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In addition, from the south and Shandong, thousands of new recruits who have completed initial training have been sent to them during this period. These recruits are different from those recruited locally. These recruits are in areas controlled by the Yujia Army in Denglai and other places.

, have all received initial training and are ready for combat use. Although they have not passed the real test of blood and fire, they have basically completed various primary training subjects in accordance with Yu Jiajun's training tutorials, and are familiar with the command.

The execution power has reached the minimum requirement for use!

Therefore, after they arrived, the soldiers lost in the battles of each unit were replenished and reached full strength.,.,

In addition, a new batch of supplies has also arrived at Dagukou and was quickly supplied to the various brigades, replenishing the food and ammunition they had consumed in large quantities some time ago. In addition, damaged weapons were also repaired or replaced, so that all brigades were able to

He quickly returned to his strongest combat state.

Although they fought several battles with the Jiannu army and the official army in succession, and the soldiers and generals were relatively tired, their morale was very high. Through this period of battles, the Yu family's soldiers and generals thoroughly tested their combat capabilities and made them more capable.

It is particularly important to have stronger confidence. An army full of determination to win has such strong combat effectiveness that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

After experiencing such a series of huge battles, these Yu Jiajun have accumulated a lot of experience in large group operations, making their tactical coordination on the battlefield more and more perfect.

Although it is true that soldiers need speed, there is also the saying that haste makes waste. This is why Yu Xiaotian stopped Wu Xiang's attack on Tianjin Guards and rested.

Taking advantage of this period, Sea Wolf's intelligence systems throughout the north and even across the country were fully operational, and started a war of words with the imperial court.

These Sea Wolf intelligence officers were ordered to spread widely in various places about all the recent wrongdoings in the court, complaining about Yu Xiaotian. The provincial court unilaterally controlled the power of public opinion and attributed all the faults to Xiaotian.

In order to win the hearts and minds of the people for Yu Jiajun's next military action, at the very least, the water should be muddied first, so that the public opinion of the whole country will be overwhelmingly in favor of the imperial court.

Especially in places such as Beizhili and Shandong, this kind of propaganda is even more intense, because the invasion of slaves by slave-builders has caused particularly serious damage to the people in these two provinces. The common people hate the slave-builder army and are deeply concerned about the incompetence of the imperial court.

Pain and disappointment.

The news that Yu Xiaotian led troops to annihilate Jiannu in Tianjin Guard undoubtedly brought great prestige to Yu Xiaotian. Under the deliberate publicity of Sea Wolf's intelligence officers, Yu Xiaotian was portrayed as a man who was not afraid of danger and would rather

The image of a righteous man who resists edicts but also turns the tide.

Then he led his army to rebel against the Ming Dynasty court and fought with the Ming Dynasty official army. This incident was all the fault of the Ming Dynasty. He Yu Xiaotian came to fight against the slave-building army and save the people of the world, but the court regarded him as a

The traitor turned a blind eye to his achievements, but still wanted to put him to death. In this way, many people who did not know the truth would naturally tend to sympathize with Xiaotian.

The common people have a strong balance in their hearts. Their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty is only based on the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of years of prestige. There is no loyalty at all. In this era, national consciousness is actually quite weak among the people. The common people want to

What's more important is who can bring them benefits, who can make them live and work in peace and contentment. As for who will sit in this world, many of them don't care.

Now Yu Xiaotian has issued a message to call for Ming Dynasty, and has announced that he will enter the capital to support the Qing Dynasty. He did not explicitly say that he will rebel against the Ming Dynasty. He just wants to enter the capital to take down those unscrupulous ministers who are eating people's food and not doing anything for others. To a certain extent,

It also greatly reduced the hostility of ordinary people towards him.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is deteriorating. Officials and subordinates in the government are levying excessive taxes. The court has increased salaries and taxes every year, which has long made the ordinary people miserable. Now Yu Xiaotian has publicly announced that once he enters the capital and is under the Qing Dynasty, he will be exempted from all kinds of crimes.

Increase wages and taxes, re-measure the land, reduce or reduce corvee labor, punish corrupt officials, and restore peace and prosperity to the people of the world.

Such a slogan is undoubtedly what the people want. Although they don't know what kind of person Yu Xiaotian is, this slogan gives them a long-awaited hope, so many ordinary people heard the news

, all of them immediately rushed to congratulate each other, hoping that the Yu family army could quickly attack the capital and wipe out the corrupt officials who were not doing business. This, to a certain extent, saved ordinary people from having to worry about the family army.

Resistance.

During this period, after Yu Xiaotian's conscription was completed, he ordered that each of the refugees who were trapped by the slave-building army be given a little food, and each of them was given dozens of large sums of money, allowing them to return home on their own.

In order to ensure their safety on the way back home, he also ordered the selected civilian leaders to organize village warriors on their own, and issued them a small number of weapons for them to use in self-defense, protect their neighbors, and return to their hometowns.

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Hundreds of thousands of people received money, food and clothing, and they were even more grateful to Xiaotian. They all cried bitterly, knelt down and kowtowed in thanks, and then started to return home one by one.

At this point, hundreds of thousands of refugees had been completely demobilized. After two days, the refugee camps gathered in Jinghai County became empty, leaving only the graves of the refugees who unfortunately died here and the

A large area of ​​temporary shacks.

