As soon as the Pili Army navy warships approached Guankou Village, the defenders fled. First, news of the tragic defeat of Hengyuan Fort reached Guankou Village, and then the secret leader Huoli led the defeated army to retreat from the Daojiang City Ferry 20 miles downstream.

Going to Chengdu, people in the village were already in panic.

Just before the Pili Army warships arrived, the 200 Mongolian cavalry guarding the stronghold received orders to withdraw to Pengzhou, leaving only 500 new attached troops to guard the stronghold.

Seeing the Mongols retreating, how could these new auxiliary troops be left behind to eat artillery shells? They all rushed to the door and fled in all directions. Some chased the Mongolian cavalry, some fled along the official road to Wei and Mao prefectures, and some fled in.

There were about a hundred new auxiliary troops in the nearby mountains and forests who simply came towards the river and simply surrendered.

Huang Dagen sent people to accompany the troops to take over the village, and left some warships to assist. He himself patrolled the Jinma River with his ships to prevent the Mongolian army from counterattacking.

The task given to him by Ouyang Xuan was to guard the river from Guankou Village to Xinjin City and cut off the Mongolian troops on both sides of the Jinma River to ensure the next military operation of the Perak Army.

After the Battle of Hengyuan Fort, Ouyang Xuan immediately convened a joint military and political meeting. According to the strategy of the meeting, the Perak Army will use water forces to control the Jinma River, Wenjing River and Nanhe waterways. Under this premise, they will seize Pujiang City and attack Chongqing Mansion.

And the encirclement of the Mongolian army in Qiongzhou formed a trend of closing the door and beating the dog.

To say that this strategy is indeed bold enough, the encirclement area covers three prefectures (states and armies) and ten counties, with a population of about 100,000, about 3 million acres of fertile land, and 30 Mongolian army strongholds and newly attached army settlement points.

More than one.

These three places belong to the core area of ​​the Kingdom of Abundance, and the Mongolian army also attaches great importance to this fertile land. Even though the secret fire has almost all the available troops to besiege the Perak Army, 800 cavalry are still stationed here, and the two new auxiliary troops are stationed here.

Thousands of people.

After the Battle of Hengyuan Fort, the 300 cavalry stationed in Chongqing Fucheng fled back to Chengdu. There were still 500 elite Mongolian cavalry and 2,000 new auxiliary troops in the encirclement, which was still a combat force that should not be underestimated.

If a field battle occurs in the wild, even a full-strength Perak Army will be in danger. In view of the characteristics of the Mongolian Army in the encirclement, the plan formulated by the General Staff is to first use the main force to attack Qiongzhou City while ensuring control of the Nanhe waterway.

At the same time, the Mongolian army sent partial divisions to attack and capture small towns such as Yizheng, Dayi, Huojing and other new army settlement points, so that the Mongolian army could not look after each other.

After the military and political joint meeting, Ouyang Xuan led his army to Qiongzhou. In addition to the naval forces of Le Quan'an and Liao Nilu's tribe, the main force of the troops attacking Qiongzhou was the field battalion that was already gearing up.

In this battle of Yokoyuan Fort, the navy showed great splendor again, which gave the field battalion, which regarded itself as the main force of the Perak Army, a sense of crisis. In Cao Ergou's words, if the field battalion did not make achievements, it would have to look up to the navy brothers.

They went to Qiongzhou this time with great efforts, showing that they moved ammunition to the ship vigorously when loading the ship, and also tried to carry heavy artillery on the ship, which made Le Quan'an jump in panic - the ship had too much equipment.

It will sink.

In the end, it was Ouyang Xuan who came forward to suppress the dispute: the field camp only carried light artillery and only three bases of ammunition. As for fire support, it was provided by navy warships.

After the field battalion went to Qiongzhou, the task of guarding Hengyuan Fort was left to the inner guard battalion. Dong Hu and the inner guard battalion did not have an easy time during this period. In addition to guarding Hengyuan Fort, more than 10,000 new auxiliary troops and soldiers surrendered.

The workload of screening civilians was too great, and it was impossible to screen them one by one in a short period of time. They had to use cheap measures such as reporting rewards and mutual guarantees. In this way, dozens of heinous individuals and Mongolian spies were discovered.

It is estimated that there are at least hundreds of such people who are hidden deep enough and cannot be discovered for the time being. The guilty people after screening will naturally work in the mines, and a few old, weak, sick and disabled people will be placed in Wugen Mountain and Hengyuan Village, and others will surrender.

Zhou Jianshen, the leader of the new auxiliary army, was also authorized by Ouyang Xuan to select 500 elites from the new auxiliary army to form a reformation battalion to accompany the army.

