When he was still in the Ming Dynasty, Condinius did not know the depths, and he was arrogant and arrogant, thinking that the thieves and barbarians in the northwest were just a group of farmers in the northwest who could not eat enough and took risks.

However, when he took the hard-recruited Hongmao Fan, the results of the missionaries Matteo Ricci, Long Huamin and others for many years, that is, hundreds of believers of God, and followed the path taken by Long Huamin and other twelve apostles, passing through Xuanfu, Datong, northern Shaanxi, Huamachi, Guyuan and other places, and rushed to Jingning at the end of September, many of his original ideas changed rapidly.

The brutality and scale of the Ming Dynasty's war in the northwest were far beyond his imagination as a missionary.

In the past, after the Dutch East India Company entered the East, under the guidance of Dutch missionaries like him, they were often able to occupy a port or town, or even destroy a small country, often with hundreds of mercenaries.

However, he had almost never seen a war on the scale of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people like this, nor had he seen a city where tens of thousands of people were slaughtered.

On such a scale of warfare, hundreds of musketeers with advanced equipment may be able to play an important role at a critical moment in the defense of the city, but in the field environment, especially in the case of disparity in numbers, the role of the enemy who is pouring in like a tide all over the mountains is extremely limited.

Therefore, after Condinius walked through the now relatively peaceful northern Shaanxi, the more he went west, the more bottomless his heart became, and the missionaries who were fooled by him were a little better, and as for the red-haired fans who were recruited by him with high salaries, they all realized the great risks of this trip, and many of them retreated.

However, at this time, these people had already approached their destination with Condenius, and it was too late to retreat, so they could only go all the way to Jingning.

When Condenius arrived in Jingning, it was already the last day of September.

When he went to meet Yuan Chonghuan with the official documents of the Lifan Yuan and Huamachi, he heard the news that the city of Lanzhou was captured by the rebel army and that the missionaries in the city were killed.

Hearing the news, Condenius' mood was both shocked and heavy.

What is shocking is that it has been a year and a half since Long Huamin brought a large number of missionaries to the northwest to preach, and the chaos in the northwest has not eased.

And looking at the situation today, not only has it not eased, but it is also deteriorating.

In his opinion, the large number of Musu barbarian army was difficult enough to deal with, and now there was such a large number of rebellious bandits who were also against God.

He felt very heavy that the Jesuit missionaries who had gone to the northwest of the Ming Dynasty to spread the Gospel of God were now dead, either at the hands of Mu Suman or at the hands of the rebel bandits, who seemed to be more ferocious.

All this made him feel that the Jesuit missionary career in China would be more important than ever.

Because the northwest region is now the only area officially open to them in the Ming Dynasty, if they don't do well here, it is not the problem of the Ming court, but the problem of these Jesuit missionaries.

A few days after Condenius arrived in Jingning, news came from the north that John Tong was not dead, and Condenius's heavy mood suddenly relaxed a lot, as if he saw an opportunity again.

The Jesuit from Germania, John Tang, under the protection of Wu Kezhong and other accompanying Jinyi guards, escaped from the chaos on the night of the destruction of the city of Lanzhou, and fled all the way east along the mountain ravine on the south bank of the Yellow River.

They finally fled to the Ningxia town army stationed at Hailadu Fort (near the seat of Haiyuan County, Ningxia), where they finally stopped.

The hardships and twists and turns in this cannot be exhausted in just a few words.

It is only said that when Condenius received the news that Tang Ruowang was still alive, he hurriedly asked Yuan Chonghuan and sent a team of men and horses from Jingning to the north to meet him.

After coming to the northwest, Condenius was also full of respect for John Tang, the only survivor of the Musubarian Rebellion and the siege of the thieves.

This time, he sent people to the north, and while learning more about the deaths of the missionaries in the city on the day of the destruction of Lanzhou City, he was preparing to record them and report them to the Jesuit headquarters in the land of Taixi, and at the same time, he asked people to bring a letter to discuss with John Tang about the next step in forming a security group and missionary matters in the northwest.

