Chapter 55 Rick Tongzhou

But then the news came that made these Ming soldiers lose their eyes, and the Yu family army actually won, and it was a big victory!

100,000 Jiannu army in front of the family army, was defeated by the Yu family's army, the ice disintegrated, so many Jiannu army, actually wiped out in the hands of the Yu family's army, only the scattered Jiannu army remained, and finally scattered and fled, some small groups of Jiannu soldiers and horses, and even fled to the Tongzhou area, which really made these Ming soldiers nervous.

A few days ago, when the Jiannu army collapsed, more than 1,000 Mongol soldiers of Jiannu rushed to the Tongzhou area, broke several Zhuangzi, robbed and killed many local villagers, and also robbed a lot of grain and money.

The defenders of Tongzhou had no choice but to go to the scattered army of Jiannu, thinking that under the new defeat of Jiannu's soldiers and horses, they must not have much combat power, so they could take the opportunity to beat the water dogs and make a little war merit.

But I didn't expect that after they passed, 5,000 soldiers and horses were brave against Jiannu, a thousand stragglers, and they were actually beaten by Jiannu's gang of stragglers, lost half of the men and horses, and fled back to Tongzhou outside the city in defeat.

They didn't dare to report this matter to the Beijing Division, so they stubbornly suppressed this matter, and watched the Mongolian soldiers of more than 1,000 Jiannu roaring and rubbing the edge of Tongzhou, fleeing in the direction of Shunyi and Huairou.

This time, the defenders of Tongzhou were even more shocked, why did Jiannu be beaten like a water dog in front of the family army, but in front of them, it became so fierce again?

What kind of material is this soldier of the Yu family army made of? Steel pouring iron casting? Or do they have supernatural powers? How powerful does this have to be to beat Jiannu like this?

If they ran into the Yu family's army, would they be stronger than Jiannu? Thinking of this, many of the Ming generals only felt that their scalps were numb, and they said in their hearts, Yu Xiaotian, don't rebel, if Yu Xiaotian rebels, can anyone in this world cure him?

Before they could speak, they heard again that after the battle between Yujia's army and Jiannu, the imperial court suddenly sent Chen Xinjia and Wu Xiang to attack Yu's army, trying to take advantage of the fact that Yu's army had just ended a big war and take advantage of its unpreparedness to destroy it.

Many officers and generals in the Tongzhou area were suspicious of this, and did not report too high expectations for Chen Xinjia and Wu Xiang's subordinates, thinking that they would be deflated if they did not do well.

The result was of course expected by them, Chen Xinjia's department, even the main force of the Yu family army was scattered, and Wu Xiang's department besieged Tianjin Wei failed, and finally Wu Xiang even lost his life in Tianjin Wei, and was almost wiped out by the Yu family's army.

The remaining sons of Wu Xiang snatched some of Wu Xiang's bits and pieces, fled to Tongzhou with more than 1,000 defeated soldiers, and then stopped for a while, and then led the troops back to Shanhaiguan.

The brief contact between Tong Guò and Wu Sangui's defeated soldiers made the Tongzhou defenders know the strength of the Yu family army, and the defeated soldiers described the Yu family army as very terrible, saying that the Yu family army has the ability to reach the sky, the cannon is extremely sharp, can attack and defend, and is extremely good at fighting.

This scared the Tongzhou defenders half to death, and they all secretly complained to the court, what kind of wind is this, why do you have to force this Yu Xiaotian?

People come to King Qin, if you don't help, you don't allocate food and salary to others, just sit back and watch people fight to the death with Jiannu, now that people have won, the court will not reward it, let the family go back, but the court is in the water, but the court wants to take the opportunity to destroy people!

It's good now, it's a big deal, right? Push people back! I can't clean it up! People were forced to be anxious this time, and they played the banner of wanting to clear the monarch's side, let's see how the court cleans up!

And this time, when Yu Xiaotian played the banner of the Qing monarch, the spearhead was directly pointed at Yang Sichang, Liu Yuliang, Xue Guoguan, Gao Qiqian and others, calling them disasters to the country and the people.

In fact, it was these people who regarded Yu Xiaotian's Yu family army as a revenge, and put forward various plans to destroy Yu Xiaotian, which finally led to the current situation.

Now Liu Yuliang was sent by the Holy Lord to sit in Tongzhou, and all day long to the officers and soldiers in Tongzhou, ordering them to do this and that, the officers and soldiers were dissatisfied, although they did not dare to say it lightly, but they still scolded in private, thinking that this matter was caused by these guys, and now they want to bear it.

As for the fact that they eat the emperor's food and get the soldiers' salaries, and they want to work for the imperial court, they all automatically choose to forget, and they don't have any consciousness to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty at all.

Just like that, they waited tremblingly for more than half a month, but they didn't see the Yu family army to attack, so some people have even begun to be optimistic that this matter is probably just like that, now the court has suffered a big loss, and the Yu family army has taken advantage of it, although they are clamoring to enter the side of the Qing monarch in Beijing, but this matter is not a trivial matter after all, but it is a monstrous crime, and now the court seems to be a little soft, and it is estimated that Yu Xiaotian will also accept it.

But before they could relax for a few days, they got a report that the Yu Jiajun stationed in Tianjin finally moved, and the troops were divided into three routes and attacked and killed in the direction of Xianghe, Wuqing, and Tongzhou.

