Two days after the destruction of Pingliang City, Zhou Yuji and his subordinate generals Wang Shihu, Huang Tingbi and others finally escorted a large number of artillery loads and arrived outside Pingliang City.

At this time, Zhou Yuji and others knew the news of the destruction of Pingliang City, and they also knew that the 3,000 battalions and the Qingyang soldiers who came later would definitely not let go of the Musu barbarians in the city.

However, when they arrived in Pingliang City, they were still shocked by the tragic situation in Pingliang City.

From the inside and outside of the urn city at the gate of the city to the streets and alleys of the city, there were pools of flesh and blood in the shape of people and a headless corpse everywhere.

This is the result of more than 7,000 and 3,000 battalions of cavalry rushing into the city one after another, repeatedly stampeding and brandishing sabers and directly beheaded.

Of course, there are some of them, which are the result of being beheaded by the three thousand Qingyang soldiers who vented their anger.

The weather in late June has entered the scorching summer season, and even in Pingliang City, which is located in the northwest plateau region, it can no longer stop the summer heat.

After only two days, a large number of corpses in the city began to flatulate and rot, gradually emitting a foul smell, attracting patches of flies to buzz and fly on the corpses all over the city.

Zhou Yuji is also the chief soldier of a town now, but compared with the courtiers of Wu'anbo who has the lord, his qualifications are a little shallow, and his status is a little lower, plus he came too late, and he has no reason to refuse the arrangement of the royal courtiers to ask him to stay in Pingliang for the time being.

In this way, as soon as Zhou Yuji arrived in Pingliang, he quickly took over Pingliang City, which was full of corpses, from the hands of the courtiers of King Wu'anbo.

And the courtiers of King Wu Anbo led the 3,000 battalions and 7,000 cavalry who had gained a lot of harvest and high morale in the slaughter of the city, and quickly rushed to the next city.

In the next few days, the news that Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, with tens of thousands of thieves abandoned Pingliang and traveled westward, quickly spread throughout the three sides of Shaanxi as if he had grown wings.

The bandit leaders under the command of King Gao Yingxiang who were guarding the surrounding areas of Pingliang also gave up their original territory and ran westward after hearing the wind.

Luo Rucai, who was ordered to garrison the Jingchuan area in the southeast of Pingliang, took Cao Cao's battalion, which had tens of thousands of men and horses, and was the first to get the news, so he was also the first to follow the west, abandoned Jingchuan, and went straight to Qin'an, which was 200 miles away, and went to Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings who were also separated from King Chuang.

And Hao Yongzhong, Liu Tichun and others, who were ordered to take He Yilong and He Jinyu, stationed in the Jingyuan area, were already facing the pressure of the officials and troops in Guyuan City in the north.

As for Zhang Xianzhong, on the one hand, he sent someone to order Zhang Xianbi, a general stationed in Qingshui County, at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu, to retreat westward, and on the other hand, he also sent Zhang Kewang, the eldest of the newly recruited sons, to lead a group of soldiers and horses to quickly march west to seize Tongwei, which was occupied by Bai Minghe's subordinates.

In addition to the thieves sent out by King Gao Yingxiang to guard various places one after another to hear the news of the westward advance, Bai Minghe, the pseudo-commander who led the Musu barbarian army to entrench in the strategic place of Tianshui, the seat of Qinzhou, was already worried and had trouble sleeping and eating in the face of Wang Chengen, the chief military officer of Shaanxi who was advancing from Fengxiang to the west.

At this time, Bai Minghe learned that Gao Yingxiang had abandoned Pingliang and that he had become the forefront, so he also made a decision and led the 20,000 Musu barbarian army under his command to quickly retreat to Gongchang Mansion, the back road he had reserved.

As soon as Bai Minghe withdrew with the Musu barbarian army in the Tianshui area, those local Musubarians in Qinzhou Mansion who had relied on Bai Minghe and were unwilling to abandon their homes and move westward also fled westward in groups with their families and belongings.

In just over ten days after King Gao Yingxiang abandoned Pingliang and marched westward, the situation formed in the trilateral areas of Shaanxi since the Musuman riot quickly changed.

On the evening of the first day of the seventh month, Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft who was originally in Yan'an, took Lu Yuanding's artillery team and Li Xianzhong's musket team, carrying a large amount of grain, grass, ammunition and other materials, and moved his Qincha to Qingyang City.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen let him sit in Yan'an Mansion was because he was not at ease about the situation in the northwest, and was worried that Yuan Chonghuan would go south from Huamachi to Guyuan, and when Hong Chengchou entered Qinzhou from Xi'an, he was finally driven across the Meridian Ridge and driven into the northern Shaanxi thieves in the Pingliang area, and returned to northern Shaanxi again.

As for why Emperor Chongzhen cared so much about the movements of this group of thieves in northern Shaanxi, Li Banghua didn't understand it very well, but he knew Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts.

