Chapter 91 Zu Da Shou's Reaction
At this time, Chongzhen was placed under house arrest in the palace and could not issue a political order, let alone replace any officials. Although Hong Chengchou was defeated by Yu Xiaotian at present, tens of thousands of Shaanxi soldiers brought into the capital from Shaanxi had already disintegrated, but no one can say that Hong Chengchou was no longer the governor of the three sides. As long as he doesn't die, as long as he returns to Shaanxi, then he will still be the governor of the three sides.
And Yu Xiaotian also ordered Meng Fei to find Hong Chengchou's lost seal on the battlefield that day, return Hong Chengchou, and set up a banquet for Hong Chengchou in the house.
After drinking the farewell wine, Hong Chengchou left Beijing with the troops of the three battalions allocated to him by Yu Xiaotian and began to embark on the road back to Shaanxi.
Hong Chengchou is very clear that the Yu family army of these three battalions is used by Yu Xiaotian to monitor him, especially the 30 guards, who will become his personal soldiers in the future and will not leave his left in the future. However, since he fought with the Yu family army in Fangshan and Liangxiang, he knew that since then, the Ming It is difficult to find any army that can compete with Yu Jiajun. Whether it is the firearms or tactics used by Yu Jiajun, it is completely beyond his cognitive scope.
The army given to him by Yu Xiaotian has the right to command, but it is definitely impossible to take it for his own use. After seeing these firearms used by Yu's army, he found that if he had different aspirations, even if he could disarm more than 3,000 of his family troops and take their weapons, as long as Yu Xiaotian stopped If you stop supplying him with ammunition, then all these things will become a pile of scrap iron and can't continue to play a role.
So as long as he wants to continue his career, he must rely on more than 3,000 troops as his backbone. Otherwise, even if he is asked to reorganize a former army, he may no longer be able to compete with Yu Xiaotian.
After stepping out of the capital and embarking on the road back to Shaanxi, he turned his head and looked at the departing capital and sighed heavily. He hoped that his choice was not wrong and that Yu Xiaotian did not lie to him. If Yu Xiaotian did the things he promised, then even if he fell behind in the future The scolding is not in vain for his choice this time.
After sending Hong Chengchou away, Yu Xiaotian went to the palace again and personally told Chongzhen about Hong Chengchou. When Chongzhen heard that Hong Chengchou's north king also ended with the destruction of the whole army, his spirit almost completely collapsed, and the last hope in his heart was completely dashed.
Especially after listening to the agreement reached by Yu Xiaotian and Hong Chengchou, Chongzhen was extremely angry. He got up and flew to Xiaotian and stretched out his hand to strangle Yu Xiaotian to death, but he was stopped by the eunuch and comforted him before he persuaded Chongzhen back to the dragon case.
Chongzhen completely ignored any self-restraint and cursed Hong Chengchou. He scolded Hong Chengchou as a traitor and thief. Unexpectedly, he turned to Yu Xiaotian, a traitor, at this time.
Yu Xiaotian vented by Chongzhen. After Chongzhen was tired of scolding, he told Chongzhen the result of his negotiations with Zu Dashou these days.
Zu Dashou is the core figure of the Guanning Army in Jinzhou. He went to the general of Liao, hung the title of Prince Shaofu Zuo Dudu, and led the Jinzhou army.
Nowadays, the Guanning army outside Shanhaiguan can be said to be almost under the control of Zu Dashou's generals, and Zu Dashou is one of the most important people.
This time, Zu Dashhou refused the imperial edict to lead him to lead troops to King Guanqin and continue to stay in Jinzhou. Obviously, he was willing to watch the jokes of the court. Nowadays, a warlord group has already formed in Daming, and Zu Dashhou is undoubtedly the leader of these warlord groups, leading the largest warlord group.
He was originally willing to punch the imperial court, so when the imperial court ordered him to send troops into the customs after the New Year, he transferred more than 10,000 Guanning troops to the customs and handed them over to Commander Wu Xiang.
But soon after, he learned the news that the more than 10,000 elites he sent to Guan were almost completely destroyed by Yu Jiajun in the Tianjin Wei area. In the end, only Wu Sangui led less than 2,000 defeated soldiers and fled back to Shanhaiguan.
When Zu Dashou heard the news, he was immediately shocked. He sat down and carefully analyzed the intelligence, only to find that the strength of Yu Jiajun was far beyond his cognitive scope.
Yu's army won more with less, defeating the 100,000-strong army of slaves who entered the customs, and then Wu Xiang and Chen Xinjia, who had spared their strength, were defeated, which showed that the strength of Yu's army was beyond imagination.
The Guanning army self-apported to be the first soldiers in the world, but it is only for the officers and soldiers in other places of the Ming Dynasty. Over the years, their Guanning army and Jiannu have always been defeated and won less. It can be said that they have suffered more losses, but the Yu family army can win more with less and give 100,000 slaves to the army. It's almost destroyed, which is beyond everyone's imagination.
