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The news of Xingtianjun's large-scale invasion of Yuanqu County soon spread to Pingyang Mansion, and Pingyang Mansion was also shocked when they heard the news, and they also did not expect that Xingtianjun would actually cross Wangwu Mountain and directly enter Kouyuanqu County, this matter has a lot to do with them, because Yuanqu County is directly subordinate to Pingyang Prefecture after all, and once there is a loss, they will inevitably be involved, so they quickly reported the matter to Wu Fu, the governor of Shanxi. （..)

And Wu Fu was also having a headache about the matter of Xingtianjun, and after hearing the news, he was even more troubled, so he urgently convened his officials to discuss how to deal with this matter.

The officials of Shanxi also have a headache for this, some people stood on dry ground, clamoring to immediately transfer troops again to Yuanqu County, and exterminate the Xingtian Army in one fell swoop, but this kind of person does not have a backache at all, Shanxi because Fengyang was destroyed by the righteous army, basically the soldiers and horses that can be transferred to Henan and Shaanxi to suppress bandits, and these soldiers who stay in Shanxi are basically the garrisons left behind in various states and counties, not to mention the problem of how many troops, the key is that the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is really worrying, It is probably okay to let them defend the city, but if they want to suppress the bandits, it is estimated that these soldiers and horses will not be enough.

What's more, once the surrounding garrisons are transferred to Yuanqu County, there will be an immediate emptiness of troops in various places, once there is another incident, there will be no troops available in various prefectures and counties, if you have to transfer troops, you can't transfer troops in large numbers, you can only draw some troops in each place, and then enter Yuanqu County and hand over a general to unify and lead the Xingtian Army to suppress and appease the Xingtian Army.

But there is also a problem with this, these soldiers and horses are not from one place, and there will definitely be a lot of problems with them, not ordinary people are difficult to control them, I am afraid that if they don't wait for them to fight with the Xingtian Army, they will be in a mess, if this soldier can win the battle, it is simply a fool's dream, not to mention, such a transfer of troops, even if it can, the time is not allowed, and the soldiers and horses of these states and counties are mobilized to Yuanqu County, estimating the quality of these garrisons, and the speed of their march, I'm afraid that it won't be possible without ten days and half a month.

When these soldiers and horses are gathered in Yuanqu County, it is estimated that the cucumbers and vegetables are cold, and with the ferocity of the Xingtian Army, it is estimated that the entire territory of Yuanqu County will fall into the hands of the Xingtian Army.

Wu Fu thought about it and felt that this plan could not be successful, so he continued to ask his subordinates for a plan to see if there was a better way to solve this trouble as soon as possible.

At this time, a junior official sitting in the subordinate position finally stood up and said: "Lord Futai, the subordinate has a plan to retreat from the enemy!" ”

Wu Fu glanced at this junior official, so he hurriedly asked, "What plan do you have?" Hurry up! ”

Only then did this junior official speak: "Lord Qiqi Futai, in the opinion of the following officials, although the Xingtian Army is very fierce, but after all, their strength is limited, this time it is expected that they will enter Kouyuanqu County, and they will definitely mobilize the main force to go to Yuanqu County, so that the territory of Yangcheng County, which was originally entrenched, will be empty, we don't need to mobilize heavy troops to go to Yuanqu County to encircle and suppress them, we can order the prefectures and counties around Yangcheng to send troops to attack Yangcheng County at the same time, this is a plan to attack it!" It is expected that these thieves have been operating in Yangcheng for so long, and they will definitely not sit idly by and watch their original territory be recovered by the official army, and will definitely return to the division to rescue, so that the danger of Yuanqu can be solved!

And now it is the time of the summer harvest, the reason why the thief army controls a large area of Yangcheng County, in fact, is to rest the soldiers and horses, obtain grain, in order to prepare for the winter, if we attack the Yangcheng boundary at this time, it can make the thief army unable to carry out the summer harvest, just destroy the grain fields in Yangcheng, even if the thief army is not destroyed, after the winter this year, its life may be very sad, then it has to leave the Yangcheng territory, become a rogue bandit, as long as at that time, the Hong Governor side of the hand and send troops back to completely wipe it out.

If the thief army refuses to withdraw in Yuanqu, then its forces will be scattered, so that Lord Futai can take this opportunity to recover the area of Yangcheng in one fell swoop, and then exterminate it in Yuanqu County! Even if it is the worst, it can force it out of our Shanxi territory! ”

After hearing this, Wu Fu was immediately overjoyed, because the method that this junior official said was much simpler than the method said by the officials under him just now, and there was no need to mobilize a large number of soldiers and horses to rush to Yuanqu County, and the danger of Yuanqu County could be solved, so he immediately nodded and said: "That's right!" It seems that this plan is indeed feasible! That's it! ”

The reason why Wu Fu very much agrees with this petty official's opinion is mainly because he does not have the confidence to destroy the Xingtian Army in one fell swoop, but even if he can't completely destroy the Xingtian Army, at least he can't let the Xingtian Army expand its territory, otherwise, even if he is the governor, there are many people in the court who are still staring at his position, waiting for him to make a mistake and take him down! If the Xingtian Army was only compressed in the boundary of Yangcheng County, then this matter would be okay to say, even if it couldn't destroy the Xingtian Army, at least it wouldn't threaten his position as governor.

