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After this battle, Chongzhen also knew that there was no room for maneuver in the matter. Now Yu Xiaotian had completely broken with the court, officially raised the flag of rebellion, and embarked on the road of rebellion.

And through this battle, Chongzhen also realized how powerful Yu Xiaotian was. He originally thought that Yu Xiaotian's troops would not have much fighting strength left after the fierce battle with Jiannu, so he wanted to take advantage of his illness.

He was killed, but he never expected that the outcome would be like this. The 30,000 "elite soldiers" led by Chen Xinjia were wiped out like chickens and dogs in front of the Yu family army.

I'm afraid things will be very troublesome now. If Wu Xiang can't defeat the Tianjin Guards next, then the entire capital will probably tremble in front of the Yu family's army.

So he issued an order to arrest Chen Xinjia, sent someone to replace Chen Xinjia, gather the defeated troops, deploy them nearby, and strengthen the protection of the siege outside the capital. At the same time, he sent someone to Shaanxi immediately to pass the order to Hong Chengchou and others.

Sun Chuanting ordered them to give up everything they were doing and work day and night to rush to the capital and enter the garrison within a month to prepare for the great changes.

In addition, he once again issued an order to summon the world, announcing that Yu Xiaotian was a traitor and traitor who wanted to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, and ordered the soldiers and horses of the world to fight against him together.

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

But just when he was extremely busy, he received even more news that made him vomit blood.

The 20,000 Guan Ning troops led by Wu Xiang were also defeated in Tianjin Guards...

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

On the way, Wu Xiang's troops did have several small-scale conflicts with the Yu Jiajun's small troops stationed in the north of Tianjin Wei, but they all won easily. After all, the Yu Jiajun's troops stationed in the north of Tianjin Wei were too few.

, mainly used for warning purposes, it is impossible to stop so many officers and soldiers, and it is also the Guan Ning Army, known as the First Army of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after Wu Xiang won a series of small victories, he learned that the Tianjin Guard's Yu Jiajun had very few troops, only about 3,000 in total, and they also had to defend the ferry wharf, so their strength was relatively weak.

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

At this time, the Yu's army guarding Tianjin Guards had very few troops. There were only three battalions of the Ninth Brigade, which also included two artillery companies. In fact, the infantry strength was only about 3,000.

But fortunately, after receiving the order, the Navy transferred two companies of sailors from the Navy and about seven to eight hundred sailors from various ships. They landed and rushed to Tianjin Guard, which strengthened the defensive strength of Tianjin Guard and made the entire

In the Tianjin Wei area, the Yu Jiajun's strength at this time was roughly around 5,000.

But these five thousand people were not all guarding the Tianjin Acropolis. They also had to defend the two pontoon bridges on the Tianjin Wei Canal. They placed two infantry battalions and an artillery company near the pontoon ferry.

Therefore, there is only one infantry battalion and artillery company stationed in the city, plus the navy's sailors, making their strength relatively scattered.

After Wu Xiang led his army to Tianjin Guard, he immediately surrounded Tianjin Guard City and divided his troops to try to seize the pontoon ferry. The two sides immediately started a fierce battle.

This is also the biggest test that the Yu Jiajun has faced since landing. Most of Wu Xiang's troops are Guan Ning's generals. They are well-equipped, have strong combat effectiveness, and have many firearms. They also brought more than 20 soldiers with the army.

The cannon, of course, cannot be the Hongyi cannon, it is just an ordinary general cannon.

These Guan Ning troops were relatively capable of fighting, and Wu Xiang had just been reinstated and wanted to show off, so the attack on the city was quite fierce. As soon as the two sides fought, they both used their capital and fought to the death.

But Wu Xiang's attempt to capture Tianjin Guard with superior strength was simply a dream. Even if Tianjin Guard's Yu Jiajun defenders were small in number, it was not something they could control at will. Although their troops were weak, their firepower was

Very strong.

After the Yu Jiajun landed and captured Tianjin Guard, although there was not much increase in troops, they continued to add weapons. This time, the navy was completely reduced to an auxiliary force, but it was unwilling to sit back and watch, and let the army take all the credit.

They took it away, so they also actively cooperated and tried to find ways to get some credit for themselves.

Then the sailors on the ship were constantly drawn out, and a temporary naval company was formed and sent to Tianjin Guards to look for opportunities. By the way, because there were many artillery pieces on the warship, they could not be used at all now. Yu Xiaotian proposed to unload a batch of artillery pieces from the ship.

, shipped to Tianjin Guard to strengthen Tianjin Guard's defensive strength, and the Navy immediately followed suit.

During this period, the Navy continued to remove some artillery pieces from various ships at Dagukou Pier and transferred them to Tianjin Guards. These naval guns were not suitable for field use due to the structure of the gun mounts, but they were used to defend fixed strongholds and fortresses.

Or maybe it's a city, but it couldn't be more suitable.

When Wu Xiang led his army to attack Tianjin Guards, more than 40 naval guns were installed on Tianjin Guards alone. What made Wu Xiang's head as big as a bucket was the fact that these cannons were all red barbarian guns.

Cannons are also heavy cannons. The smallest ones are twelve-pound naval guns, and most of them are basically twenty-four-pound naval guns.

Not only that, Yu Xiaotian also brought a siege heavy artillery battalion with him when he went north this time, all equipped with 24-pound siege heavy artillery. At this time, this heavy artillery battalion was also in Tianjin Guard, with more than a dozen 20-pound siege artillery.

