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The magistrate of Lingchuan County did not expect this disaster on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and there were only a few hundred old and weak soldiers stationed in the city, so it was impossible for the Xingtian Army to be the opponent.

Although Lingchuan Zhixian tried his best to command the defenders in the city to resist, the defenders in the city had already been frightened crazy, where would they resist desperately! As a result, Yan Chongxi did not take much effort, so he conquered Lingchuan County overnight and controlled Lingchuan County in the hands of the Xingtian Army.

As for the people around Lingchuan County, let alone resisting, it was too late to welcome the Xingtian Army, and they spontaneously rose up, killing officials and killing the rich, and they suddenly defected to the banner of the Xingtian Army, and on the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, and then looked at the Lingchuan County within a radius of dozens of miles, it basically became the control area of the Xingtian Army.

And Xiao Tianjian this time in the spirit of surprise troops, as soon as possible to solve the resistance of the officers and troops in Lu'an Mansion, using the method of blitzkrieg, all the troops take turns to attack, whenever there is resistance, leave a small number of troops to solve them, the brigade of soldiers and horses keep attacking Lu'an Mansion.

The result is that it took less than two days, the army arrived at the city of Lu'an Mansion, Lu'an Mansion is Changzhi County, that is, the early Shangdang, this place is surrounded by mountains, the terrain is high and dangerous, and there is a coal sea and iron Mansion Ma Xiang said, it has always been a place where soldiers must fight, and the official army has always attacked the Xingtian Army, basically there is a way for the official army to start from here, it is because after the Xingtian Army invaded Yangcheng Zezhou, it formed a serious threat to Lu'an Mansion, this time Xu Dingguo led the army to attack Gaoping, In addition to wanting to recover Zezhou, the main reason is that Gaoping is too close to Lu'an Mansion, and once the Xingtian Army goes crazy again, the threat to Lu'an Mansion is too great, so it will attack Gaoping County so hard.

When Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Shanxi from south to north, it was also the road from Zezhou to Lu'an Mansion and then to Taiyuan Mansion, so Lu'an Mansion is very important to the whole of Shanxi.

The officials of Lu'an Mansion also did not have any mental preparation, because the Xingtian Army came too fast this time, they originally thought that Xu Dingguo led the army to attack Gaoping County, even if it was not defeated, at least it would ensure the safety of Lu'an Mansion, so they could be said to feel at ease, and just in time for the New Year, so no matter who it was, they were very lax, and even at noon on the second day of the Lunar New Year when Xu Dingguo fled back to Lu'an Mansion, all the officials in the government were resting, even the officers and soldiers who were guarding the city, should also go out to play, drink, gamble, no one would have thought that Xu Dingguo was defeated by the Xingtian Army on the first day of the Lunar New Year and fled back to Lu'an Mansion overnight.

Therefore, after these officials learned the news of Xu Dingguo's defeat, in less than two hours, the vanguard of the Xingtian Army had already arrived outside the gate of Lu'an Mansion, and at this time, the gate of Lu'an Mansion had just been closed.

But even so, the situation in the city of Lu'an Mansion is not much better, there are only more than 1,000 defenders left in the entire Lu'an Mansion city, and the strong men in the defenders of Lu'an Mansion have already been transferred to Xu Dingguo, and now those people are basically killed by the Xingtian Army, and they are caught, basically there are not a few people back, and the remaining thousand defenders are also old and weak soldiers, and the combat effectiveness is not talked about at all.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Tianjian personally led the main force of soldiers and horses to arrive at the city of Lu'an Mansion, and the city was not prepared for a night, it was still a chaotic scene, Xu Dingguo was good, ran to Lu'an Mansion to see that the situation here was not good, and hurriedly led his family through the city, and directly went out of the north gate of Lu'an Mansion City, fled in the direction of Taiyuan, and left the chaotic Lu'an Mansion alone.

Therefore, there was only one guerrilla in Lu'an Mansion who was still in the city at this time, and then there were a group of scribes in Lu'an Mansion, and when Xiao Tianjian led the main army to arrive outside Lu'an Mansion, they did not discuss a way to defend the city, and Xiao Tianjian would not give them more time.

On the day he led his troops to arrive outside the city of Lu'an Mansion on the same day, he ordered to start the siege of the city, as soon as the cannon rang out, the city was even more chaotic, less than the afternoon, Feng Youliang, the governor of Lu'an Prefecture, had a nervous breakdown, and ordered the surrender of the city, he personally held the prefect's seal, and took a group of scholars from Lu'an Mansion out of the south gate, and walked to Xiao Tianjian.

It only took three days, Xiao Tianjian used the method of blitzkrieg to defeat Lu'an Mansion, almost did not give the Shanxi government a chance to react, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Tianjian once again led a group of men and horses to leave Lu'an Mansion and pounced on Huguan County, while Yan Chongxi, Diao Zheng, and He Yihu led their troops out of Lu'an Mansion to attack several counties around Lu'an Mansion.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Tianjian personally led his troops to conquer Huguan and occupied Huguan County, while Yan Chongxi led his troops to capture Changzi County and Tunliu County.

