The thieves who had regained their morale and looted Changning Post were reinforced, and the garrison Liu Qixun and Qianzong Zhai Ying led the troops to resist. At this time, Feng Xiangtong sentenced Zhang Tingji and advocated appeasing the thieves.

After negotiations, the thieves accepted the appeasement and were placed in Liangquanpu. However, after Liu Qixun and Zhai Ying appeased the thieves, they left without permission with the soldiers.

When the thieves saw the opportunity, they kidnapped Zhang Tingji and rebelled again, rushing directly to Zhangjiachuan. Although Liu Qixun and others were later questioned, the problems they caused still needed to be solved by the officials and soldiers.

Cao Wenzhao and Yang Jiamo led their troops from Longzhou to Ma'an Town in the rain, and the brave and warlike Cao Wenzhao did not use his own force at first.

He learned that the thieves feared the might of his army, and many of them were dissatisfied with the rebellion after being appeased before. Therefore, Cao Wenzhao sent Ding Ding into the thief camp, skillfully used the counter-plot to make the thieves mess up, and successfully killed the thief leader Hongjunyou.

After learning of the death of this difficult former Shen Yikui's subordinates, the official army, under the command of Cao Wenzhao and Yang Jiamo, rushed to the vicinity of Shuiluo City on the 26th.

At this time, the camp of thieves was twenty miles west of Shuiluo City. After that, the officers and soldiers of Lintao Town and Gansu Town worked together to defeat the thieves, and chased the thieves all the way to Yang Sanchuan and other places in Jingning Prefecture.

The thieves resented their defeat and the pressure of the official army, so they directly executed the captured Lintao Town officer Li Gongyong.

Naturally, the officers and soldiers would not let go of these thieves, and they continued to chase and kill the fleeing enemy until dusk, and then the garrison returned to the camp. A total of 249 thieves were killed, and more than 100 captive women were recaptured.

After asking the relatives of the captive women to take the women away, the officers and soldiers continued to hunt down the thieves. At this time, the thieves were divided into two routes, one to the area of Jingning Prefecture and the other to the area of Huating.

The division of the thieves made the next action of the officers and soldiers a little difficult, but fortunately, at this time, the troops of Yang Qi, the general soldier of Guyuan, arrived in time, and they also joined the pursuit.

Therefore, after Cao Wenzhao, Yang Jiamo and other troops arrived at Wating, they also divided the officers and troops into two routes. More than 1,200 people led by Cao Bianjiao, Ping'an and Li Hongsi, deputy commander-in-chief, pursued the fleeing enemy in Huating.

On May 2, Cao Bianjiao and others learned that there were five or six hundred remnant thieves in Huating, and fled to Tangmao Mountain and prepared to defend it with the help of the terrain. The officers and troops immediately attacked, but repeated attacks were repelled by the thieves on the mountain. The morale of the thieves was greatly boosted, while the officers and soldiers were somewhat depressed by the defeat.

At this critical juncture, Cao Bianjiao from Lintao Town stood up again. He rode his war horse over the obstacles, and bravely rushed up the mountain against the arrows shot by the thieves.

Cao Bianjiao's heroic fighting posture inspired the other officers and soldiers behind him, and they finally regained the courage to attack again.

For a time, the battlefield was full of bows and arrows fired by officials and thieves. At the critical juncture of the battle, the guerrilla general Feng Ju and the Ningsai staff general Wu Hongqi successfully went up the mountain from the other side. Under the attack of the official army, the thieves were really powerless to stop and finally defeated.

After successfully defeating the thieves who were guarding the top of the mountain, the officers and soldiers counted their gains. In the battle of Tangmaoshan, the officers and soldiers beheaded sixty-nine ranks, and more than 20 people were captured. Zhai Yingxiang and Jia Chengfang, the garrison, held a black flag and surrendered more than 100 thieves, eight of whom were women.

The rest of the thieves who did not surrender continued to be pursued by the officers and soldiers. The morale of the thieves has completely collapsed, and they have become frightened birds, terrified at the slightest disturbance, and it is no longer a climate.

The results of the battle of Tangmaoshan, coupled with the heads won in the previous four battles of Zhang Ma Village, Guan Shanshan, and Long'an Division, a total of more than 1,400 thieves were killed before and after, and hundreds of people were captured and surrendered.

Under the hard work of Cao Wenzhao, Yang Jiamo, Cao Bianjiao and other officers, the main force of the thieves who invaded Ping and Gu has been effectively annihilated.

