Chapter Seventy-Three: Intention to Reverse the Tables

Yan Jizu paid attention to the situation of the family army in the Gyeonggi area at any time, and sent people to keep an eye on that side day and night, no matter what the wind and grass, he immediately sent the news back to Jinan, and soon he learned that Yu Xiaotian had just led his troops to defeat the Jiannu army, and the imperial court ordered Chen Xinjia to lead the troops to flank the Yu family army, and regained Wu Xiang, so that he led the Guanning army to attack Tianjin Wei, and wanted to take advantage of the weakness of the Yu family army at the beginning of the war, and the family army was destroyed.

This thing is even more unacceptable, even the common people heard the news, they immediately scolded, scolding the court for doing this, is it a thing, people unload the mill to kill the donkey, anyway, to unload the donkey from the mill to kill, you are good, people have not removed the millstone, you have to kill the donkey, is this a human thing?

Yan Jizu also saw it this way in private, thinking that Yu Xiaotian was probably in a catastrophe this time, after all, his Yu family army had just fought a fierce battle with the Jiannu army, and it was estimated that the losses would be quite heavy, even if it was won, it would be a tragic victory, and at this time, it was besieged and attacked by a large number of officers and soldiers, and it was definitely impossible to parry, and defeat was a sure thing.

As a result, after the news reached Jinan Mansion, Yan Jizu was almost choked to death on the spot by a sip of tea, because the news said that Chen Xinjia's department actually ran into Yu Jiajun, and he was beaten up, and then Wu Xiang led the army to attack Tianjin Wei, not only did he take Tianjin Wei, but was also defeated by Yu Jiajun, and even Wu Xiang himself was killed by Yu Jiajun.

Yu Xiaotian then issued a letter to the world, to put it bluntly, it was a rebellious text, and he played the banner of the Qing monarch and wanted to attack the Beijing division.

At this moment, Yan Jizu was completely dumbfounded, how could this Yu Jiajun be so powerful? The lonely division went north and first destroyed the Jiannu army, and then defeated the two strong teams of the Ming Dynasty in a row, can it be more powerful?

Soon Yan Jizu received a holy decree from the imperial court, and someone rushed to Jinan Mansion day and night, so that Yan Jizu immediately led Shandong soldiers and horses to the north and entered the Beijing Division.

Yan Jizu immediately felt that this time was a rare opportunity for him to turn over, if this time he could use the fastest speed to lead his troops to rush to King Qinshi in Beijing and prevent Yu Xiaotian's rebels from attacking Beijing, then his previous guilt for losing Jinan Mansion is estimated to be wiped out by this credit, at least the merits and demerits will be offset, and this head will definitely be saved.

What's more, now that he heard that the imperial court has issued an order to temporarily arrest Yang Sichang, as long as Yang Sichang falls, he can completely put the charge of losing Jinan on Yang Sichang's head, then he will be fine, and it is impossible to take the opportunity to be promoted.

So Yan Jizu immediately cleaned up overnight as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and immediately rushed to Dezhou, at this time, the Shandong soldiers and horses in the Dezhou area had not all evacuated Dezhou, and he was recalled to Dezhou one after another, and then led the army, day and night, as if they were dying, and rushed towards the Beijing Division.

As a result, he had not yet led the army to arrive in Beijing, and he heard that Yu Xiaotian led the army to conquer Tongzhou, and then had already arrived at the city of Beijing.

This time Yu Xiaotian led the army to attack the capital, it must have brought the elite to the Beijing division, and Tongzhou must not have many soldiers and horses left, even if there are some soldiers and horses guarding Tongzhou City, it is estimated that there are only a small number of soldiers and horses, at this time, if he first lays down Tongzhou, it is equivalent to cutting off the back road of the Yu family's army, and it is not good to force the Yu family army to give up attacking the Beijing division, which can also be regarded as a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao.

So Yan Jizu did not dare to lead the army to the Beijing Division, but immediately rushed towards Tongzhou, although the Shandong generals were not strong, but this time Yan Jizu was ruthless, please come out with a holy decree to suppress the Shandong generals under his command, so that they must not slack off, in order to rush to Tongzhou as soon as possible.

In desperation, the Shandong generals had to use their strength to eat milk and follow Yan Jizu to Tongzhou, which made him unexpectedly Xiaotian and led his troops to Tongzhou in advance.

After arriving in Tongzhou, Yan Jizu found that the Yu family army here seemed to be very sufficient, and there were more than 10,000 people guarding Tongzhou City, which scared him enough, and he almost escaped directly and pulled him down.

But fortunately, there are subordinates who know how to do it, and after observing it, they told Sù Yan Jizu that the Yu family army in Tongzhou City does not seem to be a genuine soldier or horse, but more like a surrendered army that has just been recruited, and after the Shandong soldiers arrived in Tongzhou, these Yu family troops did not take the initiative to attack, but retreated to the city, which shows that these Yu family troops are not the main force, and they should not be too powerful.

