Wanli 1592

Chapter 561
Based on the current information, it is not difficult to deduce some leftovers, but if you want to know the whole picture, you must completely wipe out the northern captives. Xiao Ruxun's original plan was to stay in Taiyuan for a few hours before leading his troops Go out and chase the Northern Cavalry, but right now, it's really not the time to leave.

In such a huge Taiyuan city, apart from Jiang Hui and Wang Ke who were imprisoned, there is not even a single official.

When Xiao Ruxun led people to inspect Taiyuan City, he heard some refugees mention that the place where the fire first caught fire was around the Jinwang Mansion, and then it went to the government office area and the rich people's area. As for the civilian area, it suffered the least. None of them suffered disasters, otherwise there would not be only tens of thousands of refugees.

Before midnight, Xiao Ruxun led a team to light the torches and took Jinwang Mansion to the official office area and the rich household area, and then came to an extremely strange conclusion.

Jinwang Mansion should be the earliest disaster area, because it was the hardest hit area, followed by the government office area and the rich household area. These three areas are the essence of Taiyuan City. These three places were destroyed. Taiyuan's self-protection mechanism It was also paralyzed, because there were no officials to start it.

Then the Taiyuan defender died in battle, most of the army fled, and Taiyuan City fell without holding on for an hour, and then it was ravaged for four hours.

"What kind of strategy is this? Why was Jinwang's mansion the first to be hit? Jinwang's mansion is a city within a city. The northern captives would not have fallen from the sky, fell into Jinwang's mansion, and then fought all the way out, right?"

Li Rusong looked at the almost completely destroyed Prince Jin Mansion with a puzzled expression on his face.

What he didn't understand, Xiao Ruxun actually couldn't figure it out either. The layout of Prince Jin's Mansion is similar to that of the Forbidden City. It is also in the center of Taiyuan City, a city within a city. If Taiyuan fell, Prince Jin's Mansion is another Taiyuan city. The ability is also very strong, but why was Jin Wangfu the first to be burned?

Also, the group of northern captives who set fire to it was really strange. They came in before the city gate fell. Could it be the secret work of the city?
Xiao Ruxun asked the more than 1000 rescued Taiyuan defenders. After their statements, Xiao Ruxun could probably confirm that the group of northern captives who set fire to the city followed the team that went out of the city to collect firewood. As for how they passed the strict inspection Xiao Ruxun didn't dare to guess when the team entered the city.

According to these soldiers, mutual guarantees, mutual roll call, and mutual recognition are already the best way to determine their identities under the existing conditions. How can they let the Beilu in?And can Beilu speak Chinese?Beilu's hair accessories are also completely different from those of Han people, so it's easy to distinguish them!
Can't figure it out.

But besides this, there are naturally more problems to deal with. The snowy night in Taiyuan City after the war was very difficult to survive. Xiao Ruxun ordered people to collect the winter clothes that were not needed in the army, and then patrolled Taiyuan City When you find someone who needs it, give them some, so that they don't suffer from the cold.

Most of the treasuries in Taiyuan City were burned down, and only a few ammunition warehouses were preserved. Xiao Ruxun found some gunpowder and lead bullets in them, which can be supplied to the firearms team. The firearms are enough, but other military supplies are Basically ruined.

These northern captives are very cunning, and it seems that they planned to paralyze the leadership of Taiyuan City first, paralyze the military facilities, and then successfully take Taiyuan, and make it impossible for the Ming army to organize an effective pursuit.

Now Xiao Ruxun felt that leaving food and some gold and silver treasures and not burning them was also a strategy of the northern captives, in order to prevent the Ming army from chasing them smoothly.

Now he can't leave Taiyuan City to pursue the northern captives immediately. He will at least wait until the infantry led by Wang Hui and others arrive here before he can lead the cavalry to continue the pursuit. Otherwise, there will be no reliable army and generals in Taiyuan City to guard and maintain order. That's not to say that there won't be a secondary disaster after the war.

At present, the people of Taiyuan maintain basic trust in Xiao Ruxun, so they don't make trouble, but who knows if Xiao Ruxun will leave, will they continue to make trouble? until normal order is restored.

During this period, Xiao Ruxun began to write a memorial to Zhu Yijun, which was specially explained by Zhu Yijun before departure.

Ask him to send someone to deliver a letter to a secret base outside Beijing, and Jin Yiwei will send his memorial to Tianting with a hidden line, so that Zhu Yijun can see his memorial, so that Zhu Yijun can judge the situation based on the information provided by Xiao Ruxun.

Zhu Yijun now has reservations about the intelligence information from the Ministry of War and basically does not trust it.

Before leaving Bauhinia Pass, Xiao Ruxun had already reported the specific situation to Zhu Yijun, and focused on Chen Liang's problem. Xiao Ruxun realized that this was a serious problem, but he didn't tell his guesses, but just told the facts.

But now, Xiao Ruxun is basically sure that this matter is inseparable from the big Shanxi merchants. Completely destroyed, do we have to wait for them to recover and continue the legendary story of the eight imperial merchants?

Xiao Ruxun even had a vague feeling that the action strategy of those northern captives did not seem to be for simply attacking the city and looting property, as if there was some other special meaning in it.

What does it mean to abolish the Shanxi merchants in Datong, seize their food, and deliberately capture Taiyuan and abolish the heads of more than a dozen Shanxi merchant families in the city?
For some reason, he always felt that there was a hand manipulating the northern captive cavalry, sending them to the place where the Shanxi merchants lived together, and then using bloody slaughter methods to kill people with knives, destroying the Shanxi merchants humanely and physically They used the most direct way to destroy this powerful business gang.

In today's world, the only ones who can destroy the Shanxi merchant gang without any scruples are these northern captives, but these northern captives also do business with merchants, and it is impossible to destroy them without any scruples. Even so, they killed people in Ming Dynasty. It seems reasonable, and it will be strange when Beilu stops killing people.

It's just that these northern captives seem to have purposefully slaughtered the family members of the big Shanxi merchants.

Xiao Ruxun became more and more confused about the purpose of the black hand behind the scenes.

But no matter what, the man behind the scenes did something good. He at least abolished the influence of Shanxi merchants in Datong and northern Shanxi. Liu Yong also exposed a considerable part of the Shanxi merchants' grain storage caves. This time, half of the Shanxi merchants' skills were abolished. , They are abolished, how long can the spokespersons who belong to the Shanxi merchant faction in the court persist?

(End of this chapter)