Chapter 52: Wu Xiang's Death
At this time, the Guanning army was unlucky, more than a dozen siege guns fired alternately, and the shells fell in their camps, and the officers and soldiers in the battalion were flying with stumps, and the camp tents were destroyed by the cannons one after another, and finally even the place where they stored forage was hit by the hot shells, and then a fire broke out.
As soon as the fire started, a large number of war horses in the camp began to be frightened, and they became frantic in the camp, jumping around, and a group of war horses rushed down the horse pen and began to crash around in the camp, and as a result, they also trampled to death and injured many officers and soldiers.
Wu Xiang saw that he could not hold on any longer, and ordered the whole army to retreat and flee back to Tongzhou.
At this time, a cannonball fell in front of Wu Xiang impartially, the dust splashed, the smoke and dust rolled, and after the dust settled, everyone could no longer find Wu Xiang.
In the end, Wu Sangui and his soldiers finally picked up some of Wu Xiang's fragmentary corpses, packed a bag, and began to flee while crying.
At this time, the entire Guanning army had been dispersed, and the soldiers and generals were scrambling to escape from the camp and escape from this hellish place.
Yan Fucheng saw that the official army had been defeated, so he ordered a ceasefire, led the army to start the pursuit, as a result, Wu Xiang's department, after seven days, failed to capture Tianjin Wei, but was almost annihilated by the Yu family's army, 20,000 Guanning army, the whole army was defeated, part of it fled to Tongzhou with Wu Sangui, part of it fled to Jizhou with Zu Dabi and Zu Kuan, and some of the rest were scattered directly on the spot, there were about 3,000 Guanning soldiers who eventually became prisoners of the Yu family's army, and in the other seven days, nearly 4,000 people of the 20,000 Guanning army were annihilated by the Yujia army.
After the entire Guanning army entered the customs came down in this battle, it was declared that it had completely lost its combat effectiveness and no longer became a threat to the Yu army.
At this time, the overall super combat effectiveness of the Yu family army was completely displayed in front of the world, which was not only the reason why the Yu family army was brave, but more of it was the advantage of the Yu family army in technology that exceeded the times.
Tong Guò Yu Xiaotian for more than ten years, continuous unsparing efforts to accumulate technology and continuous development, so that now the quality of the weapons that Yu Jiajun has on hand has completely exceeded this era too much, and the technological advantage has completely changed the way and even the principle of battlefield combat, so that whether it is the Jiannu Army or the Ming Army, they don't know how to deal with this tactic of the Jiajun, which makes what seems almost impossible to do, but Yu Jiajun easily did it.
This is probably what people often say about accumulation, Yu Xiaotiantong guò more than ten years of tireless pursuit, finally created this era, the world's strongest army, in the face of the super firepower output of the home army, they can easily crush almost any regular army in the world in this era.
When the news of Wu Xiangbing's defeat and death reached Jingshi, Chongzhen really knew what it meant to be scared this time, and he couldn't imagine how Yu Xiaotian did it.
Yu Xiaotian only led more than 30,000 soldiers and horses to the north, and after landing in Tianjinwei, he first fought fiercely with the 100,000 Jiannu army for half a month, and finally defeated the 100,000 Jiannu army with a large number of victories, and even beheaded the slave chief Dorgon, how could he still have such a strong combat effectiveness?
Just when everyone thought that Yu Jiajun must have been weakened to the extreme, but Yu Jiajun once again gave everyone a super "surprise", they were not as weak as everyone thought, but they still maintained huge combat power.
Chen Xinjia's department, and Wu Xiang's department, these two Ming official armies, the total strength of nearly 50,000 people, although not as many as the Jiannu army, but they are also the elite soldiers that the Ming can take out at present, but in front of the family army, it is so vulnerable.
Chen Xinjia's department was only hit head-on by Yu Jiajun's army, and the 30,000 army collapsed directly, and Wu Xiang's department took advantage of the situation to attack Tianjin Wei, not only did it fail to recover Tianjin Wei, but it also ended up being defeated by Yu Jiajun, and even Wu Xiang himself was killed on the spot.
Chongzhen almost couldn't believe it, this was true, when did such a strong soldier as Yu Jiajun come out of this world? Even a few years ago, when he was transferred to Xiaotian to the north to quell the Denglai Rebellion, he didn't know that Yu Jiajun's army was so fierce, he only knew that Yu Xiaotian's generals were more capable of fighting, but he hadn't heard that he could fight to such a point.
In less than a month, including the Jiannu army and the Ming army, hundreds of thousands of troops have been planted in the hands of more than 30,000 Yujia troops in this area. What army in the world can hold them back?
Chongzhen was already messing up at this time, taking stock of the troops he could call on now, although there were still millions of troops in various places in the Ming Dynasty, but these armies were thousands of miles away or even thousands of miles away, and the only ones who could really come in handy were the officers and troops in the Gyeonggi area.
However, in the vicinity of Gyeonggi now, after the defeat of Chen Xinjia's department and Wu Xiang's department, there are only a handful of Ming troops with strong combat effectiveness, and the nominal Beijing camp now has little combat effectiveness at all, and they are stationed around Gyeonggi.
