Tuwenxiu, who invited Bo Shuoketu out of the customs, can be regarded as having achieved his wish, but Bibai's other plans have been successful or failing, and it is not all smooth.

One of them is the capture of the Hexi forts by Bi Chengen and the Xu Dynasty.

Bi Chengen led the army to Ningxia Zhongwei first, Ningxia Zhongwei general Xiong Guochen saw that the thief was huge, the dust and smoke covered the world, Xiong Guochen thought that he was outnumbered, in the face of this situation, there are only three ways to go: surrender, war, and go.

He usually doesn't have a close relationship with Bibai, and both sides are generals, and he is not a subordinate of Bibai in the past, so it is really hard to believe that he can gain Bibai's trust in the future, so he refuses to surrender to the thief.

But if he wants to fight, he doesn't have much confidence. Especially in the case of this year's big cut in military salaries, the salary is not the patent of Ningxia Zhencheng, the situation of his Ningxia Zhongwei is almost exactly the same as that of Ningxia Zhencheng, but Ningxia City is a big city in the northwest, with a large number of troops and a large population, but Ningxia Zhongwei is stationed in Zhenyu Fort, Yongkang Fort, Xuanhe Fort, Ning'an Fort and other forts, the troops are scattered and it is not easy to gather to make trouble, and it is not a Xiongcheng, and the pressure on the life of the sergeants is relatively small. In the final analysis, it is slightly better than the situation in Ningxia City, but it is not much better, and there is actually a powder keg sitting under the butt.

Xiong Guochen thought about it, and finally abandoned the city and fled without authorization on the grounds of moving troops. As soon as he left, the officers and soldiers of the Ningxia Central Guard were of course at a loss, and the people were in a panic.

In the fort of the town where the Wei Command and Envoy was stationed, Zhou Zhe, a person in the township, saw this, was filled with righteous indignation, took the stage and shouted, calling on the gentry to donate money, and the people guarded according to the door, intercepting the deserters and cooperating with the guard.

Wang Hu ordered Wang Hu to lead the crowd to attack the city, and Wang Hu gave an order, while setting up a high platform to shoot arrows in the city, while bombarding the city gate with artillery (Ningxia Town because of the location, the artillery configuration is light, and it is a solid bullet, and the siege ability is not strong).

This time, the sound of killing outside the city shook the sky, and both sides of the city gate were in a stalemate. The Ximen garrison Han Fan was so heartbroken that he thought that even Xiong Shenrong had run away, why did I have to die by being a guard? Then he opened the west gate and asked Wang Hu to surrender.

Wang Hu was overjoyed when he saw this, and broke into the west gate first, and the rebels broke into the separate ways and killed, the soldiers and civilians in the city were in chaos, the gates were lost, and Zhou Zhe was captured.

After the fall of the city, Bi Chengen because the Ningxia Zhongwei was stationed in each fort, and taking one place was not a complete achievement, so he ordered Wang Hubu to rest on the spot and led the army to continue to drive.

Wang Hu hated Zhou Zhe for gathering people to resist, so he wanted to kill him to warn the soldiers and the people, and those who surrendered were shocked, and strongly persuaded Zhou Zhe to ask Wang Hu for the crime to save his life, so as not to have a different head in the family.

Zhou Zhe was furious when he heard this, and wanted to hit his head against the pillar, but shouted angrily: "I am a great scholar, how can I bend my knees and beg the thief for his life!" ”

When Wang Hu heard this, he was even more furious, and the scribes who were temporarily serving as staff members on the left and right hurriedly grabbed Wang Hu and persuaded: "My Ningxia literary style is not prosperous, although this Zhou Zhe only lifts people, but he is a great Confucian in Ningxi, with a resolute temperament, deep popularity, and it is really ominous to kill." If the general wants to win the hearts of the people to ensure stability in the city, he must appease them. In this way, when we leave the city and plunder the land, there will be no civil unrest. ”

After all, Wang Hu was also a person of this era, and he knew the prestige of the literati in the township, so he hesitated for a moment, and finally agreed, only ordering Zhou Zhe to be placed under house arrest in his own house, and he was not allowed to move around.