It was not until this time that Wu Fu, the governor of Shanxi, learned the news of the fall of Lu'an Mansion, and was so shocked that he slipped out of the soft couch and slipped to the ground, and before anyone came to help him, he jumped up again and asked in surprise: "What about Xu Dingguo?" Xu Dingguo is not leading the army to attack Gaoping, why can the thief army suddenly attack Lu'an Mansion? No way! It's absolutely impossible! ”

"Lord Qiqi Futai, the news is indeed like this, the thief army took advantage of the New Year's Festival, suddenly gathered heavy troops in Zezhou, and raided the headquarters of Xu Zongbing, Xu Zongbing was suddenly defeated by surprise, thousands of troops were almost completely lost in the hands of the thief army, and the thief army divided the road, raided Lingchuan County, and slammed on Lu'an Mansion with lightning speed, the entire Lu'an Mansion was not on guard, Xu Zongbing desperately resisted in Lu'an Mansion, and the thief army was defeated again out of Lu'an Mansion, and now it has retreated to Taigu County!

According to the people who fled back from the Lu'an Mansion, now not only Lu'an Mansion has fallen, but Huguan has also been conquered by the thief army, and the thief army does not stop at all, and then attack the eldest son and Tunliu, and the entire Lu'an Mansion is now under the front of the thief army! Please make a quick decision! The staff replied to Wu Fu in a panic.

Wu Fu was almost stupid at this time, originally the imperial court ordered them to find a way to at least recover Zezhou, he and Lu Xiangsheng can be said to have used almost all the forces at hand to attack the territory controlled by the thieves in Jinnan, originally thought that the main force of the thief army is now going south to Henan, and there are not many troops left in the area of Jinnan, even if this time it is not possible to recover the entire Jinnan, at least Zezhou can be recovered, but I didn't think that this battle would be a few months, and the soldiers and horses of Jiezhou and Pingyang Mansion were frustrated again, Only Xu Dingguo's soldiers and horses are said to have fought relatively well in Gaoping, and they have sent a report of success, saying that the number of thieves and how many heads are sent, and the bounty alone has been sent to tens of thousands of taels during this time, and I originally thought that Xu Dingguo would be ashamed and brave this time, and it is expected to defeat Gao Pingke and restore Zezhou to report the revenge of the defeat under the hands of the Xingtian Army, and they were more or less relieved.

But they never thought that at this time of the Chinese New Year, the thief army would suddenly gather heavy troops to launch a counterattack, not only defeated Xu Dingguo's army in one fell swoop, but also raided Lu'an Mansion, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the government, conquered Lu'an Mansion in one fell swoop, this time the trouble is big, this New Year, where did he go to transfer troops to counterattack the thieves!

Thinking about this Xu Dingguo again, it is really not enough to succeed and more than to lose, the first war was wiped out, and he was embarrassed to say that he was fighting against the thief army in Lu'an Mansion, if he was fighting against the thief army in Lu'an Mansion, how could Lu'an Mansion be lost so easily? Lu'an Mansion is lost, and you promise that Dingguo can retreat to Tunliu and Xiangyuan to continue to block the enemy, but why did you retreat to Taigu in one breath? You must know that Taigu County is two or three hundred miles away from Lu'an Mansion, and you can't run out of hundreds of miles in one breath before you stop!

Wu Fu actually understands what kind of virtues these generals are now, and it is impossible to expect them to work hard, and this gang of people has a set of disasters to the common people, speaking of which they are sent to Taiyuan Mansion for thousands of heads, among which there are probably very few who really belong to the thief army, and most of them should be the heads of good people, and even some of them are women's heads, but this kind of thing is not explained by everyone, not to mention that the saint is urging tightly, and the government urgently needs a victory over the Xingtian Army to boost morale, so although he knows that these soldiers and generals are killing good people and risking their merits, but the big guys would rather play stupid collectively than say it, and the reward that should be issued will be sent as well.

Now it's good, the thief army counterattacked, Xu Dingguo was defeated and ran away, and Lu'an Mansion was also lost, once the thief army refused to stop this time, and attacked all the way to Taiyuan Mansion, it would be a big trouble, at this time Wu Fu didn't dare to think about retaking Lu'an Mansion again, and he was thinking about how to prevent the thief army from attacking Taiyuan.

He can't wait to catch Xu Dingguo to Taiyuan Mansion at this time, but there are really not many available generals for the people on hand, although Xu Dingguo is not a fierce general, but he is also a more capable general in Shanxi, if he is not used, there is really no one available, in desperation, he hurriedly ordered to increase troops in Taigu County, supplemented to Xu Dingguo's command, and ordered Xu Dingguo to sit in Taigu County, and strictly prevent the thief army from taking advantage of the situation to approach Taiyuan City.

And Taigu County is the southern gate of Taiyuan Mansion, once Taigu is also under the thief army, then Taiyuan Mansion will also be in big trouble this time.