Su Yan didn't care about Wu Yingqi's provocative year name, it didn't mean that his people wouldn't care.

After the news spread, not to mention that the ministers of the DPRK and China were all indignant and demanded the killing of the puppet emperor Wu Zhou, Su Dingyuan on the front line was even more furious, he changed his previous strategy and mobilized a large army to attack Fenzhou, which was bound to kill Wu Yingqi.

The Xia army came violently, but in a few days it conquered the city of Pingyang, and continued to go north along the Fenshui, Wu Yingqi was also preparing for a decisive battle with the Xia army under the city of Taiyuan, he ordered Wang Pingfan to abandon the Lu'an Mansion and rush to the aid of Taiyuan, almost all the soldiers of the Zhou army who could be mobilized were gathered under the city of Taiyuan.

At the beginning of February, the Xia army conquered Yindi Pass, and then attacked Fenzhou under Lingshi and Lingshikou, because the Zhou army was fully committed to Taiyuan, and Fenzhou's defense was empty, and the Xia army conquered Fenzhou City in just a few days.

However, Su Dingyuan did not continue to advance, he ordered the whole army to repair in Fenzhou, and waited for the Zhou army Wang Ping's domain to arrive in Taiyuan.

That's right, Su Dingyuan is ready to wipe out the Zhou army under Taiyuan City, as long as he can defeat all the Zhou army under Taiyuan City, this pseudo-Zhou court that only existed for a few months will no longer exist.

In mid-February, Wang Pingfan finally entered the territory of Taiyuan, and the Xia army also opened up, Kewenshui and Jiaocheng went straight to Taiyuan City, and when the Xia army killed outside Taiyuan City, the Zhou army had already lined up and was ready for battle.

This day was February 19 in the second year of Wu'an, and the war officially started on the bank of the Jinshui River.

The Xia army still opened the way with superior artillery, and the Zhou army's artillery suffered many losses after several defeats, and there was no threat to the Xia army's artillery, so the Zhou army could only passively endure the Xia army's shelling.

In order to avoid the rout of the whole army in the artillery bombardment, Wu Yingqi, who was personally sitting in the army, ordered Wu Yingqi, the king of Chu, and Wang Pingfan, the Duke of Anguo, to lead the army to rush from both wings, and Hu Guozhu, the prime minister of Zuo, led the Chinese army to slowly press, Su Dingyuan saw this, and waved the flag, and the first town led by Liu Shixun, the general of Anyang, to meet Wu Yingqi, and Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo, to meet Wang Pingfan, and he himself commanded the third town to move forward, trying to defeat the Chinese army of the Zhou army.

The two sides braved the shells that fell from time to time to gradually close the distance, and after entering the firing range, the bows and crossbows were fired, the guns were loud, and the two sides fired at each other with various long-range weapons, and from time to time some people screamed and fell to the wounded, and the smoke of gunpowder from the burning of black powder gradually spread on the battlefield.

The battle lasted for more than three hours, the third town of the Xia army was the first to defeat the Zhou army, they stepped on the enemy's corpse in the cheers to advance, after the defeat of the Chinese army, the two wings of the Zhou army were also shaken, Wu Yingzhi knew that the general trend had gone, and did not hesitate to gather as many troops and horses as possible and fled to the north.

Wu Yingqi's rebellion greatly hit the morale of the Zhou army, even Wang Pingfan could not restrain his subordinates, he could only look up to the sky and roar, and was pulled by his cronies to join the wave of rout, Wu Yingqi looked at the back of his cousin leaving in disbelief, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, how could he believe that his dearest cousin would betray him like this?

No matter how Wu Yingqi couldn't believe it, the rout was a foregone conclusion, the Zhou army was defeated like a mountain, and the mountains were full of panicked Zhou soldiers, in order to be able to escape faster, they did not hesitate to throw their weapons, shields and even armor on the ground, just to run faster than others, as if they could survive in this way.