A few days later, Wang Hu recruited and surrendered his soldiers, sent troops out of the city to the north, and led 50 people to temporarily live in the town fort to defend it. Zhou Zhe learned that it was convenient for his son Zhou Bang to plan: "Now the central guard is empty, leaving less than 100 people such as Wang Hu. Wang Hu is vulgar and unscrupulous, as long as he prepares enough wine and food to congratulate him, he will be able to anesthetize carelessness, and you quickly select more than ten like-minded people, pretending to be Confucian scholars to hide sharp blades, waiting for an opportunity to attack. ”

Zhou Bang still had doubts about this, and said to his father: "Father, although Wang Hu has few followers, it is difficult to transfer from the left and right, once the assassination is carried out, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to protect everything." ”

Zhou Zhe said with a smile: "The rebels are in chaos, do you have any thoughts of loyalty?" However, the snobs are ignorant and reckless, and when they kill Wang Hu first, they will be reprimanded, and they will share the money, and they can be caught when they are not prepared. I don't have to worry, just go and prepare. ”

After Zhou Bang's preparations were completed, Zhou Zhe immediately led the team to Wang Hu to congratulate him. Wang Hu was somehow suspicious.

Zhou Zhe replied: "The army is majestic, and the fort has been owned by the general. Today, he is a local Confucian scholar, who is full of poetry and books, and is well versed in civil affairs, which can help the general to defend the entire central guard. In order to express our intention to surrender, the students have prepared their own food and drink, hoping to get drunk with the general before resting. ”

Wang Hu was overjoyed, thinking that he had been in battle for a long time, where was he afraid of this group of Confucian students? Immediately drove left and right, and drank with everyone. When the wine was half-drunk, under Zhou Zhe's signal, everyone surrounded Wang Hu in the name of toasting, and then stabbed him with a dagger.

At this time, Zhou Zhe also showed the difference between the literati in the northwest border town and the literati in the south of the Yangtze River, and personally stepped forward and cut off Wang Hu's head without blinking his eyes, which aroused a round of applause. He immediately led the people to rush to the door, reprimanded the rest of the rebels, and ordered them to be set on fire in the house under the pretense of appeasement. The city ran to tell each other, and the fortress was recovered.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the main force of the thief army came back, and after Zhou Zhe suffered a big loss last time, he knew that the strength in the city was not enough to fight, so he took his family and Wang Hu's head to Guyuan to warn. Ningxia Zhongwei was then owned by Bibai father and son.

In the direction of Pingyu, north of the town of Ningxia, the rebel offensive was the most difficult. Although the Pingyu military system is only "Pingyu guards the palace of thousands of households", at this time there has already been a permanent staff general to guard it, called "the general of Pingyu City on Ningxia North Road".

Tu Wenxiu and Bi Yun led the army to Pingyu, and Xiao Ruxun, the general of Pingyu, went out of the city to meet the battle. Pingyu is the most important main city in northern Ningbei, so it is well-equipped and has many firearms, and Xiao Ruxun is even more from the general, so he naturally refuses to surrender.

He responded with cavalry on both wings, sending guns and artillery, and archers to suppress Tu Wenxiu's central front. Because Bibai did not give the rebels too many firearms, Xiao Ruxun once had the upper hand in the battle when the firearms were insufficient and the precision of the movement was scattered.

When the defenders of Pingyu fired a few volleys, the infantry marched forward in formation, and the two wings of the infantry were divided into parts to flank them, but at this time, Xiao Ruxun's right flank moved wrongly, and there was a situation of self-obstruction. Bi Bai Yizi Biyun immediately grabbed the fighter plane, and led the army to charge to the right flank. Since this Biyun can be accepted as a righteous son by Bi Bai, he is naturally a brave and good fighter, and he is a strong martial artist, plus the soldiers under his command are Bi family soldiers, this move is unstoppable, Xiao Ruxun hurriedly ordered the front battalion to return to defense, but Biyun was still able to threaten Xiao Ruxun's main formation several times.

