After entering September, Xiao Tianjian continued to adjust the deployment of troops, and after Luo Rucai and Li Xuanzhu conquered Guide Mansion, they began to transfer part of Li Xuanzhu's troops to the south, and ordered Luo Rucai to directly lead part of the men and horses, while monitoring Kaifeng Mansion, while putting pressure on the Shandong side to contain the officers and troops in this area.

And Xiao Tianjian himself sat in Nanyang Mansion again, and dispatched troops to start using troops in the Dengzhou area, so far the Xingtian Army discovered that in fact, Xiao Tianjian originally planned to cross the Yellow River north to attack Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion, but in fact, it was just a false shot, and his main purpose was to put pressure on the north by attacking Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion, and then concentrate his forces to go south to Huguang.

This is equivalent to Xiao Tianjian synthesizing the opinions of Niu Jinxing and Li Xin, but in terms of big strategy, he acted in accordance with Li Xin's proposal, Niu Jinxing saw this, although he was a little uncomfortable in his heart, but there was no way, because he also saw that although Xiao Tianjian was not a self-righteous person, he was very willing to listen to the opinions of his subordinates, but his character was very assertive, once he made up his mind, no one would be allowed to shake his determination.

Although Zuo Liangyu took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Xingtian Army to recapture Neixiang County, but after all, he was afraid of the Xingtian Army, and when he learned the news that Xiao Tianjian led his heavy troops to the south again, he immediately led his troops to withdraw to Suizhou, and Neixiang County, which had just been recovered, was soon recaptured by the Xingtian Army.

When Xiao Tianjian waved his army to Dengzhou, although Huguang sent troops to support Dengzhou, but at this time, Huguang did not have too many soldiers and horses except for Zuo Liangyu's department, and there were no effective generals, so the support for Dengzhou was also very limited.

On September 15, Xiao Tianjian's troops besieged Dengzhou, and it took three days to conquer Dengzhou, and since then, the passage to the south has basically been opened by the Xingtian army, and Xiangyang, an important town in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, has been exposed to the Xingtian army.

At the same time, Li Xuanzhu led his troops and horses to the south, and cooperated with Xiao Tianjian's actions, first conquered Chenzhou, and then controlled the Jialu River, cut off the important water transportation road between Jianghuai and Henan, and also choked the water transportation channel between the Jianghuai area and Shanxi, and then also cut off the important water transportation channel in the south of Kaifeng, basically cutting off the channel for Kaifeng to get grain from Jianghuai.

After Li Xuanzhu controlled the Zhoujiakou area, he did not stop, continued to wave his army south, and then quickly captured Shangshui, so that the troops reached the outside of Runing Mansion, and soon cleared the government forces around Runing Mansion and began to besiege Runing Mansion.

And at this time, Runing Mansion is not better than the last time Xiao Tianjian sent troops to attack, now in addition to the defenders of Runing Mansion, there are no other official troops, Huang Degong was defeated in Runing Mansion in the last battle, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to the north, then gathered a small number of remnants in the local area, and returned to Luzhou again, and Sun Yingyuan also then withdrew from Henan after the failure of the attack on western Henan, returned to Nanjing, and continued to deal with the activities in the Nanzhili jurisdiction of the five battalions of Gezuo, so that Runing Mansion now lost strong support.

Although the troops led by Li Xuanzhu this time were not as many as those led by Xiao Tianjian when he came last time, the surrounding people came to join the army one after another, and Li Xuanzhu temporarily organized them into reserve battalions and temporarily used as auxiliaries, and soon gathered more than 30,000 people outside the city of Runing Mansion, firmly surrounded Runing Mansion, and immediately began to launch an offensive against Runing Mansion.

Fu Ruwei, the prefect of Runing, knew what kind of fate he would face once Runing Mansion was lost, and the current saint would definitely be angry with him, so he offered a reward in the city of Runing Mansion to recruit dead soldiers to help defend the city, and the king of Chong in the city was also very afraid at the moment, and his younger brother King Heyang took out a lot of silver taels from the mansion as a salary and bounty to help recruit dead soldiers to defend the city.

