On November 23, Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu withdrew the Ma Bu Army that surrounded and suppressed the thieves from all directions, and led the elite border cavalry of Yansui Town under their command to leave the area of Jingle City and Ningwu Pass.

Early in the morning of 24 November, the day after the cavalry of Yansui Town left Ningwu Pass, these thieves, who had been extremely trapped in the Lan Mountains and were about to survive, suddenly burst out of the mountains, divided into three groups, and quickly led their troops westward along the frozen river valley.

On 27 November, an urgent military report from Zhang Zongheng, the Shanxi Provincial Inspectorate, and Li Bei, deputy commander-in-chief of the Zhenxi Battalion, was sent to Juyong Pass by a team of fast horses galloping, and it was the news that the thief had fled from the mountain.

However, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in Juyong Pass, did not panic much after receiving the news.

Because he knew that as long as the thieves in Luya Mountain and Qilan Mountain in the northern section of Luliang Mountain were not completely eradicated one day, this day would come sooner or later.

Because it was impossible for the army led by Li Banghua, Sun Chuanting, Wang Guoliang and others to stay outside the reckless mountains in the north of Shanxi, let alone watch Jianlu and his Mongol servant army plunder the territory of Datong Town and then let them return safely.

Then there is a trade-off.

On this issue, now the Chongzhen Emperor is of course the lesser of two evils and the heavier of the two benefits.

Therefore, when he received the news that he had been vaguely worried about, he did not sigh or panic like the ministers around him.

Now the Chongzhen Emperor knows very well that in history, the Jianyu in the north and the thieves in the northwest echoed each other and jointly brought down the Ming Dynasty.

Whenever the Ming Dynasty dispatched strong soldiers from Liaodong and the Nine Sides to the south to suppress bandits, the Jianyu Iron Cavalry, who got the news, would launch an attack in Liaodong or Datong, Xuanfu and other places in due course.

And whenever the Ming Dynasty officials and troops have gained an advantage on the battlefield of suppressing thieves, when victory is in sight, Jianyu will always invade at a critical time, and mobilize the Ming Dynasty's army to shift the focus by breaking through the border, so that the thieves who are already dying will escape again.

All this may really be a coincidence, but it is more likely that it was intentional on the part of Jianyu.

The leaders and brains of the Northwest thieves may not have such insight and vision, but the high-level of Jianyu, especially Huang Taiji, who is assisted by a large number of traitors and literati, has such a strategy.

The Chongzhen Emperor in history, in the suppression of thieves and the suppression of the thieves, was led by the nose by the high-level of the Jin State after the capture of the Ming Dynasty almost every time, which also made the only few armies in the Ming Dynasty that could be called a strong army, and had to fight between resisting the thieves and suppressing the thieves, and they were exhausted.

In the end, not only were the thieves not eradicated, but the Jianyu was not defeated, but these strong armies, in the two-sided battles again and again, were exhausted and scattered, and finally all disappeared on the battlefield to exterminate the thieves or resist the Jianyu.

This is true of the Liaodong Army under Cao Wenzhao, the same is true of the Qin Army under Sun Chuanting, and the same is true of the Tianxiong Army under Lu Xiangsheng.

So since the crossing, the current Emperor Chongzhen has been trying his best to avoid two-front battles, at least in the north of the Ming Dynasty, to resolutely avoid two-front battles.

Because of this, when the thieves were exterminated, there were all kinds of tolerance and connivance to the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity.

Therefore, while preparing for the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity, the all-out encirclement and suppression of the thieves in the mountains in the northern section of Luliang Mountain was temporarily stopped.

Including this time, during the critical period of counterattacking Jianyu, he didn't want to stop the army of Li Banghua, Sun Chuanting and others because of the escape of those thieves in Luya Mountain.

For the current Emperor Chongzhen, the issue of face is important, but it is not as important as the Han people.

As long as these thieves flee west, whether they are Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Ma Shouying, and Zhang Xianzhong, he doesn't care very much.

Because in this era, the barren northwest land cannot become a big thing.

Especially in today's northern Shaanxi, one Wei and one state and one government, one Wei is Yulinwei, one state is Suide Prefecture, and one government is Yan'an Prefecture, the population of these three places is not much, after several years of famine, war, disease and massacre since the Apocalypse, the overall population has been greatly reduced, and ten percent has gone to seventy percent.

Coupled with Ma Maocai's recruitment of people in Ganquanyu and Yuan Chonghuan's recruitment of people in the plain on the east bank of the Yellow River in Ningxia, there is not much left of the displaced population of the three state capitals in northern Shaanxi.

Under such circumstances, even if Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Ma Shouying, and Zhang Xianzhong can toss, without a large number of hungry and displaced people, they will not be able to toss any tricks.

Therefore, this time, after receiving the urgent military information transmitted by Wang Jiazheng, the imperial historian of the Shanxi town supervision army, and Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, Emperor Chongzhen still chose to focus on counterattacking Jianjiao, and did not immediately send someone to send an order that the army had gone out to attack the army outside the border to go south to pursue the thieves who fled back to northern Shaanxi.

However, at noon on November 28, there was another urgent military report from the northwest, which was jointly signed by Gao Shiming, a minister who was sitting in Xi'an to prepare for the establishment of the Jinyi Weixi Zhenfu Division, and Hu Yikui, the pacification envoy, and sent to Juyongguan.

At this moment, now this Emperor Chongzhen can no longer be indifferent!

