Chapter Seventy-Two: Shandong Reinforcements

The eunuchs next to them were all panicked and at a loss, but there was a funny feeling in their hearts, now that your old man has been blocked in the palace by Yu Xiaotian, how can you order the world to fight against the rebels? Now it's time to think about self-preservation! I'm afraid it's not a matter of thinking about how to please the thief!

So no one picked up Chongzhen's stubble, everyone stared at the copy of the fold that Yu Xiaotian presented, guessing what was written on the fold.

In fact, Yu Xiaotian didn't write much about the so-called fold presented to Chongzhen this time, but in the twist, he defended himself, and tried to show all kinds of things that the ministers in the court, claiming that he was forced to do this helplessly, and he made this decision for the sake of the society of the Ming Dynasty.

He entered Beijing only for the Qing monarch's side, but he had no idea of replacing it, the purpose was still for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the Jiangshan Society of the Ming and Zhu families.

And he is now besieging the palace, just to protect the saint, to prevent the rebels in the city from taking advantage of the chaos to rush into the palace, endangering the lives and property safety of the saint and others in the palace.

After he stabilized the situation in Jingshi, he would personally ask the saint for his guilt, and during this period, he also asked Chongzhen not to move, just stay in the palace and wait for news, as for the palace during this time, he will send someone to find a way to supply the palace, and he will not let Chongzhen and the people in the palace be wronged.

The reason why Chongzhen watched this setback, his first reaction was a long sigh of relief, that was because he knew that at least in a short period of time, Xiaotian would not attack the palace and take him down, so during this time, he and the concubines and princesses in the palace were at least safe, and they did not have to be ready to commit suicide and martyrdom at any time, which was also in the dark, so that he suddenly saw a glimmer of light, even if this dawn was not real, it was a comfort.

As for his subsequent anger, of course, it was because Yu Xiaotian did this, which completely put him in the position of ignorance, and it was clear that he was blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes not to give him any chance to rule the world again.

After Chongzhen read the recital, he sent a fire, which immediately made people draft a decree and reprimanded Yu Xiaotian, ordering Yu Xiaotian to immediately rein in the precipice, give up this rebellious behavior, lead the troops to withdraw from the Beijing Division, and wait for the fall.

Then he ordered Ma Rucheng to go out of the palace and hand over his holy decree to Yu Xiaotian, Ma Rucheng heard it, and almost cried on the spot, he was finally released from the hands of the rebels, and now it's good, the saint actually wants him to leave the palace and go to the rebels to announce the decree, and he still angrily reprimands that Yu Xiaotian, isn't this the same as letting him go to death?

But even if Chongzhen has been blocked in the palace by the rebels at this time, but he is still the emperor, his orders still have to be carried out, if he doesn't say anything now, it is estimated that he will be dragged out and killed by Chongzhen under the order of the angry Chongzhen on the spot, so whether he wants to or not, he still has to run this leg.

So he had to cry with a sad face, and reluctantly dragged back to the noon gate, and after going out of the noon gate to the Daming gate, he was slipped off the palace wall by the brocade guard with a big basket and sent him outside the palace.

In the second half of the night, Yu Xiaotian had just laid down to rest for a while, and received news that Shandong Yan Jizu led reinforcements and had rushed to Tongzhou before dark last night, and now he had fought with the Yu family army left behind in Tongzhou, and the battle between the two sides was quite fierce.

Yu Xiaotian was slightly taken aback when he heard the news, he didn't expect Yan Jizu to come so quickly this time, it turned out that he expected that the official and military reinforcements from Shandong led by Yan Jizu would arrive in Tongzhou in a few days at the earliest, but this guy actually seemed to have taken the wrong medicine this time, and rushed to Tongzhou so much earlier day and night.

Tongzhou was a very important place for him, where a considerable amount of captured grain and various materials were stored, and if it was lost, it would severely damage the morale of the Yu army, and in addition, it would also cut off the material transportation channel to Tianjin.

Moreover, the main force left behind in Tongzhou is very small, only about one battalion of troops, and the remaining more than ten new battalions have no combat effectiveness at present, and their loyalty to him is also very low.

When he learned the news, he suddenly lost all sleep, and after thinking about it for a while, he immediately sent an order to Li Tong, the commander of the Ninth Brigade, ordering him to leave an infantry battalion to guard the large battalion outside the city, and the rest of the remaining subordinates, led by him, immediately set off overnight to rush back to Tongzhou City to resist the Shandong soldiers and horses.

For the officers and troops in Shandong, Yu Xiaotian knows their combat strength very well, they definitely belong to the five scum of the war, and now they are just under the control of Yan Jizu, with a trace of blood and bravery, which seems to be very fierce, but as long as they are given a head-on blow and a hard knock on them, they will collapse immediately.

Although the Ninth Brigade returned to Tongzhou in a state of dissatisfaction, for them, these troops Yu Xiaotian thought that it was enough, and if the Ninth Brigade couldn't even do this, then Li Tong, the brigade commander, would not have to do it.

As for the Beijing Division, the remaining four brigades, plus two cavalry battalions, are enough, Tong Guò entered the city today after a day's attack, there seem to be a lot of officers and troops in the city, but there are only a group of Xuanda soldiers and horses under the command of Yang Guozhu who really have some combat effectiveness, but most of them have collapsed today with Gao Minghu has surrendered to the Yu family's army, and the rest have collapsed, including Yang Guozhu himself, who has run away from the city at this time, and it is estimated that he has either escaped from the capital, or is now hiding somewhere in the capital, Not found yet.

