Chapter Forty-Four: A Mountain of Piles
At present, everyone in the world is staring wide-eyed, staring at the actions of Yu Jiajun's side, seeing that Yu Jiajun's killing of Jiannu in the Tianjin Wei area is inextricable, many people have now changed their original views on Xiaotian, and began to regard Yu Xiaotian as a loyal and brave minister who dares to be a brave man today, and many people have admiration for Xiaotian.
But the Yu family army has just won the Jiannu war, and the court wants to let these officials and soldiers go to fight the Yu family army, this standard is to take advantage of the danger of others, it is really immoral, you don't reward it, how can you do this kind of thing?
Therefore, although the generals received the order, they were not comfortable in their hearts, they were all heavy generals of the Ming Dynasty, and they saw that the people who contributed to the Ming Dynasty could not be reused by the imperial court.
Now they have to fight for the Ming Dynasty, and they are desperately trying to defeat the Yu family army that has just defeated Jiannu, so these generals can be said to be reluctant, and of course there is no morale.
But they couldn't resist the decree and disrespect, so they could only follow Chen Xinjia's orders, and led their troops to send troops one after another to force in the direction of Tianjin Wei.
As for the Guanning troops who are now stationed in the Xianghe area to watch the direction of the wind, this time Chongzhen reactivated Wu Xiang, the former chief officer of the Guanning Army, and personally went to Xianghe to sit in the town, and led the 10,000 Guanning troops transferred from the Shanhaiguan area to the Guannei, plus 10,000 Jizhou officers and troops stationed in Xianghe.
After receiving the order, Wu Xiangke didn't care so much, and immediately gathered his troops and horses and rushed towards Tianjin Weihuhula.
And this time among the officers and troops transferred from Shanhaiguan, there are actually two fierce generals, Zu Dabi and Zu Kuan, and even Wu Xiang's son Wu Sangui were transferred to the Guannei, which shows that this time the Liaodong Guanning Army also attaches great importance to this war.
On the fifth day of the third month of Xiaotian, he ended the pursuit of the Jiannu army, began to gather troops and horses, and began to shrink his forces while counting the results and losses, and temporarily withdrew to Tianjin Wei At the same time, the official army began to move.
The Yu family army, which had just finished a huge battle, once again ushered in a huge test, but this time the test was mainly borne by the troops guarding Tianjin.
Because Yu Xiaotian wanted to have a decisive battle with Jiannu, he basically transferred the main force of the landed army to the south of Tianjin Wei and participated in this decisive battle.
At this time, there were only three naval companies and one infantry battalion left in the city, and only one of the Ninth Brigade responsible for the temporary pontoon bridge ferry upstream was left, less than three battalions, and the total strength of this area was only less than 5,000 people, but it had to face the attack of the 20,000 Guanning Army, the most elite of the Ming Dynasty.
After the decisive battle south of Tianjin Wei, Yu Jiajun won a lot, and after a preliminary inventory, when the numbers reported by the various departments were summarized in front of Yu Xiaotian, even Yu Xiaotian was startled.
This time, after they defeated the main force of Jiannu, the first brigade directly killed the area of Jinghai County and Qingxian County, where they defeated and almost completely annihilated the remaining Jiannu soldiers in this area, because Jiannu could not bring all the hundreds of thousands of people to the battlefield of the decisive battle, which was too easy to go wrong.
Therefore, when Dolgon led the main army to Tianjin Wei, he left about 10,000 troops to guard the goods and people he had obtained, and waited for him to break through Tianjin Wei, and then let these people start to pass Guò Tianjin Wei north.
But it's a pity that Dolgon was defeated, and there will never be a chance to take these captured goods and people out of the pass, and after the remaining Jiannu army heard that the main force led by Dolgon had been defeated by Yu's army in the area of Tianjinwei, and it could almost be said that it was close to the news of the annihilation of the whole army, the remaining 10,000 Jiannu suddenly panicked.
Since they are left behind, then they are not the real main force, these left-behind Jiannu are either mainly some bannermen, not even armor, or some clothed slaves, and some are Mongolian soldiers, which can be regarded as a weak brigade.
The news of the annihilation of the main force immediately crushed their fighting spirit, and even so many elite soldiers and horses led by Dolgon were not the opponents of the people's Yujia army, and how could they, the Jiannu army at the level of the auxiliary soldiers, be the opponents of others, and when Du Du fled from the battlefield, he sent people to the place where these materials and people were kept in advance, and informed these remaining Jiannu, so that they immediately gave up all their goods, raw mouths and livestock.
Just carrying some sturdy mules and horses, he ordered one of the slave generals who stayed here to immediately lead his soldiers and horses to flee to the west of the Ming Jingshi, and not to engage the Yu family's army.
