Chapter 53 Expansion

At this point, Chongzhen had no better way, so according to Xue Guoguan's idea, he ordered the rich people and officials in Beijing to provide subsidies, as well as those foreign relatives, who also found ways to pay some money to pay.

However, after his decree was issued, his reaction was mediocre. Basically, few officials or foreign relatives were willing to take out money to help the country through this critical period. In the past two days, a total of silver has been collected, but there are only tens of thousands of taels, which is simply a drop in the bucket and is not enough.

So Xue Guoguan gave advice to Chongzhen that the money could be regarded as a loan. First, it was borrowed from these people, and then the court gave interest calculation. After the chaos in Xiaotian was settled, it was returned to the person who gave the money.

Chongzhen had no choice but to give the order again according to his proposal, but as a result, few people were still willing to pay money.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian had led his troops back to Tianjin Wei. At present, the whole area of Tianjin Wei has been controlled by the Yu family army, and after more than half a month of fierce fighting, the Yu family army alone captured more than 20,000 captured the construction slaves and officers and soldiers.

How to deal with so many prisoners has become a problem. Yu's army is now limited in strength. If he wants to control the whole Gyeonggi area, it must not be possible to rely on the more than 30,000 troops he currently has. At this time, it is necessary to expand the army, so Yu Xiaotian ordered to recruit soldiers on the spot to join the army.

And those captured officers and soldiers are currently a relatively good source of soldiers, so he sent people to the officers and soldiers in the prison camp to publicize why he rebelled this time.

Yu Xiaotian let people publicize his brazen going north this time among the prisoners of the officers and soldiers, touted him as a noble man who was worried about the country and the people, and preached all kinds of obscene things done by the court and those officials in the prison camp in the past few months.

After listening to this, the prisoners of these officers and soldiers did not dare to say that they were excited, but they also roughly understood why Yu Xiaotian turned against the court this time. Many of them changed their attitudes and began to turn to Yu Xiaotian.

When the personnel of the Yu family army proposed to recruit soldiers among them, many prisoners immediately expressed their willingness to follow Yu Xiaotian. Even if more than 10,000 officers and soldiers were captured, they defected to Yu Xiaotian and turned into soldiers of the Yu family army.

This is not the high awareness of these soldiers. Yu Xiaotian knows very well that it is not realistic to talk about enlightenment with these eight people in this era.

These soldiers are either from some military households or some recruitment. Many of them actually join the army just for a bite of food and ask for a way to live. It's hard to say who they are loyal or not.

What they value more is who can feed them. In the past, they worked for the court, and it was the court who gave them a meal. The military generals were in charge of their meals, and they had to obey the orders of the court.

Now that they have become prisoners of the Yu family army, each of them is worried and feels that this may be a little lifeless. No one knows what their fate will be next.

Suddenly, the Yu army said that they could be absorbed into the army, which undoubtedly gave them a way to live. As for their loyalty to the Ming court, it was all bullshit. If they were really loyal, they would not have followed the generals to eat and die for so many years without any achievements.

So these officer and military captives are very realistic and think very simple. They will work for whoever gives them food, and they also see that the Yu family army is indeed too powerful to fight against the Yu family army and has no good fruit at all. The world can fool around with capable people. It must be better than following an incomparable person.

What's more, many people privately think that Yu Xiaotian is really powerful. Although he rebelled this time and fought on the side of the Qing Dynasty, who can guarantee that he will not join the yellow robe of the world in the future? Yu Jiajun is so powerful that he may not be able to do this.

So if you follow Yu Xiaotian now, it is to follow the dragon as soon as possible. If you do it well, you can still get along well. At least it is much better than being a soldier in the Ming court. Fast hitters are slow. Now the dragon is much better than the dragon in the future, so many prisoners are willing to apply for recruitment and turn around. Put yourself under the command of Xiaotian.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian recruited some ordinary soldiers. He would never use them for the generals of the Ming Dynasty. These old-style officers are not trustworthy at all. No matter how good an army is handed over to them, they can immediately turn this army into a group of bandits.

So while he ordered to recruit troops and horses, he had already taken care of them. He only recruited those officers and soldiers below the small flag officers. As for those generals, they were all abandoned and temporarily put them all in a big prison in Tianjin Guard and cut off their contact with ordinary soldiers.