When these people return to their hometowns, they will definitely not be properly resettled by the local government. In contrast, they will naturally miss Yu Xiaotian's kindness to them. After returning home, they will become Yu Xiaotian's spokesperson and serve Yu Xiaotian.

God speaks, it won't be long before the people in the hometowns of these refugees will be looking forward to the arrival of Yu Jiajun, and then the Ming Dynasty will completely collapse.

After handling these matters, Yu Xiaotian once again focused on the war. After careful study by the generals and staff, the Yu Jiajun set their sights on Tongzhou City in the east of the capital.

Tongzhou has always been the east gate of the capital of the Ming Dynasty and the gateway to the capital. More importantly, Tongzhou is the northernmost final terminus of the Grand Canal.

Since Zhu Di moved the capital to Yanjing, the Ming Dynasty has become increasingly dependent on canals. Due to climate reasons and wars, population density and agricultural development in the north have always been inferior to those in the south. In addition, the influence of the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty has led to the development of agriculture in the north.

Stagnation or even regression.

The grain produced in the north was simply not enough for northerners to use, and the taxes collected were far from enough for the Ming court to allocate. Therefore, the entire economic focus of the Ming Dynasty was in the Jiangnan area. The richest areas were Huguang, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian.

In Guangdong and other places, the grain taxes collected by these provinces accounted for most of the Ming Dynasty every year.

In order to make up for the shortage in the north, the Ming Dynasty relied on canal water transportation every year to transfer money and grain from the south to the north to supply the capital and border troops.

In the past few decades, with the rise of Jiannu outside the Pass, the Ming Dynasty's situation in Liaodong was worrying. In the Guanning area of ​​Liaodong, the Chen army was stationed close to the food produced in the north, which was not enough for them. Therefore, water transportation was also needed to transport a large amount of food.

Food and military pay were transferred from the south to the north for use in the north.

Therefore, the Grand Canal is the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty. Now the canal has been cut off from the Cangzhou Prefecture area by the Yu family army. In addition, some time ago, the slaves entered the pass and looted along the canal area, which cut off the water transportation supply of the capital.

However, Tongzhou, which is the terminal point of water transportation, is a large warehouse. It also stores a large amount of grain and various materials that were previously transferred from the south.

Moreover, Tongzhou is the east gate of the capital. Taking Tongzhou is equivalent to knocking on the door of the capital. Then you can get a large amount of food supplements on the spot, and then you can directly advance to the capital city.

Therefore, the next actions of the Yu Jiajun will revolve around attacking the capital, and Tongzhou must be captured as soon as possible.

During this period of time, the rest of the Yu Jiajun also provided a rare buffer for the Ming court. The court had sent Liu Yuliang to Tongzhou to take charge. At this time, more than 20,000 officers and soldiers had been stationed in Tongzhou, including the three major battalions of the capital and the brave soldiers.

Guard camp.

At the same time, Liu Guangzuo and other generals were stationed in the post. It looked heavily guarded, as if a tough battle was needed. Furthermore, from Tianjin Wei to Tongzhou, we had to pass through Xianghe and Wuqing along the way. There were still some officers and soldiers stationed in these two places.

, it is necessary to deal with the officers and soldiers in these two places before attacking Tongzhou.

So Yu Xiaotian, combined with the opinions of his staff, ordered the first and second brigades to act as forwards, attacking Wuqing and Xianghe at the same time, one on the left and the other on the right, so as to clear the way to Tongzhou for the subsequent army.

The remaining brigades were led by him and then rushed to Tongzhou. As for the Tianjin Guard, it was left to Yu Zhenshan and the new military battalions to guard it. Fortunately, there were a few sailors from the navy staying here.

company, plus a large number of heavy artillery unloaded from the ship, as long as Yu Zhenshan doesn't mess up, everything will be fine.

Liu Yuliang sat in Tongzhou with fear. He was afraid every day that he would get news that the Yu Jiajun army was coming to attack. He kept convening the generals guarding Tongzhou to discuss matters all day long. He was stern and urged the troops to strengthen the city defense and not to relax.

However, his efforts did not have much effect. Nowadays, the morale of the officers and soldiers in Tongzhou is also very low, and they almost dare not hear the word "Yu Jiajun".

These soldiers and generals have now put away all their contempt for the Jiajun. More than a month ago, when the Yu Jiajun came to Tianjin Guards, they all stood by and squatted on the wall to watch the excitement, thinking that Yu Xiaotian

He is simply a lunatic, and his brain must be filled with water.

The 30,000 Fujian soldiers were going to fight to the death with the 100,000 Jian slave army, and they also said that they would stop the Jian slaves from leaving the customs at Tianjin Guard. Such bold words, to their ears, were like babble in their dreams.

Therefore, when they learned that the imperial court intended to flank the Yu Jiajun and destroy them in the Tianjin Guards, many soldiers and generals did not take it seriously, thinking that it was completely unnecessary. The Jiannu family could trample the Yu Jiajun to death, and there was no need to do it.

Such dirty things.

After all, Yu Jiajun is also their Ming army. Regardless of whether Yu Xiaotian resists the decree or not, they are here to fight and build slaves. To a certain extent, they are their own family. The imperial court will take the opportunity to join forces to build slaves and fight against their own family.

, you can’t do this.

As for Jiannu, if Yu Jiajun is destroyed, that is Yu Xiaotian's own business. It doesn't matter if they don't help each other. Anyway, they don't dare to help Yu Xiaotian now.