It's just that Liu Jin originally wanted to completely stabilize his power that had just reached the top through this extermination of Ningxia and King An's achievements, so he had already made preparations.

After the news of Li Zeng's killing broke, he was desperate and ordered several border troops to attack Ningxia together with the Jingying army.

Among them, there are Gansu border towns in the west, Guyuan border towns in the south, and Liu Jin's main force in the east, the Jingying army, as well as the doglegs of the three factories and one guard, plus the border troops of the two towns of Yansui and Datong who were transferred.

Under the encirclement of these three sides, the number of people has reached nearly 150,000, nearly three times that of the Ningxia army. In addition, the cavalry of the Beijing camp army and the three factories and one guard are all well-equipped, not only with all kinds of steel helmets and iron armor, but also with a lot of firearms.

What's more, in order to exterminate Ningxia, Liu Jin even brought over the Shenji Battalion in the Beijing camp. At this long distance, there are strong bows and crossbows, there are powerful firearms in the middle range, and the equipment in close combat is far superior to himself.

The two sides fought three times, but all of them ended in defeat. The 60,000-strong army lost more than 5,000 and suffered countless wounds. At this moment, the morale of the Ningxia army was shaken, and in desperation, they could only retreat near Ningxia City, resist with military forts, and delay Liu Jin's attack.

After King An's army returned to the fort closest to Ningxia, all the border towns that participated in the attack on Ningxia also began to disobey the yang and no longer actively attack the military fort.

Although Liu Jin seems to control the central power, he can't directly change generals in this war. After finding that he could not command the proud soldiers and fierce generals of these border towns, he only ordered to besiege the military fort and Ningxia City, and after not letting go of a single person, he took his cavalry and the Beijing camp army to advance inch by inch towards the major military forts guarding Ningxia City.

Although the army of those border towns was unwilling to attack the military fort, they could not really open their mouths and release the army of the military fort. Therefore, they all listened to Liu Jin's orders, surrounded the military fort on all sides, watched Liu Jin's descendants, and fought with the Ningxia army.

At this time, the two sides have been fighting for three days, under the lure of Liu Jin constantly throwing a lot of money, the army under his command is well-equipped and has firearms to help, and has advanced for fifty miles, and half of the military forts east of Ningxia have been conquered, which is also the reason why there are no defenders in Huamachi.

"Hmph! Such a scum who has brought disaster to the country and the people really deserves to be executed at Ling Chi!" Zilong couldn't help it anymore when he heard this, there was more personal enmity between Liu Jin and King An than anything else, but for his own selfish interests, he destroyed Ningxia, one of the nine important towns that the Ming Dynasty had built for a hundred years, like this.

And he not only conquered the walled forts in this town, but also abandoned these walled forts after they were conquered, leaving not a single soldier to guard them.

If the Mongols move south in a big way at this time, they are afraid that they will be able to break through the nine-border defense line immediately and enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, which has insufficient garrison strength.

If such a thing happens, Liu Jin will not be able to atone for his sins even if he dies! Zilong's anger also lies in this. Although Elder Xuan is only a person in the rivers and lakes, because of the purpose of the beggar gang since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, his understanding of this nine-sided important town is no less than that of many military generals in the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as Zilong said this, he could also understand it, sighed, nodded and said in agreement: "Hey! Who said no! Now in this big war, not to mention the dead soldiers, but only civilians, there are many dead and wounded!"

Just because Xiya Gong and the others have not yet decided whether to deal with Liu Jin now, our beggar gang cannot just join this big war, but can only mobilize the gang and try to rescue as many civilians as possible from the battle line between the two sides.

Most of the bloodstains on my body and the hard work of the helper came from this!"

At this point, Zilong understood the role played by the beggar gang in this incident. Although he regretted that the beggar gang had not joined the action against Liu Jin at this time, he was also quite relieved to hear that the beggar gang was running to save innocent people.

"Does this alienated people also need a bloody battle?" Lakshin was a little strange and couldn't help but ask.

Elder Xuan smiled miserably and said, "Do you really think that Liu Jin's army can advance as much as half of it, relying on his good command and fighting hard to kill the army under his command?"

"Isn't it?" Asri asked, but her heart moved.

"Naturally not!" Elder Xuan gritted his teeth and said, "This Liu Jin is the most shameless in his reckless disregard for human life!" In order to break through the military fort guarded by the army of the border town in Ningxia, he did not hesitate to forcibly tie up the surrounding people and use them to rush into battle to break through the defense of the military fort!"

"Ah...... Beasts!" When Zilong heard this, his eyes turned blood-red, and he couldn't have imagined that Liu Jin would inflict such cruel methods on his own people in order to win.

You must know that when Meng Yuan and the Jurchens were prosperous, they did use such a method to coerce the people to rush into battle, and then mixed the elite into the people.