Biyun scolded sharply while galloping: "Yan'an Xiao clan, no guts rats!" No matter how many guards there are, you can only protect you for a while, as a general, can you dare to fight me to the death? If you can die at my hands, you will be honored even if you are defeated! Otherwise, I'll raze this bunker to the ground!" ”

Xiao Ruxun laughed a few times when he heard this, and scolded back: "You were originally a Hulu outside the Saiwai, and when you come to this Pingyu City today, you must think that you have a perfect plan in your heart. You are a reckless and stupid person, and you would be ashamed to do something with it. The rebel thief is rampant! I know that you are here to break through the Pingyu as soon as possible and unite the rebels, but no matter what you do, you will not be able to break through my Pingyu Fort! Then I'll see how you give an account to the dying disciples! ”

Hearing this, Biyun was furious, slapped his horse forward, and led the troops to charge again. Xiao Ruxun's Ming army rear team formed a formation to defend it, and the front battalion rushed to attack from the side, and Biyun could not advance lightly, and then acted backwards in a roundabout way. boundless

Xiao Ruxun originally wanted to change the formation with him, but suddenly realized that if he changed the formation and moved, the thieves would be close to the gate and divide the defenders inside and outside Pingyu Fort. So Xiao Ruxun encouraged the army, personally picked the elite of the army to kill, forced back the thief army, and urgently ordered the formation of the army to turn, and once again set up in front of Pingyu Fort.

Seeing that Xiao Ruxun was in a position at the front, Biyun was in a hurry to command at the moment, and was distracted in front of the formation, so he secretly shot an arrow, but unexpectedly, Xiao Ruxun still avoided the vital point, and only shot in the thigh.

Although Xiao Ruxun's arrow seemed to be fine, the morale of the rebels was high. Seeing this, Xiao Ruxun knew that it was already unfavorable to fight again at this time, so he ordered Xu Xu to retreat into the city.

Since then, Xiao Ruxun has not been able to hold on and swear to the death. The city is strong, the city is full of grain, and the water source is sufficient, but this side of the city is barren after all, and there is a shortage of money in the treasury. In order to stay on for a long time, Xiao Ruxun's wife Yang sold jewelry, bought food as military rations, and worked for the army every day. In addition, the Yang clan also mobilized the women of the city, many of whom were guards with wives and children, to take care of them day and night and take care of logistics. In order to protect the health of the family and the city, the soldiers in the city were deeply encouraged and were willing to die to serve the city.

Every day when the enemy army attacked the city, Xiao Ruxun personally went to the city gate to supervise the battle, and when the soldiers were commanded, they alternately maintained the armament, strengthened the city defense, and shared weal and woe. Despite the fact that the wound on his leg had not healed, he still insisted on inspecting the city defense four times a day, taking care of the wounded soldiers, directing the defense, encouraging the morale of the army, eating in the same pot with the defenders, and singing the same song.

Because they couldn't attack for a long time, Tu Wenxiu and Biyun were afraid of Bibai punishment and thought hard about a good plan to break the city.

Tu Wenxiu said: "Pingyu is worthy of being an important border defense area, with perfect garrisons and soldiers daring to fight. Unlike other places that are about to collapse at the touch of a button, our army is not more than twice as many as the defenders, and there are already many dead and wounded under the siege of the city for several days, coupled with the lack of firearms, it is difficult to break through the gate of Pingyu, how should this be good? ”

Biyun said angrily: "It's better to make a lonely bet, tomorrow I will rush forward and swear to break the peace!" ”

Tu Wenxiu rebuked Biyun for his courage and ignorance of strategy. Biyun looked at the leopard and said, "Then what do you have to do?" ”

Tu Wenxiu didn't bother to be angry with him, and said to himself: "The art of war is cloudy, ten will surround it, and double it will attack it, if it breaks the level, it will increase the strength of the army." I heard that the rest of the generals have occupied all parts of Ningxia one after another, and I am deeply ashamed that our army is blocked here! Now the only soldiers that can be borrowed are the department of Boshuoktu. ”

It turned out that Tuwenxiu didn't have any clever ideas, but he just brought Bo Shuoketu together to besiege him. So he ordered Biyun to go to Boshoketu and lead his army to attack Pingyu, while Tu Wenxiu broke through the city from the side. Biyun ordered Pegasus to leave the camp.

Tu Wenxiu wanted to invite Bo Shuo Ketu as a helper and was discovered by Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun thought about Yun Yun bravely, Bo Shuo Ketu was young and vigorous, if he had the help of Mongolia, he would be even more vicious than other rebel reinforcements. Although the peace is strong, it is not allowed to allow the two to merge. So a day later, Xiao Ruxun personally led the elite and took advantage of the night to set up an ambush in Nanguan, wanting to catch turtles in the urn.

