Time is too late, and we are eager to seek merit. With Ma Gui as the main general and Xiao Ruxun as the deputy general, the five thousand Ming troops joined forces to attack after one day of rectification. Xiao Ruxun left Chen Xie to lead 500 soldiers to stay at Pinglu City to supervise the city wall and say goodbye to his wife Cai Yunyi.

Because Xiao Ruxun's troops were extremely good at using firearms, Ma Gui took over all the bird guns and Franc guns scattered among the generals to Xiao Ruxun's troops to form a "fire weapon camp" to command Xiao Ruxun to enhance the army's firepower.

All the soldiers in General Xiao Ruxun who could use bird guns combined together to form a 700-man bird gun team and a 300-man chariot and artillery team. The 1,000-man firearm battalion was completed, becoming the absolute ace for the 5,000 Ming troops to attack Ningxia Town this time.

According to everyone's joint analysis, Xiao Ruxun believes that the main force of the General of the Army was distributed in the Yuquan area of ​​Mingsha Prefecture, Lingzhou, and the main force of Wei Xuezeng's army was in a tight position. The 9,000 people had a huge loss before. It was not certain whether the General of the Army learned the news. It would take a lot of time to make a countermeasure after learning the news. The Ming army had one to two days to prepare, and then they had to attack decisively and directly penetrate the rebels' confidant.

In order to keep the war confidential, Xiao Ruxun did not send anyone to inform Wei Xuezeng of the operation.

The army set out at dawn and headed towards the Ningxia Town Town. The first day was smooth. Except for the vanguard who led the enemy's whistle cavalry to kill several defeated rebels, there were no established rebels. Until the next day, when the army marched nearly a hundred miles, the whistle cavalry returned. When they encountered Yaofu Castle occupied by the rebels, Magui decided to attack the city immediately, and grabbed a few tongues to ask about the situation of the rebels and found a breakthrough.

Ma Gui arranged for the Ming army to take advantage of the dark night to suddenly move out, besiege the city on all sides without using firearms, so as not to shake the rest of the rebels. After an hour of attack, this small castle guarded by only three or four hundred people was successfully captured. The Ming army suffered very little losses and the rebels' resistance was also very weak. Almost after the Ming army got into the city, they knelt down and begged for mercy and dared not fight again. After asking, they learned that the main force of the castle was pulled out to encircle the thieves, and those who were left were all old, weak and disabled soldiers, which were vulnerable at all.

Ma Gui tied up the commander of the castle, a general, and brought it to him, and went to trial with Xiao Ruxun and Xiao Ruhui. The general cryed and said that he did not want to follow the thief, but he did not follow the thief as a garrison. His parents and family were all taken away by the rebels to Ningxia City as a threat, forcing them to work for the rebels. For the sake of their lives, they had to follow the thief. Now that the official army has come, it means that the rebellion will be smooth. They dare not resist and are willing to sacrifice their merits and tell the official army everything they know.

Xiao Ruxun and Ma Gui looked at each other and nodded together. So Xiao Ruxun said, "As long as you honestly tell us everything you know, we will naturally not make things difficult for you, and will try every means to save your monks. Now it depends on whether you have the responsibility to lose your merits or sins."

This always kowtowed immediately to express his willingness to sacrifice his merits and his willingness to bring a hundred brothers to the army to suppress the rebellion. After that, he would kill and cut him into pieces. He only asked the general to forgive his family and not to harm him.

Ma Gui agreed.

According to this general, the specific situations of the Forty-Seven Forts in Hexi they knew were similar. There were 500 to 3,000 garrison troops on the surface, but in fact, the situation of officers and generals vain wages over the years was quite serious. The old army of Taizu system consisted of two parts of garrison and eight parts of garrison, and combined the guards and garrisons, and the troops were integrated into agriculture. Taizu once proudly claimed that "I raised a million soldiers and did not consume a grain of rice and grain for the people." However, the reality was that after Chengzu, the military system became increasingly corrupt. General officers relied on their power to embezzle military fields. Some local tyrants colluded with garrison officers to occupy military fields, and the benefits they gained were evenly distributed.

Therefore, the entire border military farm system has been in name only. The number of military households in various places is serious, and 60% or 70% are better. In some areas with huge fugitives, there are only 20% or 30% of the troops guarding the city. The combat effectiveness can be imagined. Therefore, the reason why Forty-Seven Forts in Hexi surrendered so quickly is not that they do not want to fight, but that they cannot fight at all. There are only 3500 elderly and weak soldiers in the castle, and some castles are even guarding dozens of veterans. They are not even able to defend the city. They are directly attacked.

Ma Gui was very angry when he heard this and angrily accused corrupt military officers of local tyrants and local tyrants of harming others. Xiao Ruxun and Xiao Ruhui looked at each other, meaning that they were very clear.

