After laying down Wanjiazhai for a few days, Ouyang Xuan held a military and political meeting to discuss the urgent matters of the moment. The Thunderbolt Army is now like a rapidly developing beast, swallowing too much of what it has eaten, and if it expands again if it is not thoroughly digested, it can easily cause many problems. Therefore, although the strategic direction of development outside the mountains has been set, the top management of the Perak Army unanimously believes that it is still necessary to fight steadily and steadily. When to go down the mountain to develop, you need to wait for the conditions to be ripe and then slowly figure it out.

The first thing we need to do now is to move. Although Liuliba is good, it is located in the deep mountains and is really remote. Although Wanjiaping is still 40 miles away from the plain under the mountain, it is half closer than Liuliba, which is really convenient. This time, the headquarters of the Perak Army was relocated, and the office was set up in Xiong Ben's "Yamen". The five companies of the Perak Army Field Battalion were then moved to the barracks of the bandits. Along with it, trading companies and engineering companies were relocated, while other institutions such as garrison battalions, industrial companies, mining companies, and education and research institutes remained in Liuliba.

The second important thing was to mobilize the people of Yokohara Town to move to the mountains. In Ouyang Xuan's memory, after the autumn, the Mongol army would invade Sichuan in a big way, and in October, the Mongol army would raid Chengdu with Liu Heima. Next was the entry of the Mongol Great Khan Meng Ge into Sichuan, and all the prefectures and counties in western Sichuan fell into the hands of the Mongols again. was anxious to let the people of Hengyuan Town move to the mountains, but also because Dong Hu brought back a disturbing news.

As soon as the mountain road was opened, Dong Hu sent the secret agents of the guard team to the outside of the mountain. These spies lurked in Chongqing Prefecture, Yongkang County and other places as merchants, craftsmen, coolies, etc. In Yongkang Village, the spies of the Thunderbolt Army saw Xiong Ben, who had escaped, swaggering in and out of Yongkang County. After spending a lot of effort and money, the spy learned from Cheng Jinyong's personal staff of Yongkang County that this Xiong Ben was not only friendly with Cheng Jinyong, but also the nephew of Uncle Xie Fang, the prime minister of the dynasty. This Uncle Xie Fang's nephew is now the guest of Yao Shi'an in Genting City, and it is this Uncle Xie Fang who colluded with Yao Shi'an to kill Yu Jue, a famous minister in the Southern Song Dynasty, and this nephew is the one who colluded with him. The spy also learned that Xiong Ben originally wanted to bribe high-ranking officials in the court to make the court recruit him as a pacification envoy, and he also spent a lot of money. But now that he has lost Wanjiazhai and lost control of the mountains, most of his property and subordinates have also been lost, and now Genting City simply ignores him, a lost dog.

Fortunately, Cheng Jinyong has also been fed by Xiong Ben over the years, so he promised to recommend him to his boss to go to Hengyuan Town as a supervisor. It's just that the situation is stronger than people, although he is unwilling, but he thinks that he must have a place to stand first, and then he can make a comeback, so he has to reluctantly agree, and now he is waiting for the appointment to take over Hengyuan Town. This news once again refreshed Ouyang Xuan's view of the corrupt court of the Southern Song Dynasty, he didn't expect that this world had become a family of officials and bandits and was so blatant, how could the people survive? We had to hurry up and move the people of the whole town to the mountains before Xiong Ben arrived at Hengyuan Village, so as not to be oppressed by the bandits. He arranged for Du Daquan and the young people in the Perak Army to be responsible for this matter, and they were to persuade their relatives and friends, and the effect would be twice the result with half the effort.

The third thing is the business thing. Before the Mongols arrived, they had to sell the iron ingots, farm tools, charcoal, coke and other industrial products hoarded in the mountains, as well as animal skins and medicinal materials, and exchange all the goods for daily necessities such as grain, salt, and cloth. As for sulfur, fire, and grenade weapons, although there is a certain amount of stock at present, these are strategic materials and cannot be sold unless absolutely necessary. In order to complete the purchase and sale of materials as soon as possible, Ouyang Xuan instructed Zhu Xuanzi Trading Company to set up several more trading teams, and gathered the dwarf horses and mules and horses from various villages in the mountains to be used by the trading teams, and went to nearby prefectures, prefectures, and counties in addition to Yongkang City. Now Yongkang County and the mountain bandits are openly colluding, and the county commander Cheng Jinyong is not allowed to hack the Thunderbolt army trade team under the instigation of Xiong Ben. As for the security of the trade teams on the roads, three companies were assigned from the field battalion.

