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However, after the Yu Jiajun captured Tianjin Wei, they suddenly stopped their actions. According to the feedback from Ye Bushou and Tan Ma Xizuo, they found that the Yu Jiajun did not do this, but captured Tianjin.

After guarding the city, they stopped and began to build fortifications along both sides of the canal, setting up a defensive posture.

Moreover, according to Ye Bushou's investigation, the direction of the Yu's army's defense was not facing the capital area, nor was it placed in the north of the canal. Instead, the main force was placed on both sides of the canal and aimed at the south of the canal.

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At this time, Dezhou and Hejian Prefectures also sent urgent reports to the capital, saying that the slave-building army had taken hundreds of thousands of people and a large number of property and livestock with them, and was slowly advancing along the canal in the direction of Tianjin Wei.

Those who were interested quickly looked at the map to observe, especially those officials who were familiar with the terrain of Hejian Prefecture and Gyeonggi Province, those who had the conditions to obtain the map, or those who could construct a floor plan in their minds, they soon discovered

Got the problem.

Yu Xiaotian's behavior is quite weird. If he was here to rebel, Yu Xiaotian could have ignored the slave army and directly led his army to attack the capital as quickly as possible. At this time, the capital had not had time to prepare.

Preparation, the defense along Tongzhou has not been completed yet, Yu Xiaotian has a great chance to attack the capital city.

The Jiannu slaves have now returned from plundering, and they are definitely not interested in taking care of this matter. Their purpose is very obvious, which is to enter the customs and plunder. Now they have made a lot of money and are escorting the people and property they gained.

If the goods are withdrawn from the customs, they will definitely not have the energy or the strength to divide their troops to interfere.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian's rebellion should be a good thing for Jian Nu. No matter who kills whom, Jian Nu is very optimistic about the outcome, so they will not get involved at this time.

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After all, Yu Xiaotian is a member of the Ming Dynasty. His rebellion will definitely break with the Ming Dynasty. Whether he succeeds or fails, it will severely weaken the Ming Dynasty in the pass. They must be happy to see this situation, which will pave the way for them to enter the pass in the future.

, can only create better conditions.

Therefore, there is no reason for Jiannu to cause trouble at this time.

Similarly, if Yu Xiaotian was plotting a rebellion, he should have seen this. He landed at Tianjin Guard. If he was plotting a rebellion, he should have ignored it and restrained the slaves who were plundering the pass before they left the pass.

He had captured a lot of Ming army troops, which was a golden opportunity for him.

And as long as he came to plot a rebellion, he should have thought clearly about this. There was absolutely no need or reason to capture the Tianjin Guard after arriving at it, but he stopped moving forward and switched to a defensive state on the spot, blocking the Tianjin Guard.

Jian Nu's way back to the north.

What he is doing now is completely unreasonable. It means that he has completely given up the advantage of a surprise attack and wants to block Jiannu and start a big fight in the Tianjin Wei area.

It is completely unreasonable to do this. Although Yu Xiaotian reportedly brought 30,000 to 40,000 troops this time, the number of these troops seems to be considerable, but in fact it is not sufficient, no matter if it is against the Ming Dynasty official army.

, or against the slave-building army, they are all at a complete disadvantage in terms of military strength, with no advantage at all.

If the Yu family's army is very powerful, then if he alone deals with the Ming army guarding the capital, he may still have a slight advantage. However, if he prepares to deal with Jiannu and the Ming army at the same time, this force will not be enough for these two.

One-tenth of the party's military strength.

Therefore, if Yu Xiaotian wanted to rebel, it would be completely unwise to do so. He chose a path of self-destruction.

Jiannu is about to leave the customs now. Looking at their marching route, it can be seen that the Jiannu army intends to pass through Tianjin Guards, then enter Jizhou Prefecture, take Xianghe or Baodi, and rush through Miyun or Zunhua.

Leave the customs and return to the customs.

It was basically certain that Tianjin Guard was the place they must pass through. Yu Xiaotian captured Tianjin Guard at this time, and sent troops to both sides of the Tianjin Wei Canal, which was like a deadlock on the way for Jiannu to withdraw from the pass.

When the Jiannu army reached this point, they had only two choices left. They could either avoid the battle and not go to Tianjin Guard. Like when they came, they could choose to bypass the capital or choose another place to exit outside the customs. But this is obviously impossible.

It's because Jiannu is different now than when he came here.

After nearly half a year of plundering, they had already looted a lot of goods and captured a lot of people and livestock.

The number of people they captured alone is said to have reached hundreds of thousands now. With so many slaves and livestock, it is obviously impossible to carry out long-distance maneuvers like they did when they entered the customs.

There will be great risks and a lot of time will be consumed.

Therefore, the possibility of Jiannu choosing this method is basically zero. If they do not choose to take a detour, then the only option left is to rush directly from Tianjin Wei.

Tianjin Wei is now under the control of Yu Xiaotian. If Jiannu wants to rush through Tianjin Wei, he has to defeat the general's army first. The two sides will inevitably start a fierce battle in the Tianjin Wei area. This is for

For both of them, they can only win but not lose. Whoever loses may suffer disaster.

