After the battle of the West Trench, Wu Fu originally planned to send the elite soldiers from various towns back to Qingyang Mansion, and after a short period of rest, he once again joined forces to attack Tiejiao City. The rest of the soldiers left behind continued to hunt down the remnants of the fugitives in the West Trench.

However, the high-intensity military operations in the past few days have not only made the physical strength of the soldiers in each town a little unbearable, but the mental state of the soldiers in each town is also very tired.

Like Yang Jiamo in Gansu Town and Cao Wenzhao in Lintao Town, because they are the general soldiers of a town, they have more replacement forces in their hands, so they can still hold on. And Zhang Mengjin is just a small garrison on Yansui West Road, and the Ningsai troops, who don't have many soldiers, really can't stand it.

Originally, they initially just went to Qingyang Mansion to relieve the siege, and they could return to the station if they successfully cleared the siege. But then they were sent into Iron Horn City, and after that, they continued to adjust their defenses. Now that the battle of the West Trench has been fought again, the officers and soldiers of Yansui Town, from Zhang Mengjin to the lowest soldiers, have strongly demanded that they be let go back.

Coupled with their old superiors, Dai Junen, the soldier of the West Road, constantly asked to be transferred back to his subordinates. Wu Fu still shelved his plan for the time being, and the thieves in Iron Horn City could rest assured that the official army would not take advantage of the victory to pursue.

Although Zhang Mengjin led the soldiers of Yansui Town back to Ningsai, the actions of the official army did not end there. Cao Wenzhao and Yang Jiamo, who were more confident, began to complete their plan to exterminate the remnants of thieves in various places. The official army planned to drive back all the thieves who escaped from Dongchuan, and then carry out a large-scale attack a few months later.

Although Zhang Mengjin has a vague understanding of these things, he doesn't have much to worry about now. Now, after successfully leading the team back to Ninzei, he is worried about dealing with the soldiers who were killed and injured in the past.

Different from other officers and soldiers, these people are the core forces brought out by his old nest Jinding Mountain. In dealing with their affairs, we cannot only rely on the comfort of the imperial court, and the public treasury of Jindingshan also has to bear the distribution of comfort money and food.

However, fortunately, there was no mess with the court's reward this time, and the soldiers of Ningsaibao who had made meritorious contributions one after another finally got a lot of rewards. With this money, Zhang Mengjin and Cai Zhongming's pockets will not be too tight. As a big boss, Zhang Mengjin also sent all his rewards and purchased a lot of benefits for the soldiers who went with him this time.

The wounded and sick of Ninsai, with the help of the leader's private wealth, the court's rewards and pensions, and the public treasury in the village, most of them gradually improved.

To the relief of the leaders of Jinding Mountain, Zhang Zhaoen finally survived. As long as he takes care of it for a few months, he can become that fierce wind chaser again.

The officers and men of Fort Nimsay, after receiving their salaries, finally had money to improve their lives. With spare money, some of them went to the sea to eat and drink, and some played with a few gamblers in a heartbeat. Others went to find their concubines and lay down in the gentle country of ecstasy. And some people who are quite honest and have long-term plans have handed over the money they received to their respective mothers-in-law and aunts to save.

The leaders of the two families, Jindingshan and Artemisia, who were privately reselling grain and various materials, were also surprised to find that they had a lot of money in their pockets. Like the village of Jinding Mountain, coupled with the capture of the previous battlefield, Zhang Mengcheng found that the cottage suddenly had an additional budget of nearly two thousand taels of silver.

After receiving the excited report from his third brother, Zhang Mengjin immediately summoned the other leaders of the cottage. The people began to discuss what to do with the money, and they did not worry about food, clothing, land, and houses, and even the leaders who did not lack women. For a while, I didn't know what to do with so much silver, and after several discussions, I didn't come up with a way to deal with it that everyone was satisfied with.

However, all the leaders knew that it would be the stupidest choice if the money was distributed to the people in the village in proportion. Today's cottage does not have to worry about eating and drinking, due to the previous successive increase in manpower and animal power, the grain obtained after the autumn harvest of the cottage last year is much more than Ma Xiangbo originally estimated.

A total of more than 13,000 stones of wheat and millet and other grains and more than 33,000 stones of sweet potatoes were harvested from the cottage. In total, more than 5,600 stones of wheat and millet and more than 11,500 stones of sweet potatoes were obtained from the cottage warehouse. After paying the autumn tax last year, a lot of grain from the cottage was transported to Ningsai for sale and relief. Up to now, the people in the village still have a lot of surplus grain.

In addition, a large number of livestock have been seized one after another, and various domestic animals raised by the cottage itself. The current cottage people have moved from being full to eating well.

What the cottage lacks most now is only cotton cloth, which is relatively rare in Baoan County. But these things, even in the original peaceful harvest years, pulling down the security guards are quite expensive things.

So everyone who is going to get used to it doesn't plan to prepare new clothes for the next New Year so early. Everyone up and down the cottage is still more accustomed to wearing fur products.

At this meeting of the leaders of Jinding Mountain, some of the people who proposed this plan failed to find their supporters. It is clear that most of the chiefs do not intend to spend their money on it.

Because he didn't think about what to do for a while, Zhang Mengcheng, who stayed in the cottage, strongly demanded it. So the initial result of the discussion was to spend the money on the public facilities of the cottage.

Even if others are reluctant to spend money on other things, Zhang Mengcheng also said that the teaching materials of the cottage cottage must be supplemented and improved. In the end, the other leaders felt that they couldn't think of any good plans for a while, so they simply invested in education.

With a lot of capital investment, Zhang Mengcheng first improved the cottage paper workshop. At the same time, craftsmen were gathered and a workshop for making ink and pen was established.

After some hard work, the problem of paper and pencil for the children in the cottage cottage was finally solved. The quality of teaching in Yuewei Thatched Cottage has been further improved, and Zhang Mengcheng's other plans can be further implemented.

In addition to the distribution of the imperial court's silver bounty, Zhang Mengjin of Ningsai also received some other things. The population plundered by the thieves was placed everywhere by Wu Fu, and the weapons and horses of the thieves were replenished to the various officials and soldiers who consumed a lot. Some of the thieves who surrendered to the army were also digested by the officers of the towns.

In the previous battle, the rather brave Drill Sky Sentinel and his party did not follow Zhang Mengjin back to Ningsai. Wu Fu thought that these descendants, who knew a lot about the internal information of the thieves, could help the officials and soldiers who were chasing other Dongchuan thieves. Therefore, the group of Drill Sky Sentry was absorbed by other officers and soldiers, and Zhang Mengjin of Yansui Town failed to integrate them into the army to supplement his own losses.

It's just that he lost the mulberry elm in the east corner, but Dai Junen, who was prepared for the West Road of Yansui Town, brought him good news. Yansui West Road also collected some scattered drops during this time, and Dai Junen felt that it was necessary to replenish the combat power of his gold medal fighters.

Moreover, the Dingding led by Zhang Mengjin has indeed been tested repeatedly, and these half-hearted scattered Dingding are not so easy to control, so Dai Junen fortunately replenished all of them to Zhang Mengjin of Ningsai.

And Zhang Mengjin and the others gathered the hearts of the people and trained them to integrate into their own troops. Taking advantage of this time, Che Jibao and Fan Shunjiang, two brothers who had not had a good chat for a long time, began to communicate.