The news of Xiong Ben's sneaking away spread. After hearing the news that he had run away with his own troops, some of the bandits began to stir. At this moment, seeing the Thunderbolt army approaching step by step, the sharp-eyed mountain bandits even saw the Thunderbolt soldiers taking the grenades on their waists, which made the bandits retreat one after another. The captain of the pro-soldier who didn't want to supervise the war, that is, the second-in-command who had just been promoted, was also a ruthless man, he killed the fastest bandit who retreated with a knife, and shouted: "I must fight to the death, and wait for Lord Xiong to go to Yongkang County to bring back reinforcements", and then turned his head to his side and said: "A few of you go to the ignition place to wait, if the village is broken, light the fire to the village, and let those Diao people in Liuliba finish together"

The words of the captain of the pro-soldiers instantly ignited the anger of the bandits. On weekdays, the captain of the pro-soldier is a fox and a tiger, and he has done a lot of things to bully men and women, and the rest of the mountain bandits are afraid and hateful of him. At present, Xiong Ben let the bandits be cannon fodder, and if he secretly ran away, he would burn down the stockade, which directly made these mountain bandits red-eyed. You must know that over the years, many of the bandits have had wives and dolls by robbing people's daughters. There are also some bandits who were originally Wanjiaping mountain people, and there are parents and brothers in the cottage. If this village is burned, the bandits can flee to Yongkang City with Xiong Ben to survive, but their own families cannot escape. On this dry autumn day, once the fire breaks out, the grain and houses in the village will definitely be burned down. The Thunderbolts will not embarrass women and children, but how will they survive in the coming winter? The mountain bandits all know that the Thunderbolts don't keep idlers. The disabled mountain bandits who failed in the first two attacks on Liulizhai were driven back to Wanjiazhai, and the end was very miserable. Speaking of the disabled bandits, Xiong Ben claimed that he had been sent down the mountain for resettlement, but in fact, he ordered his own soldiers to kill and bury them. "Lord Xiong said that it is better to die of these wastes, so as not to waste money and food .....", this news was said by one of the bandits who carried out the order after drinking, and soon the whole cottage knew about it. Xiong Ben's viciousness towards his own people made the mountain bandits more frightened and more fearful, as evidenced by the rout in this confrontation with the Thunderbolt Army.

"How dare you disobey?"

Seeing that the bandits were still retreating, and trying to stop the entourage who were about to burn the village, the captain of the pro-soldiers shouted loudly.

"Muffel wants to do this?" He pointed his knife at the head of the fugitive hanging on the wall, and continued to shout. The threat made the bandits stunned, and then rushed at him with their knives. In the face of the swarming bandits, the captain of the pro-soldiers shouted in an angry and frightened tone: "Do you want to rebel? As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen knives slashed at him. Although he was strong and strong in martial arts, he cut down two people in one face, but he was still no match for the bandits who killed the red eye, and in an instant, he was hacked to death with a knife, and several relatives who tried to set fire were all killed. The Thunderbolt army outside the wall heard the sound of fighting and killing in the village, but when they were about to reach the gate of the village, they were quiet. When he was puzzled, two bare-handed mountain bandits flashed out of the breach of the wall, shouting loudly, "Xiong Ben has run away, we surrender."

Standing on top of the tallest arrow tower in the village, Ouyang Xuan looked down at the whole picture of Wanjiazhai. There are dozens of acres in this Wanjiaping village, and there are hundreds of houses within the wall, surrounding a large open space in the middle. In the middle of the clearing is a fastened quadrangle, which is the place where Xiong Ben and his personal soldiers live, and it is also the "official office of the pacification envoy" in the mouth of the mountain bandits. According to the confession of the surrendered mountain bandits, after Xiong Ben abandoned his official position as a bandit, he still remembered his former status as a military attache of the Great Song Dynasty, and from time to time added officials to himself and his subordinates. When he lectured the bandits two years ago, he said that he had been in contact with the Lin'an court, and soon the court would appoint him as a pacification envoy, and since then he has called himself a pacification envoy everywhere. This envoy was a high-ranking local official in charge of the army and the people set up by the Southern Song Dynasty court in Huainan, Jingxi, Hubei and other roads bordering Jin and Puppet Qi when facing internal and external troubles. It was mainly used to recruit the people who rebelled against the imperial court and defend the Jin army, and generally used the rebel leaders who had already surrendered. The area under the jurisdiction of the pacification is not equal to several prefectures, prefectures, and armies, and it is also a prefect or a prefect. This semi-independent local government system objectively delayed the Jin army's invasion of the Southern Song Dynasty, but it was not established after the fall of the Jin. From this point of view, this Xiong Ben's ambition is really not small.

