When Qin Chuan walked to the top of Taoshan Mountain, Wu Fu was still unable to kneel on the ground, Du Yingtang stood aside with a long sword in hand, and there were more than a hundred guards with weapons around him, surrounding Wu Fu and Du Yingtang in the middle.

The hundreds of Guan Emperor troops brought by Qin Chuan quickly rushed up and surrounded the group.

Wu Fu glanced up, then sighed inexplicably, and said: "General Qin, the ambush of your army is a decision of Ben Fu alone, they are just a matter of eating the monarch and being loyal to the monarch, can you let them live?" ”

Qin Chuan smiled: "Lord Futai, Qin is not a person who loves to kill, but they are holding swords and looking desperate at any time, how can you tell me to let them live?" ”

"Put your weapons down." Wu Fu waved his hand.

"Adult ......"

"Put it down."

Du Yingtang took the lead in throwing the long sword in his hand on the ground, and then scolded around: "Didn't you hear the words of the adults? Put down their weapons. ”

The surrounding guards looked at each other for a while, and then put down their weapons one after another.

Qin Chuan also waved his hand to the side, and the Guan Emperor army next to him quickly moved out of the way.

"Lord Futai, they can go, but, you and Lord Du have to come with me."

"Don't worry, my lord, I won't kill you, I won't embarrass you, I'm just for money, just let your family take money and food to ransom people."

Hearing his words, Du Yingtang's face was a little embarrassed.

He originally thought that Qin Chuan would say a few words first, and then coerce and lure them to surrender, so that he could go down the slope and join Qin Chuan.

Unexpectedly, the other party did not surrender at all, but wanted to tie up their tickets and use them to extort money.

This...... It's unreasonable.

Hearing Qin Chuan's words, Wu Fu frowned and snorted coldly: "Hmph! If you want to kill, you will kill, if you want to chop, you want to use this fu to ask for money, wishful thinking! ”

"Hey, hey, Lord Wu, do you think your family is as strong and unyielding as you after hearing the news of your capture, or is it bent on saving your life with money?"

"You ......"

At this time, Du Yingtang, who had not spoken, hurriedly stepped forward and interjected: "General Qin, in fact, Lord Futai and Du Mou are both interested in serving the general, helping the general to raise a great cause to level the world, and create a prosperous era for the benefit of the common people." ”

"Huh?"

Qin Chuan was stunned.

Wu Fu was furious: "Du Yingtang, it is your own business that you want to surrender to the enemy, Benfu has no grievances and no enmity with you, why do you want to fall into disloyalty and injustice?" ”

Du Yingtang smiled bitterly: "I don't want to see Lord Futai abandoned in the market. ”

"Humph! Ben Fu ......"

"Ahem, don't argue with the two of you."

Qin Chuan couldn't help but interrupt them and said, "Master Du, you and I are old acquaintances, and if you are willing to come to help me, you are naturally very welcome." ”

"As for Lord Futai...... cough, come, please go back to Lord Futai, take him to see Jingle Lan County and Lan Prefecture, and see those people, if he still refuses to serve, it is not too late to exchange it for money and food. ”

"Yes."

The surrounding Guan Di troops swarmed up.

Soon, several Guan Emperor troops carried the furious Wu Fu and carried him down Taoshan with his roar all the way.

Du Yingtang followed behind, looking at Wu Fu nervously all the way, for fear that Emperor Guan's army would suddenly throw him down the mountain.

The more than 100 guards were also escorted down, and these people could have left unharmed, but Du Yingtang had already surrendered, so these people couldn't leave, and the news of Du Yingtang's surrender couldn't leak out until his family was taken to Lou Fu.

Qin Chuan doesn't hate Du Yingtang, this person is by no means a loyal minister, but he can't be said to be a traitor, he can only say that he is a smart person.

Since Qin Chuan was promoted to Qianhu, Du Yingtang has left a way out for himself everywhere, neither offending himself too much, nor having any close contact with Qin Chuan.

It is estimated that this person is the same in the officialdom, leaving a way out everywhere, being sleek, and being a man of duty, Shanxi's officials have changed one after another, but he is as stable as Mount Tai in this position as the commander of the capital, and he has never moved.

As long as there is a smart person, there is no such thing as a great loyalty, but this kind of person can do things and do things well.

Therefore, when he took the initiative to serve, Qin Chuan decided to ask him without thinking, not to let him charge into battle, but to serve in the Military Affairs Department, as a staff officer, in charge of training, logistics and something.

As for Wu Fu...... This person has such a record in the history of the Ming Dynasty: In the fourth year of the Jin Dynasty, the military and civilians wore Ruo's mother.

It means that Wu Fu patrolled Shanxi for four years, and the local army and people loved him like their own mother.

An official who is loved by the army and the people is not necessarily a capable minister, but he must be a good official.

Moreover, this person has a righteous personality, and he doesn't deal with traitors like Wei Zhongxian and Zhou Yanru, so there is no problem with his character.

