After receiving the order of the Trilateral Governor's Office to suppress the local Musuman rebellion, the cities in the west of the Taomin River were originally dominated by the Han people and the Han army, such as the Lanzhou Acropolis and the Xining Acropolis, which received an order from the Trilateral Governor's Office to suppress the local Musuman rebellion, and accepted a large number of Han people who fled from all directions, and preserved these Han people at the same time, but also preserved their own cities.

In other cities where the strength of the official army is weaker and the main garrison is by Musu barbarian officials, it is a different situation.

A large number of Han people, officials, merchants, and gentry were either killed or fled to the border areas in a hurry.

Some of the other Qiang, Tibetan, and attached Mongols who lived here fled with the Han to the border of the Great Wall, while many others gathered their wealth and fled to Qinghai, or to the vast and sparsely populated Tibetan areas.

Of course, there are also many Han people in the land of Taomin, who fled to Pingliang in desperation to rely on the thieves to save their lives.

Although these thieves and horse thieves are also very brutal, at least many of them still regard themselves as Han Chinese, and they will not turn away or kill them because of the fact that these people who have fled and asked to be taken in.

Including Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings of Xiying, who has always been cruel and vicious and never takes human life seriously, and Cao Cao Luo Rucai, who has always been treacherous as a fox, also took advantage of this good opportunity to accommodate the fleeing people of the Han people, and developed rapidly.

Within a few months, the two of them each had more than 100,000 people, and quickly became two "righteous army" forces under the command of King Gao Yingxiang.

has also developed rapidly, and the old Huihui Ma Shouying, who has been under the banner of returning to the camp, once again gathered a large number of white-hat Musu barbarians under his command, with the number of more than 100,000, and he has the strength to fight against Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang.

Only Gao Yingxiang, who is a descendant of the Xiang Qiang people of the Great White Gaoguo Party, suffered a loss.

The Great White High Country has long been history, and the people of the Northwest Frontier, who still remembers the existence of this country?

Moreover, at this time, the Dangxiang Qiang people had basically integrated into the big family of Huaxia, and they did not have much of their own characteristics, nor did they have many people who thought they were Dangxiang Qiang people.

It was originally a compromise move for King Gao Yingxiang to play this banner, he hoped that he would be inclusive and not participate in the mutual struggle between Musuman and the Han people in the northwest, so that he could win the hearts of the upper echelons of Musuman and the Han people on both sides, so as to take Pingliang as the starting point and enter the land of Taomin.

But as the months passed, he realized that he had made a mistake.

Except for the Musu barbarian local officials and rebellious people in Pingliang and Guyuan who were forced by the surrounding situation to take refuge under his banner, none of the Musu barbarian local officials and rebellious people in Taomin took the initiative to come to him.

At the same time, because his banner was not clear, and at the same time, he accepted the Musu barbarians to take refuge, so the Han people who were chased and killed everywhere by the Musu barbarians did not dare to directly join him.

This was a situation that was greatly unexpected to him, but it cheapened Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who had never won the hearts of the people.

This result disappointed the generals who had high hopes at the beginning, such as He Yilong, He Jin, Liu Xiyao, Lin Yangyang, Li Zicheng and others.

However, under the chaos in the northwest, the strength of Gao Yingxiang and his battalions is also rising, but the gap between him and Ma Shouying, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others not only did not widen, but also quickly narrowed.

This situation made Li Zicheng, who had been dormant under Gao Yingxiang's wings, but his ambitions were constantly expanding, secretly anxious, and repeatedly suggested that Gao Yingxiang change his attitude and position in order to win the hearts of the Han people in the northwest.

Under Gao Yingxiang's command, He Yilong, He Jin, Liu Xiyao, Lin Yangcheng and other leaders, under this situation, they also secretly persuaded him to change his course and occupy the side of the Han people.

This made Gao Yingxiang worried.

Because at this moment when the relationship between Musuman and the Han people has become clear, the only thing that can be done to win the hearts of the Han people by choosing a side is to start a war against the local Musuman.

But is this an easy way to go?

The situation in the areas where thieves are entrenched in Guyuan, Pingliang and other places naturally can't hide the eyes of Yuan Chonghuan and Li Banghua.

