After the past six months, Xiong Wencan temporarily put aside the matter of the Xingtian Army, turned around and concentrated all his forces, personally sat in various parts of Huguang and Henan, and commanded the armies to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong and the thief army operating in the Huguang area of Henan, which can be said to have achieved initial results. After Emperor Chongzhen learned of Zuo Liangyu's performance, he personally ordered Zuo Liangyu to reprimand, and gave Xiong Wencan a Shangfang sword, quasi-Xiong Wencan can cut off the civil and military officials who did not listen to the dispatch of the local government, so Zuo Liangyu was a lot more honest, became a lot more obedient, and now in the Huguang area, he has pulled up more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and compared with before, he also obeyed a lot of orders, and this period of time for Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and others to suppress very hard.

And Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves, in the past half a year, under his vigorous suppression, is gradually declining, began to be gradually compressed in the territory of Huguang, and Xiong Wencan after consulting Yang Sichang, think that for their thieves to suppress, should be combined with suppression, recently he just sent someone to say that Liu Guoneng, Liu Guoneng has promised to surrender to him, and Zhang Xianzhong was also driven to the Baokang area, hiding in the mountains of Shennongjia, seeing that as long as you use your strength again, even Zhang Xianzhong is likely to be suppressed by him, and now suddenly the Xingtian Army exerts force, It really put him in a bit of a dilemma.

If he immediately transfers all the troops at hand to Luoyang for rescue now, then for the situation he has just achieved, it will undoubtedly be in vain, Zhang Xianzhong will definitely jump out of Fangshan and Baokang immediately, and immediately recover, if you want to compress him in this situation again, I am afraid it will be really difficult.

In addition, in addition to Zhang Xianzhong, there are several thieves who are now also forced to reach a dead end, once he withdraws now to deal with the Xingtian Army, then all the efforts in the past six months will be in vain!

How to deal with this situation, Xiong Wencan suddenly became a little embarrassed, Luoyang can't be saved, but Zhang Xianzhong's gang of thieves will still be blamed on him if he doesn't suppress it, how can he ensure that the current situation is not out of control and rescue Luoyang? This incident gave Xiong Wencan a lot of headaches, so he immediately gathered his staff to discuss this matter.

And his staff are also a little clueless about this matter, and after discussing for a long time, they did not come up with a feasible solution, but later they discussed and discussed, and some people proposed that the garrison of Kaifeng could be transferred to Luoyang first, help the Luoyang defenders to assist in defense, delay the offensive of the Xingtian Army, and gain a little time, and let Xiong Wencan quickly contact Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, transfer troops from Shaanxi, take Tongguan to open the road to Luoyang, and recover Michi County, so that Luoyang can solve the crisis and become safe.

After Xiong Wencan's side solved Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves, he transferred troops from Huguang, plus the soldiers and horses from Shanxi and Shandong, so as to destroy this Xingtian army in the mountains of western Henan with one blow.

Xiong Wencan felt that it was feasible for the staff to finally put forward this method, so he did not delay at the moment, and immediately sent someone to pass his hand, Pegasus went to Kaifeng, and ordered Kaifeng Deputy General Chen Yongfu to immediately lead the Kaifeng soldiers to Luoyang, join forces with the Luoyang defenders, obey Feng Yijun's dispatch, and defend Luoyang City.

At the same time, in order to prevent the eastward invasion of the Xingtian army, he could send an order to Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, to transfer 20,000 soldiers and horses from Shandong into Henan to protect Kaifeng and Guide Fu and other places, so as to ensure that the canal line was not disturbed by the Xingtian army, and could respond to Luoyang City at any time.

Huang Dequan, the deputy general of Jiangbei, led a sentry to enter Henan as soon as possible, and limited him to rush to Ruzhou within ten days to block the threat of the Xingtian army facing Luoyang in the south, and at the same time mobilized a sentry in Guangzhou to move to defend Baofeng, posing a threat to the flank of the thief army.

At the same time, Xiong Wencan immediately wrote a letter by himself, sent someone Pegasus to Shaanxi and handed it to Hong Chengchou, and asked Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to mobilize some Shaanxi troops out of Tongguan and attack Mianchi County.

After some deployment, Xiong Wencan felt that things should be able to deal with it, and the worst could ensure that Luoyang was not lost, and his main energy was still on Zhang Xianzhong and other Lu Yijun who were blocked in the Baokang area, and planned to clean up Zhang Xianzhong's gang of thieves first.

Sure enough, not long after the Xingtian army moved, Zhang Xianzhong, who had hid in the Baokang area, began to move, and Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to suddenly jump out of the Baokang and Fangshan areas on the tenth day of October, and marched to Gucheng, intending to cross the river and go north.

Zhang Xianzhong's action was immediately noticed by Xiong Wencan, who was sitting in Xiangyang, and then sent Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops to meet Zhang Xianzhong, blocking it in the south of the Yangtze River so that it could not cross north again, by this time, Xiong Wencan had already believed that there would definitely be a connection between Zhang Xianzhong and Xiao Tianjian, otherwise, the two parties would not cooperate with such a tacit understanding, Zhang Xianzhong had just fallen into a predicament, and the dormant Xingtian Army was raising troops in the Luoyang area, and Zhang Xianzhong was at this time, the troops went to Gucheng, and wanted to cross the river to the north, if once Zhang Xianzhong and Xiao Tianjian joined forces, this is a big trouble, and the situation that Xiong Wencan has managed with great difficulty in the past six months is tantamount to a wasted situation.

