Chapter 859: Good Birds Choose Trees to Perch
Yu Dayou's capture, no matter what he was captured, but the impact was huge!
When Yu Dayou was in Guangdong, although he was already a senior general and had thousands of people at hand, he still had a large number of senior generals and officials above him.
After arriving in Fujian, Yu Dayou, although he was already the most powerful general in Fujian, still received the moderation of civilian officials, and after he fled to Anqing, he became the real minister of the feudal territory, and controlled the Ming army in Anqing, Luzhou, Fengyang and other places in the name of the Fengyang General Army.
However, such a high-ranking general was captured, and the political impact caused by it was naturally huge, far greater than the original surrender of the general army of Nanao Island.
At the beginning, the general army of Nanao Island surrendered, at most, it was just a chess piece in the south to contain the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, but Yu Dayou was defeated and captured, and Anqing fell, and the impact was second only to the fall of Yangzhou in the past six months.
This means that the Ming army has lost an important strategic support point that can contain the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, stifle the pseudo-Tang Dynasty from going north and advancing westward!
There is no doubt that the fall of Anqing will further aggravate the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, and the unification of China by the puppet Tang Dynasty will be greatly accelerated, which many people can see.
Therefore, when the Tang Dynasty Daily reported on the Anqing War in the latest issue, disclosed the conquest of Anqing, and said that Yu Dayou suddenly woke up at the last moment, and finally led the remnants of the army to revolt in front of the battle, and announced that he would return to the Tang Dynasty, and also published Yu Dayou's self-incrimination of various dark contents of the pseudo-Ming, the whole world was a sensation!
Yu Dayou's self-incrimination book, naturally forged, the Tang Dynasty newspaper imitated the style of the former Ming Dynasty high-level officials, forged self-incrimination letters, accusations and the like that is already familiar with the road, very skilled, Yu Dayou has not yet arrived in Jinling City, this letter from the Ministry of Rites and Newspapers Senior Chief Writer has been published in the world.
At this time, Yu Dayou was still on the navy's ship and was being escorted to Jinling City! After being captured, he tried to commit suicide several times, but he was stopped, and he is now being escorted back to Jinling City on a ship in the navy.
At this time, he didn't know that he was already 'surrendered'!
However, Yu Dayou's true thoughts, no one cares at this time, what the Tang Dynasty newspaper department needs is influence, expand the political influence of the Tang Dynasty, and create a false impression that the world is in the heart.
Take this to say: You see, even Yu Dayou, the core general of the puppet Ming, has surrendered to my Tang Dynasty, and what reason do you have for the puppet Ming civil and military officials to continue to resist, and don't hurry up to surrender.
Our Tang Dynasty is the heart of the world!
And then by the way, hinted at Zhengde and other puppet Ming monarchs and ministers, you look at it, even Yu Dayou has surrendered to our Tang Dynasty, are your puppet generals still reliable? Aren't you afraid that other generals will continue to surrender, such as Zhang Yue!
And I have to say that this kind of influence is huge, whether you believe it or not, but after this kind of propaganda was transmitted to the whole world, everyone was shocked.
Even Yu Dayou, the commander of the first army, second only to Zhang Yue in fame and talent, has failed, regardless of whether he surrenders or not, but this is enough to prove that the false Ming is really about to end.
After the Tang Dynasty newspaper published the news of the Anqing War and Yu Dayou's surrender, the ordinary people under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the gentry who were active or passive, and even forced to defect to the Tang Dynasty and get on the thief ship, began to celebrate one by one.
Getting on the thief ship, they hope that the Tang Dynasty can unify the world more than the Tang monarchs and ministers, because in this way, they will not usher in various liquidations after the Ming army's counteroffensive.
If the current Tang Dynasty loses the battle on the front line, and then the Ming army counterattacks all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, Li Xuan and the main Tang courtiers, they must pat their butts and return to Guangdong, and they will go to sea by boat.
However, those gentry who took refuge in the pseudo-Tang Dynasty are about to be unlucky!
When the Ming army comes back, you see if the Ming army will come to the last round of raiding the family and exterminating the clan!
Moreover, if the Tang Dynasty unifies China, they will also be able to get more benefits, they can be promoted as officials, and they can make more money in business, in short, there are many benefits.
The people sitting on the side of Datang clapped their hands and celebrated!
However, the gentry who were still looking forward to the Ming army's counterattack, drive away the evil pseudo-Tang, and return to the good old days of no tax increases, sighed one by one.
This God, I'm really blind!
How good is this world, there are tens of millions of acres of land in the family without paying taxes, and there is no need to pay taxes for business.
Even if the current Emperor Zhengde is a bit excessive, but Emperor Zhengde will not live for a few years, and after the death of Emperor Zhengde, the benevolent prince will be able to ascend to the throne, and they will usher in a benevolent son of heaven in the Ming Dynasty, and when the time comes, they will be able to annex more land and make more money.
What a time it is!
Just let the pseudo-Tang be ruined!
They hate!
I knew that this was the case, when the puppet Tang thief army came to attack the city, they took the opportunity to make a little more money, and they made more money at the beginning, and now they can pay taxes!