And the surrounding rich people, because the development of the Xingtian Army threatened their survival, recently fled into the city of Runing Mansion, they also brought in a lot of money and some domestic slaves, making the city of Runing Mansion overcrowded, these people will not easily show obedience to the Xingtian Army, so under the heavy reward, Runing Mansion still gathered thousands of miscellaneous troops, under the command of Fu Ruwei, they climbed to the head of the city to help defend the palace.

Although the main force suffered a small loss, the reserve battalion of the new group suffered heavy losses, and the attack lasted for more than ten days, and the Runing Mansion was not overcome.

Later, after Xiao Tianjian learned the news, he ordered Li Xuanzhu to temporarily give up the storming of Runing Mansion, and ordered him to leave a war battalion and lead a large number of newly recruited soldiers to besiege Runing Mansion, cut off the food supply of Runing Mansion, and lead his troops to solve several counties in the east of Runing Mansion first, and then attack Runing Mansion after the city of Runing Mansion was cut off from food.

In desperation, Li Xuanzhu followed Xiao Tianjian's instructions, made adjustments, and led his subordinates to continue to sweep the prefectures and counties farther away around Runing Mansion.

Throughout September, in the southern part of Henan, there were flags of the Xingtian Army everywhere, and where the Xingtian Army passed, the common people raised their hands to welcome their arrival, and cooperated with the offensive actions of the Xingtian Army, either to ventilate the news for the Xingtian Army, or to lead the way for the Xingtian Army. They revolted one after another in some forts or county towns, so that the offensive action of the Xingtian Army could be said to be as rapid as a bamboo, and basically encountered any decent opponents.

Even some of the Xingtian Army's meticulous work, unable to wait for the arrival of the main force of the Xingtian Army, they have already led the people to raise troops, kill officials and seize the city, attack Zhuangbao, and take the initiative to play the banner of the Xingtian Army, and even control some county towns without the arrival of the main force of the Xingtian Army, and then purge the hostile forces around these counties and become the new control area of the Xingtian Army.

This is not counting, even the officials of several counties, without waiting for the Xingtian army to come, secretly sent people to contact the Xingtian army, saying that they were willing to surrender to the Xingtian army, and as soon as the Xingtian army arrived, they immediately defected, arrested and killed the officials who opposed their surrender, and threw them into the arms of the Xingtian army.

Although Xiong Wencan wants to save the situation, he suffers from the lack of soldiers and generals at hand, and the surrounding area is basically under the control of the Xingtian Army, so that his decree cannot get out of the isolated city of Kaifeng Mansion at all, and he can only sit in the mansion of Kaifeng Mansion every day and sigh.

The situation in Henan is eroding day by day, the power of the Xingtian Army is growing stronger day by day, and more and more territory is being seized, all kinds of bad news can be said to be flying into the Beijing division like snowflakes every day, Chongzhen knows that in addition to being angry or angry, he angrily reprimanded Xiong Wencan for incompetence, and finally felt that he could not explain, and ordered Xiong Wencan to be arrested and sent to the capital to be convicted, and the governor of Henan was replaced by the current Henan governor Gao Mingheng, so that he presided over Henan's "suppression" of the matter.

What made Chongzhen even more annoyed was that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting had already patted their chests and said that in the near future, Li Zicheng and other thieves who were active in Shaanxi would soon be wiped out, as if the situation in Shaanxi was about to be settled, and Li Zicheng would be captured and killed immediately, but after entering September, suddenly they had no news, but Shangshu said that the thieves were cunning and abnormal, hiding in the mountains and refusing to jump eastward, and they were still gathering troops in the Shangluo area to pursue them, and it would take time to capture and kill the thieves.