After the edict passed by Emperor Chongzhen to Li Banghua and Yuan Chonghuan and others arrived in Jingning, the generals of the Ming Dynasty officials and troops who gathered in Jingning received the decree and rushed to their own stations to prepare to launch a new round of offensive.

At this time, nearly 100,000 imperial army gathered in the northwest, and the required food, grass, ammunition, clothing and other materials were also a huge number.

If there is no sufficient ammunition, food, grass, clothing and other materials, the offensive launched by the officials and troops in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably be difficult to continue again after entering the coming winter.

Therefore, after conveying the operational deployment of the Military Aircraft Department, Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft, had to return to Pingliang City again with thousands of cavalry from Shanhai Town under the command of Jingyuan Bozhao.

He wanted to continue to sit in Pingliang, and use Pingliang City as the place for the distribution and transfer of grain, grass, ordnance and materials in the rear, and coordinate Ma Maocai in Yan'an and Hong Chengchou in Xi'an to continuously supply ammunition, grain and grass for the army.

At this time, Condenius also received the guns and ammunition they had previously purchased in Beijing from among the ordnance materials escorted to the northwest frontier from the Ming court.

This batch of guns is, of course, the Chongzhen front-loading flintlock smoothbore gun produced by the Armament Institute.

Condinius and his entourage, as well as the Jesuit believers from the vicinity of the capital, were a little more emboldened after receiving these muskets.

Condenius also immediately took John Tang's letter and asked Yuan Chonghuan for instructions, to take these people under his command to the north of Shanghai Ladubao (later Ningxia Haiyuan), and to train the Jesuit security group in Ningxia, which is relatively calm after the complete expulsion of Mu Suman.

Regarding Emperor Chongzhen's insistence on sending this Jesuit missionary to the northwest, Yuan Chonghuan certainly had opinions in his heart.

Originally, Yuan Chonghuan didn't know much about the affairs of Fanjiao and Fansi, or he was very estranged.

But today, after the Northwest Rebellion, whether it is Mu Suman's Fanjiao Fanji or another Fanjiao brought by Long Huamin, Tang Ruowang and others before, his heart is full of vigilance.

Now that you have taken such a heavy price, you finally drove away Mu Suman, destroyed their temple, drove away their Fanjiao, and you sent a batch of red-haired fans who are more different from the Han people, what is going on!

However, Yuan Chonghuan didn't dare to say anything about his only supporter at present, that is, Emperor Chongzhen.

After listening to Condenius' request, he quickly agreed to their request.

However, Yuan Chonghuan, in his capacity as the governor of the three sides, also demanded that these missionaries of the Society of Jesus and the security regiment they had prepared must go all out to cooperate with the cause of expelling Mu Suman by the officials and troops of the trilateral governor's office before Mu Suman was completely driven out of the land west of the river.

Moreover, they were not allowed to establish new Fanmonies in the areas where Musuman had already been cleared, that is, the areas where the Wuwei Han people in Ningxia had been cleared of Fansi and Fanjiao, before the end of the war, and they were only allowed to go to the Hexi region to preach.

Condenius was very dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan's tough attitude, but apart from writing a letter to Xu Guangqi, a cabinet minister and secretary of the Ministry of Rites in Beijing, he had no better way for a while.

Fortunately, under the current circumstances, the war against the Muslims in the northwest is also a top priority for their Jesuit Society.

So many Jesuit missionaries died at the hands of Mu Suman, and several Jesuit churches that were newly built after Long Huamin and others went to the northwest were also destroyed by the chaotic Mu Suman, and the old hatred and new hatred between the Jesuits and Muslims naturally had to be avenged first.

Moreover, when Condenius went to Batavia and other places at the beginning of the year to visit the top of the Dutch East India Company in the East, and to recruit those who were willing to wage holy war for the Jesuits, he raised the banner of revenge for the Jesuit missionaries who had been killed by the Muslims.

These people brought in now, regardless of whether they are for money or other purposes, at least this grandiose excuse for holy war cannot be counted.

In this way, at the end of October, Condenius reluctantly accepted Yuan Chonghuan's request, and took the men who had traveled thousands of miles to the northwest, north of Ladubao, Shanghai, to join John Tong.