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This is also the first time that Xiao Tianjian issued such a killing order on the battlefield, after Liu Yaoben was ordered, he immediately personally led his troops to launch an artillery bombardment on the small hill where Wang Guangen was trapped, all kinds of artillery arrows were sprinkled on this small hill like raindrops, and Wang Guangen's subordinates were bloody and miserable, and after two days, they besieged but did not attack, and surrounded Wang Guangen on this hill, and there was no water source on the hill, let alone anything to eat, and after two days, Wang Guangen's troops on the mountain could not hold onOn the third day, Wang Guangen ordered to kill the horse so that his subordinates had a full meal of horse meat, and personally led the troops to rush down the hill, after a fierce battle, Wang Guangen was shot several times and was beaten into a hornet's nest, and many of his men chose to surrender, but Xiao Tianjian was angry that they didn't know what to do, killed his guards, ordered not to stay, slaughtered them all at the foot of this hill, and killed them all The head rolled, and then this originally nameless hill, Because of this battle, he got the crooked name of Slaughtering Dog Mountain, and it was passed on.

After killing Wang Guangen and his men, most of the rest of Wang Guangen's troops who were killed and scattered were scattered, and only a very small part fled back to Yunyang, and these people were unwilling to follow Wang Guangen and the Xingtian Army as enemies, at this time, seeing that the general trend had gone, no one wanted to follow Wang Guangen to work for the imperial court, and a considerable number of people turned against each other on the spot, joined the Xingtian Army, turned around and followed the Xingtian Army to Nanyang City, and began to attack Nanyang City.

This battle lasted for ten days, the defenders of Nanyang City were afraid of the slaughter of the Xingtian army into the city, and the Tang King Zhu Yuyi in the city gave out 50,000 taels of silver to reward the soldiers, which also stimulated the morale of the defenders in the city, so the resistance was quite fierce, and there were constantly some officers and soldiers trying to rescue Nanyang, Xiao Tianjian continued to besiege the city to send reinforcements, and also delayed some time, but He Nai's Xingtian Army was fierce in artillery, and on the tenth day, Yao Yunxi, the county governor who was responsible for guarding the north gate, was bombarded into minced meat by the Xingtian Army, and the defenders finally collapsed and were attacked into the city by the Xingtian Army, and Nanyang was broken.

Xiao Tianjian captured Nanyang, and captured the Tang King Zhu Yuyun and the prefect Xu Qiyuan, because they rewarded their merits with silver and led their troops to fight to the death, so that the Xingtian Army suffered great casualties in this attack on Nanyang City, Xiao Tianjian was not polite to him, and immediately ordered him to be beheaded, and copied the Tang Wangfu in the city, and seized a large amount of money and food.

However, to a certain extent, Xiao Tianjian is equivalent to saving a large number of soldiers and civilians in Nanyang, because if it is still on the original historical trajectory, Nanyang was conquered by Li Zicheng, when Li Zicheng attacked Nanyang, the resistance of the Nanyang defenders was very fierce, which made Li Zicheng suffer a great loss. Although some officials and generals were executed, they did not order the massacre of Nanyang soldiers and civilians, so the fate of a considerable number of people was changed and they were spared death.

After Xiao Tianjian led his troops to capture Nanyang, most of Henan had been controlled by the Xingtian Army at this time, coupled with the attack of Luo Rucai and Li Xuanzhu's troops in central and eastern Henan, so that only a place in Kaifeng Mansion and a place in Runing Mansion were still in the control area of the government, and some people in several counties around Runing Mansion were instigated by the Xingtian Army, and they rebelled, and after killing the officials, they surrendered to the Xingtian Army, so that the Xingtian Army took a lot of county towns almost bloodlessly, at this time, Basically, there are not many officers and soldiers who can compete with the Xingtian Army anymore.

As for Luo Li and Li Xin, the progress in the northern Henan area is also relatively smooth, the Xingtian Army is now the desire of the people, and the common people are all looking forward to the Xingtian Army to quickly hit them, so as long as the Xingtian Army arrives, there will be a large number of displaced people spontaneously join the army, helping the army to attack the walled fort city that refuses to surrender, at the end of August, Luo Li and Li Xin basically cleared the perimeter of Weihui Mansion and surrounded Weihui Mansion.

At this time, there were less than 2,000 defenders left in Weihui Mansion, and the army was discouraged, and it was impossible to confront the Xingtian Army gathered outside the city and the people who came to help the war, King Lu in the city knew that the general trend had gone, and he couldn't run away, and he also learned that King Fu was killed by the Xingtian Army, it is said that after King Fu was killed and abandoned, more than 300 catties of meat were cut up by the people inside and outside the city who hated him to the bone, and they were taken home to cook and eat, and even the corpse was not left, for fear that if he encouraged the defenders to resist desperately, After the city was broken, he would also be angered by the Xingtian Army, so he simply cried a lot, and let people go out of the city to negotiate with Luo Li and Li Xin about surrender.

Later, Luo Li and Li Xin promised to ensure that he and his family would not be killed, King Lu immediately surrendered to Kaicheng, and he personally took the officials in the city out of the city to offer the city to the Xingtian army, Luo Li and Li Xin did not break their promises, and sent the whole family of King Lu to Luoyang to be handed over to Xiao Tianjian for resettlement, since then only the northernmost Zhangde Mansion in northern Henan is still under the control of the government.

In the past few months, there have been several cases in Henan where officials who know the county or defend the city have taken the initiative to surrender to the Xingtian Army, and those who surrendered, Xiao Tianjian ordered that they should not be held accountable for their previous crimes, and all of them should be retained, and they will be transferred to the clerks of the Xingtian Army to do things for the Xingtian Army.

Although these officials are greedy for life and afraid of death, it is impossible for Xiao Tianjian to kill all the officials in the world, not to mention that if he kills these officials who surrendered, who will be willing to surrender to other officials in the future! So if the Xingtian Army fights one county after another, God knows when it will be able to conquer all the thousands of counties in the Ming Dynasty! Therefore, it is also an inevitable choice to retain these old Ming officials, and it will be better to slowly clean them up step by step in the future.

Not to mention the capture of a place, the most important thing is to quickly restore the local order, although the situation of the Xingtian Army is much better than before, but there is still a lack of experienced clerks, it is necessary to rely on these old officials of the Ming Dynasty to maintain local order for them, otherwise once the basic management system is lost, it will make the local chaos, and it is not conducive to his future rule of these places.

However, on the contrary, the expansion of the Xingtian Army has also brought more problems, a large number of displaced people need to be resettled, a large number of surrendered troops need to be resettled, and a large number of local armed forces who defected to them also need to be resettled, with the current financial and material resources of the Xingtian Army, it is simply impossible to withstand so many of them, so after this expansion, it is necessary to dismiss and resettle these people to the local area as soon as possible, stabilize them, let them resume agricultural production as soon as possible, and reduce the pressure on the Xingtian Army, otherwise these people will still be chaotic if they have nothing to eat. So at this time, Xiao Tianjian also had to stop his troops after sweeping the area around Nanyang Mansion, and instead left a few reserve battalions to guard Nanyang Mansion, led the guard division back to Luoyang, and began to deal with these complicated affairs.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian stopped going south, not only for these reasons, but mainly because he received an important news, which he had to go back to Luoyang to deal with in person, and this news was indeed tricky for him.

(Since the reward is so powerful, then continue to thank you three times today!) One more chapter in the afternoon! ）