"Qiyu Dashuai, Luoyang urgent! In the first month, Huguang general Zuo Liangyu suddenly led an army of 60,000 to attack Nanyang Mansion, and when Nanyang defender Zhang Chao resisted in the city, he was killed by a cannon! Nanyang City due to the disparity in troops, after five days of resistance, the city was broken, and the people in the city were almost slaughtered inside and outside the city by the officers and troops under the command of Zuo Liangyu.

At the same time, Nanzhili also sent a large army into Henan, to attack our jurisdiction, please make a quick decision! "A dusty rumor rode in the camp of the Xingtian Army outside Linqing Prefecture, saw Xiao Tianjian, and told Xiao Tianjian a shocking news as soon as he opened his mouth.

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian was immediately angry, this doesn't need to be thought, it must have been planned by Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the dynasty, and Yang Sichang, who was regarded as the minister of the humerus.

With Zuo Liangyu's performance, after suffering such a big loss from the Xingtian Army, he didn't dare to easily come to the trouble of the Xingtian Army, and now he suddenly gathered so many people to kill in Nanyang Mansion, ordinary people can't move him, even Yang Sichang estimates that he can't use this guy, and this guy is so hard, it must be Zhu Youzhen who personally ordered it to him, otherwise this guy wouldn't be so hardworking, and what's even more hateful is that Zuo Liangyu will actually slaughter the city, you have to know what is wrong with the people in Nanyang City? What a bastard.

In addition, Nanzhili also sent troops into Henan, obviously to take advantage of the opportunity of him to lead his troops north with Zuo Liangyu to recover the lost territory in Henan.

After hearing the news, not only Xiao Tianjian was furious, but everyone in the army was all angry, and they couldn't wait to return to Henan in one step and clean up Zuo Liangyu, the bastard.

Looking at the angry subordinate generals, one by one pointed in the direction of the Beijing division and scolded the current emperor, Xiao Tianjian immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and return to Henan.

In fact, Xiao Tianjian's anger has a bit of a fake component, before Xiao Tianjian decided to go north this time, in fact, he himself secretly considered the things he had secretly considered in advance, and he had also calculated the possible reactions of the imperial court, for this time Zuo Liangyu led his troops to Henan, in fact, it had long been within his expectations, but he didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to be so ferocious, and he used 60,000 horses to besiege Nanyang, and there was only one battalion of soldiers left in the city of Nanyang Mansion, even if it was plus the men and horses of the reserve battalion, Compared with Zuo Liangyu, there is also a huge disparity in strength, and for the sake of the northern expedition, he transferred the absolute elite battalions in the army, and the defeat of Nanyang was not an accident, of course, if it was not for the accidental death of the guard general Zhang Chao, Nanyang may be able to hold out for a while, and it is precisely because of the death of the main general that the city lost its unified command, which made Nanyang City fall quickly.

And this time he went north to fight against the Jiannu army, in fact, he was also fighting a public opinion war with the imperial court, trying to win the hearts of the people in the world, and at the same time training the soldiers and generals under his command, so that they could contact the Tartar soldiers first, and then suddenly encountered the Tartar soldiers in the province, and they couldn't cope with it.

Zhu Youzhen did this, which shows that he is actually not too stupid, and he can seize this opportunity to mobilize troops for a counterattack, but whoever is in charge cannot sit idly by and not take advantage of such a good opportunity.

In this way, it happened to fall into Xiao Tianjian's pocket, which made Xiao Tianjian grasp the biggest handle of the imperial court.

You must know that before he went north this time, he sent a document to discuss the construction of slaves everywhere in the world, and he also took the initiative to stop the military action in Henan, and expressed his attitude to the people of the world that he wanted to help the court fight the Tartars first.

Now the imperial court first let Gao Qiqian lead the troops to intercept the men and horses of the Xingtian army in the Zhanghe River and the refugees who went south, this matter Xiao Tianjian has already made it boiling, if the people of the world are not blind, they will stand on his side, and he has already stood in the active position in public opinion, and now the imperial court has not yet withdrawn from the Tartars, and he also personally led the Xingtian army to fight with the Tartars in the Jingfu area, and he brazenly fought against the Xingtian army in Henan. I don't know how many people will secretly poke Zhu Youzhen's backbone!

Therefore, whether it is a coy posture or a genuine desire to fight the Tartars, Xiao Tianjian can now be said to be standing on the commanding heights of morality, and the imperial court has been reduced to the finger of thousands of people, which can be said to be of great help to the development of his Xingtian Army in the future.

