Chai Guozhu didn't finish all his words, but what it meant, Xiao Ruxun also knew clearly.

Don't say that you are not a civil official, even if you are a civil official, even if you are the head of the cabinet, you may not be able to fight the Jin merchant group at the moment, this interest group is too large and powerful, if you want to abolish them, it is better to directly plunder and kill them all.

Like all cancer cells, normal medical treatment will not work, special means must be used, and there is no other way to deal with this kind of interest group that is so large that it has achieved an invincible golden body, except for violent actions and physical destruction.

But if you really want to do this, Xiao Ruxun will become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and from then on, Shenzhou will have no place to stand, if you want to survive, you must either flee north or west, or simply pull a banner to rebel, but these are not long-term solutions, it is impossible to succeed, so this method was not in Xiao Ruxun's consideration from the beginning.

What else?

"Chief Chai Bing's words have been remembered, not to mention these Jin merchants for the time being, those northern captives have these grains, they should no longer be short of food, why don't they return north, but do this strange thing?"

Chai Guozhu looked confused - you are the admiral, you are a famous general, you ask me?

"The last general really can't figure it out."

Xiao Ruxun nodded helplessly, feeling that it was a bit of a mistake not to bring Yuan Huang here, I thought it was a simple war, but it turned out to involve such a deep insider, and the Beiyu also began to play deep, and they didn't leave after grabbing the food, so what would their purpose be?

There is a shortage of strategists! As long as there is a trustworthy advisor by his side, I am afraid he will not face such an embarrassing situation as he is now.

Xiao Ruxun doesn't know much about Shanxi in the end, Li Rusong and Chai Guozhu are not locals, and they don't understand it, and the more important thing is that even if they understand, they won't give advice to Xiao Ruxun like a qualified strategist.

A person's strength is really too small, even if he comes from the future, even if he can bring out an elite division and use future weapons, but, in the face of such a situation, there is still nothing he can do, he is so lonely, so lonely that he can't find a second companion in the entire land of Huaxia Shenzhou.

For the first time, Xiao Ruxun had doubts about the concept he adhered to.

After Li Rusong disposed of all the prisoners, he came to Xiao Ruxun's side, and saw Xiao Ruxun in a daze in front of the grain, and if he thought about it carefully, he knew what Xiao Ruxun's situation was, he had nothing to do about it, he was arrogant, but he was also using the name of arrogance to benefit himself.

Does he really dare to go against interest groups?

Li Rusong is not stupid.

"Admiral, what are we going to do now? The northern captives here have been solved, but more northern captives are missing, what should we do? ”

Xiao Ruxun took a deep breath and held back the frustration in her heart.

"Send out sentinels and go all the way to the west, if you can see the living refugees along the way, just like they ask if they see the whereabouts of the Northern Captive army, the more than 30,000 people of the Northern Captives army cannot evaporate from the world, they will definitely leave traces, as long as they know what direction they are going, you can know what their purpose is."

Li Rusong nodded: "No!" ”

Then Xiao Ruxun gave Chai Guozhu an order.

"Chief Chai Bing, you send people to load all these grains into trucks and load them separately, we have enough supplies provided by the imperial court, there is no shortage of food, now we will treat these grains as disaster relief food, if you find refugees along the way, give them food to let them spend this winter, and it can be regarded as wool from the sheep!"

Chai Guozhu looked at Xiao Ruxun and nodded in agreement.

This admiral is a rare person who cares about the world, but unfortunately, he was born at this time, if he was born in the era of Taizu's Dingding World or the Battle of Chengzu, he will be able to establish greater merits.

Xiao Jixin, born at the wrong time!

After that, Xiao Ruxun led 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry, gathered 30,000 soldiers and horses, left the remaining soldiers and horses to guard the Bauhinia Pass, and took the main force west out of the Bauhinia Pass, all the way to the west of the Shanxi border marched, and when they arrived in the Lingqiu area, the sentinel got important information.

A large number of Beiyu cavalry turned south from this area more than ten days ago, I don't know what to do, but before that, the Beiyu army had divided its troops here, and the main force went to Bauhinia Pass, and another 10,000 cavalry went south at that time.

This strange movement made Li Rusong and Chai Guozhu look at each other, and they couldn't figure out the truth inside, and Xiao Ruxun fell into deep thought.

After the Beiyu broke through the Pingxing Pass, the troops were divided into two roads, the main force attacked the Pingxing Pass, and 10,000 cavalry divided the troops to the south, and the information currently learned was that Wutai had fallen, and a few days later, more than 30,000 Beiyu cavalry left at night, and then also went south, the direction of the south should undoubtedly be the direction of Wutai, and what is the place where Wutai goes south?

That's Taiyuan.

Today, the commander-in-chief of the whole battle, Wang Shiyang, is located, and Taiyuan also gathered the main forces of Shanxi and Yulin Town, with more than 100,000 people, and it is the general camp of the Ming army, with strong troops and strong defense. Could it be that they really dare to face each other with the main force of the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops?

Cavalry fighting infantry is not as easy as imagined, as long as the infantry forms a neat phalanx, and has courage, then the cavalry will be very headache, the reason why people think that the cavalry is born to restrain the infantry, the main impression comes from the Song Dynasty, especially the late Song Dynasty and the Jin and Mongol battles, often are defeated.

The Mongols didn't care about it for the time being, but when dealing with the Jin people, the Song army had no will to fight at all, and it was extremely lacking in training, and the Song army was huge because once there were displaced people, they would be recruited into the army, but there was no training, and the quality of such an army could be imagined, it was a rabble, and it was crushed at the first touch, of course, the army was defeated like a mountain.

There is the will to fight, courage, training, forming a military formation, no horse dares to directly hit the military formation, horses are also animals, and they will also be afraid of fire and sharp things, the infantry phalanx is like a big hedgehog, the cavalry actually has no very good way to attack the infantry phalanx, but the infantry phalanx is also unable to counterattack and pursue.

In the end, the border army of the Ming army is not as cowardly as the forbidden army and the box army of the Song army, and the northern captives are somewhat jealous, with a number of hundreds of thousands, how can the northern captives dare to challenge head-on?

Wang Shiyang is not a character who is afraid of things, Li Rusong described Wang Shiyang as a person who has courage and courage but his head is not very bright, such a person is unlikely to run away, as long as Wang Shiyang does not waver as the coach, more than 100,000 people gather together, and the courage is still there.

40,000 northern captives, how dare to challenge more than 100,000 Ming troops head-on?

What exactly is their purpose?

Xiao Ruxun didn't have time to think too much, because Taiyuan is too important, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, if Taiyuan suffers a disaster, then the whole Shanxi will be unstable, it is a matter of the overall situation, and there is no room for too much thinking.

Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered Chai Guozhu to take 5,000 foot soldiers and five Hongyi cannons to recover Pingxing Pass, block the pass where the northern captives fled north, and ordered Nurhachi to lead 5,000 Liaodong cavalry to rush to the aid of Yanmen Pass to give encouragement to the defenders of Yanmen Pass.

Li Rusong left 5,000 Liaodong Han cavalry and 10,000 Jurchen elite cavalry, Nurhachi's sons Chu Ying and Dai Shan also stayed to follow Li Rusong, plus the remaining 5,000 foot soldiers, and the 20,000 troops were personally commanded by Xiao Ruxun and went south to Taiyuan.