Wen Xuan's clever plan was completed, and Han Lingyue could finally breathe a sigh of relief: "I have never felt panicked after pretending to be Senior Li for so long, but today I am very nervous, fortunately, you have thought of various ways to deal with it in advance." ”

Wen Xuan smiled: "No matter what, we managed to fool Du Zundao smoothly, not only gained a certain degree of his trust, allowing him to despise us, but also successfully freed Brother Sheng from the sea of suffering, these days it is really difficult for him, he has to deal with such a thief every day." ”

Han Lingyue added: "Not only that, but we also deceived these 10,000 people from that thief, and this is all thanks to your strategy. ”

Wen Xuan chuckled: "You don't want to treat these 10,000 people as soldiers, they are all homeless and hungry people recruited by Du Zundao in private, I just took a brief look, the weapons in their hands are also all kinds of farm tools, if you really want to fight with the Yuan soldiers, I am afraid that half of them will be dispersed before the fight starts." ”

Wen Xuan's words caused Han Lingyue to smile, but then sighed again: "It's a pity that I can't directly rescue my poor nephew." ”

Wen Xuan comforted: "Don't worry, Han Lin'er is the safest in his hands now, Du Zundao protects this little Ming King more than anyone else." ”

Han Lingyue still couldn't help but worry: "Then you can't recognize a thief as your father!" My brother did ask Du Zundao to guide Lin Er's studies before his death, and Lin Er always trusted him, he was still young, where would he have thought that the most respected master around him would be the enemy who killed his father? ”

"Don't worry, the day the truth will be revealed, it will be a little useful to keep Du Zundao now, and in the future, I will let him personally admit his crime, and then kill this thief before Brother Ling's spirit card."

Han Lingyue nodded lightly and stopped talking, she knew that Wen Xuan had always acted prudently, and since he said that there was a way to help him avenge his brother, he would never break his word.

Not long after, the two of them led 10,000 horses to join Mu Chong, and Mu Chong was fascinated after listening to what they were doing in Yingzhou City: "It's a pity that Master Mu is not there, I really want to see the dog thief who was deceived!" ”

Wen Xuan knew that Mu Chong had suffered a lot in the hands of Du Zundao when he was looking for his father's whereabouts, and said with a smile: "Brother Mu is in a hurry, you will have your share when you deal with this thief in the future." ”

Several people reorganized their soldiers and horses and rested in place for a night, and led the team back to Xuzhou on the second day.

Although Wen Xuan knew that Xuzhou would be difficult to defend most of the time, he should at least be able to delay enough time for Liu Futong and others.

At the same time, Tokhtar had already led his men and horses out from Dadu.

The prime minister's personal campaign, even Emperor Zhizheng gave him a send-off, gave him enough face, and told him to succeed this time.

After Tokhtobyne led the troops out of the city, Tai Buhua and others immediately began to arrange the battle situation after receiving the news, ordering his subordinates to besiege Liu Futong's troops only and not attacking, and ordered the local private armed forces led by Li Chahan and Li Siqi to sweep the surrounding areas of Xuzhou, so that Tokhtar could take Xuzhou with peace of mind.

The reason why Taibuhua wanted to send Li Chahan and others to cooperate with Tokhtar was also his own plan, although Tokhtar advocated the study of Sinology, but the ruling government had many rejections of Han people, and this phenomenon was even more obvious after the rebellion in Henan.

The prime minister's every move will naturally be imitated by hundreds of officials, so since the rebellion of the Red Turban Army in the eleventh year of Zhizheng, both the court and local officials have begun to reject Han officials, otherwise talented people like Dong Junxiao will not succumb to the position of the head of the road.

Even the Han officials who entered the product were so despised, not to mention the Han landlords and petty officials like Li Siqi who were devoted to the imperial court, fortunately, they did not take much to make good use of them, and they saw the situation clearly as soon as they arrived in Henan, and knew that if they did not rely on the armed forces of these landlords, the imperial court alone would not be able to completely suppress the rebellion.

Tai Buhua heard that Dong Shuxiao could fight well, so he personally wrote to ask him about his judgment of the situation in Henan, Dong Shuxiao was very happy to be appreciated by such a big man, so he wrote down his views on the war situation in Henan in detail in his reply, and strongly recommended Li Chahan and Li Siqi to him.

Taibuhua listened to Dong Junxiao's suggestion, and immediately summoned local officials, and asked them to find landlords, wealthy merchants, and large households in their jurisdictions to negotiate, but anyone who is willing to recruit volunteers to help the imperial court can reduce taxes to the greatest extent, and those who can calm the township and drive away the Red Turban Army can even go to the imperial court to reward them.

As soon as this order came out, its effect was far better than everyone imagined, it turned out that after the Red Turban Army uprising, the landlords and merchants in various states and counties were plundered, which made the local big families extremely uneasy, and those with a little ability and power, like Richard's kind of lustful nobles were able to find ways to move out of Henan, and some ordinary wealthy businessmen without background and power could only watch their wealth being looted by the Red Turban Army.

After seeing the results, Taibuhua began to gather the defeated army after the defeat of Timur and began to counterattack, and Guan Duo, who was appointed as the vanguard of the thieves, did not take the Yuan soldiers into account at all after the defeat of Timur, and treated them as the defeated soldiers that night, and lost several battles in a row under carelessness, and once almost lost his head.

After Liu Futong and others really paid attention to Taibuhua, Taibuhua began to open warehouses and release grain, and implemented the same policy of caring for the people as the Red Turban Army, which won the support of many local people.

Liu Futong and others saw that the situation was not good, so they gathered men and horses to launch a frontal attack on Taibuhua, but they did not expect that in the head-to-head duel, the stubborn Yuan soldiers easily defeated the Red Turban Army, which even had a variety of weapons.

Because this defeat came so suddenly, Liu Futong thought it was the fault of the general's command, so he used Pan Cheng, Li Wu, Cui De, Mao Gui and others to attack.

After a few back and forth, Liu Futong was shocked to find that his side did not have the upper hand every time, and the Yuan soldiers could win by simply sending a thousand households to lead the troops.

Liu Futong and his generals realized the seriousness of this matter and began to avoid engaging the Yuan soldiers head-on, but the clever Tai Buhua ordered a counterattack at this time, gathering all available forces to storm Runing.

This time it is not as good as Gongbuban to attack the city, it took too little effort to prepare sufficient siege equipment, coupled with the incomplete preparation of the Red Turban Army, the response was not timely, Runing City was broken after only two days, if it were not for Liu Futong to see that the situation was not good and sent the main force to withdraw in advance, and did not start a decisive battle in Runing, the generals of the Red Turban Army were likely to be served in Runing.

After Runing was pacified by the Yuan soldiers, Liu Futong and Tai Buhua completely saw the advantages and disadvantages of their own side, Tai Buhua gathered an army and moved forward, and Liu Futong divided his troops to attack everywhere, and the two sides began to fight fiercely, and no one could help the other.

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