As for Shanxi, the situation is much more optimistic, because the foundation of the Xingtian Army in the south of Shanxi is very good, even in the non-Xingtian Army-controlled areas of the reputation is also very good, once Yan Chongxi began to do it in Shanxi, it made the Shanxi official unable to parry, Pingyang Mansion was conquered by Yan Chongxi, Yan Chongxi left some men and horses to guard Pingyang Mansion, and immediately began to wave his army south, and began to use troops against Jiangzhou, Jiezhou and other prefectures and counties.

And these places have long been planted by the Xingtian Army, and all places are ready to welcome the Xingtian Army, as long as the Xingtian Army is pointing, there will immediately be people from the Xingtian Army pulling up the people and uncovering the rod accordingly.

Although some officials in these states and counties in southern Jinnan also resisted desperately, but what is the desire of the people, even if they defend the city to the death, often there are already people in the city who have already responded to the Xingtian Army, and they have rioted in the city to respond to the siege of the Xingtian army and horses, so Yan Chongxi's offensive in Jinnan can be said to be like a devastating state, almost a few days, you can take a county seat, in less than three months, in addition to Zhizhou, more than a dozen states and counties in southern Jinnan, including Jiangzhou, were conquered by Yan Chongxi and included under the wings of the Xingtian Army.

And Shanxi's Fu Deming is in charge of civil affairs, Yan Chongxi next to the next city, he took over a city, the prepared in advance of the Xingtian Army of the civil servants stationed in various places with the army to take over the civil affairs, on the whole the two of them cooperate quite tacitly, the military does not interfere in politics, and the literature does not suppress the military, because the cooperation between each other for a long time, so basically there is no dirt.

In addition to a group of young juniors specially trained in their early years, after these years of experience, they can barely take charge of the management of some places, they have also selected a group of people from some places who are upright, dare to take responsibility, have flexible minds, and do not belong to those who can only read and compose poetry, and let them work in the original territory of the Xingtian Army, and then select the best and send them to serve in the newly occupied placesIn this way, at least when Shanxi is expanding its territory, it is often going very smoothly both militarily and civilly, and the local people are also willing to obey orders, so that although the war in southern Jinnan is ongoing, all kinds of civil restoration are also going hand in hand, and the speed of local stability is beyond the imagination of many people.

And Yan Chongxi in the purge of the county around the county, in the middle of June, the army besieged the state, and at this time the state is already a lonely city, the city gathered nearly 10,000 Jinnan counties escaped from the remnants of the defeated generals and the noble gentry in the area of Jinnan, at this time the city of Jiezhou is filled with despair and hysteria, Xie Zhou Zhizhou Kong Fang in the city to strictly investigate the fine work of the Xingtian Army and the people who tried to surrender the Xingtian Army, in a few days, in the city, searched for thousands of people, did not listen to their distinction, came to a person who would rather kill a thousand by mistake, Don't let go of a policy, behead all these more than 1,000 people, hang their heads in the streets of the city, say anything to set an example, but this is really effective, basically the Xingtian Army in Jiezhou City was caught clean, killed cleanly, at least solved the problem of the Xingtian Army in the city, and the rest are some people who are determined to be enemies with the Xingtian Army, even if they don't want to be enemies with the Xingtian Army, they are also frightened, and they dare not risk their lives to respond to the Xingtian Army.

Therefore, after Yan Chongxi led his troops to besiege Jiezhou City, he thought that he could easily conquer the last city controlled by the Jinnan Imperial Court and level the entire Jinnan in one fell swoop, so he rashly launched an attack, and because Jiezhou closed the city gate and cut off the connection between inside and outside the city early, Yan Chongxi did not know that the fine work of the Xingtian Army in the city had basically been wiped out, and the people in the city who were supposed to respond had also been arrested, so the preparations for the attack were not sufficient.

However, the original response in the city did not appear, but the local armed forces of the officers and soldiers stationed inside and outside the city and the gentry showed an unexpected will to resist, and all kinds of artillery and rockets poured down in the city, and the officers and troops stationed in the city also launched a desperate counterattack.

Even though the ill-prepared Xingtian Army suffered a big loss, losing hundreds of men and horses, and even being captured and sent to hundreds of people to help in the war, they were immediately slaughtered by the official army under the city.

Yan Chongxi realized that the problem was wrong, and Feng Weihan, who was in charge of intelligence, was also quite shocked, and after the two discussed, they thought that the internal should in the city might have been exposed, and it was probably impossible to expect the internal internal state to take Jiezhou lightly, so Yan Chongxi immediately changed his strategy and began to make preparations for storming Jiezhou City.

After two days of preparation, Yan Chongxi transferred the heavy artillery to the outside of Jiezhou City, and gathered more soldiers and horses, and began to launch a strong attack on Jiezhou City.

This battle was very tragic, the defenders of Jiezhou showed their determination to resist to the end, stimulated by the bounty funded by the gentry in the city, the defenders can be said to be extremely tenacious, first in the city continued to counterattack, when the failure, the remnants retreated into the city, continued to resist to the end, it can be said that they did go forward and succeeded, so that the attack of the Xingtian army for several days were repelled one by one, and paid a considerable price.

