On the morning of 8 December, Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the new generation of thieves, rushed to Ganquanyu with the leaders of the various battalions under his command who had just left the vicinity of Ganquanyu and rushed to Ganquanyu after a short rest and replenishment in Yulin City.

For more than half a month, Liu Honglie followed Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu from Ningwu Pass to the north to kill Hukou, and then rushed to Guihua City from Hukou, and did not stay under Guihua City for two days, so he hurriedly led the army back to Yulin.

In the cold winter weather, in more than half a month, he traveled nearly 2,000 miles, and no one could stand it.

Even the cavalry of the border army of Yansui Town, which was able to withstand repeated hard battles under the iron-fisted governance of Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu, were seriously injured and complained.

Under such circumstances, Sun Chuanting accepted He Shiyu's suggestion and had to let the main cavalry force of the border army of Yansui Town, whose home was in Yulin, enter the city to rest and recuperate, and at least let them leave the rewards and seizures obtained from the more than half a year of going out to fight for their parents and wives.

In particular, the rewards and pensions of nearly 1,000 fallen cavalry officers and soldiers must be sent home.

Although Sun Chuanting attaches great importance to military law and governs the army strictly, he is not incomprehensible, and the soldiers are war-weary and miss their families, which is human nature and understandable.

Therefore, after Sun Chuanting arrived in Yulin, he let his soldiers enter the city to rest, among which the soldiers of the General Military Office of Yansui Town were given a three-day rest period, while the Fubiao cavalry led by Liu Honglie was only allowed to take a full day off.

Sun Chuanting had the grace of Liu Honglie to carry and rebuild, and Liu Honglie could only accept this arrangement, and rewarded his own salary, rewards and the seized proceeds brought back to his cavalry, and then after a day of sleep in Yulin City, he collected his cavalry and pursued him south.

But even so, he still missed the opportunity to defeat the thieves, or even stop them.

Liu Honglie led more than 1,000 people to the frontier army of Yansui Town, and after arriving at Ganquanyu, he was recruited into Ganquanyu by the supervising army Yu Shi Ma Mao.

Liu Honglie received sufficient supplies and ammunition in Ganquanyu, and Ma Maocai also learned from Liu Honglie about the recent major events in Xuanda and even Saibei and other places.

Two days later, Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu once again led the main cavalry of the border army in Yansui Town and arrived at Yan'an Mansion.

Ma Maocai and Liu Honglie got the news and also rushed to the rendezvous with a large amount of grain and grass.

After being rested and replenished, the cavalry of the border army in Yansui Town recovered to 5,000, and the standard battalion of the prison army brought by Ma Maocai also had 1,500 people.

On the morning of the second day after Sun Chuanting and the others rendezvoused in Yan'an Fucheng, they received a report from the sentinels sent by Liu Honglie, saying that they were in the area of Ziwuling at the junction of Yan'an Mansion and Qingyang Mansion, and that they had found a brigade of thieves going west along the river valley.

So, Sun Chuanting sent a team of cavalry to the west to report the news to the west along the Jingbian and Dingbian roads on the edge of the Great Wall, and reported to the trilateral governor's palace to prepare in advance, and at the same time led the cavalry to go first, and asked Ma Maocai to take the infantry of the standard battalion of the Yansui Town Supervision Army, and then escorted the grain and grass to follow.

At the same time that Sun Chuanting led his army to the west in Yan'an Prefecture, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides who had returned to Huamachi, also received an urgent report from Zhang Wenzheng, the general of the Qingyang Mansion garrison.

Zhang Wen is a subordinate of Yang Qi, the chief military officer, and after Guyuan Town moved to defend Huamachi, he was ordered to lead 2,000 soldiers from the former Guyuan Town battalion to garrison Qingyang Mansion more than 200 miles south of Huamachi.

This time, Zhang Wenzheng learned that Yang Qi was ordered to go south to take over Taomin and other places, but he was killed by the mutiny of the border troops in Taomin and other places, and he was resentful.

And the subsequent Musuman rebellion, which spread rapidly from Taozhou and Hezhou, made him feel terrified.

After being instigated by the large and small Moluo and imams in the prayer hall and worship temple to which they belonged, they suddenly became extremely crazy, shouting slogans of "wa-wa-la" in their mouths, and rushed into the villages, streets and alleys inhabited by Han people, slashing and killing the Han people.

This made Zhang Wenzheng and his Han soldiers extremely frightened.

Fortunately, the Trilateral Governor's Office soon issued a proclamation and order, not only characterizing the Taomin Mutiny and the Musu Barbarian Rebellion in Taomin Guyuan and other places as rebellion and rebellion, but also calling on all the Han people in the Trilateral Governor's Territory to take up all the weapons they could find, and together with the officials and soldiers, defend their homeland and suppress the Musu Barbarian Rebellion.