The most important thing is that the investment of a governor of Shanxi is of great significance to Qin Chuan.

not only plays a precedent role in flaunting, but also tells the world that he Qin Chuan is no longer a military general who listens to the tune and does not listen to the propaganda, but a tyrant who plots against one side and plots the world.

Anyway, this wave has completely torn the face with the imperial court, and it is not a big deal to tear it up again.

Therefore, we have to find a way to subdue Wu Fu.

……

After coming down from Taoshan, Emperor Guan's army also gathered back.

The Ming army was defeated early, there were not many casualties, only a few hundred corpses were left on the battlefield, and it was only a matter of time to clean up the battlefield.

Soon, this Guan Emperor army, under the leadership of Qin Chuan, suddenly turned around, crossed the Lingshi without fighting, and advanced straight in the direction of Yongning Prefecture.

Shanxi is a province with a very peculiar topography, running through the Luliang Mountains of the province from north to south, dividing the whole of Shanxi into two, with several rich basin plains in the east and the barren and difficult Loess Plateau in the west.

Separated by a mountain, the east is rich and oily, and the west is barren for hundreds of miles.

Yongning Prefecture is located on the west side of Luliang Mountain, in a valley between several large mountains, and thanks to several rivers running through it, it is not too poor.

However, the road in this place is very difficult, all around are mountains, except for the road along the Sanchuan River out of the Yellow River, there is no smooth road around, and the degree of easy defense and difficult attack is no less than that of Gujiao Town.

In fact, Yongning Prefecture is only eighty miles away from Fangshan Fort, only one day away, and Fangshan Fort is the southern gateway of Qinchuan's jurisdiction.

The reason why Qin Chuan has not fought is because of the lack of troops and he does not want to stretch the battle line and defense line too much.

But now, Yongning Prefecture and Linxian County should be taken, and this large area of barren land south of Xingxian County and north of Fangshan must be included in the bag, so as to better build a defense line and prevent Bai Guangen from entering the territory to kill people and set fires again.

Within two hundred miles south of Xingxian, except for the small county town of Linxian, the rest of the place is full of rolling loess slopes, which are not only difficult to navigate, but also usually deserted for dozens of miles.

Such a place was difficult for large armies to pass through, because it was difficult to transport baggage by road and it was difficult to obtain supplies locally.

Qin Chuan thought that the Ming army would not attack from this place, so he did not build a military fort, but only built piers in Luoyukou, Zhaojiaping, Mengjiaping, and Kangning Town, and sent a small number of Guandi troops to garrison it.

never thought that he would be exploited by Hong Chengchou.

That guy personally led the army to confront Feng Yilong across the river, pinned down Feng Yilong's main force, and then sent Bai Guangen to secretly cross the Yellow River and attack from the south.

This kind of thing can not be allowed to happen again, the defense line has to be reconstructed, the southern defense line from Yongning Prefecture along the Sanchuan River to the Yellow River to the Yellow River Junpudu, the west along the Yellow River to build a military fort pier, we must first stabilize the defense line, and then try to plot the Hetao.

It's just that there are only two roads from Lingshi to Yongning Prefecture, and all of them have to cross the southern section of the majestic Luliang Mountain.

Qin Chuan took the slightly easier road between Shangding Mountain and Qiyun Mountain, saying that it was slightly easier to walk, but in fact, it was not easy to walk at all, and it took two days to walk less than sixty miles.

On the third day, the army finally crossed the majestic Luliang Mountain and arrived in Ningxiang County, more than forty miles south of Yongning Prefecture.

This small county town in the middle of the mountains is very dilapidated, the earthen wall that is only more than two zhang high has collapsed in many places, there are less than 2,000 people in the city, and there are only about 300 defenders.

As soon as Qin Chuan's army arrived in the city, the magistrate of Ningxiang led a few officials and gentry in the city to open the door and surrender.

Qin Chuan only left 500 troops to garrison Ningxiang, and explained to the guards that if the Ming army with a large number of troops entered Ningxiang, he could abandon the broken city and return to Yongning Prefecture.

Because this earth-broken city can't stop any army, defending it will only cost the lives of the soldiers in vain.

But this is only temporary, Qin Chuan will soon transfer the construction team to build a tall reinforced concrete city, stuck on the southern gateway of Yongning Prefecture.

After resting in Ningxiang for a day, Qin Chuan led the army to continue northward and approached Yongning City, which was more than forty miles away.

At the same time, the lynx had already given up Jiaocheng and Wenshui, led the two thousand tiger guard battalions into Luliang Mountain through the Fenyang area, and stormed the Huangluling Pass, and spent half an hour to conquer the ancient pass of the Great Wall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, which only had dozens of defenders and only the function of collecting taxes.

On the same day, the non-stop lynx captured Wucheng twenty miles northwest of Huangluling Pass, and rested there for a bowl.

The next day, after leaving 500 tiger guards to defend the city in this small city with less than 1,000 people, Lynx led the remaining 1,500 tiger guards to march towards Yongning City, 60 miles to the west, preparing to attack Yongning on both sides with Qinchuan.