In fact, the news brought by Kuaima has little to do with Shanxi, but there is a problem in Henan and Hubei. According to the palace newspaper issued by the imperial court, when Yang Sichang was in Henan, the thieves in the Central Plains Guanzhong had basically been pacified, but now there is a trend of resurgence.

First, the thieves in the mountains of Yunyang, Hubei Province suddenly came out, occupied Fangxian, Zhushan and other places, and then went north to Yunxian County. Yunxian City is not only the government of Yunyang Prefecture, but also the location of the command and envoy of the Huguang Xingdu Division.

The fast horses in the south asked for help all the way to Beijing, and Taiyuan, Shanxi, which is located in the important place, naturally got the news as soon as possible. Tian Fuzhen didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent someone to inform Li Xin, so as to make a plan as soon as possible.

Mao Weizhang is now by Li Xin's side every day, and Yang Hewei is extremely outstanding in this battle with the Tartars, so he is now extremely valued by Li Xin. When Tian Fuzhen's military report arrived, he happened to be present, and Li Xin obviously did not intend to conceal the defeat of the imperial court, so he summoned the leaders of the Three Guards to discuss the matter.

"Let's fight in the south, let's close the door and run a good place in Shanxi, as long as the thieves don't come, we will not violate the river water!"

The officers of the Three Guards basically uphold this attitude, and the consumption of the Three Guards in every major war is extremely amazing, not to mention that the famine of the current drought has swept through Shanxi with lightning speed, and the scandal of the local officials of Shanxi and Zhili who have exhausted the Mo court for disaster relief of 200,000 taels of silver. On the surface, the scenery of the Three Guards is beautiful, but in fact, it is an undercurrent surging, like walking on thin ice.

But Mao Weizhang has a different view, "At present, there is a trend of resurgence of thieves in Huguangliu, and Xiong Wencan is incompetent and unable to deter after Yang Sichang leaves, which is a good moment for our Three Guards to consolidate their foundation." After the general of Xiaguan Jian yì tried his best to pacify the chaos in Shanxi, and after completely exterminating Turg, he wrote to the imperial court and crossed the Yellow River to the south to quell the chaos! As a result, those important ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee who had a lot of complaints about the Three Guards, even if they wanted to come forward to attack, they had to throw in the mouse trap because of the work of suppressing the chaos! ”

In fact, what Mao Weizhang said was still relatively vague and euphemistic, but Li Xin understood another meaning in his words, that is, the battle situation in Shanxi, and if he loses, he will inevitably be guilty. And it is a matter of course to win without merit. The root cause of this is that the Tartars galloped across the territory of Datong Mansion in Shanxi, and it was also led by the unfavorable battle of the Three Guards. Even if Turg is annihilated, I am afraid that there will still be people in the DPRK and China who plan to make a big fuss about it. The southward quelling of chaos is very different, taking the initiative to exterminate the thieves, and the court and the opposition will greatly add points.

In comparison, the contradictions within Shanxi are insignificant. However, after all, Li Xin has to consider the problem as a whole, as the so-called foundation is unstable, and the building will collapse. If you only look at the distance and forget about the stumbling under your feet, there will also be problems.

Not to mention the magistrates of Zhili, the fact that the magistrates of Shanxi can blatantly deal with the disaster relief money is enough to prove that many people actually did not take Li Xin's Three Guards in their eyes. At the root of this, Li Xin is just a martial artist, and although he is now in charge of Shanxi's military and political affairs, the imperial court will never let this abnormal situation continue, and sooner or later it will suppress the Three Guards. In their opinion, the emperor who invaded and tossed the Tartars almost issued an edict again, and the soldiers and horses all over the country were very large, and it was a good time for the imperial court to cut off the power in Li Xin's hands.

It is precisely based on this understanding that local civil officials in Shanxi are unscrupulous when they are greedy for money for disaster relief. Because if the emperor wants to support Li Xin to investigate the whereabouts of the disaster relief money, then it will inevitably make Li Xin's prestige in Shanxi to a higher level, which is definitely not what the imperial court is happy to see.

Of course, some people have also questioned it. If today's son really has the intention to weaken Li Xin, then why should he allocate 200,000 taels of silver from his own internal funds to waste money? In fact, the answer is very simple, the emperor did not think about it well at that time, and he sincerely hoped that the mountain places would be peaceful and that there would be no more troubles of thieves.

However, if they want to deal with the local officials in Shanxi who are greedy for money, they will immediately realize that supporting Li Xin in attacking the local officials in Shanxi is tantamount to helping him consolidate the power base of the local warriors in Shanxi, and it is very likely that in the end a situation will be formed in which the local warriors in Shanxi will not be able to lose their tails.

The lesser of two evils, the court is likely to eventually acquiesce to the officials' greed for ink, and eventually swing the huge and sharp scissors of power at Li Xin and the Three Guards. Mao Wei, Zhang Jianyì and Li Xin sent troops into Henan and fought in Hubei, hoping that the Three Guards would make up for the previous omissions in Datong Mansion and block the mouth of the DPRK and China.