After hearing this, the remaining slave general was so shocked that he couldn't believe his ears, and asked several times in a row before confirming that their army had been defeated.
How could their army of Jiannu be defeated? It doesn't make sense! Could Daming still have such a powerful official army, can they defeat their 100,000 Jiannu army?
So even if he confirmed the news, he was still a little indecisive and hesitant, and greed also made him a little dizzy.
Looking at so many mountains of goods, so many women, and so many big animals, this is what they obtained after driving more than 2,000 miles to the south of Zhili in the north of the Ming Dynasty, Shandong, Shanxi and other places, after a small half a year of conquest.
Did you just lose a word? He was so distressed that although he had made up his mind to abandon some, he was reluctant to throw them all away, so he hastened to order to select some sturdy mules and horses, and to put on their horses as valuable as possible, especially silver, gold, and jewelry, and not even to forget to go among the captured people, and select one or two thousand beautiful young women, take them with them, and then flee.
So there was a mess in the temporary refugee camp for a while, the refugees who were being coerced didn't know what was going on, they just suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong, these Jiannu guarding them suddenly became in a hurry, and no one said what happened, just rushed into the place where the goods were piled up, the place where mules and horses were hoarded, and the crowded place, and began to frantically lead a large number of mules and horses.
They packed a large number of valuables on the backs of mules and horses, and then went into the crowd, pulled out some of the women whom they thought were beautiful and able, and drove them away.
By this time, the hundreds of thousands of people who had been coerced did not know what had happened, let alone believed that they had actually been freed at this time.
No one even dared to leave the area where they were confined, just stood there and watched Jiannu scramble for some things and women in a panic, for fear that this would be some trick by Jiannu, amuse them, let them be fooled and escape, and then suddenly kill them, trap them, and take pleasure in torturing and killing them.
This kind of thing, after they were caught, has been staged many times, Jiannu will often tease them, so that some of them seem to see the opportunity to escape, and then hide from a distance to watch them escape, and finally go to the horse to trap them, in front of everyone, torture and kill on the spot, in this way, to intimidate these people.
Now that Jiannu is doing this, many people think that Jiannu is playing them again, so everyone doesn't dare to move, just lie down or sit, and look coldly at where Jiannu is tossing, but no one dares to take the opportunity to escape, and no one knows that they have actually gained freedom.
And among them, there are some villains who tend to be inflammatory, for some petty profits, or even just to get an extra bite of food every day, they are willing to be dogs and legs for Jiannu, help Jiannu to control these people, act as Jiannu's eyes and ears, and spy on Jiannu, ask who wants to make trouble among the people, and then tell Guò to expose it, so as to obtain a little reward from Jiannu.
These two dogs are actually more hateful than Jiannu, and among the people left by Jiannu, there are still many Koreans, these people are not even Jiannu's clothed slaves, but before they temporarily left the customs, they were forced to go to North Korea to recruit thousands of auxiliary soldiers, and these Koreans are also very hateful.
They didn't dare to do anything to Jiannu, but they were often called by dogs when they followed Jiannu, whipping them at the least, and killing their heads at the worst.
But after entering the customs, they worked very hard for Jiannu, Jiannu let these Korean auxiliaries to help them restrain the robbed population, these Korean auxiliaries, treat these people in the Central Plains, more ruthless than Jiannu, they themselves often can't get much food, Jiannu gives the people a little food, they also have to deduct, and take advantage of their free time, spoil women than anyone else.
Armed with big sticks, they often wandered around in groups among the crowds, and when they saw anyone who was not pleasing to the eye, they would pull them and beat them, and some of them would be beaten to death on the spot.
So these North Korean auxiliaries are even more hateful than Jiannu, but this time the news of Jiannu's defeat was actually blocked even by them, and when Jiannu wanted to escape, he ordered them to stay and continue to take care of these people, but he packed up his own soft and wanted to run away.
These North Koreans didn't know what was going on, and stupidly did what they were told, staying here and waiting for their master to return, but they didn't expect that their master would never come back.
Just when Jiannu packed up and fled, a Yujia army infantry army, under the guidance of a small number of scout cavalry, flew towards this side, Jiannu soldiers and horses, just packed up their things, escaped less than a few miles away, and were blocked by this Yujia army soldiers and horses.
If they weren't so greedy and gave up everything as soon as they got the news, then they would have plenty of time to escape, and they would have run dozens of miles away at least by this time, even if the Yu family army was iron-legged, it would be difficult to catch up with them.
It's a pity that there are no regret pills in this world, and they just lost their lives just by delaying it.
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