Does Chen Yue have the power to dispose of a governor of a province? Naturally not. The governor is a second-class official, and he must be removed by the imperial court. Although Chen Yue has the Shangfang Sword King Command Banner, he can only deal with officials below the third grade, and according to the convention, it does not include civil officials.

But now that Chen Yue ordered Li Jiantai to be taken down, none of the Shanxi civil and military officials present dared to say much. In the face of absolute strength, conventions and rules have to give way to strength.

After taking Li Jiantai, the officials in Shanxi no longer dared to talk nonsense, and there was no shortage of materials for the army.

And Chen Yue did not stay in Taiyuan for long, and after a day of repair, he continued to the south with the army.

Some time ago, Li Yi was ordered to cross the Yellow River with his army, launch an attack on the thieves in Henan, and under the attack of Hao Shaoqi, he drove Li Guobu out of Luoyang, and is currently marching towards Tongguan.

Chen Yue, on the other hand, would lead his troops to Hedong via Taiyuan, attack from Pujindu to Shaanxi, and launch a two-way attack from Shanxi, Henan to Guanzhong.

Although according to intelligence, Li Guo and other thieves have occupied the entire territory of Shaanxi, and their troops are almost hundreds of thousands. However, Chen Yue didn't care about this. Because he knew that the ruined Shaanxi was simply unable to supply hundreds of thousands of troops. I'm afraid that even the soldiers and their families add up to that. Such an army is simply a rabble.

The Shun thieves also had an army of tens of thousands in Shanxi, led by the Mianhou Yuan Zongdi, who was currently entrenched in the southern part of Pingyang Province.

Chen Yue went south from Taiyuan, collected the local officers and soldiers in Shanxi, detained the main generals, and led the local army in Shanxi with his subordinate officers as senior officers, and went all the way south into Pingyang Prefecture, with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops.

Seeing that he was in contact with the thief, Chen Yue did not send his descendants into the battlefield, but drove the Shanxi soldiers to fight the thief. Before going into battle, military discipline was emphasized, and the results of retreating and instilling in the ears of every officer such results as killing if they retreated and killing if they were ineffective in combat.

The Shanxi soldiers were originally former military households, and the army organized by the gentry was mostly ruffians and hooligans, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low, which was also the reason why the thieves were allowed to occupy the southern part of Pingyang Mansion for so long. If it weren't for the thieves who were afraid of Chen Yue's Northern Expeditionary Army, they would have captured the entire Shanxi long ago.

Therefore, in the initial battle, these Shanxi soldiers did not contribute to the work, and often just came into contact with the thieves, and then immediately collapsed.

Chen Yue decisively took these defeated Shanxi soldiers with a knife, and all the officers above the junior flag officer were pulled to the front of the battle, and they were all cut and beheaded.

When hundreds of heads rolled down, all the Shanxi soldiers were shocked, they knew that there was no more luck. And the 50,000 heavily armed elites of the Northern Expeditionary Army behind them made them dare not even have the idea of fighting back.

Under the threat of death, these Shanxi soldiers finally broke out and launched a frantic attack on Yuan Zongdi's army. Defeated several thieves in a row, recovered the five cities of Lingshi, Fenxi, Huozhou, Zhaocheng and Hongdong, and marched under the city of Pingyang.

Faced with the Ming army, which broke out with great combat power, and learned that the commander of the Ming army was Chen Yue, the king of Qi in the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Zongdi did not dare to fight a decisive battle, and led his troops to withdraw from Pingyang Mansion and retreat towards Puzhou. And Puzhou is where Pujindu, the Yellow River ferry to Shaanxi, is located.

Crossing the Yellow River from Pujindu to the west will enter Shaanxi, and along the Wei River all the way to the west can go directly to Xi'an, so for the Shun army, Pujindu must not be lost, and the loss of Pujindu means that the gate of Guanzhong is open to the Ming army. Therefore, Yuan Zongdi gathered all the troops in his hands and defended both sides of the Yellow River in Pujin.

In Pingyang, which was occupied by 100,000 troops, Chen Yue did not rush to attack Pujindu, but Chen soldiers in Puzhou and sent someone to get in touch with Li Yi.

After Li Yi captured Luoyang, he launched an attack all the way to the west, and has now reached Shaanzhou. Li Guo led his troops to garrison Tongguan, hoping to resist the attack of the Ming army with the danger of Tongguan.

Hearing that Chen Yue personally led the troops to arrive, Li Yi immediately crossed the Yellow River and met Chen Yue.

"Lord Wang, why are you here in person, just leave the thief to your subordinates." Li Yi easily defeated the Shun army led by Li Guo in Luoyang, and he was very contemptuous of the strength of the Shun thief, believing that his own army alone was enough to exterminate the Shun thief!

Chen Yue looked at the generals under his command with satisfaction, in the recent series of battles, Li Yi performed well and already had the ability to take charge alone. The next strategy still needs to be implemented by Li Yi, so you have to tell him your plans.

"It's not difficult to exterminate the thief, but I have other arrangements for the thief." Saying that, Chen Yue told his plans and plates, and Li Yi's eyes widened more and more when he heard it.

"Lord Wang, it will only take a few months to exterminate all the thieves, and when the court is stable, you will carry out your plan Lord Wang, why bother to fake your hands on the thieves?" Li Yi asked puzzled.

Chen Yue shook his head: "It is said that it is a thief, but in fact, they are just some people who have been forced to be helpless, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to kill them all." ”

In fact, for the Shun army and the Western army, except for the brutal Zhang Xianzhong, Chen Yue had an appreciative and sympathetic attitude towards most of the generals of the Shunxi and Western armies. After all, in another time and space, when the Qing army went south, it was the remnants of the Western Army that supported half of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Although Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and other generals of the Shun army are not as amazing and talented as Li Dingguo, the thirteen loyal battalions in Kuizhou are the last Ming army to resist on the mainland!

The conduct of generals such as Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi is much stronger than that of the civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty!

The Qing army went south, and the civil and military generals of the whole country surrendered one after another to seek wealth and nobility, but a group of former thieves rebelled and held high the banner of the Ming Dynasty and insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty to the end, which cannot but be said to be a great irony.

Therefore, for such a person, how can Chen Yue not have a good impression in his heart?

Of course, no matter how good he feels, he has to fight against these people, after all, the destructive power of this group of people is too strong, and the Ming Dynasty, which has experienced war, needs reunification and peaceful development.

However, even if the swords and soldiers are facing each other, there is no need to kill them all, Chen Yue is willing to give this group of people a way out.

Of course, Li Guo and these people are willing to surrender Chen Yue naturally welcomes them, but it is estimated that the possibility of their surrender is very low, so they have to negotiate.

The current Shun army, the nominal head is Li Zicheng's younger brother Li Zijing is the emperor of Dashun, but in fact, the Shun army is respected by Li Guo, and all the generals of Yuan Zong listen to Li Guo's moderation.

The envoy sent to Shunying sailed towards Fenglingdu, from which he would cross the Yellow River and meet Li Guo at Tongguan.

Looking at the surging Yellow River in front of him, Chen Yue sighed in his heart, I don't know if Li Guo will come to meet him as promised, and I don't know if the generals of the Shun army will accept his idea. If not, then only the sword soldiers will fight to the death! ()

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