Xu Da repaired in Beiping for many days, and once again led the army south to Zhangde. Before leaving, Xu Da ordered Tang He to lead the Henan garrison to attack Shanxi.

After Tang He pacified Fujian, Lao Zhu ordered him to build large ships to transport grain and grass from the sea to support the Northern Expedition. Who knew that the sea was high and the waves were strong, and more than half of the sea ships were lost, and Tang He's old life almost didn't get in.

As soon as he arrived in Shandong, Xu Da immediately included his logistics team under his command and asked him to lead the Henan garrison to attack Shanxi as the commander of the partial division.

Or the old brother knows the old brother best, Tang He originally thought that this Northern Expedition was the life of a grain transport officer, but he didn't expect to become the coach of the partial division all of a sudden, Xu Da This is an opportunity for him to make contributions.

So Tang He led the Henan garrison into Shanxi, easily captured Zezhou, swept the party, and destroyed all the way. Just when he was full of ambition to go to Taiyuan to fight with Wang Baobao, he was defeated by Wang Baobao's fierce general Han Zha'er in Handian, and suffered thousands of injuries.

This news made Emperor Zhizheng, who was far away in Shangdu, overjoyed, don't look at the first battle of Handian, the killing of the enemy is not too much, but it is the biggest setback suffered by the Ming army since the Northern Expedition, and of course it is also a rare victory for the Yuan army.

Emperor Yuan Shun finally remembered Wang Baobao, who had disliked him for a long time, and immediately crowned Wang Baobao as the king of Qi, and ordered him to recover Beiping as soon as possible.

Xu Da was not worried but happy when he heard the news, and immediately let Chang Yuchun, who ambushed Baoding, rush forward with light cavalry, and went straight to Taiyuan along Zhongshan and Zhending, and at the same time, Xu Da himself also led the elite of the Chinese army to replace Tang He's South Route Army to kill Taiyuan.

Although he moved to Zhangde, Henan, his target this time was in Taiyuan. Shanxi has more than 100,000 elites of Wang Baobao, but it is not the stinky sweet potato rotten bird eggs that I encountered before, if it is attacked, it will inevitably cause a lot of damage, even if it occupies Shanxi, it may not be able to keep it, let alone attack Ganshan.

This time, he used Beiping as bait to lure Wang Baobao to attack, and Shanxi's elite exhausted its troops, which was a good time to attack. What to do in Beiping? Beiping was not very important to the Ming army, and it was lost and then fought back.

In contrast, Taiyuan Yu Wang Baobao is simply the root of life, and the families of the soldiers and the baggage supplies of the army are in Taiyuan. Even if he defeated Beiping and lost Taiyuan, the gains outweighed the losses, the soldiers' families fell into the hands of the enemy, and the army's heart was unstable, and no matter how high the walls of Beiping were, he couldn't hold it.

Now Ma Du followed Xu Da to Shanxi to take the lifeblood of Wang Baobao, in order to gain time, Xu Da did not bring many people were elite cavalry, since it was to attack the city, it was naturally indispensable to the Shenji Battalion.

However, the total number of people led by Xu Da is less than 10,000, although Xu Da is not short of horses now, but the number of cavalry has not increased, not every soldier can ride a horse, let alone a person who can ride a horse can be a cavalry.

The people of the Shenji Battalion were even worse, Ma Du had planned to get musketeers before the flintlock pistol came out, plus the bulky artillery, so they had to take a large board cart.

In this way, such a road has been rushed all the way, and the buttocks are absolutely sinful, and the buttocks of many soldiers of the Shenji Battalion have been turned blue and purple, and their faces are the same.

Chang Mao was even more miserable and insisted on pressing the carriage that pulled the cannon, the carriage was overturned, and he jumped out of the car in time thanks to his good skills, and he was not photographed under the car, he rolled into the ditch, but the fall was not light.

When he camped at night, Madu lit alcohol and dipped his hands in his bruised back and smeared it, which could play a role in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

"Oh! Oh! Brother Du, you are lighter, it hurts badly! Chang Mao grinned and squeaked.

"The fuck knows it's hurting now, who told you to be able to do it earlier!" Madu covered him with a blanket, "Let the commander of an army give you medicine to heal your wounds, that is, you are the only one!" ”

As soon as he extinguished the lit alcohol, Chang Mao's big hand snatched the black pottery bowl and poured it into his mouth, drank it in the blink of an eye, turned his head and smiled: "This is medicine!" ”

Madu packed up his things and left Changmao's stinking tent, and went to patrol the camp, which he had to do as the commander of an army. That's right, he is now the commander of an army.

Xu Da led 10,000 people to Taiyuan, and the Shenji battalion only brought 2,000, a musket battalion and an artillery battalion. In addition, there are more than 20,000 soldiers and horses who often encounter spring along the way, and it is enough to have the help of the Shenji Battalion to attack Taiyuan with empty troops. However, he didn't understand why Deng Yu was left in the Chinese army to preside over military affairs, but he asked him to lead two thousand Shenji battalions to come by car, Xu Da said that it was because he was accurate in his artillery.

"Password!" The soldiers on patrol shouted at Madu from a distance.

"Bright Moon! Rebate! ”

"I'll rub!"

Seeing the patrolling soldiers passing over, Zhang Wuliu asked puzzledly: "Sir, what do I mean by wiping it?" ”

"Just remember it, or you'll be beaten into a sieve by your own people!"

Zhang Wuliu nodded heavily: "I'll rub!" I rub! I rub! ……”

Madu made a long tour before returning to his tent, and his clothes had not yet been taken off. Tang Ding came to the door, and brought a few Ming soldiers over, "Ma Yanshi, this is what we encountered when we were patrolling, saying that it was sent by the commander Gu Shi, and there is an urgent military situation to report to the marshal!" ”

Ma Du saw that several soldiers seemed to be about to collapse, and it was obvious that they had been galloping wildly for a long time. He didn't dare to delay, and after verifying the other party's waist card, he took them to the Chinese army's big tent. Xu Da hadn't slept yet, and it didn't seem surprising at all when he heard that Gu Shi had an emergency military situation.

He sat behind the handsome case in a red shirt and black pants, and listened to the reports of those people with a calm face.

"After Wang Baobao led more than 100,000 cavalry to Beiping, he led the army back to Taiyuan through Baoding only one night.

Xu Da asked again: "Has the enemy broken through Gu Shi's defense?" ”

"The subordinates didn't know that when they came, Commander Gu had already exchanged hands with the enemy vanguard. However, the other party is crowded, and I'm afraid that Commander Gu won't be able to hold out for long! The soldier who reported the news took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Xu Da.

Xu Da inspected the fire paint under the light, then opened it and looked at it carefully, then waved his hand to let the soldiers who delivered the letter go to rest. Xu Da put down the letter and muttered, "Three or four days is enough." ”

He also summoned heralds, and ordered the generals of each battalion to set off on the fifth watch tomorrow, and the first to arrive at Chang Yuchun and then twenty miles outside Taiyuan City.

Ma Du listened confusedly on the sidelines, "This big handsome...... The subordinates feel that it is not good to go to Taiyuan now, and if we can't capture Taiyuan at that time, it will be easy to be attacked from both inside and outside the city. I think we'd better hurry...... Run. ”

Xu Da laughed, "I haven't fought a few battles along the way, but Xuanzhong has grown a lot." If we run away and make way for Wang Baobao, if he returns to Taiyuan City, we will run away in vain, and whose dumplings are we going to make with more than 200,000 Chinese troops? ”

"Aren't we here to attack Taiyuan?" The more Ma Du listened, the more confused he became, he really didn't understand the general's thoughts.