This battle won Wanjiazhai, which was extremely important, not only opened up the second vein of the development of the Jiguan Mountains, but also made the Thunderbolt army attack, retreat and defend in the strategic advance. Using this as a base, the Thunderbolt army can gradually develop down the mountain, and then slowly map out the western Sichuan, the "land of abundance" rich in natural resources. Even if the Mongol army was strong, the Thunderbolt army could retreat to the Cockscomb Mountains and temporarily lay dormant to accumulate strength. This battle is not only crucial for future development, but also quite timely for resolving the difficulties in the current development of the Thunderbolt Army. At present, under the rule of the Perak Army, vigorous development of industrial and mining and military training activities is being carried out, and the consumption of food and materials is very fast, which makes Yang Xiucai, who is in charge of logistics and support, frown all day long, and pour bitter water every time he has a meeting. This time, Wanjiaping seized a lot of money, which was completely unexpected by Ouyang Xuan, which shows how ferocious Xiong Ben's plundering of passing merchants and the exploitation of people inside and outside the mountain were. It's just that Xiong Ben exploited the people, but he didn't want to be someone else's wedding dress, which solved the urgent needs of the Thunderbolt Army at present and in the future.

The first is the population. After counting the Wanjiazhai and the surrounding residential areas, there are more than 1,000 people in population, including more than 400 male strong laborers, and after screening, about 100 of them have participated in the Xiong Ben bandit gang and committed crimes, plus more than 300 bandits captured in this battle, a total of 400 need to be convicted and tried. The Perak Army gave these people a number of years of re-education through labor for their crimes, which is equivalent to receiving an additional 400 free laborers, which really solved the problem of much-needed manpower shortages in various industries.

The second is land. There are nearly 3,000 acres of grain fields in Wanjiazhai and its vicinity, most of which belong to Xiong Ben and the rest of the mountain bandit leaders. Because the mountain bandits live a life without work by robbing and "collecting taxes", and have no interest in the hard agricultural production, there are still thousands of acres of sloping land around Wanjiazhai that have not been cultivated. The land and wasteland in the name of the mountain bandits were confiscated by the Perak Army and used to reward soldiers for military merit or for outstanding contributions in industry, mining, commerce and science.

Again, food and other supplies. The seized grain came not only from the mountains, but also from the plains below. The varieties are not only rice and wheat, but also soybeans, sorghum and other grains, about 300,000 catties. According to the consumption of two catties of grain a day by a soldier, these grains can be used for a year by 500 mountain bandits in Wanjiazhai. In addition to grain, five warehouses were seized, mainly daily necessities and mountain goods, such as cloth, oil, hemp, wine, and salt. These materials are produced by the bandits of Wanjiapingshan, such as wine, but only Xiong Ben and other mountain bandit leaders and pro-soldiers can enjoy them, and the rest are all obtained from robbery or forcibly looted from various villages in the mountains in the name of "taxes", and only a few are purchased from outside the mountains and forced to buy from the villages in the mountains to obtain high profits. This batch of supplies and food, which was of great value, was immediately guarded by the Perak soldiers who arrived immediately.

Of course, in Ouyang Xuan's view, although these seized materials are good, they are not comparable to the mineral resources in Wanjiaping and the surrounding areas. These are important strategic materials needed for industrial development. According to the preliminary investigation, there are a large number of coal mines, lime mines, and iron mines around Wanjiaping, and the coal here not only has large reserves, but also has shallow burial and good quality. The unexpected surprise is that there is also a copper mine cave, you must know that the two Song Dynasty are short of copper, and the copper produced in the country is not enough to mint copper coins. Because of the lack of copper, many places had to mint heavy and rusty iron coins, and Sichuan forced merchants to invent "Jiaozi" because of the lack of copper. Of course, Ouyang Xuan would not use this precious copper to make money, and some time ago, he also specially explained to Zhu Xuanzi that he wanted the trading team to buy a large amount of copper. Although the output of this copper mine is not large, the savings should be enough for the needs of industrial development in the near future. According to the confessions of the captured mountain bandits, small amounts of sulfur and nitrate were also produced around Wanjiazhai, which were mined by the villagers and later sold to Taoist temples in the nearby Tianguo Mountain. After seeing the amazing power of the Thunderbolt army's gunpowder weapons, Xiong Ben had already sent people to use force to "persuade" the Taoist priests of the Heavenly Mountain Taoist Temple to help develop gunpowder weapons, but before this matter could be seen, the Thunderbolt army attacked.