At this point, Chongzhen had no better way, so according to the idea put forward by Xue Guoguan, he ordered the rich people and officials in Beijing to pay their salaries, as well as those relatives, and they also tried to come up with some money to help them.

However, after his holy decree was issued, the response was mediocre, and basically few officials or relatives were willing to give money to help the country through this period of crisis. In the past two days, the total amount of silver raised was only tens of thousands of taels, which was a drop in the bucket and completely insufficient.

So Xue Guoguan gave Chongzhen another idea, saying that the money could be regarded as a loan, first borrowed from these people, and then the court gave interest, and then returned the person who gave the money after the rebellion in Xiaotian was pacified.

Chongzhen really had no choice, so he could only give the order again according to his suggestion, but the result was still that few people were willing to take out the silver to help him.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian had already led his troops back to Tianjinwei, and now the entire Tianjin Wei area has been controlled by the Yujia army, and after the fierce battle of the Yujia army for most of the month, the captured Jiannu and official army prisoners alone are as high as more than 20,000 people.

With so many prisoners, how to deal with it has become a problem, Yu Jia's army is now limited, and if he wants to control the entire Gyeonggi area, it will definitely not be possible to rely on the more than 30,000 Yu Jiajun he has at hand, at this time, it is necessary to expand the army, so Yu Xiaotian ordered to recruit soldiers into the army on the spot.

And those captured officers and soldiers are currently a relatively good source of soldiers, so he sent people to the officers and soldiers in the prisoner camp to publicize why he rebelled this time.

Yu Xiaotian asked people to publicize the fact that he went north this time among the official and military prisoners, flaunting him as a tall man who worries about the country and the people, and has publicized all kinds of dirty things done by the court and those officials in the past few months in the prisoner camp.

After hearing this, these captives of the official army did not dare to say that they were excited, but they also roughly understood why Yu Xiaotian wanted to turn against the imperial court this time, and many of them changed their attitudes and began to fall to Yu Xiaotian's side.

When the personnel of the Yu family army proposed to recruit soldiers among them, many prisoners immediately expressed their willingness to follow Yu Xiaotian, and even if there were more than 10,000 official and military prisoners, they defected to Yu Xiaotian, and they became soldiers of the Yu family army.

It's not that the consciousness of these soldiers is high, Yu Xiaotian knows very well that what kind of consciousness to talk about with these Qiu Ba in this era is not realistic at all.

Many of them actually joined the army just to eat and find a way to live, and they can't talk about loyalty to anyone at all.

They pay more attention to who can give them food, in the past, they worked hard for the imperial court, it was the imperial court that paid them, and the generals managed their meals, and they had to obey the orders of the imperial court.

Now that they have become prisoners of the Yu family's army, they are all worried, feeling that this time it may be difficult to save their lives, and no one knows what their fate will be next.

Suddenly, Yu Jiajun said that they could be recruited to serve as soldiers in Yujiajun, which undoubtedly gave them a way to live, as for the loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, it was all, if they were really loyal, they would not have followed the generals for so many years to eat and die, and they had no achievements.

So these officers and military prisoners are very realistic, and they think very simply, whoever gives them food, they will give their lives, and they can also see that the Yu family army is indeed too powerful, and the Yu family army is the enemy, there is no good fruit to eat at all, and the way of this world can follow people with ability, it must be better than following people who have no ability.

What's more, many people privately think that Yu Xiaotian is indeed powerful, although this time he rebelled and played the banner of Qingjun's side, but who can guarantee that he will not be in the yellow robe of the world in the future? Yu Jiajun is so powerful, he can't really do this.

So now if you follow Yu Xiaotian, it is from the dragon as soon as possible, if you do it well, you can mix it well, at least it is much stronger than being a soldier in the Ming court, the fast thug is slow, now the dragon is always much stronger than the dragon in the future, so many captives are willing to enlist even if they express their attitude, and turn around to join Xiaotian.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian recruited some ordinary soldiers, for those generals of the Ming Dynasty, he would never use them, these old-style officers are not trustworthy at all, no matter how good an army is in their hands, they can immediately turn this army into a gang of bandits.

Therefore, when he ordered the recruitment of troops, he had already taken care of them, and only recruited those officers and soldiers below the junior flag officer to take prisoners, and as for those generals, they were all abandoned, and all of them were temporarily imprisoned in a big prison in Tianjinwei, and they were cut off from ordinary soldiers.