As for most of the reformed soldiers and civilians, they have more arduous work-building forts and strongholds.

According to the division of labor at the Military-Government Joint Meeting, Yu Zhu was responsible for this work. Since Li Shuang, who was in charge of government affairs, had inconvenient legs, and he would also be planning many complicated matters for the industrial layout and political power construction at the foot of the mountain, he was really busy.

If it weren't for the assistance of Yang Xiucai, Lu Dezhi, Li San'er and others, he would have been extremely busy just dealing with the converted population and the captured grain.

Since the autumn harvest season will be in one month, everything must make way for the harvest of food. Therefore, Ouyang Xuan's request to Yu Zhu was to establish a series of strongholds along the Jinma River before the autumn harvest, which made Yu Zhu look solemn.

The core of Ouyang Xuan's plan for Yu Zhu to build a river defense is to transform Guankou Village and build it into a strong fort like Hengyuan Fort. At the same time, he also needs to build strongholds in Daojiang County and Jiangyuan County.

In addition to building a small fortress at Sandu River, a naval dock will also be built. After the autumn harvest, these laborers will turn to strengthening Pujiang City and building a series of strongholds along the Nanhe River.

After these works are completed, we must also assist in the construction of industrial facilities in the plain... Although these projects are all along the river, cement, wood and other building materials can be transported through efficient waterways, and they are safe and protected by the naval gunboats led by Huang Dagen.

, but management and coordination are still extremely arduous, so Yu Zhu brought ten basic companies of the garrison battalion with him this time.

This was not only to prevent someone from inciting trouble, but also to prevent harassment by bandits, and also to clean up the remnants of the Mongolian army heading to Guankou Village and other places.

Currently, the Mongolian troops in Daojiang County and Jiangyuan County have fled under naval bombardment. On the way to Hengyuan Fort to build a stronghold, there are still new auxiliary troops stationed in Yongkang County and Qingcheng County.

After the Mongols defeated Pu Zhezhi and reoccupied the two cities, they recruited bandits from the mountains to cooperate with the old, weak and new auxiliary troops to defend the city.

Although the ten basic companies led by Yu Zhu are considered to be the second-line troops of the Perak Army, they are more than enough to deal with these ragtag groups.

After instructing Li Shuang and Dong Hu on matters related to the mountain, Ouyang Xuan took the field camp and the reformed camp down the river from Hengyuan Fort by boat.

When passing by Chongqing Fucheng, he ordered Zhou Jianshen to lead the Guizheng camp to recruit the defenders. When the Mongolian cavalry defending the city escaped, the 500 new auxiliary troops in the city also tried to escape to Chengdu. However, they marched slowly and reached Sandu.

When he was in the water, he was beaten back by the warships of the Perak Army.

Now the newly attached soldiers in the city are anxious. Seeing the mighty warships in the river, they know that they can't hold on and there is no way to retreat. Now that Zhou Jianshen has built a ladder to go down, how can he not surrender?

Most of the 500 newly attached troops left the city and surrendered. There were also dozens of people who joined the Mongolian army and did a lot of bad things. Knowing that the Perak army would not take them lightly, they escaped secretly.

Subduing the enemy's troops without fighting, a political offensive that seemed to be a win-win situation for both sides, made Cao Ergou on the ship quite puzzled.

In his opinion, these wallflowers who are greedy for life and afraid of death are really hateful, and they should be allowed to taste the power of the new field artillery.

For this reason, Ouyang Xuan gave him a hard lesson. If he killed indiscriminately, it would only make the new annexed troops resist desperately, and at the same time, it would also consume the strength of the Thunderbolt Army.

Not to mention that labor is an extremely important resource, even if the Perak Army captures Chongqing Fucheng without any damage, it will consume a lot of ammunition.

The raid on Chengdu and the Battle of Yokoyuan Fort had almost exhausted ammunition. In fact, the production capacity of the Pili Army's arsenal was not saturated, mainly because the production capacity of nitrate was far from keeping up with demand.

Therefore, Ouyang Xuan gave Zhou Jianshen who was accompanying him the task, in addition to recruiting surrender, he also had to go to various cities and settlement points to scrape salt from the houses.

Ouyang Xuan also knew that scraping saltpeter was only a drop in the bucket. To truly solve the problem of saltpeter shortage, on the one hand, he had to find mineral sources. He had ordered the mining company to be prepared. Once the Mongolian army was annihilated, he would send people to Qingcheng County, Dayi County and Qiong County.

Linqiong County and Huojing County in the prefecture went to search for minerals.
Chapter completed!