Li Yingqi is sorting out the newly collected information recently, although he has received the news that he is about to leave, but Li Yingqi is still very serious about classifying the work at hand. He hoped that the information he had sorted out could help his successor, Wu Fu, quickly sort out his thoughts in office, so as to facilitate the restoration of their peaceful life for the people of Shaanxi as soon as possible.

Now the thief situation in Shaanxi is very chaotic, but fortunately, the official army has controlled the situation. Wang Jiayin of the meander is still in a stalemate with the official army, and the remnants of the security guard's big thief god Yiyuan have been besieged in the security guard. Most of the soldiers under these two big thieves who attacked the city were border soldiers and deserters, and they were not comparable to the bandits who robbed everywhere in other parts of Shaanxi.

Last month, Zhang Yingchang and Zuo Guangxian reported that they had killed the great thief god Yiyuan, and the other thieves were trapped in the security city. The officers and troops under the city were reinforced by He Huchen, the chief soldier of Ningxia, and Du Wenhuan, the former chief soldier, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses gathered under the security city. It seems that the end of the security guard is already predictable. It's just that after this battle, Du Wenhuan is afraid that he will make a comeback again.

Regarding Du Wenhuan, a general of the Ming army, Li Yingqi still expressed considerable disdain. It turned out that Du Wenhuan, the left governor of the military affairs of Shanxi Linning, spent almost a year in the eastern part of Yan'an Province to conquer the thieves. During this period, Du Wenhuan did not seriously suppress the criminals, but did some shameless things.

When the thieves were still in Suide, Mizhi, and Qingjian in October last year, Du Wenhuan took his women back to Yan'an Mansion for a month, and when he set out on the expedition, he actually took the women to enjoy himself in the camp, and he didn't care about the task of suppressing the thieves appointed by the imperial court, and it is said that he spent more than 12,000 taels of silver with public funds.

How did Du Wenhuan spend this guy, I heard that Wu Fu, who was about to come to Shaanxi to help the victims, only brought 100,000 taels of silver from the imperial court, this Du Wenhuan is really damned!

Moreover, after Du Wenhuan raised his own dignity, he did not allow the Ming army to pursue Wang Jiayin, who escaped, but sent troops to escort his wife and children for forty miles. Wang Jiayin thus escaped safely to Shanxi, and after recovering his strength, he fought back from Shanxi. The hard work of the imperial court during this period was all in vain, and it is conceivable how much Du Wenhuan's guilt is.

The most hated thing for the military attaches of the Ming Dynasty is to kill good people and take risks, and Du Wenhuan, the governor of Zuo, has done a lot in these things. According to Li Yingqi's preliminary understanding, Du Wenhuan first killed 18 households of good people in Yan'an, and then killed dozens of people including 93-year-old Shi Da in Suide, and then attacked Lianhua Village and killed villagers to repay his merits.

These things are still relatively clear to Li Yingqi, and he has not had time to conduct a thorough investigation of more things. However, now half of the people in northern Shaanxi hate Du Wenhuan to the core, and if Wu Fu, who took over, carefully investigates it, he should be able to find out some evidence of Du Wenhuan's crimes.

Moreover, Li Yingqi heard that Yang He, the governor of the three sides, couldn't bear it either, and it seemed that he had written an impeachment before, and Du Wenhuan might not be able to continue to be rampant. Li Yingqi comforted himself, but thinking of the current thief chaos in Shaanxi, Li Yingqi still guessed that in the future, Du Wenhuan should be at most a guilty and meritorious disposition.

The country's cysts are in front of him, and he can't use national law to deal with them harshly, which makes Li Yingqi very angry. However, the imperial court still relied on this kind of person to deal with thieves, and at most it could only remove him from his official position and let him make meritorious service without beheading him. Li Yingqi, who was about to resign, had no better way to do this, so he could only sigh helplessly. (Note 1)

"My lord, this is an urgent matter for the security service." Li Yingzhi's subordinates came at this time with a military intelligence emergency from the security guards. Although Li Yingzhi was not the governor of the three sides or other governors, he was ordered by the Holy Lord to investigate the merits and crimes of the line, and he could still see some urgent military situations. (Note 2)

Could it be that the official army has recovered the county seat of Baoan, Li Yingqi secretly thought to himself. The original Great Thief God Yiyuan is dead, and his younger brother God Yikui takes over, so he shouldn't be able to reverse the situation. However, when he opened the letter and saw that the speech at the beginning was the news of the defeat of the official army, Li Yingqi's face suddenly became very ugly.

After reading the full text patiently, the gist of this urgent letter was that the officers and soldiers had lost three or four thousand casualties, and the thieves in the security city were no longer able to control it, and now the western part of Yan'an Mansion needed to send reinforcements.

Li Yingqi instantly began to scold angrily, one time scolding Ma Guanjun for the rice bucket, and the other time scolding the thief for being cunning. After Li Yingzhi was tired of scolding, he picked up his pen and began to report the defeat to the imperial court. At the same time, it was prepared to impeach He Huchen and Zhang Yingchang, who passed the buck to each other after the failure of the security city.

In another official residence in Shaanxi, Yang He, the governor of the three sides at this time, received the news of the defeat of the official army under the security city earlier. Regarding the news under the security city, Yang He has received several copies of the Tang newspaper.

The most detailed description, and the final weight was reported by Zhang Yingchang and He Huchen. The report of Zhang Yingchang, He Huchen and others is the same, in February, the thief Kou Shen and Yikui colluded to capture more than 1,000 horsemen and broke through.

