After Liu Yaoben walked to Xiao Tianjian, he also looked at the recruits who ran away, and said to Xiao Tianjian with a smile: "How about the handsome look at these recruits?" ”

Xiao Tianjian also looked at the group of recruits who were far away, and said, "It's very simple! In the past, no one told them how to live, so they lived in a mess, but now after following us, someone tells them how to live, and they will naturally have a head! I'll hand over this batch of people to you, you show me here in Yongning County, and when I come back next time, I want to see these recruits become an elite army! In addition, on the Shanxi side, another group of young brothers from your youth camp have also graduated, and they will come from Shanxi in the near future, you can leave some and add them to the new barracks, and the rest will be added to the second and third battalions! Remember, Yongning County cannot be lost, this is the foundation of our foothold in Henan! ”

Liu Yaoben nodded somewhat depressedly, but immediately asked, "Can't you let others do this kind of thing?" I still want to do things by the side of Dashuai! Even if it's just to make me a pawn! ”

Xiao Tianjian turned to look at Liu Yaoben, patted him on the shoulder and said: "You followed me at the earliest, and you know me well, and you are destined to be a general, sooner or later you will have to take charge of me alone, last time you stayed in Yongning, you did a pretty good job, you stayed here for me, I can rest assured!" As for the future, there are still many battles to be fought! Are you still afraid that you won't be able to fight without a war? ”

A team of soldiers and horses slowly marched out of Yongning County, heading to the west, Luo Li and Li Xuanzhu each led a battalion of infantry troops, walking in the middle of the team, in front of Situ Liang's cavalry to open the road, behind is a baggage team composed of nearly dozens of carts, Xiao Tianjian rode a horse and walked in the middle of the team, constantly waving to the crowd on both sides of the road to see them off.

After settling down and returning to Shanxi, the situation in Yongning County began to stabilize, and the local gentry bowed their heads and declared their submission under the deterrence of the Xingtian Army, in order to show their loyalty, these local gentry have sent their children to the new barracks of the Xingtian Army as soldiers, and those new attached troops received training from the Xingtian Army, so that these people were also tied to the chariot of the Xingtian Army, and they could not be half-hearted in the future.

As for the resettlement of displaced people on the ground in Yongning, Luo Yingjie has been fully rolled out, and this kind of thing will naturally be handed over to him to be responsible, and he is not a person in the military general system, and it is also convenient to communicate with some squires and scholars on the ground, and with Liu Yaoben leading the teaching battalion and more than 2,000 new battalions, these forces sit in Yongning to support him, and he should be able to control Yongning's side.

What's more, Zu Kuan and Wang Shaoyu were newly defeated, and in a short period of time, Henan could not draw too many troops to enter Yongning again, so Xiao Tianjian had no worries.

After obtaining a large number of supplies from Yongning County, the Xingtian Army has also solved the problem of logistics supply, in addition to continuing to smuggle gunpowder, armor, and muskets from Shanxi, with the Yongning base, his operation in Henan can be fully rolled out.

The reason why Lushi County was selected is because it is adjacent to Shanxi Luonan in the west, which is the junction of Shaanxi and Henan, and the mountains and forests here are deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is a very good place to hide and raise troops, and it can defend the officers and troops in Tongguan to the north, and it can threaten Nanyang to the south, whether it is as a strategic depth or as a starting point for attack, it is a good choice, and it can be said that it is a good place to attack, retreat and defend.

Even more on the Lu family, there are iron, lead and gold mines, as long as the Lu County is occupied, the Xingtian Army will have an extra room to choose, and when the time comes, in the territory of Lu County, you can also build weapons, and you can also get a lot of soldiers.

Therefore, after stabilizing Yongning, Xiao Tianjian and his generals made a plan to capture Lushi County without stopping, and chose the fifth day of the first month of November, and the army set off and began to march towards Lushi County.

After Yongning was captured by the Xingtian Army, they had a premonition that their Lushi County was likely to become the next target, so the county magistrate rushed to Luoyang three times a day, asking Luoyang Prefect Feng Yijun to send troops to Lushi County to enhance Lu's county's ability to defend the country.

It's a pity that Feng Yijun is powerless at this time, so he sent a Wang Shaoyu, but Wang Shaoyu was first hesitant in Yiyang, and then finally asked Chen Biqian to transfer Zu Kuan to lead the troops to help in the war, but he didn't want to be regarded as a victorious general Zu Kuan, who was actually defeated in the hands of the Xingtian Army in Yongning, and turned around and ran back to Lushan.

