After Lu Dezhi's funeral was over, Ouyang Xuan hurried back, and his original plan to visit the old man Wang had to be abandoned. Because not long after he left Chongqing Mansion, a messenger chased after him with three urgent military information, and delivered the letter before he entered the mountain. Although there were post posts along the way, the horses were still foaming at the mouth, and the messengers were tired. Ouyang Xuan read the letter, so he simply drafted a reply and asked the messenger to bring it back to the staff headquarters, and ordered Shi Zhongshu, Yang Bangxian and Zeng Yong to rush to Hengyuan Fort, and after he went down the mountain, he would further discuss countermeasures. The three emergency military messages came from Maozhou, Banzhou, and Luzhou, and were ostensibly about trade, but in fact they were about politics and the military, and they needed to be discussed face-to-face.

The letter from Maozhou was a request for approval of the reconquest of Songzhou. At present, although the two prefectures of Weimao are still governed by local Qiang and Tibetan officials, their political economy has been integrated with the Thunderbolt army. The Thunderbolt Army not only cooperated with Weizhou and Maozhou to open mines, but also built a commercial and trade base in Taoping, and there was a special company and hundreds of caravan guards and other forces. The resulting peace and economic dividends made local officials and citizens welcome the presence of the Thunderbolts and openly rebelled against the Mongols. The Mongol army also tried to recapture the two prefectures, but had to give up for the time being after repeated losses. The Mongol regime under Kublai Khan has always been mercantile and did not ban border trade, and Weimao has close people-to-people contacts with Songzhou. Songzhou is located at the junction of mountains and valleys and grasslands, and like Weimao, it is half farming and half pastoral, and needs tea, salt, cloth and other daily necessities and iron tools, as well as a large amount of food, while the Thunderbolt army needs fur, Chinese medicinal materials, meat, cattle and horses from Songzhou and the grasslands.

The trade in furs, meat, and Chinese medicinal herbs was not large, and the largest trade in cattle and horses was forbidden by the Mongols, which kept the trade between Songzhou and Weimao in a state of overabundance for a long time. The people of Songzhou have to spend a lot of money every year to buy necessities, which makes life more and more impoverished. But no matter how poor you are, you have to buy tea and food, which are just needed. The inhabitants of Songzhou and Weimao were of the same race, but while they were struggling under Mongol rule, in addition to being oppressed by knocking on the bones and sucking the birds, they would also have a leather whip fall on their heads at any time; On the one hand, under the management of the Thunderbolt army, even the dog has smooth skin. "People are more angry than people", compared to the people of Songzhou, they are not only complaining about the Mongols, but simply hating them. Therefore, many people secretly contacted the Perak army and demanded that the Mongolian army be driven out of Songzhou.

In order to dispel the doubts of the Perak army, the local tribal leaders and leaders in Songzhou also offered to send their children to study at the military school in Chongqing Province, essentially acting as hostages. At present, these young people are already in the city of Maozhou, and the counter-espionage personnel of the Perak Army have confirmed that these young people are the sons of the leaders and leaders of various departments, and many of them are sons. Shi Zhongshu, who was in charge of the defense of the Fan District, asked whether to send troops to Songzhou. According to intelligence, the defensive force of the Mongol army in Songzhou consisted of 500 Mongolian cavalry and 500 dissident soldiers. Due to the small size of the city, only 100 of the 500 Mongol cavalry were stationed in the city, and the remaining 400 were stationed in a sheltered valley five miles north of the city. Songzhou is vast and sparsely populated, with a total population of less than 10,000 people, and it is really difficult to feed a thousand troops, so those soldiers are poor and even poor. The Songzhou tribe has already said that as soon as the Thunderbolt army arrives, the Fan soldiers in the city will fight against the Mongol army.

