Chapter 87: Hong Chengchou is here
These rescued people, while returning to their hometowns, also brought back the court's treatment of Yu Jiajun this time, and spread it unintentionally, hearing that Yu Xiaotian was so loyal, but was treated like this by the court, the people everywhere were indignant about this matter, and felt that this matter was too much for the court to do.
Immediately afterwards, they heard that Yu Xiaotian had written to the world to enter the Qing Dynasty in Beijing, and pushed all these recent bad things to those officials in the court, saying that they would enter Beijing to eradicate all these traitors.
Ordinary people will not think deeply, of course, they will not understand the inside story, from the surface of the matter they often only look at, to put it bluntly, it is easy to be deceived, only from what they have learned, this time Yu Xiaotian was forced to do such a move, and the court is also to blame, and deserves to be beaten into Beijing by the Yu family's army.
Therefore, the people in the north have a supportive attitude towards Yu Xiaotian's move, and of course there are some scholars who think that Yu Xiaotian's doing this is really a big rebellion, it is an arrogance, the king makes the ministers die and the ministers have to die, even if the court is at fault, you Yu Xiaotian can't be so arrogant, and you actually want to lead the troops to attack the capital, so some people are opposed to Xiaotian's doing.
But on the whole, the vast majority of ordinary people applauded Xiaotian's actions, thinking that the reason why the current situation in the Ming Dynasty is so unbearable is indeed the fault of these traitors.
As a result, because of the problems of the people's hearts, most of the local governments are also in a wait-and-see attitude towards Xiaotian's crusade against the imperial court, and they have made some remarks in private, discussing the consequences of Yu Xiaotian's actions this time.
Of course, many officials are also watching the direction of the wind, because from the news they have collected, they found that the Yu family army under Yu Xiaotian is really powerful, and the 100,000 Jiannu army was actually beaten in front of more than 30,000 Yu family army, which is already quite an incredible thing, when did Daming come out with such a fighting army?
But what is even more incredible is that the next imperial court wanted to take the opportunity to destroy the Yu family army that had just passed the war, but it didn't work out, and the two official armies were almost wiped out by the Yu family army that had just experienced a huge battle.
When everyone heard the news, they were completely shocked, Yu Jiajun is so capable of fighting, who else can be their opponent, and then Yu Xiaotian sent a message to enter the side of the Qing Jun in Beijing, almost most of the people are not optimistic about the side of the imperial court, thinking that since the Yu Jiajun is so capable of fighting, then attacking the Beijing division is not necessarily a fool's dream.
What's more, they heard that the Yu family army recruited troops in Tianjin, Weihe, Tongzhou and other places during this time, and expanded a large number of soldiers, so that its total strength reached an unprecedented number of more than 100,000 people (in fact, there are not so many, only about 70,000 people, most of them are newly formed new barracks), and many people think that it is probably about to change.
Now it is not difficult for Yu Xiaotian to recruit troops at all, he has just led the army to destroy the Jiannu army and saved countless people, it can be said that the prestige is already in full swing at this time, not to mention that now the area of Shandonggi is ravaged by Jiannu, and the people everywhere can be said to be living in poverty.
Therefore, people don't care whether Yu Xiaotian is a rebel or a thief, as long as Yu Xiaotian is in charge of the food, then naturally someone is willing to do it with him, so it didn't take long for the people from all over the country to hear the news and flock to the recruitment points of the family army, so that the Yu family army recruited a large number of recruits in a short period of time.
Moreover, Yu Jiajun is still the result of picking, some unsuitable army defectors, they did not accept them at all, but gave them a few catties of food, and directly sent them back to their hometowns, otherwise, Yu Jiajun could have recruited more soldiers.
At this time, the imperial court issued an order to recruit soldiers and horses from all over the world to guard King Qin, Shandong Yan Jizu ran fast enough, and as a result, he took Shandong soldiers and horses to Tongzhou, and the battle was defeated, and even Yan Jizu was captured alive by the Yu family's army, and almost no one in the north dared to lead the troops to run to King Qin.
