After the Jingbianbao army slaughtered all sides on the grassland and scourged the Ordos and Tumut tribes, they returned to Liujiabao along the way they came.

When the army returned to Liujiabao, Liu Renyu handed over the Han compatriots brought back this time to Huang Chuanfeng, and asked him to assign pastures and tents to these people, and all the men in these Han compatriots were incorporated into the cavalry team under Liu Renjie.

These Han people could originally ride horses, and their riding skills were very exquisite, and they could be cavalrymen without special training at all, so Liu Renyu divided the 3,000 people into two teams, 1,500 each, and distributed them to An Zhengman and Jiang Riguang to lead.

Both An Zhengman and Jiang Riguang were awarded the position of acting guerrilla general by Liu Renyu, and they only waited until this time to go to Shanxi to destroy the thieves and make meritorious contributions to their main posts. These 3,000 new cavalrymen will naturally have Zhao Datie's industrial manufacturing factory to equip them with all kinds of weapons and armor.

After the Jingbianbao army returned to Jingbianbao, considering that after the arrival of spring, the rivers would thaw and it would be very troublesome to cross the Yellow River, Liu Renyu ordered Li Jiye to unload all the artillery in the chariot and load all the grain in the chariot, and then he swore an army in Liujiabao and set out on an expedition, aiming directly at Taiyuan.

The 17,000 troops under Liu Renyu set out from Liujiabao in early April of the sixth year of Chongzhen, went south to settle down, went to Suide, found a ferry near Suide, crossed the river directly on the ice, and entered Shanxi.

When he entered Shanxi, he sent several sentry sentries to investigate the enemy situation along the road, and at the same time went to Taiyuan to report the situation to Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, and said that Liu Renyu, the general soldier of Yansui, came to Shanxi with the soldiers and horses of Yansui Army to help suppress it.

However, it was said that Liu Renyu brought more than 17,000 soldiers and horses under his command to Taiyuan and rushed to Taiyuan, even if there were thieves along the way, how could they come out and show their faces when they saw such a prosperous army, they naturally avoided it, for fear of being met by the Jingbianbao army and being wiped out.

Besides, Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, only has 7,000 people under his hands, but he wants to exterminate 100,000 thieves, and he is anxious to think about it.

Liu Renyu's men were all cavalry and highly mobile carriages, and they were naturally extremely fast, and they marched quickly along the road and headed straight for Taiyuan.

The generals of the Jingbianbao Army came from Yansui, Shaanxi, where the scourge of thieves was the most severe, and they had a premonition of the scene in Shanxi, which was currently suffering from the scourge of thieves, but the reality was exactly what they imagined.

Shanxi official road to the left, the smaller villages and towns have long been all collapsed, ruins and broken walls, white bones everywhere, the land is abandoned, overgrown with weeds, a sign of dilapidation.

When the Jingbian Fort army passed by Shilou, Wenshui and other county towns along the way, the civilian officials who guarded the city all closed the city gates, sent people to the city wall, and treated the Jingbian Fort army as thieves to guard against it.

Whenever Liu Renyu saw such a scene, he smiled and looked around and said: "Xu Junmen sent someone to inform our army, saying that the grain and grass needed by our army can be withdrawn from the states and counties along the way. ”

"Dashuai, when is it now, what Xu Junmen said may not be easy. Besides, we are a guest army, and the guest army is no different from thieves in the eyes of the locals, and it is normal for them to guard against us like this. Li Jiye listened to Liu Renyu's words and said indifferently.

"Hey, Dashuai, look at their bear-like appearance, our Jingbianbao army has its own grain and grass, where do we need them to provide food, Dashuai, let's ignore them, just go to Taiyuan." Zhang Tieniu also said nonchalantly.

"Dashuai, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, only bring grain and grass to fight the war, and the roots don't need local support, I'm afraid to save our Jingbian Fort Army." Sun Wuxian also interjected.

"What everyone said is that I heard that there has been a great drought in Shanxi in recent years, and there are still thieves making trouble, the harvest will definitely not be good, but the imperial court's salary is thunderous and wants to collect, if this magistrate gives us the grain that has been collected, I am afraid that their life will not be easy, so we will not embarrass them, let's go." Liu Renyu could fully understand the hardships of these magistrates, so he let them go.

As a result, the Jingbian Fort Army also did not stop in various county towns, but directly ignored the existence of these places and drifted away, ignoring the feelings of those county commanders who were puzzled.

"The guest army from Shaanxi didn't come to extort money and food, are they still official soldiers?"

This is the stone building that the Jingbianbao army passed through, and the voice of the county commanders of Wenshui County, but no one can give them an answer to this question in their hearts.

The Jingbianbao army was as fast as a storm and lightning, and after crossing the Yellow River, they walked straight for three miles and arrived at the foot of Taiyuan City.

At this time, Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, who had already received the news, as well as the political envoy of Shanxi, the envoy of the inspection, the soldiers and the prefect of Taiyuan, and other civil officials, as well as the commander of the Shanxi Metropolitan Command Envoy, Cao Wenzhao, the deputy general of Yansui West Road, Zhang Yingchang, Xun Fuwei and other generals of Shaanxi came to meet outside the city of Taiyuan.

