Huang Dagen and his entourage had just returned to Wanjiazhai and were about to go to Ouyang Xuan to report the trip, but they saw a few strange men walking out of the Thunderbolt Army Hall with angry faces, and walked out of the village with a snort all the way. Huang Dagen entered the room and saw Ouyang Xuan, Lu Dezhi, Li Shuang, Cao Ergou, Yu Zhu and others talking together, so he gave a general overview of the trip. When talking about using tricks to stabilize Pan Luohuan but slipping away in the night, Ouyang Xuan laughed and said, "It turned out that you coaxed!" No, the Pan Command sent someone to bring artillery."

It turned out that the few strangers who were snorting just now were the messengers of Pan's control. These messengers saw that Ouyang Xuan's attitude was very arrogant, and they first blamed the Thunderbolt army for not having the laws of the imperial court, and then ordered Ouyang Xuan to turn back. Without waiting for Ouyang Xuan to answer and justify, he put forward the conditions for reining in the precipice. Pan's command demanded that the Perak army must release the deserters of the navy army back to the yamen of the navy army in Chongqing Mansion - that is, Pan Luohuan; return the people who had been taken captive from Chongqing City; Contribute money and efforts to rebuild the burned facilities in the city, especially the government offices; In addition to providing 20 artillery pieces and ammunition for the defense of Chongqing Fucheng, 50 firearms craftsmen and tools were also sent to the Fucheng......

These harsh requirements of Pan Tong were said so smoothly and smoothly in the mouth of the envoy, and there was no sense of disobedience, in Ouyang Xuan's opinion, it was simply a lack of people's hearts. Ouyang Xuan knew that if Pan's control changed his humble posture in the past, it was nothing more than that Chongqing Mansion City had been obtained, and now there was no need for the Thunderbolt Army. And although Pu Zezhi has not yet captured Chengdu, the situation is very good. If Ouyang Xuan didn't know how to lift, and when he defeated the Xichuan Mongol army, he asked Pu Dashuai to send an elite to level the Thunderbolt army in one fell swoop. This kind of careful thinking of Pan Tong has already been understood by Ouyang Xuan, in his eyes, Pan Tong is so contemptible and ridiculous, and these high-spirited envoys are so ignorant and fearless. It's just that he was too lazy to bother to speak, and directly threw down the sentence "Please return to Pan's rule, forgive Ouyang Xuan for not obeying his orders", and ordered someone to drive the messenger away directly.

Pan commanded such a sky-high asking price, not that he wanted to force the Thunderbolt army to rebel now and find an excuse for the next attack, but he mainly wanted to force Ouyang Xuan to bargain on the spot, and had to spit out some of the benefits. How did he know that Ouyang Xuan didn't eat his set at all, and dared to directly tear his face and flip the table. In Ouyang Xuan's eyes, it was impossible to agree to any of the above conditions. Escort the attached navy back? - Impossible. Who will defect to the Thunderbolts after doing so? Return the people who have been taken captive from Chongqing City? ——These people couldn't stand the oppression of the government and took the initiative to defect; Contribute money and efforts to rebuild the government? - The facilities in the city that were burned down were set on fire by the Mongols, and Pan Commander should have gone to find the Mongols; Artillery and ammunition and craftsmen? - This is the core secret of the Thunderbolt Army, and it must not be provided. Moreover, now the Thunderbolt artillery itself is not enough, and the ammunition is still short of raw materials.

As for the population that Ouyang Xuan didn't want to receive before due to lack of food, it doesn't seem to be a burden now. Chongqing Mansion City is a big city after all, although the war of the past twenty years has made it decaying, but there are also 3,000 nails in the rotten ship. In the process of screening people one by one, the Perak Army unexpectedly found that among the refugees who defected this time, in addition to craftsmen from various industries, there were even many managers, and many of them had read and could read, and these were all talents who were urgently needed in the mountains. Especially the dozens of people with management experience, which made Li Shuang even more happy. Since he took over the political affairs of the Perak Army, he has been limited by the lack of management personnel, which not only keeps him and Lu Dezhi, Yang Xiucai and others busy, but also makes some work inefficient and slow due to lack of management. With a little training, the scholars and managers among these refugees can be enriched into various industries to participate in management.

But while population is the most important resource, the absence of food can be a burden. With so many people added at once, food became a big problem, which made Ouyang Xuan very troubled. In fact, since the autumn, he has put forward the slogan of taking grain as the key, in addition to reclaiming wasteland and buying food everywhere, he also has all the Perak soldiers involved in hunting. On the one hand, this was to protect the newly opened farmland from the destruction of wild beasts, and on the other hand, it was also to train the army through hunting. The powerful firearms made the beasts of the mountains unlucky, and they were either killed or banished deeper into the mountains. During these months, the Thunderbolts hunted a lot of bison, takin, rock asses, wild boars, wild sheep, muntjacs, pheasants and other wild beasts, and even hunted a dozen jackals and a few black bears and black and white bears, which Ouyang Xuan called pandas. Of course, the number of wild boars among the prey is the largest, capturing more than 200 large and small. The meat was smoked and hoarded, mainly for the needs of heavy personnel such as marching and mining. After the population increased, there was only enough food in the mountains until June. If the Thunderbolts were stationed in the plains below, there would be no food problems, and the plains below would be able to harvest two crops and summer grain in May. However, the climate in the mountains is cold and there is not enough sunlight, so the harvest can only be harvested in autumn every year, which leaves a three-month food shortage.

When Huang Dagen talked about finding mango nitrate in Yixing Township to no avail, and when he stumbled upon the water bandits' nest on the way back, Dong Hu slapped his thigh and shouted: "It turns out that the search has been fruitless for a long time, and it turned out to be hiding in a rootless ravine." When Cao Ergou heard this, he immediately asked for troops to be sent to exterminate the water bandits and avenge Li Shuang and the other dead and injured brothers, and other personnel also echoed him. To say that this water bandit is entrenched in the critical position of Yongqu Township, not to mention repeatedly harassing the Perak army, but also killed and injured several Perak soldiers, and even Li Shuang was disabled by the water bandit's spear pierced in the thigh, which caused the Thunderbolt army to be extremely angry.

Everyone's thoughts are exactly what Ouyang Xuan thinks in his heart, exterminating the water bandits who are the party to the disaster can not only make the golden waterway of Wenjing River unblocked, but also give the water army from Xinjin City a place to stand. The attached navy brought 20 warships, which are now temporarily parked in the river outside Yokohara Town, but this section of the river is not wide, and although there is no problem with boating, it cannot give full play to the combat power of the navy. The wide river in Yongqu Township and below is the most ideal battlefield for the naval army. Ouyang Xuan knew that in the future battle against the Mongols, the naval army would play a vital role. Only by eliminating the water bandits can Yongqu Township be completely controlled, and with a solid base, the newly established Thunderbolt Army can develop and grow. At this time, Lu Dezhi and Li Shuang proposed that this time the bandits should not only be suppressed in the rootless mountain, but should also be eliminated from the surrounding bandits, and Ouyang Xuan also agreed. At present, it is the agricultural slack season, Pu Zezhi is raising the whole Sichuan army to attack Chengdu City, the Mongols are busy shrinking their forces to defend, and the prefectures and counties they occupy in western Sichuan are empty, which is an excellent opportunity for the Perak army, on the one hand, it can train troops by eradicating bandits, and on the other hand, it is to grab food by fighting to feed the war.