When the news of the rout of the 20,000-well-armed merchant coalition army broke, reactions were mixed.

The heads of the eight families were so angry that they jumped to their feet, cursing their soldiers for being incompetent, all of them were rice buckets, of course, seven of the family heads scolded Fan Wuye in their hearts, didn't they brag that they were proficient in the art of war, sister, fooling people, but they had to give face to Brother Fan, who took the lead, not to mention that Fan Wuye was also killed, and it was useless to scold a dead person, so they could only scold the gang of people who fled back in embarrassment.

Not only can they not scold Fan Wuye, who has hung up, but also have to help him speak, the fiasco of the pot can't let Fan Wuye carry it all alone, and they have to find a backstabbing man to share, Chen Tang is very unlucky, who made him the chief officer of the Taiyuan Mansion Army who unified the army, and only he is the most suitable to be the backstabber, the crime is to see death and not save it, and let the friendly army be defeated by the civilian army and be indifferent.

Governor Yang He was annoyed by the eight masters, he wanted to govern Shanxi well, he must get the support of the eight families, and if he wanted military spending and materials, he couldn't do without the eight families, so he had no choice but to appease the eight families while sending people to the front line to investigate.

Chen Tang, the commander-in-chief of the Taiyuan Provincial Army, is ordering the battlefield to be cleaned up and the bodies of the fallen soldiers buried, while the bodies of the civilian soldiers are cremated on the spot to avoid disasters such as plague caused by the decomposition of the corpses.

His army was constantly harassed by several militias, which gave him a headache, and it took several hours for the harassment of several militias to stop.

Look at the sky, it was almost evening, he simply ordered to camp on the spot, strengthen the vigilance, later, he received the news of the rout of the Shang coalition army, and was stunned for a while, no wonder the civilian army was just harassing his army, it turned out to run to beat the Shang coalition army.

"Well deserved!"

Chen Tang was stunned for a long time, before he gritted his teeth and burst out two words, the Shang Alliance Army was grinding and grinding during the march, stopping and stopping, and pulling back the journey for half a day, he knew it, but he, the chief military officer, had no right to command the Shang Alliance Army, and he could only sigh helplessly even if he was on fire.

With or without the cooperation of the Shang Alliance, he has to exterminate the People's Army, the difference is only that there are more Shang Alliance's pig teammates who play soy sauce, which can help him contain part of the strength of the People's Army, and it will be easier to fight.

If the two armies go hand in hand, echoing and cooperating with each other, how can the people's army have a chance to start, it is the Shang Alliance Army itself to die, and it has nothing to do with him, now you know what it is like to die, right? Hum!

When Sun Chuanting received the news, it was already two days later, he just glanced at the news sent back by the scout, and the corners of his mouth twitched, the emperor expected things to be like a god.

"The whole army is speeding up, and we must rush to Niutou Town today."

Sun Chuanting urged his generals to speed up the march, he led the army to just go around the border near the Beijing division and then speed up the march forward, making such a big circle, the real destination is Xinzhou, where he wants to block the passage of the people's army to the north.

According to the combat intention of the Son of Heaven, he blocked Xinzhou, Qin Liangyu led the white pole army to block the Luliang area, Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong army to the rear pocket, advanced along the Linfen line, three bread copy, drove the people's army to the Yangquan area, and finally came to catch turtles in an urn, and surrounded and annihilated the people's army in the Yangquan area.

However, in the secret letter from the Son of Heaven to everyone, there is an emphasis on one point, after the armies arrive at the predetermined place, they should first rest and recuperate, slow down the speed of pursuit, and let the people's army have some time to make a fuss in Fugu County, Taiyuan, and other places, the reason, Sun Chuanting and others really don't know.

The Ming Dynasty values agriculture and suppresses business, even if the businessman has so much money that he can't spend it, but his social status is very low, even the landlord grain gentry who only has a few acres of thin land is not as good, and the officials look down on businessmen even more, but the eight imperial merchants are definitely a big outlier, the energy is huge, and the backer behind it is the civil official group, although Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng are scholars, but one of them is employed in other places, and the other is resigned at home, and they have long been away from the inner circle of power, and they have been branded as the Son of Heaven, so they naturally don't know the doorway inside. I didn't know that the Son of Heaven wanted to use the hands of the people's army to get rid of the Eight Great Emperor Merchants.

Zhu Jian really wanted to use the hands of the people's army to get rid of the Eight Great Imperial Merchants, even if he couldn't get rid of them, he could toss the Eight Great Imperial Merchants to the bone, and the Red Master Lu Jiantong had already been ordered to dispatch a large number of people, and made a detour to the area of Guxian to stand by, waiting for the opportunity to act.

As the saying goes, kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred, let the people's army toss around Taiyuan Mansion, his loss is not only eight hundred, two thousand is possible, he also struggled all night before gritting his teeth and making up his mind, the scourge of the eight imperial merchants is not smaller than the people's army, and it is invisible, it is obviously difficult to move them, the trouble is too great, this time is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I would rather lose a little more, but also get rid of the eight imperial merchants.

In order to minimize the losses to the minimum, he ordered the chief officials of all prefectures, prefectures and counties in Shanxi, ordering them not to attack without authorization, and to defend the city to resist and wait for reinforcements to relieve the siege.

For the sake of the overall situation, he can only sacrifice a small part as compensation after the war and appease the people who suffered from the war.

Western Shanxi, Ningwu Pass.

After Qin Liangyu led the army into Ningwu Pass, he temporarily took over the defense of Ningwu Pass, commanded Ningwu's township army to strengthen the city fortifications, and carried out some simple military training, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to closely monitor the movements of the civilian army in Taiyuan Prefecture.

During the rest of the army, Qin Liangyu was inspecting the fortifications at the head of the city, and a personal soldier came to report, and a woman who called herself Xing Xian asked to see her, saying that she had something important to report.

Qin Liangyuyi is bold and bold, so she is naturally not afraid of assassins, but when Xing Xian entered the tent, she was still carefully searched by her female soldiers, and only after confirming that she did not carry any dangerous items did she enter the tent.

As soon as Xing Xian entered Qin Liangyu's handsome tent, she knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty, crying and crying about her own misfortunes, the reason why she was willing to seek the near and far and chose to surrender to Qin Liangyu was because Qin Liangyu was a woman, and there were many militias who died under Qin Liangyu's iron spear, but she was a woman after all, and a woman's heart was sometimes very soft, and she was also a woman, and a non-woman was not enough to understand a woman.

After listening to Xing Xian's crying, the expression on Qin Liangyu's face was extremely strange, she was indeed shocked by Xing Xian's identity, in a blacklist sent by the Son of Heaven, half of them were the leaders of the people's army, and the first ones were Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others.

At this time, although Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have risen to the top, their fame is not very big, and there is a Gao Yingxiang and Gao Chuang Wang on it, but the two of them can tie for first place with the leading brother Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong, and Gao Yingxiang, which shows that the Son of Heaven pays very high attention to the two.

Xing Xian is Li Zicheng's second wife, in charge of the logistics of Li Zi's battalion, and actually came to surrender to her when the people's army was victorious and the momentum was booming.