It is said that Sun Ang, the general of the Central Military Department under the command of Ma Shouying, got the promise and warrant of Ma Jinzhong, the pseudo-commander of Hezhou, and hurried back to Anding County, showed Ma Jinzhong's warrant to Ma Jinde, who was stationed in Anding, and then rushed back to Jingningzhou City again.

After Gao Yingxiang led his bandit leaders west to Pingliang, the prestigious cities in Gannan, Longxi had already fallen into the hands of the local Musu barbarian mutinous generals.

Hezhou Wei and its surrounding areas fell into the hands of Ma Jinzhong, the head of the Ma family in Hezhou, and his subordinates;

Taozhou Wei and its surrounding areas fell into the hands of Zhao Xihe, the local imam of the Zhao family in Taozhou, and others;

Luozhouwei and its surrounding areas fell into the hands of Ding Guodong, the general of the Musuman mutiny, and others;

Tianshui, the capital of Qinzhou Prefecture, and several small counties in the surrounding Gongchang Prefecture fell into the hands of Bai Minghe, the local Musu barbarian mutiny general;

As for the Lintao Mansion City, which was located in the middle of these cities, it fell into the hands of Ma Guangyu, the general of the Musuman mutiny.

After Gao Yingxiang took over Pingliang City from the hands of the Pingliang Mutiny and took over the territory of Luntai with his rogue thieves, he looked around, and most of the remaining cities were small counties with unimportant corners.

Moreover, these small counties are still in the midst of counter-revenge killings and battles between the local Mu Su barbarians and the Han armed forces, with a large number of population losses and very dilapidated cities.

However, Gao Yingxiang had just entered Pingliang, and there were chasing soldiers from the imperial court behind him, so he didn't dare to fight for territory with the Musubarian mutinous generals who were entrenched in the big cities in Gannan, so he had to take these ruined county towns into control.

Among them, Liu Xiyao, a more obedient general, took his battalion head and was arranged to be stationed in Zhenyuan, east of Pingliang City, and expanded his team.

Another obedient general, Lin Yangcheng, with his own battalion, was arranged to rest in the area of Xiaoguan, an important pass from Guyuan to Pingliang and even Shaanxi.

Cao Cao's battalion, who was not very obedient but was smooth and good at doing things, was arranged to be stationed in the Jingchuan area.

Zhang Xianzhong, the disobedient and particularly unruly king of Xiying, took his former subordinates and a bunch of newly recruited baby soldiers in northern Shaanxi to be arranged by Gao Yingxiang to the area of Qingshui and Qin'an in Longxi, which is adjacent to Bai Minghe's territory, so that he could get supplies there and expand the team.

At the same time, in the passage of Pingliang, Gansu Province this time, because of the old Hui Ma Shouying, who said that he had returned from the first territory of the Pingliang Musubarian Musubarian Mutiny, Luntai, because of this merit, he was arranged a relatively better place by Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang.

This place is Jingning Prefecture (later Jingning County, Gansu) on the border between Gansu and Ningxia.

However, in order to prevent this old man from returning to Ma Shouying, Gao Yingxiang was afraid that he would join the Ma family in Hezhou after he arrived in Jingning, which was close to the Ma family in Hezhou, so he let his most trusted nephew Li Zicheng and the men and horses of the general camp go west together and stationed in Jingning, which can be regarded as placing another backhand by Ma Shouying's side.

At the same time, it was also this inserted backhand that made Ma Shouying dissatisfied with King Gao Yingxiang and did not want to have a hard fight with the officials and soldiers, but he had to bite the bullet and stick to Jingning City, which had been out of food for many days.

Zhang Jiamo, the chief military officer of Gansu Town, was a veteran who had guarded the northwest frontier for many years, and originally estimated that if he had gone all out to storm for several days at the expense of casualties, the state capital of Jingning Prefecture would have been defeated long ago.

In this way, after he takes Jingning Prefecture, he can lead his army south to settle down, or he can go west to Lanzhou, and completely block the thieves entrenched in the vicinity of Pingliang, as well as the Musu barbarian army in Taomin and other places in Hezhou, in this place in Longxi Gannan.

Zhang Jiamo's idea is normal and feasible.

However, the order given to him from above was not so.

Although he didn't know what the imperial court was doing, he chose to resolutely implement the imperial court's strategy.

Therefore, when he led the army to arrive under the state city of Jingning Prefecture, he first adopted a strategy of besieging but not attacking this state city, and at the same time brought the main force of Gansu Town to garrison outside the city, he sent his subordinates Zhang Tianli and Luo Junjie to lead a partial division to constantly sweep the periphery of Jingning Prefecture City.

In more than a month, Zhang Tianli and Luo Junjie, two partial divisions, not only relocated the small units of Huihui camp garrisons within more than 100 miles of Jingning Prefecture's east, west, north, south, and north sides, as well as other walled fortresses where the Musu barbarians were entrenched, and wiped out all these poorly equipped Musubarians one by one, but also armed more than ten Han regiments at the western foot of Liupan Mountain to protect themselves and brought them under the command of the official army.