Within two days, the news of Yu Jia's army entering the Beijing division quickly spread in the north, and then the entire Beijing division was completely controlled by the Yu family's army, but what came out with this news was that after Yu Xiaotian entered Beijing, he did not lead troops into the palace, but as he said in his text, after entering Beijing, he searched for Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others.
As a result, some people changed their previous thoughts, thinking that Yu Xiaotian did not want to usurp the throne and change the sky, but really wanted to clear the monarch's side and change the current pattern of the imperial court, which made the minds of many officials begin to come alive again.
There are not many opportunities for this kind, anyone can see that if Yu Xiaotian Qingjun's side succeeds this time, then in the future, Yu Xiaotian will definitely lean towards the government and the opposition, and become a figure above 10,000 people under the Ming Dynasty, and even the power will exceed Wei Zhongxian back then, maybe if they can hug Yu Xiaotian's thigh at this time, then maybe they can also soar in the future.
As a result, many officials who were originally preparing to go north to guard King Qinwang immediately died down, and no longer talked about King Qin's affairs, but began to wait and see the direction of the wind again.
Of course, it includes the group of officers and soldiers sent by Wu Fu in Shanxi, 20,000 Shanxi officers and soldiers, divided into two ways to march towards the Beijing Division, when they learned that the Beijing Division was defeated by the rebels, one is to be intimidated by the rebels' combat power, and the other is to feel that the wind direction of the world is not going to change, so the soldiers and horses of the two roads have shrunk back, and each found a relatively safe place to station.
But Yu Xiaotian's approach, undoubtedly also touched the nerves of a considerable number of civil officials, the Ming Dynasty since the founding of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, two or three hundred years, has been pursuing the policy of suppressing the military with the military, and the military generals have never seen the civilian officials demoted themselves to three levels, although these years because of the use of troops, the imperial court has lenient military generals, so that the status of the military generals has risen over the years, but in any case, now the main thing is still the civil officials.
But now all of a sudden, Yu Xiaotian, the chief soldier of Fujian, actually dared to play the banner of the Qing monarch and led his troops into the Beijing division to hunt and kill the court officials, how can this be done? How could a civil official let such a Qiu Ba ride on his head and?
So even if there are many civil officials who are furious and clamoring to raise troops to quell the rebellion, but this kind of voice is only thunder and rain, these civil officials are just calling and calling, of course they know that the Yu family army under Yu Xiaotian is not easy to mess with, and the 100,000 Jiannu army is not the opponent of the Yu family army, so they gathered some miscellaneous army rabble, even if it is a Beijing division, it is to deliver food to others.
But there is only one person who has the courage to do this, and that is the current trilateral governor Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou has been leading the troops to clear the exile army for the imperial court all these years, and with the Shaanxi soldiers recruited in Shaanxi, he has trained a male soldier, and the exile army has repeatedly used troops over the years, which can be said to be more victorious and less defeated, and it has really exterminated a large number of exile army for the imperial court.
And Hong Chengchou is bold and careful, his wrists are very hard, when he was under Yang He's orders, Yang He was in charge, but he did not agree with Yang He's proposition, for the surrender of the exile army dared to kill and surrender, over the years the death of the exile army in his hands at least more than tens of thousands of people, so Hong Chengchou is definitely among the civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, a person with courage and insight.
It is precisely because Hong Chengchou dared to kill, and later descended to the Qing Dynasty, ruining his reputation in the first life, and he has always been judged as a villain in the history of the Celestial Dynasty in later generations.
But in this era, Hong Chengchou is definitely a capable minister of the Ming Dynasty so far, very trusted by Chongzhen, and enjoys a good reputation among the government and the opposition.