In just two days, the officers and troops guarding Wuqing were completely wiped out by Yu's army, and the county seat of Wuqing was also broken by Yu's army.

On the third day, Xianghe County was also broken by Yujia's army, and Liu Xiyuan, the general who defended the city, led his troops to surrender, and Li Fengshan, the county governor, was captured by Yujia's army.

In the next five days, Dong'an and Baodi in the east of Gyeonggi also quickly announced that they had been captured by Yujia's army, and the main force of Yujia's army was directed at Tongzhou, and more than 20,000 troops rushed straight to Tongzhou.

After Liu Yuliang learned the news, he was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and he immediately ordered the defenders of Tongzhou to surround Tongzhou City, and no one was allowed to go out of the camp to fight without authorization, and put on a posture of pouting his ass to defend Tongzhou, while he himself hid in Tongzhou City to give orders, and mobilized troops and horses to go to the city to defend the city, and put all the cannons that could be invited to the city on the city wall, but it was also quite a bit impregnable.

On March 28, the main force of Yu's army arrived in the south of Tongzhou, and then Yu's army placed the artillery directly three miles outside Tongzhou City, and aimed more than 100 cannons at the official army company camp outside Tongzhou City.

On the orders of Liu Yuliang, the defender Liu Guangzuo led 3,000 Tongzhou defenders to try to counterattack Yujia's army, but as soon as he left the camp, he was directly bombarded by Yujia's artillery.

Liu Yuliang did not dare to send his generals to meet the battle, so he had to order the turtle to retreat into the camp and defend it, but then he was attacked by the Yu family's platoon of artillery the next day.

Outside the city, more than 10,000 officers and troops under the fierce shelling of the home army, only held on for one day, at night in the home army raided the camp, the defenders outside the city were routed, at dawn the official army outside the city of Tongzhou changed hands, the entire Tongzhou city was surrounded by the Yu family army.

Outside the city, more than half of the more than 10,000 people ran away overnight, and most of the rest were captured, and then they were requisitioned by the Yu family army, and these prisoners were rearmed with the order of meritorious service, and launched a fierce attack on Tongzhou City under the supervision of the family army.

In desperation, these captured officers and soldiers had a large number of Yujia troops behind them to supervise the battle, and they had to storm Tongzhou City with their lives.

After a fierce battle for half a day, the siege captives suffered a lot of casualties, and were forced to withdraw for half a day, and at dawn one day, the captives once again launched another attack on Tongzhou under the cover of the siege heavy artillery of the home army.

Under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Yujia army, the city defense of Tongzhou collapsed, and the Yujia army sent people to shoot a batch of letters of persuasion into the city, persuading thousands of defenders in the city to immediately abandon their weapons and surrender, and ensure that the food and materials stored in the city must not be destroyed, otherwise they will be killed if they enter the city.

In addition, in the letter of persuasion, the defenders in the city were asked to immediately take down Liu Yuliang and surrender the city, so that the Yu family army could ensure that no one was killed, and these surrendered soldiers could be treated well.

So seeing that Tongzhou City could not be defended, a Niu surnamed Qianzong in the city, gritted his teeth, and suddenly led his soldiers to rise up, killed dozens of people with Liu Yuliang personally, took Liu Yuliang down on the spot, tied the rope and opened the east gate of Tongzhou City, and surrendered to the Yu family's army.

Although Liu Yuliang was prepared, he still couldn't prevent his subordinates from doing this, he found that things were not good, it was too late to escape, and he was about to be captured alive, Liu Yuliang tried to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water, but he was rescued by the rebels who jumped into the water, and was sent to the camp of the Yu family's army.

It took only four days for the Yu family army to conquer Tongzhou City and control the entire Tongzhou City in their hands, and the granary in Tongzhou City, because of the threat issued by the Yu family army in advance, although the defenders in the city were ordered to set fire to these materials when the city was broken, but in the end, the Yu family army entered the city, and these defenders did not dare to set fire, so in the end, the hundreds of thousands of stone grain hoarded in the city also fell into the hands of the Yu family army.

At the same time, there were also a large amount of cotton cloth and cotton hoarded in Tongzhou City, as well as mules, horses, and vehicles, as well as more than 50,000 taels of silver, all of which also fell into the hands of Yu Xiaotian.

The battle of Tongzhou, Yu Jiajun fought hard and fast, and also used a large number of prisoners to assist, and killed a lot of prisoners who refused to obey the order, showing Yu Xiaotian's ruthless side, after the war, Yu Xiaotian ordered all the officers in the prisoners, all of them were isolated from their soldiers, among which several thousand-generals, garrisons and guerrillas and other generals who were very angry in the army were beheaded on the spot, and the rest of the officers and soldiers, some of the old and weak were laid off on the spot, and each person was given 20 catties of food, one or two pieces of silver, and they were dismissed on the spot to return to their hometowns.

As for the remaining 6,000 prisoners of war, the old method was adopted, and they were directly reorganized on the spot, with the soldiers of Yujia's army replacing the original officers in the army, and reorganizing them into five infantry battalions on the spot, so that they could guard Tongzhou City, and in addition, one infantry battalion from the Ninth Brigade was drawn as the main force to garrison Tongzhou City, which was responsible for monitoring these five newly formed battalions on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also undertook the main task of defending Tongzhou.