Therefore, Xiong Wencan strictly ordered Zuo Liangyu and Chen Hongfan, two generals, to supervise the army to intercept Zhang Xianzhong day and night, and then on October 13, the two armies encountered in the area of Nanhe Town, south of Gucheng, and started a fight.

Zhang Xianzhong is also considered to be out of the way, personally raised the horse into battle, led the troops and Luo Liangyu and Chen Hongfan and other road officials and soldiers to fight, how is Zhang Xianzhong during this period of time in the Jiangnan and Jiangbei areas of the repeated defeats, after hiding in Baokang and Fangshan area, and a serious lack of food and grass, so that the soldiers and generals are unable to fight, the result is a big defeat, and finally blocked by the official army in the area of Gucheng County, but in the end but did not be able to cross the river to the north, and then enter Nanyang, plus Xiong Wencan personally sat in Xiangyang, the officers and soldiers of all roads did not dare to slack off, blocked in the north of the river, so that Zhang Xianzhong could not cross the river.

At this time, Liu Guoneng finally couldn't hold on, accepted Xiong Wencan's request in Tanghe, and announced the surrender of the government on the spot.

Speaking of which, Liu Guoneng actually didn't work hard, if Liu Guoneng could join forces with Zhang Xianzhong two months ago, not only would the officials and soldiers have no way to take him, but even Zhang Xianzhong would not necessarily be forced to this point by Xiong Wencan this time.

He Nai Zhang Xianzhong is used to being arrogant, after crossing the river in the south, he and Liu Guoneng in order to grab the territory, there were a lot of dirty disputes between his subordinates, so that later Liu Guoneng was quite jealous of Zhang Xianzhong, and always felt that once he and Zhang Xianzhong joined forces, Zhang Xianzhong would definitely annex him, and even secretly get rid of him, so he always refused to join forces with Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers, and crossed the river to the north alone, but under the command of Xiong Wencan, he was defeated in successive battles, so that he was forced to be cornered. In the end, he had to choose to lead nearly 20,000 troops under his command, simply surrendered to the imperial court, and was incorporated by Xiong Wencan under the command of Zuo Liangyu to obey orders.

Liu Guoneng's surrender was undoubtedly a great achievement for Xiong Wencan, and at the same time, it was a big blow to the rebels from all walks of life who were active in Huguang and Henan.

At this time, not only Zhang Xianzhong fell into a predicament, but also took Luo Rucai to live a difficult time at this time, he first fled back to Shaanxi in Shanxi, went north to Yulin and was then expelled from Shangluo in the south, and then soon was sent out by Sun Chuanting from Shangluo, and ran into Yunyang by the West Gorge, originally tens of thousands of followers, but at this time there were less than 10,000 horses left, and most of them were weak soldiers, after arriving in Yunyang, and then they were ambushed by the official army, forcing Luo Rucai to flee to the north.

Originally, Xiong Wencan thought that he could take the opportunity to exterminate Luo Rucai or appease him this time, but his actions were a little slower, but in the end, Luo Rucai escaped from the encirclement by taking advantage of the gap, and wanted to send someone to chase after him, but at this time, he received news from Luoyang, saying that Ruzhou was conquered by the Xingtian Army in just a few days, and He Zigang, the garrison of Ruzhou, was killed in battle, and Zhao Tianci was captured and surrendered to the thief.

This news suddenly surprised Xiong Wencan again, although he already knew that the Xingtian army was attacking Ruzhou, but in the past six months, the strength of Ruzhou has increased a lot, and now there should be at least three or four thousand garrisons, although it may not be able to defeat the thief army in the field outside the city, but at least it should not be a problem to defend the city, in his impression, the thief army is often very lacking in siege means, and can only take the method of climbing the city by ants, many times the siege is not able to take it, and although the Xingtian army is much more powerful than the ordinary thief army, But it is estimated that the siege of the city is not necessarily very powerful, no matter how bad Ruzhou is, at least it can hold on for half a month or even a month, and it can easily hold on until the Huangde power department arrives and receives the siege of Ruzhou, but he didn't think that he had just arranged the rescue on his side, and Ruzhou had already been lost, if the Xingtian Army was really so powerful, then Luoyang City was really in danger!

So Xiong Wencan didn't dare to delay any longer, and ordered to temporarily let go of the pursuit of Luo Rucai, and then send someone to quickly pass on his order, so that Huang Degong traveled day and night, and rushed directly to Luoyang City to strengthen Luoyang's garrison, and strictly prevent the Xingtian Army from attacking Luoyang immediately after conquering Ruzhou.

And his side immediately sent people to Gucheng County to persuade Zhang Xianzhong that it was best to let Zhang Xianzhong quickly surrender to the imperial court, as long as Zhang Xianzhong was solved, then he would have more troops to invest in the attack on the Xingtian Army!