Therefore, after agreeing on this matter, Wu Fu again transferred a limited number of 1,500 officers and soldiers from Taiyuan, and ordered them to travel day and night, and immediately rushed to Zezhou, and strictly ordered Pingyang Prefecture to mobilize soldiers and horses from the counties around Yangcheng, from Jiangxian and Qinshui, and also attacked Yangcheng at the same time, encircled and suppressed the Xingtian army remaining in Yangcheng, and vowed to force the Xingtian army to withdraw troops from Yuanqu County to aid Yangcheng.

After receiving this instruction from Wu Fu, the smarter people immediately understood Wu Fu's intentions, and they all shouted that this plan was very good, and they did not dare to slack off, and immediately dispatched a large number of troops and horses to Jiangxian and Qinshui in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Pingyang Prefecture, and prepared to join forces to attack the Yangcheng boundary in two ways, and force the Xingtian Army back to the Yangcheng territory.

And Zezhou also received an edict from Wu Fu, ordering him to mobilize troops and horses again to assist the 2,000 officers and troops who went to Zezhou this time to enter Yangcheng again to suppress the Heavenly Army.

After hearing the news, the officials of Zezhou thought that this time the official soldiers from all over the country were divided into routes to enter Yangcheng, which was much more certain than the last time, so they also began to prepare busily, waiting for the arrival of official reinforcements at any time, and they entered Yangcheng again to suppress the bandits.

Only after hearing the news, the officials of Yuanqu County complained bitterly, secretly complaining that Wu Fu would not save him when he saw death, and asked them to resist the attack of the thief army, so they were forced to ask for 500 defenders from Jiezhou to strengthen the defense of the county seat, and at the same time summoned some local villagers to increase troops to the area of Wangmao Town, and made a strict posture of guarding against the west of the Heavenly Army.

And the official actions of various places naturally can't escape the eyes of giants like Fan Yaoshan, plus the officials of this era have no concept of secrecy at all, they like to talk about it outside, and inadvertently, they revealed many important decisions of the government to the people, and soon Fan Yaoshan in Taiyuan learned about the government's plan, this time he didn't dare to slack off, after all, through this small half a year and dealing with Xingtianjun, he has seen that this Xiao Tianjian is an ambitious person, and the strength of Xingtianjun should not be underestimated, And through the transaction with Xingtianjun, his business has also improved greatly, the transaction between the two sides has been as high as tens of thousands of taels of silver, even for a giant businessman like him, this business is big enough, and the Fan family has really made a lot of money from the transaction with Xingtianjun, both parties have obtained a lot of benefits, and his daughter Fan Yutong is still in Xiao Tianjian's hands, if this time he is like the last time, just to send Xiao Tianjian a letter and cut off the contact with Xingtianjun, Otherwise, not to mention whether Xiao Tianjian will be unfavorable to Fan Yutong, but at least it will cast a shadow on the cooperation between the two sides.

And at present, in order to chase profits, businessmen have no loyalty to the imperial court at all, seeing that the strength of the Xingtianjun is getting stronger and stronger, and the reputation is getting bigger and bigger, if his Fan family does not want to do business with the Xingtianjun, in terms of the many Jin merchants in Shanxi, there must be many people who are willing to secretly squeeze his Fan family aside and secretly do these transactions with the Xingtianjun, in that case, it will undoubtedly be another blow to the business that he has just improved, and the Fan family is likely to collapse because of this.

So this time, Fan Yaoshan didn't slack off like last time, and immediately sent his subordinates to secretly pass the news to Feng Gouzi, who stayed in Yangcheng, as soon as possible, and at the same time found a way to secretly send a batch of saltpeter sulfur to the Xingtian Army in advance, as a support for the Xingtian Army, showing that their attitude this time was very positive, so as not to cause a misunderstanding between Xiao Tianjian and their Fan family.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to the east of the ancient town of Yuanqu County, but the action was very smooth, after the east of the ancient town of Xie Jiazhuang was defeated, the blow to the local big families was great, and it also made the number of Zhuang Ding Xiangyong in their Zhuang Fort greatly reduced, in the face of the attack of the well-trained Xingtian Army, these rich people's Zhuang Fort could not resist at all, often a battle was overcome, in just a few days, they attacked the Maju Ridge east of the ancient town, and the area east of the ancient town was basically included in the bag, leaving only some relatively small Zhuang Forts, Still under the control of the local wealthy households, the rest of the important large households Zhuangbao were basically conquered by the Xingtian Army, for those rich households who tried to carry to the end, the soldiers of the Xingtian Army will not be soft-hearted, conquer a Zhuangzi, slaughter a family, and kill the eastern part of Yuanqu County can be said to be full of people, so that the local rich gentry are all terrified.

It was Zhang Dachuan's Zhuangzi, under the persuasion of the Xingtian Army, who opened the gate of the village and surrendered, so that he did not end up with the head of the whole family, but Zhang Dachuan led his troops to kill many generals of the Xingtian Army, and he and his captured subordinates were not spared from death in the end, and were ordered to be beheaded by Xiao Tianjian, and then the body was handed over to his family for burial.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian opened up to Zhang Dachuan's family was to let the local rich gentry know that there was a difference between surrendering and not surrendering, surrendering could save them from death, and if they didn't surrender, their whole family would be burned.

As a result, at the beginning of June, Xiao Tianjian led his troops to basically level the area east of the ancient town, and controlled this place in the hands of the Xingtian army.

After Xiao Tianjian heard the words of the informant, he was a little stunned on the spot, and after a while, he scolded: "Damn! This government is really cunning enough! Looks like things are getting a little bit of trouble now! ”

(Okay, let's start with 7,000 words today!) But looking at the results, it's really miserable! What a bad click! ）