Chapter 11 The Occupation of Tianjin
To tell the truth, this is also the first time that their army has fought with Jiannu head-on, the strength of the Jiannu army was passed on by the military and people of the Ming Dynasty in the past, saying that the Jurchen is only invincible, and now Houjin is also regarded as a Jurchen remnant, replaced by what Manchu is more than invincible.
This time, they had to face an army of more than 100,000 Jiannu, but their strength was only about 30,000, and they had to block such a wide area and block Jiannu here, so the generals did not feel easy.
After all, no one dares to be careless when it comes to fighting with the rumored Jiannu army, which is quite awesome in the world, so Yu Xiaotian said so heavily today, it can be regarded as beating them in advance.
According to the signs on the map, the commanders of the brigades immediately went down to start making arrangements after the pre-army meeting, and immediately became lively at the material storage place of the large battalion, and the brigades sent their troops here to receive the necessary ammunition and supplies, and then before noon, the troops who had been ordered to set off began to pull out of the battalion.
The men and horses sent by the Fourth Brigade soon arrived at the edge of the canal, detained a few boats resting on the pier on the side of the canal, and ordered the boatmen and boatmen on the boats to immediately take them to the river to block the canal.
The canal of the Ming Dynasty is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the northern end point is in Tongzhou, the southern end point is in Yangzhou, this is the northern route of the Ming Dynasty, the northern grain can not be self-sufficient, every year from the south to transport a large amount of grain and the taxes collected by the provinces to Beijing.
During this time, Jiannu went south to enter the Kou, and Shandong was ravaged by the Jiannu army, and the transportation on the canal was also forced to stop temporarily.
Cao Ding on these Cao boats had already learned that Yu Jia's army had suddenly landed at Dagukou and surrounded Tianjin Wei, and some of the boatmen on the Cao boat fled when they heard the noise, for fear of being involved in this matter.
It is now rumored everywhere on the canal that Yu Xiaotian led the army to Tianjin Wei this time, not as they said to ask for King Qin, many people say that Yu Xiaotian is coming to rebel this time, taking advantage of Jiannu to enter the Kou, directly attacking the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the Yu family army is a rebel army, and when the rebels come here, they must fight with the official army, and their canal boats are the ships of the Ming Dynasty, and Cao Ding is also a member of the Ming Dynasty, and he will definitely not fall into the good position.
Therefore, many boatmen on the boat, Cao Ding, fled when they heard the wind, and they didn't even want the boat, so they hid for a while.
But in the rumors, there is another voice, that is, someone privately said that Yu Xiaotian really came to fight Jiannu this time, Yu Xiaotian hated Jiannu the most in his life, this time I heard that Jiannu broke through the pass and entered the Kou, and the northern officials and troops could not be defeated, so that the Jiannu army went straight down thousands of miles as if entering a no-man's land, and the lives of the people of the northern Ming Dynasty were devastated.
Therefore, Yu Xiaotian was furious when he heard this, and scolded the incompetence of the imperial court, and the incompetence of these officials and soldiers, so he brazenly risked death to lead his soldiers and horses, set off from Fujian, and rushed here for more than a month day and night, vowing to fight to the death with Jiannu here.
Some people didn't believe it, so there was a conflict between the Cao Ding boats because of this matter, and there were all heads and blood.
Sure enough, within two days, Yu Jiajun's men and horses arrived at the canal, began to block the canal, forcibly requisitioned the Cao boats on the canal, and issued an announcement, saying that they would block the Jiannu army here, and fight to the death with the Jiannu army, and ordered the boatmen and Cao Ding on the Cao boat to assist the Yu Jiajun in the war.
And the news was sent out quite quickly, and soon spread far away, and everyone was skeptical of this set of rhetoric of the family army.
At this time, there was a rumbling cannon sound from Tianjin Wei's side, as well as a dense sound of fire like popping beans.
Kong Dashan, who was ordered to attack Tianjin Wei, made a move at this time.
After Kong Dashan received the order, he immediately ordered his troops and horses, dragged the cannons to the south gate of the Tianjin Acropolis, and once again issued an ultimatum to the defenders in the city, informing them that they would requisition the Acropolis, intercept the Jiannu army here, and order the defenders in the city to immediately leave the city and evacuate here, and Yu Jiajun promised not to harm them.
But how dare the defenders abandon the defense and flee lightly, in that case, even if they escape, it is a capital crime to turn around and be investigated by the imperial court, so the defenders ordered that they would never agree to Yu Xiaotian's request, and mobilized the defenders to go to the city to defend the city, putting on a posture of fighting to the death.
Kong Dashan saw that the ultimatum was useless, and he was no longer polite to them, and immediately led his army to attack the south gate.
There was nothing to say about the tactics of the Yu family's army, the artillery bombarded, the infantry rushed, approached the city wall, and the platoon of guns fired to suppress it, and the rest of the soldiers began to attack the city under the cover of artillery fire.
Where did the defenders of Tianjin Wei go through this kind of battle, just a few shots were fired, and a few rotten cannons on the head of their city were bombarded by the cannons of the Yu family army and flew under the city wall.
