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On the Shanxi side, Yan Chongxi led his troops to basically sweep away the surrounding areas of Taiyuan Mansion in more than a month after the year before the year, and even the Shanxi General Soldier Hu Dawei also abandoned the city and fled, and secretly descended Yan Chongxi, and was sent to Henan by Yan Chongxi to resettle, Taiyuan can be said to have become a lonely city, but there is no strength to fight back, so he can only sit and wait for the Xingtian Army to attack the city. （..)

Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, who were active in northern Shanxi, were mainly responsible for leading their troops to monitor the movements of the officers and troops in the Xuanda area, and at the end of February, in the area of the Sanggan River in Shanyin County, they blocked the men and horses of Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong, and the two sides immediately started a fight.

Wang Chengping led 2,000 cavalry Chen stationed on the south bank of the Sanggan River, responsible for intercepting Wang Pu's troops from crossing the river and forcing Shuozhou, while Li Lingfeng led another 2,000 elite cavalry and hid in the mountains and forests north of the Sanggan River to the west.

Wang Pu saw that there were not many soldiers and horses in the Xingtian army, so he sent troops to try to force the Sanggan River and defeat Wang Chengping's department, but when crossing the river, he encountered the stubborn resistance of the Xingtian army generals led by Wang Chengping.

Wang Pu was shocked by the tenacity of the Xingtian army, and was afraid that he would not be able to defeat the Xingtian army on the other side before nightfall, so he ordered the troops to be temporarily withdrawn and fought again in the coming day, but when Wang Pu collected his troops and retreated and was about to camp and rest, Wang Chengping, who led the troops on the south bank of the Sanggan River, suddenly shouted that the official army had been defeated, and at the same time fired rockets into the sky, and then Li Lingfeng led the elite cavalry to kill from the right flank of Wang Pu's department, and suddenly attacked Wang Pu's army.

Wang Pu was originally an official sold for money, don't look at the weekdays is very glamorous, but he is a greedy person who is afraid of death, and the soldiers under his command are even more unbearable, two years ago, when the Tartars entered the Kou, Wang Pu did not know how to be opportunistic, killed more than a dozen fallen Tartar soldiers, and killed some ordinary people to take the lead, as a result, he was actually promoted to the post of Datong Chief Soldier, in essence, he is just a mediocre talent, in history during the Ming and Qing Songjin Wars, it was this Wang Pu who first led the troops to escape, which led to the collapse of the official army under Hong Chengchou, It led to the defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin, and finally led to the death of the general soldier Cao Bianjiao, Wang Tingchen, and Qiu Minyang, and Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou were captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which made the entire Ming Dynasty's defense line completely collapsed.

Therefore, Wang Pu was originally a standard greedy person who was afraid of death, and if the soldiers brought out by such a person had combat effectiveness, then it would be really strange.

When crossing the river in the morning, the generals under the command of Wang Pu saw that there were not many people in the Xingtian army on the other side, so they exerted a certain combat effectiveness under Wang Pu's supervision, but when the troops were collected in the afternoon, the Xingtian army suddenly shouted that the official army was defeated across the river, and many officers and soldiers immediately confused their formations, and ran back like headless flies, plus Li Lingfeng took advantage of the situation to suddenly kill and slammed the flank of Wang Pu's department, so that the officers and troops under Wang Pu's command immediately collapsed on the spot, and they began to flee in defeat.

More than 10,000 officers and soldiers fled in a race to escape, the Mabu army trampled on each other, and the two thousand fierce and incomparable Xingtian Army cavalry led by Li Lingfeng slashed and killed in the back, the result was that Wang Pu's department completely collapsed in Shanyin County, and finally Wang Pu only fled back to Datong Mansion with less than 300 remnants of the defeated general, nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses were almost wiped out by Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, and most of the Datong officers and soldiers surrendered to them.

And Yang Guozhu, who arrived a little later, learned the news of Wang Pu's defeat, and immediately camped on the spot, not daring to attack Shuozhou again, for fear of following in Wang Pu's footsteps, and the other is because the Xingtian Army was in the battle of Julu, and was kind to Yang Guozhu and many Xuanfu generals, so Yang Guozhu and the Xuanfu generals under his command did not want to be the enemy of the Xingtian Army, so once the fight started, Yang Guozhu also knew that even if he had the advantage of troops, he would not necessarily be able to win, so since Wang Pu had been defeated, Under the pretext of helping to defend Datong, he diverted to Datong, and thus the offensive against the Xingtian Army in Shanxi, which Xuanda had just been ordered to launch, was completely disintegrated by Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng in just a few days.

On February 22, Xiao Tianjian quietly arrived at the territory of the Daimyo Mansion with the guard battalion, and at this time, in Nanle County, southeast of the Daimyo's Mansion, within a radius of dozens of miles, it had already been blocked and martial law by a large number of Xingtian Army's meticulous work, scouts, secret sentinels, and roadblocks.

When Xiao Tianjian arrived outside Nanle County, the surrounding area of Nanle County had already become a huge barracks, and the barracks were lined up outside the city in an orderly manner, with all kinds of banners hunting and hunting in the cold wind, and there were scouts and light horsemen patrolling everywhere, and there were constantly people along the way to meet Xiao Tianjian's guard battalion to check their identity, and after learning that it was Xiao Tianjian's guard battalion, he quickly retreated and led them into the middle camp in front.

