After Li Xuanzhu Xin'anyi defeated the officers and troops of Luoyang Road who rescued Mianchi County, the whole army immediately contracted, and after loading the money and grain obtained, the whole army resolutely abandoned Mianchi County on the sixth day of October, and continued to take Luo Li's second battalion as the lead, and the teaching battalion and the baggage battalion and other troops as the central army, and Li Xuanzhu's third battalion covered the flank and quickly marched towards the hinterland of Henan.

As for some of the food that could not be taken away, Xiao Tianjian had no pity, even if it was all distributed to the displaced people in the area of Mianchi County and the local poor people.

At first, when Xiao Tianjian ordered to give up Mianchi County, Luo Li and others expressed their incomprehension, and they finally laid the bridgehead of Mianchi County, thinking that Xiao Tianjian would use this as a basis to maintain contact with Shanxi, and then gradually develop towards the hinterland of Henan, but Xiao Tianjian did not expect that Xiao Tianjian asked them to give up here and enter the hinterland of Henan in a lonely and in-depth way.

So all the generals asked Xiao Tianjian why he did this, Xiao Tianjian took them to stand on the map and pointed to the map and explained to them: "Although Mianchi does not seem to be too important, it is a necessary place to connect Henan and Tongguan, if we stay here, it will inevitably threaten Luoyang City, in this way, it is equivalent to cutting off the connection between northern Henan and Shaanxi, in this way, whether it is the Henan government or Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi, they will not sit idly by and watch us entrenched here!"

If I don't give up this place, I will be attacked by the officials and troops on both sides of Henan and Tongguan. Moreover, the grain reserves here are limited, once we are blocked here, we will have to fight to the death in the city, even if we rely on the support of our hometown, it is likely to be easily cut off by the official army!

So at the moment, we can't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, so why should we be reluctant to such a small county town in Michi? What's more, in a short period of time, we don't need to get supplements from our hometown, so what's the use of staying here? It's just a waste of our troops!

If one day we want to get through here again after gaining a firm foothold in Henan, it can be said that we don't need to work hard at all, how can this small county town of Mianchi stop us from going home? ”

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, the generals had nothing to say, Xiao Tianjian gave up here, in fact, it was a ruin, directly cutting off the illusions of those soldiers in their army who were in Shanxi, and leaving no way for themselves to retreat, so that these generals could only follow him and rush forward!

Feng Yijun was even more surprised when he learned that the army sent by him was defeated and returned in Luoyang, knowing that this time the Xingtian army was fierce in the south, so he did not dare to slack off, and sent people to make a detour to inform the Tongguan guards, asking him to send troops to attack Mianchi County from the west, and immediately sent someone to report to Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan, and asked him to dispatch troops and horses to Luoyang to help, and even sent troops out of Luoyang to prepare to recover Mianchi County again.

Just when Luoyang was busy, the news came back from Mianchi County that after Xingtianjun killed Mianchi County and a group of officials, he suddenly gave up Mianchi County and left Mianchi County overnight, and disappeared.

So Feng Yijun hurriedly sent troops back to Mianchi County, took Mianchi County back, and sent troops to guard Mianchi County, and quickly sent people to Chen Biqian of Kaifeng Mansion to spread the news, and hurriedly sent people to find out where this group of Xingtian Army went.

Three days later, Feng Yijun finally learned the traces of the Xingtian Army, it turned out that after the Xingtian Army gave up the county seat of Mianchi, he set off south overnight, first ran straight to Yiyang County along the official road, and after entering Yiyang County, he suddenly turned around and went westward, and it took only one day to kill the territory of Yongning County.

Wu Dalie, the magistrate of Yongning County, was originally more bored during this time, although now Gao Yingxiang and other Lu Yijun have left western Henan and returned to Shaanxi, but for Yongning County, it is not much more stable because of this, over the years the imperial court's salary, coupled with the fiefdom of the imperial relatives and magnates in Henan, most of the fields in Henan are concentrated in the hands of these imperial relatives and powerful people, so that ordinary people can not make ends meet at all, plus the famine for many years, Even the tenant farmers who farmed the land for Huangzhuang starved to death, making Yuxi a bandit den now.

The area around Yongning is extremely serious banditry, not to mention the distance, there is a bucket valley, clay pot and other two powerful bandits nearby, entrenched in the Bear's Ears Mountain, Dafang Mountain, Niuxin Mountain, often to Yongning area to harass.

This is not the beginning of spring this year, Zhu Cai, the king of Wan'an in Yongning County, asked the imperial court to build Yongning County on the grounds of stealing fire, but after most of the year, although the county city wall has increased by one zhang, but the county government is poor.

And Wan'an King Zhu Cai refused to take out the silver, and pressed this matter on his county government, although Wan'an Wang is not as rich as Luoyang's Fu Wang, but after all, he is still a relative of the emperor, and the entire Yongning County's land, his Wan'an Wang's family accounted for more than half, and there are not millions of taels of silver at home, but at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and he asked to build Yongning County, and it is easy to touch the skin of the mouth, but he does not know the difficulty of building the city.

