When the news of Geng Bingwen's death reached the Beijing Division, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, the death of this veteran made everyone feel a cold wind in the north, many people did not take Zhu Di's rebellion too seriously, and felt that Geng Bingwen would be able to quickly quell the rebellion, Geng Bingwen was the only remaining Hongwu general, humble, low-key, loyal to the imperial court, but because of his right deputy Gu Cheng, the horse Li Jian betrayed and died with hatred. Although Zhu Yunwen had expected it, he was stunned for a long time when he received the news, and when he woke up, he immediately issued an order to posthumously crown Geng Bingwen as the Duke of Lieguo and commend his loyalty to the martyrs.

After Geng Cheng, Gao Wei, and He Fu entered Beijing, Zhu Yunwen inquired about the details in detail, and after confirming all Geng Bingwen's plans, he couldn't help but sigh. If Geng Bingwen could be more cautious, maybe Zhu Di would have been arrested, but it's a pity! In the end, Zhu Yunwen enshrined Geng Xuan as the Marquis of Loyal Martyrs on the spot, and his brother Geng Xuan inherited Geng Bingwen's title of Marquis of Changxing, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to bury Geng Bingwen with the gift of the king, and set up the Martyrs' Shrine in his hometown Fengyang, Jingshi, and Changxing to worship, so that the magistrates could worship on time, and there must be no mistakes......

At the same time, Zhu Yunwen ordered the arrest of Gu Cheng's family members, and punished them for the crime of treason. Because Li Jian is a colt, his family will not be held accountable.

After Geng Bingwen was buried, Zhu Yunwen asked where Geng Cheng went, Geng insisted on going to the north, extinguishing the rebellion, and avenging his father, and finally Zhu Yunwen sent him to Sheng Yong as a deputy general to fulfill his ambitions.

Gao Wei still returned to Zhending and served as a military counselor for Ping'an. For He Fu, Zhu Yunwen was a little uncertain, but he couldn't do without, and finally decided to order him to go to Suiyuan as Song Sheng's deputy general to defend against the Mongol invasion.

After the founding prince Changsheng returned to Beijing, Zhu Yunwen ordered him to train troops in Henan, and Yu Tongyuan, the Marquis of Yue, built a defense line along the Yellow River to prevent the Yan army from smuggling.

On the third day of Zhu Di's return to Beiping, he ordered an army of 30,000 people to go out again, accompanied by Zhu Neng, Tan Yuan and others, and Zhang Yu stayed in Beiping to assist Xu Zhong in reorganizing the army.

Zhu Di's targets this time were Yang Song in Xiongxian and Pan Zhong in Mozhou, and his purpose was to defeat both and bring Xu Kai stationed in Hejian to come to his aid, annihilate them in the field, cut off the connection between Ping An and Sheng Yong, and boost the morale of the Yan army. The reason why the army of 30,000 people was selected was to act quickly, and the garrisons of Daxiong County and Mozhou were caught off guard.

On the night of November 15, the bright moon was in the sky, and the outside of Xiongxian County was like daylight, but no one in the city kept vigil. The reason is very simple, when Geng Bingwen was there, he strictly ordered all places to be on guard to prevent the Yan army from sneaking attack, but at this time Geng Bingwen was dead, although Zhu Yunwen redivided the war zone, Xiongxian and Mozhou were under the command of Sheng Yong, but Sheng Yong had just taken over, and many relationships were not straightened out, and most of the orders were directly given to Xu Kai, and Xu Kai was not very happy that he became Sheng Yong's deputy. Xu Kai is in his fifties this year, and he served as the governor of the military capital, and now a commander in his thirties climbed on his head, which made him a little angry. In his opinion, it is enough to obey Geng Bingwen, and it is really unbearable to obey Sheng Yong, a hairy boy. Therefore, he ignored Sheng Yong's order to be on strict guard, he felt that the Yan army had already gone north, and it would not go south again in the short term, so there was nothing wrong with letting everyone rest.

Xu Kai had this thought, and the people below naturally followed suit, so Pan Zhong in Mozhou and Yang Song in Xiongxian County all relaxed their vigilance. They never expected that after Zhu Di returned to Beiping, he would lead his troops south on the third day, and arrive at Xiongxian County three days later.