Along the way, Xiao Tianjian saw a lot of camps of the Xingtian Army, in the territory of small Nanle County, no one would have thought that the backbone battalions of the four main divisions of the Xingtian Army were actually gathered, including most of the backbone battalions of Luo Li's department, as well as six battalions of two guard divisions, and two battalions of Li Xuanzhu's department, as well as two battalions of Liu Bao's department, two cavalry battalions led by Situ Liang, three artillery battalions led by Huang Shengqiang, and two battalions of Li Fusheng and Liu Xiyao. Of course, there are also nearly 10,000 reserve battalions and people who have been temporarily transferred to transport supplies and help the fighters.

After these reserve battalions and people who helped the war arrived in Nanle County with a large number of supplies, in order not to reveal the news, they were all left in Nanle County, so in the territory of small Nanle County, this matter can be said to have gathered nearly half of the most elite men and horses of the Xingtian Army, except for the soldiers and auxiliaries, all the combat battalions are basically the most elite A battalions of the Xingtian Army, and the total strength has reached more than a dozen combat battalions and cavalry and artillery battalions, and the infantry cavalry force has reached more than 20,000 people. If we add the reserve battalion and the baggage battalion to help in the war, the strength exceeds 35,000 men.

These soldiers and horses were gradually transferred from various places in the past month, and the two farthest battalions were even drawn from the southern part of Huguang a year ago, and they did not arrive here until this time.

Moreover, these soldiers and horses, all of them were divided into small batches after the New Year, from a few ferries of the Yellow River, or directly stepping on the ice, crossing the Yellow River, and then first taking different routes in Huaiqing Mansion, Weihui Mansion and other places in the north of the Yellow River, and gradually entered the territory of Nanle County, and even in the past month, many soldiers and horses have crossed the river at night, constantly hiding along the way, and entering the territory of Nanle County in batches in the form of night marching.

Nanle County, on the other hand, was completely under martial law by the first to arrive more than a month ago, and the local people were all assigned to take care of the village as a unit, and no one was allowed to leave this place, so that the news of the gathering of troops here was also prevented from being sent out by the government, and a large number of open posts and secret posts were set up around Nanle County, blocking all exits, plus a large number of scouts wandering around, whenever someone was found to appear in the vicinity, they were immediately forcibly taken to the containment point to be guarded. During this period of time, more than a dozen of them were caught just by the fine works sent by the government, and at the same time, more than a dozen official and military fine works were dug up in Nanle County.

This is also Sun Chuanting's discovery that the Xingtian Army has been increasing its troops in the north of the Yellow River, but he has never been able to find out where these Xingtian troops who crossed the river to the north have gathered.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting finally learned the news that the Xingtian Army was assembled in Suzhou after receiving the order of the Ministry of War, and finally judged that the Xingtian Army should have placed the direction of the main attack on Jining Prefecture and Xuzhou, but he could not get the news that the Xingtian Army had begun to hoard materials and troops in Nanle County in the southeast of the Daimyo Mansion a month earlier.

Such a large-scale mobilization not only involves transporting a large number of combat materials, grain, and other materials, but also mobilizes a large number of men and horses, and it is also necessary to cover people's eyes and ears; Xiao Tianjian touches his lips and mouths to say it, but it is a very difficult thing to actually operate, especially in such an era when communication is still basically transmitted by people, and it is even more difficult to coordinate so many men and horses to carry out such a large-scale operation. Even the logistics department was busy.

Think about it, except for this big operation, which basically does not involve many things in Yan Chongxi Town, Shanxi, the soldiers and horses of the rest of the towns have been pulled in, and there are nearly 100,000 people who need to be mobilized and adjusted, not including the number of people who help in the war, and the materials that need to be mobilized are calculated in hundreds of thousands of stones.

On the one hand, it is necessary to assemble elite soldiers and horses in Nanle County and provide them with enough food and various ammunition materials, and on the other hand, it is necessary to form a feint corps in the two directions of Jining Prefecture and Xuzhou to provide cover for the assembly of the Xingtian Army in Nanle County.

In the end, Xiao Tianjian had to personally preside over this large-scale transfer operation, in order to ensure the secrecy of the operation, when they issued the order, even for the generals at the battalion general level, they also strictly sealed the news, and only informed the generals of the purpose of the trip to the military generals of the unified level, and even the deputy commander did not inform them of the destination, and strictly ordered those who knew the situation to strictly keep secrets, and once the news was leaked in advance, they would be severely punished.

Therefore, many generals received orders to arrive at a place first, and only when they ran to the place did they know that this was not their final destination, and in this place they would receive a new order to tell them where to go next, so they had to continue to lead the troops on the road, and finally before arriving in Nanle County, the generals knew that their destination was actually in Nanle County, and even some people thought that Nanle County was not their destination, and they would definitely get new orders in Nanle County and continue to march towards the next location.

For such a situation, many generals are like getting into the clouds, confused, on the road soldiers often ask them where they are going, who to do with, but the officers themselves are not clear, naturally there is no way to tell them, so the generals can be said to be very dissatisfied with such an order, have to ask their top for news, but in addition to being reprimanded, no news can be obtained, and all the unified generals told their subordinates that in short, they are going to take them to fight a big battle, Just follow the order, and you will know when you get to the place.

So among the assembled generals, very few people know where they are going, so even if there are detailed works of officials and soldiers hidden in the army, there is no way to know where their destination and goal is, and after arriving in Nanle County, they know that this is their destination, at this time, each barracks have implemented a curfew, and they are not allowed to leave the camp, so even if there are individual imperial court officials hiding in the army, the news cannot be sent at this time.

Completing such a large-scale transfer without revealing a little rumor is an almost impossible task for this era, but with the efforts of Xiao Tianjian and his subordinates, they still achieved this almost impossible thing.