It is said that Dong Hu is also quite troublesome to suppress bandits in the ravine behind Yongkang City. Before setting off, the Thunderbolts detected that the bandits were hiding in the plum blossom village in the ravine. These mountain bandits were originally Xiong Ben's subordinates, and after some infighting, they re-launched a new leader, and used Xiong Ben's buried property to buy the head of the plum blossom village, and then took root in the plum blossom village. This ravine behind Yongkang City is only more than 20 miles long, there are seven small villages of about 300 people, Meihua Village is located in the deepest part of the ravine, and it is also the largest village, with a population of nearly 100 people.

Dong Hu and his entourage set off from Yongkang City, followed the Weijiang River on the edge of the city and went upstream, and arrived at Meihua Village in half a day. Dong Hu took two companies with him on this trip, and the number of combatants was more than the total number of the cottage, but it still took three days to almost run out of ammunition before forcing Meihuazhai to surrender. The reason for this is that this plum blossom village is located on the top of Fengqi Mountain, the slope is high, the road is steep, the terrain is steep, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also because the two companies it brings are not good at attacking fortifications. The No. 6 Company of the Field Battalion was established not long ago, and the hoe company mainly trained in special operations such as assassination and ambush. In the first two days of the attack on Meihua Village, the shelling of the Perak Army only left shallow bullet marks on the stone wall of Meihua Village. It was not until the third day that he explored effective use techniques, and made full use of the curved trajectory of the tiger squat cannon to inflict heavy casualties on the people in the village, forcing the Meihua Village to open the door and surrender.

After the Thunderbolt Army took over the Meihua Village, they couldn't find the bandit leader and the head of the village, and they found someone to repeatedly identify more than a dozen corpses on the ground, but they still still couldn't find the head of the village and the head of the bandit. After repeated interrogation of the villagers, it was learned that the bandit leader and the village leader had fled from the secret gate with several recalcitrant bandits. Before leaving, Ouyang Xuan gave Dong Hu two tasks, one was to see if he could buy food in this mountain, and the other was to eliminate all evil. Judging from the current situation, the first task cannot be completed. On the way to Meihua Village, Dong Hu sent people to various villages to buy grain, but he did not buy a grain of grain. This is because this ravine has few people and few fields, and it can't produce much grain, and the main thing is that it is too close to Yongkang City, and it has long been scraped clean by the bandits sent by Xiong Ben, and the people in each village are hungry because of lack of food. In fact, Meihua Village is also short of food because of the addition of more than 30 mountain bandits, but the head of the village has collected the property but the villagers have suffered.

After conquering Meihua Village, Dong Hu decided to confiscate the property of those who colluded with the mountain bandits, and the rest of the people would not be held accountable, and even distributed the captured mountain bandit rations to the people of Meihua Village, which made the villagers very happy. Defeated the plum blossom village but ran away from the bandits, this was obviously not completing the second task assigned by Ouyang Xuan. The grain particles were not obtained and the bandit leader escaped, how to explain to Brother Xuan? In desperation, Xia Hu had to divide the soldiers into teams of ten people, and under the leadership of the Meihua villagers, they searched for the hiding place of the fugitives in the nearby mountains. It's just that in the reckless mountains, how easy is it to find a few people who are hiding?

The Perak soldiers searched for another five days but still found nothing, and the whole day of searching in the mountains exhausted the soldiers and made Dong Hu restless. On this day, when he returned to the village after the search, one of the villagers who was searching with the team asked to see him. This villager named Liu Deyong is quite prestigious in the plum blossom village, but he was also suppressed by the head of the village everywhere, and after the Thunderbolt army took over the plum blossom village, he volunteered to become the guide of a search team of the Thunderbolt army. "Lord Dong, Xiaomin thinks that the Fengqi Temple should be searched."

Liu Yongde said that the Fengqi Temple is on another hill five miles away from the plum blossom village, there are two monks in it, an old man and a young man, affected by the war and banditry, the incense of the temple is becoming more and more deserted. Dong Hu, as the intelligence leader of the Perak Army, of course knew that it was very likely that the fugitives were hiding in Fengqi Temple, so he sent Tang Xiangwei, the commander of the sixth company, to search several times, and there was nothing abnormal. "Lord Dong, the ice and snow in the mountains have not melted now, and the survival of wild beasts is still difficult. How can we survive without food? The hiding place in this vicinity has been searched several times and there is no trace, so I expect them to be hiding in the temple. Adults can send people to lurk around the temple, and they will definitely be rewarded. ”

Liu Yongde's words made Dong Hu thoughtful, and immediately sent a hoe and a squad to lurk around Fengqi Temple at night. Sure enough, in the middle of the night two days later, the fugitives who came out of their hideouts were caught by the lurking Perak soldiers, and they were all killed in the face of stubborn resistance. These fugitives were indeed hiding in a hidden cave in Fengqi Temple, and they only came out in the middle of the night every day to move their muscles and bones, and the food was naturally provided by the two monks. This result made Dong Hu annoyed and helpless, annoyed that this old and young monk actually dared to harbor bandits, but helplessly even if it was not a threat of escapees, but out of the psychology of indiscriminate good people to do such stupid things, these two monks could not be punished for this. After thinking about it again and again, Dong Hu ordered people to confiscate the big bronze bell and other bronze magic utensils in Fengqi Temple. He often listened to Ouyang Xuan talk about the lack of copper, these bronze artifacts are estimated to be hundreds of catties, and they can be transported back to see if they can alleviate Brother Xuan'er's troubles.

Before returning to Hengyuan Town, Dong Hu appointed Liu Yongde as the new head of Meihua Village, and assisted the Perak Army in managing the remaining six small villages in Fengqi Mountain, to which the people of Meihua Village and each village expressed their obedience. To say that this obedience is not a threat from the Thunderbolt Army, but because Ouyang Xuan is also the commander of Yongkang County, as his representative, Dong Hu naturally has the right to manage the civil affairs of this territory.

As soon as Dong Hu returned to Hengyuan Town, he received a new order - Tuntian Spring Planting, and he saw that the construction scene of Hengyuan Fort, which was in full swing before, had become much more deserted. You must know that the construction of Hengyuan Fort is the top priority of the Thunderbolt Army at present, in addition to Ouyang Xuan, Li Shuang, Lu Dezhi, Yu Zhu and other high-level Thunderbolt Army leaders are all involved. Due to the huge construction of the fort, in addition to the 500 workers of the construction company, 1,000 migrant workers were also dispatched to assist in the construction. In addition to the guard company of the internal guard battalion and the first company of the field battalion, three companies of the garrison battalion were also assigned to assist in the protection and construction project.

The construction process of Yokohara Fort was very fast, and the ground ring beams and foundation were poured and the foundation was rammed in a short time. However, at present, only the team transporting construction materials continues to be busy, and only a few technicians are left on the construction site, and the rest of the personnel are said to have gone to cultivate the land. On the way to meet Ouyang Xuan, Dong Hu saw Le Quanan leading a team of soldiers carrying a large number of farm tools. He knew that Le Quanan was the commander of the navy company under Huang Dagen, so he asked what was the use of carrying farm tools? From Le Quan'an's mouth, he learned that this farm tool was used for cultivation in the rootless mountain. It turned out that not only he had received an order from Tuntian, but other high-ranking members of the Thunderbolt Army had also received an order from Ouyang Xuan. Now the Thunderbolt army is making every effort to open up the wasteland and prepare for farming.