The fourth thing is to build a fortress. Although Xiong Ben retreated to Yongkang City in defeat, he did not give up, and sent people to sneak back from the trail behind Wanjiazhai two days ago, trying to encourage the prisoners and villagers in the labor camp to resist the Thunderbolt army. It's just that what he didn't expect was that the prisoners didn't want to resist at all, except for the tiredness of working in the mines, the living treatment was actually similar to when they were mountain bandits, and they were free people after serving the labor camp. If you are willing to stay in the mine, the income is not low, and this kind of life is much better than the days when you were a bandit. As for the villagers, they are even more unwilling, Xiong Ben collected 30% of the tax per mu of land and only 10% now, and I heard that after the surrounding mines are mined, the Thunderbolt army will be exempted from the tax per mu. Rise up and rebel? I'm afraid that I would only do this if my head is caught in the door. Xiong Ben's own soldiers, who sneaked back, also observed carefully in the dark for a day, and saw that what everyone said was true, so he gritted his teeth and turned himself in, he was really fed up with Xiong Ben's uncertain temper, and he no longer wanted to live a life of fear.

Although the surrender of Xiong Ben's personal soldiers was a good thing, it also caused a loophole in the defense of Wanjiazhai, which made the top brass of the Perak Army highly vigilant. In addition to strengthening the patrol and guard system, Dong Hu and Cao Ergou explored the surrounding terrain in detail, and proposed to Ouyang Xuan to build fortifications. They suggested that in addition to building a watchtower at the entrance to the hidden trail at the back of the village, they also suggested building a fortress at the T-junction below Wanjiazhai to completely block the road in and out of the mountain. More than ten acres of open land at the T-shaped intersection is enough to build a large fortress, and Ouyang Xuan agrees to this. This time, however, he did not have the stone mined, and although the stone was built into a fortress and was fastened, it took too long and required a lot of labor. This time, he plans to use cement to build a fortress, and the limestone resources near Wanjiazhai are very rich, so he only needs to build a cement factory nearby.

The fifth thing is to send people to Chongqing Mansion City to report the victory and pick up people up the mountain. If you want to go to Chongqing Mansion City, of course, you have to send valuables to Pan Tongzhi. This time, there were a lot of valuables given to Pan Tong, which were full of four rattan boxes carried by two ponies, and most of them were gold, silver and silk. These valuables were all picked up by Cao Ergou from the road when he led people to chase Xiong Ben. Due to the rugged and difficult hidden path behind Wanjiazhai, Xiong Ben and his personal soldiers desperately fled in the case of the urgent pursuit of the soldiers, and lost a lot of property in a panic. Although Cao Ergou chased for a long time, he did not catch up with Xiong Ben, but he also found a lot of property on the way back. When the people who reported the victory to Chongqing Mansion returned, there were two important tasks: to take Li Shuang and Wang Da of Jiangqu Township to the mountain, and these two people had always made Ouyang Xuan think about it. Although Li Shuang is disabled and cannot march to fight, he has a good character, and he is as evil as an enemy, Ouyang Xuan is ready to ask Li Shuang to be in charge of the government affairs in the mountains, he believes that Li Shuang can be a good official praised by the people. As for the old man Wang Da is his savior, Ouyang Yang took him to Liuliba to live for a long time, and everyone not only had no opinion, but praised him.

The sixth thing is to build roads. It is mainly to widen the road from Wanjiazhai to Liuliba and the villages in the mountains, the current road is narrow and dangerous, and can not meet the needs of the development of industrial and mining industries. It is extremely difficult to dig a road in the mountains by manpower, but it can be greatly accelerated by blasting it with gunpowder, and the amount of work required to widen the road is so small that two mules and horses carrying supplies can pass in parallel. In terms of road construction, Ouyang particularly emphasized that the road in Yanfeng Sanzhai should be given priority to widening, which is not only to strengthen the control of Sanzhai, but also to speed up the development of resources in Sanzhai, so that the people can live a good life. On the second day of defeating Wanjiazhai, Cao Ergou sent a platoon of soldiers from Sanzhai with the Perak Army to quietly touch Yanfeng Village and attack and kill Zhong Hammer. Zhong Hammer was killed, and his dogs fled in all directions. Later, after hearing that the Wanjiapingshan bandits were finished, they came back one after another to kneel on the ground and ask for surrender, and Sanzhai was all attached to the Thunderbolt army. Since then, there have been no remnants of the Xiongben bandits in the Cockscomb Mountain.