Ma's family has always been excluded by the Jiubian Generals and is not valued. It is because he is not from a Han family, while the Xiao family is well aware of the truth. Although he has never done anything that is harmful to the truth, it would be too high to say that Xiao did not benefit from it. Of course, the Jiubian Generals and Sects are very clear about this point, and the sharp decline of the combat power of the military households is due to the system and cannot be saved by manpower. The slightly elite army of the Jiubian Army is recruiting soldiers, and it is an open secret to recruit private soldiers to guard the generals.

In order to occupy the military field and make profits from it, the generals will eat empty wages. Then those who are a little ambitious and responsible will recruit private soldiers to enhance their strength. Those who are not responsible only want to live a life of nothing, just lie in their money bag and eat empty wages.

When the civil servants inspected the censors, they covered up or bribed them, and the effect was carried out. Everyone knew very well, so they kept the emperor in the dark. There were fewer and fewer generals and troops who dared to resist. The situation of the Mongols throwing their armor and abandoning their armor in the early Ming Dynasty never happened again, and the situation of being suppressed again.

But Xiao Ruxun didn't expect that the land of Hexi, the border of the country, such an important Ningxia Town was easily taken down by Hebai. It turned out that this was the reason that they actually extended their hands to the most border-level strategic location of the country! It was already a strategic trick of the Ming Dynasty to abandon Hetao. If Ningxia loses it again, it will reappear in the decay of the northern Song Dynasty in the northwest!

Those nominal garrison officials were unable to resist the situation of the rebels coming, and did not want to die, so they had to surrender. They were forced to take their private soldiers to join the thief, and then left their deputy to guard the city. In order to ensure that their family members were taken to Ningxia Town to guard, so as not to surrender and rebel again.

Xiao Ruxun persuaded Ma Gui in anger and advised him to take the major rebellion as the leader, and the rest will be discussed later.

"If this situation is not curbed, Ningxia Town is useless! How can I ignore it?!"

Magui's sense of justice is overwhelming.

Xiao Ruxun smiled helplessly and said, "The nine-sided generals don't say they are all the same, but at least they are grasshoppers on a rope. If you move a ring, you will have to move your whole body. And if you are the generals, you will not have a backer. The involvement is too wide, and you and I can do nothing at all. Since this is the case, don't be too ambitious. First quell the rebellion, make military achievements, improve your official position and status, and then think about something else."

Ma Gui thought for a long time, shook his head helplessly and sighed, agreeing to Xiao Ruxun.

The three of them discussed and started. The main forces of the rebels were all confronted with the main forces of the Ming army on the front line, and the defense in the rear was almost zero. Then our troops could completely attack the rebels' nests, raid the towns of Ningxia, completely disrupt the strategic deployment of the rebels, and give the rebels a great psychological deterrence. Just imagine, if our army's artillery fired in the rebels' nests, how terrifying the deterrence it would bring to the rebels!

The three of them maintained a high degree of consistency, so Ma Gui ordered that regardless of these fortresses, they would rush directly to the direction of Ningxia Town and directly break through when they encountered the fortress.

The surrendered general Ma Gao stood up and said that he had many friends and comrades in Forty-seven Forts, and was willing to persuade them to take the initiative to open the city and atone for their sins. Ma Gui was overjoyed and agreed immediately.

Next, the two-day forced marching began. Under the leadership of Magui and Xiao Ruxun, the Ming army, which had enough food and drink and nourishment, began to march for forcing marching. They went west and encountered more than ten fortresses in two days. Several of them arrived. After seeing the situation, the garrison in the city took the initiative to open the city. Magao persuaded eight castles to open the city. Magui didn't even bring the army to them and opened the city. Anyway, he joined the counter-rebellion troops and lost his merits. Along the way, there were more than 500 more troops in the army, and they were all incorporated into the vanguard army.

As the way, Xiao Ruxun actually found that he had not encountered a main force of a built-up rebel army. He had completely fought all the way and had not encountered any obstacles. It was enough to imagine how unpopular this rebellion was. If it were popular, their progress would never be so fast. However, before, the rebels were also very fast, which was enough to see that there were no loyal ministers here in the Ming court. It was just a matter of judging who had a big fist. As long as the target was not a Mongolian, it seemed that following the rebels would not be a fatal matter.

The Ming Dynasty actually died in Wanli. This statement is true, but deeper things are difficult to change. Just like in 1997, all bamboos in Europe bloomed and died overnight. It was not for any other reason, but its mother came from Hubei, China in 1907. Since its birth, it was destined to be destroyed. No matter how many plants reproduced, they will die at the same time. Did Zhu Yuanzhang think of this too when he founded the Ming Dynasty?

Xiao Ruxun felt that Zhu Yuanzhang must have not expected it, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would not have killed all the heroes and left Zhu Yunwen with a thornless vine whip, nor would he think that his strong sons would not rebel against the young and weak grandson he loved, nor would he indulge his descendants to become the biggest social cancer of the Ming Dynasty, almost sucking away the blood of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, this world has fallen into the routine of hiding needles in the civil servants.

How to save this giant who is only one step away from being terminally ill?

Xiao Ruxun’s plot in the Ming Dynasty was too heavy, and he was a little confused.
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