Chapter 51 Battle of Tianjin Wei

Through this battle, Chongzhen also knew that there was no room for manoeuvre. Now Yu Xiaotian has completely torn his face with the imperial court, officially raised the anti-flag and embarked on the road of rebellion.

And through this battle, Chongzhen also realized Yu Xiaotian's real power. He originally thought that Yu Xiaotian's subordinates had no more fighting power left after the fierce battle with Jiannu, so he wanted to take advantage of his illness, but he never thought that it would be such a result. 30,000 "exquisite" led by Chen Xinjia Soldiers, like native chickens and dogs, were swept away in front of the family army.

I'm afraid that things will be very troublesome this time. Next, if Wu Xiang can't beat Tianjin Wei, then the whole capital will tremble under the front of the family's army.

So he issued an order to arrest Chen Xinjia, send someone to replace Chen Xinjia to gather the defeated soldiers, deploy them nearby, and strengthen the protection of the periphery of the capital. At the same time, he once again sent people to Shaanxi immediately to pass the decree to Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, so that they would give up everything at hand and night to rush to Beijing within a month. Become a guard and be ready to deal with the great changes.

In addition, he once again issued a decree to summon the world and declare that Yu Xiaotian was a traitor and a thief to create the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty, and ordered the soldiers and horses of the world to fight for it together.

In short, this time he realized that his Ming Dynasty was likely to completely collapse because of Yu Xiaotian, and then he issued an order to make all the officers and soldiers in the Jingji area strictly guard against the Yu family's army from approaching the capital.

But when he was too busy, he got more news that made him vomit blood.

The 20,000 Guanning army led by Wu Xiang was also defeated in Tianjin Wei...

After receiving the imperial edict, Wu Xiang, like Chen Xinjia, immediately led the army from Xianghe to Tianjin Wei.

On the way, Wu Xiang's troops did have several small-scale conflicts with the small troops placed in the north of Tianjin Wei, but they all won easily. After all, the Yu Jiajun's troops in the north of Tianjin Wei are too few, mainly for vigilance. It is impossible to stop so many officers and soldiers, and they are still known to be large. Guanning Army of the Ming First Army.

Therefore, after Wu Xiang won a small victory, he learned that the Yu family's army in Tianjin Wei now has few troops, with a total of only about 3,000 people, and he also has to defend the ferry wharf, which is relatively weak.

So he ordered his army to travel day and night, and it took only three days to rush to the Acropolis of Tianjin.

At this time, the Yujia army guarding Tianjin was very few, with only three battalions of the 9th Brigade, which also included two artillery companies. In fact, the infantry force was only about 3,000.

But after receiving the order, the navy transferred two naval companies from the navy, and transferred about 700 or 800 sailors from various ships, landed and rushed to the Tianjin Guard, strengthening the defense force of the Tianjin Guard, making the whole Tianjin Guard. At this time, Yu's army's army was about 5,000.

However, these 5,000 people are not all guarded in the Tianjin Acropolis. They also have to defend the two floating bridges on the Tianjin Wei Canal, and put two infantry battalions and an artillery company around the pontoon ferry.

So there is only one infantry battalion and artillery company stationed in the city, and the navy sailors make their troops relatively scattered.

After Wu Xiang led his army to arrive at Tianjin Wei, he immediately surrounded the Tianjin Acropolis and divided his troops to try to seize the floating bridge ferry. The two sides then launched a fierce battle.

This is also the biggest test that Yu's army has faced since its landing. Wu Xiang's troops are mostly Guan Ning's generals, well-equipped, strong combat effectiveness, and more firearms. Of course, they brought more than 20 cannons with the army. Of course, it can't be Hongyi cannons, but ordinary general guns.

These Guan Ningjun are relatively good at fighting, and Wu Xiang has just been reinstating and wants to perform, so the siege of the city is quite fierce. As soon as the two sides fought, they both took out their old capital and fought hard.

However, Wu Xiang wanted to capture Tianjin Wei with his superior forces, which was simply a dream. Even if the number of defenders of Tianjin Wei was small, they could not pinch it. Although their troops were weak, their firepower was very strong.

After the landing of Yu's army and capturing Tianjin Wei, although there were not many additional troops, it was constantly adding weapons. This time, the navy was completely reduced to auxiliary troops, but it was not willing to do so on the wall, so that the merits were won by the army, so they also actively cooperated and tried to find ways to get some for them themselves. Merit.

Only then did he constantly pull out the sailors on the ship and formed a temporary seaman company and sent them to Tianjin Wei to look for opportunities. By the way, because there were many artillery on the warships, they could not play a role at all now. Yu Xiaotian proposed to unload a batch of artillery from the ship and transport them to Tianjin Wei to enhance the defense force of Tianjin Wei. The navy also stood up Do it now.

During this period, the navy continued to remove some artillery from various ships and transfer them to Tianjin Wei at Dagukou Pier. These naval guns are not suitable for field use due to the structure of the gun frame, but they are most suitable for defending fixed stronghold fortresses or cities.

When Wu Xiang led the army to attack Tianjin Wei, it was only the naval guns on the Tianjin Acropolis. At this time, more than 40 guns had been placed, and these guns were made Wu Xiang's head big, all of which were Hongyi cannons, and they were heavy guns. The smallest was also 12-pound naval guns, most of which were basically 24 pound ships. Cannon.