In addition, there are only the generals of the Beijing battalion under Zhou Yuji, but with the fierce battle in the area of the noon gate this afternoon, his troops have also been wiped out, including Zhou Yuji himself, he has also been captured, and now there is no official army with strong combat effectiveness in the Beijing division, which can pose a sufficient threat to his Yujia army.

Although the scattered forces made it a little difficult to temporarily control the whole city, as long as he had two battalions of mobile troops in hand, he believed that tomorrow would be enough to basically expel the remaining officers and troops from the city, and as for the purging of the remnants of the officers and troops in the city, he did not think it was much of a problem.

After Yu Xiaotian thought about it thoroughly, he ordered the Ninth Brigade to immediately return to Tongzhou to repel the official army reinforcements led by Yan Jizu in Shandong, and Li Tong heard the order, without saying a word, when even the soldiers who had rested called up, conveyed Yu Xiaotian's order, the whole army set off before dawn, and rushed towards Tongzhou City at the speed of a rapid march.

And the reason why Yan Jizu came so quickly this time is actually for a reason, as the governor of Shandong, he is the first responsible person for Shandong guards, because of Yang Sichang's misjudgment, he ordered him to concentrate his troops in the area of Dezhou to block the Jiannu army into Koushan Shandong, but he never thought that the Jiannu army would actually shake a wooden warehouse, and a sound came to attack the west, bypassing the defense line of the Dezhou Shandong army, and entering the hinterland of Koushan from Linqing.

Yan Jizu in order to intercept the Jiannu army, almost evacuated most of the troops in Shandong, Jinan Mansion basically did not leave many defenders, as a result, Jinan Mansion was broken by the Jiannu army, the German king Zhu Youshu, Fengguo general Zhu Enxiang were all taken captive by the Jiannu army, nowhere to be found, and a large number of people in the city of Jinan Mansion were slaughtered.

When Yan Jizu heard the news, he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood on the spot, and he was so scared that he almost peed his pants, he knew that this time it was a big trouble, as the governor of Shandong, the old nest of Jinan Mansion was taken out by the army of Jiannu, and all the relatives of the emperor were taken away, this matter can be regarded as a big trouble!

Even if he led the army to Dezhou to defend against the enemy this time, he was acting at the behest of Yang Sichang, but he was the first person responsible, and the responsibility for the loss of Jinan Mansion and the loss of King De could only be borne by him.

Therefore, Yan Jizu knew that he was finished, and his head was estimated to move this time, even if he exercised everything he had, it was estimated that it would not be much better.

So Yan Jizu's heart was like ashes, and he returned to Jinan Mansion to clean up the mess, and at the same time waited for the imperial court's cavalry to break into the door at any time, arrest him and send him to Beijing for investigation.

But what he didn't expect was that after he returned to Jinan Mansion, something suddenly changed, and he suddenly heard that Yu Xiaotian, the general soldier of Fujian, was shortly after the loss of Jinan Mansion, and brazenly led the army from Fujian to the north by boat, straight into Tianjinwei, blocking the way for the Jiannu army to return north.

Based on Yan Jizu's understanding of the current situation, even if he had an ominous premonition, Yu Xiaotian's move was probably because the drunkard did not mean to drink, and if he didn't get it, he would come to Xingshi to rebel.

But the next series of news from Tianjin Wei to Shandong made Yan Jizu completely confused, according to his guess, Yu Xiaotian was going to take advantage of the chaos in the north to rebel, but then Yu Xiaotian did not go straight from Tianjin Wei to Jingshi, but led the army to block the way of Jiannu Bei.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Jiajun launched a life-and-death duel with Jiannu in the area of Tianjin Wei, and everyone was shocked that no one thought that Yu's army was not killed by Jiannu in one fell swoop, but that the 100,000 Jiannu army was actually defeated and lost before the soldiers of the Jiajun, and even Dolgon was beheaded.

Yan Jizu can't understand this, according to Yu Xiaotian's approach, he should be a loyal minister, when the court is in danger, he risked his life to resist the order and lead the troops to the north to go north, this is something that only a loyal person can do.

How could Yan Jizu not know the strength of the Jiannu army, but Yu Xiaotian led the lonely division to the north, and without any assistance from the imperial court and the cooperation and support of other officials and troops, Yu Jiannu's lonely division fought hard and finally defeated the Jiannu army, which is not easy.

However, the court's attitude towards Yu Xiaotian made Yan Jizu feel a little chilled, the court saw Yu Xiaotian fighting alone, did not support, and tried to respond to the Jiannu army to destroy Yu Xiaotian's department, which was really chilling.

(I haven't been in bed for a few days, my daughter's condition is not optimistic, intestinal infarction, I haven't eaten a drop of water for three days, I'm not allowed to eat anything, I don't even drink water, my little face is sallow, but I can't be pitied to death!) I'm in a bad mood and I hope to improve as much as possible!

By the way, I would like to thank several old friends such as Intoxicating, Desert Laughing Spring Breeze, Eagle Warriors, Eastflowing and so on! I'll find a way to keep updating! )