Then Yu Xiaotian announced that he would enter the side of the Qing Dynasty. In panic, the court sent someone to pass on Zu Dashou, asking Zu Dashou to immediately lead Guan Ning's army to enter King Guan Qin again.
But this time Zu Dashou is determined not to do it. Are you kidding? Can Yu Jiajun be turned over by people? Jiannu is not their opponent. It is useless to let Guan Ning's army enter the customs. It is estimated that they will not be able to return to this time. Once Guanning's army is finished, these military generals will lose all their possessions, and then they will become fish and can be slaughtered by others.
This time, the court treated Yu Jiajun in this way, which is wrong in itself. Now it has pissed off others and wants to enter the side of the Qing Dynasty. That's your own business. Anyway, Zu Dashou said that he refused to lead the army into King Guanqin.
Yu Xiaotian said that he entered Beijing this time to be on the side of the Qing Dynasty, not to usurp the throne. These bosses in the dynasty should also pay some price for their own actions.
These civilian officials are dragging like 250,000 to 80,000 all day long. Looking at these generals with their noses and eyes, they can't get used to it. If they hadn't had soldiers in their hands, they would have been pulled out and chopped by the court.
Therefore, it is not necessarily a bad thing to let Yu Xiaotian kill several senior officials in the dynasty. In a word, Zu Dashou refused to lead his troops to enter the customs because Jiannu was still staring at the customs.
When Wu Sangui learned the news, he sent people to go to Zu Dashou to cry many times and let Zu Dashou lead his troops into the customs to avenge his father Wu Xiang, but he was also rejected by Zu Dashou. Wu Xiang's fate was their example. It was better not to provoke the family.
No matter who will have the final say in the court in the future, they are always inseparable from these people. As long as they sit and watch the wind, who will be in power in the future, they will be the mother with milk. They can't live without their food and salaries.
So Zu Dashou said that he refused to lead the troops into Guan Qinwang, but continued to stay in the Jinzhou area of the town, and has been paying attention to the movement of the capital.
When Zu Dashou learned that Yu's army had conquered the capital and occupied the capital, he was even more shocked. He was very clear about the defense ability of the capital. When Chongzhen first entered the customs for the first time, he returned to the division with Yuan Chonghuan, garrisoned outside the Chaoyang Gate of the capital, and fought with the Jiannu army.
Therefore, Zu Dashou has a good understanding of the situation of the defense facilities in the capital. It is quite difficult to conquer such a strong city from the outside. What's more, there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers stationed in the capital, but Yu's army only took a few days to attack the city.
Although there was news later that Gao Minghu, a general of Xuanfu, was the inner responder of Yu's army and opened Dongzhimen to lead Yu's army into the city, resulting in the loss of the capital, there was also news that even if Gao Minghu surrendered, Yu's army would not take long to conquer Chaoyangmen.
This further illustrates the horror of the Yu family army. Zu Dashou was not willing to lead the troops into the customs at this time to fight with the Yu family army. He found the generals who had fought with Wu Xiang in Tianjin and the Yu family army and asked them in detail about the combat strength of the Yu family army and their tactics.
In addition, he also found a way to catch a group of Jiannu soldiers who tried to escape from the customs and inquired about the decisive battle between the construction slave army and the Yu family army. From these soldiers, he learned in detail about the strength of the Yu family army and the super firepower output ability of the Yu family army, which shocked him.
As a veteran, Zu Dashou can judge the terrible extent of the army only from what he knows from these generals and Jiannu's defeated soldiers. Yu's army is an army with very powerful birds and a large number of cannons that can fight in the field. At the same time, the tactics they used are also in the past. What he doesn't know.
More importantly, Yu's soldiers are not afraid of death and attach great importance to military discipline. They dare to fight desperately on the battlefield and never retreat without the sound of gold. What is really terrible is their iron law. An army has such a good military discipline. Even if it is given them with wooden sticks, it is a terrible force, let alone It's about arming them to their teeth.
Although Zu Dashou's self-respecting Guanning army is a strong army, it also depends on who he compares with. Compared with Jiannu, he still has the courage to fight with Jiannu, but after knowing the strength of the Yu family army, he has completely lost the courage to compete head-on with the Yu family army.
However, Zu Dashou also felt very embarrassed, because Guanning's army was hanging outside the customs. At this time, the climate outside the customs was extremely bad. Although they also made the military households gather in the fields, over the years, the food they produced was not enough for them to eat. Guanning's army was based outside the customs and relied on the imperial court to allocate food for them to live.
Now the court has obviously been controlled by Yu Xiaotian. When Yu Xiaotian turns over, he can beat the current emperor to death. Then Guan Ningjun will lose the support of the court in the future and can't support him outside the customs for how long. What they will eat and drink in the future and what they will pay the soldiers have become a very realistic problem. .