That's not to mention that Yu Xiaotian also brought a siege heavy artillery battalion, all equipped with 24 pounds of siege heavy artillery. At this time, this heavy artillery battalion was also in Tianjin, with more than a dozen 24 pounds of siege heavy artillery.

These cannons have a large caliber, long range, sufficient power and strong firepower. Wu Xiang was completely unaware of this. After leading the army to Tianjin Wei and began to attack the city, he tasted the power of these cannons of the Yu family army.

On the first day of the siege, the Yujia army of Tianjin defended fired hundreds of shells, and the Guanning army threw away their armor and corpses all over the field.

Wu Xiang knew the power. The next day, he changed his tactics and continued to attack fiercely, but he still did not make any achievements. The defenders did not want to make any achievements, but he asked for nothing. Guan Ning's army bombarded with cannons in the distance and began to shoot at the bottom of the city.

Although the rifle equipment of the navy is not as good as that of the army, some sailors still hold the first generation of southern-style smoothbore guns. Even the replaced wire rifle is also a short-barreled wolf tooth rifle with a range closer to the wolf tooth rifle used by the army.

But even so, the * in the hands of the sailors is still quite powerful. When they gather fire, they still beat the Guan Ning army who attacked the city.

Although the Guanning army has strong combat effectiveness, these Guanning troops are all spoiled proud soldiers and tough generals. Like other armies of Daming, they are standard old-style armies. The generals are greedy and afraid of death, and naturally they will not work hard as soldiers. After two days of fierce fighting, the Guanning army suffered heavy losses and suddenly lost everything. Sharpness.

Even the Guanning army responsible for attacking the canal pontoon ferry. Under the desperate obstruction of the family's defenders, a large group of people were killed and injured, but they did not make any merit, and they did not even touch the side of the ferry.

Even Zu Kuan, the general of Guanning, who led the army to attack, was also injured by bullets. If it hadn't been for his own soldiers fighting to save him, even he would have turned to the front on the spot.

Therefore, as a result of the two-day fierce battle, Wu Xiang's troops suffered heavy losses, but they did not make any progress, and the morale of the whole army quickly fell.

On the third day, Wu Xiang wanted to rest for a day and adjust, but Li Tong, the brigade commander of the 9th Brigade, did not want to rest. He only took one battalion of infantry to challenge Guan Ning's army.

Wu Xiang was so angry that his son Wu Sangui personally led 5,000 officers to fight, but the two sides fought fiercely around the ferry. The officers and troops led by Wu Sangui were actually beaten and collapsed on the spot. If it hadn't been for Wu Xiang's heavy troops to watch the battle, Li Tong might have killed Wu Sangui.

Wu Xiang knew the power of Yu's army. Although he had many troops, he was not at the same level as Yu's army in terms of combat effectiveness, and the Yu's army firmly defended the defense line. He had a lot of cavalry, but he could not exert his advantage. In the face of the fierce artillery fire of the family army, his Guanning army was almost only beaten, but It can't cause much damage to the enemy.

Under such circumstances, Guanning's army was afraid and did not dare to fight any more, so Wu Xiang had no choice but to order to change the fierce attack to siege, ask the court for help, and ask the court to send more soldiers and horses to attack Tianjin Wei.

However, Yu Jiajun did not intend to give him a chance. After arranging the matter in Jinghai County, he received the news that Meng Fei had defeated Chen Xinjia's headquarters at the Daqing River Ferry. Yu Xiaotian immediately pulled out the first brigade and ordered him to rush back to Tianjin Wei at full speed.

In the early morning of the sixth day when Wu Xiang led his army to arrive in Tianjin Wei, the whole army of the first brigade rushed back to Tianjin Wei and took a rest for a day. On the morning of the seventh day, they killed Tianjin Wei together with the first brigade and attacked Wu Xiang's battalion.

Needless to say, the Guanning army lost the name of the world's most powerful soldier. Under the fierce attack of the first brigade, it changed from an attacker to a defender. Zu Dabi, who went out to fight, was also shot by the Yu family army, and then retreated back to their battalion.

After this defeat, the morale of Guan Ning's army has fallen to the bottom. Wu Xiang no longer dares to fight head-on with the Yu family army. He can only defend it according to the camp. Like a shrinking turtle, he shrinks his head and limbs into the turtle shell, allowing the Yu family army to beat him and refuses to fight anything.

Yan Fucheng, the commander of the first brigade, attacked several times, because the officers and soldiers were closed, but desperately released arrows, which made him fail to attack several times and failed to break through the army camp.

So after discussing with Li Tong, Yan Fucheng decided to send people back to transfer the siege heavy artillery battalion to the front of the two armies, and directly put the cannon outside the officer's battalion, and the muzzle directly hit the officer's battalion.

More than a dozen 24-pound heavy artillery, lined up, and the black hole pointed to the officer's battalion. With an order, these heavy guns were fully fired. With only two rounds of fire, they opened a big hole in the camp, and the defensive officers and soldiers were killed and injured.

However, Yan Fucheng still felt uncomfortable and ordered to continue firing, extending the fire to the battalion, and combing the officer battalion with cannons first.

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