Chapter Forty-Nine: Qingjun's Side
In the text, Yu Xiaotian did not mention that he wanted to create a rebellion against the Ming Dynasty, but said that there were too many traitors in the court and confused the emperor, so what he wanted to do was to enter the side of the Qing monarch in Beijing, and did not say that he wanted to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, so that he would not immediately put himself on the opposite side of all those who were loyal to the Ming court.
This is also before they discussed the mobilization of troops at the beginning, the decision of everyone to discuss, the Qing monarch and overthrow the Ming Dynasty, for the resistance of the people, will be relatively less, if he directly proposed, to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, pull the emperor off the horse and replace him, it is estimated that the next will immediately become the rebellion referred to by Qianfu.
Now he is in charge, he can't mess up this matter, now Tongguò continues to spread all kinds of rumors and rumors in the early stage, and the people's hearts can be said to be towards him, especially the people's hearts in the north, after the Jiannu entry into the Kou, as well as the fact that he led the army to defeat the Jiannu army and annihilate the Jiannu army that entered the customs, the people's will definitely be beneficial to him, but if he proposes it now, if he wants to change the sky, then this will sue everyone, in fact, the court is right to do this, he Yu Xiaotian is a rebel and thief.
Therefore, under the guise of playing the side of the Qing monarch and proving his innocence, it is easier for people to accept than directly announcing that he wants to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to internal contradictions, not contradictions between enemies and me, I Yu Xiaotian is not to be the emperor, but to help the emperor, govern the country well, clean up those incompetent traitors and ministers, and make the Ming Dynasty better.
After saying this, many people will feel that it is not too difficult to accept, and as for what to do after the Jingshi is defeated, it will not be too late to talk about it when the time comes.
As a result, this crusade text that had been concocted long ago was immediately thrown out by Yu Xiaotian, and it was quickly sent to various places through various channels and began to spread.
In addition, Yu Xiaotian also ordered all the generals to prepare for the battle, send people back to Tianjin Wei, and inform the Ninth Brigade and the navy sitting in Tianjin Wei to protect the safety of Tianjin Wei, and no matter how bad it is, he must insist on returning to Tianjin Wei after he first solves Chen Xinjia's department.
After all, Tianjin Wei has a large number of weapons, ammunition and food materials stored now, if Tianjin Wei is in trouble at this time, Yu Xiaotian is really too late to cry.
As for Chen Xinjia's department, Yu Xiaotian really didn't take it to heart, don't look at Chen Xinjia's aggressive army of nearly 30,000 this time, and he wants to come to him for trouble.
But for the Ming army, Yu Xiaotian didn't pay much attention to it at all, these Ming troops were simply working hard for the Ming Dynasty for a bite to eat, and they were scared to the feet one by one when they met the Jiannu, expecting them to fight for the Ming Dynasty, which was not very realistic at all, so he ordered the second and fourth brigades to be in the west of Jinghai County to block Chen Xinjia.
As for the remaining 1st Brigade and 7th Brigade, they continued to speed up, cleaned up the materials here, and escorted the materials to Tianjin Wei for hoarding.
However, considering that the two divisions of the 2nd and 4th Brigades had just gone through a fierce battle and were relatively short of ammunition, and the baggage battalion was temporarily unable to replenish a large number of ammunition materials from Tianjin, in order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the 2nd and 4th Brigades, Yu Xiaotian's 1st and 7th Brigades temporarily concentrated some of the remaining ammunition on their hands and allocated half of it to the 2nd and 4th Brigades for use.
In addition, he ordered most of the cavalry to rush to the west of Jinghai County to strengthen the strength there, and ordered Meng Fei to personally rush to the west of Jinghai County, in the second and fourth brigades, with him as the main force, and the second brigade commander Zhang Changjie and the seventh brigade commander Yu Zhenshan as the auxiliary, the three of them can act cheaply, in short, at least they must drag Chen Xinjia's department first, if they can defeat it, then it will be better.
After the order was issued, all the units immediately took action, and the cavalry escorted the first part of the baggage battalion to immediately load the ammunition and materials transferred from the 1st and 7th brigades and rushed to the western area of Jinghai County, and delivered them to Zhang Changjie and Yu Zhenshan's subordinates.
The 1st and 7th Brigades accelerated the speed of material clearance, gathered all available vehicles, mules and horses, and temporarily recruited a large number of young and strong men from among the refugees, and also helped to transfer these materials, or load them, or act as coachmen, and transport a large number of materials to the direction of Tianjin Wei.
However, there are so many supplies here that they cannot be transported away in a short period of time, and if the rest are directly discarded or distributed to the people, they may be dispersed immediately.
At present, he doesn't want these people to disperse immediately, he needs to let these people watch how he and the officials and soldiers work together, and when the time is ripe, let these people embark on the road back to their hometowns, and become his tongue and speak for him in the future.
So he simply ordered to take the sheep and take down Jinghai County, Jinghai County was originally not a lot of garrisons, and when Jiannu came to this area, because he had no time to take care of them, Jinghai County has not been captured by Jiannu.
