But from another point of view, Yan Chongxi actually completed the task he gave him well, originally he asked Yan Chongxi to control the entire Jinnan within half a year, but Yan Chongxi had completed the task he gave before the end of June, and completely controlled the entire Jinnan in his own hands, so that he had the ability to draw out more people to do more things.

What's more, Jinnan is very important to the Xingtian Army, after all, the Xingtian Army is located in the mainland, and for a long time, it has been a problem for the military and civilians in the jurisdiction to eat salt, and it is necessary to secretly solve the problem of the military and civilians eating salt in the jurisdiction through the salt lords trafficking illicit salt, so it is a big economic burden for the Xingtian Army, and after Jiezhou was taken, the Xingtian Army solved the problem of eating salt, and also controlled an important salt producing area in the mainland, so that the Xingtian Army has a stable source of finance, not to mention that Pingyang Mansion also produces iron, It is a very important place for the Ming Dynasty to produce iron, and now whether it is a war or the restoration of agriculture, iron is an indispensable resource, and controlling the entire Jinnan is very important for the Xingtian Army, which is the foundation for them to fight the world in the future.

Moreover, according to the report sent by Fu Deming, Xiao Tianjian learned that in the area of Pingyang Mansion alone, he had found more than 2,000 blacksmiths and thousands of miners who mined iron ore, which was a very important resource for the Xingtian Army.

Therefore, after Yan Chongxi captured Jiezhou, Xiao Tianjian sent an order to Fu Deming on the one hand, ordering him to expand production in Pingyang Mansion as soon as possible on the basis of the original iron yards, one is to expand the production of the iron-making industry to the greatest extent, and the other is to vigorously increase the number of firecrackers produced to support the use of the army, and at the same time ordered Yan Chongxi to immediately rest and recuperate, and then dispatch Diao Zheng to lead a group of men and horses out of Jinnan, to Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion to assist Liu Bao to guard the control area of the Xingtian Army south of the Yellow River. Resist the invasion of Jingfu and Shandong official troops on the area controlled by the Xingtian Army, and relieve Liu Bao's current pressure.

In addition, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng's subordinates, who were active in the northern Shanxi region, have also been quite effective in their activities in northern Shanxi in the past two months or so, first capturing Shuozhou, and then capturing Lanzhou, and then threatening Xinzhou by force, greatly restraining the officers and soldiers of Shanxi and the Xuanda official army from going south to rescue Zhuzhou County in southern Jin, and controlling a large piece of land.

However, unlike other Xingtian army actions, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng are mainly cavalry, the number of infantry is not very large, and the mobility is strong, but the ability to attack the fortification is relatively weak, after all, they are less equipped with artillery, although the Fan family secretly delivered them the self-generated firearms produced in Jinnan, but the cannon could not be smuggled for them, so the artillery equipped by their subordinates was mostly the old-style artillery looted from the states and counties in northern Shanxi, and the artillery carriage was transformed by the craftsmen for use by the army. Therefore, the firepower is not strong, and it is not suitable for large-scale battles, which is why they have only captured a few prefectures and counties in the past few months, but have not been able to attack Xinzhou, the northern gate of Taiyuan.

However, this does not mean that they do not have much credit, on the contrary, the two of them can even be said to be much better than anyone else, they have created an elite cavalry corps of more than 5,000 people for the Xingtian Army, and through the entry of the Mongolian tribes from time to time, a lot of war horses, cattle and sheep have been plundered, and a large number of war horses have been reserved. There were even Bohai and Koreans who ran from Liaodong to northern Jin.

These ethnic minority people, no faith, most of them have a blood feud with the Houjin Tartars, can not survive in Liaodong and even the grassland, and finally chose to take refuge in Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng They became a member of the Xingtian Army, for these people, Xiao Tianjian told Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng that they should try their best to fight, as long as they agree with the Xingtian Army, they will treat them equally, and those who do well should be promoted, and they should be reused, and the vast majority of these people were originally nomadic backgrounds, and each has a good riding skill, Cavalry training is the most suitable, and the formation of an army is very fast, and it can be used to kill the enemy in a short time.

Coupled with the military training methods and discipline implemented by the Xingtian Army, the cavalry of the Xingtian Army has been tempered into a cavalry team with strong discipline and combat effectiveness under the leadership of Wang and Li in the past few years.

After all, cavalry does not necessarily have to be strong in personal riding skills and technical combat ability, Napoleon's cavalry personal skills in history are not very strong, but under the perfect military organization, their combat effectiveness is very strong, often able to fight the opponent can not parry, and the source of their combat effectiveness is to rely on perfect organization and discipline and mutual cooperation.

In other words, now the cavalry and Mongolian cavalry of the Ming Dynasty and even the cavalry of the Houjin Tartars, when they go into battle, they are more concerned about their personal technical combat ability, although the Tatar cavalry is known as the strongest in the world, in fact, in terms of individual technical combat ability, it is not stronger than the Mongolian cavalry, but when it is one-on-one, the Mongolian cavalry is more powerful, but the Mongols are now a plate of scattered sand, not the opponent of the Tartar army with strong cohesion, and have to obey the orders of the Tartars to act as cannon fodder for the Houjin Tartars.

Since the founding of the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian has instilled organizational discipline in his subordinates, requiring that no matter when and what kind of troops, they must pay attention to mutual cooperation, so Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng also accepted his concept, and when forming their cavalry corps, they subtly instilled Xiao Tianjian's concept of governing the army to his subordinates, plus those new low-level officers who were constantly supplemented to them, all of them had received relatively strict training, so the cavalry team under the command of the two of them had stronger discipline. Therefore, even if the cavalry of these ethnic minorities is not absorbed, the combat effectiveness of their cavalry team should not be underestimated.

This point has been tested in the fact that they have repeatedly penetrated into the grasslands outside the Guanwai in recent years, plundered the Mongolian tribes in the grasslands, and fought against the Mongolian cavalry, but rarely defeated, which has tested their concept of army management, making the cavalry team under the command of Wang and Li very strong.

Although this time they played the banner of the Xingtian Army, officially announced their identity, and were located in the vicinity of Xuanda, the Xuanda cavalry of the imperial court dealt with them, but they only suffered losses, after several battles, the Xuanda soldiers retreated from them, and did not dare to oppose them.

At present, they not only captured Shuozhou and Lanzhou, but also divided part of their men and horses, crossed the Yellow River out of the Great Wall, entered the northern region of Shaanxi, and began to operate in the area of Shenmu and Yulin, and began to establish their own circle of influence there.

This point is very important for Xiao Tianjian to go north in the future, although it is not his focus to use troops in the north at the moment, but to take precautions, first establish a strong cavalry team belonging to the Xingtian Army over there, for the future Xingtian Army to go north and the Tartars as enemies, there are only benefits and no disadvantages.

(I know I'm guilty, another chapter of more than 2,000 words, I promise, erupt on Monday, come and apologize!) ）