In fact, if it was an ordinary Ming army in Taiyuan, Xu Dingchen would not have bothered to come out with so many people to greet him, and this was not because the reputation of the Jingbian Fort Army was too great.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, especially in the nine-sided towns where military disasters are frequent, the Jingbian Fort Army has always been a legendary existence.

Well-equipped, self-sufficient in food, never plagued the locality, super combat effectiveness, won a big victory at every turn against Jiannu and the Northern Captives, even the emperor also particularly appreciated, worked hard, and did not pay the silver to work overtime to imitate the army.

Who doesn't love such an army, and if Xu Dingchen doesn't come to greet such an army in person, wouldn't he be an official like a governor in vain. Although it is said that the Ming Dynasty is noble and martial, but at this time and that time, civil officials may be expensive, and moral articles are very good, but this is not useful in a turbulent world, and pacifying thieves can not be done by relying on moral articles.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is in an eventful season, it still needs to rely on martial artists, so Xu Dingchen has to bring his civil and military officials out to greet him.

Everyone wanted to see for themselves what this army, which had defeated Jiannu and Beiju many times, was really like.

They waited for a while, and then they saw dust rising from the west, and a large group of cavalry galloped on horseback, thinking that it was the Jingbian Fort Army.

When a group of civil and military officials outside Taiyuan City saw the legendary Jingbian Fort Army coming, they all stretched their necks and wanted to see what this road of soldiers and horses looked like.

Everyone looked around, only to see that as far as their eyes could see, the officers and soldiers were all riding horses, they were wearing red armor, red dazzling, there were six horsemen in a horizontal row, marching together, the military appearance was neat, the sun, moon and wave flags fluttered in the wind, and the solemn aura exuded from their bodies was blowing with the cold wind, and the faces of the people who were cut hurt in pain.

The appearance of this army had already surprised the officials outside Taiyuan City, and when they could see all the Jingbianbao troops, they couldn't help but be even more surprised and surprised, all the soldiers and horses on this road were actually cavalry.

Didn't you say that only the Ning Iron Cavalry were all cavalry? Why is this Jingbian Fort army also cavalry.

If the soldiers and horses on this road are as strong as the Guanning Iron Cavalry, then Shanxi will not be able to sit back and relax.

But said that Xu Dingchen only heard that the Jingbianbao army was coming at the beginning, and he didn't ask how many people there were, because according to his assumption, a general soldier brought at most 5,000 soldiers, if the old, weak, sick and disabled are removed, the remaining family members who can fight are also 2,000 people, who knew that he looked at it for a long time and found that the reality was a little outrageous from his imagination, and he didn't think that Liu Renyu actually brought more than 10,000 people, and he took a rough look, these more than 10,000 people are still cavalry, and they seem to be very strong.

You must know that when Wang Jiayin was very fierce in Hequ, Cao Wenzhao took a thousand Guanning iron cavalry to clean up Wang Jiayin, and now this Liu Renyu came to Shanxi with more than 10,000 cavalry, wouldn't the thieves be about to come to the end.

When Xu Dingchen thought of this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, because the first two Shanxi governors, Xian Kejin and Song Tongyin, were not dismissed because of their ineffective efforts to suppress thieves.

Shanxi Governor Xu Dingchen has such a mind, and the rest of the Shanxi civil officials are no different from his thoughts, after all, now Chongzhen is extremely strict, and he will severely punish the civil officials who have lost the city and lost their land at every turn, and they are also very afraid.

The civilian officials saw the formation of the Jingbian Fort Army, and they were very happy in their hearts, and the generals actually had the same thoughts as them, because they had few people and it was very difficult to suppress thieves in Shanxi.

In addition, military generals like Zhang Yingchang, who had been in Shaanxi, knew very well that Liu Renyu was very generous, at least in terms of sharing the results of the war, and he had already told other generals about Liu Renyu's characteristics.

When the other generals heard that Liu Renyu was so powerful and understood things so well, all of them had a great impression of Liu Renyu, and they all wanted to cooperate with the other party to suppress the thief immediately.

In this way, just like this, a group of civil and military officials under Taiyuan City all enthusiastically greeted the Jingbianbao army.

This formation is not grand, Liu Renyu naturally has long seen a large group of Ming civil and military officials outside Taiyuan City, there are several wearing crimson official robes, and there are more than a dozen of the rest wearing cyan and green official robes, in addition to these civil officials, there are also a lot of generals.

"Now it's really the way of the world has changed, in the past, when we went on the expedition, it was a small county order that didn't take us seriously, and now the world is in chaos, foreign enemies, and thieves are in chaos, but our status has been raised a lot, Dashuai, don't you say?" Li Jiye saw such a warm reception from Shanxi, and couldn't help but say to Liu Renyu a little flutteringly.

"Hey, they're so polite, we can't be rude, give the order, get off the horse, and prepare to meet them." Liu Renyu said to Liu Renjie beside him.

"Yes, Dashuai," Liu Renjie received the order, and whispered a few words to the herald beside him, and the herald immediately sounded the swan sound.

At the moment when the sound of the swan ended, all the Jingbian Fort troops on their horses suddenly turned over and dismounted, and their movements were uniform, just like one person.

This time, only Xu Dingchen and other civil and military officials were stunned and surprised.

However, in addition to being surprised, they had greater confidence in the strength of the Jingbianbao army, so they smiled brighter and greeted Liu Renyu and other generals of the Jingbianbao army.