October 15. The night of the full moon.

The sky is clear and the full moon is rising.

The little life, which has passed nearly half of the October of Huaitan, was finally born in a cry.

Tang Xidong, who was waiting outside the door, finally breathed a sigh of relief, sat up from the stone bench in the courtyard, sat for a long time, his legs were stiff, and numbness hit, Tang Xidong fell to the ground instantly.

Getting up with the support of the guards, Tang Xidong jumped and walked towards the door.

Rubbing the palms of his hands, he was covered with sweat.

It is inevitable to smile bitterly in my heart, although I have been a human being in two lives and have already experienced the scene of being a father, I still can't help but feel nervous.

This kind of eagerness and anxiety can be a little more nervous than going into battle to kill the enemy.

After a stick of incense, the midwife opened the door and carefully covered it.

"Congratulations, my lord, Mrs. gave birth to a unicorn, mother and son are safe, mother and child are safe!"

Although I tried my best to endure it, I couldn't hide the smile on my face.

"Heavy reward!"

The guards took the order and left.

Be careful to enter the house.

Under the lights, Xiaolan carefully waited for Liu Lianqing, who had lost her strength, and her son, who was wrapped in swaddling clothes, had not yet opened his eyes.

The little one is probably tired of crying and is falling asleep at the moment.

Tang Xidong stepped forward cautiously.

stretched out his hand, but he still didn't dare to move, for fear of disturbing his precious son's good dreams.

Standing at the head of the bed helplessly, looking at Liu Lianqing, who was still oozing beads of sweat on the bed, there was a trace of pity in her eyes.

took the silk scarf in Xiaolan's hand and wiped her forehead personally.

But as soon as I posted it, I saw Liu Lianqing open her eyes full of exhaustion.

"Xianggong!"

"Recuperate."

Liu Lianqing nodded, turned her head to look at her son on the side, her eyes were full of love.

Tang Xidong stretched out his hand and clasped Liu Lianqing's left hand.

At this moment, my heart is full of happiness and warmth.

End of October.

Winter is coming, and the heat of autumn has dissipated in the heavy rain, but it is a little cold.

After Tang Xidong went to Liaozhou in a letter, he waited for the dynamics of the Liaozhou counter-army.

It's nothing more than withdrawal and delay.

In Tang Xidong's view, even if there are tens of thousands of rebels stationed in the river, there is no need to worry.

The four cities in Qinzhou: Mianshang, Qinyuan, Qinzhou, and Wuxiang, plus a thunder mountain pass in the south, are all in hand.

The number of victims is increasing day by day, and winter is approaching, Tang Xidong will not stop everything just because tens of thousands of rebels are on the side, and wait for the matter to have a result before moving on to the next step.

Therefore, Tang Xidong once again sent the officials who had returned from Zezhou to Qinzhou to investigate the four cities.

At the same time, preliminary preparations for the relocation of the people were carried out.

At the same time, Li Shangquan's progress in going north to Taiyuan is also steadily advancing, and Taiyuan Prefecture is vast, almost the sum of the two prefectures of the four prefectures in southern Jin.

It is impossible to occupy the whole government in just one month.

In a month's time, Li Shangquan went out of Yilong Pass, first occupied Yongning Prefecture, and then marched eastward, directly conquered Qingyuan, divided his troops into two units to occupy Jiaocheng and Taigu, and then went directly north to Taiyuan, and one group occupied Yuci on the way north.

At the end of October, the two armies converged outside Taiyuan Province.

Even if the Ming army in the entire territory was lost, Taiyuan City, as the capital city, still had 10,000 Ming troops entrenched in the city.

Put up a desperate struggle.

When Tang Xidong was preparing for the relocation in Pingyang, Li Shangquan was fighting with the Ming army in Taiyuan City.

The siege of Taiyuan Mansion failed to enter the city for five consecutive days.

Li Shangquan was in a predicament.

The city is high and the walls are strong, the Ming army is stubbornly defended, and Liu Yongzhi, the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, personally goes to the city every day.

plus the city is equipped with artillery twenty squats,

In the five-day battle, while killing 5,000 enemies, he also lost 8,000 himself.

Li Shangquan had no choice but to besiege but not attack, report to the rear, and ask for artillery support.

When the military report arrived in Binh Duong, it was already early November.

The officials who went to Qinzhou to investigate have returned, and Tangxi Dongzheng is mobilizing troops and officials to escort 250,000 people eastward into Qinzhou and disperse for resettlement.

Seeing Li Shangquan's letter asking for support, Tang Xidong immediately thought of the team he was secretly training recently.

