It is said that Dong Hu had a lot of trouble suppressing the bandits in the ravine behind Yongkang City. Before setting off, the Pili Army detected that the bandits were hiding in Meihua Village in the ravine. These bandits were originally Xiong Ben's men, and they passed by After the internal strife, a new leader was introduced, and the head of Meihua Village was bribed with Xiong Ben's buried property, and he took root in Meihua Village. The ravine behind Yongkang City is only more than 20 miles long, and there are seven small villages. There are about 300 people. Meihua Village is located in the deepest part of the ravine and is also the largest village with a population of nearly 100 people.

Dong Hu and his party set out from Yongkang City and followed the Wei River upstream of the city. They arrived at Meihua Village in half a day. Dong Hu brought two companies with him on this trip. There were more combatants than the total number of people in the village, but it still took three days. After a while, they almost ran out of ammunition before forcing Meihua Village to surrender. The reason for this is not only because Meihua Village is located at the top of Fengqi Mountain, with high slopes and steep roads, making it difficult to defend and difficult to attack, but also because it has two soldiers. The companies are not good at attacking fortresses. The Sixth Company of the Field Battalion was established not long ago, and the Anti-Corruption Company mainly trains assassinations, ambushes and other special operations. Both companies have little experience in using light tiger crouching artillery to attack fortresses. In the first two days of the attack on Meihua Village , the Pili Army's shelling only left shallow bullet marks on the wall of Meihua Village's Shitou Village. It was not until the third day that effective usage techniques were explored, and the curved trajectory of the Tiger Crouching Cannon was fully utilized to cause heavy damage to the personnel in the village, forcing Meihua Village opened its doors and surrendered.

After the Perak Army took over Meihua Village, they searched left and right but could not find the bandit leader and the village leader. They also asked people to repeatedly identify more than a dozen corpses on the ground, but still could not find the village leader and the bandit leader. After repeated questioning of the villagers, they learned that the bandit leader and the village leader were not found. The leader had already escaped through the secret door with several stubborn bandits. Before setting off, Ouyang Xuan gave Dong Hu two tasks. One was to see if food could be purchased in the mountains, and the other was to eliminate evil. Judging from the current situation, Look, 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 there are few people and little land in this valley. It can't produce much food. What's more, it's too close to Yongkang City and has long been wiped out by the bandit soldiers sent by Xiong Ben. The people in each village are so hungry that they are emaciated due to lack of food. In fact, Meihua Village has also lost weight because of the new There were more than 30 bandits and there was a shortage of food. However, the leader of the village collected the property, but the villagers suffered a lot.

After the Meihua Village was captured, Dong Hu decided not to pursue the property of those who had colluded with the bandits except for confiscating their belongings. He also distributed the captured bandits' rations to the people of Meihua Village, which made the villagers very happy. However, the bandit leader escaped from Meihua Village. This was obviously because he failed to complete the second task assigned by Ouyang Xuan. The bandit leader escaped before getting the grain pellets. How to explain to Brother Xuan? In desperation, Xia Hu had to divide the soldiers into ten people. A small team, led by the people of Meihua Village, searched for the hiding place of the fugitives in the nearby mountains. But in the vast mountains, it was not easy to find a few hiding people.

The soldiers of the Perak Army searched for another five days but still found nothing. Searching in the mountains all day made the soldiers exhausted and made Dong Hu restless. On this day, when the search was completed and they returned to the stronghold, there was a man who accompanied the search team. The villagers asked to see him. This villager named Liu Deyong was quite prestigious in Meihua Village, but he was suppressed by the village leader everywhere. After the Perak Army took over Meihua Village, he volunteered to become the guide of a search team of the Perak Army. " Mr. Dong and Xiaomin believe that the search for Fengqi Temple should be focused."

The Fengqi Temple mentioned by Liu Yongde is on another hill five miles away from Meihua Village. There are two monks, an old one and a young one. Affected by the war and banditry, the temple's incense has become increasingly deserted. Dong Hu, as the intelligence chief of the Perak Army,

Of course, he knew that there was a high possibility that the fugitives were hiding in Fengqi Temple. For this reason, he sent the sixth company commander Tang Xiangwei to search several times, but nothing abnormal was found. "Master Dong, the ice and snow in the mountains have not yet melted, and it is still difficult for wild animals to survive. The bandit leaders escaped.

After being in the mountains for many days, we must have run out of food. How can we survive without food? The nearby hiding place has been searched many times and there are no traces. I guess they must be hiding in the temple. Your Excellency can send people to lurk around the temple.

Something will be gained.”

Liu Yongde's words made Dong Hu think deeply, and he immediately sent a squadron of the anti-trafficking company to lurk around Fengqi Temple at night. Sure enough, at midnight two days later, the fugitives who came out of their hiding place for air were caught by the lurking Perak Army soldiers.

They were all beaten to death despite stubborn resistance. As expected, these fugitives hid in a secret cave in Fengqi Temple. They only came out in the middle of the night to stretch their muscles and bones, and the food was naturally provided by the two monks. This result made

Dong Hu was annoyed and helpless. What was annoying was that this old and young monk actually dared to harbor bandits. What was helpless was that even if it was not a threat from the escaped bandits, but a stupid thing done out of a good-hearted mentality, he could not be punished for it.

The two monks thought about it again and again, and Dong Hu ordered people to confiscate the big bronze bell of Fengqi Temple and other bronze ritual instruments. He often heard Ouyang Xuan talking about the lack of copper. These bronze instruments were estimated to weigh several hundred kilograms.

, transport it back to see if it can alleviate Brother Xuan's worries.

Before returning to Hengyuan Town, Dong Hu appointed Liu Yongde as the new head of Meihua Village and assisted the Pili Army in managing the other six villages in Fengqi Mountain. The people of Meihua Village and each village obeyed. To say that this kind of obedience was not

The threat from the Perak Army was due to the fact that Ouyang Xuan was also the magistrate of Yongkang County. As his representative, Dong Hu naturally had the authority to manage the civil affairs of this territory.

As soon as Dong Hu returned to Hengyuan Town, he received a new order - spring planting in the fields, and he saw that the previously bustling construction scene of Hengyuan Fort had become much deserted. You must know that the construction of Hengyuan Fort is the top priority of the Pili Army at the moment. In addition to

Ouyang Xuanwai, Li Shuang, Lu Dezhi, Yu Zhu and other top brass of the Perak Army were all involved. Due to the huge scale of the fort building project, in addition to the 500 workers from the construction company, a thousand migrant workers were also mobilized to assist in the construction. In addition to those responsible for protecting the construction project,

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 deployed to take charge of auxiliary work.

The construction process of Hengyuan Fort is very fast, and the ring beams have been poured and the foundation has been laid in a short period of time. However, currently only the team transporting building materials continues to be busy, and only a few technical personnel and other personnel are left on the construction site.

It is said that they all went to open up wasteland and farm. On the way to see Ouyang Xuan, Dong Hu saw Le Quan'an leading a group of soldiers to carry a large number of farm tools. He knew that Le Quan'an was the navy company commander under Huang Dagen, so he asked

What is the use of carrying farm tools? From Le Quan'an's mouth, he learned that these farm tools were used for land reclamation and farming in Wugen Mountain. It turned out that not only he had received the order to farm, but other senior Perak Army officials had also received orders from Ouyang Xuan. Now the Perak Army is in charge
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