The mountain brigade under Shi Zhongshu has two reinforced battalions and one mobile battalion, each with 600 people, and one special company and one reconnaissance company respectively. This time, he prepared to go out to Maozhou before the motor battalion and a reinforced battalion. Songzhou City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the strong attack must have huge losses, so Shi Zhongshu's plan is to divide the troops into two night attacks. The first route army consisted of fifty Tibetan and Qiang soldiers selected from the army, and they would disguise themselves as caravans and infiltrate the city of Songzhou, and work together with the Tibetan soldiers to deal with the Mongol cavalry in the city. On the second route, he personally led two special companies and two reconnaissance companies, and the locals led the way to attack the Mongol cavalry in the Wuli Valley outside the city. This plan was basically approved by the General Staff, and the reason why it was said to be basic was because the General Staff put forward an additional request: to capture as many war horses as possible. According to intelligence, the Mongol cavalry stationed in Songzhou was not one man and two horses, but one man and one horse, because the battle between Kublai Khan and Ali Buge was fierce, and the Mongolian army's war horses were also drastically reduced.

Ouyang Xuan also agreed to the plan to seize Songzhou. The reason why it is called seizure and not recovery is because since the Tang Dynasty, Songzhou has been outside the Central Plains Dynasty. The military position of Songzhou is extremely important, it belongs to the throat of the junction of agriculture and the grassland zone, from then on to the north through the grassland area, you can go to Hehuang and Longyou, to the south along the high mountains and narrow valleys can pass through the two prefectures of Weimao to reach the western Sichuan Plain, Tang and Tubo have repeatedly fought for this place. In this way, the Thunderbolt army could advance the defense depth of the two states of Weimao more than 300 miles northward, and they could also obtain a steady stream of war horses from the adjacent grasslands. At present, in the direction of the archery furnace, because Zeyang has two grassland tribes and buys them from other grassland tribes at a high price, he can buy more than 200 war horses every month. On the other hand, the number of war horses purchased from the direction of Songzhou is less than 30 per month, and these war horses are smuggled by small roads, which are not only of uneven quality, but also much more expensive.

The second urgent military information was sent back from Luzhou by the caravan of the Nanyang Company - Liu Cheng detained the caravan of the Perak army. Because of the importance of the matter, Ran Zhong sent the letter to the staff under Yang Yan's arrangement, and after Zeng Yong read it, he sent someone to petition Ouyang Xuan to make a decision. Previously, when Yu Xing banned the caravan of the Nanyang Company, he demanded that all localities also abide by this decree in the name of the Sichuan Preparation Division, but the military leaders of various places, including Liu Quan, did not implement it. On the one hand, it was due to the prestige of the Perak Army and the Banzhou Army, especially the Nanyang Company's fleet playing under the Banzhou flag, and the Yang family was deeply favored; On the other hand, it is also the people in the states and counties under the rule who need these goods and can receive taxes, where will they be unable to live with money?

The implementation of the plan law made Liu Chengru sit on pins and needles, especially after hearing that Xiang Shibi died in prison and his wife and children were still tortured about their property, he couldn't sleep at night. After failing to bribe Yu Xing, he listened to the advice of his staff, personally brought a heavy gift to Yu Xing's mother in Jiangling Mansion, and begged Yu's mother to come forward and let Yu Xing let him go. Yu Xing, who knew that he had always been filial, was determined to put him to death, and he refused to listen to his mother's advice this time. In desperation, Liu Quan had no choice but to send people with money and property to Lin'an to lobby Jia Nidao and other high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China, and on the other hand, he ordered people to seize the fleet of the Nanyang Company passing through his jurisdiction, so as to express his submission to Yu Xing.

The reason why Liu Cheng went out to be enemies of the Perak Army and the Banzhou Army was, on the one hand, to show his political attitude, and at the same time to present the seized property, in the hope that Yu Xing would change his mind. On the other hand, it was also revenge for Ouyang Xuan's refusal to help him get out of trouble. Some time ago, he had sent a messenger to Ouyang Xuan to ask for financial support. It's just that the amount of money he opened was too big, and Li Shuang was so shocked that he almost jumped when he heard the number. Ouyang Xuan was reluctant to help him, not only because he was too greedy, but also because Liu Cheng was unruly and capricious, a villain who could fight, and he couldn't integrate into the system of the Thunderbolt Army at all.