Hong Chengchou had been chasing Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Luo Rucai and other exile army some time ago, in the past two years, there have been several groups of exile army by him exterminated, and in recent years, with Yang Sichang put forward the strategy of four positive and six corners, the local officials and troops began to coordinate the liquidation of the exile army, so that the shape of the Ming Dynasty gradually improved, the exile army began to be gradually compressed back to Shaanxi, and gradually squeezed into the mountains and forests, there is a situation of lingering, as long as the officers and troops work harder, Then there is hope that these large groups of outcasts will be wiped out.
Li Zicheng had been driven away at this time, and the scale of tens of thousands of people was chased and killed by Hong Chengchou, and only a few hundred people fled into Shangluo Mountain, and Zhang Xianzhong was also driven into Sichuan, blocked in the mountains, and there was not much chance to jump, and Luo Rucai was also squeezed in the mountains at the junction of Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan, and he was not as arrogant as before.
Therefore, Hong Chengchou felt that this time he was almost able to solve the exile army, but he did not expect that last autumn, the Jiannu army once again broke through the pass in the south, plundered the Gyeonggi area, and went south for 2,000 miles, straight into the hinterland of Zhili, Shanxi, and Shandong in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and the situation in the north suddenly deteriorated.
At that time, the imperial court ordered him and Sun Chuanting to do their best to solve Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other exile army, and led the division north to enter the Weijing Division.
In the spring of the twelfth year, he saw that he was about to be completed, but he heard that the imperial court ordered him to immediately gather troops to the north to defend it, because Jinan Mansion was captured by Jiannu, and the situation in the entire north was extremely erosive.
So Hong Chengchou had no choice but to give up the final purge of Li Zicheng, ordered the officers and soldiers of all departments to assemble towards Tongguan, and ordered Sun Chuanting to go with the army and prepare to go north out of Tongguan to enter the guard.
However, before Hong Chengchou could lead his troops out of Tongguan, he received news that Yu Xiaotian, the general army of Fujian, suddenly led his troops north to capture Tianjin Wei, which directly threatened the safety of the Beijing division.
Hong Chengchou was shocked when he heard this, and scolded Yu Xiaotian for being a rebel and chose to rebel at this time, so he stepped up the deployment of troops and rushed out of Tongguan to Beijing.
However, tens of thousands of army divisions are all over Shaanxi, and they want to assemble at once, with the speed of marching and material procurement in this era, it is undoubtedly a very difficult thing for Shaanxi, which is already about to be a hundred miles away, although Hong Chengchou is anxious, but the official army has not been able to quickly assemble in the Tongguan area, so Hong Chengchou had to lead 20,000 Hong soldiers first, go out of Tongguan first, cross the Yellow River and rush to Beijing.
And he ordered Sun Chuanting to gather the remaining soldiers and horses in Tongguan, and then hurried to Beijing to enter the guard, but on the way, he heard the news that Yu Xiaotian entered Tianjin Wei this time, not to plot rebellion, but to risk his life to resist the Jiannu army that was going to intercept the invading Jiannu army in Tianjinwei, and the Jiannu army to fight to the death in the area of Tianjinwei.
This time Hong Chengchou was a little confused, he had heard of the fact that the imperial court had been afraid of Xiaotian for the past two years, and he also knew that the imperial court had a plan to gather troops to go south to Fujian after exterminating these exiled people's army, preparing to destroy Xiaotian's department, for this reason, he had even checked the information about the topography and humanities of Fujian in advance, and also prepared a map of Fujian, because he thought that once the imperial court used troops against Xiaotian, it was likely that he would be transferred to preside over the overall situation. Therefore, when Hong Chengchou was free during this time, he took precautions in advance and made some preparations.
In addition, he also collected some information about Xiaotian's troops, knowing that Yu Xiaotian had tens of thousands of heavy troops under his command, and also had the most powerful naval force in the Ming Dynasty, so he had great concerns about how to exterminate Yu Xiaotian.
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