Chapter 12: Weird
But then after the Yu Jiajun captured the Tianjin Wei, but suddenly stopped the action, according to the news that the night did not collect and the horses were fed back, but found that the Yu Jiajun did not do this, but after capturing the Tianjin Wei, they stopped, and along the banks of the canal, began to build fortifications, and pulled out a defensive posture.
Moreover, according to the investigation of the night and other investigations, the direction of the fortification of the Yu Jiajun was not facing the area of the Beijing Division, nor did it put the defensive direction in the north of the canal, but placed the main force on both sides of the canal, aiming at the south direction of the canal.
At this time, Dezhou and Hejian Prefecture also sent an urgent report to the Beijing Division, saying that the Jiannu army had carried hundreds of thousands of people and a large number of goods and livestock at this time, and was slowly advancing along the canal in the direction of Tianjin Wei.
Interested people hurriedly observed, especially some officials who were familiar with the terrain of Hajian Province and the Gyeonggi area, those who were able to get the map, or those who could build a plan in their minds, and soon discovered the problem.
Yu Xiaotian's behavior is quite strange, if he is here to rebel, Yu Xiaotian can ignore the army of Jiannu, and directly lead the army to attack the Beijing division at the fastest speed, at this time, the Beijing division has not had time to prepare, the deployment along the Tongzhou line has not been completed, Yu Xiaotian has a great chance to attack the city of Beijing.
And Jiannu is now full of plunder, definitely not interested in this matter, their purpose is already very obvious, is to enter the customs to plunder, now they are making a lot of money, are escorting the people and goods obtained, withdraw from the customs, there is definitely no energy and no troops to divide the troops to mix a foot.
And Yu Xiaotian's rebellion should be a good thing for Jiannu, no matter who kills whom, it is a very optimistic thing for Jiannu, so they will not get involved at this time.
Yu Xiaotian is always a person of the Ming Dynasty, he will definitely break his head with the Ming Dynasty if he rebels, whether he succeeds or loses, he is extremely strict with the Ming in the Guan, and they must be very happy to see such a situation, which can only create better conditions for them to enter the customs in the future.
Therefore, there is no reason for Jiannu to make extraneous branches at this time.
Similarly, if Yu Xiaotian is plotting rebellion, he should also see this, he landed in Tianjinwei, if it is a rebellion, he should ignore it, and take advantage of the fact that Jiannu has not yet left the pass when he has not yet left the pass, and he has also contained a lot of Ming troops, which is a golden opportunity for him.
And as long as he is here to plot rebellion, he should think about this, there is no need at all, and there is no reason, after arriving at Tianjin Wei, he defeated Tianjin Wei, but he was unable to move forward, and turned to a defensive state in Tianjin Wei on the spot, blocking the way to Jiannu Bei.
It is completely unreasonable for him to do this now, which is equivalent to him completely giving up the advantage of a surprise attack, and he wants to block the Jiannu in the Tianjin Wei area first.
This is completely unreasonable, although Yu Xiaotian reportedly brought 30,000 or 40,000 troops this time, but the number of these soldiers and horses seems to be considerable, but in fact it is not sufficient, whether it is against the side of the Ming official army, or on the side of the Shang Jiannu army, they are all at a complete disadvantage in terms of strength, and there is no advantage at all.
If the Yu family's army is very strong, then he may still have a little advantage in dealing with the Ming official army guarding Gyeonggi alone, but once he is ready to deal with the Jiannu and Ming official armies at the same time, this strength is less than one-tenth of the strength of these two sides.
Therefore, if Yu Xiaotian wanted to rebel, it would be completely unwise to do so, and he chose a path of self-destruction.
Jiannu is now going out of the customs, looking at their current marching route, it can already be seen that the Jiannu army is planning to pass through Guò Tianjin Wei, and then enter the territory of Jizhou Mansion, take the Xianghe River or Baodi, from Miyun or Zunhua to rush out of the Guanwai, and return to the Guanwai.
Tianjin Wei has basically been determined, it is the place they must pass through, Yu Xiaotian captured Tianjin Wei at this time, and Chen soldiers on both sides of the Tianjin Wei Canal, which is equivalent to being stuck on the way to Jiannu's withdrawal from the Guanwai.
When the Jiannu army came here, there were only two choices left, either to avoid the war, not to go to Tianjinwei, like when they came, they chose to bypass the Jingshi, and choose another place to withdraw from the Guanwai, but this is obviously impossible, because Jiannu is different now than when he came.
After nearly half a year of plundering, they have plundered a lot of goods and captured a lot of people and livestock.
The number of people they captured alone is rumored to be in the hundreds of thousands, and with so many slaves and livestock, it is obviously impossible to maneuver long distances like when they entered the customs, so it will be very risky and time-consuming.
So the possibility of Jiannu choosing this method is basically zero, if they don't choose to take a detour, then there is only one option left, that is, to rush directly from Tianjin Wei.
