a reputation for killing innocent people and claiming credit for his crimes, so it's not surprising that Jiang Jiangong thought in that direction.

"General, we are here to wipe out the bandits. That group of people are not bandits, but righteous citizens!" Jiang Jiangong said.

This new army consumed Zhu Houxuan's thoughts and wealth, and he wanted to build it into a modern army, but his chief officer was still an old-fashioned officer.
Jiang Bin withdrew his gaze with a lingering feeling, and instantly put away his murderous aura. He was indeed thinking about killing innocent people to gain merit. He came to suppress bandits, but the more military merits, the better. He had tasted the sweetness of killing innocent people to gain merit during the Liu Liu and Liu Qi Rebellion, so he subconsciously thought of killing innocent people to gain merit.
That group of people was a perfect target, they were all strong and muscular. They could kill people in a deserted place and chop off their heads, making them look like bandits.
"Yes, he is a righteous citizen." Jiang Bin looked at Jiang Jiangong and said indifferently. He suddenly felt that with Jiang Jiangong here, it would be difficult to kill innocent people and claim credit for it.

"They are righteous citizens! Ever since the bandits came down the mountain to commit crimes that day, the surrounding people were extremely angry, so they organized a strong team to guard the road to prevent the bandits from attacking again. His Highness also heard about the civilian organization of the road protection team, and specially ordered us to provide these righteous citizens with hot soup and hot meals, and provide a place to rest, saying that we should not disappoint the righteous citizens," said the young man who had returned with the meritorious service with a smile.

Jiang Bin naturally knew who the "Your Highness" the young man was talking about. After hearing that Zhu Houxuan was also paying attention to these righteous people, his intention to kill innocent people and take credit for his crimes suddenly faded a lot.

"Have those bandits revealed their whereabouts since the attack that day?" Jiang Bin asked.

"No, since the bandits were defeated by us that night, they have never revealed their whereabouts since then. It snowed heavily a few days ago, and now all traces have been covered up." said the young man.

Jiang Bin looked at the Taihang Mountains in the distance, then looked at the map Jiang Jiangong gave him, and sighed, "This is troublesome. It will be too painful to go into the mountains in such a cold day."

"But we have to go into the mountains to search. His Majesty and His Royal Highness are still waiting for our news," Jiang Jiangong also said with a sigh.

"Fortunately, we still have enough cold-proof supplies. Let's rest for a day and go into the mountains tomorrow!" Jiang Bin made the decision.

The next day, Jiang Jiangong brought good news, "General, we have found the location of Xiongfeng Village."

(End of this chapter)

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