If the defenders are soft-hearted, those enemies will naturally be able to follow the people and blend into the forts and other defensive facilities, and the defenders will naturally be unable to defend anymore.

But if the defenders are hard-hearted and really slaughter these innocent people, not to mention whether it will make the people deviate from morality, even a considerable part of the defenders' materials are used on the people.

In this way, the enemy will naturally be able to achieve the final victory at a very small cost, but only the innocent people will suffer.

It's just that Liu Jin, as the current ruler of the Ming Dynasty, doesn't care about the lives of the people, but also drives these people like this, which is really no different from beasts.

Hu Dulu also didn't expect that the ruler of the Ming Dynasty could be so ruthless, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a while, sighed, and then said: "People say that Liu Jin is ruthless, but they don't expect him to be so ruthless!

"That's right!" Elder Xuan said with a miserable laugh, "This time the gang leader didn't expect Liu Jin to be so cruel, so the brothers transferred were understaffed! Although we also rescued some people and saved them from Liu Jin's poison, the sacrifice was huge, and many brothers have already died in this battle!"

At this point, Zilong realized that although the beggar gang did not join King An's side with a clear banner and oppose Liu Jin, it was already confronting Liu Jin to a certain extent.

Thinking of the cruelty and cunning of Liu Jin's subordinates, in order to save the people, the beggar brothers were afraid that they would really suffer heavy casualties. At that moment, Zilong stood up, bowed deeply to Elder Xu, and said, "Zilong for those people, thank you Elder Xu, thank you beggars for helping!"

"Don't do that!" Seeing this, Elder Xuan hurriedly stood up, wanted to help Zilong, and said, "The beggar gang is a gang based on loyalty and righteousness, and stands out for the poor! Now that the people of Ningxia have suffered a disaster, we will not come forward, but I am afraid that there will be no need for this beggar gang to exist!"

It's just that although he wanted to help Zilong, Zilong had already made up his mind to bow down, and bowing down like this made Elder Xuan unable to support him no matter what.

After the big ceremony was finished, Zilong straightened up and asked, "Liu Jin is so cruel, isn't there a reaction from the imperial court?"

was so cruel to the people under his rule, Zilong didn't believe that Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and other upright ministers could ignore it.

"Hey!" Elder Xuan sighed again and said, "The eyes and ears of the imperial court are mainly the three factories and one guard, or the post stations in various places, etc.! It's just that now it's wartime, and Ningxia is blocked by a large army all around, but the news of this post station can't be transmitted.

As for the three factories and one bathroom, I guess I won't say it, you know it!"

"Xiya Gong has always relied on the beggar gang, and the beggar gang, since you have obtained the real situation and reported it to the imperial court, in terms of the integrity of Xiya Gong and others, will you ignore it?" Zilong asked again.

"If you don't want to, you really can't!" Elder Xuan said with a wry smile, "Last time in the court, Liu Jin had already implemented reforms with the support of the Queen Mother!

Many of the original eunuchs, as well as the chief officials of the six ministries, all joined the cabinet. Now in the cabinet, a force led by Liu Jin's eunuch party has been formed, and even if Xiya Gong is the head of the cabinet, he doesn't have much right to speak!"

Zilong also didn't expect that the court rivalry he heard about would have such a far-reaching impact, resulting in even Li Dongyang having no right to speak now.

He was about to continue asking, but after a pause, Elder Xuan continued: "What's more, since the last time the people from the Hengshan Sect openly insulted the emperor in the court, this court no longer attaches importance to our martial arts opinions! Even our beggar gang has been implicated! If this is the news of our beggar gang, they will definitely think that this is false information!"

Last time, Hengshan sent Shuiyue Shitai to Li Dongyang and others to arrange that he was ready to join Liu Jin in the court, saying that he cultivated martial arts forces with bad intentions.

Unexpectedly, after Liu Jin won the court victory, Shuiyue Shi was too angry with Emperor Zhengde to help Liu Jin, so he insulted Emperor Zhengde in public.

Zilong had also heard of this matter, but he didn't expect it, but because of this incident, the court had lost trust in Wulin, and even a gang like the beggar gang, which put loyalty first, had no right to speak in the court.

"In this way, it's difficult!" Zilong said with a frown, in fact, if Liu Jin drove the people to storm the Ningxia military town, if the matter of storming the Ningxia military town was broken, I was afraid that it would immediately attract a backlash from many forces in the imperial court and even the whole country.

After all, like Liu Jin, except for Meng Yuan and other grassland tribes, in the Central Plains, it has never happened. At this time, Confucianism and religion were prevalent in the Central Plains, and such cruel things were contrary to the Confucian theory of benevolence and righteousness, and they would be spurned by the people of the world.

It's just that now the information in Ningxia can't be transmitted, and the beggars can spread the news, but they are not taken seriously by the upper echelons of the imperial court, but it seems that the situation in Ningxia can only deteriorate.