Four pounder siege artillery.

These cannons had large caliber, long range, sufficient power, and fierce firepower. Wu Xiang was completely unaware of this. He only tasted the power of these cannons of Yu Jiajun after he led his army to Tianjin Guard and started to launch an siege.

After the first day of the siege, the Yu Jiajun defenders of the Tianjin Guards fired hundreds of artillery shells, and the Guan Ning Army's abandoned armor and corpses littered the fields.

Only then did Wu Xiang realize how powerful he was. He changed his tactics the next day and continued to attack fiercely, but still achieved nothing. The defenders did not want to make any achievements, but they wanted to make no mistakes. Guan Ning's army used artillery from a distance to attack.

Shooting began outside the city.

Although the navy's rifle equipment is not as good as that of the army, some sailors now still use the first generation of South Japanese-style smoothbore rifles. Even the rifled guns are short-barreled wolf fang rifles, which have a longer range than the wolf fangs used by the army.

The rifle is closer.

But even so, the muskets in the hands of the sailors were still quite powerful. When they concentrated their fire and fired volleys, they still beat the crap out of the Guan Ning army attacking the city.

Although the Guan Ning Army has strong combat effectiveness, these Guan Ning Army are all spoiled and arrogant generals. Like other armies of the Ming Dynasty, they are all standard old-style armies. The generals are greedy for life and fear death, and the soldiers are naturally also

Not willing to sacrifice their lives, after two consecutive days of fierce fighting, Guan Ning's army suffered heavy losses and immediately lost all vigor.

Even those Guan Ning troops who were responsible for attacking the pontoon ferry on the canal were killed and injured a large number of people under the desperate blockade of the Yujia Army defenders, but they failed to make any achievements and did not even touch the edge of the ferry.

arrive.

Even Zu Kuan, the general of Guan Ning who led the attack, was wounded by bullets. If his own soldiers had not saved him desperately, even he would have to retreat to the front of the battle on the spot.

Therefore, the result of two days of fierce fighting was that Wu Xiang's troops suffered heavy losses but failed to make any progress, and the morale of the entire army quickly dropped.

On the third day, Wu Xiang wanted to rest for a day and make adjustments, but Li Tong, the commander of the ninth brigade, did not want to rest. He led only one battalion of infantry and actually went to challenge Guan Ning's army.

Wu Xiang was so angry that he ordered his son Wu Sangui to personally lead 5,000 troops to fight. However, the two sides launched a battle in the ferry area and fought fiercely. The troops led by Wu Sangui collapsed on the spot. If it weren't for Wu Xiang's return

If there were heavy troops watching the battle from behind, Li Tong might be able to kill Wu Sangui.

Wu Xiang now knew how powerful Yu Jiajun was. Although he had more troops, his combat power was not at the same level as Yu Jiajun's. Moreover, Yu Jiajun was firmly on the defensive line. He had a lot of cavalry, but he was unable to take advantage of it.

, in the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Yu Jiajun, the Guan Ning Army under his command was almost beaten, but it was unable to cause much damage to the enemy.

Under such circumstances, everyone in Guan Ning's army was afraid and did not dare to fight to the death. So Wu Xiang had no choice but to order a fierce attack instead of a siege, and asked the court for help and asked the court to send more troops.

Horse, come and attack Tianjin Guards.

However, the Yu Jiajun had no intention of giving him a chance. After arranging things in Jinghai County, they received news that Meng Fei had defeated Chen Xinjia's troops at the crossing of the Daqing River. Yu Xiaotian immediately dispatched the first brigade.

Let him rush back to Tianjin Wei at full speed.

In the early morning of the sixth day when Wu Xiang led his army to Tianjin Guard, the entire First Brigade rushed back to Tianjin Guard. After a short rest for a day, on the morning of the seventh day, they and the first unit of the Ninth Brigade fought out of Tianjin Guard and headed towards Tianjin Guard.

Attack Wu Xiang's camp.

Needless to say, the result was that Guan Ning's army failed to claim the title of the best soldier in the world. 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 attacked by Yu.

The home army was shot and wounded, and then they were defeated and returned to their camp.

After this defeat, the morale of Guan Ning's army had dropped to the bottom. Wu Xiang no longer dared to fight head-on with Yu's army. He could only hold on to the camp and hold on, like a turtle with its head shrunken, with his head and

His limbs were retracted into the turtle shell, and he was beaten by Yu Jiajun, refusing to fight no matter what.

Yan Fucheng, commander of the 1st Brigade, attacked several times. Because the officers and soldiers stayed behind closed doors and only fired arrows and blunderbuss desperately, he failed several attacks and failed to break through the army camp.

So after Yan Fucheng and Li Tong discussed it, they decided to give Wu Xiang a hard time. They ordered people to go back and move the siege heavy artillery battalion to the front of the two army formations, and placed the cannon directly outside the official camp, with the muzzle directly

A beating was launched at the military camp.

More than a dozen 24-pound siege artillery were lined up in a row, with their black muzzles pointed at the army camp. Following an order, these heavy artillery opened up full firepower. With just two salvos, the officers and soldiers were killed.

A large hole opened in the camp fence of the camp, killing and injuring many of the defending officers and soldiers.

However, Yan Fucheng still felt that it was not enough, so he ordered to continue firing, extending the firepower towards the camp, and used artillery to comb the official camp first before proceeding.

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