The area around Runing has basically been occupied by the Shun army, but the foundation has not changed much, most of them are still a mixture of the original Ming army and the peasant army, the difference is that the garrison soldiers and horses in each town are slightly different.

If it was only the Ming army stationed in the past, things would be much simpler.

Because the Ming army in the Central Plains has basically been reduced by more than half since the three major expeditions of Wanli, and now it has been encircled and suppressed several times and constantly withdrawn, and there is basically nothing left.

To tell the truth, even if the officials and troops in various places do not surrender, the probability of being able to resist the attack of hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of thieves is not great.

Just like after the Shandong army came to Chuzhou, the garrison Li Jingguang thought not about how to wait for help, but how to win the trust of Anton Hou Wang Zheng and save his own life, so he even did not hesitate to personally lead the troops to chase more than ten miles and kill the servant.

Sometimes, it is not that the soldiers do their best, and the court has accumulated disadvantages for many years, which is naturally due to various factors, but in general, the gap between the two parties is too big.

Even if the head of the Shangguan wants to fight to the death, he has to think about it for his subordinates.

If Li Jingguang decides to defend Chuzhou, if nothing else, he will definitely be killed by his subordinates, and then his subordinates will fall into the city, no one wants to work for the imperial court anymore, and throw away all their net worth and life, and the final result will not change.

After the Chuang army occupied Runing, they basically went directly south into Huguang to besiege Xiangyang, and the people in other places had long been looking forward to King Chuang to rescue them, of course, they were 100% cooperative, rushing to help.

The places where Li Zicheng fought are basically very stable, and even if the lives of the people still do not change much, they will not waver in him in the short term.

Li Zicheng is very clear about this, so there are not many troops left in the local area, but they are still a lot more than the original Ming army.

For example, in the Shangcai area, the original strength of the imperial court was less than 2,000, which was very empty, but if you add the Shun soldiers who stayed behind later, this number surged to 5,000.

Although most of them were untrained ruffians and homeless people, they still hindered the rapid southward movement of the Shandong army, which was a bit tricky.

At this time, Liu Guoneng, who was also in Kaifeng and went south, had almost recovered the Ruzhou area, and the punishment was led by the Shandong army, and both the armor and equipment and morale were higher than those of the foreign system.

He is an old man who came out of Dengzhou at the very beginning, and his prestige is very high even among the generals of the regular army, how can he be willing to be compared to the outside department.

No matter for the sake of face, or for other reasons in his heart, the only way to take down Runing as soon as possible is to take down Runing.

Not long after the Suizhou incident, Xing Yidao had already heard the rumors from the soldiers of Anton Hou who came to give orders, and it was said that Wang Zheng was already a little disappointed in himself.

This makes Xing Yidao feel a little burning eyebrows, and he also knows his recent performance that it is really a little common in the Shandong Army, which focuses on military merits.

In order to take the Shangcai area as soon as possible, Xing Yidao decided to directly use the general's artillery to bombard the city, and blocked the four city gates with Franco's machine guns, killing and injuring the thieves in the city day and night.

In this battle, the punishment of a knife is equivalent to using the greatest strength, and the battle situation is almost one-sided, and the soldiers who tried to delay time in Shangcai City were wiped out in less than a day.

The efficiency of the Xingyi Dao Department was amazing, and it only took five days to take Xiangcheng and Shenqiu in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture, as well as the Shangcai area in the north of Runing Prefecture.

When the news came back to Shandong, it was indeed another prestige in the army.

Xing Yidao took advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle, and wanted to take the entire territory of Runing Mansion, which was several times larger than that, before Liu Guoneng could recover the entire territory of Ruzhou.

More than 50,000 people of the Shandong army used the same method to conquer the city of Runing Mansion under the order of a knife, with the power of victory, and the corpses of the soldiers in the city were blocked in the streets and alleys.

But the good times did not last long, and the Shandong army used heavy artillery to recklessly attack the city in the vicinity of Runing Mansion, which caused dissatisfaction among the local people.

Liu Guoneng and Chen Yongfu's pace in the Ruzhou area is not fast, but it is better than stability.

They will not leave until the Shandong side sends people to establish a branch office of the Security Department and the Military Affairs Department, and then arrange all the necessary matters to stabilize the situation in the city.

It may be the reason why the matter of Suizhou was put on the table by Li Guo, so that the usually more stable Xing Yidao became a little anxious, and he did not wait for the follow-up Shandong people to arrive, and he had already led the troops out of the city.

The chaos occurred on the night of the fourth day after Xing Yidao and Kong Luan left Runing Mansion, and it was only at this time that Liu Guoneng and Chen Yongfu stabilized the territory of Ruzhou and led their troops into Nanyang Mansion.

One night, Shun soldiers disguised as ordinary people in the city, as always, spread rumors about the Shandong army in the city, saying that the army of King Xinshun would arrive soon.

At this time, the Ju Farming Farm was still an empty order, and it had not been built, and the people from the Military Affairs Department and the Security Department were still on the way, and the registration work had just begun.

The people in the city could not see the various benefits promised by the Shandong army, and thought of the move of taking them to kill the gentry and open the warehouse to release grain when the army had just entered the city.

Just after night, the long-planned rebels in the city rose up under the leadership of those Shun troops and rushed up to the city tower.

Immediately after, more rebels armed with nail rakes and wooden sticks rushed into a relatively large house, killed the Runing guerrilla general appointed by the Shandong army, and set fire to the armory and forage field, and the city was suddenly in chaos.

Although the incident happened suddenly, the good military discipline of the Shandong army was enough to deal with all kinds of emergencies, and some of the regular soldiers left behind in the city were stopped by a battalion officer, and while fighting and retreating, they quickly sent pacesetters out of the city to send the news to Xing Yidao.

When he received the news, Xing Yidao had already walked to Zhenyang and was about to take Zhenyang City, he was so taken that he led his troops back overnight.

At noon the next day, the Shandong army attacked the city like a tide, and arrested the chaotic Shun army to set an example.

However, after several wars, part of the city wall was destroyed by the Shandong military artillery, and the city of Runing Mansion is no longer what it used to be, and it takes a lot of manpower, material resources and money to rebuild.

And on this afternoon, another pacesetter came to report, saying that the Shangcai area was not stable, there were always people fanning the flames in the city, and the garrison was not enough to clear it on a large scale.

It was not until this time that Xing Yidao suddenly realized, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, and even said that he had betrayed Anton Hou's trust and was about to commit suicide with a knife.

Kong Luan shouted, stepped forward a few steps to knock the knife off, and shouted:

"Punishment master, there was no need for things to come to this point, but if it was all your own fault and not really, I am also responsible, why do you have to do this?"

The staff officer of the Military Council Department who accompanied the army nodded and sighed:

"In this matter, the three of us are all at fault, but it's not too late to make amends, while Shangcai hasn't made a mess yet, send someone to stabilize the situation, and wait for the people from the Security Department and the Military Council Department to arrive!"

Kong Luan's tone slowed down and comforted:

"The chief general, you are an old man in the army, your prestige is not low, Lord Hou has always trusted you, a while ago, the sentinel came to report, saying that Yuan Zongdi led 100,000 troops in Xinyang Prefecture, and the front line cannot be without you."