The attacking team has been training for a long time, and it's time to take out the practice.

So he ordered a group of attackers to go north to Taiyuan Mansion to assist in the siege.

November 10.

The Liaozhou rebels finally had a new movement, and tens of thousands of rebels began to gradually withdraw from the water village under the Xiangshui River.

Jia Hu sent back a military report, and Tang Xidong then ordered him to set up forts on both sides of the Xiangshui River near the border of Liaozhou, and block the mouth of the main river, so as to prevent the rebels from entering Qinzhou from the river again.

November 15, the night of the full moon.

A dull explosion sounded from under the east wall of Taiyuan City, the earth shook, the high city wall collapsed instantly, and the smoke and dust rose into the sky to cover the stars and moon.

After a long time, a collapse of more than ten meters directly appeared on the east wall of Taiyuan City, and the new army that had been prepared had already entered the city.

At dawn the next day, Taiyuan was occupied by the new army.

October 20th.

Zhang Xiahai suddenly appeared in the southeast region of Taiyuan Prefecture, and in five days, he connected Leping, Pingding, and Shouyang.

Then he led his army north.

At this time, Li Shangquan led his army westward.

The road was unstoppable, attacking the four cities of Jingle, Lanxian, Linxian and Xingxian.

End of November.

Zhang Xiahai went straight to Fanzhi from Yu County, Xinzhou, Dingxiang, and Wutai, and then went south to Daizhou and Lao County.

So far, the eastern part of Taiyuan has been captured.

At the same time, Li Shangquan also occupied all the western part of Taiyuan.

Lan, Baode, and Hequ, only the head is left.

The head is one of the important passes of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and there are 20,000 Ming troops stationed.

After Li Shangquan arrived at the deviation, he weighed it, and did not do it immediately, but returned for instructions.

On the 10th day of the first month of December, Li Shangquan received a military order from Tang Xidong, gave up attacking the deviant, stationed the army at Hequ, and then returned to the division to sit in Taiyuan City.

At the same time, after leaving behind 20,000 new troops, Zhang Xiahai led the rest of the new army back to Fenzhou.

So far.

The whole of Shanxi, except for Liaozhou and Lu'an, which were occupied by the rebels, all fell into the hands of Tang Xidong.

The fame of Pingyang Tangxidong began to spread as Shanxi Tangxidong.

The ground was laid, but a series of problems also appeared.

Taiyuan Prefecture has a vast geography, with more than 20 cities, and the number of troops that need to be stationed has reached more than 100,000.

At this moment, Daming is still unable to make a move, and Tang Xidong can hold on with 100,000 new troops, but once Daming relaxes his breath and relies on 100,000 people, in less than a month, the other party will be able to take down half of the territory of Taiyuan Mansion.

As a result, Tang Xidong began to speed up the control and defense of Taiyuan Mansion.

While ordering the officials to investigate, he used a large army to move the people north to Taiyuan Mansion to settle.

At this time, after more than 100,000 people had been arranged in Qinzhou and Zezhou, more than 100,000 people stayed in the Pingyang camp for displaced people.

The weather is very cold, and the problem of heating people's homes must be solved, otherwise it will inevitably cause civil unrest.

So the first task is to settle the people.

Naturally, more than a million people could not move north at one time, so they began to move in batches.

An army of 20,000 escorted 180,000 people, and the first group began to move north.

It is located in Lanzhou, Ninghuasuo, Laoxian, Wutai and four cities north of Taiyuan.

The further time passes, the colder it naturally becomes, so it is necessary to settle in the four cities of the Northland first, and then gradually move south.

Then, at the end of December, the second batch of 200,000 people began to move north and settled in the five cities of Xingxian, Lanxian, Jingle, Xinzhou, and Dingxiang.

The third batch of 200,000 people went north from Fenzhou and settled in Yuxian, Shouyang, Yongle and Pingding.

The last batch was finally settled in Taiyuan Prefecture, Qinyuan, Jiaocheng, Taigu, Yuci, and Yongning Prefecture in the southwest before the end of the year.

Approaching the end of the year, Tang Xidong finally solved the problem of the people's residence.

The next step, of course, is to mobilize food and various daily necessities to go to various places to help the people.

After all, I want to have a good year for everyone.

It hurts, but it's something that must be done.

The Spring Festival, since ancient times, is the most important festival in China.

Tang Xidong hopes to use the atmosphere of the Spring Festival to heal the wounds of the people after the war and floods, at least so that everyone can reduce a little sadness and confusion, have a rush in their hearts, and start thinking about their future lives.