As soon as the defenders were about to fight the city wall, they fired rows of bullets from the low, and as a result, more than 100 defenders, including the guards who were supervising the battle here, were cut to the ground in an instant.
It turned out that Kong Dashan was also ready for a big battle, but what he didn't expect was that the officers and troops on the side of Tianjin Wei were so unbearable, he had just launched an offensive for a short time, and only killed and wounded one or two hundred defenders, and the officers and troops defending the city had already begun to collapse, and their ladder had just been erected on the city wall, and news came from the north gate on the other side, saying that a large number of defenders had opened the north gate, and they flocked out and abandoned the city and fled.
Originally, Kong Dashan thought that it would be good to attack the city by the afternoon, but he didn't expect that before noon, the defenders in the city had already abandoned the city and fled, losing the entire acropolis to the Yu family's army.
So the Yu family army easily conquered the acropolis, opened the south gate, and swarmed in without paying any price.
In one afternoon, Kong Dashan completely wiped out the resisting officers and troops in the entire Tianjin Weiwei City, and controlled the entire Tianjin Weiwei City.
When it was not dark, Yu Jiajun posted a notice in the city, telling the residents in the city who did not have time to escape, do not be afraid, they are not Jiannu, let alone other officials and soldiers, as long as they obey the management of the Yu Jiajun, the Yu Jiajun will not commit any crime against the residents of the city.
Even they captured a group of family members of the generals who did not have time to escape in the city, and after screening, they were also screened and let them go home on the spot, after the whole city was under martial law, Yu Jiajun did not rush into anyone's house to loot, but set up sentry posts on the streets, sent a patrol team to patrol the streets, patrolled around the city, and also captured and killed dozens of scoundrels who took the opportunity to make trouble in the city, and completely stabilized the situation of the Tianjin Acropolis.
The people in the city were a little relieved when they saw that the Yujia army was strictly disciplined, and indeed as they preached, they basically did not commit any crimes against the common people.
After Yu Jiajun also entered the city, he only controlled some warehouses, barracks, offices, horse circles and other places in the city, and the rest of the places were basically just stationed some sentry posts, which did not cause chaos in the city at all.
But those who escaped from the Acropolis, but did not fall well, after they broke out of the Tianjin Wei, tried to flee to the direction of Tongzhou, but just escaped from Chengcheng, they were blocked by a cavalry of the Yujia army, after cutting a group of routs, the group of routs was encircled, and they were all driven back to Tianjin Wei, all were disarmed, temporarily disorganized and assigned to the various departments to serve as temporary coolies, as for the officers above the general banner, all were temporarily imprisoned, waiting for another disposal after the war.
Therefore, in just one day, the more than 3,000 defenders of Tianjin Wei were declared to be disarmed by Yu Jia's army, and Tianjin Wei fell into the hands of Yu Xiaotian, becoming Yu Xiaotian's first bridgehead in the Gyeonggi area.
The situation of the Yu family army in the Ming Dynasty has always been nervously concerned, and every day it sends people to the Tianjin Wei area to inquire about the news, and the night does not collect the news that comes and goes, and every day the news found in the Tianjin Wei area is sent back to the Beijing Division, and it is presented to the military department, and the military department does not stop for a moment, and quickly sends it to the palace.
Chongzhen's hair has turned a lot grayer in the past few days, and he is always worried that Yu Xiaotian will lead the rebels to suddenly appear under the Jingshi City, and he has been almost sleepless day and night in the past few days, staring at the movements of the armies, forcing the armies to rush to the designated position immediately, and even the matter of investigating the location of Gao Qiqian has been temporarily shelved by him.
Yang Sichang also smelled the smell of danger, for fear that if this matter was not done well, it would be counted by Chongzhen's new account and old account, so these days he is also staring at the movements of various officials and soldiers day and night, and constantly ordering the mobilization of troops and horses to block the place where Tianjin Wei leads to Beijing.
The eunuch ran back to Beijing and told Chongzhen what Yu Xiaotian said, but Chongzhen didn't believe what Yu Xiaotian said, what bullshit came here to fight against Jiannu, this guy is simply going to rebel.
As for Yu Xiaotian's request for salary, he regarded it as a fart and didn't even consider it, but just pulled a group of ministers every day to discuss how to exterminate Xiaotian.
In the next few days, the armies continued to go to the Tianjin Wei area to investigate the movements of the Yu family's army, but the news that came back made Chongzhen and the ministers even more confused.
After Yu Jiajun landed at Dagukou, he first immediately marched into Tianjin Wei, and then came the news that Yu Xiaotian's soldiers and horses attacked Tianjin Wei, at this time, the government and the opposition were even more scolded for Xiaotian, and they were more convinced that Yu Xiaotian was going to rebel, otherwise why did he beat Tianjin Wei down as soon as he arrived in Tianjinwei?
As a result, all kinds of scolding from the Beijing division were endless, and the voices asking the imperial court to send troops to exterminate them were even more noisy, and for a time there was a lot of noise in the Beijing division.
But the next news sent back from Tianjin Wei made everyone a little surprised, according to common sense, since Yu Xiaotian led his troops to drive straight into Tianjin by sea, then his purpose should be obvious, that is, to directly take the Beijing division, capture the capital as quickly as possible, and directly end the Ming court.
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