Chapter 55 Like Tongzhou

But the subsequent news made these Ming soldiers drop their eyes. Yu Jiajun actually won, and it was a great victory!

The 100,000 slave army was defeated by the Yu family army and disintegrated. So many slave armies were actually destroyed by the Yu family's army, leaving only the scattered slave army, and finally scattered and fled. Some small groups of slave soldiers and horses even fled to Tongzhou, which really let these Ming soldiers I was nervous.

A few days ago, when the Jiannu army collapsed, more than 1,000 Mongolian soldiers rushed to Tongzhou, broke several villages, killed many local villagers, and robbed a lot of grain and silver.

The Tongzhou garrison had to bravely enter and suppress this scattered army of Jiannu. Originally, they thought that under the new defeat of the Jiannu soldiers and horses, they must not have much combat power. They could take the opportunity to fight the water dog and make some achievements.

But I didn't expect that after they went there, 5,000 soldiers and horses were wandering bravely against Jiannu. Unexpectedly, Jiannu's group of scattered soldiers were beaten and pissed off, lost half of the people and horses, and fled back to the outside of Tongzhou city.

They were stunned and didn't dare to report it to the capital. They abruptly suppressed the matter and watched the Mongolian soldiers of more than 1,000 slaves roaring against the edge of Tongzhou and fled in the direction of Shunyi and Huairou.

This time, the defenders of Tongzhou were even more shocked. Why did Jiannu be beaten like a falling dog in front of the family army, but when it came to them, it became so fierce?

What kind of materials are the generals of the Yu army made of? Can steel cast? Or do they have the magic power of heaven? How powerful is this to beat Jiannu like this?

If they meet Yu Jiajun, can they be better than Jiannu? Thinking of this, many Ming soldiers only felt their scalp numb. They thought that Yu Xiaotian must not rebel. If Yu Xiaotian rebelled, could anyone else in the world cure him?

Unable, they heard that after the war between the family army and Jiannu, the court suddenly and brazenly dispatched Chen Xinjia and Wu Xiang to attack the family army, trying to take advantage of the end of a war and destroy it when the family army was unprepared.

Many officers and soldiers around Tongzhou are suspicious of this. They don't have too high expectations of Chen Xinjia and Wu Xiang's troops, believing that they will be shrill.

Of course, the result was expected by them. Chen Xinjia's troops were dispersed without even meeting the main force of Yu's army. Wu Xiang's troops besieged Tianjin Wei. In the end, Wu Xiang lost her life in Tianjin Wei and was almost destroyed by Yu's army.

The remaining Wu Xiang's son robbed some of Wu Xiang's fragments, fled to Tongzhou with more than 1,000 soldiers, and then stayed for a while, and led the soldiers back to Shanhaiguan.

Through a brief contact with these defeated soldiers under Wu Sangui, the defenders of Tongzhou learned about the strength of the Yu family army. The defeated soldiers described the Yu family army as very terrible, saying that the Yu family army had the ability of all the sky. The cannon was extremely sharp, able to attack and defend, and was extremely good at fighting.

This time, the men and subordinates of the Tongzhou garrison were scared to death, and each of them secretly complained about the court. What kind of wind is this? Why do you have to force this against Yu Xiaotian?

They came to King Qin. If you don't help them, you don't pay them. It's enough to sit back and watch them fight with Jiannu. Now that they have won, it's enough for the court not to reward them. It's okay to let them go back, but the court is flooded in their minds, and on the contrary, they want to take the opportunity to destroy them!

It's okay now. Is it a big deal? Let's force them back! There is no way to clean it up! They were forced to be anxious this time and put out the banner of Qingjun's side. Let's see how the court will clean it up!

And this time when Yu Xiaotian launched the banner of the Qing Dynasty, he pointed directly at Yang Sichang, Liu Yuliang, Xue Guoguan, Gao Qiqian and others, calling it a disaster for the country and the people. The city fox community rat was the treacherous minister of the Ming Dynasty. It was they who caused the Ming Dynasty to be so depressed and asked the emperor to severely punish these guys.

In fact, it was these people who regarded Yu Xiaotian's army as a feud and put forward various plans to destroy Xiaotian, which eventually led to the current situation.

Now Liu Yuliang was sent by the emperor to sit in Tongzhou. He pointed to the officers and soldiers in Tongzhou all day long to make them do this and that. Although the officers and soldiers were not dared to say it easily, they still scolded in private, thinking that this matter was caused by these guys, but now they want these officials. Soldiers bear it.

As for the matter of eating imperial grain and taking salaries for soldiers and selling their lives for the court, they all automatically choose to forget, and they have no consciousness to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

So they waited tremblingly for more than half a month, but did not see the Yu family's army come to attack, so some people have even begun to be optimistic that this matter may be taken away. Now, the court has suffered a great loss, and the Yu family army has taken full advantage of it. Although they are shouting to enter the side of the Beijing Qing Dynasty, this matter After all, it's not a trivial matter, but it's a heinous crime. Now as the court seems to be a little soft, I guess Yu Xiaotian will accept it as soon as it's good.

However, without waiting for a few days of their relaxation, they got an exploration report. The Yu family army stationed in Tianjin Wei finally moved and attacked and killed them in the direction of Xianghe, Wuqing and Tongzhou.