Wu Yingqi watched all this in despair, until Hu Guozhu, who had withdrawn from the front line, found him and wanted to lead his war horse back to Taiyuan, he finally reacted, and looked up and down at the embarrassed Hu Guozhu, at this time Hu Guozhu's armor was stained with blood in many places, and his helmet was lost somewhere, his hair was scattered, and his face was also stained with black ash.

He took the reins of the emperor and withdrew to Taiyuan Mansion with the only remaining forbidden army composed of Guanning iron cavalry, wanting to take refuge in the city, but when they arrived at the city gate, they found that the city gate was closed, and the right prime minister Guo Shitu and Guo's children were standing on top of the city.

"Guo Shitu, why don't you open the door and let Your Majesty enter the city?" Hu Guozhu asked loudly.

"Hu Guozhu, this Great Zhou Qi has run out, I, Guo Shitu, have decided to comply with the will of heaven and surrender to the Xia army to avoid the misery of life in Taiyuan City, for the sake of relatives, I advise you not to continue to resist stubbornly." Guo Shitu said.

"You! You betrayed Your Majesty so much, how can you be worthy of the kindness of the first emperor?!" Hu Guozhu's face was flushed with anger, and he pointed at Guo Shitu and asked loudly.

Guo Shitu also knew that he didn't pay attention, he didn't answer Hu Guozhu's shout, just waved his hand and said, "No matter what you say, I won't open the city."

So saying, he disappeared from the city.

Guo Shitu's betrayal hit Wu Yingqi again, he looked at Hu Guozhu who was crying in a hurry, and just wanted to speak, but Hu Guozhu turned his head suddenly, looked at Wu Yingqi with the tiger eyes full of tears, and said: "Your Majesty, retreat north with your ministers, Datong is still in our hands, as long as we get to the north of Jin, we still have a chance to make a comeback!"

"What's the chance?" Wu Yingqi looked at his brother-in-law with a wry smile and said, "Brother-in-law, Wu Yingqi betrayed us and betrayed the Great Zhou, even if he goes to the north, he will only become his puppet, I am tired, I don't plan to leave, you can run for your lives."

In the latter words, he said it to the forbidden army composed of Hu Guozhu and the Guanning Iron Cavalry around him.

"Your Majesty......"

Hu Guozhu was still begging bitterly, but Wu Yingqi was resolute, he ordered Hu Guozhu to lead the army to retreat in the name of the emperor, but Hu Guozhu never refused, Wu Yingqi suddenly pulled out the sword of the Son of Heaven on his waist, put it on his neck, and ordered Hu Guozhu to leave.

Hu Guozhu had no choice but to cry and leave on horseback, but several Guanning iron horsemen led by Wu Guoying were unwilling to leave, they looked at Wu Yingqi with resolute faces, hugged their fists and said: "Your Majesty, we are deeply favored by the first emperor, how can we turn our backs on the heirs of the first emperor, we are willing to die with Your Majesty."

"What a loyal man!"

Wu Yingqi praised with a smile, he then rode his horse and galloped towards Jinshui, after coming to the bank of the Jinshui River, he looked at the rolling southward river, turned over and dismounted, and then looked at the Xia army behind him who was still chasing the rout, looked up to the sky and roared, and threw himself into Jinshui without hesitation.

Seeing this, the Guan Ning Iron Riders behind him glanced at each other, each said "take care", and then jumped into the water, and their figures were quickly swallowed up by the rushing Jin water, as if nothing had happened.

The Xia army pursued until the afternoon finally ended, Guo Shitu took the initiative to open the city gate, led the officials in the city to kneel to meet Su Dingyuan, Su Dingyuan rode in front of them expressionlessly, not even a look left to them, after Su Dingyuan entered the city, these officials were arrested by the Xia army and put into prison.

All the wealth looted by Wu Sangui from Beiping was placed in the treasury of the former Ming and Jin princes in Taiyuan, and the Xia army also seized the treasury as soon as possible after entering the city, and counted the mountains of gold, silver and jewelry inside.

