After Xiao Tianjian learned the news of Luo Li and Liu Bao, he immediately laughed, Luo Li and Liu Bao fought this battle really beautifully, originally he just wanted the two of them to drag down the officers and soldiers of Yichuan, and it was okay for him to fight for the capture of Ruyang County, but he didn't expect these two guys to do much more beautiful than he asked, and actually overturned the 5,000 officers and soldiers with a light division, and almost ate all the officers and soldiers sent by the Guide Mansion, and captured countless weapons and armor and grains, and captured nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers on the spot.

And after these more than 3,000 officers and soldiers were captured, many of them were willing to surrender to the Xingtian Army, and then follow the Xingtian Army, anyway, they used to be soldiers in the imperial court, and the salary was often short, or they didn't have it at all, and they ate like pig food, and they were beaten and scolded and even tortured by the officials at every turn, and now they saw that the Xingtian Army was so powerful, they simply turned against the Xingtian Army to do things, so Xiao Tianjian had another 2,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.

And fortunately, these soldiers have been trained to some extent, and after following the Xingtian Army, they can quickly transform them into usable combat effectiveness without too much effort, so that Xiao Tianjian will not have the problem of shortage of troops.

In just over 20 days after Xiao Tianjian took Ruyang County, the Xingtian Army swept through the three counties of Ruyang, Yichuan and Song County, and the local officers and soldiers either fled in despair, or surrendered to the Xingtian Army on the spot, and the officials of Song County abandoned the city and fled, and Yichuan County was also conquered by the Xingtian Army under the onslaught of Luo Li and Liu Bao, and the defenders finally abandoned their weapons and surrendered to the Xingtian Army.

In this way, the Xingtian Army has become more powerful in the western part of Henan, but for the government, this really can't make them feel at ease.

It was under such circumstances that Xiong Wencan stepped down in Liangguang, came to Nanjing, and took over the position of governor of the five provinces, but the situation waiting for him made Xiong Wencan very headache.

Henan is now in addition to Xiao Tianjian's Xingtian army in western Henan continues to expand its territory, at the same time, the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong is also in southern Henan, constantly attacking, first attacking Guangzhou, and then turning to conquer Zhengyang, after the plunder, once again south to Suizhou.

In addition, Liu Guoneng led his troops to move around in the Jingxiang area, and the scorpion block Tuoyangkun also crossed the Yangtze River after the year, entered Jiangbei again, and once again threatened Fengyang.

And on the Shaanxi side, Li Zicheng and Sun Chuanting's soldiers and horses fought in Hanzhong, and Chongzhen's army was in a big array at the end of the ninth year, and it was actually on par with the officials and troops in Shaanxi.

Cao Cao and Luo Rucai led his troops into the southern part of Shanxi, and carried out very frequent activities around Jiezhou in the south of Shanxi.

Such a situation makes Xiong Wencan's head as big as a fight, but since he is here, Xiong Wencan can only find a way to deal with the current situation in a down-to-earth manner, otherwise, he knows the temper of the saint today, and whether this head can be kept is a matter of maybe.

After Xiong Wencan arrived in office, after sorting out the current situation, the first target was selected as the culprit of Xingtianjun, this time the first culprit who provoked the situation in the Central Plains, after combing, Xiong Wencan keenly found that it was Xiao Tianjian, if it was not for Xiao Tianjian at the end of last year to suddenly cross the river to the south and enter Henan to attack Yongning County, then it is estimated that it would not have caused Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Tuoyangkun and other roads to change the people's army out of Sichuan and Shaanxi to enter Huguang, Henan, Jiangbei and other places again. Moreover, at the same time as he arrived in office, he received news from the three counties of Ruyang County, Yichuan County, and Song County, and he could see that the style of the Xingtian Army was different from that of other people's armies.

For this reason, he specially sent someone to collect all kinds of information about Xingtianjun, from the recovered news, he learned that Xiao Tianjian was from Shaanxi, the specific origin is unknown, no one can tell what he was born in, what he used to do, but this person first started in Huangyang, Shaanxi, and later followed Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang to fight in Longzhou.

But for some reason, after the Battle of Longzhou, this person suddenly led his troops to leave Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's department, and when he reappeared, he had already appeared in Shanxi, thousands of miles away, and established a foothold in Yangcheng County.

After the Xingtian Army gained a foothold in Yangcheng, it continued to expand its strength, first controlled the entire territory of Yangcheng, and then crossed the mountains to take Yuanqu County, and then invaded Qinshui and Zezhou, Shanxi officials continued to send troops to suppress it, the result was to fight a battle and lose a battle, the power of the Xingtian Army expanded once, and finally even Hong Chengchou sent Shaanxi generals Zuo Guangxian and He Renlong into Jin to cooperate with Shanxi's official army to suppress it, and finally with an absolute superiority of troops, they all ended up in a big defeat, now look at the situation in Shanxi, The Xingtian Army controlled almost the entire southeast of Shanxi, and Zezhou and the surrounding counties all fell under the control of the Xingtian Army.