In just two days, the officers and soldiers guarding Wuqing were completely destroyed by the Yu family army, and Wuqing County was also broken by the Yu family army, and the county was destroyed and martyred.

On the third day, Xianghe County was also attacked by the Yu family army. Liu Xiyuan, the general who defended the city, surrendered, and Li Fengshan, the county magistrate, was captured by the Yu family army.

In the next five days, Dong'an and Baodi in the east of Gyeonggi also quickly announced that they were captured by the Yu family army. The main force of the Yu family army went straight to Tongzhou, and more than 20,000 troops came straight to Tongzhou.

After Liu Yuliang learned the news, he was so scared that he was so scared that he immediately ordered the defenders of Tongzhou to surround Tongzhou City for defense. No one was allowed to go out of the camp without authorization, and put on a posture of defending Tongzhou with his buttocks, while he himself hid in Tongzhou City to issue orders, and mobilized soldiers to defend the city to invite him to the city. The cannons on the head are all mounted on the wall, but they are also quite solid.

However, Yu's army did not seem to pay attention to them at all. On March 28, the main force of Yu's army arrived in the south of Tongzhou, and then Yu's army placed the artillery directly three miles outside Tongzhou and aimed more than 100 cannons at the officer company camp outside Tongzhou city.

General Liu Guangzuo was ordered by Liu Yuliang to lead 3,000 Tongzhou defenders to try to fight back against Yu's army, but as soon as he came out of the camp, he was directly bombarded by the Yu family's army. His army suddenly dispersed, and Liu Guangzuo was also killed by gunfire.

Liu Yuliang did not dare to send any more generals to fight, so he had to order the turtle to shrink into the camp to guard, but the next day he was slammed by the Yu family's platoon.

Under the fierce shelling of the family army, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers outside the city only held on for one day. At night, the family army raided the camp. The defenders outside the city collapsed. At dawn, all the officers and soldiers outside Tongzhou changed their hands, and the whole Tongzhou city was surrounded by the Yu family army.

In one night, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers outside the city ran away, and most of the rest were captured. Then they were requisitioned by the family army to make meritorious deeds, re-arming these prisoners and launched a fierce attack on Tongzhou City under the supervision of the family army.

In desperation, these captured officers and soldiers had a large number of Yu's army behind their backs and had to work hard to attack Tongzhou City. Liu Yuliang panicked and ordered artillery to fire back.

After a long day of fierce fighting, the captured soldiers who attacked the city suffered a lot of casualties and were forced to rest for half a day. At dawn, the captured soldiers once again launched another attack on Tongzhou under the cover of the heavy artillery of the siege.

Under the heavy artillery bombardment of the family army, the Tongzhou city defense collapsed. The Yu family army sent people to shoot into the city to persuade thousands of defenders in the city to immediately abandon their weapons and surrender, and ensure that the food supplies stored in the city should not be destroyed. Otherwise, they would be killed if they invaded the city.

In addition, in the letter of persuasion, the defenders in the city are required to immediately take down Liu Yuliang and surrender to the city. The Yu family army can ensure that no one is killed and treat these surrenders well.

So seeing that Tongzhou City could not be defended, a Mr. Qian in the city gritted his teeth and suddenly led his soldiers to rise up and killed dozens of people with him. On the spot, he took Liu Yuliang with ropes and ropes to open the east gate of Tongzhou City and surrender to the Yu's army.

Although Liu Yuliang was prepared, he still couldn't prevent his men from doing this. He found that things were not good. It was too late to escape. Seeing that he was about to be captured alive, Liu Yuliang tried to throw himself into the water, but he was rescued by the rebels and was sent to the Yu family camp.

It took only four days for Yu's army to capture Tongzhou City and control the whole Tongzhou City, and the granary in Tongzhou City was threatened in advance. Although the defenders in the city were ordered to set fire to these materials when the city was broken, the Yu's army finally entered the city, and these defenders did not dare to set fire. In the end, the hundreds of thousands of stones of grain hoarded in the city also fell into the hands of the army.

At the same time, a large amount of cotton was hoarded in Tongzhou City, as well as mule and horse vehicles and about 50,000 taels of silver, all of which also fell into the hands of Yu Xiaotian.

In the battle of Tongzhou, Yu's army fought fiercely and fast, and used a large number of prisoners to assist, killing many captives and generals who refused to obey, showing the fierce side of Yu Xiaotian. After the war, Yu Xiaotian ordered all the officers among the prisoners to be isolated from their soldiers, among which the people's anger in the army. Several generals, including thousands of generals, guards and guerrillas, were beheaded on the spot, and the rest of the officers and soldiers, some of the old and weak, were laid off on the spot. Each of them was given 20 catties of food and one or two pieces of silver, and they were dismissed on the spot and ordered to return home.

As for the remaining 6,000 officers and prisoners of war, they adopted the old method and directly adapted them on the spot, so that the soldiers of the army would replace the original military officers and reorganized them into five infantry battalions to guard Tongzhou City. In addition, from the 9th Brigade, an infantry battalion was selected as the main force and stationed Guarding Tongzhou City, on the one hand, is responsible for monitoring these five new battalions, and on the other hand, it is also responsible for the main task of defending Tongzhou.