This is a huge amount of work, because there is too much inventory in the treasury, even if Guo Shitu hands over the account books they counted and made before, he still has to recount and determine the total amount.

After recovering Taiyuan, Su Dingyuan abolished the name of Dingtianfu, restored Taiyuan Mansion, and issued a document to all parts of Shanxi, ordering all places to surrender to the Xia army.

At the same time, he also ordered Liu Shixun to lead the army to pursue Wu Yingqi, who had fled north, and searched for the missing Wu Yingqi, Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan among the people, until a few days later, several fishermen found Wu Yingqi's swollen body downstream, fished it up and sent it to Taiyuan for burial.

As for Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan, some people say that they saw Hu Guozhu going north, and some people say that Wang Pingfan fled all the way east into the Taihang Mountains.

After the Battle of Taiyuan, all parts of Shanxi were rumored to welcome Wang Shi, and Su Dingyuan played to the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court would resend officials to Shanxi to rebuild Shanxi's administration.

Su Yan naturally agreed, but it was just over a month away from the spring boudoir, so he was ready to send the people who were promoted to Shanxi as officials after the imperial examination.

On the other hand, Wu Yingzhi is worthy of being the new generation of runaway generals, he fled to Datong Mansion in one breath after the Battle of Taiyuan, and Li Laiheng couldn't catch up with him even after him.

After escaping to Datong Mansion, Wu Yingqi began to arrange the matter of being called emperor, he officially proclaimed himself emperor in Datong Mansion on the first day of the first month of March in the name of King Chu of the Great Zhou, changed the name of the year to Ning He, respected Wu Yingqi as Emperor Zhuangzong Jian, and established Wu Shiju, who had just reached the age of one year, as the crown prince.

After being proclaimed emperor, Wu Yingzhi did not continue to stay in Datong Mansion, he knew that continuing to stay in the pass was a dead end, so on the second day of the emperor, he ordered the army to wash

He robbed the city of Datong and the surrounding villages, snatched all the food and tools and iron tools that could be used from the people, and forcibly recruited many strong men, and then went all the way north, crossed the Great Wall, and fled to the vast grassland.

After Li Laiheng entered Datong Mansion, he was faced with a group of hungry people, Li Laiheng was startled at first, but after learning what Zhou Jun had done from the hungry people, he understood Wu Yingqi's intentions.

He's going to run.

But what can he do if he knows Wu Yingji's intentions, he can only let the soldiers leave the necessary rations, and the rest of the grain and grass will be sent to the people, while reporting the situation here to Su Dingyuan, hoping to allocate a batch of food to help the people of Datong who have suffered from the military disaster.

With the occupation of Datong Mansion by the Xia army, all the prefectures and counties in the entire Datong Prefecture also surrendered, and even the Zhou army with Xuanfu Town followed closely to send the surrender table, and the north was thus pacified.

Not only in the north, but also west of Shaanxi had been independent of the Xia and Zhou dynasties, and Gansu, ostensibly under the orders of the Qing court, was so frightened that it hurriedly submitted a surrender to Xi'an after hearing that the Zhou army had been expelled to the grassland.

Gansu is now under the control of Daniel Zhang, the general of Gansu in the Qing court, and Daniel Zhang, as the head of the four Han generals in Hexi, has historically been credited with quelling local rebellions in the later San Francisco Rebellion, so he is regarded as a generation of famous generals.

Su Yan had read the documents related to the San Francisco Rebellion before crossing over, and vaguely remembered the prestige of the four Han generals in Hexi, so after Zhang Mingzhen reported the news of Gansu's voluntary submission back to Jiangning, Su Yan summoned Daniel Zhang, the general soldier of Gansu, Wang Jinbao, who was still only a garrison, and Zhao Liangdong, a guerrilla from the high platform, to Jiangning to meet him.

The last of the four Han generals was named Sun Sike, he was a member of the White Banner of the Han Army, and he was a desperate Han girl, so Su Yan did not have the slightest intention of soliciting him.