Even the defenders of the city sneaked out of the city at night and launched two surprise attacks on the Xingtian Army, the first of which even successfully penetrated the artillery of the Xingtian Army, blew up several artillery pieces of the Xingtian Army on the spot, and killed and injured many generals of the Xingtian Army.

The unexpectedly tenacious tenacity of the defenders greatly surprised Yan Chongxi, and at the same time completely angered the Xingtian army, Yan Chongxi ordered on the spot that after capturing Jiezhou, the city would be slaughtered.

The Xingtian army has not suffered such a loss, and the morale was low at first, but later, under the mobilization of the officers, after the morale was restored, they launched a crazy attack on Jiezhou City.

This time, Yan Chongxi completely put away his contempt for Jiezhou, in addition to the normal siege of the city, sent a large number of sappers to hide in the help of the people, sneaked to the city, and began to dig the city, and at the same time mobilized a large number of people to fill in the various trenches dug by the officials and soldiers outside the city, and sent troops to erect ladders and ants to attach them.

All kinds of heavy artillery were fired fiercely at the city almost day and night, and the city wall of Jiezhou was bombarded with thousands of holes in a few days, but the defenders still resisted stubbornly and refused to collapse and give up.

In the end, it was the sappers who played a role, and a section of the city wall in the west of the city was blown up with a lot of gunpowder, and Yan Chongxi was able to conquer the city of Xuezhou, but after the Xingtian army entered the city, the resistance in the city did not stop, and a large number of defenders and local gentry were armed in the city, and they fought in the streets of the Xingtian army, trying to save the situation. Almost all the people involved in the defense of the city were slaughtered, and even a few innocent men in the city were not spared and became victims of this massacre.

As for the large number of gentry who fled into Jiezhou in the southern part of Jinnan gathered in the city, it can be said that they were all over the house, and they were killed without leaving a chicken and dog, until under the persuasion of Fu Deming, Yan Chongxi ordered to stop the slaughter of the city and withdraw the soldiers and horses from the city of Jiezhou, and at this time the city of Jiezhou almost became a ruin, after the inventory, there were only less than 2,000 women and children left in the city, and almost no man could be found.

War is sometimes extremely brutal, and the slaughter of the city for the Xingtian Army, this is the first time, Yan Chongxi after checking the tragic scene in the city, also realized that he did a little too much, so he hurriedly ordered to clean up the corpses in the city, appease the remnants of the women and children in the city, on the other hand, send someone to report to Xiao Tianjian, confess his guilt, and ask Xiao Tianjian to punish him.

After Xiao Tianjian learned the news of Yan Chongxi's massacre in Jiezhou in Jingzhou, he was immediately furious, and originally wanted to order Yan Chongxi to be dismissed and questioned on the spot, but the generals and Li Xin and others tried their best to dissuade him.

After Xiao Tianjian calmed down, he carefully inquired about the process of the battle of Zhizhou sent by Yan Chongxi, and at the same time, Feng Weihan also sent his subordinates to Jingzhou to intercede for Yan Chongxi, explaining in detail the brutality of the military guards in the city and the stubborn resistance of those gentry.

Xiao Tianjian calmed down a little bit of anger, sat down and thought about it carefully, and ordered Yan Chongxi to take thirty military sticks by himself, exempt him from half a year's official salary, and continue to temporarily lead the military affairs of Shanxi, and no similar massacre incident would occur in the future.

Xiao Tianjian, who calmed down, thought about it carefully, in fact, he could understand Yan Chongxi's approach, watching the soldiers and generals he had trained fall under the enemy's swords and guns in batches, coupled with the massacre of the internal response by the guards in the city, as well as the killing of prisoners, in other words, he would have ordered the slaughter of the city if he didn't do it well, and the slaughter of the city was also a very common thing in ancient wars, which could play a deterrent effect on the enemy to a certain extent, so that the defenders would not dare to resist so stubbornly in the future.

What's more, war is an extremely violent thing, and it is impossible for a soldier to be without a little anger under the strict control of many years, and it is strange not to be crazy when he sees his own robes that get along day and night, like brothers, die by his side, this kind of anger always has to find an outlet for catharsis, so even if the Xingtian Army is strictly disciplined, there will be fights and brawls in the army from time to time, which is actually caused by the fact that the soldiers have accumulated too much anger in their chests and have nowhere to vent.

And Xiao Tianjian has always thought that being a soldier is to be iron-blooded and fierce, even if it is brutal, and only in wartime can he have the courage to face their enemies, if he controls them only with military discipline, the soldiers are trained as a flock of sheep, which is obviously not what he wants, after all, it is still too early to finish the war, and the soldiers of the Xingtian Army must have some ferocity and wolf nature, although the slaughter of the city is a bit excessive, but how many armies in history have not done this kind of thing?

Yan Chongxi has the potential to be a famous general, and if he is severely punished for this matter, it will obviously affect other generals, so this time he finally chose to deal with Yan Chongxi lightly, and made it clear that he would not make an example and give up.