Therefore, although he knew that the appetite of the Xingtian Army would definitely not only occupy the area of Yongning County, and would definitely continue to expand to the surrounding areas in order to gain a firm foothold in Henan, he could not have any powerful forces at hand to deal with the next expansion of the Xingtian Army, so he could only order the counties around Yongning County to strengthen their garrisons on their own, and at the same time hurriedly sent people to ask for help from Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan.

And Chen Biqian was shocked after hearing the news of Zu Kuan's defeat, originally in his opinion, as long as Zu Kuan took out such a post as Guan Ning's army to Yongning, he could easily settle the crisis in Yongning County in a battle, but he never thought that Zu Kuan, who was invincible in his opinion, was actually defeated and lost under the Xingtian army.

In this way, Chen Biqian also panicked, and hurriedly ordered the dispatch of soldiers and horses from all over the country to Yongning to suppress again, this time he did not dare to hold it up, while dispatching troops, while writing a chapter and sending it to the capital, and presented it to Emperor Chongzhen, please Emperor Chongzhen quickly think of a way.

In short, Zu Kuan's defeat shook so much in Henan that the officers and soldiers from all walks of life after hearing the news couldn't help but get nervous.

But this is not an unfortunate thing, just a few days after the Xingtian army led the troops to defeat the Zu Kuansuo department, the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and other Lu Yi army, also went out of Shangluo and Sichuan again, from the Nanyang area into Henan, the collapse of the sky led the troops to cross the river into the Jingxiang area, and began to plunder, while Zhang Xianzhong led the troops to Gwangzhou, and the scorpion Kuaituo Yangkun led the troops to the east at a very fast speed to approach Fengyang again.

Even Li Zicheng obtained the armament supply of the Xingtian Army, and then collected a group of Gao Yingxiang's old troops, and the momentum was revived again, and the combat effectiveness was enhanced a lot, and Sun Chuanting had a hard time in Shaanxi, and even trapped several county towns, so that Sun Chuanting, who was in charge of the suppression of Shaanxi and other areas, was also nervous, this is not counted, even Luo Rucai, who was forced to flee to the northeast of Shaanxi under the strong suppression of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting some time ago, also seems to have grown a lot stronger overnight, and actually took advantage of the time when the Yellow River was frozen, stepped on the ice and broke into the territory of Shanxi, and the soldiers pointed directly at the area of Jiezhou.

As a result, the slightly stable situation that had just been formed by Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng's efforts to appease the people in various places fell into chaos again, and the requests for help from all over the country flew to the Beijing division like snowflakes.

It can be said that to a certain extent, Xiao Tianjian began to completely affect the development of the current situation, on the one hand, he waved his army into Henan, instigating the Zhulu Righteous Army, which had been forced out of Henan, to turn around and return to Henan again, on the other hand, he enhanced their strength by selling weapons and armor to Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and other Lu Righteous Army, so that they reversed their disadvantages to a certain extent, enhanced their strength against the official army, and greatly muddied this pool.

Of course, for this situation, Xiao Tianjian, who was leading his troops to attack the Lu clan, was not very clear, he was just working hard to secretly push the situation in the direction he wanted, as for the current situation of the various rebels, in a short period of time, he did not immediately grasp it.

The straight-line distance from Yongning County to Lushi County is less than 100 miles, but there are many mountains and forests in western Henan, and the roads are winding and circling in the mountains, so the actual distance is basically 200 miles, and after leaving Yongning County, it is basically a mountain road, and the road is rugged and difficult to walk, so although the Xingtian Army is famous for hiking, but under such a mountain road, it is not fast to carry a heavy burden to march quickly.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian's plan to attack Lu's county seat in three days was also due to the difficulty of the road, coupled with the fact that some local tyrants in Lushi County wantonly destroyed the road in advance along the way in order to prevent the Xingtian Army from attacking Lu's, and there were also small groups of local armed forces dangling in front of the Xingtian Army from time to time, forcing the Xingtian Army to send sappers to repair the road in front of the front, and on the other hand, they had to constantly send small teams of men and horses in front to clear the local armed forces that tried to attack and disturb the Xingtian Army's advance, so that the road that was planned to be completed in three days, But he was stunned and walked for two more days before arriving at Lushi County.