So Yan Jizu stabilized his mind and sent troops to challenge and test it, and if it was true that the defenders of the Yu family army in Tongzhou did not go out of the city to fight, Yan Jizu was relieved and ordered the troops to besiege Tongzhou City and start attacking the city.

But even so, Yan Jizu sent troops to attack for a day, but did not get any results, although now he can judge that most of the Yu family army in the city is just recruited, but there is still a part of the main force of the Yu family army in the city, although the number is not much, but it is also quite fierce.

The Shandong soldiers launched several attacks in a row, but they were repelled by the Yu family army defending the city with guns, and the Shandong officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

This is still in the case of many damages to the city wall of Tongzhou City, such a result made Yan Jizu quite unwilling, but he also learned the strength of the Yu family army and became more cautious.

Just when Yan Jizu was determined to capture Tongzhou City at any cost, he had just organized two attacks in the morning, and he received news that he would not receive it at night, saying that a group of thousands of Yujia soldiers and horses had appeared only more than 20 miles away from Tongzhou City, and was rushing towards Tongzhou City at the speed of a rapid march.

Yan Jizu was frightened, and quickly ordered to stop the siege, the whole army was concentrated, and lined up in the southwest of Tongzhou to meet each other, Yan Jizu brought 30,000 soldiers and horses from Shandong this time, although he was very jealous of the combat power of the army, but he still thought that his strength was far more than several times that of the army, at least it would not be defeated and lost!

Fortunately, this time the Yu family army did not return to the reinforcements of the whole army, only returned less than 5,000 troops, Yan Jizu privately thought that the Yu family army was too arrogant to do this, with his strength, four to one, and there were people watching the excitement next to him to take clothes, how could it not even be stopped by the Yu family army of less than 5,000!

So Yan Jizu gritted his teeth and ordered, ordering the Shandong generals under his command to eat the 5,000 Yujia troops at any cost, even if they only won such a battle, they would be able to explain to the court in the future.

At a distance of more than ten miles, in the face of the speed of the rapid march of the family army, in less than an hour, Li Tong led his troops to rush to the front of the official army's defense line.

At this time, the soldiers and generals of the Ninth Brigade rushed all the way, and when they arrived here, they were basically sleepy and tired, so Li Tong ordered to stop advancing and rest in place after seeing the officers and soldiers.

However, Li Tong wanted to rest, but Yan Jizu did not agree, and he immediately sent thousands of "elites" under his command to surround the Yu family army from the left and right flanks, trying to take advantage of the fact that the Yu family soldiers were sleepy and tired, to give them a head-on attack, and strive to defeat the reinforcements of the Yu family army.

Li Tong looked at the posture of the officers and soldiers opposite, and he was angry and happy, and said in his heart, Lao Tzu hasn't had time to find your trouble, but you have come to find Lao Tzu's trouble first! But that's fine, let's clean up these guys first.

With Li Tong's order, the soldiers of the 9th Brigade immediately formed four hollow phalanxes with battalions as units, and as soon as the officers and soldiers approached them, they attacked the officers and soldiers one by one.

The officers and soldiers in charge of the attack, before they could get close to the front line of the Yu family's army, were hit by a torrential rain of bullets.

Under such an environment and terrain, the infantry formation of the officers and soldiers against the infantry phalanx of the family army is simply an act of seeking death, no matter how elite they are, when facing the Yu family army with absolute superior firepower, they can only be beaten.

Therefore, these thousands of officers and soldiers who attacked did not even hold out for half an hour, and they were beaten by the soldiers and generals of the Ninth Brigade.

Li Tong saw that he had defeated this group of officers and soldiers, and he was not in a hurry to pursue, and let the battalions continue to rest, but Yan Jizu was a little numb at first glance, and this battle seemed to be not as easy to fight as he thought! So Yan Jizu began to worry.

But at this point, he definitely didn't dare to withdraw the troops, because now he can be said to be guilty, if he retreats at this time, once the court frees his hand, he will definitely not spare him, so he gritted his teeth and ordered the generals under his command to launch an attack on the whole army, only allowed to advance but not retreat, if anyone dares to retreat from the battle and flee without authorization, he will cut off his head.

And he personally led Fu Biao to supervise the formation in the back, and set up some artillery pieces carried by the army, not to deal with the Yu army, but to deal with the Shandong soldiers who fled without permission.

More than 20,000 Shandong soldiers began to line up in fear, and under the urging of fierce war drums, they began to rush towards the Yu family army like a black oppressive ant colony.

Li Tong saw that the officers and soldiers were about to play with their lives, so he immediately ordered to stop resting, and the whole army got up and lined up, and combined the four battalions into two large hollow phalanxes, making the formation much thicker.

Hundreds of paces away, the officers and soldiers began to shout, shouting and shouting for their own courage, and began to attack the Yu family army under the drive of the generals.

As a dense thunderbolt sounded, the terrible screams of countless officers and soldiers sounded on the battlefield at the same time......

(Today, my daughter's condition has improved, and my love has improved, and I feel that this mental calculation has been put down a little, and I can breathe a sigh of relief!) )