Now Yu Xiaotian has taken Jinghai County down, and the defenders in the county town and those officials can't help Yu Jiajun at all, just resisting a little, and then announced the surrender of Kaecheng and handed over the county seat to Yu Xiaotian.
Yu Xiaotian sent a battalion into the city, completely controlled Jinghai County, and temporarily hoarded some of the materials that could not be transported away, especially a large amount of grain, in Jinghai County, and used Jinghai County as his temporary material reserve warehouse.
In this way, these supplies are much safer, and there is no need to worry that these things will be looted by hundreds of thousands of hungry and red-eyed refugees.
For those refugees, Yu Xiaotian comforted them and told them to stay in this area for a period of time, and Yu Jiajun would be responsible for providing them with food, as for the accommodation, Yu Jiajun could not solve it for them at present, so let them find a way to build a shack on the spot, or give them a small number of tools, dig some ground nests, and settle down for the time being.
Every day, these refugees who are divided into groups can take people to the gate of Jinghai County to receive the day's rations according to the receipts, although they can't feed everyone, but at least they eat much better than on the way they came, which is quite good for these desperate refugees.
Among the refugees, there are also people who are anxious to return to their hometowns, and leave without saying hello, and for these people who leave without permission, Yu Xiaotian also ordered not to stop them, and let them leave.
But at this time, most people still listened to Yu Xiaotian's persuasion and did not leave without permission, because under the cold and freezing of this army, they were unarmed people, and they had to walk home, without food or drink, it was basically the same as looking for death.
Although the conditions here are also very poor, and there is no tile on it, it is better to eat hot things twice a day, so as not to starve to death.
Moreover, General Yu also said that as long as the situation calms down a little, they will each be given some food and let them take them home, at least they will not starve to death on the way home, so hundreds of thousands of people have temporarily settled in the area around Jinghai County.
In fact, Yu Xiaotian did not underestimate Chen Xinjia too much, although Chen Xinjia is known as a bold person, but in fact, his ability to do things is not very strong, but he is more likely to wait and see the direction of the wind.
This time, he succeeded Lu Xiangsheng and was promoted to the governor of Xuanda, and he saw that Yang Sichang and others were deliberately dividing Lu Xiangsheng's military power, in order to curry favor with Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia took over Xuanda and most of the troops in Shanxi according to Yang Sichang's requirements, and strictly ordered them not to fight against the enemy without authorization.
The Jiannu army went south, Lu Xiangsheng tracked the Jiannu army south, Chen Xinjia led Shanxi and Xuanda elite soldiers, stationed in the area of Baoding Mansion, did not dare to be the enemy of Jiannu, and watched Lu Xiangsheng finally go to a dead end, Jiannu returned to the north, he did not dare to lead the army to intercept, just sent a small number of soldiers and horses, to attack and disturb Jiannu, and it was a little contact, then retracted.
Yu Xiaotian seized Tianjin Wei and wanted to fight to the death with Jiannu, so he sent someone to send a letter to Chen Xinjia in private, asking Chen Xinjia to attack the Jiannu army from the flank and contain the Jiannu army, but Chen Xinjia dared to do this, he had already seen that the court regarded Yu Xiaotian as a thorn in the flesh, and only wanted to get rid of it quickly, so he would never help Yu Xiaotian.
But after Chen Xinjia heard the news that he was in contact with Jiannu and tried to negotiate peace with Jiannu some time ago, Chen Xinjia felt that things were very bad.
Then I heard rumors that he and Yang Sichang are a raccoon dog, Lu Xiangsheng's death, and he is also inseparable, and then Yang Sichang was arrested by the Holy Decree and asked, although he did not say anything about him, but he still realized that if he didn't do something practical next, I am afraid that after the court solves the trouble of Yu Xiaotian, the current saint will definitely settle his new account and old account together.
In particular, Chongzhen asked him to contact Jiannu in private, trying to negotiate peace with Jiannu, and there were very few people who knew about it, but now he has revealed the rumors, he is the object of suspicion, this is a matter involving the reputation of the saint, how can the saint stop with him today.
So now, if he wants to protect himself, he has to do something, and he has to do it well, and re-establish the image of being capable in the eyes of the saints, otherwise his prospects are very bad.
This time Chongzhen ordered him to lead the army to attack the Yujia army, Chen Xinjia no longer dared to fear the enemy and avoid the battle, showing twelve points of enthusiasm, from the beginning of receiving the order, he began to mobilize a large number of troops and horses with his arms and sleeves, and immediately set off from Baoding Mansion and rushed to the area of Tianjin Wei.
This time, Chen Xinjia secretly made up his mind to do things more beautifully, and he couldn't let Guan Ningjun's side take all the credit.
Now in his opinion, although the Yu family army is fierce, even the Jiannu army is not their opponent, but the battle between them and Jiannu will definitely not be easy, even if they win, it will definitely be a tragic victory.
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