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At this point, Chongzhen had no better solution, so he followed Xue Guoguan's idea and issued an order to the wealthy people and officials in the capital to provide subsidies, and his relatives also tried to find ways to contribute some money to help.

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However, after his imperial edict was issued, the response was mediocre. Basically, few officials or relatives were willing to spend money to help the country through this critical period. After two days, the total amount of silver raised was only a few.

Ten thousand taels is just a drop in the bucket and completely insufficient.

So Xue Guoguan gave Chongzhen another idea, saying that the money could be regarded as a loan. He would borrow it from these people first, and then the court would calculate interest on it. After Yu Xiaotian's rebellion was pacified, it would be returned to the person who gave the money.

Chongzhen really had no choice but to follow his suggestion and issue another decree, but as a result, few people were still willing to give money to help pay.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian has led his troops back to Tianjin Guard. Now the entire Tianjin Guard area has been controlled by Yu Jiajun. Moreover, after more than half a month of fierce fighting, Yu Jiajun has captured only the slaves and government soldiers.

There were more than 20,000 prisoners.

How to deal with so many prisoners has become a problem. The Yu Jiajun has limited troops now. If he wants to control the entire Gyeonggi area, he will definitely not be able to control the entire Gyeongsang area with the more than 30,000 Yu Jiajun he has at hand. At this time, it is very possible.

It was necessary to expand the army, so Yu Xiaotian ordered to recruit soldiers on the spot to join the army.

The captured officers and soldiers were currently considered a relatively good source of troops, so he sent people to the officers and soldiers in the prisoner camps to loudly publicize why he had rebelled this time.

Yu Xiaotian had people publicize his brazen march northward among the prisoners of war, branding him as a tall and powerful man who cared about the country and the people. In the past few months, the court and the government had

All kinds of dirty things done by those officials were publicized in the prisoner camps.

After hearing this, these prisoners of the army did not dare to say that they were excited, but they also roughly understood why Yu Xiaotian wanted to turn against the imperial court this time. Many of them changed their attitudes and began to side with Yu Xiaotian.

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When the members of the Yu family army proposed to recruit soldiers among them, many prisoners immediately expressed their willingness to follow Yu Xiaotian. Even though there were more than 10,000 official and army prisoners, they defected to Yu Xiaotian and became the Yu family members.

Soldiers of the army.

This is not because these soldiers have high consciousness. Yu Xiaotian knows very well that it is simply unrealistic to talk about consciousness with these Qiu Ba in this era.

These soldiers are either from military families or are recruits. Many of them actually join the army just to have a meal and a way to survive. There is no question of whether they are loyal to anyone or not.

What they value more is who can give them food. In the past, when they worked for the imperial court, the imperial court paid them, and the generals took care of their meals. They had to obey the imperial court's orders.

Now that they have become prisoners of the Yu family's army, everyone is worried and anxious, thinking that their lives may be in danger now. No one knows what their fate will be next.

Suddenly the Yu Jiajun expressed its intention to recruit them to serve as soldiers in the Yu Jiajun. This undoubtedly gave them a way to survive. As for their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, it was all nonsense. If they were truly loyal, they would not

After so many years of following the generals and waiting to die, they achieved nothing.

Therefore, these prisoners of war are very realistic and think very simply. They will work for whoever gives them food to eat. Moreover, they can also see that the Yu Jiajun is indeed too powerful. There is no benefit to being an enemy of the Yu Jiajun.

You have to eat the fruit, in this world, it is definitely better to follow someone who is capable than to follow someone who is incompetent.

What's more, many people privately believe that Yu Xiaotian is indeed a powerful person. Although this time he rebelled under the banner of "Qing Jun Side", who can guarantee that he will not become a yellow robe in the future? Yu Jiajun is so powerful, it can't be done

It's really possible to do this.

So if you follow Yu Xiaotian now, it is to follow the dragon as soon as possible. If you do well, you can still get along well. At least it is much better than serving as a soldier for the Ming Dynasty. Fast hands are slow, and now follow the dragon

It was much better than following the dragon in the future, so many prisoners immediately expressed their willingness to enlist and turned to join Xiaotian's command.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian recruited ordinary soldiers. He would never use them against the generals of the Ming Dynasty. These old-style officers were not worthy of trust at all. Leave the best army in their hands.

, they can also turn this army into a band of bandits instantly.

Therefore, when he ordered the recruitment of troops and horses, he had already taken care to recruit only those prisoners of the army below the flag officer level. As for the generals, they were all abandoned and temporarily imprisoned in a large prison in Tianjin Guard to cut them off from contact with others.