As long as these generals are taken, then the rest of the soldiers will lose their minds, and whoever takes them to do it will be able to control them more conveniently.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also announced the recruitment of new recruits among the hundreds of thousands of people, these hundreds of thousands of people are all northerners, and almost all of them who can get here are in good health, and nearly half of them are good workers.

After these people were arrested by Jiannu, they were originally going to be dragged outside the customs to be clothed slaves, but now after being rescued by the Yu family army, coupled with the deliberate propaganda of the Yu family army, they are disappointed in the current Ming court, and then there is now their homeland is ruined, the army is in chaos, even if they return to their hometown, they have no food or drink.

So when I learned the news that Yu Jiajun was going to recruit soldiers, many of the young people among the refugees expressed their willingness to give Yu Xiaotian their lives, and there were quite a few recruits.

So in just a few days, Yu Xiaotian recruited more than 30,000 recruits in Tianjin Weihe Jinghai County.

Yu Xiaotian had already considered how to control these more than 30,000 recruits, and this time when he went north, he brought a cadet battalion from the Fujian and Taiwan Army Martial Arts Halls, that is, trainee officers who had not yet been awarded.

These cadet officers are all strong and have received more than two years of systematic military education, although they are still a little immature, but they can already be used, the most important thing is that these cadet soldiers are extremely loyal to Xiaotian, and there is some sand among them, they are very brave and good at fighting.

On the occasion of the decisive battle against Jiannu, this student battalion showed extremely strong combat effectiveness, after the start of the counteroffensive, they dared to fight, repeatedly rushed to the front, fought very bravely and resolutely, now don't look at them for a long time, but they have seen blood, and they can already become qualified low-level officers.

As soon as the conscription began, the cadet battalion was disbanded on the spot, and all of them were first sent to the brigades, taking over the positions of many companies below the rank of company commander, and from the brigades hundreds of officers who already had considerable experience were freed up.

In addition, each battalion has a deputy position, and this time they were all transferred directly to the recruit camp to serve as the battalion commander, and a number of company commanders were promoted to the recruit battalion to serve as the battalion commander or deputy battalion commander.

Each recruit battalion is assigned a platoon of veterans, who serve as the battalion commander's direct descendants, and are used to control these recruits, so that some of the recruits do not obey orders, flee or surrender in battle.

In this way, nearly 30 recruit battalions were quickly formed, and each squad was assigned a veteran of Yu's army to serve as the squad leader, and the squad leader selected a relatively capable recruit from among the recruits to serve as a deputy squad leader to help them lead the troops.

As for the equipment, Yu Xiaotian is not worried, during this time they have seized too many weapons of the Jiannu army and the official army, among which the firearms were all abandoned by Yu Xiaotian, these shoddy firearms, Yu Xiaotian is not in his eyes at all, rather than distributing them for use, it is better to return to the furnace and rebuild.

And those cold weapons have become the main weapons of the armed recruits, mainly spears, supplemented by knives and cards, and supplemented by a part of the bow and crossbow, as a long-range weapon, and handed over to some of the recruits who can use bows and arrows to equip.

As for the armor, because of the large number of captures, after selection, almost every recruit can also be equipped with a captured armor, so in a very short time, more than 20 recruit battalions were armed, and immediately transferred to training around Tianjin Wei.

After having these new barracks, he can transfer all the old troops of the original Tianjin Guard, let the new barracks temporarily take over them, take over the war zone that has been controlled at the moment, and free up the old troops to enter the next step of the operation.

Therefore, the role of the recruit battalion is still quite obvious, as for their training problem, Yu Xiaotian set aside two months for the recruit battalion to let these recruit battalions as the initial training time, once the initial training is over, these recruit battalions can be organized into new combat units, put into the battlefield for use.

For this reason, he temporarily handed over the training of recruits to Yu Zhenshan, commander of the Seventh Brigade, and handed over the defense of Tianjin Wei and Jinghai County to Yu Zhenshan, while himself, Meng Fei and others devoted their energy to the next operations.

At this time, the members of the General Staff had also arrived in Tianjin Wei, and at the side of Tianjin Wei and Yu Xiaotian, a wartime staff department was set up, which was responsible for planning and arranging the next operation as a whole.

After defeating Wu Xiang's troops this time, Yu Jiajun's army was in Tianjin Wei for half a month, and did not launch any further offensive, so that all the troops that were already quite tired got a relatively sufficient time to recuperate.

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