Now this thief chief surnamed Xiao is not only not satisfied, but suddenly led his troops south into Henan, which immediately provoked the current chaos, so that most of the people who had been squeezed into Shaanxi and Sichuan began to move again, and also made the situation in Henan, which had just been a little stable, fall into chaos again.

So unlike others, after Xiong Wencan arrived, he paid more attention to the Xingtian Army than anyone else, in his opinion, if you want to stabilize the situation in Henan, you must first solve the big trouble of the Xingtian Army, at the very least, you must first drive the Xingtian Army out of Henan, drive back to Shanxi, and then seek to concentrate on completely killing them.

And he did not dare to give the slightest contempt for the Xingtian Army this time, judging from the previous battles between the Xingtian Army and the official army, the Xingtian Army almost all won, Shanxi first defeated Zuo Guangxian, He Renlong, Xu Dingguo and other 40,000 troops, and then entered Henan first Liankemichi, Yongning County, and then defeated the Guanning Iron Cavalry under the command of Zu Kuan, who suppressed bandits in Henan, and then defeated the 5,000 officers and troops under Liu Ruming of the Guide Mansion in Yichuan County.

Xiong Wencan did not dare to despise the combat effectiveness of such an army, so after Xiong Wencan arrived, he immediately personally arranged for Henan to suppress the Xingtian Army, and immediately ordered that Chen Yongfu, a staff general, be transferred from Kaifeng Mansion to lead 4,000 Kaifeng troops, and ordered them to arrive in Ruzhou before the tenth day of March.

Zu Dale, who was stationed in the Wuyang area, led his troops to Lushan County to meet Zu Kuan's department, headed by Zu Dale, and collected 3,000 troops from Guanning, who were also stationed in Ruzhou.

Ma Rutian, a general of Luoyang, led 3,000 troops to Yiyang County and joined forces with Wang Shaoyu, bringing the number of officers and soldiers in Yiyang County to 7,000.

Feng Chun, the deputy general of Nanyang, led 4,000 troops to go out of the south to join the first part of Runing Mansion, with a total of 6,000 men and horses entering Ruyang.

And the transfer of these soldiers and horses, Xiong Wencan was handed over to Wang Jiazhen to be responsible, and Wang Jiazhen was ordered to act as the governor of Henan, Chen Biqian, to be in charge of Henan's suppression, and ordered him to go to Ruzhou to sit in the town, and dispatch in the center, so as to defeat the Xingtian army this time or drive back to Shanxi.

In addition, he also sent people to the capital to meet Yang Sichang, reported his plan to Yang Sichang, and asked Yang Sichang to find a way to raise food and salary for the troops in Henan, and the additional troops will enter Henan to cooperate with him in suppression.

Of course, while arranging to deal with the Xingtian Army, he did not forget to deal with Liu Guoneng, who was operating in the Jingxiang area, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was operating in the area around the junction of Huguang and Henan, and at the same time dispatched Huguang generals Zuo Liangyu and Shi Kefa, a total of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, to encircle and suppress them.

In short, Xiong Wencan is a relatively capable person no matter what, as soon as he arrived, he was in full swing, for the newly arrived governor of the five provinces, the people from all walks of life who were transferred were still quite jealous, after all, Xiong Wencan was personally recommended by Yang Sichang, who was extremely favored in the DPRK and China, and was strongly supported by Yang Sichang, and now Wen Tiren, who has been in the DPRK and China for many years, has lost power and was relegated to his home glory, and Yang Sichang's limelight in the DPRK is unmatched for a while, Chongzhen can be said to have great trust in Yang Sichang.

Under such a limelight, Xiong Wencan's actions are naturally much more convenient, and the civil ministers and generals from all over the country have also been watching the direction of the wind in the court, and now Yang Sichang is on the throne, and Xiong Wencan has come up, Xiong Wencan wants to mobilize them to suppress bandits, how dare they disobey orders, so this face is naturally sold to Xiong Wencan, not to mention that the number of soldiers and horses mobilized this time is large, and although the Xingtian Army is powerful, but this time so many soldiers and horses were used to encircle and suppress it, and the armies also felt that they were a little sure, So at the sound of Xiong Wencan's order, the officers and soldiers in various places began to act, prepared their troops and horses, raised food and wages, and began to be ordered to start driving towards their respective goals.

Wang Jiazhen relieved the burden of the governor of the five provinces, but he was not directly deposed and arrested for questioning, and the imperial court continued to retain him to be responsible for the suppression of the Henan territory, and now he was ordered to go to Ruzhou to command the encirclement and suppression of the Xingtian Army, Wang Jiazhen also knew that this was his last chance to turn over, if he used so many troops this time, and could not solve the Xingtian Army, then his career would be the end.

Therefore, Wang Jiazhen did not dare to be careless this time, cheered up, and immediately left Nanjing, and under the escort of the family members, rushed to Ruzhou day and night, and began this battle of encirclement and suppression of the Xingtian Army.

But at this time, Xiao Tianjian finally waited for a guest he had coveted for a long time, and within a few days after he took Ruyang, a guard he had sent rushed to Ruyang from Lushan with a smile on his face, and reported good news to Xiao Tianjian.