In the past six months, in order to build and repair Yongning County, Wu Dalie almost completely squeezed out the people around Yongning County, the city wall has increased by a zhang, Yongning County is much stronger, but the local bandits are becoming more and more serious, the landed people have almost run away, and only the three imperial villages and six or seven large Zhuangzi outside the city are still cultivated.

During this period of time, the giant thief Yidougu entrenched in the area of Bears Ears Mountain led his troops to Yongning County from time to time to take a walk around, and the day before yesterday, Zhonghe Town in the north of the county was broken by Yidougu's leading department, and the people in the town were almost slaughtered, making people in Yongning County panic and at a loss.

And those big officials in Henan Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion, at the moment they are not paying attention to the matter of suppressing bandits here, Yidougu and Clay Jar are now getting more and more powerful, seeing that they have nearly 10,000 troops, if they go crazy that day and unite to attack Yongning County, God knows if the defenders and officials of Yongning County alone can stop them.

But just when he was having a headache about this matter, suddenly someone hurried into the county office and told him even worse news, that there was a strange army of thieves, which suddenly appeared in the east of Yongning and was heading towards the county seat of Yongning.

So Wu Dalie was so frightened that he almost fell from the big chair to the ground, this is really a house leak and even rain! There was originally a bucket of valley and clay pots in this area, and they were already chaotic, but now there is a gang of thieves, so how can he live in Yongning County?

Wu Dalie didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked about the situation of the new thief army that appeared in Yongning County, and the person who reported the news replied with a frightened face: "The small ones can't figure out where they came from, but they don't look like a gang of thieves, the big flag they played is small but you can see it clearly, it is a red flag embroidered with a human shape without a head, and their armor is distinct, and they look neat!" It's not at all comparable to the thieves of Itogu and Crockpot! Please make a quick decision! They are now less than thirty miles away from the county seat, and it seems that they have gone to the imperial village of King Wan'an in the east of the city! ”

"Huh?! Stupid, after talking for a long time, how many people did they come? After Wu Dalie heard this, he plucked the cold in his heart, and immediately scolded the messenger who came to report the news.

"I can't see the little ones, I can't see the end at a glance! At least there are more than 10,000 people! The frightened officer remembered this, but he said it vaguely.

Wu Dalie is really going to faint this time, 10,000 people? This is something he can handle! If the thieves in Yidou Valley came, he could still urge the hundreds of defenders in the city to fight, but he heard this errand say that this group of new thieves was strong and strong, and he had all the weapons and armor, so he couldn't help it!

And what other big flags without heads, what are these things? Xingtian ...... Right! It's Xingtian! This gang of thieves should be the Xingtian army that has been making trouble in Shanxi recently, and has defeated the official army several times in a row.

Wu Dalie was completely panicked at this time, and almost didn't have time to tell his subordinates what to do, so he rushed out of the county government with a smoke, and while asking people to close the city gate immediately, he ordered the officials to prepare a sedan chair, and after sitting in the sedan chair, he ran straight towards the palace of King Wan'an.

Zhu Cai, the king of Wan'an, is only in his forties, and he is very rich and fat, of course, he is only a little rich, and he has not yet reached the same level as the Fu King of Luoyang, although he is also a relative of the emperor, but compared to the Fu King, he looks much shabby.

He is the tenth grandson of Ming Taizu, belongs to a partial branch of the imperial family, now after more than 200 years, the imperial relatives surnamed Zhu can be said to be as many as cattle hair in various parts of the country, it is said that there are hundreds of thousands, like him can still carry a vassal king to the title, but there are very few, even if it is not as prominent as King Fu, at least in the area of Yongning County, he is still a king of Wan'anguo, and his life is still quite extravagant.

It's just that now the world is not quiet and the chaos is terrible, so after the year, he asked to build the city wall of Yongning County, and now that the city wall has been reinforced, he can rest assured.

Before Wu Dalie came to him, Zhu Cai was squinting and sitting on the soft couch, enjoying the two beautiful maids beating his legs, he didn't know what had happened outside the city at this time, his only concern was this year's harvest in his closed fields, for him, the bandit was just a disease of ringworm, a huge Ming Dynasty, how could he not deal with such a bandit? Sooner or later, the world will have to be cleaned up!

Just when he was enjoying himself leisurely, a eunuch trotted all the way into the palace and said to Zhu Cai urgently: "Lord Qizhuo, Wuzhi County took a few officials in the city to say that there is an urgent matter to ask to see His Highness!" ”

Zhu Cai was comfortably drowsy at this moment, and was suddenly very unhappy to be disturbed, so he glared at the regular attendant and said lazily: "What are they looking for me?" It's good that I didn't look for them, they are the officials of the land guard, and now the imperial village outside the royal city has been repeatedly harassed by thieves, but they can't be pacified, but how about looking for me? Missing! ”

This attendant knelt on the ground with a panicked face, and said to Zhu Cai: "Your Highness, this time they are looking for His Highness is really important!" A gang of bandits has suddenly appeared in our Yongning County and rushed straight towards the county seat! Wuzhi County, they are looking for His Highness to discuss the matter of defending the city! ”