The bad news is that after entering November, the government in Shanxi finally moved, this time Lu Xiangsheng under the emperor's order, had to transfer soldiers and horses from all over Shanxi, and after some rectification, launched the encirclement and suppression of the base area of the Jinnan Xingtian Army.

Because of the terrain, Lu Xiangsheng entered the southern part of the Jin, only from the Pingyang Mansion, Lu'an Mansion and Jiezhou to use troops against the southern Jinnan, in fact, it is still the old way before, three ways to march the army, in order to be able to restore the southern Jinnan.

And this time, Lu Xiangsheng still had to stay in Xuanda to prevent the Qing army from entering the army again, so it was Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei and other Shanxi generals who really commanded the troops.

And these two people still remember the original Yangcheng fiasco, and they still know that the Xingtian Army is getting stronger and stronger, so they have taken a cautious approach to this time to attack Jinnan.

Xu Dingguo sat in Lu'an Mansion and led an army to attack Gaoping County, while Hu Dawei led an army to attack Qinshui, and the other way was led by a lesser-known general named Fan Meng, who sent troops from Jiezhou to attack Yuanqu County.

In response, Yan Chongxi assigned his subordinates, he personally led the troops to sit in Qinshui County, while his deputies Diao Zheng and He Yihu sat in Gaoping, and even Feng Gouzi, who had already concentrated on intelligence work, was also mobilized this time and personally sat in Yuanqu County, and all the new and old war battalions and reserve battalions in Jinnan were all mobilized and assigned to various important places to guard.

In mid-November, the war began, Xu Dingguo led 20,000 officers and troops, stormed Gaoping, and He Yihu led a Jinnan war battalion and an artillery battalion, plus a reserve battalion, in Gaoping County and Xu Dingguo did a big fight, the two sides fought fiercely for more than ten days, Xu Dingguo was never able to capture Gaoping County, and He Yihu's side of the Xingtian Army, also because Xu Dingguo was a lot more careful, although there was a firepower advantage, but it was never able to completely defeat Xu Dingguo, the two sides formed a confrontation in Gaoping County, no one can take who can not do it.

And Yan Chongxi, who sits in Qinshui County, is much better, as soon as Hu Dawei enters Fushan, Yan Chongxi takes the initiative to lead his troops to meet the past, in Fushan County, and Hu Dawei is connected to the fire, the two sides start a big battle, after five consecutive days of fierce fighting, Hu Dawei is invincible, so he has to lead his troops to retreat, out of the battlefield, Chen soldiers are outside the city of Pingyang Mansion, do not dare to attack Qinshui County again, and as a result, Fushan County was also taken by Yan Chongxi.

As for Yuanqu's side, don't look at the two years Feng Gouzi no longer led troops, but there is no ambiguity at all, leading the troops in the mountain pass west of Yuanqu, directly blocking the attack of the official army, the fight is very lively, the official army general Fan Meng was intimidated by the strength of the Xingtian army, did not dare to fight to the death, after a few battles, he stopped the attack, and led the troops to be stationed outside the mountain pass, and used the procrastination trick, and Feng Gouzi did not fight if you don't fight me, so Chen soldiers in the mountain pass area west of Yuanqu, training all day long, making a posture of fighting to the death with the officers and soldiers at any time.

This battle dragged on like this, originally Lu Xiangsheng still had the heart to increase the troops Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei, but at the end of November, the giant thief Li Lingfeng in northern Jin and the horse thief king Chengping in Shuozhou suddenly exerted their strength, and formed a group in the northern part of Jin to make a fuss, first combined forces to capture Shenchi Fort, and then defeated Ningwu County, without waiting for Lu Xiangsheng to send troops to suppress, they turned to leave Ningwu County looted, and went straight to Zhenwuwei (Dai County), and in December, the troops arrived under the city of Xinzhou, In an instant, Jinbei, which had been relatively stable since Lu Xiangsheng took office, was in chaos.

Lu Xiangsheng vaguely felt that these two groups of giant robbers in northern Jin should have a certain connection with the Xingtian Army, and wanted to exterminate them, but these two groups of giant thieves were mostly horse thieves, and they came and went like the wind, so that Lu Xiangsheng couldn't catch their shadows, but they restrained the strength of a large number of officials and troops in northern Jin, making it impossible for Lu Xiangsheng to increase troops to southern Jin in a short period of time.

Therefore, the two or three months at the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen gradually passed in this kind of war and chaos.

Xiao Tianjian saw that the New Year was approaching, and because the number of states and counties captured recently was too large, the front was a little too large, and the ammunition consumption of each department was very huge, and it was necessary to replenish and adjust it, so he also stopped the new offensive, and ordered all units to be transferred to rest and recuperate, and made full preparations for the next year's operation, and at the same time issued an order to reorganize these soldiers and horses in Henan into three divisions, the original two, three, four and three battalions, all of which were upgraded to divisions, and Luo Li, Li Xuanzhu, and Liu Bao served as the commanders of the three divisions. Three corps were formed that could have independent combat capabilities.

Each division is temporarily organized into three battalions of soldiers, one heavy battalion, one engineer company, and one artillery battalion, and at the same time, if necessary, it can also be reinforced by two or three local reserve battalions, so that each battalion can reach the strength of about 7,000 regular troops, and under special circumstances, it can be expanded to about 15,000 men, so that all of them have a fairly strong ability to fight independently.

However, at present, although this is arranged, in essence, each division cannot be truly fully established, especially the artillery battalion, because the artillery casting speed is slow, the number of artillery battalions is not enough to make each artillery battalion equipped with enough artillery, and because the production of guns cannot meet the needs at present, the quality of the equipment of the combat battalions in each division is also different, and the combat effectiveness is uneven, so each combat battalion is divided into two classes, A and B, and the original old combat battalions have basically reached the combat effectiveness of the first-class battalions, and the remaining two battalions are basically second-class battalions, so each division has not yet reached an absolute state of full strength.

But this is also something that there is no way to do at the moment, and it can only grow gradually in the future battle!

After Xiao Tianjian arranged this matter, he ordered Liu Bao's Fourth Division to be stationed in Mianchi, Yongning, Lushi and other places, responsible for deterring the officers and troops in Shaanzhou and Tongguan, Luo Li's Second Division was stationed in Yiyang, Yichuan, Ruzhou and other places, responsible for deterring Luoyang, and Li Xuanzhu's Third Division was stationed in Baofeng, Wuyang and Lushan, responsible for the defense of the southeast area, so that it formed a three-legged situation, each responsible for one side, but also able to support each other, to ensure that the fruits of victory in hand were not recaptured by the imperial court.

As for Situ Liang's cavalry battalion and Liu Yaoben's iron battalion, they were not assigned to the divisions, but were left in Xiao Tianjian's hands and used as a mobile reserve of the Xingtian Army.

After arranging these things, Xiao Tianjian remembered that in the past two months, he was only busy with the war, but he almost forgot about Luo Rucai, who defected to him.

And after Luo Rucai led his troops to flee into Lushi County, because the losses were too great, he finally got a chance to breathe, and he did not follow Xiao Tianjian into the battle, but shrank in the south of Lushi County, resting on his own, and even Luo Rucai did not go to Ruzhou to meet Xiao Tianjian.

After thinking of this incident, Xiao Tianjian touched his chin and asked Niu Jinxing: "By the way, Luo Rucai hasn't come to see me for this time, what is he busy with?" ”

(As soon as the Spring Festival approaches, there will be more things, but I promise that I will insist on the update, and the outbreak is estimated to be dangerous, but I will try my best to ensure that the two watches a day will not make the brothers unable to wait for the update!) ）