Fortunately, although there are a lot of local powerful armed forces in Lushi County, but after all, the combat effectiveness of these local armed forces is very low, although they try to block the advance of the Xingtian Army along the way, as long as they meet the soldiers of the Xingtian Army, they are often beaten into a scattered picture, and the soldiers of the two companies under the command of Li Xuanzhu, who were sent as the forwards, under the leadership of Zhao Erdonkey, actually pulled out two or three powerful forts along the way, and slaughtered the homes of these two or three local Haoqiang who were determined to organize manpower to try to hinder the Xingtian Army. In this way, they were deterred from the attacks of the local armed forces who were constantly trying to obstruct the Xingtian Army, so these local heroes had no choice but to take back their respective Zhuangding Xiangyong, and began to retreat into their forts, strengthen the walls, and prepare to defend the forts.

And Xiao Tianjian's attack on Lushi County this time also changed the style of clearing the local forces around the county first, and directly supervised the army to attack Lushi County.

By the time they arrived at Lu's county, Lu's county was already in a panic, Feng Xilian, the county magistrate, was not as good as Wu Dalie, the magistrate of Yongning County, this person was as timid as a mouse, don't look at the means of bullying the common people is quite ruthless, but he is simply a corrupt official, and making a fortune as an official is the primary goal for him, but if he wants to die with this small Lu's county, he can't do it.

When he learned that the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army were approaching the county seat like a broken bamboo, Feng Xilian took stock of the available strength at hand, perhaps because he already knew that Lushi County might be unable to withstand the attack of the Xingtian Army this time, and had promised Feng Xilian that he would send their respective township warriors into the city to assist in defending several local gentry, but they all laid soft eggs in the battle, and they delayed and refused to send each family's township warriors to the county seat for Feng Xilian to call to assist in guarding the county seat, and one by one they shrank their respective Zhuangding Township Yong back to their own Zhuang Fort. I plan to protect myself wisely, first protect my own one-third of an acre and see where the wind is blowing.

As a result, Feng Xilian only had a few hundred old and weak garrisons left on hand, and there was basically no manpower to call on otherwise.

Seeing that it was impossible to succeed in resistance, Feng Xilian also made a quick decision, and the night before the arrival of the Xingtian Army, he cleaned up the soft houses in the city, loaded seven or eight carts, called to open the city gate overnight, and fled from the county seat in a panic with his wife, concubines, children, and domestic slaves.

As soon as Feng Xilian fled with his family, Lushi County was in chaos, and the officials under him saw that the magistrates had run away, where did they have the heart to stay and take over this mess! One by one, they were wrapped in soft things, and they also fled the county seat with their families, and suddenly Lushi County became an undefended city.

If the official runs away, where can the soldier spontaneously organize resistance! The garrisons in the city, after learning that the officials had run away, scolded one by one, the officials had money and could flee with the softness, but these big-headed soldiers were poor one by one, and where could they run? Even if you want to run, you have to find a way to get some money and valuables to escape, and after the province runs away, you will become a homeless person and starve to death on the side of the road.

As a result, these defenders became bandits overnight, and in order to get some money to flee the place, gangs began to rob the people of the city.

This time it will be hard for the people in Lushi County, even some rich owners in the family, they are not spared, they are regarded as fat sheep by these bandits in the city, and they have become the first victims, the courtyard has been broken by these bandits, and the slightest resistance is killed by the bandits, and the bandits looted all the money and soft things in their homes, not to mention, and even in the end it has developed to the extent of robbing women and humiliating them on the street.

The whole county town of Lushi fell into anarchy, the streets were full of bandits wielding blades scurrying around, constantly knocking open the doors of a house, rushing in and then robbing on a large scale, and even some of the splashes in the city saw this opportunity, and also joined the plundering team, spontaneously formed a gang to burn and loot everywhere, the city was suddenly adults and children crying, and the beautiful women were even more bloody mold, one by one by the bandits and these splashes pressed down in the house or even on the street, in public obscenity, Some women could not bear such insults, hanged themselves, threw themselves into wells, and for a time hundreds of women committed suicide in the city, and the wails of their families resounded in the sky above the county.

Some of the soldiers who grabbed enough to grab enough, one by one carrying large bags of small bags of robbed soft things, have escaped from several city gates, and more defenders have been robbed at this time, forgetting that the danger is in front of their eyes, and they continue to go crazy in the city, the four city gates of east, west, south and north have long been guarded by no soldiers, and the drawbridge has also been put down by the defenders who fled out of the city, and the city gate is even more open, and even the city gate has lost clothes and cloth and other things that are not easy to carry. Lushi County has become a completely undefended city.

At this time, a group of about 200 cavalry began to march out of the mountain road in the north of Lushi County, led by an elite general raised his hand to stop the soldiers who were following him, took the reins of the horse, built a pergola and looked towards Lushi County......

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