The oppression and scraping of Pan Luohuan and his minions made the intestines of the people who chose to stay in the city repent, and they all scolded themselves for not following the Thunderbolt army into the mountains a few days ago, so that now their wives and daughters have been humiliated, their houses have been seized, and their property has been looted. In the dilemma of exhausting mountains and rivers, these people thought of the Thunderbolt Army again, so they quietly sneaked to the temporary camp of the Thunderbolt Army outside the city and knelt down and cried. At this moment, there are also several junior colonels from the Xinjin City Navy in the camp, and these people are all recommended by Yu Laodu. The joint attack on the Chongqing Mansion City Pan Luo Huan made an appointment first, and he was angry with Yu Laodu, who was the liaison officer, for no reason. His several slaps not only made Yu Laodug strengthen his determination to join the Thunderbolt Army, but also made the officers and soldiers of the Navy completely see Pan Luohuan's virtue, and they all had the idea of defecting to the Thunderbolt Army.

In view of the importance of the matter, Huang Dagen urgently discussed with Yu Laodui and others, and decided to take refuge in the officers and soldiers of the navy in batches in the middle of the night, and Yu Laodug took the waterway into the mountains overnight. In the temporary camp, the Perak Army only had one platoon and three squads, except for one squad to follow Yu Laodu's action, the other two squads were led by Huang Dagen to Yixing Township overnight. As for the people in the city who want to enter the mountains again, if they can catch up with the time, they will take a boat with Yu Laodu, and if they can't catch up, they will be given road guides and dry food, and let them go to the mountains on their own. Pan Luohuan's minions found out that someone had fled after dawn, and they would definitely send someone to pursue them, although they couldn't catch up with Yu Laodui and Huang Dagen and others, but it was hard to say about the civilians who dragged the old and the young. They were too slow to escape, and it was up to them to ask for their own blessings if they could escape the pursuit.

At dawn, Pan Luohuan, who was asleep, woke up in the loud screams of his subordinates. At this moment, he was lying on the snatched maiden dreaming that he was in a splendid house, hugging the beautiful woman left and right, and the table in front of him was full of delicacies and wine. Annoyed by the interruption of the dream, he wiped the drooling saliva and went out of the house, giving the noisy man two slaps without saying a word. When Pan Luohuan learned that more than 150 sailors had run away, and most of the people in the city had also run, he was furious and gave two slaps to the person who reported it. He shouted angrily to send someone to chase after him, and the unlucky guy who had been slapped repeatedly said that because of the fog, only a dozen old and weak people had been recovered, and according to them, the deserters had fled to Wanjiaping in the second half of the night. These words made Pan Luohuan even more furious, which meant that he not only had an abandoned empty city, but also lost a quarter of his soldiers and warships out of thin air. There are 1,000 sailors in Xinjin City, in addition to 200 people guarding the village, Pan Tong's attack on Chengdu also took 200 people to transport baggage by water, and only 600 people Pan Luohuan brought to Chongqing Mansion.

Just when Pan Luohuan was roaring angrily, Huang Dagen and his party had already arrived in Yixing Township. This Yixing Township is located in Chongqing Fucheng to Dayi City, Qiongzhou City traffic artery, belongs to the rich paste fertilizer township, before the broad end into Shu has a population of more than 10,000, but now it is also dilapidated and withered. Huang Dagen and his entourage walked around the township for most of the day and found seven or eight small villages with a total population of no more than 200 people. The people in the village saw Huang Dagen and his party with weapons from a distance, and they either hid or closed the dock fort, and no matter how they identified themselves, they didn't open the door, let alone tell them the news about the mang. To say that this kind of low dock fort made of wood and mud can only prevent small thieves, not to mention that it can't stop firearms attacks, and even a slightly larger gang of thieves can be overthrown. However, the military discipline of Perak strictly forbade disturbing the people, and the officers and soldiers also deeply accepted Ouyang Xuan's concept of serving the country loyally, diligent and loving the people from their hearts, so it was impossible for Huang Dagen and the soldiers of the teaching company to use force against the civilians, let alone use force to attack the dock fort, so they had to go to the next place to try their luck. In the afternoon, they finally got the news that there was a small village on the side of the rootless mountain in the northernmost part of the countryside that had a mango nitrate mine. When Huang Dagen and his entourage hurried there, it was almost dusk. When I walked into the village, I found that the ruins and ruins had long been empty, and the mine had become a fox nest overgrown with weeds. Huang Dagen was disappointed but helpless, so he had to embark on the journey home on the second day.

