I want to be emperor

Chapter 452

Considering the loyal relationship in the traditional feudal dynasty, the concept of loyalty was promoted, and at the same time, because the high-ranking officials of the Great Chu Empire did not have a good impression of the high-ranking civil officials of the Ming court. It is expected that the income from confiscation will not be small. If too many surrenders are accepted, the income from subsequent confiscation will definitely be greatly reduced.

Chen Xingkai from the taxation department also strongly suggested that this time, if you attack Youzhou City, you should not charge so much for the demoted official. After all, once you accept the other party's surrender, he will turn around and become an official of Dachu. It's so fair and above board that they ransacked the house.

The loss will be great!

Combining these conditions, before Li Chengtong led the army to the Northern Expedition, after discussions with the high-level officials of the Chu court, Li Chengtong, who led the expedition, was given a task that was not considered an official task. After breaking through Youzhou City, send those Ming court ministers to join Chongzhen Going to see Lord Yan, don't run back with a group of high-ranking officials from the Ming court, it's disgusting to watch...

What we pay attention to is a "king of the country and ministers following death", so that the emperors and ministers of the Ming court will go to Huangquan together, and no one can be missing.

As a result, the Chu army who entered the city basically did not accept the surrender of the dignitaries of the Ming court. They ransacked their homes while conducting purge operations.

The amount of money and food that was not confiscated in Youzhou City is also the most ever raided by the Chu army. Just in the home of Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Chongzhen, more than 50 taels of cash were confiscated!
And in the capital, there are many more rich and powerful than Zhou Kui!

In the final summary, General Li Chengtong, who had seen the storm, was amazed by the large amount: the gold, silver, copper cash and various jewelry they confiscated totaled more than 3000 million taels!

This is only about cash and cash-like items, not including all kinds of fixed assets, bulk materials, antiques and curios.

If all of them are counted, the value of the many things confiscated in Youzhou City is incalculable!
Because there were too many confiscated gold and silver, General Li Chengtong had to send troops to escort them, or else he was afraid of being robbed halfway with the thousands of armed tax policemen from the tax department...

The tax department wants to transport a large amount of gold and silver confiscated from Youzhou City, as well as a large number of curios, all the way back to Jinling City. This is a huge sum of tens of millions. Read it, directly attack the armed tax police who are escorting...

Especially as the Chu army marched northward, although they could not fight many battles, the early stage of the battle was mainly dominated by Ming court officers and soldiers, who armed many local landlords, bandits and thieves had not yet had time to make great efforts.

From Youzhou City all the way to Huai'an, there are still a lot of messy illegal armed forces in such a large area, and there are many super landlords who can pull out thousands of people.

Although the possibility of a large amount of funds being hijacked is extremely small, no matter how small the possibility is, we must guard against it.

Furthermore, the direct dispatch of the army to accompany the armed tax police to escort them is also to supervise each other and prevent anyone from the armed tax police from having evil thoughts.

Li Chengtong personally sat in Youzhou City, and when he presided over the raid, the large number of Chu troops did not stop. Except for the No. outside the enemy.

The rest of the Chu Army troops are already in action.

The troops attacking Youzhou City this time mainly included the Tenth Division of the Third Army, the Eighth Division of the Second Army, the No.20 Division, and the Third Cavalry Brigade.

The battle of Youzhou, in fact, cannot be called a battle, because it has not been fought at all, and the Ming army stationed in the Beijing camp in the city has voluntarily surrendered one after another. Along the way, the Ming army took the initiative to open the city gate and welcome the Chu army into the city. , even to the Forbidden City is no exception.

Because there was no battle loss, Li Chengtong ordered the division of troops the next day after his troops captured Youzhou City.

The No.20 Division of the Second Army was stationed in Youzhou City, and cooperated with the armed tax police to carry out the campaign of suppression. The Fourth Division was divided into troops to fight on the front line of Xuanfu in the north, so as to recruit and take over the various places of Xuanfu, and took over the checkpoints and checkpoints of the Great Wall along this line. If there are any cities that are unwilling to surrender, they are also responsible for attacking them.

The [-]th Division and the [-]st Cavalry Brigade went to Miyun and Jizhou towns in the northeast to kill them. They also surrendered and took over the defense of the local cities. If they did not surrender, they would kill them.

As for the direction of Shanhaiguan, the Chu army had already sent troops in this direction.

Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa, the deputy commander of the Third Army, led thousands of cavalry to continue chasing the fleeing cavalry of the Ming army before the Battle of Tianjin was over. In the last two days, more than 3000 cavalry of the fleeing Ming army were forced to surrender.

At that time, the more than 3000 Ming army fled cavalry, and their horses' physical fitness had already reached their limit, and at least two to three hundred horses were exhausted.

After discussing with the leading cavalry generals, they found that it was impossible to continue to escape like this. Sooner or later they would starve to death...the horses would also die.

In addition, Zhu Xingfa gave them a promise after catching up. The leading generals were given different ranks to the school officers, and promised to organize their troops into three cavalry brigades and let them continue to lead.

