With the current intelligence, it is not difficult to deduce some leftovers, but if you want to know the whole picture of the matter, you have to completely wipe out the northern captives, Xiao Ruxun's original plan was to stay in Taiyuan for a few hours and lead the troops to attack to pursue the northern cavalry, but now, it is really not the time to leave.

In a huge Taiyuan city, except for Jiang Hui and Wang Ke, who were imprisoned, there was not even a single official.

When Xiao Ruxun led people to inspect Taiyuan City, he heard some refugees mention that the first place where the fire caught fire was in the area of the Jin Palace, and then went to the official office area and the rich people's settlement area, as for the civilian settlement area, it was the least suffering, and many places did not even suffer, otherwise there would not be only tens of thousands of refugees.

Before the second half of the night, Xiao Ruxun led the team to take the Jin Wangfu to the official office area and the rich household settlement area with torches, and then came to an extremely strange conclusion.

The Jin Wangfu should be the earliest disaster area, because it is the hardest hit here, followed by the government office area and the rich household settlement area, these three areas are the essence of Taiyuan City, these three places were destroyed, and Taiyuan's self-protection mechanism was paralyzed, because there were no officials to start it.

Then the Taiyuan defenders were killed, most of the army fled, and the city of Taiyuan fell without holding on for an hour, and then it was ravaged for four hours.

"What kind of strategy is this? Why was the Jin Palace's Mansion the first to suffer? The Jin Wangfu is a city within a city, and the northern captives will not fall from the sky, fall into the Jin Wangfu, and then kill all the way out, right? ”

Li Rusong looked at the almost completely destroyed Jin Palace, with a puzzled face.

What he didn't understand, Xiao Ruxun actually couldn't figure it out, the pattern of the Jin Palace's Mansion was similar to the pattern of the Forbidden City, and it was also in the center of Taiyuan City, it was a city within a city, if Taiyuan fell, the Jin Palace's Mansion was another Taiyuan City, and its defense capability was also very strong, but why was the Jin Palace's Mansion the first to be burned down and suffered?

Also, the group of northern captives who set fire to it is really very strange, they came in before the city gate fell, could it be a small work in the city?

Xiao Ruxun asked the more than 1,000 Taiyuan defenders who were rescued, and after their statement, Xiao Ruxun could probably confirm that this group of northern captives who set fire followed the team out of the city to enter the city, as for how they entered the city through the carefully reviewed team, Xiao Ruxun did not dare to speculate.

According to the statements of these soldiers, mutual guarantees, mutual roll calls, and mutual recognition of people are already the best way to determine their identities under the existing conditions, so how can they still let the northern captives in? And can the Beiyu speak Chinese? The hair ornaments of the Beiyu are also completely different from those of the Han people, so it is easy to distinguish them!

Can't figure it out.

But in addition, there are naturally more problems to deal with, the snowy night in Taiyuan City after the war is very difficult to survive, Xiao Ruxun ordered people to collect the winter clothes that are not used in the army, and then when he inspected Taiyuan City, he found that he needed people and gave them some, so that they would not be frozen.

Most of the treasury in Taiyuan City was burned down, only a few arms warehouses were preserved, Xiao Ruxun found some gunpowder and lead bullets in it, which could be supplied to the fire team, the firearms were enough, but the other military supplies were basically destroyed.

These northern captives were cunning, and it seemed that the leadership of Taiyuan City was paralyzed by the advance of the plan, the military facilities were paralyzed, and then Taiyuan was successfully taken, and the Ming army could not organize an effective pursuit.

Now Xiao Ruxun felt that it was also a ploy of the northern captives to abandon the grain and some of the gold and silver treasures and not burn them, so that the Ming army could not pursue them smoothly.

He can't leave Taiyuan City immediately to pursue the Beiju, he must at least wait until the infantry led by Wang Hui and others come here before he can continue to pursue with the cavalry, otherwise there will be no reliable army and generals in Taiyuan City to maintain order, and then he dare not say that there will be no secondary disaster after the war.

At present, the people of Taiyuan have maintained basic trust in Xiao Ruxun, so they do not make trouble, but who knows if Xiao Ruxun leaves, whether they will continue to make trouble, when the normal order is destroyed, they must use strong force to deter the younger generation, until the normal order is restored.

During this period, Xiao Ruxun began to write a recital to Zhu Yijun, which Zhu Yijun specially explained before leaving.

Let him send someone to deliver a letter to a secret stronghold outside Beijing, and Jinyiwei will use a secret line to send his recital to Tianting, ensuring that Zhu Yijun can see his recital, so that Zhu Yijun can judge the situation according to the information provided by Xiao Ruxun.

Zhu Yijun now has reservations about the intelligence information of the Ministry of War and basically does not trust it.

Before leaving Bauhinia Pass, Xiao Ruxun had already reported the specific situation to Zhu Yijun, and focused on the problem of Chen Liang, Xiao Ruxun realized that this was a serious problem, but did not say his guess, just told the facts.

And now, Xiao Ruxun is basically sure that this matter is inseparable from the big Jin merchants, since this is the case, he will not leave his hands, Datong is abolished, Taiyuan is ruined, and the strength of the Jin merchants is greatly damaged, if they don't take this opportunity to completely destroy them, do they have to wait for them to come back to their senses to continue the legendary story of the eight emperors?

Xiao Ruxun even had a faint feeling that the action strategy of those northern captives did not seem to be for the purpose of simply attacking the city and robbing property, as if there was some other special meaning in it.

abolished the Jin merchants in Datong, took their grain, and deliberately captured Taiyuan and abolished the home of more than a dozen Jin merchant families in the city, what does this mean?

For some reason, he always felt that a hand was manipulating this northern cavalry, sending them to the place where the big Jin merchants lived, and then using the bloody slaughter to kill people with knives, destroying the big Jin merchants humanely, destroying them physically, and destroying this powerful merchant gang in the most direct way.

Today, only these Beiyu can destroy the Jin Merchants and Merchants without scruples, but these Beiyu are also doing business with business, and it is impossible to destroy them without scruples, even so, it is reasonable for them to kill people in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, and it is strange when the Beiyu does not kill people.

It's just that these northern captives seem to have a purpose to slaughter the families of the big Jin merchants, which is strange, and it is also intriguing, if it is just to take revenge on a certain family or a few families, do you need to make things so big?

Xiao Ruxun became more and more confused about the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes.

But in any case, the mastermind behind this scene did a little good thing, he at least abolished the power of the Jin merchants in Datong and the northern Jin region, Liu Yong also exposed a considerable part of the Jin merchants' grain caves, this time, half of the Jin merchants' skills were abolished, they were abolished, how long can the spokesmen of the Jin Shang faction in the DPRK and China hold on?