On the 11th day of the first month of the 26th year of Wanli, the main force of 35,000 people from the north attacked Taiyuan City, and Taiyuan City fell.

When the cabinet got the news, everyone, including Zhao Zhigao, fell into deep shock and incomprehension.

Didn't you say that after Xiao Ruxun arrived, all the problems were solved? Hasn't Xiao Ruxun already fought out of Bauhinia Pass? Didn't it say that Taiyuan had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Wang Shiyang? Why did the Beiyu still take Taiyuan?

Wang Shiyang's plea of guilt has solved all doubts.

This time, there may be a master to help him go south.

The 35,000 northern captives who left from Bauhinia Pass did not return north, but quietly hid in Shanxi, and raided Taiyuan City without anyone expecting it, and the reason why Taiyuan City fell so easily was because there were only 20,000 defenders in Taiyuan City at that time.

The rest of the defenders went to fight back.

Beiyu despicably used an army of about 10,000 people as a bait, defeated all the way, and attracted the main force of the Ming army to the north all the way, although Wang Shiyang felt strange and did not allow the army to go north, but the army strongly demanded that Wang Shiyang could not suppress it, so he could only agree, and then it looked like there was no problem, and Wang Shiyang himself went north.

So Taiyuan was empty.

As for the question of why Xiao Ruxun, who everyone was wondering about, did not play a role, it was also explained.

Xiao Ruxun had just arrived in Xinzhou, where Wang Shiyang was located, on the eleventh day of the first month to meet Wang Shiyang to express his concerns, and almost at the same moment, the sentry came to report that there was a fire in Taiyuan City, and Taiyuan City was afraid of accidents, Xiao Ruxun had no time to counterattack, and Taiyuan City was breached.

This matter has nothing to do with Xiao Ruxun, and the main responsibility lies with Wang Shiyang and the Yulin cavalry who insist on going north and do not obey Wang Shiyang's orders.

After knowing the news, Wang Shiyang was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted, and in desperation, he could only temporarily entrust the governor's power to Xiao Ruxun, and asked Xiao Ruxun to help him clean up the mess, and he helplessly lay in Xinzhou and waited for the imperial court to punish him.

At the same time, Wang Shiyang formally asked the imperial court to grant Xiao Ruxun the post of governor, so that Xiao Ruxun could clean up the mess with a justifiable temperance army, and do not send another governor, because the time is too late.

The cabinet was in chaos as if it had experienced an eight-magnitude earthquake, Zhao Zhigao didn't think about the grudge between the emperor and his ministers, Shen never thought about his resignation, Shen Li didn't think about his loss, everything made way for the inexplicable expansion of the war now.

Taiyuan was breached, and the war escalated completely!

Coincidentally, almost at the same moment, Xiao Ruxun's secret music to the emperor through the Jinyi Wei secret line was also sent to the emperor's hands, and the secret music was sent one day later than Wang Shiyang, and the official music book would also arrive one day later, but the secret music allowed Zhu Yijun to learn more complete important news a quarter of an hour earlier than the cabinet ministers.

Beiyu used a plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, transferred the main force of 130,000 people in Taiyuan City, and was able to easily break the city, the main elite areas of the city were destroyed, and a number of official facilities, including the Jin Palace, were burned, and the officials were almost killed, and none of the rich households in the city survived, and all died.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the people have not been implicated much, the number of dead and wounded people is small, and the northern captives took the initiative to evacuate after breaking through Taiyuan City for four hours, and by the time Xiao Ruxun sent out the secret music, Taiyuan City had been recovered.

The reason why the Beiyu were able to attack Taiyuan City by surprise was that the Beiyu found the grain cave of the Shanxi Jin merchants, and used the space in the cave to hide the soldiers and horses, deceived Wang Shiyang's large-scale search for the enemy, and successfully made the main force of the Ming army go north, and Taiyuan was empty.

As for why Taiyuan Jiancheng was breached, Xiao Ruxun said that he didn't know very well, because he just arrived in Xinzhou and got a report that someone saw black smoke in Taiyuan City, but when he entered Taiyuan City and asked the people in the city, some people said that when the Taiyuan City Gate was not breached, there were northern captives in Taiyuan City, and a fire broke out.

This is the fundamental reason for the direct collapse of Taiyuan City and the lack of defensive operations.

He investigated it afterwards and found that the first place where the fire started was the Jin Palace, the center of the entire Taiyuan, which made him puzzled, because that meant that when the Taiyuan offensive and defensive battles were still raging, the Jin Palaces were burned.

And Xiao Ruxun directly pointed out the doubts that he had been solved, and confirmed his analysis - this time the Beiyu went south was deliberately arranged, and the grain from the Beiyu was provided all the way, and the four and five years of old grain obtained by the Beiyu were all provided by someone, and those who could do this were the big Jin merchants in Shanxi.

It is not a secret that the people of Shanxi have always had the habit of storing grain, and the big households have more grain, the people have little food, they can't save it, and those who can save it are the big households, and they save a lot.

Originally, it didn't matter, but the number was too huge, and the fields in the hands of the big families were too much, as far as Xiao Ruxun currently learned, there were 120,000 stone grains in the seven grain caves, and more grain caves had not had time to explore.

Xiao Ruxun strongly suspected that all the military fields in Datong, Shanxi Province had fallen into the hands of the wealthy Jin merchants in Datong, Shanxi, and that they had obtained a large amount of grain from this.

According to Xiao Ruxun's estimates, the illegal grain storage of the entire Shanxi Datong households is no less than millions of stones, which is enough to help the refugees in the entire Shanxi Datong survive the whole winter, and there are still many surpluses.

This time, the whole Datong will not be mentioned, the reason why the Beilu can go south to Shanxi so quickly is that someone provided routes and food, which helped the Beiyu quickly break through the Pingxing Pass, open the way to the south, and beat the Ming army into a mess, and gave it back to a mess, Wang Shiyang was in the plan.

However, the only thing worthy of praise is that Wang Shiyang was quite prescient, and sent the Jin Wang's family to Qi County to escape the war very early, so the Jin King was still safe.

Xiao Ruxun decided to pursue the northern captives, annihilate them all, and then go north to counterattack Datong, but I have to say that the problems exposed in Shanxi are very serious.

Later, Xiao Ruxun also mentioned that Wang Shiyang entrusted the governor's power to him, gave some explanations, and asked for some instructions on troop movements, saying that he would follow the emperor's orders.

After reading it, Zhu Yijun didn't notice that his hands were trembling.