The difference is that Zhang Yingchang and others, who fled from the security city, unanimously accused He Huchen, the general soldier of Ningxia, who intercepted the capture. He said that he was unfavorable in interception, and after his own defeat, he did not notify the friendly troops under the city, causing the officers and soldiers under the city who already had the advantage to suffer the enemy on their backs and return with a heavy defeat.

He Huchen claimed that he had been leading his troops to fight against the captives who came to relieve the siege. At that time, the captives had already begun to retreat under his stubborn defense, and it was the other officers and troops besieging Shenyikui who were besieged under the city that were defeated first, and they were forced to fight on both sides, and finally suffered heavy losses because they were outnumbered.

Yang He was the first to lose the officers and troops under the city, or the intercepted officers and troops to flee first. He only knew that the officers and troops were defeated, the Shaanxi general Du Wenhuan was killed, and the total loss of more than 3,000 officers and soldiers under the security city was more than 3 or 4,000 soldiers. The security guards are like fish at the bottom of a kettle finally coming out, and the officials and soldiers have no other force to restrain them in this vicinity.

The gang of border thieves who jumped out of Yansui West Road is now a huge threat. They not only have the powerful combat power to defeat the official army and the regular army, but also have great ambitions to attack the city. Moreover, this gang of border thieves forced the people who joined the gang to shave their heads and whip their hair, faintly like when they first rose up.

If this group of rogues then flows south, attack Yanzhou or the central part of the country, or even go directly south to Xi'an. At that time, the Sanqin region will be greatly moved, so that in the end, the whole of Shaanxi will be turned upside down. At that time, the situation in Shaanxi will become the second Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, which is a very difficult thing for the Ming Dynasty.

If Liukou attacks Yan'an Fucheng to the east, and then responds to Wang Jiayin in the meander, then the officials and troops in the meandering area will also face the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy. If we are not careful, some of the troops that Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces have worked hard to mobilize in the Hequ area will all collapse, and then there will be no troops in the entire eastern part of Shaanxi that can fight a war.

If this incident happens, it will be like the defeat of Zhang Chengyin in Liaodong to the Dongyu back then, because most of the troops capable of field battles are mounted, and the many military forts in Yansui Town and even the entire Yan'an Mansion may all fall. The thief rebellion in Shaanxi will become more severe and more difficult to contain.

Thinking about it left and right, Yang He was always worried that the thief rebellion in Shaanxi would become the second problem of the East Prisoners. And he remembered that Zhang Yingchang, the deputy chief soldier of Dingbian, happened to be the son of Zhang Chengyin, the chief soldier of Liaodong back then, and this bad omen made Yang He's heart cold. (Note 3)

He had to think about other possibilities to comfort himself, but if the thieves invaded Qingyang Mansion to the west, it might still be a more acceptable ending for the imperial court. Because this means that the thieves in the west of Yan'an Mansion are not closely connected with Jiayin, the big thief king of Hequ.

Moreover, it is also convenient for the officers and troops in western Shaanxi to clear and suppress them, but it takes time to mobilize troops. Moreover, now that the army of King Qinwang in Shaanxi has not all returned, the remaining official troops in western Shaanxi do not have much military strength to fight a war, and there is still a defense against the Mongol attack.

Although the thieves have a certain fighting ability, they are not a very close political force. As long as you can calculate a lot when they first rise, you may not be able to recruit them directly. Even if the appeasement is not successful, it can divide their internal forces. As long as they can succeed in dividing them, the officers and troops will be able to defeat each of them.

But these require time and money, and Yang He, as the governor of the three sides, lacks these things the most. Without that, it would have been difficult for him to survive this difficult time. The thieves may grow stronger and more ambitious during this time, and the price they offer will be even more unimaginable.

Yang He was still trying to think about how he should deal with the next situation, when a subordinate sent him a report of an attack on Ningxia Town, and he was really worried about what would come.

Yang He couldn't help but sigh that the situation was difficult, and he had no other troops to adjust. It seems that the only way to choose this path is to care, Yang He rubbed his temples and began to think about how to appease this group of brave thieves as soon as possible.

PS: Note 1: These things done by Du Wenhuan are from the fourth volume of "Huailing Liukou Always Record", which was actually played by Wei Chengrun of the military department on the 30th day of the second month of the second month of the lunar calendar. In "Chai An Shuji", Wu Fu's impeachment of Du Wenhuan in history will be further later. However, in Wu Fu's statement, Yang He did impeach Du Wenhuan before. So it's not impossible for Li Yingqi to know these things.

Note 2: Li Yingqi, who was the inspector of the imperial history, did have this right, and Wu Fu replaced Li Yingqi later. From the first volume of the Suiko Chronicles, on page 5 of the first edition of the series.

Note 3: Zhang Yingchang is the eldest son of Zhang Chengyin, a general soldier in Liaodong who was killed in the early days of the Ming-Jin War, and the source of their father-son relationship is the "Yansui Town Chronicles" during the Kangxi period.

As for the problems caused by Zhang Chengyin's fiasco, it was because the defense of the Ming army was generally divided into forts and stationed in various places according to regions. Originally, there were 60,000 field troops in Liaodong before, but because of the accumulation of shortcomings for a long time, the actual number of soldiers was no longer so many by the time of the Seven Hatreds, and the more than 10,000 people under Zhang Chengyin at that time should have been gathered by soldiers from all over the country. After this battle, Jin obtained 9,000 horses and 7,000 pairs of armor, which almost wiped out all the field troops that could be mobilized in Liaodong Town at that time, so there was a continuous ravaging of Jin in the early stage.