This made Chongzhen feel that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were simply fooling him, saying well, but now suddenly he can't do it again, Yang Sichang in order to shirk the responsibility for the Henan Xingtian Army's suppression, he kept pleading in Chongzhen's ear, saying that the erosion of the situation in Henan is caused by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's unfavorable suppression in Shaanxi, if they can quickly exterminate Li Zicheng and other activities in Shaanxi in these years, with a large number of Shaanxi troops out of Shaanxi, the Xingtian Army will never be so arrogant in Henan.

Chongzhen also felt justified after hearing it, but at the moment he really had no one to use, although he was angry, but he didn't really get dizzy, so he listened to Yang Sichang's words and removed Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting from their posts for investigation, after all, although the two of them have not exterminated the thieves in recent years, but after all, they still arrested Gao Yingxiang and controlled Shaanxi without being occupied by the thieves.

However, this incident later also reached the ears of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, which completely offended Hong and Sun, making the two of them hate Yang Sichang to the core.

After September, the situation in the Central Plains was completely eroded, Chongzhen could be said to be frowning all day long, and wanted to send Yang Sichang to Henan to preside over the suppression of the Xingtian Army, and at the same time ordered Hong Chengchou to simply give up Li Zicheng first, lead his troops into Henan, and strengthen the strength of the Xingtian Army, but at this time, the Jiannu Emperor Taiji outside the pass once again waved his army to break through the pass and enter the Kou, this time the Huang Taiji mobilized more than 100,000 troops, and the soldiers entered the pass in two ways, and the situation was extremely fierce, and the September 22 was out of the pass, The general soldier Wu Guojun was drunk and immediately led the army to flee, Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, led the rest of the official army, fought to the death and did not retreat, and the prison army Zheng Xizhao escaped from the battle, and Wu Aheng and the general soldier Lu Zongwen were defeated in a death battle, Lu Zongwen was killed on the spot, Wu Aheng was captured but refused to surrender, and scolded Huang Taiji, who was killed after cutting off his legs.

After the Jiannu Army entered the customs, it approached the Beijing Division, which caused a great earthquake in the capital, and also made Chongzhen have to temporarily put aside the matter of the Xingtian Army, and instead worried about the matter of Jiannu who broke through the pass this time.

At the end of September, martial law was declared in the area of Beijing, but the officials and soldiers guarding the pass and the soldiers chose to flee when Jiannu entered the Kou, and basically no one led the troops to the Jiannu army to put up any strong resistance, so that these Eastern Tartars began to plunder north of the Beijing Division as if they were in a no-man's land, and the soldiers reached Beijing City, Chongzhen was really helpless, so he had to follow Yang Sichang's suggestion, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, to be promoted into the guard, and at the same time ordered Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, and Wang Pu, the general of Datong, and Hu Dawei, the deputy general of Shanxi, Xu Dingguo led an army of 30,000 out of Shanxi Xuanda to enter the Weijing Division.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng was appointed as the secretary of the military department, and the governor was added to the guards and horses, responsible for defending the land of Gyeonggi, but Chongzhen also knew that only these soldiers and horses from Xuanda and Shanxi brought by Lu Xiangsheng could not stop the Jiannu army, so he issued another order, ordering Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to quickly solve Li Zicheng, and then lead the Shaanxi soldiers into the guard, and at the same time transfer Hong Chengchou as the new governor of Jiliao, taking over the position of the dead Wu Aheng, and sitting in the Jiliao area.

The entire government and the opposition were shocked by this sudden change, and all the officials and troops began to act one after another, and Lu Xiangsheng also led his troops to rush towards the Beijing Division.

(By the time of this chapter, the war in the Central Plains should also come to an end, and from tomorrow we will enter the writing of the fifth volume of "Wentian", and it is time for Pig's Feet to meet the Tartar soldiers!) Please continue to pay attention to the cold wind and strive to dedicate a more heroic battle to everyone! Why did the pig's feet rebel, didn't they just wait for this day? In addition, I would like to inform you that the Cold Wind Book Friends Group 101682380 full, and those who join the group please add another 146061549 book friend group, thank you for your support! I'll try to make the time to talk to you as much as I can! ）