Therefore, before Gao Yingxiang and his thieves did not continue to advance westward, no matter how the situation in the northwest changed, he followed the emperor's will, responded to all changes with the same, sat in the city of Yan'an, and urged Ma Maocai, the right political counselor of Shaanxi, and Zhou Shiqi, the prefect of Yan'an, and others to allocate and transfer grain, grass and ammunition for Yuan Chonghuan, Wang Tingchen and various branches under Hong Chengchou.

However, at the end of June, after Gao Yingxiang brought the news that Gao Yingxiang led his army of thieves all the way west to enter the main Lintao and returned to Yan'an, Li Banghua felt that the time was ripe and he could move to Qingyang and even Pingliang.

Because at this time, the possibility that Emperor Chongzhen was worried about, that is, the possibility of the thieves under Gao Yingxiang's command returning to northern Shaanxi, was gone.

Soon after Li Banghua moved to Qingyang, Yuan Chonghuan also took his trilateral governor Xingyuan, followed by Cao Wenzhao and other generals, from Guyuan to the south and then west, moved to the city of Jingningzhou, and soon sent the cavalry of the Wulie battalion under Cao Wenzhao to sweep Zhuanglang, Tongwei, Qin'an and other places, forcing Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who had not gained a firm foothold in Tongwei, to lead their troops into Anding again.

At this time, Ma Shouying, who had just eaten a full meal for half a month in Anding City, had already gone to the Ma family in Hezhou one step earlier.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi Province who was stationed in Pi County at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu, also arranged various aftermath affairs after Yang Shien's department of the Shaanxi army cleared the thieves and Mu Suman on the first line of Jingchuan and Qingshui, and then returned to his home and returned to Xi'an City.

However, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi Province who returned to Xi'an, could not be idle, because immediately afterwards, he had to start the tedious affairs of relocating the people of Guanzhong to Qingyang, Pingliang, Qinzhou and other places.

At the beginning of the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a steady stream of thieves in northern Shaanxi, killing one stubble after another, and it seemed that they could never be killed.

In fact, this is not because there are too many people in northern Shaanxi, it is not.

Speaking of which, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population under the rule of the governor of Shaanxi was about four or five million, and it was mainly concentrated in the Guanzhong area, while the population under the governor of Yansui was even smaller, at most around two million.

But it is such a population base, but under the natural and man-made disasters again and again, it continues to rebel and rebel, wave after wave, until the entire Ming Dynasty is buried.

The reasons for this include natural disasters and man-made disasters.

The drought that lasted for many years was, of course, a very important factor.

However, the large number of displaced people in northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong who lost their land and could not make a living, and never received effective resettlement from the imperial court, was an even more fatal cause.

These large numbers of displaced people scattered in the cities and villages, especially in the periphery of the cities, are the population base of the continuous flow of thieves in northern Shaanxi.

If these homeless people who have no means of livelihood cannot find a place for the migrants to resettle and let them support themselves, and continue to stay in the Guanzhong Plain, where there are many people and little land, sooner or later they will still be a hidden danger, and they may encounter any natural and man-made disasters and become new thieves.

One of the important reasons why Emperor Chongzhen had to spend so much effort to clear the Mu Suman in Longxi, Gannan and Ningxia was to settle a large number of landless displaced people in Shaanxi in this place.

Landless peasants in northern Shaanxi and northern Shanxi can be resettled in Hezhong, Xuanda, Ningxia, and even naturalization, while the "surplus population" in Guanzhong, in addition to the above-mentioned places, can be resettled in the nearby Longxi area, which is connected to the mountains and rivers of Guanzhong.

Just as the area on both sides of the Yellow River in Ningxia can be called Saibei Jiangnan, in this era and even in later generations, many places in Longxi and Gannan can be called Longshang Jiangnan.

Although the terrain of these places is high and there are many mountains, the mountains and rivers are magnificent, and there are many rivers, such as Tao River in the west, Jing River in the north, Wei River in the east, and Bailong River, Baishui River in the south, as well as the upper reaches of the Han River and Jialing River.

When there was a great drought in northern Shaanxi, Guyuan, northern Shanxi, and even Shandong and Henan, this place had abundant rainfall because of the Qinling Mountains in the south and the plateau in the west.

Such a good place is used to house the displaced people in Guanzhong, which is the best choice.

At the end of June, Wang Chengen, the chief military officer of Shaanxi, led 30,000 Shaanxi officers and troops to train with the township corps, and officially moved to Qinzhou Mansion, which had been emptied, to govern Tianshui City.

This strategy of taking the local township corps of Shaanxi to practice emigration with the army soon began in the surrounding areas of Tianshui.

There were some Mu Suman who were lucky and did not escape, thinking that when the officials and soldiers of the imperial court came, they only needed to kneel on the ground and shout a few words of long live the Ming Emperor and they would be fine.

However, Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Shaanxi, and his various departments of the official army and the Shaanxi Township Corps wanted more than just their submission.

Therefore, the only answer to them is merciless killing.

At this time, even if some Mu Suman ate pork in public in front of Shaanxi officers and soldiers and ruined the scriptures, no one was pardoned, because the time limit set by the trilateral governor's office had passed.