Originally, Fang Guoan didn't take Daye County as a small place in his eyes at all, although he also knew that Daye County produced copper and iron, but the thief army would definitely not have many defenders here, so he thought that dealing with Daye County should be able to be defeated by him, his main target should be Ezhou, as long as he cooperated with Huang Degong to capture Ezhou, then Wuchang Mansion would be equivalent to opening the door, and Ding Qirui would be able to wave his army to attack Wuchang Mansion.

But when Fang Guoan arrived in Daye County, he found that things were not as simple as he thought, Daye County is now full of soldiers in the city, and around the small county town, there are trenches and other things dug out everywhere, so Fang Guoan began to pay attention to Daye County.

After leading the troops to Daye County, Fang Guoan led his troops to launch several tentative attacks on the county seat, but they were all defeated by a nose, and after finding that the strength of the defenders was not weak, Fang Guoan then pressed all the soldiers under his command and began to divide his troops into several ways to attack Daye County at the same time.

Daye Town's Shouhe Guofang commanded the defenders to fight to the death, first outside the city and the official army fought between the ditches and pass walls, and after consuming a lot of officers and soldiers, they withdrew into Daye County, relying on the not solid county city wall, and fought to the death with Fang Guo'an.

As a result, Fang Guoan tried his best, and also attacked Daye County for more than ten days in a row, but failed to capture Daye County, but lost a lot of soldiers outside Daye County, Fang Guoan was worried that the thief army would rush to help here from Wuchang Mansion at this time, so he took the initiative to withdraw to Ningzhou without waiting for Ding Qirui's order.

After Ding Qirui learned about it, he sighed, firstly, he lamented the weakness of the official army now, and secondly, he lamented the strength of the Xingtian Army.

But Ding Qirui's offensive, for the imperial court, can be regarded as a rare bright spot in the battle against the Xingtian Army for so many years, don't look at Ding Qirui's side There are not many places to recover, but it is blowing the sky, every time a small county, Ding Qirui will immediately send someone to the Beijing division to win, almost every once in a while, he will report to the imperial court, and they have won how "big victory" in Huguang.

However, from the victories they sent to the Beijing Division, we can see some clues, among these so-called great victories, the most beheadings are only one or two hundred, for the generals who have long been accustomed to liking to falsely report the results of the battle and kill good and risky military generals, how much water is in this kind of combat exploits can be imagined, it is estimated that most of the two hundred thief heads should also be the number of officers and soldiers who have killed good and risked their merits, so it cannot be called a great victory at all.

But it is better to have good news than no good news, more or less to comfort the government and the opposition, and block the mouths of the people, so Chongzhen is still quite happy about this, and he has issued a reward again and again.

But this kind of good news came to an abrupt end after April, because Ding Qirui's three-way men and horses were in front of the stabilized defense line of the Xingtian Army, and they hit their heads and broke the blood, although the Xingtian Army paid a lot of price, but it still successfully prevented Ding Qirui's men and horses from continuing to march towards Wuchang Mansion.

After April, the reinforcements mobilized by Luo Rucai and Zhao Weiguo (Zhao Erdon) from Xiangyang, Yunyang, and Jingzhou also began to arrive in Wuchang Prefecture one after another, and then these reinforcements were transferred from the Yangtze River to Huangzhou, Ezhou, and Daye County, strengthening the defense in the eastern part of Wuchang, so that the offensive that Ding Qirui had finally tossed out came to an end.

After more than two months of fierce fighting, although Luo Rucai lost more than a dozen prefectures and counties in the Guangdong part of Huguang that were originally controlled by the Xingtian Army, he still succeeded in holding the Yangtze River, and at the same time kept Wuchang Mansion from loss, which can be regarded as doing quite well, and it can even be said that it is better than what Xiao Tianjian expected.

Ding Qirui, who was personally in charge of Jiujiang Mansion, got a news in mid-April, and his face changed greatly, and he immediately ordered all the troops to stop the march to Wuchang Mansion, and ordered Huang Degong to immediately lead his troops to evacuate Macheng, and within ten days, he must lead his troops to Luzhou, and at the same time ordered Fang Guoan to immediately lead his troops to Jiujiang and lead his troops to Jiujiang Mansion, while he himself immediately led the remaining tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, boarded the boat and went down the river, and rushed back to Nanzhili.

When the officers and soldiers heard about it, they knew that something was wrong, and after a little inquiry, they knew that Nanzhili was estimated to be in big trouble this time.

After Xiao Tianjian solved the tens of thousands of troops of Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui in the battle of Jindi River in Yanggu County, he completely stabilized the situation in the northern part of the Xingtian Army, and the official army temporarily lost the ability to continue to attack the area controlled by the Xingtian Army.

After fighting this battle, Xiao Tianjian ordered Liu Bao, Dongshan Hu, He Yilong and other generals to withdraw their troops and horses to Jining and Xuzhou, and gave up continuing the offensive against Jining and Xuzhou.

In this battle, the Xingtian Army surrendered nearly 30,000 officers and troops to the south, and some of these surrendered officers and soldiers were relocated to Henan, selected the people who could be used, rearmed them with captured armor, and equipped them with all the officers, and incorporated them into Diao Zheng's command, and expanded out five war battalions, which strengthened Diao Zheng's troops, so that they had the ability to hold the territory of several prefectures north of the Yellow River, at least to ensure that once the official army went south again, Diao Zheng could rely on the strength of his subordinates to withstand the attack of the official army.

