After the three ways of the Xingtian Army started to move, the speed of their actions was very fast, this time they sent troops, it was also the first time that Yan Chongxi and others were in charge, and it was also a test of the results of this reorganization.

In addition, the number of officials and troops in these three places is limited, and they can only rely on the stragglers in the hands of various big families to deal with the attack of the Xingtian Army, so in the face of the well-trained soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army, the officials in the three directions can be said to be helpless, and can only retreat into the city as much as possible to ensure that the city is not lost.

But the strategy of the Xingtian army was originally to occupy the countryside, and they had no intention of attacking the city at all, their main targets were concentrated on the Zhuang Fort located outside the city, and they were in line with a small number of troops to harass and contain the officials and troops in the city, so that they did not dare to go out of the city easily to find the Xingtian Army to fight, and then concentrated superior forces to fight the strategy, a single Zhuang Fort faced their onslaught, and could not parry at all, and in a short period of time, they fell one after another.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian chose to launch at this time is because now after the summer harvest, the food and straw of the Xingtian army are relatively sufficient, and the soldiers and horses under his command have also been initially redressed and expanded, whether it is the strength or morale, it needs to be tested through this operation, and even the energy accumulated also needs to be released.

The small Yangcheng County is no longer enough to support them with so many soldiers and horses, so expansion has become a must, he wants not only the territory, nor the money and food in the hands of those big households, but more that he needs more people to support his military strength.

Therefore, all the soldiers and horses will lay down a fort, they will take out the money and food of the rich families in the fort, and take out a part of it to help the poor and displaced people around, and at the same time, the Xingtian army also strictly abides by military discipline, and will never harm the ordinary people, although not everyone can strictly abide by military discipline, but their actions are still recognized and welcomed by the people everywhere, often when the Xingtian army has just begun to gather troops to besiege some forts, there will be a large number of people, who come to hear the wind and do not hesitate to risk death to help the Xingtian army, So that the progress of all the soldiers and horses is very smooth.

And after the Xingtian Army captured a village, those Fu Deming's subordinates who accompanied the army immediately redivided the land of the big families to the local villagers, and left one or two security chiefs to be responsible for handling civil affairs in the local area, organizing the township soldiers to defend themselves, and the main force immediately attacked the next target.

When encountering the terrain and the terrain is particularly difficult to overcome, all walks of life took the initiative to give up according to Xiao Tianjian's request, first swept it around, isolated it, and then gathered troops to attack, so that the trapped Zhuangbao was either completely broken or surrendered automatically.

In less than a month, Yan Chongxi's soldiers and horses basically took the entire territory of Yuanqu County, leaving only one Yuanqu County, and even the official road from Yuanqu County to Jiezhou was controlled by Yan Chongxi, and the passage between Yuanqu County and Huaiqing Mansion was firmly controlled to the west.

Luo Li's first battalion, which was responsible for attacking Qinshui County, made the same rapid progress, and in about a month, swept away the boundaries of Qinshui County within a radius of 100 miles, uprooted more than 20 large Zhuangbao, and basically isolated Qinshui County, and even reached the territory of Yicheng County west of Qinshui County.

As for the first battalion of Li Xuanzhu who sent troops to Zezhou, after entering the area south of Zezhou, he and Zhao Erdonkey divided into two roads again, and cooperated with each other to start attacking in the south of Zezhou, and also in a month's time, swept more than a dozen Zhuang Forts in the south of Zezhou, coupled with the cooperation of Wang Chengping's cavalry, the local area of Zezhou was greatly shaken, and the range of dozens of miles in the south of Zezhou also fell under the control of the Xingtian Army.

And Xiao Tianjian has not been idle in the past month, anyway, now that the autumn sowing has ended, taking advantage of the local agricultural slack time, on the one hand, he summoned the people to build the Zhuang wall of Dongye Town, and on the other hand, he dispatched a large number of township soldiers in Yangcheng to go to three directions, and continuously transported all kinds of captured materials back to Shuangfeng Village or Lotus Village in Yangcheng County.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian also selected several caves with dangerous terrain in the mountains south of Lotus Village, and put a large amount of food and materials into these caves, as a strategic reserve for the Xingtian Army in the future, in order to meet the needs of the future from time to time, and in several caves, a small number of soldiers were stationed to defend them.

Not only that, Xiao Tianjian also ordered the villagers of the local villages and villages in Yangcheng to dig cellars in their own yards or in the mountains near the villages, or find caves to clean up, and when necessary, as a place to hide or store grain, to prepare for the invasion of a large number of officers and soldiers.

On the one hand, he paid attention to the progress of the three-way soldiers and horses, and on the other hand, he also supervised the construction of weapons in the Shuangfeng Village, and continuously transferred all kinds of ammunition and materials to the three-way soldiers and horses to ensure their logistical supply.

In the past month, Xiao Tianjian has been busy living in Shuangfeng Village, dealing with military affairs, deploying people and horses, and paying attention to the production of weapons in the Shuangfeng Village craftsman camp.

After nearly a year's time, Shuangfeng Village has basically built a large-scale workshop base, all kinds of workshops are built in the village by the mountain, all kinds of raw materials and resources are constantly in and out of the village, nearly 1,000 various craftsmen, busy here, it can be called a prosperous town.

Iron and gunpowder workshop is now the most important workshop in the wall, they basically ensure the military needs of the Xingtian Army, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is an arsenal, the scale of production is also expanding day by day, just the number of blacksmiths, it has reached an unprecedented number of four or five hundred people, the sound of striking iron in the shed has not stopped all day, even at night, there are night craftsmen in the iron work in the lantern night battle busy non-stop.

The original output of 200 bird guns a month, after the craftsmen were fully proficient in the process, and under the guarantee of sufficient supply of raw materials, the output increased again, and the monthly output almost reached more than 300, basically a month can be newly armed with more than one firecracker, for the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army, it is naturally needless to say, and at the same time, the task of building bayonets was originally postponed. After the production of agricultural tools gradually met the local demand and the number of craftsmen in iron work increased again, it was also officially mentioned on the production schedule, and a bayonet for the handle of the bird gun was created, and it was distributed to the army along with the new gun, so that the melee ability of the firecracker was also greatly improved, at least now when the enemy army is close to the firecracker, the firecracker puts a bayonet on the bird's gun, and becomes a short spearman, no longer without the slightest ability to fight back.

The iron-making process of Dongye Town, in the past three months, has also been greatly improved, the original iron furnace is made of coal iron, and now basically began to use coke iron-making, so that the quality of the iron produced has been improved a lot, and the output of refined iron has also been greatly improved, so as to provide high-quality raw materials for the iron work, so that the quality of the iron stone has also been improved one after another. The accuracy is also getting higher and higher, and the weight has been reduced a lot compared to the earliest production of the bird guns, and the weight has been reduced to about ten catties.