As long as these generals are taken away, the remaining soldiers will lose their minds. Whoever takes them to do it can control them more conveniently.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also announced the recruitment of new soldiers among hundreds of thousands of people. These hundreds of thousands of people are northerners. Almost all of them are in good health, and nearly half of them are good workers.

After these people were arrested by Jiannu, they were originally going to be dragged out to be cloth slaves. Now after being rescued by the Yu family army, coupled with the deliberate propaganda of the Yu family army, they were very disappointed by the current Ming court. In addition, their homeland is dilapidated and the soldiers are in chaos. Even if they return to their hometown, they have not eaten. I didn't drink.

So when I learned the news that Yu Jiajun was going to recruit troops, many young people among the refugees expressed their willingness to work for Yu Xiaotian, and there were quite a lot of recruits.

So in just a few days, Yu Xiaotian recruited more than 30,000 recruits in Tianjin Wei and Jinghai counties.

Yu Xiaotian has long considered how to control these 30,000 new recruits. This time, when he went north, he brought a barracks, that is, a trainee officer who has not yet been awarded the martial arts halls of Fujian and Taiwan.

These trainee officers are all strong and have received systematic military education for more than two years. Although they are still not mature, they can already be used. The most important thing is that these soldiers are extremely loyal to filial piety, and there are some sand, which are very brave and good at fighting.

At the time of the decisive battle against Jiannu, this barracks showed great combat effectiveness. After the counterattack began, they dared to fight and repeatedly rushed to the front, fighting very bravely and decisively. Now, despite their short time in battle, they have seen blood and can become qualified low-level officers.

After the conscription began, the barracks were immediately disbanded on the spot, all of which were first sent to various brigades, taking over the positions below the company commander of many companies, and vacated hundreds of officers who had considerable experience from the brigades.

In addition, each battalion has a deputy position, which was also transferred this time, directly to serve as battalion commander in the new barracks, and promoted a group of company commanders to serve as battalion commanders or deputy battalion commanders in the new barracks. They quickly set up the officer system, and basically have control and combat experience. Officer.

Each new barracks is organized into a platoon of veterans, which is directly under the battalion commander to control these new recruits, so that some of the recruits do not obey orders and escape or surrender before war.

In this way, nearly 30 new barracks were quickly formed. Each class was equipped with a veteran of the Yu family army as the squad leader. The squad leader selected a capable recruit from among the new recruits to serve as the deputy squad leader to help them lead the troops.

As for the equipment, Yu Xiaotian did not worry about it. During this period, they seized too many weapons of the slave army and officers and soldiers, among which the firearms were abandoned by Yu Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian did not see these crude firearms at all. Instead of distributing them for use, it is better to return to the furnace and rebuild them.

However, those cold weapons have become the main weapons of armed recruits, mainly with long guns and knife cards. In addition, some bows and crossbows are used as long-range weapons, and some of the recruits will be equipped to use bows and arrows.

As for the large number of captured armor, after selection, almost every recruit can also be equipped with one captured armor, so in a very short time, more than 20 new barracks were armed and immediately transferred to training around Tianjin Wei.

Yu Xiaotian will not easily put these new barracks into the battlefield immediately, but it does not mean that they are useless at all. With these new barracks, he can pull out the old troops of the original Tianjin Guard and let the new barracks temporarily replace them to take over the war zone that has been controlled at present, and take the old troops The team was vacated and entered the next battle.

So the role of the new barracks is still quite obvious. As for their training, Yu Xiaotian set aside two months for the new barracks to use these new barracks as the initial training time. Once the initial training is over, these new barracks can be formed into new combat units and put into the battlefield.

To this end, he temporarily handed over the training of the recruits to Yu Zhenshan, the commander of the 7th Brigade, and also handed over the defense of Tianjin Wei and Jinghai County to Yu Zhenshan, while he and Meng Fei and others devoted their energy to the next battle.

At this time, the members of the staff have also arrived at Tianjin Wei. Around Tianjin Wei and Yu Xiaotian, they set up a wartime staff, which is overall responsible for planning and arranging the next battle.

After defeating Wu Xiang's troops this time, Yu Jiajun spent half a month in Tianjin and did not launch further offensives, so that the already tired departments got a full rest time.

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