The situation in the Central Plains entered the tenth year of Chongzhen, and because of the actions of the Xingtian Army, the entire Central Plains provinces were stirred up by Xiao Tianjian.

Just when Xiong Wencan was busy dealing with this matter, Chongzhen and Yang Sichang, who were in Beijing, both received the same news, Chongzhen couldn't help but be furious about this, and immediately recruited Yang Sichang and asked Yang Sichang for advice.

Yang Sichang was also a little nervous about this news, after all, the matter of the Xingtian Army was not a day and a half, and he said to Chongzhen at the beginning of the year that after Xiong Wencan took office, the matter of the Xingtian Army would be quickly resolved, and the result was that the mobilized officers and troops not only did not solve the Xingtian Army, but none of the five counties in western Henan could be recovered, but the thousands of Guan Ning troops under Zu Dale and Zu Kuan were dumplings by the Xingtian Army.

Although the blame was put on Wang Jiazhen at that time, and the emperor beheaded Wang Jiazhen in Beijing, it was precisely because of this defeat that Xiong Wencan's strategy was changed, so that Xiong Wencan turned around and went to deal with Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng and other road change people's army, and dragged down the matter of the Xingtian Army first.

Although Xiong Wencan did a good job in office during this time, according to his strategy of opening the net on all sides, the rebels who had been squeezed were in a predicament, and Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi cooperated with Hong Chengchou, and also defeated Li Zicheng and other Lu rebels in a row, and he was about to see the dawn when he saw the situation, but he didn't expect that the Xingtian Army, which had been dormant for more than half a year, suddenly raised troops again, and in an instant, he captured Mianchi and Ruzhou, and the soldiers loomed until Luoyang City.

Chongzhen still has a lot of feelings for his uncle Fu Wang Zhu Changxun who is in Luoyang City, once Luoyang has three long and two short, Fu Wang will definitely not be spared, with Chongzhen's temper, he will definitely not be able to spare him and Xiong Wencan, so Yang Sichang is also quite nervous.

When Chongzhen asked Yang Sichang about his plan, Yang Sichang pretended to reply to Chongzhen calmly, saying that what Xiong Wencan was doing now was to first cut off the other rebel armies, and then gather heavy troops to completely exterminate the gang of thieves in the Xingtian Army in one fell swoop.

But Chongzhen was not satisfied with Yang Sichang's answer, he was concerned about what Luoyang should do now, for Chongzhen's question, Yang Sichang deduced that now Xiong Wencan is in the Central Plains to suppress the matter, and there will definitely be a countermeasure to the danger of Luoyang, but if you want to completely solve the Xingtian Army, you must join forces with the three provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan to act against the Xingtian Army together, so as to solve the Xingtian Army as soon as possible.

For this reason, Chongzhen asked Yang Sichang again how the three provinces were linked, and Yang Sichang replied that Henan, with Xiong Wencan as the mainstay, gathered troops from Shandong, Henan, Jiangbei, and Huguang provinces to enter western Henan to encircle and suppress the Xingtian Army, which could ensure that Luoyang was fine, while Shaanxi Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting sent troops out of Tongguan to attack the Xingtian Army from the belly, so that the Xingtian Army in Henan was in a situation of being attacked by the enemy on the belly.

As for Shanxi, he ordered Lu Xiangsheng to mobilize Shanxi soldiers and horses to attack the place where the Xingtian Army was entrenched in the south of Jin, forcing the North and South of the Xingtian Army to not be able to take care of each other, so that the situation in the Central Plains could be settled.

After Chongzhen heard this, he was somewhat satisfied, and ordered Yang Sichang to step up the supervision of this matter, not only to exterminate Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's generation as soon as possible, but also to try his best to capture Xiao Tianjian, the thief chieftain, as soon as possible, and completely solve the current danger of Xingtianjun, the court's henchmen.

In other words, at this time, the people who threatened him the most in Chongzhen's eyes were no longer Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others, after all these years of development, he had found in horror that in fact, like Li Zicheng and others, compared with Xiao Tianjian, a rising star, Xiao Tianjian's Xingtian Army was more terrifying.

After all, Li Zicheng and others can only call it a rogue now, but Xiao Tianjian's Xingtian Army has already occupied a large area of territory in southern Jinnan and western Henan, and there is already a state of affairs in a country within a country, and carefully reviewing the history of the Xingtian Army, Chongzhen is even more shocked to see that the Xingtian Army has seen it in the past few years, it can be said that it is slowly hoarding strength step by step, and the current strength is already quite strong, it can be said that it is full of wings, and it has shown quite courage in the repeated attacks of the official army. As a result, all the troops who invaded and suppressed the army were defeated in his hands without exception, so if he was allowed to develop like this, once he took Luoyang again, then it was likely that he would not be able to extinguish it again.

Therefore, Chongzhen is now worried about the affairs of the Xingtian Army.

Yang Sichang withdrew from the palace, standing at the palace gate and being blown by the cold wind of October, he felt that his back was cold, and he asked right in less than half an hour, which made him break out in a cold sweat behind his back, and looked up at the hazy sky, he said to himself: "Xingtianjun, Xiao Tianjian, why are you so difficult to deal with, and you always have to jump out at critical times?" That's it! I can't let you go this time! I don't believe it, I think you can really turn the world upside down with your own strength? This time, let me Yang Sichang deal with you! Walk! Go home! ”

After saying that, Yang Sichang instructed the guard, turned around and boarded his sedan chair, and quickly rushed back to the mansion, and began to arrange the attack on the Xingtian Army overnight.