Because of the urgent report jointly submitted by Gao Shiming and Hu Yikui, he reported an astonishing news to Emperor Chongzhen:

"On November 20, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, killed Zhao Dayin, the deputy commander-in-chief of Taomin, and Ma Wanshou, the commander of Hezhou Wei, with the sword of Shangfang in Hezhou, Zhao Dayin and Ma Wanshou's generals Ma Jinzhong, Ma Guangyu, Ding Guodong, Mi Layin, etc., each led the troops to launch a mutiny, and Yang Qi, the chief soldier of Dingjiao, was attacked and killed, Yuan Chonghuan only led dozens of horses to escape, and ran back to Lanzhou, Hezhou, Lintao, Dingxi, Guyuan, Taozhou, and Minzhou were in chaos!"

After receiving this news, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't believe his eyes.

Whether it was the Guyuan Mutiny or the Lintao Mutiny, it did happen in the history of the late Ming Dynasty.

However, the reason why there were mutinies in these places in history was because the places where Guyuan Town and Lintao Town were located were too poor, and the imperial court owed too much salary, and at the same time, the imperial court frequently requisitioned soldiers and horses from these two towns to Liaodong to fight against Jianyu.

It was the combination of the above factors by chance that provoked the mutiny in Lintao Town and Guyuan Town.

But now, now that Emperor Chongzhen has taken into account the mutiny that has occurred in the history of Guyuan Town, he has moved Guyuan Town to Huamachi, allowing them to open up wasteland and reclamation in the Huamachi area at will, and gave Yuan Chonghuan and the Ordos tribes, as well as the Qinghai and Gannan Tibetan tribes, the right to trade tea and horses, and salt and tea, and now they are not short of money.

Also taking into account the situation of Lintao Town, Emperor Chongzhen previously moved Lintao Town to Hanzhong.

On the one hand, it solved the problem that their garrison was too barren for their families to make a living, and on the other hand, it also solved the problem of the emptiness of defense in southern Shaanxi.

The most important thing is that since the finances of the imperial court have improved slightly, now the Chongzhen Emperor is worried about repeating the mistakes of history, but he has never dared to shortage the salaries of these border town soldiers.

So this time, when I first saw Gao Shiming and Hu Yikui's report, I couldn't believe my eyes.

But then he looked closely, and he vaguely connected the various ins and outs of it.

In the end, it finally dawned on me that this was not a simple mutiny, it was clearly a riot!

Not to mention the return identities of Zhao Dayin, Ma Guangyu, Ma Jinzhong, Mi Layin, Ding Guodong, etc., that is, the slogan of their mutiny, "Kill the red hair, expel the Yijiao" itself, is not the appearance of ordinary mutiny!

With this judgment, now this Chongzhen Emperor can no longer be treated with a normal heart.

Moreover, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in Juyong Pass, had no way to keep abreast of the rapidly changing battlefield situation outside the fortress, especially for the progress of Li Banghua and Sun Chuanting, the army of Yansui Town and Shanxi Town.

Therefore, when he first received the thieves in the mountains of northern Jin and returned to northern Shaanxi again in Juyong Pass, and then received the news of the mutiny and civil unrest in Hezhou, Lintao, Guyuan and other places from Gao Shiming and Hu Yikui from Xi'an, he immediately made a decision and sent several people to convey the will.

One is to order Sun Chuanting to lead the cavalry of Yansui Town to quickly return to Yulin, northern Shaanxi to exterminate the thieves.

For this group of thieves, it is of course best to be able to exterminate them in northern Shaanxi, and if they cannot be exterminated in northern Shaanxi, they will be driven westward, in short, they cannot be allowed to flee back to Shanxi.

Second, he ordered the trilateral governor Yuan Chonghuan to put down the Taomin Mutiny and the Huihui riots, which were likely to get out of control, as soon as possible.

Third, Hong Chengchou was ordered to unify the command of the Shaanxi army under his command and the men and horses of Lintao Town, who moved to Hanzhong, not only to strictly prevent the thieves who fled back to northern Shaanxi from going south, but also to block the road for the Taomin mutinous army to come east.

In this way, on the afternoon of November 28, Emperor Chongzhen, who had made a quick decision, sent a messenger from three ways to deliver the decree, and left Juyong Pass with his own will.

One of the roads, in the early morning of the second day of December, rushed to kill Hukou, and then was escorted by Ma Zhenyang, a young general under Ding Qirui, and rushed to Kuku and Tuncheng.

That night, Emperor Chongzhen's will to mobilize the cavalry of Yansui Town to quickly return to Yulin and Suide reached the front of Li Banghua and Sun Chuanting's army.

If it is just the matter of thieves fleeing back to northern Shaanxi, then figures like Li Banghua and Sun Chuanting will not easily change the layout in front of them for the emperor's will, after all, Jianyu is already at the end of the crossbow, as long as his side makes more efforts, it will not be long before this force can be wiped out.

Even if there is only a five-point chance, they will use the excuse that they will not accept the orders of the foreign monarch, and risk disobeying the order of the foreign monarch, and carry out the strategy in front of them.

However, the Tao Min Mutiny mentioned by Emperor Chongzhen in his will and the inside story behind it made Li Banghua and Sun Chuanting have to make a difficult decision.

Sun Chuanting led the cavalry of Yansui Town to follow the order, while Li Banghua himself led the army of Shanxi Town, gathered troops, set up a large camp, and looked for opportunities outside Kuku and Tuncheng.