Boshoketu set up a large camp ten miles west of the South Pass, and the clouds led the Mongol cavalry to roar and pass before the South Pass. Xiao Ruxun led the troops to attack, and Bi Yun was overjoyed to see Xiao Ruxun coming, so he ordered the left and right sides to encircle and shoot and then divide into an assault.

Although Bo Shuoketu is young, he is after all the lord of Mongolian Jinong and Ordos Wanhu, and the Mongolian cavalry under his command has strong combat effectiveness.

Biyun wanted to capture Xiao Ruxun alive, and ordered more than 10,000 people from the main Mongolian army sent by Ordos to chase into the pass.

However, after all the main Mongolian forces entered the pass, the gate was suddenly closed, and the flames on the mountain rocks were everywhere, and the fire was fired in a volley, and the fire flew arrows, and Xiao Ruxun suddenly led his troops to kill back.

The Mongol soldiers did not expect this, and they were in chaos for a while, scattering and fleeing. Under the night, the fireworks were shrouded, the horses were frightened, except for the soldiers who died in battle, there were countless tramples on each other, and the rest of the Mongolian troops hurriedly reined in their horses and rushed straight to the gate, and they had no intention of fighting at all.

Biyun couldn't stop drinking, and when he was distracted, he was shot off his horse by Xiao Ruxun with an arrow and died in the chaos.

Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the door to be opened and closed, took advantage of the situation to cover up, and went straight to the camp of Boshuoktu. Bo Shuoke was shocked when he heard the news, gathered the remnants and retreated fifty miles, temporarily avoiding Xiao Ruxun's soldiers. Xiao Ruxun took advantage of the situation to destroy the camp of Boshuoktu, and at the same time captured some of the enemy soldiers, cattle, sheep and livestock, and then pretended to be a momentum and returned to the city in triumph.

Seeing this situation, Tu Wenxiu was naturally shocked, so he retreated for ten miles first, leaving his troops to continue stationing, and he himself led his relatives back to Ningxia to worship and confess.

In terms of Guyuan, when he heard about the abnormal transfer in Ningxia at the beginning, although Gao Guangxian did not expect such a great change in Ningxia, he immediately sent 500 cavalry to investigate the truth in two ways.

However, Bibai led 3,000 troops to ambush on the Beishan path, and the Guyuan cavalry was caught off guard, losing more than half of them on the spot, and Bibai ordered the whole army to cover up. The other Guyuan soldiers reported the Ningxia mutiny halfway, and hurriedly turned back to Guyuan, but they were still chased by Bibai and wiped out all of them.

Bibai took advantage of the victory to march into Guyuan, first feinted and divided his troops to the east to attack the county, the rebels were strong, and the counties were surrendered. But Guyuan and Ningxia are the same Ming Dynasty nine-sided important towns, the city is strong, the garrison of Guyuan Town has a total of 60,000 people, although most of them are scattered all over the place, but there are still more than 10,000 elites in the city garrison to be jealous.

Although Gao Guangxian had made continuous misjudgments before, in the face of this situation, he finally did not continue to delay Gao Pragmatic, personally supervised the battle, and stubbornly defended the original. After two days of attacking, Bibai felt that there was no chance to take advantage of it, and he was afraid that the Ming army from all over the country would come to help, so he had to lead his troops back north. And Gao Guangxian finally became wise, and began to order the forcible mobilization of troops, no longer entangled in the issue of military salaries; On the one hand, he urgently reported the military situation, and at the same time pleaded guilty to the emperor.

The rebel armies led by Bi Chengen and Xu Chao either attacked and attacked, or lured the city with the governor and the general army. Because of its strong soldiers, come and go like the wind, good at killing unscrupulous, rampant arrogance, the Ming army stationed in various places or because of the unpreparedness, or because of the weak force and difficult to resist, but also Bo Shuoketu suffered a loss after the fury, really mobilized their own main force to help, so that the rebels everywhere they went to look at the wind and invincible, Ningxia forty-nine cities and fortresses in danger, except for the capture of the Ping.

At this time, Bibai has more than 60,000 soldiers, proud of the side of the fortress, and it is rumored that Bibai called himself "Bi Prince" (imitation Dayan Khan's common name in the Ming Dynasty "Little Prince"), wanting to tear the earth and seal the king, and the three sides were shaken.

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