Ordinary soldier connections.

As long as these generals are taken away, the remaining soldiers will lose their minds. Whoever leads them can control them more easily.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also announced the recruitment of new soldiers among the hundreds of thousands of people. These hundreds of thousands of people are all from the north. Those who can get here are almost all in relatively good health, and nearly half of them are considered to be in good condition.

Great labor.

After these people were captured by Jian Nu, they were originally going to be dragged outside the customs to work as slaves. Now after being rescued by Yu Jiajun, coupled with Yu Jiajun's deliberate propaganda, they became disappointed with the current Ming Dynasty court.

What's more, their homes are now in ruins and in chaos. Even if they return home, they have nothing to eat or drink.

So when they heard the news that the Yu Family Army was recruiting soldiers, many young and strong refugees expressed their willingness to work for Yu Xiaotian, and there were actually quite a lot of applicants.

So in just a few days, Yu Xiaotian recruited more than 30,000 new soldiers in Tianjin Wei and Jinghai County.

Yu Xiaotian had already considered how to control these more than 30,000 recruits. This time when he went north, he brought a training camp from the Fujian and Taiwan Army Military Lecture Halls, which were trainee officers who had not yet been awarded the title.

Each of these trainee officers is strong and has received more than two years of systematic military education. Although they are still a little immature, they are already ready for use. The most important thing is that these trainees are extremely loyal to Xiaotian.

There is also some sand in it, which is very brave and good at fighting.

During the decisive battle against Jiannu, this student battalion showed extremely strong combat effectiveness. After the counterattack began, they dared to fight and fought hard. They rushed to the front many times and fought very bravely and courageously. Even now, they don't have much time to go into battle.

Although he is a young man, he has seen blood and can become a qualified low-level officer.

After the recruitment began, the student battalion was immediately disbanded and all were first assigned to the brigades to take over the positions of company commanders and below in many companies, freeing up hundreds of experienced officers from the brigades.

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In addition, each battalion has a deputy. This time, they were also transferred out and went directly to the new barracks to serve as battalion commanders. A group of company commanders were also promoted to serve as battalion commanders or deputy battalion commanders in the new barracks. They quickly

Then the officer system was set up, and they were basically all officers with experience in troop control and combat.

Each recruit battalion is organized into a platoon of veterans, who serve as direct descendants of the battalion commander to control these recruits to prevent any of them from disobeying orders, escaping or surrendering in the face of battle.

As a result, nearly thirty recruit battalions were quickly established. Each squad was assigned a veteran of the Yu Jiajun to serve as the squad leader. The squad leader would select a more capable recruit from among the recruits to serve as the deputy squad leader.

, help them lead their troops.

As for the equipment, Yu Xiaotian didn't worry. During this period, they seized too many weapons from the slave army and the official army. Among them, Yu Xiaotian discarded all the firearms. These crudely made firearms were ignored by Yu Xiaotian.

Here, instead of distributing it for use, it is better to recycle it.

But those cold weapons have become the main weapons for arming the new recruits, with spears as the main weapon, knives as the supplement, and some crossbows as long-range weapons, which are given to some of the new recruits who can use bows and arrows.

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As for the armor, due to the large number of seizures, after selection, almost every recruit can be equipped with a piece of captured armor, so in a very short period of time, more than twenty recruit battalions were armed, and

Immediately around Tianjin Wei, he started training on the spot.

Yu Xiaotian would not put these new military battalions into use on the battlefield easily and immediately, but it did not mean that they were useless at all. With these new military battalions, he could draw out all the old troops of the Tianjin Guard and let them

The new battalion temporarily takes over from them and takes over the currently controlled war zone, freeing up the old troops for the next step of the battle.

Therefore, the role of the recruit camps is quite obvious. As for their training issues, Yu Xiaotian set aside two months for the recruit camps to serve as initial training time. Once the initial training is over, these recruit camps will

They can be organized into new combat units and put into use on the battlefield.

For this reason, he temporarily handed over the training of new recruits to Yu Zhenshan, commander of the 7th Brigade, and also handed over the defense of Tianjin Wei and Jinghai County to Yu Zhenshan, while he, Meng Fei and others

Then he put all his energy into the next battle.

By this time, members of the general staff had also arrived at Tianjin Guard. With Yu Xiaotian at Tianjin Guard, they established a wartime staff department, which was overall responsible for planning and arranging the next battle.

After defeating Wu Xiang's troops this time, Yu Jiajun stayed in Tianjin Guards for half a month without launching any further offensive, allowing the already quite tired troops to have a sufficient rest time.

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