After Xiao Tianjian led his troops to conquer Ruzhou, he did not do much to settle the situation in Ruzhou City in a short period of time, and Situ Liang led the cavalry battalion to sweep the surrounding area of Ruzhou City in advance, basically cleaning up the hostile forces around Ruzhou. They can also become the people under the rule of the Xingtian Army and enjoy the blessings of the Xingtian Army to them, so as soon as the Xingtian Army captures the city of Ruzhou, all kinds of forces in Ruzhou immediately surrender.

Moreover, since the Xingtian Army played the banner of "suppressing the soldiers and pacifying the people, hanging the people and cutting down crimes", coupled with the prestige it has made in Henan, and even some places like the surrounding Lushan, Baofeng, Wuyang and even Junzhou and other places are strong, they simply sent people to find a way and went to Ruyang County to express their willingness to serve, hoping that Xiao Tianjian would lead the troops to them as soon as possible, and be willing to obey Xiao Tianjian's orders and take these places from inside and outside.

Some small groups of rebels in farther places simply led their men directly to travel hundreds of miles to serve Xiao Tianjian, wanting to take refuge under Xiao Tianjian's wing.

For these things, Xiao Tianjian is naturally well aware, Ruzhou, he immediately sent two battalions of soldiers, so that Li Xuanzhu led, straight to Yiyang, in Yiyang Chen stationed in the two thousand officers and soldiers, at this time was already frightened at a loss, not waiting for Li Xuanzhu soldiers to Yiyang City, before crossing the Luohe River, the guerrilla who led the troops took the first step to lead the troops to abandon the city, as soon as the soldiers fled, the officials naturally could not hold Yiyang, as a result, Li Xuanzhu almost effortlessly, Yiyang County was uprooted.

At this point, the counties to the west and south of Luoyang City were all lost, and the entire Luoyang City was like a woman who had been stripped naked, exposed under the front of the Xingtian Army.

Xiao Tianjian stood in front of a sand table in the Chinese army tent in the Ruzhou camp with his hands behind his back, with all kinds of small flags planted everywhere, and Niu Jinxing and other staff members pointed and discussed the situation that might be encountered in the next step on the sand table, Luo Li, Liu Yaoben, Zhao Erdonkey and other important generals also stood around the sand table, listening to Xiao Tianjian and Niu Jinxing discuss, and from time to time they could also interject and say their opinions.

"Now it is basically certain that it is impossible for Xiong Wencan to personally move to Luoyang in a short period of time, and he will definitely focus on suppressing Zhang Xianzhong and other Lu Yijun! So contrary to our expectations, in a short period of time, there will not be a large number of officers and troops rushing over!

Now it is speculated that Xiong Wencan will most likely transfer Chen Yongfu's headquarters in Kaifeng to Luoyang first to strengthen Luoyang's garrison, and may use the defenders of Junzhou and the troops in Guangzhou and eastern Henan to come to the rescue of Luoyang, and it is also very likely that Hong Chengchou will send Shaanxi troops out of Tongguan to attack us! Niu Jinxing pointed to the sand table and analyzed the situation he guessed to Xiao Tianjian and the others.

Xiao Tianjian touched his chin and hugged his arm and nodded: "Now it seems that it is indeed as Mr. Niu said, Xiong Wencan will indeed not give up the fruits of victory that are already within reach in front of him, and he should not personally lead the army over there in Huguang to deal with us!"

Chen Yongfu's soldiers and horses are the closest force he can mobilize, and he will definitely send Chen Yongfu to lead his troops to Luoyang to assist in defense!

At the moment, as for the officials and troops in other places, there has been no news from Xizuo, and it is not clear what their movements are, but if Xiong Wencan does this, I'm afraid that the Eight Kings will be a little bad this time! Let's do it this time, we originally had the idea of restraining Xiong Wencan to do the Eight Kings a favor, but Xiong Wencan was not fooled, so the Eight Kings couldn't blame me!

But since Xiong Wencan is not coming, then we can't just wait, Luoyang is not in a hurry to move, let King Fu and Feng Yijun be nervous again, now is not the time to fight Luoyang, take advantage of Xiong Wencan's army not to come to this gap, let's work harder, how about taking down Baofeng and Lushan? ”

A young man in a scribe's robe standing beside Niu Jinxing spoke: "Why didn't the marshal fight Yanshi first, completely isolate Luoyang City, and cut off all the passages for the official army to rush to Luoyang?" On the contrary, it is necessary to delay time and fight Baofeng and Lushan first, so that Luoyang is more prepared? In this way, isn't it contrary to Yu Dashuai's original decision? ”

Xiao Tianjian glanced at the young scribe standing behind Niu Jinxing, this person's name is Li Jinde, the word Xiuye, is a scholar that Niu Jinxing has just snagged Xiao Tianjian recently, and he is also a very talented person, if he stepped into the official career, he should be very promising, why his life is not good, because of some trivial things offended the official, and later he was also framed by the official, so that he was killed and died, and he was left alone in Lushan, and he was once helped by Niu Jinxing.

After Niu Jinxing defected to Xiao Tianjian, he recommended this Li Jinde to Xiao Tianjian, and wrote that the trustee went to Lushan to find Li Jinde, after Li Jinde received Niu Jinxing's letter, he gritted his teeth and defected, after a short contact, Xiao Tianjian found that this person was available, so he also stayed by his side to be a senator, and now he is one of the strategists around Xiao Tianjian.

Hearing Li Jinde ask him this question, Xiao Tianjian smiled and said, "Xiuye asked a good question!" So everyone is here today, so I'll talk about my thoughts with Mr. Niu! ……”