After the news of the Taiyuan victory reached Xiao Tianjian's ears, Xiao Tianjian was of course overjoyed, after Taiyuan Mansion was taken, Shanxi basically became his bag, so he ordered to reward Yan Chongxi and his generals, and allowed him to choose an opportunity to attack Xinzhou in the future after resting in Taiyuan Mansion.

As for Wang Chengping, who had been in charge of monitoring the official army in the Xuanda area in northern Shanxi, Xiao Tianjian did not treat him badly, and officially promoted Wang Chengping to the capital, so that after Yan Chongxi sent troops to take over the defense of northern Shanxi, he led his troops to focus on the northern Shaanxi area, run the northern Shaanxi area as soon as possible, and prepare for the next step of going south to Xi'anfu.

Although Xiao Tianjian in Shaanxi is not in a hurry to get it now, it does not mean that Xiao Tianjian will leave Shaanxi to Li Zicheng to occupy in the future, so he needs Wang Chengping as the advance team to operate and grow in northern Shaanxi first, on the one hand, when he needs to take Shaanxi in the future, he will go south from northern Shaanxi at any time to cooperate with the capture of Shaanxi, on the other hand, he also needs Wang Chengping, a person who is good at commanding cavalry, to form a stronger cavalry in northern Jin and northern Shaanxi to threaten the Mongolian tribes. In the future, sooner or later, he will have to fight with Jiannu again, the Mongolian tribes have always been a problem to be solved, and if Wang Chengping's army forms a containment of the Mongolian tribes in this area, it will have a very good effect on the future division of the Mongols and Jiannu, at least it can effectively threaten the safety of the Mongolian tribes, so that they cannot spare all their strength to help Jiannu deal with them.

And Li Lingfeng, Xiao Tianjian did not treat him badly, he was also promoted to the capital, stayed under Yan Chongxi to obey orders, sat in the north of Jin, and the cavalry under his command was also expanded, and will be used as the main force of the cavalry in the north in the future.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian can put down the affairs in the north and put all his energy on Nanzhili, and the generals under Xiao Tianjian also have their own opinions on continuing to attack Nanzhili according to the original plan.

And these ideas are summed up in two, some people think that since the main force of the Xingtian Army is now gathered in Jingfu, and now the official army has been annihilated a lot in the battle of Jindi River in Yanggu County, the imperial court now has not many troops to adjust, and the morale of the official army is also greatly damaged, it is better to take advantage of its illness to kill it, simply transfer Liu Bao's soldiers and horses, cooperate with Yan Chongxi's troops in Shanxi, and then gather a group of men and horses, directly wave the army north to attack the Beijing Division, and directly take down the emperor Zhu Youzhen who was sitting in the Beijing Division, Xiao Tianjian can ascend the throne and become the emperor, so it is much more convenient than fighting Nanzhili first, and then fighting the Beijing Division, and it will save a lot of time, and after overthrowing this Chongzhen, the government power in the south will not be a problem, and when the time comes, you can easily take down the whole world, and this idea is very marketable among Xiao Tianjian's subordinates, among which Luo Li and Li Xuanzhu are supporters of this opinion, and they are also the main forces.

Some other people think that it is not the time to go north now, after all, the rich regions of Nanzhili in the south and Zhejiang have not yet been able to control it, and now they are brazenly going north to attack the Jingshi, although it may not be possible to defeat it, but after it is defeated, it is not necessarily a good thing for the Xingtian Army.

As long as the Xingtian Army defeats the Jingshi, then there is not much of a problem to overthrow the current emperor, unless Chongzhen abandons the Jingshi and flees to Nanzhili, otherwise, he can only be blocked by the Xingtianjun in the Jingshi, which is not much doubt, but what about after the Jingshi? On the one hand, the Xingtian Army is about to face the Jiannu army in Liaodong, although they are not afraid of the Jiannu army, but they also have to admit that the Jiannu army is far stronger than the combat effectiveness of the Ming official army.

For solving the problem of Jiannu, no one thinks that it can be completed in a short period of time, the Ming Dynasty poured the strength of the whole country, and now the country is not safe, tossed for one or two decades, but it has not been able to solve the Jiannu, but it has made Jiannu stronger and stronger, so once the Xingtian Army takes over, then it will definitely put the main battle forces into the battlefield outside the Guan, and then the remnants of the Ming Dynasty will not sit idly by and watch the world lose like this, and will definitely find a way to make trouble for the Xingtian Army in the south, In that case, if the Xingtian Army is not careful, it may be difficult to take care of the end, and finally end up with a failure.

As for those who hold the second opinion, it is mainly a group of staff officers headed by Li Xin, and of course, there are also some generals in the Young Zhuang faction like Liu Yaoben and Li Dingguo, and it is a good argument for this matter.

After listening to the opinions of Li Xin and others, veterans like Luo Li and Li Xuanzhu felt a little disdainful, in their opinion, although the Tartars are very powerful in legends, but their Xingtian Army has not fought with them, and the Tartars are actually at an average level, with their current strength, they can fight to the Beijing Division, even if the Tartars wave their division south, the Xingtian Army can completely take care of them.

But in the end, Xiao Tianjian still sat on Li Xin's side and decided to adopt the second opinion, first fight Nanzhili and then seek to go north.