During the several days of offensive and defensive battle, both the soldiers of Wendeng Camp and the young and strong in the city suffered a lot. As the governor of Ninghai, Gao Maocai became the most tiring person in the city after the war ended. He led the officers back and forth to comfort the people and treat the casualties, and was very busy.

Huang Fei personally led two thousand soldiers to pursue the pirates, while Zhou Xian stayed in Ninghai to stabilize the situation. He divided the remaining soldiers into two parts, one mainly used the Laizhou camp led by Tan Shimai, and entered Ninghai City to help Gao Maocai stabilize the situation. The other part mainly used the soldiers led by Tan Zhencai, who stayed outside the city and guarded the prisoners.

Tan Zhencai picked out four hundred people from nearly three thousand dull prisoners and asked them to clean up and bury the pirate's corpses. In summer, dead bodies will smell in one day. If they are not dealt with, the consequences will be unimaginable once the plague is caused. The pirates robbed and the weapons they carry are piled up like hills. They will be completely lost shortly after they get it. They may not have to pay for themselves. The business they do is simply a big loss.

The city is busy and busy, both inside and outside, messy, but not chaotic.

After afternoon, Huang Fei led the soldiers who were pursuing the pirates and returned to Ninghai City and brought back hundreds of prisoners. The remaining pirates fled in dispersed and could not pursue them for a while. But they were already frightened and could not pose any threat to Dengzhou in the short term, so they could stay until later to encircle and suppress them slowly.

Zhou Xian went to meet Zhao Xusheng, the garrison of Wendeng Camp, who was elegant in his conversation and had a bit of the style of a Confucian general. This time, if it weren't for his timely assistance, Ninghai City would have been defeated long ago. After this battle, he might have been promoted to his military position and would have become the new general of Dengzhou. Zhou Xian intends to make friends, but he was shot two arrows before and looks very tired. In this way, Zhou Xian had to say goodbye in advance and leave.

By the evening, Zhou Xian left the city and saw that the body had basically been buried. He ordered Tan Zhencai to encircle the prisoners into the city. A clearing of open space had already been cleared in the city, surrounded by fences, specifically for temporarily detaining them. During the process of entering the city, these prisoners suffered a thorough baptism, with rotten vegetables and rotten eggs emerging from the hands of ordinary people. In the past few days of offensive and defense, basically every family had died and injured. Their hatred for these pirates can be imagined.

The soldiers did not stop this, but only ordered the prisoners to speed up and escort them to quickly towards the established location.

Zhou Xian sat on the stairs in the corner of the city, holding an enamel bowl in his hand. The many soldiers sitting around him were no different from his appearance. In the bowl was golden millet porridge, with two small fish and a few small shrimps floating on it. Ninghaizhou Linhai, there were many fish, shrimps, seafood, etc., which was not uncommon. However, Zhou Xian didn't like the fishy smell very much. Putting aside the fish, he drank rice porridge bite by bit.

Jimu walked over from a distance and bowed to Zhou Xian and said, "General Zhou Shen, Gao Yi and his two hundred people arrived, and captured Meng Xiongchen alive."

Zhou Xian's face changed slightly, and he said in surprise: "What's going on?"

Ji Mu smiled awkwardly and said, "Meng Xiongchen fled to the south side of Ninghai Prefecture, trying to go from the sea to return to Liaodong. We have not found his whereabouts. When Gao Yi led his troops to Ninghai Prefecture from Yangma Island, the ship was destroyed by the waves and could not control the direction and deviated from the original channel. By chance, he was meeting Meng Xiongchen who escaped by boat. At that time, Meng Xiongchen wanted to pretend to be an ordinary fisherman, but when the guards boarded the boat to investigate, he was accidentally knocked down by Zhou Tai, and his headscarf fell into the sea, revealing his bare head. Then he suddenly exposed the filling."

Zhou Xian smiled awkwardly and said, "This is really something I've found without any effort. Let's go and have a look together." After that, Zhou Xian handed the bowl in his hand to the soldiers next to him and walked forward.

Meng Xiongchen and his party were tied up and squatted on the ground. The front was bare, and most of the money rat tails on the back of their heads were cut off. Only a very short tail hair was left swaying with the wind, which looked very funny. Standing near the fence were more than 100 Tartars who had been captured before. They were full of hatred and stared at Meng Xiongchen beside them with vicious eyes. Meng Xiongchen escaped, not only did he hide it from the pirates, but even his subordinates did not tell them. It can be said that he was extremely shameless.

Huang Fei had already arrived. When he saw Zhou Xian coming, he smiled and said with a smile on his face: "Master Zhou, your two subordinates have made great contributions. This is indeed the eldest son of Meng Xiongchen and Meng Qiaofang."

Zhou Xian looked at Gao Yi and Zhou Tai, who were pretending to be stupid and laughed, and said with a faint smile: "They are just a blind cat to meet dead rats, which is pure luck. However, being able to defeat Meng Xiongchen this time can be considered as a complete achievement."

Huang Fei nodded and ordered to the side, "Except Meng Xiongchen, the rest of the people are locked up."

More than a dozen soldiers echoed twice, stepped forward and kicked and pushed. Their hatred for these two Tartars was not inferior to the people in the city.

Meng Yuelian was kicked twice, but he lay tightly on the ground and kept motionless, shouting loudly, "Unless you beat me to death, I will definitely be with the eldest son."

Zhou Xian looked at Gao Yi in confusion, and the latter hurriedly said, "This kid is a slave of Meng Qiaofang's family, named Meng Yue, and has some ability. During our subduing of Meng Xiongchen, he also injured two of our brothers."

Zhou Xian saw Meng Yue’s face was covered in blood, and he must have suffered a lot when he was taken here. But even so, he was still frozen there and still motionless. “General Huang, I think I’ll lock them together!”

Huang Fei waved his hand and said to the soldiers: "According to the will of the prefect Zhou, the two dying people will satisfy their last wish."

Huang Fei greeted Zhou Xian and walked to the side of the house and said to him: "Master Zhou, there are more than 3,000 pirates captured this time. The daily consumption is not a small amount. There is not much food in Ninghai City, so we can only use it with the soldiers first. Before the new grain arrives, we will provide these prisoners with food a day at most. During this period, we still need to strengthen our vigilance to prevent them from getting into trouble."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "This is a natural matter, but how will General Huang deal with these prisoners?"

Huang Fei said bluntly: "This depends on Governor Zeng's opinion. I have sent someone to Laiyang City to inform him, and I believe he will get a reply within two days."
Chapter completed!