Many of the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp are not able to fight at all, these officers and soldiers who are guarding in the area of the Beijing division are some old soldiers, eating, drinking and having fun are estimated to be stronger than anyone else, but they rarely perform drills, and the combat effectiveness is so low that people can't bear to read.
This is also the reason why Chongzhen always has to transfer Shanxi soldiers and Guanning troops and Shandong soldiers and horses to defend Jinggi every time Jiannu enters the customs, precisely because the Beijing battalion in this area of the Beijing division basically has no combat effectiveness.
Now Chen Xinjia's Shanxi elite has been defeated, and only a part of the remaining soldiers and generals fled to Bazhou, staying in Bazhou and not daring to move again, Chen Xinjia was arrested and questioned, those soldiers are now also completely warlike, and they are scared by the Yu family's army, so they can't count on it at all, if they force themselves to go into battle, it is estimated that as soon as the Yu family's army appears, they will be able to immediately disperse.
And finally day and night from Shanhaiguan transferred into the Guannai Guanning army, almost all the army was wiped out in Tianjin Wei, obviously for the time being, there is no hope, even if there are still some Guanning troops in the Guanning area, but now the slave outside the Guanhai has not been destroyed, and the slave chief Taiji also led troops to stare at Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan area, these soldiers and horses have been unable to move.
Therefore, in the entire Gyeonggi area, the current shape has reached an unprecedented level, and there is no way to find a decent army and horses to withstand the offensive of Yu's army.
And Yu Xiaotian issued a letter to ask for the Ming Dynasty this time, although he did not clearly say that he wanted to rebel, but he also played the banner of entering the side of the Qing monarch in Beijing, which was equivalent to completely tearing off his last disguise, breaking with the Ming Dynasty and having a showdown with the imperial court.
Chongzhen thought of these things, and couldn't help but feel cool in his heart, and completely lost his mind.
Chongzhen didn't have a way, and those courtiers didn't have a way, at this time, many ministers began to put up an afterthought, and the upper song was to impeach the original force mainly for filial piety, taking advantage of the early war of the family army, thinking that the Yu family army was weak, and wanted to take advantage of the situation to destroy the family army, saying that they were misleading the country, and this should not have been done in the first place.
Anyone will put it in hindsight, many ministers who were not qualified to participate in the secret discussion at the beginning, but now they have all become smart people, one by one standing and talking without backache, saying anything, all in all, most people do not scold Yu Xiaotian for being a traitor, but they all impeach those ministers who advocate the conquest of Yu Jiajun, saying that they are not, if it is not for them, why would they make things so far?
Chongzhen looked at the twists and turns of these ministers, and had a strong desire to kill, what did he do earlier? At this time, they all jumped out and fell into the well, isn't it obvious that they are all afterthoughts? What's the use of talking about this now? But they all have to think of a way, how to resist the enemy is the right thing! At this time, the Yu family army has already defeated the Ming army twice in a row, and they are about to send troops to the capital city, but these people are doing these things, how can Chongzhen not be angry.
But Chongzhen was angry and had no choice, and he didn't have time to deal with these guys who were full of food and didn't do their jobs, so he hurriedly ordered Cao Huachun to supervise the Jingying, the prime minister of the Jingshi's defense of the matter, ask for help from all over the country, and ordered the Jingshi to be martial law again, and ordered the soldiers and horses of the world to immediately go north to King Qin.
Cao Huachun was originally a eunuch, but how much military talent did he have? But at this time, the matter had come to this, and he could only do his best, and ordered to gather soldiers and horses from all over Gyeonggi and rush to King Qin, Gyeongshi, and try to strengthen the garrison of Gyeongshi as quickly as possible.
In addition, Chongzhen issued an order, with the current first assistant Liu Yuliang to supervise the world's reinforcements, sit in Tongzhou, and be responsible for blocking the attack of Yu's army on the Beijing division in the east of the Beijing division.
After Liu Yuliang received the order, he was uneasy in his heart, it can be said that he was scared enough, but this time he took the idea of sending troops to suppress Yu Xiaotian, and now that things have reached such a point, he can't push it if he wants to, and at this time, many court officials in Beijing have wantonly criticized him, saying that he is a minister who has misled the country, Liu Yuliang has no choice but to sit on this radish and rush out of the city to Tongzhou overnight.
In addition, now that the imperial court is in financial difficulties, to put it bluntly, there is no money in hand, and now it has to fight, and it has to fight a big war, and it is necessary to let the soldiers use their lives to surround the Beijing Division, how can it be done without money to pay salaries.
But Yu Xiaotian is now stuck in Tianjin Wei, even if he immediately transfers money from Nanzhili to the north, he can't reach Beijing, Chongzhen is anxious for this matter, so Xue Guoguan, who is currently a scholar of Wuyingdian University, gave Chongzhen an idea to Chongzhen to make an order for hundreds of officials and relatives in Beijing to pay salaries.