The direction of Meizhou-Jiadingfu was the first reconnaissance team to return. To say that the reconnaissance distance in this direction is the farthest, it only took about 15 days, and the reason for this is that it took the waterway. In ancient times, the land transportation conditions were backward, and the rivers that could be used by boats were the fast passages for travel. To Meizhou and Jiadingfu, if you take the waterway, you only need to go down the Wenjing River from Hengyuan Town, pass through Chongqing, Xinjin and Pengshan, and you can go directly to Meizhou and Jiadingfu. Most of the personnel of the Perak Army are from the Xinjin Army, and the Xinjin Navy is also related to Pengshan, Meizhou, and Jiadingfu Navy. Wu Qing, commander of the reconnaissance company in charge of this direction, with the support of the Xinjin Naval Army, found out the situation clearly in a few days.

Meizhou Jiading Mansion is mostly hilly and mountainous, and the defense of the mountain city where Jiading Mansion is located is not weaker than Diaoyu City, it has never been broken by the Mongolian army, but has repeatedly defeated the Mongolian army, and the disaster of the Mongols is lighter, so the population density and economic situation are better than the Chengdu Plain. The two places with waterway access and the hilly areas are particularly densely populated, and these tuntians are the land of the local families except for the military tun. These clans built forts to resist the harassment of Mongol rangers and bandits, and they also relied on bargaining with the government, and their population and land were not within the scope of the government's grain payment and taxation.

Meizhou is the hometown of the famous "three Su" Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Zhe, nearly 300 miles away from Hengyuan, Jiading Mansion is the Leshan famous for the Big Buddha in later generations, and it is more than 400 miles away from Hengyuan. The reason why Ouyang Xuan sent people to reconnoiter the two places was not only to strengthen trade with the regions along the route and purchase the materials urgently needed by the Perak Army, but also to get in touch with Chongqing Mansion and Lin'an Mansion. Chongqing Prefecture was the military and political center of Sichuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Lin'an was the political center. Although the Southern Song Dynasty court was corrupt, it had a political reputation, and in Ouyang Xuan's plan, if he could get on the line with the central authorities and strive for the official position of a pacification envoy, he could reduce the constraints and interference of corrupt officials such as Pan Tongzhi. This envoy was a position set up by the Southern Song Dynasty to win over semi-independent forces, and its jurisdiction was a state or several states, mostly set up in the Jianghuai region, which had been in the Jin State for a long time, and was not set up after the Jin Dynasty was destroyed. Ouyang Xuan's idea of setting up a pacification envoy can be realized in the upcoming changes in Sichuan.

If according to the original historical trend, Pu Zezhi will be defeated and lose Xichuan, Meng Ge Khan personally led a large army to attack Diaoyu City, and the whole Sichuan is in danger. If Sichuan loses, Jinghu Lake will be lost, and if Jinghu Lake is lost, Lin'an will have no danger to defend. Even if the Mongol army retreated after Meng Ge was killed in the Diaoyu City, the Southern Song Dynasty government in Sichuan only controlled Chongqing and other areas in eastern Sichuan, along the Yangtze River, and Jiading Prefecture in western Sichuan. On the one hand, the Southern Song Dynasty needed to win over the Thunderbolt Army, a sudden force, to resist Mongolia in order to reduce pressure on Chongqing. On the other hand, the long-term war in Sichuan was far away from the center, and the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty had always been very weak. The imperial court was more wary of the leading ministers who went out of Sichuan than trusted, and Yu Jue once recovered the entire territory of Sichuan and made a northern expedition to Hanzhong, but was defeated due to the constraints of the center and the uncooperation of his generals. Letting them fight with their subordinates who hold heavy troops without breaking them is also the result of the deliberate connivance of the central center, and it is also a consistent strategy to prevent Sichuan from controlling and making it bigger. The Southern Song Dynasty court would definitely support other forces to check and balance, in case there were separatist forces.

Not long after Wu Qing returned, he was ordered to go to Huojing County, Qiongzhou. In addition to him and his 100 soldiers, there was also the first company of the field battalion, and Cao Ergou led the army. Looking at this formation, Wu Qing knew that the matter of going to the fire well must be extremely important, otherwise he would not have sent the first company of the field battalion, which was the strongest combat strength of the Thunderbolt Army, to go out. In the Perak Army, although the reconnaissance company of the internal guard battalion led by Dong Hu had the best individual soldier quality and gave priority to the latest grenades and muskets, it was still inferior to the first company of the field battalion in terms of strength because it was not equipped with artillery as a weapon of mass destruction. Ouyang Xuan asked Cao Ergou to lead the two companies with the strongest combat power to go because there was an accident in the direction of Qiongzhou. Yuan Shanhu, the commander of the hoe company in charge of the Qiongzhou-Huojing direction, sent someone back to say that four reconnaissance personnel had been abducted from the Huojing.

