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Besides, that Zhang Yanzhang guerrilla, protected by his own personal soldiers, escaped for twenty miles in one go, and ran to the gate of Jiangxian County before dawn, only to find that there were no pursuers behind him at this time, so he was finally relieved.

After arriving here, Zhang Yan looked at the soldiers who followed him behind him, except for more than 30 personal soldiers, basically the soldiers and generals ran away, and he also realized at this time that if he went back like this, he might be beheaded by the court immediately, and immediately cried without tears.

However, his own soldiers were still a little calm, and immediately persuaded Zhang Yan to quickly gather the remnants of the defeated generals and recover the losses as much as possible, as long as the soldiers were still there, then the court would not easily kill him.

Zhang Yan recovered from the panic at this time, and hurriedly scattered his own soldiers out, searched in all directions, and gradually gathered the defeated soldiers back.

After two full days of gathering, Zhang Yan finally gathered up the defeated troops under his command again, but after counting, he still wanted to cry without tears, when he went out of Taiyuan, he brought more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, and now it is good, there are almost no horses left, and less than half of the generals are left.

And according to the relatives who came back, after the gang of routs ran away, groups of three or five first gathered together, did not know what to do, gathered more, and began to plunder around in the Jiangxian area, where the common people did not suffer less from their scourge, they also killed a lot of homeless people, cut off the heads and take them with them, so that the scourge of the rout of Jiangxian County is far more powerful than those poles that collect food in this area.

However, Zhang Yan finally thought of a way, let his subordinates collect these heads that had been killed, and after hastily cleaning up, he sprinkled lime and stored them, and sent someone to report to Taiyuan, saying that they encountered a large force of poles in Jiangxian County, and killed more than 1,000 enemies under the battle, but they also suffered a lot of losses and asked to return to Taiyuan to rest.

In addition, he also took people back to the area of Shijing Village, and checked the camp that night, the camp was full of the corpses of his officers and soldiers, and the baggage and other things were also swept away, and the villagers in Shijing Village fled completely, and then he sent someone to check the whereabouts of the group of thieves who attacked his camp, and after not recovering at night, he told him that there was a thief army who fled from the area of Shijing Village in the direction of Jiangzhou, and they couldn't say exactly where they ran.

Zhang Yan carefully inquired about the number of enemy troops when the camp was attacked that night, and carefully analyzed it with his subordinates, and finally came to the conclusion that the number of thieves who attacked the camp was not much, at most two or three hundred, including dozens of horse thieves, and the reason why they lost so much was that in fact, many of the dead officers and soldiers were killed by their own people.

But the matter has come to this, the thieves have long since disappeared, and less than half of the remnants of his men have been defeated, the baggage artillery has lost a fine light, and the remaining officers and soldiers are not even equipped with knives and guns, and the real character is completely disabled, so if he goes to Henan to suppress the bandits, it is purely to find death, with Hong Chengchou's temper, seeing that he has the virtue of bringing soldiers, he will first deduct a hat that is unfavorable for him to leave the division, and drag him out and chop him, so he can only find a way to go back to Taiyuan Mansion first, and calm down this matter as much as possible. Anyway, it was impossible to let him go to Henan again, and he didn't dare to report to Hong Chengchou if he was given the guts.

Although Zhang Yan tried to suppress this matter and not make him too ugly, but this time the official in Jiangxian County still stabbed him out, after all, Zhang Yan's men broke out in Jiangxian County and killed many people in Jiangxian County, robbed a lot of people, and within a few days, the bitter owner of the complaint almost broke through the gate of the county, and the local government had no choice but to report the matter here to the Shanxi Governor Wu Fu, Wu Fu listened to it, and was furious, while ordering the Pingyang Mansion to strictly investigate the troublemakers who made trouble. On the other hand, he immediately sent someone to recall Zhang Yan back to Taiyuan.

As soon as Zhang Yan arrived in Taiyuan Mansion, Wu Fu immediately ordered Zhang Yan to be arrested, and through Wu Yan's interrogation of Zhang Yan's subordinates, Wu Yan came to a definite conclusion, that is, Zhang Yan was incompetent in controlling the army, just encountered a thief army of several hundred people, and was attacked by the thief army at night, and was defeated.

Zhang Yan's family is said to have scattered all their wealth, and they were not able to save Zhang Yan's life, and later Zhang Yan was ordered by the imperial court to dismiss his guerrilla job and abandon the city directly in Taiyuan.

And Pingyang Mansion was nervous for a long time, and the chickens and dogs jumped for a long time, but because the Xingtian Army cleaned the battlefield very clean when they retreated, they did not leave too many clues to the government, and finally the local government did not find out why, but they began to suspect that the pole that defeated Zhang Yan was probably one of the thieves from Shaanxi who rushed into Shanxi a year ago. After defeating the official army in Shijing Village, they retreated to the northwest, so some people say that this group of thieves ran into the mountains around Xiangning County, west of Pingyang Prefecture, but some people say that this group of thieves should be in the mountains of Qinshui County, of course, some people point out that it may be related to the newly rising group of thieves in Yangcheng County.

But as for the specific gang of thieves, the government has no sufficient evidence, so in the end, it is impossible to make a conclusion, after all, because there are so many thieves everywhere at this time, no one can finally determine which pole did it, but to a certain extent, it is suspected that the head of the Xingtian Army in Yangcheng County is on the head.

However, after checking this matter, it was immediately covered up by another monstrous event, because something big happened in the capital, and the capital here is not Beijing City or Nanjing City, but Fengyang Mansion, the central capital of the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the first month, the local government suddenly received an earth-shattering news, that is, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was suddenly captured by a large number of displaced people on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the leaders of the people's army, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and other troops led their troops to conquer Xingyang in Henan Province before the year, and then changed the people's army in Xingyang at the Xingyang Conference, and then divided the troops to attack, long-distance attack, led hundreds of thousands of thieves to Huaishang and suddenly entered Nanzhili, and at the time of the Shangyuan Festival, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the officials and troops of Fengyang Mansion, In one fell swoop, he captured Fengyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Fengyang is the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's father and mother are buried here, because they are afraid of damaging the feng shui of the royal family, so they did not build a high wall like the general city, although there are 6,000 officers and soldiers who stayed here, but the mutant army came too fast, they didn't have time to react, they were drowned by the swarming exile army in one fell swoop, and fled after a big defeat, and Fengyang Mansion immediately fell.

After this group of mutant troops captured Fengyang, they destroyed the imperial mausoleum, burned Longxing Temple, killed more than 60 eunuchs, and beheaded thousands of officers and soldiers who stayed behind in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king of the People's Army, simply set up the banner of "Guyuan Zhenlong Emperor" in the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, and drank happily to celebrate his victory.

After the news spread, as soon as I heard that the ancestral tomb of the current emperor was dug up, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be shocked by the whole country, it is said that after hearing the news today, when even if he cried loudly and issued an edict of guilt, the officials were frightened, knowing that this time the exile army finally made a big fuss, they never thought that the exile army could actually defeat the central capital Fengyang, and make such a big fuss, almost almost opened a hole in the sky.

As soon as this incident came out, no one on the imperial court paid attention to this matter in Shanxi, after all, Zhang Yan was defeated in Jiangzhou, compared to the matter of the emperor's ancestral tomb being dug up, it was really nothing, and everyone's attention was attracted to Fengyang, the capital of China, after all, it was too close to Nanjing City, and the capital was broken by the exile army. So who cares about such a battle here in Jiangxian County at this time! So no one continued to pay attention to this matter, and everyone's eyes were focused on Henan and Nanzhili.