Under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the reactions were mixed, but under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, Shandong and even Beizhili were already wailing!
Anqing has fallen, Yu Dayou has surrendered, and the two things together have made the Ming monarch unable to see the hope of victory!
In this war, is their Ming Dynasty really going to lose!
In addition to wailing, many people already have other thoughts, such as many officials on the Jingshi side, who have secretly contacted the spies of the pseudo-Tang Military Intelligence Department from the south, of course, it is too early to talk about what to do, but it is always necessary to find out the conditions in advance, and it is good to consider it when the time comes.
Good birds choose trees to perch, they are naturally phoenixes, but this Daming, I'm afraid it's not a good tree now.
And as talented people in the world, they naturally will not sink with Daming!
Of course, these are the thoughts of the outside world, and Emperor Zhengde in Jinan, Shandong, although he is old, but after seeing the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper, he did not show much surprise, not even anger.
Anqing has been besieged for more than a day or two, it has been besieged for a month, and people who are a little normal and rational can actually guess that this Anqing City is definitely going to end, the only thing that is uncertain is that the specific time when Anqing City is finished.
Now that Anqing City is finished, and the thief army is finished, it doesn't matter whether Yu Dayou is sincere or not.
Besides, even if Emperor Zhengde wants to be angry, so what?
In the past few years, there have been many generals who have defeated battles, and there have been many who have surrendered!
In the first battle of Yangzhou City, even the military department was defeated and martyred, and the senior generals such as the general army, Fujian, guerrillas, and commanders were killed and wounded, those who were captured were captured, and those who surrendered to Chengcheng were surrendered.
If he was angry, he had already been angry when Yangzhou City fell, and now, he was already pessimistic about it.
However, what made him feel a little helpless was that the news of the fall of Anqing City and Yu Dayou's surrender to Chengcheng had to be learned from the Tang Dynasty newspaper of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, but the official channels of the Ming Dynasty itself did not give him the news in time.
The fall of Fengyang, Luzhou, Xuzhou and other places in the north of the Yangtze River has already cut off the direct connection between Anqing and Shandong.
The fall of Anqing was expected by him, but Anqing also bought him a lot of time before, so that he had time to rectify the army drawn from all over the north and consolidate the defense of Shandong and Henan.
And what made him happy was that Altan Khan had already promised to send troops, and the 20,000 cavalry in the early stage had already gone south!
Although border towns in the north reported that Altan Khan's cavalry had seized the opportunity to seize many cities and plunder many supplies after they went south, Emperor Zhengde did not care.
The Ming Dynasty is about to end, and he still cares about the gains and losses of the northern border towns?
He is not afraid that Altan Khan will take the opportunity to occupy the border towns, and he is not afraid of him plundering, even if Altan Khan does not want to fight with the pseudo-Tang and just wants to fish in troubled waters, but as long as Altan Khan's cavalry goes south, then it will be enough to share the huge pressure for him, and this is enough.
After he Zhengde's army defeated the main force of the puppet Tang Dynasty to the north, he had the means to clean up Altan Khan!
Altan Khan wanted to defend those border towns with cavalry? Are you kidding!
As long as he is given a certain amount of time to stabilize his position, then there is a possibility that the situation can be reversed.
If it can't be recovered, and the decisive battle is lost, he Zhengde will be the king of a dead country, and he still cares what the impact of Altan Khan after he goes south!
After Emperor Zhengde heard of the defeat of Anqing, he was still in Jinan!
Now there are more and more Ming troops gathered in Shandong and Henan, and there are all kinds of Ming troops, and there are about 30,000 border troops drawn back from border towns, and these 30,000 border troops are already the last main force of the border army in the hands of the Ming army.
Then there were new troops from various provinces drawn from Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, with a total of 40,000 people.
In the end, there were about 20,000 people in Jingying!
A total of nearly 100,000 main forces, including 5,000 cavalry.
In addition, there are also the remnants of Jiangbei who have been gathered, among which there are many cavalry, about three or four thousand people.
In other words, so far, there are nearly 10,000 cavalry in the hands of Emperor Zhengde!
However, even so, Emperor Zhengde was not confident, at the beginning of Yangzhou City, there were also 100,000 Ming troops, and there were many artillery, perfect city fortifications, and in the end it was not the same was defeated.
And through the two battles of Yangzhou and Anqing, and even the many previous battles to defend the city, Zhengde also understood that blindly defending the city is definitely a dead end.
So this time, although he deployed a lot of troops in Jinan, in fact, he never thought of fighting a defensive battle in Jinan, because in this way, he could not give full play to the biggest advantage of the Ming army: cavalry!
He wants to use his cavalry advantage to fight a field battle with the northbound thief army!
If Altan Khan can be asked to help him fight at that time, then he still has hope for this battle!
The puppet Tang thief army is strong in foot combat, and the guns are extremely sharp, but they have a fatal weakness, that is, they lack cavalry!
In the past, whether it was a field battle or a city defense battle, Emperor Zhengde could be regarded as having understood that at that time, it was completely his own weakness to meet the strength of the thief army, and it would be hellish if he could win the battle.
This time, he didn't count on the infantry, as long as he could cooperate well, but put the hope of victory on the cavalry!