Zhang Wenzheng, a 40-year-old Qingyang counselor, has never entered the lecture hall, nor has he seen the Taizu who must be memorized in the lecture hall, that is to say, he has not yet had any awakened national consciousness, but he instinctively felt that Mu Suman, who believed in the Great Food Religion or Muslimism, was not the same kind as himself, a Han person.

And the Hui soldiers who kept fleeing in his camp after the Taomin chaos also made him deeply feel that he could no longer be indifferent.

Therefore, at the end of November, after Zhang Wenzheng received the proclamation from the Trilateral Governor's Palace, the first thing he did was to take down and imprison all the remaining more than 100 Hui officials and soldiers in his camp.

What Zhang Wenzheng did saved Qingyang Mansion City and saved himself at the same time.

From the end of November to the beginning of December, Guyuan and Pingliang mutinies occurred one after another, and Shi Kaixian, the deputy general who stayed in Guyuan under Yang Qi, and Yao Zhikui, the general who guarded Pingliang, were killed by their subordinates one after another.

In a small number of Musuman settlements in Qingyang Mansion, some of the Mo Luo of the Jingtang and the imams of the worship temple had not had time to launch a rebellion, so Zhang Wenzheng and Lin Rirui, the prefect of Qingyang, took the lead in leading the army to suppress it, the scripture hall was burned, the worship temple was destroyed, and a group of imams in the scripture hall and the imam of the scattered class were beheaded.

The suppression of the Musuman Sutra Hall and the Worship Temple by the officials and troops in Qingyang City, as well as the various sensational news of the expulsion and massacre of the Han people by Musuman from outside the city, also quickly aroused the bloody nature of the Han people in the city, so that the few Musuman people in the city were quickly slaughtered.

Therefore, when Gao Yingxiang, Ma Shouying and others took the team of thieves under their command and the people who came all the way, marched all the way west, and finally came to the vicinity of Qingyang Mansion, not only was there no more people in Qingyang City, but there were also thousands of Han people who were armed with farm tools, kitchen knives and sticks.

Seeing that Qingyang City was already prepared, and there were pursuers behind him, Gao Yingxiang, who did not have much willingness to attack the city, gave up the plan to attack the city under the persuasion of Lao Hui Ma Shouying and others.

At noon on December 11, Gao Yingxiang's troops met Li Zicheng's general camp east of Qingyang, and after seeing the few remaining relatives of his old Gao family, he led the thief camp around the city from outside Qingyang City and went straight to Pingliang.

And the officials, soldiers and civilians in the city of Qingyang Mansion, of course, no one dared to go out of the city to obstruct it.

On the afternoon of December 12, Gao Yingxiang took the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying Department as the vanguard and arrived outside Pingliang City.

At this time, Pingliang City had fallen into the hands of Luntai, the head of the Musu barbarian territory here.

Tulun Tai was originally a hereditary local official of Pingliangwei's Huihui Musuman, and belonged to the control under the command of Yao Zhikui, the general of Pingliang.

Initially, the Trilateral Governor's Office supported the Hongmaoyi people to spread the Yijiao in Pingliang, which made him deeply dissatisfied, and then Ma Wanshou was killed by the commander of the Hezhou Guard, and the Taomin Mutiny occurred.

When the proclamation and military order of the Trilateral Governor's Office calling for the suppression of the Musu barbarian rebellion reached Pingliang, Tuluntai immediately attacked, took the first step, and killed the Han officials and generals such as Yao Zhikui, and Pingliang was in chaos.

For the first time in Jiazhou to raise the "banner of righteousness" of the old Hui Ma Shouying's name, Tulun Tai has also heard of it, at this time heard that Ma Shouying's return to the camp arrived, after the mutiny, the strength of the weak fear of being suppressed by the imperial court of Toluntai, then opened the city gate, welcome Ma Shouying and King Gao Yingxiang into the city.

And Gao Yingxiang, who was dressed in a white robe and white hat, immediately declared that he was a descendant of the Xiang Qiang people of the Great White Gaoguo Party after leading his troops into the city.

Tolontai and his subordinates suddenly had all their doubts, and saw that Gao Yingxiang's appearance was extraordinary, magnificent, and his fierce generals were like clouds, and his strength was quite good, so under the recommendation of Ma Shouying, he was mainly led by Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, and led his troops to join the camp.

After Toluntai led the people to annex, Gao Yingxiang quickly got the refuge of small rebels around Pingliang through the channel of Ma Shouying and Tolontai, and his strength quickly expanded and grew.

Just a few days later, Gao Yingxiang was supported by everyone and played the banner of "King Chuang" in Pingliang City, which was regarded as officially replacing Wang Jiayin, the "King of Hengtian", who had been defeated and died, and became the leader of a new generation of Shaanxi's "Righteous Army".