Even Xiao Tianjian sometimes secretly thinks about this matter, does he really want to beat the Jiannu army out of the border when he goes north this time, or does he want to win the hearts and minds of the people? Now he is no longer just a general who leads troops to fight, more often than not, he has involuntarily begun to think like a politician, rather than just from a military point of view.

As for this question, Xiao Tianjian himself did not come up with a definite answer, so he could only laugh at himself and let go of this question, whether he was right or wrong to do this, whether it was to bewitch the people or really for the country and the people, there are future historians to comment, anyway, he has a clear conscience, and he really led the troops to teach the Tartars a lesson, and rescued more than 100,000 people from the hands of the Tartars, so that they will not become slaves of Jiannu, no one can say anything about him at this point.

What's more important is that now because of the actions of the imperial court, it has completely angered the Xingtian army, and the Xingtian army has been completely united to deal with the imperial court with the same hatred and hatred, and then he believes that in the military aspect, the soldiers under his command will have a better performance, Da Ming? I guess it's going to be finished early!

On the way back to Henan with Xiao Tianjian, he sent a cavalry back to Luoyang in advance, and ordered Niu Jinxing to write another article condemning the imperial court, and once again making public what the imperial court had done this time, not only to be widely publicized in the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, but also to make this matter known to everyone in the world through various channels.

Fortunately, when Xiao Tianjian led his troops to the north, he still left relatively sufficient troops in Henan, although Zuo Liangyu captured Nanyang, but then his men and horses were blocked by Luo Rucai in the Nanzhao area, and the two armies fought a big battle in Nanzhao, although Zuo Liangyu had a large number of troops, but he also failed to break through the defense line of the Xingtian Army, and the two sides formed a confrontation between Nanyang and Nanzhao.

But at this time, the official army of Runing Mansion, which has not been taken by the Xingtian Army, has used this time to recover some vitality, after all, in Henan, the policy of the Xingtian Army is very unfavorable to some large landowners, so these big landlords regard the Xingtian Army as a mortal enemy, last year the Xingtian Army attacked everywhere in Henan, captured most of the territory in Henan, and at the same time forced many large landowners and magnates from all over the country to flee one after another, some of them fled to the south of the Yangtze River, and a small number of people fled to the north. However, there are also more people who are reluctant to give up their family property, and always want to fight back to regain those that belong to them, so a few cities still under the control of the government, such as Kaifeng, Runyeongfu and Gwangju, have become places for them to defect.

When these people defected to these places, they brought a lot of money and property, and at the same time, they also brought a lot of clan slaves, so that in a short period of time, Runing Mansion used the resources provided by these people and some people to pull up thousands of soldiers and horses, and restored considerable strength.

Fu Ruwei of Runing Mansion took advantage of Zuo Liangyu's attack on Nanyang, and wanted to take advantage of the situation to recover some of the surrounding counties, and also launched an offensive in Runing Mansion against the surrounding Xingtian Army's control areas.

Even if Li Xuanzhu sent Zhao Erdonkey to lead a battalion of soldiers and three reserve battalions to the area of Runing Mansion, he began to use troops against Runing Mansion again, which could be regarded as forcing these officers and soldiers of Runing Mansion back into Runing Mansion and curbing their fierce flames.

As for the officers and soldiers from Nanzhili, they were just for show, and they followed Zuo Liangyu to Henan without real character, but they didn't make much movement.

However, they attacked the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing in southern Anhui again and again, and the 5th Battalion of the Left Movement fought with it inexorably, but they basically fell behind, and the 5th Battalion of the Left Movement had to move towards Henan.

At the end of the first month, Xiao Tianjian led his troops back to Henan, and they returned tens of thousands of refugees from the north and a large number of materials captured from the Tartars.

Like these things about the resettlement of refugees, Xiao Tianjian didn't have to take care of it personally, he only stayed in Weihui Mansion for half a day, and inquired a little about the things during this time, he gave full affirmation to the performance of Li Jinde and others, and praised them, so that the hard work these people have suffered during this period of time suddenly felt worthwhile, and they were ashamed, this is their business.

And Xiao Tianjian never hesitates to verbal or even material rewards for his subordinates to do a good job, but he will never be polite to someone who is lazy and slippery and does not work.

After Xiao Tianjian made some arrangements in Weihui Mansion, he ordered the men and horses of Luo Li's headquarters to sit in Weihui Mansion, while guarding against the official army, while assisting Li Jinde and other civil affairs officials to do a good job of accepting and transferring refugees, as for Luo Li Li Li and other important generals, they followed him across the river and returned to Luoyang, where Xiao Tianjian would hold a large combat meeting to decide on the general strategy of using troops in the twelfth year of Chongzhen.