The reconnaissance operation in the direction of Qiongzhou was divided into two detachments. The first detachment had 20 people by water, passing through Xinjin City and then going to Yizheng County and Pujiang County, although the distance was long, it saved time and effort. Yuan Shanhu led a second detachment of 30 people, and they traveled by land to Qiongzhou via Dayi County and Anren County. The two teams agreed to meet outside Huojing County. The land route from Yokohara to Qiongzhou is less than 200 miles, and it is said that it only takes two or three days to reach it, but Yuan Shanhu and others took ten days, in addition to detouring to Anren County, there are too many bandits on this road. After the Mongols retreated to Chengdu, Qiongzhou, Anren and other counties were also recovered by Yu Xing of the Jiading prefect, and Dayi County was briefly captured by the Thunderbolt army and then abandoned, and was also occupied by Yu Xing's subordinates, and began to settle fields near the city. The iron smelting and salt industries in Qiongzhou and Huojing, which are most valued by the government, have also begun to resume operation, and the fireworks in the world have been poured out.

In addition to defending Jiading Mansion, Yu Xing's soldiers also had to send troops to attack Chengdu with Pu Zezhi, so there were not many soldiers sent to Qiongzhou. Except for Qiongzhou and Huojing, the soldiers of the rest of the counties are still insufficient to even defend the city, and the countryside is a world of bandits. Although the soldiers of the Perak Army were much higher than the bandits, they did not dare to entangle the bandits because of the task, so they had to rush out of the ground day and night, but even then they were seriously harassed and slowed down the trip. When the two teams met outside the city of Firewell, they had run out of food. The small hillside at the confluence is the camp where the Thunderbolts camped when they first arrived to buy salt, and it was still two or three miles away from the city of Huojing.

Yuan Shanhu had no choice but to send five people to the city to buy grain. According to the requirements of this reconnaissance trip, the Thunderbolt personnel were not allowed to reveal their identities, so when the grain buyers went to the city to buy food, they did not carry weapons such as muskets and grenades. In addition to the high price of grain, the whole process of grain purchase has also gone smoothly. Accidentally, not long after leaving the city gate, the five of them were surrounded by dozens of strong men not far from the city, all of whom were masked and armed with knives, and dared to take hostages less than a mile from the city. The masked man at the head ordered his subordinates to untie the rope of a scout and said: "You are not from Qingcheng Mountain but a Thunderbolt sergeant, go back and tell Ouyang Xuan that this is the boundary of Qiongzhou, if you want these people to live, exchange firearms." With that, he carried the four Perak soldiers towards the mountain.

Yuan Shanhu, who got the news, hurriedly led people forward, but where could he catch up. After the initial panic, he quickly calmed down. He did not rush to send people back to Yokohara Town to report the situation, but first inquired about the origin of this group of people and reported the situation together. After inquiry, the person who kidnapped the Perak soldiers was called Boss Qian, and he was a figure with good hands and eyes in Qiongzhou and Huojing. He and his two brothers have been engaged in the smuggling of salt since they were teenagers, and after nearly 20 years of development, they now have hundreds of subordinates, who are also engaged in businessmen and bandits. He is said to be a merchant because he is not only a smuggler of salt, but also goes to the southwest of Qiongzhou, the western Tibetan tribe and even as far away as Dali to buy and sell, mainly to exchange tea, silk, salt, iron and other goods from the Han land for local medicinal materials, horses and other special products. Although this business route is difficult and dangerous, the profits are extremely lucrative. This trade route, known as the Ancient Tea Horse Road, extended to the Indian Ocean and became the Southern Silk Road.

It is said that Boss Qian is a bandit because in recent years, due to the Mongol invasion of Dali and the Western Tibetan tribes, the original local order has been destroyed, but effective governance has not been established, so that bandits have arisen along the way, seriously blocking the trade route. After Boss Qian lost his money several times, he also started the business of robbing houses and houses, and the first time the Thunderbolt army went to the fire well to buy salt and encountered bandits, he instructed people to rob them. It was only during that robbery that they suffered a heavy loss of the Thunderbolt army's firearms, and it was because of this that he had the idea of getting firearms. With powerful firearms, he is no longer afraid of the robbers who cut the path on the trade road. It's just that the Thunderbolts have extremely strict control over firearms and will not sell them at all. Since you can't buy it, you have to think of another way. As soon as the Thunderbolt soldiers dressed as Taoist priests of Qingcheng Mountain entered the territory of Qiongzhou, they were discovered by his eyeliner. Qian Lao, who was worried that he couldn't get firearms, was overjoyed, so he kidnapped people to blackmail the Thunderbolt army.