Dai Junen, who received the news later, also sighed that the thief of Ningsai was a little killed.

This group of thieves who escaped from Ningsai once defeated the official army in Tiejiao City in Qingyang Prefecture, and then because of the lack of food, they divided their troops out of Dongchuan to plunder.

The next thing was to be repeatedly defeated by the official army, flowing all the way from Qingyang Mansion to almost the entire Pingliang Mansion. After entering Fengxiang Mansion, the thieves escaped from the official army and transferred to Gongchang Mansion. Almost from the Great Wall area north of the Ming Dynasty, all the way to the south of Shaanxi. (Note 1)

If they were allowed to cross Gongchang Mansion and flee into Sichuan, I really don't know what kind of trouble this gang of battle-hardened thieves would break out. Fortunately, the efforts of the officers and soldiers allowed the other party to retreat into Pingliang Mansion again, and was finally annihilated by the officers and troops.

After the war, Wu Fu rewarded the soldiers again, and Cao Wenzhao's official title was promoted, and he was appointed as the governor of the capital. And Yang Jiamo, the governor of Shaanxi Province and the chief soldier of Gansu, successfully exempted himself from his previous crimes and completed the mission of making meritorious contributions.

In hindsight, after the Battle of Tangmaoshan, the thieves no longer had a slightly larger army in the entire Pingliang Mansion. In this way, Pingliang Mansion successfully avoided the turbulent situation like Yan'an and Qingyang, which fell into the turbulent situation where thieves were constantly raging and daily production could not be guaranteed.

The wealthier areas of Shaanxi in Fengxiang and Hanzhong have also gotten rid of the threat of most of the thieves. At the same time, the officers and soldiers also rescued a large number of civilians who had been held hostage by the bandits, and then quickly returned to various places to start agricultural production under the resettlement of Wu Fu, making a major contribution to the stability of the Pinggu region.

A series of battles also made Cao Bianjiao's reputation skyrocket, this nephew who had followed Cao Wenzhao since he was a child, gradually surpassed other generals in Shaanxi, and now it seems that only Cao Wenzhao can overpower him.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Cao Bianjiao's future will be limitless in the future.

What's more, this victory also made Wu Hongqi, a transparent figure in Ningsai, raise his eyebrows and breathe a sigh of relief. I believe that he will return to Ningsai with the scenery of surrender in the future, and most likely he will get rid of that bad impression in Dai Junen's eyes.

As for Zhang Mengjin and Cai Zhongming, they also have to reconsider their attitude towards Wu Hongqi.

However, the two big bosses who returned to Ningsai after participating in Zhang Mengcheng's wedding still don't know the scenery of Wu Hongqi. And Cai Zhongming, who had only returned to Ningsai not long ago, received an order from Dai Junen. He was temporarily sent to Yansui Middle Road to help defend the area.

Because of the bad news from the east of Yansui Town, Zhang Cunmeng (not mud), a thief who had been appeased before, rebelled again, and now has thousands of people.

The thieves in the east do not touch the mud, and in this time and space where Zhang Mengcheng intervened, some unfortunate changes have occurred. Originally, in the winter of the fourth year of Chongzhen in the original history, the official army still had to clean up the traitors in Ningsai, so they couldn't quickly turn around and take care of Zhang Cunmeng on the other side.

But in this time and space, because of the influence of the traveler Zhang Mengcheng, the original chaotic weather Zhang Mengjin became the gold medal fighter of Yansui West Road at this time. The traitors of Ninsai were quickly put down, so the reaction of the officers and soldiers was very fast. Then it was Zhang Mengjin's subordinates who exerted their power and severely damaged the subordinates who were not muddy.

So it took a longer time to regain his strength. However, some things have not changed, and the mud is still appeased again after that. Now, under the influence of historical inertia, the rebellion has begun again. (Note 2)

However, Cai Zhongming and Zhang Mengjin did not know about these historical changes. Even Zhang Mengcheng, who crossed over, did not record the detailed time of the rebellion without mud in the booklet he wrote from memory. Zhang Mengcheng didn't even know how the fate of his eldest brother Zhang Mengjin had changed.

PS: Note 1: For sophisticated friends, please see the relevant works, and the author will talk about the great victory of Tang Maoshan in various historical materials.

Note 2: Zhang Cunmeng, who is not muddy, has been repeatedly appeased in history. The time of the second rebellion, according to the record of "Chai An Shuji", was in March of the fifth year of Chongzhen. Due to the butterfly effect, the book was postponed for more than a month.