Wugen Mountain is located at the junction of Jinyuan County, Yongkang County and Dayi County of Qiongzhou Prefecture in Chongqing Prefecture, and is under the jurisdiction of Jinyuan County. Its mountain trend is parallel to the Longmen Mountain Range where Wanjiazhai is located, its topography is about 30 miles long in strip shape, and the widest point is only 10 miles, because its surroundings are all plain areas, both and the surrounding plain terrain appear incompatible, appear abrupt and isolated, so it is named Rootless Mountain. Although the name of Wugen Mountain is a mountain, it is actually just a low hill overgrown with bamboo, trees and shrubs, and its western end is about ten miles away from Dayi County, and the eastern end of the mountain is also within ten miles of Hengyuan Town and Yongqu Township.

Huang Dagen and others want to return to Wanjiazhai, and there are two ways to choose. The shortcut road is to go northwest through the rootless mountains, and after going down the mountain, you can walk another five miles to the town of Hengyuan, although this road is close but more difficult to walk, and it also has to pass through the bandit activity area. The long road is along the mountain road to the northeast, and you will walk forty miles to Yongqu Township. As for returning along the original road, which is far away, and has to pass through Chongqing Mansion City occupied by Pan Luohuan, it was directly ignored. After thinking about it again, Huang Dagen decided to take the mountain path, which was far but safe.

The soldiers of the teaching company are carefully selected and trained as reserve officers. The two classes led by Huang Dagen were even the best, not only were they agile and strong and disciplined, but they also traveled 30 miles by noon. At this time, we have reached the edge of the rootless mountainous area, and in front of us is the open plain area, and you only need to walk six or seven miles in the plain area to reach Yongqu Township. Seeing that it was still early, Huang Dagen asked the whole team to rest for a while before continuing to march. Just as everyone was silently drinking water and eating dry food, there were faint footsteps and words in front of them. Huang Dagen made a gesture, and everyone hid in the grass by the roadside. As I breathed with my breath, I heard the voices getting closer and closer—it turned out to be a few men with weapons in their hands, walking and talking, these men were still thinly dressed, and their skin was dark outside the sackcloth, and they looked like people who had lived on the water for many years. Huang Dagen is wondering where the fishermen come from in this mountainous area? But he vaguely heard the words Yongqu, navy, warship, and miss, and suddenly remembered that the people who were dug by Yu Lao were taking the waterway, and they would definitely pass through Yongqu Township, and they were taking the navy warship. Could it be that these people are talking about them? These men also had weapons in their hands, and most of them were related to the bandits. Maybe the bandits' lair is nearby. When the men walked a little farther, Huang Dagen sent two people to follow them, while the rest waited in place.

In the afternoon, in anxious waiting, the two soldiers who had been following returned. Sure enough, as Huang Dagen expected, the nest of the water bandits in Yongqu Township was in an extremely hidden ravine two miles away from here. No wonder Dong Hu's scouts searched for many times in the plains around Yongqu Township but to no avail, and it turned out that they were hiding in a rootless ravine more than ten miles away from Yongqu Township. According to the tracking soldiers, the ravine where the bandits' lair is located is surrounded by steep mountains, and there is only one exit hidden in the woods, which is extremely difficult for outsiders to find. It's just that the two of them followed to the mouth of the ditch and saw that there were many sentries, so they didn't dare to move forward. According to their observations, there were twenty or thirty houses near the mouth of the ditch in this ditch, and it was estimated that there were at least 100 bandits.