As a result, these cavalry generals surrendered as soon as they gritted their teeth, and led more than 3000 cavalry under their command to transform into the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, Fifth Cavalry Brigade, and Sixth Cavalry Brigade under the Chu Army.

After recruiting more than 3000 cavalry, Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa continued to lead the two cavalry brigades of the headquarters and the three newly recruited cavalry brigades, plus the reinforcements of the first division, No.11 division and several independent troops. Thousands of people continued to march westward, aiming at Shanhaiguan.

Their mission is to get to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible. It would be best if they can seize Shanhaiguan. If it is too late, then they will block Shanhaiguan directly to prevent the Liaodong armies and even Dongren troops from fighting out of Shanhaiguan.

This idea is the same as that of the No.16 division blocking Tongguan. Even if Tongguan cannot be seized, Tongguan must be blocked directly, so that Sun Chuanting's new Qin army can't come out, so as to avoid interfering with the Chu army in the Central Plains and North China. military action.

At this time, the eastward ministries led by Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa had successfully captured Kaiping Zhongtun Weicheng, Luanzhou, Yongping Fucheng Lulong and Qian'an on the side along the way.

They are currently going to Funing City, and behind Funing City is Shanhaiguan.

When the Chu army was killing all the way towards Shanhaiguan, Zu Dashou, who had just fled back to Shanhaiguan with [-] cavalry, found that the Chu bandits were about to kill him before he had time to catch his breath.

Immediately, he quickly dispatched troops and generals, trying to keep the Chu thieves out of Shanhaiguan.

This time, he couldn't continue to escape, because the western Liaoning region behind Shanhaiguan was the old lair of Zu Dashou and other generals of the Liaodong faction.

However, within two days, Zu Dashou in Shanhaiguan received another surrender letter from the opposite Chu thief. The surrender letter had nothing else in it, it was nothing more than repeating the same old tune, asking him to lead his troops to surrender to Da Chu Yunyun.

The point is, the Chu thief said in the surrender letter this time that the Ming Emperor Chongzhen was dead, and the Ming Dynasty was completely finished...

This news made Zu Dashou unexpected, even a little dazed!
Although Zu Dashou didn't have much respect for those big men in the Ming court, even Chongzhen, but no matter what, Zu Dashou was still an official of the Ming court.

But now...Ming Ting is finished, and what should I do?
What else can I do, hold on!
His ancestor Dashou's fight against the Chu thieves was not for the Ming court, but for his own territory in western Liaoning.

He is fighting for himself, not for the Ming court!

This is actually no different from his fight against the Dongcap. Zu Dashou also fought hard in Liaodong.

Surrender if you can't beat it, it's nothing, normal people can understand it.

Why did you rebel after surrendering?
Because the Eastern Captive wants to seize Jinzhou and other large areas in the west of Liaoning, which are all his ancestor's territory... If the Eastern Captive wants to seize his ancestor's territory, his ancestor's Dashou will definitely not do it.

Not to mention Zu Dashou, other generals in western Liaoning will not do it either!
Zu Dashou was not fighting alone in western Liaoning, but was fighting with a large family and even married relatives like Wu Xiang and his son. The cities in western Liaoning were their foundation.

It is of course impossible for you to take their territory abducted from the East.

Now it's the same with Chu Jun!
Facing the Chu army's persuasion to lead his troops to surrender, Zu Dashou refused without even thinking about it!

Just a so-called major general of the army and a Liaoxi Bo want to bring his ancestor Dashoulian and tens of thousands of Liaodong troops into his pocket, and also want to take over the foundations of their generals in Liaoxi that have been cultivated in Liaoxi for a hundred years.

How can there be such a good thing in the world!

It is not impossible to want my foundation in western Liaoning. Send a large army to kill me, blood flow into rivers, defeat me, take Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou and other places, this western Liaoning belongs to you.

Otherwise, there are no doors!
It's all about appeasement, if you look at the people who are kidnapped in the east, the first shot is a king, and the backhand is a real seal.

Yesterday Dongyao sent envoys to Shanhaiguan to persuade Zu Dashou to return to Dongyao, and promised to make him the king of Liao. If he enters the pass in the future, he can choose a few provinces in the south as permanent seals. !
With such a big hand in the East, you Chu thief just want to send me away with a major general of the army?

No sincerity at all!

In fact, it was Zu Dashou who wrongly blamed the rulers and ministers of the Great Chu Empire.

In view of the importance of Liaoxi and the elite cavalry under Zu Dashou's command, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Chu Empire have already shown a lot of sincerity.

For example, Zu Dashou and his main generals were allowed to retain part of their private property except for large tracts of land, and Zu Dashou was given the title of Major General of the Army and the title of Earl of Western Liaoning.

The rest of the generals also vary according to their positions and the strength of their troops. They will be awarded military ranks ranging from school officer to lieutenant officer, as well as viscount or baron...

It's a pity that such conditions are still too low in the eyes of the generals in western Liaoning!
(End of this chapter)