If Jiannu is defeated by the Yu family's army, then they will not be able to retreat outside the pass. The army of more than 100,000 will be blocked in the pass and will be consumed sooner or later.

Everyone knows the strength of Jiannu. Although they are now very strong after two generations of Ye Zhupi and Huang Taiji, no matter how strong they are, their actual strength will not be very large. This time they entered the customs and brought them all at once.

The Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia who entered the Pass, plus the Han troops who surrendered to the enemy, had a total strength of more than 100,000, almost an overwhelming force.

Once the army of more than 100,000 Jiannu is blocked in the pass, then the Jiannu will probably be completely miserable. They will definitely not be able to recover to their current strength in ten years, and they may even never recover from the fall.

Therefore, Jiannu must not be defeated, and he must not dare to be defeated, but can the Yu Jiajun afford to be defeated? He cannot afford to be defeated either!

When the Yu Jiajun went north this time, Yu Xiaotian brought an army of thirty to forty thousand troops in one fell swoop, not including his navy. These thirty to forty thousand troops were all land divisions. Everyone thought that this should be Yu Xiaotian's entire army.

And even if he left some troops in Fujian, they would certainly not be too many. Once he was defeated, he might not even have a chance to escape back to Fujian. This would be equivalent to knocking him back to his original form.

Therefore, Yu Jiajun cannot be defeated, otherwise the consequences will be serious.

Now everyone couldn't understand it. Yu Xiaotian had every chance not to fight head-on with the slave-building army, but why did he still choose to fight this battle?

At this time, Yu Xiaotian released several officers and soldiers of Tianjin Guard, took a letter written by him, and ordered these officers and soldiers to rush to the capital and present the letter to the current emperor.

This letter was quickly transferred to Chongzhen. Yu Xiaotian stated to Chongzhen in the letter that the reason why he wanted to capture the Tianjin Guard was because he had to use the Tianjin Guard to prevent the Jian slaves from leaving the customs, and

He vowed to defeat the Jiannu army in the Tianjin Guard area, but the original defenders here were completely unable to cooperate with his actions, so he had no choice but to use force to capture the Tianjin Guard, with only one purpose, and that was to defeat the Tianjin Guard.

The guards blocked the Jiannu army from leaving the customs.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian gave Chongzhen a fairly detailed intelligence report, stating the amount of property and population that the Jian slaves had plundered during the invasion. Although it cannot be said to be very accurate, it was roughly the same.

From the information collected through his own channels, Yu Xiaotian concluded that this time the slaves entered the customs, a total of more than 1.5 million taels of silver, more than tens of thousands taels of gold, and various large livestock such as mules and horses were robbed.

There are more than 30,000 cattle, and tens of thousands of pigs and sheep.

In addition, there are countless various kinds of silk, soft jewelry and antiques. This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the slaves kidnapped more than 600,000 people from Hebei, Shandong and other places this time.

Yu Xiaotian argued in the letter that if so much property and people were captured by the Jiannu slaves, the Jiannu slaves would definitely increase in strength. From then on, the Ming Dynasty would never have the chance to annihilate the Jiannu slaves, so this time he arrived on his way north.

After receiving this news, I found out that Jiannu would leave the customs via Tianjin Wei.

Therefore, he rashly led his troops, traveled day and night by sea, and rushed directly to Tianjin Guard, and rashly captured Tianjin Guard and used it as a guard to build slaves.

He confessed his guilt in the letter and knew that doing so was a serious crime and would definitely cause unrest to the Holy One. However, for the sake of the country and the country of Ming Dynasty, he was willing to risk the disapproval of the world and led his troops straight into Tianjin, just to have a battle.

Defeat Jiannu and solve once and for all Jiannu, the Ming Dynasty's most thorny problem.

Yu Xiaotian also made a request in the letter, asking Chongzhen to mobilize officers and soldiers to block other possible routes for Jian slaves to escape from the customs, so that Jian slaves could not take the opportunity to escape.

In addition, he set off in a hurry and brought insufficient food and military pay with him. He hoped that the imperial court could allocate part of the military food and part of the salary from Tongzhou and ship it to his army through the canal. Otherwise, his military food would only be enough for half a month.

After reading Yu Xiaotian's letter, Chongzhen was full of suspicion and scorned Xiaotian's rhetoric. He couldn't figure out why Yu Xiaotian traveled thousands of miles from Fujian to Tianjin, and after seizing the Tianjin Guard, he wanted to

In fighting Jiannu here to the death, it seems that Yu Xiaotian is really thinking about the Ming Dynasty, and he can be regarded as a great loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Chongzhen would not believe it even if Yu Xiaotian went north to fight to the death with Jiannu. He still firmly believes that Yu Xiaotian definitely has evil intentions when he goes north this time. This time he was in Tianjin Wei

Setting up defenses to prevent Jian slaves from leaving seclusion is simply a pretense.

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