In the middle of the night, Zhu Neng and Tan Yuan personally went up to the city and opened the city gate. The sleeping Yang Song army was unable to resist and was slaughtered in batches, and Yang Song fled to the stable near the east gate and was beheaded by Tan Yuan. Tan Yuan's Daning army was the majority, and they were very docile and fearful under Ping'an, but at this time, they became very murderous, frantically slaughtering Yang Songjun, who had laid down his arms. Zhu Neng wanted to take care of it, but was stopped by Zhu Di, in his opinion, it was very worthwhile to use the lives of these people to reinvigorate the Daning Army. So in less than an hour, more than 9,000 people of Yang Song's army were wiped out, and no one survived.

Xiongxian is the bridgehead of the imperial army to the north, so Yang Song's command is all cavalry, with more than 10,000 war horses, and naturally has a lot of forage. After the killing was completed, Zhu Di set a fire in the city, and the fire lit up the night sky, which was clearly visible more than ten miles away. Zhu Di's purpose is twofold, one is to attract Pan Zhong on the other side of the Baigou River to come to the rescue and wait for an opportunity to annihilate him; One is to destroy the county seat of Xiongxian, because this is the passage for the imperial army to go north, and it is likely that the next major war will break out near here, and at that time, the county seat of Xiongxian may be used by the imperial court, which is not good for the Yan army.

Then Zhu Di asked people to set up an ambush at the Yuexiang Bridge and wait for Pan Zhong's arrival. Sure enough, as Zhu Di expected, Pan Zhong led 3,000 cavalry to arrive before dawn, and was completely annihilated by Zhu Di, and Pan Zhong was captured alive. Zhu Di took the opportunity to attack Mozhou, taking all its grain, grass, horses and baggage.

After capturing Mozhou, Zhu Di led the army to Yaobing under the city of Hejian, Xu Kai did not dare to attack, but sent people to ask Sheng Yong for help. After Sheng Yong heard the report, he took Zhang Hantian as the striker and personally supervised the army to save him. Zhu Di had few soldiers, the battle was unfavorable, and he heard that Geng Xuan went out of Shanhaiguan and attacked Yongping, Zhu Di led his troops back, and Sheng Yong couldn't catch up.

After Sheng Yong understood the entire battle situation, he finally understood the reminder of peace, the Yan army should not be underestimated, its speed of maneuver and the ability to continue fighting are far above the southern army, and the slightest negligence may lead to a big defeat.

After Zhu Di returned to Beiping, he immediately sent troops to rescue Yongping, and Geng Xuan heard the report of his retirement. Yongpingwei commanded Gu Xiang, who had always despised the Liaodong Army, and when he saw the Liaodong Army retreating, he led his troops to chase after him. However, in the tribal ridge thirty miles west of Funing, it was ambushed by the Liaodong army, and the Liaodong army that followed Geng Xuan to experience the great victory in Mobei was no longer what it used to be, Geng Xuan met it head-on, Wu Sheng and Qiu Zengshi attacked from both sides, the Yongping army was defeated, Gu Xiang was beheaded by Wu Sheng, and only more than 1,000 people fled back to Yongping with only more than 1,000 people in the department. After killing Gu Xiang, Geng Xuan took advantage of the situation to besiege Yongping, and the Yongping guards were anxious to Beiping.

Zhu Di was shocked when he heard the report, and personally supervised the army to save Yongping, but Geng Xuan did not fight with him, and went straight back to Shanhaiguan and could not go out. Zhu Di had no choice but to increase his troops to garrison Yongping, so that Zhu Di had to stay in Juyong Pass and Yongping to block Xu Huizu and Geng Xuan from advancing east and south. Due to the lack of troops, Zhu Di was temporarily unable to go south until the army was reorganized.

When the first snow fell over Beiping in the first year of Jianwen, both the Southern Army and the Yan Army gave up the idea of fighting and waited for the arrival of the Spring Festival in the first year of Jianwen. And the commanders of both sides, Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di, also breathed a sigh of relief, but they both knew that next year would be even more cruel, and they didn't know if they could survive......