After some careful consideration, Li Laiheng finally decided to split his troops into two groups.

He went all the way to Tongguan to cooperate with Li Dingguo to kill the remaining Qing army in Shaanxi, and the rest went directly north to march into Shanxi.

Just kidding, Shanxi is now empty in its military force, when will it not be enough to wait?

It is definitely not a joke to play while you are sick.

As for personnel allocation, Li Laiheng still took a lot of thought.

First of all, the position of the generals who go to Tongguan should not be too low, at least they must be at the level of a Duke, otherwise they will be inequality with Li Dingguo's identity.

After all, Li Dingguo was also the imperial prince who was granted to him today. If he had a marquis, the count would have come to cooperate.

Secondly, Li Laiheng didn't want to go to Tongguan too many troops.

After all, Li Guoying is already at the end of his strength and cannot cause any big storm.

If there are too many troops going to waste, it will also affect Li Laiheng's plan to attack Shanxi.

After all, compared with Shaanxi, the Qing army in Shanxi still has some resistance.

Although 50,000 or 60,000 people are not too many, they cannot be underestimated if they are tied together.

Finally, after discussion, Li Laiheng decided that Liu Tichun would go to Tongguan to cooperate with Li Dingguo to complete a fatal blow.

Perhaps it is because Liu Tichun has a seniority, which makes Li Dingguo convinced him more easily.

Of course, Li Laiheng still had a thought, that is, to bring Liu Xingming with him.

In this way, Liu Tichun can't control much, and Li Laiheng can use Liu Xingming exactly according to his own wishes.

Liu Tichun did not object to this, after all, this was the unanimous opinion of the Kuidong Army.

After the agreement, both sides went according to the plan and decided to win the interests of the Kuidong Army to the extreme in this battle.

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From Shanzhou to Pinglu, all the way north is Xia County.

When Li Laiheng led a large army to the county town, he found that the county town was very broken, and it was obvious that he had just experienced the war.

He immediately ordered people to call the door, and the magistrate immediately took the county officials to open the city gate and surrender.

Li Laiheng never thought that the other party would surrender so happily, so he went up to ask.

Only after this question did I find out that Xia County had just experienced a war.

The largest bandit of this generation, Shodaitian, came to attack the city. Xia County Magistrate Liu Wei led hundreds of soldiers and yamen runners to fight to the death, killing and injuring hundreds of people, but finally defended the county town.

When Liu Wei heard the Ming army attack, he knew that he could not resist and was afraid of implicating the people in the city, so he led his troops to surrender.

After hearing this, Li Laiheng still admired the County Magistrate Liu.

It seems that not all the fake officials granted by the Qing court were a group of people who only knew how to make money.

At least for now, this Liu Wei is worth using.

Li Laiheng was determined to cherish talent and immediately ordered someone to record Liu Wei and his subordinates in the book, preparing to make a special statement in the document submitted to the emperor.

Perhaps it was because of Li Laiheng's words that Liu Wei could be spared from disaster.

Or maybe because of Li Laiheng's words, the emperor could use Liu Wei's example to dissuade more Qing officials from surrendering.

After all, as long as this precedent is set, more Qing court officials will realize the benefits of surrendering to the Ming court.

So small counties like Xia County will be directly embraced by the Ming Dynasty.

It is always good to be able to die less, after all, all the blood of the Han family is shed.

Li Laiheng felt that what he did was very meaningful. As long as a trend was formed, it would not be difficult to promote it.

Moreover, Li Laiheng also got a very useful information from Liu Wei, that is, there are only about 10,000 soldiers in Pingyang Mansion.

Moreover, this is the number of troops in the entire Pingyang Prefecture, not just the number of people in the prefecture city Linfen!

Li Laiheng was overjoyed when he heard this and was so excited that he couldn't stop talking.

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This is really God helping me.

Unexpectedly, the Qing army was so bold that they actually drew their troops to this point.

It seems that the Qing army is also betting that they can receive Li Guoying, and they can gamble for tens of thousands of troops.

It turns out that they lost the bet and lost thoroughly.

Since this is the case, Li Laiheng is not polite.

Originally, he wanted to detour, but now he just rolled up his sleeves and fucked them.

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Pingyang Prefecture, Linfen Prefecture City.

The prefect Zhao Lu frowned.

The Ming army was approaching, so he was given three days to consider.

If he did not surrender, the Ming army would start to attack the city.

There are only 8,000 soldiers in the city now, and even if the local brave men collected, there are only 20,000.

This force is not as strong as that of the Ming army, and most of it is a mob.

How could this be possible to withstand the Ming army's attack?

To endure the most is to earn a reputation, it is not worth it.

Just as Zhao Lu was hesitating, his confidant suddenly sent an arrow in front of him.

Zhao Lu saw the note tied to the arrow at a glance and tore it off.

He thought it was another letter of persuasion written by Li Laiheng, but when he opened it, it turned out to be Liu Wei's work.

"Zi Ye has surrendered?"

Zhao Lu was puzzled and continued to read.

At first he didn't think there was anything, but as he read it, he was shocked.

It turned out that Liu Wei gave him the favorable treatment of Ming Jun clearly and clearly.

Zhao Lu was also very moved when he saw it.

If Ming Jun could really treat him preferentially as promised, he really had nothing to worry about.

It is said that good birds choose trees to live in.

Isn’t the reason why he became an official in the Qing court back then because of the strong strength of the Qing court?

Now that the feng shui is changing, it is natural for him to surrender to the Ming army again.

What's more, he was originally a Han man, and his blood was flowing from the Han family.

Being able to do things for Daming is worthy of his identity.

After his determination, Zhao Lu decided not to resist anymore and ordered people to open the city gate and personally led civil and military officials out of the city to receive surrender.

The moment Li Laiheng saw Zhao Lu, he felt so happy.

He took down Pingyang Mansion without any effort. He never dared to think of such a good thing in the past.

It seems that you can persuade the surrender first in the future. If the person guarding the city surrenders sensiblely, he will avoid bleeding.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the Ming army's unstoppable power and winning consecutive battles.

If both sides fought back and forth or the Qing army was dominant, these officials would definitely not surrender so happily.

After all, it depends on strength.

Whoever has a hard fist will be right.

Of course, Li Laiheng also kept his promise and treated Zhao Lu and his officials with preferential treatment.

He also wants to use Zhao Lu as a typical example for other officials to show.

But there are a group of people, Li Laiheng, who does not intend to forgive him.

This group of people are Shanxi merchants.

Not all Shanxi merchants, but specifically refer to the eight major families of Shanxi merchants.

These eight major families transported important materials such as grain to pass the pass before the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, helping the Qing Dynasty survive until the end of Chongzhen. Otherwise, there would be no future Wu Sangui would have offered Shanhaiguan and the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains.

In terms of guilt, these eight Shanxi merchants cannot escape the relationship!

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