Wang Jiayin's brother-in-law Zhang Liwei surrendered to the official army after killing Wang Jiayin, and soon changed his appearance, and in the name of Zhang Bingzhong, he entered the Jinyi Weixi Town Fusi and served as Jinyi Weiqian households.

And his task is to constantly mix sand and install brocade guards in the ranks of thieves in the northwest.

Before, Gao Yingxiang and other thieves hid in the mountains of northern Shanxi with thieves, and the people of Jinyi Weixi Zhenfu could not find the opportunity to infiltrate, and now they returned to Shaanxi again, and they also followed the situation of chaos in the northwest, recruiting troops in large quantities.

In this case, how many Jinyiwei's spies have entered the team of thieves, I am afraid that only Zhang Liwei or Zhang Bingzhong can remember clearly in their hearts.

In fact, whether it is Yuan Chonghuan or Li Banghua, who quickly led the army south to Huamachi to reinforce the Hetao land that was recovered, what they have been waiting for is the situation in front of them.

Not to mention that the land of Hetao has not been pacified before, and Gao Yingxiang's nest of thieves is still entrenched in the depths of the mountains of northern Shanxi, it is just that the struggle between Mu Suman and the Han people in Gansu and other places is in chaos, and when the boundary between friend and foe has not yet been clearly distinguished, a large number of officers and troops around the country will take action, which is likely to make the situation in the northwest develop in an unpredictable direction.

At this time, the main officers and troops of Gansu Town, Ningxia Town and Dingyu Town gathered in Ningxia and other places, and Mu Suman, who was in the middle and five Wei areas of Ningxia before and after Ningxia Town, either honestly continued to surrender, honestly farmed, or herded sheep, or fled south in a panic to the Taomin area.

With these more than 60,000 Northwest Officers and Troops in the town, the land of Ningxia, which was originally like a crater, suddenly calmed down.

Now in the direction of Ningxia and Huamachi, there are 60,000 officers and troops in the northwest.

In the direction of Yan'an and Ziwuling, there are 7,000 elite cavalry of 3,000 battalions of Wu'anbo Wang's courtiers, 6,000 elite cavalry of Yansui Town, and 3,000 standard battalions of Ma Maocai's Yansui Supervision Army.

Shaanxi Fengxiang Mansion (later Baoji, Shaanxi) and other places, with Shaanxi governor Hong Chengchou, chief military officer Wang Chengen and others led 12,000 elite officers and soldiers, including 4,000 cavalry and 8,000 infantry.

A little further south, Dong Zhiyi, the former chief military officer of Lintao Town, and Han Yiliang, the imperial history of the supervising army, had been ordered to lead more than 8,000 Han troops from Hanzhong to Longnan.

In addition to these armies responsible for the encirclement, the first town of the Guards was under the command of the newly promoted Wuding Bo Ma Shilong, who had led more than 15,000 people in the second town of the Guards since he repelled the Jianyu, and had been stationed in Shuozhou City.

What was he doing there?

Of course, it was in response to the war in the northwest, and before the land of the Hetao was recovered, he was ordered to be ready to attack the Hetao from the side pass at any time.

After the recovery of the Hetao, he had to sit there to stabilize the back road, after all, whether it was the reform of the guard post in the Datong area, the transfer of displaced people to Saibei for resettlement, and the establishment of military cantonments in various places, including the repatriation of the Mongols from the Ordos tribes, a strong army was needed.

At the same time, he was also waiting for Emperor Chongzhen's order to let him lead his army to attack the northwest.

It can be said that in the past few months, under Yuan Chonghuan's repeated transfers, the chaos in the northwest formed after the Taomin Mutiny is still surrounded by the impenetrable officials and troops in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this encirclement strictly implemented Emperor Chongzhen's previous will, and only blocked the east, south, and north, and as for the vast west, they loved to go or not.

The situation that Yuan Chonghuan and others were waiting for while watching the tiger fight was also the situation that Emperor Chongzhen had been waiting for.

After this situation was formed, a large number of troops gathered in the northwest region, and of course they could not waste food and wages in idleness.

Emperor Chongzhen knew this truth, and the high-ranking officials, dignitaries, civil officials, and military generals gathered in the hall of the Trilateral Governor's Mansion on the afternoon of March 18 naturally knew it.