After the news of the bombardment of Taiyuan reached the Beijing Division, Zhu Youzhen was furious and immediately convened the cabinet and military officials to discuss countermeasures.

Wen Tiren and the others were taken aback, they didn't expect Qin Chuan to take the initiative to attack and bombard Taiyuan City.

You must know that Taiyuan City is a feudal country of the Jin Dynasty, and its importance is no less than any important town on the nine sides.

If Taiyuan falls, no one can afford to take this responsibility.

Immediately, at the suggestion of Wen Tiren and others, Zhu Youzhen issued several holy decrees in succession, ordering Yang Sichang, who had just taken office as the governor of the three towns of Xuanda Jin, to rush to aid Taiyuan, and ordered Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, to immediately cross the Yellow River and attack Xingxian, Baodezhou and Hequ, so as to relieve the danger of Taiyuan by encircling Wei and saving Zhao.

It's just that before the holy decree was delivered to Datong, Qin Chuan withdrew his troops, escorted a large amount of money, grain and people extorted, and returned to Luliang Mountain.

At the same time, Qinchuan sent Luo Ba to lead 2,000 and 10 square battalions to the south, and marched hand in hand with the lynx, sweeping all the way to the direction of Siyancheng in Pingyang Prefecture at a very fast speed, not attacking the city, but only attacking many villages and towns along the way, robbing grain, wealth and population.

Now that the autumn harvest has ended, there are not a few people in the fields of the entire Taiyuan Basin, and if there are groups of people who appear in groups, there is a chance that it is the Guan Emperor's army.

For the Guan Emperor's army, the end of the autumn harvest meant that they no longer had to go all over the world to hunt down the fleeing tenant workers.

Those landlords and old fortunes had already taken back the grain, and the Guan Emperor army only needed to surround the village and push the artillery up for a burst of bombardment, and they could rob all the old and freshly harvested grain.

Of course, there were also gold and silver treasures, cloth and silk, cattle and sheep, and a large population.

The money, grain and population that Lynx had robbed before had been handed over to Qin Chuan and escorted back to Luliang Mountain, but two days after he and Luo Ba went south again, they broke through eight villages and towns, and robbed 20,000 stone of grain and a large amount of wealth, cattle and sheep, as well as more than 3,000 people.

Qin Chuan sent the previous money and grain population to Mengshan, and after the Guan Emperor army from the ancient Jiaojun Fort came out to respond, he continued to lead the army south.

But after joining Luo Ba and Lynx in the Pingyao area, he found himself facing a problem: there was too much money and food, and if he went south with this money and food, the speed of the march would be greatly slowed down, and if he divided his troops to escort the money and grain back, the troops would be too scattered, and it would be difficult to deal with the Ming army if he suddenly gathered heavy troops and launched an attack on his weak points.

There are 4,000 Ming troops in Jiaocheng and Wenshui, and Wu Fu probably won't sit idly by and watch him plunder everywhere.

After thinking about it, Qin Chuan decided to pull out the two nails of Jiaocheng and Wenshui first.

Although there are 2,000 Ming troops stationed in each of these two counties, the city walls are not as high or thick as Taiyuan City, and the number of defenders in the city is far less than that of Taiyuan, so it is not difficult to fight these two cities.

After conquering these two cities, he could transfer a group of troops and horses from Lou Fan to garrison and temporarily hold the southern gate of Luliang Mountain, as a passage for himself to return to Lou Fu.

As a result, 8,000 Guan Emperor's troops and 4,000 people, as well as more than 3,000 people who were coerced and lured, marched towards Jiaocheng.

The general of Jiaocheng is Ni Chong, the chief soldier of Shandong, and Yang Jinchao, the superintendent of the army, with 2,000 Shandong soldiers.

The Wenshui garrison was Zhang Dechang, the chief soldier of Nanjing Chipu, and also brought 2,000 soldiers from Nanzhili.

When Taiyuan was bombarded, Wu Fu had issued several urgent orders to order the two of them to rush to help Taiyuan, but they didn't dare to move, because both of them had suffered big losses under Qin Chuan's hands, and Lynx was leading two thousand Guan Emperor's troops to loot nearby, and they added up to only four thousand soldiers, and going to Taiyuan was purely to find death. 120

Therefore, the two lied that Luliangshan was heavily pressed, and if they rushed to the aid of Taiyuan, Jiaocheng and Wenshui would inevitably fall into the hands of Qin thieves.

Later, Qin Chuan withdrew from Taiyuan City, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Fu ordered them to pay attention to Qin Chuan's movements, and when they waited for an opportunity to attack its weak points, they did not dare to go out of the city at all, because the four thousand soldiers and horses of Luo Ba and Lynx were looting nearby, and as long as they showed their heads, they were afraid that they would be surrounded by the other party.

Therefore, they have been cowering in Jiaocheng and Wenshui, wanting to wait for Qin Chuan to grab enough and withdraw their troops.

But before two days of peace passed, Tanma suddenly came to report: Qin thieves are leading tens of thousands of troops towards Jiaocheng.

As soon as he heard the news, Ni Pet was almost scared.

Zhang Dechang was also anxious, and personally went to Jiaocheng to discuss countermeasures with Ni Pet.

This time, he will not be able to get out.

Qin Chuan's advance was even faster than they expected.

When Zhang Dechang was still in Jiaocheng, Liu Youzhu's 2,000 Wudang battalion rushed to Jiaocheng lightly, and blocked this small city built at the foot of Luliang Mountain on all sides.

Zhang Dechang was in a hurry, he only brought hundreds of soldiers with him to Jiaocheng, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were all left in Wenshui.

Immediately, Zhang Dechang wanted Ni Pet to send troops to send him out of the city, let him return to Wenshui, and transfer troops and horses to support Jiaocheng.

But Ni Pet didn't dare to send troops out of the city, for fear that the people sent out would not come back.

When the two quarreled endlessly, Qin Chuan's main force arrived, and Zhang Dechang couldn't go back at all.

Qin Chuan didn't talk nonsense, and when the soldiers came to the city, they immediately pushed out dozens of cannons and bombarded the city wall indiscriminately.

The city wall of Jiaocheng is no more than three zhang high, the circumference is less than four miles, and the two thousand Shandong soldiers in the city plus the family Ding Courtyard of several gentry and big families, the total strength is only 3,000 people.

Moreover, Jiaocheng is very close to Lou Fu, and the poor people in the city know that General Lou Fu Qin is a good official for the benefit of the people, and many people wish that General Qin would enter Jiaocheng, kill all the officials and gentry in the city, and take them to Lou Fu to live a good life.

So, on the second day of the siege, there was a rebellion in the city.

A group of poor people, who had been oppressed for many years, rose up under the leadership of a few young people, set fire to the city, and suddenly attacked the defenders of the north gate.

There was chaos in the city, and although Qin Chuan outside the city didn't know what was going on inside, he would not let go of this opportunity and immediately ordered the Guan Emperor's army to attack the city.

Soon, Jiaocheng fell.