It was not until the end of May that Zhang Tianli and Luo Junjie cleared all other places in Jingning Prefecture except for the state capital, and then they each led the already larger and larger ranks of officials and soldiers back outside Jingning City.

At this time, the army outside Jingning City gathered, and Zhang Jiamo changed his past strategy and began to encircle three missing one and storm the east gate.

The official army had besieged the city for many days, there were no new supplies in the city, and the consumption of people eating and chewing horses was not small.

When the official army outside the city suddenly gathered and attacked the city, Ma Shouying and Li Zicheng knew that the time had come for the real danger.

Ma Shouying, who had long wanted to evacuate the dangerous place, proposed to withdraw his troops to the west or south, but Li Zicheng resolutely disagreed.

If Jingning Prefecture is lost, Gao Yingxiang and his thieves will be cut off from the fastest way to retreat westward in the future.

Gao Yingxiang asked Li Zicheng to come here in advance with the general camp, in addition to monitoring Ma Shouying's return to the camp, he wanted to leave a way back for himself when he couldn't stay in Pingliang City one day.

Gao Yingxiang handed over such an important matter to Li Zicheng, how could Li Zicheng not do his best.

Ma Shouying took advantage of the arrangement of the official army to encircle the three vacancies and let go of the West Gate, and sent people out of the city to report to Gao Yingxiang, either allowing him to withdraw his troops or sending him additional reinforcements.

Of course, Gao Yingxiang did not agree with his withdrawal, and strictly ordered him to hold on to Jingning Prefecture, and clearly told him that he must obey Li Zicheng's command in the matter of holding Jingning.

At the same time, Gao Yingxiang also told Ma Shouying that the way the official army fought outside Jingning City was clearly a trap for encircling the point to send reinforcements, and it was good for him to stick to it, and not to ask for reinforcements.

Speaking of which, since Guyuan City was captured by the official army, King Gao Yingxiang of Chuang has had deep doubts about the safety of Pingliang.

It's just that although the place of Gannan in Longxi is large, and the other big cities with strong city defenses are strong enough to gain a foothold, now they have their own owners, and he has no better place to go if he doesn't want to tear his face with the local Musuman leader.

However, after the official army took Guyuan, there was no further action for more than a month, which made Gao Yingxiang feel a little lucky, so he stayed in Pingliang City.

Now that the situation around Pingliang has changed abruptly, Gao Yingxiang has already had the idea of abandoning the city and leaving, so naturally he can't let Ma Shouying easily throw Jingning, which is 200 miles west of Pingliang, to the official army.

It's just that Gao Yingxiang's order, although it is useful to Li Zicheng, but it is useless to Ma Shouying, the reinforcements that Gao Yingxiang promised to send have not left Pingliang City, but Ma Shouying on the side of Jingning Prefecture does not want to wait any longer.

In the middle of the night of June 12 in the third year of Chongzhen, Sun Ang took a team of entourage, took advantage of the darkness of the night to break through the ranks of the official and military patrols outside the city, and returned to the city smoothly from the west gate of Jingning City, which was guarded by people and horses back to the camp.

During the whole day on 13 June, the officers and troops gathered outside the city once again stormed the east gate of Jingningzhou City, and hundreds of Chongzhen rear-loading smoothbore cannons that arrived outside the city were fired in turn, so that the rebels in the Huihui camp at the head of the city could not raise their heads.

At the same time, hundreds of well-built trebuchets have continuously projected the special fire bombs of the now large and sufficient trebuchets into the eastern city of Jingning, igniting pieces of raging fire in the city.

That night, after a day of fighting at the head of the east gate and barely holding the city gate, but also suffering heavy casualties, the camp fell asleep, and the horse Shouying who guarded the city at night and the generals who returned to the camp took this opportunity to suddenly open the west gate, and led the people and horses of the back camp to rush out of the city, all the way to the west.

The officers and soldiers patrolling outside the west gate could not resist the crowd going west, so they hurriedly reported the situation to Zhang Jiamo, the chief military officer who led the troops to attack the east gate.

Zhang Jiamo immediately gave an order, and while letting several car and artillery battalions under his command shell the east gate overnight, he sent Zhang Tianli and Luo Junjie to lead the cavalry to rush to the west gate urgently.

When Li Zicheng was woken up from his slumber by his generals, there was already chaos in the state city of Jingning Prefecture, and many minions who broke into the camp also fled west with the soldiers who returned to the camp.

Hearing that the old Hui Hui Ma Shou should open the west gate and abandon the city and flee, and the official cavalry had also rushed to the west gate and rushed into the city, Li Zicheng knew that the general trend had gone, and there was no other way except to scold the old Hui Hui angrily.

That night, under the cover of Liu Fangliang, Li Guo, and Li Shuangxi, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Jie, and other right-hand men who came to defect after returning to northern Shaanxi from Shanxi, Li Zicheng led the rest of the general camp to open the south gate, desperately broke through the Gansu town officials and soldiers who came to intercept, and rushed all the way to Zhuanglang.