Tianjin Wei is now controlled by Yu Xiaotian, Jiannu wants to rush through Tianjin Wei, then only the first general army to break through, the two sides will inevitably be in the Tianjin Wei area, a fierce battle, for both of them, can only win but not defeat, who suffers defeat, then it may lead to annihilation.
Jiannu was defeated by the Yu family's army, then they would not be able to retreat outside the pass, and the army of more than 100,000 would be blocked in the pass, and sooner or later they would be consumed.
Everyone knows the strength of Jiannu, although after two generations of wild boar skin and Huang Taiji's management, it is now very strong, but no matter how strong they are, the actual strength will not be very much, this time they entered the pass, and suddenly brought into the eight banners of Manchu and Mongolia in the pass plus the Han army that surrendered to the enemy, the total strength exceeded 100,000 people, and it was almost a nest.
Once the army of more than 100,000 Jiannu is blocked in the pass, then the Jiannu are estimated to be completely miserable, and they will definitely not be able to recover their current strength in ten years, and they may even collapse from now on and never turn over.
Therefore, Jiannu must not be defeated, and must not dare to be defeated, but can the Yu family army afford to be defeated? He can't afford to lose either!
Yu Jiajun went north this time, Yu Xiaotian brought thirty or forty thousand troops in one fell swoop, not including his water division, these thirty or forty thousand troops, all of them are land divisions, everyone thinks that this should be Yu Xiaotian poured out of the nest, even if he still has some troops left in Fujian, but it will definitely not be too much, once he is defeated, I am afraid that he will not even have the opportunity to escape back to Fujian, this time it is equivalent to beating him back to his original form.
Therefore, the Yu family army cannot be defeated, otherwise the consequences will be very severe.
At this moment, everyone couldn't understand it, Yu Xiaotian had every chance not to fight with the Jiannu army to come to such a battle, but why did he still choose to fight this battle?
At this time, Yu Xiaotian let go of several officers and soldiers of the Tianjin Guard, took a letter from him, and ordered these officers and soldiers to rush to Beijing and present the letter to the current saint.
This letter was soon transferred to Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian stated to Chongzhen in the letter, the reason why he wanted to take Tianjin Wei was because he had to use Tianjin Wei to block Jiannu from the customs here, and vowed to defeat the Jiannu army in the Tianjin Wei area, and the original defenders here could not cooperate with his actions at all, so he could only make this decision and use force to take Tianjin Wei down, with only one purpose, that is, to block the Jiannu army from the customs in Tianjin.
Moreover, Yu Xiaotian gave Chongzhen a fairly detailed piece of information, stating the number of goods and population plundered by Jiannu this time, although it cannot be said to be very accurate, but it is roughly the same.
Yu Xiaotiantong guò his way, among the information collected, summed up that this time Jiannu entered the customs, a total of more than 1.5 million taels of silver, more than tens of thousands of taels of gold, all kinds of large livestock such as mules, horses, cattle, etc., more than 30,000 heads, pigs and sheep as many as tens of thousands.
In addition, there are countless kinds of silk silk fine and soft jewelry and antiques, which is not the most important, the most important thing is that the Jiannu from Hebei, Shandong and other places took more than 600,000 people.
Yu Xiaotian said in the letter that if so much property and population were taken out of the customs by Jiannu, Jiannu would definitely increase in strength, and the Ming Dynasty would never have a chance to exterminate Jiannu again, so this time he got the news on the way to the north and found out that Jiannu would go out of Tianjin Wei.
Therefore, he rashly led his troops, traveled by sea day and night, and rushed directly to Tianjin Wei, and rashly seized Tianjin Wei as a royal guard.
In the letter, he confessed his guilt, and knew that it was a great sin to do so, and it would definitely cause unrest to the saints, but for the sake of the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, he was willing to risk the world's disapproval and brazenly led his troops straight into Tianjin, just to be able to defeat Jiannu in a battle and solve the trouble of Jiannu, the henchman of the Ming Dynasty, once and for all.
Yu Xiaotian also made a request in the letter that Chongzhen should mobilize officials and troops to block the way where Jiannu might escape from the customs in several other places, and not let Jiannu take the opportunity to slip away.
In addition, he set off in a hurry, carrying food and military salaries with him, hoping that the imperial court could allocate part of the military rations and part of the salary from Tongzhou to transport them to his army by boat through the canal, otherwise his military rations would only be enough for half a month.
After Chongzhen read Yu Xiaotian's letter, he was full of suspicion at the same time, but also scoffed at Xiaotian's rhetoric, he couldn't figure out why Yu Xiaotian traveled thousands of miles from Fujian all the way to Tianjin, and after seizing Tianjin Wei, he wanted to fight to the death with Jiannu here, which seemed to be Yu Xiaotian was really thinking about the Ming Dynasty, and he was a great loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.
But it is said that Yu Xiaotian went north this time, all in order to fight to the death with Jiannu, Chongzhen will not believe it if he is killed, he still believes that Yu Xiaotian definitely has a bad heart when he goes north this time, this time he is in Tianjin Wei to defend, to prevent Jiannu from going out, it is simply a pretense.
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