However, it is obvious that Mao Weizhang thought that Cheng Dù, who was raging with thieves, was simple, and it was just a night away, and the military report from Taiyuan arrived again. This time the news surprised everyone, obviously yesterday's news, the army of thieves is still threatening Xiangyang, it seems that there is no intention to point the sword at the Central Plains, but the next day, the situation in Henan will be chaotic like rice porridge, Xiong Wencan's army is defeated like a mountain, Nanyang, Ruzhou, Runing three prefectures lost a clean and clean not to say, the army was defeated in one day for hundreds of miles and retreated to the south bank of the Yellow River, and retreated to the area of Yanshi and Gongxian.

"Thieves and soldiers are hundreds of miles a day, how is this possible?" Mao Weizhang repeatedly questioned the military report sent by Tian Fuzhen, and Tian Fuzhen recognized Mao Weizhang that he looked dilapidated when he was demoted to a Jiupin petty official, but now he actually climbed Li Xin and regained it, and even served as the prefect of Taiyuan Mansion, and he still had a lot of doubts about this person's talent in his heart.

If you see the news of Xiong Wencan's defeat yesterday, the people of the Three Guards still have a small sense of schadenfreude in their hearts, and they plan to take advantage of this. Then today's news made everyone's hearts flutter and chill. They couldn't figure out how the situation in the Central Plains had reached such an irreparable point in one day.

Li Xin shook his head and nodded again.

"Tian Fuzun's information will not be wrong, I'm afraid Xiong Wencan has already lost his pants and clothes at this moment......

Although Mao Weizhang was not convinced by Tian Fuzhen, he was happy and sincere to Li Xin, and listening to what Li Xin said was even more alarmist than Tian Fuzhen's military report, he was shocked and inexplicable.

"That, that......" The word "that" was repeated several times in a row, but he didn't even say a complete sentence, and after a while, he finally put out what he thought and thought in his heart. "Isn't it that the army of thieves no longer has a large army south of the Yellow River to restrain and balance, and even the army of Zuo Liangyu, the king of Shen in the Guanzhong of Shaanxi, has fallen into a dangerous situation of being attacked by the enemy on its back."

Although Mao Weizhang is a mere calming man, he knows the form of the world well. Zuo Liangyu was unwilling to accept the previous fiasco in Pingyang Mansion, Shanxi, and hoped to use King Shen's army to regain his strength, and King Shen's wolf ambition established his prestige for himself with the help of Zuo Liangyu's ability, and even gained territory. Originally, it was a matter of time before the emperor ordered to seize his army, but it has come to this point, but it has become an opportunity for King Shen to survive and strengthen himself.

Then his gaze fell back on Shanxi and the Three Guards, "General, the situation in Shanxi is critical!" ”

This time, Mao Weizhang's views were unprecedentedly consistent with those of the officers.

"All panicked? The sky hasn't fallen yet, and the thieves haven't crossed the Yellow River! Put your hearts in your stomach and try to capture Turg alive! ”

Li Xin said a rare foul language, so that everyone retracted their eyes at their feet and fought the last battle of the Lingkou.

Turg's army was besieged in a narrow strip from Jinping Mountain to the mouth of the Lingling, and due to the lack of food supplies, it was almost desperate at this moment. He had fought very smoothly before the first battle of Ningwuguan, and even had the illusion that he would fight all the way to Taiyuan, but then the situation changed abruptly. The army from Taiyuan in the south began to counterattack, crushing its forward battalion in the first battle, and directly annihilating thousands of enemies in the second battle. The corpses of the entire battlefield were scattered all over the field, and all the sharp energy of Turg was directly defeated.

He was so miserable that he was driven out of Ningwu Pass by the Ming army in Shanxi, until Jinping Mountain was intercepted by the Three Guards who were going south from the direction of the opening up, and it was difficult to advance half a step from then on.

If the previous fiasco caused Turg to suffer a great setback, then the arrival of Lu Zhifan became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Turg finally panicked, who is Mr. Lu? That's a military division-level figure entrusted by Dolgon, not as good as Zhuge Kongming in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and it is more than enough to surpass Jia Xu and others, how could he be defeated by that Nanban Li Xin, where is there still half a point of strategizing to win a thousand miles?

"Sir, why doesn't stop there?"

Lu Zhifan responded with a strange smile: "It's a failure, it's hard to turn back......

This cast a lingering shadow over Turg's heart, and it was obvious that the army was exhausted at this moment, and it was useless to resist again. That night, Turg secretly summoned the elite with white flags who accompanied him......

Li Xin had already left Datong and personally sat in charge of the battle of Huairen, he hoped for a quick victory, and the end of the great battle in Shanxi would be a more protracted war for him and the Three Guards.

Suddenly, the horse hurriedly reported: "Report! The Tartars broke through the siege by different routes, and they were already defeated! ”

This surprised Li Xin, even if the Turge people were defeated and withdrew from Ningwu Pass and were besieged in the area of Jinping Mountain and the mouth of the Lingling, they still put on a very strong fighting posture. Now that it is said that it is broken, it actually makes him feel like he is punching the air.

But in any case, the battle was over, and Li Xin's voice was slightly tired and gave the order.

"All units pursue, encircle and suppress, so as to kill and wound the enemy as much as possible!"

Li Xin finally stopped hiding his exhaustion and sat on the chair with a solid butt. However, this relaxation did not last until dawn, and the envoy sent by the imperial court sent a shocking news!